Steel steam and flame

The sound of the wolf howling was as cool as the falling moonlight, and the sound of gunshots was mixed with it and sounded intermittently, like a salute that stopped firing, and could not support the scene of any deterrence at all.

"Do you want to go there?" Cassia was still holding the steering wheel in her hand tightly. If the top of the dune chain was not careful enough, it might slip down. If you want to climb up again, it will take a little more effort.

Kara is also nominally Cassia's captain, and Cassia is also led by Kara in matters related to the mission.

"Of course, it was a caravan, and there weren't many wolves around it. We didn't suffer a lot from the few free bullets." Kara continued to observe with the optical sight, "We are almost reaching the range of the Gerun Oasis. We can just get the necessary information from this caravan."

"Let's drive over." The sniper rifle was lifted up by the hand that was pulled down. The sound of assembly machinery came from above. The golden bullets about ten centimeters long were all loaded. Cassia deliberately slowed down a little at this time. Speed, prepare a better sniping environment for Kara.

This is just a small caravan, with only a dozen or so steam locomotives, and even fewer guns for defense. It cannot organize even a firepower network to block the sand wolves that are constantly preparing to move around.

David, the owner of the caravan, also turned pale with fright at this moment, and cold sweat covered his forehead. He originally did business in other oases in the desert, but because of his temper, he offended the local snakes entrenched there. Of course, the business was out of business from then on. Moreover, the safety of his wife and two daughters was constantly threatened in the next few days. In desperation, he had to hurry up and pack up his family before the full moon night came, and wanted to run to the Gerun Oasis for shelter. avoid.

But who among the people walking in the desert doesn't know the dangers of a full moon night? It's not just that the sand wolves become violent due to the influence of the moonlight and are no longer afraid of gunshots. Moreover, the thermal air currents in the desert will also become mysterious and irregular due to the influence of the moon. The black dust storm occurred at this time, and the old professors from the Seismology Department of the Imperial Theological Seminary did special research on it at that time.

So there are people in the desert who are not afraid of the sand wolves, that is, the heavily armed mercenary team, with such fierce firepower that the sand wolves cannot enter a circular area of ​​tens of meters around them.

This group of people who depend on their lives usually rush to take jobs, but every time before and after the full moon night, they all stop, just like the workers giving themselves a rare long vacation. This is all because of the black dust storm that eats people without leaving any trace.

Everything in the desert is afraid of this. The huge natural force is simply not something that weak creatures like humans can resist.

This also made it impossible for David, who was about to leave temporarily, to recruit a decent mercenary team, except of course the old, weak, sick and disabled who were also hiding in the vehicle.

The fire net of sparse bullets was easily broken through by the sand wolves. The steam locomotive rushed forward with all its strength. The sand wolves, which were nearly 1.5 meters tall, also looked crazy, and the fragile glass was all shattered in front of their hard heads. . But in front of the one- or two-caliber bullets from the sniper rifle, the head, no matter how hard it was, exploded like a firecracker. A mixture of red and white colors mixed with bone residue splashed across the face of David, who was trembling.

His stomach was churning, and the sticky feeling on his face was mixed with the refreshing fishy smell. Before he could wipe his face, he lowered his head and vomited it out, with tears and runny nose. He didn't eat much in the desert for several days. All the food cans saw the white moonlight again this time. The sound of gunshots that echoed around him was completely forgotten by him.

By the time he regained consciousness, the surrounding wolves had disappeared, leaving only corpses with their heads or chests exploded on the ground. The blood seemed to turn white under the moonlight, and the viscous liquid was dried. The grains of sand were sucked clean.

All the dozen or so steam locomotives in the caravan stopped. At this moment, David reluctantly wiped his face clean. Something came over him, because he heard an engine sound that was completely different from their steam locomotives.

In his eyes, two long-range lights first surveyed the front. The light made him squint. A strange-shaped car parked in front of the caravan. The man in the driver's seat wore a mask like a black crow's beak. A rather beautiful woman's upper body poked out of the ugly motorcycle. Through the skylight on the second floor, a few strands of her long black hair were fluttering in the cool wind.

The last thing that appeared in his eyes was a sniper rifle with a long barrel. The black alloy cast-iron gun body reflected a little light in the moonlight, drawing out its ferocious outline.

Then, David trembled all over and broke out in cold sweat again. The dark barrel of the gun was undoubtedly facing his head now.

"If you have something to discuss, if you have something to discuss!" David asked his wife and daughter to hide in the back seat, and quickly got out of the car, with a standard amiable smile on his face.

"Friend, thank you..."

Cara is also good at interrupting others, regardless of whether the behavior is polite or not. A sniper rifle bullet had escaped from the barrel with an orange-yellow trajectory. It spun and shot towards David's eyes, grazing over his ears and flying past. The hair there was like grass pushed through by a lawnmower. Leave a neat trace behind.

The sound of bullet shells falling and hitting the steam locomotive echoed clearly in David's heart. He was about to cry. He raised his hands straight and high, and his face that barely kept a smile was uglier than crying. His heart was pounding with fear. Beating.

"Stop playing." Cassia was somewhat helpless, silently mourning for David standing in front of her. "Didn't you just say that you wanted to be friendly with them?"

"People can change, not to mention my mood." Kara finally put away the sniper rifle, "I have changed my mind. The businessman's ability to collect information is much better than you and me. His role in the Gerun Oasis may be It’s bigger than you and I thought. Besides, we still have so many large bundles of fur materials to sell, so he happens to be the best candidate.”

Kara jumped out of the car. The gray fabric trench coat she was wearing was dyed gray by the moonlight and car lights. She had a smile on her face and held a magazine-type pistol in her hand. She was facing the man standing with his hands raised. The slightly fat man walked over.

Cassia took off her mask, and at this moment she suddenly thought of Ye Jielin, whose personality was a hundred times more "bad" than Kara's.

I really don't know how she is doing now, this voice is drowned in my mind. Cassia got out of the car, feeling suffocated. For more than ten days, they didn't even touch the clothes of the mission, so they felt a little defeated.

"Hello, fat uncle!" Kara walked over cordially and pointed a gun at David's head intentionally or unintentionally, "I am Castine Evelin. Have you heard of the Evelin family?"

Cassia began to mourn in her heart again for Gustin, who had never spoken.

David's head had never clicked so fast before, "I heard it, I heard it. How could the Grand Duke Evelin's family not hear about it? I did business with people from your family a few days ago! I also admire the Evelin family. It’s been a long time, thank you today..."

"That's great!" Carla's smile made David's heart tremble, and the words couldn't come out of his mouth.

So one day later, on a windy day, David followed Cassia and the others and finally arrived at the Gerun Oasis.