Chapter 59: Flesh and Blood (4)

"How's the situation inside the tower?"

The chief inspector didn't wait for the airship to hit the ground before shouting at the police force surrounding the door.

The officer in charge of dispatch shook his head.

Under the cloudy moon, snowflakes of steam airships filled the night sky. The officers jumped down to the ground in bloated heavy individual soldiers, and there was a loud thud in succession. The golden lookout lights at the top of the Eros Tower surround clockwise, illuminating the cannon barrels and pumping chimneys, illuminating the faces of the police officers one by one, and the scorching atmosphere is constantly surging.

Even if the sabotage of the railroad could delay time enormously, San Francisco's steam guard, which oversaw the entire era, would not really be helpless because of this little trick.

"We evacuated the crowd and investigated and found out that the killer was a maintenance fitter employed by the Enfield Security Company, a Chinese, who had recently been promoted to an engineer. Dissatisfied with the fire and casualties caused by the Health Bureau's plague operation in Chinatown, an attack on the Eros Tower was launched tonight. Now all the guests of the banquet are under his control. He has a large number of strange steam equipment in Enfield that has not been announced to the public, and it is extremely dangerous. ”

"Let the steamdogs get out of the way."

At the order of the chief inspector, a large number of steam dogs rushed to the door of the banquet along with the air balls, and suddenly, a "toy" resembling the new "Hera" soldier came out from behind the fire, pounced on the nearest mechanical dog, and exploded violently.

Countless leaps of steam creations collided and exploded in the moonlight, and the successive fires hit everyone on the scene, and finally, the steam dogs and flying balls were all wiped out, and the self-detonation toys arranged by Chang Yu were also exhausted.

The chief inspector snatched the horn from the policeman's hand: "Attack!" ”

The officers marched in unison, examining the scrap metal wreckage and the extinguishing fire in front of the banquet hall.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew away the smoke, and at the entrance to the tower of Eros was a steam soldier with a black body.

It is only eighty centimeters tall and has a steel structure that resembles a human skeleton, but the neck is empty, and generally speaking, it is a thankless task to construct a single weapon with the body structure of a bipedal Homo erectus, and Chang Yu would not have designed this single soldier to look like this if it were not for someone's request.

The iron sheet on its surface is very haphazardly welded, and some parts are not welded at all, and a dazzling steel spine is wrapped in a simple hollow structure.

The partially exposed steel spine is intricately shaped like a work of art. It is made up of 28 hot pot-shaped balls connected by three parts. Compared with the structural accuracy of this steel spine, the other hand-crafted parts of a single soldier are as worthless as broken copper.

Instead of swooping at the sight of a living thing, like other "self-detonation toys", it swooped through the wreckage of machinery like a wandering scavenger, and finally, he found something that worked, and it was a fairly intact gear.

It thrust the gear into its chest, moving its arm like a living person, and facing the approaching officers.

Obviously there was no head, but the police officer who was equipped with a new type of individual soldier felt a cold meaning spread from his backbone.

"What the hell is this?"

The officers were still approaching, and the humanoid soldier stood up straight, the three balls on the steel spine lit up with red flame patterns from low to high. In the end, a total of nine triathlon balls were ignited. A stream of red, mysterious steam erupted from the spine.

Seeing it lie down slightly, the marble under its feet suddenly cracked into the lines of a spider web, it leaped forward, and dodged the wire rope capture net shot by a police officer, and then rushed towards the many steam creations in the police station.

It is like the most agile beast, and like the most fierce kung fu master, but it is rampage in the torrent of steel, and the powerful cannon cannot crush the seemingly fragile one, but its thin claw blade can penetrate the iron sheet on the police officer along with the flesh and blood under the powerful kinetic energy provided by the red steam, at least five police officers were broken by it in a single moment of time to break their legs or twist their arms, and they lost their combat ability without firing a single bullet.

A strange steam soldier less than a meter tall stopped the steam guard of at least hundreds of people, and this scene was of course exaggerated and bizarre. But if you look closely, it's only been a few minutes, and a large number of cracks have begun to emerge on this weird single soldier......

The chief inspector witnessed this scene, but he did not intend to fill the hole with the lives of his own boys, he whispered a few words to the police officer next to him, and the police officer hesitated: "Enfield Company has no obligation to obey the command of the police department, and I am afraid that this kind of order will not be accepted." ”

"This ghost thing in front of you is from their factory, the murderer is an employee hired by them, and the people we have to rescue include their boss!"

The grumpy chief inspector yelled, "You're just putting a gun at the heads of those bastards, and you want them to do what I say right away." ”

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The fierce fighting outside the tower also alarmed everyone in the hall.

Before his death, the body of medical officer Jock Lauderford lay in a pool of warm blood, and before 4000 died, he confessed to Chang Yu that the fire in Chinatown was not an accident, but that someone deliberately set it on fire, including Mayor Michael's approval, the personal efforts of Pinkerton detectives, and the equipment and technical support of Enfield director St. Yve.

Jock Lauderford confessed all his crimes, and he wept and repented in front of Chang Yu, but Chang Yu still pulled the trigger.

The death of Jock Lauderford made those present realize that this Chinese with a brass mask and a voice like a demon had no intention of using San Francisco's laws to bring justice to his dead compatriots, and he chose a more drastic way, and even took more people's lives for it.

Fear was on everyone's face.

"Monsieur Saint-Yves, I have always respected you in the past, and now do you have anything to say?"

Chang Yu stared at Saint-Yves who was unconsciously cowering in the crowd, and there was no intense emotion in his bloodshot eyes.

Saint-Yves was silent for a moment, and he exchanged glances with Duke Willand, who was beside him, before he slowly walked out of the crowd, his face a little pale, but still calm.

"I admit my fault, but subjectively, I didn't want to kill anyone. It may be a bad end for me, but for you, too, we could have been each other's fulfillments."

"Are your last words those dreams?"

As he spoke, Chang Yu raised the muzzle of his gun.

Saint-Yves swallowed, his mind was spinning rapidly, he wanted to say something to drag Chang Yu, but under the gaze of those indifferent blood-red eyes, he couldn't think of anything to say except subconsciously begging for mercy.

"Please wait."

Chang Yu turned his gun impatiently: "Miss Dorothy, you have talked enough tonight, who do you think you can represent?" Hundreds of people died in the horrific fires, thousands were displaced, and yet the city turned a blind eye to it, without rescue and help, and they drove the refugees to the island, and then held banquets and celebrations in the towers, you tell me, is this a situation that just a few racists can create? ”

Dorothy raised her hands: "I just want to know, what are you going to do after revenge, exile?" ”

Chang Yu didn't hesitate: "I will blow up the sea railroad in San Francisco, and all the steam production lines in Enfield, and everything I have done for this city over the years, I will get it back with my own hands." ”

Dorothy shook her head: "This is impossible, now that the entire city's steam guard has been mobilized, you can't escape." ”

Chang Yu smiled: "Then let's wait and see." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a bright red figure in the crowd quickly turned over and crossed many self-detonating "toys", rushed to Chang Yu's eyes, and smashed the steaming gauntlet into Chang Yu's head, a series of movements were sharp and vigorous, it was Duke Verand, the name of the poisonous snake detective.

But the bright red gauntlet still fell into the air, and under Chang Yu's cloak stretched out a seemingly thick and bulky brass gauntlet, and several flexible and fast metal tentacles stretched out from the hollow to deftly wrap around Agent Duke's waist, and the huge iron pincers in the front of the gauntlet choked Duke Weiran's neck, making him unable to move.

"Is that all you have to do, Mr. Detective?"

Chang Yu stared at Duke Veran, and the iron tongs tightened little by little.

Suddenly, a series of whining whistles sounded, and Saint-Yves looked out the window, the tower built on the top of the hill, which overlooked the old town below from any level, and the quay, which had been built into a sea track.

With the naked eye, two long trains on the Mississippi River are visible on the tracks, and the Pinkerton & Associates' logo is emblazoned on them. Two long trains, one on the left and one on the right, each carrying 500 heavily armed Pinkerton agents, converged on the pier in San Francisco. If the journey goes well, the train can climb up the mountain and into the town of San Francisco in five minutes.

St. Yves spent a huge commission and hired a thousand Pinkerton agents who could drive a single soldier, and finally arrived.

"It's Pinkerton's big army, we're saved!"

Someone cheered.

1,000 steam men, a military force sufficient to suppress a riot in the central city.

Agent Duke laughed loudly, and looked at Chang Yu with a mocking look in his eyes, as if he was mocking what he had just said.

Chang Yu also fell into a brief silence, manpower was sometimes poor, even if he had mastered some of the steam technology of the Book of Creation. The entire San Francisco police force did not exceed a thousand, and most of the steam creations in his hands had been consumed, and if there were still a large number of Pinkerton agents joining the battlefield, the consequences would be self-evident.

Saint-Yves breathed a sigh of relief and almost collapsed to the ground.

The thought of "saved" lingered in his mind.

At this moment, the whistle of the train became more and more sharp, and the train driver seemed to be warning something, and if you looked closely, in front of the two trains, there was a small black dot standing in front of each other, as if they were confronting each other, and the two people didn't even care about the sharp whistle of the train at all. There is only one other in the eyes.

With the eyes of Saint-Yves and Duke Willant, they did not understand what was happening at all, and a scene beyond the imagination of everyone on the scene happened.

Seeing that the two trains were about to collide with the people standing on the tracks facing each other, a raging black flame suddenly burned on the train on the left, which instantly engulfed the entire train, and the train on the right was swept by the white mist, and the two trains overturned almost at the same time and were thrown off the tracks. In the end, a single ice and a fire buried a thousand Pinkerton agents on the train armed to the teeth, all on the banks of the Mississippi River......

The waves were rolling, and the two men standing on the track were still facing each other, as if nothing had happened.