Knocking on the door of Pupil Art in Yuanshen

Wherever the lightning shines, it casts a shadow.

However, there is rarely thunder in the Arctic Circle because it is buried by rain and snow.

But there are shadows in the Arctic Circle. They are accumulated under every snowflake and hidden in the deep frozen soil. In the shadow of the trees stretched by the Christmas bonfire, they are always everywhere, and the cold cannot stop them.

Zhaoyue's hands were pressed against the solid ancient ice. Despite the coldness, he could clearly feel the shadows settled by the years in it.

The ice surface mixed with forest white and icy blue showed hideous and mottled patterns, but no one knew better than him who saw it with his own eyes whether it was a pattern or not.

They were cross-sections of animal bones, which were cut apart by diamonds and the ice when the tunnel was dug.

Although they are dry bones, they still exude a fresh and ferocious atmosphere. It is not difficult to imagine what kind of horrific disaster they experienced before death and fled desperately. However, they were still caught up by their destined fate and grabbed their throats.

So they could only bite each other, roar in pain, let out the last wail before dying, and then be overwhelmed by the disaster.

The fact that they are still lying here is the best proof. I think the engineers who dug the tunnel must have been under great pressure at that time, because the deeper they dug underground, the closer they would get to the sacred place, which might be the abyss of hell.

The most outstanding thing here is undoubtedly the entangled skeleton of a bear and a snake.

The snake has a sinuous body and slender bones. The skeleton is no less than twenty meters tall by visual inspection, and a dark golden color still appears in the ice.

The bear was also larger than anyone knew, and the most astonishing thing was that its bones branched out into two thick spines starting from the lumbar vertebrae, which meant that it once had two heads.

Zhao Yue knew very well that these abnormal mutations were not some miraculous work of nature.

These animals transported from the outside world drank the dragon's bones and blood. The corrosiveness of the dragon's blood destroyed their own genetic sequences, and the dragon's genes were forcibly inserted, resulting in the birth of new limbs.

Similarly, dragon blood is also a symbol of poison, so they died in the end, not only because of a catastrophe, but also because of certain death.

Zhaoyue took one last look and continued to move forward into the depths of darkness. He did not need a flashlight. The vision of a kaleidoscope allowed even the weakest fluorescence to be infinitely magnified. Furthermore...whose eyes can't shine...

He passed the only engineering elevator, followed Comrade Bondarev's old path, and arrived at the underground ice cave sealed with ice.

The place was empty, and there seemed to be only the sound of his own clothes rubbing against each other. Even the sound of footsteps was not that obvious, because there was a huge piece of ice under his feet, and walking on it was like stepping on a large ice rink.

He slid to the middle of the ice, lowered his head, and looked at the giant creature like an ancient god from a distance, as if from a distance of ten thousand meters.

It was a skeleton that was frozen and green. Any words applied to it were hollow and powerless. Only a simple and powerful word was enough - "dragon"

Its body length is about sixty meters, and its wings spread under the ice. Even if the slender tail vertebra is removed, it is still more than thirty meters long, which is equivalent to the height of a ten-storey building.

Its face is covered with bony protrusions like a skull mask, its blue-black bones are like steel, and its whole body is covered with scales.

Its upper body was straight, and its well-preserved eyes were pale and glowed with marble, giving Zhao Yue the illusion of looking at a dragon.

Its ferocious head reaches down to its neck, with sharp barbs growing along its spine and extending to its rotten lower body.

If the upper half is alive, then the lower half is as if it was annihilated by the breath of death, with only the pale blue bones extending and rotting to the bone.

"..." After hesitating for a while, Zhao Yue chose to leave instead of alerting the enemy.

Bondarev, come again tonight.

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The moon was full again, and Renata walked through the corridor humming a song.

The surface of the chalk wall slowly peeled off, and apart from the occasional cold wind, the empty corridor was only illuminated by a white light from dozens of meters away.

The old light bulb has long passed its working age. When it lights up, it sizzles and flashes on the filament like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Each lamp can only illuminate a small section of the corridor. During this period, you can't see your fingers and can only fumble forward in alternating black and white.

In the empty dark corridor, listening to my footsteps, I always feel that someone is following me, but when I turn around, there is nothing. When I turn my head, I feel the biting coldness on my spine.

I felt like I was sitting on a pincushion, alternating between fear and relief, which almost drove me crazy.

But Renata doesn't think so. She grew up in this environment.

She was wearing a white cotton nightgown and holding her cherished stuffed bear, which she named "Zorro".

The wombat was a birthday gift from Dr. Herzog. It was bought from Moscow by the first mate of the icebreaker Lenin. It was a luxurious gift in Black Swan Port. After all, the Lenin only came here a year.

once.

Renata got the name Zorro from a book. The book said Zorro was a masked knight, and all bad guys would tremble when they heard his name.

Renata would hug Zorro even when she slept at night. If there were any monsters lurking in the dark that wanted to harm her, it would be up to Zorro to kill them.

Renata walks through this corridor every day. The right side of the corridor is a solid wall, and the left side is a small room separated by iron doors. There are 38 rooms in total, and a total of children live in each room.

Renata is number 38, the last one and the youngest.

Although she looks quiet on the outside, she is actually an out-and-out wild child, but no one noticed this, neither the children, nor the nurses, nor Herzog.

She leaned on the small window of an iron door and looked in. There was a boy sleeping on the small bed. She picked up a piece of peeling wall and wanted to throw it in, when she suddenly noticed the shadow hanging behind her.

She froze immediately and thought to herself, how could it be?

She didn't dare to look back, fearing that it was the nurse on night watch.

But she also knew that it was probably not the case. The nurse would not be that short. Judging from the light and shadow, the other person was at most a little taller than her.

In addition, at this time, the nurses should be playing cards and beers upstairs, bragging to each other, and not coming here to watch the night.

Everyone knows that the children here, except for Renata, are specimens that have been "operated" and will never move unless given instructions.

As for Renata, since she had not undergone surgery, she needed convenience. The nurses did not bother to pay attention to Renata in the middle of the night, so they opened the door to the room for her and came out by themselves once she needed it.

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This is also the reason why she can stroll in the corridor like a little queen every night after the nurse's night patrol, leisurely patrolling the territory.

If you get caught... don't talk about going out for a walk, it's fine if you don't put him in confinement. Anyway, the yellow bow that represents a mistake is unavoidable.

That bright yellow bow didn't make people in the snow feel warm, because it was a symbol of a bad boy who had done something wrong. Renata had been wearing that thing frequently because of bedwetting recently.