Steel steam and flame

That afternoon, Delya came back to explain the progress of the factory. It will take another half a month to complete the layout and debugging of the machine and start trial production. Because of the experience she learned from the Webley factory, Delya said there should be no major problems in half a month. During this period, she will also go to the Three Primary Color Group offices to deal with steam transmission issues and sign relevant long-term cooperation agreements with raw material manufacturers to ensure that a good cycle can be maintained from the beginning after the production line is operational.

It also explains the obstacles that will arise in the future, the most important of which are the three railway lines for transporting goods out of the country. The Delyato people asked about the price, and when calculated together with the price of weapons sold by Waters, the profit was only about one-fifth of that in the empire. This is a problem that needs to be solved as soon as possible. Of course, if we take the original outbound transportation route, the profit will increase a little, but not much. Anyone with these routes in the empire seems to have a huge appetite.

As for other issues, Delya and the others could solve them themselves, and Cassia didn't pay much attention to them.

"If you want to have the power to use those three railway lines, you must either integrate into the management circle of the Tushini area, or become the invisible controller here." After Delya left, Cassia thought to herself language. The factory at Waters is still in the development stage, and the production quantity can only barely supply the King of Chil Kingdom, and there are also quantities that are constantly transported from the surrounding areas of Manoma.

Moreover, the profits gained within the Chir Kingdom are not very high. The initial entry into the Chir Kingdom and the success in seizing part of the arms business market were all due to low prices and higher quality and standards than peers. By using Webley Arms Company's technology, all the money earned is probably technical fees.

Cassia knows that now he must gather a large amount of funds in a short period of time so that subsequent plans and prospects can be implemented. A small airship can cost ten to two billion holy coins, and it is still commercially available. In the future, if one wants to have the effect of deterring others in terms of firepower, the cost of purchasing commercial airships and their modifications must be earned enough in a short period of time. The time given to yourself is two years, so that you can have an attack formation composed of small and medium-sized airships, and the staffing and training must keep up.

It was a week after Cassia took office when he left the temporary residence and began to deal with the obstacles. Cassia rushed to the Imperial Administration Building on time on Monday morning, and there was still a woman who had not woken up at the front desk. After asking and finding out that there was indeed nothing going on last week, Cassia drove a limousine around the city center of Tussini according to the map, noted down the specific terrain, and then returned to the temporary residence. He changed his attire and became a very ordinary middle-aged man. Then he took his backpack, looking like a man who had just lost his job, and went to the area near Novis's residence to start exploring.

This kind of work lasted for a week. Cassia figured out Novis's habits, and Cooper basically understood his daily life. On Sunday afternoon, Cassia went to the villa base to pick up basic weapons, and waited there for the night.

We left there at ten o'clock in the evening. It took Kasia more than half an hour to arrive near where Cooper lived. The residence is a very ordinary villa, the type of apartment that the richer ordinary people usually live in. After making sure there was no one inside, Cassia sneaked in, left a note, put it on the table in the living room, turned around and left, going to the road that Cooper would pass every night when he returned from Novis.

An alley, beneath the ground is a small gathering point for sewers. This is where Cooper often disposes of traces, such as corpses. There are not many such situations. Cassia has only encountered it once after observing it for a week.

Finding a random place to stand, Cassia was invisible in the darkness. Ten minutes later, footsteps appeared from the entrance of the alley, stopping for a moment, accompanied by the sound of the manhole cover being lifted. In the sound wave, Cooper carried two bags alone and went into the underground sewer.

Cassia silently walked to the entrance of the waterway and stood aside waiting.

The waterway was not spacious, and both sides were filled with the same remains of the bags in Cooper's hand, full of signs of being eaten by rats. Being very familiar with this place, Cooper finally found a place to put the bag down, took out the microbial reagent, crushed it and poured it on the bag to speed up the decomposition of these corpses.

It seems to be Cooper's habit. Every time he handles these corpses, he will always fall into a trance for a short time and stand still. It seems that the person in the bag will become like himself at some unknown day. It was the same today. When Cooper woke up from his trance, he clicked on his watch and looked at the time before walking towards the exit step by step.

With a mechanical movement, Cooper got to the ground, bent down and covered the manhole cover, patting his clothes and sighing. In the darkness beside him, almost at the same time, there was a sigh that was neither light nor heavy.

Cooper's whole body trembled. Even though he heard the sound clearly, he still felt nothing there. The body took a few steps back before thinking, and when he drew his pistol, Cooper noticed a shadow gradually appearing in the darkness.

Thinking suppressed Cooper's urge to shoot at the last step. If the other party wanted to take action, his previous thoughts might have become a reality and become something contained in the bag. He stood there, took a breath and asked, "Who?"

"Mr. Cooper." There was a sharp and hoarse voice. Cooper squinted his eyes, trying to see the other person's face clearly, but he didn't know if it was because of the weak light angle. The other person's whole person looked like a piece of stone under the scorching sun, rising from the ground. The cut shadows are the same, pitch black color.

"You may have recognized the wrong person. My name is Saladis. I don't know who Cooper is." He said with a relaxed expression, as if he felt lucky that he was not the target the other party was looking for.

"As for whether you are Cooper or not, it doesn't matter. I just want to talk to you, and it has nothing to do with your name." Cassia continued naturally, "I don't know, Mr. Saladis, have you left Nuo?" Weiss' idea. To be honest, with your strength, you can definitely find a more powerful force to rely on..."

"What do you mean? I don't know Novis either. Dear sir, you really have the wrong person." Cooper interrupted Cassia.

Without any intention of paying attention, Cassia continued her own words: "What you can get from Novis, others can't give it to you elsewhere. And regarding your wife's illness, Novis is not the only one who can help you. .”

"What do you want to say?" Cooper changed his tone and tightened his relaxed finger on the trigger again.

"Mr. Cooper, please don't get excited." Cassia's words remained calm. "As I said just now, I just want to talk to you tonight. What you need now is just a large amount of funds. You are under Novis. Do you know how much money he gives you every year? It shouldn’t be much. It’s been several years, but you still haven’t collected it. If you want doctors in the dark world to treat patients with almost terminal illnesses, the cost will definitely be higher than surgery. There are many more. After all, the details and steps are all different.”

"If there is such a condition that someone can copy the treatment Novis gave you and promise to pay for your wife's treatment and subsequent surgery within half a year, the answer to the question just now will not be Do you know what it will be?”

"Who are you? If you want to investigate this kind of information, anyone can know it very clearly. Are you someone else's subordinate? Do you want to use it to divert the relationship between me and Mr. Novis?" Cooper was very careful, and from him Cassia didn't hear any changes in her words, except for the slight vibration in her body when she just promised to pay for the treatment. "No need to waste any more time. I have heard this statement no less than five times, dear sir."

"In that case, okay." Cassia sighed, with a hint of regret in it, "Someone is willing to give you time to think about it. I think one week is enough. Next week will be the same place and time. I hope you think clearly. Finally, I can have a clear answer next time. By the way, I might as well tell you that a certain adult is interested in your strength and wants you to do things for him. In addition, judging from your identity, you are from a certain place The upper-class people are eyeing Tushini. Don’t you think that Tushini’s situation can be kept hidden forever? This place will face a purge. Everything that Novus, Beverly and the others swallowed in the past will be all in the nearest time. They were forced to vomit it out. If they were unlucky, there would be no need for them to vomit it up themselves. Someone would naturally help them open their stomachs."

"In other words, the faster a certain high-level person cleans this place, the sooner the promise to you will be fulfilled. In the end, as for who I am, it doesn't matter. I just received the order and followed the mission rules. We are just dealing with some things in advance here. But in the future, maybe we will have a chance to get to know each other. It all depends on your decision."

Cassia has been hiding in the darkness, retreating silently at the right time, and controlling her voice so that it does not produce a sense of difference with the distance: "Cooper, you are lucky. I hope to see you here again in a week." . By the way, it’s a reward for your correct choice of not shooting. Compared to your luck, Novis’ butler Zikman is probably what people often say is the unlucky guy.”

Watching the shadow in front of him gradually blur, Cooper kept staring, but it was as if his eyes were suddenly covered with a film of water. By the time he noticed it, the shadow had already disappeared from the alleyway. He exhaled and felt a layer of icy sweat forming on his back. Putting the gun away, Cooper looked at the entrance of the alley for a few seconds, during which all his senses were dissipated. After making sure that no one was there, he exhaled and left the place in a few steps.

Cooper looked around his residence carefully before entering the room. The note left on the table was very conspicuous. It said, "Mr. Cooper, please consider it carefully." Crumpling the note into a ball, Cooper looked around the living room and said to himself: "Nothing will be left behind." , if you wanted to kill me, you would have done it just now." After throwing the paper ball into the trash can, Cooper sat at the table, poured a glass of wine and drank it.

"A high-ranking person somewhere?" Cooper murmured, and confusion began to appear in his head, because the person just didn't seem to be lying, "But even if he lied, I didn't see it. Butler Zikman ,,,”

Cooper felt a tear on his face, and he was considering whether to tell Novis and Butler Zickman about the situation just now. After struggling internally for several minutes, he finally did not move and sat quietly on the chair. Even though the communicator is in the corner of the living room, less than a few meters away. The thinking in his brain made him choose to wait. He seemed to be looking forward to it, or hoped that what the man just said was true.

The man was right about many things. Novis provided him with fifteen million holy coins every year, which could be regarded as salary. This is indeed a number that ordinary people would never imagine, but for surgeons, it is not a big number. In a few years, after deducting his wife's high monthly expenses in the hospital, he did not accumulate enough money to get a thorough treatment. More importantly, the doctors in the dark world are not interested in treating ordinary people. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive work, and the reward is not equal to the effort.

At the same time, Cassia really left the house at this time.

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Cassia returned to the temporary residence, took off her clothes, boiled water, and read the information about Madokao. In another case, he was a mercenary who was originally entrenched in Tusinni. He was encircled and suppressed by the Defense Force and the special operations agency team of Amotan City. Everyone around him died. Later he went to jail, and Wagner, now the deputy minister of finance, used family connections to get him out. Later, he stayed with Wagner and served as captain of a private team, which continues to this day.

Cassia believes that what can be used is the relationship between Ma Duogao and the dead mercenaries. If Ma Duogao still remembers and retains a friendship in his heart, there will be a high chance of success.

Although he was born as a mercenary, Ma Duogao has obviously adapted to the comfortable life now, and has forgotten a lot of the caution he had as a mercenary. I really like to spend a day or two when I have nothing to do, and go to the high-end taverns in Amotan City. This time, it only took Cassia four days to completely figure out this very regular life.

There is indeed a gap between them and the students in the military school, not in terms of strength, but in their own consciousness and vigilance, the essential difference. If you live in a place all the time, it should be the most basic common sense to make your every day irregular in the eyes of others. Even if this is not the case, your habitual life should be an illusion that you perform for others to see.

But Cassia has no way of commenting on this lifestyle. On the afternoon of the fifth day, Cassia was still dressed in the same outfit as last week. After walking around the city, she came to Ma Duogao's house in the evening and waited in the garage nearby.

Ma Duogao returned to his residence at nine o'clock in the evening, still smelling of perfume that had not been blown away by the wind. The habits of most mercenaries have been well retained in him.

"Mr. Madogao, I wonder if we can talk." Cassia changed her voice. Madogao noticed someone behind him and immediately pulled out his pistol. Like Cooper, he did not fire.

"What are you talking about?" Ma Duogao turned around and carefully moved a few steps to the side. When he saw no reaction from the shadow in front of him, he quickly reached out and pressed the light switch in the garage. But the line had long been dismantled by Cassia.

"I wonder if you have any thoughts of leaving Wagner? In other words, relying on others to obtain better conditions and benefits, as well as greater rights."

"I don't quite understand what you mean." Ma Duogao's voice was indifferent.

"The situation in Tushini has been noticed, and senior figures in the management organization will start to clean up next. But because officials like Clemen and Acheson are involved, actions will be more cautious. You may understand that empire management There are still some faction differences in the organization. We will start with people like Wagner, but after the purge, Tushini needs to be managed. You who have been here for a few years can help a lot. Experience work and buying and selling.”

"Why should I believe you? I can spend tens of thousands of holy coins to hire many writers to write a lot of these words for me."

"Mr. Ma Duogao, it has been several years. Don't you have any doubts about the original siege? According to the procedures, the special operations force will not allow anyone to survive. Have you never thought about it? Wagner asked you to come from the family through the family Is there anything you don't know about coming out of prison? For example, he has communicated with people from the special operations agency a long time ago, leaving you alone and letting you come out of prison just to gain your trust. And be grateful. Your mercenary team was only targeting the dark world at first, so there seems to be no reason to be encircled and suppressed, right?"

Seeing that Ma Duogao didn't speak, Cassia stepped back in time: "I hope you can go back and think about it carefully. We will meet again in a week."

After waiting for a few minutes, Ma Duogao saw the black shadow leaving and checked the inside and outside of the residence before going in. It was while thinking that after sitting in the living room for a full hour, Ma Duogao stood up: "Whoever wants to destroy my current life is my enemy. Other upper-level personnel, of course, include Master Clemen and Acheson Yu. Let them deal with it."

As if giving himself hints and hypnotic words, Ma Duogao walked around the house a few times, then checked around the house again, and then came to the corner of the living room and picked up the communicator.

He adjusted the frequency and waited amidst the "sizzling" electronic noise, but suddenly he felt a chill coming out of his feet. After waiting for more than a minute, when no one answered the call, he immediately hung up, took out his pistol and took a few steps into the room next to him, closing the door.

"This doesn't feel right," he said, immediately donning all the weapons and equipment that had always been in the room.

Well,,,Happy New Year,,