Steel steam and flame

Several people were looking at him, and he clearly felt it. He was going to die soon. He knew that several people hiding in the darkness would use the same weapons and stab his chest in the same way, and then he would lie on the ground and slowly die silently.

He fired several shots into the darkness, and the bullets were quickly swallowed up by the darkness with a faint orange light, without causing any waves. One magazine was used up, but there was still no change in the surroundings. He stood there dumbly, not daring to make any moves. He didn't know what to do now. There were people around him. What did they want to do?

Or was there no one around anymore and they had left long ago?

His head was confused, the lights were shaking, and except for the warm bodies on the ground, this place had become a dead land. After being frozen in place for a long time, he finally moved his numb legs slightly.

At the same moment, an undetectable stream of light flashed through, and the clothes on his arm suddenly tore open, and the skin there was cut. Blood first flowed out, and then pain followed the nerves and was clearly transmitted to his body. Inside the white matter of the brain.

"It hurts!" At this moment, he finally had a sense of clarity aroused by the pain.

"Run, run! They must have forgotten me, and they must have been injured. They are just scaring me now!" Finally he could think simply, and the consciousness of survival in his mind made him run desperately at this moment. He ran in the familiar direction in his mind, toward the place in his mind that could save his life.

Maybe the trance state was better for him, at least then he didn't have to think about anything, he didn't have to think about anything, he just had to stay stiff and stay in place. But now he had to think about his precious life, and he had to run endlessly for his life.

The darkness parted before him and closed quickly behind him. His spirit was as tense as the muscles in his body. He always felt like someone was watching him silently in the endless darkness behind him. No matter how he ran away, he just couldn't get rid of it.

His mouth was filled with saliva, and his breathing was disordered for a long time. He sucked in big gulps of the air that was the most important thing in the world to him. Although his steps were stiff, his speed was surprisingly fast.

"Finally I started running." Someone spoke in the darkness afterwards, seeming to sigh, "At that time, when you see all your companions lying on the ground, not breathing, wouldn't a normal person's reaction be to run away?"

"This team is all ordinary people, so don't expect them to be mentally strong. Perseverance and strength are usually equal." Someone answered this question.

"With his mind frozen, how could he still have the energy to think about escaping? If Mr. Hill hadn't cut his arm at the right time and used the pain to allow him to regain his thinking, we don't know how long he would have stayed there."

"It doesn't matter. In short, we have brought enough supplies. Even if Mr. Gustin comes now, we can survive for more than ten days. Besides, there are so many other teams around, and they are important to us. A mobile supply station. If you are short of anything, you can just take it from them at any time. I think this is how Mr. Gustin comes here these days." The tone in the darkness was relaxed, and they followed leisurely. Behind the frightened man.

"But even though I have been dealing with Nolida's people here for a long time, I still haven't found his stronghold. Otherwise, I wouldn't have followed my mark and started to return. Of course, I wouldn't have encountered him at this time today. You guys. Nolida is very careful, the person in front may also let us down." Gustin said, his tone was very calm. In the past few days, he had already figured out Nolida's operating style, which was to be very cautious and almost all orders were given via radio. At least according to the information Gustin knows, no one or team has found the hiding place of Nolida himself.

"Or is it that Nolida himself was not in the underground mine at all? He brought everyone here just so that we could fight each other like beasts in a colosseum in such a dark environment for him to watch. "Cassia guessed after listening to Gustin's narration about his experiences in the past few days and some information along the way.

"Of course, this possibility cannot be ruled out. After all, things can develop in any direction. Any accident or omission may cause irreversible changes in the direction of the whole thing." Gustin replied, "But just Under the current situation, the possibility of Nolida hiding here is far greater than other options. The focus of our actions now must be on the dark world in front of us."

Several people nodded in agreement. Although everyone had their own ideas, Gustin's statement was the most convincing. They stopped talking and focused again on the person not far in front of them who had been desperately running away. He looked like he was crazy. Carla and Lee had been exerting mental pressure on him from behind, making his spirit just reach a critical reaction value. Apart from running away, he had no extra brain capacity to think about anything.

Kara's plan could be easily seen through as long as they used a little more thinking power.

The person in front lost strength and fell to the ground. After struggling for a long time, he slowly got up. His nose was bleeding and his mouth was bleeding. But nearly three hours of following finally yielded some results. The darkness in front was fading little by little, like the sea water at low tide, starting to slowly dissipate from both sides. This is a new area that at least five of us have never been to before.

At this time, some fluorescent plants appeared around, emitting weak biological light. There is an arched underground ridge in front, covered with dim lights. It is a lighting system left over decades ago. Although it is old, it is produced by the Empire's next-generation factory - Imperial Heavy Industries, and the quality is reliable. It's surprisingly good. Whether it's wiring, gas lamps or mercury lamps, many of them can still be used.

Cassia and the others no longer moved forward, but carefully hid their figures in patches of darkness. Now Carla's scope was observing the situation in the dim world.

They were hiding in an artificial pit, which seemed to be a detection pit made with explosives to detect whether there were corresponding minerals under this small piece of rock. It's just that the people who did the detection were disappointed.

There are transportation rails covered with some rust next to the big pit. Many of the sunken wood have been eaten by insects and become rotten. If you grab a handful, you will find soft wood slag, and a pungent smell will come to your nostrils.

"This should be the central area where the empire mined minerals." Cassia frowned, raised her head and looked at the darkness above and said, "The vast Moon Lake is above our heads."

"Will Nolida's stronghold be here?" Gustin wondered, "Could it be that he sent his men to remote and dark corners of the underground mines just to confuse our sight. But the real stronghold is in everyone's sight. The center of a mining district that you want but don't care about. The light that floods here is not suitable for his little tricks."

"We don't know yet, but it is true that there is indeed a stronghold of Nolida in the low arched ridge in front of us. I don't know if it is a real hiding place." Carla adjusted the scope. Let go of every tiny detail.

In the scope, there was a flash of light on the ridge. It was a code word, but it was not the one they had learned.

"There's a situation," she said. "The man was beaten to death."