Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 114

[Chapter 114 Looking for a fire]

Walking on the road, Shirley seemed a little resentful: “Why didn’t that old man answer my question! When I talked to him, he acted as if he didn’t hear it…Short is so unacceptable Do people value it?!”

“I think the main reason is not that you are short, but that you have been chasing others to ask about the factory.” Duncan slightly turned his head and glanced at the girl. Wouldn’t it be better to waste time and see that factory with your own eyes?”

Shirley pursed her lips and didn’t say anything more, but in front of her and Duncan, at the end of this street, the factory that was built eleven years ago The abandoned factory is already looming.

In the lower urban area, many factories are located near the residential areas, or even separated from the residential areas by a wall – the limited land of the city-state and the blockade of the boundless sea doomed the city planners to not be able to spare enough land for the placement of industrial facilities. Almost everywhere on the ground is crowded with people, so the concepts of “relocation from industrial areas” and “relocation to suburbs” naturally do not exist.

Most people in this world have no time to think about the health risks brought about by industrial pollution. For the general public, compared with the risks brought by factories, the improvement of city-state safety brought about by the development of modern technology is obviously more important——Gas Lamp , heavy firepower, steam network channels, potions and mechanical ships, these things have increased the population of the new city-state era by nearly three times compared with the old era. Anyone who understands the operation mechanism of the modern city-state can clearly understand the fact that factories The skeleton and flesh and blood of modern civilization have long been unable to be separated from the city-state.

In fact, according to Nina’s textbook, these factories and facilities are not even gathered in the lower city – although the city planners are doing their best to move those facilities that are too dangerous to the edge of the city-state, some things still have to be set up in the city. The hinterland of the city is even set next to the cathedral, such as the sacred bell tower, and the “central steam core” used to deliver “sacred gas” to the whole city.

These things are essentially huge machines, containing terrifying energy and great risk, but they still have to be placed next to the heart of the city.

In Nina’s engineering and mechanical textbooks, the writers of the textbooks have a special explanation for this:

people have to “endow the sacred steam with sanctity”, and “rely on the power of the cathedral to ensure the timing of the clock tower”— —Machines are not just machines, they are also the sacred and pure heart that supports the operation of modern civilization. People should place these pure steels where the gods watch, to prevent the shadow of the warp from polluting their oil and bolts.

Duncan recalled what he saw in Nina’s textbook, and then looked up at the still deserted factory standing in the urban area, with a strange sigh in his heart.

This weird and outrageous world… really provokes his three views at any time.

He and Shirley came to the factory. A thin wall with many collapses was the only boundary between the factory and the surrounding residential area. Between the factory area and the nearby residential area, there was another narrow circle Wasteland, there is no grass growing on the barren land, only scattered fragments of bricks and stones, and scrap metal fragments that have been rusted for an unknown period of time can be seen.

No matter how important factories are to cities, no matter how much people adapt to their day-to-day life with factories, factories are still factories, and when these behemoths get out of control, they will still leave huge scars in the city.

But in this city-state where every inch of land is expensive, a scar can be left for eleven years without being “repaired”, which still makes Duncan a little strange.

“…the land in the city-state should be very precious.” He stood on the edge of the wasteland, looking at the abandoned factory building in front of him, and said thoughtfully, “it’s so deserted here…it doesn’t make sense.” “Isn’t that old man just

now Have you said that? The pollution can’t be cleaned up…” Shirley didn’t seem to think about it so much, “Some pollution can only wait for time for them to subside slowly.” “

Maybe…” Duncan shook his head, his gaze Moving between a series of pipelines and storage tanks on the edge of the factory area, trying to restore the “original appearance” of the accident that broke out here, he saw several sections of ruptured pipelines, and also saw that the base of a storage tank had collapsed. The tank body fell down and was crushed in the ruins of nearby buildings, looking like the carcass of a huge giant beast.

Judging from these sights alone, it seems quite likely that there was a leak here.

But Duncan still frowned slightly.

The old man basking in the sun said that there is pollution around the factory. The pollution has even caused no newborns to be born in the entire Sixth Street District in the past eleven years. However, there are no warning signs around the factory. There are no patrolling or guarding personnel.

Things are unreasonable. Although it is not a big abnormality, these unreasonable situations still make people feel puzzled.

“Are we…really going in?” Shirley’s voice sounded from the side, her face seemed a little nervous, “There may be real pollution here…” “Can’t

your dog give you some advice?” Duncan glanced at Shirley, “This place is deserted, and you can let that deep hound come out to breathe, and I don’t believe that you are really afraid of the so-called ‘pollution’ here—the tension in your eyes is a bit fake.

Dodging Duncan’s sight, Shirley raised her hand while agreeing: “Okay, okay…the main reason is that Agou’s condition is not very good…” As soon as the girl

finished speaking, the crackling sound of the flames suddenly rang out. There was a sound beside her out of thin air, and then, a pitch-black flame spread along her arms and half of her body – the flames condensed into a chain, and the shadow of the deep hound emerged from the thick smoke and black flame at the end of the chain .

Duncan watched the process curiously, and smiled and nodded to the deep hound after Agou showed up: “Long time no see, Agou—you ran very fast last time.

” Hurry up, don’t take offense,” Agou clenched his tail as soon as he appeared, and when he heard Duncan’s voice, his whole body became half an inch shorter, and he lowered his body cautiously while trying to shrink his limbs. Head, “What are your orders? I am good at many things. I can pick up a plate and sweep the floor to coax a child…”

Before the deep hound finished speaking, Shirley next to her had already covered half of her face, as if “I’ve been cowardly enough this way, you can still make new heights”, Duncan couldn’t help laughing , raised his hand and pointed to the factory in front of him: “I don’t have any orders, just borrow your eyes—can’t you see things that ordinary people can’t see? Take a look at that factory and tell me, what’s wrong.”

” From what you said, you can still see my eyes…” A Gou immediately flattered me modestly, but he still turned his head to look in the direction of the factory while flattering, still muttering, “I I was observing this factory just now, and I didn’t see anything… It looks the same now, it’s just an abandoned…”

Ah Gou’s voice suddenly stopped, and then he suddenly lowered his body, and there was a sound in his throat. There was a threatening growl—but the next second, it suddenly shook its head and made a suspicious voice: “… Huh?”

Seeing this situation, Shirley was a little nervous: “Agou, what did you see? “

I… I don’t know, for a moment just now, I seemed to see… fire? It seemed to be a huge fire, rushing out of the factory like a huge wave, but… it disappeared in the blink of an eye …”

Agou’s voice was full of doubts, but Shirley became excited all of a sudden: “Are you sure you saw the fire?! It was really a big fire!?”

Agou shook his huge skeleton head: “It was just a flash. The picture I passed may be hallucinations. I am a ghost demon, and it is normal to have hallucinations occasionally…” “

But the big fire is different!” Shirley said hurriedly, “We have been searching for so long, and finally I found the trace of the ‘big fire’, that’s right, Agou, it must be here…”

Shirley said halfway through her excited words, when she suddenly felt a big hand on her shoulder, her words stopped abruptly, and in Chi In the tension that came, she turned her head with a stiff neck, only to see the terrifying “Mr. Duncan” watching her quietly.

“Why did you react so strongly to ‘Big Fire’?” Duncan looked into Shirley’s eyes and asked slowly.

“I…” Shirley opened her mouth, “It’s nothing…”

“You’re also looking for the ‘a big fire’ from eleven years ago, aren’t you?” Duncan didn’t care about the girl’s attempt to change the subject. He had already suddenly thought of something from Shirley’s abnormal reaction just now, “A big fire” It exists in any official records, but you have personally experienced the fire, right?”

Shirley’s body was a little stiff, and she swallowed slowly: “You…how could you…”

“I’m looking for it too,” Duncan smiled, “Looks like I found the right place.”

(End of this chapter)