Steel steam and flame

Each face under the firelight had no expression. The rain covered it with a film of water, and the red light changed mottled until they were completely extinguished by the heavy rain.

Just like seeing off the distinguished guest, the remaining dozens of people were on alert. Only when the guest completely disappeared on the other side of the darkness separated by the rain curtain did they feel relieved. Some people felt a sense of loss of strength, and the whole process from the beginning to the end of the battle was a dreamlike experience for most people. There is no starting point and no end point. It is just a fragment randomly taken from a stage play and forced on them to play each role.

Adolf walked through the crowd and finally stopped beside Cassia. On the side, rainwater mixed with mud was backfilling the holes created by the bombs. Some of the soil that was blown up into the sky was still falling. They didn't say anything, they pursed their lips, and it was better to remain silent under the heavy rain.

When the pits were filled with rain, General Pullman returned from the darkness on the side. He went to Adolf, and the perception that enveloped him in advance gave him a basic estimate of the loss.

"Find your luggage and go to a place to stay first." General Pullman said, looking at the route he took when he returned, and finally looked in the direction of the nearest city with complicated eyes.

"There should be organized hidden storage warehouses recently. Let's go there and repair them." Adolf sighed after the words. "We should also think about the next step. If this continues, I'm afraid we ourselves will..." The words of the two Most of the time they were talking to each other, and they didn't have much to do with Nighthawk and Isa beside them.

After resting in the rain for a few minutes, the team returned to the train wreckage along the evacuation route, picking up necessary luggage along the way, and of course handling the cold bodies soaked in the rain for teammates who did not know each other during the mission.

Cassia followed silently, feeling very complicated for a while. It wasn't because of the deaths of these organization members that things and things he was used to were now difficult to shake his passively hardened heart. The warm and bright things that once existed in my heart have been well protected and will not be exposed easily.

It was complicated because he was taken to the empire by Adolf and Trivikan. I have already encountered similar incidents twice during my trip, and it seems that this kind of thing will happen again in the future. This situation broke the plan I had made in advance and made me become more passive.

The self in the dark should have become a ferocious beast, a source of danger that the enemy must worry about, and a pressure that must be endured. Now that I am tied into the organization's plan, the organization that I thought would be a help has actually become a drag. The lack of clarity in information leaves you with too many limitations. Not long ago, my body's urge and desire made me walk in front of Isa and several captains who were protecting me, and use practical actions to tell them how to deal with those iron-like kinetic armors in this environment.

But somehow, Cassia didn't know what she should do in the current situation.

It is unclear whether the organization is good or bad to them, whether they are enemies of the other party, or whether they can be regarded as trustworthy or harmless third-party members. Being submissive made her feel a little uncomfortable, but this was also a fact. Cassia knew that she did not have the courage to take the initiative to make it clear.

Maybe it's not courage, but something else. There is a reason why I cannot take risks, because if one step goes wrong, death may be the simplest of all consequences, and there is no one.

The shoes were full of mud and water. Cassia slowed down and let the fine raindrops hitting her body cool her blazing thoughts. Nighthawk came to his side at this time, Cassia raised his head and looked over, but a warm hand was already covering his hand holding the luggage, and the hand suddenly pulled the luggage upwards.

"I'll do it!" Isa didn't know when she squeezed over and stood in front of Cassia. She also quickly held the small handle of the luggage with one hand. The three of them were in a stalemate, and the three hands on the small handle were squeezed together.

"Come on, he looks very tired." Nighthawk said tiredly as he stopped his hand, and all the white breath he exhaled was hit by the large raindrops between the two. Nighthawk lowered his head and glanced at the luggage. When he turned around, he looked at Cassia again. Then he walked a few steps faster and walked in front of the two of them. Then he was isolated by the rain curtain and seemed to disappear.

Nighthawk went more than ten meters away and followed the team alone. A person who originally would sleep when he gets on the train may never be able to rest peacefully afterward. Cassia watched the nighthawk melted by the rain curtain, and the prototype of an idea appeared in her mind.

"What?" Isa asked with surprise as she carried her luggage. The weight of the luggage was much different from what she expected. She looked at the nighthawk that was swallowed up by the rain curtain, and seemed to understand something.

"Just think that this mission is to protect this suitcase." Cassia's extremely gentle words rang in her ears, "There is no need to go to Nighthawk, she would probably think so. Having an answer in mind is better than making random guesses. good."

"This time was originally a good opportunity. If you find a reason at the end of the day, you may still become a corpse soaked in the rain and escape from this mission smoothly. I sincerely hope you can seize it next time."

"The enemy knows our traces, and there is really no way to prepare for the attack. The bombing of artillery shells and aerial bombs is a bit unacceptable to us. Such things are extremely difficult to see in normal missions." Yi, who thought he was talking about this attack. Sha responded, "There will be teams that will join us in the future, and we won't be as helpless when faced with this situation again." Somewhat like Isha's comfort to Cassia's kindness.

Cassia shook her head and sighed, "This is just the beginning." After that, she just followed the team and said no more.

This group of enemies comes from the Far Sea Commonwealth and is a regularized team. The total number of kinetic energy armors may be over a hundred, and the weapons that can be mobilized are not limited to aerial bombs. Individual weapons used against similar construction fortifications will become a normal feature in battles in the future. Faced with such an armed force, unless the organization is willing to use its strong network of contacts in small countries and personnel with hidden identities to ensure the logistics of this team, there will be no victory in every subsequent encounter with the enemy. possible.

"And enemies with this kind of configuration are just the beginning." The inner words urged Cassia to think of a way to change this fatal passivity on the journey. Since it is a source of information that sends out signals at any time, why doesn't the organization use this identity to guide the enemy to actively step into deadly traps? "Afterwards, there will be a carefully prepared team of knights and elite personnel within the empire. At that time, the weapon configuration It will be a problem, and personnel coordination and strength will also be a problem."

"In this organization, there is yet to be a member who can compete with the elites of the knight squires and the imperial family. In the future..., there may not be..."