Volume 1 Crime and Punishment in Fog City Chapter 20 Masquerade
After sneaking into the underground city, the investigation was surprisingly simple. Or rather, the degree of infiltration in the entire underground city was surprisingly shocking. No one would be hostile to an overseer, but instead greeted him kindly along the way. It felt more like facing a group of underground party members working inside the enemy than facing an enemy. A feeling of inexplicable respect.
The hostile forces could show such an expression to the enemy, and it was self-evident who this underground city belonged to. Whether it was the supervisors, the elegant nobles, or the people in charge of the lanes, they all rebelled. But in fact, this was completely understandable. There were only 100,000 people in the upper district, while the number of people in the middle district was 200,000 to 400,000. The living pressure and consumption pressure brought by these two districts had made the lower district miserable, and there was no place to accommodate the nobles in the lower district.
The so-called promotion of people from the lower districts to nobles is nothing but a fantasy, and the middle districts know this best. The upper districts think they are the smartest and control all the trains leading to the lower districts. However, their ancestors were able to build a mechanical city that reaches the sky. Even if the descendants have lost their minds, it is not a problem to at least build a few elevators and places for material exchange. The Tower of Babel built in the center of the city is a huge freight elevator that continuously transports materials from the underground to the middle district to cover the rebellion against the upper district. Countless hemp products and crudely processed products are sent the middle district, making the industry in the middle district more and more prosperous, and people's hearts are changing more and more, and they begin to test the upper district. This is how the Dawn Organization came into being.
Not only that, the entire underground city area is a complex place. There are 32,000 people living in the core sphere, but the number of people living below the core sphere and in the hemp factory and rock wall is far more than ten times. Thanks to the fact that the Vale pipeline suspended in the air can be connected at will, as long as you follow the tunnel, you can basically find a group of farming workers whose brains are paralyzed by hemp. These workers without any independent consciousness will be governed by the conscious residents of the lower area and the nobles in the core sphere.
In other words, the entire underground city area is divided into several vehicle transportation areas, and the core area is here. Most of the underground residents have no intelligence to resist, but they can charge forward without any problem. What's even better is that because of the dragon hemp mist and low intelligence, they will not retreat even a step when facing guns and serious injuries.
If these people really opened up the passage from the underground city to the ground, then there would be no need for the people in the middle area to take action. The countless deformed and mentally retarded people would be enough to completely capture the entire fog with gunpowder guns.
In other words, if this group of people found a stable, risk-free path to the ground, Li Lin's mission would be over.
And even if there were no roads, his task looked daunting.
"Where has this technology reached..."
That looks really weird.
Sitting in the room of the little girl's house, Li Lin was playing with a product that looked like wood in his hand, estimating in his mind the probability of completing his task.
The underground stock of saltpeter and sulfur was not much, otherwise the aboveground city would have suppressed it long ago. Although the nobles were stupid, they were not just deaf and blind. Although they did not tell some of the formulas of the Steam God Cult, they should know them very well. However, on the one hand, they may have found new mines after hundreds of years of excavation, and on the other hand, the traitors in the middle district were frantically sending supplies. This made the blockade of supplies in the upper district look like a joke to some extent.
What's more serious is that the upper class always thinks that the strategic material is the hemp grass. Therefore, the demand for hemp oil and hemp rope is always at a stable level. In theory, there is nothing wrong with this. However, after living in the lower city for a few days, Li Lin clearly realized that the pillar industry of the lower district is not the hemp grass that can grow on a piece of soil without even the sun. Instead, it is some simpler and more convenient next-generation crops.
mushroom.
It's mushrooms.
Some mushrooms that have mutated so much that I don’t know how to describe them in detail.
The extremely tough material properties and flammable and explosive chemical properties, the stability and edibility with an ignition point not reaching the previously terrifying level, and the flexibility and corrosion resistance that can even be used as building materials, all of these make these mushrooms look more like alien crops.
And who knows which generation of genius agriculturalists have improved these mushrooms, and they can even absorb the hemp mist. The core area of the underground city is almost the same as the ground. If it weren't for the fact that those deformed children outside had reproductive problems due to the hemp mist, Li Lin had no doubt that they would be able to become human again in a normal environment sooner or later.
However, this is a good thing for the underground city area, but it is a huge disaster for Li Lin's operations.
"Mushroom farms and hemp industrial areas..."
Li Lin drew two circles on the notebook and frowned as he thought about the feasibility of this mission.
The more sophisticated something is, the more skilled workers will be needed to maintain it once it breaks down. This is an inevitable change in the progress of scientific productivity.
If all the key parts and positions of a high-tech factory are damaged, and all the technical workers responsible for repairs and judgment are killed, it is equivalent to the factory no longer existing, because no one can restore the technology again.
But the problem is that the leadership is not limited to this celestial city. If it is just the people on the Tower of Babel, then with the help of Chameleon and his assassination ability, he can completely wipe out all the high-level and a small number of middle-level people overnight without anyone noticing. Most of the bottom and middle-level people will also fall into panic. However, the leadership teams of these people are still distributed in major stations, and the transportation liaison stations have long been opened, which makes things very difficult.
Once there is a problem, all will come to support each other. In this ghost place full of man-made objects, Li Lin was not confident that he could completely escape the pursuit of these local aborigines.
After a few days, Li Lin was impressed by the equipment and strength of the underground rebels. He did not hold out much hope for the upper level.
But there was still a chance that his mission would succeed, because the little girl was more important to the mission than he could imagine. Both of her parents held high positions, and were involved in confidential research, and he often went out to play... It looked like a story of a high-ranking official's child falling into poverty.
There are a lot of interesting things here.
Just as Li Lin lowered his head to think, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Well...it's time to eat..."
"Oh, thank you."
Take this candy.
Looking at the little girl who was a little shy after knocking on the door, Li Lin opened the door and stuffed a candy into her.
Facing the little girl's bewildered look, Li Lin smiled and stretched out his hand to rub the top of the girl's head, which felt very good, and walked directly down to the living room of the room. A very special fragrance had already rushed into his nostrils, giving him an inexplicable appetite.
"It tastes good, what is it?"
"Boiled longma root with salt and stir-fried ant meat with mushrooms... these are all things my mother taught me..."
"Oh, not bad, not bad, this skill is really good, I can already open a restaurant outside. I am so lucky."
"You are too kind..."
"No way, take this candy, good children will be rewarded."
"So don't treat me like a child. You've given me two candies in such a short while. Did you spend all your salary on candies?"
He sighed like a little adult, but his eyes and eyebrows curled up when he pinched the candy.
Although he didn't agree verbally, his body was still quite obedient.
As if spying on something, he lowered his head and glanced at Li Lin, then the candy in his hand was placed in a small jar like magic. Then he carefully opened the latest piece of candy.
The little girl pinched the small piece of candy wrapped in the candy wrapper and ate it. She immediately felt like she was in heaven. She covered her cheeks with a happy and yearning expression. If you didn't know, you would think she had eaten some world-class candy. But in fact, it was just a worthless piece of candy.
The purpose of buying these things was to quickly replenish energy and take them with me to prevent some special situations. I didn't expect that after I got them, they all became popular with young girls.
But it brushes up pretty fast.
"That's right."
Li Lin casually said, as he ate the food that tasted a bit strange but not bad.
"If you want to go somewhere, just tell me. I'm quite free recently. I'm going to report to your father's workplace. I hope you can lead the way. Do you remember the way?"
"Eh? No problem. Please don't underestimate me, okay?"
As if she was very angry about being questioned, the girl pouted her lips and pretended to be dissatisfied.
Li Lin could only beg for mercy with a smile, and then gave the girl a piece of candy to keep her mouth shut. After much persuasion, he finally let her take him to see the hidden secret research institute tomorrow.
"You can only take a look, okay? You have to report it right away, okay? Even if they don't know the key things, I still remember everything the leader said during his speech. You must not act rashly. I heard that a devil who kills without blinking an eye has come down recently. You must be careful."
"It's okay, who do you think I am?"
There's nothing wrong with this.
Facing the little girl's slightly nervous look, Li Lin smiled and reached out to touch her head.
Under the gentle touch, the trembling hair gradually calmed down . The haggard face finally showed a bit of relief.
"What a cute little creature... I wish I could adopt him."
It's just like having a cat.
Touching the girl's smooth hair, Li Lin estimated his plans for tomorrow, thinking absentmindedly.
