Chapter 93 Old Men Like Tentacle Monsters
The sudden alarm lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour, which allowed everyone in the "Glorious City" to understand what had happened.
People on the street began to flock to the City Hall.
The supply stores gradually became crowded with people, and people began to frantically grab guns, ammunition, food, camping equipment, and magic props...
More and more people began to pack their combat equipment, each with excitement on their face.
This is a national hunting event that can only be seen in this city known as "Hunter's Paradise"!
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Soon, Carl returned to the machine shop.
He did not bring back any news about Irubek's capture from the news dealer "Red Nose" Hook, but he did bring back another shocking news.
The barbarian tribe of the "Forest of Ashes" recently attacked several wasteland hunter camps, slaughtered hundreds of wasteland hunters in a "brutal" manner, and destroyed several frontier outposts of the City of Light.
Therefore, the City Lord's Mansion decided to issue an "S-level all-member war conscription order", announcing that the entire city would march towards the western fog area and carry out an genocide and elimination operation against the barbarian tribes.
At the same time, the "Xiangfeng Pass" behind the City of Glory was blocked, and all people entering the city were only allowed to enter but not leave, and the entire nation was prepared for war.
At the same time, the City Hall released a large number of high-reward hunting missions...
The scavengers were in a carnival.
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The City of Glory was built west of the Alcoron Mountains. It once had no human enemies at all, and its wars were all fought against the monsters in the wilderness. Now, there is a "barbarian tribe".
"S-level war conscription" is a tradition when the City of Glory was first established.
In the beginning, the City of Glory didn't even have a decent mechanical city. At that time, Master Kavo led his disciples and the magic group to fight against the beasts in this dangerous wasteland, and gradually established a camp and gained a foothold.
At that time, every beast tide meant possible annihilation of the entire group; every battle was a group operation involving everyone.
But as the five mechanical cities of the City of Glory gradually took shape, the threat posed by the wild beasts to the city became smaller and smaller.
The purpose of the humans in this city's battles began to change from survival to hunting.
The scale of the battles is getting smaller and smaller, and the scale of the hunting is also divided into S-level (whole city), A-level (legion level), B-level (large team), C-level (small team)...
After years of construction, with increasingly higher city walls and more sophisticated attack systems, this city is no longer threatened by any monsters, not even a large-scale beast tide.
At least in the past ten years or so, there has been no "S-level war conscription" alarm to mobilize the entire city.
Now, it rang.
This means that the City of Glory will use all its strength to completely destroy the "barbarian civilization" with a crushing force.
The City Lord's Mansion will issue a large number of wasteland hunting missions. This is a grand event for all wasteland hunters, and everyone is required to participate!
This is the obligation that the wasteland hunters promised to cooperate with the City Lord's Mansion from the first moment they set foot in this city.
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"The City Lord's Mansion issued a notice saying that the barbarian tribe attacked many outposts outside, killing and injuring a large number of hunters... From the signs, it seems that the barbarians are still determined to fight to the death. Therefore, the City Lord's Mansion decided to go on a group expedition. If the barbarians do not surrender, they will completely destroy that primitive civilization."
Carl brought back more detailed information.
When Ryan heard this, he inexplicably thought of the barbarian girl, Udo.
She did not seem to be as savage, cannibalistic, or evil as rumored. Instead, she seemed to be quite reasonable in some ways.
But resource plundering is always bloody, and no one will show mercy to enemies who hinder land reclamation.
Ryan frowned slightly but said nothing.
The "Glorious City" has the courage and the strength to destroy a primitive civilization that doesn't even have iron smelting technology.
After thinking about it, he asked, "You mean, 'S-level war conscription', everyone in the city must participate?"
"Yes, no one is exempt. Within three days, everyone must go to the City Lord's Mansion to draw lots to accept the hunting mission..."
Carl briefly introduced the rules of this operation and said, "Even the guys from the five major families have no privileges. Except for the boilermen, artillerymen and city defense mages who are essential for defending the city, everyone needs to go to the city hall to draw lots, otherwise they will be detained by the law enforcement team as "deserters" and sentenced to heavy penalties. Of course, this is a good thing for the wasteland hunters. Everyone prefers to actively participate and take on some tasks with better rewards..."
Ryan also understood.
This kind of conscription is indeed a "benefit" for wasteland hunters.
In group operations, large mechanical cities will participate. This hunting efficiency is definitely not something that a small team can achieve. At that time, they can explore more dangerous areas, hunt more powerful monsters, and look for treasures hidden more secretly in the fog...
More than 90% of the people in the "Glorious City" are hunters, so almost everyone is very enthusiastic about this group hunting. Of course, except for a few, such as the descendants of the "Five Major Families" who don't have to worry about resources.
They could clearly enjoy themselves in the city without working, but because of the rules of the City of Glory, they had to go out hunting and adventuring like everyone else.
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The earlier you go, the more missions you can choose from.
This is also the reason why a large number of people flocked to the City Hall shortly after the alarm sounded.
After listening to the rules, Ryan asked again: "Karl, do you have to go too?"
Carl nodded: "Yes. Even those professional businessmen are also needed in war. After all, cargo transportation and supplies are also needed."
Ryan added: "What about your shop? Where's your grandfather?"
When Carl
"If it's a potion..."
Hearing this, Ryan was about to say something, but at this moment, he heard the sound of metal touching from upstairs.
The voice arrives before the person arrives.
"Little Carl, are there any customers in the store..."
In a blink of an eye, an old man covered with mechanical skeletons climbed down the stairs in a very strange way.
Like a gibbon, he used the exaggerated tentacle mechanical arms behind his body to hang on the pipes in the store, changed hands several times, and then landed steadily on the ground.
"Eh... "
Ryan's eyes naturally fell on the special octopus-like mechanical arm on the old man's back.
Its shape is similar to the segmented structure of the human spine, and the whole body exudes a cold metallic glow, full of mechanical beauty.
This mechanical skeleton and octopus mechanical arm completely fall into the category of incomprehensible "black technology".
Anyway, Ryan, an outsider, really didn't understand how this thing worked. Could a steam boiler drive such a flexible robotic arm?
In comparison, the "PMVI Micro-motion Air Hammer Improved Version" robotic arm in Ryan's hand, which he thought was very powerful, seemed very childish.
Ryan naturally guessed the identity of the old man in front of him.
But then again, this was the first time he met Carl's grandfather, Tuster Fuentes.
The two old men are indeed old friends, even their aesthetic tastes are so similar.
A spider and a mechanical octopus, both have too many hands.
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Although the mechanical skeleton looks very high-tech, the old man's physical condition is terrible.
Due to long-term paralysis, his muscles have atrophied severely. He has become so thin that only skin and bones are left, his cheekbones are protruding, his eye sockets are sunken, and his whole body looks like a skeleton. It is estimated that his weight does not exceed 30 kilograms.
Carl's grandfather glanced at Ryan and didn't treat him as an outsider. He said, "Are you Neto's new disciple? Sorry, I scared you with my appearance..."
"Hello, Grandpa Tusla, I'm Ryan."
Ryan also responded politely, bowing as if meeting an elder, "Teacher often mentioned you to me."
Of course he wasn't scared, he was just curious.
As he spoke, his eyes involuntarily fell on the octopus robotic arm on the old man's back.
Not to mention how this black technology was made, how can a paralyzed patient use such a flexible robotic arm?
As we all know, all mechanical skeletons in this world are purely physical control systems. But the metal tentacles on the back of the old man in front of him clearly seem to be directly connected to the nerves.
This "neural signal-driven prosthetic limb" technology was considered cutting-edge technology even at the end of the 21st century before he traveled through time.
How did we come about the age of steam engines?
Ryan is a doctor himself, and he knows that this level of achievement is simply not possible in the current medical field.
