Steel steam and flame

The three teams maintain a distance of two to three hundred meters, which allows each of them to have ample reaction time, and also allows the other party to be within their monitoring range at all times.

In the Leonard family team, Russell walked at the end to prevent the danger of approaching from behind. Villani came next to him from the side of the team.

"What's going on?" Villani looked back and asked, "I thought he would really follow, but it turns out he was just talking."

"It's not like you to have such high expectations. I don't see any characteristics. You are ordinary in appearance, except for being calm in front of us. Have your interests always been so unique?" Russell said, "I will tell you, if I If you find it. Besides, you don’t have to keep walking closely behind us to follow us. The traces in the snow are easy to identify, and it’s not a problem to spread out several kilometers in between. If you really want to, you can stay where you are and wait. Then it will be your own breakfast. Of course, just remember to come back on time, and I can help you with the rest."

"I'm not someone who can't distinguish the situation. Compared with the snacks that can be found at any time, the quota for the assessment is indeed more important. By the way, don't forget your words. If you are caught by Kleist, I will be gone after one shot. What happened?"

"At your service, Miss Villani."

The sky began to brighten completely as we advanced, and around nine o'clock, the overlapping shadows of the mountain peaks fell in front of the three teams. Met a few evaluators who had evacuated. The situation is roughly the same as yesterday, but it is developing in a good direction. Whether it is clearing out the large number of second-category creatures that have gathered together, or mastering the information about ferocious creatures, it is steadily giving the examiner an advantage.

Two more teams severely injured the ferocious creatures. Although they escaped, they were reportedly chasing after them. Perhaps in the next few days, news would come out that the first ferocious creature had been hunted and killed.

"The big lizard is near here." At noon, the Leonard family team separated from the other two families, advanced along the foot of the mountain for a distance and then stopped. Russell, Villani and other five captains gathered to discuss the next step.

"In the end, we chose it? We suffered heavy losses that evening. But that's okay, at least among so many choices, the one we are most familiar with is this big lizard."

"That's true. Other ferocious creatures have never seen their true form, so it would be unrealistic to just rely on the information collected. We don't know the strength, attack methods, and defenses, and the information we know will mislead us." Villani agreed with this point.

The discussion ended quickly, and there were still a few minutes before starting again. During this time, Villani left the team and walked in the snow at the foot of the mountain. When I came back, I met Russell who was waiting.

"It seems disappointing," Russell said. "Everyone can say harsh words, but the means and actual actions are what really scare people."

Villani shook his head and asked Russell: "Do you know why my overall ranking has always been higher than yours in the family assessment? Intuition, a woman's intuition is very scary, especially when she cares about something and doesn't feel it. When it's that simple, it's usually very accurate. Perhaps it has something to do with women's natural sensitivity and meticulousness, so they naturally observe some subtle things."

"Then should I still keep this expectation?"

"The fact that you came over to ask me already explains the answer in your mind."

"Actually, from a practical point of view, I am also on your side. I know a little about Temple's strength. I have been exposed to it in previous assessments. The toxins in his blood can put Temple directly into the hospital. I have always known this. I care about all of them. It is precisely because of biological poisons that I am vigilant. If there are multiple ways of transmission, it will be very troublesome."

"We'll discuss this later when we have time. It's time to set off. The next stop is where the big lizard is, so be prepared."

The team resumed their journey after a break. Arriving at the central area, their speed dropped significantly, and the number of breaks they took began to increase. There is no guarantee that you will encounter other ferocious creatures that suddenly come in, so you can only be prepared to fight at any time.

About ten kilometers away, Cassia was eating food and moving slowly along the traces. The evacuated evaluators he met told him that the tracking route was correct, and he no longer felt so anxious about rushing. It seems that no one on the other side always remembers him, and even if they do, their position is below the quota.

In the evening, the Leonard family team stopped at the foot of the next mountain. The cave was found, a fire was built, and preparations began for the night. Beside the fire, Russell and the others looked at the map, guessing the exact location of the big lizard and making corresponding plans.

"You can shoot with a heavy machine gun first. The scales are a bit like reactive armor plates. This is why it was able to block the bombardment of the machine guns in the first place. Think about it, relying on its regeneration ability and speed, after the scales fall off, we are probably half It takes a minute to bombard its body. Not too short, but not long either. After most of its scales fall off, it also knows how to actively avoid attacks and wander around to look for opportunities."

"The defense mechanism is easy to break, but what about the attack? The main means of attack are the tongue and the surprisingly long tail. Both are very fast, and even we can barely react when the tongue pops out. Everyone who is still alive now knows what the consequences will be if you are distracted, and that is a big threat."

"We have to find a way to destroy that tongue. The attack range is more than twenty meters. The five of us are relatively good, but it will be difficult for the others..."

The discussion ended at midnight, and everyone went to rest except those who were on guard and sentry. Cassia lay down in the snow more than a thousand meters away and waited for dawn with them.

"According to their speed and route, it will probably be tomorrow." Cassia thought before closing her eyes.

The next day, about ten minutes after the Leonard family set off, Cassia sat up from the snow and followed. Not long after advancing, the reverberation of an explosion that was about to dissipate came from the other direction. All the ferocious creatures and half of the examiners were concentrated in the central area, which was indeed much busier than the outer areas.

During the day, Cassia kept the distance between the two very wide, keeping them ten kilometers away. After noon, when intensive gunshots and explosions rang out from the front, he suddenly increased his speed and quickly shortened the distance to a thousand meters.

The Leonard family team started looking for the target at noon. The large number of second-type creatures gathered around them allowed them to quickly find the big lizard. A defensive position was established on a high ground in advance, and all the traps with pre-embedded bombs were equipped with mechanical detonators. When ready, Russell carried the single-shot artillery over. When the sound of explosions was heard in the distance, Russell came back again, followed by a group of second-type creatures.

"It's there, and there are still wounds on the body, which were caused recently. There must be other assessors who have encountered it in the past few days, but it helped us." Russell returned to the position and immediately picked up a heavy sniper rifle , shooting with several other people in the team who are good at using such firearms.

"Three seconds left! Two seconds! One second! Detonate!" Venina looked ahead with a telescope. Following her calm command, dozens of people in the team pulled the thin alloy ropes on their hands at the same time, and then In front of them, in the snow where a group of second-type creatures were running, more than a dozen fireballs quickly connected with the steam that vaporized in a short time. They rose in the air and turned into a surging dark gray smoke cloud. In an instant, they froze into frost powder. The steam made the gunpowder smoke seem to condense in the cold. The surrounding snow was pressed down by tens of centimeters by the impact, and when a translucent air wave reached them, it was already a gust of icy cold wind.

A large group of second-category creatures were cut off in the middle, and the number of creatures that could still break out of the smoke and move forward suddenly dropped to less than a hundred within ten seconds.

"Fire the artillery! Connect the steel shell bomb and the flash grenade! Then attack freely!" Villani put down the telescope after saying that, and the eight artillery pieces were launched as the words fell. The orange tail dyed the snow red, and they rushed towards the second class. Among the creatures. The flames of the explosion turned into gunpowder smoke, and the space was immediately flooded with intense white light. The snow surface makes the effect of the flash bomb more intense, and the impact speed of the second-type creature quickly slows down.

"Cluck, cluck..." A strange cry came from a distance, and the remaining second-type creatures immediately turned around and retreated. Half of the Leonard family immediately broke away from the team and pursued them.

"Isn't it too late to think about command now?" Villani held a firecracker and surrounded the second-type creatures that were spreading out from the side. "The big lizard is nearby. Clean up all these creatures as soon as possible."

The second-category creatures quickly collapsed under the interlaced fire net. The assessors in the big family all have very good standards. After the baptism of the battle that evening, those who are still standing here are very strong. With the cooperation and preparation of forty-seven people, the ordinary second-type creatures were not even able to break through the fire network. In open areas, they are just moving targets for these people to warm up.

A whistling sound was heard at this time, and Villani ordered to return to the position immediately. A wave of snow stirred up in the roar and approached extremely fast in a serpentine route. In the snowy waves, a huge lizard with a body length of more than ten meters ran on its hind legs. It had two huge eyes, and the bright red cross pupils penetrated the entire protruding half of the spherical eye. It was completely different from ordinary lizards.

The distance of less than a thousand meters was shortened to less than 100 meters in just a few seconds. The big lizard was now on all fours on the ground, and the moment its eyes were locked in front of it, the scales on its body began to rhythm like waves from head to tail, turning from silvery white to deep red. . The next moment, translucent air channels bombarded it with machine gun bullets.

The big lizard's body exploded in a small area, but its speed actually became faster at this time. A straight red stream of shadow opened up, moving with a large series of explosions. When it was less than a few dozen meters away from the Leonard family, the big lizard's body was ejected, knocking open the thin composite bulletproof plate and arriving at the position.

"Spread out!" Villani shouted as he pulled away, but the tail with sharp spikes on both sides had already drawn out a huge arc, covering less than half of the position.

Several people were cut in half, and the upper body that was still unconscious struggled in mid-air and turned into ice cubes, falling on the ice with a crisp "clang" sound. The big lizard used the power of its tail to twist back and turned around. Its bulging eyes rotated in all directions. The moment it locked the target, a crackling sound fell to the ground. In the air, the pale pink tongue seemed to have never appeared at all, but the mouth was already there. One person bites it off.

There was an opening for the attack. Villani and Russell walked around to the side of the big lizard and directly used fire cannons to attack the part where a small part of the scales had fallen off, hoping to completely destroy it so that the scales could not grow back.

It's just that there is no time to aim at all. The two eyes of the big lizard make it almost impossible to see any obvious blind spots, just like half of the universal axis can be rotated at will. It knows how to move its body in a small range to allow the bullet to hit the parts of its body that still have scales, giving the damaged parts enough time to recover.

The team surrounding the big lizard was quickly dispersed, and with the cry of "cluck", the remaining dozens of second-type creatures came around from the surroundings and attacked the lone person.

Seeing this, Villani threw away the blunderbuss and shouted at Russell and others: "Russell, Kleist, Salita, Cherif, don't wait any longer, you must control its actions, otherwise you won't have any chance! Others are looking for flaws in the surroundings, giving priority to attacking the eyes and parts where the scales have fallen off!" As he spoke, Villani pulled out two short knives from his waist. After two or three seconds, the red-hot state distorted the air around the blades. As for her hands and feet, the well-fitting winter clothes were held up by muscles, as if they were being stretched.

Finding an opportunity to get close to the big lizard, Villani waved his two swords, moving from its head to its tail in half a breath, and exploded in a small area, causing all the scales there to fall off. At this time, Villani also jumped up, dodged the slashing attack from his original position, and slid away when he landed.

On the other side, Russell and others looked for opportunities to get close from several directions at the same time. However, the scales destroyed by the cannon are very limited. Although the power of the scale explosion is not as powerful as the reinforced steel case bomb, the combined power of the number and the fragments that are comparable to steel are completely more powerful than the steel case bomb.

"Kleist!" Villani shouted as he got closer again. He was the only one in the team who had completed the surgical development of full bone coverage. He was the only one who could completely ignore the power and debris of the explosion.

Kalist, who put on his glasses, responded, taking advantage of the opportunity of the other four to restrain him, and slashed at the big lizard's hind legs. The cold-proof clothes were shattered into pieces in an instant, and a large area of ​​skin underneath was exposed, revealing the exoskeleton with white marks scratched by the fragments.

Withstanding the impact of the explosion, Kleist then slashed horizontally. The red blade broke through the rough skin, and the flesh and blood immediately turned into charcoal, and the hard bones were also charred yellow. The big lizard felt the pain and turned its eyes around, locking it with the crossed pupils like a death crosshair. The tail spun around, and Kleist immediately blocked the pneumatic weapon to his side.

In the "Boom" explosion, Kleist was swept away and there was no time to struggle. The moving big lizard had already aimed its head at him. Villani and Cherif rushed over at this time and attacked it fiercely in the eyes, forcing the attack to stop in time. After landing, Kleist immediately pulled out the spikes embedded in the exoskeleton, and rushed over again the next moment.

The tuatara's hind limbs were injured and its flexibility had been significantly reduced in their eyes. Fearing that the terrifying regeneration ability was still effective in the body, the five people circled around again from all directions. Among the other family members who had eliminated most of the second-type creatures, a dozen people also drew out their pneumatic swords and joined the siege.

The regeneration speed of the scales could not keep up with the destruction speed of Villani and the others. At this time, the big lizard used its tail to push back the people around its hind limbs, and the remaining scales on its body began to rhythm. With the sound of "ta da da", all the scales stood up. The big lizard stood up and closed its eyes instantly.

"Scatter..." Russell yelled. Villani and the others suddenly stopped on the spot and wanted to retreat, but detonating their own scales was not within their scope of consideration. During the more than an hour of fighting that evening, they did not observe this way of protecting themselves.

The next moment, successive explosions set off a storm on the big lizard, and the debris radiated in a radius of tens of meters.

"Bang!" The impact of the explosion came to her, and before Villani even took her hand away from her eyes, a blast announcing death made her whole body tremble.

After pulling away, she saw that the big lizard in front of her was still standing. Except for the spikes on its tail, all the scales on its body had fallen off, revealing a layer of tan skin filled with blood. And its mouth was biting Kleist fiercely, and the huge bite force caused the sharp teeth to sink into the exoskeleton.

"Attack! Attack!" Villani shouted at this time, ignoring the broken scales embedded in his body, and directly threw the two knives out and inserted them into the belly of the big lizard.

Feeling the pain, the big lizard made a sharp "gurgling" sound. When it looked at Villani with half-open eyes, it opened its mouth slightly and threw Kleist into the air. The next moment, his tongue caught it and hit him. On Kleist. In an explosion of air, Kleist was knocked away.

"Two of you go, the others seize the opportunity!" Villani ran and picked up a firecracker and poured bullets directly at the running big lizard. "The regeneration speed is faster than expected, less than twenty seconds."

The two people on the edge rushed towards the direction of Kleist's landing, and the remaining people all chased the big lizard. This is their rare chance. When the scales grow back again, they will attack again and again.

On the other side, Kleist fell into the snow and rolled for an unknown distance before stopping. After coughing up a few mouthfuls of blood, he felt better, but his head was still groggy. Even though the exoskeleton had helped him reduce most of the impact, his internal organs were still seriously injured.

He struggled to stand up, but one word made his body stiffen.

"Mr. Kleist, you seem to need help?" Cassia stood up from the snow and said calmly.