Section III

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"We're going to the first civilian area now, and there's been a lot of going on there lately." Ling tidied up her clothes and said to Zhuge Xun.

"The First Civilian Zone? I've heard before that there are five civilian areas that the government recognizes and protects. Zhuge Xun remembered that he had traveled around the world before he met Ling, but since the Third World War, he has rarely traveled, so he doesn't know much about civilian areas.

"Wow, is this what you call a tree with purifying powers?" Ling pushed open the door, and it was already morning outside, although there was still a lot of thick fog that had not yet cleared. The five small trees erected by the grass hut should be the kind of trees that Zhuge Xun told him earlier that can purify the civilian area, but he didn't expect to get it.

"These are still just ordinary trees, and I went to the civilian area with you because metasequoia needs special soil to grow in the civilian area." Zhuge Xun said to Ling.

"Won't it be hard to survive? The environment on the civilian side is no better than the protective circle. Do you want to bring these five trees together? We don't know how long we'll stay in each of the civilian areas, but it's not safe to put it here. Ling looked around.

"Now I can only take it with me. It's not safe here, is it?. Zhuge Xun said to Ling. You open the door. ”

"Okay." Ling opens the Temporal Gate to the First Civilian District. Ling went in first, and Zhuge Xun followed him after sending the tree into the door.

First Civilian Area:

Ling, who first came out of the Gate of Time, frowned when he looked at the situation in front of him, he hadn't seen him for a while, why had the first civilian area changed so much?! Zhuge Xun, who came out closely, didn't notice anything, put the tree aside, and said to Ling, who was still observing the situation.

"We should first meet with the administrator of the First Civilian District and tell him about Metasequoia, is this the First Civilian District? Is there anything special about these metal pillars? And where is the first civilian area? Zhuge Xun looked at Ling in puzzlement, he had never been to the civilian area.

"On top of this." Ling looked up at the top of the metal pillar.

"Above, you're saying that the first civilian area is on top...... Face? Zhuge Xun also looked up.

(Note: First Civilian Zone: Located far away from the original Third Protection Ring and separated from the original Third Protection Ring about 1,000 kilometers.) After the destruction of the Third Circle, the First Civilian Area was regularly attacked by the aliens who lived in the original Third Circle. However, due to the unique living environment of the first civilian area, the aliens will not easily conquer it.

Most of the people who started the war against the former Third Circle were those who did not fall into the 'civilian zone', and since the Three Circles incident, those who have not been classified as 'civilian zone' have been referred to by the Hunters' Association and the Central Circle as 'residual garbage' and have stopped providing them with any assistance.

The First Civilian District is also known as 'Metal Sky City'. This is because the people in the first civilian area live in metal houses in mid-air.

The First Civilian Area is built on a 'high-altitude road' that remains after the Third World War. (The Third World War: hereinafter referred to as the war)

High-altitude road: Before the war, developed countries built a road similar to a viaduct in order to save ground occupation, this kind of road, the pillar is composed of concrete solid columns, covered with special metal skin, according to different countries and regions, the specifications of this pillar are also different. However, they can withstand the erosion of magnitude 6 earthquakes and acids and alkalis, and the special metals outsourced can ensure that no chemical changes occur for 100 years. At the top of the pillars is the bridge deck, and the width and material of the bridge deck vary according to the human, financial and material resources of each region.

The remaining high-altitude road where the first civilian area is located today is relatively intact after the war, and the stone pillars that carry the bridge deck are all 100 meters high. After the establishment of the Central Circle and the Hunter Headquarters Circle, he helped the civilians to transform the original high-altitude roads into suitable accommodation for human life. Superalloy houses were built on the pavement, the same metal as the one wrapped on the outside of the bridge pillars, to help protect the inhabitants from the radiation in the air from the war.

The bridge deck is divided into ten sections, with the bridge deck distance between the bridge pillars and the bridge pillars as a section. Each section is equipped with a number of independent standard houses, and the entire bridge deck can accommodate about 1,500 to 2,000 people. At the same time, there are also metal rooms built under the bridge deck, and at that time, when the number of aliens was not large, many people chose to live in houses under the bridge, and they could also grow some food and vegetables by themselves, and most of the electricity came from wind power. But after the Xenomorph outbreak, the people in the civilian area were almost destroyed, and the surviving people moved everything on the ground to the bridge deck, and the Xenomorphs couldn't climb the bridge, so the residents on the bridge were safe, but everything they lived on the bridge, and the ground was not suitable for growing food, so they planted on the bridge deck, and built greenhouses in the vacant places, and the lives of the residents on the bridge were not disturbed too much, but if you need to get off the bridge, the only way is ' rope ladder', and if you want to go up the bridge, you need to notify the people on the bridge deck, and you can only get permission to go up the bridge. )

"Yes, the people of the first civilian area live on the bridge deck, but the bridge pillars are much more damaged than the last time I came." Ling noticed that there was a lot of damage to the metal skin of the bridge pillars, and the solid cement pillars inside had been exposed, and some of the damage was new, that is, had the first civilian area been attacked by aliens recently?

"How are we going to get up?" Zhuge Xun asked. In fact, he should be able to go up directly, and visually inspect the height of these metal pillars can be 100 meters. How do people on the bridge usually get up and down?

Ling didn't answer Zhuge Xun, but circled around the huge pillar in front of him, looking for something as he turned.

Zhuge Xun didn't know what Ling was looking for, and looked around at the surrounding environment, the environment on the ground was very bad, the weeds that were originally more than one person tall were trampled down indiscriminately, and there were some dilapidated metal houses, and there were some alien corpses lying not far away, and the air was also very dirty. Looking up, but you can't see the appearance of the top, I heard Ling say that people live on it, this height can also be 100 meters, I don't know how long, the ground supports the bridge deck is ten huge metal pillars, and there are some other metal pillars, but they have been damaged more seriously, it should be that these ten are often maintained.

At this time, Ling was squatting at the bottom of the pillar, groping for something with his hand, as if he had found it, Ling pressed it with his hand, and a laser screen stretched out where he pressed, showing ten digital buttons.

Ling pressed a few numbers, only to see the image of a person appear on the laser screen.

"It's me, I'm going up." Ling said to the person in the laser screen.

"It turned out to be Zero, I'm going to ask someone to put the rope ladder down, and the boss just remembered you." The man on the screen was happy to see that it was Zero.

"Zoom freight elevator down, I've brought something." Ling continued.

"Okay, right away!"

Ling turned off the laser screen and returned to Zhuge Xun's side. "Wait a minute, they'll put the rope ladder down."

"Rope ladder? Not the kind I know, right? Zhuge Xun looked up at this height......

"I understand what you mean, but there is only one way to go up, if you go up without permission, the guards above will attack you regardless of the reason." Ling explained.

After a while, a rope ladder descended from the top along the metal pillar, just to the ground. Zhuge Xun looked at it, it was really an ordinary rope ladder, the only difference was that this was not a real rope, but a metal chain ladder that should be the same metal as the pillar, but if you really want to kick it up like this, when will it be.

Ling saw Zhuge Xun's doubts and said with a smile: "This is automatic, we don't need to climb." Oh, and the freight elevator came down too. "Next to the rope ladder, a metal box about two meters long, one meter wide and one meter high was slowly lowered, and on both sides were four metal chains pulling the box.

"Kaoru, put the tree in." Ling opened the door on one side of the box and said to Zhuge Xun.

"Oh." Zhuge Xun moved the tree with anger and moved the tree into the box.

After Ling closed the door, she pressed the button on the inside of the box, and four metal chains pulled the box up slowly. "Let's go up too." Ling climbed the rope ladder first, and motioned for Zhuge Xun to follow him, when both of them climbed the rope ladder, Ling pressed the switch that came down with the rope ladder, and the rope ladder also slowly rose.

After about five minutes, Ling and Zhuge Xun arrived at the bridge above, and the people above helped Zhuge Xun move down the tree, and Zhuge Xun told them to put it aside first.

"Zero, long time no see." A burly man said to Ling.

"Didn't I say last time that I was going to send you a purification tree, but I came here to give you a tree, and how can I see that there seems to be a lot of damage to the pillars below?" Ling said to the man.

"Let's go in and say, I just have something to ask you." The man led Ling to the metal house not far away.

"Kaoru is also coming, I'll take you on a good tour in a while." Ling turned around and said to Zhuge Xun behind him.

Until he sat on the stool, Zhuge Xun was still looking around, and the living area on the bridge was really surprising.

"Kaoru, this is the current head of the First Civilian District, a brute leader." Ling said to Zhuge Xun.

"Barbarian leader, this is my friend Zhuge Xun." Ling also said to the big man who brought them back.

"Hello, I've heard of Mr. Zhuge Xun for a long time, and when I saw it today, he was really different from a mortal, but I didn't expect it to be such a young man." The brute laughed.

"Where." Zhuge Xun nodded and said hello. Noticing the corroded half of the brute's face, he should also be a man with a story.

"Is there something going on here?" Ling asked.

"Three weeks before you came, our side was just attacked by aliens, and the number of aliens this time is several times that of the past, hmph, it always feels like all the aliens in all the borders have gathered, but it's no wonder that the 'green river' is the only water source in this radius, originally those mongrels rushed to the water source, but' Qinghe is also very important to us, so I brought some people over to drive away those aliens, but I didn't expect that there would be so many of them this time, and besides, there are some aliens who seem to have human minds, and some of them will respond to our attacks, and some of them will come to destroy them. The bridge pillar', our side is a little unbearable, the tenth pillar is more seriously damaged, the bottom has only less than two meters of support left, our people have also died a lot, and the other living are also seriously injured, because the body can not be brought back to the bridge, so the specific number and name of the person is also known after the routine roll call of all the staff the next morning, we sacrificed twenty-five people, ten people were injured, this time only a team of fifty people was dispatched, almost all accompanied there, and then there was a robot rescue force. "The brute boss still has palpitations when he thinks about it now, if it weren't for the timely appearance of those robot troops, the consequences are really unimaginable.

"Robot troops?" Ling was puzzled, as she knew, there was a robot unit on the side of Heloy in the Central Circle, but it was impossible to rush over to rescue the civilian area......

"Well, at first I thought it was the Guild who sent us to support us. An all-robot force of about 300 people helped us fight off the aliens who were grabbing the water source...... I trust you and see you as a friend, and I know that you are dedicated to us, so I hope you can understand our struggles. The brute said without saying anything.

"Barbarian leader, I'm just doing my best to help people in need, and besides, you shouldn't know that after this world conference, I'm no longer a hunter in the headquarters of the Hunter Association, I'm now an 'outsider', so maybe I won't have much to do to help you in the future, so if the barbarian thinks I'm still your friend......" Ling guessed that the decision of the world conference should not have been sent down to the civilian areas.

"Where, you Zero will always be my friend, then I won't hide it from you." The brute continued. "After those robots helped us fight off those aliens, I saw the head of the robots, I had never seen that 'man' before, and that look should also be called ' Because his limbs have been replaced by machines, he didn't say anything to us, and refused the gift we wanted to thank him, after knowing that the tenth dwelling was more seriously damaged, he commanded those robots to help us repair the tenth dwelling, without the help of those robots, we really don't know what to do, the tenth pillar corresponds to the tenth district is the most populous area on the bridge...... He gave me a flute before he left, telling me that if another alien attacks us in the future, if the hunters don't come to help, we can use the flute to call for help to him, but he says don't tell the World Government or the Hunters' Guild about him. And then he left. I thought it was going to be Zero, but he said don't let me tell you. ”

"What kind of person do you think he is, can he be trusted?" Ling asked.

The brute sneered twice and said, "Zero, I didn't say this against you. I don't know about other civilian areas, but this first area has not been rescued by the Hunters Association for a long time, and when Miss Elian's medical team was still there, the various antidotes and various medicines she developed were very useful to us, but after the incident in the second protection circle, we have never received any useful medical assistance, and Nangong Lei, the 'proposer' in charge of our first district, has not come to our side for more than half a year. Originally, medicine, food and some self-defense weapons were sent to each civilian area in the first quarter of March, and it is no exaggeration to say that if we didn't usually leave some spare medicines and food, the first civilian area you see now should be full of dead people, so if you ask me if that person is worth trusting, how should I answer you? ”

"The World Conference has just ended, and I think it should improve for you as well. Will I be able to meet that person? Ling asked.

"Can't! He protects us, and we have to protect Him. I don't care about the big issues of interest and world peace among you, I just want my people to have a place to live. ”

"I see. By the way, the Tree of Purification that I have brought you this time should be of great help to you. Ling glanced at Zhuge Xun.

Zhuge Xun answered: "Barbarian leader, Metasequoia can help you purify the air here, do you have a suitable place to plant Metasequoia near the water source?" ”

There was a knock at the door.

"What's the matter?" The brute asked outside the door.

"Report the barbarian leader, the executor Li. Vius came, under the third pillar, and asked to come up. "The back door is outside.

"Drop the rope ladder and let him come up." The brute said.

"Yes."

"It's best that he doesn't come empty-handed! You ......," the brute turned to ask Zero and Zhuge Xun.

"Let's not meet for now, and I'm no longer a member of the Hunters Association, I'm afraid that appearing here now will bring you a bad misunderstanding, it just so happens that Zhuge Xun hasn't been here, I'll take him out to have a look." Ling said to the brute.

"Okay. Then you can take care of yourself. After the barbarian sent Ling and Zhuge Xun out, the barbarian instructed his subordinates: "If Li doesn't ask, don't tell him that Zero is here, and at the same time you bring a few people to pick up Li here, be careful not to let the two groups of them meet, if you meet you, you will say that you don't know when Zero came, and I will come after Li comes to my side." Anyway, the two of them didn't come from the same pillar. ”

"You don't have to take care of us, we can just walk around on our own. I'll be careful not to talk to Lee. Vius meets me, and if he does, I'll say I've just arrived, and you go tell the brute. Ling said to the brute head who accompanied him.

"Well, Zero isn't an outsider anyway, so call me for something." The man politely withdrew.

"I'll take you on a tour of this first civilian area, and see how curious you look." Ling said to Zhuge Xun who was watching around him.

"Okay." (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.