Chapter 57: Akagi
When Akagi finally changed from a blur of light to a majestic city in front of them, both Relo and Serena felt like they were reborn.
Strictly speaking, Akagi is closer to a giant fortress. The city walls are made of granite of the same size, combined with steel keels, and the manpower and material resources consumed are unimaginable. The entire city covers an area of dozens of kilometers, in the form of a rectangle, like a horizontal extension of the iron gate, guarding the northernmost part of the wasteland in the throat canyon, choking the key point of the terrain.
Looking closer, Serena understood the origin of the name "Akagi".
The firelight of the city head helped her completely get rid of the embarrassing situation of being blind, and she clearly saw that the terrifying city wall dozens of meters high in front of her was red all over, and it was actually sticking to several inches of dried plasma, the inner layer was black, and the outer layer was gradually red. I don't know how many years of killing, how many fresh lives have been killed, to form today's tragic spectacle.
"Let's go!" said Lei Luo in a low voice as he looked at the large hanging basket that had fallen from the city.
Serena then noticed that the guy was so thin that he was almost out of shape, and his face was dark and weathered, but his eyes still flashed with the kind of light that impressed her the most.
"He's really suffered a lot this time, it's a big deal not to trouble him in the future......" Serena thought silently, keeping up with Lei Luo's pace.
Because the walls were so high, the two of them couldn't see the defenders above until they sat in the hanging basket and were pulled away from the ground.
It was two men operating a steam mecha.
The one on the left was smaller, blind, and a horrible scar ran from his brow to the corner of his mouth, like a huge ugly flesh worm lying on his face. The remaining eye was staring at Serena, her Adam's apple rolling up and down, apparently salivating.
The man on the right, probably in his forties, was stout and stocky, with a palm-sized birthmark on his face, stuck to the surface of his skin like hot asphalt, and never been able to get rid of it. Presumably to disguise this flaw, he has a bushy beard and fierce eyes like a savage.
The steam mecha is one of the most cutting-edge technological products of the planet Yufei, mainly equipped with the army. Lei Luo had only seen pictures in books, but he didn't expect to meet the real thing today.
The steam mecha piloted by the one-eyed dragon and the birthmark man are both more than four meters tall, and the brass-colored appearance is oppressive, and the thick lines of the components together form a huge fuselage and thick limbs, which makes it difficult not to think of the description of "metal beast". The two men holding the joystick were held high in the driver's seat in the chest and abdomen of the mech, and at first glance it looked like an all-metal monster with a fleshy head.
At this moment, the mecha was rotating the gondola winch under control, the two air outlets on the shoulders were constantly spewing out clouds of white steam, and the thick steel cables at the mouth of the bowl were like embroidered silk threads under their terrifying power, dragging the gondola to the top of the city with great lightness.
"Hah, freshly baked rookie!" the one-eyed dragon fixed the winch, and couldn't wait to stride over, the heavy footsteps of the steam mecha shook the ground slightly.
He was deliberately funny, and controlled the mecha to make a movement that resembled a gorilla - his arms were propped up, and his mountain-like body leaned forward slightly, as if it would be pressed down at any moment, and he looked at Serena with one eye wide open and without blinking.
"Where do I report for duty?" Serena asked, her calm reaction disappointing the One-Eyed Dragon.
"It's not a small amount of courage!" the birthmark man let out a sneer from behind, "Get off the city, follow the avenue to the east, and find the military plane!"
"Thank you. Serena was thanking, but she didn't even glance at each other out of the corner of her eye.
Seeing that Serena, who was covered in dust but could not hide her beauty, left with the silly boy next to her, the one-eyed dragon scratched her neck and shouted with a worried face: "Little beauty, when our brothers change shifts, I will go to play with you!"
Serena had just come out of the hellish wasteland, and she didn't care about the harassment. Walking down the city, he looked at Lei Luo with a strange expression, and said lightly: "Hey, people are so **** me, why don't you react at all?"
"He didn't ** me. Lei Luo replied as a matter of course.
Serena was furious.
The streets in the city are wide, and street lights can be seen everywhere along the way, and I don't know where the electricity comes from. Aside from the patrolling soldiers piloting steam mechs, there were not many pedestrians to be seen on the streets. Facing the strange stares cast by those seemingly ordinary men and women, Lei Luo did not react on the surface, but in fact, he was identifying the level of the other party one by one, wanting to see what kind of characters could survive here.
The result was similar to what he imagined, and he didn't even meet a weak person below the level of a general.
Even after asking a few people, they all hurriedly pointed out the way for Lei Luo and Serena, and they didn't bother to say a word. After finding the so-called military aircraft department, there was only an old man with a rat beard in a huge building, sitting in an office without a door number, with a lethargic look on his face.
"Excuse me......" As soon as Lei Luo spoke, a crumpled notebook and a broken pen that was about to break had been left on the table by the old man.
"Fill it up!" said the old man, weakly.
Lei Luo was stunned, and saw that on the page of the notebook, there were his own and Serena's names, and there was a blank column behind the name.
"Fill in what?" Lei Luo held the pen, a little confused.
The old man barely stretched his eyelids, glanced at the two of them, and then touched the box of seal clay out, and said sharply: "A newcomer construction needs 600 contribution points, you fill in 600 after the name, and then press the handprint! This means that I owe me an account, I will give you the construction credit first, and when you really earn the contribution value on the battlefield, then slowly return 600, and everyone will be cleared." If the deadline is not reached, old Hans will have to be a coolie. Got it?" When he said "Old Hans", he gave himself a thumbs up.
"We have the core of outland creatures like the Horned Demon and the Human-Faced Spider Demon, and we don't seem to have to take credit. Serena said suddenly.
"Horned Demon?" Old Hans sneered, "That's so powerful!, no matter the level, a Horned Demon Core counts as 1 contribution point, and a Human Faced Spider Demon Core counts as 2 points." Now please take it out, and take as much as you want!"
Old Hans has seen a lot of newcomers, but he has never encountered such naivety. If you want to change the outland creatures' garbage cores, you have to bring out at least a few hundred of them, do you think you are a wasteland scavenger?
In the midst of the old man's sneer, Lei Luo was stunned and picked up a half-human-high leather bag from his feet and placed it on the desk.
"There are probably more than 2,000 cores, and I haven't counted them for many days. Lei Luo said.
The smile on old Hans's face froze, and with a bang, one leg of the desk had been crushed.