The road had been renovated and filled with cement and gravel. The roadside was already full of shops, from restaurants to hardware stores, and he even saw a store selling parrots.
The climate of Southeast Asia is able to breed some unique animals. The flower-tailed parrots here are quite beautiful, and they should be aimed at the rich children who come to Southeast Asia for tourism.
After all, the needs are diverse. Some people who can't make it in their hometown want to come here to try their luck, and some people have nothing to do in their hometown and want to come here to relax.
Is this what Your Majesty said, that people will be differentiated into different classes?
After thinking about what these different classes meant and how they divided people, Xinde got off the car at the driver's reminder and paid him a gold coin on the spot.
"This is too much!" the driver said in panic.
"Don't let anyone know it's been here." Sind just lowered the brim of his hat.
He believed that the other party could understand what he meant.
Of course, this was just insurance. Just like the shackles and chains wrapped around his wrists, if he was dressed like this in Wayne Harbor, no one except the men in black would want to find out anything, but in this mixed place, there was no shortage of interested people casting glances at him.
That's why he came to Berlekin first.
After all, it is such a valuable thing. It is common sense to take valuable things to valuable places.
A group of homeless people were sitting diagonally opposite the Berleigh Gold Shop. They watched the gentleman carrying the chained box walk into the door of the gold shop and secretly began to call their companions, but when it got dark, they still didn't see him come out.
"What the hell is he doing in there? Making love to Bokins's wife?"
At the same time, in the underground secret passage of the gold bank, the branch manager, Mr. Perkins, bowed respectfully to Sind.
"On behalf of the head office, I welcome your return."
"Identity verification has been completed and the procedures have been completed." Xinde nodded, "I want to borrow your secret passage to the north of the city."
"That's absolutely fine. Please follow me."
Led by Mr. Perkins, the two walked along the tunnel for about 50 meters. After turning a corner, the view suddenly opened up and they saw an underground railway line in front of them.
Moreover, the front of the train was already emitting white steam and was about to start, and Xinde arrived at the right time.
"Give my regards to Marne-Berle."
After getting in the car, Cinder looked at Mr. Perkins and said, "The performance of Berlekin Bank is very good. I will consider letting you get the exclusive operating rights of this city for the next five years."
"Thank you very much for your gift." Bokins' eyes were almost invisible due to his laughter, but even so he did not forget to be humble.
"Excuse me, sir. Actually, this is also asked on behalf of Mr. Burleigh. He wants to know if he has a chance to go to the place you are going to now?"
"If he continues to be so stable, there will be a chance."
Smiling at the guide, Xinde took the initiative to close the car door.
The train started moving, carrying him northward on this underground line, quietly passing through the entire town.
This trip took almost two hours, and the environment after getting off the train was much more lively. I don't know which line the train took to break into the normal railway tunnel. This is actually a platform. After getting off the train, Xinde saw a sea of people.
"Hiring people! Hiring people!"
"Ruins cleaning, 30 goli a day! Double the night work! First come, first served!"
"Lynn Hunting Team is recruiting new members! Those with wilderness survival experience are preferred!...Oh, forget it, we are hunting, not digging for ruins!"
"Breaded sausage! Breaded sausage!"
"Lina, water~ Are you thirsty, dear? A cup of hot water only costs this..."
Squeezing through the noisy atmosphere, and punching two guys who tried to touch his pockets, Xinde did not go upstairs to the station. Instead, he quickly slipped into a dark corner of the railway tunnel while no one was paying attention.
Except for those who committed murder, no one would come to such a place. It was damp and muddy and full of poisonous insects. There might be poisonous spiders crawling on the walls and leeches carrying bacteria in the ditch.
But Sind is not afraid of these. To put it bluntly, even if he exposes his neck to be bitten by poisonous insects, they will not be interested in him.
Instead of going up, he went down.
If someone saw him, they would definitely feel strange, because this station platform is the northernmost point of Colossae. Going further north, although it is not as far as the wilderness or the tunnel being blocked, the world ahead is called "the ruins behind the fog".
Those are the remains of this city's history. The traces of time have taken away its suffering and glory, but they will not eliminate the remnants of the gray fog.
Exploring the ruins is not an easy task. Although it is quite lively here and there is no shortage of people even at night, everyone has a precise grasp of the scale - they never go to the ruins at this time.
But Xinde was not afraid. The tunnel became more and more dilapidated as he went further forward. It was filled with smelly water and moss, and almost all the narrow corners were covered with spider webs.
He went through two ventilation holes and found a hidden staircase leading deeper underground. He went down from there, twisted and turned in the tunnel, and finally reached another platform.
It was the same platform, but it was very different. This place didn't seem to have any life, but it didn't look bleak or dilapidated.
Because the material used to cast here is steel.
Xinde stepped onto the steel deck, and a smile finally appeared on his face, like that of an office worker who has worked hard all day and finally returns home.
woo-
A whistle sounded from the tunnel ahead, and a brand new, steel-style train drove out. Xinde got on the train and was carried forward.
Together they passed through the tunnel, through the darkness, and sank into the shadows where there should be no way forward. They then came out from the shadows of another tunnel and suddenly saw the open night sky.
Ding ding dong dong.
Click, clang, clang.
The castle in the distance was built entirely of robotic arms. Rows of factories could be seen under the hillside where the railway tracks were located, and all kinds of cranes, forklifts, and even armored artillery vehicles shuttled through the road, making it seem more prosperous than the emerging seaport.
The locomotive entered the platform under the castle. Sind got off here and looked up to see a row of mechanical soldiers standing in front of him.
"You're here! Mechanical Apostle!"
"Go and do your thing." Xinde waved his hand and walked into the castle carrying the box.
Although it is called a castle, its appearance and structure are actually more similar to those newly built buildings in Port Vien.
He first took the elevator to the 16th floor, nodded to those who greeted him, then found a bar and began to fill out application materials.
"Can I ask where my sister is now?"
"I'm sorry, sir, this is level 10 secret."
"Did you know that the phrase 'Level 10 Secret' is the answer itself?"
"That's the process." The young woman behind the bar smiled at him, "I wouldn't say that if it were someone else."
After just a few words of communication, the message was conveyed.
Xinde went straight to his own area, removed the chains, opened the box, and took out more than a dozen various books and documents.
After waiting for a while, someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
The door was pushed open, and another mechanical apostle, Daryl, walked in. Seeing the information on the visit on the table, he raised his eyebrows and said, "So many?"
I was just thinking of giving it a try, and even His Majesty didn't give me hope, but I didn't expect it to actually be effective?
That Princess Siman really did a great job...
"That's all for now." Sind nodded. "Elsa should be able to capture a few more people. If they haven't destroyed their collections in time, then give me another half month at most and I should be able to find another batch to send to you."
"How did you deceive her?"
"I didn't lie. I just explained to her the crisis we are facing."
"You! You told her the truth?"
"if not."
"Your Majesty doesn't seem to have given you this authority, right?"
"Your Majesty will understand me." Xinde nodded, "Everything is for improving efficiency."
"It's impossible to expect me to intercede!" Daryl looked up. "Luo Xin can't possibly take care of these things. You go see her yourself and take these things with you."
“That’s exactly what I’m here for.”
After chatting for a few words, the steel wall on one side of the room suddenly rose up, revealing a more spacious room with a grotesque machine with hundreds of metal pipes inserted.
It looked a bit like a pumpkin, with a cylindrical glass cover on the top, and a bright blue liquid flowing inside that glowed in the dark. From time to time, jumping currents would light up on each tube, and in the distance there would be a hissing sound similar to that of a pressure cooker.
"Do you need my help."
"That would be best if you want."
"Go lie down over there."
The two came to the side of the machine, and Xinde lay down on an extended mechanical table, allowing his sister to insert a metal tube into his head through his ear hole.
"It always costs a little to get rid of Xiyang's shadow... Have you thought about it? In fact, there is no need for us to be too anxious. Her Majesty does not want us to do anything that will hurt ourselves. She also promised to contact us as soon as she is free."
Daryl was a little hesitant. She had just come out from there, but it would be very troublesome to go back without the guidance of her master.
It’s going to take something to give.
Something that would make even the mechanical apostles feel nervous.
"It's nothing more than that every time I go through it, I get a little closer to merging with Xi Yang."
Cinder said expressionlessly.
"You're actually mistaken, Daryl. I don't see this as pain. On the contrary, this path is actually the reason why the Mechanical Apostle was born."
"Ah, if you like to play with yourself, it's up to you..."
Daryl was too lazy to listen to his nonsense anymore, so she reached out and grabbed the putter and pushed hard.
Click——!
The mechanical platform quickly retracted with Sind, and the machine burst into a dazzling red light.
When he opened his eyes again, Cinder found himself standing at the gate of a manor.
There was a telephone and a mailbox on the iron gate, an electric light on the top of the stone wall, and two owls squatting on it, staring at him.
"..."
For the first time, Xinde showed a hesitant expression, not sure which method of contact he should use.
But his worries were obviously unnecessary. The phone lighted up with a click, and then a casual female voice rang out:
"I already have a rough idea."
"Thank you for your efforts, Cinder, you may come in now."
"Take your harvest with you."
"Also promise me not to hurt yourself again, okay?"
“Each of you is important.”
"Perhaps one of you - someone other than me - will become the savior of this new world."
Chapter 21: Heart to Heart (Two in One)
With Walnut's guidance, within two minutes, Xinde and his goods were taken to the mansion. He sat on the sofa in a proper manner, waiting for the owner of the mansion - and the "king" he was loyal to - to finish looking at the things.
"……good."
Wearing a brown-red slim-fit sweater and a beige long skirt, Hitzfeld put down the things in his hands and said, "Thank you for delivering it specially."
Princess Diran-Arles of Chesman. Although she herself made the judgment that she might have special talents, she only mentioned it briefly and never placed her hope of conquering the goal on the other party.
Because she had a better choice: there was a sword in the forbidden treasure house of the tree people. Although the sword itself had lost its divine power and was no different from scrap metal, as long as its name was "Sword of Ahoyne", its true value was infinitely high for Hitzfeld.
This should be a unique privilege. Even for Xia Yibing, this once precious sword is of no use. Only she, only Hitzfeld, can trace back to the past through these historical relics and see the truth buried by time.
At this moment, the treasure box containing the "Sword of Ahoyin" had been delivered through layers of procedures and was placed on the table in her studio. She was about to study it carefully when she suddenly made another discovery.
I agreed to this plan because I wanted to do it in two ways, but I didn't expect that both pipes would start to smoke...
After treating Hind to some of the pastries he had prepared himself, Hitzfeld then talked to him about the issue of "health".
"Why don't we just use the shuttle to go back to Wayne Port? There are two springboards there, Puslint and Shadow City, so it will be easier to get in."
"The machine is currently only in the experimental stage, and the channel only ensures one-way stability. I don't want anything to happen to these things." Xinde replied, "And Colossae is not far away. Your Majesty, don't worry. This is our mission."
Hitzfeld frowned.
She had already received all the legacy of the Mechanical Kingdom. Lengdis left a lot of factory structures and experimental notes in the secret realm of Colossi Port. She had studied these carefully, so she certainly knew that the so-called mechanical apostles were created for an important purpose, which was to "pollute the mechanical Yang."
At that time, Lengdis regarded this place as an imaginary enemy... It was not surprising that he had such an intention. If he wanted to overthrow Sara, he would definitely not be able to bypass the mechanical sun. Whether it was to create mechanical warriors that could merge with the mechanical sun, or to train them so that they could transcend the limitations of the divine blood and take the mechanical sun from King Sara, this was reasonable and she had expected it before she looked through the notes.
Unfortunately, the road leading to the deepest part of Night Shadow, that is, Hitzfell Manor, is full of twists and turns. If you are not in Wayne Port, do not take those two "steps", and are not the goddess of Night Shadow herself, then there is only one way to reach this pure land.
