Steel steam and flame

A long time has passed in terms of time. In just a year, it's time to go back.

The letter was kept in the logistics department, and it happened to be night when Cassia went to read it. While eating in the cafeteria, I read the letters sent by my mother. At the end, there is also the clumsy handwriting of sister Lilia, which does not have the cuteness of the round face at all. She is not very old and needs more practice to write these most basic words of the empire.

Cassia's slightly impetuous temperament after the mission only completely settled down at this time. In the letter, his mother informed Cassia that all the mail he sent had been received, and the coins in it were as stated in the letter. They were a lot, and they were not saved. They were all actually used in life, so she asked him not to give them up. Worrying too much about home. The reason why a small town is a small town is that the prices there are not high. My mother said that with the money he sent back, although she still lives in the original small house, the stove and other things have been replaced with new ones, and there is no need for work. No longer working so hard to make money, whether it’s food, clothing, or sister Lilia’s studies, she is no longer as frugal as Cassia was when she was still in the small town, able to buy, use, and eat things. , no longer frugal too much, and told Cassia not to miss home or anything else. Studying in Manoma is his most important thing now.

In the end, her mother told Cassia that there was no need to be in such a hurry to come back after the holiday. It’s good to walk around and see more while you have time.

I finished reading the letter quickly, but barely took a bite of the somewhat standard food that was sent to me.

Ye Jielin did not come back in the next few days, and neither did Atuohuan. As Bordeaux said, without the influence of the awakened dragon, this mission would have been easy for Cassia, who had entered the late first phase of the operation. But compared to many others, their surgical stage is still lingering in the mid-term "red mercury stage". The increase in difficulty does block them to a certain extent, and there may not be much time left to complete the mission.

After a few days of rest at the military school, Cassia did not forget to maintain a regular schedule every day, and her own training was gradually being strengthened and upgraded. Compared with the three months of training when I first entered the military school, the intensity now is not at the same level.

The building materials transported in an environment of tens of degrees below zero have also been adjusted. In the past, the weight ranged from half a ton to one ton, but now the starting weight is one ton.

On Kasia's first day of training after returning, his improvement in physical fitness and intensity surprised him a lot. He thought that his body would definitely change, and he could feel that his weight had gained a lot more than before. Of course, it is not due to the natural growth of the body. It is the result of both the fineness of the bones and the changes in density of different types of muscle fibers throughout the body.

Once the body undergoes surgery, the shape of the muscle fibers begins to change from the normal adult shape. Muscle fiber thickening is an inevitable trend. Muscle fibers in the past can be regarded as ordinary needles and threads, and later they became wool used for knitting scarves, and then became like thick ropes twisted into flax, and finally turned into the most common thin iron wire-like fiber form.

This is the most obvious change in Cassia's body so far. The functions of other organs and tissues are often enhanced, and he can feel it. From the beating frequency of the heartbeat to the pressure flow rate in the blood, it can be seen that he seemed to have fundamentally shed a layer of his shell after crawling out of the dragon's belly.

"But it's not out of the human category yet." Cassia thought. Now if you hold your breath enough, you can last for twenty or thirty minutes, but if you don't breathe, you will still pass out, and suffocation is still fatal. He also imagined in his mind whether his bones could be like the ones in Franli's, so strong that even blue and silver bullets couldn't blast them away. After the blue and silver bullets, there will definitely be other specifications of high-strength ammunition, and the blue ring is not the end. But that kind of intensity is enough to make people enviable. There has always been the idea of ​​trying, but Cassia did not have the courage to give herself a knife in the arm or a shot. Hitting the ground with her hands without any armor, and hearing the groan of oppression on the bones of her fists, Cassia knew that no matter how strong her body was, it was still vulnerable to bullets.

The more advanced the surgery is, the stronger the body and ability will be. In many of these stages, the improvement of strength can also be seen as a step-by-step process. But how will future surgeons defend themselves against bullets from these firearms?

The bones are as hard as Frangli, and they can still find a breakthrough through their almost eternal weakness - the eyes. On the other hand, hard bones are not an absolutely unbreakable defense. Although the blue and silver bullets fired from the revolver did not penetrate the skull, they did sink in a little. If it were replaced by a heavy sniper rifle and supplemented with blue silver sniper bullets, it might still not be able to penetrate, but the impact on it would not be completely absorbed by that layer of bones.

And Franry's situation can only be regarded as an exception. Cassie also remembered that Bei told them something about the surgeon. The general meaning of one of them is that when an ordinary-stage surgeon encounters an elite team composed of ordinary people, the survival rate of the surgeon is no higher than that of the elite team. He added later that unless you have to face the bullet head-on, you should never think that the bullet cannot penetrate your head.

But everyone could see at that time that Coach Bei did not have the innate self-consciousness to be afraid of bullets.

I heard that the imperial military began to use mountable steel armor a long time ago. It can wrap the user from head to toe into a humanoid machine like an armored vehicle, and then lay a layer of steam power pipes to use fluorocarbon tubes as energy. , the user's own physical strength bears part of the power, and the destructive power of its operation is astonishing. Those high-grade steel alloys can defend against the power of most current firearms. And not all places are made of steel blocks. For example, meteorite copper, which is now as strong as steel but less than half the weight, is increasingly used in machines due to the development of materials science.

This is also part of it. Cassia can't imagine what the surgeon will be like in the later stage. Bolei was very strong, but for such a long time, he had not demonstrated in front of them even once what the final stage of the operation would look like.

As one of the foundations for the empire's initial rise in the Houxiang Continent, Cassia has no information to check what the hidden part will look like. I have to find time to ask Ye Jielin again.