Chapter 732 The Hired Workers Arriving at Blood Harbor
Old Vance's face turned pale and his legs went limp as he was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, his daughter was quick-witted and held him up.
A few flight attendants - part-time members of the expeditionary force - came out with wrenches and walked around and took control of the situation.
The main reason is that these outsiders have accumulated power here for a long time, and they are not able to build a road at the entrance of the town by relying on the lord's mercy.
The hired workers quickly regained their composure and sat quietly aside.
Old Vance was with his wife and daughter, and he looked very worried.
"What's the matter, father?"
"Sigh, I wonder how much Leo it will cost to go to that Blood Harbor this time."
"Didn't they say we don't have to pay?"
"Rebecca, you're still young. They said you don't have to pay, but for commoners like us, we have to pay everywhere."
Rebecca held her father's hand in confusion, looking at her father with a sad face and her mother who said nothing, and suddenly realized that all she could do was pray.
Just pray.
She sat quietly in the seat, stroking the steel-forged carriage. This should have been a very novel experience, but she was not in the mood to feel it.
The cold, firm steel gives people peace of mind.
Old Vance's face twitched from time to time. The physical pain was bearable, but the confusion about the unknown made him afraid.
The doctor didn't let him eat anything, but only brought him a small bowl of sugar water, telling him to drink some if he was really thirsty, but not to drink too much.
The train clanked and swayed forward, and the uneasiness in people's hearts also swayed, and they arrived at Blood Harbor in this way.
Blood Harbor is no longer just a small port, it has become the largest city in the East.
When people saw the connected shanty towns from afar, they began to marvel, but when they actually entered the city, no one spoke.
Everyone was leaning against the windows, like a group of ants entering a giant city.
That must be the city of giants, otherwise who would live in such a tall house?
The reinforced concrete buildings, like a steel forest, stand silently on the earth. The heaviness and the countless numbers impact everyone's cognition.
People first gathered at the window, gradually putting their faces against the glass, and then trying to stick their heads out to look.
The buildings were too tall; even if one leaned against the window and tried to look upwards, one could not see the entire view.
If you look at it from a distance, it doesn't seem that tall, and if you look at it from a closer distance, you can only see a small part of it.
The hired workers just stared blankly, as if they were peddlers who had strayed into the imperial palace.
"My God, these houses are so tall!" Rebecca muttered.
She turned to look at Old Vance, only to find a look of horror on his face.
"What's wrong? Father, are you okay?!"
"Impossible, impossible." Old Vance did not respond to her. He just muttered to himself with a pale face.
"What's impossible?"
"These houses cannot be so tall and have such wide halls without pillars. This is impossible."
Most of the hired workers were ignorant civilians, and they were amazed at the sight.
Old Vance was a stonemason. He had actually built many buildings and knew how incredible the houses before him were. In his eyes, these simple high-rise buildings were indescribably strange.
The more knowledge one has, the more shocked one becomes by the horror of these creations. This is why scholars are most susceptible to Hercastle syndrome.
Perhaps this is the curse of knowledge.
Soon, however, even the less knowledgeable hired workers began to be intimidated.
There are more and more terrifying creations. You don’t need to understand them, you can feel their greatness just by looking at them.
There are factories one after another, with tall chimneys and billowing black smoke.
Roaring machines, busy roads, and mountains of goods.
People who were used to these things thought it was normal, but for the civilians who lived in wooden houses in the north and had seen only a few thousand people in their lifetime, there was only fear in their eyes.
They felt like they might have entered hell, and the roaring sound of the machines was like a death knell.
It was like entering heaven. Shouldn’t such a prosperous city only exist in the kingdom of God?
No one feels that they are still in the world.
People were shocked, and each of them looked like a chicken with its neck strangled, with only a dazed expression on their faces.
The expeditionary force nearby breathed a sigh of relief. They were actually a little worried that these people would go crazy - ordinary people were indeed safer. If they were a group of scholars, they would have collapsed and screamed long ago.
In the crowd, only Rebecca's eyes were shining - she was young, her mind was still unstable, and she still had fantasies about the world. The magic and grandeur of this city were something she had never seen even in her most beautiful dreams.
The train did not stop along the way, and people had no time to relax. The whole city just came into their eyes.
When the car stopped at the platform, it was not only old Vance who needed to be carried out. The other workers all looked stunned, and it was obvious that they could not be relied upon.
Fortunately, this was already the expeditionary force's headquarters. The army doctor looked around the station and waved to a tall figure:
"Lady Banshee, are you from the Knights Hospitaller? There are wounded people here who need medical treatment!"
A tall female demon came over upon hearing this. When she got close to the doctor and saw her face, she was immediately delighted. "Lady Nini! That's great! The wounded here were transported from the construction site in the north. Do you want to transfer them to the hospital on the island?"
"Need not."
Nini immediately reached out.
Old Vans, who had been standing there in a daze, suddenly came to his senses. When he saw Nini, who was as tall as a giant, he was shocked and screamed and tried to run away.
But the next moment, he met Nini's bright yellow eyes.
After just a moment, he calmed down.
Although the banshees do not have many special abilities, as a spiritual race, it is easy for them to intimidate mortals.
Besides, Nini is particularly good at playing with people's hearts
Seeing that Old Vance had stopped, Nini reached out and touched the steel bar that was stuck in his body.
The sturdy steel bars suddenly flowed down like mud and soon disappeared completely.
Nini developed the banshee's innate spell [Turning Fossils into Mud] to its full potential, and it could melt metal. She had used this innate spell to help Zeus build many steam engines.
It's just that I became a reporter recently, and I haven't used this skill for a long time.
The melting of the steel was just a spell effect, not molten iron. Old Vance was not burned, but the wound suddenly lost its blockage and blood immediately gushed out.
While Nini's two hands were melting the steel, her other two hands casually pulled out a roll of bandage from her bag, and at the same time took out some anti-inflammatory medicine to apply it. Before the blood could flow out, the bandage was already on.
As soon as the wound was sealed, Nini took out the needle and thread, and completed the stitching in just a moment with six quick movements of her hands.
Before the doctor could react, Nini had already tied the wound with a bow and gently patted Vance's shoulder.
"I'm cured, go back."
(End of this chapter)
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