Steel steam and flame

Seeing General Pullman's reaction, Lisuman continued: "I didn't do this alone. I specially asked Miss Hilda, the knight commander of the Kiraandi family, for help."

The corners of General Pullman's eyes stopped twitching, and he was suddenly able to accept this fact mentally. Within the Chiraandi family, he knew that both Macquarie and Hilda had the strength of the Knights of the Round Table. Bordeaux, who left the military school and became one of the current Knights of the Round Table, is also very close to Kira Andi. Recently, Bordeaux seemed to have the idea of ​​returning to the empire and the military. The information that came to him from time to time clearly stated this news.

But Li Suman seemed to have not finished what she said, and she continued again: "Although Miss Hilda is just standing by and watching, there is no need for her actual help."

This sentence made General Pullman's mood suddenly calm down, no longer ups and downs. He believed that whatever happened to Li Suman and any decision he made was normal, and there was no need to ruin his mood.

"Are the other collaborators from the dark world?" General Pullman brought the topic back, "I wonder which one of them will be declared 'dead' by history."

The Dark World is the recycling bin of history. It has the properties of an underground waterway and will recycle anything. The darkness and concealment inside were part of the choice of many people like General Pullman.

"You won't know until we actually meet in person later. It will take some time." After drinking more than half of the black tea, Li Suman's attention returned to the expired fashion magazine, "Everyone is gathered together, and there is about one It will take about a month. You can enjoy it. The lighting organization will be responsible for collecting feedback from the intelligence. We just need to wait for others to arrive and observe the changes in the situation."

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Xisiya still remembers that the cruiser-class military airship docked at the airport of the Thorny Bird Training Ground eight days ago, still late at night and early in the morning. This is already an implicit rule that needs no explanation. Use the weather and time difference to hide the traces as much as possible.

The airship's ellipsoid-shaped navy blue shell had bullet marks, and an irregular circular hole with a diameter of about ten meters had been torn open in the upper middle part. The interior was even more severely damaged. The explosion directly connected several storeys. Wires and pipes were in pieces. The crew said the plane was hit while taking off to high altitude. A huge artillery shell with no time to react and defend was fired from dozens of kilometers outside the airport.

The location of the shell launch was then located. But the team that rushed over could only encounter a calculated explosion and fire, and what they finally caught was a pile of steel blocks cut into pieces by pneumatic weapons. Any trace was lost in the explosion and flames.

Many people went there that night, especially those who took the initiative to apply or were selected to go to the small country. They all gathered at the airport in advance. The leading captain said that was their first task - transportation.

Only when the airship actually landed did Xicia understand the main content of the task called "transportation". There are more than a thousand corpses, as well as a huge amount of various weapons and ammunition for a strange person. Cleaning up the debris caused by the internal explosion of the airship, and subsequently transporting corresponding repair materials, and urgently installing reactive armor on important devices and parts of the airship are also among them.

It took five days before the docked cruiser-class airship was qualified to take off again and fly to the small country. This was also the first time that Xisiya saw the horror of its mobilization and execution capabilities when an agency of the alliance took action. She thought that by mechanizing and mostly automating mushroom cultivation, she could reach the upper echelons of industry.

But when she saw the training ground for maintaining airships, with various machines and robotic arms moving on rails from the mountain, she realized how small the surface she had come into contact with in the past was. Some things are destined not to appear in the world of ordinary people.

Three days ago, Sisia and more than 10,000 strangers who gathered at the Thorn Bird Training Ground from all over the country boarded this airship together as the second large batch to go to the small country.

It was early in the morning. Xicia, who had closed her eyes to rest, opened her eyes. The light, which was not too strong, seemed to be gradually losing its color. She stood up and went to the inner deck of the nearest cabin with a round window, looking out at the dark blue night sky and the large dark snow clouds below.

"Is war really coming?" Sisia asked in her head after several people who came here to smoke left. Stuck in the various cabins of the airship, she heard a lot of other people's chatter within two days. The word "war" appears very frequently.

"Maybe." Cassia replied, "It will be a war that sweeps the entire continent. Because from the information I know, there is no historical record of sacrificial rituals. It may be a signal, but it may not necessarily be."

"That's it..." he sighed with a long ending.

"Is there anything we can do?" Sisia then asked.

"For the alliance? Or for yourself?" Cassia asked after thinking, "Theoretically, these are two completely different choices."

But in the end, Cassia did not wait for the answer. Sisia's eyes were staring out of the round window, thinking. But she didn't think of the answer herself.

On the afternoon of the eighth day after the airship took off from the Thorny Bird Training Ground, it docked at the border of the Flame Alliance. After three hours of supplies, it officially left the territory of the Alliance and went to the high altitudes of the small countries.

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"That's it." Perkinz put away the map and looked at the ruins of buildings in front of him that made no sound under the winter sun. The cold wind passing through it has been swallowed up and cannot make a "Woo" sound.

"The ruins of a seven-story building, in the middle, there is a stainless steel box pressed with concrete blocks, just put things in." Hilary Riley, who was following behind, repeated what Perkins said not long ago, " I don’t know why, but I have a bad premonition, Mr. Milius. Now doing what Cassia said is like us using our own hands to activate some kind of sealed machine. "

The two stopped immediately, and Perkins turned to look at Hillary: "Is it like opening the magic box in ancient history? It brought disease, disaster, and destruction."

"Well..." he paused, realizing something, "Mr. Cassia's plans and thoughts, combined with the things hidden by his men, may really be able to give some people, some things, and some places And some forces bring disaster and destruction."