When the rain is heavy enough, tilt your head and face the rain curtain and you will feel an unspeakable feeling of suffocation, and the endless rain will wash over your body until it completely envelops you.

The wind and thunder were whistling in my ears, as if it were the end of the world, but even in such a fatal moment, people still cursed from time to time, which was the only resistance for vulnerable mortals.

Draped in a striking yellow raincoat, Nikolai clung to the cable beside him, he usually appeared as a cold and somewhat crazy scientist, but now he was like a homeless man on the street, embarrassed, muttering uncontrollably, cursing the damn weather with the others.

This is probably the most violent rainy season in Old Dunling in recent years, with non-stop torrential rain and thunder.

It stands to reason that people should now be in the warmth of their homes, with their fires blazing and telling interesting stories, but Nikolai is now on the tower of Dunling, with the thunder and thunder in his company.

There are many people like him, wearing raincoats and insulating equipment, everyone welcomes the rainstorm and thunder, and tries to control the rainstorm and thunder.

This is the Dunling Tower, once the core of the Dunling Project, although everything is a thing of the past, but from its corpse, still built brilliant technology.

"It's spectacular!"

A voice sounded from the communicator, it was Maxwell's, and they were standing at the top of the tower, overlooking the whole of Old Dunling, with the rain pouring over the city, and the River Thames flooding its shores and rushing to the ocean.

His voice was obscured by thunder and wind, maybe it was this damn thunderstorm that interfered with the signal, Maxwell's voice had a piercing electric sound, but fortunately Nikolai could barely hear it, the cold wind was biting, and he nodded vigorously at Maxwell not far away, agreeing with it.

Yes, it was magnificent, it was a rare sight, usually the whole old Dunling was obscured by a hazy mist, and the gloomy sky sank down like an iron curtain, and even if you look at it from this height, you can't see the city clearly, it's like a veiled woman, mysterious and eager to explore her reality.

Nikolai looked back, and the pale searchlights illuminated the dim night sky, allowing him to observe.

This is a large platform on top of the Dunling Tower, there are four such platforms, distributed in the four corners of the tower, and the original plan is that this will not only be the core of the Dunling, but also the core of the Atrium Serpent, like the world tree in Norse mythology, this tower will run through the land of Invig like an iron tree.

The underground "roots" are the Pillars of the Furnace and the Perpetual Pump, which provide the entire city with a huge amount of energy and a steady stream of new technologies, and the border with the land will become the core of the railway, from which countless trains will depart and travel through the territory of Ingwig.

Nikolai's location is even more critical, if the Dunling Tower is the trunk, then these four platforms are iron branches, according to the original plan, this will be the air supply station, those "leaves" and war airships swimming in the sky, they will not have to dive back to the ground, but directly from here to replenish, for long-term missions.

Everything was conceived so well, but unfortunately it ended in failure.

But fortunately, it did not fail completely, and the remnants of firewood are still burning slightly, evolving into what it is today.

"You guys look busy......"

In the noisy chaos, Arthur came wearing the same eye-catching raincoat and stepping on stagnant water, like the nun La, he also had a cable tied around his waist and his hand clutching the fence, after all, it was a few hundred meters in the air, and it was still this bad weather, and if he was not careful, he would be blown down by the strong wind.

It is too nonsense to think that Arthur died for this reason.

"Thankfully, this is a rare opportunity, such a good weather, and it's rare that you agree to us coming here for experiments. Nikolai roared loudly, trying not to hide his voice from the wind.

The machine began to roar, and I saw that a small spire had been piled up on the mechanical platform at some point, and countless cables extended from it, surrounded by staff in the same clothes, working in this harsh environment.

"Maxwell, I'll leave it to you first!"

Nikolai said to the communicator, only to see Maxwell's striking yellow figure giving him a thumbs up, and Nikolai walked towards Arthur.

The two of them laboriously moved down from the platform, entered the steel-clad room, laboriously closed the iron door, and kept the wind and rain out, everything seemed to be quiet, and the two of them couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Nikolai is a scientific researcher, usually lives in a safe underground experimental field, and if something happens, there is a security team on top, which is simply delicate, but now that the security team is here, it is useless, and the current harsh working environment is hell for him.

"What's the matter? Now is a critical moment, maybe we can make a breakthrough in our research on electricity. Nikolai shook his raincoat, and a lot of rain poured out from under it.

"Just wanted to inform you that it's time for you to rest, the next round is Merlin in charge, and he's on his way. Arthur leaned aside.

He didn't want to face the lightning and thunder, but because the Dunling Tower was extremely important, he had to come and oversee the work.

"Is that so? Time flies so fast. ”

Probably too devoted, Nikolai didn't realize the passage of time at all, in fact, he felt that this should have something to do with this damn environment, and he couldn't be negligent, maybe a careless one would cause an experimental accident.

Arthur pressed the switch on the side, and the entire confined space began to slowly descend, just like a cabinet, the steel was mottled with rust, and the lights were lit in the gaps, which seemed to have no aesthetic problems in mind at the beginning of the design, and it was full of industrial style.

After a long wait, the iron door opened again, revealing a richly decorated corridor where someone had already prepared to change Nikolai's clothes.

Nikolai couldn't help but look around, even he didn't have the right to come here at will, he could only take a few more glances when he was allowed to come.

He followed Arthur on his way, and finally stopped in a conference room, where the large round table was covered with sword marks and indentations, and it was unclear what had happened to him.

"Let's take a break. Arthur said.

"Is it so extravagant in the round table?" said Nikolai, knowing exactly where it was.

Looking up, the glass dome was now being baptized by heavy rain, and from here it looked as if Nikolai was in the deep sea, but when the gloomy iron curtain fell again after the heavy rain, it would be the only place in Old Dunling where a sunny day could be seen.

Shattered Dome.

The upper part of the tower is the mysterious Broken Dome, built on the remains of the Dunling Project, which is currently the command core of the Purification Agency.

"After all, it's just a conference room, there's no need to think about that. ”

Arthur said slowly, not feeling much about this serious place.

Nikolai nodded, and casually picked up the documents on the table, this is confidential, and it is also the reason why Nikolai was allowed to enter the Shattered Dome and rely on the Dunling Tower to conduct lightning experiments.

When this experiment was first allowed, Arthur was very entangled, in order to ensure that the command core was not violated, the broken dome remained closed for a long time, but for this experiment, not only a large number of people entered, but they were also doing dangerous experiments on the Dunling Tower, although Nikolai repeatedly assured, but Arthur was still afraid that a lightning bolt would strike down and electrocute all the elites of these command cores.

"How's it going?" asked Arthur.

"As expected, the power of the thunder was really strong, and for a moment I began to understand what the Vikings were talking about the god Odin. ”

Nikolai was in awe, and although he had been studying electricity, he could not help but feel frightened when he came into contact with the roaring thunder of nature.

"God Odin...... The Serpent of the Atrium...... I've never been sure why I named it after the myth of the Vikings, but this is Invig, don't you think it's nondescript?"

Like a casual after-dinner chatter, Arthur asked as he read the report.

"Didn't Merlin tell you?"

Hearing Arthur say this, Nikolai looked surprised.

"What?"

"About the myth of these ...... Actually, there is a reason for this, and the legend of the Vikings is more like an origin than a myth. ”

"What origin?"

"The origin of alchemy. Nikolai said.

The man with dark circles under his eyes in front of him didn't know much about alchemy, but as Merlin's deputy, he was not less influenced by alchemy.

Merlin once suspected that the origin of alchemy was the Vikings...... Or the north, he always told me that if one day he was old and dying, he would go to the north, and even north, at the end of the ice and the sea, as if the so-called truth was there. ”

Nikolai said casually, doing experiments is very monotonous and boring, so Merlin also has a lot of idle with them, because Merlin once told the story of him using a sword to cut other alchemists, and was nicknamed "Alchemy Sword Master" by everyone, but no one knows what his swordsmanship is, after all, when Merlin needs to draw his sword, it is estimated that most of the net removal mechanism has fallen.

Arthur's pupils constricted slightly, the subtle change that did not attract Nikolai's attention, he had just crawled back from the thunderstorm, and was trying to enjoy the brief warmth.

"Northern ......"

At the mention of there, Arthur naturally thought of those ancient beings, but he didn't expect that they seemed to be related to alchemy.

"But...... Thank you Arthur. ”

Nikolai looked at Arthur, and there was a bright look under his dark eyes, which stared at Arthur in surprise.

"What's wrong?" asked Arthur.

"Thank you for your support, after all, after the failure of the Dunling Project, people rarely focus on electricity. Nikolai sighed, it was a painful failure, although he had not yet joined the purification agency at that time, but from the records left behind, you can also feel the despair of the scholars at that time.

He felt that the world had gone into a misunderstanding and that it was time to develop more powerful energy sources, while another group of people thought that these scholars had gone into the misunderstanding that steam technology was the future of the world, not this strange electricity.

Steam has built solid cornerstones, and no one has the courage to break them down and start all over again.

"It's just that there is enough money, and there is basically no spending on the part of the royal family, so our dear queen has allocated all that wealth to us. Arthur said.

The mysterious Queen Victoria, the real ruler of the purification mechanism, but she trusts Arthur very much, rarely comes forward to command anything, and has lived in seclusion in the platinum palace protected by soldiers for many years, rarely showing her face in the outside world unless necessary, even Nikolai has not seen the queen with her own eyes, only seen the noble figure in the portrait.

"Sounds pretty good. Nikolai said.

The door to the conference room was pushed open again, and Maxwell, dripping with rain, scrambled in his chair like a distrained old dog.

"This table is hundreds of years old. ”

Maxwell was lying on the round table, and the rain was attached to it, and Arthur stopped at this scene.

"It's been hundreds of years, and it won't be blistered by this little bit of water. ”

The old guy was out of breath, unlike Nikolai, the young guy, Maxwell looked as old as Arthur, had worked in the Purifier for many years, and he had been a member of the Dunling Project, when his Maxwell was a little younger than Nikolai is now.

"Are you okay?"

Nikolai looked at this embarrassed senior, Maxwell should be telling a story to his granddaughter in front of the fireplace at this age, but he faced the storm and tried to master the thunder, and his soul boiled and burned under his old body, and it seemed that he would die heroically and suddenly at his post in the next second.

"Yes, that's great, I feel like the knights now!"

He said excitedly, but his head fell on the table, and he couldn't lift it up like lead.

It was a great feeling, Maxwell had seen the Dunlin Project fail and see it come to life decades later, and it was nothing better than thinking of the scholars who had died a long time ago, and sometimes he felt that he was born for it and should die for it.

"The experiment is going well so far, and after a few more experiments, it is confirmed that the weapon is stable and can be put into use, although it has great limitations and high cost, but it is perfect for use against witchers. Nikolai said.

Although there is peace on the surface, and there are faint signs of cooperation, Arthur is very clear that the purification agency and the Evangelical Church are still in competition, and the witchers led by Anthony are an army, no one knows what this army will do, and as long as the two sides still exist, then sooner or later there will be a day when they will draw their swords against each other, it is better to plan now.

"Actually, I'd love to ask Lorenzo to experiment with weapons. ”

Arthur said, of course, he wasn't referring to manipulating weapons, but to being targets, and it was only after experimenting with witchers that it became clear whether the weapon was useful or not.