Gu Yun thought about it for a moment, and felt that it was very true, but unfortunately this logic couldn't be applied to himself — it was normal for people to love fire engines and steel armour, and it was just like human beings for people serving as officers to love high ranks and wealth, but when it came to him, if he were to say that he loved fighting wars, loved killing people… it was not a sensible thing.

But it was he who chose this road.

Why?

Gu Yun could not tell for a moment. All he remembered was that he hated ‘going to the frontier’ when he was a child, because it meant being separated from his playmates, seeing his terrible father every day, and not being able to eat well or sleep well.

When he was in his teens, he was put on the battlefield by his father's old subordinates. Before his young passion could rise up, he already made a neither too big nor too small mistake in his first battle — later, he gradually became accustomed to the days of eating sand in the border areas, he also had several years of being young and frivolous.

When he heard the truth of the Black Iron Camp's incident from Jia Lai, his original intention of opening up territories was completely extinguished. Every day, he seemed to only try to fulfill his duties.

While the whole country was immersed in the joy of victory in the north and the recovery of Jiangnan that would soon come, the commander of the four sides was sitting with an old man on a rickety carriage, questioning his own choices, and could not understand it.

He recalled the life he had lived, realizing that whether it was his wide open career path, walking through the city and gathering every beauty's heart, or unparalleled valiant, charging on the iron steed, standing high above and looking down on the world… they were all very faded now.

Now, all he was able to remember were the moments when he wanted to give up his duty.

Just as his mind wandered, Zhang Feng Han said, "Marshal, we're here."

Gu Yun had gathered up all old memories covered in dust, put on an expectant expression to make the old man happy: "You still have not told me what the Ling Shu Institute has created?"

As his voice dropped, he suddenly felt the ground rumble strangely, as if there was something huge moving past, and there were sounds of exclamations coming from outside the carriage.

Gu Yun jumped out of the carriage and froze.

He saw a huge thing lying in front of his eyes. He said: "This is... the steam rail car? "