Steel steam and flame

In a roadside hut, the voice of the communicator waited for more than ten seconds before being picked up by the person inside.

"Master Hai, I'm sorry that it's so late." Lyle's voice was lost on the other side. "The target has been observed, and it is not Mr. Cassia. If our intelligence network is not wrong, the disguised person will come and complete Cassia's mission." The people on your mission are all members of the team that Ye Jielin evacuated from Manoma not long ago."

"Is that really the case?" Hai replied as he looked at the green embroidered copper bell seeping out from the old wall beside him.

"Several teams just left today, and their specific whereabouts are still under investigation because they left in batches. But they still left a small team to stay here, probably to confuse the enemy. This time The person assigned to deal with Mr. Cassia in Ovelia was her brother, Adelaide. Adelaide soon discovered that something was wrong here, but he was exploring the relationship and killed him at will. After a few team members, he left here immediately. It seems that he didn't want to waste precious time here." Lyle continued to talk about the situation on his side, "So we didn't get involved."

"And Ye Jielin's team members don't seem to know that Adelaide has left. Maybe they don't even know who the person who came here this time is. Adelaide is not someone else. , is very strong, and has developed excellent concealment abilities during the time in extreme areas. This is the feeling I got from the limited few observations in the dark. If it weren't for the certain threat in the number of people on Ye Jielin's side, I think Adelaide wouldn't mind spending some time cleaning them up."

"Then do you think Adelaide has plans to clean them up?" Hao asked.

"That's true, Master Hai. But because of Adelaide's own vigilance, no one on our side can monitor him all the time. It's easy to be discovered and exposed, so the information we get is not very good. Complete. This answer is not very accurate." Lyle explained the reason. "It's just my personal feeling. Adelaide may have temporarily changed his mind due to other things, and then set off to leave here. I think Ovili Something bad has already happened to several other people in Adelaide. Information is gradually being transmitted to everyone in various methods and forms. Adelaide should know some important information. So I decided to leave.”

"You also leave tonight, there is no need to continue waiting there." Hai thought for a while and said, "Take a rest first, the next target is Ovelia. There is no need to worry about Adelaide. , you can't catch him anymore. He is a smart person. After knowing that Mr. Cassia did not actually come to perform the task, he should have roughly understood Ye Jielin's plan to deal with this time. His current state is something else. A Mr. Cassia. No one is trying to contain him. Don’t be surprised if he appears anywhere in our line of sight soon. I hope you will be prepared. I think we will be able to meet in a short time."

"I look forward to seeing Master Hai again." Lyle said at last, and then hung up the communication.

Hai put down the microphone, glanced at the slightly curved hour hand on the bronze clock pointing to nine a.m., and then focused his attention on the room behind him. This is a temporarily rented house. It is a bit old and the space is not large. Putting down a few tables and chairs will make it seem crowded.

Carrying only his own cane, Hai arrived in this area not long ago and has been waiting for news from Lyle. From the information he knows now, everything is still within the foreseeable range. Everyone is still familiar to him. It's just that this situation will change rapidly in the near future, and Hao knows that this is bound to happen. Both sides have intelligence and information that the other side has not investigated clearly, and any cognitive mistakes will be costly.

After turning off the communication machine, Hao trampled it into pieces. Picking up his cane from the table behind him, he glanced at the more accurate time on the mechanical watch, then opened the door and went to the small garden in front of the cabin.

The flowers in the garden were surrounded by weeds and crowded into an aesthetically pleasing mass. Hai started the semi-old limousine parked next to the house, spread out the map of the area and looked at it a few times. He had circled several areas on it with a red pen in advance.

"This is it." Hai muttered to himself, and the limousine drove up the trail full of rain and dew in front of him, converging on the traffic a few kilometers away.

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Ieta was still standing by the hotel window in a daze, holding the empty glass she had finished drinking water with. Her beautiful face was faintly printed on the window.

Raindrops pattered on the window, and the world outside was gray.

It was still sunny in the afternoon, but soon the wind started to pick up. Lead-colored clouds pushed in from the end of the sky at a visible speed, and the sky turned dark in just a few minutes. Black clouds had covered the sky for a long time. When Ieta came back from outside in the evening and stepped out of the elevator, there was a small thunder. It seemed that summer had arrived here more than a month earlier.

It started raining heavily outside, and it suddenly became one, covering all the buildings.

Everything outside the window looked hazy, and rows of street lamps were the first to feel the darkness falling from the sky, and they lit up. The lights of other buildings slowly kept up, so that the darkness would not seem so lonely. The colorful lights were mixed together at this moment, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

Ieta was fascinated by holding the empty cup like this, and kept maintaining the same posture, staring blankly at the black clouds that seemed to be rendered by ink. I spent the entire afternoon collecting information, and when I returned to the hotel to join the other team members, I learned that one person had died. It had been less than a day since they arrived here, and they had only completed half of the detection of the target, but others had already found them.

The cause of death was that the head was severed with a sharp weapon. There were no signs of a fight at the scene, and the remaining two people believed they were attacked by a sneak attack. They are confident in their own strength. If they see the enemy, they will not accept the result well.

After taking a lot of photos, Iyeta looked at them while drinking water. After all the thick stack of photos were memorized in her head, she stood by the window and opened it a little to look at the scenery outside.

It was someone from Ovelia. Ieta saw the dead man's face, and the expression on it showed that he was unaware of anything before his death. All his teammates were among the top 100 in the military school's overall score ranking at the end of the last school year. With such a result, the only enemy Ieta could think of was Ovelia. I originally thought it would be a harmless act, but the weapon didn't match it.

She had been mentally prepared for it, but at this speed it was as if the enemy was waiting for her. Iyetta originally expected that this time would be longer, which would allow more preparations to be made and the operation stage would become final and stable.

"Have you not detected my location yet?" Iyetta thought about the man's intention to kill his teammates, "Or is this just a warning." He couldn't figure out the reason.

Ieta put down the curtain, walked to the table and poured another glass of warm water. The communication machine sounded at this moment. She picked up the microphone, but there was only a vague sound of hesitation. Finally, it was accompanied by a meaty sound of falling to the ground. The microphone on the other side was also picked up.