The thugs rushed in with great momentum, but at this moment they looked at each other, not knowing how to react.

"Get out."

The tears on Liang Hui's face had not yet dried, and he scolded coldly in his mouth.

The leader was a bearded man, he swallowed his spit, waved behind him, and the group of people retreated.

Liang Hui stood up straight, the abundant vitality that surged up from the soles of his feet, the strong muscles and bones, the vivid vision in front of him, and the long-lost rising heat in his lower abdomen...... It took him a lot of effort to calm down.

He glanced at Zhen Lian first, this scheming and ruthless woman, who had long since escaped from the slight shock at this moment, and put on a cold and arrogant face, as if this was such an insignificant matter.

Liang Hui gathered his nightgown, bent down and knelt down, and respectfully said: "Your tiny believer Liang Hui is willing to sacrifice everything I have for the great blue-clothed emperor. ”

Li Yan said casually: "In addition to life and youth? ”

Rao is an old gangster like Liang Hui who has been in Vanity Fair for half his life, and his face changes faster than turning a book, and he is also speechless for a while.

"Mr. Liang, you better stand up and speak, I have no interest in your loyalty and life. I only hope that you can help me in the limited time to come. ”

Liang Hui immediately said: "I will do my best to serve Your Majesty with my short life." ”

He didn't get up, but tried to peek up: "By tomorrow morning at the latest, I will give my permission to enter San Francisco with both hands." ”

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The kitchen was hot, and the chickpeas in the soup pot were tumbling up and down. Stir the spoon in a circle in the pot and add a bowl of soup to the bowl.

Charles was tall and chubby, with deep eye sockets, a hooked nose, and blue eyes that shimmered with oil. The white chef's hat makes it impossible for others to see the Mediterranean Sea above his head, and the head chef of the Enfield company has a little more majesty because of this.

"Check, check."

The head chef banged on the rim of the pot in a rage.

Cha Xiaodao stared at the airship outside the tower in a daze, and the head chef called him several times before he withdrew his gaze.

"Okay...... Mr. ”

Cha Xiaodao picked up the food plate, turned around and left.

Exiting the doorway and entering the outer corridor of the building, the entire façade of the tower is made of patchwork of brown glass, through which the bustling San Francisco is overlooked. Behind the airship in the sky is a windswept poster of the Black Rose Theatre's hottest actress, Dorothy Janis.

Enfield, the largest arms company in California, has four arsenals and more than two-thirds of the state's steam guards. In addition to this, Enfield is one of the largest contractors for the San Francisco Sealine Railway.

The Eros, a tower in downtown San Francisco, was once the headquarters of Enfield, but two years ago the company moved to New York on the East Coast. The entire board of directors also migrated. The affairs of the Tower of Eros, along with the company's business in San Francisco, were the sole responsibility of one of the former directors of the Board of Directors, Sant'Yves.

The food plate in the hand of Cha Xiaodao was sent to Saint-Yves.

The people in the building looked hurried, wiping sweat or gritting their teeth, mostly blonde and blue-eyed white.

Cha Xiaodao, who was holding a food plate, was dressed in white kitchen cedar and a one-handed tray, which looked out of place.

Unlike Li Yan, who was born in the boxing rebellion, Cha Xiaodao worked for Enfield, one of the very few Chinese who settled in San Francisco, and was crammed into a dormitory with a few fellow villagers, but it was much better than being displaced.

He carried the tray all the way down. Along the way, you can see a large number of metal pipes, power machinery, and various rotating dials running wildly. In some places, it was noticeably cracked, and a rising mist was spewed out.

"Turn the engine off! Immediately! ”

"Damn, can't you find a bigger three-ball here?"

"Boiler No. 4 can't hold it up, and if it goes on like this, it will explode! Let's get rid of the people there, where are the damn yellow-skinned monkeys? Drive them down and turn off the boiler. ”

The panicked shouts and chaotic footsteps around mingled.

"Hurry, hurry, Monsieur Saint-Yves is waiting for you. If you can make "Eros" stop. Monsieur Saint-Yves would have been very pleased. ”

An old man in a gentleman's hat with a brass-colored unilateral mechanical frame chattered and urged. Behind him, he followed a young Chinese man wearing red shoulders and blue pants, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Perhaps because of the same skin color and hair color, Chang, who was constantly urged by the old man, couldn't help but set his eyes on Cha Xiaodao.

Bang!

The whirling air valve was thrown out suddenly, and went straight to the temple of Cha Xiaodao, Cha Xiaodao didn't look at it, only slightly tilted his head, and the gas valve smashed on the chimney next to him, splashing metal fragments everywhere, causing a lot of screams.

that

A man with a garlic nose and an engineering hat commanded brutally, and accidentally hit Cha Xiaodao's shoulder, as if hitting a high wall, and the whole person fell to the ground with a bang, and he couldn't get up for a long time.

The garlic nose is nearly 1.9 meters tall, and the cha knife is only 1.7 meters long, but the garlic nose was knocked to the ground in embarrassment, which made Chang on the side a little surprised.

"Are you looking for death?"

Garlic Nose was furious, grabbed the collar of Cha Knife's knife with one hand, and raised his fist in a gesture.

Cha Xiaodao didn't speak, holding the tray steadily with one hand, the soup was not spilled at all, and he looked at the garlic nose calmly.

Glancing at the tray, knowing that it was Monsieur Saint-Yve's lunch, Garlic nose worriedly loosened the collar of Cha Knife, and scolded, "I'll settle accounts with you later." ”

After that, he deliberately squeezed the knife, and the two staggered by.

Immediately after, the garlic nose bumped into several apprentices, all with the same arrogant and bad attitude, and scolded uncleanly.

In the chaos, there was no anger or fear on Cha Xiaodao's face, but he whistled lightly. As he walked forward, he recited a witty remark to himself: "Walking east and west on the north-south avenue, the people in front of the road and street bite the dog, pick up the dog to cut the bricks, and let the bricks bite the hand, there is an old man ninety-nine, drinking winter lotus, just cold wine, never seen the news, and the smoke and coal carry the camel away." ”

Flutter!

Naturally, others couldn't understand such an original Beijing-Tianjin joke, but the young man who was pulled forward by the old man in the dress pulled the corners of his mouth.

But at the urging of the old man, he still had to speed up his pace, leaving behind the cha knife that was moving slowly.

Soon, the young man and the old man hurried to an extremely spacious workshop.

Saint-Yves standing on the floating ladder was extremely tall, with curly orange hair and a fat belly. He used to talk and laugh with the mayor and councilors, but now he has a gloomy face, swearing in the soot-filled workshop.

"You're just a bunch of pigs. I hired you for twenty dollars an hour, and I just got you a word? I'll say it one last time, immediately, right now, stop this! Stop it! ”

Saint-Yves was referring to a huge fondue-shaped device, a metal chimney covered with blood vessels, an escalator that could accommodate one person to the left and right, a staggered glass dial and brass valves. In the center, there is a three-dimensional triangular structure made of red, yellow and blue ore, and a large amount of smoke is sprayed out of the triangle.

This is the power core of the entire Eros Tower, a strange technology called the "Three Balls", basically, all the large mechanical equipment of this era is equipped with three balls of the same scale. London, the center of the world and the frontier of technology, has long been transformed into a steam flying city floating in the sky. And the enormous impetus that made London lift off was a trio ball comparable to the tower of Eros.

However, at this moment, this three-phase ball, which represents the starting point of human conquest of nature, is bursting with sparks and steam everywhere. Many places roared and trembled, as if they were about to crack.

In the morning, when the personnel of the equipment department were experimenting with the latest comprehensive steam individual soldier "Giant Ymir", they did not destroy the power center triathlon ball very much, causing a series of chain reactions, and Saint-Yves did not even eat breakfast, so he rushed to deal with the sudden situation, but at present, the situation is not too good.

"Sir, if you want to stop it, the best thing to do is to destroy all the steam furnaces and engines in the tower first......"

Before the engineer who was maintaining the equipment could finish his sentence, Saint-Yves interrupted him impatiently: "Impossible, this loss is too great." ”

"Sir, the inner structure of this three-phase ball is so complicated that there is no way to stop it in a short period of time. Moreover, any part of it may spew high-temperature steam at any time, and the maintenance environment of engineering personnel is too harsh. ”

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Saint-Yves immediately turned around: "Chang! Often! Do you often come? ”

"Coming, coming, sir, I've brought someone to you."

The old man with a one-sided frame hurried to him, panting and taking off his hat and saluting Saint-Yves.

He often walked up to Saint-Yves, bowed deeply, and said in standard English: "Greetings, dear Monsieur Saint-Yves." ”

"Oh! Often! You are my last hope! ”

Saint-Yves often stretched out his right hand, often obviously flattered, and it took him a long time to react and clasp his hands.

"Okay, Chang, we need your help to stop this big guy, are you sure?"

Chang looked up at the three balls and muttered for a while before saying, "I can try, but I need an assistant and tools." ”

"No problem."

Saint-Yves looked at the engineers to the side.

The men looked at each other strangely, and finally the man at the beginning stood up: "Chang, you have indeed done a lot of incredible work before, and we don't question your ability, but this time the truth is too dangerous. We're all family people, and we're ......."

Chang's face did not change: "I just need someone to help me, Robert, you don't need to go to those dangerous places." ”

Robert bowed his head disappreciatively.

Without waiting for Saint-Yves to get angry again, Cha Xiaodao, who had privately found a place to smoke a cigarette before slowing down, came over and saluted Saint-Yves with a mouth full of smoke: "Sir, your chickpea bacon soup." ”

Saint-Yves stared at Cha Knife for a moment, and suddenly pointed at him: "You come to be Chang's assistant." ”

Cha Xiaodao raised his eyebrows, and only looked around to understand the general situation, and he looked at the huge three balls.

【3 Ball】For Eros Tower)

Mass: 7500 tons

Status: Extremely unstable

A breakthrough discovery of human steam civilization, the power core of steam machinery.

In order to stop this device, at least 95% of the magic technology is required.

Note: Please don't stare at it for too long.

Cha Xiaodao's heart throbbed for no reason, and without much hesitation, he bowed to Saint-Yves.

"Willing to help."

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"Throw me the crane fitting four, and then press the number keys from the console in front of you until I say stop."

Chang raised his face and hugged a red gear, biting a small wrench in his hand, and said vaguely at the knife.

Saint-Yves wiped his hands as he looked at the two from afar.

In the huge integrated machinery, Cha Xiaodao stood in front of the operating table, throwing the parts in the toolbox to Chang, and Chang kept trembling and emitting high-temperature steam on the three balls climbed back and forth, sweat wet his back, Chang's face was very flat.

"That...... I said, "Check, where are you from?" ”

With both hands, he kept rushing to the knife under his feet.

"Tsumi."

Cha Xiaodao is concise and to the point.

"I'm from Shanghai. When I was nine years old, I was sent to Hong Kong, and at the age of eighteen, I came to San Francisco. ”

Cha Xiaodao doesn't have the heart to listen to the usual chatter, he has his own calculations.

The sequence and strength of this fruit are quite low, and the physical fitness of people is relatively weak. The only thing worth noting is probably the steam war garrison of this era.

Steam soldiers who can fire howitzers, airships with machine guns, and so on, but for today's Cha Xiaodao and Li Yan, these things that are still stuck in the rough thinking of "Duoliu Steaming" are not too difficult to deal with.

But when facing the three balls, the indescribable throbbing in Cha Xiaodao's heart was the reason why he was willing to accept the assignment and observe the three balls up close.