Chapter 189 (1/2)
September 27, night.
In the south of Heidelberg, the capital of the Empire, Ruhr was the important town of the Empire.
This is the most traditional and important coal and metallurgical region in the Durham empire. Sixty percent of the Imperial Army's swords and weapons, 70 percent of its artillery, and almost all of its new-style flint rifles were produced in Ruhr.
The new gas lamp is very bright. The mercury glass concave mirror with a diameter of more than 10 feet is erected behind the gas lamp. It gathers the white light of the gas lamp into columns of light and sweeps around, just like a sword in the hands of God, tearing the night.
On the east side of Ruhr, in a huge railway station, the Royal platform was illuminated by more than a dozen distant beams of light and gas lamps hanging from the beams of platform pillars.
”Boom, boom, boom!”!
The locomotive with the Royal insignia spewing hot white steam, slowly slid into the Royal platform.
At the same time, two huge steam locomotives in the front and the back release the valve at the same time. Accompanied by a long dull howl, the white air diffuses everywhere. The strong wind mixed with the hot air, which lifts the clothes of the staff on the platform, and makes them subconsciously reach out to cover the big eaves caps on their heads.
A carriage in the middle of the Royal train is decorated as a full-featured suite. In the reception room of the suite with frugal furnishings and heavy colors, sijake sits on the sofa with a book on his knee and looks through the glass window to observe the movements on the platform.
Lilith sat across from sijak, looking anxiously at the gear, steam hammer, and flame furnace insignia hanging on the platform.
”It's Ruhr.” Lilith's face was a little pale, and she looked directly at sijak: ”Sir, in three days, we will return to the imperial capital We... ”
The special train has stopped steadily. The staff on the platform get down to the railway track and knock the wheels and load spring of the special train with a small hammer in hand, and the ”Ding Ding Ding Ding” sound is heard intensively.
On the platform, there are mechanics checking the condition of the steam locomotive head, and the water supply workers are busy giving the water tank of the locomotive head and replenishing the water tank of each car.
There are also cleaners who are busy. The garbage on the special train is cleaned out bag by bag. Some workers are busy cleaning the dust and mud outside the special train with buckets, mops and rags.
Four wheeled cars were pushed over, and the cooks and waiters on the special train welcomed them. All kinds of semi-finished food, such as pickled lamb chops, steak, bread germ just waiting to be put into the oven, all kinds of exquisite desserts, cakes, and boxes of wine were sent to the special train warehouse like running water.
Ziyak looked at the busy crowd on the platform. Hearing Lilith's uneasy question, he suddenly laughed and patted himself on the chest.
Near his chest, a void a few feet in diameter was slightly twisted, as if there was a completely transparent water wave in front of him. Because of the agitation of his palm, the water wave ripples and whirls, which suddenly showed its shape.
”Lilith, believe me, an old man with some experience in Imperial officialdom.” ”This time, we are in danger. Even, we may get a huge reward.”
Lilith looks at ziac in disbelief.
She is also an elite of the young generation of imperial intelligence headquarters. However, compared with the old doggies like sijake, she is undoubtedly much more immature.
The closer you get to the imperial capital, the greater the pressure on Lilith. Since the night before, she had been unable to sleep with her eyes closed. As soon as she closed her eyelids, it was as if she had seen the gorgeous and stern face of Marguerite III.
She worried all the way, but sijake was so light?
”But...” Lilith looks at the smiling sijake, a little annoyed Feeling her all the way uneasy, is all in vain?
They have made such a serious mistake!
”Young man, it's good for you to experience more. I saw your uneasiness along the way, and I didn't remind you With a trace of pride, sijake said with a smile: ”as an intelligence officer of the intelligence department, it is good for you to accept some psychological pressure training occasionally.”
He picked up the coffee cup on the small tea table in front of him and sipped a little cool strong coffee.