Steel Steam and Flame

It was a beautiful night sky. Cassia looked up for a long time, until the operator's neck became sore, and then closed the windy sky window. In the past few days, the number of inspections on heavy trains has increased, and the speed of the train has occasionally slowed down. Soldiers with guns walked past on the roof of the car to check the safety of the entire train with a length of kilometers. .

The gray area is coming, this is the signal that the rising breath of the whole train transmits to Cassia and the others.

During the day, the intensity of the light coming in from the skylight is stronger, and the temperature rises unconsciously. The four-person system is not afraid of the cold, but the current air temperature can no longer be described as warm.

On the fourth day, the smell of the air blowing in from the skylight was no longer the same. That is the moist sea flavor road that has been diluted after a long distance. As the daylight hours are prolonged, the train is sure to have reached the edge of the gray area, and soon it will stop at the station.

On the morning of the fifth day, the deceleration of the heavy train started very early and lasted a long time. The sun is dazzling, and there is no consciousness to enter the autumn. The humid hot air made the cabin very stuffy. Cassia and the others packed up a few things in advance, poking their heads out of the skylight to check the situation. I don't know if this is the terminal station, but they didn't wait. After looking for an opportunity, they got off the freight train smoothly.

Linna carried Sheila on her back, and Delya was holding a gun disguised as a package, walking with Cassia, who was holding other things, on an uneven road. The quality of the road underfoot is impeccable, but the power of artillery and bullets exceeds the endurance of most ordinary concrete buildings. In the gray area where firepower is one of the pronouns of order, Cassia and the others are still very optimistic about the path they are currently taking.

After walking along the road for about an hour, sweating on their bodies, they saw a small station-like building where they spent more than three times the price on a dilapidated car. It is the appearance of a large truck changed into a passenger car. An extra layer was added on top, which was built by welding on rusted steel strips, and then a layer of work-hardened iron plates were laid on it, and there was a bounce on it, as if everyone was wearing cheap ones. High heels.

The passengers were on the lower floor, with close to 60 or 70 seats, only half of them. There are no passengers on it, half of it is used to carry the consignment, and the other half is used to erect three heavy machine guns removed from the tank. The gun is very old, the difference is like the current electric lamp and gas lamp, and it is about to become the gun for the museum's cultural relics. So when Cassia first saw it, he didn't recognize which model these guns were.

The maintenance is very good, shining with anti-rust oil and steel luster. A bullet chain made of leather and iron was hung on one side of the gun body. There have been gaps in the leather, and it has been used more frequently than Cassia thought. Cassia is not optimistic about their actual firepower.

This converted passenger car started on its own. It did not follow the convoy or other protective tanks behind it. If you intend to attack this passenger car, the overhead layer with three heavy machine guns as the core, relying only on a half-arc-shaped bulletproof steel plate composed of more than ten millimeters thick may not have much practical significance.

There are three drivers, and one more is the captain and the flight attendant. He is a male with a big bald head. His head sweats in the sun and reflects bright light. Wearing a gray vest, a twisted scar on his neck, like a hideous protruding rock, connects to his right chest. When he got into the car, he looked at Sheila's feet many times, but he didn't say anything. Maybe it was because everyone had seen such a situation before.

Now he was sitting in a row of seats on the tail of the car, pouring cheap wine into his stomach bit by bit, watching the dust rolled up under the big truck for a long time. He is very big and has a very smart head. According to the degree of development of the body's hair, it should be a member of the common country, Cassia guessed. Simple contact, this car commander can speak three languages, most of them are simple and proficient, the language of the Empire, the language of the flame alliance and the language of the common country of the ocean. At the beginning, he had to pay three times the fare, which he said with a crude empire.

But looking at what he looks like now, and the station covered in dust all day long, even if it is three times the fare, this business is not easy to do.

"There is no autumn and spring in the gray area. These two seasons have mostly passed in a week." The modified bus has no decent windows, not to mention the air circulation system, and it is sultry. Linna and Cassia were sitting in a row, Sheila and Delya were sitting in the seats behind them.

"The geographical location here is special. It is on the edge of the hot wind that hits the post-phase continent brought by the central ocean current belt." Linna said, "There is also a huge gap on the side connecting your empire. Without mountains blocking it, it is just a plain. The cold currents that lead to the endless sea can also reach here every year. Hot and cold change regularly, and there is no comfortable weather throughout the year."

"But just get used to it, and you won't stay here for a long time?"

"I will leave in a few days, and you and Sheila will not need so much time."

"It doesn't take long, and the manufacture of prostheses is just a precise modulation of the finished prototype. There are many mechanics here, because they are in a gray area, and there are fewer restrictions than in major countries. A lot. They all have their own differential engines with good performance. I don’t think it will take much time." Linna replied.

Cassia gave a "um" ~www.readwn.com~ and thought about other things, but did not take Linna's words. Because of the sultry weather, Linna also pursed her mouth, and did not continue. Sheila fell asleep next to Delya. Injuries to the feet are not so easy.

The speed of the bus is not unbelievably fast. After driving on the road for nearly three hours, there is no sight of the junction of the distorted horizon where the sun is faint, and finally the shadow of the building complex appears, with yellow, gray and white as the main tone. The house gradually came into Cassia's eyes. In the lonely car, anger finally appeared at this time. Someone started to stand up with their luggage in advance, leaning on the car and squinting.

The journey went smoothly, and the car was finally transferred to the building complex, which can be regarded as a good town. Finally I saw the train station and the airport where the airship stopped. The price of the ticket has dropped and doubled as usual. They checked the route and timetable, got on the train at the refurbished railway station, and went to the nearest big city, Bolasberg, a region famous for trading various minerals.

On the train, Cassia used a tactical knife to smash one of the three solid red mercury, obtaining nearly twenty pieces of roughly the same size. For the remaining two red mercury, Cassia gave Linna one, and kept one as a backup source of funds in the empire. After deciding to sell these pieces and deal with Linna and Sheila's affairs, Cassia was ready to leave immediately. He didn't plan to understand the gray area deeply, and it might not be there for a long time.

The whistle sounded alternately, and when Cassia opened his eyes from the train seat, it was almost dusk outside. The sun hasn't set yet, the sunlight is red, and circles around the buildings outside the car windows are as bright as the blood of a newborn baby. The whole Bolasberg is like this, infiltrating the red city.