Chapter 29, The Miracle City on the Arnus Hill (Part 1)
Before the "door" at the top of Arnus Hill was opened, although Arnus Hill bore the name of a holy mountain, there were actually no cliffs, and the relative height difference from the surrounding wilderness was only more than ten meters. It's just a gentle hillock rising slightly in the center of a flat grassland.
Of course, at the edge of this open grassland, there are steep cliffs again - from the perspective of the entire mountain range, this is actually a vast platform located on the mountainside and surrounded by mountains on all sides. Therefore, the term "Arnus Hill", on the Falmat continent, sometimes only refers to the palm-sized small mound under the "door", but more often, it refers to the nearby dozens of surrounding areas. kilometers of the entire plateau.
Then, the wilderness around the Arnus Hills, although it is located in the core hinterland of the civilized area in the southern part of the continent, has never been settled or cultivated due to the barren soil and lack of water sources. Until the empire gathered its army and launched its attack on other worlds, the area around Arnus Hill was still deserted. Except for the "Gate" on the top of the hill, which was regarded as a miracle, there were no other artificial buildings. trace.
Especially when the other side of the "door" connected to the bottom of Victoria Bay in Hong Kong, and after four months of flooding the other world with sea water, the grasslands around Arnus Hill were also soaked into a muddy swamp, and It's still a saltwater swamp, which makes people frown when they see it.
However, just three days later, when Wang Qiu and the others went to the city of Italica more than 100 kilometers away, conducted a reconnaissance tour in disguise, and returned successfully, Arnus Hill had been completely transformed. What it looked like - hundreds of square kilometers of muddy swamps that had been soaked in sea water for four months, all disappeared without a trace, turning into neat patches of pastures, nurseries and woods, with a few wind power stations dotted in the middle. There are also some exquisite little houses that look like villas. Concrete highways criss-cross and shuttle through them, extending into the distant mountains. Several four-lane viaducts were built to cross several dangerous rift valleys nearby. A large square pit appeared on the originally flat and solid wilderness, which was filled with clear snow-capped mountain streams and turned into a rippling blue reservoir. On the top of distant mountains, radio transmission towers, weather stations and observatories appeared. In addition, Wang Qiu also saw a small airport under construction on a flat-topped mountain that had been artificially expanded and reinforced. It had a runway, tower, hangar, and apron. It looked like it was about to be completed... …
At first glance, this seems to be a pretty good modern city. However, as long as you see those soldiers in camouflage uniforms flying around in the air with [bamboo dragonflies] on their heads, you will know that this place has surpassed the level of a modern city and can be called a science fiction city.
"... Such a big project only took three days... How many black technology props from the Doraemon plane were used on it?" Looking at Arnus Hill, which had nothing three days ago, it is now as if it was empty. Covered with traces of earth's civilization, Wang Qiu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "...it feels really... Isn't it a bit too extravagant? Even now that we have figured out the backdoor of the [era vending machine], you can buy things like [Bamboo Dragonfly] and [Translation Konjac Jelly], but there are still quite a few props. There’s nothing for sale in the [chronological vending machine]!”
"...Who told me that this would probably be the last time to travel through time? If you are still reluctant to use it now, will it be piled up in a warehouse and become moldy?"
Political Commissar Guo seemed to have expected this, "...but...it's already this year, and we still have to build such a tall city wall...it does feel a bit awkward! Could it be that those guys above are " Have you watched too much "Attack on Titan"?" He frowned and muttered.
——Compared with the scenes described before, something more conspicuous and exaggerated appeared on the Arnus Hill: In just three days, the relevant departments surrounded the mountain on the Arnus Hill. The "gate" connecting Hong Kong on Earth spared no effort to build a majestic city wall more than thirty meters high! In one breath, it surrounded more than ten square kilometers of land centered on the Arnus Hills, as if it had built an antique fortress-like city—it was not built by Israeli settlements in modern Palestine to protect against human bombs and car bombs. That kind of thin cement separation wall is dotted with solid towers. The wall is as thick as a pyramid, and the kind of antique city wall that can directly run a tank on the top of the wall! Compared with the Italica city I had seen before, regardless of the height of the walls of the new city in front of me, the area alone was ten times the former.
Although in the eyes of modern earthlings, such an ancient and tall city wall seems a bit outdated and redundant. It is simply a cumbersome decoration. In terms of actual defense capability, it is probably far inferior to simple barbed wire, trenches and landmines in terms of cost performance. Field, that is, the appearance is more impressive. But for the alien natives of the Falmat continent, this is obviously more in line with their concept of the term "city"...
In short, the young magician Lelei who acted as a guide and the old village chief of Gota Village were all shocked by the huge city that suddenly appeared on the Arnus Hill like a miracle. I stood there in the distance with my mouth open for a long time before I remembered to hold the horse and move on.
Then, at the checkpoint at the city gate, the reconnaissance team returning from Italica finally parted ways. Wang Qiu and other visitors from other worlds naturally entered the city to report to the leaders. As for Leilai and the old village chief, they were politely taken to the new refugee settlement by the guard.
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Three days later, the refugee camp hosting the local indigenous people has also undergone tremendous changes. It is no longer the primitive tent village it was at the beginning.
Although the area surrounded by the city wall on the Arnus Hill is enough to house hundreds of thousands of people, for the sake of safety, the relevant departments did not allow the indigenous refugees to move to the city wall close to the "gate", but to a distance from the city wall. About two kilometers outskirts, a new village was built for them.
The entire village is a square square with only one entrance and exit, and a circle of barbed wire is stretched in other places. A small fortress-like sentry box and an enhanced class of sentries were also installed at the exit, not only to protect the safety of the refugees, but also to maintain close surveillance 24 hours a day. Inside the barbed wire, there is a large area of hardened ground paved with cement, as well as many small bungalows distributed in a checkerboard pattern, serving as residences for indigenous refugees. Almost all the houses have the same appearance, and the overall layout is as neat as a military parade. together.
——If it were seen by bored idle people on modern earth, most of them would complain that this so-called "village" is really like a concentration camp.
Considering that the natives from the alien world neither know how to use electricity safely nor how to use gas, except for the street lights at the entrance of the village, the entire village has no circuits or piped gas. Each household is provided with a kerosene lamp for lighting and a briquette stove that can be moved outdoors for cooking. The tap water is not connected to each household. Instead, several public utility stations are installed next to the guard box at the door. Faucet - In fact, it was originally planned to drill a deep well for the indigenous people to draw water for their own use. However, during the actual construction, it was discovered that the quality of the groundwater in this area was generally very poor because it had been soaked in seawater from Victoria Bay, Hong Kong for four months, so in the end a tap water pipe was connected... …
From the perspective of modern Chinese people, this kind of living conditions without even electricity are obviously very bad, worse than most impoverished mountain villages, and probably similar to the most remote and difficult border posts. However, for the natives from other worlds who originally lived such a backward life, they were overjoyed to be able to live in such a solid and stylish "stone house" instead of cabins and thatched huts. And the spacious and bright glass windows on the walls of each room made them even more amazed - in this world with backward productivity, glass products are still a kind of jewelry, and flat glass is even more expensive and rare. Although the glass windows are not completely No, but it is definitely not something that ordinary poor people can afford...
Since the original Gota Village has the largest number of residents among the indigenous refugees gathered in the Arnus Hills, the refugees named this village "New Gota Village" with the consent of the men in green. They also wrote a sign in their own words and erected it outside the village entrance.
When the old village head of Gota Village and Leilai led the horses to the new Gota Village, it was dusk. Under the walls and eaves, women of all ethnic groups burning coal cake stoves for cooking could be seen everywhere. A large group of children of different races were laughing and playing in the open space inside the barbed wire fence. Seeing the old village chief and Lelai returning from afar, the children immediately swarmed up and started chattering:
"...Mom, look, the village chief grandpa and sister Lelai are back!"
"...Grandpa Village Chief! Did your trip go well this time?"
"...Sister Lelai! It's such a pity that you're not here these days! There are all kinds of wonderful things happening here every day!"
"...Yes, yes! Those men in green are so awesome! Such a big city was built in just three days!"
"...and more, we only heard a 'boom' and saw them blowing up a huge lake in the ground! Sister Lelai, you are a magician, do you know what kind of magic they used? Huh?”
"...Sister Lelai! This is the lollipop that the little bunny sister gave me. It's so sweet! Come and try one too!" "...Sister Lelai! This is the lollipop given to us by the uncle in green. The ball can bounce very high with just one tap! Let’s play together.”