Chapter 1127 - People In the Engine Room (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren and his team were being pretty loud. But sometimes, chaos was a necessary evil. To reach the deepest part of the city, to confirm Vivian’s suspicion, and to figure out everything about Twilight Capital, Hao Ren needed to create chaos; the chaos that would draw all attention to the platform high above.

The ear-piercing whistle continued to sound like more and more Twilight Guards had responded to the call to guard the upper city. In the eyes of the head of the defense forces, things had become unbelievably strange as the situation got out of hand. The top commanders were beating their brains out but still had no clue of where these powerful troublemakers came from. What was more, the Lightseeker who had just returned from the dark wilderness was seemingly in a cohort with the troublemakers.

In the past, the city was reasonably peaceful. Though there were problems like resource shortages, equipment failures, mine accidents, and even the most severe fire of a large boiler, experts and scholars could always find the root cause of the problem quickly. This time, they seemed to be helpless.

They did not know where the troublemakers came from. Everything just happened without warning.

A state of emergency was declared on most of the rail lines and station platforms in the upper city. The two giant gear sets in the middle-upper Twilight Capital rumbled as steam spurted from the gear set that gradually slowed down. The large boiler was reducing its output to prevent the threat from spreading to the vital central pressure pipeline. If the large boiler were attacked and exploded, the damage to the city would be unimaginable.

To avoid this danger, Twilight Capital had its own emergency plan, of which pressure relief of the central pressure pipeline was a part.

In the vicinity of the platform, a fierce battle was still raging on. Seventy percent of the city reinforcements had gathered there, but they had not been able to contain the situation. Smoke and fire accompanied by the sound of explosions could be seen around the lift.

Near the large boiler in the upper city, in a steel-cast square tower, leaders of the Steam Assembly and the senior commander of the Twilight Guards were having an emergency meeting. A bald man with only one arm, eyes inlaid with robotic lens had just returned from the battlefield. He had brought the latest news. “The enemy’s tactics are keeping changing, they have a shapeshifting ability. It is chaos. There is no way to know the exact number of them and their appearance. Those guys even have the power to summon phantoms, so I guess there should be a powerful wizard among them. The appearance of summoned creatures in the battle makes things even more complicated.”

“Where did these guys come from?” asked the head of the Steam Assembly, a serious middle-aged woman with a frown. “I have heard some bad rumors; it is said that they are descendants of the ancient sage.”

Sitting in the shadow was a thin man, wrapped himself up in a short black robe, almost blended in with the darkness. He whispered in a hoarse voice, “This is not a rumor, it is told by the scholars. The basilisk, giant wolf, and flame giant; their characteristics are basically the same as the creatures in ancient legends. It seems that we are not the only ones surviving the Twilight of the Gods. They have also survived and been hiding in our city.”

Everyone in the room could not help but feel a chill ran up their spines. They started to make all kinds of negative conjectures.

Here, the situation of the chaotic battles on the lift platform had reached the ears of the city government; a group of clueless people were speculating among themselves and churning out bizarre theories about the incident.

But the participants in this melee were just as clueless.