The mood is divided into two different groups, although they are different, but the pressure on their bodies cannot be put down. After the train stops for supplies and the train starts moving, it seems that the feeling is completely different. The silence of the ten days is remembered again at this time, and the silence before the great storm is usually like this, the sky is open, there is no wind, the air has no sense of oppression, only waiting for the moment when the clouds are pressed down makes it difficult to breathe.

Isha's words became less and less necessary, and the owl was reluctant to turn on the communicator.

On the second day of the countdown to the Imperial Frontier region, Adolf contacted him. They have disembarked from the train and are organizing a secret warehouse to replenish the equipment and ammunition they need for the rest of the day. On his side, he gathered a team of nearly 1,500 people, with a standard combat configuration, and a corresponding number of squads for logistics and medical care.

But they won't join up with Kasia's side later, and the owl once said that going to the borders of the Empire would make the ranks more refined, becoming several, or even a dozen teams marching parallel to each other, from some wild places into the borders of the Empire. It is not yet known whether any team will go through the regular route in the end.

Adolf not only contacted him to inform him of his early arrival, but also brought several bad news. In the morning, they dispersed from the station, and a few hours after the meeting time ended, there were still nearly 100 people who did not come. At first, it was judged that he had left the mission on his own, after all, the closer he got to the direction of the Empire, the more the members of the organization gathered from there understood the situation of the Empire. Because of fear, or because of threats to their lives, the emergence of some of these people seems predictable.

But the subsequent discovery of fresh corpses of members of the organization in garbage heaps and underground waterways shattered this judgment. The atmosphere was not very good, and the hundreds of people who lost contact were probably dead.

In addition, after a relatively basic investigation, in the small countries bordering the empire, at least in the countries where Adolf and the others got off the train, there were people everywhere who had been arranged by the enemy in advance. "The enemy is a little ahead of us, which means that the other side has probably prepared what should be prepared. ”

The only thing that could soothe Kasia's mind when it came to the bad news was that the enemy didn't know where their side would enter the Empire. They have a large number of people in several large trade import and export areas, and in other remote areas, the number may be much smaller.

To sum up, the enemy's forces are scattered and not concentrated in one point. As a consolation, no one cares about this, the enemy's support is much faster than their own side.

On the last day of the countdown to the Imperial border, Cassia and the others disembarked at each of the three stations in the small country. General Pullman walked with Kasia, and Isha was there too. Coming out of the station near noon, everyone dragged their luggage and disguised themselves as passengers in a hurry. The members of the organization here have also prepared different limousines for a long time, and some of them have been picked up like old friends who have not seen each other for many years. Some are limousine drivers, relying on each other's codes, and left one after another.

The surroundings are completely like an empire, and the border area is not a prosperous area. Not far from the station, you can see a large industrial area that has sprung up with easy access, and two towering steam furnace towers are slowly rising into the sky with pale gray plumes of smoke, indicating the strength and direction of today's wind.

Bordering the Empire, and having two formal trade territories and passages, this small country is busy and lively at all times. The limousine also had an imperial flavor, at least no longer a hybrid, it was entirely a standard steam engine, and the sound gave Cassia a long-lost familiarity.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the limousine circled the city for an unknown number of circles, and finally arrived at the secret stronghold of the organization here. Although it is not a co-ordination nation, there are companies similar to those in the Larsa Country, which are used to purchase needed items from within the Empire.

Instead of coming together, the teams split up and went to different cities. At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still hot. The base is the basement of a large office building, which is accessed from an underground parking lot. Rest there and get rid of the fatigue of a long journey while dressing up.

Halfway through the owl was contacted, and what Kasia had said three days earlier was confirmed. On the other side is Adolf, which roughly means that the escort mission is over, but a new mission begins right after. I was prepared, but the impact when I actually heard those words was not small.

Cassia could only watch from the sidelines, and his words of comfort were useless at the moment, and he chose to leave them behind, because it would only be more sad later.

With nearly two hours of dressing, Kasia pondered how the Order would allow herself to enter the Empire's borders, and how they would move after that. Failing to grasp a reasonable point, the lack of information has indeed become the biggest limiting factor now. The only thing that is certain is that there will be a scuffle in the border area. Now that the enemies within the empire are ready, Kasia also believes that Jetrin and the Chiraandi family have also arrived here. It is impossible not to have this sense of smell, even if Ye Jielin's side may not know the truth of her identity at this moment.

It seemed that the action would begin tonight, and after finishing his outfit, Kasia was told that his next stop was the storage warehouse, where there was a huge number of weapons, all from within the empire, standard equipment.

Get in the limousine in the underground parking lot, with Cassia and Isha, Nighthawk and Owl, and General Pullman in the other. Together with the correspondent and the other two squad leaders, the three cars were considered a small convoy, and they set off in turn half a minute apart.

Kasia and Isha walked in the middle, and when they set out, it was already about seven o'clock, and the dusk transition to night. The streets became more lively, and the limousine turned from the exit of the parking lot onto the main road, a subtle sensation that made Cassia wary.

For Cassie, things and memories of the empire are stuck in more than a year ago, but there are always things engraved in his head that he won't forget. Kasia shook her head and looked through the window to the left and right, and there was nothing to pay attention to. Just as he wondered about the feeling, as if inadvertently, but again there seemed to be a trace, Kasia looked in the rearview mirror.

The mirrored world was a little crooked, but that didn't prevent Kasia from seeing through it a scene behind the limousine—a man who looked like a local was standing under the street with the cold streetlights turned on. Destined to be a mutual attraction, Kasia saw the man bend deeply toward the main road, as if to make the most polite greeting. Immediately, the man turned his head, and the smile that pulled at the corners of his mouth instantly refracted from many angles, reflecting Kasia's pupils.