Steel steam and flame

Several people died silently. The other party was definitely a good player, but I didn't know who it was. The team captains didn't catch a trace of the other party.

Worry was still hiding on the edge, ready to give them a fatal blow at any time, so I chose to wait a little longer.

"We must leave tomorrow morning at the latest and go to Ye Jielin." Cassia has always been the other commander in the alliance after Ye Jielin, and he gave a deadline. Dellin and Vog are dead, but the remaining Ovelia, as well as a large number of other people in the second stage of surgery, are still a huge threat. This can only be resisted by their well-coordinated and well-equipped teams.

We boarded the airship around three in the afternoon. While waiting in the terminal, Cassia and Selmer discussed the next direction of the two of them. Although it was always Cassia's unilateral telling, as long as they were familiar with Selmer's nodding and shaking rules, , the communication between the two was still extremely smooth.

There is pressure on both sides of Atuohuan and Ye Jielin. Everyone should be taken care of as much as possible, which is also the purpose of the plan. In the end, it was decided that Cassia would go to Ye Jielin, and Selmer rushed to help Atuohuan.

The first goal is to clear out the people in Ovelia. If this cannot be achieved, then they will find a way to complete the assigned mission of the military school and join Ye Jielin. Now that Delin is dead, the remaining Puno is no longer a threat to Ye Jielin. When the resources in the Webley family had to be tilted towards Ye Jielin again, it instinctively represented the victory of their alliance.

I just don’t know what Ye Jielin’s final decision is. After completing the mission, return to the school safely, or take this opportunity to contact Ovelia? In short, it is a trouble that must be solved in the future.

It took a whole day to arrive at the area where Ye Jielin's mission was by airship. It spans a small piece of imperial territory, but the actual calculated distance is not a small number. There are still many areas in the empire that have not been actually utilized, and most of them are like wilderness areas on the edge of the battle lines. For thousands of years, the population did not seem to have the huge explosion that was imagined.

This is a city dominated by various factories. On the airship, Cassia saw too many tall towers emitting white smoke, as well as blue iron sheds that could be regarded as iconic. Railway lines covered the ground here. For the first time, various concrete-paved roads and limousine cars lost their convenience in daily life and were completely replaced by the railway network and the various single-car trains flowing on it.

With the huge freight throughput and the handling of a large amount of steel products every day, trains with better load-bearing performance are indeed more suitable here. And the high-pressure tanks used for the production and purification of chemicals, which are huge monsters with a body length of more than ten meters, or even dozens of meters long, are transported by large-scale heavy-duty transport vehicles, and the efficiency and economy are completely inferior to those relying on rails. train.

The air quality has obviously dropped a lot. Because the climate is closer to the Endless Sea, it is almost the same as that of Manoma. The temperature seems to warm up much later than other places.

Residential areas are scattered throughout this industrial city. People who come here to work are more mobile and account for the majority of the city's population. They generally live in very simple collective buildings. There were not many high-end hotels. Cassia left the airport and bought a pass at the door that allowed him to take various passenger trains in the city. Then he took a more detailed map and headed towards the tallest steam building in the city. The emissions tower moved forward.

The sound of steel wheels rubbing against rails was heard on the road, and the city's huge steam throughput made the air slightly moist at all times. But from time to time there will be another smell inside, which is the special smell of chemicals, which reminds Cassia of the special smell that belongs to the hospital, similar to the smell of medicine that needs to be injected after a cold or fever.

It is only around three o'clock in the afternoon, and it is the time when various factories are working. There are only a few people in the entire single passenger carriage. Cassia was sitting in her seat, looking at the indicator light poles climbing up with rusty and mossy corpses outside, and thinking about her next step.

First, we need to contact Ye Jielin, but not only Ye Jielin, but also Atuohuan, neither of them seems to know that Selmer's mission has been completed. A one-week time frame, which is how long the two men predict Cassia and Selmer will complete their mission. The possibility of actively contacting the two of them during this period is not very high.

"Let's start with the mission first. Maybe we can find some clues about Ye Jielin." Cassia said to herself, but she didn't have high expectations. If it weren't for intentional guidance, with Ye Jielin's ability and character, it would be I won't do anything careless like leaving traces.

"A middleman in a smuggling network - Sotagang?" Cassia recalled the content of the Ato Ring's mission and extracted useful information for herself. The smuggling network rooted in the dark world has always been a big problem that the empire cannot eliminate. A long time ago, the empire deliberately sent its own people to invade the dark world, hoping to gain a certain degree of control in the dark world in a different way, so that the troubles caused by the black market would be suppressed in a suitable place. within range.

But they all failed in the end, and the only achievement they achieved was to put pressure on black marketeers openly so that they would not go too far. And it was only some businessmen within the empire that played a role. The Dark World consists of far more than just the Empire. It is centered on the Gray Zone, which is an underground black market network that spreads across the entire Later Phase Continent, including the interests of the Empire, the Far Sea Commonwealth, the Flame Alliance, and a huge number of other small countries. world.

The intersecting network of relationships makes businessmen from other countries less afraid of people outside their own countries. Generally, as the leader of a black market group, he directs local agents in other countries, that is, a large range of intermediary agents, to manage his business. If you want to complete the governance function from the root, sending personnel into other countries to kill the boss of the group is also an indispensable measure.

Sotagang is just such a large-scale intermediary agent and the main manager of a small area. This time I came to this city because of a large quantity of goods.

This is the general content of the mission, and the rest is nothing more than a less detailed determination of strength. Sotagang himself is a second-stage surgeon, so there is nothing surprising about him. But the mission emphasized that he graduated from a school in a prosperous area. At that time, he was mainly studying steam power and was an excellent student. It is equivalent to graduating from the Imperial Heavy Industry School, which is affiliated to the Military School, so it is not a bad alternative.

After graduation, he went to the Three Primary Color Group, but left there after two years. He disappeared for a long time, and when he reappeared, he came into the eyes of the empire's cleanup agency and became an intermediary agent.