Steel steam and flame

Cassia's entry seems to have destroyed the balance of this space. Under the firelight, the green fluorescence representing "germs" has indeed disappeared, but the dim firelight is becoming lighter and lighter at this moment. A danger signal was generated in the body in an instant. Cassia immediately opened the cross pupil, and then he could fully see the carving representing the dragon. It was shocking that it was not completely made of stone. Under a few cracked lines, there were The alternative material is reflecting bits of dazzling cold light.

It was a material like liquid silver, and it had not been completely corroded even after an extremely long time. Perhaps it is because the environment inside the mountain still maintains a very good smoothness, and there are only a few mottled, thin, invisible holes on it.

In less than a few seconds, flowing lines of light suddenly lit up on those metal materials, like electric current passing through them. Then the firelight was completely suppressed, and the sun in the dragon's mouth began to tremble slightly, and there was A fine layer of gray shakes off.

Along with the trembling, a hazy white light rose in the surroundings, and countless tiny friction sounds that sounded together also gathered from the surroundings like a tide at the same time.

This sound was all too familiar to Cassia. It was the sound made by a large number of gears meshing and rotating. In the factory, the zero-difference engine will make such a sound when it is running at full strength.

This is obviously an undiscovered ancient site, but why would such a mechanical structure appear? Although the Difference Engine has begun to gradually withdraw from the Empire's use stage, it was only a few hundred years old when it was put into use. Compared with such ruins, it has no connection at all.

Something designed by Grote?

There was no time for Cassia to think about it now. The hazy white light became brighter at this time, and the clothes did not hinder them at all. The surrounding temperature suddenly rose by dozens of degrees in just a few seconds. The hair all over his body began to curl up, and his skin became dry, with patches of red spots appearing on it, but the accompanying burning sensation obviously had nothing to do with heat.

This seemed to be the source of those "germs". Cassia didn't stop at all and ran madly towards the nearest cave. The body has shed several layers of skin, but it still does not have good resistance to this concentration of "germs". What made him feel terrible was the strange power of that hazy white light.

At such a moment, the feeling of being penetrated by white light without any hindrance was so strong. It was as if at the moment when the hazy white light rose, all of his organs, blood vessels, muscles and bones were disassembled cleanly, and then placed in an orderly manner under the sun in the mouth of the giant dragon to dry.

The feeling of transparency is much more natural than having the body directly penetrated by a bullet.

Her stomach turned up with nausea, the air she breathed was burning her body, her blood was boiling, and what Cassia was spitting out now was dry breath that smelled of gastric juice.

Black scales immediately burst out from under the skin, covering Cassia's body.

"Bah!" had a very good effect, at least eliminating the dizziness that Cassia was most worried about that appeared in her head. Most of the sense of transparency in the body has now disappeared, and the highly defensive scales can better resist the power contained in these white lights. But these scales also felt something. They were under tremendous pressure from a certain substance at the moment, and they opened and closed violently. Silks of white smoke rose from between these scales. On the black scales, slender red lines began to appear from time to time, and the temperature quickly increased with the appearance of these lines, and gradually gathered on Cassia's chest.

The clothes on his chest began to deform and twist due to the rapidly rising temperature. When Cassia was less than a few meters away from a cave, the scales on his own chest completely changed from rough black to light red, like iron that was cooling down. It was like a block, burning all the surrounding clothes into ashes.

There was an urge to spit something out, but the body was trying its best to stop it. Immediately I remembered the appearance of the awakened dragon in the Blinuo area when it breathed out. Countless flowing red lines appeared on its huge body, transferring all the heat to one place through a special method, and then transforming it. Breathing out extremely hot incandescent flames.

It's not a good sign. Cassia invaded the dragon's body through devouring. He was still deeply impressed by the energy required to actually exhale, and what it looked like after it was consumed. The awakened dragon seemed unwilling to make more attacks like this. The reason why it invaded the dragon's spirit and finally caused its body to dissolve and collapse and die was precisely because Cassia controlled the body and breathed like this several times.

The speed suddenly increased to the extreme, and in the last few meters, Cassia completely ran into the cave without leaving any shadow. After running for dozens of meters, a rumbling sound came from the closed space of the cave.

There was a huge collision sound, something in the transmission was suddenly suppressed, and the air also carried huge vibrations. Cassia turned her head and glanced behind her. The place was dark again, and the white light had disappeared, leaving only faint flickering lights.

She has no intention of returning now. Although the burning sensation in her body is rapidly weakening and the temperature in her chest is also rapidly dropping, Cassia feels that her condition is not good. The "germs" that invaded the body did not stop there, the blood continued to boil, and the nausea in the stomach was not relieved.

The destructiveness is only beginning to show now. Cassia remembers that these "germs" are persistent, and the damage mechanism to the body is not like bullets or bombs, but is completed in a very short period of time.

The blood drove various organs and tissues toward failure, and after experiencing the peak caused by scaly transformation, the strength also slowly declined.

You have to rush back in the scaly state. Cassia mobilized the map in his head and quickly shuttled through the cave network. He had to be careful when encountering situations he had never encountered before. The hazy white light caused many problems in his body. Most of the functions were declining, and he was worried that if the weak stage after the scaly state was added without supplementation or treatment, hidden dangers would definitely remain.

I took out the sedative injection I brought with me and felt a little better. But as time went by, his physical fitness and various body functions declined more and more. His steps became unstable in the middle, and his arms couldn't lift up. The feeling of weakness reminded him of lying in the biology building of the military school after several previous missions. The feeling of laboratory treatment comes.

Cassia didn't know how she ran out of the cave network, crossed a long mountain, and finally swam across the clear lake back to the abandoned town.

My eyes were filled with glare, my head was dizzy, my sense of direction and balance were lost, every step was unstable, the ground became twisted, and the sky became soft and fell. Not knowing if she was moving forward, Cassia thought that she was lying on the ground now, and her body was extremely uncomfortable. There were several layers of peeled old skin stuck to it, like a caterpillar that was molting, and finally moved slowly to the temporary resting place. .

Leaning against the wall, Cassia finally stood upright. Then she struggled to open two steel alloy cans while feeling dizzy and stretched her arms inside.

"Dang!" There was a muffled sound in his head, and he seemed to be twisting with everything around him. His body was cut open, all his organs were thrown out, and only his conscious head was tied to the rapidly spinning wheel. Rotate.

Cassia closed her eyes and endured it silently in the darkness for an unknown amount of time. When the feeling disappeared, the surroundings were completely dark. The dark green fluorescence of trees, lakes, mountains, and rivers is much brighter than usual, and even the surrounding air has a vague brilliance.

And inside the two steel jars, there was only shadow and emptiness.