Steel steam and flame

The short rest lasted all day. Cassia, with her eyes closed, was like a static statue fixed on the chair, motionless. The cold wind poured into the doorless room and slapped his body, only causing his clothes to flutter but not changing him at all. The outside temperature has lost its influence.

When the time reached the second day, he opened his eyes on time, stood up, lifted the metal box in the corner, nodded towards the smell of the defensive wall chief, Cleese, and then headed towards the location of the pollution purification machine factory. Go.

It's a quiet rest. Yesterday, Kress explained the situation to others after leaving the lounge. There was nothing urgent and it was best not to disturb them. After all, he clearly saw the expression on Li Suman's face when she left that lounge.

Members who can be stationed here have real-time and accurate sources of information in their hands. They know Cassia's information, and they also understand that just visiting in the past will not affect their future in the current situation.

Today's Cassia does not need such relationships and connections. He has been too involved with the four forces in the empire from the beginning. Only by reaching out at that time can he have the possibility of establishing a stable relationship with them.

Cassia arrived two or three minutes early and stood silently waiting at the entrance of the factory, stretching her body and making basic preparations. Although she knew that Li Suman would never arrive on time, it was not until more than an hour later that her figure appeared in sight. This situation was something Cassia did not expect.

Maybe this is a kind of revenge, Cassia thought.

But there's nothing more to say. Apart from helplessness, Cassia can't think of a way to counterattack. The combined strength of everyone here, including myself, cannot compare to Li Suman's fighting power alone. However, the premise is that you do not use anything related to astrophages and uranium gold.

Li Suman's face was still full of disdain, and her eyes looking at Cassia were always full of inexplicable taste.

"Start directly?"

"According to the information given by Mr. Perkins, the power of the knight kings of the Theocracy and the Nature Association has alternated. Even if the third general personally purifies the pollution and helps the successors to achieve breakthroughs in life levels, it is not a short process. He The predicted time is four to six months." During the conversation, the two walked into the factory and took the elevator directly to the bottom floor, where there was a section of ancient historical world tree roots exposed by removing the soil.

"I thought it was a continuous process, but it seems it will be intermittent."

"If you don't want to participate in the discussion on the Endless Sea, you can discuss it with Mr. Macquarie. Aren't you classmates and friends in the same period? He will help you."

"If you die, you will no longer be classmates and friends. The reason why we have this level of connection now is because we are members of the same period. Currently, only the two of us are still alive." Li Suman seemed to be saying something. An inconspicuous little thing, "Joined the Holy Emperor Hall and went to the tundra, but he never took the initiative to find me. Of course, I didn't take the initiative to find him either. Even for a long time, he didn't know that I Still alive, and I didn’t know he wasn’t dead.”

"However, he is a very interesting person. I was very interested in him when I was still in the seminary. He is completely different from other members of the same generation who have died long ago. I originally thought that he would die early, after all, he was out of tune with the others."

The elevator descended silently, and the strange atmosphere made Cassia not sure how to answer.

"It should be a good thing to have a former member of the same generation here, right?" Lisuman added aimlessly, "Where are your fellow members of the same generation? How many of them have died?"

",,,"

"Well, after a while, there will be a lot of deaths." Lisuman seemed to be saying to herself, "This was the case in the last Red Star War. Every time a node passed, a group of members of the same period turned into corpses."

Cassia still didn't answer. It's not a topic that can be discussed casually. Even though he knows that this situation is inevitable, he still doesn't want to let similar words come out of his mouth.

The elevator gradually approached the lowest level, and the steam-like mist ignored the protection of the elevator and spread around the two. As the distance shortened, the pure white pollution mist began to fade away, becoming more gray and black.

The mental perception around Sanyi was being affected. After a dozen breaths, the elevator suddenly stopped, the protective door opened simultaneously, and a small platform paved with steel plates appeared in front of him. The two stepped out of the elevator and walked on the steel plate, making a "dang-dang" sound from their footsteps.

There are no lamps here, no lime lamps, only a few groups of fluorescent substances emitting a pale light. And at the end of the light, the root of an ancient historical world tree reveals a gray-black skin, full of toughness. But it looks like this rhizome is more like a rotten blood vessel on a corpse, being slowly eroded away by bacteria. The pollution is as thick as water at the roots and falls drop by drop. Before it touches the ground, it evaporates into mist and penetrates towards the ground.

As a result, their pupils dilated slightly, and the elevator returned to the ground.

"It's really a difficult environment. It would be nice to have a soft chair." Li Suman looked back, looked around, lightly stepped on the steel plate under her feet, and made a dent, "It's really a low-quality steel plate."

"This is already a finished product made of high-grade alloys, and the next step up is the ultimate alloy." Cassia sighed and walked towards the root. Bright red star lines appeared from his chest, then spread all over his body, illuminating the surroundings, "Officially let's start."

The pollution mist is no longer burning at this moment. It is as if it is being washed, fading away from gray and black, and then turning into silvery white, with a faint sense of warmth.

When Cassia approached the root, the skin on her chest dissolved itself, revealing a heart-like energy conversion structure, with light blue light and red light reflecting each other. Li Suman followed a few steps behind, found a good steel plate, and lay down directly. "A comfortable posture is very important." She said, her face losing all expression.

At a similar time, there was a medium-sized city in the empire, close to the border of the Far Sea Commonwealth.

A heavy rainstorm is raging, and the underground waterways that have withstood the test of time are performing their most important role. In the turbid rain, under the ground unnoticed by others, several teams with nearly two hundred members were alternately diving into the rain and continuing their excavation work.

A shaft-like hole was almost taking shape in the turbid rainwater.