"The first period of the Yellow Springs, Loxo Ibrahim."

The man in the shadow stood up and walked to the ashes. This was a tall middle-aged man with black hair and dark brown skin, narrow eyes, a straight gray uniform, and a silver star on his shoulders. This was the rank of the brigade general of the Rhine Empire. Although Huangquan and the army belonged to two different systems, one of the identity used as a cover-up could be a brigade general. The high status of this person can be seen.

"I came from Isol, a small country on the Eastern Revival Plain. I became a citizen of the Rhine Empire sixteen years ago and joined the Yellow Springs ten years ago." Loxo Ibrahim continued his introduction.

The surname Ibrahim is rare in the Rhine Empire. On the contrary, it is very common among the small countries on the Eastern Fuxing Plain. The areas where those small countries are located are rich in a liquid fuel called "rock oil". The heat released by this special fuel when it is burned is even slightly higher than that of Blackstone. However, it is precisely because of this reason that wars are constantly on the Eastern Fuxing Plain. The conflicts between tribes and tribes, between countries and countries are almost endless. Hate and interests are entangled, gradually turning this land into a chaotic mud.

This is exactly what the Rhine Empire was happy to see. Or, behind the years of war in the Eastern Revival Plain, the Rhine Empire acted as an important driving force. The empire would always support several small countries and tribes "consciously or unintentionally" and use these forces to suppress other forces... The purpose is to take the sticky black fuel for itself.

Those small countries mined the rock and oil from their own land and sold it to the Rhine Empire for weapons and food, formed an army, and then threw the army into war to seize more mines and oil fields... In this way, the Rhine Empire could obtain a large amount of extremely cheap rock and oil without spending a soldier... and even saved the cost of mining.

"Do you know why I joined the Yellow Spring?" Loxo did not stare at the ashes, his eyes crossed the bed and looked at the clouds outside the porthole.

"Isol is a very poor country. Not to mention the dark season, even in the morning season, there will be frequent famines... There are no farmland or pastures in that place, only oil wells, trenches and bunkers..."

"I joined the army at the age of twelve. It was not the regular army of Isol, but the mercenary group with a death rate far higher than that of the regular army... However, in that place, more people were willing to call us the "cannon fodder corps". The mercenaries had very simple equipment. We did not have uniform uniforms, no armor, only rusty scimitars and old-fashioned muskets that were crittered by borers. There was also a lack of ammunition... But the soldiers of the mercenary group could get half a piece of naan every day than the soldiers of the regular army."

"I stayed in the Mercenary Corps for three years. Later, because of a special opportunity, I was able to get on the line with the 'caravan' sent by the Rhine Empire to escort the rock oil and become a guard escorting the rock oil transport vehicle."

"I worked for the empire in the escort army for eleven years before I obtained military status from the Rhine Empire and obtained permanent residence within the empire..."

"I took all my family to Reinhardt. I thought I could finally get out of the place where Isol was trampled on by the war and live a stable and secure life from now on..."

"The day of coming ruined everything about me."

From beginning to end, Loxso's tone was very calm, as calm as if he was telling someone else's story.

"The mortality rate of trainees in the first phase of Huangquan Training Camp is more than 80%, but I still chose to register. I have nothing, and the only value of my existence is only one..."

Loxso turned around and stepped into the shadow again.

“Find the things called ‘apostles’ and——kill them.”

...

...

The airship landed on a cleared snow field. A team of soldiers who were fully armed but without any signs on their bodies quickly took over the temporary airport. At Loxso's warning, the two soldiers helped the ashes up from the bed and brought them into a completely enclosed metal carriage.

"I have taken over this emergency with all my power. I need you to cooperate with my further investigation and... experiment." Loxso also got into the carriage and sat opposite the ashes.

On this man, the ashes smelled a breath of danger. To be honest, if he could, he would want to jump out of the car and run away now.

However, he is now injured, and the soldiers responsible for "escorting" around him are all elites, and the possibility of escaping is completely zero - not almost zero, but completely zero - unless... the "column of light" comes again.

Ashes' mind was still very confused. Although the memories before the coma were still there, the content contained in these memories was really incomprehensible. Why did the light of arrival appear at that time? Why?

There was a guess that kept lingering in his mind, but he was not sure... he didn't even dare to think about it carefully, because the conclusion drawn from this guess was too ridiculous.

If we look at it from an objective perspective... the sudden appearance of the light of arrival... the purpose seems to be to save oneself?

How is this possible?! Destroy Reinhardt ten years ago, killing millions of people overnight, and then appearing in this world again just to save yourself?

When the ashes thought of this possibility, the ashes suddenly felt a chill.

...

The car stopped, the door opened, and a castle located on the hillside appeared in the sight of the ashes. It was a completely steel fortress. Even the Linfeng Fort was slightly inferior to this castle in terms of defense capabilities.

Not counting the rock foundations under the corners of the wall, the height of the castle's exterior wall is more than fifty meters. The wall is inlaid with huge modular armor plates. The diameter of each rivet on the edge of the armor plate is nearly half a meter. If it is solid, the weight of these rivets may be more than a thousand kilograms, but this is just one of the smallest parts on this magnificent city wall.

Six towers hundreds of meters high stand behind the city wall. These towers are composed of countless steel components, and a large number of steam pipes are fixed on the tower body. The hot steam gushed upward from the bottom of the tower, and then fell back from the pipe at the other end after cooling and condensed into liquid state.

Although the steam engine at the bottom of the tower cannot be seen, the power of those monster-like machinery can naturally be imagined.

Several "Falcon"-class airships were suspended directly above the castle, and long steel cables connected the airship and the tower together, like balloons tied to pillars.
Chapter completed!