Steel steam and flame

Cassia and the others each held a simple map and separated at the end of the passage. The number of people is an odd number, which means that there will definitely be one person free to act alone. The five people finally decided to draw lots, and Cassia became the lucky one.

He was standing in the elevator that was moving downwards. He didn't need to search every floor. He wanted to go to the lowest floor of the building to have a look. The differential engine array was there, and there might be something to gain.

There are also bullets embedded in the steel plates in the elevators here. As the fourth group of people to come up, they have lagged behind the first group of people who went to pursue them for a long time. The arms smugglers' men have long been spread throughout the spider building. Nolida and Flos' men seem to have no place to hide. In the passage along the way, one or two bodies can be seen soon. A limp body lay on the side, blood condensing quickly under the temperature of steel.

"What are Nolida, Flos and those from Sunault School planning?" Cassia pulled out the 10-point pistol at her waist, which was filled with platinum bullets. While moving forward cautiously, I also started thinking about everything related to it from beginning to end in my mind, recalling the details of every important thing.

"The people from Sunault School can be regarded as joining Nolida's side without any warning. Things related to them can be excluded from Nolida's plan." There was a corner ahead, and Cassia looked at it The steel plate floor was still bright under the corridor lights, making sure that there was nothing wrong on the other side of the corner. "What needs to be considered is the matter of Flos. He and Nolida had already joined forces a few months before we came here. The delay in the underground waterway more than ten days ago could have allowed They left quietly with their stuff, but why do they keep hiding here?"

"Is it just because it's safe and hidden enough? Or have you lived there for a long time and become familiar with it, and then you have feelings for it and want to use it as your final base? In short, Gerun City is still developing. As long as the officials here are fed, The belly, so far away from the center of power in the empire, is not what you want to do." A smile appeared on Cassia's own lips. This was really a good idea, "But is it possible? The answer is of course no. They must be hiding it. What kind of plan is there, but I’m missing something that I can’t think of.”

He was talking to himself as he walked around the corner. On the left side of his body was a row of past room doors with numbers written on them in order. The size was slowly decreasing as Cassia moved forward.

"Room Zero should be the management center. I don't know if there is anyone in it." He said, and his pace quickened a lot here. The surrounding environment shows that this place has been visited by a team of smugglers. They also have the same idea as Cassia. The control center must be an important place.

On the right side of the long corridor is a wall with glass windows installed at even intervals, allowing you to see the outside scenery. The several supporting pillars that regularly shimmer with cold light are most eye-catching. In the black air, they are the only scenery.

Room Zero finally appeared in front, with a sign saying "Master Control Room" on it. The door was wide open, and no one could be seen inside under the light.

When Cassia walked in, the air here became more deserted, and there weren't many people around at all. The layout of the room is the same as that of the main power room of the support column. The indicator lights on the machine are many and complicated. The sound of the gears in the differential engine array is surprisingly loud at this time, like an idling steam engine.

Cassia walked over, and his eyes naturally saw the broken slot opening, revealing the rotating gears and shafts. Has the differential engine array been cracked? He felt like things were a little out of control, and he circled around the huge difference engine. He didn't know the slightest knowledge about the program, and he couldn't tell whether the machine in front of him was operating at full capacity. Or Nolida and the others have already obtained more advanced permissions, not just the most superficial lighting system.

"Could he be a student of Sunault School?" He still didn't believe that Nolida had programmers among his staff, but there was a high chance that there were among the students of Sunault School.

Cassia suddenly felt that his mind was very confused. The cool wind blew in through the broken glass window, bringing moist water vapor and a little cold breath, which just made his chaotic thoughts clear up a little. Walking into the window with a big hole in it, thick pieces of glass were scattered all over the place, and the darkness outside seemed to be able to press in at any time like water in the deep sea.

He took a few deep breaths and felt the pressure brought by the darkness in front of him, giving him a feeling of suffocation. The moisture in the air moistened his dry cheeks, and when he touched his face, he was overcome by the slightly moist feeling on his hands. Then I thought of the drawings of the underground waterway network, and the real-life map of the Gerun Oasis that had been memorized in my mind for a long time. When the two overlapped, it was clear that the underground mine tunnels were under the Moon Lake.

At first he thought he had discovered an interesting piece of news, but later he was suddenly taken away by the laughter of Carla and the others. He didn't think about it again.

But now, he seemed to have remembered some more fatal factors. A line began to run through from all aspects - the underground waterway network, the map of Gerun Oasis, the location of the central mining area, the entry channel into Flos's small workshop, Nolida's teams distributed throughout the mine space, and their purposes Is it really someone who uses darkness to hunt other forces? Is it possible that the role of those teams is just to attract the attention of the arms smugglers in the dark, and then lead them step by step to the central mining area. Just because of myself, this plan has been advanced many steps.

But do they need to do this? With the power to control the lighting system, as long as the black cloth is lifted and the light is exposed, everyone will be attracted to it, right? but,,,

Cassia's whole body suddenly shivered for no reason, "But,,, those people know that this is a bait, a trap deliberately set by Nolida, will they still rush to come up to the spider building like they are now? Of course not. !”

At this point the lines finally fully penetrated. He had always ignored one of the simplest and most important factors. No, I should say two!

First, Nolida is everyone's enemy. Of course, the best way to deal with an enemy is to blow the enemy's head with a gun. Nolida just wants to do this to everyone who cares about him. It doesn't matter what his plan is, what matters is his purpose, which is to kill everyone!

Second, this is a question that I should have thought of long ago. Cassia blamed himself in his heart. What he was best at was the knowledge of steam mechanical transmission. He had memorized several palm-thick books in his mind. Steam power is simple and crude, and is rarely affected by various limiting factors. This is why steam became the main power source on the later continents. Regardless of the steel machinery, steam power only requires two things-water and the energy required to heat the water. Of course the energy in the spider building is the electrical energy stored in the radiator, but where does the water come from? Of course it's not an underground river. This is where limestone is mined. When limestone encounters a large amount of water, it will undergo a violent discharge reaction and eventually turn into a pile of black powder with no use value. There is simply no way that there is a lot of water underground here. The water source is the Moon Lake above our heads. The Imperial Mining Company drilled through the hard rock formations on the spider building and installed several huge pipes to directly draw the inexhaustible water source from the Moon Lake to create steam.

"Nolida, Flos, and those from Sunault School are no longer here." Cassia leaned half of his body out of the broken window, and the wind immediately messed up his hair, and there was a roar in his ears. The sound of wind rising. He opened his cross pupils, but couldn't find anything in the darkness lacking light source. "When all our main personnel were brought up, they escaped from here at the same time. As for the method, at an altitude of several thousand meters and with such strong winds, the parachute will be the most suitable tool. It can because of this The force of the strong wind caused them to deviate from the huge mine under the spider building, and they could even immediately hide in the surrounding darkness without lights. Even the surgeon could not find their traces. Not to mention that at this time, there would be people there. There are operators who have the intention to observe the scenery outside the mining machinery, and they all focus on the search."

Cassia gave himself four consecutive injections of sedatives, and his body's rejection reaction was fully activated, but the power gushing out of his body did not make him feel at ease. He ran wildly outward, his body truly turning into a shadow flowing in the air, and his speed reached the extreme limit that his body could bear at this moment.

"We will definitely catch up. Nolida and the others will definitely give themselves plenty of time to escape. As long as they can leave here within this time, there will be endless possibilities!"

This was the speed of life and death, and he had to find Kara and the others who didn't know anything about these things.

But Nolida's plan would never give anyone such a chance. Cassia's body had just turned into a gust of wind and rushed out of the main control room door. When she was running wildly in the corridor, several bright lights lit up one after another outside the window.

The temperature of Cassia's heart dropped to the extreme at this time. This is an altitude of nearly four thousand meters. If you fall, you will die no matter what the reason, whether you are the surgeon or not! As for the parachute, there are definitely not many, and Nolida will not give anyone a chance!