On a dilapidated planet with only ruins and wreckage, it is surprising that an advanced giant city like Ayutthaya can appear. Although it is also built on various old ancient machines, this city is also enough to call It's grand. The place where the big city is located is a huge pit with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers. This huge pit cuts off all the wreckage of nearby warships. When it flew over the sky, this obvious sense of incongruity became more obvious—it is hard to imagine that in this dilapidated and dirty world, you can still see such neat things...
Because of the extremely smooth pit wall with an inclination of almost eighty degrees, the traffic between Dacheng and the outside world is equivalent to adding a barrier. When the spaceship was waiting to land, we curiously studied how people in Dacheng usually go out for a long time. One of the ways seems to be to take an aircraft. As the only prosperous and advanced place in the world, Dacheng has a large number of various types of aircraft that are widely used. Over the city, you can see a bustling air traffic network like Shadow City. Individual fighters and light Xiling transport spacecraft with their weapons dismantled are flying through the air. The beacon lights and guiding light beams form an ever-changing grid under the gradually dimming sky, although this grid and the high-altitude traffic in Shadow City Compared with the net, it looks very messy, and those small dusty spaceships are like digging out of the garbage dump one by one, but this kind of scene is enough to be thrown into a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster to win a statuette.
In addition to the aircraft, another means of transportation between the big city and the outside world should be the countless cableways on the wall of the "tiankeng". The distribution station, the big city and these distribution stations are connected by a suspension conveyor. The upper end of the cableway protrudes out of the tiankeng and extends to the nearby huge factory or satellite city. Several parallel cableways stretch straight into the distance, pointing to The direction we started. A lot of dirty black containers are running fast on these cableways, and there is a blue light overflowing from the place where they connect with the cableways. It is obvious that this transportation system is not driven by wheels.
When we were curiously observing the city below, a monk named Yoder was also looking at us curiously. He and several other black-robed men were sitting on the opposite chair, and the other black-robed men clasped their hands. He bowed his head and meditated without being moved by the outside world, only he seemed to be an 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 the eyes, just full of curiosity, so Sandora and I didn't pay much attention to it, but there was a little guy who was impatient with the old man. Arms swinging to the opposite side to demonstrate: "What are you looking at! What are you looking at! What are you looking at!"
Joad's face froze, and he froze for a few seconds, then pointed at the grinning little puppet: "What the hell is this?"
That's okay, Mercury Lamp's feathers stood on end on the spot, took out a steel braces and stuffed it into her mouth, and was about to rush up and bite someone, I quickly grabbed her waistband and pulled her back: "Calm down, calm down! It's cold... hey, you bite! What am I doing!"
Lin Xue clutched her forehead and turned her head away, unable to bear to see, and also left a sentence for Yoder who was at a loss: "It's none of your business, this father and two have this problem, and they will have trouble everywhere."
Joad: "..."
I think this uncle must be guessing who her mother is, because from a sociological point of view, if there are two fathers, there must be two mothers, and a girl who looks mature but is only 92.3 cm tall and has wings obviously should have She is an extraordinary girl, but the answer to this question was 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 [central] area of the entire circular city. This is a high ground, and it must be pointed out that this high ground is definitely artificially piled up, rather than relying on some wreckage. In fact, not only the high ground of metal casting under our feet, but also the whole city, there are traces of artificial construction everywhere, which is different from other places.
On ruined planets, most towns are built on the remains of spaceships below them. For example, Condenser Town is built on the cover of a giant condenser, and Heavy Gate Town is built on the gantry of a transport ship. On the deck, the satellite town used to accommodate 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 wreckages of warships are almost indestructible, and people can remove some broken pieces from metal pieces, but it is difficult to dig a hole in their main armor plate. If human beings want to survive on the ruined planet, relying on these wreckage to build their homes is the only choice, but for the big city, this restriction does not hold—under the big city There are no ruins, it is built on the bottom of a giant crater, and if you want to build a city in this shape of terrain, you can only rely on artificial accumulation of foundations.
It can be seen from this that how many people have to put in a lot of hard work to build such a huge city. This is also the reason why there is only one big city in the whole world.
"Big cities are different. This place is much better than those shantytowns."
Bingtis was the last one to get off the spaceship. She stood behind the guardrail on the edge of the metal plateau, looking down at the row upon row of buildings below and said loudly.
Looking down from the highest point of Ayutthaya, 80% of the circular city can be seen. It can be seen that this city has put a lot of effort into architectural planning. It is completely different from those messy small towns that only want to live in. There are steel buildings hundreds of meters high and huge factories that roar. There are also neat and uniform residential areas, spacious and neat traffic arteries interweave among these orderly arranged buildings, various means of transportation and pedestrian flows, together with the three-dimensional traffic network in the sky, form the blood of the city. We can see the obsolete and repair traces of those steel figures, but this does not prevent the whole city from giving us a majestic sense of the city of steel, and it is precisely because of those old colors and imperfect lights that everything in the field of vision Instead, it has a scrap-metal gothic, bizarre aesthetic.
And over the entire city, one can see a layer of light blue barrier.
It is a layer of low-power nether energy shield, covering four-fifths of the area of the "tiankeng", so the big city is completely protected inside. The defensive ability of this layer of shield is unknown, but it can dig out the ruins The battleship shield generator of the old city was converted into this kind of city shield, which shows that the city has reached a very high level of mastery of the technology of the ancient empire. It is also because of the existence of this layer of shield that the inside of the city has completely independent Different from the polluted or even poisonous air in other places on the ruined planet, the air here is very fresh—Yakumo Lan took a deep breath, and then her tail trembled happily, and then her two furry ears were satisfied. Lay down softly, looking at the real cola: This big fox has been depressed for the past two days, her nose is too sharp...
The platform where Yoder and the monks landed the spaceship seems to be a special apron for the church. There are no other buildings on this high ground, only a lonely cathedral—it should be a church. A tall building made of a large number of silver-gray metals. The central part is a hexagonal obelisk, surrounded by a circle of streamlined towers. This strange construction method does not match the construction style of any world. , the only thing I can think of is that it seems to be similar to the shape of many imperial warships. Maybe this is what the religious buildings in this ruined world look like.
"It's made of battleship alloy." When following the monks into the steeple church, Sandora suddenly reached out and touched the alloy wall next to it, and whispered, "And there is no trace of re-smelting."
I paused slightly, pondered for a moment and then asked in a low voice, "What do you mean?"
Sandora staggered, and then twisted my waist fiercely: "Do these three words need to be in such a serious tone!"
I hurriedly begged for mercy: "Ahem, the atmosphere needs it, the atmosphere needs it."
Sandora snorted and looked around at the interior of this minaret building that revealed various senses of discord. It was different from any religious building we had ever seen. Inside this huge minaret, we did not see any statues of gods. , and there are no religious murals that can be seen everywhere, not even a relief. The structure inside looks like the interior of a spaceship. The ground and walls are smooth and neat silver-gray armor plates. Occasionally, damage to the armor plates can be seen. What is exposed inside is a complex mechanical and pipeline structure, and a small holographic projection device is embedded on the wall. Along the way, we saw countless floating screens displaying complex data. Occasionally, we could see a friar in black robes flashing from the corridor in a hurry. However, everyone is so busy that they don't even have time to look up at strangers.
Rather than saying that this is a cathedral that should be full of peaceful atmosphere, it is better to say that this place is more like a busy interstellar command center.
"It's certain, this so-called church... They didn't use the materials in the ruins to build it after the end of the world." Sandora connected the wide-area spiritual connection. There are three sets of huge control systems in the church. I have not yet analyzed its firewall, but I can preliminarily judge that this system is integrated with the entire church. Such things can only exist before the end of the world, and It's something left intact by the old empire... But I'm afraid I can't say exactly what it is. It may be a starport command center, or it may be the bridge of a giant battleship. The various buildings we built back then There are also quite a few strange-shaped spaceships."
I nodded subtly. What Sandora said was very interesting, and I couldn't help paying more attention to this church.
Yoder looked like a man who didn't like to talk. He led us inside the huge steeple for several minutes. He didn't speak once, and just led the way in silence. There is nothing to say, and most of the communication between us is based on spiritual connection, so this journey is quite dull, Mercury Lamp started yawning again, plucking its feathers to play boredly, Bingtis Walking boredly, he muttered that he wanted to set up his own branch here, and there was no need to ask what kind of branch it was. Saeko Busujima, a human girl who came here with a playful attitude, whispered in my ear sullenly: "Brother, it seems that going to another world to save the world is not interesting, right?"
From the very beginning, the starting point of most of our team was very problematic...
Fortunately, even the most boring journey has an end. We finally followed Yod to a hall with an unknown number of floors. In the center of the hall, there is also a cylindrical room, which is isolated from the outside world by a circle of walls. Just from its location, it is not difficult to see how special this place is in the entire church. : the center of the center.
Several other monks in black robes bowed to Yoder, and then quietly retreated out. Only the handsome middle-aged man Yoder led us into this cylindrical room.
"Um?"
As soon as she entered the room, Sandora gave a low "um" and narrowed her eyes slightly. This was her front paw when she became interested in something and began to think quickly.
"It's like our family's command room." Qianqian muttered something in a low voice, and Lin Xue corrected it immediately: "Is it the battle center?" Then the elder sister frowned: "I think it's like an eternal-class bridge— A smaller version." I thought for a while and joined the discussion: "Isn't it like an intelligence center? Look at these screens."
In the end, Mercury Lamp said in a daze, "What, it looks like a game machine room in Bubble."
Then we were all ashamed.
What Mercury Lamp said was really accurate. Maybe it was caused by being dragged by Bubbles 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 it was different from the central computer room. The place in the middle is not a crystal prism, but a circular platform. A large number of data terminals are placed around the circular platform and on the alloy walls of the room. The dimly lit holographic screen, these constantly flickering images made this relatively spacious room look a bit crowded - of course, this may also be the reason why a dozen of us rushed in all at once.
"Okay, now we can say, where is the so-called archbishop?"
Seeing that Yoder brought us into such a room that had nothing to do with the church, even my elder sister couldn't help being a little surprised, and couldn't help asking aloud.
Joad took off his hood, revealing a head of neat and meticulous short white hair, coupled with that black robe, the image of the whole person looks like a Christian priest who is preparing for mass in his prayer room, he Glancing at us, there was something in the eyes that was finally confirmed, and then nodded: "As I guessed, your background is indeed suspicious—if you are a normal citizen, even if you don't know my face, after hearing 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 came to his senses in an instant, dragged his voice and squinted at the handsome middle-aged man: "Oh—that is to say, you've been playing tricks on us from the beginning, right?"
"It's a bit serious to say that." Yoder didn't have any embarrassment on his face, and looked at Bingtis with his usual expression, "I don't have any malicious intentions, but I always have to be vigilant enough. Your appearance is really unreasonable." It does not conform to the knowledge left by ancient times, I need to confirm whether you are going to endanger my people."
"Then what conclusion have you come to now? Are we bad guys?" Qianqian bluffed to the other party, this girl seemed a little angry, which was really surprising, I thought she was a complete lack of heart .
"To be honest, I am even more confused. I don't know how to judge the meaning of your existence. You obviously don't know a lot of common sense in the world. You waste food, squander the ancient relics in your hands recklessly, don't work, and wear old clothes. Luxurious clothes that haven’t been produced in hundreds of years.” Yoder reached out and pressed the nearest data terminal for a few seconds, and something like liquid metal rose up on the floor of the room, and soon formed many hard alloy seats "Please sit down."
The other party was very polite, and we also cooperated and sat down one after another. Only Pandora and Viska were obviously not satisfied with the height of these standard seats. Like a cat, Lilina couldn't climb a chair, so she conjured up a lot of vines and made a hammock to enjoy there. The mercury lamp routine sat on my shoulders, and Ilson got stuck—he shouldn't be wearing that unlucky armor .
This family can even sit in a seat. Do you think it's okay
Perhaps it was also the first time Yoder saw a girl who conjures a cannonball casing as a stool and an idiot who can get herself stuck in a chair. He couldn't help staring for a while, and then his eyes fell on Lilina again, looking at those green The vine was full of curiosity, but it might be that he had become immune to our anomalies, so he quickly came back to his senses and was ready to speak.
At this moment, a low-pitched roar came from far below our feet, and then there was a violent shaking around us.
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 Lin Xue's dream that I accidentally saw that day: the fusion reactor went out, the earth shook, and the planet disintegrated , the universe collapses.
Now the fusion reactor extinguishment has occurred, and the earth is shaking beneath our feet!
I immediately raised my head and looked in Lin Xue's direction, but the other party shook his head at me after being slightly dazed, making a "not yet started" expression.
After being together for so long, there is still some tacit understanding between me and the eldest lady. I can tell what she means with just one look.
The great tribulation prophesied is not yet in time.
But this vibration is definitely not a good thing!