Chapter 148: SCP-173 Excavated

Three months later, operations in Steam City are back to normal.

Smoke from factories rushed into the sky, and smoke and fog enveloped the city.

Steam-powered vehicles drove through the hazy streets, and the white mist sent out of them that caused passers-by to skim their heads.

Gentlemen and ladies in tuxedos, or gowns, and pocket watches walked the streets.

There are also homeless people in shabby leather jackets and orphans roaming the streets.

After all these years of development, there has been a stratification of classes in the steam city.

Especially after the Great Rudown, such a class will be enlarged again.

Steam bots are patrolling with the City Guards.

Some beautiful and elaborate, insect models made of pure gears fly in front of the doors of some shops.

Attract children to stop and watch.

There are also people wearing crow masks who walk into houses with strips of white cloth hanging from their doors.

They are the city's epidemic doctors, and although they are proficient in medical skills, treating the sick is not their greatest task.

Their organization was created to combat abomination.

So their main duty is to dispose of the corpses.

The crow's beak mask on his face was also something they had researched to avoid the rancid smell and blood splattering.

After every big breakdown, there are always some people who are mentally stimulated.

Minor ones will be sent to Arkham Asylum, and severe ones.

He will commit suicide in the following periods.

The task of collecting the corpse also fell on these epidemic doctors.

Everything seems to be calm.

But none of them have really returned to normal life.

The advent of the Great Destruction every year is a gap that they cannot cross.

In particular, the Great Breakdown has become even more terrifying.

The development of steam technology, as well as the understanding of the power gained from the great Cthulhu, is all in the process of being urgently underway.

More energy sources are being mined, and research is starting to move towards weapons.

The birth of Dagon also brought more profound teachings to the followers of Dagon's secret sect.

Even the secret cult of Dagon regularly holds elective ceremonies.

The chosen cultists are taken to the underwater cities of the Sea of Death.

They will be there, receiving deep-sea terror from Dagon, with a reduced SAN value.

It makes it easier for them to understand from their sleep, unconscious dreams about Cthulhu.

Of course, whether you can resist SAN and return to zero depends on everyone's creation.

If you didn't carry it, you would go completely crazy and be sacrificed to Cthulhu directly.

Resist, even if you become insane.

But they can also take some power out of it.

Just have more bits and pieces of power, and then put them together.

Then they will also continue to be promoted.

With the development of Steam City, the year is coming to an end again.

The Great Ruin is coming.

Some progress has been made in the field of steam technology weapons research, but not much.

After all, there is no such thing as a transformative innovation.

It's just that huge weapons, turrets, armored fighting vehicles were developed......

All were spliced together from huge armor plates, nailed with a large number of rivets.

Coupled with the need to place a complete set of steam engine starters, it was huge and full of oppression.

It has the same violent aesthetics and wild and uninhibited wildness.

It's just a bit inadequate to put it in front of these weird ones.

The steam robot and exoskeleton have also been improved.

Among the secret cults of Dagon, known as "scholars", more and more people live in the Arkham asylum.

It's just that there are no breakthrough changes yet.

The big ruin came as scheduled.

Although it has been prepared for a long time, it has been bloodbathed by the monsters that appear with the world and the strange creatures that roam around the city.

Another sleepless night of fear.

It's just that the death has been controlled and reduced to about 20,000.

Otherwise, according to the death of the previous year, I am afraid that the steam city will be directly extinct in a few years.

The doom of wandering also followed the Great Breakdown again.

After the Great Breakdown ended, the records of the wandering doom became more detailed.

It's just that this kind of detail refers to the specific appearance and body shape described on the blank page.

This world, they don't understand at all.

Even the extent of the newborn land in which he is located cannot be understood.

It's a new year after the Great Breakdown.

It's business as usual, and the people in the Steam City continue to conduct different research, in a period of vigorous development.

It's just that all this was quickly broken in one day.

It has been raining heavily for three days in Arkham.

The mist of water and the steam created by the city's operation made the sky over Arkham even more hazy.

In the distance, only the blades of a huge wind energy collector could be seen, and the steam airboat continued to appear and disappear in the clouds.

Because of the heavy rain, there are fewer pedestrians on the streets.

However, in an open-air construction site, it is still operating under heavy rain.

The sound of a "boom, boom" steam engine is accompanied by the rotation of a huge gear with a "squeak, crunch".

A machine similar to an excavator is running.

This is an undeveloped area, and the factory is being expanded and built.

Construction started here a few days ago, and the digging stopped a little because of the heavy rain.

However, I am in a hurry, and now I have to continue working.

"Bad weather, just like these bosses, they should meet those strange talks and die early."

"And you can't meet Tomie Monsters, otherwise you will die too happily, you must be a pig-headed butcher or Sadako!"

A middle-aged uncle who operated the excavation machine spat and scolded very unpleasantly.

Because the heavy rain was beating on the glass windows, it was impossible to see the specific situation in the pit dug at all.

And there may be a danger of a landslide.

"Don't talk about it, if it weren't for this job, we would be like those homeless people who huddle on the corner of the street to hide from the heavy rain."

"The current big ruin is really unreassuring."

"No one knows if they will survive until tomorrow or next year, and when it's almost over, we'll go to the Flower Street Bar."

"Pretty chicks are still waiting for us there!"

"I heard that there are still female deep divers from the Dagon Secret Sect mixed there today, which is rare!"

An old man who looked to be fifty or sixty years old was huddled in the place where the steam engine was refueled, and he laughed.

The driver, who was called Lao Ke, heard the flower street bar rub his hands and showed an excited expression.

"That's okay, the fire is hot, the motivation is up, I'm ready to do a big job, hahaha!"

As more combustible materials are added to the steam engine.

The fire broke out, and the power riveting began to work.

But just after Lao Ke had been digging for a while, the bucket suddenly touched something hard and couldn't shake it.

"Lao Ke, why did you stop, it's going to be done soon."

The old man who burned the fire asked.

"Damn, how can there be a big rock buried underneath here."

"Old man, go down to the pit and see what stones you have dug up, hook it up, tie me up and hang it."