Chapter 607: Sea of Decay
The Eden shuttle was traveling at a very fast speed. In cruise mode, it could reach several times the speed of sound, flying above the gloomy clouds of the wasteland, where the light was not as bright as in other worlds.
But it does not prevent the beautiful scenery from being seen in this spacious and stable shuttle.
"Shua"
With a look of satisfaction on her face, Nia zipped up her coat, adjusted her skirt, shook her colorful hair, turned her head and blinked her big eyes, looking back at Boss Jiang who had a wooden face.
His clothes were disheveled, his face was expressionless, his posture was very stiff, he held a cigarette in his hand but did not light it, he turned his head to look out the window, his eyes exuding a philosopher's melancholy.
It was as if something important had been lost just now.
It's like the whole person has lost his shine.
In this scene, I don’t know who is the doll…
"Oh, boss, don't be so sad."
Nia shamelessly patted her towering chest and clung to Lao Jiang again, helping the boss tidy up his clothes while saying:
"Why don't you just treat me as a doll? What man hasn't done this kind of handicraft when he was young If you really can't help it, just treat me as your hands.
As for me, I will not interfere in your relationship with Miss Bai Ze, nor do I want to be a third party. This is just to protect the interests of my people."
"If you really want to protect the interests of the Eden people, I would be happier if you had produced a contract just now."
Old Jiang looked at his hands dimly and said:
"Ah, I am dirty and no longer clean."
"What are you talking about?"
Nia snorted in dissatisfaction and said:
"Don't think I don't know. Ever since that silly monster transformed, she's always trying to get close to you in different ways. Don't I know what she wants to do?
If you can allow the wolf demon to repay a favor, can’t you allow the intelligent being to repay a favor?
When the truth comes out, you will be the hero of the entire Eden world. I wonder how many beautiful women in Eden will dream of being by your side. "
"Liu Hui is not even older than me. She is just a silly child."
Boss Jiang lit the cigarette in his hand and said softly:
"Forget it, let's not talk about these damn things. How far are we from the City of Bliss now?"
Nia glanced at the console and said:
"We'll reach our destination in about an hour. Should we take a tour of the city?"
"No, we're going straight to the Sea of Decay."
Lao Jiang raised his hand, looked at the cool watch with six dials on his wrist, and replied:
“Lewis said that place is not worth seeing, but I still trust the old man’s judgment. It may be more majestic and noisy than Free Citizen City, but it is no different inside.
I remember when Rogge and I walked out of the Death Desert, he said something very poetic to me, describing the wasteland in his eyes.
He said:
The knowledge left by the ancestors of the wasteland is placed in public databases, but no one wants to look at it.
Many truths of this world are mixed in a complex environment, but no one is willing to look down to find them. Cheap, vulgar, and meaningless entertainment constantly amplifies everyone's senses.
They have no anger in their hearts, nor will they be angry; they have no loss, and they cannot even understand loss.
Just happiness.
As long as they stretch out their hands and close their eyes, they can pick countless happiness. So why think about the future?
Seize the moment.
Entertain yourself to death.
This is a degradation of the mind, not the body, and it is so ugly that it is hard to describe in words."
Boss Jiang flicked the ash off his cigarette, reached out his hand, and stroked Nia's smooth face. He said:
“This is why I hate Elysium and why I reject the world of Eden. I don’t like those false and beautiful things.
That city of bliss might be interesting.
But compared to exploring its empty and pale interior, I would rather spend some time wandering in this desert of death. At least the dusk at sunset will not deceive me. "
"Well, Boss, what you said is very good."
Nia looked at Mr. Jiang, who exuded a literary and artistic temperament, with admiration. She twisted her waist and said to Mr. Jiang:
"You're making me feel excited. Look, there's still an hour left. How about..."
"Bang"
Old Jiang had a wooden face and kicked the cabin door open.
Grabbing Nia's wrist, he used the power of his prosthetic body to throw the infatuated intelligence out. Thousands of meters in the air, Nia screamed and fell freely.
But Boss Jiang didn't care.
A few seconds later, the personal intelligence activated the thrusters on its feet and extended mechanical wings very similar to Ru Yue's wings behind it. It flew back from under the clouds at a very fast and smooth speed.
It circled the aircraft at several times the speed of sound, and finally returned to Lao Jiang through the open hatch.
"Are you calm?"
Boss Jiang lit up a cigarette and asked casually.
"Uh-huh."
Nia nodded obediently and didn't dare to tease Lao Jiang anymore.
With a very professional attitude, he sat back in the driving seat and watched her enter the manual control mode to increase the speed of the aircraft again. Lao Jiang shook his head helplessly.
But when he lowered his head, a smile flashed across the corners of his mouth.
It wasn't that hard to bear with this noisy intelligence. Besides, the Eden people were really good at making dolls. The one just now...
Ahem, I can’t think about it anymore.
I am a monk, so I should be pure in heart and free from desires.
Soon, the aircraft arrived near the City of Paradise. As Nia controlled the aircraft and landed smoothly from the sky, the scenery of the bay area came into Lao Jiang's sight.
“This city is so big.”
Boss Jiang, who was sitting in the passenger seat, sighed.
The City of Paradise before us has an urban area that is more than a hundred times larger than the Free Citizen City. After the apocalypse, building such a city is simply a fantasy.
Rogge also said that this city was built on the basis of a large city that narrowly escaped destruction during the nuclear war.
It is an urban agglomeration.
Along the coastline, there is a giant city with a radius of more than 100 kilometers. Judging from the appearance alone, it still maintains the appearance of a metropolis before the nuclear war.
There are high-rise buildings all around, with clear urban planning and a very complex urban highway and subway network. Different areas are divided into five urban areas, each with its own characteristics.
Most importantly, these buildings left over from before the nuclear war clearly show signs of having been carefully maintained and technologically transformed.
At this altitude of one thousand meters, Lao Jiang could see at a glance the colorful neon lights created on the glass surface of a hundred-meter-high building on the outskirts of the city with a changing and rotating revolving lantern.
A sentence kept appearing on it in various words: Welcome to the City of Bliss.
However, this was the time between early morning and noon, and every district around this huge city was shrouded in , adding a touch of hazy beauty to the shadows.
"It's smog caused by toxic gases mixed with humid weather with high rainfall."
Nia quickly broke through this "hazy beauty". She looked at the aircraft's detection module monitoring the surrounding environment, turned her head and said to Lao Jiang who was admiring the scenery below:
"The harmful substances in the air here are seven times higher than the human health threshold. Look at the people walking on the street. The clothes they wear have a complete set of filtration systems and small oxygen supply systems.
I strongly suspect that there may be extreme weather similar to acid rain every few days here.
In order to maintain the general stability of the city under such circumstances, they must spend a lot of resources on the drainage system. "
"Sure enough, it just looks pretty."
Old Jiang smiled. He didn't feel disillusioned because he had no expectations anyway. As the aircraft quickly flew over the city, Boss Jiang saw more things.
In the city that looks gorgeous, between the high-rise buildings, there are slum-like areas. Even in the city center, there are large areas of simple shacks.
It was even scarier on the other side of the city, closer to the coast.
It is a mixture of huge garbage dumps and slums. Those shaky, weird-looking, wasteland-style houses are built next to the garbage dumps.
“Desertification is too serious.”
Nia was well-informed, but after seeing the three-dimensional simulation of the surrounding environment displayed on the console, she frowned and said:
"These guys must have almost drained all the groundwater in the surrounding area. Look at the area around the bay. There are large areas of wasteland similar to the Death Desert.
There are also oil fields that have not been fully developed...
They destroyed this place.
Even if Rogue didn't attack, this city would only last for another twenty years before it would collapse due to lack of resources. It's such a waste to let such a good place fall into the hands of these bastards!"
"You can't expect too much from the moral standards of the wastelanders."
Boss Jiang shook his head. He didn't care much about this. His attention was now focused on the vast sea area outside the bay.
The wastelanders call this sea the Sea of Decay.
The name is not in vain. Under the sunlight cast by the gloomy clouds, the sea water appears a strange rose red, forming a sharp contrast with the darkness of the sky.
It really was as if a horrific massacre had taken place here, and the piled bodies had been left to rot and degrade in the water, forming this exaggerated and bizarre scene.
But from a distance, it doesn't look ugly.
On the contrary, it also reveals a very magical color, very much like the miracles described in some fairy tales.
"There must be some kind of halobacterium algae growing in large numbers in this water, which has polluted the surface into this strange rose color. Look! Boss, large salt crystals have formed in the sea.
The salinity of this seawater is absolutely terrifying.”
Nia flew the aircraft into the sea, constantly adjusting the observation module and outlining the large iceberg-like salt crystals captured from the sea surface on the optical projection in front of her.
She said to Boss Jiang:
“The nature of the seawater has been completely changed by these algae.
Although it looks strange and dangerous, the water quality is not bad and there is still a possibility of purification.
If Rogge can build a large-scale seawater purification device here in the future , the problem of water shortage in the wasteland will be fundamentally solved."
"That's something Black Fox needs to consider. Don't expect me to help him again."
Lao Jiang smiled, looked around the sea, opened the hatch at hand, and threw the big lazy snake's singing snake puppet from a high altitude into the sea below.
"Don't sleep in. Go find the nest of the radioactive worms, the largest and oldest one. According to Lewis' diary, it should be under this sea.
Look for it on the sea floor or in the trenches."
The big snake was thrown into the air with a confused look on its face. It bared its teeth at Lao Jiang, expressing its strong dissatisfaction. It then flapped the two pairs of wings behind it in the air, hovered for a while, and then fell into the water with a whoosh.
As soon as the puppet entered the water, it was immediately besieged by various forms of radioactive insects in the water.
But Ming Snake didn't care at all. It shook its body, revealing its true form of a hundred feet. It just casually swung its tail, causing huge waves on the Sea of Decay.
"We'll go down too."
Boss Jiang said to Nia beside him:
"Open the storage of the aircraft and capture some samples of radioactive worms. I am quite interested in these strange creatures formed by the infection of the wasteland.
I really want to know, what is the principle behind the 'disguise' that my big brother gave to Lewis?
Putting on this disguise, Huang can ignore the world. Isn't this a bit too magical?"
