Steel steam and flame

Just like my earliest memory, a similar sales method also happened around me. But that was based on the empire's price, treating people as goods, calculated by weight. Now it is based on the whole, but after calculation, the price is much higher, as if it has appreciated in recent years, Cassia thought. Mood-wise, I felt neither happy nor uncomfortable.

Sonic Pulse later observed no traces of game birds, but teams gathering from all over found many.

According to the request of the man beside the fire, more than a dozen teams formed into a whole under the command, led by their respective captains. They went down to the fire in an orderly manner under the command of the man, and he counted the people one by one. Although it was 1.5 million per person, the man knew that many teams definitely did not have that much money to pay, so they could only use some weapons as collateral, and sometimes they would cut off the fraction and round it up to a round number.

They are all bearer bank cards, and they are also limited to which banks. Seeing the fat man taking bank cards one after another with a smile on his face, Cassia let out a breath for no reason. The face of the slightly fat man was all distorted by excitement. For a long, long time, the current scene that could be called a grand event had never appeared in the border forest. The fat man only knew that the patrol team was passing by. He probably attributed all the reasons to the bad luck of the teams in front of him and did not think about it because the tribe did not send him any danger signals at all.

On the other hand, I felt sorry for the man and the staff in the safe area, because soon this almost twisted excitement and joy might turn into fear. On the other hand, Cassia believes that rather than letting these bearer bank cards be burned to ashes by the explosion flames, it is better to let some people play their due value. Some people can be me, Cassia thought. She definitely has the strength to carry the weight of dozens of bank cards.

While thinking, Cassia slowly moved forward with the team. After the fat man finished counting the people, Cassia also recorded some of the man's characteristics in the sound wave pulses for later observation and tracking.

Isa was at the front of the team. She took out the bank card she had prepared and handed it to the man without any expression on her face. She really wanted to ask something, but seeing that excited face, Isa knew that she couldn't ask anything from him. If you want to get the necessary information, the best choice is to go to a safe area and exchange intelligence with other teams.

The team then continued to move forward for more than a hundred meters, and a door on the ground appeared in front. Behind the door is a downward staircase, only three or four meters wide, and about several meters deep. When the front team completely disappeared at the end of the stairs, Isa asked the three captains to lead the other members in, while she, Toyinbi and the others followed at the back.

The so-called safe area, when Cassia entered, she discovered that it was just a simple basement built artificially. The basement is very wide, with a length and width of nearly hundreds of meters. There are vertical rows of load-bearing columns in the middle to divide the underground space. Pieces of steel plates no more than five millimeters thick rely on these load-bearing columns as simple walls to divide the underground space into rooms.

At this moment, half of the room was occupied by teams. Maybe it was a little late when she came in here. All the rooms at the exits of the underground space were occupied, so Isa could only choose a location close to the exit.

The height of the underground space is four meters, and the ceiling is made of reinforced concrete blocks fixed with untreated joints between them. Cassia can penetrate it directly to the ground with only sound wave pulses. Calculated, the depth of the ground reaching here is only about five meters.

"With a depth of five meters, more than four meters are made of soft soil, and the only thing that can be used as defense is concrete blocks less than one meter thick. There are big problems with fixing it. When building this underground space, the builders probably didn't think about it. If it can provide substantial protection, it just gives people who come in here a psychological comfort. The real protection of the safe area probably lies in the transaction relationship between its owner and the patrol management."

After Cassia entered the room, she found a place to sit down and collect the necessary information. The so-called safe area and this underground space seemed to him to be an ideal grave, allowing unknown enemies in the forest to bury most people simply and effortlessly. Cassia calculated that of the three bombs mounted on the hunting bird, if one fell from above, it would directly create a hole with a radius of several meters in the underground space.

There is no defense at all. The opponent chooses a safe area as the final destination. There must be data to estimate how many people will gather here, so it is expected to prepare corresponding weapons.

"Staying here is not a good thing." Cassia said in her heart. She had encountered the same thing in the Brino area. Hundreds of aerial bombs were launched into the sky, and the tail flames directly dyed the sky red, completely destroying a station. Exploded into burning ruins. At that time, Cassia did not think she would have survived if she had not followed the gap created by the steam explosion to the bottom of the station.

Now, the sound waves show that there is no other layer here. The soil underfoot is too thick to hold people. In the event of a large-scale collapse, a small number of people will survive. But when they climb to the ground from the ruins, they will face a situation that is more difficult to deal with than bombing, with enemies coming from all directions.

The original intention of coming to the safe area was that a large number of surgeons gathered here, and the quality defects could be made up for by the considerable quantity. But now the structure of the underground space made Cassia give up this idea. He thought about whether he needed to find a suitable reason to bring most of the team back to the surface. At least he doesn't have to be locked up here and wait to be bombarded by the rangers' hunting birds before he suddenly realizes his situation.

Isa didn't stay in the separate room for long before she left with Toynby and Muriel. The three of them went to find other teams, hoping to compile information on most teams. There are other people doing the same thing in the underground space, and Cassia estimates that their ideas will be realized soon.

Soon after, Cassia made a decision in her heart. He stood up as the new adjutant and told the three captains that he would go out to check on Isa and the others.

After leaving the room, while continuing to lock on Isa and the others, Cassia went to several exits, because there were the largest teams there. He pretended to be an intelligence dealer, with a sad look on his face. He seemed to have lost hope of living when he saw people. He told them that he saw flocks of hunting birds flying in the sky, and the hunting birds were equipped with powerful weapons. The huge bombs drove the teams to the predetermined area like a flock of sheep, just waiting for the time to start dropping bombs in an orderly manner and bombing.

Ignoring some people with strange and suspicious looks, I spent a few minutes at each exit, and it took less than half an hour to walk through all the exits. By this time, Isa and others had already met up with most of the team captains to exchange their conjectures and intelligence.

There would be no clear result in a short time. Cassia went around the exits again and found that what he just said had begun to spread among the teams, so that another person said something with roughly the same meaning to himself. Read it again.

Some things were added by others during the diffusion process, but it does not affect the point - the other party will bomb this place, and the underground space will never be able to withstand it. In addition, in this case, the safety area is very large and may not guarantee the safety of each team.

The unknown is really a good thing. Seeing various theories emerging, panic began to spread in the underground space. Cassia, who returned to the team, went to a corner to think quietly. In the sound wave pulse, in addition to Isa and the others, Cassia also continued to pay attention to the fat man. At this moment, he was still in front of the exit, sitting against an ancient tree, waiting for other teams to arrive.

There was nothing unusual. Seeing that there were four teams coming around, Cassia was ready to wait until the early morning to make plans. The bombing will not come tonight. Cassia doesn't know how many teams have not gone to the nearby safe area, but after tonight, there are probably only a few. Even if we don't rush to each safe area, we are not far away from it.

"The operation will probably start before noon. Around three or four in the morning, it is not certain that the other party will send a few people who are good at investigation." It took Cassia a lot of time to simulate this situation, and he withdrew from this simulation. , Isa’s discussion seems to have ended, and the three of them are now walking towards the team. At the same time, the information spread by Cassia also reached the ears of the captains of each team.