I Got 999 Level With One Cut

Edina pulled out two huge sackcloth bags from under her broken bed. She carefully stuffed her masterpiece, the internal combustion engine, into the sackcloth bag. Then she started to throw all the scattered parts into the other sackcloth bag.    

"You want these too."    

Riko and the rest of the people stood outside the room filled with the smell of machine oil. They waited for Edina to pack up all her belongings and take them away.    

"I might not come back in the future. These parts were collected with great difficulty. It would be a pity to throw them away."    

Edina still had a hopeful smile on her face. Carol stood by the side. She used her little head to try to understand the fact that she might very soon be able to say goodbye to the family that she had lived in for so many years.    

"It's done."    

Edina struggled to carry the two burlap bags that were very large for her height. She walked out of the cottage and looked back at the house with complex emotions.    

Edina had already changed into the only dress that looked slightly neat and proper. This white dress with lace was still very clean. It almost did not look like it had been worn by its owner before. Edina held Carol's hand and pulled the little girl who was still staring blankly at the house behind her to walk forward.    

Legend had it that thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, humans still lived on the ground. A backward but stable farming society did not have any supernatural powers like magic. The country was stable, the people were safe. Although they did not know about the existence of the Steam Machine God Holy Spirit Watt and his great glory, the supreme Watt did not care about the fact that no one believed in him. He just watched everything with the love of equality. His condition might have lasted for a long time, until something unexpected happened.    

The giant monster appeared out of nowhere. Their appearance and form were unknown, but there were some vague records in the most ancient books. But that was no longer important to the people who already lived in the underground cities. What was important was that everyone knew that those giant monsters had taken away the earth and sky. The fragile swords and shields in the hands of humans were unable to fight against the giant monsters, and every battle was an overwhelming massacre.    

The people's living space was constantly being plundered. They were slaughtered by the giant monsters until the eve of their death. Fortunately, the supreme Watt could not bear to see the humans die just like that. With compassion and compassion, he used the mighty power of the gods to open up 36 incomparably huge caves beside the underground river as the 36 underground cities for humans to live in in in the future. Then, he placed an unimaginably powerful giant machine at the bottom of each city. The power of these machines was enough to light up the entire city.    

These machines had been continuously exporting enormous amounts of energy over the past thousands of years, preventing the entire world from falling into eternal darkness. Humans admired their great power, so they gave them the same name, the central mainframe.    

The central mainframe was very similar in principle to the smaller steam engines used by humans in other places, but it was a divine machine created by Holy Spirit Watt with divine power. Even the greatest sage among humans could not crack it. Ordinary steam engines relied on burning coal to produce heat. It heated water into steam to push the piston. Although the central mainframe was the same as the artificial steam engine in the latter half, no one knew what it was using to produce such a huge amount of heat.    

All the people who took the risk to enter the central mainframe and try to unravel the secrets of the central mainframe all ended up suffering from a strange disease that no one knew how to treat. First, they had edema, then their skin began to fester. In the end, they would die within a few days.    

This phenomenon was called "Watt's Curse."    

Now, excluding the St. Newcomen that had been extinguished more than two hundred years ago, there were still nine other underground cities that were still lit up and had people living in them. However, as the power outage became more and more frequent, the power outage became longer and longer. No one knew how long they could last.    

According to the Church, when the central mainframe of all the cities stopped, the supreme Holy Spirit Watt would carry out his final judgment on all those who had lived in the past.    

Although it sounded like it was too far away from people's lives, Steam Divine Cult was, after all, the only legitimate religion in these underground cities that still existed. Praying to the great Holy Spirit Watt still became an indispensable part of everyone's daily lives.    

The only means of transportation connecting the nine cities was the steam train that passed through the tunnel. These tunnels were also a gift from Watt. But the railway that spread within was built by humans. After Holy Spirit Watt created the central mainframe, he bestowed the technology of the similar steam engine to humans who were still in the state of ignorance. So now, the steam became the source of life for humans.    

Although the load capacity of the train was limited, since the population between cities was almost non-existent, its transportation capacity was still more than enough.    

The train station was located at the border between the middle and upper city districts. Street 103 perfectly separated the pitch-black apartment buildings that the middle class lived in from the beautiful buildings in the upper city districts. This formed a miracle in the eyes of Riko and the others, but in the eyes of the locals, they were already accustomed to it.    

Edina was looking around curiously while trying her best to hide the fact that she was ignorant and ill-informed. Although she failed in the end, it was a good thing that not many people paid too much attention to her.    

"So it turns out that this place is so open."    

The inventor girl couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the faint lights on the other side of the funnel.    

"You've never been up here before?" Virna asked.    

"Because I don't have time to come up and take a look. I also need to spend money to use the lift." Edina shook her head.    

The group of people took the tickets that Meiko got yesterday and showed them to the only old man who checked the tickets. They chatted and laughed as they walked to the only platform.    

Ten minutes later, a row of cumbersome mechanical monsters were wrapped in a large cloud of white steam. It slowly appeared from the darkness in the distance.    

The tube-shaped train's traction section was covered with rivets and pipes, which were grayish-black like coal. It was dragging a short additional carriage loaded with coal, and its dark red wheels were attached with a few complex transmission axles. It gave off a strange mechanical feeling. The searchlights at the front of the wagon were not turned off because it had entered the city. The white light was a little blinding.