Steel steam and flame

"These legs and feet for running news are really comparable to steam machinery." Cassia admired in his heart. He didn't expect that he hadn't arrived at the port yet. He just said a few words to Feston in a simple bar. It has been discovered by the eyes hired by others.

"Hello, young steward." As the eldest of the four people in front of him, the man has short hair that is as rough as his face. The beard that has accumulated for several days has covered the entire chin. His voice is a standard male voice. That is to say, it has no characteristics at all.

He leaned against the steam limousine with a cold expression, but he kept his back straight from beginning to end. It had become a part of his life. He was still holding a half-smoked cigarette, and you could see that the pads of his fingers were all bulging, which symbolized the top power of ordinary people.

"Mercenaries?" Cassia stopped and stood about ten meters away from them.

"Yes, you are a mercenary who works for money. This is not an important status. You don't care so much, Brother Steward." The man in front of him threw the cigarette butt at his feet and trampled it into pieces. "My name is Moore. , I hope the little brother in charge can come with us, my employer wants to meet you, I wonder if the little brother can give me a favor? "

"I don't seem to know your employer?" Cassia smiled, her body was completely ready to fight at any time, and the surrounding atmosphere seemed a little heavy.

"Don't be nervous, brother in charge." Moore was not in a hurry, and continued: "My employer's name is Gulica. He said that you will definitely know him, and he specially asked us to come and pick you up."

"Of course I'm happy." Cassia smiled abruptly.

Cassia took Moore's steam limousine to the destination, which was a huge iron warehouse at night after dusk.

The five people walked several times through the maze of goods piled high in the warehouse, and then came to an open space in the depths still illuminated by lime lamps. There was a row of neatly arranged tents on the edge of the open space, and many long wooden boxes were stacked in the center. The faint light showed that it contained the army's brand-new standard firearms, all of which were repeating firecrackers. A group of people were gathering around to load empty magazines.

When they saw Moore coming back, everyone raised their heads to say hello. Moore was also the boss of this group of fifty or sixty-year-old mercenaries, and he won their respect and prestige.

Moore nodded and continued walking forward with Cassia. At the bottom was a small room that was converted from an iron cargo box. Several figures under the light could be vaguely seen inside. One of them had a face as white as paper, and looked like a frozen corpse. The man was looking at Cassia behind Moir from afar.

Leigh Hill, this person's name appeared in Cassia's mind, one of the three original captains.

On the way here, Cassia had been wondering whether the person using the code would be Gustin, or Li, or maybe the two people who left as a team because of Kara's words. And his heart was more inclined to the team that Gustin took, firstly because he didn't have any good impression of Li, and secondly because of the number of people in the team.

But now the execution of the mission is the primary goal. Being able to gather the two teams in this situation can be regarded as another step forward in the progress of the mission.

"Hello, friends who have worked hard to cross the desert." Li's strange voice came over, as if he had an unexplained smile on his face after washing it vigorously with a brush and foam, "Then, which team are you from? Person? Miss Carla, or Gustin? "

Leigh walked around Cassia, but couldn't see any of Cassia's original face. Kara and David's wife's makeup skills were still very good, and his face was a casual testing ground for them. And there were just the right plain gowns cut by the deft hands of David's wife.

"Cassia, Carla's team." Cassia took off his little black top hat and said his name, but the makeup on his face was still stuck to his face. It was a breathless feeling, "Mr. Hill , I have a question. How did you determine my identity?"

"It's very simple. It's just a tedious screening process. Don't we have a secret code?" Li said, "Every person discovered by our surveillance will be sent over to inquire. Of course, those who know the secret code will come over. I don’t know, just smile at the end, no one wants to cause inexplicable trouble out of thin air. At most, they just curse a few words in their hearts, that’s all." He spread his hands again and finished explaining.

"It seems that you have made a lot of preparations since you came here." Li continued, and specially reached out to touch Cassia's fair face after makeup, causing a cold sweat to break out on Cassia's back, "It's really enviable The outfit, especially the arch of the eyebrows, is amazing.”

"First of all, congratulations to you and Miss Carla for successfully crossing the desert." Li did not take a closer look at Cassia's face after makeup. He walked back to the oak table in the center of the room and sat down. There were several other people there who were looking at Cassia carefully from head to toe. They were all young and looked like students transitioning to maturity, but there was no face among them that Cassia knew. At least the three people who followed Leigh in the original basement of the old station did not appear here.

As if he also saw the confusion in Cassia's eyes, he looked over at the face pressed on the back of his intertwined hands, and the smile on his face did not change: "They have died in the desert, along with the two people who joined us later. , five in total, all were eliminated from this assessment!"

"And they are our new allies in the future, students from other schools. Although they are only part of them." Li tilted his head and introduced Cassia one by one.

"It seems that only Gustin's team has failed to contact them now." Cassia and Li talked for a long time afterwards, exchanging information with each other. But Cassia spent more time nodding aside. He and Kara had not been here long, and they did not have the most basic funds on hand. It was difficult to move forward and the progress of the task was slow.

Lishi had arrived at the Gerun Oasis before the full moon. Although he was alone, he was more flexible. Some things do not need to be discussed with each other. Although it is a bit dangerous without the assistance of teammates, they still relied on their own strength to rob a group of arms smugglers who had just arrived here in advance. They have not yet had time to recruit mercenaries to expand their armed ranks.

They are people who have not yet established a foothold, and have not even figured out the basic forces here in Gerun Oasis. As soon as they got off the airship and the goods were transported to this warehouse, Li was already waiting here. They are.

With the funds and ammunition storage of the arms smugglers, the mission regarding the oil man Nolida also proceeded smoothly under the control of Li.

It was ten o'clock in the evening when Karthika returned from Leigh, and there were groups of pitiful flying insects flying around the incandescent street lamps on the roadside. They flapped their wings and slammed into the mercury lamp in front of them, and the scattered scale powder filled the edge of the street lamp like smoke on this windless night.

"What a pitiful bug." Cassia withdrew her gaze from the street lamp, her eyes looking straight at the light for a long time and feeling a little dazed. He was driving back and was extremely hungry. Meeting Lee today was too unexpected, so he had to change some steps in his plan after discussing with Carla.

At the same time and in different places, the five Gustins looked at the detailed and crude information on the round table in front of them, and were discussing their next goals.