194: Chapter 194 Steel City, Mechanical Dragon

"You take the Players and sail; I'll head over first."

"Alright, Boss, don't you worry, I guarantee I'll complete the mission."

After arranging the Players, Chen Fan left in a hurry.

Last time, because I had to bring the Players along, it took a full ten hours to arrive.

But with the current boosted speed of 540 knots, it will only take a little over two hours to get there.

Along the way, he encountered a few pirate ships fleeing from afar, but Chen Fan couldn't even be bothered to chase them.

After napping for a little over two hours, the aircraft carrier slowly came to a stop.

Chen Fan walked toward the shallows and opened Exploration to search carefully.

Last time, many survivors had scattered and fled, but even after fighting his way to the center of the City of Sin, he hadn't found them.

Presumably, there must be a path here leading to other places.

"Drake, take a team to scout the path and find their other exit."

"Yes, Master."

He threw out all 200,000 Sailors, leaving a portion of them here to move bricks.

The rest conducted an almost carpet-like search.

Chen Fan himself continued to head toward the core area.

As before, he let 300 warships scout the path first, and after seeing no abnormalities, he hurried to the front of the black gate.

[Ding!]

[Identity: Player.]

[Name: china.]

[Night Key activated, identity bound.]

[After opening the Gate of Darkness, the Player will be teleported to a random location. Open it?]

"I just don't know if there will be a gate to teleport back after I get there."

Chen Fan rubbed his chin and looked at Kuka.

"Do you need a mark, Master?" Kuka understood immediately and reached for his big sword with his right hand.

Chen Fan nodded. "Act according to my eyes."

"Alright." Kuka nodded, but he always felt something was wrong.

After thinking for a moment and not being able to figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it and swung his big sword.

A strange, inexplicable feeling arose in Chen Fan's heart, and an X-shaped mark appeared under his feet.

"Open!"

Chen Fan confidently inserted the key.

The next moment, the darkness swallowed him, and the feeling of the world spinning returned.

His body continued to sink, and finally, he landed on soft grass.

Chen Fan opened his eyes instantly.

He scanned his surroundings vigilantly.

Suddenly, under the faint light, a huge shadow was cast onto Chen Fan.

Chen Fan looked up, and his eyelids twitched.

"Dragon?"

"Holy shit, this thing isn't extinct yet?!!"

Within his line of sight, a dragon-like creature over a hundred meters long flew across the sky.

As it flapped its wings, Chen Fan could vaguely hear the sound of metal friction.

[Ding!]

[Congratulations, Player, you have discovered a new city: Gang Yao Metropolis.]

[The sea chart's gray fog has been removed.]

[The Gate of Darkness is about to close. The Player can choose to return to the original position through the vortex.]

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, and he immediately opened the sea chart.

A little distance away from the City of Sin, a small blue dot representing his main body was blinking.

"Not bad, the distance isn't far."

"It's only over 5,000 kilometers away from the Players; I can arrive in 24 hours."

Thinking of this, Chen Fan controlled the A-Rank Ship Captain, drove the fortress back to meet the Players, and brought them directly to Gang Yao Metropolis.

"Master, you've disappeared, how am I supposed to act according to your eyes?"

Kuka finally realized what was wrong and said hurriedly.

"Kuka, can you manually cancel the mark?"

Chen Fan looked up at the sky; the dragon had flown back again.

Kuka was confused for a moment, then replied: "I can, Master. Are you sure you want to cancel it?"

"Wait a moment. Call me when it reaches nine and a half minutes."

"Yes, Master."

Chen Fan glanced behind him; the vortex had completely dissipated.

Since he was still in the dungeon and his Talent skills were still active, Chen Fan could say he had absolutely no fear.

If it really came to it, he would just activate Ghost Walk and run away.

Within ten minutes, he would explore this city. If it didn't work out, he could just have Kuka pull him back.

Having made his decision, Chen Fan stood up and walked toward the place with lights.

The main color tone of the Night Instance was darkness, so even where there were lights, they were extremely dim.

Clang, clang, clang—

A continuous sound of striking rang out.

Following the sound and light, Chen Fan walked to the entrance of a blacksmith shop.

"Let's gather some information first."

Chen Fan coughed lightly and pushed the door open:

"Old man, do you have any better weapons?"

The sound of hammering stopped abruptly. The white-haired old man turned his head and scanned Chen Fan with his eyes.

"An outsider? No, leave here."

The old man responded coldly and continued to hammer the Steel in his hand.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a headache."

Chen Fan shook his head, took out his rifle, and stepped forward.

"I said, there isn't any. Can't you hear—"

The old man turned around angrily, but suddenly his pupils contracted.

The thick, long muzzle was almost shoved into his mouth.

"I ask, you answer. One word of nonsense, and you die! Understand?"

"Und... Understand."

The old man's eyes became clear instantly.

He had ten thousand curses in his heart that he couldn't say.

Damn it, if you have the truth, why talk nonsense? Wouldn't it have been over if you'd taken it out earlier?

"Who are you? What is your job?"

"Bla... Blacksmith, I'm a blacksmith. Everyone calls me Blacksmith Tang." The old man was stunned for a moment.

Chen Fan nodded. "What are those flying in the sky?"

The old man hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and didn't answer.

Chen Fan raised his right hand, pressed the muzzle firmly against the blacksmith's face, and applied slight pressure with his finger.

The "click, click" sound was like a death warrant, scaring the old man into breaking into a cold sweat.

"Don't... don't shoot! What's flying in the sky is our Gang Yao's core technology, the Mechanical Dragon."

"Mechanical Dragon?"

Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

Those four words!

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Chen Fan asked again:

"How many Mechanical Dragons do you have in total?"

"Just one, it hasn't started mass production yet."

"Where does it land when it stops?"

"In front, on top of that tallest building."

"One last question."

Chen Fan's mouth curled up slightly. "What's your birth order in your family?"

The old man's eyes were a bit confused, but he answered honestly: "Third."

Bang—

The rifle equipped with a silencer made a faint sound. The old man fell to the ground, his face full of confusion.

He didn't understand why the young man in front of him still killed him even though he had answered the questions honestly.

"Pah, you old immortal thing."

Throwing the old man into the furnace, Chen Fan searched around.

Finally, he found a glass bottle in a safe.

"magic dragon crystal core? It actually has 100 points of energy, tsk tsk tsk, really rich."

"It seems that here, the magic dragon crystal core is also a hard currency."

Chen Fan collected the energy, locked the door, and walked out of the blacksmith shop.

Along the way, he didn't encounter any pedestrians.

Chen Fan successfully approached the vicinity of the tallest building before he saw the bustling crowd.

"Ghost Walk."

He activated the stealth skill within Elemental Summoning and walked forward slowly.

Suddenly, a Hurricane whistled past, and the crowd in front immediately dodged away.

A moment later, the hundred-meter-long dragon landed slowly.

Its whole body was wrapped in black metal, but the joints had been treated, making the dragon as agile as a real dragon when flying.

"Roar—"

A hoarse roar mixed with mechanical sounds rang out.

Chen Fan couldn't help but be stunned.

"This thing, it has life?"

Just at this moment, Kuka's urgent voice rang out:

"Master, time is almost up. Do you need me to teleport you back?"