Chapter 835: A World Without Gods
Before the formation of the Greater California Bay, Bryce City was a typical city built on the Gobi Wilderness.
Today, it is a coastal city.
And it is not only this city that is affected, but the marine climate affects the entire Midwest of the Federation.
In February, the spring was cold, but Bryce was particularly noisy and bustling, in stark contrast to the weather and even the rest of the era.
In the early morning, as a "battle drive" sailed into the new port, a group of fierce armed elements carrying large bags and small bags walked off the ship in a group.
The battle drive is more than the same as the battle patrol, but in this era, it refers to the transcendent large destroyer that can be suspended in the air. The people of this world prefer to call this type of ship a hybrid ship rather than a magic ship, to distinguish it from a truly transcendent warship like the Storm Sky Battleship and a secular warship that is still used in many regions.
Although the ember community is obviously more secular than the fire prison collar, and it also knows more about the light and dust, those who really know it know that the ember community is actually divided into eagles and doves.
The gang of the Eagle can be understood as the fire prison leader and its brainless die-hard fans.
After all, Kane has soared, the Investigator is gone, and the Butcher, the Fire Eater, and most of them are gone. But on this planet, there are still Kane's descendants.
For example, the Fire King Konstantin, his position is almost the chief inspector, with a part of the fire eaters and a dog ticket candle man, all over the world to fight and kill, the main object is the accumulation of evil things, demons, but if there are organized forces do not open their eyes and go to find trouble in the fire camp community, and the garrison force of the fire camp community is not enough to deal with it, then Konstantin's command, or he himself, will go over to help find a field.
This is also the reason why the Ember Community was successfully established and took over the baton of the Fire Prison Leader, and it is still an important pole in the world's great powers. A regime that does not have enough strength to surround it is ultimately fragile.
Water King Nia is also in this world, this king is relatively low-key, but if you think she is easy to talk and can take advantage of her, it would be wrong, the water king has a double personality, the kind, and like to do something practical for the people is Aya, and the decisive female is Nia.
In addition, the earliest fire bearers, lava fire spiders, and burning blood, have not left, they are all people who can create fire slaves by raising parasitic units, and they are of little use on the investigator's side.
With such a lineage, coupled with supporters, it constitutes the hawks of the ember community.
In fact, it would be more accurate to say that there are two rules in one country.
The descendants of the Salary King are in the same line, they are in charge of their own small stalls, Haiyuan Island and Channel Islands are their territory, and they do not interfere in government affairs except to provide armed protection to the Ember Community.
Correspondingly, they also have some privileges within the Ember Community, like the relationship between the military and the local government within a country.
Many people who interact with the Ember Community know that they should be careful when dealing with people who wear nuclear symbols (unique in this world), they are the descendants of the Salary King, known as the Nuclear Fire Society, and have inherited the tradition of the Salary King must repay and kill the whole family.
But for now, the people who have died the most at the hands of the Nuclear Fire Society are those who dare to pretend to be them.
The hybrid ships belong to the Nuclear Fire Society, so the identities of the battle drive and the militants who come down from the battle drive and wear a magic badge with a death replacement function are also revealed.
Although Bryce's industrial capacity is first-rate in the current world, even the Great Lakes industrial cluster of the Federation in the past may not be comparable, but it is much worse than the central city of the fire prison.
Without Kane, many facilities would have to be built slowly, and they could not be built overnight.
Bryce is in the ascendant, building a lot of civil works, paying attention to people's livelihood, the dock area first opened part of the civilian docks, and the military port is still under construction, so that the nuclear fire will drive over and need to crowd the civilian docks.
It was about 10 o'clock in the morning, and the fishing boats that had gone out to sea in the early morning had returned, and the wharf was crowded with people, noisy and lively.
The embers use advanced technology to breed seafood in the abyss, multi-level three-dimensional farming, although it is only more than a month so far, but has begun to go out of the sea, and there will be seafood transactions every morning and afternoon.
When they saw the militants of the Nuclear Fire Society, people avoided one after another, and even the noise was a little lower.
"It seems that the remnants of the salary king are still missing. The leader of the militants, a middle-aged man with the rank of colonel and frosty temples, said this to his entourage as he walked.
The accompanying person was the clerk of the Ember Community, and when he heard this, he said very bluntly: "In this world, it is more useful to fear majesty than to be grateful for kindness. ”
The colonel smiled, and the resentment in the clerk's tone that he could feel was evident that he had suffered some losses in specific matters.
He also knows a little bit about this. The Ember Community is not interested in Kane's high-pressure bullying style, and interacts with various forces with a kind attitude.
As a result, some people thought that the salary king was gone, and what was left was weak fat, and it was very much a few scenes of smiling faces being beaten, until the nuclear fire would be swept away, and they were all honest again.
Coming out of the dock area, the ground is spacious, and the large parking lot is parked with all kinds of private or magic vehicles, and the thick violent speed car wind seems to be all the vehicles competing for death.
The officer understood, as the clerk said, that the world is now, and that looking at the cars and SUVs of the past running outside the city is no different from being dead, not because the roads are rotten, but because of the car bandits, road blockers, and evil spirits.
The owners of Blythe were ambitious for the future of the new industrial city, and from the outset they chose the site to leave enough space for the city to expand in the future.
Therefore, there is about 10 kilometers of blank space from the dock area to the city, and the Gobi Desert can still be seen on both sides of the road, but the coast, coupled with the artificially adjusted rainfall, no longer has that arid scene, but has scattered vegetation, some like the yellow earth in early spring.
The officers and their entourage rode in an armored vehicle produced by Bryce Heavy Industries to their destination, and along the way they saw not only clusters of plants, but also scorched pits. It was all from the explosion of a landmine.
In the open space outside the road, the planes laid all kinds of mines, such as pressure mines, trick mines, and intelligent mines, which were as complete as the arms of the army, and those who were on guard against were naturally all those who refused to follow the right path. This is also a characteristic of industrial countries, which are good at creating things and putting them into the market.
Bryce City could be seen from afar, and even in the daytime, it was still brilliant.
It wasn't a light of illumination, of course, but a sparkle of magical energy. After all, Bryce has absorbed a lot of extraordinary technical forces, and many fields such as architecture and heavy industry have been out of the trap of only scientific and technological means, such as the construction of a high-rise building like the Empire State Building, a famous landmark of the Federation, and the general framework is enough for a week.
In the eyes of the world, the biggest difference between the embers and the king is the policy leniency brought about by non-dictatorship, the king rejects capital and the extraordinary, and only part of the secular middle class is recognized, and the rest cannot get the respect they deserve under their rule.
This is not the case with the Ember Community, which allows the extraordinary, capital, and people from all walks of life to participate, which is basically the same as the Federation in the past, except that the official power is greater.
This policy alone has made countless people rush to it.
In the words of a former well-known tycoon: "Outside, other regions are really not places for people, and the power of the extraordinary does not treat people as people!"
In fact, whether it is a secular person who has such feelings, even those who are scattered and transcendent have similar feelings.
In the past, they were parasitic on secular civilization, using extraordinary abilities to have no worries about food and clothing, and if they did well, they could realize some less ambitious life ideals or something.
As soon as the transcendent crisis came, it was originally the time for them to show their talents, after all, what the world has for extraordinary combat power is market demand, but the Tiancheng-level transcendent forces have torn off the hypocritical skin of ordinary forces, changed their tricks to control them, and used them as cannon fodder.
If you can't earn money and play happily, you lose your freedom, and your life is in danger, how can you not feel bitter?
Comparatively speaking, although the rule of the salary king is severe, the benefits are also high and very fair. But the salary king is stingy and willful, unless he sends someone to take the initiative to find you, he will not accept it when he sends it to the door, on the contrary, the transcendents in the metropolitan area have been expelled.
The ember community is not so ruthless, but in terms of policy, it has a certain characteristics of the fire prison collar, gives good shelter, and also has the fairness of the foundation of the past, and the maintenance of public security is not bad, and more importantly, the prospect is worth looking forward to. Naturally, people are defective.
The most persistent in this regard are those who have migrated out of Central California. As soon as the Salary King left, they frantically scolded the Salary King for not being a thing, but the embers were established, and they came to join, happier than anyone else. It fully shows what it means to be inferior, and of course, they themselves will say it more decently: there is no eternal enmity, only eternal interests.
And like San Jose and Tijuana, they spontaneously and voluntarily merged into the ember community, and a super parade was held for this purpose, holding signboards that were nothing more than flaunting that they were already on the periphery of the fire prison collar in the early days, and they were nothing more than a lack of a name, and the qualifications were very old.
The territorial distribution of the ember community is very strange, and such a franchise is also recognized. Some people who chew on the words have also come up with a 'new city-state era' to endorse this model of ember community, which is actually a precedent since ancient times......
Anyway, in addition to the right and wrong, there are also a lot of people who wash the floor and hold stinky feet, the key is that the embers do have dry goods, so they took advantage of the wind. The Super-Union and the Central Alliance (Alliance of the Transcendent of Central America) were the first to recognize it and set up embassies.
It didn't take long for even the Justice League to admit it, of course they have a real need, and they admit it for the convenience of saying things, such as the righteousness of human civilization, asking for the sharing of force field and barrier technology, of course, it is paid, and the unconditional sharing of this kind of statement can't be said now, at that time, now they don't have that kind of force, at least in front of the embers who are cut off from the Salary King, they don't have that face.
Only apart, most of the extraordinary forces in the world have recognized the sovereignty and legal rationality of the Ember Community.
The reason, of course, is because of interests.
First, they want to do business with the Ember Community.
Second, they want to use the portal system of the Ember Community.
You must know that the global fire camp community, although it cannot be casually visited, but has a level of authority, the bottom layer must be transferred from the middle level, and the top level is directly connected to any one, but it is still the most convenient and safest logistics method at present.
The ember community has enjoyed the advantages and convenience of the over-supply of energy in the pay-king system, and the transmission cost has been greatly reduced. When the Ember Community was formed, it also initially promised the various forces the convenience of emergency teleportation. This alone is very appealing, and there are already people who have enjoyed the tangible benefits.
It is precisely because of this that the embers quickly integrated into the world family, and won an important role as soon as they came up, the convenience brought by the portal, not to mention the rapid transmission of logistics and personnel, or the link that brings the forces of the north and the south together.
And, from the perspective of the system, the 'taste' of the ember community is also familiar to everyone, including the extraordinary forces, all of which have the nature of human beings to chase up and down.
As a result, the embers are naturally red and purple, and even form a deformed prosperity, which is much more prosperous than the light city and metropolis of the Federation in the past.
Those world-class entertainment superstars who are still alive are also like sharks smelling blood, and they have pounced, and the six doors of New Hollywood have all built their own mansions in Bryce, and others, like Capital Group, are even more unwilling.
So don't look at the Bryce urban area There are still large areas of wasteland, but in fact, there are already owners, and the price of land is not cheap, but even if the construction industry has been in full swing, it is still too busy, and there is still a queue to start construction.
When the convoy entered Bryce City, a police car drove the way, and the military jeep logo on the first car was a small flag of the Nuclear Fire Society.
Enjoy the treatment of the Führer's convoy, the red lights do not stop, and all cars have to be avoided.
Naturally, some people are envious: "It's still a nuclear fire!"
"Well, but people don't hire people. No, only the dead. ”
Only recruit the stalk of the dead, because everyone knows that the salary king is good at using the human body, and the people who die in their hands often become the base embryo, and the next time you see you, it is a fire slave or candle man who is not bad at fighting, and may even be a fire eater.
The Nuclear Fire Club has its own territory in Bryce, the Nuclear Fire Square, in the center is a miniature version of the classic building of the Fire Prison Collar, and the Super Tube Building is just Kane's self-title, people are used to calling it the Nuclear Standard Building, after all, it is a nuclear symbol when it looks down from the air.
Three minimalist towers defend a dazzling all-in-one energy device in the center. It still looks so sci-fi and stylish.
The clerk of the Ember Community was a little excited, although the Nuclear Standard Building was not as open as the Central City, but with his level, he did not have the ability to enter and leave here at will.
Therefore, this time I was also stained with the light of the officers and their party, and I was able to see with my own eyes what the working and living environment of the fire chasers was like. Because it is said that the setting of the interior of the nuclear standard building is the same as that of the central city of the fire prison.
When you enter, the clerk feels like he is really famous, and he feels like he has stepped into the future, and he doesn't feel like he is in a building at all. Instead, it is teleported in a delicate ecological garden, and the temporary assistant spirit can allow newcomers to fully enjoy the convenience and comfort here.
Soon after the officer's arrival, he was separated from the clerk, and after a short rest, he went to see an old acquaintance who had been waiting for him.
"Asha, you're still so feminine. When the officer entered the reception room, he smiled and said to the mature beauty on the sofa.
The woman hurriedly stood up and said with some nervousness: "Should I address you Your Majesty, Your Highness, or Your Excellency." ”
The officer laughed: "Just call me Zod, no surname, or colonel, this is a body made out of thin air." ”
It turned out that this officer was Kane. It's just that it's neither an incarnation nor a doppelganger, but like him who came to this world at the beginning, he is a divine soul consciousness body + a specially pinched body.
And Asha is naturally the president of the Witches' Secret Society in Paradise City, which was originally in the metropolitan area.
When the Fire Prison was established, Kane drove out all the transcendents from the land of Central California, but some of them made amends, as his concept of distant and distant relatives has always done.
With Kane's covert support, Asha and her Witch Society are naturally not bad, and now, she almost appears in front of the world as a snake in Bryce City.
She and her community naturally don't have the strength to support such a big façade, and they can only do it if they have a nuclear fire that will secretly support it. Therefore, when you see Kane, it is inevitable to be careful, especially when Kane's body is already a god, no matter from which angle, Asha has to kneel and lick.
Kane made a gesture to sit down very casually, and sat down immediately, and Asha also sat down and helped Kane get a cup of black tea. She knew that it was one of Kane's favorite drinks.
In fact, Kane is a rough man, whether it is tea or wine, he can't taste a sweetness, after all, his energy has never been put on enjoying a delicate life, and fried noodles are also a meal of garlic, of course, Kane in this world has no relevant memories and has no feelings for fried noodles.
After drinking some water, Kane said straight to the point: "I went to the lower realm this time to understand some past grievances. Ascension is too smart, and many things have a beginning and an end. This time it's going to end one by one. ”
When Asha heard this, she was relieved and asked, "Colonel, what can I and my people do to help?"
"Help me gather information about the Weaving Abyss Society and the Ten Witch Society. Kane said as he had an extra small box in his hand and placed it on the coffee table next to Asha. "Five-hundredth elixirs, including detoxification and detoxification, purification of spiritual power, and treatment of dark injuries, are all common alchemy elixirs, but the quality is superb. Think of it as the money for intelligence gathering. ”
Asha hurriedly pushed: "Colonel, serving you is what we should do......"
Kane interrupted with a wave of his hand: "One price and one goods, if you want to collect high-value information, these are necessary, I am not short of these, I will take it for you." Remember, don't rush it, I'm not using it right now. ”
"Understood, thanks to the Colonel for his generosity. ”......
The two then chatted about other trivial matters. Asha can also be regarded as a window that Kane uses to be grounded, and the content he sees from his perspective often has some points that he usually ignores, so he is willing to make small talk with such people every once in a while.
As he said to Asha, this time, he was putting an end to what he had experienced in this world after his arrival. Just deal with the events that happened to the investigators in the first place.
"Catholicism, the Atonementists, it's time for the curtain call......"