Steel steam and flame

Cassia immediately ducked down on the roof of the car and followed the major. When his body was just close to the side of the train, several other bullets also hit his original location, grazing the roof of the car and flying over his head. The fire fortress there was completely broken into pieces at this time, and was completely blown away. He got up and landed on the exposed railroad track.

The two bodies swung forward quickly, and Cassia quickly caught up with the major. With one arm missing, the major was really not used to such flexible movements.

"We have to find a mechanic to make a precision steel arm when we go back." The major said, all the muscles in his right arm bulged, and the skin was taut, like ancient tree bark that was dry but not broken. He grabbed the places where he could use his strength, and he could even faintly see the fingerprints printed lightly on the black iron steel plate. Cassia has never had a specific reference standard for the major's strength. In that dense forest, it seemed that the major's strength was not fully utilized.

But on the other hand, the importance of numerical advantages, the quality ratio of equipment, and various unexpected situations on the battlefield, etc., seems to be no less important than the strength of a single person. It was just the sniper's ability to detect temperatures over a wide range. In less than a day, the deaths of almost everyone in the major and Norunter teams seemed to be related to this ability. Not open relationship.

The military school consciously trained them to be lone wolves who go out in the dark, but in the past nearly a year, Cassia has become more and more aware of the value of power and allies. So far, he has never encountered a situation where he could stand up to a fully armed team with his single strength. Perhaps in Brino's case, the dragon that was resurrected from the fossil could be included in this range. But he knew that that horizontal line was still a long way away from him.

"Even if you enter the life after leaving the military in advance." The major laughed at himself, "I have to get rid of most of the money I finally saved, and the things I bought in this way are only the lowest-grade goods. If I want to enter extreme areas in the future Inside, it’s almost impossible.”

"Small mirror?" The two of them arrived at the connection between the two carriages, and the major asked Cassia.

Cassia took out a cracked lens from her trouser pocket. It was already very small. He swung in front of the major and observed the situation on the other side of the train. Facing that sniper is very troublesome. Even if you know the key point of temperature, but you have nothing in your hands now, it is not easy to create a heat source.

"Where is the extreme area?" Cassia looked at the other side, which was completely white. The enemy must have been camouflaged by the environment. I wanted to use photo comparison to find the location of the enemy. But when I was in the rearrangement, my eyes were moving on their own. After trying several times, all I could generate in my head was blurry things. There was no movement from the enemy's side. Cassia was already certain in her heart that her previous guess was correct. When there is something thicker in between, the enemy's temperature sensing will be greatly affected, so that it will completely lose its effect.

Can it be exploited? While thinking about it, the major continued talking, not worried at all about the sudden bullets penetrating the carriage.

"Yes, the extreme area, where surgeons gather, is also the area where it is easiest for some surgeons who have retired from various institutions in the empire to earn high returns." The major recalled, not forgetting to ask Cassia what he saw. In this situation, "Power and money, I think most people are extremely yearning for it, and of course there is more attractive power and extended life. These are things that are closely linked to the surgical stage. I don't have something in myself." time, or to put it another way, when people have the ability to touch higher-level things, the desire to obtain and control will increase exponentially. Just like no one will disdain that they have too much money , or longevity.”

The major sighed: "There, I was just a relatively strong ordinary person. But that was before. Now that I have lost one of my hands, and after installing a robotic arm, life will be even more difficult in extreme areas. Because it is the lowest There are a lot of wires and electrical panels in something of the highest grade, and in an extreme area that excludes all electrical appliances, carrying something like that is equivalent to carrying a useless load weighing dozens of kilograms."

Cassia was still looking at the other side in the mirror. The train was traveling very fast. Without the dynamic vision enhanced by surgery, what he saw now would be a flowing palette-like thing. After hearing the major's words, his body paused and then returned to normal.

"Repelling... electrical appliances?" He muttered to himself and repeated that the word bioelectric induction force field suddenly jumped out from somewhere in his memory. He intuitively believed that the two were connected. It seems that when you think of those luxurious taverns in Manoma, you will think of those beautiful girls.

"Yes, it's very difficult to survive there. You can't use almost all electrical appliances, which is one of the important reasons. After living in the empire for a long time, you will obviously feel the degradation of life when you go to that kind of place. Not only Not only the various appliances, but also themselves, seem to have regressed along with it. Just like the fault lines of civilization, lighting relies on gas lamps, and fire depends on trees and some high-energy fuels. Things like phosphorus tubes are brought over without protection in advance. It's different from having bombs tied to your body that can blow you to pieces. The life there is closer to primitiveness, just like the Kingdom of Mano, the predecessor of the empire. History books say that all steam power at that time had to be driven by coal. There should be no such place now. But in the extreme area, most small gathering places rely on that thing."

Of course there are. Cassia thought of the small town where he had lived for several years, and those pure black smoke pillars that rarely broke throughout the year almost became physical buildings in his memory.

"I don't fully understand why this is happening. I can only regard it as a natural phenomenon that has not been fully analyzed.' Maybe there will be some clues in the war. At that time, the entire cloth blocking our eyes will be unveiled. .' This is what my teacher, the instructor who trained me at the time, said. Of course, he has been dead for many years. He experienced the last war, but did not gain enough military exploits in it. On the contrary, his body was in the war. He was completely damaged during the operation. In the late second stage of the operation, he should have been strong enough not to have any problems. But after the war, he became completely like an ordinary person. The rejection reaction in the body could not be effectively suppressed, and he had to undergo repeated treatments for many years. At this time, more and more suppressor tubes were implanted. The final cause of death was that the own organs suffered premature failure due to the side effects of the suppressor tubes, and they died of old age."

"I don't know if I can wait for the day when the war comes." Finally, without forgetting to sigh, the major asked Cassia about the situation there.

Shaking his head, the enemy might be hiding further ahead at first. Given the length of the rearrangement, they still have time to wait.

"Climb from the bottom of the car to the front?" Cassia suggested. "The enemy will definitely take action at some point in time, and we should have a chance at that time. I want to go to the front of the car. If the excess steam in the pipe can be released, it will For us, we have a natural barrier.”