The flatbed truck walked past the high-hanging steel frame, walked past the noisy construction site, and walked past the bustling machine puppet. Catherine hid behind the iron box and watched everything, they did enter the city of gears, or the heart of the city of gears.

The city is littered with towering steel buildings, but the closer you get to the heart of the city, the lower the buildings become, with a deep well-like vertical cavern at its core. In any building, there is a "clanging" sound all the time. From time to time, you can see machine golems coming out of different buildings, carrying different parts or metal products.

The robot golems mostly walk around mechanically, and occasionally encounter a few nimble robot golems with red eyes shining in them, and they are as nimble as living creatures walking along the road. They are so distinctive, they are easily recognizable by looking at the way they walk from a distance.

Whenever such a robot golem is found, Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss will carefully hide it, even holding their breath.

Along the way, Catherine saw several flatbed trucks similar to those she was riding, pulling them in all directions of the city, pulled by the robot golems. These flatbed trucks also depart from the center of the city, as if the materials used to build the entire city come from the deep well cave in the center of the city.

"Now is a good opportunity to get off. Ice Bear Abyss whispered.

Catherine turned her head and saw the Ice Bear Abyss wink at her, motioning for her to look in the other direction. It turned out that there was a deep alley over there, right between two tall steel buildings, perfect for hiding. After a little further walking, the flatbed truck will pass by the alleyway.

Catherine nodded decisively.

The speed of the flatbed truck was not fast, and the two moved to the back of the flatbed truck and jumped out of the car smoothly one after the other. He walked a little more under the cover of a flatbed truck, and flashed into the alley quickly.

Because the buildings on both sides are dozens of meters high, the wide alley between the two looks very dark. Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss felt deep into the alley, and it was full of wreckage and broken parts of the machine golems. Both were experienced adventurers and soon found traces of a fight.

Catherine couldn't help but think of the alleys where civilians gathered in the old town of Daxt, where there were many murders, robberies and brawls. This Gear City, ruled by machine puppets, seems to be no exception.

"We're going to find Screw Alley, and it's best to ask somebody. "Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss were standing at the intersection of two alleys, and they had gone around the alleys several times and had lost their way.

The Ice Bear Abyss looked into the depths of an alley, and that was the direction where the two of them had come. "Those robot golems with non-red-eyed eyes don't seem to be of much use, and they have to find a way to catch a red-eyed one. But for now, let's get out of here first, lest that guy just look for someone. ”

Not long after the two of them hid in the alley, they bumped into an ordinary bull-headed machine puppet. At that time, they were startled, and the Ice Bear Abyss even cut off one of each other's arms with a single sword. But the two immediately found that the bull-headed machine puppet didn't seem to be aware of the existence of the two at all, and only cared about moving forward, even if he broke the two legs of the bull-headed machine puppet one after another, the guy still didn't resist, and still crawled forward stupidly. This situation is very similar to the situation when the two of them first encountered the robot puppet monkey who jumped on the back shell of the robot puppet snail and tied the steel cable at the dock of the molten steel deep pool. Ordinary robot puppets only know how to do their own work and don't care about anything else.

But the red-eyed, nimble robot puppet is different. Because it was in the direction of Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss that they were confronted by a red-eyed humanoid robot puppet in this alley. The robot golem had a broken arm. When the two sides met, they were still five or six meters apart, and the red-eyed machine puppet spotted the two first, and immediately stopped and turned around and ran. Among the two, the ice bear abyss reacted quickly, and immediately went to chase after it, but when they caught up at this fork, they couldn't see each other's figures.

"Which way shall we go?" Catherine glanced in three directions.

"This way. "The Ice Bear Abyss chose the opposite direction of the red-eyed machine golem's escape.

The two of them quickened their pace and ran for a while, turning three or four alleys in a row, but no one was chasing after them, and then they stopped.

"It's estimated that it's hard to catch one like this, and even if you do, you may not have time to make a move. The Ice Bear Abyss looked around.

"What can you do?" Catherine said. The difference here is that the buildings on both sides are not as high.

"To hunt is nothing more than to set a trap. Ice Bear Abyss pointed upward, "Let's climb up and see the situation first." ”

The Ice Bear Abyss supported the walls on both sides with his hands and feet, and climbed to the roof of the building five or six meters high in three or two clicks. He lowered the chains that had evolved from the chess pieces of life, and hung the Thick-Backed Knife, the Hammer, and Catherine one after the other.

When she climbed to the roof, Catherine realized that the buildings in Gear City were so dense, one after the other, high and low. A building often has an alley on each side. Due to the fact that there are so many tall buildings, you can't see much from a roof five or six meters high. For example, where they are standing now, if you look out in any direction, there will be tall buildings of tens or even hundreds of meters blocking the view.

"We'd better find a higher place. The Ice Bear Abyss observed for a while, and then chose a building to climb up.

Half an hour later, the two climbed the tallest steel building in the neighborhood. Its top is diagonally triangular, and one cannot stand on it, but can only lean on one side of the roof. However, this is enough for the two of them to have a glimpse of the seven or eight alleys around them.

"There. After waiting for ten minutes, the Ice Bear Abyss pointed to an alley in front of him on the left.

Catherine tried to look there, and faintly saw a figure moving in the darkness of the alley. "Is it past now?"

"Don't worry, look at it again, maybe it's just an ordinary guy. This is the first one, and there must be more than one such a large area. "When I was young, I worked as a lookout post in the woods, and I could spot three herds of wild boars in one night. Waiting until dawn to signal, we left the largest herd of wild boars behind. ”

The Ice Bear Abyss stared at the guy in the alley, and whispered the story of hunting with the tribe in the past.

The experience of the old barbarian was not comparable to that of Catherine, and the female mage listened with relish and learned many useful techniques.

Within an hour, the two found three prey in succession. One of them has been walking back and forth in a fixed alley. Judging by the Ice Bear Abyss, it was likely to be an ordinary machine puppet. The other two are interesting, they came from different directions, but after turning around, they both came to the same place and disappeared.