traveler among pirates

Chapter 55 Machinery for stacking steel walls

Boo!
Hughes' boat successfully penetrated the thick gray fog around the island, and the surrounding light became much brighter, but it was still gray.

Obviously, the closer to the small island, the thicker the gray fog, but after really getting close to the small island, the gray fog disappeared and the field of vision became wider.

The thick gray fog seems to be blocked from the island by an invisible wall.

After driving out of the gray fog, the outline of the small island in the distance was fully displayed in front of Hughes.

"Is that... a castle?"

Hughes looked at the island with some doubts.

Originally thought it would be a small island in the distance, but after getting closer, Hughes realized that the island was not so much an island as a huge mechanical castle on the sea.

It was a huge mechanical castle surrounded by huge steel walls, and there was a steady stream of gray fog pouring out of the castle.

"That's where the gray fog comes from."

From a distance, Hughes could see several chimney-top-like things appearing in the castle, and countless gray mist came out of the smoke mouth.

After the gray mist entered the air, it spread out in all directions, but it just didn't get close to the steel castle.

Even though there is still a long distance away from the steel castle, Hughes can still hear clearly from a distance from the steel castle. The sound of scandium, scandium, scandium, and the mechanical operation of scandium, scandium, and scandium, as well as the sound of gears meshing and rotating, can still be heard clearly in the distance of the steel castle.

The whole island is like a real steel castle on the sea.

After getting close to the steel fence, Hughes was really shocked, "Oh! This is higher than ordinary mountains!"

The magnificent steel fence in front of him stood high in front of Hughes. Although the steel fence in front of him was indeed shocking, it was indeed full of scars.

On this towering dark steel fence, there are many large black and red plaques and dark red rust.

Not only that, but there are many traces criss-crossing on it, including knife marks, gun marks, and some huge potholes, and tooth marks. Hughes guessed that those potholes should also be caused by Neptunes in the sea.

Those marks should have been left a long time ago. Most of the marks have grown a layer of moss, and the color of the scars and the wall have almost become the same color.

Those dark red plaques are formed after blood clots, most of which are human blood, and some are sea kings.

This majestic steel wall with a long history is like a giant standing tall, firmly guarding everything inside the wall.

Hughes looked at the steel fence in front of him, and rested his right hand on Fei's knife handle. Not all the traces on the fence were ancient.

Hughes saw a gravure with a diameter of nearly 100 meters left on the wall, and there was still bright red blood in it, from which he could judge the ferocity of the unknown creature hitting the wall.

Judging from the degree of blood clotting, Hughes should have left the indentation only a few days ago.

The thing that attacked this wall should still be in the sea nearby.

In the deep sea, a huge black shadow slowly wandered past Hughes' feet.

"Ok?"

Hughes frowned slightly and looked into the sea, but found nothing.

Although the surrounding fog can affect the sea, the fog can only penetrate a few meters deep into the sea, and it can't even stop some sea kings, let alone deep-sea sea beasts and giant sea kings.

Hughes was a little strange. It stands to reason that there should be weapons such as cannons for attack on this kind of fence, but let alone a muzzle, Hughes didn't even see a single figure, whether it was alive or dead. .

This steel fence seems to be passively beaten, without the function of actively counterattacking.

And from the traces left on the wall, it can be seen that this wall has not been repaired for a long time, and the steel plates in some places have been cracked, exposing the dense steel frame inside.

The history of this wall should be very old. Hughes operated the Scarlet Sakura and began to drive around this still steel castle. He wanted to find a place like a harbor where he could log in.

The towering dark wall firmly guarded the small island, and the wall surrounded the entire island as if there were no gaps.

Hughes circled the castle and finally found a place where he could land on the island.

It was a beach-like login point, except that there was no sand on it, only various mechanical parts and a lot of steel scrap.

Hughes leaned the Scarlet Sakura closer, and tied the boat to a huge steel beam stacked on the coast.

There was a mountain of rubbish in front of him. Hughes scanned the surrounding area, but there was no sign of living people.

"strangeness?"

Hughes looked at the port with only garbage in front of him, and was a little puzzled. This should be the pier. On the coast, Hughes saw the huge iron stakes used to tie the cables.

This is because the surface of these bollards has been corroded to such an extent that Hughes stretched out his hand and scratched lightly, and a large piece of rust was caught off, and the interior of the bollards was also completely decayed.

"No one has been here for at least hundreds of years."

And at this pier, Hughes didn't see a ship, not even a damaged ship, only the pile of rubbish piled up.

Hughes boarded this garbage mountain and searched around it. There were only steel scraps and a large number of mechanical parts on it, not even some household garbage. Hughes felt a little weird.

Even if there are fewer people in this castle, it wouldn't mean that there isn't even a little household garbage, and some of the iron and steel piled up on this garbage mountain have even decayed to the point of breaking.

But some iron materials are still very new, as if they were discarded here not long ago.

After Hughes couldn't find any useful information, he walked towards the only passage leading to the steel wall in the distance.

On the garbage mountain, there is an obviously artificial path leading to that passage.

And there are some drag marks on it, Hughes looked at the drag marks on the ground, Hughes thought there should still be someone here.

After walking on the garbage mountain for nearly an hour, Hughes reached the outer edge of the passage.

Hughes felt that the wall outside the castle was sunken inward on the pier side, as if it was specially built, but there was no gate in the sunken wall, only the passage.

And the passage in front of him didn't seem to have existed before, for people to pass through.

Instead, it was cut out directly from the wall, and Hughes saw some traces on the inner wall of the passage that were obviously made by man.

And those traces are not neat, there are bumps and hollows.

This country is like a country completely surrounded and closed by tall walls. There is no normal passage for outsiders to enter and exit, and there is no intention to communicate with outsiders normally.

On the outer wall of this sunken wall, Hughes also found many unusual devices, which were different from those facing the sea.

The wall near the sea is integrated as a whole, there is no superfluous structure on the surface, and it is completely used to resist foreign enemies.

Here, there are many vertical and horizontal grooves on the fence, and many circular deep holes of different sizes. These deep holes are artificially built.

On the ground beside it, there are many iron boxes and some devices that Hughes can't understand. These decayed and aging mechanical devices are scattered randomly.

There are still some traces of potholes and depressions on those devices. Hughes guessed that those things should have been erected on the fence, but because no one repaired them for a long time, they eventually decayed and fell down.

The passage in the wall is nearly ten meters wide and high, and there are traces of heavy objects being dragged on the ground.

The steel scrap outside the passage is different from what Hughes saw at the coast. The mechanical parts here are not very aging, and Hughes can even smell a strong smell of engine oil on it.

Not only that, Hughes also saw a large number of human-shaped metal people in the nearby garbage mountains.

Hughes had sensed these metal men, and they seemed to be all poured from the same metal, without any other mechanical parts inside.

Moreover, there is no gap between the metals, which means that these metal figures are cast as a whole, and there is no sign of splicing
These metal people are everywhere, and no two are exactly alike, as if...

"It's almost like a real human being," Hughes looked at these metal figures with a solemn expression, "even the expression is so similar to a human being."

(End of this chapter)