Becoming the leader of the Resistance Squad, Lake began to lead one of his few men, with just over a dozen men, in battle against Skynet's Machine Legion.

Lake already has a pulse energy gun in his hand, and the heavens online prompt that this pulse energy gun can be brought out of the heavens online to use, the item evaluation is silver level, and the destructive power is average.

But after about a hundred shots, you need to replace it with a new energy magazine.

Lake also tried to touch several energy magazines, whether it was he picking up the energy magazines himself or taking them from his teammates, Zhutian Online did not give any more hints.

The energy clip can't be taken out of this Terminator dungeon world, only the small energy pulse gun can be taken out.

In this way, the Energy Pulse Gun can be used as an item to bring out of the dungeon world. But after firing a hundred times, when the energy of the gun is exhausted, there is no energy magazine to replenish, and the gun has become an ornament.

Thinking about the technology and equipment that humans possess in the melee battlefield, Lake estimated that it would be difficult to make a magazine that could be used by this small pulse energy gun.

Even if you are lucky enough to make it, the cost of purchasing this energy magazine will be surprisingly expensive.

The lethal effect of the energy pulse gun in this hand will not be proportional to the cost.

Ryker is ready to look again, he can find a better item with a dungeon world, no, this small energy pulse gun is now only his last dungeon reward.

Lake gradually integrated into the world, and he also learned about the situation in this world from the chats between his soldiers and refugees.

Skynet has defined humans as hostile life forms, believing that their existence is harmful to the planet, and after the nuclear bomb exploded, it tried to capture all humans. After killing most of the humans, a small number of humans are left behind for labor and research experiments.

One day, Lake and a dozen of his men were eating around the fire in an underground warehouse, having just gone out on a mission to attack the mechanical patrols that had appeared near the dilapidated warehouse.

"Captain, look what good stuff I've got!

A fat mouse, come and eat together! One of the team members carried a black fat rat tail in his hand and warmly invited Lake to join him for dinner.

Most of the food in this human stronghold is rice porridge with a few pitiful vegetable leaves.

Even these soldiers and soldiers rarely get meat, and at this stage there is still a shortage of food in this stronghold.

Lake is not easy to refuse.

The team members skillfully cleaned up the fat mouse in a few minutes and put the mouse on the fire to roast it.

"Squeak!" The rats were roasted with oil, and the smell of meat emanated from the fire around them.

A few minutes later, Lake's team roasted the rat and, with a dagger, cut off the fattest piece of meat from the mouse's belly, and handed it to their captain, Ryker.

Lake took the piece of rat meat, looked at it, and still couldn't bear to eat it.

But you can't throw it, this is a part of the heart of his teammates, in this environment of food shortage, as long as it is animal meat, it is very precious, Lake must accept it.

Lake glanced around, just in time to see a little girl with a dusty face not far from the fire where their team was eating, and a little girl was baking a fire in the frame outside an old-fashioned TV, and the little girl looked at Lake's side, or rather, at the rat meat in Lake's hand.

Lake has an impression of the frame on the exterior of the old television, and when he first traveled through this dungeon world, he saw a little girl using the frame of the TV to bake plastic to make a fire in the human stronghold of the underground pipe.

Lake looked at the little girl and the frame of the TV in front of her, it was the little girl who had been in the underground pipes before.

Unexpectedly, when this little girl moved with his team, she also moved the "stove" with the frame of the TV set.

Lake walked over with a smile and whispered to the little girl: "Hungry, come, uncle will give you meat, you will grow up quickly, have strength, and together defend the future of mankind and fight against Skynet." ”

After Lake finished speaking, he quickly handed the roasted rat meat in his hand to the little girl.

The little girl, whose face was dark and thin, hesitated, then pursed her small mouth, but finally did not resist the temptation of rat meat, raised her hand and grabbed the rat meat in Lake's hand, put it in her mouth and ate it.

"Thank you, Venerable No. 2!" The little girl was so happy that she had eaten the roasted rat-man in a few clicks, baring her teeth and smiling at Lake.

"Good!" Lake patted the little girl on the head, then turned back to his men, and continued to stay by the fire, drinking the rice porridge that had been distributed to them by the colony.

The current battle situation, for human beings, has not yet achieved an advantage, some weapons with great damage have to be snatched from the hands of the mechanical legion, and some have been snatched to the point that they cannot be used directly, so they must be taken back to the human base and let the scientific researchers transform.

Food is even more scarce, and the human stronghold that can fill the stomach is already a rich stronghold.

Fortunately, Lake was in the American team 1 before, received professional military training, and when he fought with Hydra, he also went to the battlefield more than ten times, although the enemy who was fighting him now was replaced by Skynet's mechanical troops, but on the battlefield, Lake performed very well.

Mechanized troops, as long as they identify their weaknesses and move faster with human soldiers, mechanical tanks and mechatronic warriors are not much stronger than human warriors.

Ryker has the ability to detect and identify with a keen eye, and as long as he looks at it, he can find the enemy's weak points, and directly pinpoint the energy control devices in the mechanical tank and the mechanical warrior's body, or the chip presence point and some weak points to strike.

Because Lake and his men won several battles against Skynet's mechanical soldiers, the food distributed to Lake's team in this stronghold could barely fill their stomachs.

At this time, John Connor, the leader of the human race, will also broadcast on the radio from time to time, announcing the key points of Skynet's latest mechanical forces, as well as some effective ways to destroy them. On the radio, the Resistance was told how to hide from the mechs on the battlefield.

Every few days, Lake sat around an old-fashioned radio with his soldiers and listened to a radio from the leader of the race, John Connor.

More than half of what John Connor said on the radio, to Lake's ears, was about boosting the morale of the soldiers and telling humanity not to give up hope.

These words sounded boring to Lake, an outsider player.

However, Lake's soldiers, every time they heard those morale-boosting nonsense, their eyes lit up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

In his spare time, Lake also discussed with his soldiers about effective plans to deal with the mechanized troops, and gradually tried to implement them in battle after battle.

Lake led his soldiers to start activities beyond the small stronghold of this human warehouse, this ruin was established, there were several small human strongholds, and there were also many patrol robot units of Skynet.

Lake begins to lead the soldiers, ambushing these Skynet's robot troops, collecting food, weapons in the ruined city.

A strong human warrior wielding a metal rod, the prestige of the Second Venerable gradually spread within the human resistance organization, and the prestige of the Second Venerable continued to increase rapidly after each battle.

After three months of fighting with the Skynet robot force, Lake has been promoted from the original squad leader, relying on his combat exploits in the confrontation with the Skynet robot force, and his own strong combat ability, to the captain of the human resistance army.

Lake already had hundreds of soldiers under his command at this time, and they were under his command.

On this day, after Lake ended a raid to destroy the Skynet sub-base, he finally met with a herald of the Human Resistance Army.

This herald had arrived from the headquarters of the Human Resistance Army, and was responsible for verbally conveying the instructions of John Kant, the Supreme Leader of Mankind.

"Venerable Captain No. 2, the leader of the Human Resistance Army, John Connor, in view of your outstanding performance in the confrontation with the Skynet Mech Legion over the past few months, I invite you to join his direct forces!" The soldier who gave the order said to Lake.

The subordinates beside Lake were excited when they heard this, and it was a great honor for them to be able to go under the legendary John Connor and be a soldier in the direct army.

If their No. 2 Venerable agreed, they, the soldiers under the No. 2 Venerable, would also be able to be accepted.

"It's an honor to be a direct member of John Connor's unit, this is the Resistance's recognition of me!" Lake thought about it and agreed directly.

Go to John Connor to really start the Terminator plot.

If you have the opportunity to take a time machine, travel back in time, and protect John Connor's mother, it is also a good dungeon route.

At least travel back a few decades, and the living environment there is much stronger than the last days of this Skynet, and there is also a chance to obtain better items.

Three days later, Lake led hundreds of his men, armed with weapons and a little food, to move in the night.

Lake and the others marched for about a week, marching every night and resting during the day.

One night, Lake led more than 100 men to the foot of a hill with John Connor's heralds.

The herald led Lake's group up the hill from the back of the mountain, and finally stopped in front of a large metal gate.

The metal door opened, and under the guidance of the herald, Lake led his men into the cave quickly.

This big cave is supposed to be a large shelter built by humans before the nuclear bomb exploded, and it can resist the level of nuclear bomb strike.

After all these years, the facilities are still in good condition.

The shelter inside the cave is very large, like a large human base.

Lake and his soldiers, after being checked by registration and several large wolfdogs, entered the human base.

Lake and his 100 soldiers were placed in the base of the cave, living in several rooms on the periphery.

A middle-aged man in a combat uniform approached, followed by several soldiers with guns.

"I'm John Connor, welcome to the base of the cave, Venerable Two and brave warriors, you are the backbone of the resistance to Skynet!

The future of humanity needs you! The middle-aged man said in a praising tone.

His voice sounded familiar.

Can you not be familiar! Every two or three days, Lake was forced to call around a campfire by his soldiers to listen to his broadcasts.

The hundred soldiers brought by Lake, seeing John Connor himself, and hearing the praise, looked at their idol excitedly.

This human leader, John Connor, is a legendary being in their hearts, a prophet and wise man of all mankind.

"For the sake of the future of our human race, even if we are crushed, we will not hesitate!" Lake stood up and said with a very formal expression.

Lake will also say that he should make a good impression on this John Connor, after all, the first impression is important.

"You've traveled a long way, and you're tired of coming all the way.

Rest for a few days, and then I have a daunting task here that requires sending your best warriors to accomplish it. Venerable No. 2, you come with me first, and I'll take you to visit the base of this cave first. John Connor said aloud.

Most of Lake's soldiers were exhausted from the previous journey here.

After all, when you are traveling long distances at night and only walking on your feet, you have to watch out for the appearance of the reconnaissance machine of the Skynet Mechanical Force every day. But now, when they saw the great, deified human leader John Connor, they all felt empowered to fight the machine with a gun and fight a few great battles.

Lake nodded, this John Connor is not good-looking, but the leadership ability to control people's hearts is very powerful!

At least now he heard John Connor that he wanted him to come to this base and arrange a dangerous mission in a few days, and he didn't have any resistance in his heart, and he felt like he was right.

Ryker followed John Connor around the base of the human cave.

John Connor first took Lake to see some of the living facilities and food storage warehouses in this base, although there are no entertainment facilities, but the food reserves in this cave base are enough for the people here to eat for a year.

Even behind the base, there are greenhouses and potato plantations.

Generators, water purifiers, robotics experiment technology labs, etc., and even other human strongholds, medical rooms, which are not available, have two in this base, as well as some drug reserves and medical facilities.

John Connor then takes Lake on a tour of the weapons depot inside the cave base.

Lake was shocked to learn that the human resistance here had fighter jets and helicopters.

Although the number is not large, all in the single digits, this kind of air combat weapon with an astonishing fuel consumption is completely unknown to Lake thought that the current human resistance army does not possess at all.

"Venerable Captain No. 2, there are thousands of well-trained warriors in my base, and now with you joining us, we will become even stronger in the future.

We have every hope of destroying the rule of Skynet and rebuilding human society.

I will show you these today, I hope you can really help me, I need my right-hand men too much.

After I learned about your deeds of fighting Skynet in the past few months, I found that you are the sharp knife I have been looking for, specifically to help me smash Skynet's right-hand man. John Connor said to Lake sincerely, holding out his right hand.

After Lake heard this, he had already followed John Connor around the base, and after seeing the human leader, John Connor gave him a bright "muscle", and it was time for him to express his position.

But Lake listened to John Connor's meaning, and let him play the role of a special forces, to execute a dangerous person for him. And John Connor seems to have something in his words, and Lake doesn't understand it now!

But having come here, Lake also knew that he couldn't refuse, so he simply agreed happily, and he could also leave a good impression on the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor.

"It has always been my ideal to destroy Skynet and return this world to human order, so that our children and grandchildren will not have to survive under the rule of machines." Lake stretched out his right hand and shook John Connor's hand vigorously.

Hearing Lake's words, John Connor was very relieved.

However, Lake looked at the expression under John Connor's smile now, and his expression was still a little weird.

John Connor then said goodbye to Lake and left, saying that he would take care of other things.

More than ten minutes later, Lake was sent back to his lodgings by the soldiers at the base of the cave.

Lake's men, the more than 100 soldiers he brought, had just received food and new uniforms, as well as bedding and other daily necessities from the quartermaster of this cave base, and most of them were smiling, and they liked the environment of the main base of the resistance.

Later, several squad leaders from the base came over to introduce some of the rules and regulations of the cave base and the location of the public facilities to Lake and the new soldiers he brought to the cave base.

For the next two days, Lake stayed at this base and led his men to train once a day.

It has been more than three months since Lake came to this copy world, and Lake's marksmanship has also improved by leaps and bounds under the pressure of the Skynet Machine Legion.

Ryker's shooting skills have grown a lot in the battlefield of life and death after many battles.

Although he is not yet at the level of a sharpshooter, Ryker's current shooting level is only stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.

The soldiers brought by Lake quickly fell in love with the cave base.

This is worthy of being one of the main bases of the rebels, and the living facilities and materials provided in the base are not comparable to the original stronghold of the ruined city where they were.

For example, it is not too much to describe one from heaven to one from the earth.

On the third day, Lake was summoned by the herald to the War Chamber of Resistance leader John Connor.

In the middle of the room, there was a large metal table with a huge map of the world spread out on it. The map is also marked with a number of small flags.

"Venerable No. 2, there is a very difficult task that requires you to lead ten elite subordinates and set off to carry it out in three hours." John Connor spoke.

"No problem, I love tough tasks!" Lake said with a smile, he called himself to this command room, he couldn't refuse any task assigned to him by the leader of the rebels, Lake knew that he had just come to this base now, and he had no right to refuse.

John Connor then slapped the table in front of him, and the two soldiers pushed the door open from outside the command room.

In the hands of the two soldiers, they also held a large metal disc covered with a red cloth.

The two soldiers put down the large metal disc and left the command room, leaving only Lake and John Connor.

Lake looked at the large metal disc with some confusion.

John Connor stepped forward and lifted the red cloth from the disc, revealing a sand table model of the ruined city and the roads near it, so finely made, almost to scale.

John Connor pointed to a building that looked like a large football field inside the model of the ruined city, and said to Lake: "This is a map of the buildings in this ruined city taken from the air by our Resistance reconnaissance plane.

A 3D sand table model is then printed to scale by a printer.

This time, your mission is to take ten elite subordinates to destroy a scouting instrument placed here in Skynet in this ruined city. ”

"This probe together, inside the city's soccer stadium?" Lake asked.

John Connor nodded to Lake and said, "That's right, and you lead ten of your men to infiltrate this ruined city, avoid or eliminate the machine troops patrolling Skynet along the way, and completely destroy this large exploration instrument installed in the football field."

After destroying the probe instruments, you will need to stay on the surface of this ruined city for at least an hour, causing chaos in this ruined city.

In this ruined city, there are three garrisons of Skynet mechan troops, you can pick any one to provoke, and you can launch one or two rockets from a long distance. ”

"What's the point? I can understand the destruction of the scouting equipment in the football field.

But for the next hour, let me stay in this ruined city, and rely on the combat power of only ten soldiers to attack Skynet's mechanical army station?

Even if ten of my men are fully armed, they are the best of the best, but without support in this ruined city, once they are intercepted by the mechanical legion, it is no different from sending them to death! Lake said with a serious expression.

If it weren't for John Connor and him assigning this task alone.

Lake flipped the table directly and asked him to lead a team of ten people, and performing this task was no different from sending him to death.

Although Skynet's mechanical forces also have weaknesses, there are three Skynet's garrison bases in a ruined city occupied by Skynet.

Let only ten people go to this city to wreak havoc, and not let them leave for an hour, even for Lake's skills, it is very dangerous, and Lake has no confidence that he will come back alive.

"You are doing this to attract the attention of Skynet's mecha troops stationed here in this ruined city.

Although I knew that this task was dangerous, I couldn't find a better person or solution, and I had no choice but to be pressed for time.

Underneath the city, our resistance forces have dug a tunnel to the city's underground water pipes.

In this city, according to exact information, there is a large pharmaceutical production plant.

In this production plant, there are not only many sealed pharmaceutical raw materials, but also production line equipment for pharmaceutical production.

After you lead the team around the city and destroy the scouts in the football field, I can send troops through the tunnels into the abandoned underground water pipes beneath the city, infiltrate the drug production factory, and smuggle back those drug treatment equipment and some sealed raw materials.

It will take at least an hour for my troops to evacuate safely through underground pipes to the pharmaceutical production plant and back the equipment and raw materials. ”

John Connor said this, took two glasses of water, handed Lake one, and continued: "Once we successfully obtain this batch of drug-making equipment and raw materials, it will be able to treat tens of thousands of human beings.

And to save our fighters, in case of wounded, from infection and death. John Connor explained to Lake.

"Can't you send more soldiers for me to lead the team on this mission?

Do I have any other support, such as helicopter support in the air, when I am on a mission? Lake asked John Connor.

"I'm sorry, but you won't have any support for this mission.

You can only bring a maximum of 10 soldiers with you on this mission.

Because according to the researchers of our resistance organization, they analyzed and studied the military setting procedures of Skynet, and after several actual troop verifications in other ruined cities, they came to a conclusion.

In this ruined city, once a medium-sized human armed force appears, the Skynet mechanical army of the nearby city will immediately send air combat planes to help.

In the face of Skynet's air combat forces, the existing weapons of our resistance forces are not yet suitable for a head-on confrontation.

Even if I send all the warriors in this cave base to fight, even if I win, I will greatly damage the morale of the resisting army, and the soldiers will suffer heavy casualties.

At that time, the value of the drug manufacturing equipment and raw materials transported from the underground pipeline will not be able to compensate for the value of the loss of combat effectiveness caused by the casualties of the soldiers. John Connor explained to Lake apologetically.

Lake was stunned when he heard this.

This John Connor gave him this is the equivalent of a mission to die!

Although this time he entered the dungeon, it was the final exam of the Overworld, and it was a dungeon that was exempted from the penalty of death.

But you can't waste the opportunity of this death-free copy in vain.

In this dungeon world, I only got a pitiful small energy pulse gun that can take out the items of the dungeon, or there is no energy magazine to replenish the kind after taking out the dungeon.

For the current self, this small energy pulse gun is not a good reward at all.

Seeing that Lake didn't speak, John Connor thought for a while, and then continued to say to Lake: "Second Venerable, do you still have any personal wishes, I can satisfy you within the scope of my rights in this base, even if your wishes are excessive, there is no problem."

I really can't find a suitable candidate this time, so I can only ask you, a strong soldier who has appeared, to carry out this mission.

Once this mission is successful, the power of our Human Resistance Force will expand exponentially in the months that follow.

It can be said that this crazy mission will be a turning point in the battle between our human resistance army and Skynet! ”

Lake looked at John Connor, the leader of the Resistance Army, and he really didn't know how he raised this leader.

"I took this pit daddy task!

But I have one condition, once I complete this mission and come back alive, you owe me a request.

One in any case, as long as I make that request, you must say yes.

Don't worry, this request of mine will not let you die, nor will it endanger the development of our resistance army! After thinking about it, Lake finally decided to take on the task and asked the current John Connor for a request as a condition.

Lake knew that now John Connor, he wanted to develop a resistance army, and he had to complete the seizure of the drug production line as soon as possible.

In this post-apocalyptic world dominated by Skynet's nuclear bombs, control of medical equipment and medicines is sometimes more powerful than control of the military.

After all, not all human beings have to sacrifice themselves to fight to the death against the Skynet machine forces.

But in order to get medicine and cure diseases, many people join resistance groups.

"Yes, Venerable No. 2, thank you for trusting me! Thank you for your dedication to the Resistance!

Can you tell me what you want me to ask you for? John Connor decisively agreed, and then asked Lake.

Lake had actually already thought of the request, that is, in the future, when John Connor led the human resistance army to defeat Skynet, and had an absolute advantage in the battle with Skynet.

Skynet will use a time machine to send the Terminator T-800 back in time to kill John Connor's mother, so that the wise leader of the human resistance army, John Connor, will no longer be born.

In the movie, John Connor, the leader of the Resistance Army, also follows suit and sends a human warrior back in time to protect his mother, and the warrior fights the Terminator T-800.

Lake's request is that when John Connor sends human warriors back in time through a time machine, he wants the soldier who went back to the past.

Lake thinks he's going to go back in time and protect John Connor's.

"I haven't thought about my request yet, I'll keep it for now, and I'll talk about it later when I think about it." Lake said with a smile to John Connor in front of him.

John's expression was a little strange when he heard this.

"Then let's study the next battle route to infiltrate this ruined city.

I have here a copy of the information of the Skynet mechanical forces in this ruined city and their patrol time. John Connor said to Lake.

"Don't worry, you take a pen and write me a letter of guarantee first, write a request owed to me, I'm afraid you will forget it in the future!" Lake said to the commander-in-chief in front of him with a very serious expression.

In order to prevent John Connor from letting him go back to the past in the future, Lake decided to be the villain and asked John Connor, the leader of the Human Resistance, to give him a note.

When John Connor heard Lake's words, his expression changed to embarrassment.

But he still didn't refute, took a pen and paper, wrote a guarantee for Lake, and was asked by Lake to bite his finger and press a bloody handprint.

After Lake carefully received this guarantee with a bloody handprint in his arms, he began to listen to John Connor explain the power arrangement of the Skynet mechanical forces in the ruined city.

Lake and John Connor were in the command room, discussing some details of the ground death assault mission.

Lake found that John Connor really knew the combat methods of the Skynet Mechanical Force, and he himself had led the team to fight against the Skynet Mechanical Force many times, and the formulation of this action plan was unusually detailed.

"I have a question, John, if I don't show up, or if you don't get me.

Who will you let complete this mission of raiding the city, destroying detection instruments and creating chaos? After discussing the battle plan, Lake asked with some curiosity.

Hearing Lake's question, John Connor smiled, "This crazy plan was originally prepared for me, and it was made a month ago.

A month ago, I had my soldiers start digging tunnels to the underground water pipes in Ruined City.

However, my generals, when they learned that I was going to lead the team on this mission, would rather give up this great opportunity to obtain the machine for the production of medicines than let me participate.

Although some of them volunteered to lead the team on this dangerous mission.

However, according to my understanding, the strength of my generals is not enough.

It is not yet possible to successfully perform a task of this level!

Just destroying Skynet's detection instruments in the football stadium in Ruined City may not be successful.

Not to mention that he would have to stay in Ruined City for an hour to attract the firepower of the Skynet Mech Legion. John Connor said this, after a pause.

He looked at Lake and continued, "This is the matter of destroying the detection instruments and attracting firepower, and we can only send troops once.

Once this operation fails, Skynet has the function of self-analyzing the combat intentions of the resistance army.

In the future, it will be even more difficult to destroy the detectors in this city.

It is very likely that the first mission will fail, and although Skynet has not discovered our true combat intentions, it will place two or three more detection instruments in this ruined city.

In that case, we will not be able to destroy these detection instruments at the same time in the short term.

Without destroying the detection instruments, my troops will be detected by the detection instruments as soon as they enter the underground pipelines and transport large quantities of drug-making equipment.

Two weeks ago, my generals recommended you to me and showed me your combat records for the past few months. ”

"Tell me which general recommended me to you, and I promise not to kill him." Lake listened and gritted his teeth.

Lake returned to his room and asked his soldiers to call his ten squad leaders.

Lake thought to himself, if he hadn't appeared, John Connor, the human leader, in this dungeon world, should finally go to the ruined city by himself, lead ten elite warriors, and carry out this daring mission.

After all, judging from the current situation of confrontation between the resistance army and Skynet, there is no advantage at all.

It is likely that after this mission, the Resistance Army obtained a large number of drug raw materials and drug manufacturing equipment, and then began to rapidly expand its power and recruit more surviving humans to join.

Lake analyzed that if John Connor had carried out this mission by himself, he would have survived in the end, indicating that this mission seemed to be extremely dangerous, but there was still a glimmer of life.

What Lake has to do now is seize this glimmer of life. However, Lake knows that he doesn't have the aura of the protagonist, and even if he follows the detailed battle plan and route of the mission that John Connor just explained to him, there may be unexpected changes.

Lake's ten squad leaders soon arrived in Lake's room.

Lake told the other soldiers in the room to leave first, leaving only himself and the ten squad leaders.

The specific course of action for this mission is still top secret, and only some of the high-ranking generals of the Resistance Army and John Connor himself know.

Nor is Lake prepared to give all the details of the mission to the ten men.

Lake hid the Resistance's attempt to steal drug-making equipment and raw materials from underground.

He only told his ten squad leaders that he had received an urgent mission from John Connor, who wanted to go to the ruined city, destroy Skynet's detection and monitoring equipment, and carry out a sneak attack and provocation on Skynet's mechanical legion in this ruined city.