Chapter Eighty-Six: The City of Titans
Updated: 2012-08-16
Towards noon, the caravan finally arrived at its destination, Titan City. Descend the winding road, past a few ruins, and reach the vicinity of a radio station in another wilderness. If it weren't for the leadership of Campbell, a seasoned businessman, Zero would never have imagined that such an empty place would be the entrance to an underground base.
You must know that the current base, if it is not built underground with some equipment that can still be used in the ruins of the city, it will directly use the old surface city like Reef City. There is no other place like Titan City set up directly under the wilderness.
And this legendary name also aroused Zero's curiosity.
When the base confirmed Campbell's identity, the base of the radio station slowly rose, and it turned out that there was a huge warehouse elevator underneath, which was very convenient for carrying people and goods. The caravan's vehicles drove directly into the large elevator, watching the elevator sink, the light and dark light intertwined, and Zero had to sigh once again at the amazing talent of human beings in creation.
Adventurous merchants like Campbell who walk the continent usually have their own place to stay. For example, Titan City is one of Campbell's footholds, and for this reason, Campbell will pay some fees to these bases every year in exchange for his personal and cargo safety in this base. In turbulent times, without such a foothold, it was difficult for adventurous merchants to conduct long-distance trade, and mobs and even temporary base personnel could seize goods and kill people at any time.
And these fees, the merchants will also turn them into added value for the goods, so they don't mind paying a certain amount of protection fees to these bases.
When the elevator stopped running in a slight shock, the two steel doors slowly separated from the left and right. So, an amazing city appeared in Zero's eyes.
This underground-based city does not enclose the original rock formations with alloy plates like Remut to create a futuristic underground city. Titan City has also excavated a huge amount of space underground, but it does not show any modern treatment or decoration. This underground city is presented in its original form to every visitor.
Extending from the warehouse elevator used in and out of the city, it is a road that zigzags through the Xiangxia side. The Titan City is gradually extended in the form of terraces, and the steeple houses with the style of old-time medieval Europe are built on these terraced rock platforms. Even, in the square at the bottom of the city, Zero saw a Gothic church.
The city's designer, who must have been a romantic, carved four huge stone statues of the Titan God of War on the four square rock walls of the dungeon. With their backs to the rock formations above, their arms outstretched, the statues looked as if they were holding the city up with their bodies and arms.
Such a spectacular picture of the city made Zero's heart deeply shocked. And he was not the only one who was shocked, in addition to Moni, even Campber, a merchant who passed by in the middle of the year, silently looked at this ancient and majestic dungeon.
"I'm very impressed. "It's the only city that I'm deeply moved by every time I arrive," Campbell said. It was only here that I could forget about the cruelty and fear of the wilderness for a while, and feel like I had returned to the old days. It's just a pity that there is no sky and no sun here, otherwise this city would be the Garden of Eden in everyone's heart. ”
For the first time, Zero didn't think this pot-bellied profiteer was that annoying. Perhaps in this great city, they found common ground in some intersection of their hearts.
The caravan pulled out of the elevator and drove the road deeper into the interior of the city. As they passed through the residential areas of the city, many half-grown children happily chased after the caravan. There are even those who dare to reach out and lift the tarp on the truck, and then run away screaming at the "cargo" in the cage.
The road winds and winds, and the further down he goes, the more clearly Zero sees the square at the very bottom of the city.
The plaza is paved with gray and white hollow bricks, and there are cross-shaped Shinto ways that divide the square into four areas. In the middle of the square there is a circular fountain, in the middle of which stands a statue of a woman. Campbell said that it was Athena, the goddess of war, but in an inconspicuous tone, it made Zero hear the brave and combative folk customs of the residents of Titan City.
The men of this city are reckless men with little roots, and they take pleasure in fighting. And these should be due to their parents' genes, as far as I know, many of the men who built Titan City in the first place were capable of mutant domains. After three generations of reproduction, more than half of the children in Titan City began to show talent in the mutant domain at the age of ten. When he entered the hotel, Campbell said to Zero: "So almost all the people in this city are soldiers, and the ten-year-old children begin to receive brutal military training, and those who do not give up their lives will be thrown out of the barracks as ordinary civilians." You know, they call it Spartan education. Hey, fuck Sparta. ”
The Aares Inn is one of the few hotels in the city, and it is here that Campbell's caravan stays. Campbell instructed the laborers to carefully move the "goods" into the hotel's warehouse, and then asked the laborers to gather food for the lovely goods. If they can't fill the bellies of these mutant beasts in time, Campbell may simply throw them into a cage and feed them. This is not impossible under the guns of the Arctic fox soldiers, so the hard labor is extremely hard.
Zero is now temporarily employed by Campbell, a high-ranking employee like Captain Bart, so he naturally doesn't have to do these menial jobs, and even the hotel expenses are paid by Campbell in one fell swoop. He and Moni shared a small room in a separate suite, although the room only had one bed, but it was a luxury to be able to rest in such an environment during the trip.
Campbell seems to be going to stay in the city for a day or two, and according to him, it seems that he is going to hold a grand party in Titan City. As for what kind of event, Zero doesn't care, but he is not opposed to being able to rest for two days in such a majestic dungeon, which will be a part of zero memories, and a memory that will last a lifetime.
Moni is also curious about the city, and after dinner, she takes Lala and plans to go shopping. Campbell patted his chest and assured that as long as Monie wore his caravan's badge, the ubiquitous sheriff would keep Monie safe. So after Zero handed her dagger to Moni, the precocious girl left the hotel in a puff of smoke.
But Zero didn't know that Moni didn't go shopping. It seemed that something in the warehouse attracted her more than the city.
Guarding the cargo were several Arctic fox warriors, who they knew the girl who had joined the caravan with Zero. These soldiers are not decent men, and Moni's immature face can easily awaken the bestiality of these male animals. But they also won't forget that the man who claimed to be the girl's father could easily take off a wolf king from 1,500 meters away.
The soldiers didn't want their heads to bloom one day, so they could only spit on Monie and look at Moni, but they didn't dare to do anything to her. But again, they wouldn't let Moni get close to the warehouse, not to mention that the goods inside were not docile. However, Moni only used a sweet smile to play these lustful men.
After Monie promised not to stay in the warehouse for more than 10 minutes, they let the girl walk into the warehouse. Under the lights of the warehouse, the huge cage containing Behemoth stood out.