Chapter 342 Go back (Part 1)
It was a beautiful night sky. Cassia looked up for a long time until the surgeon's neck also became painful, and the wind-blowing skylight was closed. In the past few days, the number of inspections on heavy trains has become more frequent, and the speed of the train occasionally slowed down. The soldiers with guns walked over the roof step by step to check the safety of the entire train counting in kilometers.
The gray area is coming, and this is the signal that the rising breath of the entire train conveys to Cassia and the others.
During the day, the intensity of light falling from the skylight is stronger and the temperature has increased unknowingly. The four people's system is not afraid of the cold, but the current air temperature can no longer be described as warm.
On the fourth day, the smell of the air blowing in from the skylight is different. It is a wet and moist sea flavor that has been diluted over a very long distance. The daytime is extended and the train is sure to have arrived at the edge of the gray area. In a short time, it will stop and stop by the station.
On the morning of the fifth day, the heavy train slowed down very early and lasted for a long time. The sun shone brightly when it came out, and there was no consciousness to enter autumn. The moist and hot wind made the car very stuffy. Cassia and the others packed up their few things in advance, poked their heads out of the skylight to check the situation. They didn't know if this was the terminal, but they didn't wait. After finding the opportunity, they got off the train carrying the goods smoothly.
Lina carried Sila on her back, Delya was holding a firearm disguised as a package, and walked on a not-so-smooth road with Casia holding other things. The construction quality of the road under her feet was impeccable, but the power of artillery and bullets exceeded the ability of most ordinary concrete buildings. In the gray area where firepower is one of the synonyms of order, the road under her feet should be optimistic.
After walking along the road for about an hour and sweating, they saw a small station-like building where they spent more than three times the price to get a broken car. It was converted into a bus. There was an additional layer of it, which was built up with rusted steel strips, and then a layer of processed hardened iron plate was laid on it, and it was jumping on it, as if everyone was wearing cheap high heels.
Passengers were on the lower floor, close to sixty or seventy seats, only half of them sat. There were no passengers on it, half used to hold consignment goods, and half used to set up three heavy machine guns removed from the tank. The guns were very old, and the difference was like the current electric lights and gas lights, which were about to become firearms for museum exhibitions. So when Cassia saw them for the first time, he did not recognize which model of these firearms were.
The maintenance is very good, with the luster of anti-rust oil and steel. There are bullet links made of leather iron sheets hanging on one side of the gun. There are gaps on the leather, and the number of times used is more frequent than Cassia imagined. Cassia is not optimistic about their actual firepower.
The converted bus started separately, and there was no convoy behind him, nor did he follow other vehicles acting as protection. If you were interested in attacking this bus, the firepower array above your head consisting of three heavy machine guns as the core and relying on a semi-arc bolt-proof steel plate that was more than ten millimeters thick may have little practical significance.
There were three drivers, and there was also a man who was the commander of the car and was also a flight attendant. He was a man with a big bald head, sweating in the sun, and reflected very bright light. He was wearing a large gray vest and had a twisted scar on his neck, like a hideous bulge, connected to his right chest. When he got on the bus, he looked at Qianla's feet many times, but he never spoke. Maybe he had seen such a situation before, but he might not have said anything.
Now he was sitting in a row of seats on the tail of the car, pouring cheap wine into his stomach bit by bit, watching the dust rolled up from the bottom of the truck for a long time. He was big and smart. From the level of hair development on his body, he should be from the Far Sea Common Country, Cassia guessed. With simple contact, the chariot leader played three languages, most of whom were simple and proficient in the Imperial language, Fire Alliance language and Far Sea Common Country language. He was told to pay three times the fare at the beginning.
But judging from his current appearance, and the station covered in dust all day long, even if it is triple the fare, the business is not easy to do.
"The gray area has no autumn and spring. Most of these two seasons have transitioned in a week." The modified bus has no decent windows, let alone the air circulation system, and it is stuffy. Lina and Cassia are sitting in the row, while Sila and Delya are sitting in the seats behind them.
"The geographical location here is special, and it is on the edge of the hot winds of the continent caused by the central current belt." Lina said, "There is also a huge gap connecting your empire. There is no mountain range to block it, and it is a plain. The cold currents that lead to the endless seas reaching here every year. The cold and cold patterns alternate, and there is no comfortable weather in the year."
"But just get used to it a little bit, and you won't stay here for a long time?"
"It will leave in a few days, and you and Xila will not take so much time."
"It didn't take long, and the production of prosthetics is just to make precision modulation on the finished prototype. There are many mechanics here, because in the gray area, there are much fewer restrictions than in major countries. They all have their own differential machines and the performance is good, and I don't think it will take much time." Linna replied.
Cassia said "um" and thought about other things again, but did not take over Lina's words. Because of the sultry weather, Lina also pursed her lips and did not continue to say it. Sila fell asleep against Delya from behind. The injuries to her feet were not so easy to heal.
The bus was fast. After driving on the road for nearly three hours, the distorted horizon was not seen at the junction of the twisted horizon with the sunlight weakening, the shadow of the building complex finally appeared. Houses mainly yellow, gray and white gradually reflected into Cassia and the others' eyes. At this time, anger finally appeared on the lonely car. Someone began to carry their luggage in advance and stood up, holding the car and squinted his eyes and looking at it.
The journey was smooth and the train was finally transferred to the building complex, which was a good size. Finally, I saw the train station and the airport where the airship was parked. The price of the ticket dropped, twice as much as usual. They checked the route and timetable, took the train at the renovated train station, and went to the nearest big city here, Bolasburg City, a region famous for its various mineral transactions.
On the train, Cassia used a tactical knife to crush one of the three solid red mercury pieces, and obtained nearly twenty pieces of fragments of the same size. Cassia gave Lina one for the remaining two red mercury pieces and left one for the backup source of funds in the empire. After deciding to sell these fragments and deal with the matter between Lina and Sila, Cassia was ready to leave immediately. He did not have plans to understand the gray area in depth, and it may not be possible for a long time to come.
Chapter completed!