Chapter 026 Steam Motorcycle
"Exciting..."
The wind blew painfully on my face, and it was like the ups and downs of a roller coaster.
Ryan climbed onto the tail of a dismantled mechanical city that was left with only its skeleton, holding on to the steel frame tightly, struggling to keep himself from being thrown off.
It has to be said that the steam boiler that can drive the heavy steel castle, without the weight, can fly so fast.
Yes, it’s really flying!
Whenever it encountered a pit, the mechanical city would jump up high because of its speed. Like a clumsy toad, it would fall down with a clang, and metal would always fall off, and some steel parts would fall off, whether they were useful or not...
As we walked along, we dropped some iron lumps such as rivets, nuts, and wheels.
Ryan climbed up in fear and trepidation, praying that this skeleton mechanical city would hold firm and not fall apart completely after a leap.
But, it seems like I'm lucky.
The more parts dropped from the mechanical city, the lighter the weight, and the faster the speed. This run is more than ten or twenty kilometers...
In the end, he took the lead and successfully escaped from the encirclement.
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Soon , looking back at Storm Lake, the "black market trading place" had turned into a sea of fire.
The Omar Royal Legion ambushed more than a dozen "War Elephant-class" mechanical cities on the periphery, leading countless tank-sized troop carriers, formed a huge encirclement and slowly surrounded them.
The encirclement has gradually taken shape, like a cloth bag slowly closing, enclosing the thousands of Phantom Thieves' mechanical cities on the lakeside.
Only a small group of thieves who chose to abandon the city and escape lightly at the first opportunity escaped before the "pocket" was closed.
Ryan is one of them.
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With the shells flying overhead from time to time, riding on the skeleton mechanical city that could fall apart at any time, after a frantic run with adrenaline rushing...
Ryan, whose face was distorted by the cold wind in the wilderness, was pleasantly surprised to find that there were no pursuers to hunt down those who had escaped the net.
"Did you really escape successfully?"
His eyes were bright and seemed a little unbelievable.
Could it be that I, who have been possessed by the aura of bad luck, am finally going to have good luck?
But his intuition told him that things were not that simple.
Although Ryan didn't know how to march and deploy troops, he had read a lot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in his previous life.
He looked at the battlefield in front of him, and suddenly felt that this scene overlapped with some of the tactics in his memory.
It seems to be a siege tactic called "surround three and leave one"?
Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help but mutter: "Is there an ambush ahead?"
Then in the blink of an eye, he wanted to slap himself in the face!
Thump, thump, thump…
As the skeleton mechanical city approached, the sound of tractors starting up rang out frequently not far away.
Looking again, I saw that a large number of ambushes had suddenly appeared in the dense grass of the wilderness.
Looking around, there was no large mechanical city that had not been discovered in advance. Lurking in the bushes were some strangely shaped "mechanical cavalry" legions.
"What the hell is this... a steam motorcycle?"
It was the first time that Ryan had seen such a strange steam machine.
These strange steam locomotives in front of me are like Harley motorcycles with a large iron ring on the outside. They are about three meters in diameter, with convex tracks outside the wheels to grip the ground, and large-caliber six-wheeled guns on both sides. The miniature steam boiler is emitting white smoke, and the dark industrial style is the same as always.
“Is it really a motorcycle?”
Ryan, this old-fashioned guy, has finally opened his eyes.
You may say this thing is backward, but even in the past when technology was so advanced, there was no such fancy motorcycle.
You say it's advanced, but it's a weird steam-powered thing...
Look at the brass-cast legionary emblem on the locomotive, it is the emblem of the Omagh Royal First Legion.
This is the most elite fighting force of the Omar Empire - the Royal Steam Mechanic!
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Obviously, the question now is not how was created.
There were hundreds of steam locomotives in front of them, and they quickly caught up with them like cavalry.
Without the armor protection, the Phantom Thief Mechanic City almost became a sitting duck.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A large-caliber six-wheeled musket was mounted on the locomotive, emitting flames. One round of shooting turned the mechanical city into a honeycomb.
Ryan then understood that this was the back-up plan of "surround three and release one".
The person who planned the Omar Empire had long expected that those who could escape must be lightly armed mechanical cavalry. To deal with these thieves without armor and heavy firepower, the lightly armed mechanical cavalry corps was enough.
"Extinguish the boilers, surrender and you won't die!"
"Those who resist will be killed without mercy!"
“…”
The cavalry on the locomotive kept persuading them to surrender.
Unfortunately, most of the thieves who choose to escape are desperate criminals with numerous murders, and no one would be stupid enough to surrender.
The two sides engaged in fierce gunfire.
The firearms of the Phantom Thieves are all high-end goods purchased on the black market. Their power and accuracy are no less than the standard equipment of the Imperial Army.
This fight is hard to resolve.
Bang, bang, bang, bang…
Fire splashed and bullets flew everywhere.
Lei was completely messed up in the hail of bullets.
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"What should I... do now?"
Ryan felt bitter and was now in a dilemma.
It was great to hitchhike, but now I’m being chased and can’t get off.
However, the only thing to be thankful for is that I don’t know whether it was because the “white coat” he was wearing indicated his identity as a doctor, or because he did not make any move to raise a gun to shoot.
The musketeers on the steam locomotive tacitly agreed not to shoot at him.
Even so, the dense shrapnel flew around like rain, and the ricocheting shrapnel also accidentally injured Ryan in many places.
If we delay any further, we will either be captured or shot to death sooner or later.
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Following closely behind Ryan and his men, dozens of Phantom Thieves' micro-mechanical cities escaped the encirclement one after another.
But it was obvious that the ambush troops of the Omar Empire had more people. Waves of mechanical cavalry appeared one after another, like hyenas surrounding and killing wild buffaloes, constantly devouring the group of deserters in pursuit...
The Phantom Thieves didn't try to break out in a group, but instead scattered in all directions. The two warring parties chased each other in this vast wasteland, and the battle line became longer and longer.
Ryan also thought about jumping out of the car.
He had also observed that the battle line was now very long and scattered. The goal of the main cavalry of the Omar Empire's mechanics was to encircle and kill those mechanical cities.
A few small shrimps jumping out of the car would not attract much attention at all.
But if you jump out of the car within this range, you will end up being captured by the soldiers cleaning up the battlefield.
Therefore, he must have a high-speed means of transportation to escape the ambush.
And this individual steam motorcycle in front of you is the best choice!
"Hey...if it operates like a motorcycle, how about giving it a try?"
Suddenly, Ryan looked at the steam motorcycles that were shot and fell down behind him, and he could no longer suppress this bold idea in his mind.
Just now, the "intelligent brain" has analyzed the driving methods of those riders, and it seems to be no different from the motorcycles in the previous life.
In his previous life, he was Ryan, known as the "Little Prince of Motorcycles", and he was not afraid of anyone when it came to racing.
If he could steal a motorcycle, no one would be able to catch him in this wilderness!
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“Done!”
After a split second of decision, Ryan decided to take the risk.
Since he had no intention of being taken prisoner, how bad could the outcome of jumping out of the car be?
Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate at all and decisively jumped down from the skeleton mechanical city that was already speeding up to the sky.
Leap, land, roll, play dead...
Fortunately, as he guessed, no one paid any attention to him, a small shrimp who jumped out of the car...
All the bikers chased after the mechanical city.
After the large army whizzed past him, Ryan didn't even have time to catch his breath. He quietly touched a steam motorcycle that had fallen to the ground, pulled the corpse off the motorcycle, and then rode on it himself!
The motorcycle's miniature steam boiler was still on, so I got on it and twisted the accelerator, and the big wheels started to spin rapidly.
The intense push on the back makes people feel as if they are riding on an angry bull.
"It's done!"
Ryan was ecstatic.
With extensive experience in motorcycle riding, he only needed a little adaptation before he was able to easily control the steam locomotive.
Then, he chose a direction completely different from the main force and rushed at full speed...
As he expected, no one cared about the one fish that slipped through the net.
Even if the Mechanical Legion saw this "deserter", no one came to chase him during this siege.
Besides, even if I wanted to chase him, I wouldn't be able to catch up with this guy who was as fast as the wind...
