Steel steam and flame

Not far away, gray smoke was still filling the front end of the rearrangement. At this time, the smoke had already wrapped a tractor engine at the front end.

"Be careful, the enemy is hiding inside." Norentl slowed down his speed appropriately at this time, focusing more on his surroundings, and beware of the smoke, and suddenly flew headlessly. Shoot out some bullets.

Humid air hit us, and the large amounts of steam that had recently been ejected from the tractor-trailer were slowly cooling down. Norentel and the others felt very comfortable on their faces, as if they were being caressed by the warm limbs of the dancer. After a few steps, the pair of them started to walk in slowly with guns in hand. Behind the violently damaged car door, no enemy was seen inside.

Several people rushed into the tractor head separately. Various indicator lights inside were flashing, and the alarm buzzer was also whining crazily. They pressed the emergency button and flipped the switches of some valves, and the exhaust sound coming from the train behind them suddenly stopped.

"Captain, we've finished dealing with it, but no trace of the enemy has been found." Other members reported back from the survey on the other side of the train. Even though they were fast enough, they could not see the enemy running out. The smoke and poison gas had already spread over the car bodies that were rearranged several meters high, and also engulfed a large area on the other side. It was completely impossible to see from there, even though they knew the enemy was hiding inside.

"Stop the retraining. There is still a lot of time before departure." Norenter said while looking inside the tractor control room. The doors on both sides had been removed and thrown on the rails, with clearly visible bullet holes still on them.

"Pick up the car door. The car door is thick enough and its defensive capabilities are much better than a shield. Just stay here and don't let the enemy get close again. If they want to drive away the heavy train, they have to attack here. ." Norenter said, greeting the remaining people.

"Follow me, and then lurk quietly from the other side of the queue. Remember the secret code and the hidden marks on your body. At that time, we only recognized these things. If not, we would treat them as enemies. Don't hesitate to strike." He said, " I don’t think you will make this mistake now.”

After saying that, without waiting for the answers from those behind him, Norentel jumped off the queue first. The momentum brought by his huge weight made his face flash red. Picking up a fallen car door, he and another team member who followed him held one end at a time and held it in front of them as a supplementary shield. With others following behind them, they walked along the edge of the rearrangement and carefully walked into the jubilant gray smoke.

Suddenly there was only a gray surrounding. Similar to dense fog, the visibility is a little lower, and because of the characteristics of the material, there is no wind or other things to remove it. The smoke can maintain its intensity for about ten minutes without dissipating immediately.

The steps are very gentle. When vision is lost, other human perceptions, such as smell and hearing, will be improved a lot due to the large allocation of attention. The shoes specially equipped for this tactical battle will not make any obvious sound unless they hit the ground hard.

Norunter and the others also had silencers installed on their guns, and the magazines were replaced with ordinary bullets. It definitely has the power to kill enemies, and it can also reduce some of the sound when bullets are fired.

In the gray smoke, scattered gunshots could be heard from various places near the rearrangement. In a world where people lose their vision completely within one or two meters of being in front of them, it seems that the only way they can feel at ease is by firing a few random shots. The enemy and the team on the other side were roughly judging their location based on the sound coming from the smoke, and then fired in a wide range to kill the enemy.

But the more important thing is to get close to the rearrangement. Under the cover of those black bulletproof shields, clearing the enemies one by one is what they should do.

"The thickness of the relisted black iron steel plates is acceptable. Most platinum bullets cannot penetrate them and will not cause damage to the goods inside. So you can shoot at will without worrying about relisting." Action The words of former Norentel made them feel at ease.

The people divided into several teams continued to move forward quietly. As long as they did not make a sound or encounter the enemies who also ran into the smoke, they would not expose their positions. They had a clear goal, but the enemy turned into insects spinning around in the smoke.

A team was advancing little by little in the smoke, with three people holding shields in front. They walked from the side of the high wall to the low-lying area blown up by the bombs, hoping to use these sunken craters to sneak around to the end of the rearrangement and launch a pincer attack on the enemy from there.

The captain of this team glanced at his watch and saw that there was still a little time left before the appointment. He used hand gestures to tell the people behind him to follow closely, to pay attention to the small gravel on the ground, and not to make a loud noise as they were about to walk into the connected craters.

The people behind said they understood. They followed the slope of the crater and walked slowly downwards. Their movements were smooth and gentle, and the flow pattern of the surrounding smoke was not greatly affected.

I don't know how long it took, maybe only a few dozen meters away, but the three people holding shields in front became more and more panicked as they walked. Sweat broke out all over their bodies, and their hearts beat uncontrollably. The area shrouded in gray smoke seemed to have no end. They stopped at this moment, turned their heads and looked back, only to find that all the people following them had disappeared.

The faces of the three people suddenly turned pale, thinking that they had lost track of them, and they quickly returned along the original path. On the ground covered with burnt remains, there were a few more fresh corpses, which were the people behind them. Just as they were about to shout loudly, before the three of them formed a defensive formation, they saw the gray smoke suddenly giving rise to countless small cyclones. Several figures silently rushed to them from the surroundings, and sharp knives pierced through their chins. In an instant, All their brain tissue was minced.

"Hurry up and move on to the next group. The number of enemies is several times that of ours." In the smoke, several people wearing masks that didn't fit the face gently lowered the corpse and talked in sign language, "The sooner the rearrangement starts, the better. Inside Something is important to the higher-ups of the Volcano Base, and we cannot rule out the possibility that he will send another airship to chase us again."

"Can we leave in the enemy's airship? It's still intact, and the operation method should be roughly the same." When several people were about to disappear into the smoke, one of them thought about it.

"Not for the time being. Although the cores of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine have the same architecture across the three continents, the array form of the combination and the program represented by the gear coupling are completely different things. We still can't drive away the enemy's airship." One of them gestured, "And there must be preventive measures. I don't want to put my life on an enemy airship that may be detonated at any time."

"I know, then I can only use relisting." The sigh and fatigue can be read from the interactive movements of the fingers.

"Shan Erna, next team." At this time, several people made a set of movements in unison. After getting the answer, their figures disappeared into the gray smoke again, leaving only a slightly rotating cyclone spinning in place until it dissipated.

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Cassia felt tight in her chest, and it was pitch dark in the car, so she couldn't see anything. When the heavy train closed, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he could finally rest peacefully and wait for the heavy train to leave this mountain range. But the speed of rearrangement seemed to him to be getting slower and slower, and finally almost stopped.

Soon after, there seemed to be problems with the air brought in by the air circulation system. He held his breath at that time, which seemed to be a good decision. In the dark, his hearing and skin touch became extremely sensitive. He felt a slight burning sensation from the new influx of air. Soon the feeling became stronger.