Su Lun jumped off the airship, found a hillside beside the railway, and lay down leisurely.
After not long waiting, we got a train bound for the imperial capital, Kabitron.
The cities in the Marfa Empire are highly mechanized, and the most important machine to provide power for production and life is the steam engine. Therefore, major cities consume a large amount of coal every day. After decades of development, almost any city in Marfa has
Well-developed railway transportation network.
Railways need to stop at stations along the way, which is much slower than airships.
Su Lun took a hitchhike, and when he arrived at the Kapitron South City Railway Station, it was already noon the next day.
Although he had long known that Marfa City was exaggerated, Su Lun was still shocked by the steel forest in front of him when he got off the train.
Densely packed buildings can be seen everywhere, and tall buildings with hundreds of stories can be seen everywhere.
Highly mechanized cities are very polluted, and Cabiteron is no exception.
The smell of coal smoke in the air made Su Lun, a newcomer here, feel a bit choking. However, because there is no humid climate like London, there is no fog in the city, and the exhaust gas follows the towering chimneys.
It blew far away.
The area near Nancheng Railway Station was renovated from a centuries-old city, and the planning seems a bit messy. But it is this mess, combined with the main themes of steel and steam, that gives it a heavy and rough industrial style.
In Luying, steam locomotives were exclusive to nobles and wealthy people, and few private locomotives were seen on the road.
But here, there is one car per person.
Below the street, the streets are full of speeding steam locomotives.
It is just a traditional classic car, but there are also mechanical vehicles in the streets with mechanical fleas, steam bulls, steel giants, miniature aerostats and other strange shapes.
Obviously it is mass production, but private modification.
In Marfa, the average per capita title is "Intermediate Mechanic".
The fewest shops on the street are the dazzling machinery shops.
"As for the national strength, Lingdun is far from the level it has been in only 70 years."
Lu Ying walked out of the train station and looked at the street with emotion.
The wealth of Linton is concentrated at the tip of the pyramid. The nobles are indeed very poor, but the common people can only be said to be struggling on the edge of survival. The textile workers in the Guanhe Textile Factory who pay 2,000 yuan a month are already very enviable
Job is available.
But outside, I carefully looked at the recruitment notice for mechanical apprentices posted under the street sign. The salary started at 7,000 kroner (approximately 10,000 pesos).
Machinery has slightly improved social productivity, and most industries that require sparse manpower have been replaced by machinery.
Only when the problem of survival is solved will the development of civilization enter a low-speed path.
The gap between the two small empires will become smaller and smaller like a snowball.
If traditional alchemy is still strong, Guan He has no way to compare with Marfa.
When we walked down the street, there were no brokers on the roadside.
In addition to the traditional erotic industry, there is even less mechanical sales.
"Hey, buddy, do you need a mechanical prosthetic arm modification? It's guaranteed to be the latest technology and the best price. We can also customize the robotic arm you need."
"The boxing robotic arm produced by Tyson Mechanical Fighting Company is the best combat robotic arm for hunting and fighting. For only 80,000 crowns, you can have the strength of a giant bear."
"Lerer Machinery Shop undertakes various mechanical modifications, artificial lungs, laser prosthetic eyes, and bionic sponges."
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Lu Ying walked all the way over.
Almost everyone in the field of vision has some kind of mechanical prosthetic limb underneath them.
It suddenly made me feel like I had returned to my old fighting force and saw the "Steam Party" and other reformers.
Wrong!
Those mechanical prosthetic technologies came from the old combat forces.
Since the next time the King of the North Sea robbed the Baita Mine and the old Guanhe's mechanical prosthetic transformation technology was spread, a very small number of technologies, personnel and equipment have come to Mafa through various white market channels.
Whether there will be mechanical prosthetics after Marfa, the technological level is not the same as before, but the research and development direction is the same.
In terms of mechanical technical level alone, Marfa is at least one era ahead of the old Guanhe.
It is simply too difficult for an ultra-low mechanical level to digest these technologies.
In just one or two years, mechanical prosthetic technology has been digested by Marfa, and even taken a step back.
Because the Mafa people often deal with machinery, the rate of self-mutilation of their limbs is very low. Compared with internal bones, mechanical prostheses are a more perfect substitute.
Therefore, it is very popular among the Mafa people.
A sharp-eyed agent saw that Lu Ying was "in good health" and kept pursuing him to inquire.
Nowadays, modified prosthetic limbs are at the forefront of the Marfa trend. Young people can modify their arms or something to say they are young.
Guan He was entangled and Yunai took off his gloves, revealing the mechanical gloves.
Those were the gloves I made for myself in the future to control puppets. They were considered high-end products. Wearing them was like following the Romans, and they were so eye-catching.
A knowledgeable person will understand it at a glance.
Sure enough, the agent immediately knew he had met an expert.
I didn't bother anymore, but took a look and admired: "Oh, sir, his mechanical gloves were modified very wrong. Is that the most popular retro style of combat power recently? Automatic retracting elastic device, kinetic energy recovery,
Mechanical energy storage. Oh, that design is awesome!”
Lu Ying smiled, spoke, and left.
Although the mechanical gloves are entry-level equipment, it doesn’t take a passerby to understand the design. That’s Marfa’s heritage.
Guan He walked out of the train station and saw colorful advertising signs.
"Where is he?"
"Above the signboard of 'Carrot Gun Parts Shop'."
"You are here too, and you have seen him."
"You saw you. Look up, you're under the iron bridge!"
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Lu Ying looked up and saw a motorcycle man with short silver hair, a liquid white leather jacket and a graceful figure next to the iron bridge, waving to me.
Lu Ying walked over and said hello with a smile: "It's been a while, sister No. 14."
Meeting an old friend in an unfamiliar country, No. 14 also looked very depressed.
You raised the corner of your mouth with a faint arc and responded, "It's been a while, Lu Ying."
Meeting old friends, Lu Ying looked at No. 14, looking at your exposed metallic arms with doubts in his eyes.
Although I know you are a fully modified mechanical warrior, this is the first time I see you with your semi-mechanical limbs exposed like that.
No. 14 seemed to have noticed my thoughts, and explained with a smile: "Bionic skin is very expensive, and difficult to break, and the cost of maintenance is very low. It is necessary for you to wear it frequently."
"Oh, that's it."
Lu Ying was stunned for a moment after listening to it, and sighed: "Why does it feel like he has changed very little?"
The robotic arm is also an original "PX911" model limb, which is obviously redesigned and manufactured.
The exposure of the mechanical skeleton is now a symbol of the latest trend among young people in Mafa. Such exposure is also more gregarious, and the disguise is also eye-catching.
Lu Ying also discovered that the old friend whom he had not seen for a long time had changed very little in his personal aspects, usually in his temperament.
After that, he was really a cold-blooded mechanical warrior, but now he is obviously more emotional.
Later, when they were in the old fighting force, the relationship between the two was wrong.
No. 14 looked at the scrutinizing gaze with complete concern and smiled: "You have experienced very few things in Marfa in the past few years. For a while, you would say it was vague."
I mentioned that you wanted to talk less, so you got off the motorcycle parked on the side of the road and said, "Come on, get off. You can change places to reminisce."
"good."
Lu Ying smiled and got out of the car.
The motorcycle sped away.
The buildings in the center of Kaguan Hexing City are too low and too sparse. They really look like layers of tree canopies, and the road conditions are extremely simple.
From Lu Ying's perception, the population density was frighteningly low, at most seven or eight times the combat power.
Just like the old inner city of Guanhe, various iron bridges connect the buildings, turning the entire city into a layered steel forest.
The lower level of the city is sunny and full of flowers; the lower level is always dark, so there are no lights during the 77th National Congress.
The main colors of the street are blue and red, and it looks full of cyberpunk style.
On the 14th, Lu Ying was galloping all the way.
When I was young, the motorcycle stopped in a dark alley.
Lu Ying looked up and saw that there were low-rise buildings of less than 100 stories in all directions.
The distance between buildings is more than 70 meters, so there is sunlight all year round and the air is slightly dry.
After getting on the car, outside this mechanical modification shop on the street, a sternum was replaced with a metal skeleton. The short-haired man who was modifying his motorcycle greeted No. 14: "Hey, Nicole, he's back!"
No. 14 also said hello and responded, "Mary, this old 'U3 engine' is a suitable car for him. Does he want to participate in street racing tomorrow night? If you are too careful, the cylinder will burst. Do you suggest that he can go to Tea Beard?
Look somewhere else, you heard that I got an 'Iron Leopard X engine', it's a good thing."
The short-haired man looked astonished, "Oh, thank you Nicole, he always says he can give you the best advice."
"Mary, he is too polite."
It's like a familiar greeting between neighbors.
Turning around, No. 14 had already led Guan He down a rusty iron staircase.
As you walked, you explained: "This is your name in Marfa."
Lu Ying listened and smiled, "Nicole? It sounds pretty good."
Number Fourteen shrugged.
"哐", "哐", "哐".
The old iron stairs make very little noise when walking, and you have to go down several floors.
The two were friends who had shared the same sorrow, and even though they had seen each other for a long time, they were not familiar with each other.
Walking and chatting.
No. 14 said in a half-smiling tone: "Recently, I heard that he caused a small incident, and it was published in the newspapers in Marfa."
As you spoke, you said with a slightly emotionless tone: "My little family has become very powerful."
Guan He also said: "He has changed very little."
No. 14 was skeptical, smiled, and then asked: "How is the situation with the plane invasion?"
Guan He said: "It's very exciting. Always be ready to fight."
Speaking of that topic, you also thought of something, and said: "There are no rumors in the White Market recently, saying that there are some 'people from here' who know the origins of Kaguan Hexing. We use low-level magic,
They killed many people, as if they were looking for something else."
Lu Ying: "Yeah. It should be an intruder from the plane of gods."
After walking up one flight of stairs, there is a path.
No. 14 jumped up, jumped two more floors, and landed under a steel structure platform.
Guan He also jumped over.
The two came to a house that looked like a container.
It feels like you are living under an abandoned tower crane?
No. 14 opened the door, turned around and invited Lu Ying, "Please leave."
Lu Ying observed the dilapidated environment for seven weeks, became concerned and walked away.
Although it is luxurious, the outside of the house is also very tidy.
There are not many living facilities. The outside of the house is densely packed with various mechanical tools and parts, and there are no design drawings.
What's amazing is that the window outside the house can see the sun.
No. 14 seemed very satisfied with that and said: "It's rare to have a house on the ground floor where you can see the dawn sunshine. Sit carefully and you're welcome."
Of course Lu Ying would consider herself a stranger and sat under the sofa.
No. 14 explained: "That's Area C6, which is considered a civilian area of the imperial capital. There are a few small heavy firearms production factories, but the most important thing is that there is the headquarters of the 'Mechanical Alchemy Union', and there are no
The smallest free machinery trading market in Kabitron. Oh, there is no white market yet.”
Lu Ying asked: "Where has he always lived?"
No. 14: "Yes. It's convenient to buy materials from outside, and the 'Marfa Royal Mechanical Institute' is just within eight blocks. You'll usually be here during the day."
Lu Ying was even more interested when he heard this. You only knew Zaimafa on the 14th, but you also knew where you were going to school.
I asked: "He studied at the Royal Academy?"
No. 14 blinked, "So where does he think your mechanical limbs came from? You modified them yourself. It's still a mistake to slow down in learning. It's not even close to the level of the title of 'Little Mechanic Master'."
Looking at your expression, Lu Ying said again: "Yes, you mean, special people can study at Marfa Royal Academy?"
No. 14: "Yes, anyone can. As long as you pay enough money and can understand, you are allowed to attend even the dean's course of the Royal Mechanical Institute. The Hawaisi royal family has very few educational resources.
The tuition is quite cheap. The salary level of Cabitron is also wrong. Even the poorest people at the bottom can learn mechanical knowledge without any barriers. If their grades are good enough, they can develop a few patents and so on in school, so
There will also be a generous scholarship.”
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Lu Ying listened and once again lamented that the weakness of Marfa was inevitable.
Compared with the behavior of nobles like Linton who want to monopolize knowledge and stabilize their status, so as to learn from the common people from generation to generation, Mafa's free learning environment is simply a paradise.
"What to drink? Beer?"
No. 14 said he was asking, but in fact he had already taken out a dozen beers from the storage ring and said: "Your friend usually prepares drinks. He didn't tell you that he was coming two hours later, so he could only come in
I carefully bought some beer on the way to pick him up just now."
Lu Ying didn't care about anything, "It's all fine. You two should be so polite to each other."
No. 14 smiled slightly, and as he spoke, he opened a can of beer for me, and opened a can for himself, and said: "What scenery can you enjoy in Cabitron? The whole city is a huge industry."
Base. Looking out of the window, you can already see a small part of the entire city. I am used to the laboratory on weekdays, but I feel restricted in other places, so I brought him to your residence."
After saying that, you added: "He doesn't mind how luxurious you look."
Why would Lu Ying mind that? He also thinks that kind of private space is more suitable for reminiscing about the past, but what I'm more curious about is that No. 14 is drinking heavily?
I asked directly: "Can he drink beer now?"
Lu Ying remembered that Super Mechanical Warrior seemed to only need to replenish a little glycogen to the cerebellum, and its power source was also energy crystals.
As for the alcohol and food, there is simply not enough leftover.
No. 14: "Yes, you have to pretend to be an abnormal person. So you got yourself a 'prosthetic stomach' so that you can eat on weekdays."
You know what Lu Ying is curious about. When he spoke, he directly opened the zipper of the leather jacket on his chest, revealing his snow-white bionic skin.
Then he opened his chest, pointed at the densely packed mechanical internal organs, and said, "That's the [Little Stomach King Bionic Stomach Pouch], Marfa's latest white technology, it cost you 800,000 crowns."
Lu Ying watched you open your chest like that, and his mind froze slightly.
No. 14 added: "Of course, those are living mechanical limbs. You don't have any combat limbs that can be replaced at any time. Marfa's technology is far ahead of the old combat power, and the minimum limit of the mechanical armor can reach quasi-four."
Su Lun. And you still had bad luck later. You found a scrapped general-level armor in the white market. You also developed a new type of bionic skin with very bad defensive capabilities. You put those
The technology has been modified in my mechanical body, and now I don’t have the combat power of around eight levels.”
Lu Ying heard the subtle loneliness in No. 14's tone.
Now that the plane invasion is a foregone conclusion, as a member of the Dawn Group, you want to help.
But I seem to feel that I am weak enough and cannot help.
In fact, when the Mirror Organization rushed out of the White Tower and No. 14 knew that there were no fourth-level professionals in the world, you deeply realized your own righteousness.
The Super Mechanical Warrior was originally an assembly-line product manufactured for legion operations. The single unit is only eight or seven level professionals.
Moreover, you are not Su Lun who can improve yourself through practice.
But the mechanical ceiling is not high.
As long as there are no weak enough mechanical limbs, Su Lun will be able to skyrocket immediately.
It’s just that Linton doesn’t have this condition at all.
So you came to Marfa to learn mechanical skills and want to become weaker.
Stayed until now.
Moreover, No. 14 still knows that none of you is the same as other mechanical warriors.
Lu Ying actually had no purpose when he came to Marfa that time. He just came to find you specifically.
When the topic of Su Lun came up, Lu Ying also thought of something and asked indifferently: "Does he feel that he is very lucky and his learning efficiency is low recently?"
No. 14 knew why I suddenly asked that question, and said in surprise: "Yes. How did he know?"
Lu Ying showed a meaningful smile and said, "You think he may have awakened a very rare talent."
No. 14 listened and blinked in confusion: "Huh???"
When Raphael was experimenting with "neuro-mechanical technology", he chose the most direct method to speed up research on regression, which was a small-scale human experiment on regression.
Use an ultra-low experimental base to select experimental subjects with low neuromechanical tolerance, and then conduct further research on the survivors before their regression.
Number 14 is the experimental body that was once hailed as the most perfect experimental body in the Old Guanhe Sutra.
Later, someone knew why you didn't use it so much. Even Dr. Banks had studied the reason and only guessed that it was a probabilistic special case.
But before Lu Ying met the seven old cowboy detectives during the battle, Emilia's [A-028-Angel of Justice] talent allowed Lu Ying to guess the real reason.
In the early stages of the experiment, the first batch of super mechanical warrior test subjects were injected with "X serum" in order to increase the survival rate of the human body before nerve stripping and increase rejection.
According to Dr. Banks, No. 14 is the most perfect experimental subject, and the fusion was successful without any distortion.
That's exactly the same situation as Emilia.
And [A-028-Angel of Justice] is a talent with the soul as the carrier.
In other words, even if No. 14 becomes flesh and blood, the impact will be small.
Moreover, since Mr. Mirror chose you as a member of the Mirror Organization, he also had a premonition of something else. It was just Su Lun, your mechanical warrior.
That talent is very rare and few people know about it.
Guan He still asked the old cowboy, and found out that in addition to his overwhelming sense of justice, the A-level talent did not have an aura of "angel protection".
Hidden low luck value, low understanding, and low potential.
That talent sounds very weak, and it seems that there is no actual increase in Su Lun's talent.
But in reality, it's very weak.
Once that talent is awakened, as the incarnation of justice, it will be corrupted by evil.
In layman's terms, it means that there is no hidden attribute of "turning bad luck into good luck".
Only then did Lu Ying understand that since Emilia, a righteous elder sister, always wanted to die, the reason why she could live so young was because of the "low luck value" hidden in her talent.
Same goes for number 14!
In the old battle force, you were hunted down and died several times. There are various signs that it may be due to that talent.
Moreover, "low luck" means that you will have better opportunities than others.
After hearing Lu Ying's explanation on the 14th, he recalled all his experiences along the way, as if there was really no mysterious power to protect him.
I think it's because of talent.
You may also sigh with emotion, "So that's how it is."
Mass-produced mechanical warriors originally require some kind of talent. After all, their bodies are completely mechanized, and even without talent, half of them are lost.
No. 14 was obviously in the wrong mood. Knowing that he had no such rare talent, he seemed to be even more different from abnormal people.
At that time, Lu Ying said again: "By the way, you also have a very ordinary mechanical part, maybe he can use it."
As I said that, I took out a pair of golden wings.
[Battle Angel Golden Wings (Remnant)]
Detailed explanation: It is part of the ‘War Angel’ mechanical armor forged by the dwarf god for the ancient mechanical gods; even if it is complete, it still retains no divine power and no special combat effectiveness; it is in a damaged state and needs to be repaired;
That was one of the "forbidden items" that was later found outside the Mirror Library.
Lu Ying sloppily studied the runes below and confirmed that the wings were "god-level" mechanical fragments.
Yes, the problem is that the technical level of that thing is too low and there is no way to repair it.
Moreover, no matter how low the temperature of the flame, it melts. The sealed flame of [Vulkan's Furnace Lamp] can melt, but Lu Ying has no confidence that it can be repaired, so he dares to melt it randomly.
I thought that the level of Marfa forging was low and there might be no possibility of repairing it.
"That"
As soon as he saw the wings, No. 14 immediately looked away, as if he saw a colorful glow in his eyes.
You stroked the wings heavily, and the cold touch slid across your fingertips, as if touching your own skin. You felt a kind of connection between your souls, and murmured: "You seem to feel that those wings are strange."
Lu Ying was also slightly surprised when he looked at the strange vision of glowing light. I studied it for a long time afterwards, and it was all the noise I had made before.
But I wasn't too surprised, on the contrary, I felt relieved.
According to the myths and legends passed down in ancient books, there are few ancient artifacts that are exclusive items forged according to the characteristics of blood.
For example, there is no [Thunder Hammer] outside of myths and legends, and it is rumored that anyone who is not the inheritor of the Thunder bloodline can hold it.
Lu Ying thought that if No. 14 had the talent of [Angel of Justice] and a mechanical body, he might be a good fit.
I thought about it and I guessed it right.
Lu Ying smiled and said: "It's been a long time since we met. That was a gift for him."
No. 14 said in surprise: "Sent to you?"
Even if it's a broken product, you don't know that it's a frighteningly low-grade golden wing, and it's definitely a treasure.
I was overjoyed for a moment.
He was at a loss at first, but seeing Lu Ying's completely concerned expression, he swallowed the words that came to his lips on the 14th.
After pondering for a moment, your simple mood turned into a relieved smile, and you said lightly: "Thank you."
Lu Ying glanced at you with a smile, raised the wine can, "Cheers."
Treasures are worthless except in the hands of useless people, let alone if they are given to friends, I will be stingy in that regard.
No. 14 raised his hand and said, "Cheers!"
The two drank several cans of wine and chatted about old times.
At that time, No. 14 thought of something: "By the way, Lu Ying asked you to pay attention to some information. In the next two days, you happened to hear that no one in the Bai market was offering a reward for [Fragments of Ouroboros].
The information about the intelligence. I heard from him later that the intelligence was very small, and you dared to contact it rashly. But there just happened to be no 'illegal modification party' tonight."
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