Chapter 148: The Tower
Yang Cheng had imagined what the tower looked like countless times before, but he had never seen it with his own eyes and felt shocked.
High tower, Yang Cheng has always thought that this is a tower.
But in reality, what appears in front of you is a huge city towering into the sky!
The whole body is silvery white, and the special alloy shines brightly, even under the magma acid rain, there is no corrosion in the slightest.
The huge tower has no end in sight, and the same goes when you look up.
The first floor of the tower is 10,000 square kilometers, and it is already a huge city.
The second layer is slightly smaller than the first, each layer is about a kilometer high, with a total of six floors, with the top layer touching the clouds.
God knows how much power the powerful and wealthy people who built the tower in the first place gathered to build such a huge tower.
Before coming, Yang Cheng had already asked Yin Lin about the main structure and information of the tower.
The first floor of the tower is the largest, but in fact, the first floor was not inhabited at first, but was built as an ecological area of the tower, which was used to grow grain and vegetables, raise livestock, etc.
Later, when the tower was opened, some outside civilians who were not contaminated by radiation poured in, and some poor or bankrupt middle-class civilians in the tower were driven to the first floor, and it became a slum.
Except for the original plantations, the rest of the place is crowded, chaotic and dilapidated slums, with extremely poor law and order.
The second floor of the tower is where ordinary residents and workers live, some of them work on the upper floor, some of them work on the lower floor, the supplies are not sufficient but not scarce, the level of security is good, and the Explorer Corps is stationed on the second floor.
The third layer is the area where the middle class is located, where most of the weapons factories and food factories are located, and it is the area with the most abundant resources, and the Guardian Corps is stationed here.
The fourth floor is the rich area, where the headquarters of the major companies in the tower are located, and the managers of the upper echelons of the company also live here, including the tower research institute where Yin Lin is located.
The fifth level is the aristocratic quarter, where the true rulers of the tower, the descendants of the magnates who originally built it, and the subsequent rulers, the Adjudicator Legion, are also stationed.
The headquarters of the Cult of Light, the only legal religion in the Tower, is also on the fifth floor.
The sixth floor is mostly deserted, it is where the Tower Council is located, and is only open when the Council is in session.
At the same time, the sixth floor also stores the tower's ultimate weapon: the Child of Hades.
This is also the ultimate power of the Tower to intimidate the entire wasteland.
If it weren't for the presence of the Child of Hades, the Tower would have been overrun by countless mutants, genetically awakened people, mobs, and even mutated monsters from the outside world on its first day of opening.
Yin Lin asked Yang Cheng to park the car outside and walked to the entrance of the tower.
"The tower now has three entrances, one for most of the poor and wilderness wanderers who come and go to the tower, and the other two for those above the second floor to enter and exit the tower.
I was supposed to go back through the other entrances, but I'm going to take you to the first floor of the tower first, Mr. Yang.
Those who do not have a eucalyptus can pick up a temporary electronic residence permit at the tower, which is valid for one month.
If you don't leave the tower after a month, the sheriff will expel you, unless you use intelligence information or various items to trade with the tower and leave a transaction record.
This regulation was newly issued twenty years ago, and before that, as long as there was no obvious mutation, civilians could receive a permanent residence permit on the first floor of the tower.
Later, as the number of people on the first floor of the tower increased, it was changed to a temporary residence permit in order to limit the number of people in the tower.
Now it is very difficult to officially join the tower to get a permanent residence permit, and some wilderness ronins have accumulated more than ten years in exchange for a permanent residence permit. ”
Yin Lin said as she led Yang Cheng to the entrance of the tower.
It was a fifty-meter-high level with sixteen rows of passages.
Many people dressed up as wilderness ronins came and went, and there were also some poor workers, and some even beggars.
There were also some sheriffs in blue uniforms driving some of them out of the tower.
In fact, there are four major regiments in the tower, and there is also a security regiment on the first floor.
However, because the strength of the security corps was too poor, there was no heavy firepower, and there were few genetic modifiers and mechanical colonizers, so they were directly excluded from the ranks of the three major corps.
Of course, the security corps doesn't care, anyway, they don't have a combat mission, they just need to maintain law and order.
Yin Lin took Yang Cheng to a machine, and after scanning Yang Cheng's appearance and child holes, he was sure that he did not have a eucalyptus bottom, and after registering some basic information, the machine automatically spit out an electronic card, which was actually equivalent to half a mobile phone.
"You must not lose this temporary residence permit, or you will be kicked out of the tower by the sheriff.
It can also store Tower Coins, which can be used to purchase supplies at the Tower, and the card number can also be used for remote communication.
Most of the tower coins on my body are deposited in the bank by me, and there are not many in the card, so I will transfer them to you first. ”
Yin Lin walked into the tower with Yang Cheng and took out his permanent residence permit.
Her permanent residence permit is obviously much more advanced than Yang Cheng's, the workmanship is very meticulous, and she also has the function of a virtual computer.
After transferring the remaining tower coins to Yang Cheng, Yin Lin bowed to Yang Cheng very solemnly and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yang, for escorting me back to the tower, whatever reward you need, just ask, as long as I can take it out, I will pay you." ”
Yin Lin is the captain of the Guardian Legion, and he is also affiliated with the high-ranking Tower Research Institute.
Therefore, her status in the tower is actually not low, she belongs to the middle class living on the third floor, and her status is slightly higher than that of some technicians.
At this time, when she returned to the tower, Yin Lin could completely turn her face and not recognize anyone, or even call the sheriff directly.
But she still chose to keep her original promise and do her best to reward Yang Cheng.
Yang Cheng suddenly found that in addition to being a little naïve, this woman was still very principled and persistent.
"I want something now, I don't know if you can get it."
"What's that?"
"Permanent Residence Permit for the Tower!"
Yang Cheng looked at it at this time, and there was a dense city in front of him.
That's right, Yang Cheng can only describe the city in front of him in dense.
Because there is no natural light source on the first floor of the tower, the lighting is all based on the solar conversion lamps on the top floor, which converts the solar energy from the outside world into energy and injects it into the lights.
However, this light source is preferentially supplied above the second floor, so the light on the first floor is very vague and dim as dusk.
In the dim light, Yang Cheng could see one dense high-rise building after another, like an ant's nest, and the distance between the two buildings could only accommodate a two-person-wide alley.
There are all kinds of privately built buildings under the high-rise buildings, some of which are reinforced concrete, some of which are tin houses, and even many of which are simply made of various waste products.
The passers-by had numb expressions, as if their daily lives were just to live.
This is the first floor of the tower, and it is a real cyberpunk place compared to the Kowloon Walled City, or this is the real cyberpunk.
In order to complete the main quest, Yang Cheng must stay in the tower.
A month is simply not enough, so getting a permanent residence permit is the first step to completing the task.
Hearing Yang Cheng's request, Yin Lin hesitated, but still nodded and said, "No problem, I will definitely get a permanent residence permit within a month." ”
If you want to get a permanent residence permit for the tower, you don't just need money, you also need relationships.
Yin Lin doesn't have this kind of relationship in the military, but she knows a few professors in the Tower Research Institute, so she can try asking them for help.
"The Great Age of Genes"
At this moment, a horn sounded next to them, and a streamlined car with a silver-white body and no wheels but suspended in mid-air stopped in front of the two of them.
The door opened upwards, and a handsome man in a gray uniform got out of the car.
"Yin Lin! You're finally back! ”
The man grabbed Yin Lin with an excited look on his face.
Yang Cheng looked at the man's uniform, it should be a member of the Guardian Corps.
Among the towers, the sheriffs of the vigilantes wore blue uniforms.
The Explorer Corps often have to go out on missions, so they wear desert yellow uniforms.
The Guardian Corps is gray, and the Adjudicator Corps is black.
"But why didn't you go through the other two entrances? The first layer was so dirty that even the air was filled with the smell of inferiority. ”
The man showed a disgusted expression, then looked at Yang Cheng and frowned, "Honey, who is he?" ”
Yin Lin hurriedly said to Yang Cheng: "Mr. Yang, this is my fiancé, Su Jie, the staff officer of the Major of the Tower Guardian Corps. ”
Yin Lin said to Su Jie again: "I didn't give you details in the message before, this mission is too dangerous, the team escorting me was slaughtered by the mutant dragon, I hired a team of mercenaries to go back to the tower, and I was targeted by the mutants under Black Jack, thanks to Mr. Yang Cheng escorting me all the way back to the tower."
If it weren't for Mr. Yang, you wouldn't have seen me now. ”
After Su Jie listened, his complexion changed slightly, his eyes rolled, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Yin Lin stabbed him: "Mr. Yang escorted me all the way back, why don't you say thank you?" ”
Su Jie reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said to Yang Cheng: "Thank you, Mr. Yang, for escorting my fiancée back to the tower." ”
Yang Cheng said: "You're welcome, I'll get paid." ”
Hearing this, Su Jie's face was a little ugly.
But Yin Lin didn't notice this, maybe because she finally got rid of the danger from the outside and went home, she excitedly pulled Su Jie into the car, waved her hand at Yang Cheng and said:
"Goodbye Mr. Yang, I'll contact you when I get my permanent residence permit."
Seeing the car float in the air and turn around and drive away, an unpredictable smile appeared on the corner of Yang Cheng's mouth, and he also turned around and walked towards the interior of the first floor of the tower.