Steel Steam and Flame

The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder, but it was quickly replaced by the original smell of decay and stench. The sound of footsteps reverberated in the cavity, and after an orderly "turn on the air circulation system", the low noise of the fan's rotation followed closely, and the air here began to be exchanged.

This is a cavity, and the building is built on the walls of the cavity, forming a semi-circular shape with a total of seven floors. Divide large and small rooms, which are used for rest, storage, machine placement, and operating room. At this moment, most of the rooms were destroyed, and the firecrackers equipped with platinum bullets left dense holes on them, and on the floor, gray blood was eroding every floor.

In the corridor on the fifth floor of the semi-circular building, Kara took off the glasses made of ultra-high-strength glass, put them into a black alloy box, and put them in her pants pocket. She smoothed her hair that reached her shoulders, and finally put her hands on the fence of the corridor and looked straight ahead.

Under the cold light, there were no buildings on the opposite cavity wall, only two crude metal shelves, which looked precarious. Between the two metal frames embracing each other, a lot of soil has been dug away, and a twisted tree root is exposed. The brown bark is covered with cracks, and a gray, foaming viscous liquid is secreted all the time. Like a mold that feeds on rotting matter, it has a visually erosive look.

"The blood vessels of the earth are really not a suitable metaphor for something like this." Kara muttered to herself, then turned and leaned on the railing, looking at the room behind her with the door open. An operating room, the environment inside is very clean. If it weren't for the two corpses with most of their heads missing, and the gray blood spattered on the wall, this evaluation would be no problem at all.

At this time, the sound of dense footsteps came from the stairs on the side, and several team members in the same clothes as Kara escorted a man to the side.

The man's right hand seemed to be broken, drooping without any strength. There are many broken skins on the right half of his face, exposing muscles that have long lost blood. There was also a wound on the neck, but the attacker's strength and control were very precise, almost slashing past the blood vessels, without causing fatal injuries.

"Is he the person in charge?" Kara looked at Shanerna who came to her side and asked.

"It can only be him. He doesn't feel like a low-quality surgeon. He should be sent by the enemy to coordinate management. Don't underestimate him. He can run very well, and he can be compared to the second type of ape-like creatures in the forest." Shan As Erna said, she knocked on the fence with her left hand, and the sound of metal strikes echoed. From the elbow to the back of the palm, the artificial bionic skin has been cut open, revealing a part of the gray-white robotic arm inside. "You can always trust the quality of the Webley Arms Company's products, leaving only a scratch."

"Choose not to accept the benefits of cultivating a new arm? If it's a fleshy arm, it should be broken." Kara laughed, "The stuff from Webley Arms is really easy to use, at least all the types of sniper firearms that we configure, There is a layer of ultimate alloy inside the barrel. The feeling of use can be scored full marks.”

"I agree, full marks must be given." Shan Erna nodded, her face showing approval, "What about him? How to deal with it?"

"Do you have anything to say?" Kara looked at the man in custody, "The Three Kingdoms are at war, and you have the opportunity to become a prisoner in exchange for our own people. The current fighting situation among the three parties is not too fierce. The mechanism is here. Wait for a while, and we can only lie to you, saying 'As long as the information you provide is effective, we can give you a chance to live'."

"So, how do you choose?"

"My dear lady, do you think that I was able to be dispatched to perform missions within the empire because of conflicts with some superiors?"

"The negotiation broke down. But,,," Kara replied, noticing the wounds on the man's face that were rapidly healing, "Maybe you still have some functions that you don't need to talk about." She said, looking at Shanerna, " Escort it back. In the past few months of contact, the enemy's use of pollution is indeed much more powerful than ours. He can use it as a sample to study. Remember to check it. You know, in the competition for nodes in the small countries, it is Someone bound the heart to a solid red mercury bomb, which almost caused irreparable damage in a short time."

After Kara finished speaking, Shanerna had already suppressed a small pistol that she did not know when she took out, and a powerful anesthetic bullet was accurately nailed to the man's neck. Considering the existence of pollution, Shan Erna fired five shots in a row, and stopped after the man's neck was full of anesthesia bullets.

A few seconds later, other team members took away the unconscious man and began to clean the stronghold in the cavity to search for necessary information.

Kara and Shanna still stood where they were, looking at the twisted tree roots on the wall of the cavity on the other side.

"Small countries, the process of competing for the protection of node number one can indeed be called a template. But we still have to consider the configuration of node number one." Shanna smiled at this time, "The situation has changed a lot. Number one In node one, there should be no infected bodies or polluters, right? Besides, it is very difficult to get pollution there. You just mentioned the imitation of solid red mercury, but fortunately, the enemy met Xi Miss Sia, perfectly inherited some of Mr. Cassia's attributes, and realized it in advance. Change to someone else,,,"

"Operations and missions are becoming more and more dangerous. I will have the idea of ​​'danger' again. It seems to be the first time since I met you in the black market. I didn't even have such thoughts during the Southern Forest incident."

"Then before this time, was it the time you fought Cassia?" Kara was quite interested.

Shan Erna raised her left hand, "Give him a period of time to accumulate experience, and the price will not be my hand." An anesthetizing bullet was shot out and firmly nailed to the twisted tree root in front, "After collecting the information on this base, and summarizing all the information we have obtained recently, we can determine the location here with a probability of more than 90%. It will be the sixth node position."

"But to be absolutely sure that this is the node, you need to find the center point."

"Then keep working hard." Shanna is very confident, "but my intuition tells me that it won't be very far away. There are many traces of pollution on the surface of Minkface City, and the number of infected bodies has increased. Quite a few. Pollution build-up to eruption, which will be the most recent, I think.”

"Where would you choose for the next place? Continue to the node of possibility, continue to explore, confirm the work, and clean up a large number of inferior surgeons by the way, or other options? Thanks to the solid red mercury and the reagents made by pollution, we Now they are all in the late stage of the second stage of the operation, and gradually approaching the third stage. You can also feel it, after the influence of the six red stars has actually taken effect, the progress of the operation stage seems to be much faster."

Kara kept staring at the twisted tree roots in front of her, and after thinking for a while, she gave an answer, "You mean the information that has been released within the alliance? The role of the red star is to cultivate and promote The evolution of life. No matter what stage the surgeon is in, when he finds that he can feel anything about the red star through touch, he should have a positive attitude towards it.”

"As a matter of fact, whether you feel it or not, the impact has indeed fallen on everyone. Are you trying to say this?" Kara asked back at the end, "Indeed, within the alliance, Ye Jielin, Kirkwa and Ovelia and the others have feedback, saying that in a more intense environment, there will be better results."

"Currently, the battlefields that can be called meat grinders are all concentrated in the small countries. Looking over there, there are all the graves of three-stage surgeons. They are not suitable for us. They are all like Miss Sisia and Mr. Kerkova Waiting for others. But there are many places that are not so intense, and Miss Ye Jielin and Miss Ovilia are among them. I think we can move closer to it, after this node is determined."

"Well,,, I'm already thinking about it. After all, with the good equipment from Webley Arms, there is no place to use it, and I'm sorry for our efforts to maintain it every day."

"Looks like we have an answer." Shanna nodded in satisfaction, turned around and was about to leave, but Kara's communicator rang, "It's definitely the doctor's, he's been here for almost two months, he's not someone who will stay forever If necessary, remember to notify me. It just so happens that this stronghold has been cleaned up, and the next major operation should be around the time of finding the center of the node."

Shan Erna waved her hand and went down the stairs, "The data can be collected in half an hour, you should pay attention to the time."

Kara answered, pressed the communicator, and heard Punos' solemn voice, and knew that Shanerna was right. After listening to the report-like explanation, she thought for a while, then looked at Shanerna who was checking the stored items at the bottom of the cavity, and replied with a sigh, "Then you and Adena get ready, Shanerna said she has Interested to go and see with you. I will rush there when I have time. However, once it involves pollution, I don’t want to remind you how cautious you should be. If it is polluted, it will become troublesome later. Be careful yourself."

After hanging up the communication, Kara let his eyes fall on the twisted tree roots in front of him again, and muttered to himself, "Exploring nodes is often the easiest task, and the defense afterward is when difficulties really arise. The enemy's purpose is very It’s simple, as long as you activate the things at the center of the node, you can use any method. But as a guard,,,”

Half an hour later, Carla and Shanerna had left with the team, and more members wearing gray-white protective suits arrived here one after another, and began to be busy doing something beside the exposed tree roots.

,,,,,,

Trinya was not sleepy at all, she only felt mentally excited after waking up. This feeling was especially evident after Dr. Purnos' assistant injected her with something. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

"Phew, it seems to be very good." Trinya felt her "thud-thumping" heartbeat. At this moment, even though her heartbeat was absolutely abnormally "heavy" in her impression, she was not flustered at all. , I didn't feel the weakness and pain of my heart beating violently.

This should be good news, she thought, turning to think about what Dr. Purnos meant by will. It's just that she couldn't figure it out, so she could only follow the method introduced in the books she had read, and kept talking to herself, the simplest hint, "I don't want to die, if I want to live, I don't want to die, I must live go down,,,"

After reading this silently, for an unknown period of time, Trinya felt hot all over her body, and she suddenly opened her eyes and found that the surroundings were already dark. .

The inexplicable silence frightened her. She held her breath, trying to figure out what was going on around her, when a subconscious hallucination-like, strange feeling struck—

Has the rainstorm stopped?

(end of this chapter)