(Buying a house, renovating, endless tossing and running errands, I really don’t know how many more days I can continue...)
On a dilapidated planet with only ruins and wreckage, it is surprising that such an advanced giant city like Ayutthaya can appear. Although it is also built on various old ancient machines, this city can still be called It deserves to be magnificent.
The place where the big city is located is a huge crater with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers. This huge crater cuts off all the nearby warship wreckage. It is particularly conspicuous on this land made of jagged metal ruins, especially from When it flies over, this obvious sense of dissonance becomes even more obvious - it is hard to imagine that in this shabby and dirty world, you can still see such neat things...
Because the pit wall has an inclination of almost 80 degrees and is extremely smooth, there is a barrier between the traffic between the city and the outside world. While the spacecraft was waiting to land, we curiously studied for a long time how people in the city usually go out. Among them One way seems to be to take an aircraft. As the only prosperous and advanced place in the world, Ayutthaya has a large number of various types of aircraft that are widely used. Above the city, you can see an air transportation network as prosperous as the Shadow City. Individual fighter planes and light Xiling transport spaceships with weapons removed were flying through the sky. Navigation lights and guidance beams formed an ever-changing grid under the gradually dimming sky. Although this grid was closely related to the high-altitude traffic network of Shadow City, It looks very messy in comparison, and the dusty little spaceships look like they were dug out of a garbage dump, but this scene is enough to be thrown into a Hollywood science fiction blockbuster and win a statuette.
In addition to aircraft, the other way of transportation between the big city and the outside world should be the countless ropeways on the wall of the "Sinkhole". They are many dark-looking guide rails, some of which are distributed vertically on the wall of the pit in a haphazard manner. At the bottom are the goods at the bottom of the pit. Distribution stations, big cities and these distribution stations are connected by suspended conveyors. The upper end of the cableway pokes out of the sinkhole and extends to the nearby huge factory or satellite city. Several parallel cableways extend straight into the distance, pointing to In the direction we set off, many dirty black containers were running fast on these ropeways. There was blue light overflowing from the places where they connected to the ropeways. Obviously, this transportation system was not driven by wheels.
While we were curiously observing the city below, a monk named Joder was also looking at us curiously. He and several other men in black robes were sitting on the chairs opposite. The other men in black robes had their hands folded. He lowered his head and meditated unmoved by the outside world. He seemed to be the exception.
It can be seen from various aspects that the handsome white-haired man named Yoder in front of him should be a person with a higher status in the church.
Although the other party was looking at us, there was no offense in his eyes, just curiosity, so Sandora and I didn't pay much attention. However, there was a little guy who was impatient with the old man and stretched out his short little He waved his arms to the opposite side to demonstrate: "What are you looking at! What are you looking at! What are you looking at!"
Yoder's face stiffened and he was stunned for a few seconds. Then he pointed at the grinning little doll and asked, "What on earth is this?"
This was so good. Mercury Lamp’s feathers stood up on the spot. He took out a steel brace and stuffed it into his mouth and was about to rush to bite her. I quickly grabbed her belt and pulled her back: "Calm down, calm down! Cold...hey you
Why are you biting me?"
Lin Xue covered her forehead and turned her head away as she couldn't bear to witness it. She also left a message to the bewildered Yoder: "It's none of your business. With this problem, these two men will cause trouble wherever they go."
Yoder: "..."
I think this uncle must be guessing who the mother of Mercury Lamp is, because from a sociological point of view, if there are two fathers, there must be two mothers, and a daughter who looks mature in appearance but is only 92.3 centimeters tall and has wings should obviously have
She is an extraordinary girl, but the answer to this question is too difficult, so I decided to continue fighting with my daughter until the spaceship landed on a high ground near the center of the city.
The place where we landed is located in the center of the entire circular city. This is a highland, and it must be pointed out that this highland is definitely built artificially, rather than relying on the terrain of some debris. In fact, it is not only
The metal-cast plateau beneath our feet and the entire city show traces of artificial construction everywhere, which is different from other places.
On the ruined planet, most towns are built on the wreckage of the spacecraft below. For example, Condenser Town is built on the cover of a giant condenser, and Heavy Gate Town is built on the Gnaku of a transport ship.
On the deck, the satellite town used to house the victims relies on the barge landing platform of a giant aircraft carrier. These phenomena are determined by the special properties of the ruined planet. Those battleship wreckage are almost indestructible, and people can remove some broken pieces from them.
metal pieces, but it is difficult to dig a hole in their main armor plate. If humans want to survive on the ruined planet, relying on these wreckage to build homes is the only option. But for the big city, this restriction does not hold true - the big city
There are no ruins below. It was built at the bottom of a giant crater. If you want to build a city under this shape of terrain, you can only rely on artificial accumulation of foundations.
It can be seen from this that it takes a lot of hard work to build such a giant city. This is also the reason why there is only one big city in the world.
"Big cities are different. This place is much better than those shantytowns."
Bingtis was the last one to get off the spacecraft. She stood behind the guardrail at the edge of the metal plateau, looking down at the rows of buildings below and said loudly.
Looking down from the highest point of the city, you can have a panoramic view of 80% of the circular city. It can be seen that this city has put a lot of effort into its architectural planning.
The small town here is completely different. There are steel buildings hundreds of meters high, huge rumbling factories, and uniform residential areas. Spacious and neat traffic thoroughfares interweave between these orderly arranged buildings.
Various means of transportation and pedestrian flow, together with the three-dimensional traffic network in the sky, form the blood of this city. Although if you look closely, you can still see the signs of obsolescence and repair of the steel figures, this does not prevent the entire city from giving us a sense of steel.
The majestic feeling of the capital, and precisely because of the old colors and imperfect lighting, everything in the field of vision has a strange scrap metal Gothic beauty.
And over the entire city, a faint blue barrier can be seen.
It is a layer of low-power psionic energy shield that covers four-fifths of the area of the "Sinkhole". The city is therefore completely protected inside. The defensive capabilities of this layer of shield are not yet known, but it can dig out the ruins.
The battleship shield generator was modified into this kind of city shield, which shows that the city's mastery of the ancient empire's technology has reached a very high level. It is precisely because of the existence of this layer of shield that the city has a completely different environment than the outside.
The unique atmospheric system is different from the dirty or even poisonous air in other places on the ruined planet. The air here is very fresh - Yakumo Lan took a deep breath, then his tail trembled happily, and then his two furry ears
Satisfied, she lay down softly and looked at the real Coke: This big fox has been very depressed these past two days, her nose is so sharp...
The platform where Yoder and the monks landed the spacecraft directly seemed to be a dedicated landing pad for the church. There was no other building visible on this highland, only a lonely cathedral - it should be a church, it was
A tall building made of a large amount of silver-gray metal. The central part is a hexagonal obelisk, surrounded by a circle of streamlined towers. This strange construction method is incompatible with the construction style of any world. The only
What I can think of is that it seems to be similar in appearance to many imperial battleships. Maybe this is what the religious buildings in this ruined world look like.
"It's made of battleship alloy," while following the monks into the steeple church, Sandora suddenly reached out and touched the alloy wall next to it, and whispered, "and there are no traces of re-smelting."
I paused for a moment, pondered for a moment and then asked in a low voice: "What do you mean?"
Sandora stumbled, then pinched my waist hard: "Do these three words need to be used in such a serious tone!"
I quickly begged for mercy: "Ahem, the atmosphere needs it, the atmosphere needs it."
Sandora snorted and looked around at the interior of this spire building that revealed various senses of contradiction. Unlike any religious building she had ever seen, we did not see any statues of gods in this huge spire.
, there are no religious murals that can be seen everywhere, not even a relief. The structure inside looks like the inside of a spaceship. The ground and walls are smooth and neat silver-gray armor plates. Occasionally, damaged armor plates can be seen.
What was exposed inside was a complex machinery and pipeline structure. The walls were embedded with small holographic projection devices. Along the way, we saw countless floating screens showing complex data. Occasionally, we could see hurried black-robed monks flashing from the corridor.
However, everyone was so busy that they didn't even have time to look up at strangers.
Rather than saying that this is a cathedral that should be filled with a peaceful atmosphere, it is more like a busy interstellar command center.
"I can confirm that this so-called church... was not built by them using materials from the ruins after the end of the world," Sandora connected to the wide-area spiritual connection. "The outer shell of the church was built at once with battleship-grade armor alloy, and
It's not recycled scrap metal. There are three huge control systems in the church. I haven't analyzed its firewall yet, but I can preliminarily judge that this system is integrated with the entire church. Such a thing could only exist before the end of the world.
Yes, and it's something intact left over from the old empire... But I'm afraid I can't tell what it is specifically. It might be a star port command center, or it might be the bridge of a giant battleship. Back then
We have also built quite a few strange-looking spaceships.”
I nodded imperceptibly. What Sandora said was very concerning, and I couldn't help but feel a little more concerned about this church.
Yoder seemed to be a man who didn't like to talk, so he led us inside this huge spire for several minutes. He didn't even speak once, he just led the way silently. Of course, there was a gap between us and this unfamiliar person.
There was nothing to say, and most of the communication between us was based on spiritual connection, so the journey was quite dull. Mercury Lamp started to yawn again and plucked his feathers out of boredom, while Bingtis
As I walked bored, I muttered that I wanted to set up my own branch here. As for what kind of branch it was, there was no need to ask. Busujima Saeko, a human girl who originally came with a playful attitude, muttered in my ear unhappily: "
Brother, it seems like there’s no point in going to another world to save the world, right?”
From the beginning, the starting point of most of our team was very problematic...
Fortunately, even the boring journey has an end. We finally followed Joad to a hall on an unknown number of floors. This hall should be located on the central axis of the middle of the spire, with a radius of at least a hundred meters, and
In the center of the hall, there is also a cylindrical room, which is isolated from the outside world from top to bottom by a ring of walls. Just from its location, it is not difficult to see what is special about this place in the entire church: in the center
center of.
Several other black-robed monks bowed to Joad and then quietly exited. Only the middle-aged and elderly handsome man Joad led us into this cylindrical room.
"Um?"
As soon as she entered the room, Shandora whispered "Hmm" and narrowed her eyes slightly. This was her front paw that became interested in something and started thinking quickly.
"It looks like our command room." Qian Qian muttered in a low voice, and Lin Xue immediately corrected her: "It's the combat center, right?" Then her elder sister frowned: "I think it looks like the bridge of the Eternal Class ship.
——A smaller version." I thought about it and joined in the discussion: "Don't it look like an intelligence center? Look at these screens."
Finally, Mercury Lamp said in a daze: "What, it looks like Bubble's game room."
Then the rest of us suddenly felt ashamed.
What Mercury Lamp said was quite accurate. Perhaps it was because she was usually dragged by Pao Buo to play games and watch anime. She could tell at a glance that the room in front of her was like a central computer room, but there was another difference between it and the central computer room. That was it
The centermost thing is not a crystal prism, but a circular platform. There are a large number of data terminals placed around the circular platform and on a circle of alloy walls in the room. Even there are many holographic fluorescent lights suspended in the air that are emitting a faint light.
The screen, these constantly flashing pictures made this originally spacious room look a bit crowded - of course, this may also be because more than a dozen of us rushed in at once.
"Okay, now we can tell you, where is the so-called archbishop?"
Seeing Joad bringing us into such a room that had nothing to do with the church, even my sister couldn't help but feel a little strange and couldn't help but ask aloud.
Yoder took off his hood, revealing his neat and meticulous short white hair. Coupled with the black robe, the whole person looked like a Christian priest preparing for mass in his prayer room. He looked at
He glanced at us, with something in his eyes finally confirming, and then nodded: "As I guessed, your origins are indeed suspicious - if you are a normal citizen, even if you don't recognize my face, after hearing about Yoder
When I read this name, I won’t forget that this name is the current archbishop.”
All of us were stunned for a moment.
Bingtis reacted in an instant, and looked sideways at the middle-aged and handsome man in a long tone: "Oh - that is to say, you have been playing tricks on us from the beginning, right?"
"That's a bit serious," Yoder said without any embarrassment on his face. He looked at Bingtis as usual, "I don't have any ill intentions, but I always have to be vigilant. Your appearance is really not in line with the rules."
Common sense is also inconsistent with the knowledge left over from ancient times. I need to confirm whether you are going to harm my people."
"Then what conclusion have you reached now? Are we bad guys?" Qianqian said to the other party in a blaring voice. This girl seemed a little angry, which is really surprising. I thought she was completely heartless.
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"To be honest, I'm even more confused. I don't know how to judge the meaning of your existence. You obviously know nothing about a lot of common sense in the world. You waste food, squander the ancient relics in your hands, don't work, and your clothes are already worn out.
Luxurious clothes that have not been produced for hundreds of years." Yoder reached out and pressed the button on the nearest data terminal for a few seconds. Something like liquid metal immediately rose up on the floor of the room, and many hard alloy seats were quickly formed.
Chair, "Please sit down."
The other party was very polite, and we cooperated and sat down one after another. Only Pandora and Visca were obviously not satisfied with the height of these standard seats. One of them came out with a shell shell and sat next to my legs, like two cute and cute little ones.
Like a cat, Lilina couldn't climb up the chair, so she conjured up a lot of flower vines and made a hammock to enjoy there. The mercury lamp sat on my shoulder as usual. Ilson was stuck - he shouldn't have worn that unfortunate armor.
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This family can't even sit in a seat. Do you think this is okay?
It was probably the first time that Yoder saw a loli who used a shell shell as a stool and an idiot who could get herself stuck in a chair. He couldn't help but stare straight for a while, and then his eyes fell on Lilina again, looking at those green
Vine's face was full of curiosity, but maybe he had become immune to our anomalies. He quickly came to his senses and was ready to speak.
At this moment, a low roar came from far away from our feet, and then there was a violent shaking all around.
There was an earthquake!
Earthquake?
The shaking of the ground under my feet made me think of these three words for a moment, but what illuminated my mind more quickly than these three words was the dream of Lin Xue that I accidentally saw that day: the fusion reactor went out, the earth shook, and the planet disintegrated.
, the universe collapses.
Now that the fusion reactor is extinguished, the ground beneath our feet is shaking!
I immediately raised my head and looked in the direction of Lin Xue, but after a slight daze, the other party shook his head at me and made a "not started yet" expression.
After being together for so long, I still have a tacit understanding between myself and the eldest lady. I can tell what she means with just one look.