From Prisoner to Hour
Chapter 142

Sounding Things Out

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"I seem to have seen it before." Gilan said.

"Really, sir?" The red-haired female student looked happy and asked quickly, "Where is it?"

"Wait a moment."

Gilan said, turned around and walked towards the end of the carriage.

Sure enough, he saw the wrench next to the trash can in the corner.

Bending down to pick it up, Gilan sighed secretly.

When he watched this movie for the first time in the secret room of the police station, he used this wrench to unexpectedly attack a death row prisoner, and then escaped from the forest immediately and escaped the hunting of the Tribute Wolf group.

He returned to the front seat with the wrench and handed it to the female student.

"Thank you!" the red-haired female student said in surprise. She put it back into the tool box and then remembered something. She quickly raised her head and apologized to Gilan: "Sorry sir, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Liliya Eng, a recent graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering."

"Gilan·Iros, a wine merchant."

Gilan follows the trend.

"Miss Liliya, do you need my help?"

"Ah, thank you so much."

The red-haired girl stood up with the toolbox in hand and smiled.

As she said this, she crossed Gilan and walked straight towards the car at the front of the train.

At this moment, other passengers followed the plot and began to open the train doors and get off one after another.

Gilan ignored them and followed Liliya.

He planned to watch the movie this time while collecting points, and at the same time contact other passengers to see if he could dig out more details about the movie.

Red-haired female students are a good target.

In the front compartment of the train, Gilan found the boiler room, which was located on the side of the control room. Liliya was squatting next to the coal stove, opening a cover and prying something with a wrench.

"Mr. Gilan, please help me see if there are any loose screws on the other side." She said without raising her head.

Gilan remained silent, went to the other side, opened the symmetrical cover, and immediately revealed some metal levers and Gear structures.

"Nothing is loose, everything is intact." He glanced at it and took the opportunity to say, "I didn't expect Miss Liliya to know how to repair trains."

"Not really, I only know some basic checks."

Liliya closed the cover, raised his head, wiped his sweat and smiled at Gilan.

Her face showed pride again.

"My sister Barbara Eng is the real mechanical genius. She is four years older than me. She was admitted to the Imperial Military in advance when she was studying in the academy. Now she is involved in some extremely important research and development operations."

Saying that, Liliya stood up and sighed.

"But I haven't been in contact with her for almost two years. This time I am taking advantage of my graduation and plan to go north to Peel City to find her."

"So that's it." Gilan nodded. "It sounds like Miss Barbara is also an extremely good mechanical engineer."

But he thought secretly in his heart:

'The girl Maive went north to Peel City to study because she was avoiding Heavenly Bane Cult, and the Liliya in front of her was looking for her sister... Most of the twelve passengers on the train had their own reasons, but the final destination was all Peel City.'

'That's where the story takes place.'

"It's really strange. There was no fault, so why did the train stop suddenly and everyone disappeared..."

Liliya said with a confused look.

Bang! Bang bang!

Suddenly gunshots were heard outside the train.

It was also accompanied by some faint screams of panic and angry shouts.

"What happened?!" Liliya was startled and turned around to look.

Of course Gilan knows.

Because according to the plot, the passengers waiting for rescue outside the train should have been attacked by the Tribute Wolf group at this time.

But he pretended to be confused, turned around and ran to the car window to look out, and then said in a deep voice:

"A monster attacked other passengers! Let's go!"

After that, he pulled Liliya out of the boiler room, ran to the next car, opened the door and jumped out.

As soon as he got off the bus, Liliya was shocked before he could stand firmly.

Because nearly ten headless gray-black beasts appeared all around and were attacking the remaining passengers. Some people shot and others fought with bare hands. The scene was dangerous, but fortunately there were no casualties yet.

"Let's go this way."

Gilan pulled her and pointed in the direction of the train track.

"Well, okay!" Liliya also knew the seriousness of the matter, so he ran forward closely behind the blond young man.

The two ran a long distance and came to the beach.

There is absolutely no trace of the train behind me.

Liliya fell to the ground exhausted, squatting on the ground panting and sweating profusely.

Gilan didn't blush or breath, and slowly took out a handkerchief and handed it over.

"Thank... thank you." Liliya took the handkerchief and said thank you.

She wiped her sweat and looked up to see the young man looking as if nothing had happened, and was surprised.

Is this man made of iron?

I've been running for so long, but there's no reaction at all!

"By the way, has Miss Liliya ever heard of 'Mercury Battery'?"

Gilan's eyes swept across the distance of the seaside without leaving any trace, and he asked.

"Mercury Battery..."

Liliya was stunned for a moment, and then thought deeply.

"Two years ago, I seemed to have heard my sister talk about it, but it was confidential, so she didn't say much to me... She just said that the raw materials are very rare and need to be extracted from the body of a special creature, but the technology is not mature yet, and this kind of energy only exists in theory."

"How does Mr. Gilan know this?" she asked suspiciously.

"I also heard people talk about it."

Gilan said perfunctorily.

He actually didn't expect that the red-haired female student actually knew about it after he asked casually. And from what the other party said, it can be seen that at the current stage, Mercury Battery does not seem to have been developed.

He was thoughtful, thought of something, and said abruptly:

"Miss Liliya, your sister is working in the confidential department of the Bremen Empire?"

"Bremen Empire?" Liliya looked weird. "Sorry sir, I have never heard of this country, and this is Munich Empire..."

Gilan was startled.

Did you guess wrong?

'No, maybe it's the artistic processing of the film that makes the name different.'

Gilan thought to himself.

He had an intuition that this film was probably based on the Bremen Empire.

After all, Ms. Forest Dove originally watched <Hammer of Justice> and discovered that Sabbatai·Louis's Seclusion is located in Black City, but it was called "Black Town" in the film.

This is a typical example.

"Sorry, I made a slip of the tongue." Gilan said. "I was reading some fictional novels recently, and there was a word 'Bremen Empire' in them. I got confused."

"So that's it." Liliya was doubtful.

She was silent for a while, nodded, and answered Gilan's question:

"My sister does work in a confidential department, but I don't know what she is doing specifically."

Gilan nodded.

At this time, he noticed that some moving figures began to appear on the seaside in the distance, heading here.

'Coming...'

His eyes were indifferent.

Accompanied by the distorted colored light, an ax suddenly appeared in his hand.

"Miss Liliya, please wait for me here for a while, I will be back soon."

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