Steel steam and flame

The explosion came from behind, like a wave with only the last bit of strength left. When it came to Cassia, it completely fell on the beach.

"It's about eight or nine kilometers away. The speed is not very fast, and it is gradually pulling away." Cassia glanced behind him while running and said to himself. When the sky started to get dark, Cassia took out the signal generator and said her identity code as a routine. When the indicator light came on, she put it in her trouser pocket, "There is less than one day left, it is enough. "

She didn't feel anything at all because of her injuries and the people chasing behind her. What bothered Cassia now was just how to convince these people that she was completely dead when she reached the location where the iron box was hidden. Puncturing the heart is not enough to fool everyone, although no one except the old professors knows that they have undergone heart transplant surgery so far. But as a person who can take part in the knight squire assessment, probably everyone will judge a person's true death based on seeing the head explode. Or placing a corpse in front of them would have the same effect, but no one could guarantee that when they looked at the corpse, they wouldn't put a bullet in the corpse's head when they turned around.

Bullets are not valuable things, no one will be stingy, and they are only one bullet. Cassia's own thoughts are like this for the time being, let alone others. They will definitely enforce this default rule to perfection.

On the left shoulder, the flesh and blood healed very slowly under Cassia's conscious control. The self-healing mechanism seems to have also changed. Cassia doesn't know if this is due to the different injuries, but the film wrapping the wound has gradually turned into a layer of keratin, with a very soft texture and a sense of toughness in it. .

It seemed to automatically paralyze the surrounding nerves. On the way, Cassia tried to relieve the giant whale. The pain was not as strong as expected. Perhaps it was because of the excessive accumulation of injuries on this body, Cassia thought. The growth of new flesh and blood produced a numbing feeling. When night fell completely, the wounds were obviously smaller than during the day.

The footsteps never stopped, and in the voice, there was no difference between day and night for Cassia. The distance opened just allows Cassia more buffer time to prepare for the next step.

Around 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, Cassia sat in the snow to rest. All the food on her body was eaten during the day, and the hunger in her stomach made Cassia think that she needed to find something to fill her stomach. There was darkness all around, and Cassia lay down at this moment and sighed.

He had an uncomfortable feeling in his heart for no reason. He originally thought he should feel relaxed, but in the empty environment of the tundra, after calming down, he just felt that something was missing, as if he was panicking in the face of the unknown. This feeling made him feel like leaving the small town. , I experienced it once when I embarked on the realignment process. After entering the military school, this feeling disappeared after the first mission.

Cassia could hear her slow heartbeat and slight breathing. The numbness in her left arm was particularly strong at the moment. She could not move yet. Cassia had tied a cloth strip to her chest and was hanging. It's like a diluent, and the numbness at least dilutes the uncomfortable feeling.

There was no movement behind him for a long time, and the distance between him and his pursuer reached Cassia's ideal state.

"The next time I return to the empire, I should go directly to the sub-frontier area. Coach Himya has completed all the procedures, and I just need to go and take up my post." Cassia opened her eyes wide and worked hard. Looking at the dark clouds in the sky, I seemed to be trying to find even a little bit of light emitting from them, but in the end there was no result. Her eyes were blinded by black at the moment, "Moli Moya is indeed a good name. I don't know how prepared Delya is. She will arrive there in advance with people who are willing to go there and investigate the specific situation so that she can take up the post. It will be smoother in the future. Things at the factory may have started to be handled now. It’s just that it will be very difficult to restore the original production line as soon as possible, and how to squeeze the goods into the surrounding dark world merchants will also require a certain amount of effort. Time will come to deal with it. There are also the remaining railway lines connecting the surrounding small countries. As a product of the Imperial Mining Company and the Three Primary Colors Group, I don’t know if they will still be connected with these two giant companies. Think about it carefully, even if Now I no longer care about it, and it is expected to be controlled by the nobles of the local or surrounding cities. It is best to have a share of the empire's management structure. In this case, I seem to have enough reasons... "

There’s never a shortage of things to deal with, and breaks become a time to clear out the pile.

Half an hour later, Cassia sat up from the snow, patted the dry powdery snow with her hands, and started on her way. This time the route is no longer straight towards the iron box, but twisted from the resting place into several semi-circles of different sizes connected together. In order to confuse the people behind him and make them think that his condition has not been effectively improved, Cassia also made many confusing traces. Of course, there will always be some subtle flaws left for those people to discover as soon as possible, so as not to spend too much time searching for their true route.

In addition, Cassia is also thinking about how to deal with Zero behind him. It was an accident that it was squeezed into the plan. Cassia did not include Zero when he asked Ernes and others for help. With him around, there is a high chance that planned death will be out of his control and turn a performance into reality.

"We must make reasonable use of his strength and prevent him from destroying the plan." Cassia thought while attracting the faint light of the next morning on the vast tundra, "I wonder if the giant whale's ability to freeze air can be used Help yourself."

That is something more uncertain than the breath of a dragon. Cassia still cannot control his body to enter the scaly state without the help of dragon blood, and other matters will not enter his current thinking scope. But over time, the application does become more and more proficient, which is the only consolation.

When the light illuminated the surroundings, Cassia did not think of a better plan. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that it is safest to complete the plan before Zero arrives.

Looking at the shadow of the mountain in front of him, Cassia put these thoughts aside for the time being. Some distance after bypassing the mountain in front, you will find the place where the iron box is placed.

In the evening, guided by the location of the surrounding peaks, Cassia finally arrived near the ice cave buried in snow.