Steel Steam and Flame

Cassia and the others looked over the shell several times, carefully avoided the gunpowder that shook out, and even wrapped the cement-like gunpowder with snow. Although I knew that there would be no accidents, the few people around me were always worried.

"It's just a cannonball buried for a long time." The two captains were a little disappointed. They thought they had found something useful. "Everyone keeps looking around. The heavy snow may have buried everything. Especially on these ancient trees. , And take a closer look to see if there are any traces of craters."

After hearing this, other soldiers continued to spread out to the surroundings, further expanding the scope of the search.

"It seems that we are really the first team to arrive here." One of the captains looked around and said with certainty.

"It should be like this." The other captain agreed at this time. There were really no obvious clues around, except for the endless snow, there were only towering old trees.

Cassia stood by them listening, but did not respond. In the strange eyes of the two captains, he took out the bright flashlight from his backpack, probably adjusted the power to medium, and the light beam lased out, and this small snowy area was instantly illuminated. The woods have become a little dark now.

"What's wrong, there is a problem with the shell?" The two captains also looked over. Under the light, nothing seems to have changed. It's just agglomerated, slightly moist red rust, and its color looks a little brighter.

"There is nothing wrong with the cannonball." Cassia replied, and the bright flashlight hit his feet. "It's just that there seems to be something wrong under this piece of soil."

"Look at it, it's not completely solid soil. There is a big hollow area below." Cassia was a little uncertain. The rusty shell was pulled out of the mud just now, and a hole about the size of two adult waists was formed in the ground. Now when Cassia turned on the flashlight, the light was shining directly into the hole. It didn't touch the bottom, and it seemed a bit deep below.

"This is the only situation here?" Cassia spoke, shaking the flashlight slightly. Under the bright light, you can see another scene of the underground through the hole formed by pulling out the shells.

There is indeed a hollow area in the mud under their three feet. Under the light, you can clearly see the dense tree roots drooping downside down, varying in thickness, as if a waterfall of tree roots formed there. It's been a long time since I saw the sun, and the skin of the roots is bright yellow.

Above a piece of intertwined tree roots, Cassia and the others did not see the mold, but some fluorescent moss.

"The air below seems to have been kept dry." Cassia judged at this time. Immediately, there were two more flashlight lights at the corner of his eyes. The two captains seemed to be interested in the hollow area under their feet. They each took out their own bright flashlights, wanting to see what is underneath. .

The dark space was illuminated by three beams of flashlights. Lots of tree roots, this is the most intuitive impression of Cassia and the three of them. In the light, under their sharp sight, other things were quickly discovered. It is the same huge number of copper tubes. The first time Cassia saw those copper tubes, he could see their role through the color and thickness of the tube wall.

"All of them are pipelines for conveying steam, and they are still the classic design and standardization model that the Empire has been using to this day. It has been almost a hundred years, but until now, this classic design and standard, and the treatment of materials are still applicable. In all aspects of steam power.” Cassia explained to the two captains at this time, “Looking at the degree to which they are twisted by the roots, I think what remains below, their actual history is greater than those that grow on them. The trees are much older."

The two captains opened their eyes wide at this time, and the beam of the flashlight slowly spread out along the tree roots towards the surroundings. They looked at other things in this underground space little by little.

But the hole formed by the pulled out shell really seemed a bit small at this time. It seems impossible to keep all the sights in the dark space below without expanding the hole.

Cassia asked the two captains to help him hold the flashlights, and there was no useful tool beside him, so he used his own hands to open the dirt piece by piece. In the cold weather, the soil almost froze into ice, losing its flexibility and becoming extremely brittle, which made it easier for Cassia to expand the hole.

But Cassia and the other two captains neglected a significant thing at this time, probably because they did not consider other things now, and they all focused on the underground cavity.

They remember that they were surgeons, but at this time they completely forgot their weight. Especially Cassia, as an obese person among the surgeons, his weight is even heavier than the two captains.

When he started to pull the hard mud under his feet piece by piece, a crisp "click" suddenly sounded from the feet of the three of them. Cassia reacted immediately, he knew what had happened, the soil under his feet should have been unable to bear their weight, and reached the critical point of collapse.

"At this time, you can't use too much force, otherwise it will only accelerate the collapse of this place." Cassia only considered this and found that he was thinking too much. At this moment, the ground in a small area burst into several huge cracks. He only felt that his body became very light, and then he fell rapidly downward.

Cassia immediately spread his arms, grabbing the ground on both sides that hasn’t collapsed on the left and right to prevent him from falling~www.ltnovel.com~ But after a chain reaction, Cassia’s palms rested on the ground on both sides. It was also immediately covered with dense cracks, and then it became a fragmented shape like glass.

His body fell uncontrollably by half of an adult's height. Just as Cassia was under the test how deep and how should he land to reduce damage, he felt that his shoulders were firmly grasped by a broad palm.

It was two captains, and their reflexes were equally amazing. At this moment they reached out and grabbed Cassia, ready to pull him out of the big cracked hole.

"You should reduce the weight of your body." The two captains felt Cassia's amazing weight when they started. They pulled him up and said, "Look at your skinny body, but I didn't expect this to happen. The weight that fits your body shape."

Cassia smiled helplessly, her body had only undergone a major exchange of blood, and her weight had already decreased a lot. In full condition, he weighed a little bit heavier than this time.

"Thank you..." Before Cassia's words were finished, she was interrupted by several other clear cracking sounds. The ground under the feet of the two captains was also full of cracks at this time. The three had only time to look at each other, and with a bang collapsed, their bodies sank suddenly and fell down.