The Iron Gate is a city built on a hillside, and a small half of the city is built on the hillside, according to the topography. Coal and iron are abundant in the mountainous areas, and the thermal power plants and steel mills left over from the old era have become the basis of today's vast military industrial system. Nearly 100,000 people live in the area of the Iron Gate, most of whom depend on this behemoth that produces weapons and armor. Factories of all kinds require a lot of labor, and mines need even more manpower. Despite the hard work from morning to night, people still feel peaceful and happy. Compared to the outcasts in the wilderness, they undoubtedly live in paradise because they are well fed and live a stable life. Even the inhabitants of the large settlements are extremely envious of life here.

In the new era or the old era, it is happiness to be able to have a job that can sell the body. As for the amount of remuneration and the happiness of Cheng dù, they are both things to be viewed from a relative point of view.

Su was also shocked when he first saw the exuberance and heaviness of the steel gate with hundreds of tall chimneys. This is a truly modern large-scale industrial system, and the power to shock people's hearts comes entirely from the feeling of space that cannot be accommodated by the field of vision.

The large and densely packed tent area around the factory area shows in the most intuitive way how many people live on the steel gate.

Sue doesn't want to break the lives of these people, but the war with the Iron Gate can't stop. So he first sent someone to return Schneider's body to the Iron Gate, and set a time limit for the Iron Gate to surrender. Although most of the armed forces were lost, the Iron Gate, which still had nearly a thousand armed soldiers and a dozen power mechs, refused to surrender. In addition to admiring the strong will of the people here, under the darkness of the night, Su entered the steel gate alone.

As the sky lit up again, the warriors of the Iron Gate suddenly found that all the leaders had been turned into corpses.

The rest of the matter was much simpler, and Victor arrived at the Iron Gate with the troops of the Sinking Blade, and began to take over the city. Those iron-blooded warriors may be very resistant to the outsiders Sue, but they are much easier to accept with the Blade of Perdition. With their lives threatened and the loss of their entire leader, they finally laid down their arms.

The members of the five-member committee were all good at management, but it still took nearly a week to take over a behemoth like the Iron Gate.

Victor scattered the warriors of the Iron Gate and incorporated them into his own troops, while at the same time transferring a group of elite warriors from the Blade of Destruction to Leigh. This group of fighters can be regarded as a gift, and it is the core armed forces that belong to the Soviet Union.

When they saw the corpses of all the leaders of the Iron Gate, in fact, all the members of the five-member committee had very bad faces. They thought they were well aware of the power of high-level abilities, but when they saw these neatly arranged corpses, everyone realized that they were still underestimating Su. Since Su Neng killed all the high-level leaders of the Steel Gate in a heavily defended city overnight, it would not be difficult to clean up the five-member committee with the same amount of time.

In the process of occupying the Iron Gate, news came from Crane City that they were willing to cooperate in full cooperation, and at a reasonable price, all types of potions, including trial potions that Douglas had not yet fully studied, could be sold first. This is tantamount to surrender in disguise, but retains a certain independent status, so as not to be uprooted like the Iron Gate. The most important asset of biochemical technology is people, which is completely different from the steel gate that relies on resources and equipment. Sue needed a lot of potions, not the city and the population, and the compromise of Crane City was certainly the best outcome.

Perhaps in this one-sided war, the greatest stake is not Sue, but Victor and his sinking blade. In the entire Western Regions of the Great Lake, Su was an outsider, and the time was too short, too short to allow more people to understand fear. Victor saw this and became Sue's agent throughout the region. And the territory laid by Soda is managed by Victor.

Unlike the heavy darkness of the Steel Gate, nor like the frivolous hustle and bustle of Midnight City, Crane City is clean, tidy, and meticulous, but there is something eerily cold. With less than 20,000 men, Crane was the smallest of the three city-states. Almost all the inhabitants of the city serve the biochemical chamber, both directly and indirectly.

Located in the easternmost part of the city, it is said to be a real yàn room, but it is actually a building that covers an area of one square kilometer. It includes the central laboratory and more than a dozen sub-laboratories, as well as more than ten biochemical plants, where nearly 500 researchers study a variety of medicines. More than half of these researchers are engaged in basic research, such as genetic research on humans and other mutant organisms. A complete system has been formed here, with integrated operation of research, production and sales, and sufficient force to maintain its own security. From the layout of the entire Crane City, you can see the wisdom of the founder, Dr. Douglas.

In the past ten years, the perfect industrial structure of Crane City has begun to exert force, and countless genetic modification drugs have been researched, and the variety and quality of countless genetic modification drugs have been steadily improved. If there were another ten years, I believe that Dr. Douglas would definitely be able to research an eighth-order formula potion, and even a ninth-order ability formula would not be impossible. Assuming Dr. Douglas survives, of course, to that time.

No one knows the exact age of Dr. Douglas, only that he is a man from an old era, who has lived through the war that changed the entire history of mankind.

The Doctor's residence is a fantasy-style building in the northeast corner of the Biochemical Base, glowing with a strange blue light. As night fell, Dr. Douglas, who had just finished his day's work, walked slowly down the wide, thick carpet, and at the end of the long corridor was his favorite living room.

The Doctor was dressed in a retro robe, and the top of his head was nearly fully convex, except for a ring of sparse gray hair around the perimeter, and a long white beard that hung down to his abdomen. The doctor's face was carved with deep wrinkles, and every stripe was filled with the breath of time, but the old man had a pair of delicate and moist eyes, as clear as a teenager.

The old man walked to the end of the corridor safely, stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the living room, and then frowned slightly, looking at the two people sitting on the sofa that originally belonged to him.

Putting aside the intention of suddenly appearing here, the two young men sitting on the sofa, a man and a woman, made Douglas feel amazed. After hundreds of years, Douglas can be called a man who has read countless people, but when he sees a young man with pale blonde hair and a girl with long gray hair, the young and powerful heart in the old man's chest involuntarily beats faster.

As a master of studying human genes for more than 80 years, Douglas has imagined countless times what the perfect human being should look like. Even after he is more than 100 years old, he still can't help but imagine. But the human imagination itself still has limitations, and every time the result of imagination makes Douglas dissatisfied in one way or another.

But the moment he opened the door, Douglas finally saw the perfect human being, and also knew why he could not imagine a truly perfect human being in the past long years.

That's because, the aura that emanates from Sue and Medirri is inhuman.

The young man stood up and greeted with a smile, "Dr. Douglas, I'm sorry to bother you so late." ”

"It doesn't matter. You must be Sue, right? Douglas dragged his heavy body and sat down on the couch across from Sue. Narrow, shiny eyes stared at Sue, barely able to hide the almost fanatical gaze inside. The old man's gaze wandered between Su and Medierri repeatedly, and after repeating it several times, he spoke: "I think you should have seen the cooperation agreement, are you still satisfied with the content of the agreement?" Now that you have come to Crane City and seen the situation here, you should understand that I, an old man, have no interest in power, but only hope to be able to study without interruption, and that after my death, this real room can still run in an orderly manner. ”

Su leaned forward slightly, still maintaining a charming smile, and said, "I understand, and I am very satisfied with the cooperation agreement. In fact, after seeing the city of Kran, I know that it is only under your management that the city can really play its role. I'm here to learn more about the Ice Throne. I've heard that in the entire Western Regions of the Great Lakes, you are the only one who knows the Ice Throne. ”

"The Ice Throne?" A strange glint flashed in Douglas's eyes, and he said slowly, "Looks like I have to answer this question." ”

"Yes." Sue's voice had always been soft, but now, no one would doubt his determination.

"Alright then, Ice Throne...... What a nostalgic name! Douglas stood up, poured himself a small glass of wine, and stood by the fireplace, his voice gradually lowering, as if he had been immersed in old memories: "There are some people who have heard the name of the Ice Throne, and they either think it is a place name, or they think it is an organization...... But actually, the Ice Throne is a plan! ”

"Plan?" This was the answer that Sue didn't expect.

"Yes, a top-secret project plan, and the Ice Throne is the code name for this plan. I only know that this project is about the development of some kind of biological weapon beyond the era, and the specific content is not clear. In those days, this project was one of the top secrets of the entire Federation. I was very young, a student of Dr. Rochester. Ten years before the war, the Ph.D. was already at the forefront of the biology, genetics, philosophy, chemistry, and mathematics of his time, leading several top-secret federal projects. Even though I was a Ph.D. student, I was able to see Ph.D. very few times in a year. In the limited number of meetings he had, the Doctor had mentioned the Ice Throne Project, only to speak of it, and the Doctor seemed upset and even ...... There is even some fear! ”