Steel steam and flame

A few seconds later, Cassia arrived at the edge of the area swept by the flames, where a wall of condensed snow two or three high had been piled up. With the scales on her body that had not completely disappeared, Cassia crashed directly into the snow wall. When she came out from the other side, the scales had completely disappeared, and there was a black snake several meters long on the shoulder with exposed light red muscles.

Rushing towards the place where he buried the iron box, Cassia tore open the belly skin of the black snake with his hands on the way and took out the signal generator. At the same time, he also found the same two cylinders inside the big lizard. As she wiped the snow around her, Cassia realized that the cylinder was something she was very familiar with. It was solid red mercury, Cassia recognized it at a glance.

"Is this a gift specially prepared by the Avalon Agency for those examinees who have completed hunting ferocious creatures?" Cassia guessed that as a product of the Avalon Agency, he had no doubts about the authenticity of several sticks of solid red mercury. , "The terrifying regenerative ability of the big lizard's scales also comes from this. So are these things implanted in those experimental subjects, especially their captain?"

While eating the meat of the black snake to fill his stomach and supplement necessary food, Cassia thought. He has always been concerned about the situation of No. 0. If there is no external force to interfere with the battle between the two next time, Cassia believes that his result will only be consumed to death in a long chase. He was well aware of the consumption of continuous breathing and it would not be easy, but the state of No. 0 made him think a lot.

Throwing away the black snake with only its skeleton left, Cassia broke open one side of the body with her fingers after a brief thought. The four inhibitory tubes were squeezed out by the muscles, revealing one end connected to the gray-white meridians. These are newly implanted suppressor tubes after the volcanic area. They originated from the hands of doctors in the dark world. Compared with the quality of military schools, they are much worse.

Without any further hesitation, Cassia first pulled out a suppressor tube and inserted the cleaned solid red mercury into the cavity formed by the suppressor tube in the body for a long time. A feeling of coldness suddenly came, but within a few breaths, the wound healed automatically, and the heat that could be felt dissipated from the solid red mercury and quickly spread throughout the body.

In the uninhabited area of ​​the volcano, Cassia discovered that he could convert the energy in uranium gold into himself and use it after he had unknowingly become separated from human beings. Although the specific mechanism is not yet understood, Cassia has long guessed that one of the raw materials for solid red mercury may be dragon blood. Try it now, and you will find that it does contain dragon blood, because the devouring method begins to work on its own, absorbing some substances to repair its own accumulated injuries.

But at that time, Avalon cooperated with top scientific research institutions on the other two continents, and they used new technologies to transform dragon blood and other raw materials into another kind of substance - pure energy substance, relying on the corresponding conversion. To use it, just like radiator and coal. Under the devouring method, Cassia clearly felt that there were not many substances that could be used directly.

"It should be that the structure that uses solid red mercury has not been fully formed in itself." Cassia thought for a while and found the most reasonable reason. He remembered that when he absorbed the energy of uranium gold, he was in the second dream state. Many things that happened to his body at that time may not have much to do with him. At that time, the creatures in the dream invaded my spiritual world and seemed to be able to do some limited things with my body, just like the subtle evolution of the giant whale method.

Cassia once again replaced the other two suppression tubes with solid red mercury, leaving one in his trouser pocket.

"In order to successfully complete my plan, I need to kill a ferocious creature. At that time, I have to find a way to deliver a total of three solid red mercury to Ye Jielin." Cassia said to himself, and currently he has no idea. Find out if solid red mercury can be used by others besides you. But after thinking about it, I no longer worry. Behind Ye Jielin is the Webley family, and Atohuan is from Infinite Communications Company. They will know to seek family solutions to this problem. Even if not, the value of solid red mercury, whether it is given to the family or used for sales, can bring huge benefits to Ye Jielin.

Thinking of this, Cassia took out the signal generator, looked at it, and pressed the button on one side. According to the method introduced in the assessment rules, when a green line appeared on the signal generator, Cassia spoke out a series of identity codes.

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Above the black clouds, on the airship used to receive all assessment information, in a spacious room, dozens of people have been staring blankly at the magnetic screen that has been lighting up the same picture for the past few days. The excited discussion had died down a few days ago, and everyone was guessing who would be the first person to send their information here. Just a few days later, the magnetic screen that had maintained its original appearance only had the words "receiving signal" followed by a huge red exclamation mark.

Many people picked up books to read, or left their seats to smoke in a ventilated area. There probably won't be any signal transmitted in the near future, everyone thought so.

The time was around four o'clock in the afternoon, and bright sunlight shone in through the round window, and the clouds below the airship were full of golden light. There was still no one talking in the spacious room, everyone was doing their own thing. In another room, the staff is sorting out the information sent back by the inspector below, which will be used as another reference to give the assessor a reasonable evaluation.

Not long after, in front of a man drinking coffee and looking at a book in his hand, there seemed to be a program set in the analysis machine. The string of words "receiving signal" suddenly disappeared, and the "didi-didi" prompt sounded. rang at the same time. It became like a storm in the quiet room. Within a few seconds, more than a dozen other people looked over. The man immediately put down his book and stared at the magnetic screen. He knew that after the analysis machine had called up the information of all examinees this time, the results would be displayed on the screen after a comparative search.

In less than four or five seconds, on the left side of the screen, a photo of the examiner was pieced together with colored magnetic powder. On the right side and in the blank space below, the detailed information entered before taking the assessment was also quickly generated line by line.

"A second-stage surgeon?" Someone made a surprised and confused sound.

"Perhaps due to good luck, the people lurking around waiting for the real hunter were tired after fighting the ferocious creatures and snatched it during the period. It won't be long before the holder of this signal generator should change. But after the operation Having the strength to grab the signal generator in the second stage also shows that the strength is very good. Even if we don't get a spot in the end, we can't escape the excellent evaluation."

"Immediately notify all the major families. The first person to temporarily obtain a quota is Ye Jielin of the Webley family." At the front of the room, the two persons in charge of this work used in-boat signals to transmit the information to the captain's room. "I don't think they can wait any longer."

At the same time, on the other side, the two machines sounded prompts almost at the same time, and the corresponding staff immediately reported the information to the two principals.

"Wait a minute, we'll add Weigel from the Peters family and Christopher from the Galilee family." The two men immediately picked up the communicator they had just put down and said, "It seems that the busy time has come. Tell those people to fight Records will be passed on in due course thereafter.”

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After nearly half an hour of running at high speed, Novia and others found a hidden place where the ice blocks overlapped and stopped when they saw that no one was following them.

Annabell put down her backpack and started to prepare the corresponding medicine, while the others treated their wounds on the spot. A few minutes later, Novia took out the optical sight, jumped onto a higher ice block, and looked into the distance following the traces left by several people on the snow.

"What's going on?" After waiting for a while, Ernes asked. He took Annabel's potion and injected it into his body, looking relieved.

"Not yet, but I think others are roughly the same as us. They are still repairing it at the moment. If you want to really determine the situation behind you, you still need to look at it for a few hours." Novia said as he slid down the ice and turned the scope After putting it in her backpack, she took out another thing, took a look at it, and after thinking for a moment, she seemed to understand something.

"Christopher, according to the order of the original drawing, this is your thing."

When Christopher looked at Novia, a dark stone-like thing had flown in front of him. He quickly grabbed it and when he opened his hand, Christopher asked with confusion: "Signal generator?"

The eyes of the people nearby were immediately attracted, and then they looked at Novia. Knowing that there would be such a scene, Novia took out the remaining high-energy food in her backpack and explained while eating: "In the deep pit, Cassia casually stuffed the things into my backpack. He said, 'I will do it from now on. Got it'. I think this is the explanation for the signal generator, and you will know why later. There is no blood on it, and I have always believed that Cassia will not be our enemy."

"You'll know later?" several people repeated.

"Yes, but who knows what will happen in the future." Novia paused and said, "It would be more appropriate for him to show his kindness to us. I always feel that Cassia is planning something important like us. The only difference is that we are a group of people and he is alone.”

"A lone wolf looking for delicious food, isn't it?" Ernes said with a smile, "That's fine, no one wants to have an enemy like that. I would like to remind you that if Cassia wants to kill us, with his In the state of being in a deep pit, in the small space there, how sure are you that you can be the last one to climb out? So don't think too much, people will naturally become weird if they have too many ideas."

No one picked up on Ernes' words for a moment. After a while, Gladstone asked Novia: "Miss Novia, you know everyone's questions. I hope you can answer some questions for us now on behalf of Mr. Cassia."

After glancing at Gladstone, Novia thought for more than half a minute before speaking: "I know his name because of the incident where members of my own Meredith family broke away from the family two years ago. He is a The people I am very optimistic about, both in terms of strength and brains, are among the top group of people in the same period. The only flaw is her identity, the lowest level within the family. She was sent to the military school by the family to be trained as a weapon in the future. It’s just that she has long been desperate or disgusted with the internal model of the family, or the assembly line model in which she will almost be crucified in the future. She carried out her escape plan through her first school outing mission..."

"Later it was found by the electrical regulator on a large scale?" Gladstone thought of the next process. He had performed related tasks before.

"Yes, she was found. In the family records, it is clearly written that she was executed by the managers sent out, and the body was directly dissolved with microbial agents." Novia narrated in a third person's tone, "That's it. Just when I thought things would not deviate from the established template, I caught some clues. Needless to say, the process in the middle was nothing more than various relationships and financial transactions. In the end, I think she did not After death, he should have changed his identity now, and is living well somewhere in the empire, maybe planning revenge against the Meredith family."

"That's just a guess. Meredith, one of the twenty-three grand duke families, will not make any mistakes in such a matter. You said it was the first mission of the military school. Only the students who entered at that time were It wasn’t long after the surgery, right? There’s no chance of survival against a manager who started out with a second-stage surgery.”

Novia nodded in agreement with Gladstone's words: "I have always thought so. But now that I have finally met Cassia, your statement is no longer convincing to me. During that mission, she and Cassia were in the same place. In a team of twenty people. By the end of the mission, counting her, only she and Cassia survived. At this point, you should understand what I am going to say next. In fact, there is no need to explain anything, and I don’t I know Cassia’s identity, family, etc., just because I happened to know his name during an investigation two years ago, and I simply think that Cassia gave her very important help in the process of breaking away from the family, that’s all.”

No one spoke for a while, and when the topic seemed to be disappearing, Gladstone withdrew from his thoughts: "Then can I know the name of the person you care about, Miss Novia? Can I help you?" There are not many people who praise him, and Mr. Cassia seems to be one of them.”

"Cara Meredith, like me, loves sniper rifles and has a very high talent. So the next time you accidentally meet her, you'd better be careful. Of course, as my friend, I might be able to save your life." indefinite."

"Then I would like to thank you in advance, Miss Novia."

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More than an hour later, all the fog rising into the sky froze into palm-sized snowflakes and fell. The deep pit with a diameter of more than 100 meters has turned into a newly formed tiny frozen lake, and I don't know if there is any movement again. A crisp crackling sound suddenly sounded, breaking the rare silence.

A certain place on the torrent-like ice layer was covered with cracks that spread out like a spider web in one breath. Then a huge gap opened. After stretching for twenty or thirty meters in all directions, hot air splashed out from the cracks. A bright red hand twisted the nearby air and pushed away a huge block of ice. Number Zero's figure covered with fine red streaks jumped out from under the ice and landed on the edge of the deep pit that was ablated by the blazing white breath.

Zero roared, and after a few breaths, there were chisel sounds coming from all over the ice. The next moment, the remaining thirteen experimental subjects gathered together and looked at the deep pit in front of them, as if to remember the aura that was still here.