Chapter 548 [Return]
Hughes glanced at the white disaster represented by a large ball of cotton on the sand table and raised his eyebrows.
"It looks like it's coming towards us?"
Most of the white disasters in the entire northern border were farther away, but along the railway line, the white disasters protruded forward a long way like a gauze curtain pulled up by someone.
"Yes, the white disaster, no, to be more precise, it was the white bones in the mist that seemed to have targeted us and were chasing our train, rushing all the way along the railway. As you have seen in the report before, the mist followed the bones and finally came all the way here."
Xius nodded and was silent for a while. Then he suddenly said, "I remember Gwen said she saw a little girl surrounded by fog?"
"Yes, after the doctor's diagnosis, it seems that she has hallucinations due to a great stimulus. I don't plan to let her participate in the battle this time."
"Has her background been checked before?"
"Yes, I have asked many expeditionary forces before and collected a lot of scattered information. With mutual evidence, we can probably piece together her past experiences."
Alexei started talking without thinking. As the leader of the resistance, Alexei had personally handled all of Gwen's background checks and could basically recite them by heart at this moment.
"She was born in a village at the border between the White Crow Principality and the Empire. It's close to the border and neither side cares much about it. It's very chaotic. When she was young, her parents disappeared and the village was attacked by bandits. She hid in the house alone. After the bandits left, she ran out and went to a nearby church - the Church of Silence. Later, she met the Church of Silence organizing refugees to evacuate, and followed them to the North."
"Is this when she met Nora?"
"Yes, the area Nora was in charge of happened to be nearby, so she followed Nora. Later, due to her outstanding performance, she became Nora's deputy. After Nora was divided into two, she officially took over the resistance."
Xius nodded and was about to say something, but suddenly frowned.
"That's not right, then why did Nora go to Castel?"
"At that time, the Silent Church was temporarily staying in the North. Both the Candlelight Society and the Northern Lords were very opposed to them, so the Silent Church had to send priests to various places, hoping to obtain a piece of land to settle down through lobbying. Castel happened to be a remote land waiting to be developed, so Nora came here to try her luck."
"And then they made a deal with the Candlelight Society to abandon all the refugees?"
Xius had never noticed this before, but now he felt that something was wrong the more he thought about it. How come he couldn't even get a place to stand in such a huge temple of silence?
After all, they have confronted the Empire head-on.
If they can't defeat the Candlelight Society, it shouldn't be a problem to just go to the desolate land of the southern continent and occupy a place, right? Even if Nora brought his promise, why didn't he just move the refugees to Castel?
Is there a reason why they have to stay in the North? And even if they want to stay in the North, why did they suddenly abandon their own people? This matter is weird from beginning to end. Before, they were only concerned with fighting and didn't think much about it. Now it seems that there may be something else going on.
"Forget it, none of this matters. Let's prepare to face the coming white disaster."
Although the expeditionary force did not have much time to prepare, the fortress here had already stored a large amount of supplies and munitions. The expeditionary force only needed to pick out the important things in the camp and transport them over, and then prepare a few empty trains as a retreat.
On the contrary, a lot of thought was put into the arrangement of the firepower points.
Soon after the banshees brought by Zeus were incorporated into various parts of the fortress, a hint of white appeared on the distant horizon.
"Is that the white disaster?" Xiu Si sighed while looking at the fog wall in the distance with a pair of binoculars.
Near the White Disaster, an airship was hanging far away. This was the real frontier observation post. Now that the distance was close enough, Zeus could communicate directly with the banshee on it.
"What's the situation?"
"My Lord, I'm not optimistic, please forgive me for being frank." The banshee's voice was very serious. "We have tried bombing and machine gunning, which can cause effective damage to bones, but have no effect on white fog."
"Where's the Dragon Breath Cannon?"
"The Dragon Breath Cannon is somewhat effective, but its range is too short and difficult to use."
"Only the Dragon Breath Cannon is effective?"
"Yes."
Hughes told Alexei about the situation, and Alexei also frowned.
"Only the Dragon Breath Cannon is effective? That means..."
"It's probably pollution related."
The biggest difference between the Dragon's Breath Cannon and other weapons is that the Dragon's Breath Cannon is not a completely technological creation, but is made by adding pollution to the hand cannon.
"If the dragon breath cannon works, then maybe pollution can also be used. Is there any physical pollution accumulated here?"
"Some, but not too many."
Physical pollution is generally used as fuel for steam engines, and in Castres it greatly alleviates the lack of fuel on the island.
But in the North, the situation is just the opposite. Storing physical pollution here is troublesome and risky, but ordinary fuel is easy to obtain.
Steam engines are not picky about fuel. Unlike internal combustion engines, which require a certain fuel grade, throwing branches into them or throwing coal into them can both boil water.
The northern border happens to be the main coal production area, but it is difficult to transport coal out due to transportation capacity constraints.
As a result, the expeditionary force happened to build a railway. This led to a lot of coal being stored in the expeditionary camp, and there was very little physical pollution.
"The steam engines here are mainly coal-fired. Only the steam engines on airships use physical pollution. The energy density is much higher than that of coal. Space is precious on airships, so loading coal would take up too much space."
"Let's experiment with some pollution." Hughes took one last look at the fog wall in the distance, turned around and stuffed the telescope into Alexei's hands.
"You continue to give orders here. I'll go back and look up some information." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Alexei looked at his leaving figure and scratched his head in confusion.
When Zeus arrived here, he immediately asked him for a safe house to rest in, then moved some documents in and sent a banshee to guard the door.
Now he said he wanted to check the information. Why didn't he just move to the command room to check? Alexei thought for a while and then gave up thinking about it. The lord might have other secrets. He didn't intend to interfere. For now, the battle was the most important thing.
Hughes walked quickly to his room, opened the door and looked up at Ash who was standing at the door.
"I'm going to go in for a while. Remember what I told you before. If you get into trouble, follow the plan."
Ash nodded.
Xius walked into the room, lay on the bed, and chose [Return].
(End of this chapter)
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