radicalducati Chapter 123 Weaving
Chapter 123 Weaving
Chapter 123 Weaving
The metal floor beneath my feet was vibrating with a clattering sound.
The air was filled with the smell of diesel and engine oil, giving Xiao Lü a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling.
It feels like a lifetime ago that I last traveled on such a slow train. It was a time when everyone was complaining about delays, a time that wasn't very comfortable but that I still miss.
Xia Zhaozhao clearly didn't consider herself an outsider.
She was standing at the junction of the train carriages, spitting as she boasted to the group of people in the mall.
The main content of their boasting, of course, is their past achievements and accomplishments.
From how that lizard aggregate rose from a nobody to become a powerful figure, to the terrifying being deep in the tunnel whose lungs resembled a lung, her words were full of exaggeration about her own combat power, as well as all sorts of strange embellishments.
The lizard, under Sasha's command, stood obediently, serving as a live prop and adding a touch of credibility to Xia Zhaozhao's flawed epic of personal heroism.
"My God—this, this thing can be controlled?"
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The square-faced man and his gang of underlings wore expressions of bewilderment mixed with shock and awe.
"Of course!" Xia Zhaozhao replied immediately, indicating that in the future, the survivors should not lack cannon fodder in the front lines.
Little Green watched this scene silently, feeling that she couldn't bear to watch any longer.
If she keeps bragging like this, those guys with the square face will probably erect a statue of her at the mall entrance tomorrow, burning incense morning and night, praying that their boss will bless them so they can find rare equipment while picking up trash.
"Alright, alright."
Xiao Lü finally couldn't hold back any longer, stepped forward, grabbed Xia Zhaozhao's arm, and forcibly interrupted her speech.
Xia Zhaozhao, however, remained excited, just like someone who had just entered the city, curiously observing the rapidly receding ruins of the city outside the train window.
Outside the carriage, everything was still a crimson expanse, and Xiao Lü didn't find anything noteworthy in this monotonous post-apocalyptic landscape.
However, she could understand Xia Zhaozhao's feelings at this moment. She herself was quite fascinated by the feeling of watching the world recede in front of her when she was a child.
A sticky swallowing sound came from the back of the carriage.
The poor little fire dragon, under Sasha's will, was reluctantly swallowing clumps of black slime into its body.
Thanks to the aggregates' body structure, swallowing such things seems quite easy.
It packed all of these things into its body, and then with a "poof," it spat them out through the hole in the car window.
The cleanup work went surprisingly efficiently.
Although its constant attempts to resist suggest that eating these nutritionally worthless things must be a great torment for it, unfortunately, it has no choice in the matter.
"I'll treat you to something delicious when we get back, all you can eat is chlorella!"
Xia Zhaozhao turned around and shouted at it, a wicked, pus-filled smile on her face, not caring whether the other party could understand her or not.
Suddenly, she remembered something and turned her gaze to Bai Shuyuan, who was standing quietly to the side.
"Hey, Xiaobai! Could we modify a railway gun?"
"I remember you had a plan for an electromagnetic railgun before, didn't you?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Shuyuan merely glanced at her indifferently, offering no comment.
"—Before considering such unrealistic things, we should first think about how to repair the Left Bank Elevated Road."
Even so, Xiao Lü sensed that Bai Shuyuan seemed to have actually taken a little bit of what she was saying to heart.
After all, just by looking at how much she loves her NTW-14.5, you can tell she's an incurable heavy-firepower enthusiast.
"Then—how should we repair the bridge?"
"The structure of a suspension bridge can be simplified into five core parts: bridge towers, ground anchors, main cables, suspension cables, and bridge deck."
Bai Shuyuan got straight to the point.
"Our goal is to build a temporary bridge that can safely accommodate pedestrians and two-wheeled vehicles. The load requirements are not high, so using the capabilities of wolves should make it easy to achieve."
"First, bridge towers need to be built on top of the remaining elevated bridge piers on both sides, as they will mainly bear the downward pressure."
"Secondly, ground anchors need to be installed on the solid ground behind the bridge piers to secure and withstand the enormous tension of the main cables. This is the most critical stress point of the entire structure."
"In terms of materials, I will go to the elevator shaft of a nearby high-rise building and take the strongest steel cable as the main cable."
"As for the suspension cables, bridge deck framework, and guardrails, these steel cables made by wolves will suffice."
"Once the framework is completed, the work of laying lightweight bridge deck materials such as wooden planks can be handed over to the survivors on both banks."
The train eventually braked on flat ground not far from the left bank viaduct.
Subsequently, the survivors at both the bank and the shopping mall locations were mobilized.
Over the next hour, a massive moving operation began.
Everyone moved all the tools they could find to both sides of the broken section of the viaduct.
Once everything was ready, everyone's eyes instinctively focused on the girl.
The wolf simply hovered quietly above the broken bridge on one side, closed its eyes, and activated its power.
The next second, a miraculous phenomenon occurred.
The countless metals piled on the bridge surface rose up instantly, squeezing and merging with each other in an absolutely symmetrical manner in mid-air, transforming into two towering iron towers.
The two bridge towers penetrated the locations previously marked by Bai Shuyuan, taking deep root within the bridge piers, as stable as a rock.
Immediately afterwards, more materials were pulled up from the ground, connected with the steel cables taken from the elevator shaft, and shoved hard into the ground behind the bridge pier, forming two ground anchors.
On the opposite bank, the exact same scene unfolded simultaneously.
This sight left all the survivors on the ground speechless. It was beyond description; "powerful" was simply an understatement.
And this is just the beginning.
Driven by the wolf's will, the incredibly heavy steel cable soared into the air, stretching continuously until it finally rested completely on the bridge tower on the opposite bank.
Then, the steel cables she made by hand seemed to come alive.
They weave themselves in the air. Hundreds and thousands of suspenders hang from the main cable, with even more and finer steel cables woven into a metal mesh within them.
The framework of a suspension bridge appeared out of thin air in less than an hour.
"————This is too overpowered!" Xia Zhaozhao looked up, staring blankly at everything.
"Your abilities aren't bad either," Little Green said beside her.
"At least when it comes to mixing mortar on a construction site, I'm definitely much faster than others."
"————" Xia Zhaozhao immediately gave her a disdainful look.
The bridge's framework is now complete. Now, it's the survivors' turn.
Survivors on both sides of the strait started work at the same time, carrying planks and tools to lay the bridge surface, which looked quite lively.
The sky remained lifeless, and the rain continued to fall as usual.
The hastily constructed suspension bridge in front of us is certainly not aesthetically pleasing; it resembles a rough stitch in a huge wound in the city.
But it is there, connecting the two broken ends.
After completing all this, the wolf looked quite exhausted. It wobbled over to Little Green, nuzzled against it, and then gave a relieved smile.
"Great—that balances things out."
"In that case—I'll be leaving tomorrow to go back to my sister," she said softly.
"But I will definitely, absolutely come back! If nothing's wrong over there—I'll come back to see you all in a few days!"
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