Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 1116: Section 695: Malin and the Sea (Part 1)

Chapter 1116: Section 695: Malin and the Sea (Part 1)

New Hangzhou, a city that stood out in Thainan’s history, sunk when destruction came, but after the cold era passed, the people in the shelters still resiliently rebuilt civilization.

Even in that era, the settlement with a heart for the Earth Union was only left here, but these remnants rebuilt the city, established the Union, and nearby small settlements gradually chose to embrace this city that still had order—in that era, order was a virtue not easily obtained as it required strength and a heart of stone to forge.

As the city expanded, more and more settlements and cities that had forgotten the Union’s existence but still wanted to recast civilization joined in, thus the New Hangzhou Union was established.

Generation after generation of Union people rebuilt civilization, fought against Chaos, until the great compromise and union hundreds of years ago, when all the Thainan Unions set aside their past grievances and established the true Thainan Confederation, the Sage Tower replaced the King, governors, and leaders, the just and selfless Sages gained everyone’s respect through generations of sacrifice and contribution.

This was evident when the fleet docked at New Hangzhou, as Sage Lin disembarked, those elegantly dressed people came one by one to shake hands with Sage Lin.

They were willing to accept quarantine with Sage Lin.

And Sage Lin introduced Malin to them—it was up to Thailand’s diplomatic department to handle the embassy, while Malin, as an independent individual, stayed with Sage Lin and Meng Quyi at the Bamboo Pavilion.

This was a very simple resting place, since it was summer, there were only bamboo mats and thin cloth quilts.

The furniture in the pavilion was full of pre-Great Destruction style, for example, the lamps, their soft light was wonderful, as Jason put it, at least a whole set of automated factories had been restored by the Thanan. Because of this, they were able to expand so much, while the various races of the Western Human World, having lost their automated factories, had to use hammers and anvils to forge an industrialized world again.

And because of this, their path to recovery was particularly arduous.

"I was thinking before about arming the Eastern Human World to prevent Chaos from conquering them too quickly, but now it seems your arming of Westland truly helps us, and helps them too, compared to them, we are the unlucky ones who need to be armed to prevent Chaos from conquering us quickly." Sostak No. 3 made this judgment based on facts after observing for a day.

"When we return, we also have to try restarting some factories, we must speed up, we can’t place all our bets on you." Jason looked at Malin with an apologetic look as he spoke.

"I know, placing all hope on just me is being irresponsible to civilization." Malin certainly did not mind, on the contrary, if these AI placed all their bets on him, he would really have to curse them—humans knew ten thousand years ago not to put all your eggs in one basket.

As the night deepened, Jason and Sostak No. 3 went off to their own rooms, sharing with Bixiu 5 and Bei Luo, mechanical AI only needed racks to rest, in this regard, they truly outdid the British people of yesteryears who used ropes to sleep, the latter already stood at the abyss of average sleep space, but still could not match the mechanical AI who hung themselves from the ceiling.

While Malin, not yet asleep, saw the lights on the other side of the harbor illuminate—a giant beam of light pierced the night sky.

It was said this was the lighthouse of New Hangzhou.

Watching all this, Malin had a question and answer within himself—this is true civilization, with lights, ships, and the city of people, it must be bustling.

"Just like that Bell Tower from our childhood, right?" Susu’s voice sounded beside Malin.

Malin turned his head to look at the girl in the old nightgown, she seemed to be the deepest image of Malin, the youthful age of fifteen or sixteen, although an old lady of over eight thousand years.

Sometimes, trouble doesn’t just come from speaking because the girl reached out and pinched Malin’s waist, invoking a ninth-level Divine Art’s romantic spiral of Fate’s essence, making him groan.

With a pained expression, Malin said, "Can you not do this, I’m just like you."

"You never used to say that to me." The clearly angry girl was very displeased with this.

"I apologize then...but you’re not wrong, it does resemble the Bell Tower." Malin smirked, then pointed at the light: "Except it wasn’t this big, we weren’t here, but in the orphanage, looking at that Bell Tower in the north of the city."

"...Yes." Mentioning the past, her expression softened a lot.

As the sound of the door opening came from behind, she laughed and said, "I’m entrusting you to her, don’t let this girl’s sacrifice be in vain."

"Why did you agree?" Malin noticed that the passage of time almost came to a standstill.

"One of my human avatars reincarnated in the Meng family, after my death, they were the only ones to bury me in the family cemetery... Moreover, you have seven children, but not one of them truly has Thainan blood, which is unfair to the future."

"I always thought you were a true Caster of civilization." Malin smiled wryly and shook his head.

"I am a Caster of civilization, but I don’t trust the descendants of those robbers from our Westland back then, in the histories we learned, they were Butchers, they were robbers, even the Great Destruction came because of them..." At this point, Susu raised her head to look at Malin: "You know, I personally destroyed three settlements in North America."

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