Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 712 The Next Stellar Furnace, Don't Be Afraid.
"Oh, that's how the banshees take the subway. You know, they're really tall, so this is the only way they can get into the carriage."

Banshees are typically over three meters tall, and subway cars, due to space constraints, could not possibly be made that tall.

Hughes' original design was for them to lie down, but that would take up too much space and also look rather... weird.

While everyone else was standing, the succubus was lying down, creating an awkward feeling as if she had wandered into someone else's sleeper berth.
The banshees could coil their snake tails, but that would be too stifling, so they preferred to stick their heads out of the car windows, resulting in this bizarre sight from the outside.
Once inside the carriage, the three found an empty seat, which happened to be right next to a female succubus. The succubus was so large that she could take up the space of three people in a whole row.

Beatrice looked at him, then hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but didn't.

"what happened?"

Does she need to buy three tickets?

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“No need,” the succubus beside her said quietly, “because I have a standing ticket.”

Beatrice turned her head and saw that the banshee was indeed standing on the carriage floor. She folded up the seats and moved them aside to make room for her to stand.

Speaking of the banshee, her lower body is a snake's tail, so she can't sit; she can only stand.

The scene was so bizarre that it took Beatrice a long time to recover.

She suddenly noticed something: she seemed to have unknowingly accepted the existence of these alien races.

Beatrice had seen banshees and heard that there were quite a few of them. She was actually quite surprised when she first met Monica, but she quickly forgot about it.

These banshees seem to possess a magical power; despite being of a different race, vastly different in size and even personality from humans, it's easy to overlook the fact that they are not human.

Of course, it's also possible that they're just too good at creating drama, and their identities are completely insignificant compared to the outrageous things they do.

Soon the subway started moving, and the wind whistled through the opening above. Beatrice suddenly realized that the banshee was actually sitting in a convertible.

"Is this vehicle polluting?"

"Yes, Castells' main power source is still the steam engine; explosive internal combustion engines are generally used less often."

Gaia spoke with some difficulty.

To be honest, the adoption rate of internal combustion engines, a new energy source, is actually very low at present.

However, its expansion speed was extremely exaggerated, especially among the Christian Guardians, where it was very popular.

The reason is quite simple: the friars generally have a problem with equivalent worship and highly admire nitroglycerin, a primitive explosive. Monica's stun blaster just happens to fulfill all their fantasies.

Sitting on an engine that's exploding, speeding at ten times the throttle—which religious leader could resist such temptation?

Not to mention the ejection mode, which is a real ejection.

Hughes was quite troubled by this—engines on Earth were calculated by displacement, while those on Castel were calculated by equivalence.
Gaia also loathed this. There was no way around it; she came from a background managing explosives factories, and she simply couldn't be happy about having a pile of explosives under her.

The train started moving. We were underground, with only dim lighting, and we couldn't see anything on either side.

Beatrice watched the firelight flashing past on both sides and felt as if she were traveling through the Milky Way, with starlight flashing by on both sides.

"We've arrived." A station announcement rang out, and Zoe nudged Beatrice's waist.

"So fast?"

Beatrice was taken aback. She felt like she had only been sitting down for a short while, but she still followed the flow of people off the train. There seemed to be a lot more people here. "This is the Castel Cathedral station. It's probably the busiest subway station. You can check out the underground platform plaza later."

The fact that the words "underground," "platform," and "square" could be combined in such a magical way piqued Beatrice's curiosity. As soon as she stepped off the train, she looked around with curious eyes.

"Wow"

Beatrice thought this was just an empty lot, but when she got out of the carriage, she saw a towering dome.

The entire platform is at least several hundred meters long. Looking from one end to the other, the people on the other side are just tiny dots.

Moreover, this place doesn't feel underground at all. The entire space is extremely open, with a dome several stories high above. You can see platforms at the top, and many people board trains in other directions from there.

Between each platform are square doors, and inside the doors, a floor rises or falls rhythmically. People seize the brief moment of pause to jump in and out—the Partnorst elevator is now in widespread use in this station, with elevator doors densely packed between the platforms.

Beatrice suddenly felt as if she had arrived in the Rhine, which was also layered like this, except that there would be no busy people there, no singing or cursing from steam engines, only choir members singing sacred texts.

"Look, that's one of the exits of the stellar reactor."

Beatrice raised her head and looked up at the very top.

There was a huge hole over there, but now it's completely filled.

At least hundreds of pipes protruded from that hole, densely extending along the walls in all directions.

It looks like a gigantic octopus, stretching its thousands of tentacles in all directions.

What's in that pipe?
Beatrice's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly sensed something. She could feel that what was flowing and howling in the pipes was pollution.

Countless pipes thus delivered the pollution to various parts of Castells.

Whether it was an illusion or not, it seemed as if the contaminants in the pipes all paused for a moment, as if they sensed her gaze.

Beatrice sensed a subtle sense of closeness from it.

Wait, why get close to her? Is it just because she can also vomit pollutants?

Or is the Stellar Furnace hoping for a new fountain to join it?
“Let’s go, let’s go up first.” Zoe patted Beatrice on the shoulder and pointed to the elevator next to her.

Beatrice had basic mechanical knowledge and figured out how to use the elevator after only a short observation.

The three of them were in an elevator that was guarded. After going through security, they seized the opportunity to jump into the elevator, and then Beatrice's vision went black.

The elevator car entered the mezzanine and quickly lit up again, revealing the scene on the upper platform. Beatrice's eyes lit up with surprise.

She wasn't moving her feet, yet she seemed to be touring a train station.

"This leads directly to the main church. Let's go to the lord's office first, but..."

"what happened?"

“We’ll be passing by the Stellar Furnace,” Zoe said nervously. “Should you close your eyes for a moment?”

"Don't worry, I don't need to. I know there's an evil god burning in the Stellar Furnace, it won't scare me," Beatrice said confidently.

(End of this chapter)