Steel steam and flame

His body was like a rusty gear and stiff as a sculpture. It was difficult for Shuleka to straighten up at this moment. Among the four shadows, one was his, but when the other three shadows were standing there, he didn't notice any movement at all.

Feeling cold in his heart, Shuleka felt that the blood in his body was freezing in his blood vessels like ice cubes.

"It turns out it was you. If you hadn't run out by yourself, I might have really forgotten that you were here." Frangli clapped his hands and said, "First of all, I have to praise you. Although I don't know how you ran out of that room, you still I need to give you the applause you deserve."

Two palms with slightly fairer skin than ordinary people came together in the air, and there were no scars on the palms. The applause was loud, like gunfire in the semi-enclosed space of the corridor. Shuleka's body trembled with the applause, and then he stopped thinking about other things. The more thoughts in his head now, the more fears he had told him by reason. He pulled out the bright tactical knife that he had put in his trouser pocket at an extremely fast speed. The blade even reflected a cold light in the passage, shining on the floor full of blood.

He turned around and opened his arms, and stabbed Franli's eyes with the tip of the tactical knife. This was the only obvious weakness Shuleka believed in Franli's body. At the same time, he also raised the machine gun hanging on his body with his other hand, and his fingers were like several snakes groping for the cold steel trigger.

Fran was still standing in the same posture with a smile on his face. It was obvious that he had not finished what he just said. He wanted to continue speaking, but was interrupted by Shuleka's attack.

"Since you are so anxious, I won't waste your time. Everyone is in a hurry now, right?" Frangli smiled, revealing a row of slightly sharp white teeth in his mouth.

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The control room for train operation is in the center of the fifth floor of the building. There is a large window on the wall there, which can completely see the train line not far away, and most of the loading platform on the side can also be seen. area.

The elevator here was completely destroyed like the elevator system from the ground up to the underground square. The steel cable ropes were cut off, and the power machine above was also spewing residual steam. This control center building is not very high. Why did the people in the Holy Emperor's Hall destroy it so completely? Cassia could only attribute the reason to their enthusiasm to complete the task.

Walking up the stairs, the quietness and calmness of the stairs seemed not to be affected by the war outside. The potted plants placed there are still fresh, and they don't look like they have been under the ground for a long time and lack sunlight. The five-story staircase is not very high, and Cassia and Lina climbed up without any physical reaction.

There were no lights on in the corridor here, and several corpses stood out in the shadows like dirt that couldn't be shoveled away with a small shovel. The door of the control room was wide open, and the light shone out from the door, neatly dividing the darkness of the corridor into two halves.

On the way up, they had already changed the magazine of the short machine gun. Cassia and Lina slowed down here, and at the same time suppressed the sound of their own footsteps and various violent activities in life.

At noon, Cassia already knew that Frangli had stronger senses than ordinary surgeons. Just by watching for a little longer, Frangli could react to the touch even from a long distance away. This really surprised Cassia. The spatial distance between the two at that time made it very difficult for the surgeon to sense anything in the air around him, except for the excellent snipers who were already on alert. And at that time, Cassia also looked at him with caution, not an unscrupulous and undisguised gaze. If Frangli was in that control room, he and Lina might be discovered in advance if they were not careful.

There was no figure in the control room. There were only three surviving technicians under the light, holding tool boxes to rescue some salvageable machines to prevent them from completely stopping their operations. There were several large holes in the main console that were obviously made by bullets, but the various indicator lights on it were still flashing brightly, silently indicating that they had not caused any substantial damage to it.

There were traces of blood dragged out on the floor of the room, and several bodies curled up in a ball were placed at the foot of a wall, with blood still seeping out from their soaked clothes. A corpse wearing a white dress was pressed at the bottom.

The program transmitted here via radio to control the difference engine completely disrupted the railway's operating system. But it seems that the people in the Holy Emperor's Hall are not worried about the damage that can be recovered. At the same time as the attack was launched, they also sent a special operations team here.

The operation was not successful. Their bodies huddled together under the corner and the main console that continued to work normally showed that their plan did not go according to their ideas.

The technicians were all ordinary people. When Cassia and Linna approached behind them and knocked the three of them unconscious with their hands, they didn't notice that someone came to the control room and stood behind them.

The sound insulation of the walls is very good. The sounds of explosions and gunfire outside have nothing to do with this place. Only the subtle sound of the difference machine is like the chirping of mosquitoes after sleeping at night, which cannot be dispelled in the ears.

The main console and the main body of the differential engine within it were turned into broken and useless parts by Cassia and Lina's bullets from one magazine each. The round gears rolled all over the floor, and the bearing guide pillars coated with transparent lubricating oil also fell on the surface, making a crisp sound.

The melee outside is not over yet. Through the huge glass windows on the wall of the control room, watching the battle happening outside is like watching a mute stage play, which feels very real. The lighting, stage, actors, and props are all real things. The actors work very hard and their expressions are not exaggerated. They are all performances that can award them with medals.

"It's useless. The chaotic train system has been sorted out in a short period of time, and all the stalled trains have been restored to order. A lane was opened on the railway track, and the train carrying the goods of the Imperial Mineral Source Company started. , there seems to be no other way except blowing up a section of the railway line. We destroyed the main console, but it was a little late." Cassia was sorry that Franli was not here, destroying the main console and the differential The machine could not play a role in delaying Francois. The train carried cargo boxes that were two or three times longer than ordinary containers. Four thick columns of milky white steam rushed out from the front of the train, and the heavy body groaned under the load. Under the harsh friction sound, it began to move forward slowly in everyone's eyes.

"If you see the horizontal train, let's walk from above to get to the train." Cassia ran out of the control room and told Lina, "Flan Li will definitely go to the train in the middle, which has their precious cargo. , we hurry up and we can meet there. After rescuing your sister Silla by the way, we will take that train and leave Brino. Whatever we do in the future is feasible."

"Can."

Going downstairs faster. After turning the corner, Cassia and Lina ran towards the door with all their strength. There was no one blocking them and the path forward was clear.

"Mr. Shuleka!" Cassia and Lina stopped at the door.

The snow-white wall beside the corridor was stained with a large amount of bright red blood, and the blood, which was still warm, gathered into thin streams and dripped on the ground. Cassia walked over and could tell with just her eyes that Shuleka in front of her had just died. His body lay at the foot of the red wall, and a shadow enveloped him, making him blend in with the other corpses on the ground.

A snow-white tactical knife penetrated his head from the temple. The blade was completely submerged in his brain, leaving only the handle exposed. He was also punched hard on his body, with such force that most of his ribs were pierced through his back, his blood vessels were broken, his internal organs were shattered, and the blood on the wall was splashed out from the blood vessels.

"Let's go, it seems that we are completely separated from Franli." Linna reminded from the side.

"I know." Cassia replied with a sigh.

When they walked out of the control center building, armored vehicles rushed toward them, and artillery blasted several large holes in the control center building behind them. The flames of the explosion ignited something inside. Thick smoke billowed out of the building, and flames soon began to move upward. The fire alarm device in the building had no real effect at all, and the bright fire appeared in people's eyes in less than a minute or two.

The armored vehicle turned into a burning piece of scrap steel under the blue and silver bullets. The short machine gun turned the people crawling out into fuel for the flames.

When Cassia and Linna climbed onto the overhead train through the steel frame of the supporting building on the side, the burning armored vehicle exploded continuously. A large hole was made in the ammunition depot by the blue silver bullet, and only then did the flames spread. The continuously heated shell casing finally ignited the ammunition inside, and the warhead also exploded inside the armored vehicle. The sound was really powerful, and the flames rose very high. Cassia and Lina, who were crouching close to the trains on the tracks while driving, could also feel the vibrations in their eardrums at this time.

They ran a short distance, and used the hooks suspended in mid-air to drop off the vehicle. After a few rolls to remove the potential energy brought by their weight, they just jumped off the unloading platform and came to the edge of a railroad track.

In front of them, a row of shiny steel tires roared forward.