Steel steam and flame

There is steam machinery still in operation here, and it is definitely not small. Otherwise, the smell of lubricating oil would not spread to such a long distance. What could it be? Cassia glanced at the vast darkness around him, and of course he knew that there was nothing he wanted to see in it, only eternal nothingness and emptiness.

Could this be Nolida's real hiding place? Cassia looked out from the top of the ridge, nothing but black. The place where Plit is squatting should not be just an ordinary place. He leaned down and pressed his ears firmly to the ground. But for more than ten minutes, Cassia didn't hear anything he wanted to hear. Nolida's base was not a cavity dug into the mountain.

The smell of lubricating oil can extend to the giant steam machinery, and the identity of Plit's first team leader can also confirm that this area, or this short ridge is not an ordinary place. So what key thing is missing from me, so that my eyes are completely covered by black. Cassia touched her head, which had become a web of confusion.

He turned his gaze back to his eyes again. The top of the mountain was not flat, but it wasn't just a mess either. In Cassia's opinion, this place is more like a stone forest area with protruding rocks everywhere. The large rocks are not at all the sharp-cut shapes of ordinary mountain peaks. Lying quietly on the rock next to him, the texture and smell on it were the same as the soil on the mountainside, completely incompatible with it.

They are more like things that were carried up by something and then randomly discarded here.

Cassia frowned slightly. The ridge under his feet neatly divided the surrounding darkness into two halves. No matter how sharp his eyesight was, it was impossible to peep out of the dark world. He followed the curve of the ridge for a long distance, then stopped in wonder. The scene soaked in black in front of him was still the same emptiness and calmness that had remained unchanged for thousands of years, but in Cassia's heart, a wave of waves was set off.

In his feeling, the ridge was circular, and its shape was like a silent volcano. In the center of the circular ridge was a huge black cavity. The black inside is more pure, like the deep blue in the depths of the sea, with no sign of life or any ethereal feeling. The darkness wrapped around the ridge is simply black, without any other color of black.

Cassia looked down at the darkness in front of him, his eyes focused on the front, as if there was something swallowing his thoughts, easily shattering his sight of exploring the past, which gave Cassia a wonderful touch, as if The fallen leaves floating on the lake have an ethereal feeling that cannot be touched, like clouds floating in the sky.

The darkness reflected in his eyes was exactly the same thing he had experienced a few hours ago when he looked into those ravines several meters deep. It's just that this feeling is stronger now. The former just feels that the darkness is a huge emptiness, but the latter has a dead silence that can swallow anything.

"It can indeed swallow anything without making any noise." A smile appeared on Cassia's face, and he knew the source of that feeling.

It was also dark, but there was a clear difference between the two sides of the ridge. Kittens also come in different coat colors and sizes, and the dark black color also divides into two different personalities at this time.

The black in front of me is deathly black, it is a bottomless pit, misty and ethereal with nothing to rely on. Looking at it feels like falling into a cave that will never land. The latter, which was also the darkness behind Cassia that he had walked through, was more solid and thicker. Because he knew that below the height of 1,500 meters, there was a wide and thick land.

"The low ridge at the foot is not a mountain at all. It is just a piece of excess stone brought up from deep underground when mining minerals. They were piled here under the transportation of huge steam machinery. Because of the huge scale of mining, from underground The huge amount of rock waste brought up formed this short ridge that looked like a mine." Cassia's thoughts extended forward.

"The reason why the darkness in front of me feels like the bottomless night sky is because more than 1,500 meters below is not the end of this darkness at all. The central area surrounded by low ridges, It is a vertical mine with a very huge diameter and depth. It was created with a giant steam drill produced by the Imperial Factory. When it was first mined, it may not have been thought of transporting the excess waste away. Just pile them directly on the drilled hole."

Cassia raised her head and looked at the silent darkness above her head. Behind the black like storm clouds, it was not just the top of the mine cavity. Inside the cumulus clouds, there should be another different world that is truly built of steel. But the world that should have been exposed to people's eyes was covered up by Nolida. It's the same thing as the thick curtains that block the light from entering a house.

Above the head should be giant steam machines with flashing lights. Powered by hot steam, they are still running silently. Endless steam spews out from their bodies, and the steam that enters the air and cools down makes the wind here bring moisture! As a result, the smell of lubricating oil coated on the countless gears on their bodies also leaked out and entered the high-altitude air. Before the roar of the gears could be heard, it was completely absorbed by the large number of silencer blocks installed, and all kinds of flashing lights were completely covered up by a thick black cloth.

There is a huge silent world in the sky here. They are attached to the giant mining machinery built here by the empire decades ago. That is the real hiding place of Nolida.

After figuring everything out, Cassia immediately turned back the same way.

Two hours later, they were still in the same detection pit, and Kara and the others did not leave. Lee and Gustin had already returned as scheduled.

Seeing Cassia groping out of the darkness, Kara and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their serious expressions relaxed.

"Mr. Cassia, it is not the character of a gentleman to not follow the agreement." Leigh first said in his feminine voice, with a bit of happiness in his voice. He has an unusually strong interest in Cassia.

"Of course, I know this is not a correct behavior, and it is also a very rude approach." Cassia finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time. If he did not come back as scheduled, the message he represented was of course that he had been killed by the enemy. Disposed of.

He put down the modified sniper rifle in his hand and continued: "Because of some people and some things, too much time was wasted, but the harvest from this trip is definitely not small."

"This is indeed Nolida's hiding place, but the base he established is not on the ground, but..."

"In the darkness in the sky." Several people raised their heads together, and they guessed the answer at the same time.

"If Cassia's information is correct, it is really a comfortable position." Kristians sighed, "Now that we know the position, it is not the character of a gentleman to not share this happiness with everyone."

Gustin and the others nodded, with gentlemanly smiles in their eyes and faces.

"this is what we are supposed to do."