Steel Steam and Flame

When I woke up, the sunlight came in a big circle through the window.

When I went to the cafeteria, the hall was almost dressed up. As long as the final corrections were made, it could become a good venue for the party. It seems that the group of people worked overtime last night. A band was trying to rehearse the repertoire of the party there, and there were passengers nearby who stopped to admire and asked what they were doing here.

Unfortunately, there is no detailed map of the empire for sale in the store. What Cassia has on hand is only a shortened version that was once more objective. I thought about sneaking into the airship's control room to call up their route maps for use, but later gave up this plan. Anything suspicious may arouse the enemy's suspicion, but what Cassia needs is to delay the enemy as much as possible to find himself.

"Mr. Tussos, so early." Shake said hello from the door. She changed her appearance a little without glasses, but from outside she could see the books on the table in the room. Without a good rest, after getting a series of strange words from Cassia, Shake studied it late last night.

"I want to come over and ask about your place names." Cassia said, shaking the map in his hand, "I still haven't found it. I hope I can mark a rough area on it."

"Yes, you can." Shake nodded repeatedly, took the map, and let Cassia into the house.

The bulging bag was placed on the chair by the bed. Except for a few simple clothes, the rest were books of various thicknesses. Cassia glanced at the names of those books, and Sha Ke put on his eyes at this time, pushed a piece of it on the table, and spread out the map.

"That's it." Sha Ke pointed to the map and drew a circle with a pen. "In the southern part of the empire, near that huge forest."

"Where is the Southern Forest?" Cassia looked over.

"This map looks very close, but it's actually a long way away. The southern forest is a virgin forest. It was marked as a dangerous area as early as the Manor Kingdom period. If it is inside, Mr. Tussos, you Can't pass."

"It seems to be the same." Cassia replied with a smile, "By the way, Shake, do you usually read books on ancient creatures? I accidentally saw it just now. You seem to be very involved."

Shake glanced back at her bag, and thought for a while: "It seems that as long as it is something that has something to do with ancient times, I can be very interested in it." She walked to the big bag and took out a book whose pages were already yellowed. The thick books came out. The writing has been corroded so that it is not clear that the specific name is clear, and frequent flipping makes it seem to be fragmented at any time.

"This is my favorite book. I will bring it almost wherever I go." Sha Ke showed off to Cassia like a child. "Maybe there is only one book like this in the empire, and it was given by Du Lisen's grandfather. mine."

Sha can turn to a chapter at will, the ink text on it has also faded to gray, and the title is-White Giant on the Ice Sheet.

"It is an introduction to paleontology, but my grandfather Du Lisen and I think it is a fantastic fantasy when a zoologist is bored. There are so many short stories, each of which is very attractive. And the author’s description is extremely realistic, so People feel the same as real." Sha is ridiculous, "but it certainly won't be true. There are zoos of different sizes throughout the empire, but I have never seen an animal like the one described in this book."

"For example, this,,,, and the white behemoths on the ice field." The Kingdom of Krans, which borders the endless sea in the northern part of the post-phase continent, began to purchase a large amount of goods from the sacred ten Luo Kingdom on the left-phase continent through the waterway in 1872. Construction machinery and mining giant machinery, mining the necessary meteorite copper ore on the frozen soil where no one lives in the country, and the harvest is huge. Two years later, on a winter day, the heavy snow has stopped for three days, the mining geological engineer Lekawi And his assistant Mirrow went out to explore the remaining veins, and saw huge fresh footprints on the frozen soil for the first time on the way. After reporting to the management, they went to explore again as a team on the second day, this time following the footprints. It's ten kilometers away..."

"..., in order to capture this strange giant white beast (finally identified as a strange tundra white bear by the professors and experts, and classified separately in the animal family), the Kingdom of Krans has sent troops there three times to transport the materials Enough to support a small battle, four rounds of rounds have ended in failure, but also severely damaged the white behemoth. Five months later, the white behemoth attacked the mines in the Kingdom of Krans in revenge. More than half of the machines were destroyed, and more than one-third of the army was damaged. News later flowed out for unknown reasons, and the country was shaken. The contemporary king was condemned and replaced by a new king three months later. Then all the machines in the mining area were removed and listed there. It is an unmanned restricted area,,,"

"After five years, due to the shortage of copper meteorite resources in the country, the permafrost mining area restarted. However, within two months of reconstruction work, the white behemoth struck again. This time the size of the white behemoth has increased by about five points again. One, the mining area was completely destroyed in three days. After that, a white behemoth turned into two (later thought that the other was its spouse), leaving the mining area one after another, and began to attack the nearby cities of the Kingdom of Krans. The army went to siege, but did not stop the giant beast's footsteps. A week later, because it could not bear the huge loss, the Kingdom of Krans asked the Allied Kingdom of Mano,, ah, that is our empire, ,, for help. But no After receiving the response from the Mano Kingdom, the surrounding cities of the tundra were forced to evacuate. Three months later, the army sent a team of exploration teams, and the white behemoth had already left..."

"Later it was the reconstruction of the destroyed city, and the Kingdom of Krans questioned why the Mano Kingdom, as an alliance, did not help them." Shake glanced at Cassia, "In fact, I am also very confused about this disaster. It was supposed to help before. But soon afterwards, the Mano Kingdom tore up the alliance agreement and started a war of expansion. The Krans Kingdom was the first country to be swallowed up by the Empire."

After speaking with a sigh, Sha Ke flushed with faint excitement.

"There are many and many such short stories above, such as the deep underwater shadows that fishermen fear, the red-eyed wolves in the wilderness, the bronze island floating among the clouds, the strange sound of falling leaves in the wind, etc. All in all. Some fantastic fantasies, but they are really good-looking, and my interest in ancient creatures was born this way. By the way, there are paintings of the white giant beasts here. Here, here..."

Cassia looked at the place where Sha Ke was pointing. It was a very simple sketch with very good skills~www.ltnovel.com~ The few lines outline the specific appearance of the white behemoth. There is an adult on the side as a reference. The white behemoth is about seven meters in height, and it is indeed huge. But what attracted Cassia the most was the most detailed part of the stick figure, the eyes, the standard cross star.

"A second-class creature?" Cassia had an answer in his heart.

"In fact, I sometimes really hope that the things mentioned in the book will appear, and my initial interest in paleontology originated from this. I think about it before going to bed, and I feel that,, um, people can't sleep..." Shake nodded her head like self-approval, but then thought that she had said something wrong, and quickly added, "In fact, I can sleep."

"The author of this book is also someone I admire very much. He is obviously a zoologist, but he can have such imagination. Ah, he seems to like ancient things too, and there are other books about ancient ruins research. Yes. Speaking of it, I would like history, ancient cultural relics and ancient creatures. It seems that they are all because of this author's book." Sha Ke carefully turned the book to the end. Although this is not the original, the handwriting has been blurred due to the erosion of time. .

"Perkins? Kiris?"

"Yes, Perkins Kiris."