Steel steam and flame

After erasing the traces on the ice, Andrew looked at the flames in front of him and calculated the next things and steps in his head. The first thing is to hide yourself well. In his opinion, both of them are guys with extremely keen sense of smell and do not allow the slightest mistake. The first thing he will do after being discovered is most likely to be attacked by two ferocious wolves.

Absolutely unbearable, Andrew smiled involuntarily, which made him look a little weird as he remained silent by the fire. But as long as wolves remain animals and do not evolve into humans, they will never escape the fate of being slowly domesticated or hunted. This is a sentence from Andrew's favorite book, and he thinks he is very similar to the author of the book, at least in terms of ideas.

Soon after, he left the fire and ordered the captain to select a group of thirty members with the strongest overall strength from more than a hundred people to form another team. This is the person who needs to follow him as a guarantee to seize the opportunity. The rest are used as follow-up fire support or obstacles to delay time.

The plan was formulated almost overnight. Andrew asked the more than 70 people to leave the resting place before dawn and dispersed to collect intelligence on the nearby area, while he and the main troops waited for news. Distance is probably the best way to hide. Andrew firmly believes in this sentence and takes every step carefully.

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In the white world of ice and snow, a total of ten people were hiking on a ridge covered with scattered snow. A large backpack filled with enough supplies was hung on his back, and he was uniformly covered with a long windbreaker that could automatically mimic, but it was only tied around the waist. With the light metal zipper on the inner layer, it seemed that most of the cold could be kept out. .

Occasionally there was the sound of stepping on loose rocks, but other than that, the only sounds left around the ten people were the slight friction between clothes and the sound of unconcealed and suppressed breathing.

It took about an hour to climb over this broad and spreading ridge area. The person walking at the front of the team seemed to know that the people behind him might be tired. He looked around and led the team to a rolling area. In the low-lying area where the boulder fell, he chose a more secluded location and ordered to start resting.

"Nonoska!" someone shouted, walked out of the team, handed over the food, and looked at the black clouds in the sky with Nonoska, "The temperature dropped a lot the day before yesterday, I think it was probably related to the endless It's relevant there, but I don't know if it will affect what we want to do."

"Probably not. I'm just going to visit an inconspicuous ancient ruins. I'll complete the task by rubbing the things there. Compared to another thing that I still have no clue about, this is very, very easy." Nuo Nosca sighed, "Hilaryli, unknowingly we went from the giant ocean-going ship Venetus to the Far Sea Commonwealth, and then after two or three weeks, we arrived in the Saint Dorag Empire for several months. Alright."

Seemingly infected by Nonoska's exclamation, Hillary showed the same expression: "When I received the notice while I was on vacation at home, I knew this would not be a good thing."

"The target is in the same area as us." As if it was a joke, Nonoska laughed first, "But there is still nothing we can do. The protection personnel on the side are enough for us to try to sneak in. It’s even more impossible. Fortunately, the Kiris family has found the target, and they can start taking action after this assessment is over.”

"It all depends on Chilman's work. He is responsible for the processing of intelligence information. I hope that after we go back this time, our investigation results and his results will be able to shut up the people in the Theocracy. That's good. If you chase too hard and rush too quickly, not only will you not be able to provide any help, but it will actually cause some people to make mistakes due to time issues. We are no longer in the church. If you make a mistake here, you will be hunted by the power of this empire. .”

"It's actually quite good to drag it like this. The fatigue accumulated from the last voyage has not completely disappeared. From time to time, I can still vaguely hear the sound of waves hitting the hull while resting." Nonoska withdrew her gaze and looked at Hillary, the topic also changed, "The Kiris family has been immersed in the empire's environment for a long time, and has deteriorated slightly. I am worried about whether they can survive until our mission is completed before they completely withdraw from the control of the Theocracy. Be honest. "I'm also worried, Chilman. There are hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in the Far Sea Commonwealth on the Venetus. Most of them are people who came in advance to prepare for the early exploration of the war. They have the same mission as us." To thousands of people. Compared with the Kiris family that has already survived and taken root in the empire, it is not worthy of praise at all."

"So I have always said that this is not a good job. It seems that the mission is very clear - bring the target's body back intact, except that the brain can be properly damaged. Within the Theocracy, this is of course very simple, but this is Saint Dora In the Georgian Empire, it is difficult enough just to determine the general information and location of the target. It is still unclear how strong and dangerous the target is, but with the contemporary Pope personally issuing the order, it is not difficult to see how difficult the task itself is."

"At the moment it seems like nothing more than a hunting operation with relatively harsh conditions, but when it comes to the actual confrontation, it might turn into a firepower competition with the army." Nonoska recalled the bad things , with an inexplicable smile. It's like aftertaste, but also like fear.

"Just like when we set off on a long-distance fleet decades ago." Hillary sighed several times in succession, and her voice changed at this time. It was imitating the sharp tone of a commander who had not yet boarded the ship when the fleet set sail. Voice, "This is for the Theocracy, and even for human exploration. We will see all kinds of new things, just record them..."

After learning a few words, I realized I didn’t want to say them anymore. Hillary finally ended it: “Fortunately, this commander died in the church during our thirty-year voyage. Otherwise, I would like to be among those who are still alive. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to kill him."

As evening approached, the small team of ten people once again passed several peaks while moving forward. It was not safe at night, so Nonoska chose to let the team rest in a cave.

Next to the fire, he took out a map and compared the current position of the team: "The journey will be over in half a day." He pointed to the circled position on the map, which was a huge mountain peak. The map shows that it is several times the size of most peaks. There are a dozen such peaks on this map, while there are hundreds of other smaller peaks in comparison.

Another drawing that looked like a structural diagram of a steam machine showed that there was a semicircular gap at the top of the mountain. The flashing cross star there represented that there was a strong light flashing in the semicircular gap. There are also ribbons of rays to represent the bright light emanating from the cross, breaking through thick clouds and disappearing into the sea where the islands are populated.

The two different drawings jointly show that this mountain peak is not only one of the symbols of the island community when it was not frozen, but also a super giant lighthouse pointing the way to the nearby sea.