Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 142 Central Water Tower
"The distance we climbed just now is at least 500 meters. When we were outside, we didn't see a building of this height near the shock tower."

Arnold was panting, sitting on the platform, he felt that what they climbed just now was a bowl with an insane degree of curvature, as if the design of this place is to make people who pass here deliberately not know where they really are. It's the same anywhere.

Fortunately, there is a map to mark the location, and their location is located under the central water tower in the city.

Although it sounds like they are in the middle of the city, it is actually just under a water tower in a small residential area on the outskirts.There is still at least forty kilometers away from the real urban area.

To put it bluntly, the size of the city, even if the road terrain between Li Jianghao's camp and Mars' refuge is all flattened, it is possible to barely squeeze it.

Choosing to enter the water tower instead of directly entering the ground through the road sewer mouth is also to avoid attracting infected people.

The building height of the incoming water tower is generally the highest among the nearby buildings, and the nearby terrain and clusters of infected people can be viewed from a high place.

After finding a path with the fewest number of infected people, continue towards the inner city.

After entering the bottom of the water tower, according to the height calculation, they can be considered to be above the ground.

There is no building gate close to the water tower, and a group of people slowly enter the main body of the water tower.

They had to go up the stairs all the way, because the energy supply here was completely cut off, so that the intermediate storage reservoir had been completely emptied, and the spiral stairs trimmed around the periphery of the columnar reservoir were everywhere, with steel walls on one side and the outer casing of the reservoir on the other. Don't worry about the sudden attack of infected people.

Fortunately, walking the stairs was much more comfortable than climbing the ladder, and everyone quickened their pace.

Li Jianghao was carried directly on Thorne's shoulders. The latter didn't look tired at all and ran to the top of the water tower within 10 minutes.

The observatory at the top is generally open as a scenic spot, and it goes up through the elevator outside the water tower building, and it is blocked from the internal passage.

There is also the so-called stimulus project, from the closed transparent slide outside the water tower all the way down to the ground.Of course, the angle and route of this thing have been designed, and the smart brake backpack is buckled on the shoulders, so that the family members will not see a mass of meat instead of their family members at the bottom of the passage.

Li Jianghao read the tourist guide on the observatory with great interest. He leaned out and looked down. There were still a few lonely bodies hanging on several play tunnels.

It seems that the employees who wanted to leave the water tower from here when the infection broke out, but the power was cut off in the middle, causing them to be stuck in the middle of the play tunnel, probably died of starvation and exposure.

Thorne and Cagallo went to confirm the route. Li Jianghao was relieved by these professional mission execution skills. He didn't understand a lot of professional knowledge, so he wouldn't intentionally cause trouble. He just asked the two of them to do it after the mission. Good debriefing and notes for myself to research after the fact.

A Nuo looked at the tall buildings in front of him, feeling a little bit embarrassed.

The civilization era of hundreds of millions of zombies has developed to at least 2200 AD, which is more than 100 years more advanced than Li Jianghao's original world.

After the scientific and technological revolution, the urban architecture of old powers such as the Baby Empire has not changed much in the 21th and [-]st centuries, and even urban transportation measures such as subways are still products of the last century.
The Phoenix City in front of me still retains the architectural style that civilized humans can appreciate across two centuries. It has not developed into a cyberpunk or future technology city like the movie "The Fifth Element" that I can't understand but I was shocked. His appearance can be considered lucky.

Before Arnold's country suffered from the cold disaster, a metropolis was established, and some painters depicted the appearance of the city in the era of continuous technological development in the future, which is different from the scene before us, but also somewhat similar.

However, the general height and density of the buildings here can lift up the most developed city in the baby-bearing empire at the end of the [-]th century and the beginning of the [-]th century, which has a great visual impact on Arnold.

"Mayor, if our world doesn't come to an end, can we develop such a city?"

Li Jianghao has seriously thought about the future development prospects of the steam core technology tree and the difference engine. If the empire can continue to develop towards mechanization and forcibly ignore the superiority of circuit technology compared to mechanical transmission, then in the end, it can only jump on the ground. No day.

For all kinds of high-precision technology and aerospace needs, the difference machine technology can't meet it no matter what.

However, there is still hope for the development of the level of force in a world of hundreds of millions of zombies.

At least the foundation of the technology tree of both is related to steam, and various products are developing in a big and fierce direction.

As for catching up with the level of electronic technology, it is still too far behind.

Li Jianghao patted A Nuo on the shoulder and said:
"In this world, it is difficult to preserve the fire of civilization. People in the wasteland even have to dig out the technology from the past to develop. But you are different. New London has the science and technology preserved in the past, and you are together Work hard. After the natural disasters stop, you will develop a city that is more expansive than this scene."

Arnold smiled and said: "Mayor, this is what you said. And I can be resurrected after death, so as long as I don't see New London develop into such a big city and people come out of winter and return to life on land, I will never The belief in survival will not be lost.”

The two sighed with emotion for a while, and Cagallo and Thorne also jumped from the top of the water tower.

The rest of the undead team were on guard for the passage inside the water tower that might lead here. Although they didn't meet any infected people along the way, there was nothing wrong with being careful.

Thorn picked up the drawing pen, removed the visitor guide, and drew on the side without words on the back:
"We have to go through four blocks to reach the relay station inside the city. There is a simple defensive camp there. I just visually inspected that the defenses there are still intact and have not been attacked by infected people. We are starting now and arrive there to rest before nightfall. Then the first Early the next morning, walk two blocks along the relay station and enter the underground railway passage. From where to start, we will lose our current observation field of vision, and no one knows what we will encounter on the underground railway.”

Kagalo folded his arms and just nodded, agreeing with Thorne.Anyway, he doesn't know much about the urban architecture of these low-level monkeys. Although Thorne is a Thunder Warrior transformed into a human, he looks like a big bastard, but when it comes to the era of technology that he has really experienced, the other people here are really inferior to Thorne. experience.

After no one raised any objections, everyone followed the water tower all the way down, confirmed the direction of the infected group, jumped down the small door on the second floor of the water tower on the other side, and stepped on the ground of Phoenix City in a real sense.

The afternoon sun is torn by the tall building of the water tower, dividing the ground in front into two parts of light and shadow.

A little farther away, some infected people with limited physical mobility and wandering alone in the city for an unknown number of years basked in the sun, shaking their bodies slightly, which represented that they were still threatening.

(End of this chapter)