Steel steam and flame

"Strength is one thing, but the empire's special agencies have always relied on teams with both quality and quantity to directly crush us."

"If the 'Lighting Plan' is completed, the entire organization, as well as all the countries participating in the organization, will have the confidence not to be afraid." Hongmang sighed, with regret, but more of a longing, "It feels like even if There are surgeries that are changing us, but it seems that our body and our essence as a human have not changed. Instead of thinking about how to lead others to evolve together, the leading people use all the resources they obtain to destroy the road. . It cannot be said to be destruction, but it is most intuitive to think of it as building a high wall to block the road and the wasteland around the road."

"In the final analysis, the Lighting Project is something that can change the pattern of the entire backward continent. If it succeeds, the changes it will bring will definitely be extremely huge. Its product is one of the foundations of the empire, and it is on the same level as surgery. Lord Hongmang You also know that once the plan is successful, in a short period of time, either a new alliance of countries will rise, or a chaotic war will affect the entire continent. The risks involved are ones that none of the three giant countries want to see. Especially It was the Empire that was most sensitive to the lighting plan.”

Hongmang nodded: "You will go there this time for about a month. Be careful, there are too many powerful people in the empire's special agencies. They are not a whole, and there are not a few people who want to obtain information for their own use. . They have already caught some traces. They will not give up soon and will use many methods."

"It's been a long tug-of-war." No. 99 took out a small box, put two storage cards in it, and locked it with a password card. "I'm used to it. Before I entered the organization, I heard that the lighting plan had been running for more than 100 years. For more than two hundred years, it was interrupted several times due to various reasons, but each time it was connected later. I have to lament the man who established the organization. Not everyone has the courage to think about these things, nor does anyone have the courage to think about these things. One person can gather a group of people around him and form the precursor of an organization.”

After the conversation ended, No. 99 changed his clothes, disguised himself as a young man in school, and left the town with the two men who came here.

Hongmang watched the limo gradually disappear into the vast fields from behind the window and sighed softly. There were footsteps behind him, and the man who had just gone down to open the door came up and stood respectfully aside.

"Help me prepare a communicator. It's set at six o'clock in the evening. I have something to inform all the nearby district directors."

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There is a map magnified many times on the table, with Cassia, Hessler and Waters on one side.

"This area is being investigated this time. The mining areas that are still in operation are equivalent to those in old age. There are not many minerals produced on a daily basis." Hessler once again drew a circle on the map with a pen. This is a map of the entire territory of the Chil Kingdom. Before the real war, their role will not be very great. They face an army hundreds of thousands times larger than themselves, as well as a firepower network composed of various artillery and artillery shells. , personal power will be very small. A kingdom with nearly 300 million people, although compared with the population base of the empire, is not worthy of praise at all, but compared to Cassia and the others, it seems to be a huge number.

"I started to suspect the last time I went to the rebel forces. The traffic flow here is very well controlled, but over time, as long as you are careful, you can still find traces. Three armies with more than 10,000 people each take turns guarding, Hidden in the mines dug out and in the mountains. There are several powerful surgeons, and I have encountered one of them." Hessler took off his clothes as he spoke, revealing a wound from his waist to his shoulder. The scab has fallen off, and the current condition of the wound is pink new skin. "I was chopped once, and three ribs were broken. Fortunately, there are no other injuries, otherwise I wouldn't be able to come back today. The other party's condition is much worse than mine, so I cut him off." There are also several big holes in one of his hands, and he won’t be able to survive without a month or two of rest.”

Seeing Cassia looking over, Hessler continued to explain: "Their strength is not harmful, and there are few surgical development projects. It's just that the Chil Kingdom is closer to the borders of the Far Sea Commonwealth than the Empire. Through the cooperation between the Far Sea Commonwealth and The Empire's surgery has a different development direction, as well as more sophisticated machinery and steam power technology. Compared with the Empire's internal surgery, there are definitely many differences."

With that said, Hessler took out his backpack as if showing off a trophy. There was the sound of metal colliding inside. After falling on the table, they were all metal parts with structures similar to various human tissues, most of which looked like bones.

Waters smiled when he saw this, and then remembered something, a face that looked like he had forgotten something important.

"Mechanical transformation of the human body." Hessler picked up a piece of metal at random, shaped like a bearing. If you look closely, you will find that its curvature and length are more similar to the kneecap. There are many such things among the pile of metal parts on the table. "Countries like the Kingdom of Chil do not have the ability to obtain first-hand resources for surgery. Therefore, the resources for surgery are extremely scarce. They want to To perform surgery, it is similar to that of small nobles in the empire. They must either rely on the merchants who come here to do business - usually they have a strong background, otherwise robbing them will be the most valuable business, or they can go to the empire and the Far Sea Common Country to perform the surgery on their own. "

"Correspondingly, surgical development materials, which are regarded as secrets of major family forces in the empire, have become even more scarce here. Therefore, instead of choosing surgical development projects, it is better to try a new approach, that is, mechanical transformation. With some mechanical With the skills of the surgeon, they can completely turn the surgeon into a mixture of flesh and steel. But the price and cost are very high, and there are more restrictions. It is this kind of person who injured me, most of the bones are Metal parts, fully armed, and a power supply system on their backs, in this case, they almost become a humanoid steel machine."

After saying this, Hessler continued to tap the circle drawn on the map: "I have been investigating this place for more than a week. The things hidden in the mines are probably several modified armors. If the prediction is correct, , they bought the core of the super vapor compression device from the empire and then used some materials to produce it themselves. I think if they could be destroyed before being used in war, the situation on the king's side would be much better. "

Waters interjected at this time: "The king's force still mainly uses conventional weapons. I think the rebel force's battle armor should be one of the resources assisted by the other two neighboring countries."