Steel steam and flame

"You won't stay here anymore?" Cassia asked when she returned to the passenger compartment and saw Delya still leaning deeply on the chair.

The snow outside is getting heavier, the wind is biting, and it's very cold. Snowflakes all over the sky began to flutter all over the sky in a short time. The cirrostratus clouds accumulated in the sky showed no tendency to weaken. On the contrary, the weather became darker due to the snow, with the blackness of dripping black water droplets.

Some snowflakes drifted into the passenger compartment from the window. Under the light of the lime lamp, they were mottled gray and white, with a faint smell of gunpowder smoke. In a short period of time, most of the thick smoke rising into the sky had merged with the cirrus clouds.

It took a long time to think of replying. When Delya came out of her thoughts, the train had already picked up speed and left Brino. A large gust of cold wind blew into the carriage.

She looked at Cassia who was blocking the window with dismantled wooden boards or steel plates - Lina and Sisila's current situation would be better if they didn't get the cold wind - and slowly said: "No more, before the party. I disbanded my small base and divided the funds I had saved over the past few years. I wanted to use the money to buy some good equipment and weapons at the party's trade fair. But no one could I never imagined that things would end up like this." Delya sighed, not knowing whether she was sighing for herself that she was lucky enough to survive, or for those who died in the bomb explosion.

"Are you going to take this train and go to the gray area to develop your own power from scratch?"

"No. This is how I survive in Brino. If I go to the more chaotic gray area, I will be swallowed up by it in the blink of an eye. Even if I am attached to the Three Primary Colors Group, I still have to develop myself and run the business of the dark world. It's difficult. Almost everything depends on the will of the superior. It's not suitable for me there." Delya straightened her hair, slowly wiped away the remaining blood at the corner of her mouth and said, "I've been to the gray area several times, and there are no rules. There are many, but there are countless hard and fast rules that hide under the sun. Whether it is the empire, the Far Sea Commonwealth and the Flame Alliance, as well as the countless other small countries that still exist, they all have their own fixed forces embedded in them. None of them can Provoked, but everyone is provoked from time to time. Fighting continues every day, and the import and export of ammunition and supplies is about to catch up with the trade caravans between the mainland. The air there is very depressing, and many people think they are the same. He has a kind smile, but he might have a small pistol in his pocket, ready to give you a few bullets at any time."

"But the daily life there is still good. There are still forces that have made rules. As long as you take care of your mouth, hands and feet, you will basically live in peace. No one likes to be beaten and killed. Being hit by a bullet is painful and uncomfortable, and it is also... It will kill people." A smile appeared on Delya's lips, "I think that place is prepared for people like you. There, the owner of the tavern who looks sincere and honest can turn his face and pull out a stick from under the counter in the next second. With a machine gun and a bullet chain on his arm, he smashed the people who angered him into pieces. No one can imagine that he was just lapping shoulders and drinking with the people who were killed."

Cassia and Lina both laughed and did not interrupt. But Delya stopped right here, probably because she was tired, and took a deep breath.

"I want to follow you. I will probably never go back to a normal life. My parents have been dead for many years, and the graveyard has been flattened by steel wheels. I blasted those men away, and now I don't want to They are recruited into his hands again. Brino has nothing to miss." Delya's eyes met the eyes of Cassia and Linna, and then continued to speak her own words, "In the future life, it is still with It’s almost the same as before, maybe it’s a little better for me. I wonder if you will accept it?”

Cassia immediately glanced at Lina, blinked, and did not give an answer immediately.

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"They said that there is a big conflict between you and Ye Jielin, which seems to be a very wrong message." The train was speeding by on the railway track. He was leaning against the window, holding a cane, and resting his arms on the window frame, feeling the cold wind. It made his already white face even whiter.

"Who are they? What information did you get? Without more detailed information, my answer may not satisfy you. This is the second time. I have already said that Ye Jielin and I It's more about the conflicting relationship between different families and different forces." Iyeta didn't even look at it from beginning to end. She just stared out the window quietly, staring at the black shadow of the flowing scenery outside. "Didn't they say that you and Cassia are also very involved? There is also a woman who is the same."

"Who are they? And,,,"

"Stop talking, or you will fall into a cycle again." Iyetta stopped the situation in time, held his face with his hands and said, "Hai, you and your brother Li are different. Contact Li. Not much, but it is easy to see that he is a person who pursues the ultimate feeling of the moment. Some things are not yet mature, but what he likes is the astringent taste of unripe fruits. And you are more inclined to the future and the future, after all, there are many things The most beautiful moments will happen after he grows up and matures."

"Thank you for the compliment. I think we are the same in some respects." Hei didn't have any special feelings about Ieta's words. The mountains outside were retreating rapidly under the speed of the train. The surroundings were bare and desolate, not even weedy. He didn't see the dark shadows of the tall grass clustered together. Snowflakes hit his face and quickly melted into water.

The conversation between the two stopped completely here. They listened to the sound of the steel rollers of the train and waited for the falling starlight and moonlight after they walked out of the area covered by cirrus clouds.

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There were two strong figures running rapidly on the barren ridge. The speed was very fast, and the obvious sound of thunderous air explosions could be heard surrounding their bodies. They suddenly stopped while running, and a gust of wind passed by them. Standing motionless on the ridge, this was the junction between the star-studded sky and the black cirrostratus clouds. The misty moonlight cast down on the sky, slightly illuminating the shadows of the two of them.

The skin of both of them is a bit darker, or more accurately, a bit more yellow. Although the skin is also very white, there are many traces of being exposed to strong sunlight all year round. The hair is visibly developed, and the perspiration system must be easier than that of ordinary people. In the speed of breaking through the air just now, there was no trace of sweat on their bodies. For them, this is an ordinary traveling speed. If necessary, they may be able to go faster.

After stopping, their breathing was still steady. They turned around and saw a burst of white light flickering under the black clouds behind them, and then the white light quickly disappeared into the darkness of silence.