Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 72
When Chekhov arrived in Tesla City with the people, the nearest outpost team transporting the steam core was about to set off.

The guards who came to meet him had been waiting for a long time.

Li Jianghao asked them not to take the initiative to contact these strangers, but to wait for them to arrive in Tesla City on their own initiative before making plans.

Case was appointed as the captain. According to him, the role he can play in the city is limited. It is better to go outside the city to explore and perform various tasks.

In other words, during these five days, this guy, except for the necessary sleep, has been working almost all day long, a proper New London Iron Man!
Chekov didn't pursue the matter of Allen breaking the lens, and he didn't care about the huge ship in the sky he described, it was just Allen's illusion.

Their immediate task is to find existing human settlements so that their companions can survive.All the equipment that could be discarded was thrown on the dreadnought battleship.

Along the way, they encountered at least three dreadnought battleships stranded. Some of them had half of their bodies sunk into the ice, which told them that the place they were in now was above the original sea and still some distance away from the land.

After walking hard for most of the day, I finally saw Tesla City.

What didn't surprise them was that only a small area extending from the energy tower surrounded by power protection measures in the center of Tesla City was still running, and the residents who were supposed to be here were nowhere to be seen.

Outside the city, a simple tombstone has the number 325 engraved on it, showing the number of survivors who died here.

"We are the guards of New London. Tesla City has been abandoned as an outpost for transporting the steam core. If you are willing to take refuge in New London, we will provide the necessary food and heat lamp charging, but you have to hand it over weapons."

Case read out the rules, Chekov scratched his head, and was the first to drop the weapon in his hand.Anyway, there are no bullets inside.

The weapons of 20 people were taken away and stored in the warehouse in Tesla City. Case distributed the cooked ingredients and called the team leader Chekhov to let him select [-] people to go to New London first.

Afterwards a new scouting team will come to pick up the rest.

Chekov expressed his understanding of this move, as long as the other party did not deliberately make things difficult for him because he was a Slav.After all, in his impression, these queen's subjects have always been very proud.

After taking a short rest with the people selected by Chekhov, Case took the outpost's transport sled and returned directly to New London.

At midnight on this day, it finally arrived at the orbital station in New London.

Chekov observed the city with great interest, which was different from all the ideas he had imagined before his arrival.

They actually built their houses outside the camp and used a large number of steam hubs for heating extravagantly. It was obvious that the various resources exploited here were abundant.

Chekhov was asked to bring only one person into the city to communicate with the mayor, and the rest were arranged in the outer houses on the spot.

Alan was led by Chekhov, got on the rail car under the leadership of Case, and drove all the way to the center of the energy tower.

The field of view on the rail car was very small, and it wasn't until Chekov got off the car and looked back at the whole city that he was amazed at what kind of city he had arrived in.

There are many houses, and some areas are brightly lit. The industrial production buildings in the distance cast long lights, and the huge figures of robots are operating in it.

The power equipment temporarily moved back from Tesla City is given priority to various industrial production buildings to ensure that accidents can be dealt with as soon as possible at night.

Then there are the street lights set up at certain distances in each street. Although they can only illuminate a small part of the area, they still give people a kind of silent comfort in the middle of the night.

If it weren't for the cold wind that was still howling outside, and the shadow of the towering mountain walls in the low-lying land in the distance, he must have felt that he had returned to the city in the spring time!
This scene made him even more curious about the mayor.

Chekov met Li Jianghao in the control room of the energy tower. Originally, he thought that Li Jianghao would have a house to himself and transform it into a more comfortable place to live.

In the end, the mayor sat on the edge of the steel frame bed with a simple quilt on it, waiting for them.

Case closed the door of the control room, and the temperature in the room quickly returned to a suitable level. Chekov and Allen took off their cold-proof clothes and were sitting on chairs waiting for Li Jianghao to ask.

Chekov was still holding the notebook with the lock in his hand, neatly.

Li Jianghao looked at the two people in front of him, and he was also amused, thinking that they would come up and be grateful, but in the end they are so strict with themselves, it seems that they must be not ordinary people.

He took a pen and paper, and asked, "We observed that you landed on the east coastline, which is indeed the place where the dreadnoughts mentioned in the official reports of various countries landed, but you are too late, and it doesn't look like it. It's ordinary residents who were selected before, more like soldiers. So can you tell us where you started from, and why it took so long?"

Chekov's eyes were cautious. He expected that the other party would be very observant, so he was not prepared to hide anything. He said slowly:

"In 1872, Turkish astronomers discovered a new group of asteroids. In 1887, the Patagonian earthquake in South America was found to be caused by a meteorite hitting the Antarctic continent. Then the dimming of the sun was observed, and the scientist was Sent to the equatorial region to observe atmospheric circulation data. In March this year, the Empire and the Slavic Federation jointly dispatched a team to escort the scientist to the energy tower camp for refuge. By the time we arrived, the scientist had committed suicide, leaving only This notebook."

Chekov held up his notebook and handed it to Case.Then continued:
"It took us some time to confirm this fact, and then we lost contact with our superiors and could only go here on our own. Two months of driving caused our dreadnought to lose power, and finally arrived at the dreadnought landing site yesterday, A distress call has been issued."

Li Jianghao poked his chin with the end of his pen, then drew a line on the paper and asked:
"Is Patagonia located in South America near the Antarctic continent?"

If the meteorite impact was on the Antarctic continent and caused the earthquake there, the distance between the two locations is already very close.

"That's right, it's located between the southernmost tip of South America and the Antarctic." Chekov nodded and said yes, with both hands stretched out as if to gesture for something, the next sentence was squeezed in his throat for a while before he said:
"It's one of your empire's colonies. When the cold began to fall, some local governors didn't follow your empire's orders and ran to the Antarctic continent for refuge."

Li Jianghao arched his brows and asked tentatively: "Then, they are all dead?"

(End of this chapter)