Chapter 9: The Swallow
Li Yan's consciousness sank into the bizarre and exaggerated scenes, and all kinds of twisted clocks and folded curves flew before his eyes, and he came to a deep darkness.
His vision crossed the starry sky with hundreds of millions of swimming fish, giant roaring eyes, balls of flesh covered with tentacles and suckers, and scattered white stairs and doors, which were filled with crimson swirls. There is also the gorgeous Aurora Star Sea......
An indescribable and strange monster surrounds a huge blue planet. Black smoke rises from the planet's land, tinkling and sparks day and night, and a patchwork of brass-colored tracks hooks the ocean, replacing the land with a rusty jungle of steel that protrudes from huge gears and chimneys. Like a festering wound, black dust withers from the wounds of the planet from time to time.
"I can't fool you, Outer God! But here you have to listen to me! Otherwise, I will expel you! ”
"Don't turn your head."
"Don't tell the truth."
"Thou shalt not kill men."
"In return, I'll give you a real dream."
As soon as the words fell, Li Yan's consciousness became closer and closer, and he was finally completely engulfed by this planet.
In front of you is the sky, closer are the mountains, closer are the villages, the towns and logs......
[In the era when the steam civilization was in the ascendant, the area around the ancient Giant's Lake was inhabited by evil cyclops. His breath can stir up storms and thunder, and tens of thousands of people endure his brutal rule. A wealthy king claimed that he was willing to marry his only daughter to a warrior who could kill giants, and held a steam conference for this purpose. But her proud daughter is not satisfied with being the canary waiting for the prince to save her in the fairy tale, she assumes the name Jane and vows to defeat everyone at the steam conference, relying on her knowledge of steam to defeat the cyclops......]
"Typical Disney routine, but it's kind of funny."
Li Yan muttered, his five senses keen. Feeling Rumang on his back, he subconsciously wanted to turn his head, but a weak force stopped him.
"Outer God, you can't do that."
There was a murmur behind him.
Li Yan turned around, and there was just an ordinary gray wall behind him, but the feeling of being on his back did not disappear.
"You can turn your head, but you can't turn around, like a first-person shooter."
Everything in front of him was like a weakened castrated version of the Yan Fu fruit.
Li Yan muttered to himself, he could actually forcibly turn his head to see what was behind him, but he would also end the trip because of this.
He doesn't want to end it that soon.
Li Yan walked to the mirror, and in the mirror, he was wearing a red coat and combing his braids. The room was filled with clock dials of all colors, and the old loom creaked at hand. On the counter, the gray-haired, rosacea-nosed watch shop owner struggles to read the newspaper, and the fat cook stews soup in the back kitchen.
Li Yan stood up, the card in his pocket suddenly burned hot, he took out the card, only to see a line of text rising on it: "Liang Hui, an apprentice in a watch shop from the Far East, under the enthusiastic teaching of the boss, you have mastered some relatively basic knowledge of steam technology. ”
The text soon disappeared, and the title of "crappy steam worker" was added to the "Chinese apprentice of the watch shop".
The owner of the watch shop helped his glasses: "Liang, have you heard, His Majesty the King has held a steam conference, and the young people of the whole royal city are eager to try, do you want to touch the tone too?" ”
The boss originally thought that he would hear discouraged statements such as "But sir, I'm just a clockmaker", and he encouraged him, "Actually, you have a very good set of steam skills", this sentence has reached his throat, but he didn't expect Li Yan to think without thinking:
"Of course, sir, when I marry a princess, I will ask my king and father-in-law to build you a big manor."
The old watch shop owner was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.
"Okay, Liang, I'll wait for that day."
Li Yan grinned at the owner of the watch shop, he picked up the scissors on the counter and cut his knotted braids, so that his hair fell shoulder-to-shoulder, and then launched the "Autumn Jacques", the hair naturally retracted to its original neat size, and then pushed the door out.
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It was night, the lights were occasionally lit on the windows, Chang Yu looked forward with his face up, his eyes finally stopped in front of the two red lanterns, and walked in.
There is no doubt that this is a chance to be a room under the guise of an apartment, where you can see scantily clad men and women, dark screens and triangular wooden lanterns under their heads, and the occasional laughter.
"Aunt Qin, I'm here to find Yanzi."
As he spoke, Chang Yu handed a few banknotes to the woman in front of him with heavy makeup.
The woman twisted the banknote and smiled charmingly: "Follow me." ”
She led Liang up to the second floor and pushed open the door, and the girl in the room was visibly startled.
"Good daughter, your lover is here."
Aunt Qin quipped, pushed Chang Yu in, and slammed the door shut.
"I thought you had forgotten about me, Chang."
The girl tilted her head, she wore a very thick eye shadow, her actual age should be much younger than she looked, the exposed cheongsam collar showed a white flesh light, and the corners of her mouth were unconsciously upturned when she spoke, with a bit of seductive and depraved playfulness.
"How's it going?"
"As always, it sucks. What about you? Recently, what has happened to the foreigners? ”
Chang Yu asked her a little nervously, and said hesitantly, "Hmm...... In two weeks' time, London will host the World's Fair, a gathering of the world's top engineers, where you can see the latest steam technology on display, and it is said that this year, someone even designed a steel train that can run in the sky......"
In the air was the smell of roses, and Chang Yu gradually became fluent in his words when he faced the girl, and he told the girl about the huge cities that flew in the sky, the steam spires that could fly through the clouds, and the majestic trains that shuttled through the tsunami.
The girl held her face and listened with relish, and when she heard the airship and the city in the sky, she also showed a look of surprise, especially when she heard the train that could shuttle the ocean, his eyes were wide open: "So, if I take the ocean train, can I go back to China without taking the boat?" ”
"Of course."
Chang Yu nodded affirmatively.
"Will you come with me, then?"
Chang Yu was stunned.
"Me?"
The girl nodded, and a hint of boredom appeared on her bewitching face: "I hate this, I was abducted here, and my only wish is to save enough money to buy a ticket back." ”
"But, you can go back...... Famine, war. You know what? My parents died of famine. Did you know, Swallow, San Francisco has a relief station, there are public hospitals, theaters, a lot of ...... you've never been before?"
The girl interrupted Chang: "Chang, this is not our home, those white people discriminate against us, and what you said was never prepared for us." ”