Steel steam and flame

A very quiet environment, the only sound in the world under the rain curtain is the sound of rain. You don't have to pay special attention to the sound of footsteps, it can be completely covered by the sound of raindrops. The wind was not strong, but the thunder came from far away and had lost its power. The heels of the soft leather shoes were quickly covered with water drops. Cassia held a black umbrella and did not walk in the middle of the road. Instead, she walked carefully under the corners of many buildings, hiding well in the dim shadows.

It was so quiet that it gave Cassia a strange feeling as if she had walked into a painting. It's still midsummer, and even if it rains for several days, there should still be the occasional chirping of insects and frogs in the grass. This is not a Gerun Oasis. Many species are found here and there is no need to introduce them from outside.

Faintly feeling that something was wrong, Cassia cautiously walked a few hundred meters away and suddenly stopped, then stepped back a little, as if she suddenly realized something had been dropped and was about to go back and pick it up. Lightning flashed in the distance, illuminating the surrounding scenery. The constantly flashing street lights finally went out when Cassia arrived. In an instant, he felt several lines of sight focusing on him from different directions under the night sky, although the initiators of these lines of sight were well hidden. But it was probably due to poor cooperation or physical fatigue. After that moment, they all looked away and continued to observe Cassia's situation with intermittent gazes. But their traces were still exposed in that moment.

Cassia's body is almost completely covered by the umbrella, because the clothes are all pure black, which just matches the umbrella. If you look down from a high perspective, you can't see any part of Cassia's body. Features come. The umbrella also tilted a little forward, not missing the slightest distance, cleverly placing most of his face and body inside the arched umbrella. It is completely impossible to see Cassia's face clearly from a frontal view.

Probably in their eyes, this is what his current state is. Cassia thought like this, and stopped in place without any movement for a few seconds. Several people hidden under the rain curtain finally judged Cassia's identity at this time, and immediately ordered several snipers on the high-rise building through the radio The men fired.

Several bullets shot out of the gun barrel almost at the same time. A modified flash suppressor was installed, and there was no trace of fire in the darkness under the rain curtain. So the dense raindrops became the best brush to depict the trajectory of sniper rifle bullets. The rotating bullets shattered the falling raindrops, pulling out several straight lines from different directions at the same time, and together they penetrated the fragile black umbrella.

"All hit the target." In the radio, which was slightly disturbed by the rainy weather, the situation report was mixed with some electronic noise and spread among the devices. However, several snipers did not relax their guard after reporting these situations. Instead, at the moment when the bullet came out of the chamber, while observing the target, they pressed another bullet in the magazine into the barrel of the gun. The trigger under the finger presses back and returns to its half-pressed state. This is the entire process for them to fire a bullet.

But just after those few bullets penetrated the umbrella and left a hole the size of a thumb on the black rainproof cloth, the umbrella suddenly seemed to have lost some support and began to fall back to the ground relying solely on gravity. The dense raindrops were still densely packed. The ground hit it. The body of the target they mentioned did not appear under the umbrella. The only thing left there was the ubiquitous air. They imagined that the target was shot, then fell to the ground, the umbrella slowly fell, and the blood flowing from his body suddenly dyed the rain on the surrounding ground red did not really appear in their eyes. The only thing without deviation is the umbrella.

"The target disappears, the target disappears!" The snipers quickly reported what they saw in the scope. The umbrella was still lying there, and the weak wind finally pushed it forward a short distance, revealing the sniper's sight. The dilapidated streets that my hands and eyes have seen many times.

Umbrellas, the ground, cracks in the road, lush weeds growing out of the cracks, and a badly corroded underground sewer cover. Everything was in a normal state, until their eyes subconsciously glanced at the water channel cover a few more times, and then they realized in their numb minds that the target did not disappear out of thin air, but fell to the ground at a faster speed. Inside the underground waterway.

"Underground waterway, the target has entered the underground waterway. Please remind me again, the target is inside the underground waterway. Be careful at each sniper point to be aware of the situation around you, especially pay more attention to the waterway exits near the edge of the building." The commander came out urgently on the radio. The reminder sound came, and the snipers and some armed members hiding near the building finally became energetic at this time. After waiting for almost two days, this area that was as silent as a cemetery finally had a little life.

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When Cassia noticed the gazes coming from her, she immediately thought of the underground sewer cover that she had just walked a step away. He took a step back, then pulled open the rusted cover, controlled his strength to throw the umbrella up a little, and closed the cover again. With the experience of the Gerun Oasis, the underground waterway seems to have become the most intimate thing for Cassia. This set of actions was so smooth that he successfully completed it in a very short time.

Expanding his cross pupils, Cassia groped forward in the dark underground waterway, recalling the building layout map here in his mind, and then silently counted his even steps in his heart. The Military School requires every student to strictly control the distance he takes with each step when walking, and then incorporate a uniform pace into his body's habits and make it a basic instinct of the body. This isn’t just idle training with nothing to do. Whether it was Kara, Ye Jielin, or Hao, whom they only met at the dance, their steps were unhurried, and their distances were extremely even. Because in this situation where distance cannot be measured with the eyes, the uniform pace that becomes instinct can serve as the best unit of measurement.

The darkness did not become a cage that restrained Cassia. He turned a corner in the underground waterway in front. Cassia listened to the sound of water flowing in and judged where a cover should be in front. Coupled with the map information, its location is exactly between the two buildings. That will be the blind spot for all snipers.

So when the members who stayed here were moving around the building urgently, rearranging their positions, and detecting the surrounding areas. In a dark place, an underground sewer cover was gently opened with huge force, and all the small sounds were covered up by the sound of rain. A pair of fiery red eyes rose from the entrance of the circular waterway. The dense rain quickly wetted Cassia's evening dress, but the quality was very good and it did not shrink. This is the most gratifying thing for Cassia at the moment. . Because the relatively loose wet dress does not affect the dexterity of his movements.

The hot breath exhaled from his mouth turned into a thin mist in the cold rain curtain, and was quickly knocked down by the rain at his feet. This is the first time that Sukarius' method has been used to completely expand the cross pupil after Cassia's surgery entered the middle of the first stage. Feeling the blood burning like coal in her body, Cassia raised her head and looked at the tall building in front of her and took a deep breath. He originally planned to tell Kara the method that Sucarius handed him after this meeting, so that this method could become another life-saving card for Kara. Although he doesn't know yet whether this method will be practical for everyone. In a subconscious feeling, Cassia also vaguely felt that Sucarius might have something that he had not fully said, even though at that time he might really have no other way to escape from slavery.

"What happened here Kara?" Cassia still didn't know the specific situation here. He was quickly climbing up the building relying on the exposed metal pipes and building bulges outside the building. What is most needed now is line of sight and the enemy's personnel placement, and then the best attack plan can be formulated based on this.

The protective net on the top of the building had long since turned into rust. Cassia hid behind the water storage pool and carefully observed the environment next to the building where Kara was located. Relying on the increasingly mature photo comparison search method in underground mines, Cassia memorized the locations of several snipers.

After quietly going downstairs, Cassia shuttled between the buildings at an extremely fast speed. In less than ten seconds, she had arrived inside another building and was now standing at the stairs leading to the roof.

The feeling of wind and rain could already reach Cassia's face. After deftly avoiding the warning device installed by the sniper at the exit of the stairs - several pull wires connected to the buzzer, he saw a man covered with gray-white raincloth. A blurry shadow lying on the edge of the building.

At this time, another lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the entire world under the rain curtain. There was no trace of Cassia at the top of the stairs.