Sixty-three

We spiraled down the winding staircase. I don't know how many times I turned around, the air became more and more humid, the surroundings gradually became colder, and the light became darker and darker.

I turned on the prayer aura to illuminate the path and continue on, and after two more turns, at the end of this staircase, we found a circular arch of steel structure. Inside the arch is a tubular passage that continues to meander and slope downward, and around the passage is a strip of steel structure resembling a shutter, through which a trace of heat emerges from the gap between the iron bars.

The Magic Flute swaggered in: "Hey! Just right. This is a passage built specifically for gnomes. ”

Moses gave him a hard push behind him: "Then you lead the way!" ”

He then followed the Magic Flute inside. I also carefully lowered my head and bent down into the hundred-page hole. Fang Ding, Aaron and Rose all bent over and slowly moving forward like me. I don't know how long this passage was, so I could only keep my head down and follow Moses step by step. At this time, I sincerely felt the advantages of dwarfs and dwarves.

The surroundings are getting hotter and hotter, and the sounds of whining, clicking, clanging, and other mechanical operations are gradually ringing in my ears. We finally walked out of the passage and into a huge hall.

It's all made of steel, with a mesh of ground underfoot and complex pipes overhead. The hall was full of strange large machines, some steaming, some with a large group of flying gears, all kinds of conveyor belts running non-stop, all kinds of strange parts on the conveyor belts, in the corners, under the walls were also stacked with all kinds of strange parts, and there were many louvered holes around the same passage as the passage we walked out, leading in all directions to all parts of the ground.

Looking at the huge and precise machinery around us, we were all amazed and admired. I didn't expect that below the ground in the age of cold weapons, civilization had developed to the age of steam! Everything is so incredible, yet real in front of us. Rose was also pleasantly surprised to take screenshots while watching, this kind of scene is rare in games.

We walked and looked and came to the center of the hall.

In the center of the hall is a large pool with steam bubbling from it, and the complex gear structure is faintly visible in the steam. There is a huge linkage shaft device, under the rotation of various gears, is like the axle of a steam train, clattering, slowly turning in a circle, driving two towering copper bars, one up and one up. The copper bars open out through a square gap above the pool. I guess they must have been the big clock that led to the top of the bell tower.

"Oh my boy, this is the heart of a mechanical clock, what's driving this thing? Coal, oil, gas? Or wind, electricity, solar? ……”

"It's not like, you see this hot steam, eighty percent of it is driven by a steam engine!"

"I agree with Fang Ding, you can't install water intakes everywhere in the fountain outside."

"No~~~No, no, no~~~," a voice sounded behind me, "This is geothermal, machines that use the power of geothermal energy to drive, these are. ”

We turned around and saw a young goblin looking at us with a cup of coffee in his hand.

"You ......"

"Shaq, Shaq Elbota." The goblin took a slow sip of coffee and introduced himself.

This is Shaq, Master Shaq! I didn't expect him to be so young!

I stepped forward excitedly, and Shuangshu tightly held Shaq's right hand that did not serve coffee: "My name is LAI, YuanLai~~~"

“Moses~~~Kmoxicillin~~”

“Ding~~~FangDing~~”

"Long, uh, dragon~~, hmm~~~~~, the kind that breathes fire~~"

"You're a wolf. Hello Master Shaq, I'm the Magic Flute. I won't be as vulgar as them, admiring foreign names. Call me Xiaodi~~"

Little flute??? We fainted.

"Yes, yes, yes. Actually, your name is very much in the style of our goblins~~Modi~~"

"Hahahaha, thank you, hey, did you hear me, the master calls me Modi~~~ You all call me Modi ~~~"

Before the Magic Flute could speak, we beat him up: "And say we, look at your pure Western name!"

The last one to shake Shaq's hand was Rose, who excitedly shook Shaq's hand, her little face flushed.

"I'm Lois~~"

Shaq looked at her with a smile and nodded.

After shaking hands with us one by one, Master Shaq said enthusiastically, "It's been a long time since anyone has been here. Why don't you come with me to visit around, come on, please come with me~~~"

Led by Master Shaq, we follow him through the labyrinthine underground passages. These passages link one hall after another. There is a processing workshop specializing in the manufacture of various small parts, a large steel cutting machine workshop, the deepest slurry furnace, a research and development workshop, and a warehouse for storing materials...... With a huge system and a complete range of devices, this is simply an underground industrial kingdom.

Unlike Master Rick's Fireworks Factory, there are a large number of workers who are busy in different work areas, mostly dwarves and gnomes. Only the ones who drank coffee and drew drawings in the R&D room were goblins.

It may be that no outsiders have been here for a long time, but Master Shaq took us to watch and excitedly explained to us, and we also knew in the explanation. The reason why Master Shaq built his factory underground is not only because the underground is clean and no one bothered. In this era when oil and gas have not yet been discovered, and steam electricity and solar energy have not yet been discovered, the young Shaq master has discovered the thermal energy of the underground. Using geothermal energy as the source of power for the entire plant, our own research and development speed is carried out rapidly.

Genius, Master Shaq is definitely a genius of this era.

Walking to a heavy door, Master Shaq struggled to turn a circular valve to open it.

This is the arsenal, with rows of iron racks with all kinds of guns, bombs, and firearms. There are also a few small steel cannons parked in the corner. Master Shaq was invited by Master Rick and Hodley to study some of the weapons.

I grabbed a few bombs, and I found them all from Master Rick. But the difference is that there are more interesting gadgets on the bombs. There are ring bombs, time bombs, touch bombs, and more.

One of the tags that intrigued me read, Music Bomb.

"Master Shaq, this musical bomb?"

"Well, this one is for fun. It's expensive and impractical. Shaq walked over and picked up a music bomb.

He pressed a button: "First of all, record the sound, like Eun ~~~~~'BANG!" ’”

Then he let go of the bomb, walked outside the door and threw it into the hallway. The bomb bounced a few times, fell to the ground, and did not explode. Shaq shouted, "BANG! With this shout of Shaq, the bomb exploded with a bang, of course, it was an experiment. So there is only a small amount of explosives, and the power is like a double kick.

"Interesting~~~" This scene makes our eyes glow, what kind of technology is this.

"Okay, it's almost over, let's go have a cup of coffee~~" Master Shaq took us to a coffee style again. There is a wide variety of coffees here. "These are my personal storage, I love to drink this thing~~~"

After pouring a cup of coffee for each of us, we all sat down to savor it.

"That's pretty much it, guys, are you all here to work as engineers?" It seems that Master Shaq is more excited than we are.

"I'm already in the position of Master Rick." I said to Master Shaq.

"Rick, oh, Rick Ben Bara Doha. Congratulations, my old acquaintance, young man, that old fellow doesn't usually take apprentices easily. I don't have that many restrictions here, but the system only allows me to accept players who can find it. Master Shaq said.

That is, I was also lucky that Master Rick's factory collapsed, so I caught me and asked me to build a factory for him. But Rick is a hidden subclass there, and this is a mysterious subclass.

"What about you?" Master Shaq asked about my teammates.

Moses the Magic Flute Fang Ding Aaron and they all expressed regret, they all already have their own side professions. Only Rose nodded excitedly, she hadn't taken on any side jobs yet.

"This beautiful young lady, would you really like to study engineering with Shaq and me? Engineering is a hard and brain-consuming subject. Master Shaq asked again.

Rose blushed and nodded, "Yes, I do." ”

In the background, Mendelssohn's wedding march sounds. With tears in his eyes, Master Shaq placed a ring on Rose's finger, and Rose smiled happily. Fireworks were everywhere, colorful bars were all over the sky, petals fell one by one, and to our warm applause, they stepped on a beautiful red carpet......

Stop, stop, how did it become a live broadcast of the wedding.

Hehe, none of that. Shaq just nodded happily, and with a wave of his hand, a white light appeared on Rose's body.

At the same time, on the ground, a subtitle appeared in the sky: Congratulations to the first engineer player in Lanfeng City!