Sitting on this gravity-defying train, you can look down through the window. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to the seasons of this world, it should be spring. But to be honest, this world is not at all like what Lu Wu felt before, a world with a developed civilization, or rather, a world of high-tech demons.

Although there is no special feeling when you are on the ground, when you look down from a certain height of the sky, you can feel a desolate feeling that is difficult to describe. This "desolation" does not mean that deserts, wilderness, and other environments lack the necessary conditions for the survival of animals and plants, but that there are no signs of human activity.

Everywhere there are grasslands, forests, shrubs, trees, rivers, hills, and so on, all green. This is an absolute rarity of natural beauty on Earth - the only problem is that this place does not look like there is a trace of human civilization.

Of course, this is undoubtedly an illusion. Lu Wu himself had already seen more than one human town. There is indeed a human civilization here, and it is developing very well. Even if this is a recognized remote area, it still lights up the light of scientific and technological civilization.

After a short while, he finally understood that something was wrong. There are no villages or farmland.

As far as the eye can see, there is a turquoise plain, where the tributaries of several rivers converge and become a large river of considerable size. Originally, the plain where the two rivers converged was a very suitable place for agricultural development. There should be villages and farmland. But there's nothing here.

Lu Wu also deliberately strengthened his vision with magic power, but there was still no sign of it. This is not explained by environmental changes and population movements, because the land that has been cultivated by humans will eventually leave traces. Even if the land is abandoned for decades, or even hundreds of years, it will leave behind the remains of human activities.

"Your Excellency Lu Wu, what are you looking at?" Ivan didn't know where to come from. "How does it feel to ride this kind of transportation for the first time?"

If there is any impression that this kind of suspension train gives Lu Wu, it is spacious and comfortable. It and the train on Earth are two very different things. As everyone knows, trains on Earth are conditioned by external factors such as railroad tracks, and their width, height, and even length are limited. And this kind of anti-gravity transport device is not restricted by those rules, so theoretically speaking, except for a locomotive that provides forward power, the other carriages can be strange and can be made whatever they want.

Of course, it's not that free. This is because the construction of such a car requires the consumption of expensive resonance stones, as well as aerodynamic considerations. Designers have to find a suitable optimal ratio between cost and capacity, so there is no such thing as a too bizarre shape. But in any case, it is completely incomparable to the trains on earth.

"Here...... Are there no inhabitants?" Lu Wu asked, pointing to the plain below, which was suitable for establishing a human settlement. There were a few large animals that Lu Wu didn't know moving slowly on the ground. It's the same as what Lu Wu saw, and it can only be said that the animals here are relatively deformed. One of them was covered with large and small bulging sarcomas, and for some reason people couldn't help but think of the word "ovaries".

"It's a more alienated area. Ivan gave him a casual look.

"What? alienation?"

"Some people call this poisoning, some call it corruption, and of course some people call it mutation, poisoning or something -- it's the same thing. Anyway, there are no normal animals in the entire Banshee Gate area. Ivan said. "Of course, there may be exceptions, but I can't confirm that. Some say that the 'Gashe' clan used some kind of biological weapon here, and some say that they opened the door to the other world and allowed the laws of the other world to invade...... There are different opinions, but I don't know what's going on. However, Lord Lu Wu, anyway, the entire Banshee Gate is all an alienated area. In other words, when the Banshee Gate area is divided, it is divided according to the scope of alienation. He noticed Lu Wu's expression, "You don't know much about this?"

"Oh, I don't know much. "Lu Wu has also been here in Jiashe City for a long time. I have heard of the origin of the place name. At least he knew that the word "Gashe" was a typical transliteration, the self-proclaimed name of some otherworldly race. It is said that they were once introduced into this world by warlocks as mercenaries, but they used their brains to take a place in this world. In the end, of course, they ended up leaving only a city called "Gasha" here.

It should be noted that although the city of Gasha is named like this, the city itself has nothing to do with that alien race. Cities that were once built by aliens have long since been completely wiped out - either destroyed by war, or gradually dismantled in the days after the change of owners, because they were not suitable for human habitation. The process may be controversial, but the result is the same. Anyway, nothing was left but a name.

"In short, the biosphere of the Banshee Gate has been affected, all living things, animals, and plants. ”

"What about the aftermath ......"

"They're all getting poisonous. Ivan shrugged. "It can't be eaten or used, and it is said that it will take hundreds of years to keep it like this, so that the distorted and mutated ecosystem can slowly return to normal. Maybe we can add some rare biological samples to this world in the future, but it's useless at the moment. ”

Only then did Lu Wu remember something. When he accompanied the tribe to retreat, it seemed that he didn't see anyone hunting along the way. At first, I just thought that there might be a lack of skill and time needed for hunting. But now I understand that it is not the same thing at all.

That's why there are cities here, but no countryside. There is industry and mining, but there is no agriculture or animal husbandry. Even if people here eat tasteless compressed canned food (although nutrition does meet the needs of the human body), they will not think of hunting some game to improve their lives.

Everything is because of this "alienation", which originated many years ago, when an invasion of a command creature from another world, namely "Gashe", distorted the entire biosphere in an unknown way.

"Actually, it's not completely useless, plants can still be used, especially wood. Ivan continued casually. "Wood is also a usable resource...... It works. It's a pity that it can't be exported, and people outside won't use these alienated woods at all, except for the natives of Banshee's Gate. Actually, what does it matter with wood? You can't eat it. Even if it's poisonous, it's still the same after drying......" he grumbled softly.

Lu Wu thinks he's complaining about money, and if he can sell the timber to the public trade network, he can get more income. This is because there is a forest area on the edge of the mine that is suitable for logging.

"By the way, Your Excellency Lu Wu, that, Aqi...... Is that okay?"

They had discussed it several times before, but they really didn't expect that the inspector who came over was Ah Qi. Even Ivan doesn't have any doubts that this is not necessarily a good thing. In fact, if you think about it carefully, the previous failures have not been too long now. If you want to say that Ah Qi has a good mind, even if she says it, no one will believe it. Out of the dark nature of human beings, maybe she will find a way to pull Lu Wu back.

And it is very troublesome for an ombudsman to pull back. It is well known that they wield the power to make minor reports to the upper echelons of the regular army. Lu Wu's every move would be scrutinized under her magnifying glass, looking for something that seemed wrong - such as the one at hand: owning and repairing a floating fortress.

From a normal point of view, this is a positive performance of Lu Wu. However, this can also be understood as Lu Wu has bad intentions and is planning to get involved in something that he doesn't deserve to have at all and accumulate strength. What does the commander of a small local army want to do to increase his strength? Undoubtedly, he is ready to play a two-sided trick between the two camps. Yes, that's right, logically speaking, if Lu Wu defects to the side of the Dark Moon with a floating fortress (plus a legion), not to mention the rest, high-ranking officials are indispensable. At least it's much better than being the commander of a local army here. Maybe he was appointed governor of the Banshee Gate (of course, from the Stygian Side).

And this kind of thing is not clear at all. As the saying goes, "Accumulate and destroy bones, and everyone will make money." Although even the matter of the Floating Fortress was caused by Ah Qi, she could use this incident as a basis to slander Lu Wu.

"There's no other way. Lu Wu can only think about things on the good side. How can you say that he also saved Aqi's life, didn't he?" she is the Ombudsman, if I hide it from her, things may be even more troublesome. ”

"That's right. Ivan agrees. That's why they all agreed to take the new Ombudsman with them to the city of Nice from the start. Because you might be in trouble with him, and if you don't take him, you're more likely to be in trouble.

"By the way, Ivan, the matter of the maintenance fund ......" Lu Wu has been studying carefully with the master during this time. Yes, that's right, they used to learn together, and now he learns from the masters. Amber's training is enough, and every day he just continues to practice his skills, that is, to improve his proficiency. But in terms of the course learning of the fortress commander, Lu Wu did not stop.

This is very necessary. Lu Wu had already made up his mind not to find a "fortress commander" who had nothing to do with him to help him command (at this point, he had a hard time accepting the views of the locals). According to the Chinese saying, this is called "only the name and the instrument cannot be dummy"), in this case, he must master some command ability, even if he does not have 60 points, at least he can't eat zero eggs. In order to be able to command the Floating Fortress after it was repaired, he had to devote most of his time to this point. Naturally, he didn't have time to take care of many things, and left them to two subordinates. The affairs of the army and the mines were thrown to the Reds, and the funds and the miscellaneous affairs of the city of Gasha were thrown to Ivan. Thankfully, so far everything is normal, or at least it seems.

"It's difficult, like I said," Ivan said. "Our stuff was sold for a big price, but ...... To talk about repairing a crashed floating fortress is a bit insufficient. So I have an idea. ”

Ivan's idea was simple, but it immediately attracted Lu Wu's attention. That is, the Floating Fortress simply repairs the flying engine, lets it fly, and then slowly takes care of the other internal details.