Steel steam and flame

After another puff, he finished the cigarette, and his face showed an expression of extreme relaxation, but his body was still tense. He found a usable cigarette in the pack of cigarettes, slightly reshaped the flattened cigarette so that it barely looked like a round shape, and then lit it again. He didn't hear any big noise outside. The four tractor engines also made a "squeaking" sound at this time. The steam furnace was fully loaded, and massive amounts of steam were being transported through red copper pipes to key nodes under each carriage.

Under the control of the differential engine program, the train began to idle on a trial basis, and the gears roared without any momentum at all, as if a group of mice were silently eating grains.

He was holding a cigarette in one hand and turned on the communication machine connected to the front of the tractor behind him with the other hand, and adjusted the frequency to a specific band. There was a burst of noise from the speaker, which only gave Norentel a headache. At this time, he took another puff of the cigarette. One-third of the smoke was burned, but the ash did not fall off and remained on it. A faint red light showed that the smoke was still burning.

Half a minute later, no one answered the call, and there was only a lot of noise coming out. Norentl put the cigarette in his mouth again. He wanted to hang up the receiver and restart the communication machine to try. Maybe there was something wrong with the machine, he thought.

He picked up the receiver again, and when he was about to press the start button, an explosion rang in his ears. The wind picked up in the air, and a cloud of sparks sputtered out. Beside him, something penetrated the thick armor of the tractor front of the heavy train, and the cracked metal fragments splashed towards him. If there was not a bulletproof shield standing beside him, all these metal fragments would have penetrated into his body. .

"Wow..." But the situation was still not optimistic, and Norentel immediately spat out a large mouthful of blood. The blood was mixed with a dozen snow-white teeth and a bullet that had been severely deformed and shrunk into a ball. The blood stained on the bullet was still making a hissing sound, and the high temperature generated by friction had not yet completely cooled down.

The cigarette had already fallen on his thigh, and the unextinguished cigarette butt burned through his pants in the next moment. The surface skin of his legs quickly turned black under the burning of the cigarette butt, giving off an unpleasant burnt smell. But Norenter couldn't care less about this now. It was a bullet fired from a sniper rifle. After the warhead penetrated the layers of steel on the side of the front of the car, it also penetrated the bulletproof shield.

The bullet directly breaks through the obstruction of the bulletproof shield and is still powerful. Then, the bullet directly penetrated his face in the oral area, then pushed against his two rows of teeth and continued to advance inside the mouth. At this time, the bullet no longer had much power. After knocking out nearly half of his teeth, it stopped firmly in his mouth.

Norunter covered half of his broken face, blood flowing directly from his fingers. The other side of the face was also covered in cold sweat. His expression became extremely ferocious, and there was still a hidden fear in it. If it weren't for the armor and various layers of steel structures on the side of the tractor's front, as well as the shield placed on the side, which would have changed the trajectory of the bullet. Maybe the bullet wouldn't hit his mouth now, but would go straight through his head.

The muscles in his body had tensed up. After spitting out the mouthful of blood that contained teeth and bullets, Norentel wanted to eject from the spot immediately. He was discovered by the sniper. Although he didn't want to admit it and couldn't figure out the reason at all, the pain in his body and the teeth in his mouth did tell him such a result, and he had to believe it.

But can you avoid it? At the moment when his body bounced up, all his thoughts were thinking about this problem. Through the bullet hole made by the sniper bullet on the side of the front of the car, he saw what was outside the front of the car.

The bullet hole was facing a pile of ruins after the collapse of a high warehouse wall. It was a large mass, mixed with steel bars, countless small pieces of concrete, and bricks that had been burned to a lead-grey color. The target was very small. At this moment, he did not take the initiative to find the hiding sniper in the ruins.

But the next moment, a turbulent cloud of dust suddenly rose to a height of more than ten centimeters from the upper left side of his field of vision, and there seemed to be wind there. When he focused his gaze, he saw a gun barrel retracting, like a snake about to escape.

Sure enough, Norentl thought, but how did she find me? This is something he still doesn't understand.

Then, his consciousness gradually blurred, and his body that originally wanted to bounce up was now falling to the floor of the front of the car.

When he saw the retracted barrel, the second sniper bullet had already entered through the bullet hole and accurately hit his heart. It penetrated from the left chest to the right chest, and all the tissues inside were broken and shattered, leaving only a row of snow-white ribs remaining in their original positions without breaking.

The blood spurted out from the artery, and after a few seconds, it lost its power and flowed slowly, accumulating into a large pool of blood under Norenter's body. It was only then that Norentel's pupils truly dilated, and there was no longer any possibility of them converging.

The steam furnaces in the four locomotives continue to gather the steam necessary for starting. In less than ten minutes, it will actually drive out of the underground platform according to the program entered in the difference engine.

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Shan Erna changed her position, looked through the bullet hole through the sniper scope, and re-observed the situation inside the front of the tractor.

She saw a head covered with blood leaning there, like a sculpture, motionless. After thinking about it, Shanerna finally loaded the bullet again, aimed at the still head, and fired. After actually seeing it completely explode in the scope, I felt relieved.

Taking a deep breath, Shanerna finally felt that most of the threat had been eliminated. She rested against the ruins of the building behind her, trying to re-list what happened after driving out of the snowy peak.

At this moment, her slender hands pinched the bullet bag at her waist, and then she took off the short magazine of the sniper rifle and looked at it.

"There aren't many bullets left. It would be nice to be able to board the airship at that time. At least these things can be fully replenished." She stood up at this time and looked around. From the top to the end, I looked at the train in front of me several times, then carefully got into the control room of the train, pressed the start button, pulled down the main control gate, and a loud whistle sounded. When the sound sounded, the four tractor engines spurted out a stream of steam at the same time, rushing straight to the top of the warehouse.

The huge triangular searchlight in front of the rearrangement was turned on, illuminating the deep and dark tunnel inside the mountain ahead.

"Crack, click, click," there was a groaning sound of steel, and the re-arranged cargo compartments were tightened step by step. After a few minutes, it started moving completely and left the warehouse.