above the sky

Taking the imperial capital 'Gushan' as the main body, there are a total of fifteen 'big urban areas' towards the periphery. Each urban area is a relatively independent satellite city. You can vaguely see the central area of ​​the nearest big urban area, with a dozen high-rise buildings. , and three towers over 300 meters high in the central area.

Each urban area has its own landmark buildings, so that the location can be clearly identified without any signage.

The entire imperial capital is divided into three parts. The first one is naturally the city under the mountain. In a sense, it can be regarded as the 'Xiacheng District' in the general big city. Small towns like Gar Town are actually part of the outer edge of the lower city, and are managed by different city lords.

Then, inside the imperial capital, the 'Mid-City' located on the inside of the giant city wall structure of the imperial capital. This is not the middle of the middle layer, but the middle, the central area. It is divided into multiple layers, and even has internal landscape ecology, lakes and rivers and special ecological park layers, and even fishing.

All the important institutions and departments of the imperial capital are located here. It is said that there is a complete set of production chains and industrial sites in the central city. When needed, it can completely cut off all contact with the outside world and become self-sufficient.

Finally, there is the upper city located on the upper level of the Lonely Mountain - the giant defense facility of the imperial capital, where the special institutions and the royal palace of the Setal royal family are located, divided into inner and outer sides.

Ian's target this time, that is, the Imperial Capital Headquarters of the Patrol Knights, is located on the fifth floor of Midtown, and he will enter from the Triple Tower City.

In theory, with the identity of the teenager and the proof he holds, it is easy to enter the midtown area, and you only need to swagger in.

But there is a difference in ease.

"We're here to pick you up, Knight Ian."

As the horses on which Ian and Birch Frost Butterfly were standing gradually stopped, a group of knights in silver-gray armor appeared in front of them.

These knights rode pure-blooded dragon horses, and their bodies were covered by a layer of gray carapace that was close to the body, while silver metal armors were inlaid in key parts, with different patterns shining on them, obviously with the technical support of inscriptions.

These armors have the dazzling Eye of the Sun emblem on their shoulders, as well as their foreheads. That is the logo of the Knights of the Patrol, replacing the eyes of the "Royal Setar" representing the "Sun" to oversee the world.

The front of their helmets is a layer of smooth black crystals, while the back side has a 'T'-shaped metal structure raised at the neck, which seems to be a signal transmission device for communication bones.

The leading knight's voice is very familiar, even through the fully enclosed helmet, it is quite recognizable.

That was the voice of the patrol knight Tres, whom he encountered on the alchemy train.

But he pretended not to know him, so the boy raised his brows, as if he didn't hear it: "Of course I'm fine, I'm here to report on work... But what about my companion?"

"The two fairies can naturally go together."

Tres rode on his horse and motioned for the team to turn to lead the way: "Everyone."

He raised his hand and pointed upwards diagonally, as if pointing to a city not far away.

The man said with a smile.

"Welcome to the Imperial Capital."

And Ian, Hua An and Frost Butterfly looked at each other, then stepped forward with a smile.

...

Between the heavens and the earth, stands a huge city that blocks the sky and the sun. At the edge of the city close to it, it is impossible to judge its radian, nor its height, because all the sight lines have been blocked and can only be seen vaguely. The center of the city towers into the depths of the clouds in the sky, straight to the peak-like structure at the top of the sky.

And in the cable car channel on the outer edge of the city, Ian walked side by side with Tres, who took off his helmet.

"It's only been three days, and you've become the captain?" The white-haired boy shook his hair, and his tone was surprised: "The promotion is very fast."

"It's just the team captain. After all, I've been undercover for so many years, and I've also advanced to the second energy level, and I've also made great achievements - Kate, that is, the prisoner I caught unexpectedly knows a lot of things."

Tres said with a smile, he looked down at the badge on his chest, and gently stroked: "I have paid for so many years, and the result is it."

Ian stared at the Eye of the Sun badge with wings on both sides and nodded slightly: "It's really hard work."

"You won't understand, genius."

Trace groaned slightly.

There are many high-power glow lights at the top of the city wall structure of the Imperial City, and just under the illumination of the lights, the patrolling knight team and Ian's group are riding the cable car into the interior of the middle city of the Imperial City.

As Ian speculates, the official entrance to the Imperial City is on the inside of the city wall structure 300 meters above, because according to the design of the pre-epoch civilization, all the city wall structures are located underground.

Now that the overall structure of the imperial capital is uplifted, it is natural to raise the original entrance and exit to a rather excessive level.

Bathed in a searchlight that was too bright, the cable car slowly pulled up.

The huge size of the Imperial City always makes those who approach it feel shocked, especially sitting in the transparent cable car and slowly approaching, Ian can see most of the details of the Imperial City - the alloy layer of the city wall structure has experienced thousands of years of wind. After blowing rain, it has long been covered with a thick gray-brown structure. This is not the accumulation of dust, but the 'skin' caused by the proliferation of biomass fibers on the inside.

Patterns like plant roots appear on this layer of skin, forming a matrix of inscriptions that are huge and beyond human imagination. They flicker with a faint light that is difficult for ordinary people to perceive, and pulse at an extremely slow speed. It's like a human blood vessel pulsing.

Ian would have been hard-pressed to spot this without the silver chip.

But with the silver chip, Ian can be sure that every pulsation of these inscription arrays will cause an extremely surging energy surge inside - if the entire imperial capital is a super-giant machine or a creature, then This surge of energy is the shock of its blood flow.

"What kind of creature is this?" Ian couldn't help but wonder, even though he knew it would be fruitless.

The scan of the silver chip is just a 'planetary shield generator' - this just proves its guess... Maybe this is the planetary shield of a biotech civilization?

Ian doesn't have a complete picture of the imperial capital, which limits his analysis.

At this moment, the cable car has come to an area more than 200 meters high, Ian turned around and looked down at the lower part of the city from the other side. Under his feet, the dense buildings one after another and the high-rise buildings dozens or hundreds of meters high organically combine into a lively and prosperous neighborhood, with spacious passages, alchemy vehicles and logistics fleets along the road, the blood vessel of the city. The cycles come and go staggered.

In the criss-crossing streets and blocks, there are bright display lights everywhere, even in the daytime, they are very conspicuous, and there are hundreds of cable cars and transportation tracks on the outer walls of the imperial capital, interacting with the materials in the middle and lower urban areas.

In the lower city, there are only a few tower-like buildings that can compare with the city walls of the imperial capital. They are the center of the fifteen lower cities, and the height of Ian is gradually becoming equal to them.

Humans are already like ants.

Ian is still staring at the crowd in downtown.

Just a distance of 300 meters is enough to make people look like ants... What about the upper floors of the empire who live in the upper city, at least the starting area of ​​3,000 meters?

Ian raised his head, and he could already see the steel cone of the Lonely Mountain... There were layers of buildings that circled around it.

Because of the abnormal psionic field brought about by the height, air pressure and shield beam, ordinary people cannot even survive in the upper city. They only need to move a little and their internal organs will be crushed by too terrifying pressure.

Only the Ascended can move freely there.

Uptown has not banned any ordinary people from entering. The emperor's palace is open to all.

Anyone who wants to can ask questions of the emperor himself, or of any big man who can sway the empire.

It's just that ordinary humans... can't do it.