Ember Gun

  Chapter 1 Prologue Old Dunling

  Inerwegian calendar 931 years.

  The city fell into a dark sleep. The huge zeppelin above the night sky was slowly swimming like a giant whale. Cyclops-like lights were cast from it and moved and observed in the sleeping city.

  Lorenzo was standing in the corner of the street, smoking a cigarette in his mouth. The tobacco is mixed with sober herbs, which can make him sober even in the middle of the night, and even a little excited.

   With this faint excitement, the cane lightly tapped the ground, lightly tapping according to the rhythm in the impression.

  He is waiting for someone. Generally speaking, he likes to think while waiting for someone. He can think about anything, as long as the brain is not idle.

   raised his head, looking at the dim street lamp, his thoughts gradually drifted away.

  ...

  According to the concept of parallel universes, under a huge scale, all incredible things will happen, or under this concept, these are destined to happen.

For example, in a certain world, the speed of light can be surpassed. Saturn’s ring is a giant doughnut, Tesla is a great magician who manipulates thunder, Hawking is a bronze dragon who controls time, and King Arthur is really a girl. .

  So, everything is possible.

For another example, in a modern world, mankind set off the first industrial revolution. The rumbling steam engine slowly pushed the huge iron and steel creations. The railway covered every inch of human space, the productivity was liberated, and the economy continued to rise. , The perfect era is coming with raging steam.

  ...It stands to reason that the plot should be like this, but just like the concept of parallel universes, there will always be things beyond common sense.

  So what if... the arrival of the electrical age is delayed?

  Like countless assumptions about the story, what if the historical line that everyone is familiar with changes slightly?

The second industrial revolution kicked off after this, but the **** is that the world did not enter the electrical age because of this, just like Newton lying under a tree, when the most critical apple in the history of physics was about to fall on his head. The child turned over and human beings temporarily lost the formula of gravitation.

  The same is true in this world. When they realize that boiling water can drive everything, this **** era is off the track of normal historical development.

  Electrical technology has failed to dominate this steam torrent, and it has not been used on a large scale. There are only a few places, and the internal combustion engine with higher thermal energy conversion efficiency has not been discovered by the world.

  Bigger and larger steam engines were built, they became more and more complex, and eventually became the hub of the city and the hub of the world.

  They are bloated and large, and inefficient, but when the magnificent body of steel appears in the field of vision, everyone will be in awe.

  Lorenzo lived in such an era, an era where reason and madness coexist.

  Steel and steam, mysterious and unknown.

The sharp whistling interrupted his thoughts, looking to one side, hot white gas erupted from the manhole cover near the street, and then under the cold evening breeze they condensed into countless drops of water, and finally dispersed. The gray mist covered the entire city.

  This is a **** of an era, and here is a **** of a city.

The neuropathy of the Mechanical Institute hollowed out the city’s underground, where the largest steam engine in history was built. For this reason, several kilometers of underground channels were dug to lead the Thames into the iron furnace, which burned day and night. Drive machinery factories throughout the city.

  Complicated underground systems are their discharge facilities. Every day, thousands of tons of water vapor flow into the streets through the purification cycle, and then turn into patters of rain.

  So here is gloomy all day long, no daylight.

   looked down at his pocket watch, the time was almost up, and at the end of the street there was a rapid breathing and running sound.

  It seems that the person who is waiting is very punctual.

  Lorenzo dropped the cigarette butt, put his hand under the heavy windbreaker, and took out his beloved Winchester.

  Just like the concept of parallel universes, there is also a man known as a great detective in this **** era...Of course, the great detective is what he calls himself. He is not a well-known person, and he is not a master of reasoning, just a second-rate detective who likes to use force to intimidate suspects.

  Those who knew him called him, Lorenzo Holmes.

  The sound of footsteps is getting closer and closer, and his face is ecstatic.

  "Welcome to Jiudunling! My friend!"

The second-rate detective rushed out of the street corner, laughing at the running figure, and then in the dark shadow's stunned eyes, he kindly pulled the trigger in his hand, and Winchester made that roar under the night Loud noise.

In the dazzling gunfire, the black shadow was knocked to the ground before he could react, and the scarlet blood flowed into the sewer along the cracks in the stone bricks.

  As the gunshots dissipated, patrolmen with rifles surrounded the place shortly afterwards. The lights on the zeppelin above the night sky illuminated the place like day, but at this moment, there was nothing left except the cold corpse.

  (End of this chapter)