Chapter 12: Ancient Cities
I got out of the helicopter and was a little stunned by the huge city deep in the mountains and valleys, which was certainly not a product of the modern era or more high-end sci-fi than the modern city I knew.
This place shouldn't have been in the real world at all.
No one with an astonishing imagination would ever believe that there could be an unknown urban civilization among the mountains thousands of meters above sea level.
The city's buildings are all made of an unknown metal material, which shimmers so brightly that it doesn't feel the baptism of time, as if it had just been built.
Standing in the middle of the city, I felt like I was in a different world.
The metal buildings in the city are quaint and majestic, but I'm not sure how old they are.
I carefully examined and caressed the materials of the surrounding buildings, these metal substances that are not products of modernity I have never heard of, I have never heard of.
If I hadn't seen it myself, I wouldn't have thought it was true.
I was amazed to see that the whole city was created as if it were made inside a mold at the same time.
These sturdy, elastic, shiny, and unknown metals with their own anti-corrosion function construct streets, houses, stairs, and all the buildings here, and the ground under their feet seems to be a fusion of another unknown material mixed with this metal, and the whole is seamlessly connected to the ground to connect the city, such a large area of the ground is flat and elastic, without the slightest gap, and it is comfortable and gentle to walk on it.
The location where I am now may seem like the center of the valley in the middle of the city, but this is clearly not the center of the city.
From here, I followed a straight road not far away, and I could see the buildings that stretched into the crevices of the mountains in the distance, and the buildings in these cracks seemed to be denser and taller, faintly following the refraction of light in the crevices and exuding a faint metallic luster.
I looked around the city at the bottom of the valley, and just realized that I had extraordinary eyesight, I saw dozens of cracks in the surrounding mountains, and through the urban buildings in the surrounding cracks, I knew that there must be more unknown urban buildings in the mountains surrounding here, and I sighed at the huge area of the city, and at the same time, I couldn't help but add a bit of mystery to this place.
I have a vague expectation that the unknown place buried by the mountains in the distance should be the base of the science and technology research support center that the people talk about, and the location where our troops are really stationed.
I muttered in my heart, the troops are stationed in such an ancient ruin, the place left by an unknown civilization is unpredictable, no wonder I always say something inexplicable before talking.
It's not how long this place has been lost, and it's still as good as new, anyway, it's all too weird.
It's like I've come to another world, and I'm still reluctant to be fooled by talk.
Now the whole city is quiet like no man's land, and I don't know if it's my own delusion, but I always feel that from time to time there is a mysterious atmosphere here.
The aura is subtle and indescribable, giving me a sense that I should have belonged here.
I came back to my senses to find myself standing on the edge of a wide field, surrounded by dozens of neatly parked helicopters, and I followed the chatterbox, the two of them had not spoken since the timer came off the helicopter, and I had come back to reality from the shocked world.
Talking, the timer seems to have been waiting for his soul to return to the shock, the timer laughed and said, Boy, look stupid, or we will wait for you to be in a daze, if you don't have calf cramps now, let's go back to the station first.
On behalf of the Six Provinces, I would like to formally welcome you to join us.
We can say that this is one of the most mysterious places in the world, and our troops are called the Science and Technology Research and Support Center to the outside world.
You will have time to be here in a daze in the future, let's go to my place to eat, drink, rest and adjust first, and by the way, I will give you a science popularization of the magic of this place.
Today's wine will be recorded in the chatterbox's account first, and remember to pay me back another day. The timer held a large bag of food that he had just brought back from his brother's troops.
He grinned and dragged his still slightly unconscious self in one direction in the steel city.
I was dragged forward by the timer as if he was afraid that I would get lost, I had just arrived and the building materials of the city were all the same, I had not been gone for long, and I didn't feel much difference everywhere, and I was very unfortunate to become road blind.
At this time, there was chaos in my mind, only the Science and Technology Research and Support Center of the Central Military Commission, the Thunder Brigade, and the Liudao Base, these words kept flashing in my brain.
Does a normal unit need to have so many names?
I realized that it is easy for the outside world to not know the so-called true and false when there are too many names, which not only plays the role of confusion but also plays a sense of mystery, owing people money and not afraid of others chasing the debt.
Talking, the biggest advantage of the timer is that there is no shelf, the two of them talk and jump at will, this feeling of high and low is easy to make me think that they are very unreliable.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, these two middle-aged men are still quite kind people, and now that I have seen this miraculous place with my own eyes, I no longer feel that they are liars.
On the contrary, there is a faint sense of intimacy towards these two people.
The three of us quickly walked to a trapezoidal building, and we were about to go in when the timer suddenly stopped and turned back to me and asked, "Boy, don't you feel any discomfort!"
The chatter continued, you can rest assured that it will be fine, this kid is different from those humans who have just arrived before, his physical potential seems to have been stimulated, and his self-healing ability is super strong.
He should be able to adapt to the environment here.
The timer thought for a while and said, Anyway, now that the bosses in the family are not here, you are also an old man, or you can take him to the meteorite mountain first to change an immortal talisman and wear it, and there will be an accident in the future.
The chatter pouted and said, I am an old man with a few pounds and a few taels, you don't know, other newcomers came to this place before, and those few powers were responsible for bringing them to the meteorite mountain, I don't go to find that stimulation myself, the place in the meteorite mountain is too weird, in case it gives me an instant energy saturation, I have indigestion and have to be uncomfortable for several days.
This kid must be fine at the base, haven't you seen him relax when he absorbs the energy of the immortal talisman, I was afraid that he would instantly suck up the energy in his immortal talisman for me.
I now feel that the immortal talisman I am wearing in my hand has made this kid suck me down, and when the white robe comes back, let him lead this kid to the meteorite to convert the immortal talisman, you don't know that there is no one in the meteorite mountain who can stay there for a long time except for a few powerful people.
The timer pondered for a moment and said, too, our above-ground ones are not as good as those underground, so let's wait for Boss Bai to come back, these brothers of the Thunder Combat Brigade are really working hard to play with their lives all over the world, and I don't know if Boss Bai is in danger of this mission.
I heard that this mission Boss Bai is facing a group of real outlaws, it seems that there are several combat-type ability masters on the other side, and it is said that there are several heretics with transcendent abilities behind this group of outlaws.
Boss Bai's mission this time will definitely not be easy.
I listened to the two of them standing here chattering endlessly, and I was curious about the structure of the building, so I entered the trapezoidal building first.
The interior of this ladder-shaped building is spacious and simple but full of science and technology, the overall structure is very reasonable, revealing a sense of natural atmosphere, the whole building internal facilities materials seem to be different from the materials used in the external structure of the city, the materials used in the internal structure of the house should be mixed with some other metals and some other substances.
The surface of the walls around the room is warm and comfortable to the touch, like jade, soft and smooth in the hard belt, and it seems to have its own temperature regulation function.
The whole room is evenly mixed with heat and cold, and it seems that the walls are constantly adjusting and changing the temperature in the room with the change of the external climate, making the whole house the most suitable environment.
I walked around and didn't notice that there was a regular energy supply system in this house, I didn't know where the energy source of this house came from, and the anti-human design of this city was not something that could be understood by exploring and thinking about it myself.
Moreover, the objects that were once placed in this room have long been lost, except for this room, which is in its original state, and the other ornaments have been replaced with modern items.
I don't know if what was once in this room has been lost over time, or if it's been thrown out by the timer.
This interior room made of a sense of science and technology mixed with imitation metal texture materials, there is a sense of transcending the modern and crossing the future, at this time the room is equipped with a bunch of modern living utensils are very kind of rural surrounding the city, backward invasion of advanced, nondescript mixed together to reflect a post-modern art atmosphere, the entry of modern things and the overall structure of this room is incompatible with the very incongruous.
I saw that there was a trapezoidal staircase leading to the upper floor on one side of the room, and I was about to go up to visit it again when the timer and chatter finally finished chattering and walked in.
The timer saw that I was about to go up, he stopped me and said, "Above is where I sleep, nothing to see, the internal structure of the whole building here is the same, not much different.
The things that used to be placed here have long been pulled away by the scientific research team of the base, and they don't know where to study those rags as treasures.
There are many uncharted areas in the city's buildings, and there will be opportunities for you to see them in the future.
The valley city exposed outside the mountains has long been swept away by the scientific research team, and they have not left anything that can be moved, and the more the madmen of the scientific research team study, the more stupid they become, as if they have lost their minds.
The things here are expensive, but they are not so expensive that they don't even let go of the dust, that is, the houses here are too sturdy for the people of the scientific research brigade to demolish them, otherwise we will all have to sleep on the street.
You come over for dinner first, and I'll just give you a science lesson about your ignorant head.
Anyone in this environment will be full of curiosity about this incredible place, and I am like a curious baby, full of doubts in my heart, full of a desire to learn, and I obediently sit down and wait for the timer to decrypt my questions.
These two men may not have been drinking together for a long time, I just filled a few mouthfuls of food, and they killed half a bottle of liquor, the meals are cooked without heating, the taste is really good, the thief ship has been on the board, no matter how anxious I am, I am patient to accompany them to eat and drink, and I did not take the initiative to urge the timer, with the strength of the wine surging, these two people, you and I began to educate me.
First of all, the two of them did a self-criticism and a deep review, talking, timer, since coming to this base, after passing the ultimate test, they have stimulated their physical potential and become a member of the Six Paths.
Chatterbox, just the brain got some simple evolution, and the body didn't change much.
The timer stimulates the potential of the skill type of one's hands and feet, and the brain and body do not change much.
To put it simply, they are generally talented, and they only adapt to the environment here, and they have not developed their good potential.
But even if it is like this, the energy changes in the body of the Six Dao Bases can slowly progress from quantitative changes to abnormal changes, but this process is a bit too long.
The timer said that with the transformation and change of one's own body functions, if it reaches an extreme, immortality is not necessarily just an empty dream.
The first leader of this base, the old pigtail, is an old monster who is about to ascend to the immortal.
The old pigtail has a powerful body and great powers, and he is one of the few masters in the Liudao base who can freely enter and exit the base without helicopters, as for the two of them, they belong to the non-combatants in the Liudao base, and their bodies have not changed much for decades, but they are stronger than ordinary people by virtue of their special physique.
The most important point is that they can adapt to the energy oppression here and will not be killed by the energy, they belong to the kind of human beings who are relatively slow to absorb and digest energy in the six bases, and they properly belong to the two body scumbags.
In the words of the timer itself, it is all remedied by technology, and the bad health of the chatter is remedied by the brain.
These two people slowly survived to the lieutenant colonel with their qualifications and talents, but at the same time, the benefits they brought to them were freedom and health, and most importantly, their life safety was guaranteed to a certain extent.
And staying here to maintain health is better than eating anything, and it is not a problem for them to live beyond the limit age of ordinary humans.
Because he is extremely smart and sociable, he has a developed brain but no knowledge and culture, so he was assigned to the 10th Squadron of Scientific Research as a squadron leader by the white robe who knows how to use it.
The 10th Squadron is mainly responsible for out-of-town research, and there is no substantive research, to put it bluntly, the 10th Squadron under the jurisdiction of the Tycoon is more like a secret agency, they don't need much cultural knowledge, just a flexible mind.
Sneaking chickens and dogs all day long, wandering around, conducting some supernatural events, secret investigations, collection and sorting work.
Their stinky and shameless practice of often snooping on other people's privacy is still reasonable and legal, and sometimes they even pull out the radish and bring out the mud to spy on some privacy that should not be under their control.
Therefore, if you often walk around outside, you actually have huge human resources, but you are very low-key.
The 3rd Squadron of the Thunder Guard of the Timer is a bit more personnel than the 10th Squadron of the Thunder Scientific Research that is talkative.
They develop their potential in terms of skills and skills, and they are busy working every day in the creation of machinery, the maintenance of facilities, the care of bases, and so on.
Occasionally, you can make a small invention and create a small miracle.
Moving hands and feet in the third squadron of the timer Thunder Guard is definitely a compliment.
However, in comparison, the chattering 10th Squadron of Scientific Research is much more chic and carefree than the 3rd Squadron of the Guards of the Timer.
There are a lot of cattle in the three brigades of Thunder, each of them has their own responsibilities and does not interfere with each other, except when there is a task, they work together and usually no one pees on anyone.