This library is located in the streets and alleys of the Lower Town. Although the collection may not be as many noble libraries as those in the Upper Town, it is open to all civilians and anyone can borrow the books from this library.

Some rare documents are definitely not found here, and Ashes didn't expect to find any clues related to the apostles here, so he simply walked directly to the bookshelf of mechanical science classification. Compared with the number of mysterious books that cannot even fill a bookshelf, there are much more books on mechanical science. The whole row of books on seven or eight summer vacations are related to mechanical science, from the civilian field to the military field, from the theoretical basis of practical operations, there are almost all kinds of them.

Mechanics was the foundation of the Rhine Empire, and the imperial ruling class has always paid great attention to development in this regard. This can be seen from the fact that high-level mechanics can have an equal status with nobles.

Holding a stack of mechanics-related books, Ashes pushed open the wooden door hidden in the reading room.

There was only one person in the reading room, a girl about the same age as Ash, sitting by a table by the window, looking at a book with a maroon cover.

She had a long and light golden hair that drooped from behind like a cloud and a waterfall. She was wearing a white gauze skirt, and her curvy calves poked out from under the hem of the skirt, wrapped in a pair of small leather boots decorated with precious metal jewelry.

She was reading a translation of an Oriental poetry collection, but Ash was not interested in such works. He always felt that the translation was too exaggerated and had completely distorted the meaning of the original text, making people feel inappropriate when reading.

But the girl read very seriously, her red crystal-like eyes staring at the words on the paper, holding her cheeks with one hand and gently pushing the hanging hair behind her ears with the other hand.

The sunlight outside shone through the glass window, outlining a soft halo on the girl's body - for a moment, the ashes felt as if time had stopped for a moment.

This girl is indeed very beautiful. Any boy with a normal orientation will not help but look at her... Ashes found a reason for her momentary excitement, and then sat down at two tables across the girl.

"Hey... were you peeking at me just now?" Ashes had just sat down, the girl's voice came from not far away. He subconsciously turned his head and saw the girl tilting her head, and the pair of crystal dark red eyes were looking up and down.

"You are the only one here, normal people will..."

Before Ash finished speaking, she was interrupted by the girl: "Are you a gendarmerie? This is the first time I have seen such a young gendarmerie. Don't you have to go on duty?"

In order not to expose their identity and to avoid unnecessary trouble, people in the Huangquan Training Camp will wear the gray imperial military police uniform when going out. In their files, their public identities are indeed a member of the imperial military police force. They will use their authority to the Huangquan Training Camp unless there is a problem that the identity of the military police cannot be solved.

"Just just rested." said Ash.

"You don't go back to the camp to sleep during the break, but run to the library. You are such a weirdo." The girl's boot heel gently tapped the ground, and precious metal accessories collided together to make a crisp and thin sound. According to the psychological theory learned by Ash, this inadvertent little action shows that the girl should be in a good mood now and be in a very relaxed state.

"The light is too bright tomorrow, and I always have insomnia." Ashes made up an excuse casually, but judging from the girl's expression, she obviously did not believe in Ashes.

"I heard that the north is fighting, will it come here?" But the girl did not worry about this, but quickly changed the topic.

"I don't know." Ashes shook his head.

"The Floating Ice Harbor is lost, the next one should be Togras Fortress, right?" The news of the fall of Floating Ice Harbor has not been made public to the public, and it is still in a confidential state. However, looking at the girl's outfit, she should have been from a noble family, so it seems that nothing strange if she knows this news.

"...I don't know that my mission is just to maintain public order in the imperial capital." Ashes didn't want to continue to talk about this topic. Even if he knew many things, he could not tell others casually, even if the girl in front of him might have been from a prominent family.

"But you seem to be very interested in war." The girl pointed to the books on the Ashes table.

"The Application of Heavy Machinery in War", "Disassembly and Maintenance of Non-Standard Firearms", "Military Mechanics·Advanced"...

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"Do you like war?" the girl changed her question.

"Don't like it." After hesitating for a while, Ash shook his head.

"Why?"

"War will kill people... no one knows whether the people who die in the next war will include themselves." Ashes replied honestly.

He has always been afraid of death and never avoided this issue. He felt that this did not mean cowardice, but the nature of being a living creature.

"Your answer is exactly the same as my fiancé... But he also said that war is inevitable. If you want to survive, you must win the war. If you want to win the war, there will always be some people who will die."

"Your fiancé?" Children born in noble families often make engagements when they are very young, so Ashes are not very surprised, but what makes him fall into deep thought is the girl's second half of the sentence.

"Yes... he should be surrounded by a group of beautiful girls now. For some reason, every girl wants to dance with him... I don't like the dance atmosphere, so I sneaked out." A sly smile flashed across the girl's face, and her eyes couldn't help but sweep through the window. There was a brightly lit uptown area, a rich and rich aristocratic settlement area.

"..." Ash didn't know how to answer this sentence, so he simply moved his eyes away and focused on the books in his hand.

"Okay, I'm leaving, goodbye." The girl stood up from her seat and held the collection of poems with a maroon cover.

"Goodbye." Ashes whispered.

"There are always some people who are going to die..." After the girl left, Ashes were still repeating this sentence softly.

In fact, Ashes had a very vague concept of war. He had only seen the descriptions of war in books, so that the answer to the sentence "No one knows whether the dead people in the next war will include themselves." He borrowed them from an article.

The author of that article was a veteran who had experienced several wars. He had only one arm and one leg, but at least he survived and wrote the article.

Ashes had never really been exposed to war, but he was not unfamiliar with death.

The dazzling white light falling from the sky, the coke and corpses everywhere in the ruins, the ferocious beast with sharp teeth and dripping saliva... These things fill his life that he has not longed for. He has passed by death countless times, and he has thought he will never see the next sunshine of tomorrow countless times.

There is no hope in that kind of life, he is like a cockroach living in a sewer, and "living" is his only purpose.

Until the group of men in black suddenly broke into his world, until the strange black fog spread over the isolation area...

Now, he had escaped that kind of life, and he once again returned to the human society that had abandoned him... But before he could take a good breath, a huge wheel covered in flesh and bones rumbled towards him.

The name of this wheel is war.
Chapter completed!