The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

　　If you ask the French, what is the most beautiful city in the French Empire?

Some people may choose Miria City because it is the headquarters of the mainland parliament, and the parliamentarians stationed in various countries also live there. They not only bring the living habits of various countries, but also bring the cuisine, architecture and art of various countries. Wait, it is not bad to call Milia the capital of all nations.

　　 However, some people will disdain this and think that the most beautiful city in the French Empire is Leon.

Although the city of Miria is beautiful, it does not belong to the French empire. Only Leon in the capital of the seven dynasties can truly represent the beauty of the French empire. There are thousands of years of historical precipitation, cultural heritage, and the most beautiful sky gardens. Some scholars once said that even a brick on the ground of Leon can be written into a great book.

However, some people still disagree with this statement. They will think that Leon is a decaying corpse in the past. The city is full of corpse odor. Only the representative of the blood and the solemn winter city can be regarded as the modern French empire. The most beautiful city in

　　 It is difficult to have a conclusion about the ownership of the most beautiful city in the French Empire. Once it is discussed, there will be no result. Anyone will choose the city in their minds, and there is no public opinion.

　　However, if the question is changed to the largest city in the French Empire? Then everyone will choose Lanxi without hesitation.

Lanxi was the largest slave city in France hundreds of years ago. In the Lanxi fighting field, thousands of slaves were captured every day. This was also the starting point of the slave uprising that almost made the royal family extinct. Later the capital of the slave kingdom was located.

　　 Later, the entire Lanxi city was destroyed by war. The only survivor of the royal family of the Franks completely razed the city, and all the buildings were destroyed, including the magnificent arena.

　　 After more than two hundred years, Lanxi was uninhabited. The stone that destroyed the building became the cornerstone of other urban buildings. Until the emergence of industry, Lanxi, a vacant wasteland for 100 years, was not reused.

　　Although the royal family of Lanzhou was extremely disgusted with the land of Lanxi and wanted to permanently abandon it, when faced with the need for a lot of land to build factories, their minds could not help thinking of Lanxi.

　　 The geographical advantage of the land in Lanxi is too great. This is the intersection of the four plains in the western mainland. The ancient marching roads on the four plains will all meet here. It is absolutely extensible. Even when the railroad tracks were later built, there was no need for additional surveys, and the construction directly along the ancient marching route could easily build a railway network covering the entire western continent.

In addition, the water system here is also very developed. The ice water from Rhodes Mountain, the highest mountain in the western continent, converges into the Rhodes River to Lanxi, and it is divided into two in Lanxi. A branch that flows southward and finally flows into the star-falling sea remains The name of the Rhodes River, and another tributary northward was changed to the Rhodeland River, and finally merged with the Velent River and flowed into the endless sea.

　　With the water network constructed by these two big rivers and the tributaries of the river, cargo ships on the water can easily send Lanxi cargo to any place.

　　It is precisely because of such a huge geographical advantage that the royal family finally built a large number of factories here, which became the largest industrial city in the French Empire.

With the continuous development of nearly a hundred years, more and more factories in Lanxi, coupled with the living area of ​​factory workers, has made the urban area of ​​Lanxi continue to expand, from the old Lanxi City to the new Lanxi City, and then Expansion to the outer plain area, until now finally led to the expansion of Lanxi into the largest city of the French Empire.

Someone with good deeds has carefully measured the coverage area of ​​Lance City. After calculation, they found that four Leons were put together to be equivalent to the area of ​​a Lance, while Miria was slightly better, requiring two and a half .

Although Lanxi City is recognized as the largest city in the French Empire and a crown of world industry that the French are proud of, no literati would be willing to write an article praising such a great city, because in the eyes of those people The city is very ugly.

Countless monster-like factories creeping into the horizon, and a chimney up to 100 meters high rises from the ground, just like a tree that grows into wood, but these trees do not grow leaves, only Thick smoke puffed up, covering the entire sky, leaving Lanxi City always in a dim and dark environment, so some people call Lanxi City the city of eternal darkness.

　　If it's just a factory without beauty, even the house where the workers live is so strange and unsightly.

　　I don’t know what the people who built apartment dormitory for factory workers thought, built each apartment so close, the road between the apartments was so narrow, three people walked side by side and had to be against the wall.

　　If the people living here are comparable to the dormitory apartments built, although it is a little crowded, it is not particularly difficult to live.

　　 But the problem is that as a large number of factories are stationed in Lanxi, the number of workers accompanying the factories has also increased rapidly, from more than 50,000 people a hundred years ago, to the huge population of 3 million people that is now about to break through.

　　Since so many people have entered this city, it is natural to build houses.

　　 With the completion of the laying of the railway network, the land of Lanxi has become very expensive, doubling every year.

Buying land, whether it is to wait for the price of the land to be sold later or to directly use it to build a factory, is very cost-effective, but it is definitely a loss-making transaction to build a worker’s apartment, and it is a big loss. No business association can Suffered such a huge loss.

Therefore, those factory owners started to use their crooked brains, and did not know who started it first. He did not push down the apartment building of his workers and rebuilt it, but directly built floors and rooms upward like building blocks. .

In order to save costs, the architects who first built these apartment buildings moved directly to the stone in the ancient city of Lanxi to build foundations, walls, load-bearing columns, etc. These stones are the best granite stones in the world, and their strength is naturally self-evident .

　　 It is precisely because of such a solid foundation that the factory owner did not collapse the house after using this speculative method to build the house.

Because there is an example for demonstration, other factory owners have followed suit. When the house is built one by one, the floor is raised one by one, and finally when it is raised to more than thirty floors, the builder finds that the structure of the house is inclined. If you do not deal with it, the house will collapse.

For this reason, these factory owners who were not architects came up with a bad idea again. They connected all the worker apartment buildings with rail-like beams and columns, connecting all the apartment buildings into a whole and forcibly strengthening the apartment. The foundation of the building.

Although the method was a bad idea, the effect was unexpectedly good, so the factory owner continued to build the building, and then connected and reinforced when it could not be supported, and finally formed such a now as high as two hundred layers, occupying six points One is Lanxi City, an apartment city like a monster.

Because the roads are narrow, the workers living in these houses cannot all walk from the bottom road, so the workers living here spontaneously used scrap iron picked from the factory, using steel beams and columns connecting the apartment buildings to build One by one can pass to any apartment building sky bridge.

　　 And some highly skilled workers made some steam engines themselves, which were installed on the outermost side of the apartment city, connected with steel cables and iron cages, and made a rough steam automatic elevator, which was specially provided for workers to travel.

　　 It is precisely because of these steel frames that the expenditures make the whole apartment city look like a huge cage from afar, so some people call it the cage city.

　　Because of the random expansion and construction inside the cage city, the terrain inside looks like a labyrinth. Even if the workers who live in cage city for a long time, if they leave their familiar living area, there is a danger of getting lost. Therefore, the workers living in the cage city were also bored and called it a black forest built of steel, cement and granite according to the dark environment and labyrinthine road inside.

Whether it is Cage City or the Iron Black Forest, these two names are not good names in Lanxi. The Lanxi City Council regards Cage City as a tumor, but they also know that this tumor is unmovable because the entire Lanxi All factories need this tumor to supply enough labor, so they simply ignore this tumor.

So, there was an interesting scene in Lanxi. The huge cage city in Lanxi is a landmark building, just like the Arc de Triomphe in Winter City, and the statue of Milia’s goddess of peace. Anyone enters the city limits. You can see such buildings.

But no newspapers, magazines and other publications in the whole Lanxi city will write any text related to this place. Even people in other residential areas in the city are reluctant to mention this place under the influence of the city council. Even if you want to mention it, it will only be described by a pronoun like "that place". A few years ago, a separation wall was built between Cage City and ordinary residential areas to completely isolate Cage City from Lanxi. .

　　Now, Leo, Nielsen and Jason are standing in front of this huge complex that is unwilling to be mentioned by ordinary citizens of Lanxi, looking for an entrance into the city.

　　 In fact, the moment the train entered the Lanxi city an hour ago, Leo saw the striking cage city at a glance.

Unlike Nielsen and Jason who could not help but exclaim when he saw the huge and quirky building, he seemed very calm, and without disguising the disgust in his heart, he directly confronted the two companions and said, "I hate here, Especially those factories, this is really uncomfortable!"

　　Leo expressed his views so bluntly that both of them were a little surprised. They couldn't help but curiously ask Leo why? Because in their view, the factories all over the earth represent the development of human industry, and also represent the highest power that human beings can master today. It is a matter of pride.

　　However, Leo did not answer the two's inquiries, but silently looked at the gray air outside the car window.

　　 The reason why Leo would behave so disgustingly is because what he sees now reminds him of some bad experiences in the past.

　　Although the economists of the Earth Federation have completely decorated the prosperity of the federal economy, as long as people with a clear eye know that the prosperity of the Federation is completely based on the plunder and squeeze of the resource stars on the federal border.

　　 For the vast majority of federal citizens, they have never been to Resource Star. Resource Star is just a concept and a name in their minds. They are not interested in what kind of environment there is and how people live there.

　　However, Leo, who is a federal biological weapon, has visited these resource stars more than once because of his mission. He knows how bad the environment there is and how desolate the people there are.

　　 At that time, as a biochemical person, he had no extra emotions and could not have any sympathy or other ideas for the people there.

But it’s different now. As he gets used to this body more and more, the fusion memory is truly transformed into his own memory, so he has feelings that he didn’t have before, and when he recalls that memory, it makes him feel incomparable. Uncomfortable, even if Lan Xi's harsh environment is far from being comparable to the hell-like situation of Resource Star.

He hates this uncomfortable feeling that has never been experienced~www.wuxiahere.com~ This also affects his emotions, giving him the urge to destroy everything in front of him, this emotion has also been brought down from the train and brought to Before the cage city.

　　The freight train center stands at the northeast corner of Lanxi City, while the passenger train center stands at the northwest corner and needs to cross the Rhodeland River. It’s also unclear about this point of Nelson who has passed through Lanxi City in the future, so that after they were on the train, they always searched for the ticket office of the train moving to Miria City at the freight train central station. It took half an hour to figure it out. Happening.

Later, under the guidance of people, they took the urban steam rail car to the passenger center station on the other side of the river. They only waited for them to get there and found the ticket office of the Miria train, only to know that it was ten minutes before they came. The train has left, and the next train will not start until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

　　 At this time, it was almost one and a half days before tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. The three felt that it was not a way to wait at the station, so they went to a hotel to stay for one day. However, Nielsen suddenly proposed to take this time to go to Cage City, to meet an old classmate of his years ago, Leo and Jason did not object, and took the steam rail car back to the east bank.

It was only after arriving at the place that Leo learned that Nielsen and the old classmate only passed letters a few times in the years when they graduated, knowing that the old classmate opened a private clinic in the workers’ apartment city of Lanxi, specializing in treating doctors here. , But I don’t know where this clinic is.

"Let someone ask!" Leo saw Nelson like a headless fly on the iron wall in front, looking for the door to enter the cage city, and said impatiently: "By the way, ask The location of your old classmate’s clinic, if your old classmate is not a quack and has not been beaten to death, you should have some fame here."