Silo and Andre stared blankly at the tunnel ahead.

"What's there?" Andre twisted the shackles in his hand, making a "long" sound, "It's all suspicious......

- Kara, Kara.

Lilia suddenly ran away from Andre and kicked the miner's lamp at Silo's feet, "Here, little brother, help me keep a light ahead!"

She quickly approached along the railroad tracks, her boots making rhythmic noises as they stepped through the metal!

But what was it? Lilia felt her heart beat faster and faster, some deep voice kept calling out to her, like a command, like a guide, the bayonet in her hand was trembling, she was running faster and faster, she wanted to get closer to the truth, to get closer to the depths!

"Hey, what are you doing!" Andre shouted at her, "Unshackle and go over!"

Someone is whispering, someone is chanting. Lilia's ears echoed with a strange voice like a girl: "Lilith, come back, Lilith." ”

- Come back!

"Say no more!" Lilia stopped abruptly, and a puff of soot rose from the ground. She pointed * forward and pulled the trigger.

Three deafening gunshots rang out, and the bright light of the bullet bursting out of the muzzle was fleeting, and the bullet was embedded in the iron sheet of a rusty steel train at the end!

Lilia gasped for breath as she stared at the massive steel locomotive in front of her, her chest rising and falling.

The old locomotive was prostrate in the dark tunnel, and the chimney on it was crooked to the side, like a dying old man, looking at the girl in front of him wordlessly.

- Kara, Kara.

"Hey, nervous, run so fast!" Andre and Silo caught up, and with the presence of the miner's lamp, the surroundings suddenly lit up a lot, "What are you shooting for?"

Lilia shook her head, her long black hair messily resting on her chest, "Right here." Something must exist. ”

Silo saw a drop of cold sweat on Lilia's face, maybe she wasn't suspicious, there was indeed some sound just now, but unfortunately she couldn't hear it clearly, but Uncle Andre didn't hear it at all.

He carried the miner's lamp and shone around, and the shadows of the three people trembled in the light. As if he had noticed something, he walked over with the lamp and saw a small doorway.

It had been nailed to the ground with a wooden plank, but it had now been pried open, and the broken plank was still on the ground, and there were traces of fire next to it.

"Strange route!" Siloh came to his senses and immediately waved at Andre and Lilia, "But, when I came here a week ago, there was no such old train?"

Xiluo clearly remembered that he had a small bonfire party with a few familiar homeless uncles at that time, and drank heartily with inferior mixed water and wine, although he was young and did not think that the wine was anything good.

"Kid, remember correctly, right?" Andre circled around the steel train, which seemed to have the three-headed dragon emblem of the United Kingdom engraved on the mottled carriages, and which was a generation of military trains that had been phased out decades ago.

Silo shook his head, "No. Didn't have this car a week ago. ”

"That's someone who has been here. Lilia clenched her bayonet and walked down the direction of the carriage step by step.

She gritted her teeth, was the voice just an illusion? No, she couldn't be mistaken, someone was calling her, but why was she called "Lilith".

- Kara, Kara.

That strange sound again!Lilia looked up, and her right eye began to hurt again. She closed her right eye, but the blood was still pouring out.

"I heard that!" Andre suddenly became alert, "there's something on the other side of the train!"

Silo took the miner's lamp to shine at the end of the train, and a small black object crawled over, he couldn't help but feel a tingling in his scalp, and unconsciously took a step back, feeling more and more nervous.

- His eyes began to bleed, too.

Lilia walked slowly towards the black object, placing her spear-holding hand on the back of her bayonet-holding hand.

"Can you untie my shackles first!" Andre shook his hand desperately, but the handcuffs were so tight that they seemed to be embedded in his skin, and he couldn't move at all, "Hey, if those rebel guerrillas are there, I might be able to help, please." ”

Lilia approached the black object, one step, two steps......

It screamed suddenly! It spread its wings and flew into the air!

"Sir, sir!" the black object cried, "let's go in!"

It was a mechanical crow, and it rushed straight at Lilia's shoulder, and before Lilia could react, the crow had already scurried over her shoulder and stopped on top of the train, two searchlight-like eyes staring at the three of them.

"Sir, something is wrong!"

"Sir, this girl is still alive!" the crow's head spun around, white steam emitted from the operation of machinery coming out of its head.

The crow kept saying strange things, like a repeater, and the three of them were inexplicable.

"It really scared me. Andrei was relieved and let out a long breath, but Lilia was still frozen in place, "Don't be nervous, it's just a mechanical crow, this kind of mechanical animal can be seen everywhere in the royal capital, nothing unusual, my distant relatives still have mechanical hounds at home." ”

"No, you listen. Lilia closed her eyes and tried to feel something," the voice above her head grew louder and louder. ”

Indeed, there seemed to be some strange movement, getting bigger and bigger. More dust fell, and the steel brackets on top of the tunnel began to shake with eerie noises.

- After!

"It's coming!" Lilia snapped her eyes open.

The tunnel shook violently, and an explosion came from above, like something huge slamming into the ground, desperately trying to break through the earth's crust, and then the steel bars began to deform until they broke, and finally the zenith collapsed!

"What the hell!" Andrei fell to the ground on an unsteady footing, "Damn, did your Northern Empire start bombing again?"

"No, it can't be. Lilia felt as if she had been stabbed in her heart, and she couldn't breathe in pain, as if some kind of force was trying to break free from her body, and used a knife to scull open her heart, "It hurts, it hurts......

"What's wrong with you, big sister?" Silo also felt a dull pain in his heart, but he didn't react as violently as Lilia.

"Quick...... Get out of here!" Lilia said strugglingly, clutching her chest, "it's the thing on the ground. ”

The mechanical raven screamed and flew off the roof of the train, away from the train.

- Boom!

A large hole was pierced at the top of the tunnel, and countless dark dust and mist flooded into this underground space in an instant, and the amazingly large giant hand clenched into a fist like a meteorite, smashing the top of the train in an instant, and the strong shock wave overturned several carriages and fell on their sides!

Countless boulders and broken steel bars were scattered around the rails, and "ping-pong" made a noise!

"Will the demons come for her, sir?" the raven screamed and flew into the depths of the tunnel, vanishing.

The three of them sat on the ground, watching the giant hands groping in the wreckage of the train, the hot flames melting the iron sheet of the train, and steaming up a white mist.

"So, are we done playing?" Andre fell to the ground, staring blankly at the black arm above his head, and said weakly, "Have you Northern Empire developed such a terrible thing......"

The giant black hand stopped groping.

Then, it extended in the direction of the three of them, and the miner's lamp in Xiluo's hand was suddenly extinguished at this moment.

The engines and propellers roared, and the Red Dragon airship slowly landed towards the town of West Rail, not far from Elbe.

It is a town that retains old buildings from the Middle Ages, and was the largest source of steel in the kingdom during the conquests of kings hundreds of years ago, and the steel produced here always forged the hardest armor.

And now, of course, the steel of West Iron Town is no longer used to forge armor. Every day, trains came to the town to transport steel to the processing plant in the royal capital, where more trains, ships, or other precision machinery could be built.

"It's been a long time since I've been to this place. Queen Anne of the United Kingdom looked at the town beneath the airship where factories and old buildings coexisted, "Right, snow?"

Behind Queen Anne stood a young girl with an oriental face, with a beautiful pair of double ponytails, and a long, custom-made dress with wide sleeves, and a pleated skirt surrounded by an oriental peony pattern.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Snow replied, "We were all children at that time. I work in a factory in Nishitetsu Town, and you ...... too" Xue suddenly stopped talking and lowered her head silently.

"I'm not crippled, am I? Queen Anne rested her right hand on the armrest of the window, her other hand tucked away in her sleeve, her whole arm hanging listlessly at one side.

"I really hate machines, I hate all the mechanics. Anne continued, "This hand, in particular, has no feeling, is eternally cold. And those guys call me the 'Queen of the Machines,' which disgusts me. ”

"Your Majesty......"

Snow knew that Anne had changed since that Northern Empire air raid two years earlier.

At that time, it was also in the city of Elbe, and the mayor at that time did not do the necessary precautions and investigations, which led to the accident.

It's not the machines that Anne really hates, it's the people who hurt her Northern Empire with them.

That's why Anne hates the Northern Empire so much, desperate to defeat their emperor.

The huge body of the airship stopped in the main square of the town, and the surrounding townspeople looked at the royal airship with wide eyes, the children had never seen anything like this, and they pulled their parents to shout excitedly, and the adults followed suit.

"Get out of here, get out of here!" a cuirassier wearing a pointed iron helmet fired a shot into the air, and galloped through the crowd of onlookers, "Your Majesty is not going to back down quickly!"

Anne smiled slightly, left the window and muttered: "It's all like this, everyone likes to join in the fun, and this little cavalryman doesn't forget to curry favor with people with higher status than himself." ”

The guards lowered the escalator of the airship, and the mayor, who had hurried on horseback, began to order the men of the gendarmerie to lay a red carpet for the queen before he had buttoned up his suit.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" the mayor jumped off his brown hunting horse and staggered to the red carpet to line up, "You know how to go to the bar every day, and now you work like you're drunk, you really shouldn't have given you a military pay to these wine bags and rice bags!"

The gendarmes stood aside with rifles in hand, arranged in haphazard rows, with the short next to the tall, the thin next to the fat, bayonets and no bayonets......

"Look, I really don't like them. Queen Anne lifted the hem of her skirt, revealing her metal arm, and she shook her head helplessly, "Snow, I see, I can only trust you." ”

"I, that Your Majesty......"

"Just call me Anne. ”

"All right, Your Majesty...... No, Annie. Snow sighed, unsure whether this trust was a blessing or a curse, and that such special treatment might attract more envy.

Snow's real name is Blue Snow, and she was born in the ancient Land of Dragons, a far eastern land where the steam industry was not widespread.

Everyone in the court did not like her, a maiden from a foreign country, and if it weren't for Queen Anne, how could they have the slightest egalitarian attitude towards her?

Lan Xue accompanied Anne down the escalator, and the bespectacled mayor immediately wrapped himself in front of them and bowed heavily, "What is the wind that brought you here, my Majesty?"

"A black wind blew me in. Anne replied with her chin raised.

"Well, I don't know what's going on, something seems to be going on over there in Elbe. The mayor pushed his glasses, "But I've already sent cavalry to check on it, and the old pedant in the town says it's a natural phenomenon that happens once in a thousand years, so I'm really confused." ”

"A natural phenomenon?"

"That's right, the black fog won't spread here, don't worry. Mayor Mare patted his chest and assured, though he wasn't sure himself, the black fog showed no signs of spreading.

"Can I go to the city, then?" asked Anne.

"Not sure. We'll have to wait for the cavalry to come back and report. The mayor replied, "Your Majesty has been in our humble town for a day or two during this time. ”

"Okay. ”

A scratched black carriage was parked next to the airship, and there were probably no high-end means of transportation in such a town, let alone the steam cars that had only recently become popular in the royal capital.

As soon as Anne got into the carriage, a waiter hurried over, "Wait, Your Majesty, we can't find Mr. Kuroki anywhere!"

"What's going on?"

"Well, said the countess of Kurotani Castle, Mr. Kuroki has gone down. The waiter scratched his head and replied truthfully.

"Go down?"

"Jumped off the airship...... the waiter covered his face with his hands, "I'm sure he doesn't show signs of suicide, at least he doesn't look like a suicide ......"

Queen Anne propped her face and leaned against the carriage window. This oriental is really strange, she thought, but aren't the demon hunting cults of the Northern Empire and the Assassin Guild of the Desert Mans Dynasty also strange people?

There are no guilds or orders in the United Kingdom where the Paranormal gathers, and they can only be hired to serve by signing contracts. Sometimes, having more strange people around you is also a means to show the majesty of the monarch.

"He said he was an exorcist from the East, and I had seen him defeat three first-rate swordsmen in the arena with a long sword-like sword-like sword. Queen Anne thought, "He must have a reason for doing so." ”

"Hopefully. His odd-shaped knife has broken all the bulletproof glass. The waiter took out his ledger and pen and began to calculate, "Well, this glass is enough to buy you two new pearl necklaces." ”

"Fix it, fix it. Queen Anne waved her hand casually, looking indifferent, and she didn't know if she was laughing at herself, "Don't you know that as the saying goes, a king is not short of money?"

"What a strange person. Lan Xue, who was sitting opposite the queen, said, "I feel that Mr. Kuroki is quite dangerous, why did you allow him to enter the palace with a sword?"

"Because, the first plan needs him. Anne smiled, took out a folding fan and opened it with a "click", covering half of her face, "That's why we went to Elbe." ”

"Then I suspect he's gone to Elbe alone. Lan Xue folded her hands in prayer, "When I was a child, I heard the elders of the family say that demons are ghosts and monsters, they can kill people, and they like to hide themselves with black fog, I'm afraid the black fog in Elbe City is not a natural phenomenon......"

"Yes. Anne mused, in this case, what had really happened to the first plan, but why?

"Your Majesty, forgive me for my mouthful. Seeing that Anne stopped talking, Lan Xue was worried about whether she had unintentionally said something wrong, so she hurriedly apologized, "Mr. Kuroki is an exorcist, he must have a reason for doing this, right?"

"Just call me Anne. The queen squinted her eyes at the black haze that covered the sky in the distance and said, "I hope he doesn't die." ”