Steel steam and flame

Without entering the city behind them, near dusk, Cassia and the four of them followed the not-so-good road to the target town on the edge of the city. I have been walking since I jumped off the train. I originally wanted to take a bus, but after seeing the old and disrepaired road, I gave up this idea tacitly.

The town is more like a relatively remote roadside stopping point. The station here is extremely simple - a rusty iron sign with the name of the station and an iron hood open in all directions, much like a small factory that closed down. It felt like the factory buildings were used directly - or that the town was formerly a ruined industrial zone in the border area - and there were even fewer vehicles inside. When Cassia and the others arrived there, there was only one limo in the station. , a small long-distance vehicle that only carries a dozen people.

Surprisingly, there are many residents in the town. Looking at the buildings scattered around, there are actually about seven or eight hundred people. The two main central streets were not busy either. It was evening when Cassia and the others arrived in the town, and the number of people on the streets was definitely not high.

After a brief observation outside, the four of them went straight to a restaurant, ordered a large amount of food, and began to fill their stomachs.

A few days ago, the map and mission instructions only brought them here, and there was no other information after that. Cassia and Owl have no idea what needs to be done now. Having often performed such tasks, the four were familiar with the situation and did not discuss it.

At the right time and place, the person who responds will naturally find you. This is a routine and a common thing.

At night, the four of them stayed in the only deserted hotel in the town. At eleven o'clock in the evening, Cassia, who was lying in bed and meditating, "saw" several people walking cautiously towards her and Isa's room, and then she exhaled.

"We are too late, or you are too careful." Cassia was talking in his heart, but after leaving the belt mountain range, his identity returned to Soriatu and he should have the consciousness of belonging to Soriatu. Pretending to be completely unaware until the door to the room was opened due to the secret code and code words, Cassia, along with Isa and the others, went to the basement with three other new faces that he knew when he arrived.

It was a very old type of lift that made creaking noises throughout the ride. When the protective door opened, a tunnel with a miner's lamp appeared in front of him. The tunnel is very long, the air is dull and hot, and it seems that it is not connected to a suitable advanced air purification system.

After walking along the tunnel for nearly ten minutes, Cassia's sense of direction and the number of footsteps told her that they had left the town and reached the suburbs on the edge. At the last moment, with the slight sound coming from the front, not long after, an open underground building complex finally appeared in front of Cassia and Isa. This is an important stronghold of the organization within the empire.

Although it is a complex of buildings, it is also an important stronghold, but the number of people maintaining and supporting their operation does not exceed thirty people. Its main person in charge also introduced later that this place is more like a transit station. Its main function is to accept members of various organizations from small countries and help supply some necessities. It also takes into account identity information, transportation, and preparation before entering the empire. Functions such as necessary knowledge teaching and learning.

The organization seemed to have greeted this place. Not only the person in charge, but everyone who came into contact with Cassia and the others seemed silent, keeping their mouths pursed and almost unable to speak. The process seemed to be well planned, from putting on makeup to giving time to read the basic information and precautions about the empire that had been prepared, and then to a detailed comparison and display of the differences with the small country. The process lasted until three in the morning. After Cassia and Isa put on the more common attire in the empire, the main person in charge finally took them into a conference room alone.

"A few days ago, an organizational team of nearly fifty people left our place. They stayed here for more than half a month, just like students about to graduate, receiving all kinds of knowledge and training, and finally We have entered the empire." The person in charge was a middle-aged man, who was in the late stage of the third stage of the operation. He said with a sense of melancholy, "It's just that there are many people who leave here, but very few can go back in the end. I hope I can still be there by then. See you again."

After finishing speaking, the person in charge arranged four bank cards. While saying the corresponding information, he took out a communication machine from the counter and adjusted the composite frequency according to the information conveyed by the original organization: "The next is yours. It’s time, this is my last job. After the communication is completed, you can leave directly. You should see the exit passage, right? Follow it for a few kilometers and you will reach the ground. It is in a factory ruins, where preparations are being made. Get the vehicle. As for the subsequent destination, itinerary, route, etc., these should all be in your mission information."

It was nearly half a minute after the person in charge closed the door that the electronic noise in the communication machine's microphone disappeared: "Soriato, are you still alive?" It was Trivikan's voice, which was full of surprise. Probably because of this, he himself said to Li Suman also had a reason to explain, but she also felt deeply helpless. This indicates that his mission has not yet been completed, and there will be a lot of trouble for him in the future. A sentence full of emotional contradictions.

An hour later, Cassia and Isa went to the ruins of the factory that the person in charge said was covered with wild vines. The so-called vehicles were similar to what they saw at the small town station. Small long-distance vehicles were very old both in appearance and interior.

Let the owl drive and hit the road, temporarily setting the destination as another city. There are passenger trains there that can go to the transportation hub.

"Mr. Ka..., Mr. Soriato, what's next..." Nighthawk finally asked after smoking a few cigarettes in the silence. The atmosphere in the vehicle makes the smoke lose its proper flavor and only feels choking.

Te Li Weikang contacted and said a few things, but most of them were not good news. Whether it was the subsequent itinerary or the current situation between him and Adolf, they seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

"Let's go to the nearest city first. I'm relatively familiar with the empire." Cassia didn't have much expression. The information he received took time to digest.

Trevikan and Adolf will not accompany them. The empire is no longer a small country, and the risk of their exposure is much higher than that of Cassia and others who join the crowd. But this was good news for Cassia, and what Bordeaux said at that time made him mentally prepared for this.

However, the defense plan of the Twelve Knights of the Round Table station failed, and the news that Ye Jielin had fallen into the hands of the enemy brought a huge sense of heaviness to Cassia, making him feel short of breath for a while. exist.

He needed to know what happened in Manoma two days ago, and this feeling was particularly urgent at this moment.

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"Knight Commander Hessler, have you finished collecting the intelligence?" In the room, Delia looked very uncomfortable.

"Okay, I'm just waiting for the leader's contact..." After finishing speaking, Hessler continued to drink. "It's very difficult to handle. I think he probably doesn't know how to deal with it now."