Steel steam and flame

The welded iron door cannot withstand powerful bullets. The rotten iron door was completely transformed into a sieve full of holes under the baptism of bullets. The broken door was kicked open, revealing the deeper darkness inside. The light shone in and reflected the unique light of steel and metal. In the completely enclosed space, everything still looks like it did when the mining team evacuated.

Behind the door is the lobby, which is structured like a bar counter. There is a huge metal wall with several huge imperial characters engraved on it in red copper - Imperial Mining Company, Seventh Pillar. On both sides of the metal wall are the passages into the hall.

People filed in, shining bright lights everywhere, trying to get a peek at all the buildings inside as soon as possible. The air was dull and cold, and there was an indelible smell of lubricating oil in it. The shoes made a "bang bang" sound when walking on the steel ground, leaving countless footprints of various sizes on a layer of fine dust.

"It seems that this is not the support pillar used by Nolida." Crichens said the obvious answer. Among the eight support columns, there must be a steel column that Nolida and Flos often use. The elevator there must be used to enter the main body of the mining machine building.

"Luckily, we didn't have to fight with them as soon as we arrived." Gustin looked around with a bright light, looking for what he wanted to see, which was the room that manages energy output. When he entered the foundation building with a support column of more than two to three hundred meters in diameter, he checked that the mercury lamps installed not high above his head were all intact. As long as you find the energy room, or the main lighting room, you can activate all these intact lighting systems.

A place full of light is much better than a place full of darkness.

"Kritchens, let's search separately, so it's more efficient." Gustin walked away from Kritchens and walked in another direction. As he continued to check the rooms one by one at the edge of the hall, All the mercury lamps overhead began to flicker slowly, and the light they emitted slowly changed from dim to blinding incandescence. The entire hall was completely visible to the people who came in.

"It seems that Mr. Cassia still has his own skills. I am becoming more and more interested in his identity. I don't believe that he is just the 124th person." Li said this with a smile on his face. Of course, there was no smile on his face. Something Carla and Gustin wanted to see. They didn't know what Leigh was saying.

"Of course, Cassia has always been a very good person." Kara's words also had hidden meanings that needed to be guessed, but like Li, she closed her mouth tightly after speaking, and there was no more Say a word.

"Mr. Gustin." Klitchens came over from the other side. The lighting system had been turned on, so there was no need for him to leave the team. The hall is connected to dozens of deep passages, and the light there looks cold when viewed from a distance. At this moment, the best option is for the team to act together.

"Where's Mr. Cassia?" Kritins came over and only saw Carla and the three of them standing in an inconspicuous corner of the hall. Cassia's figure that was supposed to be there had disappeared.

Gustin pointed to the bright lamp above his head and signaled to Kristians: "Wait a moment, Cassia has gone to the main power room."

Kristians nodded, but the expression on his face betrayed what he was thinking. He also began to have some doubts about Cassia's identity.

Of course, Cassia, who was the center of the topic, knew nothing about what happened in the hall. Seeing those arms smugglers hurriedly trying to explore the entire room inside the pillar with bright lights on, the excitement on their faces and the uncontrolled adrenaline secreted in their bodies made them want to do it right now. Take the elevator and go up to have a grand fight with Nolida and Flos.

But how to go up, how to fight Nolida and the others in the dark, what are the noteworthy buildings of the mining machinery built here, what kind of structure are the passages, stairs, rooms, etc. distributed everywhere? of. The most important thing is what the mineral mining machinery in the sky looks like. You don’t need very detailed drawings, but you still need to have a basic understanding of the basic passage routes and the building structures inside.

In the event of a firefight, bullets have no eyes. If we can win over our enemies just by relying on our own excitement and passion, then the firearms in our hands might as well be thrown into a furnace and reheated into steel plates for building houses. Maybe this kind of utilization value is even higher. Number of people is not the key to victory. One bullet can make a person lose his basic combat effectiveness, and two or three bullets can take away a life. Those who are also arms dealers and are still here are not the ones who lack the one or two bullets.

Cassia even doubted whether these arms smugglers had considered these issues. The more critical the moment, the more cautious and careful they should be. Everyone came to Nolida. At this time, they were overwhelmed with excitement. When the people on both sides really met, they could only use warm blood to wake them up.

According to Cassia's previous experience in the steam factory, the main power room is usually built underground. The scorching steam furnace requires a large space to install, and it is made entirely of high-grade alloys, and its weight is completely consistent with its volume. Only building on the ground can ensure its stability. The power rooms responsible for management, except for some special circumstances, are mostly built next to the steam furnace. One is to facilitate management. Some valves and data display machinery are installed next to the furnace, which can monitor various conditions in real time. The second is that the response time is faster. If there are any problems, they can be solved in a shorter time.

These are all things Cassia acquired in the past five years. The bosses of the factory and the aristocratic gentlemen seemed to hate the idleness of the common people who were working. Every time during the inspection, when I saw someone resting on the edge with empty hands, the expression on their face was as ugly as if they had eaten a dead mouse. Cassia, who has dexterous hands, completes the rated workload very quickly every day, so when these noble gentlemen come to check, he is often called to the power room under the ground by Vixey to copy the monitoring data. Every few times, he became completely familiar with these structures.

Moreover, Cassia was very lucky. Although he had never seen the structure of the hall, following the principle that the stairs of the power room are always in a relatively remote corner, he quickly found the dark staircase going down. The structure below is similar to that of the steam factory, the only difference is the scale of the building. Sometimes, the fixed factory assembly line construction system is quite useful.

The power room is locked as a matter of course, and a password card is required to open it. But the blue and silver bullets can also serve as password cards at this time.

Turning on the strong light, the air that had been silent for decades became active in the beam of light. The dust in the room flew into the air driven by Cassia's footsteps. Under the beam, you can clearly see that they moved around the room. The wind was moving in all directions.

"Where is it? Where is it?" Cassia shook the bright light in his hand. He was looking for the main console, which was the relatively large zero-type differential machine. Industrialized things are all managed through powerful difference engines. After wandering around the spacious room for a minute or two, Cassia found what she was looking for near the bottom of the room.

On the differential machine, the huge number of buttons and the shriveled rubber hoses that transport steam were all covered with a fine layer of ash. The confined space did not allow red rust to corrode them. Aside from the natural layer of dust, the place still retains the feeling of when everyone left.

Cassia frowned when she saw the card slot in front of her. He seemed to have forgotten that starting the Difference Engine required not only steam power, but also the corresponding code card. There are no programmers here, and dealing with those countless gears is not something Cassia is good at.

"I can only hope that everyone who manages the power room will have such a habit." Cassia squatted down, put the flashlight next to him, and then violently opened the iron cover of the difference machine console in front of him. Inside are numerous steam hoses and bundled rubber copper core lines.

According to theory, behind these hoses and lines, there should be a thicker steel plate, where is the sealed differential engine body - countless gears and shafts of different sizes that are interlocked.

But when Cassie pushed aside the piece of stuff in front of her that blocked her view, it should have been a sound and flawless steel plate, but a hole as big as a palm was opened, and something protruded inside the hole, like a button. . But under the light, it's actually an extra piece of red copper gear mounted on a shaft.

"It seems that even across an extremely long distance, people's habits and hobbies in some aspects will not change with time and space." Cassia smiled at the corner of her mouth, then leaned half of her body in, stretched out her hand and took the piece The raised gear is fully pressed.

In an instant, all the stationary things around him started to move, and the friction sound of the gears engaging and advancing reached his ears like a buzzing buzz.

When he stood up, various colors of indicator lights were already lighting up in the darkness, and the mercury lamp above his head also flashed its due light. Steam power and electricity seemed to be reborn under the power of a gear.