Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 69 The Omen of the Sky and the Storm Mecha

The Dreadnought Landing Site.

Most of the survivors who came here from the southern continent landed in this strait on dreadnought warships.

Due to climate reasons, the ocean surface that spreads dozens of nautical miles from the original coastline has been frozen. Several dreadnought battleships are scattered on the ice sheet, unable to break through the ice.

The farthest funnel of a dreadnought.Steam is still coming out, but the remaining power can only be used for heating.

They were late, and the ice ahead was too thick to reach land.

There are more than [-] people here. There are no children or women. They are all men in their prime, with strict discipline, just like soldiers.

"Alan, it's time to change the guard!"

Chekov looked at the timetable and shouted. Allen, who was twisting the signal lens in front of the dreadnought, sent the last distress signal, fixed the lens lever, turned and walked back.

They are a special team jointly formed by the Empire and the Slavic Federation. They are used to escort a key person from the equator to the energy tower camp built by the Northland to ensure his survival.

But when they arrived at the Equator Science Station, the key person had committed suicide, leaving only a locked notebook.

The cover of the notebook is scribbled with chaotic lines forming a distorted triangular shape.Once people look directly at those lines, they will instinctively feel uncomfortable, and even a slight chill will overflow from their hearts.

As the captain, Chekov ordered the notebook to be sealed and the things taken to the North.If there are still people out there who can give them orders, then just hand things over to them.

But it is strange to say that they would have been overtaken by the blizzard four days ago and perished in the frost.

They have been too late.But the blizzard stopped at the critical moment, as if it would not move forward without any triggering conditions.

Chekov hurriedly led the team forward, and only then escaped from death and distanced himself from the blizzard.

"Colonel, we can't just wait here. The blizzard will catch up with us soon, and we have to find the nearest settlement." Allen wiped his sweat, twisting the lens lever in a certain order is a laborious task.

However, before the blizzard came, the daytime weather in this frozen land was very good, and the lighthouse on the other side of the frozen land had a chance to see the signal here.

Chekov pouted, his face a little tired.

There is no shortage of water here, but he hasn't had wine for a long time, and he drank it heartily. If he can have a sip of hot wine, he promises that he will be refreshed.

Chekhov said: "According to the map, there is Tesla City ahead. We have sent a distress signal for a day, but there has been no response from that city. I am not a pessimistic person, but I think people will come here even if they come. It is difficult to survive the blizzard after building such a big furnace to burn coal here."

"Colonel." Allen hesitated.

Chekov suddenly laughed, and said, "You're right, we can't sit still. Tomorrow morning, we will abandon the dreadnought and head straight for Tesla City."

Everyone quickly got ready, packed all their luggage and resources, and handed the notebook to Allen to take with him.

They charged the heat lamps with the last of the Dreadnought's heat, and after eating, they sat down against the bulkhead inside the battleship and began to rest.

Allen waited at the door of the cabin, waiting for the time for the last person to send the distress signal to take apart the signal lens together.

After the last set of signals was sent, Allen climbed up the lever ladder, put the lenses into a special box, and then finally held the core part of the lens set in front of his eyes and looked up at the sky for the last time.

With just this glance, Allen froze in the air, and the box in his hand slipped.Except for the core part in the hand, all the other lens groups fell down.

The teammates below hurriedly opened the box to confirm that all the lenses had been smashed.

"Alan, what are you doing!"

The teammates shouted impatiently, but Allen above was unmoved and kept staring at the sky.

A huge ship, a ship that cannot be described in words, is facing the planet.

It can be vaguely seen that the ship seems to be in the shape of an "H". When Allen came back to his senses and wanted to reconfirm, what he could see from the core of the lens was only the afterglow of dusk, rendered under the pure color sky The halo, and the coming blizzard.

Is it an illusion?
Allen didn't want to believe that what he saw was just an illusion, after all, it was too shocking.

new london.

Li Jianghao was standing on the platform above the factory workshop, looking down from above as the first robot not designed for industrial production left the factory.

Alexander didn't ask Li Jianghao much about the strangeness, but went to the factory together to watch the birth of this weapon-equipped robot.

Except for retaining a saw blade and a set of medical knives, the robot's lower equipment has changed drastically.

Three improved versions of the Maxim machine guns take care of the front and left and right directions respectively. A console and observation deck are installed on the central core of the robot, and are equipped with a three-person guard crew.

The observation window designed using the periscope principle allows the crew to smoothly observe the blind area in front of the field of view and under the robot.

In addition to being somewhat inconvenient to get on and off and change duty, the place where the crew is located is more conducive to protecting the crew from threats.

It can be said that such a war machine appeared on any battlefield at the end of the [-]th century and the beginning of the [-]th century, and it had the effect of reversing the situation on the battlefield.

"The crawler and orbital armed robots will also be officially equipped with steam engines. According to your preference, each armed robot retains the emblem of the skull and eagle wings. If possible, I also hope that the follow-up dreadnoughts can be used The same armed forces."

Once the droids were done, they were off to try and make a new dreadnought.

Alexander flipped through the report handed in by his subordinates, and nodded with satisfaction: "This shortcoming of unstable center of gravity will also be improved. The Prussians seem to be developing a kind of infantry combat vehicle called a tank before. The name is very good. Mr. Mayor, You can name it."

Li Jianghao doesn't think this thing can be called a tank at all, it's more like a mecha design in the concept of weapons.

So he casually said: "Let's call it Storm Mecha. By the way, if conditions permit, we can design some large-scale humanoid mechas."

"Why, wouldn't it mean that the center of gravity is even more unstable? Our power unit cannot be responsible for the function of the bottom moving joints when it is suspended in the air for a long time." Alexander was a little stunned and didn't know why Li Jianghao would make this request.

Li Jianghao touched his nose in embarrassment. Most of the mechas in his cognition were in human form, but he didn't think too much about it.

"Forget it, it's enough to be powerful."

"But Mayor, why do you have to add weapons to the robot to turn it into a mecha? Is there any threat in this doomsday world?"

"I don't know, but I have a hunch that after the blizzard, you will need these armed mechs."

(End of this chapter)