Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

Okay, from now on, I will have no reputation in front of any outsiders.

"Everyone go away."

Meluna took a step forward, gripping the hilt of her sword. The four people in front turned around together, as if they were going to unite again to face her.

"What do you want to do? What does this have to do with you?" Zoe and the other three members of the Star Flower Brigade stood together and confronted him.

The two sides were on the verge of a fight. Farina was about to say something with a smile. Leon guessed that based on her past habits, she would probably say something joking like "Why don't you let Leon carry your sister down, and you won't have to fight." However, he looked at her with a pleading look, hoping that she would not speak. The dragon witch also understood, so she just covered her mouth and laughed.

"Come on, stop arguing."

Li Ang originally wanted to experience this independent mode of transportation, but it was more important to deal with these problems here.

He touched Ollihake on his back and drew out a large amount of magic power, generating a dense ball of wind that instantly lifted up everyone in the umbrella house.

Amidst the cheers of the crowd, he lifted everyone into the sky.

"Where to?" Li Ang asked Xiao Mo.

The young man with animal ears pointed to a location, and Li Ang controlled the wind flow to carry everyone there.

"That's boring," said Dorothy.

"Shouldn't you be the one saying this?" Li Ang said.

Flying in the air will naturally attract a lot of attention. Morales and another member were waving to the people below, telling them that they were not foreign enemies.

After landing on the ground, we found that although this underground space was mostly made of metal structures left over from the previous civilization, which conveyed a stronger sense of novelty than ever before, the people in the Shadow Factory later built many temporary houses according to modern methods. The comparison between the two showed a strong difference in style.

Although the huge metal ruins and temporary modern houses make the scene look like something out of a doomsday work, their lives are actually pretty good since they can go to the city to buy supplies. Apart from the slightly depressing metal ceiling, their lives seem more down-to-earth than the cold and desolate ground landscape of the Ship Rudder City made up of large machines.

It was dinner time, and most people were wearing work clothes, but now they had taken off their coats, and were either wearing sweatshirts on their upper bodies or shirtless. They were sitting together in groups of three or five, and were either feasting on their meals or drinking, playing cards, and chatting.

The arrival of Leon and his group attracted some inquiries, but they all looked away after seeing Morales.

"Are all the people here from Shadow Factory?" Andasu asked.

"Yes," Xiao Mo smiled, "Do you imagine this place to be a gathering place for people with deep hatred or vengeance, or a cult or gang?"

"No, I just feel a little familiar." The girl with animal ears looked around.

"Kind?" Xiao Mo was surprised.

Li Ang explained: "She herself is a mechanic."

"Oh? This girl is also a mechanic?"

Xiao Mo looked at Andasu in surprise. Now she was wearing the Dark Lantern Shadow suit. Combining the magic fluctuations and racial talents, Xiao Mo could tell that she was of the same kind as himself, both agile fighters, but her mechanic attributes were completely invisible from the surface.

"Everyone is a good person." Alulu said as she looked at these people busy with their own lives.

Are you prepared to immediately uphold justice if they are not good people? Li Ang thought.

Passing through the community built in the underground ruins, everyone walked under the ancient giant ship. The length of this giant ship was similar to that of a modern aircraft carrier on Earth, but looking at the data on paper did not give any impression. Only by walking under it could you feel the feeling of it covering the sky and the sun.

"Wow! What a huge ship!"

Zoe spread her arms, turned her head left and right, then turned around and jumped in front of Leon.

"We can't build one that big." "Let's build one that big too!"

Li Ang had already predicted what she would say.

The people around laughed, and Zoe stared at Li Ang with her ruby eyes: "How do you know what I'm going to say?"

"That's easy to understand." Li Ang put his hand over the cat's head.

"But, but it would be really cool to sail out on a boat like this!"

"That's true, but an airship that's big enough is fine. It can't be too small, but if it's that big, it will be difficult for us to get all the monster materials to strengthen it. You don't want to spend the rest of your time running around looking for materials and not be able to continue adventuring, right?"

Zoe seemed to be convinced by Leon, and nodded slowly with reluctance on her face.

Xiao Mo led everyone towards the boarding stairs, saying as he walked, "Those buildings below the ship don't look too good, because they can all be considered temporary sheds. Some repairs and investigations need to be done below, so they're temporary storage and rest areas. The homes of all the Shadow Factory members are on the ship, and their families are too."

After walking up the towering stairs, everyone came to the edge platform of the ancient ship, where they could see children and women.

They were not idle either. The children had obviously just finished their classes and were holding books and banknotes, while the women were either transporting supplies or distributing meals. There were also female workers repairing some of the ship's mechanical structures.

The girls looked at the ship curiously, and Leon was no exception.

Even though I have seen many science fiction works on Earth, I am now deeply immersed in them. Such a huge ship cannot be built with just huge metal plates. Its interior space must be filled with many mechanical equipment.

Xiao Mo and the engineer next to him walked and explained that the uses of many of the equipment here had been discovered by the people in the Shadow Factory, and they were trying to imitate and repair them, but there were also some complex ones that were still being understood.

This ship can clean itself automatically, compressing magic and elements into pipes in the metal walls and transporting them throughout the ship, which is truly amazing.

[Hint: Remnants of the ancient civilization "Island Makers" have been discovered, and their structure is being analyzed.]

The system issued a long-lost reminder of new things.

The Island Builders? This was the first time Leon had heard of this ancient civilization.

Newbis's history is long enough that many civilizations have perished, a fact everyone knows. Civilizations like the Dragon Bailer and the Stargazers, however, are well-known to many due to their numerous ruins and the guild's publicity.

The remains of the Deusian magical civilization were only speculations by scholars in Qianta City. Of course, now with the information given by Sisyphus and Meimei's experience, it is basically confirmed, and we know that they have a close relationship with Star Soul.

Combined with the Rudder City, this looks like a giant sky island made entirely of metal and machinery, and it is truly worthy of the name "Island Builder".

At the same time, old information is also a reminder.

[Reminder: The exploration rate of the Rudder City has reached 90%, and the hidden location: The Furnace of Creation has been unlocked. The hidden location is full of dangers and rich rewards. Please be prepared and explore carefully.]

This is interesting.

First of all, there is the issue of exploration rate. This underground space is so large. Leon feels that if the huge circular unexplored area in the middle of the metal sky island described by Xiao Mo is excluded, this space reached by the No. 14 core tunnel basically occupies a large part of the underground space.

Including this place, the exploration progress has only reached 90%, which means that if we don’t find this place, we have to explore at least half of the previous channel No. to complete the progress requirements.

The second is the name of this hidden place.

When Li Ang saw this message pop up, he thought the hidden location was called "the core of the machine city" as Xiao Mo said, but it was actually called "the furnace of mechanical creation".

This should be the place behind the metal door at the end of the fourteen passages. If this isn't a hidden location, what else is there to count? The system usually gives all hidden locations, and since there's only one, it must be this one.

Sometimes, the name of the place indicated by the system is the same as what the locals know, but now it is different.

Li Ang thought about it and speculated that when the names were the same, it might be because no matter what it was called, it would not affect the essence of the place. But this time it was different. This relic of a previous civilization had its own unique name. It was named by the former owner of the island, which was different from the name given by later generations based on speculation.

And the real name given by the system is this.

"Leon?"

Seeing that he slowed down because of thinking, Xiao Mo shouted.

"coming."

He caught up with the team, and now everyone walked into a corridor with workshops on both sides.

There were many engineers and workers in these workshops. They greeted the newcomers and from their words they could tell that the young engineer who brought them here was called Neil.

Besides that, I just don’t understand the current situation.

"The chief engineer wants to see them?" "Why? What's so special about them? Doesn't he never let anyone into his workshop unless it's important?" "He just came back from the ground, with a sullen face. None of us dared to mess with him."

These people's words were not malicious, but they conveyed the message that the "big engineer" seemed to have a bad temper.

The metal door at the end of the corridor is the chief engineer's workshop.

Xiao Mo knocked on the door, and an old but strong voice came from the room.

"come in."

The metal door opened to one side, revealing the scene behind it.

This is a standard workshop, very similar to Andasu's room that Leon had seen before, but compared to the girl's private space, it is much more messy. There are many empty wine bottles and cigarette butts on the ground, and the smell in the house is not just the smell of motor oil and metal.

If the smell of machinery in Andasu's workshop obscured the girlish aura, the opposite was true here. We should be grateful for these smells to dilute the pungent smell of the remnants of life.

The old man standing in front of the workbench piled with drawings turned around. He was the old man in the engine shop.

"Uncle Lorcan," Morales shouted.

"Ah, it's that old man who broke other people's things," said Zoe.

Li Ang raised his hand but was not as quick as she spoke, and his hand was clenched into a fist halfway through.

Aren't you supposed to forget strangers? Why do you remember them this time?

Neil was startled and tried to say something to make amends.

"That's not a broken thing, I just fixed it for him."

The engineer listened to Zoe's words without getting annoyed. He pointed to one side and said, "Since you're here, take a seat first."

The young engineer was shocked again and felt a little unbelievable.

There were obviously not enough seats in the room for so many people, so Neil ran to the next door and brought in a few stools so that Leon and his group could all sit down.

When Leon finally sat down, Locke immediately said, "The investigation team described your personnel composition and the outside world, so I knew it was you."

The old man looked at Andasu with sharp eyes: "You seemed to have some opinions about my changes before. Tell me."

295. Perseverance

The great engineer named Locke did not introduce himself, nor did he ask for information about Leon and the others. Instead, he asked Andasu to continue the topic in the store.

Li Ang's brows tightened. The girl with animal ears did not want to be a hero at that time, but went to discuss the design with the old man. She did not expect that the other party had already seen through it.

But since it was the other party's request, there was no need for him to stop Andasu from speaking.

The scene before him made the young engineer named Neil panic. He quietly moved over and whispered to Leon, "You'd better hold on to that girl. The big engineer has a bad temper..."

Andasu looked calm and began to express her views.

"You adjusted a structure that will affect energy conduction. Although it's improved compared to before, but..."

Leon did not take up the job of mechanic, but the ship construction panel was open. He had some construction knowledge, but compared with the manufacturing of upgradeable equipment, this knowledge was very superficial and more like general knowledge. The system might only provide the corresponding knowledge when it was needed, so he did not quite understand what she was saying.

Except for the young engineer, everyone else was even more confused.

"Oh, that's how you see it."

After hearing Andasu's words, the old man looked at Andasu with a serious look.

"However, you didn't see that excessively high output power would shorten the life of the heat pipes at the back. Once the heat is unevenly distributed, the stability of several core structures will change..."

Locke was not dissatisfied, but responded positively to Andasu's opinion.

Perhaps because he was much older than the girl, the old man was talking about experience that could only be gained through repeated testing of the same product over many years.

With Anna Su's talent of learning the airship technology of those modified technicians in the Flashing Fields through observation and summary, she naturally understood what Locke said immediately.

She tasted it herself and found that it was indeed true, and immediately realized that she had thought too simply.

Next, Leon saw the most embarrassed Andasu since he knew her.

Maybe it was because during close contact, the shy feeling was scattered throughout the body and not all concentrated on the face. Now, because of his blind self-confidence, the White Wolf, who had a strong sense of self-esteem in certain things, had a burning red on his cheeks.

"Wow, can a person's face get so red?" Dorothy chuckled.

"An is like this because he takes everything seriously." Alulu spoke up for him.

"Oh, you mean I'm not serious about my work?"

"That's okay, but it's not nice to laugh at serious people."

"Okay, okay."

The calf's voice was childish, but to Dorothy it sounded sarcastic.

An Dasu was already looking uneasy, swaying from side to side, and it looked like she really wanted to stand up and hide next to Leon. But she couldn't do that in front of strangers as naturally as Zoe, and she froze.

Li Ang took a half step forward to hold her, giving her both mental and physical support.

He also looked at the engineer, waiting for his next words.

Locke looked at the girl and said, "I didn't realize you were such a capable engineer."

He laughed and said, "Don't be emotional. I dare to say this. I'm the only one in the entire airspace who can modify the engine of the Kongyan Shipyard."

The young engineer Neil continued, "Mr. Locke was the former chief designer of the Kongyan Shipyard."

Li Ang was not too surprised by this, because Xiao Mo had just said that the people in the Shadow Factory basically came from large shipyards.

"It happened a long time ago. Ever since he parted ways with that bastard Satyr, Kong Yan has been messing around."

Loken crossed his arms. "When you were on the ground, did you see the airship racing boat?"