As the suspended intercity carriage passed through the city on an arched viaduct, Rozim and others had the opportunity to stare at the huge space in the distance.
There are countless commercial areas, residential areas, manufacturing complexes, administrative areas, churches, squares, etc. When the carriages fly over the smoke and dust that cover the city, large areas of buildings also disappear from his eyes. From a high altitude, the entire city of Terra is almost smooth. Legend has it that as early as the time when the Great Expedition was launched, almost all the mountains were flattened. Except for the Himalayas, as the foundation of the palace, the Himalayas have almost never changed.
The Earth's ocean has long dried up. From one side of the horizon to the other, the entire continent has been pieced together into an indescribable super metropolis.
So for most of the residents of Terra, even if they live in the safest, most glorious and greatest place in the human empire, few people can see the boundaries of cities in their lifetime. Except for those who were drafted, for most people, their lives may even be only their own neighborhoods and the throne that can never be seen after the Gate of Eternity. In the luckiest state, that is, on few clear nights, they can see the stars in the sky and the low-Earth orbits with flashing lights standing in the sky.
"Give it, let it go."
"Please show the bill."
This kind of intercity suspended train cannot be taken casually. It must be a local resident and has a residence certificate to purchase tickets. From time to time, passengers and passenger police even randomly check passengers' tickets, and do not express their feelings to remind passengers that there may be punishments for illegal crossing the city's borders. Terra's household registration system is extremely strict, and different urban areas cannot be freely allowed.
The entire carriage is mixed with the design styles of Empire and Mechanical Society. Half of the carriage is occupied by seats, and small crystal-decorated lights are placed on the table. They will jingle whenever the carriage turns or slows down.
However, Rozim and the others only have to stand on the other side.
As one of the metropolitan areas closest to the palace, Eternal City will feel that the city is very grand and tidy if you look at it from a distance, but this does not mean that it is always glamorous. For example, when you leave the Assam district, you can see a three-in-one area. Although the boundaries of each administrative district are strictly defined, under the influence of illegal buildings and overlapping jurisdiction, such urban overlapping areas are easily lost to management and occupied by large tracts of decaying steel scraps, huge polluted drainage channels and pathetic poverty caves.
But there will be no such place on the map. It is a blank space on the map. The sacred capital of human beings cannot allow slums to appear. This is a blasphemy to the glory of the throne.
Therefore, this kind of place is also called a ghost area - the "human" eyes cannot see it.
After passing through the ghost area, the train reached the boundary of the City of Prayer, a huge building complex located near the suburbs of the palace. In fact, it was originally part of the Eternal City. However, with the continuous expansion of the imperial bureaucracy, the number of public officials serving the Empire era also increased. At first, it was classified as a residential area for middle and senior public officials because it was close to the palace. Later, it developed day by day and eventually became an independent city.
Today, the City of Prayers is home to more than 30 billion residents. They are basically civil servants from imperial institutions such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Military Affairs. Some of them have lived here for dozens of generations, which means they have lived in the bureaucracy of the empire for dozens of generations.
For the vast majority of Terra residents, being able to live in the City of Prayers is enough to represent a kind of glory and identity.
When Rozim turned his eyes to the window, he saw the most beautiful and state-of-the-art city in Terra.
The tall buildings were stacked with a lot of buildings, covering the sight of the distant horizon outside the city. The huge display screen and three-dimensional projection equipment installed on the building showed many characters and slogans that he was not clear about.
The track train they were on was as high as the middle floor of the building, so his sight was quickly soaked by various lights, which also penetrated into the carriage, and everything in the carriage, the passengers, Rozim's eyes, hands, and clothes were soaked in these fresh lights, which made him move away his swelling eyes and look down.
Through the gap between the nets intertwined by tracks, roads and suspended viaducts, Rozim saw all kinds of tiny people walking through the streets, doing their own things.
Some of them were dressed luxuriously, some were dignified and decent, some were dressed ragged, some were charming or ruffian, and of course, the rest were ordinary.
The most of them are people wearing various uniforms. Their clothes are monotonous, but they are dyed with colorful colors by neon, street lights and headlights.
The buildings are bright and the people are colorful, which makes the city exude a magic power, as if it wants to tempt people here forever.
Then Rozim took two steps to look better at the city of the throne from the sky.
In a sense, it really looks like a huge museum made of complex giant spider webs, with gorgeously decorated giant statues, supporting huge buttresses of oversized buildings, dirty and gloomy various giant power equipment.
"That's the Emperor's Savior Church."
When a magnificent and exaggerated building appeared in sight, Ssina came to Rozim and whispered the history of this magnificent church in the empire.
There is no doubt that Rozim was also shocked by this giant building, probably the largest church he could imagine, with a huge arched roof as big as the bow of a spacecraft, even obscured by condensed steam - according to the law, in the City of Prayer, no building was allowed to exceed the Cathedral of the Emperor Savior.
The church is like a colorful mountain standing surrounded by the building, and groups of robe-clad priests and followers are moving back and forth in various side halls and walkways, just like busy ants in an ant nest.
Rozim realized for the first time that the word nest was so appropriate to describe these huge human settlements.
At this time, all the exits of the church were hung with flags of hundreds of meters high - they were somewhat ragged, but still radiating ancient colors, filtering through the multi-colored light, glittering on the murals depicting battles after battle, and now the huge building is filled with a zealous atmosphere of activity, without the silence of prayer and contemplation.
This also made Rozim suddenly realize something, it was still night, although it was approaching morning.
With a slight shaking, the train stopped.
When the train gate opened and Rozim stepped into the platform, a wave of senses hit him.
Chapter completed!