The office building of Harut Heavy Industry in Dongdu has 15 floors, with dark exterior walls and red edges giving people an extremely solemn feeling. Outside the building, there are mercenaries driving war machinery patrols, and guards carefully checking everyone's ID and items they carry with them.

After the outbreak of the war, the spies of the Golden Shield Empire were indeed very active in Dongdu, which made the big men feel a little scared, afraid of being assassinated by accident.

Luke took a taxi to Haruit Heavy Industry Company. After he gave the fare, he calmly stepped on the snow and walked up the steps of the building. There was no problem with the ID and the employment letter, and he did not carry contraband on his body. The guard saluted him respectfully and said, "Mr. Luke, welcome to Haruit Heavy Industry! You can take the elevator to the 9th floor, where there are staff who specially receive you. I wish you a happy work and life in the Dongdu!"

"Thank you..." Luke nodded slightly with his hat brim and then walked into the lobby of the office building.

Upwards the hall is a vertical shaft that leads to the roof of the building. In the middle of the shaft is a steam pipeline that only two people can hold their arms wide to hug each other. Each floor is divided into pipes from the main pipeline. While heating the entire building, the entire steam conveying system also provides power for the stair defense system and laboratories located in various places.

Standing in the middle of the hall, Luke couldn't help but admire the uniqueness of Yatjung United in the steam field. This large-scale and efficient use of steam is impossible for Nutao City. If Dong is not an inland city and is at a high latitude, Nutao City has no ability to compete with Dongdu in the industrial field.

The harsh environment and climate are inherently deficient in Yat-jung United. The control of heavy industrial capital has caused Yat-jung United to invest in low-efficiency light industry. This makes the living standards of the rich and poor within Yat-jung United. Mina's family cannot afford gloves because gloves are very expensive here.

Various reasons have made Yat County Union determined to obtain land in the south. The increasingly difficult social contradictions to recover can only use the war to vent internal pressure.

Luke hurriedly dispelled his mind of divergentness. He didn't come to winter to do social investigations. He quickly registered and went to work!

I squeezed into a cage elevator with other white-collar workers, and when I arrived at the 9th floor, I saw the steam engineer's office area.

At the front desk, Luke met his supervisor. After a simple question and answer, Luke successfully obtained his work permit at Harlut Heavy Industry, wearing a blue jacket and a steam pipe inspection form.

The supervisor was a very serious middle-aged woman. After completing the procedures, she said to Luke: "You came too timely! The war against the Golden Shield Empire has greatly increased the company's production orders, and the warships under construction all require a lot of steel.

In order to increase production, the amplitude of steam boosting exceeds the orange hazard value, and the frequency of steam pipeline failures has increased a lot. Inspection and maintenance of pipes require many professional steam engineers.

You don’t have time to adapt to the new work environment, and everyone here has been assigned to patrol the pipeline. Take the map you gave you and walk the routes you need to check today, and don’t miss any potential fault points.”

"Okay..." Luke recalled the supervisor's name: "Mrs. Yolanda, I'll check the steam pipe line now."

Yolanda is very satisfied with the new employee. Not all newcomers are willing to go underground to check the steam routes on the first day of work.

She reminded Luke: "You are only responsible for checking hidden dangers, just fill in the form carefully and take it back. Don't make clear responses to any questions raised by anyone, and don't make any suggestions for pipeline repair to the company's factory.

The person responsible for protecting you is the Ruskin Norton team of the company's security department. Norton is a very experienced team leader. When you encounter trouble, you only do your part."

Luke patted the form book in his hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mrs. Yolanda, I'm not a nosy person."

“Work well and you’ll get a very generous reward.”

"Goodbye, Mrs. Yolanda."

Luke left the steam engineer's office and took an elevator to enter the underground. In the Haruit Heavy Industry Department Security area, he found Norton's team responsible for protecting himself into the underground steam city.

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There are four people in the Norton team.

Captain Norton is an ordinary middle-aged man. He is wearing a security team uniform canvas jacket, with a gun holster on both sides of his waist, and two long-tube revolvers inserted into the holster. He has a wide-brimmed hat on his head and a cigarette in his mouth, which is very Western denim style.

A Mao, a member of the team, is a snowman with white hair all over his body. His body is like a strong polar bear standing up. The snowman is an indigenous person from the Northland, and their traces are spread throughout the ice and snow areas all year round. As the Yat County Union expanded its territory to the polar region, the snowman naturally became a citizen of the Yat County Union.

Snowmen have natural ice and snow skills. When encountering a steam leakage accident, their ice and snow skills can quickly cool the leakage area, allowing maintenance personnel to safely repair the pipes.

At the same time, the snowman has great strength and endurance, and can carry more equipment and supplies to the team. When you are trapped underground due to an accident, if you have a snowman in the team, the chance of surviving will be much higher.

Snowman doesn’t know the common language in the world. After Luke introduced Amao, Norton said: “What do you want Amao to do? You can convey it to me. Don’t be too close to him, he doesn’t like strangers very much.

This is Harry, a very good thief. The underground is full of dangers and he can help us prevent most of the crises."

Luke enthusiastically extended his hand to the thief: "Hello, Harry, I am Luke, the new steam engineer."

Harry was short and thin, and because of his professional reasons, his back was hunched towards the front. Facing Luke's hand, Harry was obviously stunned, first happy and then became inferior.

"Thank you for your respect, but I am a despised thief and I am not worthy of shaking hands with a noble steam engineer like you."

Before Luke could speak, his hand was held by a woman.

"You are a very interesting person, unlike other steam engineers who look down on our life-long coolies. My name is Rebecca, your last line of defense."

Rebecca has a body-building figure that makes people look eye-catching. The muscles on her body are not muscle mass produced by the gym and protein powder, but the smooth muscle lines like long-distance runners. She tied the security uniform jacket around her waist and only wore a tight T-shirt. The T-shirt was covered with a pair of shoulder straps, and a double-handed knife was inserted into the scabbard behind the straps.

The knife surface is wide with palms and the blade body is long under the buttocks.

Luke noticed that Rebecca's hair was very long, with dark red hair tied into a ponytail, and the ends were as long as the blade.

A very distinctive woman.

Luke shook hands with Rebecca: "Before I came to Dongdu, I had heard of the dangers of underground steam city. Criminals, gangs, pipeline accidents, underground creatures, and mysterious energy mutations can take people's lives at any time.

I'll give it to you for my safety."

The captain put a bullet belt on his shoulder, checked the gun again, and said to Luke: "Let's go, Mr. Luke. I see your inspection route... is not a good road. We set out as soon as possible, hoping to rush back before the evening arrives.

Harry, go prepare the railcar.”

"Yes, captain." Harry pushed the door and left.

Amao howled and carried a large box of supplies on his body.

Rebecca made the way and said to Luke: "Please, Mr. Luke! I will always be by your side during this journey, and Captain Norton will be optimistic about us."

"Let's go."

Luke walked out of the room with his briefcase posted on his back.

Walking through a long corridor and then down a spiral staircase, a team of people arrived at the track station built on the ground floor of the building.

Harry has been deployed to a railcar.

After everyone entered the carriage and sat down, the track car slid deep into the ground along the rails.

There is a large cave underground in Dongdu. With the production of steam and heat transfer, as well as the development of mining and metallurgy, this cave gradually formed a settlement for underground workers. Later, the settlement became a town, and with the entry of a gray industry, the underground of Dongdu became a unique underground city.

Companies, factories, gangs, and those with special reputation control different areas of the city. In various battles and compromises, a set of orders that are not explicitly stipulated by law is silent by all those who live here.

Acknowledge compliance.

Not crossing the line is the most basic code.

The track car slides down the top of the cave along the hovering rails, and the entire cave is the same as the surface day and night. During the day, the cave will emit red light to provide light to the city; at night, the red light will disappear, and the fluorescent moss on the cave walls will form a strange scenery.

Look up from top to bottom to Dungeon Steam City.

The company's control area is orderly, mostly with tall buildings. Most of the people inside are dressed well and have armed mercenaries patrol and alert.

The factory area serving the company has slightly reduced its style, with luxurious buildings and simple factory buildings.

Other places are in chaos, with messy houses as if they were mazes, and explosions occur from time to time.

When Luke was about to land, he saw a place where fire suddenly surged into the sky, and the strong explosion sounded particularly loud in the cave. The members of Norton team just glanced at the explosion area and continued chatting as if nothing had happened.

The track car was parked in the station controlled by Haruit Heavy Industry, and Norton applied for an off-road vehicle with a command letter for maintenance of the pipeline. Then Norton asked Harry to drive and drove five people away from the underground steam city and headed towards the edge of the cave.

Luke took out the map he received, compared the map on his mobile phone, and made plans for his next action.

The underground steam city is only part of the underground system of Dongdu. Most of the steam pipelines are installed in complex underground passages. In addition, the mine caves dug out of mining and various landslide changes, which make the pipelines built and then modified.

In addition to the steam pipes built by the company, there are also many private or secretly erected pipes underground.

The complexity of the pipeline here is no less than that of Indian circuit systems.

Another thing that most people don’t know is that hell is connected here. As the underground heat energy is mined by winter, the power from hell is gradually infiltrating. The most direct change is... the underground steam pipeline is mysterious, and the early steam pipelines have been transformed into mysterious props.

However, most of the early steam pipelines have been deactivated. What Luke needs to do now is to find out the steam pipelines needed according to the strategy, and then process them into auxiliary words and mysterious energy arrays suitable for the secret language.

This is a very time-consuming job, and it also requires a job that can be approached by underground steam pipelines.

So Luke applied for a job as a steam engineer at Haruit Heavy Industry.

This maintenance line...

By comparing with the mobile phone secret technique array diagram, Luke found an early pipeline that required for secret technique. One section of this pipeline was deactivated because it was buried, and the other section continued to carry out steam after maintenance, which was a line with high incidence of failures.

Luke then noticed the end of the steam pipeline.

"Captain Norton..." Luke showed Norton the map to Norton. He pointed to a mine area and asked: "This is the B36 mine cave. Did there be a pipeline explosion accident a few days ago?"

Luke didn't expect that he and Mina were so destined to be so destined. On the first day he came to Dongdu, he hired Mina as his maid; the first job to check the steam line was the B36 mine where Mina's father worked.

Norton looked at the map, shrugged and said, "During this period, due to the increase in workload caused by the war, all factories are operating overload, and there are also more steam pipeline accidents.

I don't know if there have been any accidents in the B36 mine cave recently, but some of the pipes here are indeed very old, and it is very normal to have accidents. @精度\/Shuge·No mistakes first release~~

Sir, you arrived in Dongdu on the first day. How did you know that a steam pipeline explosion accident occurred in the B36 mine?”

Luke did not hide it from this matter: "I met a girl at the train station. Her father was working in the B36 mine. A few days ago, he broke his leg due to a steam pipe accident.

Now their family has no source of income. I pity her and hired her as my servant during my life in Dongdu… It was a very pitiful child.”

Norton did not resonate with Luke's description, and warned Luke: "I believe Mrs. Yolanda has warned you not to care about anything other than your duties. The underground mine owners are not easy to mess with, and offending them will cause you a lot of trouble.

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Rebecca sat next to Luke and said, "Captain Norton is right. The underground factory owners and mine owners are both incarnations of vampires and demons. Offend them, you may disappear inexplicably. First update @

We can't protect you either."

Luke laughed and said, "Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble."
Chapter completed!