Steel steam and flame

The weather showed a bad omen in the early morning two days later. Sitting up from the snow after a break, Cassia clearly felt that the temperature had dropped a lot again in one night. There was no wind, and the black clouds were still rolling in their usual state, showing no tendency to grow or shrink. I couldn't see what was wrong, except that the tundra became deeper as it stretched toward the Endless Sea.

Looking over, it seemed that he could directly see the deep blue infinite sea. Cassia retracted her sight through the thick fog and looked forward. The mountain peak that was the symbol was right in front of him, less than an hour away from where he buried the iron box.

I don't know if it was luck, but I didn't encounter a single ferocious creature during the two days' journey. There were only fierce gunshots coming from a distance. The interest in taking a look in the past was not very great. Cassia did not want to take risks until the blood used to stimulate the scaly state was replenished in her body, although the possibility of encountering danger was very small.

There are many statue-like corpses completely covered with frost powder, mostly concentrated on the traces of battles that are not covered by snow. The central area is very large, and even if there are more than 100,000 people inside, it will not feel crowded at all. Apart from fixed routes and places, it is not easy to encounter it.

He still looked like he was leaving in front of the cave entrance. After more than an hour, he arrived at the location of the iron box. Cassia carefully walked around the area and found that there was nothing else around, then she got into the roughly downward-dented ice cave. . On one side there are still the syringes, weapons and ammunition that were specially prepared. After moving the iron box out, Cassia put the syringe device on herself again, and after thinking about it, she used extra steel shell bombs and alloy thin wires to set a trap in this small ice cave.

I can't say it's a trap, but it seems reasonable to say it's something used to collapse this place. After doing this, Cassia calculated the time. It was about one day before Ye Jielin could get one of the quotas through the signal generator. Seeing that the light outside had dimmed, Cassia was not ready to leave the ice cave immediately. He found a place to sit down, but without lighting a fire, he lay down on the spot and began to rest.

The next morning, Cassia carefully erased his own traces around this location, pretending to be just passing by, and headed towards the central area. I began to think about how to deliver all the solid red mercury in my hands and those that would soon be available to Ye Jielin and others.

He definitely can't be trusted, but Ieta, who has had some interactions with him, can be used as a transportation medium between the two. But if you want to meet it among hundreds of thousands of people, Cassia has no expectations at all. Novia and Ones are very suitable candidates, but there are still risks. It was just intuition that made Cassia feel that Novia might be trustworthy and that there were many ways and means to know her name, but Cassia thought that Novia knew that she was probably going in a good direction.

At this time, the footsteps unknowingly deviated from the path and walked towards the area that Gladstone had originally drawn. She also thought that it would be safest to personally deliver these things to Ye Jielin at an extremely fast speed, but Cassia knew that when the last step of her plan started, she would not have much time or opportunity left for her. Maybe it's just the one and only time.

In the afternoon, Cassia was walking at the foot of a mountain peak. Intermittent gunshots rang in his ears and gradually became louder. A few minutes later, a large number of examiners could be seen around the rock wall at the foot of the mountain, blocking the attack and slowly retreating in this direction.

There were about a hundred people, followed by a group of second-type creatures that seemed to be about the same number. Cassia immediately climbed up the mountain. Although it was all steep cliffs, in his eyes there were still many places to stay. Unintentionally participating in this kind of battle that would only consume ammunition, Cassia arrived more than ten meters away in a few breaths. By the time the slowly retreating team arrived at the position he had observed not long ago, Cassia was already on a huge slope. on the mountain.

The two are two to three hundred meters apart. Unless Zero and Experimental Subject have the special ability to detect Cassia, at this stage, it is almost impossible for others to find Cassia who is stationary.

More than a hundred people below moved back in an orderly manner. The distance between the groups was just right. Everyone was not in a hurry. It was obvious that it took a lot of time and circumstances to achieve the current effect. But there seemed to be something commanding the creatures of the second type. They did not attack rashly, but kept the follow-up distance at a distance of three to four hundred meters, seeming to be putting pressure on the examiners. The formation of the second-category creatures is also a medium-sized arc, which cuts in at a very suitable angle and presses the examiner team tightly, so that even if they want to evacuate, they can only passively follow the direction of the foot of the mountain. Back away.

Soon they passed the place where they stayed not long ago. There seemed to be a tacit understanding between the two. Perhaps this was the agreed rest time. The previous gunfire indicated that there had been a battle between them. At this time, they were all resting, recovering their strength, and looking for the next opportunity.

While I was thinking about this, the explosions suddenly connected together. Balls of fire rose from the middle of the team of examiners at extremely fast speeds. In the blink of an eye, the flames connected into a whole and expanded toward the surroundings. Cassia on the mountain peak only saw a large area of ​​bright red that turned into dazzling white light in an instant. When the light faded, there was only the thick smoke that turned into after the flame disappeared. A cover supported by shock waves and heat was also filled with wind. into Cassia's face.

Below, the second-type creatures that followed were all sprinting towards the smoke. They had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

"Are ferocious creatures commanding them and making these traps?" Seeing his eyes retracted from below, Cassia was more willing to believe that this was a mutual act of revenge among the assessors.

"Bang!" At the moment of thinking, when he felt an object approaching him at a high speed in the sound wave, Cassia immediately left half a meter away from the place and pressed his entire body against the rock. At this moment, a black shadow the size of an adult's head hit the spot, and sparks instantly appeared.

"A round rock?" The falling shadow bounced off the rock, then bounced and fell again and rolled towards the foot of the mountain.

The scattered sound waves spread toward the mountain area higher at this moment. Soon, Cassia saw a humanoid creature more than four meters tall moving flexibly among the rocks.