The car finally stopped in front of a metal-clad building, nearly ten stories high, in a six-sided shape. On the top of the building is a statue of an unknown flower, and below it is a line of English "The abundance of the tower", which means the tower of abundance.
"This is our command building, Mr. Franklin. Please come in!" Jumping out of the car, Ulson made a gesture of invitation like a gentleman.
Frank got out of the car, followed Ulson, Oran, and Jesse into the Tower of Harvest. As soon as he walked into the lobby on the first floor of the building, he saw a busy scene. There were staff running back and forth in the lobby, and they didn't even have time to say hello to Wu Ersen. He just glanced at Franklin curiously, and went to his own business.
Wu Ersen smiled and said: "Please don't mind, we are always busy. There is no way, after all, our opponent is a huge empire. No matter what, our time is always tight. So we have a saying, call death Only then will you have time to rest."
"Very philosophical." Franklin nodded.
"Thank you for your approval." Urson said again: "Sorry, our elevator doesn't take into account people of your height. Therefore, we can only take the freight elevator up."
"It's okay." Franklin didn't mind. Ulson then led him to divert to the direction of the freight elevator, but the width of the freight elevator was enough, but the height was still not enough for Franklin to stand, so the giant could only sit cross-legged on the ground. When he reached the tenth floor, he accidentally bumped into the top of the freight elevator when he stood up, causing the freight elevator to shake and make the elevator operator turn pale.
Franklin got out of the freight elevator in embarrassment. When he turned around and apologized to the elevator operator, a woman screamed behind him: "Be careful, big man!" The woman was knocked down. Seeing Franklin's dry smile, even Ulson's deep eyes also had some smiles.
"Welcome to my combat hall." Walking through a long corridor, you can see the whole of Istar, the rough steel city, from the floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Passing through the busy dispatch room, I listened to the staff inside sending orders to every terminal in the city with extremely fast speech and dizzying movements. The Tower of Harvest is like the brain of Ishtar. As the command center, it is extremely busy every day, so that the whole Ishtar can operate unimpeded. This efficiency allowed Istar to stand against the Pope, both industrially and militarily, and it was moving towards the strength of a nation.
Ulson brought Franklin to the battle hall on the Tower of Harvest. The battle hall is called "Horizon", which shows that Urson's ambition is not small. In the horizon hall, it seemed much quieter and more deserted than other places. When the two automatic doors behind you are closed, all the sound and light outside are isolated. The light in the horizon hall is relatively dim. In the center of the spacious hall, there is a holographic projection model of the continent. With this model as the center, there are three inner and outer floors, high and low workbenches. There are people in white uniforms on the workbench quietly operating the brain in front of them. They didn't look back because of the appearance of Ursen and the others. Everyone is operating the brain with all their heart, so there are countless people every second. data generation.
The continental model in the hall kept making minor adjustments, and Franklin couldn't see any tricks after looking at it for a long time. In the end, Ulson said with a faint smile: "We are simulating some data. When the results come out, it will be the time for us to declare war on the Pope Hall."
Franklin was shocked, knowing that the continental model and those staff were conducting a simulation of a general offensive plan in order to derive the best data. When this work is done, it will be time for Istar to sound the trumpet for the general attack.
Ulson brought Franklin to a private office, and there were only two of them left in the room. Oran and Jesse didn't come in, but went to deal with their own affairs. Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, Ulson looked at Istar outside the window and said, "Mr. Franklin, you must be wondering why we pay so much attention to you. As I said before, your value is limitless , Sauron should also know this. In order to compete for you, we even planned an operation before the general offensive began. Unfortunately, although that operation destroyed a research base of Sauron, we missed you. It was not until a few months later Now we meet again."
Franklin remembered that when he woke up at the Mota base, he did know that the base was attacked. It's just that he didn't know at the time that it was the rebels who attacked the base, and they came for him. Ulson continued: "In fact, our contest with the Pope's Hall has been going on for nearly ten years. It is unknown how many lives of ancestors have been sacrificed for Ista to have the current scale and strength, and I am only on this basis. It’s just a matter of further expanding its scale and strength. I don’t think even Sauron would know that, in fact, we have had the power to monitor the movements of the Pope’s Hall since three years ago!”
"Of course, our intelligence system is not yet perfect enough to monitor the specific details of the Pope's Hall, but we cannot deduce what kind of actions they are carrying out based on the parameters of their personnel, materials and army mobilization. And just in three Years ago, we suddenly discovered that the Pope’s Hall had secretly mobilized a lot of supplies and troops, and a group of biochemical experts were secretly brought out of the city of New Rome. This information caught our attention. After nearly half a year of follow-up and reconnaissance , we found that the Pope's Hall found a spaceship in an underground place in the Western Continent."
Hearing this, Franklin blurted out: "The Ark, they found the Ark."
"Is that spaceship called the Ark? It seems to be a spaceship with an interstellar theme."
Franklin didn't speak, but clenched his fists. At the end of the age of Atlantis, the war with Proseus has entered the late stage. The full intervention of the cosmic star beasts had a huge impact on the environment in the earth's atmosphere, and the direct intervention of the planet's will Agladis caused a devastating disaster. The city in the sky no longer exists, and the battle has spread from the sky to the surface. The only remaining spaceship is loaded with the last hope of all Atlanteans, so Franklin named it the Ark.
However, just when the Ark, carrying the only remaining hope of this era, was leaving the earth and this planet that was about to perish at any time, an accident happened...
"Sorry, it seems to remind you of something unpleasant." Ulson brought Franklin back to reality with an apologetic voice.
The Fallen looked at him and said, "Let's talk about the Ark. At that time, the Pope's Hall discovered it and drew a conclusion from the clues on it. This spaceship did not come from outer space, but a product of the earth. That is to say, in the last era there existed a civilization far more advanced than it is now, and a total of twenty-seven people, including Mr. The biochemical experts in the hall have discovered something remarkable in you."
"Adaptive cells!"
"Adaptive cell?" Franklin showed a wry smile: "So it's called this now."
Ulson was slightly surprised and asked, "I don't know what you call it, Mr. Franklin?"
"The blood of calamity." Franklin said lightly: "But I don't want to mention its origin, it was a very painful experience..."
Ulson nodded and said, "Okay, let's call it an adaptive cell. This name is a vocabulary given by the laboratory of the Pope's Hall. Why is it called this name? Because Dr. Jane, the chief biochemical expert of the Pope's Hall, It is found in your blood that Mr. Franklin's cells can survive in the environment of any creature and transform it, so that the creature develops mutations, or it is called evolution!"
"However, this is just Dr. Jane's research data on the interior of the Pope's Hall. Fortunately, our intelligence experts intercepted a secret conversation between him and Sauron, and learned that adaptive cells are not so simple. Apart from stimulating In addition to the evolution and mutation of organisms, it can also allow organisms to survive in any environment! Adapting to the current environment, I am afraid that there is a way to survive even in outer space. As far as the current set of intellectual brain arrays in the Pope's Hall can calculate The limit of this kind of cell cannot be calculated. In other words, as long as there is time, the carrier of the cell can evolve indefinitely until the end of life. And this is the greatest value of adaptive cells!"
Franklin nodded, but said in his heart, it is also the root of all disasters!
Ulson's expression was a little agitated. After he took a long breath, he calmed down and said, "After hearing the news, we knew that we must snatch Mr. Franklin here. Because as long as you are in their hands, the Pope Hall will always be One day we will produce an army of biochemicals capable of fighting in any environment, and we cannot let that day come."
"Then invite me to Istar now to treat me as an experimental subject?" Franklin asked. If so, he would have no chance of cooperating with the rebels.
Ulson shook his head and said, "We really hope to get a blood sample from Mr. Franklin, but we won't send you to the laboratory table like the Pope Hall. Here, as the leader of Ista, I would like to invite Mr. Franklin joins us to overthrow Sauron's rule!"
Looking at the leader of the rebel army in front of him, Franklin shook his head: "Sorry, I'm not interested in joining any team. However, we can say that we agree on certain goals. So, maybe you can listen to my cooperation condition."
Ulson felt a little surprised, but still nodded and said, "Please tell me."
While Franklin and Ulson were discussing the terms of cooperation, near Pier 3, the Ironscale was shaking slightly with the waves. On the deck at the bow, Deborah looked at Istar under the night, and the city of steel was lit with countless lights. Whether it's the flashing red lights on the buildings inside the base, or the strong light on the construction site that shines like day, these lights illuminate Istar, as if the night in the city of steel will never come.
"It's so beautiful," Deborah exclaimed.
Behind him, there was the sound of light footsteps. Diborah didn't even answer, "Biga, are you ready?"
"Ready, Captain."
"Then, let's get to work!"
Behind Deborah stood no fewer than a hundred pirates, headed by the vice-captain Biga, all wearing airtight tight protective clothing. The protective suit is black, with an energy node the size of a light bulb on the back of the hand, shoulder, knee and chest. They are connected by dark yellow energy outer tank pipes, which can provide the wearer with various basic abilities. Putting on this protective suit, in addition to being able to work in such a strong radiation environment in the sea, it can also allow an ordinary person to experience the taste of a second to third level ability user.
However, this kind of protective clothing is not something that the outside world can buy casually, even if it is a large pirate group like the Iron Scale. They currently only exist in the laboratory of the Pope's Hall, which is a cutting-edge equipment that is not mass-produced. But now, there are nearly a hundred pirates wearing it.
Even the head is wrapped in a liquid-shaped helmet. Compared with the bulky shape of previous protective clothing helmets, this new criminal helmet is as simple as a bubble wrapping the wearer's head. In addition to providing oxygen, the helmet window also has new functions such as various visual modes and dynamic capture. But now, it is providing night vision functions for these pirates, so the dark pier is no different from daytime in their eyes.
Under Deborah's order, the pirates sneaked into the sea silently like ghosts, and then swam towards the pier. When they climbed towards the smooth outer wall of the pier, strong suction was automatically produced on the palms and knees, allowing them to swim up like geckos.
There were soldiers from Istar on duty at the pier, but it was a pity that these soldiers were cut to death by the pirates who came up behind them without even responding. Hundreds of pirates from the Ironscale quickly spread out like a black tide, and soon took control of Pier 3. After Deborah saw Biga's signal from the pier, the captain of the Iron Scale walked up to the steering wheel on the deck. Under the rudder wheel, Deborah opened a hidden compartment, revealing a steering wheel. pole.
"It's time to act, my lord!" Deborah smiled, and pressed down on the joystick. Immediately, the Iron Scale shook violently. The sound of hydraulic machinery working came from under the deck of the ship, followed by a crack in the middle, separating the front deck of the hull in the middle, and slowly opening to the left and right. And under the cabin on the deck, a platform began to rise, and a tall metal body squatted on that platform.
So in the darkness, the sound of the turbine engine working sounded, and at the same time, a light on the chest of the steel body gradually brightened. The main engine started to work, continuously delivering energy to all parts of the body, and some energy devices on the mech's peripherals glowed fluorescently, making it fully displayed in the dark night. It stood up, and King Arthur, the special model of the Knights of the Round Table, was actually hidden in the cabin of the Iron Scale. If anyone saw this scene now, they would be shocked.
King Arthur, the fourth-generation new mecha of the Pope's Hall. He is ten meters tall and weighs 32 tons. Compared with the bulky appearance of other knights of the round table, King Arthur's body curve is smooth. The whole body of the mecha is mainly in silver and red, and the humanoid body is equipped with a fin-like air balancer. In addition to making up for the balance problem caused by King Arthur's light weight, it also has the functions of a storage battery and a flame thruster. The former can make King Arthur's endurance better, and the latter can allow the mecha to move at the speed of sound when necessary.
As Sauron's car, King Arthur is also unquestionable in terms of firepower. The front chest panel of the mech is opened to reveal a guided missile strike system called "kaleidoscope". The right arm armor can eject a high-frequency cutting knife, and the left hand is a plasma cannon, which can detect charged material particles and cause a huge impact on the target. At the same time, it can also cause the effect of secondary burning.
It can be said that King Arthur is a mech born for war. Combined with the amazing reaction nerves of a high-level ability user like Sauron, it is a life harvester.
In the cockpit, Sauron gestured to Deborah, then looked at Istar under the night and said, "Ulson, you are as strict as you, but you are greedy for Franklin's adaptive cells, otherwise I will How could there be such an opportunity to enter Istar. You who committed one of the seven deadly sins, today I will replace the gods above you, and let the holy flame of cleansing come down for you, the evil city!"
Sauron pushed the manipulator suddenly, King Arthur stood up, and then ran on the platform. It reached the bow of the ship in two steps, and with another hard jump, the Iron Scale continued to sink towards the sea level. When the waterline was almost below the bow, the giant ship suddenly rose. And King Arthur had jumped nearly ten meters of sea surface and landed heavily on the pier.
Then a row of sprockets was lifted from the soles of the mech, and as the sprockets turned, King Arthur quickly swept towards the road as if gliding on ice. The body of the mecha tends to lean forward, maintaining a balanced posture. Its left and right legs are constantly alternating, allowing the mecha to fly freely and quickly on the road. King Arthur was speeding towards the nuclear power plant at the southern end of the island, when a truck came out of the nuclear power plant on the highway.
The driver of the car saw a huge darkness suddenly flashing from the other side of the road, and suddenly exclaimed: "What is this?"
Before he could react, King Arthur had already lowered his body, and a high-frequency knife popped out of his right arm. At the moment of encountering the truck, the mecha suddenly jumped up and turned around, and the high-frequency knife slashed across the truck like cutting butter. When the mecha landed and continued to move forward, the truck exploded into a fireball and rose slowly on the road.
The sound of the explosion alarmed the guards of the nuclear power plant, but before they had time to report to the Tower of Harvest, King Arthur had already appeared under the spotlight of the outpost. The icy mech raised its left hand, which immediately deformed, and the parts were reassembled to form a barrel.
In the cockpit, Sauron locked the generator set of the nuclear power plant, and said with a cruel smile: "Bloom, the most gorgeous fireworks!" Then he pressed the launch button, and the plasma cannon of the mecha continued to light up, flashing with lightning in the dark night . A beam of charged particles blasted from the muzzle instantly fell on the generator set of the nuclear power plant, followed by continuous explosions and flames, which kicked off the prelude to IS's worst night!