Chapter 21: Creating Chaos
"What's going on?" The sudden darkness caused the entire Traveler City to be in chaos. Although most of the undersea races have good vision or other perception abilities, they are all abilities that can only be used in water. Just like the ability of sonar positioning, many marine creatures have it, but the inside of the Traveler City is an air environment, and sonar cannot be used in such an environment. Let's talk about that vision problem. Although some undersea races have evolved super visual abilities to cope with the darkness of the sea, this vision should actually be called glimmer vision, not dark vision.
My dark vision can see objects without any light at all, but glimmer vision still requires light to see things. However, compared with ordinary vision, glimmer vision only requires a little light to see things, which is still much more powerful. However, Traveler City is a closed-structure underwater city, and its internal light comes from artificial light sources. Now all the lighting equipment is suddenly extinguished. Not to mention that there is not even a trace of light here now, even if the light is just a little darker, their glimmer vision cannot work. After all, this sudden change from a very bright environment into the dark environment requires time to adapt, and even if the pupils are dilated and collect light, it takes time. Besides, Traveler City is really pitch black here. Even if the pupils are scattered, they cannot receive any light, so for a while, people in the entire city become blind.
"Soldier." Taking advantage of the darkness, I grabbed the guy who was standing at the entrance of the passage and ordered sternly without waiting for the other party to react: "You go downstairs and see what's going on. Maybe it's the good thing that the idiots in the engine room did again." After that, I didn't care about the other party's answer and pushed him down the stairs. In my dark vision, the guy directly turned into a rolling gourd and rolled down the steps. But after all, he was a warrior, with good balance, and quickly stabilized his body and climbed up again. But after he got up, he didn't come up, but continued to run down. Obviously, he really planned to see what was going on.
After the guard was still finished, I grabbed another guy and shouted to him: "Soldiers, go and report the situation here to your head, so that he can be more vigilant to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos."
Although it was so dark that nothing could be seen, the guy from the Sea Beast clan saw Adina and me before the light went black. Generally speaking, those who dared to give orders in this tone must be senior personnel, so this guy did not doubt my identity at all. When he heard the order, he immediately ran to report. However, the entrance here became an unguarded passage.
After confirming that the guards had gone far, I took out a small metal product from my body, threw it down at the stairs, and immediately pulled Adina and left here.
The little thing I threw out jumped along the ground and went down to the corner of the stairs. Then, with a sudden sound, a large red flame was spewed out, and then the flame gradually turned white and continued to spray, illuminating a large area around instantly.
With the emergence of this thing, a group of members of the Fishman Resistance Organization who had been ambushing a long time ago immediately rushed up the stairs. These guys were very fast. As soon as they reached the upper floor, they immediately ran towards their predetermined targets. But at this time I had already run to a stairwell leading to the higher floor not far away.
The structure of Traveler City is like this. The bottom main structural layer is actually divided into two layers. These two layers are mainly urban infrastructure, sports machinery, power systems, production facilities, etc. Starting from these two layers, there is an intermediate structural layer. This layer is large in area and not low in height, but it is divided into four layers, with some very narrow houses inside. This layer is the main living area of fish people. It belongs to the slums.
The part I just entered with Adina is actually above the middle level. This position should be considered an upper structure area, and the interior is also divided into two layers, but unlike the average division method of the middle and lower levels, the middle height of the two layers divided into the upper structure area is different. The lower layer accounts for more than 80% of the total height. Adina and I were just on this floor. The main function of this floor is still the living area, but the houses here are very spacious, and there are a large number of shops and other living facilities. Those who can live on this floor are basically the ruling class. Of course, there are also fishmen here, but they are limited to a small number of aristocrats among fishmen.
The stairwell that Adina and I entered now is the passage to the higher level. The height of the first floor above is relatively low. Its interior is mainly various weapon areas, control rooms, office spaces for the mermaids and other rulers here, which are equivalent to the command center.
Although the floor we entered just now was also a residential area for senior personnel, it was just a residential area after all, so the guards were not very strict, but the floor above was different. We just climbed halfway through and heard footsteps on it, and then we saw several mermaids holding lighting equipment running down from above, followed by a large group of sea beast warriors.
After approaching us, the other party naturally discovered us. Although the stairs between different heights of the city are so wide that it is not as wide as two people can cross over without finding each other. However, when I was still thinking about whether to find a way to get away with it or to solve these people, the other party ran down and shouted to us: "Are you here to inform us of the fault of the energy line? If so, you don't have to go up, and there are problems with the line above."
As soon as I heard this, I immediately understood it, and then immediately pretended to be very anxious and shook my head and said, "No, that's not a malfunction, it was deliberately destroyed by the fish man's hard work. They are rioting, so I just went up to report the news."
"What?" The other party was shocked when he heard this news. Then he immediately said, "You go and report the situation first, don't delay." After that, he shouted to the person he brought, "Hurry, hurry up, follow me, pretend first when you meet a fishman. If you dare to resist, you will kill him."
"Yes." The sea beast warrior behind agreed and started running downwards. Then the entire team ran past us, but no one cared about us.
When Adina saw those idiots just passing by, she covered her mouth and laughed secretly. Then she followed me and started running upwards.
The team we saw in the middle of the stairs just now was obviously not a guard, but should have been a team that found something wrong and went down to investigate the situation. After we reached the top of the stairs, we immediately encountered the guard here.
There were more than a dozen people guarding the passage, a small part of which were the sea beasts, and the rest were mermaids. Because the large army had just left, we must have had contact with the large army by time, so the guards above didn't respond to us when they saw us, and just asked us casually what was going on below.
Look at the total of more than a dozen people here, and there are only four portable magic lamps, and the light source is very bad. I immediately pretended to run to them and shouted: "Hurry up...the fishman is rioting!"
"What?" The guards here were obviously shocked by the news. Although the combat power and technical strength of the fisherman are the worst among the races in Traveler City, they cannot resist the number of people. More than 70% of the population of the entire Traveler City are fisherman races. With such a large proportion, even if half of the people riot, they can still gain an absolute numerical advantage. Even if the races such as mermaids and sea beasts think they are very powerful, they understand that if half of the other party dare to stand up and fight to the death, even if they can suppress them, they will be able to continue afterwards.
There are definitely heavy casualties. What's more important is that the fishman race is the labor force in Traveler City. If they have too many casualties, the impact on these upper races will be huge. It's like although some powerful and powerful so-called big people look down on workers, if one day the workers across the country suddenly die, do you think those people can still remain indifferent? Without low-level workers, these big people will become low-level workers. After all, no matter how powerful and rich you have to eat, you will all die. If you don't want to starve to death, you have to farm by yourself. This is very simple.
It is precisely because those mermaids and other rulers who know that fishmen are both the object of oppression and a kind of wealth to them that they are so afraid of fishmen riots, because no matter whether the final riot is successful or not, they will inevitably suffer losses. Who would be willing to do this kind of absolute loss?
Just when those guys were surprised by my news, I had already walked the last few steps in front of them. Then, just as they surrounded me and wanted to know some specific situations, I suddenly moved.
Crack, a crossed white light flashed, and the crowd surrounding him suddenly froze. Then, without any warning, all fell to the ground, and even the bodies were divided into several pieces and scattered all over the ground.
I gently took back eternity, and then carefully avoided the blood on the ground and jumped over. Adina had gone around the opposite side before I took action, but this time she was so happy that she jumped again.
After killing the guards, we went straight along the passage and encountered a T-shaped intersection. Because the uppermost floor is just a command and military area, the floor is not high and the passage is not too wide. After we walked over from here, we saw a door on the left area suddenly opened, and then a mermaid in armor walked out of it. After seeing us, the other party directly asked: "What position do you have? Why did you come here?"
I didn't answer at all when I heard him, but threw it with a flying knife. Unexpectedly, the other party raised his head and avoided it. However, after he stood up, I had already arrived in front of him. He put his left hand on his shoulder and pulled his body up with his strength. At the same time, his right hand claw popped out, aimed at his stomach, and directly penetrated it.
After three holes were opened in this guy's stomach, his body immediately softened. I pushed forward gently, and the guy fell backward immediately. However, just as he fell down, I suddenly heard a strange breathing sound on the left, and turned my head to scare me. On our left, the door, which was the door that the guy just came out, was still open, which means that we were actually standing at the door and having a life-and-death struggle, but the problem was that the door was not empty. It was a huge space like an auditorium, and there were people inside, all of them staring at us stupidly.
At that moment, even I was a little shocked because I actually killed one of their companions in front of thousands of people. This behavior was a bit too ostentatious. However, what surprised me even more was that so many people gathered here. No sound or energy fluctuations were heard. In the end, the sound I heard was something that someone walked out of the room and made a breath of breath. At that moment, I thought of the reason. This room like the auditorium was probably a place similar to a conference room. There must be a magic array to prevent detection, so the sound and energy breath inside could not be transmitted at all, so I didn't even notice that so many people were standing next to me.
Although I was negligent, the other party was also stunned by the sudden change, so both sides were stunned for a while. Then, we reacted almost at the same time, but the performance of both parties was much worse.
The people in the room suddenly fell into collective rage. Then they jumped up and rushed towards the gate. The guy standing at the door who was about to go out suddenly became ferocious and touched the sword hanging on his waist. However, I was much faster than him. Just as he reached out to touch the sword, I suddenly raised my legs and kicked him back to the room, and then pulled two large liquefied magic crystal steam bombs from Fenglong Space, unscrewed the safety and threw it in, then turned around and ran away.
I only ran less than ten meters away and heard a thunder from behind, followed by a large number of flames gushing out from the door. Fortunately, the direction of the gate and corridor was inconsistent. The airflow and flames that rushed out fell a lot after turning, otherwise even I would have suffered.
"Master, someone is coming up here!" I had just avoided the explosion and suddenly stood in front of him and heard Adina's voice. She had just stood at the T-shaped intersection and didn't come over. Now she shouted like this, it was obvious that someone is coming up below. If I guessed it was good, these people would probably be the team of soldiers we saw before.
At this time, I was not interested in slashing against those people, so I directly threw a liquefied magic crystal steam bomb to Adina. "Take it down."
Adina also reacted very quickly. After catching the liquefied magic crystal steam bomb, she twisted the safety and pulled off the detonation lock and threw it into the stairwell. Then she started running back. In less than two seconds, there was another bang outside, and the flames rushed up with a wave of heat.
When Adina got up again, I had already run over and pulled her up and started running forward. We had already been to one side of the t-shaped fork, and also threw a bomb. On the other side was the direction we came up, and there was only one direction left. Follow the passage here, and before we could run far, we saw two warriors of the sea beast clan running over. After seeing us, the other party asked directly: "What's wrong?"
When I reached this question, I pretended to be injured and pointed in the direction we were coming, and then coughed. The other party was obviously anxious and rushed over without waiting for our answer. However, just as they passed by us, Adina and I took action to solve these two stupid guys one by one.
After turning the passage a bend, there was a long forward passage ahead, but there were many forks on the right side of the passage. I had encountered the resistance organization, but I expected to get some information from them, but after asking, I found out that they could not get up to the superstructure at all, so they knew not as much as I did. Without maps and route information, we could only find our own way. Unfortunately, we were probably running out of luck, and the first selected fork turned into a place similar to the garrison. A large group of soldiers rushed out directly. Although I still had a liquefied magic crystal steam bomb, the other party was quite fierce. Even though many people were killed, the rest still rushed out.
We came up not to fight with these guys, but to find the command center. So when we saw this situation, I decisively took out three liquefied magic crystal steam bombs and threw them out, then turned around and ran away. With the sound of a bomb, the passage in front was directly scrapped, and the pursuers behind could not pass for the time being even though they were not dead. However, the road ahead was not easy to walk, because we had seen a large group of sea beast warriors turning out of the passage in front.
"Damn, why are there so many?"
"This is a military zone, it's normal for the owner to have too many people."
"But would you place the army's garrison next to the battleship command room?"
"But this is not a warship!"
Adina's words suddenly made me understand one thing. That is, we seem to have gotten the wrong direction.
We don't know where the command center of Traveler City is, because those who can come in are rulers, and rulers are vested interests, so they cannot participate in the Rebel Organization. So although the Rebel Organization cooperated with us, it cannot provide the above map. Because there is no map, we have been moving in the direction we think. Although Traveler City is big, it can move and is a mechanical system in the water. So I naturally regard it as a ship, or a warship. According to War
The design idea of the ship is that the command room is not at the bow of the ship, but is in the center of the ship. We have seen the appearance of the Traveler City outside the Traveler City before. There is nothing prominent on the top of it that looks like a bridge. Therefore, if the command room is in the center, it will not be able to intuitively see the way forward, so I always thought that the command center is in the bow of the Traveler City. Because of this reason, Adina and I have been moving towards the bow of the ship after we came up. As a result, we encountered more and more troops, which is obviously abnormal.
Now I finally understand that it was my idea that something was wrong. Traveler City cannot be simply regarded as a warship. Although it also has the ability to move and is indeed an underwater machinery, the biggest difference between it and large ships is its speed.
After all, Traveler City is a city, and its movement speed is only equivalent to the speed of a normal person jogging. Moreover, its steering angle is very large, and there is almost no concept of flexible maneuvering. Because its speed is so slow, it does not need a command room at the bow of the boat that can observe the nearby environmental conditions and adjust its own movement posture at any time. For it, even if the command room is completely closed, as long as there are observers in the observation room around the hull and then report the information they see through any method, it is enough to support the judgment of Traveler City's navigation posture.
Because of this reason, Traveler City does not need to design the command room near the bow. On the contrary, if the need for observation is excluded, it is actually safer to buried in the core position. After all, putting it on the bow means that you cannot use more things to protect it, and there are not so many worries in the center of the hull.
Based on this idea, I finally understand what I am wrong now.
"It seems we need to try another direction."
"Then let's go back to the stairs we came up first?"
"We'd better grab a tongue and ask about the situation before that."
Given that we have great force, the work of catching tongue is not complicated. I was very simple to capture two mermaids, and then I briefly interrogated them and got the answer I needed.
Traveler City indeed placed the command room inside, and the location was quite speechless. After a long time, this command room was not actually in the upper control area and military area, but on the top of the high residential area below.
The entire command center is located in the area of the residential area in terms of location, but it is not on the ground, but hanging from the ceiling of the advanced residential area, and its entrance is also located in the center of the military area.
According to the captive's explanation, we quickly got the road map and began to move forward rapidly along the route. There were indeed many people blocking it along the way. However, because the fishman riot below finally changed from a small-scale behavior to a collective riot, the mermaids and other leaders above were also busy. As a result, a large number of personnel from the upper military zone were sent down to suppress the riot, and the guards above were much less.
"If the information given by the two prisoners is correct, the command center should be at the end of the corridor in front?" Adina asked.
I nodded and said, "No matter from time to time, there are so many important departments around this place, and it will not be too bad. If you go in, don't be busy killing people. Those high-ranking prisoners will be kept. We also expect them to help control Traveler City."
Adina nodded to show her understanding, and I also began to move forward.
Turning through the corner of the corridor, a relatively wide corridor immediately appeared in front of it. At the end of the corridor is a closed door, and eight guards stood at the door. The races of these eight guards are divided into four types, paired with two pairs, of course, among which are the mermaids and sea beasts. These two races seem to be the main combat races here. In addition, there are two races in the guard that they have never seen before. One of them is a large part of the height of humans, at least two meters tall, with a long face and very large eyes, just like a fly, occupying more than two-thirds of the area of the face. Moreover, these guys have blue skin and only four fingers instead of rootless ones.
In addition to this blue-skinned giant, there is also a race on the scene that looks like a human, but has a turtle shell on it. I remember that there are turtle races among the underwater races, so these two are likely from this race.
Unlike the guards I met before, the eight guys on the opposite side were obviously equipped with long-range firepower. As soon as we appeared, we saw a few blue dots flying over. I was so scared that I quickly shrank back. Then I heard a rapid and aggressive sound. When I turned around, I found that there were at least a dozen blue crystal rods inserted into the wall turning around the corridor. These crystal gangs were as slender as chopsticks, and the color was dim blue. The length could not be seen because some of them were inserted into the wall. However, the outside part was about seven or eight inches long, and the part in the wall was probably one or two inches long. In this way, this thing was almost one foot long.
"Is this a crossbow arrow?" Adina looked at the stuff stuck on the wall and asked me.
I nodded, then reached out and bounced on one of them. Unexpectedly, the thing would shatter as soon as I touched it, and then a ball of fire burst out, instantly lifting Adina and me. Unexpectedly, the other party's weapons would explode. Fortunately, my defense was high enough, so I couldn't do anything to me, otherwise I would really capsize in the gutter.
I used to take Adina to disguise, but now that I have reached the end of the battle, I don’t have to disguise anything anymore. I directly asked Emmenis to cancel my disguise illusion, and at the same time recovered Adina and replaced Jingjing and Victoria.
After standing again at the corner of the passage, I began to count down three or two one with gestures. When I counted one, Jingjing immediately flashed out with her shield. Since the eight guys on the opposite side could be responsible for guarding the command center, they were naturally masters. Jingjing had just flashed out, and a row of crystal arrows flew over from the other side. Unlike the previous hitting the wall nails, this time the crystal arrow hit Jingjing's shield and exploded immediately, but Jingjing's specialty was defense. Even if the explosion occurred on the surface of the shield, it did not cause any damage to her. Except for the shock wave that made her body shake slightly, it had no other effect.
After Jingjing blocked a round of attacks, Victoria and I immediately flashed behind Jingjing, and then began to slowly advance with Jingjing. When the other guards saw that we were actually leaning forward with the attack, they immediately had a more intensive attack, but Jingjing's shield blocked the front, and there was a straight passage here, lacking shooting angle, so their attacks were useless except for hurting our ears with explosions.
Since it is a long-range weapon, it must be consumed. After more than ten seconds of continuous attack, the opponent did have a pause, and there was no ammunition. We cooperated very well. As soon as the opponent's attack stopped, Jingjing immediately squatted down and tilted the shield out of the upper half of the passage. Then Victoria and I stood up at almost the same time and picked up their respective crossbow arrows and started to fight back. (To be continued) rq
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