Steel steam and flame

The terrain in front began to rise, forming a lump-like shape. As Cassia and the others carefully advanced along the edge of the railway line, the surrounding environment changed a lot. The towering mountains are rapidly dwarfing the plains and turning into wilderness. Maybe soon, this mountain range will come to an end. At that time, it was not far away from completely leaving the continuous mountains and the huge defense range of the volcanic base.

At this time, the two of them carefully detoured a section of the road to prevent the traces of their walking on the snow from being discovered. The thickness of the snow here has become much thinner, about ten centimeters lower. As they advance deeper, the impact of all environmental factors on them becomes smaller.

Hiding behind a piece of earth, Cassia and the major gasped, showing their heads and looking beyond the dead woods behind them. Lying on top of the snow, the amount of vibration transmitted to his body told him the distance between them.

"How many people do you think will be riding on it?" The major quickly stabilized his breathing. He put the gun in front of him and began to check and calibrate it with one hand. "If the number of people is small, the battle will be quick. The people at the volcano base are not stupid either. The people staying on top must be elites. They are also afraid that the goods will appear midway. An accident. Especially this journey. As long as you enter the real empire, there are really not many people who dare to intercept and rearrange."

"Let's take a look. There is no movement from the enemy side yet. They have less than five or six people left, and they don't know what they are going to do. The terrain here is just right. After passing this area, at the speed of rearrangement, they can do it in normal conditions. Climb on the train. But now, without external help, the situation may not be good." Cassia secretly looked around him, and he felt that the enemy might be hiding somewhere around him. But it's definitely not very close. The sniper can detect the temperature, and the radius should be about six hundred meters. Cassia didn't think that the sniper still didn't fire after he and the major entered this range.

With both identities, the sniper would not waste bullets as long as there was a slight possibility.

As they spoke, a long black line representing the emphasis also appeared at the end of their field of vision. From small to large, the rough and simple whole picture was quickly revealed in the eyes of the two people, and four steam columns spewed out, dragging over the heavy column. The searchlights were turned off, and the snow on the railway line was smashed into pieces by the long and sharp front of the train, flying on both sides.

The speed is faster. The side of the volcano base obviously wants to pass here as quickly as possible without giving the enemy time to prepare. Soon they came to the front of the two people, the ground shook, the rearrangement roared past, and the snow mist it brought blew over their heads.

The front door of the four-section tractor has been repaired and has been obviously thickened and protected, and ferocious welding marks can be seen on it.

There are some bulging bags on the cargo compartment, which are also temporary defensive measures. It is a truncated cone body welded with thick steel plates, with four openings on it, in four standard directions, front, rear, left and right, with the muzzle of a heavy machine gun exposed inside. There is such a fire fortress-like defensive building every ten cars, spreading to the end of the train.

"It doesn't seem to be easy to get up. Those defenses have limited observation angles. Unless we hide next to the railway line, we will definitely be discovered if we run out like this." The major analyzed that his muscles were moving from the rear line to the nearby ones. time, it starts to vibrate. Now, like Cassia, his body has also completed the warm-up, and as soon as he activates it, he will be able to show his best condition.

"That's true." Cassia observed the same result as the major. "Those steel plates are very thick. The people chasing from the volcano base had already planned it. They may have had such a plan to protect the re-training before departure. Our hands The caliber and power of the weapon seems to be incompetent to those plates. There should be a bulletproof sandwich in the middle. It's just steel plates. If the distance is closer, we still have a chance."

"But they always planned to do this? Escort the relist to the buyer?" Cassia was a little confused, although he already had the answer in his heart.

"How is it possible? It's just within this range." The major stared ahead, and the rearrangement disappeared one by one in front of their eyes, but before the last moment, "The senior management of the volcano base wanted to transport this batch of goods to the buyer." To get there, you must use the railway network in the empire. Airships have been developed for such a long time, but we have to admit that the core of transportation and transportation in the empire has always been the railway system. Just re-list Beyond the scope of the mountains and entering the empire, the train itself will be recorded by the analysis machines scattered in various regions of the empire and stored as valid information about the journey. At that time, this train needs a reasonable and correct His 'identity' was changed in order not to be discovered by the empire's supervisory agencies."

"There should have been an agreement between the senior management of the Volcano Base and certain personnel in the Imperial Railway System. It may have been through Lieutenant General Gabino as the connector. To do this kind of thing, there is no series of background relationships and interest networks. It seems that It’s not like the top brass at the base can handle everything properly.”

Cassia thoughtfully said: "In other words, after the relisting of this mountain range, its actual control power and security protection were all handed over to the Imperial Railway when it was relisted into the railway network system. Now? The volcano base has lost most of its control power?"

"It can't be said that, since there is a transaction between the two, the main control power should still be at the top of the volcano base. It's just..." The major stopped suddenly when he said this. He realized that the core of Cassia's problem was not control.

He was obviously stunned for a moment here, and the major's thoughts began to work rapidly. At this time, he understood Cassia's thoughts and knew that he had unknowingly entered into his own misunderstanding, and couldn't help but laugh.

"In short, after the train leaves this mountain range, it loses almost all choices. The analysis opportunities in the railway system help it complete the route, travel time, specific time and place, and which station it should stop at. Arrangement. In other words, as long as the driver of the rearrangement makes no mistakes, no matter who controls the rearrangement, it can reach the buyer within the calculated time."

Cassia exhaled at this time. Due to his lack of previous knowledge, he did not seem to have a clear understanding of the empire's railway system. After listening to the major's words, he roughly understood the specific matters of the entire railway system.

"After being relisted, it will probably become a real object. When and where it will appear are all predetermined and calculated things." Cassia and the major looked at each other. The major only saw Cassia's energetic eyes, full of vitality.

"Our next step, as long as we know the route and timetable arranged in advance by the rearrangement, we seem to predict its future." Cassia continued his words, the rearrangement was already with them. "The important thing in the future will no longer be this train, but the people driving it. Whoever stays on the heavy train is what the senior officials of the Volcano Base will value in the future!"

"After entering the railway system, the possibility of them changing the route is almost impossible." As he spoke, Cassia looked at the major and showed a sincere smile, "It's a pleasure to get to know you again, major."

"Cassia." Cassia said her name.

The major subconsciously knew that this was Cassia's final decision, and after getting out of the misunderstanding of thinking, he and Cassia thought of the same thing.

"As you said, 'We seem to have predicted its future'. Perhaps, we have enough time to take advantage of this established future! I hope Mr. Cassia has the power to seize this future!" The major said with a look on his face Solemnly, "Kotas, nice to meet you."

The two looked at each other, and when their eyes returned to the front, the train had passed about two-thirds of its length.

"We can no longer wait for the enemy. If they are really there, we have to create an opportunity for them or send a signal." Cassia said. He took back the revolver and took out two steel-cased bombs from his waist. After accurately estimating the speed of the train in front of him, he pulled the tab.

The major held a firegun in one hand and held it extremely steadily, ready to provide Cassia with fire support at any time. With precise strikes, the major could at least contain the few simple fire fortresses near him and prevent them from spitting out continuous firepower.

"Major Costa, we don't have much time. Our target is the two firepower fortresses at the back." Cassia said, "Please also focus on taking care of the front several firepower points."

"certainly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Cassia's body lying in the snow suddenly shot up from the ground. He waved his arms stiffly and mechanically twice in succession, and the two steel-cased bombs flew out after precise counting, and each followed an arc and was slowly thrown into the air. In the end, as if things were destined to meet, the two steel-cased bombs fell accurately into the openings on the fire fortress.

"Bang!" The bomb exploded in the next second, and a burst of smoke squeezed out from several openings in the simple fortress, and then there was no movement at all.