The greystone streets are covered with mottled marks.

There had just been a light rain, and the ground was wet; As Joe said before, the air in the Ruhr smells sour, a unique atmosphere created by the massive factories that burn huge quantities of coal year after year, month after month.

Looking around, near and far, you can see towering chimneys everywhere.

Even at night, the chimneys were spewing black smoke, the factory below was spewing red firelight, and there was a dull sound of steam hammers and sharp metal grinding.

The power of industry!

The aesthetics of industry!

As the most important traditional industrial base in the beginning of the Deren Empire, the Ruhr region is thick and red, like a lava lake hidden deep underground, containing powerful and violent power.

Joe rode on the back of Little White and looked curiously at the street scene that was very different from the port of Tulum.

In the middle of the night, the streets of the Ruhr are still lively. There are workers who have just been handed over their shifts bustling out of the factory gates, calling friends to gather together, and giggling into bars and pubs.

These bars and taverns are brightly lit, and powerful workers eat and drink to fill empty bellies and eliminate the deprivation of body and soul with alcohol.

There are drunk people staggering through the streets, but there are very few street fights.

Obviously, the people of the Ruhr region are more down-to-earth and more stable than their fanatical compatriots on the southern coast, even if they are ordinary drunken workers, they have the traditional calm and resolute temperament of the people of the empire.

In the streets and alleys, you can see the figure of the police everywhere, they patrol their jurisdiction in groups of three or five, even if it is late at night, even if many police officers have tired faces and do not slack off.

There is no doubt that the police in Ruhr are very conscientious and dedicated to their duties.

Compared to their counterparts in a small port in the south, these policemen are exemplary.

On the rusty iron lamp poles on the side of the road, the old-fashioned gas lamps emit a dim yellow light, and each street lamp can only illuminate a small area near the street lamp pole.

The roadside buildings, tall, sturdy, boxy, without much beauty. The exterior walls are mostly made of granite, and the tone is gloomy, cold and cold, hard and stubborn, just like the impression of the Delen Empire to outsiders.

Joe and the people around him are looking at this strange city with a critical eye.

Compared with the warm, affluent, manic, artistic and interesting port of Tulum, the Ruhr City is a bit dull and boring, like a giant machine in motion.

More than a dozen horse-drawn carriages lined up in a row, crammed with Billy and a group of policemen from the port of Tulum. The window opened, and Billy and a group of men poked their bulging heads out of the window, looking around curiously.

Joe and a group of retinues rode on horseback, hugging the carriage all the way forward.

Because the street lamps were a bit dim, the more than 100 guards of the Vetu family were all armed with torches, looking around unbridledly and unruly, whispering and discriminating on the street scene of Ruhr City.

In the leading carriage, the Mark Police Academy and several subordinates drooped their faces and did not say a word.

"It's too high-profile." After a long time, a police detective murmured: "I feel like a bunch of bandits rushing into the city and looting, fighting with open fire and doing whatever they want...... It doesn't look like I'm here to investigate the case at all. ”

"They don't have any of the qualities that a good police detective should have." Another detective looked at the Mark Police Academy with great puzzlement: "Above, no matter how big a person is, is it useful to transfer these people over?" ”

Mark Police Academy glared at his subordinates fiercely: "Obey orders and do your duty!" Don't forget the oath you took when you joined the police ......"

Through the gap in the window, he glanced at the 'policemen' who were laughing on horseback outside, and the Mark Police Academy pouted helplessly: "Maybe they are not suitable for investigating the case, but they are not weak." ”

"I heard that during the daytime attack, they also killed and injured dozens of fellows...... I just fought a battle during the day, and now I can still laugh casually, our brothers don't have the ability to do this......"

The evaluation of the Mark Police Academy is very fair, and the family guards who can be sent out by Hesse to follow Joe all the way north are all elite experts of the Vitu family. In terms of combat effectiveness alone, ordinary police officers are indeed inferior to them.

A few detectives carefully observed the 'peers' outside through the crack in the window, and then they had to admit that these presumptuous, rebellious, and angry guys looked really powerful.

The group made their way through the streets and finally came to the heart of the Ruhr city.

A small river meanders through it, a dozen long buildings are surrounded by large flower beds and meadows, and between two huge oak trees, a bronze floral gate is inlaid with a wooden nameplate that is quite old - Ruhr Mining Hospital!

The team entered the gate of the hospital, and under the leadership of the first carriage of the Mark Police Academy and others, the team marched along a boulevard towards the northwest corner of the hospital.

Joe patted Xiaobai's neck, urged Xiaobai to run to the carriage where the Mark Police Academy was riding, opened the window, and then pointed to more than a dozen buildings under the cover of night and exclaimed: "This is a hospital?" Tut...... There are only small clinics and pharmacies in Tulum Port...... Is this really a hospital? ”

Mark Police Academy smiled, and he said proudly: "Ruhr City has a long history, and the coal metallurgical complex in the Ruhr City region is an ancient and powerful existence...... The 12,000-bed mining hospital can accommodate up to 20,000 people if necessary! ”

Joe's eyes widened and he looked at the Mark Police Academy in amazement: "It seems that the security of Ruhr City is very problematic...... Look, you have to prepare such a large area to treat the wounded...... You must have been in a lot of street fights, right? ”

Mark Police Academy's face twitched violently.

He stared at Joe in annoyance, and subconsciously explained, "No, no, the daily security in Ruhr City is very good...... The patients here, more because of ......"

Joe reached into the car window, gently patted Mark Police Academy's shoulder, and said with relief: "No need to explain, I know, I understand...... You must be the same as we usually do, as long as there is no murder, everything will be suppressed. ”

"The officials of the city hall like to listen to good things, they don't like us to go to the funeral every day! They like to hear from us that the market has been quiet lately, and there hasn't been a single person fighting...... Ha, they love to hear that! ”

"Tsk, don't care about those officials who love to listen to good words...... Let's just say, how many people have to fight every day in such a big hospital to fill it! ”

Mark Police Academy is not good at words, he looked at Joe blankly, and for a while he didn't know how to explain it to Joe.

A police detective knew the weakness of his boss, and he hurriedly spoke: "Officer Joe, the security of our Ruhr City is really ......"

Qiao said grinningly: "It's really not good, I understand, I understand...... Otherwise, what are you doing with a serious crime investigation department? Look, the people of Tulun Port are simple and have good public order, and our Tulun Port Police Department does not have so many messy departments! ”

Mark Police Academy's forehead was bulging, and he and several subordinates had extremely unkind thoughts at the same time, and they wanted to rush out and beat Joe severely.

But looking at the more than 100 angry 'policemen' around Joe, Mark Police Academy and a group of subordinates forcibly suppressed the impulse in their hearts.

The group came to the northwest corner of the mining hospital, more than half a mile away from the other dozen ward buildings, and among the green trees stood a small building with a gray and white appearance, which inexplicably chilled people's hearts.

"Marquis of Seeac, and the bodies of the other victims of the attack...... No, it should be said that the wreckage, all preserved here. ”

Mark Police Academy got out of the carriage and took Qiao and the others to the door of the small building, he pointed to the team behind Qiao, and said in a deep voice: "Officer Qiao, you can't take so many people down, the space below is limited." ”

"Below? Ground floor? Joe glared at the Mark Police Academy: "So, there's an underground black prison here?" ”

"Underground black dungeon?" Mark Police Academy couldn't wait to squirt a mouthful of blood on Joe's face: "No, down here, is one of the first and only two underground frozen morgues in the entire Deren Empire. ”

"Freeze? Mortuary? Joe lifted the helmet on top of his head, touched his hair, which had been burned half by the flowering shells, and said in amazement: "Something new, you really need to see it...... Well, Uncle Ya, and Hibiscus and Kikyo, come down with me. ”

In the dimly lit small building, the hideous-looking janitor took a cumbersome keychain, opened a one-foot-thick iron door with cotton wool in the middle, and muttered with Joe and Mark Police Academy and others into a square room with a length and width of twenty feet.

The janitor pulled a metal guard at the door of the room, and he heard a low steam 'pop' in the distance, accompanied by the 'choking' sound of iron chains, and the huge room began to descend slowly.

Joe's eyes widened and he looked at Mark Police Academy in horror.

Mark Police Academy looked at Qiao seriously, put on a reserved expression that he was accustomed to and used to, and said indifferently: "Oh, steam elevator...... It's not a useful thing, a little thing that was just invented last year, and I just installed it here two months ago...... Well, big people also have the decency of big people. ”

Before Joe could ask, the Mark Police Academy was already muttering with a hint of pride.

Many big people in the Ruhr region have come to the mining hospital for treatment.

The treatment is ineffective, and after the death of those big people, a huge memorial ceremony will be held.

Many of the dignitaries at the memorial ceremony were too far away and it took some time to reach the Ruhr city.

While waiting for the VIPs, the bodies of those dead bigwigs must of course be properly kept in this frozen morgue.

Therefore, the high-end goods such as the steam elevator were equipped with this morgue for the first time to highlight the decency and pomp of the big men who may use this morgue in the future.

Joe was dumbfounded.

In the triumphant boasting of the Mark Police Academy, the room descended about a hundred feet, and then with a slight shock, it stopped.