Steel Steam and Flame

　　 The neighbors who should say goodbye also said hello at noon, with an envy look in their eyes. The small town's membership structure is half of the aborigines and half of them came here from outside.　I have also been to the city outside, and most of them want to move out of the small city at some time in the future.

　　 The station is almost the same as before, because now almost no one will come back or leave, so that the staff here did not even shovel the snow in front of the station and just sat in the room. The time for the relisting of the empire will be more than a month away, and it will take a long time to prepare.

　　 Snow is not pure white, it has a greyish feel. As the end of the year approaches, the factories in the small town show more unmatched vitality.

　　 After buying the tickets, Cassia and the others sat in hard chairs and waited. There is the latest timetable printed out on the board on the side, but the train did not arrive on time according to the above time. More than an hour late, the train, painted white all over, slowly stopped at the edge of the platform in the rumbling sound. The locks on the iron fences are all broken. If you want to replace them, you have to wait until the relisting comes. Usually there are no people here.

　　Kasia and the others walked over, a few burly men in flight attendant costumes walked off the train with iron rods, as if they were going to break the frozen ice on some parts of the train.

　　 There are still half of the spaces on the train that are vacant. The number of people is sparse and can be counted at a glance. On the railway line in the frontier region, few trains pass through the whole year. The timetable at each station is based on half a month or a month. Moreover, the trains that stop at these places do not expect to fill up the guests. The money to maintain their operation and maintenance is all the empire. This may be the only place in the empire that can be praised. At least apart from the use of airships, the empire really allowed the railway lines to cover the entire country.

　　 This can be regarded as Lilia's first train ride. When she came here a few years ago, she also took the train. But at that time she was still in her arms by her mother, and it didn't take long for her eyes to open.

　　 The surrounding things may be very novel to her, and the scenery outside the window is the same after the train starts. He was moving all the time, his eyes gleaming, he half-kneeled on the chair, climbing the window with his hands to watch the scene rushing past outside. In a snow-white scene, you can see the smaller and smaller shadows of Lilac Peak not far away.

　　 The small town was quickly surrounded by the surrounding white scenery, and disappeared into Cassia's vision. For some reason, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.

　　 Lilia looked at the unchanging scenery outside, and she was completely tired in an hour or two. Now she was curled up in a chair and fell asleep, her long eyelashes moved from time to time, so she didn't have to think about her quiet age.

　　 Mother was in the same state on the side, resting on the soft chair with her eyes closed. There are always strange things on the train, which can make people sleep.

　　 Cassia can't rest, nor can she calm down. Taking out the book and looking at it, he is not a good candidate at this time. I took a few books home, but they are still lying in Cassia’s gift box, without a page turned by Cassia. During the few days at home waiting for the snow to stop, I couldn't see a line of words. I took out the book and opened it, my eyes are indeed continuously transmitting the contents of the book into my brain, but the meaning of those words cannot be thought out.

　　 This state continued on Cassia, until the train drove him and his mother and sister through the small half of the empire and came to a prosperous main city, only to a little less.

　　 The sound of the siren awakened all the sleeping people on the train. Cassia opened his eyes when the train was reduced, put the luggage down in advance, and waited for the train to stop.

　　 A considerable flow of people can be seen outside, and the lamps connected to the electric current are also hung high above everyone's heads, giving out a cold light. There was a thin layer of steam floating on the ground, gushing out from under the train. The temperature here is far less than the cold in the small town, and even the snow has not fallen.

　　 Lilia's eyes were wide open. The electric light attracted all her eyes. Even if the bright light irradiated her eyes for a while, there was a dazzling glare after seeing it for a long time. But for her, this might be the first time she saw such a strange lamp. Being picked up by her mother and walking outside the station, Lilia always wanted to reach out to touch the light above her head, but the height difference was too great, it was not a height that could be reached with her hand, and the little hand that waved at the end could only catch the air. .

The place where Cassia got off the train can be regarded as the terminal station of this train. It is in an area called Messeria. In terms of the prosperity of the exhibition, it is certainly not as good as Manoma and some areas along the shore of the endless sea, but It's only about half a level. And it’s not known for its industrial heights. The Messeria area is a vast plain~www.readwn.com~ It’s rare to see uplifting terrain on the horizon. It mainly exhibits agriculture and is one of the main producing areas of the imperial grains, vegetables and fruits. There is no cold feeling brought by metal objects, and a natural warmth is added. Although now Cassia only feels the bleakness of winter. However, agricultural planting technology was also vigorously developed and developed by Avalon during a certain period in the history of the empire. The approximate time was also when the empire was studying tranquilizers. Many greenhouses for cultivation have been built on the plain to ensure that even in winter, the output of food and vegetables in other areas of the empire will not drop much.

　　 And one of the affiliated schools of the seminary, the agricultural research branch of the Imperial Biology School has also established a branch school here, which is regarded as one of the best schools in Messeria. In the future, I have plans to send my sister to this school. Cassia has done a survey. The Imperial Biology School is one of the few schools in the empire that has less involvement with the seminary and military school. Other educational environments are not out of touch with the empire, and all the necessary resources are available. Apart from these reasons, there is probably another important factor that chooses to house her mother and sister Lilia here, which is that it is also much closer to Manoma. Compared with the small town, the distance has been reduced by almost half.

　　There are many regions and cities in mind, and Cassia finally chose such a place more or less farther away from the machine.

When 　　 walked out of the waiting room, it was just 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, there was a row of limousine cars parked in order to pull guests. Greeting a limo to come, Cassia put down his luggage and told the driver the destination he had investigated before coming. 8