Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

In the past, when Bo was still a technology hunter, she was actually not very peaceful. After discovering this secret passage that could bypass the guards, she did not report it, but covered it up herself so that she could travel at any time.

It’s like when you’re in school and you find a hole that can be used to climb over the fence, there’s no need to report it to the security guard, but instead you can share it with your brothers.

However, the Red King split up with them and arrived here earlier than him.

Could it be that he was actually born in the lowland lagoon? But Bo searched his memory and could never find a similar figure.

Fortunately, we have been together for so long.

This anti-slavery activist had long since learned not to ask questions about things he couldn't understand.

"However, it will take some twists and turns to get to the inner city of the technology hunters from here, right?" Lu Meng said. They were on the lower level of the oil platform. Because the equipment had been abandoned and no one had come to repair it for a long time, the ground was covered with moss and fleeing rats.

There was naturally no lighting, but fortunately, the strength of several people was quite good, so they could see the night as day.

"Yes." Bo nodded. "This is where drifters live. The Lagoon Town provides them with shelter, but does not manage them. Tech hunters usually don't care about how drifters live on a daily basis... Unless something big happens that changes the situation, the people above won't know about it."

The underground world of the depression lagoon.

While the technology hunters occupied the upper level of the oil platform, which was large enough to bask in the sun, the abandoned drilling wells, underground pipelines, old equipment, and the entire dark lower city area on the lower level belonged to the drifters and other parasites.

Lu Meng, Chad, and Bo, except Lu Meng himself, the other two are connected with the technology hunters of the Lowland Lagoon. Bo was a member of them in the past, and Chad is still a member. There is a high possibility that he will be recognized if he shows up rashly.

Today, the Depression Lagoon is facing the risk of being liquidated by the headquarters. If it is exposed at this time, it will add a lot of trouble.

Chad and Bo noticed that the big dog named Xiaogu was not following Lu Meng at the moment, and there was no trace of it around.

At this moment, Bo touched a joystick on the wall and pulled it hard.

Following a teeth-grinding grinding sound, an old cable car circled along the track and stopped in front of the three people.

"Do you dare to come up?" she said with a smile.

Below the platform, one could faintly hear the sound of surging waves in the lake, but it was pitch black.

It looks like an abyss.

No one knew how old this cable car was, but it had definitely passed the safety inspection period, and it was teetering on the rusty steel cable.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Chad muttered and climbed up the rope.

That's what it says.

But when he stepped under the car and listened to the rusty and brittle creaking sound that echoed between the elevated platforms, he still felt a little unsure.

Although he is a registered technology hunter, he is the type who often goes out on missions. He only regards the town of Depression Lagoon as a supply base and is not very familiar with it.

After Chad sat firmly, he turned around to look at Lu Meng.

No one was seen.

When I turned around again, I saw that he had sat down next to me, gazing leisurely into the distance. He didn't look like he was diving, but rather like a tourist sightseeing and enjoying the scenery.

The tech hunter's heart skipped a beat.

It really looks like a ghost.

A little scary.

Bo was stunned at first, then a smile appeared on her face. She actually saw some clues.

The anti-slavery activist pulled the rocker again, and with the sound of steel tearing, the old cable car, which was purely mechanically driven, started to move slowly.

Bo ran a few quick steps, jumped to catch up, and got into the car steadily.

……

……

"Teacher, I brought the person here." Apprentice Lu Dai saluted respectfully, with a pigtail hanging in front of his chest.

Shi Cha and his companions looked around anxiously. Their pack animals and luggage had been put away, and ordinary members and followers were waiting outside. However, what was waiting for them was not a reception hall, but a huge laboratory - the area of ​​which was not smaller than the reception room that Shi Cha had expected.

However, looking at the bottles and jars displayed in this laboratory, they are all just anatomical samples of some biological tissues, from organs to limbs, some that can be named and some that cannot be recognized, there is everything.

Shi Cha even saw a human face in one of the bottles.

He was secretly frightened, took a step back, and felt like he stepped on something.

The young noble turned around, and saw a pair of dark blue eyes staring at him, full of bloodshot, like a hungry ghost ready to devour anyone.

Shi Cha almost screamed out.

But he was stopped by Su Cheng.

"Excuse me." The warrior quickly pressed the master's back and gestured.

When Shi Cha came to his senses again, he found that the person in front of him was a living young man, but his face was haggard and he looked half-dead from lack of sleep. The bloodshot in his eyes was also caused by this... He just stepped on the upper of his shoe.

The young man had messy hair on his head, and it was obvious that he had just washed and combed it, but it still looked like a long-lasting mess.

"Hello... Wolfe." The young man yawned and introduced himself. "No need for extra courtesy."

Shi Cha awkwardly stopped the noble gift he had prepared and was secretly frightened.

When he came to the Lagoon in the past, he had heard of the name of this chief mechanic. Whether among the drifters or the technology hunters, Wolfe had a considerable reputation and was even respected as a master...but he didn't expect that the real person was so young.

To the stereotype of Shi Cha.

The other party is at least in his seventies or eighties.

The strength of a mechanic is generally not high, and there is no possibility of stimulating physical potential and getting younger as he gets older, so his appearance should be his real age.

In fact, judging by his daily routine and his spirit... he might even be aging prematurely.

"The teacher is a genius." Seeing this, Lu Dai, who was standing by, smiled, as if he had long been accustomed to the surprised reactions of others when they first saw Wolfe.

The resident mechanics who can be sent to various relay stations are not unvalued by the End of the World. On the contrary, each of them is capable of standing on their own and leading a team independently to support local technology hunters.

There are also many mechanics who feel that they can no longer improve their academic fields by working in isolation at the end of the world, so they request to be sent to the local areas. This qualification is quite valuable, and I wonder how many people are waiting in line.

Among all the relay stations, the black scratches and depression lagoons are the most special.

Leaving aside the former, the latter, as the base center of the entire Southern Technology Hunters, is able to serve as a resident mechanic, or even become the chief one, which is definitely not an ordinary person.

After being surprised, Shi Cha and others quickly figured it out.

But he didn't expect that after hearing his disciple say this, Wolfe slapped her head and said, "How many times have I told you... don't use the word 'genius' to insult me."

There are thousands of geniuses in the world.

But there was only one Wolfe.

“……”Everyone was speechless.

Lu Dai looked not much younger than her teacher, so they were considered to be of the same generation. However, after being taught a lesson like this, she could only touch her head and step aside in tears, not daring to refute.

She was also aggrieved.

My vocabulary is limited, and I really don't know what adjective to use to call this teacher other than genius - if his name alone makes everyone know him, then Wolfe is definitely not at that level yet.

After all, he is young, and although he has talent, he has not accumulated enough experience. He has not yet won the Iyo Prize, the highest scientific research honor at the end of the world. Wolf is collecting information to prepare for the next Iyo Prize, but it seems that the project has reached a bottleneck, which is why he has been a little anxious recently.

The young mechanic ignored his apprentice. He walked forward and looked at "Shi Cha's caravan", but directly skipped over Shi Cha, the leader.

Finally, he stood directly in front of a person.

"Rudai said you are from Shem?" Wolfe asked. "What is your name?"

"...Nanting, Mr. Wolfe." The person being asked was a lady. "That's right."

She was the intern taught by Dr. Zhong, and was responsible for maintaining the mechanical limbs of the transformed soldiers.

However, Wolfe's next words startled her:
"You are from the Order of Embers."

"Has that heretical sect spread to Shem?"

Click.

Two Ember Warriors came to protect Nandin. Their weapons had been taken away, but their steel arms alone were enough to crush the unarmed mechanic in front of them to death.

But they didn't dare to take the next step.

In the corner of the laboratory, a faint light flashed, and two harpoon guns were automatically aimed in their direction - this weapon used for city defense was actually installed by Wolf in his own laboratory.

But once launched, they will all be shot into the sky.

What a lunatic.

Almost at the same moment, Nan Ding raised her hand to stop her men. She asked, "How did you recognize him, sir?"

From clothing to appearance, they concealed their mechanical prostheses very well and did not expose them, making them unnoticeable to the naked eye.

"Your footprints." The mechanic said calmly, "Fortunately, my laboratory is not cleaned often..."

The two soldiers looked down unconsciously and saw that the soles of their feet were still wet, and the water mixed with a little dust had indeed left marks.

The two rows of marks have different depths.

They only modified their left and right arms respectively, so their center of gravity deviated slightly when they walked, which was reflected in their footsteps...but this was only an extremely subtle difference. If Wolfe hadn't reminded them, even some experienced soldiers would not have been able to detect it.

A trace of cold sweat broke out on my back.

"Don't worry, I'm just saying that." Wolfe gently withdrew from their attack range and pulled out a chair to sit down as if no one was around. "Besides, I've heard of you a long time ago."

Reports on the Order of Ashes had long been transmitted from the Shek Kingdom's relay station to the Mechanic Headquarters and the End of the World.

He also noticed it keenly.

"I just didn't expect that you spread the news even faster than everyone imagined..." Wolfe pondered, "I guess it's not completely spontaneous, right?"

If we talk about the spread of sects.

There are only two paths:
Bottom-up, and top-down.

The former's work was also being carried out by the Order of Ashes, such as the singing of Bard's poems and the many missionaries they sent out...the one that Black Knight Griffin encountered was one of them.

But so far, the latter path is faster.

The distribution of the Cult of Ashes almost overlaps with that person's sphere of influence.

Faith is gained through strength.

"No wonder. I was wondering why my calculations shouldn't have such a big mistake..." Wolfe chuckled. He was talking about the prediction of the range of the beast disaster, from the depression lagoon to the entire bone wasteland. Many people used his forecast as a reference.

As a result, the prediction of this genius mechanic rarely came true.

He went to ask the merchants in Shan in order to resolve the doubts in his heart.

For this kind of academic master.

Every step of the calculation was correct, but in the end I couldn't get the correct result... This feeling was more painful than killing him.

Among them there must be,

Factors that I hadn't considered.

"But that's not surprising." The young mechanic didn't even ask about the details of what happened in the Flash Land. He made a judgment based on the information spread by the Cult of Embers. "Since he was involved, it's normal that I can't calculate it... Ludai, show him out."

"Eh?" Shi Cha was ignored and was confused. "Are you letting us leave now?"

"What else?" Wolfe looked cold towards the noble leader.

He wasn't being mean, he was just not interested.

The reason why he spoke to the lady before was that he noticed that when she scanned his "collection", the places where her eyes fell were very particular, and those parts were the key to the research.

Once is a coincidence, many times is familiarity.

It means she is a fellow traveler.

Only then did I feel like chatting for a few minutes.

As for merchants and warriors...

What does it have to do with him.

If there must be any other reason, it is that Wolfe also cannot stand the style of the law enforcement team.

The mechanics respected the local watchman.

But recently, the other party seems to be acting a little recklessly.

Could it be that he was not in the lagoon and failed to properly control his men?

As a mechanic, Wolfe was not aware of the specific circumstances of the actual operation of the relay station and the town, as it was not within his authority or scope of consideration.

These mundane affairs will only affect one's scientific research and progress in striving for the Iyo Prize.

Nan Ding's eyes fixed, and she retreated with several soldiers, Shi Cha and Su Cheng. The female apprentice Lu Dai hurried forward to see them off.

Just as she was leaving, she seemed to realize something and looked back at her teacher in surprise.

Lu Dai had just vowed in front of everyone that his teacher would not make mistakes.

But I didn't expect it.

He actually admitted so easily that the previous calculations were wrong...at least there were some situations that had not been taken into consideration.

This has never happened before.

Someone who can make him make mistakes...

Wolfe did not respond to his disciple's gaze. The young mechanic yawned again, as if he had finally gotten the answer to his long-standing problem, and fell asleep on the table.

Satisfied.

After a while, a slight snoring sound was heard from the laboratory.

(End of this chapter)