High Above

  Chapter 474 Ant-like people (23)

Taking the imperial capital "Gushan" as the main body, there are a total of fifteen "large urban areas" towards the periphery. Each urban area is a relatively independent satellite city. You can vaguely see the central area of ​​the nearest large urban area, with more than a dozen high-rise buildings. , and three towers over 300 meters high in the central area.

  Each urban area has its own landmark buildings, so that the location can be clearly identified without any signage.

  The entire imperial capital is divided into three parts. The first one is naturally the city under the mountain. In a sense, it can be regarded as the "lower city" in a general big city. A small town like Gal Town is actually a part of the outer edge of the lower city, and is managed by different city owners.

  Then, it is inside the imperial capital, the 'Midtown City' located inside the huge city wall structure of the imperial capital. This is not the middle of the middle layer, but the middle, the central area. It is divided into multiple layers, and even has internal landscape ecology, lakes, rivers and special ecological park layers, and even fishing.

  All the important institutions and departments of the imperial capital are here. It is said that there is a complete set of production chains and industrial sites in the central city. When necessary, it can completely cut off all ties with the outside world and be self-sufficient.

  Finally, there is the upper city on the upper level of the lonely mountain—the giant defense facility of the imperial capital, where the special institutions and the royal palace of the Setar royal family are located, divided into inner and outer sides.

  Ian's target this time, the imperial headquarters of the Knights of the Patrol, is located on the fifth floor of the central city, and he will enter from the triple tower city.

  Theoretically speaking, with the boy's current identity and the proof he holds, it is easy to enter the Midtown area, just walk in with a big swagger.

   But there is a difference between ease.

   "We're here to pick you up, Ian Knight."

  As the horses of Ian and Hua Dark Frostdie gradually stopped, a group of knights in silver-gray armor appeared in front of them.

  These knights rode pure-blooded dragon horses. Their bodies were covered by a layer of gray carapace close to the body, while silver metal armor plates were inlaid in key parts, with different patterns shining on them, obviously supported by inscription technology.

  These armors bear the emblem of the Eye of the Sun resplendent on the shoulders, as well as on the forehead. That is the logo of the Patrolling Knights, which replaces the eyes of the "Sertal Royal Family" representing the "Sun" to supervise the world.

  The front of their helmets is a layer of smooth black crystals, and a 'T'-shaped metal structure is raised on the back of the neck, which seems to be a signal transmission device for the communication bone.

   The knight headed by the voice is very familiar, even through the fully enclosed helmet is quite recognizable.

   That was the voice of the patrol knight Tres that I met on the alchemy train.

  But he pretended not to know him, so the boy raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't hear it: "Of course I'm fine, I'm here to report on my work...but where is my companion?"

   "The two goblin ladies can naturally go together."

   Tres rode a horse and signaled the team to turn to lead the way: "Everyone."

  He raised his hand and pointed upwards obliquely, as if pointing to a city not far away.

  The man said with a smiling voice.

   "Welcome to the imperial capital."

   And Ian, Hua An and Shuangdie looked at each other, and then stepped forward with a smile.

  …

Between the sky and the earth, stands a huge city that blocks the sky and the sun. Near the edge of the city, it is impossible to judge its arc, nor its height, because all sightlines have been blocked and can only be seen vaguely. The center of the city towers into the depths of the clouds in the sky, leading directly to the peak-like structure at the top of the sky.

   And in the cable car passage outside the city, Ian walked side by side with Tres, who took off his helmet.

   "It's only been three days, and you've become the captain?" The white-haired boy shook his hair, his tone surprised: "You got promoted very quickly."

   "It's just the captain. After all, I've been an undercover agent for so many years, and I've advanced to the second energy level, and I've made great achievements—Kate, that is, the prisoner I caught unexpectedly knows a lot of things."

   Tres smiled and said, he looked down at the badge on his chest, and stroked it lightly: "I have worked so hard for so many years, and the result is this."

  Ian stared at the emblem of the Eye of the Sun with wings on both sides, and nodded slightly: "It's really hard work."

   "You won't understand, genius."

   Tres smiled slightly.

  There are many high-power glow lights on the top of the city wall structure of the imperial capital, and under the illumination of the lights, the patrol knight team and Ian and his party are taking a cable car to enter the inner city of the imperial capital.

  As Ian speculated, the official entrance of the imperial capital is on the inner side of the city wall structure above 300 meters, because according to the design of the pre-epoch civilization, all the city wall structures are located underground.

   Now that the overall structure of the imperial capital is uplifted, it is natural to raise the original entrance and exit to a rather excessive level.

   Bathed in some too bright searchlights, the cable car is slowly pulled up.

The huge size of the imperial capital always makes people who approach it feel shocked, especially sitting in the transparent cable car and slowly approaching, Ian can see most of the details of the imperial capital—the alloy layer of the city wall structure has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain. Blowing and raining, it has long been covered with a thick grayish-brown structure. This is not the accumulation of dust, but the 'skin' caused by the proliferation of biomass fibers on the inside.

Patterns like plant roots emerge on this layer of skin, forming a huge inscription matrix pattern that is somewhat beyond human imagination. They flash with a shimmer that is difficult for ordinary people to detect, pulsating at an extremely slow speed It is like the pulse of human blood vessels.

   Without the silver chip, Ian would have had a hard time spotting this.

But with the silver chip, Ian can be sure that every pulsation of these inscription arrays will trigger an extremely surging energy surge inside—if the entire imperial capital is a super giant machine or a creature, then This energy surge is the shock caused by its blood flow.

   "What kind of creature is this?" Ian couldn't help but think about it, even though he knew that such thinking was fruitless.

  The scan of the silver chip is just a 'planetary shield generator' - this only proves its guess... Maybe this is a planetary shield of a biotech civilization?

  Ian did not take a full view of the imperial capital, which limited his analysis.

  At this moment, the cable car has come to an area more than 200 meters high. Ian turned around and looked down at the 'lower city' below him from the other side. Under his feet, dense buildings one after another and high-rise buildings tens of meters high are organically combined to form a bustling and prosperous neighborhood, with spacious passages, alchemy vehicles and logistics convoys running along the road, the blood vessel of the city, The loops come and go alternately.

  In the criss-crossing streets and blocks, there are bright display board lights everywhere, which are extremely conspicuous even in the daytime, and the outer walls of the imperial capital are also covered with hundreds of cable cars and transportation tracks, interacting with materials in the middle and lower urban areas.

  In the lower city, there are only a small number of tower-like buildings that can be compared with the city walls of the imperial capital. They are the centers of the fifteen lower cities, and Ian's height is gradually becoming equal to them.

  People are already like ants.

  Ian was still gazing at the downtown crowd.

  Just a distance of 300 meters is enough to make people look like ants... What about the high-level empires who live in the upper city, which is at least the starting area of ​​3,000 meters?

  Ian raised his head, and he could already see the steel cone of the 'Lonely Mountain'... there were layers of building structures that spiraled up.

  Because of the altitude, air pressure, and the abnormal spiritual energy field brought by the shield light beam, ordinary people can't even survive in the upper city. They only need to move a little, and their internal organs will be crushed by the too terrifying pressure.

  Only the sublimated can move freely there.

  Uptown does not prohibit any ordinary people from entering. The emperor's palace is open to everyone.

  As long as they want, anyone can ask questions of the emperor himself, or any big person who can influence the empire.

  Just normal human beings... just can't do it.

  (end of this chapter)