The Dean Has Arrived

This is a barren land.

On the undulating ground, you can only see black or brown stones, loess so dry that a gust of wind can lift it, and some seemingly dead yellow weeds. This is probably what the so-called Gobi looks like.

A creature that looked like a cross between a hare and a prairie dog poked its head out of a hole in the ground, its triangular mouth filled with grass seeds dug out from nowhere and squirming.

On the ground in the distance, weird vibrations kept coming.

If you look carefully, you can see that the pebbles around the prairie dog are shaking slightly even when there is no wind.

Finally, the prairie dog, which seemed to have noticed something, stopped chewing. It stood up on its hind legs, which were quite strong compared to its front legs, and looked at the direction of the distant sound.

There is a misty yellow scene over there.

Residents living in this area know very well that it is a sandstorm.

It's just different from ordinary sandstorms. In the yellow fog where nothing can be seen clearly, pale thunder can be seen flashing continuously.

And what can only be vaguely captured at the moment when the thunder flashes is an illusory and huge figure.

Although the sandstorm was still far away, the prairie dog was already a little panicked. It straightened its body and made a few sharp calls to remind its fellow humans that they were in danger. The sandstorm will not come back until it passes.

This is a wise choice.

Even though it seemed like it was still more than ten kilometers away, the speed of the sandstorm was astonishingly fast and it was coming in an instant.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire world was enveloped and filled with a confusing yellow fog. Even the light of the pale fireball above the head could not penetrate this layer of armor that transcended the haze, and the visibility was suddenly reduced to A state that is close to being invisible.

The rumble became louder, but at this time it was already clear that this rumble was not the sound of lightning and thunder, but had another source.

About five minutes after the sandstorm came to this area, the roaring body finally appeared.

It was a weird building made up of two sections of cast iron columns. Patches of iron sheets studded with rivets could be seen everywhere on the exterior of the building. The height of the columns alone was about three hundred meters, and its width was also quite large. Surprisingly, the radius of the cylinder below has exceeded two hundred meters, so in fact the shape of this building is not a cylinder, but looks more like thick discus stacked together.

Huge, octopus-like tentacle-like mechanical feet extend outward from eight directions of the column below. Every step taken will be accompanied by a heavy roar, leaving a deep hole in the Gobi land.

Even though no weapons can be seen from the outside, its terrifying size, the roar of the road, and the thunder flashing around all tell those who witness it how dangerous this thing is. If someone can survive it, If there is a terrible sandstorm outside.

In fact, even if you enter this terrifying building that looks like a mechanical octopus, it won't be much better.

A large number of black iron pipes filled it like blood vessels. I don't know whether it is because it has been in disrepair or it should be like this. Many pipes are spraying water vapor, and the occasional sharp and sharp sound like a whistle can even make people feel like 'this' I have the illusion that something is about to explode.

Many bulky mechanical parts will accumulate static electricity when they are in action. Every once in a while, arcs will flash across the heavy metal shells of those mechanical parts, giving off a strong smell of ozone.

And these thunder and lightning will eventually be radiated through the columns on the top of the building, and finally form the pale thunder.

Deep inside the body of this giant mechanical monster that keeps wandering in the Gobi, there actually exists a comfortable living space beyond ordinary people's imagination.

And in the deepest part of this living space, there is a secret research institute room.

The room is full of steampunk style, with various models of copper-yellow gears and bearings everywhere. There are also brass transmission tubes covering almost half of the wall, and the other wall is covered with or Nice or interesting machine keys.

A young man with a spiky head wearing a T-shirt and overalls with overalls, protective glasses on his head, and dirty khaki thick leather gloves on his hands was carefully studying a look with a magnifying glass under the warm light. Strange gears.

After a moment, he suddenly raised his head and frowned.

"Which one is it this time?"

As soon as he finished his greeting, the space not far away distorted, revealing the figure of a young man wearing a robe.

At first glance, the appearance of the two is almost identical, but the differences in clothing and hairstyle are too huge, so it doesn't feel like looking in the mirror.

"Hello," the visitor politely greeted the owner of this room: "My name is Sylvie Edric, your other form of existence in the parallel world."

"I remember I should have said this before," the owner of the room carefully put the gears in his hands into a valuable storage box, and then locked the storage box: "My war against you... No, it should be me He is not interested in 'our' war and will never take sides."

"For that matter, I'm actually not here to invite you to help me in the war."

Xi Wei said.

"What's that for? A day trip to a parallel world."

A sarcastic smile appeared on the other person's face: "Although it's a bit presumptuous, I don't think there's anything good about my world."

Indeed, if it were another world, at least there would be a lot of beautiful scenery to see, but this world is not like that. It almost only has three types of terrain: desert, next door and oasis. Looking at it, except for the vast sand and a patch of earthy yellow, Almost nothing else is visible.

But what’s interesting is that even in such a world, humans still survive and are building better and better cities.

And the reason why humans can do all this is the allotrope in front of Xi Wei.

Unlike other Xi Wei who relied on fighting and killing to save the world, this old man directly used his own technology to raise the technological level of the world to a higher level.

And he himself successfully completed a qualitative leap through an "infinite energy" technology. Under the almost medieval technology tree, he forcibly created something extraordinary like a mechanical fortress...

In a sense, the 'Sylvie' in front of me should be the one with the highest degree of completion of the system's main mission among all allotropes.