Chapter 50: In front of the town hall (two shifts completed)
Early in the morning, in front of the municipal boulevard in the uptown of the steel capital, Murray appeared on time in a clean overalls.
According to the rules of the town hall, the municipal boulevard is open from 7 a.m. and closed after 10 p.m.
Therefore, many people will gather at both ends of the municipal highway in the early morning, waiting for the municipal highway to open for traffic, and can also enter the municipal highway to go to work.
Standing next to a group of well-dressed gentlemen, Murry, who was dressed in overalls, was obviously a little out of place, and everyone around him would distance himself from him.
You can faintly hear the chatter of the surrounding crowd, as well as the undisguised whispered laughter of some aristocratic women.
Completely unimpressed by everything around him, he stood in front of the crowd and waited quietly for the Municipal Highway to open for traffic.
When the towering bell tower in the center of the city struck the seventh ring, a team of uniformed military police appeared in unison on the municipal avenue, and the military and police marched in rows from the small square in front of the city hall along the municipal avenue to both sides.
"Step, step, step, step" every step of the military and police are sonorous and powerful, and the neat and powerful steps stand outside the municipal avenue and look quite shocking.
Finally at the end of the municipal avenue, the military and police uniformly removed the pistols on their backs, loaded them together, and raised them together, forty-five degrees upward.
The "bang" gunfire is also unusually neat, and it sounds like there is only one gunshot.
"Bang, bang, bang" three gunshots were fired in unison, the first to the sky, the second to the ground, and the last shot to the crowd.
However, the people standing in front of the municipal boulevard were obviously accustomed to such a situation, and no one panicked even if they were pointed at gunpoint.
After three gunshots, the military and police slowly pushed away from both sides and stood upright on both sides of the municipal boulevard.
The sound of the gears turning, Murray watched in amazement at the looming wall of air in front of the Municipal Boulevard.
As the sound of the gears turning became more and more dense, the transparent air wall turned into a thick and heavy metal door with dense gears in a blink of an eye.
The metal gear on the door turned, and from the place where it had been shot three times just now, "woo woo woo" spewed hot steam one after another.
With a muffled "click", the heavy metal gate slowly opened, and under the operation of the gears, the giant door gradually retracted to both sides of the road.
Eventually, the heavy metal gates shrank into a ball and became tall pillars that stood on both sides of the municipal boulevard.
It turned out that he used a flintlock pistol to knock open the entrance and give the gears an initial force, causing the internal gears of the giant door to operate on their own to open the door.
Obviously, many people have seen this way of opening the door in Shangcheng, but what most people don't understand is that such a delicate entrance design is enough to show that the designer is definitely a master of machinery, and the most important thing is that those who open the door must shoot at the same time, any slight deviation may cause the giant door to be unable to be opened normally.
The flow of people and vehicles walked up to the municipal avenue one after another, and walked towards the large and small shops and small buildings on the avenue, and the day of the steel capital officially began.
Murray fell behind the crowd and walked slowly onto the Municipal Boulevard, feeling the bustling street where magic and machinery intertwined, classical and modern.
He passed by the military policeman who was standing on the side, looked at it carefully, and soon found that the military policeman's arm was mechanical.
Yes, only by using a mechanical prosthetic to shoot can you perfectly guarantee that they will shoot at the same time.
Knowing this, walking on the municipal avenue, Murray couldn't help but sigh in his heart: it seems that the mechanical level of the Sun Empire is not low.
The streets on both sides of the Municipal Avenue are full of houses full of the mysteries of Western magical civilization, and the appearance of those steam cars on the streets really makes people feel very strange, but it seems that it all takes it for granted.
As the shops on the streets opened one after another, some aristocratic women dressed in gorgeous clothes were eager to rush into the shops in the hope of getting the latest and most curious goods.
As for the aristocratic men, they walked up into the small buildings on the top of the shops and entered the companies that belonged to them.
Occasionally, there would be a meeting of steam and horse-drawn carriages in the streets, and each side would give a very disgusting attitude towards the other.
All of this is so absurd in Murray's eyes, but it is like this that they come together and appear in front of everyone.
Follow the edge of the Municipal Boulevard until you reach the heart of the Municipal Boulevard, bypassing the huge flower beds in the square and finally in front of the towering Town Hall building.
Before Qiang stepped on the stairs of the building, two blades crossed in front of him stopped the person.
Murray looked at the military police who stopped him, smiled and said, "Two police officers, I came to the city hall to apply." ”
The two military policemen glanced at each other, and the military policeman on the left immediately said: "You are wearing a work uniform, you should be from Xiacheng District, right? Just because you still want to enter the city hall to apply for a job? Are you going to apply for a job to sweep the floor? I'm sorry to tell you, the sweeping work in the city hall has already been done, and you still obediently go back and forth, and the city hall is not just anyone can go in." ”
While the two military policemen were talking, two men and women in fine costumes next to them walked up the stairs side by side towards the city hall building without hindrance.
Seeing this, Murray couldn't help but point to the two people and said, "Why can they go in without explaining anything?"
The military policeman on the right, who had not spoken before, said: "Little guy, what kind of identity do people have, how can they be compared to a little ghost like you in the lower city?"
Even though he was unconvinced, but the encounter in front of him was also very helpless, Murray could only continue: "I, I really came to apply." ”
The military policeman on the left said impatiently: "Okay, don't stick here, we don't have time to waste time with you here, leave quickly." ”
Seeing that the two military policemen were impatient and were about to blow themselves away, Murray could only shout: "I, I'm here to repair the differential machine." ”
The two military policemen were still unmoved, completely ignoring the words of the young man in front of them, and stepped forward to forcibly take the young man away.
"Slow!" At that moment, the man and woman who had just walked past turned around, and one of the men stopped the military police.
Hearing someone speak behind him, the two military policemen hurriedly left the young man and turned back to salute the man who spoke: "Mr. Charlemagne." ”
The man had already come down the stairs, waved his hand to get the two military policemen out of the way, stepped forward and looked down at Murray and asked, "Little guy, what did you just say? You said you came to repair the differential? Who told you that the differentials in the city hall were damaged?"
Murray raised his head and looked directly at the other party, and then replied without humility or arrogance: "Dear sir, I came by myself, and I listened to the chief of the garrison department Barot. ”
Charlemagne suddenly narrowed his eyes, carefully looked at the young man in front of him and continued to ask, "You mean, Barot asked you to come?"
Murray shook his head and replied very dryly, "No, I came by myself, I just heard from Mr. Barot that the difference machine is broken." ”
Charlemagne's expression became a little gloomy: "You mean to say that Barot told you that the difference machine in the town hall is broken?"
Faced with Charlemagne's gloomy gaze, Murray innocently asked, "Isn't it? Mr. Barot went to Uncle Raul's grocery store and invited Uncle Raul to repair the differential machine, isn't it the differential machine in the town hall that is broken?"