fine!

After only one day and one night of travel, on the afternoon of the next day, Annie and Uncle Li Kui and Li finally arrived at their destination: at the foot of a stone mountain piled up by heavy fog and various huge debris of unknown machinery.

There are various abandoned mechanical parts and piles of iron blocks around the foot of the mountain. They are discarded randomly in a mess, looking like a destroyed city or factory, but also like the remains of a huge warship or space station falling down and exploding?

As for what it is, it is unknown, because Annie didn't ask, and then Uncle Li didn't tell her either.

Anyway!

As she slowly approached, Anne also saw that the entire mountain was like a giant steel beast dormant on the wasteland. In addition to the surface of which was covered with various rust wreckages of time and war, there were also twisted metal pipes that did not know what role it was to extend out of the mountain?

Then they were like the hideous blood vessels of giant beasts, flowing outward with unknown liquid and some pungent chemical waste gas.

But it's okay!

The exhaust gas mixed with the heavy fog around the mountains, and then covered the sky, which was a good way to hide.

Anyway, as long as the exhaust gas is not emitted on sunny days, Annie feels that this place is still very hidden. After all, Annie has heard of it. There are ruins like this on this planet, and it is indeed quite safe to hide in such a place.

“…”

As Li Kui silently took the lead in moving forward slowly in the ruins, not long after, a huge gate between the ruins hidden at the foot of the mountain appeared in front of him.

“Have you arrived?”

|˙˙)?

Before she stepped forward, Annie saw the gate. Although the other party seemed to have been snatched out of the mountain, the surface was covered with a thick layer of rust. At first glance, it seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. In short, it was very inconspicuous, but she still realized that it should be where she was going.

However, at this moment!

"stop!"

With a shout, it was such an inconspicuous rusty gate. A group of soldiers who were fully armed, most of their bodies were covered with mechanical prosthetic bodies, and even more were holding the kind of large-caliber weapons that exuded a terrifying and murderous aura in their hands.

"Stop!"

"Who are you?"

“What are you doing here?!”

Before everyone could get close, a guy in the lead who was wearing a full-body single armor looked majestic and seemed to be an officer, so he started to shout loudly.

"Hey--"

"Old Geng!"

"Don't be nervous, it's me!"

Seeing the other party appear, Li Kui was not in a hurry, but directly pulled off the goggles on his face and then took two steps forward and waved his hand.

"ah?"

"Li Kui?"

"no!"

"It's only been a few days, why are you back so quickly this time?"

Seeing that it was indeed Li Kui, the other party relaxed a little, and then took the initiative to come over and ask in confusion, while not forgetting to scan the people with suspicious eyes.

"Hello!"

(^o^)/

Seeing the other person's eyes falling on him, Annie was not afraid and waved her little hand openly to greet the other person.

“…”

Facing Annie's greeting, although the other party didn't understand why Li Kui and others brought back a child, he didn't say much or ignored him. He just looked at Li Kui and his men and found that their team had almost been reduced by half and then frowned and asked:

"What's wrong with you?"

"Why don't you report in advance when you come back?"

"besides!"

"Why are there only a few people left?"

Although I saw some people still carrying injuries and guessed what happened, the officer still asked in a deep voice.

"Don't mention it!"

"As soon as I got out, I encountered a bamboo elephant heavy-armored beast with thick armor. I almost died, if not..."

Speaking of this, Li Kui shook his head bitterly.

"Okay!"

"Don't ask so much. Open the door, we have to go back to see the mayor first!"

"There are important things to report!"

Obviously, Li Kui didn't want to say more about what happened to them, at least he didn't want to say it here outside the gate.

So, he just waved and urged.

“…”

The officer seemed a little dissatisfied with this and confronted Li Kui for a while through the voyeurism.

But he didn't say much in the end. He just waved his hand and asked the soldiers behind him to come and conduct routine scans and checks on everyone, including Anne. After confirming that there was no problem and was not the kind of disguised robot, he slowly opened the heavy and rusty gate.

Gass——!

Soon, as the gate slowly rose and made a harsh metal friction sound, an old breath came to my face.

“Huh?”

(▽)

However, what surprised Annie was: Unlike the bad situation outside and the door, the environment inside was quite bright and clean?

Of course, in addition to the bright and clean hall, the inside is quite spacious.

There was a passage about the size of a football field and several meters high, filled with various defense facilities. The hideous muzzles and missile launchers were even more like hedgehogs, pointing tightly towards the direction of the gate.

At this time, if there is any steel beast that wants to rush in, in such a narrow passage, it will definitely be bombarded with those energy cannons with good caliber, right?

But it's okay!

Those weapons are just used to defend against steel beasts or other foreign enemies, and have nothing to do with Anne and the others.

So, after Uncle Li greeted many soldiers on duty all the way, the group quickly arrived at the second gate and then conducted a more stringent scan and inspection again.

Then, after a while, several people were finally released and entered a lift.

As the elevator gradually descended, after walking downwards for about 100 meters, finally, the eyes suddenly became clear, revealing a steel city located in the huge underground "cavity".

Of course, it is a bit too much to say that the city is, and it may be considered a small town at most?

“Wow!”

()

Seeing this, Annie quickly lay on the transparent glass on the elevator and couldn't help but exclaim.

Because, she originally thought that this place must be the same as outside, a dirty cyberpunk-style wasteland dungeon!

But no idea...

The real situation was a bit unexpectedly better than her?

Under the dome of the underground ‘cavity’, a device on the top of the artificial sunlight sprinkles, dipping the entire underground space into a soft color, making people feel as if they are outside.

As for what device is that, Anne can't see it, because she is still on the elevator, and the elevator is now higher than the "dome", so it is not visible for the time being.

Under the dome, the mountain or underground has been hollowed out into a huge hemispherical chamber with a radius of at least a few hundred meters. Then most of the inner walls are laid by steel modules, and several huge steel columns are supported during this period. Then steel and stone buildings of all sizes are spread across the plane below the hemispherical body. Thousands of people breathe, walk, work and live a hundred meters deep underground, directly separating the dangerous wasteland on the surface from here.

In addition to the living space on the ground with a hemispherical cross-section, the metal platforms and residences are also embedded in curved rock walls and metal pillars as support, connected to each other by suspended elevators and hollow steel corridor bridges and other facilities.

Moreover, there seem to be two floors on the ground?

Anne didn't see what was going on on the ground below, but on the upper floor, each house was almost a standard four or five-story structure. The shell was uniformly coated with a light red coating that was anti-rust, which looked quite spectacular under the 'sunlight'.

Although many facilities look a bit old, the streets are surprisingly clean, and some automatic cleaning devices or drones are passing by silently like worker bees, busy with the bustling crowds in this not-so-large town.

There seems to be a garden as big as a basketball court in the center of the town, with holographic projection. In it, virtual flowers bloom and wither in the data stream, and birds and animals are running in it, which is quite unique.

There are many real plants on the surrounding rock walls or columns. Plants that seem to be some kind of crop are growing vigorously in that vertical farm under the illumination of ultraviolet lamps.

Here, the air no longer has the sour and rust smell of the wasteland outside, only a faint smell of disinfected ozone and a mint-like filter.

Then, Annie also saw:

In the streets and alleys below, people were walking, talking, trading, and even making noise in various clean and decent uniforms.

The most important thing is that the dome above people's heads is actually a giant holographic curved screen, which projectes the sky on the ground in real time, making people feel as if they are directly under the sky.

Although Anne knew that the sky outside should be covered by clouds polluted by radiation and acidic odor, here people could still see the blue sky, and even with sharp eyes, she could see the Milky Way rotating and meteors passing by in the more distant starry sky?

“It’s really good…”

(▽)
To be continued...