"There's still an hour. ”

Shrike sat in a chair and looked at the time on his pocket watch, his expression serious.

This is an abandoned platform outside the old Dunling, but it has become a temporary base under the construction of the past few days.

According to the plan, the shrike would take the train to a small town called Ender, where, according to Lancelot's information, the mysterious sacred coffin was stored, and whatever was there he was going to take it down...... At least hold out until Lancelot arrives and retrieves the Sacred Coffin.

In order not to be alarmed, the operation was divided into two batches, and the shrike waited here in advance with a large number of armed forces, and the train of the Radiance would arrive in an hour.

Originally, the shrike was going to go straight to it, but now that Galahad was down, and their odds were a little precarious without the knight chief, the Perpetual Pump mobilized a secret weapon and handed it to them, and the Radiant train was transporting it.

"Are you ready?"

Looking beside him, the huge machine was silent in the darkness, and the huge steel outlined a hideous appearance, only the sharp light slid on it.

It was a heavy crane, and in the darkness behind it were a series of reinforced heavy armored carriages, according to the plan, the Radiance was to carry the weapon from the Berhans Arsenal and finally stop here, the heavy crane would change carriages, and the passengers continued their journey, and the weapon carriage would be connected to this place, and then to the mysterious town of End.

Slowly stood up, because of the time constraints, the injury of the shrike was not complete, he tried to walk two steps, and he felt good, but the noise was a little loud.

At the moment, the lower half of his body is covered with a transmission structure, the power lever is connected to the joints of his legs, and then the copper pipe extends to the small steam bag around his waist, from which a faint mist is released every once in a while.

This is a masterpiece from the Perpetual Pump, they call this exoskeleton armor, but due to technical problems, it can't be used in actual combat, like a useless vase, but this thing is still not a problem for a person who has difficulty walking.

Looking down at the shiny metal, the delicate gears rotate under it, snapping into each other, and the structure is exquisite beyond imagination.

To be honest, Beroe's mechanics were barely strong, but even then he could still see the precision of this mechanism, but let alone sort out the principle, he didn't even know where the power of this machine came from, if it weren't for the pipes on both sides of the thighs spewing steam from time to time, Beroe really thought that things had reached the so-called perpetual motion.

So sometimes I really want to slice open the brains of those crazy people and see what the structure is.

"What's the situation now?"

Looking at the blue jade walking in on the other side, the shrike asked.

"Fully equipped, the soldiers are ready, and when we join up with the Kestrels, our firepower can even win a local war. ”

Blue Jade wears a black tights with a domed iron helmet, which is equipped with a lighting lamp, but because it is indoors, the light has been extinguished, and the outside is covered with a warm big gun, which looks light and fluttering, but in fact, the clothes are lined with high-strength lightweight metal mesh, which will play a protective role when encountering a violent impact.

"That's the case with the mechanics, the Perpetual Pump pursues more taboo technologies, while they pursue deadly firepower, and each mission ends up being a weapon test by the two scientific institutions. ”

The Shrike was uncomfortable at the thought of this, and most of the weapons in his hands were experiments, and you never knew before the end of the day whether the weapon would kill the enemy first or explode in your hands first...... Like that damn armor of original sin.

"So what did they add to it?"

"I don't know, but it should be something special, after all, it was shipped directly from the Berhans Arsenal. ”

Blue Jade had had the pleasure of being there, and the mere mention of her name was a hot one

The Berhans Arsenal, the largest military center in Invig, melted mountains of metal every day during the glorious war, and hundreds of trains transported deadly weapons out of it, and it is said that the steam furnace there is second only to the mechanical institute as the industrial center of Inerwig.

Shrike pondered, then took out a piece of paper and began to write.

"What are you writing?

"Sort of. The place we're going to is dangerous, maybe we'll die in it, and my position is so special, I have to hand over the job. ”

"You really love your job. ”

Blue Jade raised an eyebrow, unlike the dutiful Shrike, she was reluctant to do the job at first.

Lan Jade was born in a seaside town, his father died early, and his stepfather was also a drunkard after his mother remarried, and he looked forward to Lan Jade growing up all day long, so that his good-looking stepdaughter could marry a large family in exchange for a bride price that could support the elderly.

To be honest, it was not a good memory, and it was even devastating, the drunken stepfather looked at the growing Blue Jade, his eyes had a different meaning, in order to escape this damn fate, Blue Jade hid in the van one day, she didn't know where it would take her, but she just wanted to get as far away from this nightmarish place as possible.

She survived for days on the bread she had brought with her and the condensation on the brass pipes, and when the doors opened again, she was in the dreamy city, where everything was so magical for Blue Jade who lived in a remote town, it was like a place of legend.

The huge airship roamed in the sky, the steam tram and the car sped on the flat road, and she was so out of place compared to the perfect city, she looked up at the stop sign at the station, and barely read the words with her own barren knowledge.

Welcome to Old Dunling.

"But I still hope to survive if I can, after all, I'm still young and I can plan for my retirement. ”

As he wrote, Shrike said that there was still some time before the Radiance made a pit stop, and he could still make small talk for a while.

"For example?"

"For example, buy a small island in the ocean and live to meet the sunrise and sunset, or charter a boat and travel the world...... Or go to the East, I'm still curious about that mysterious country. ”

It was the country called Nine Summers, and since its stunning appearance more than ten years ago, it seemed to have been forgotten by the world, and if no one deliberately mentioned it, almost no one remembered that there was such a mysterious country in the East.

"If it weren't for the demons, I might have become a navigator, but you, Blue Jade, I remember that you kept trying to get Arthur to fire you in a passive way, and you didn't seem to like the job. ”

Blue Emerald glanced at Shrike and sat beside him with heavy equipment, she was not wearing a mask, but the iron helmet of the dome also hid most of her face, but even so she could see the astonishing beauty in the peeking corner.

"Yes, fighting with those twisted and hateful things every day, only a neurotic like you would like it!"

Blue Jade scolded angrily.

"I have only one wish, to find a rich man, and then marry him, and strive to find a way to kill him within five years, and then live happily with the money. ”

Men are unreliable, as evidenced by her young-dead father, damned stepfather, and her former guest, Blue Jade.

Blue Jade has been in the old Dunling for many years, and as she has grown older, she has become more and more attractive, and someone has discovered her and made her an actress in the theater.

Many people didn't care about this new girl, they just thought that she was lucky to have a good skin, but then the girl's behavior exceeded everyone's imagination.

This is a girl driven by purpose, her status in the theater has risen step by step, and with her years of skill in the old Dunling, all enemies who try to stand in her way have been cleared, and her fame has grown, and every day the door of her room is covered with flowers from admirers.

But this is not the end of Blue Jade, no one is reliable, only herself is reliable, she begins to participate in balls, drunk those who hold power one by one, steal scandals, and exchange for wealth.

Like a snowball, Emerald grows in power, and under the coercion of scandals, even the high-ranking nobles become her pawns, whom they call the Queen of the Underground, until one day she tries to get drunk with a man codenamed Arthur.

There are only two paths in front of Blue Jade, to be locked up in prison until death, or to join the purification mechanism, Arthur needs a skilled female knight.

So Blue Jade entered the den of thieves until now.

"Sounds scary, why are men so unreliable?"

"Do you think Galahad is reliable?" Blue Jade looked disdainful, "Pure knight, the youngest knight, and then he almost killed you and the robin, if it weren't for Nikolai, he would have killed the lower city before he lost his strength completely." ”

"So the only one who is reliable is himself, Shrike. ”

Blue Jade said, and at this moment the melodious whistle sounded, and the headlights of the train at the end of the darkness were like approaching meteors, carrying water vapor and cold wind, as well as the thousands of troops and horses in the carriage.