Coming out of the door of the stone villa, Lisa walked to the streets of Fog City, and Alex walked behind her, his eyes constantly looking to the left side of the rock street. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The business network of the Medici family is mainly composed of maritime trade routes, but the total amount of trade in goods between Middle-earth and the Knight Federation cannot be underestimated, so Alex has not only visited the city of cherry blossoms in the north of the Kaios continent, but also visited many large and small cities in the north when he walked Middle-earth.

But he had never seen such a wide Beiluo Street - the rocky street at the entrance of the Fog City Engineering College was more like an open-air square - even the Cherry Blossom Castle, known as the Miracle Cliff, could not compare to this place.

However, in stark contrast to the wide streets, there is a deserted atmosphere.

"Miss Lisa," he said, pointing to a large nameplate, "it says Fog City College of Engineering." ”

Lisa looked at the entire row of closed iron doors and casually asked, "Why is there no one?"

"Most of the colleges in Middle-earth have two holidays, cold and summer, and the students of the Wizards and Knights Academy have trial missions during the holidays, and this engineering college is probably similar. "Alex wasn't much sure about his guesses.

The two walked all the way west along the street outside the engineering college, and walked through the street more than 200 meters long, but they didn't meet anyone.

Lisa couldn't help but be a little suspicious in her heart, and her expectations for this northbound city were also lowered a little.

Not long after, the two came to the end of the square, facing the four large, four small and eight doorways, they couldn't help but feel a little difficult.

These eight doorways are separated by a layer of iron fences, through which you can see the light or darkness inside, the bright ones seem to be empty, and the dark ones are separated by a layer of fences with different patterns behind the iron fence on the surface.

Lisa stopped and looked back at Alex, whose face flashed with embarrassment, but she still stubbornly walked over to the iron fence and groped her way up and down.

Alex tried to push and pull, but the iron fence in front of him didn't move. He didn't dare to push too hard, after all, he was a guest, and there was no reason to destroy it as soon as he came.

Just as he was hesitating, there was a sudden slight sound in the large iron door beside him, which became louder and louder, and seemed to be the sound of pulling metal chains.

To avoid surprise, Alex took a few steps back and stood beside Lisa, quietly looking at the iron gate of the fence structure.

After more than ten seconds, the back of the iron gate suddenly darkened, and then the fence made a "clang" sound, and slowly opened, revealing a metal machine inside the door.

The machine was more than two meters wide, suspended from the iron ground inside the door, and Alex looked again to see that there seemed to be wheels underneath the machine, but the wheel was wider than any wheel he had ever seen, and it was not clear in the dim background.

At that moment, a head poked its head out of the machine and shouted in a shrill voice, "Hey, you're taking my lane!"

"Your driveway?" Alex wondered.

"That's right, my lane!" the man on the machine stood up, stretched out his arm from the glass window in front of the machine, and pointed to the ground, "Don't you see the lane markings drawn on the ground?"

Alex looked down at his feet, two neat lime-white lines running straight from inside the iron gate of the fence, and the same was true for the other three large iron gates.

Alex had noticed the white lines for a long time, but he didn't know what they were for, and only then did he know that it was a lane sign when he heard the dwarf (Alex confirmed that he was a dwarf when the man stood up).

As he explained to Lisa, he retreated beyond the white line, wondering in his heart, but saw the huge iron lump inside the door, and slowly moved.

Is it really a car?

Although Alex had already guessed this possibility, his face changed greatly when he saw such a big guy who could drive on his own without any livestock dragging him.

The dwarf drove out of the wind-up elevator door in a heavy truck, braked again, stopped beside Alex and Lisa, leaned out of the open door on one side, looked the two up and down, showed a hint of suspicion, and said, "You are not from the College of Engineering?"

"Oh, we are guests of the Duke of Vene. Alex hurriedly explained.

The dwarf scratched his head a little embarrassed and said, "It's a guest of Master Vane, how come I have never seen you before...... By the way, you guys are standing here, don't you know how to use the elevator?" As he spoke, the dwarf turned around and shouted to the back of the car, "Shorty, do you hear me?" There are two guests here who are coming to Fog City for the first time, why don't you go and help open the elevator!"

As soon as the words fell, a dwarf jumped out of the cargo compartment in the back of the car and gave the dwarf a blank look, "Why don't you go!"

Complaining is complaining, after all, the status of this dwarf who is responsible for loading and unloading goods with the car is lower than that of the truck driver, and besides, the two in front of him are the guests of Master Vene, and he does not dare to slack off.

So, the dwarf relentlessly suppressed his temper, smiled (even if Alex and Lisa couldn't tell the dwarf's emotions) and led the two guests to four small doors on the side, chose a dark doorway opening, and pulled down the gate wrench on the side.

Only the sound of "clang" was heard again, and the small fence doors on the inner and outer sides opened in turn, revealing the elevator hall behind.

"Come with me," the dwarven stevedore whispered gruffly, and walked into the elevator room, waiting for Alex and Lisa to follow before pulling the gate wrench in the elevator room and the iron fence slowly closed.

In the dark elevator room, the dwarf crossed his fingers and said something in his mouth: "One, two, three, three people, down is minus one...... Three minus one is two, hmm...... Is it two?" he turned and asked Alex, "Is it two?"

Although Alex didn't know what he was counting, he nodded and said, "That's right, three minus one is two." ”

"That's right. The dwarf said as he pushed the lever wrench from the lock to the 2 position, and the elevator began to descend slowly.

"The passenger elevator is much more troublesome than the freight elevator," the dwarf explained, "and you have to count how many people have sat in it, and if you go up, you have to add one, and if you go down, you have to subtract one...... In case you get it wrong, the elevator runs too fast and is scary. ”

Alex couldn't help but smile and translated his words to Lisa, who couldn't help but shake her head slightly, deeply moved by the mathematical attainments of the dwarf in front of her.

As the elevator descended, Alex asked the dwarf about the iron car and their mission, and the dwarf told him everything.

When the elevator came to a slow stop more than a minute later, Alex already knew that the truck, with four heavy-duty clockwork batteries, would take a whole day to recharge at a time on Thirty-Nine Street in Foggy City. This dwarf and the dwarf just now were in charge of transporting the grain from the Mist Food Exchange to Yakou Town, below Fog City.

There are nearly three hundred locomotives like this that are responsible for the transportation of goods inside Fog City.