Ember Gun

  Chapter 294 Thunder

  When the heavy rain is strong enough, raise your head and you will feel an unspeakable suffocation against the rain curtain. The endless heavy rain washes your body until it completely envelops you.

  The whistling wind and thunder are all in the ears, as if it is the end of the world, but even at such a terrible time, people still swear from time to time. This is the only resistance for fragile mortals.

Wearing a striking yellow raincoat, Nikolai firmly grasped the cable around him. He usually appeared as a cold and a little crazy scientist, but now he is no different from the tramp on the street, embarrassed. He couldn't help muttering in his mouth, cursing the **** weather with the others.

  This may be the most violent rainy season in Jiudunling in recent years, with heavy rains and thunder and lightning.

  It is reasonable to say that people should now be nestled in warm homes, grilling the fire, and telling interesting stories, but Nicholas is now on the Dunling Pagoda, with the thunderous and thunderous company.

  There are many people like him, wearing raincoats and insulating appliances, everyone welcomes the rainstorm and thunder, try to control the rainstorm and thunder.

  This is the Dun Ling Pagoda, the core of the Dun Ling plan. Although everything has passed away, brilliant technology has been established from its corpse.

   "It's magnificent!"

There was a voice from the communicator, Maxwell’s voice. They were standing on the top of the iron tower. From here, they could overlook the whole old town. The majestic rain poured over the whole city, and the Thames was overflowing the bank. Rushed to the ocean again.

His voice was obscured by thunder and strong winds. Perhaps this **** thunderstorm was interfering with the signal. Maxwell’s voice had a piercing electric noise, but fortunately, Nicholas barely heard these. The cold wind was piercing, and he directed Not far away Maxwell nodded vigorously, agreeing with it.

Yes, it’s really magnificent. Such scenes are rare. Usually the whole old Dunling is covered by hazy fog, and the gloomy sky sinks down like an iron curtain. Even if you stand at this height and look at it, you can’t see it. The city of Qing Dynasty looks like a veiled woman, mysterious and eager to explore her reality.

  Nikolay turned his head, and the pale searchlight illuminated the dim night sky, allowing him to observe.

This is on a large platform of Dunling Pagoda. There are a total of four such platforms, distributed in the four corners of the tower. In the original plan, this is not only the core of Dunling, but also the core of the snake in the atrium. Just like the world tree in Norse mythology, this tall tower will run through the land of Inervig like an iron tree.

The underground "roots" are the pillars of the furnace and the pumps of perpetual motion. They provide the entire city with huge energy and a steady stream of new technologies. The place bordering the earth will become the core of the railway, and countless trains will come from here. Set off, act in the territory of Inervig.

Nikolai’s location is even more critical. If Dunling Pagoda is a tree trunk, then these four platforms are iron branches. According to the original plan, this will be the air supply station, the "leaves" cruising in the sky, For war airships, they will not have to dive to the ground again, but will be directly supplied from here for long-term missions.

  Everything was so good, but unfortunately it ended in failure.

  Fortunately, it did not completely fail. The remaining firewood still burns slightly and has evolved into what it is today.

   "You guys seem to be busy..."

In the noisy chaos, Arthur wore the same eye-catching raincoat and stepped on the stagnant water. Like the nun, he was also tied with a cable around his waist and holding a fence. After all, it was a few hundred meters high in the sky. In this bad weather, if you are not careful, you will be blown down by the strong wind.

  Dangtang Arthur died for this reason. It's too nonsense to think about it.

  "Fortunately, this is a rare opportunity, such a suitable weather, and you rarely agree to let us come here to conduct an experiment." Nicholas roared loudly, trying to keep his voice from being obscured by the wind.

The machine began to roar, and I saw that a small spire had been piled up on the mechanical platform for some time, countless cables extended from it, and staff in the same clothes surrounded it in this harsh environment. Next homework.

   "Maxwell, I leave it to you first!"

  Nikolai said to the communicator, only seeing Maxwell’s eye-catching yellow figure giving him a thumbs up, then Nikolai walked towards Arthur.

  The two moved down from the platform laboriously, entered the steel-wrapped room, laboriously closed the iron door to isolate the wind and rain, everything seemed to be quiet, and the two could not help but exhale for a long time.

Nicholas is a scientific researcher. He usually lives in a safe underground test site. If something goes wrong, there will be a security team on top. It is simply fragile. But now it’s useless for the security team to come. The current harsh working environment is for him. Talking is simply hell.

   "What's the matter? Now is the critical moment. Maybe our research on electricity can make a breakthrough here." Nikolai shook his raincoat, and a lot of rain dripped from his clothes.

   "I just want to inform you that it's time for you to rest. Merlin is in charge of the next round. He is on his way." Arthur leaned aside.

  He didn't want to face the lightning and thunder, but because the Dun Ling Pagoda was extremely critical, he had to come to supervise the work.

   "Is that so? Time flies so fast."

It may be too devoted. Nikolai didn’t realize the passage of time at all. In fact, he felt that this should have something to do with the **** environment. He couldn’t be negligent. Maybe an inattention would lead to an experiment accident. .

Arthur pressed the switch on the side, and the entire enclosed space began to slowly descend, like a cabinet, with mottled rust on the steel and lights on in the cracks. It seems that no aesthetic issues were considered at the beginning of the design. Windy.

  After waiting for a long time, the iron door opened again, but what was revealed was the ornately decorated corridor, where someone had already prepared to change clothes for Nicholas.

  Nikolai couldn't help but glanced around. Even he didn't have the right to arrive here at will, so he could only take a few more glances when he was allowed to come.

  He followed Arthur, and finally stopped in a meeting room. The huge round table was covered with sword marks and gravures. It was not clear what it had experienced.

   "Come and take a break." Arthur said.

   "In the round table meeting room? Is it such a luxury?" Nicholas knew exactly where it was and couldn't help but said.

Looking up, the glass dome is now receiving the baptism of heavy rain. From here, it looks like Nicholas is in the deep sea, but when the gloomy iron curtain falls again after the heavy rain, this will be Old Town. The only place in the spirit where I can see a sunny day.

  Broken dome.

The upper part of the Dunling Pagoda is the mysterious broken dome. It is built on the remains of the Dunling Project and is currently the command core of the decontamination agency.

   "After all, it's just a conference room, there is no need to think about it."

   Arthur said slowly, he didn't feel much about this serious place.

  Nikolay nodded, and picked up the file on the desktop. This is a secret, and it is also the reason why Nikolay was allowed to enter the broken dome and rely on the Dun Ling Pagoda for lightning experiments.

When allowing this experiment at the beginning, Arthur was very entangled. In order to ensure that the command core was not violated, the broken dome remained closed for a long time. But for this experiment, not only a large number of people entered, they were also doing dangerous things on the Dunling Pagoda. In the experiment, despite Nikolai's repeated assurances, Arthur was still afraid that a lightning strike would electrocute all the elite commanders.

  "How is the current progress?" Arthur asked.

   "As expected, the Thunder's power is really strong. For a moment, I started to understand the Odin **** that those Vikings said."

  Nicholas was in awe. Although he had been studying electricity, he couldn't help feeling scared when he came into contact with the roar and thunder of nature.

   "God Odin... the snake in the courtyard... I have never been sure why I named it after the myth of those Vikings. This is Inervig, don't you think it's nondescript?"

  Like a busy chat, Arthur asked while reading the report.

   "Didn't Merlin tell you?"

  Nicola looked surprised when Arthur said this.

"what?"

  "About mythology...actually, there is a reason. Viking legends are more like origins than myths."

   "What origin?"

  "The origin of alchemy." Nicholas said.

  The man with dark circles in front of him didn't know any alchemy, but as Merlin's deputy, he was not less influenced by alchemy.

"Meerlin once suspected that the origin of alchemy was the Vikings...or the North, he always said to me that if one day his old age is about to die, he will go to the north, farther north, at the end of the ice and the sea, it seems The so-called truth is there."

Nicholas said casually, doing experiments is very boring, so Merlin did not chat with them less, because Merlin once told the story that he took the sword to cut other alchemists, and was jokingly called the "alchemist swordsman." , But as for how his swordsmanship is, no one knows. After all, when Merlin needs to draw his sword, it is estimated that the cleansing mechanism has already fallen for more than half.

   Arthur’s pupils tightened slightly. This slight change did not attract Nicholas’s attention. He had just crawled back from the thunderstorm and was trying to enjoy the short warmth.

  "North..."

   Mentioned there, Arthur naturally thought of those ancient existences, but he did not expect that they seemed to be related to alchemy.

   "But...thank you Arthur."

  Nikolay looked at Arthur, with bright eyes under the dark eyes, which made Arthur startled.

   "What's wrong?" Arthur asked.

"Thank you for your support. After the failure of the Dunling Project, everyone rarely pays attention to electricity." Nikolai sighed. It was a tragic failure, although he had not joined the elimination at that time. Institutions, but from the remaining records, we can also feel the despair of the scholars at that time.

  He feels that the world has entered a misunderstanding and should develop more powerful energy sources, while another group of people believes that these scholars have entered a misunderstanding, and that steam technology is the future direction of the world, not this strange electricity.

  Steam has established solid foundations, and no one has the courage to destroy these foundations and start from scratch.

   "It's just that there is enough funding, and there is basically no consumption on the royal family, so our dear queen allocated all the wealth to us." Arthur said.

The mysterious Queen Victoria eliminated the real authority of the agency, but she trusted Arthur very much and rarely came forward to command anything. Gula didn't see the queen personally either, only saw the noble figure in the portrait.

   "Sounds pretty good." Nicholas said.

  The door of the conference room was pushed open again, Maxwell crawled in with the rain dripping on his body, like an old dog that was out of strength, collapsed on the chair.

   "This table is hundreds of years old."

  Maxwell was lying on the round table with rainwater attached to it. Seeing this, Arthur stopped drinking.

   "It's been hundreds of years, and I won't be damaged by this little blisters."

The old guy was out of breath. Unlike the young guy like Nicola, Maxwell looked as old as Arthur. He had worked in the cleansing agency for many years. He was also a member of the Dun Ling Project. At that time, he was Maxwell. A bit younger than the current Nicholas.

   "Are you okay?"

Nikolai looked at this embarrassed predecessor. Maxwell was supposed to be telling a story to his granddaughter in front of the fireplace at his age, but he faced the squally rain and tried to master the thunder. The soul boiled and burned under his old body. It seemed that he would be brave in the next second. Suddenly died on the job.

   "Yes, that's great, I feel as healthy as those knights now!"

  He was talking excitedly, but his head fell on the table, unable to lift up like lead.

It feels great. Maxwell has witnessed the failure of the Dunling Project with his own eyes, and witnessed it come to life after a few decades. There is nothing better than this. Thinking of those scholars who have long since died, Maxwell has Unspeakable feeling, sometimes he feels that he was born for this and should die for it.

"The experiment is currently very smooth. After a few more experiments, it is confirmed that the weapon is stable and it can be put into use. Although it is very limited and costly, it is more suitable to use against the demon hunter." Nikolai said. .

Although peace is maintained on the surface and there are signs of faint cooperation, Arthur is very clear that the cleansing agency and the gospel church are still in a competitive relationship, and the demon hunter led by Anthony is an army, and no one knows. What will this army do, and as long as the two sides still exist, then sooner or later there will be a day of drawing swords, so it is better to make plans now.

   "In fact, if possible, I would like to invite Lorenzo to experiment with the weapon."

   Arthur said, of course, he was not referring to manipulating weapons, but as a target. Only after experimenting with a demon hunter did he know whether the weapon was useful.

  (End of this chapter)