Regardless of the details, Hao Ren's gang of uninvited guests have caused a great mess in the Twilight City - and sometimes "chaos" is a necessary means of solving problems. In order to get to the deepest part of the city, test Vivien's guesses, and figure out how the Twilight City works, Hao Ren needs a mess to focus all his troubles on the big platform in Uptown.

The shrill whistle continued to sound, and more Twilight Guards answered the call to the upper town, and in the eyes of the head of the defense force, the incident had taken a strange and unbelievable direction, and the whole situation was gradually spiraling out of control. The High Commanders couldn't understand why such a powerful force of turmoil had suddenly emerged in the city, and it was entangled with a seeker of Light who had just returned from the dark wilderness.

For many years, the city has maintained a fairly peaceful situation, and although there have always been problems of one kind or another - shortage of resources, equipment failures, mine accidents, and even a local fire in the big boiler at the worst of the time, the problem is at least clear and clear, and experts and scholars are always quick to get to the root of the problem. And this time, the unrest forces that suddenly appeared in the city could not be explained at all.

Their origins could not be found at all, and there was no warning of this incident.

Most of the tracks and platforms in Uptown were already under martial law, and the two giant gear sets in the upper middle of the Twilight City let out a heavy roar, and huge columns of steam erupted from the gear sets, slowing down the entire set of machinery. The large boiler is reducing its output in order to prevent the threat from spreading to the vital central pressure pipe: if the large boiler is attacked and explodes, the damage to the city will be incalculable.

To avoid this danger, Twilight has its own emergency plan, including relieving the pressure of the central pressure pipeline.

Near the top platform, fierce fighting continued, and reinforcements from all over the city had been assembled for seventy percent, but they still couldn't resolve the threat. Looking in the direction of the large elevator, you can see that there is a burst of smoke and the roar of artillery explosions is constantly faintly heard.

In a steel-cast square tower near the Great Boiler in Uptown, the leader of the Steam Council and the senior commander of the Twilight Guard were studying information from the "front line", and a bald-headed, one-armed, and eye-studded man with mechanical lenses had just arrived, bringing the latest news: "The enemy's tactics are so varied and they have the ability to shapeshift, and the situation up there is so chaotic that it is impossible to count the exact number of opponents and their appearance." Those guys probably still have the power to summon phantoms, and there should be powerful wizards among them: there are summoned creatures on the scene to fight, which makes the intelligence even more confusing. ”

"Where did these guys come from?" The Speaker of the Steam Council, a middle-aged woman with a serious look frowned, and asked, "I've heard some bad rumors that it is said to be connected to some ancient descendants. ”

In the shadows in the corner of the room sat a thin man, who had completely encased himself in a short black robe, almost blending into the darkness around him, and spoke in a hoarse voice: "This is not a rumor, it is the judgment of a scholar. Basilisks, giant wolves, and flame giants, whose characteristics are largely the same as those of ancient legends, now seem to be the only ones who survived Ragnarok - they have survived and have been hiding in our city all along. ”

Everyone in the room couldn't help but gasp when they heard this, and all kinds of more negative conjectures poured out one after another.

In this way, the chaotic battle situation that took place on the elevator platform was transmitted to the ears of the city's administrators, and under the nonsense of a group of people who did not rely on the margins at all, it was gradually evolving into a more bizarre appearance.

But the participants in this scuffle have no idea this.

Lily was happily rolling in front of the Twilight guards' lines, and after the transformation, her fur could completely resist the attacks of ordinary guns, and occasionally she was hurt by an overpowered cannon, so she screamed twice, and returned to Nangong May to receive psychological and physical treatment, and turned her head back into a fierce dog again; Itzhax kept throwing large fireballs at the flanks of the elevator platform, making the appearance of preparing to force a passage open, and he attracted almost sixty percent hatred; Floating in the air, surrounded by starry arcane orbs, Anthony single-handedly overwhelmed the Twilight Capital's most elite wizarding group, and he didn't get serious at all......

Compared to these powerful creatures, the golden dragon Galadrow is the most invincible existence for the Twilight Guardians. The dragon queen has now turned into her original form, and at first she is excited to compete with the anti-aircraft fire of the Twilight guards, and then realizes that this kind of flying in the sky as a moving target for people is really stupid (the main reason is that the wings are fragile, and the anti-aircraft shells can really bleed when hit!). So she simply flapped her wings and turned her head to sit on a huge black tower on the edge of the platform, this tower was obviously a vital and fragile facility, the Twilight Guard's heavy artillery was a rat trap on this side, and the soldiers could only attack Galadrow with their muskets of limited power......

Although this is unsightly, it is really the most effective protective position for the golden dragon, and the dragon queen is almost an invulnerable fortress with her head in her hands, and she is stuck in the most prominent position on the entire battlefield, and the twilight reinforcements that keep coming from other parts of the city will be distracted by this huge golden creature at first glance.

As a result, no one realized that this line of defense had actually been breached.

In the old elevator shaft, Haoren, Vivien, and Wendell are speeding to the lower town.

The sounds of battle from the upper floors of the city were far away, and the occasional faint explosion seemed to come from another world.

In order not to arouse the vigilance of the city guards, Hao Ren and the others did not activate the transportation equipment in the passage, but directly let the data terminal drill into the shaft through a ventilation hole, and then the three people who teleported in flew directly down the shaft: with Vivian's help, this kind of flight is very simple.

They are "diving" through this incredibly ancient and complex city that is as complex as a three-dimensional labyrinth, and the scenery along the way feels like walking through a bizarre dream. The city has been stacked upwards over the years, and the elevator passages connecting the upper and lower towns have also been stacked with the sun and the moon, and the former upper city has become the lower city, and the former lifting platforms have been dismantled and transformed into new passage supports, so that there are layers of stacked belts: like fossil specimens between rock formations, the elevator passages preserve the historical trajectory of the city.

The shaft was very wide, perfectly circular, with steel walls supported by the walls - and as you moved to the older parts of the city, rocks and some kind of grayish-white man-made material gradually appeared. The entire wall of the shaft is not sealed, but huge openings and gaps can be seen everywhere, some of which are specially designed for personnel to enter and exit, and some are purely cracks caused by the building structure. Thick black steel pipes crisscrossed the walls of the shaft, and from time to time a puff of steam erupted from the safety valves of the pipes, and in some areas of the shaft, this steam even formed a continuous cloud layer - and even a small area of rain, a phenomenon that surprised Hao Ren.

"Below the elevator passage is Lake Milton," Wendell said, explaining the deepest secrets of the city, "and all the steam in the city condenses into water, and eventually it goes back to Lake Milton." ”

Hao Ren snorted, and at this time Vivien slowed down the speed of his descent, and he could see the situation around him more clearly. It should have been close to the lower town, or had already entered the lower town: the shaft was in an extremely vicissitudes of life in this section. Through some large cavities in the wall of the shaft, he saw a very large space outside, huge gears rumbling, steam pipes sinking, black viscous grease flowing along the ground, some of which had already flowed down the cavities in the wall into the shaft. He also saw humans, or human-like creatures, pale, short, and agile between steam pipes and bearing gears, barely a single inch on their bodies, and no hair on their heads, and when they turned their faces, Hao Ren saw that they had unusually large eyes, almost terrifying.

"It was a race that lived in the engine room, and for generations they maintained the pressure pipes and bearing groups underneath, and I don't know when they stopped leaving the engine room, and many generations later they became like this," Wendell said as a guide, "They were once human, but scholars think they are ...... now."

"It's still human," Vivien said, "and you're all trapped in this little box, there's no difference. ”

After continuing to descend for a while, Wendell broke the silence: "We're in Downtown. (To be continued.) )