Twilight War

07

"Boss!"

At the end of the tunnel, the gray-tailed belly-cut snake supported the exhausted and collapsed Huangxuan Jin.

"Take me to San Rafael Hospital." Huangxuan Jin said while lying in the arms of the belly-cut snake. His body was covered with blood, and lines of molten gold appeared under the blood, boiling violently like molten iron falling into water.

"San Rafael Hospital? Where is it? Boss, wake up!"

"Don't torture him, I know where it is." said the old man who was carried on his back by the red fire ants.

"The lifting platform is destroyed, how do we get out, the situation of the boss looks very bad, we must hurry over." Belly Snake said nervously.

"Go back, the rail car just now." The old man said.

The group turned back again to the underground mechanical laboratory where the rail car was parked.

The old man opened the door that had been covered in dust for a long time, "Put that kid down."

He sat in the driver's seat, raised his hand to wipe off the dust that had accumulated on the console for five or sixty years, "Long time no see, Soanna."

"Please verify the authority." The mechanical female voice sounded, as gentle as a woman who has been waiting here for a long time.

The old man pressed his five fingers against the fluorite crystal of the console again, his fingers seemed to be trembling.

"Permission granted, Admiral Donaldson."

The magnificent firefly-like light is shining on the fluorite.

"This is the first trial run of the Soanna. Congratulations to my King Louis XI for reviewing, God bless my king, and the rose will bloom forever. Admiral Donaldson, the tester." The mechanical female voice echoed in the rail car.

"Didn't you say that you are a tunnel builder?" Belly Snake asked in disbelief.

"As the chief engineer." The old man said coldly, watching the front of the endless tunnel and pulling down the main gate.

"start up."

The headlights illuminated the front, and the rumble of the rail car echoed throughout the underground laboratory.

Everyone looked at the front without speaking.

It's been a long time.

"Why do I feel like we're still where we are?" the red imported fire ants said suspiciously.

"I forgot to add the silver of the great abyss." The old man said with a serious face.

"..."

The heavy rail car started slowly, and the tunnel that had been silent for decades sounded a sharp whistle.

Like an ancient monster rushing along the dark endless track.

Soana has waited too long.

That first trial, which was supposed to be inspected by the emperor, was supposed to spread all over the track of the foggy city like a cobweb.

After being late for decades, she finally waited for the former Tianjiao mechanic.

"Then why didn't you use this rail car just now?" the belly-cut snake asked.

"This rail car is not complete," said the old man.

"I see that all kinds of equipment are very complete."

"...This car doesn't have brakes." The old man said calmly.

"Hey, hey, hey!!! Stop! Let us go down!!! Did you want us to die if you didn't apply the brakes?"

"Are you going to let us all go to bury that bloody guy?"

"Don't touch that! It will kill you!"

"I said that there is no brake, you will only cheat!"

"Water..." Huang Xuanjin was lying on the ground covered in blood, "Can someone give me some water..."

Restraint is far more difficult than explosion.He is already exhausted now.

However, no one paid attention to his struggle. During the struggle, he pulled away a rusty metal handle beside him, and two bottles of wine rolled out of it.

Huang Xuanjin licked his lips, endured the pain, unscrewed the wine bottle, and drank the two bottles in one gulp.

Then he put the empty wine bottle back and closed the cabinet door carefully.

The rail car drove out from the dark underground, and the momentary light was almost dizzying.

The speed of this car is almost unbelievable. It is obviously the technology of five or sixty years ago, but it is far faster than any car today.

No wonder the old man thinks that the speed of today's rail cars is as slow as that of an ox-drawn cart.

How can a person who has seen the wind and lightning endure to move forward like cattle and sheep.

Belly Snake couldn't figure out why such a car would be left underground for five or sixty years.

Obviously it is a technology that can revolutionize the entire world...

"Soana, connect to the General Machinery Bureau." The old man pressed a few buttons on the console.

The harsh electrical sound is disturbing.

"Excuse me, where is it?" A middle-aged man's voice came from the intercom, "Although I don't understand why you have the authority to connect to the General Bureau of Machinery. But my side is not a place for people to make trouble. "

"Flamel, you bastard who can't open his head for a lifetime! I now order you to block all the first and second lines of the rail car, and no vehicles can pass by! Immediately!!!"

"Wait! You are..." The other person seemed unbelievable, "Senior Donaldson? You haven't been since..."

"Senior Donaldson, or Tang or whatever! Hurry up and do as I say!" the old man roared angrily!

"Yes!" Duke Flamel replied subconsciously. Even though he is already the governor of the Silver City of the Vanner Empire, both in terms of title and military rank, he has far surpassed Colonel Donaldson back then, but his respect for that person has long been engraved in his bones. .

But yes, even though he was clearly the eldest son of the Alchemy Duke Flamel family back then, in the eyes of the imperial mechanic who was the proud son of heaven, he was no different from an ordinary mechanic apprentice.

The walkie-talkie connected again, "Senior, the order has been issued, and there will be no trains on Line 5 and Line [-] in [-] minutes."

"Not bad, Flamel!"

The other person seemed to be hesitating for a long time before asking: "Senior Donaldson, I can ask you why..."

"Because I want to go to San Rafael Hospital today to see those beautiful nurses with bare legs! The road ahead is clear!" the old man shouted without waiting for the hesitant Duke Flamel to ask anything!

why?

Because the road ahead is just right.

Because I've seen enough of the dusk here.

……

It's been too long, chaos is all day long.

He has even forgotten that he once had light, as if he has been a worm co-existing with garbage since he was born.

He also burned, and was once the pride of the empire.

But now only ashes remain.

After staying in the dump for too long, it seems that the breath of copper rust is in the lungs.

He thought he still had a long time, but it seemed that he had become the person he was five or sixty years ago in the blink of an eye.

Is he really...alive?

A long, long time ago, he remembered that a boy with half-down eyes came to him dragging a scrapped car.

It was very hot that day, and it was so hot that I couldn't open my eyes.

He thought it was because the weather was too hot that the boy couldn't open his eyes, but he later realized that the boy had always been in such a listless state, unless... he got serious.

But such things are pitifully rare.

"Hey, do you have that kind of parts here?" The boy gestured.

"Your car has been scrapped, it can't be driven." He dragged his slippers and said as he walked past the scrapped car.

"Don't look down on Scarlet, I'm going to drive him to get the big prize in Doom Mountain." The boy said.

"With this kind of car, you'll fall off a cliff as soon as you start it."

"Try it." The boy said nonchalantly.

Just take your own life to try so casually?

"It's still fine, but it's so pitiful that no one is driving here." The boy said with a frown.

He didn't know what kind of madness he was committing, but he actually found it in the mountain of parts.

As a result, I found half of it but suddenly heard the sound of a piano.

Like elves dancing in the copper rust.

He turned his head and watched the young man sitting on a three-legged chair among the piles of machinery, playing the dilapidated piano in front of him.

It seems that there is a cool breeze and a clear moon, and the scenery is just right.

He had seen that piano several times before, and the accent area was almost completely damaged, and there was no way to restore it.

And the boy played a brisk tune.

He later understood that that young man...he was neither tolerant nor open-minded.He just danced every barren day he could.

"The road ahead is cleared!!!"

Clean it up, you bastard! ! !

The rail car speeds through the tunnels of Corinth, as if to break through the eternal fog.

That boy is an asshole.

Pick up the vegetables in his vegetable field, and tear down his fence to bake potatoes.

But when the boy said that he had no reason to live in this world, it made people feel very sad, so sad that he couldn't even eat fish and chips.

"When you get to the platform in a while, take that guy and jump off!" the old man shouted.

"What about you?" the belly-cut snake asked.

"Didn't I tell you that this car doesn't have brakes, so of course I'm responsible for stopping it!" the old man shouted.

"How to stop..." the belly-cut snake asked.

"Am I the mechanic or are you!" the old man yelled, "Anyway, I have a way! If you want that bastard to live, jump him down quickly!"

"Now! Jump!!!"

Belly Snake looked at the San Rafael Hospital that appeared in the field of vision, gritted his teeth and jumped down with Huangxuan Jin on his back.

Gray Tail and Red Fire Ant glanced at the old man and jumped down too.

"There are obstacles ahead, please stop, please stop." A mechanical female voice sounded.

"Soana, we can't stop..." the old man said softly.

He was the most promising mechanical engineer back then, and he had been planning to build a rail car system like a spider web, and he had planned everything for nearly ten years.

King Louis also supported him with all his strength.

It's ridiculous, isn't it, that the person who supports him the most is a lunatic.

The core of the entire rail car system is the engine. The speed of the engine he designed was revolutionary, far exceeding the speed of any steam car at that time.

King Louis promised that when his rail car was completed, he would personally ride and inspect the whole of Corinth.

But he neglected the brake system.

That speed was devastating for the brakes of the time.

Everyone advised him to change the engine and reduce the speed of the rail car.

How can it be, his engine is the core of the whole system.

He must be able to find a more suitable brake device.

But no, he could design the best engine, but he couldn't design the brakes to go with it.

So he began to give up on himself and give up on himself.

His lab coat was stained with motor oil and wine.

He began to lose sight of the gears and gauges.

In the end, he was dismissed by the General Bureau of Machinery, and the railcar project was completely shelved.

He remembered that the track ended in an unexcavated mountain, and that he too would perish with Soanna.

Use the most extreme speed.

The most heroic burning.

After all, he had seen enough of the dusk.

He opened the cabinet door under the console.

There were two bottles of wine in his collection, which he intended to drink with King Louis during Soanna's first trial.

But now, even the Mad King is dead.

He fished out two empty wine bottles.

"Where's the wine?"

"Where's my wine!!! That bastard stole my wine!!!"

The old man almost frantically opened the car door and jumped down.

08

When Huang Xuanjin woke up, he saw a young man in a white coat.

"Congratulations, you're back from hell."

"Seeing you, I'd rather go back and find Lord Yan to have another drink." Huangxuan Jin said with a smile on his face.

"Long time no see, my kitten." Dr. Norton said with a nonchalant expression, "None of your physical indicators are normal."

"Then it seems that my current condition is normal."

"Indeed," Norton said.

"I do miss you," Norton said.

"Will you miss a little white mouse?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"You are not an ordinary guinea pig. I used the medicine that I used on you on others, but none of them survived three days. I really miss you more and more." Norton said regretfully.

"Thank you so much."

"Nothing, I should do it," Norton said.

"But is the experimental data you got on me meaningful? I'm not a normal person."

"It's okay, it's enough for me." Norton looked at Huangxuan Jin's body almost obsessively, "What a precious experimental product."

He lifted the clothes on Huangxuanjin's chest and stroked the scar on Huangxuanjin's chest, "Do you know that ordinary doctors don't care about suturing at all, and they will leave this kind of work to their assistants. But your cut I did all the opening and sewing by myself."

"Look, what a perfect cut," Norton said, almost with a sigh.

"Madman." Huang Xuanjin spat out his evaluation of Norton.

"It's okay, one day, you will return to my hands again. My little kitty." Norton said with narrowed eyes.

"Where's that old man?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"I handed it over to the nurse. Don't worry, the place where he jumped happened to be a river, and he didn't suffer too much injury. It's you, take care of yourself."

"My body is just like this anyway. If it needs to be repaired, you must have repaired it long ago, haven't you?" Huang Xuanjin said.

"It's really an honor to be trusted by you so much."

"How's his leg?"

"The problem of the elderly, I prescribed some medicine, and it should be fine to get him a better crutch. This is what people do when they are old. There will be a bunch of problems telling you that you are very old, and life is meaningless , don't be attached to this sick body, hurry up and pack up and die. But those old guys are terribly afraid of death at this time." Norton shook his head and said.

Downstairs, the old man was gnawing bread with plaster on it.

"Quickly tell me, did you drink my wine?" The old man roared angrily when he saw Huangxuan Jin.

"Isn't it just two bottles of wine?" Huang Xuanjin sat beside the old man.

"What is it? It's the wine that I have treasured for five or sixty years!"

"The alcohol will evaporate, okay? It tastes like water." Huang Xuanjin said.

Outside the window is the dusk of Corinth, and everything seems to be burning in the fog.

"Old man, if you have a key but you don't know what's behind the door, will you open it?" Huang Xuanjin asked suddenly.

"Don't you want to listen to my opinion? Anyway, people like me have made a mess of my life, so I have no right to teach you a lesson." The old man said with a rascal face.

"Suddenly wanted to hear it. After all, being able to live life like this is a skill. Anyway, I'll just listen to it the other way around." Huang Xuanjin said looking at the dusk in the distance.

"Just for fun. Anyway, you don't know what it is, maybe your Christmas present is hidden in it." The old man said indifferently.

"I'm serious." Huang Xuanjin said.

"I'm also serious." The old man said, "Little Jin, you have to understand. It's not terrible to escape. What's terrible is that you wake up while escaping."

Sober and depraved, sober and decadent, sober and chaotic all day long...

"Then why have you escaped for so many years?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"If you never do something, you will never succeed, but you will always have expectations." The old man said.

"Expectation is always more beautiful than reality?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

The old man nodded.

It was as if the rail car that had never been seen by the world was driving in his eyes.

"Little Jhin, I don't know what you will see. But I just want to tell you, look ahead." The old man looked into the distance: "Do you know who the steam mechanics were seven or eighty years ago? They were A group of people sowing seeds in wasteland, they are creating a technology that has never been seen before."

"They only care about the future, they don't care about the gods, let alone the history of the gods."

"Because they know that one day, human beings will walk the world in their own name."