Chapter 1 The Weasel Phantom Thieves
The ice ridge wasteland was filled with fog at midnight.
A rusty steam-powered personnel carrier was quietly moving forward under the cover of thick fog and night, and the steel tracks rolled, leaving deep plow marks on the frozen soil.
In the last section of the car, more than twenty men in thieves are crowded here.
The air was filled with a turbid and strange smell of sweat and tobacco.
“S…S-level mission?!”
"No way...how could we participate in such a high-level mission?"
"Captain Tiger, have you made a mistake? This time the mission is to sneak into the 'Ran Steel Fort' to assassinate an Imperial Baron?"
"I heard that Marquis Barret, the lord of the 'Ran Steel Fort'... But the [Great Demon Hunter] who awakened four gene locks, no one dared to make trouble in his territory..."
"Yes, captain. And although that target, Dr. Morin, is just a baron, he is a formal nobleman enthroned by the Empire. If he kills him, the Imperial Court will directly intervene in the investigation... Will our [Weasel Monster Thieves Group] cause trouble?"
“…”
In the carriage, the trainee assassins of the "Weasel Monster Thieves Group" never expected that they encountered the "S" level mission with the highest danger level in the regiment for the first mission they performed!
I heard that... the mortality rate of extraordinary people with this kind of mission is extremely high, not to mention the rookie newcomers who have not yet awakened.
Hearing the news, a handsome brunette boy in the corner had a slight eyelid twitching.
Sure enough, my luck has been as bad as ever since I traveled through time.
......
Renn felt that he was probably the most miserable time traveler.
A year ago, he worked overtime for half a month until the early morning. When he woke up, he came to this strange world, and his soul penetrated to a fifteen-year-old boy, Rennes Hermes, who was fleeing.
I thought it would be a good thing to be good, and I would completely get rid of the fate of social animals. But I never thought that on the first day of coming to this foggy world, he was almost bitten to death by a "big rabbit" with dog teeth on this boundless wasteland!
Later he learned that this was one of the creatures at the bottom of the food chain in the wasteland - a dog and rabbit, a carnivorous rabbit.
He had just realized that he had come to a cruel and magical world.
Then, before being bitten to death by a rabbit, he saw a scene that he would never forget for life.
Accompanied by a violent roar, an iron castle with exaggerated metal tracks and wheels, driven by a steam engine, broke into the field of view like a monster like a monster.
On the castle, a hooded assassin jumped down from a dozen stories high in the sentry tower and cut off the neck of the calf's big and small rabbit with one knife.
Rennes is rescued.
Originally, he thought he was going to work, but he didn't expect it to be the beginning of a nightmare.
This evil "Weasel Monster Thieves Group" is a place where all evil robbers are concentrated!
They found orphans from all over the world, controlled them with poison, and cultivated them into cold-blooded professional thieves and assassins...
In this way, Renn received nearly a year of cruel training at the base of the Weasel Monster Thieves and became a [Addition Assassin].
Today, he was out of a new training base for the first time to carry out his mission.
Well...the mission to destroy the family.
......
Tiger, the captain of the 19th franchise and the new instructor, shouted: "Hey hey... little kids, be quiet!"
The level of this mission reached the highest S level, which was indeed beyond everyone's expectations.
The trainee assassins in the car gradually became terrified.
Tiger pursed his lips and said, "Don't worry, although this mission has certain risks, Chief Quinn will also participate together, and there will be no problem... You little guys, just follow me and earn points."
When the instructor said this, the newcomers were overjoyed and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, really... Leader Quinn will also participate in this mission?"
"Then there will definitely be no problem now. With a powerful leader as much as a leader, no task is a problem."
"I just said that it is impossible for us newcomers to participate in such an important task..."
“…”
Renn relaxed his frown as he heard this.
Finally, the clouds of "bad luck" in his heart scattered, and he no longer felt that this was a train to death.
The wanted criminal with a reward of 16 million Riso by the royal family of the Oma Empire - [One-Eyed Wolf] Quinn is indeed outrageous and gives people a sense of "security". He watched with his own eyes the guy jumped off a cliff hundreds of meters high and was safe and could easily pierce the steel plate with a dagger...
At this time, another newcomer curiously said: "Captain Tiger, what's so special about that Baron Morin? It's worth the client's price to spend so much, please let's sneak into the 'Ran Steel Fort' to destroy the family?"
Not only others, but also the doubt in Renne's heart.
This mission is indeed a bit abnormal.
Logically speaking, a group of monster thieves who hunt on the wastelands would never risk infiltrating into large territory to assassinate a nobleman.
Not to mention that the mission will be extremely difficult, even if it succeeds, it will be endlessly hunted by the royal family of the Oma Empire.
Even if the employer is willing to pay a high price to entrust, the rational thief group dares not accept it.
But this time, the leader Quinn not only took over the task, but also participated in it personally, which seemed particularly abnormal.
Rennes speculated that there must be some great secret hidden in that "Barl Morin" that will make Quinn take the risk...
"Who knows? I heard that he is a very rich surgeon..."
Tiger replied with disbelief, as if there was no difference between killing anyone.
Shrugging, he added: "And, for us, what's the difference between revenge or money? Isn't it all about using money to do things?"
"Oh, too..."
"Shh... Stop talking, put on a gas mask and get off!"
"Yes, captain."
“…”
As soon as the words were finished, there was no extra sound in the carriage.
The group of assassins in light leather armor were sorting out the daggers and muskets placed in the leather hood, and then quickly brought various gas masks to cover their faces.
In the corner, Rennes also wore a pointed crow-shaped gas mask made of black leather expressionlessly.
In a blink of an eye, these young people wearing gas masks on dark wind turned into cold killing machines, and the carriage was filled with a strong solemn aura.
......
Soon, the centipede steam personnel carrier arrived at the scheduled location.
"Everyone got out of the car and sneaked near the city wall. Remember, no one in Morin Manor stayed!"
"Yes, Chief Quinn!"
“…”
There is a "fog tide" tonight, with heavy fog, and the visibility is very low.
The group sneaked quietly in the night.
Renne has become accustomed to this fog containing a mild toxin.
This is a mysterious world that has been shrouded in thick fog all year round, with crises and unknowns hidden everywhere.
I walked not far away in the thick fog, and the huge city that was originally covered by the thick fog suddenly became clear.
Then, he was once again shocked by the architecture of this world.
"This...is the human city of this world?!"
Although I had heard of it for a long time, Rennes was still shocked when he looked at the steel castle in front of him.
"It's really an exaggerated steel miracle. Such a big city is actually a steel castle powered by steam engines..."
Even though he was used to seeing tall buildings in his previous life, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
It has been almost a year since he traveled to this strange world, and this is the first time he has seen a large city where humans gather.
The "Ran Steel Fort" is brightly lit, and the giant searchlights dispel large fogs, making people see clearly the steel giant beast in front of them.
The city is large, roughly equivalent to a county in Rennes's previous life, but the buildings are more dense.
The Gothic style spires are lined up, and there are thirty-story high city walls that tightly surround the entire city. The tall buildings in the city stand, with spider-web-like corridor bridges and pipes...
Giant warhammer iron arm, siege angle, metal cutting machine with a diameter of tens of meters... and the large-caliber cannon, which is as short as several meters and as long as dozens of meters, looks particularly eye-catching.
Dense rivets spliced together thick steel plates, and huge and exaggerated tracks and wheels lifted the entire giant city.
The most strange thing is...a chimney towering into the clouds and emitting thick smoke above the head of the building in the black city.
This is the hallmark of a large steam boiler!
The entire giant city exudes a thick and rough industrial style, like a steel hedgehog, giving people a very strong visual impact.
This is a steam steel castle, a real mobile war fortress.
Chapter completed!