All Chapters of The Dead Zone Sovereign : Chapter 61
- Chapter 66
66 chapters
Chapter 61: The Subterranean Alkaline Ocean
The Subterranean Alkaline Ocean and the Acoustic Resonance Corridor was a very tough place to be. When the people left Western Heavy Mechanical Repository Ten the sky was a yellow color. It was like a blanket of yellow haze that just hung there not moving at all. The air was cold and the Subterranean Alkaline Ocean and the Acoustic Resonance Corridor was in front of them. Locomotive Unit Four was at the front of the train. It was making a lot of heat. The heat kept the people warm even though it was cold outside.The people had just fixed the train. Now they were testing it. Marcus was checking to see if the train could move slowly without any problems. Kael was watching from the front of the train to make sure everything was okay.The Subterranean Alkaline Ocean was a bad place. It was not an ocean but it was like a big dry lake bed. The ground was made of dust that could hurt people. If the dust got wet it would start to burn and make a lot of heat. The people had to be very careful
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Chapter 62: The Sandstone Escarpment
The big red sandstone wall was in the way of the train. This wall was called the Red Sandstone Escarpment. It was four hundred and twelve feet tall. The wind had made the wall very smooth. The rock was very hard. Had a lot of iron and silica in it. The wall went on for a time with no gaps or canyons. Kael did not think it was an idea to build a road over the wall. The train was too heavy. Would need a very long and winding road to climb over the wall.Valen said they should use machines to dig a tunnel. These machines were stored in a place called Repository Nine. The machines were very good at digging tunnels. Locomotive Unit Four stopped at Mile Marker One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-Eight. The temperature was very cold. The train was making a lot of heat. Tor got the machines ready to dig the tunnel. The tunnel machine was very big. Had a rotating head with many hard teeth. The teeth were made of a hard material called tungsten carbide.The machine was very complicated. Had many
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Chapter 63: Ceramic Gateway
The team had a problem to solve. They were standing in front of a white ceramic wall at the end of Sector Ninety-Two. This wall was really strong. They could not go through it. So they had to stop the train and think about what to do. Locomotive Unit Four was still on the platform of the floating pontoon. Marcus was working hard to keep the air pressure right so that the machines could work properly.The air inside this hole was very thin. It was like being on a high mountain. The team had to wear suits so that they could breathe. They could only talk to each other using wires.Noa was in charge of finding out what was behind the wall. She used machines that could send sound waves through the wall. These machines were very good. Could detect even small changes. The team put these machines against the wall. Turned them on. The machines started to send waves and the team could see what was behind the wall.They found out that the wall was not solid. It was like a box with many layers. I
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Chapter 64: Volcanic Scoria Platform
The unit four came out of the underground tunnels and into a completely new environment. This happened at the watch mark of the 468th cycle. The big iron beam at the front of the train went through the bronze gates of Sector Ninety-Two and onto the windy space of the Volcanic Scoria Platform. The air on the plateau was thin and purple and it pushed against the trains boiler at a steady pressure of 11.4 pounds per square inch. This was a change from the almost empty space of the deep basin but it was still not thick enough so the trains systems had to be adjusted all the time.Marcus stood on the side of the trains cab holding the main steam regulator with his heavy leather gloves. He watched the pressure indicators closely. When the air outside got thicker the superheated steam coming out of the cylinders moved slower. The exhaust system had to be adjusted. Marcus reached forward. Changed the secondary draft-control lever by three notches to make the exhaust nozzles narrower. This mad
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Chapter 65: Hydrological Deluge
The train had to change everything when it moved from the Limestone Boundary Spires into the Alluvial Basin in Sector Ninety-Three. For a time the workers had to deal with really bad conditions like toxic chemicals and hard rock.. Now they were in a new place with a lot of water and plants. This was a change for the workers who were used to working in a very controlled environment.The Alluvial Basin in Sector Ninety-Three was full of life and water which was very different from what they were used to. The air was thick with moisture. Smelled like wet earth and plants. The workers had to get used to this environment and find ways to work with it.At the start of the cycle Valen stopped the train at Mile Marker One Thousand Three Hundred and Twelve. The workers took off their suits because the air was safe to breathe. Marcus was working on the trains engine making sure it was running well in the environment. The Alluvial Basin in Sector Ninety-Three had a lot of water in the air, which
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Chapter 66: Silt-Sink Depression
The Locomotive Unit Four had just crossed the Serpent Meander Bridge.. This was not a time for the western frontier construction team to relax. They were entering a zone where the ground was very unstable. This could stop the construction work they had done far.As the last material wagon crossed the river at Mile Marker One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty the team saw a change in the land. The ground was flat and white. It was like a plain of sediment. This area was called the Sunken Plain of Sector Ninety-Three. It was lower than the river. Collected very fine particles of silica silt and minerals from the western mountains.Marcus was inside the locomotive. He was holding the handle of the regulator. He was feeling the vibrations of the train. The engine was working hard.. The track was different now. The sound of the wheels on the track was not the same. It was more of a humming noise. This meant the ground was not stable.Valen got out of the tool car. He looked at the horizon
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