Chapter 414: Bell and Visit

New London Industrial Institute.

This building that brings together the highest technological achievements in New London and even the entire world is located on the bank of the Thames River, simply because it requires a large amount of water to maintain the operation of its internal facilities.

And at the same time release the waste generated during research.

The term "environmental protection" is still a bit premature for this world... They believe in the wisdom of future generations.

Believe in the power of nature.

But just like trees that are deposited in rock formations and eventually become coal, discarded heavy metals fall to the bottom of rivers and are unable to disappear. Instead, they are transformed into sludge rich in heavy metal elements.

These metal-poisoned sludge are more toxic than sludge in nature, and people who drink unfiltered water for a long time will have a very high incidence of illness.

Of course, in this era where death from various diseases and pollution can occur at any time, death from poisonous sludge is not the main cause of death in this city.

Toxic air, toxic water, toxic food.

"Good morning."

Staff members wearing brown and gray woolen clothing walked through it. Their suits and ties made the place look closer to a government department than a research and development institution.

And this is actually true.

Only 20% of the staff at the New London Industrial Institute are professional and technical personnel who graduated from various universities, and the remaining 80% are so-called New London government employees.

"Good morning, Mr. William."

Other researchers he encountered waved hello.

William raised the cup filled with fragrant coffee liquid in his hand to toast them, celebrating that the city had survived another day safely.

Celebrating their colleagues are still the same faces they saw yesterday.

"The Viceroyalty of North America seems to be dangerous...I see the governors over there getting shot at on the road."

Two researchers were sitting at the black tea table opened in the corner and discussing.

"I have a relative who works there...and I told him that those new settlements were dangerous."

Young people always like to care about things outside the empire. William shook his head. He did not think that the North American jurisdiction would break away from the management and rule of the empire.

Not now and not in the future.

The rule of the British King will span the oceans and cover the world like a hanging curtain... Of course, all this will be indispensable without the help of their industrial institute.

This is also the capital that allows them to mobilize enough resources to develop neat power technology. They provide enough military equipment and technology for the empire's army... And for the King of England, longevity is the goal pursued by every ruler.

Immortality...

Eternal life is the sum total of everything.

You just have to pay the price of being a human being. Your body will last forever, but your intelligence will continue to be lost.

As long as a book is long enough, there will come a time when there will be no words left.

"Ha, I heard that a big zoo has opened over there...the scene here is not as good as that over there."

Another researcher complained about the New London air over a cup of black tea.

"After I retire, I also plan to live in the New World. Ha, the environment there is much better than here - there are also ostriches running around!"

William listened to the conversations of these researchers, which was much more interesting than the articles he read in the newspapers.

"Give way."

William turned around and saw an unshaven maintenance worker walking past him. He was as careless about his appearance as every ordinary maintenance worker in this building.

It was those workers on the lowest level of the building who took great risks to repair the steam engines,

William believed that the remuneration offered to them by his industrial institute was enough for them to risk their lives a little bit to work, except for these lowest-level engineers.

He looked at the maintenance man's face, feeling like he had seen this person somewhere before, trying to figure out something from his depressed face... but found nothing.

It wasn't until the maintenance man left his sight that William turned around and stepped into the mechanical lift next to him.

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New London Industrial Institute, bottom floor.

It is directly connected to an underground river in New London. You only need to close your eyes to distinguish carefully, and you can hear a sound from the surging water in the sound of the gears turning.

The largest machine ever built in the world requires an entire underground river to cool it and take away the waste heat generated during its operation.

"Good morning, Zhong."

Huge steam gears rotated in front of him, and metal shafts as complex as a forest of steel rotated, creating a rapidly flowing and rotating thinking network.

The flashing rune aura alternated among the roaring gears, and the roaring steam machinery seemed to become a living creature watching him at this moment,

Industrial Academy central computer, clock.

Before the arrival of the new century, clocks have always been a symbol of mankind's most sophisticated small machinery. Craftsmen used gears and springs to create a slowly rotating mechanical timepiece, and perfected it with the highest precision they could achieve.

The energy is released slowly. In that era when there was no energy supply device, mechanical energy storage was purely relied on to drive the clock to complete the rotation, making it rotate stably and for a long time.

Like a clock, like a clock...precise.

Engineers wearing simple work clothes stood in front of the roaring giant Difference Engine, a giant mechanical computer built by the New London Industrial Institute with all the efforts of the country.

But that mechanical computer, that giant computer that is about to be put into the center of New London... No, that can even be called a spectacle.

It can provide central computing power for the government departments of the entire city, and provide the benefits of mechanical computers that were originally only enjoyed by the Industrial Institute to other departments to enhance their ability to act.

He has realized the limits of mechanical computers, but the Industrial Institute of New London is still trying to invest its energy in this lemon that has long been unable to squeeze out any juice.

The engineer's voice was swallowed up in the bite of gears and mechanical chains, and his voice was swallowed up by the sound of the running machinery without exception.

There was no response as usual.

"We haven't seen each other for a long time... It should be three months. I think there is always an end to the road of mechanical equipment, so I left here."

The roar of the machine, accompanied by the sound of flowing water, swallowed his voice in the mechanical tide.

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"Duke Charlie wants to see me?"

Ji Lin walked out of the corridor and put the book in his hand into the bookshelf.

The silence of New London during this period allowed him to have time to think and analyze the intelligence he had now. The intelligence he had in his hands was actually not much, and the few intelligences were all he could complete the task.

These days, he still made a more detailed analysis and understanding of this Duke Charles.

An old duke who represents the interests of the government and serves as an advisor in multiple departments.

But it is the same as what he got from the newspaper before.

An ancient duke who serves his family, and this ancient knight has a very high status in this city and has his own seat in the House of Lords.

A seat.

A seat where he can slightly express his own opinions on the empire's waterways.

But Ji Lin looked at it for a long time, and based on his identity and position, he could only draw one conclusion, that this duke is likely to be a conservative who sticks to his family's rules... otherwise he has no reason to support the actions of the night crows.

Only by understanding the positions of others can we infer their behavioral logic based on their positions.

"Of course, Duke Charles is very interested in outsiders, and I am very grateful for your help... magician."

The leader of the night crows touched the bottom of his mask and gave Ji Lin some hints.

"So I can at least guarantee your safety."

This will be a safe journey.

In any case, Ji Lin has made it clear that his goal is to prioritize the flesh-and-blood transformation disaster that is erupting in New London, just based on the words of the transformed cavalry that night.

There are many people who support them.

Even if it is a ‘defective’ immortality of flesh and blood transformation, it is like sweet spring water for them.

He took a step forward and walked straight towards the huge manor in the central city of New London.

Hiding in the shadow of the building, he walked quickly towards the target location.

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"Hmm."

Like an oracle, like apocalypse.

People always suddenly get inspiration from destiny at some point.

So he came.

Don Quixote drew the sword at his waist. It was just an extremely ordinary iron sword. The iron sheet used at the joint was eroded by the sea breeze after crossing the ocean.

It was not a legendary mythical weapon, nor was it a magic weapon.

This was his sword, an ordinary long sword that was no longer sharp in his hand.

His armor, his gun and sword, and his horse.

It was all his remaining wealth.

Sancho, I hope he has a good time on his island, but there is no place for him in the last journey.

He should take a ship to the new world, which would be a peaceful world... But what can he do...

Don Quixote wiped the rusty sword in his hand, the yellow light from the gas lamp reflected on his face, and the knight's eyes fell on the center of the high tower in the distance with bright lights.

Of course, he still has one last mission.

Kill the dragon.

Kill the dragon born on this land, and kill those colleagues who became dragons together.

This land has been corrupted, and deep malice has permeated this land. He walked in the land where Rome fell apart and the new world beyond the ocean... He has seen the tragedy created by this huge empire.

The knight is the embodiment of virtue, and should not believe in any monarch or god.

Instead, he should serve virtue and kindness itself.

Finally, there should be a magician in the team that kills the dragon, just like what is written in the story and history books.

(My body is a bit exhausted, QWQ, it is really torture to have no inspiration. Because I can't choose between the plot and writing too much, and the recent continuous updates have left me no time to collect materials, so I will keep updating this book and the new book once a day. I will talk about it after I recover.)

(6k is really hard for me.)

(The good news of updating once a day is that I have more time to conceive the plot. During this period, I updated whenever I had free time, which resulted in no inspiration for writing. I basically stared at the outline of my book for half an hour... I didn't read except updating, which is a terrible thing.)

(I am very sorry everyone! QWQ, the performance of this book has been visibly poor since it was not recommended. If the future of a book's update is a slow death, it is simply torture for the author.)

(I basically don't write too much, and try to condense the content to be concise... But it feels too difficult for me.)

(That's it, let me take a break... Although it's a break, I will still update! But for an author, having no inspiration is too deadly.)