"Well, it's about to go to the next nest, how about Miss, are you afraid?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wright glanced to the side dissatisfied: "Why do you think I'm going to rush there without doing anything?" Why do you think I don't know how dangerous it is in a highly populated area full of gangs and heavily polluted? ”

"That's interesting...... Is it because you're Eva's psyker, so you don't think there's a problem and you have the power to protect yourself? Burke's eyes were still fixed on the road, and his head was completely off even a moment: "Miss, to figure out one thing, to know and feel, is not a concept at all, have you ever been to the bottom of this kind of empire?" Do you understand their philosophy of survival and their survival situation? ”

"Leave it at that...... Fairly understood. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Wright's tone was no longer so clear.

"Huh, understood?" Burke sneered twice.

"Understood? It's a ridiculous joke, and if that's what you think, be as happy as you like! Burke didn't reply, "By the way, we're here." ”

With Burke's warning, Burke pulled his motorcycle and stopped.

"This is it, the passage to the lower nest." Burke unbuttoned his helmet and stared ahead.

It was a huge gate, surrounded by heavily armed, masked Imperial Guard soldiers, and even quite a few Chimera, Hydra air defense vehicles, Manticore missile vehicles, Riemannrus tanks, and even dozens of Valkyrie transports, Avenger attack planes, and Condor gunboat planes.

The massive metal gate was locked by several gates, and the Empire's double-headed eagle emblem was welded to the center of the door.

"Is it the use of force to prevent and block people of different ranks...... But it has nothing to do with me. Burke got out of the car and walked to the door.

"Stop, civilian, it's forbidden to approach here." A soldier noticed Burke's figure, pointing the laser rifle in his hand at the approaching detective.

"Don't worry, I have papers." Burke raised his hand above his head to show that he was harmless, and in his right hand he held the document he had obtained from the Governor, stamped with the approval of the Ministry of Justice.

"Stand there and don't move." The soldier was still on guard: "Old De, you cover me, I'll go and see." ”

Another soldier came over to take his post, and the cautious soldier took the rifle to his chest, then slowly leaned over, opened his papers, and glanced twice.

"Well, that's right...... Okay, that's it, come with me, you two shouldn't be able to use the gate. The soldier waved his hand, then pointed to Burke's motorcycle, "You can't bring this in, but you can keep it in our warehouse here, don't worry, we're not interested in it." ”

"Then it's troublesome." Burke said this, then beckoned Wright, and the two followed the soldier to the high wall by the gate.

When the soldiers opened a small door, the two men walked inside and found that it was a warehouse, but it was filled with civilian vehicles.

"These?"

"It's all cars stored here...... But many of them are already ownerless, after all, it's really not safe to go to the nest, you can pick a random place to put your motorcycle and come with me. ”

Burke shrugged his shoulders indifferently and pushed the bike to the right of the empty space, and then the bike automatically delevated, slowly landed on the ground, and then turned off.

"Alright."

"Then, keep up with me."

The three of them walked through tunnels, climbed up stairs, and finally reached the top of the high wall.

On the other side of the high wall, there is a completely different character from the nest on this side.

The dark sky was undisguised over the nests, and the dense clusters of nests stood like anthills in every corner of the field of vision.

This is the nest capital.

Mountains have been flattened to collect their ore, oceans have been turned into dumps of chemical sewage, fertile soil has disappeared beneath the sprawling megalocities of homes and factories, and these new man-made mountains are almost as tall as the pristine terrain that has long since been bulldozed. These massive structures are known as "hive cities" or simply "nests", with their individual spires and towers called "nest spires" or "spires", and adjacent nest complexes called "nest clusters". In the desert between the nest cities, the ground is covered with fluid and corrosive industrial waste, and the sky is obscured by air pollution. The spires of the nest city protrude from the drifting industrial clouds like islands exposed to the ocean.

Despite its degeneration into hellish conditions, the nest of Londinium was still valuable to the Empire, and the scrap heaps accumulated over generations had become a new source of wealth, and Londinium had come to live on the scraps of the past: its people had learned to squeeze everything they could sustain from their exhausted world by recycling and repairing everything they could find.

It was one of the darkest corners of the Empire, where countless miserable people earned a living, survived, and could give for their health, their loved ones, their lives, and even their souls for their own small interests.

This is the bottom nest.

"So, get on the elevator, two." The soldier stretched out his finger and pointed to a lifting platform, which looked usable despite the severe corrosion: "Although I don't think it's useful...... But I hope you will come back alive. ”

The Empire has never attempted to effectively manage the entire population, and this is simply not possible in a world where the majority of the population has no official records. In its place, a form of feudal rule evolved among those in power.

In Lentinum, despite Olivia's best efforts to change this, the results were still not significant, especially in the chaotic lower nest.

The families with a ruthless role take turns in power, and those who are more stable (that is, the non-registered population corresponding to the just now, referring to those who have a household registration book) serve these rulers as a unit of "family" (to make up for it, the organizational form of the "family" here should be a small group of different functions controlled by a leader, some are related by blood and some are not, and the family in power is similar to the lords and nobles in the Middle Ages, who can obtain the allegiance of these "families") as a unit to serve these rulers, all blood relatives "family" All support each other under the rule of the strongest members of their gang. This urban feudalism tended to territorial autonomy, and weaker clans would naturally seek the protection of their powerful neighbors, thus allowing the strong to expand their power base to the limit of what the resources within their domains could support. Usually the location where rival clans meet is also the battlefield where their own combat effectiveness is tested. And the strength of a clan is also the only influencing factor for them to show their abilities.

Gangs are a kind of territorial gangs that can be found everywhere in the empire, and the hive capital is usually known for its large number of gangs, and even the huge impoverished people of Terra have formed many gangs, and the gangs in the hive capital are part of those powerful and opposing families. Some of the gangs come from the young aristocrats in the Hive who are willing to deign to fight the lower gangs. Some of the powerful low-level gangs will be recruited by the planetary government to form PDFs to suppress the rebels or defend the planet in the event of an invasion, in which case they may be recruited into the Imperial Guard.