When Lily leaped out, Hao Ren could not help but mutter in his mind, "Am I on the path of bullying? It is said that bullying starts with dogs biting people." But on second thought, he did not think there was such a risk. After all, in most cases, even if he did not instigate Lily, she would still jump out and bite people.
In fact, Hao Ren knew from the beginning that things would develop in this direction. The real world was not a shonen manga. How could two groups of people come together and talk about love and justice to understand each other? Two groups of people who were at loggerheads just a second ago would be able to talk about their dreams. They were all civilized people, and when they could not reason with each other, it was only natural for things to develop in a head-on manner. Truth be told, the two groups of people had different worldviews and basically lacked the basis for reasoning.
So his plan had always been clear: observe the way Twilight Capital existed before causing chaos, and fulfill the inspector's obligation to observe. Then, they would inevitably meet the local forces, and the local forces would inevitably hinder them. So, they would rush to the Iron Throne and talk to the ancient sage.
This was not a matter of course. Hao Ren came to this conclusion after learning about the operation, historical achievements, corporate culture, and management philosophy of the Steam Assembly from Wendell and Borken.
A mature social management institution, one that could keep the city running after the end of the world and maintain order in a precarious situation, first needed not flexible thinking and enterprising spirit, but conservatism, stability, and prudence. Especially when it came to the dark wilderness outside, the attitude of the Steam Assembly would be even more so. Hope's seemingly paranoid misunderstanding was not entirely subjective. In fact, in the two thousand years since the establishment of Twilight Capital, the city had faced countless rumors, scams, and even threats of cults that caused social unrest. After being trapped in the barrier for so many years, the incidence of mental illness among ordinary people was too high. Escape from reality or revenge on society. Anyway, every century, someone would claim to have found a way to save all mankind, and these methods basically pointed to the dark wilderness outside.
After being trapped in the darkness for so many years, people either believed that the opposite side of the darkness was a scourge or a paradise. Of course, the number of people in the latter was much less than the former, but the harm was countless times greater than the former.
There had been bad incidents in history of Lightseekers colluding with cults to create the illusion of paradise. It was said that a large Lightseeker team stepped into the night and soon lost contact with Twilight Capital. They were lost in the scorching sand of Jotunheim. For a full twenty days, all of them were wiped out, but one survivor miraculously survived. No one knew how he survived, but it was certain that he had suffered a spiritual change during those terrible twenty days. The Lightseeker had hallucinations. He firmly believed that he had found paradise and imagined the oasis that only existed in his imagination to be extremely real. Then he returned to Twilight Capital and began to preach about the 'new home', which had terrible consequences.
He eventually pulled up an organization that was almost like a cult, and did not hesitate to falsify evidence to prove the existence of the oasis. He even fought against the investigation team of the Steam Assembly and organized thousands of people to leave Twilight Capital and go to Jotunheim to find the beautiful paradise that only existed in his false memory.
Thousands of precious citizens with all kinds of skills died in the dark wilderness just like that.
Since that day, the Steam Assembly had set strict rules. Any Lightseeker who returned from the night must be subject to strict questioning. It would be fine if there were more than two people who returned, but if there was only one person, then almost no one would believe what he said.
Because under the erosion of magic radiation, even the Lightseeker himself could not be sure that his mind was normal. A Lightseeker who returned alone may have been insane, and even if he was mentally normal, he may have been brainwashed by hallucinations. No one could prove whether their words were true or not without others to check.
So Hope's doubts about Wendell were completely understandable. He was just a little more extreme than the ordinary members of the Steam Assembly. He did not doubt his father, but he did not believe his father at all. But in any case, the result was the same: Hao Ren and his team could not go to the lower city through formal channels.
Let Wendell accept the formal questioning of the Steam Assembly? Were they going to be interrogated for months and collect evidence? Discuss the world view of more than two million words with a group of experts and scholars? This may be the formal procedure, but to be honest, Hao Ren did not have the time to go through the formal procedure.
Lily turned into a werewolf and turned into a shadow on the spot. Before anyone could react, she had knocked down almost all the sheriffs at the scene. Then Hao Ren pulled out his two spears and rushed to the edge of the platform. "Which way is the lift?"
Wendell was wrapped in a large swarm of bats summoned by Vivian. The old man had already followed the violent group of people a hundred meters away in a daze. At this time, he could not think about any rational and peaceful solution. He was indeed a man who had embarked on the light-seeking journey twice. When the tough became the tough one, he burst out, "Left! The place where the smoke is coming out! Rush over there! "
The security officers brought by Hope were scattered in an instant. These people were not real combatants; they were just there to maintain the daily order of the upper city. Their combat effectiveness came from the authority of their uniforms. So it was not until Hao Ren and his entourage disappeared from the platform that the last unlucky guy got up from the ground. In a hurry, a sheriff even threw the metal stick in his hand as a flying prop. But the stick was caught by Lily, and he could never get it back.
"Sir!" A man with a swollen face stumbled to Hope. "What should we do?"
Hope's face was livid, and beads of sweat ran down his neck. There was only one thought in his mind now: his father was finally hopeless. He was going to break into the Iron Throne of the ancient sage. There was no doubt that he had really gone crazy on this last light-seeking journey!
"Go and inform the wizard legion, the armed security team, and Steam6!" Hope yelled. At the same time, he pressed a button on the small metal box on his waist. "Santis, Roland, sound the alarm! Habert, go to the lift, evacuate the civilians, and block the platform! "
"The rest of you, follow me to the city hall. Find out which cult these people belong to!"
At this time, Hao Ren and his team had rushed out of the locomotive platform. Following Wendell's instructions, they moved along a wide beam cast of steel and soon left the station far behind.
The upper city of Twilight Capital was full of all kinds of things made of steel, including steel frames carrying pipelines, reinforced beams between buildings, and suspended roads. These crisscrossed structures covered the city like a spider web. Smoke and steam from various factory boilers lingered in the gaps of these "spider webs". They passed through a huge pipeline system, and the gas leaking out of the pipeline system made the surroundings foggy. In this blurry fog, two rows of faint fluorescent lights guided the way forward. They were runes embedded in the structure of the building.
In order to reduce the pressure of the heavy structure on the lower layers of the city, the builders of Twilight Capital used a large number of runes on the buildings. This unique rune popular in Northern Europe was not as powerful as the Letta rune, but it had excellent auxiliary uses. When Vivian saw these runes, she smiled and whispered, "These runes were 'created' by Odin, but if it were not for the Twilight of the Gods, I am afraid that the 'mortals' would never have a chance to know their secrets."
"Woo!"
A low and loud whistle came from a distance, followed by a second and a third.
The whistle roared throughout the upper city, and the steam clouds entrenched between the superstructure all year round seemed to tremble and disperse in the bursts of whistle. Wendell's face changed the moment he heard the whistle. "It's a high-level alert! They've sounded the alarm! "
Hao Ren curled his lips and said, "Nonsense, a group of people are ready to attack the presidential palace. Only a fool would not sound the alarm."
The huge steel beam came to an end. In front of them was the roof of a building. They jumped down the steel beam and jumped between the roofs and eaves of the houses. The city kept retreating under their feet. At this moment, a burst of unusually heavy footsteps suddenly came from the surroundings, followed by a majestic broadcast. "Dangerous people in front, stop immediately! We are Steam6. You have been surrounded! Give up resistance immediately! Give up resistance immediately! "
"Rumble … kacha … rumble … kacha …"
The heavy footsteps and weird metal friction sounded continuously. Hao Ren looked around curiously, and some surprising huge machines soon appeared in everyone's sight.
The first to appear were some huge claws on the surrounding eaves, followed by mechanical arms that constantly emitted high-pressure steam. The last to appear was a huge, insect-like steel monster.
A five-meter-high black machine with a ring of mechanical arms climbed up the walls, pipes, and steel beams of the surrounding buildings. The shape of these things was indescribable, very much like the products of Frankenstein that appeared in old-fashioned comics. They had a body that looked like a mix of spider and scorpion, and eight to twelve rugged mechanical arms. High-pressure steam constantly leaked from the valves and joints on their body surface. The hissing sound was like the hissing of these monsters, and on their abdomens, runic characters were shining.
The largest mechanical monster climbed in front of Hao Ren. Two rows of small red lights that looked like eyes flickered quickly on the monster's head. One of the lights emitted a laser beam. The monster scanned everyone on the scene and said in a low voice, "Drop your weapons immediately, drop your weapons immediately!"
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