Steel steam and flame

"Absolutely." Cassia replied. He heard Winifer's breathing that was still exposed despite trying to suppress it. "Is it convenient to answer the call now? I'm not in a hurry. The negotiation may take a longer time. I I think there must be a few minutes. Let’s take a rest first?”

"No need." Pulling the communicator as far away as possible, Winifer took a few deep breaths. The surrounding buildings are like a maze of gray, black and light brown colors. There are almost no high-rise buildings, most of which are less than three to four stories. They extend on a flat land, with the buildings closely adjacent to each other, with a place that has a spiritual character. The huge symbolic stone statue expands a huge area around it. Winifer was currently in the alley between these buildings, and every foot could make a fine crunching sound on the garbage on the ground. The air seemed to be filled with a harmful substance due to the dense buildings.

Several preparation plans flashed through his mind. While maintaining communication, Winifer quickly took out a metal wire from under the backpack behind him and connected the connector to the communicator. Navigating flexibly through the winding alleyway less than three people wide, a hundred meters or so later, Winifer flipped the switch with his hand, pushed open a window and turned in, then pulled down the iron window behind the window and locked it.

"Wait, wait, it'll be fine soon, it'll be fine soon." Winifer kept whispering to the communicator during the process. With his clear memory, he walked to the corner of the room he had entered, squatted down and touched the floor there. He touched it and then directly removed a piece of floorboard. There is a master switch underneath, with a tangle of thin wires wrapped around it. Press all the buttons on the master control switch in sequence, wait until the red light flashes, then Winifer covers the floor, then goes to the diagonal position, opens the floor there, and a tunnel appears that requires hunching to enter. In his eyes.

Turning on the strong flashlight, Winifer entered the tunnel and pulled it over the wooden floor cover. While walking in the tunnel, he pressed various buttons on both sides of the tunnel one by one. After dozens of steps, the sound from the ground could no longer be transmitted here, and Winifer took a breath: "Okay, now we have time to talk slowly."

"Can your words be used as the final decision? In other words, is there any boss behind you who needs to report the situation?" Winifer is very concerned about this, "To be honest, I don't have much free time here. .”

"It can be used as a final decision." Cassia told Winifer not to worry about this. "The cost will still remain the amount Waters said originally. This time I want to contact you to ask what the other conditions you mentioned are specifically?"

Winifer was about to speak, but thinking made him immediately bite his tongue, "You can let us not talk about this for now. Let's talk about our current situation first."

Cassia on the other side nodded. This is a very common way of negotiation, and Winifer seems to want to use this to increase his own value.

"Waters over there must be looking for more than just me, but based on the contacts during this period, I think I am the only one who can meet your requirements. I can be sure of this situation. After all, as a mechanic, this I am definitely much clearer than you about the current state of the circle. Of course, I am not threatening or anything like that, I just want to express that I may be able to help you complete the work you need to do, at least with a higher chance than other mechanics. A lot. In addition, if it were two or three months ago, you would not be able to find any trace of me. I relied on each customer to help me get orders, and I took the initiative to appear in the dark world. Recently, I appeared voluntarily. "

"Well, I understand. This behavior is probably related to the other condition you mentioned, Mr. Winifer, right?"

"You can say it like this. You know the connections and value of a mechanic. Things that can force me to take the initiative are not so easy to solve. I can give you time to think carefully about whether to get involved. If you are stuck, you will have to cut it. If you lose that piece of flesh, there is no other way to escape.”

"My work here is also difficult to deal with." Cassia replied with a smile, not paying attention to Winifer's reminder.

"So you agreed?" Winifer stopped at this time.

"No." Cassia said immediately, "At least you need to know what it is. As long as it is not too outrageous, you can accept it. But considering that Mr. Winifer, you came here from the Far Sea Commonwealth, so I think you probably came here. Avoid some troubles that cannot be solved. It is one of the giant countries. The complexity of the structure and the various forces gathered...in short, are not that easy to deal with."

"It seems that you have completed the investigation." Understanding the meaning of these words, Winifer continued to move forward. He could already feel some cool breeze blowing in on his face. He quickened his pace. After more than ten meters, a thick wooden door covered with dirt and moss was pushed open diagonally, and a large ball of rotten grass fell down, followed by What's coming is a dazzling light.

After getting out of the tunnel, Winifer appeared among waist-high grass. The faint fragrance of flowers and the smell of grass grown by the sun made him take a deep breath.

"Since you have sent someone to investigate my general information, there is no need to say anything else." Winifer seemed decisive, "It has been three years since I came here from the Far Sea Commonwealth. Recently, my identity has been exposed for some reason. I am being hunted by some people. I can still handle the people following me on my own, but I know that the news will definitely be spread back to the common country of the Far Sea. Three years is neither long nor short for the surgeon. I don’t trust the other party. Will give up the idea of ​​catching me back."

"The other condition is to provide me with protection, and the best way to protect me is to help me get rid of the people behind me and prevent people from the Far Sea Common Country from finding my place, and provide me with the opportunity to reintegrate into another small country. It’s time to live. This shouldn’t be difficult, right? For someone like you who can investigate my identity within a month, this is not information that can be bought with casual money.”

Cassia pursed her lips there, Waters didn't tell himself this. It's probably because Waters doesn't think he needs to know about this process, and it may be regarded as a trivial matter.

"The opponent's identity, status, strength, and the strength range of the team you estimate will come here."

"Okay, but what about you, what do you need to do? I also need to know this. Although the fields of mechanics overlap with each other, and based on roughly the same principles, anything can be done, but everyone has their own areas of expertise. "

"It's a self-protection mechanism similar to a safe. I have some goods here that are trapped by the self-destruction mechanism of its protection device. I need help to crack this self-destruction mechanism and get the things inside." Cassia briefly explained her situation. , "It can be seen from your breathing just now that you have escaped from the pursuit of some people. Do you need my help right now? I can investigate your information. If you are there, I may be able to ask the bounty hunters to help you with something. .”

Winifer immediately refused, "Leave your address and contact information. I can handle these people myself. I have to ask them some things. You just need to be prepared for the next step. As for the final result, maybe when we meet in person, Only then can we get it out.”