Chapter 1066: The accelerating steel wheel (seven)
While waiting to leave, Cassia often went to and from the library in Amotan City, and also went to the only small bookstores a few times. The types of books covered a wider range, and there was no library like the military school to provide.
All kinds of convenient professional information, Cassia relies on these to spend boring time in her spare time.
The meeting was scheduled for Monday. The person who would take him away to the Kingdom of Chir would be called a navigator or a tour guide. And on Monday, the thin man with dark skin that Cassia saw was indeed
He also likes others to call him that.
This man is called Vittel. He is about 1.8 meters tall and looks like a dead tree that can be moved. He has been doing this business for a long time, and I heard from him that in the sub-frontier without war like the Empire, there are many like him.
Such people. They also have formal companies. On the surface, they travel to surrounding places, but in fact they go to surrounding small countries without an entry and exit pass. There are also many supporting services, currency exchange, which can be used in the target area depending on the price.
A few months until permanent ID tags etc.
In the morning, Cassia carried her suitcase to the agreed-upon location, which was on the edge of Amotan City. It was an industrial park that was not very prosperous, and the roads were full of potholes. Only factories that could be observed were still alive.
Just a few places.
The pick-up location was in a closed factory bought by Vettel's company. The machines had long been dismantled, leaving only the concrete floor with many foundation holes. Knowing that he was definitely not the only one, when Cassia revealed the secret code for the meeting and
After passing through the two doors whose paint began to bulge, I did not expect that the number of people in front of me would be several times more than I expected.
There were 150 people approaching, all carrying large and small luggage. Just like the factory, they looked lifeless, with expressions like leaves in late summer and early autumn, full of solemnity. On one side of the factory building, people parked on the spot.
There were nearly twenty large vehicles, which seemed to be spliced together from the head of a heavy truck and the body of a passenger vehicle.
More than 150 people were divided into several groups. Those who knew each other gathered together to chat, while others sat on their luggage, smoking cigarettes, or looking at the crowd in front of them in a daze. Vettel and a few others
Leaning on the steel pillar next to the crowd, I looked at the time from time to time, feeling that it was difficult to survive this short period of time.
Finding a corner next to the crowd, Cassia stood there waiting to get on the bus. At this time, he let go of his senses and secretly wrapped up more than a hundred people in the small factory. Except for Vettel, who were the surgeons, a hundred
There are close to twenty people among the multi-numbered people who are surgeons, but the stage is probably not very high. Cassia judged that including Vettel, there are less than three people in the second stage.
Most of these people's luggage contained firearms such as firecrackers, just like his own suitcase was full of weapons. When the sound was detected, Cassia shook his head secretly, not knowing what he was sighing, but he felt that he was completely different from the person in front of him.
Just don't merge.
It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when we set off. There were at most twenty people in a car. Throwing away the luggage and some of the cargo carried by the vehicle itself, there was still plenty of space. I just found a seat and sat down, Cassia.
Looking at the scenery outside the small window, it quickly changed from a dilapidated factory building to a road with only vehicles. Then the other vehicles disappeared. Before night fell, there was only wilderness around and a road heading to an unknown direction.
According to Delya, it would take approximately thirteen days to reach the Kingdom of Chir by starting from Amotan City and taking Vitel's company's route.
The next day, relying on Vettel and others, they successfully walked out of the border of the empire. The quality of the road gradually deteriorated with the desolation outside the window. In the evening, the concrete road had disappeared and turned into a hard dirt road that had been rolled over many years. All the way.
After a bumpy ride, Cassia finished reading the third book and looked around. Others were sleeping very peacefully in this environment. I didn’t know if she was really tired, but she recalled the faces of these people she saw in the factory.
It looks like it is a matter of course.
The only time you can set foot on the ground along the way is when you are taking steam and eating at the dilapidated stations along the way. This has become an industrial line. At each station, Cassia can see other vehicles, pulling a lot of people.
Go to various small countries. These stations also appear at fixed times, at fixed points, and at fixed locations.
Most of the ordinary people worked in the past, and occasionally heard their conversations. The wages in these small countries were higher than those in the empire. This was probably due to the frequent changes in the ruling class and the perennial instability. It was mixed between the three giant countries.
The population of these small countries is not very saturated. In addition, the education is not as good as inside the empire. As long as you have some skills, you can get satisfactory remuneration in these countries.
More importantly, many of these small domestic machines, such as some important production equipment, are exported from the empire. They are either second-hand, or are obsolete, or nearly obsolete equipment. Regardless of the operation method,
The control method and the programming of the differential engine are all made by the Empire. As long as you have stayed in the factories of the Empire, you don’t need a high-end factory. Even if you have never used it, you can get started faster and easier than people from these small countries.
Master it proficiently.
On the fourth day, Cassia and the others all got off the bus and rested in a certain city in a country. The crowd was now divided into several groups, and Vettel and the others began to lead them separately to different destinations.
In terms of transportation, some have become cheap trains, passenger versions of the Empire's heavy trains, but the extremely weakened version will definitely not be able to match it in terms of power, size and speed.
In the end, there were less than twenty-three people going to the Kingdom of Chil. In addition to Cassia and Vettel, there was also a first-stage surgeon among them. They still used the spliced car. Before setting off the next morning,
, the vehicle also visited the Vettel company's small station here to provide real-time information on the areas passed by the nearest route.
The situation was definitely not good. Before the vehicle started, Vettel and the driver carried a box into the cab. It contained weapons, including muskets and light machine guns, and the rest were bullets and steel-cased bombs.
It seems that no business is easy to do, Cassia thought. Outside the window, starting from the afternoon of the second day after departure, there are no obvious high-rise buildings framed. They are all wilderness, and those built on the wilderness,
One after another, dense or sparse low-rise building communities. All of them smelled of earth and dust, so that along the way, Cassia saw things in many places that made him feel that he had not seen them for a long time, full of familiarity and
Intimacy. That's a long chimney with black smoke coming out.