Steel steam and flame

Getting earlier and earlier, Manoma's winter is like a timely clock, using the natural climate to remind the forces located inside it of the passage of time. The peaks of the Blanco Mountains can only be seen in summer. After summer, the black clouds continue to thin and thicken.

After walking out of the airport, Cassia bought herself a windbreaker nearby and put it on, which made her seem much more harmonious with her surroundings. The atmosphere was indeed what Delya described, the dry and cold air was heavier and more depressing. The surrounding buildings have also become dusty tools, and the dazzling thing is no longer the light, but a large shadow drawn out.

On the way, he contacted Ye Jielin and told her that he had returned to Manoma and would stay at the military school for a long time, if nothing unexpected happened. Got the reply "I'll be there right away". After the Webley family meeting, Ye Jielin has been dealing with some things in the family. At the same time, she uses the information collected from Atuohuan to observe the changes in the family and take appropriate actions to prevent herself from being unfair. treatment.

Still using the familiar toothed metal door, Cassia walked through the long metal passage and returned to the dormitory where she had not entered for several months. There are still footprints on the door that have not been cleaned up. When Ye Jielin returns to the military school, she always wants to leave something on this door to show that she has returned.

Nothing has changed. In fact, Cassia's memory of the last time she left the military school was blurred. There was a large stack of notices on the wall, and the cold water that had not been finished had changed its smell over the past few months. Fortunately, the operation of the air circulation system did not allow these smells to stay in the room.

Entering the bathroom, Cassia opened the shower water inlet pipe according to memory, took out the smooth cylinder that had been inside for more than a year, and checked it carefully before feeling relieved. The material prevents them from getting rusty, and even their own temperature does not change due to being soaked in water for a long time.

I don’t know what it is yet, but the Blino area is placed together with a box of solid red mercury. After returning from the Borghese region, he thought that the two circular cylinders were the same as those left by Grote and could be some kind of energy substance. But the same feeling didn't appear after contacting his own blood, just a "pure" cylinder, Cassia thought.

After changing her clothes, Cassia sat at her desk and thought for a long time before coming to Bordeaux's office.

Bie's face and voice no longer matched each other. They hadn't seen each other for several months, which made Cassia feel like an old friend meeting again after being apart. I'm much older, and I shave every day, but my face still doesn't look very clean. It's caused by a variety of expressions filling one face at the same time. The air was filled with the smell of cigarette smoke. The ashtray on the desk was buried under the cigarette butts, and large ash ashes fell around.

His hair turned white. To be precise, the hair and eyebrows around his left eye all turned snow white. The skin is also different from the surrounding areas. It is full of visible wrinkles and no longer has the healthy feeling that other parts of the skin should have.

Seeing Cassia come in and noticing his gaze, Borde motioned to sit down first.

"The symptoms of discomfort in the middle of a small experiment are not harmful to the body. You will recover in a few months." He pointed at the snow-white hair above his left eye and explained simply, "This is not the point. I said I’ll tell you something when you come back, but I never thought it would be so soon.”

"How have you been in the past few months? I'm sorry that as your head coach, I couldn't provide any help." Borei said in a mocking tone. During this period of time, his life and pace were completely compressed in the office building, and perhaps only he and Himya knew how they felt.

With a sigh, Bolei opened the drawer and took out the cigarette. Stopping in the middle, he put back the lighter and cigarette, turned his head, rummaged through the documents piled aside, and threw them to Cassia. The date marked on it was one day ago. When I opened it, I saw that there were only five or six pages of paper bound together in the thick folder.

An investigation and search report, without target names, was very much like a regional investigation report. Cassia saw many place names from it.

"I'm sorry about this. I lied to you from the beginning. I wanted to tell you as soon as possible, but some things later restricted my freedom. You should be able to understand." I have been thinking about it during this period. How to tell Cassia the truth? When he actually saw it, he found it difficult to say it. I know that Cassia may have guessed it, but saying it means the final disillusionment.

"I sent people to live next to your mother and sister very early on, to protect them without disturbing their lives. It started from the volcano base, and I found out the address through contact. The Military School is here, the Logistics Department There are people of mine there. You know that when letters and contacts are delivered to you, they will go through the school's internal inspection. So a few months ago, I learned about your sister's letter an hour or two before you did. I received the news. After that, I immediately contacted the people around your mother and sister and took them out of the Meselia area. I can confirm that the local defense force and church personnel rushed over after receiving the instructions."

Seeing that the search written on the last page of the file had no results, Cassia closed the folder and looked at Bei.

"Thank you. I didn't expect such a thing to happen. I wasn't prepared enough."

Bie didn't say anything, but took out the cigarette and handed one to Cassia, but was rejected.

"I don't smoke or drink." Cassia replied. Bei nodded to express his understanding.

After smoking half a cigarette in one breath, Bolei's face finally relaxed a little: "I have been prepared for a long time, I don't know how long it started, maybe not long before the incident. With the help of power and personnel transfer, someone hid a group of professional communications Experts were in the school and specially prepared it for me. It was a long-term plan, but it achieved immediate results. The communication was intercepted, and it would be very simple to find the whereabouts. The person sent there is undoubtedly dead and has lost contact forever. Probably It was a few hours after he picked up your mother and sister and left. Now it can be considered good news, and what is certain is that according to the plan, after the personnel sent to pick up your mother and sister, they will not act together. So they should be safe. We have also prepared other identity tags in advance. As long as they don't check carefully, they will not be exposed."

"But the current situation is very strange. The two identity cards have not been activated." Bolei said, the smoke burned to the filter and gave off a burnt smell. "Two days ago, I had people search the house I planned to rent. There are no traces. They didn’t go there, they were probably... wandering in the empire."

Cassia didn't speak for a long time. After a while, he looked at Bolei with something else in his eyes: "I want to know where the people you sent, coach, died."

Bolei shook his head: "No need, Xemiah has already asked someone to confirm it. The mouths of the people involved in the pursuit were all pried open. When they killed the people I sent, he was the only one in the temporary residence. "