Steel steam and flame

The rearrangement ran completely automatically based on the program in the difference engine, and soon left this vast and desolate wilderness. Abandoned houses appeared around, and large areas of cracked roads also spread around the railway line. Several small abandoned stations appeared along the way. The awnings used to store goods were all covered with rust. They looked desolate, like an isolated island, with not even a single weed growing around them.

Soon after, a human figure finally appeared. It was a small town on the border of the empire. The station was full of people waiting with excitement on their faces. But the heavy train sped past them, not the annual vehicle they were waiting for, and did not stop.

People's faces showed disappointment, and the station management looked a little confused. He received the signal for the retrain to enter the station and always thought it was the one they were waiting for. Today, there are many people here waiting to see it up close. Once a year, it is a rare experience for them.

"Let's go, let's go." He could only say in spite of the faces of these people. The long train car was still speeding on the railway track not far away. The small management room was shaking, as if it would be destroyed in the next moment. It will look like it will collapse.

This is a small town, located on the edge of the empire's territory. Needless to say, there is only one train a day, and two or three trains a month can pass through here, which is considered frequent. People have dispersed, the boring day is about to end, and high-pressure mercury lamps have been lit around, giving a bleak and deserted light. The administrator was guarding the small station alone and listening to the radio.

There was a noise outside, which woke him up. He stood up and turned off the radio. The surroundings suddenly became silent, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly aroused on his body.

"Squeak..." The old door next to him was pushed open, and a man wearing an imperial standard military uniform stood there, wearing a hat to protect him from the cold. His face was resolute and square, and the light in his eyes seemed to be in the wilderness not far from this town. hungry snow wolf.

"Hello, you, hello!" The administrator has never seen such a soldier before. Compared with the man in front of him, the imperial garrison here is like little lambs destined to be eaten by wolves, without any threat.

"Hello, I am an officer of the Imperial Military. I would like to ask for your help with some matters." The man in front of him said, taking out his identity card, an alloy plate, and a hard-shell document, " There should be a heavy train passing here today. I would like to ask for detailed information about this train. For example, the appearance of the heavy train, and whether anyone got off the train when it arrived at this station..."

The high-pressure mercury lamp "buzzed" at this time, perhaps because the voltage was unstable, and the white light it emitted was sometimes bright and sometimes dim, casting a thick layer of indistinguishable shadow on the officer's face in front of the administrator.

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There was a heavy snowstorm a few days ago, and the area affected was very wide, spreading far away from the mountains on the edge of the sky. The snow has not yet melted, and only some taller plants show a little shadow in the snow.

A road several meters wide ran through this clean, snow-covered wilderness, extending horizontally to a large building faintly visible in the distance. It seems to be an unpopular city, with not many high-rise buildings, and a cluster of low-rise buildings that are about to be completely swallowed up by the horizon.

An elongated black vehicle was driving on this road. There were some stains on it, the engine roared, and clouds of white steam came out from under the car, making people wonder about the service life of the car.

There were two people sitting on it, both of them very strong. On one person's neck, under the high collar, a tattoo with an unknown pattern could be faintly seen.

The vehicle slowed down soon after and finally stopped hard on the side of the road.

"Hurry up. If we all have such good intentions as you, how can we still do those businesses! This is the only time!" When an angry voice came from the car, one person got out of the car and stepped in with a deep kick and a shallow kick. In the snow, we walked to the field not far from the roadside.

"It's a person! It's a person!" The excited voice was a bit sharp, "My hand was broken and was attacked by a snow wolf?"

The man turned back to the person in the driver's seat and shouted: "What should I do? Do you want to save her? She is a woman?"

"Female?" The person in the driver's seat was originally very impatient. He was not a person who liked troublesome things. This place is on the edge of the wilderness, and there are quite a few people attacked by wild animals every year, so there is no need to worry about it. At this moment, he suddenly became energetic, and his eyes almost gleamed. He also got out of the car and stepped over in a few steps.

"So beautiful!" He exclaimed, looking around subconsciously. Nothing else existed. "It's lucky, but the arm was bitten off by the snow wolf."

"Move it up. It looks like she's still alive. She should be able to be saved." The man didn't think much about it. As he spoke, he leaned down and stretched out his arms to hug the beautiful woman in front of him.

"It's so heavy!" Apart from the coldness on his body, this was the biggest feeling he felt at the moment. "Help, help, see if there is anything iron tied to her body. It's too heavy!" He shouted, barely holding the woman's body back. He lifted his body up, his face already flushed with shock.

Shan Erna's eyes moved, and she felt someone beside her. It was an obvious source of heat, but compared to the heat of the surgeon, it was very small. Ordinary people? She thought, unable to open her eyes, she just felt her body moving slowly. Soon after, the coldness around him disappeared, and he lay on something like a soft cushion.

"Boom, boom..." was the sound of a steam locomotive starting up. There were other words in it that Shanerna couldn't understand, but she knew it was the language of the Saint Dolag Empire, and she had some impressions of some of the pronunciations.

"Were you rescued?" Her consciousness was still vague. She just remembered that she finally passed out in the snow. As for what was around her, she could no longer remember it. "But it's okay, I won't freeze to death." I was glad in my heart, and the fatigue suddenly surged into my body, and my slightly recovered spirit fell into darkness again.

"It will be fine when I wake up next time." Shanerna finally thought, "I will have recovered a little strength by then."

The steam locomotive started at this time. It already looked dilapidated, but after adding Shanerna's load, it became more difficult to move forward. The originally good forward speed also became slow, driving on the road, approaching the group of buildings on the horizon.

"It's just enough to give to the boss. It's so beautiful. Even if one hand is lost, I think it won't be a big problem." The person in the driver's seat said, "Boss is happy. The transaction loss we lost last time was just right. That’s the past.”

"dont you agree?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The person in the passenger seat nodded quickly. His face was somewhat square. He was this person's subordinate, and he looked somewhat honest and honest. While the motorcycle was moving forward, he turned his head from time to time to look at the woman on the back seat, with a different look in his eyes. He had seen quite a few people with such pretty faces, and he had seen them when he followed the boss into the tavern.

But he always felt that the woman in front of him was definitely different from those women. He couldn't say what the difference was, it was just a simple feeling in his heart.