Steel steam and flame

The orders were given with gestures and silently. A smaller team member stood up at this time, handed his backpack and weapons to the people nearby, and then leaned down and followed the compaction marks into the snow. While following the traces, the man would stand up at a relatively even distance to indicate the team's real-time direction.

At a leisurely pace, he encountered a few deviations in the traces. Then several other people also got into the snow, and the traces used to confuse them suddenly lost their effect.

There are only a few traces deliberately set by Cassia, and the distance is less than three thousand meters long. But by the time Andrew determined the ice cave where Cassia was hiding, it was already two or three hours later. He did not choose to approach rashly. After confirming the specific location, Andrew asked the team to move a few hundred meters away. At this time, several captains took the bombs prepared at night and quietly approached there.

While following the traces, Andrew asked all members of the team to take off their shoes and walk barefoot so that there was almost no sound. The captains placed steel-cased bombs in a circle around the ice cave, and all set mechanical start switches with alloy wires. After this was completed, the thirty or so people dispersed. Several of them were snipers on higher ground in the distance, while the remaining people were separated by a certain distance, forming a fan-shaped formation to cover the entrance of the ice cave buried in the snow. Surrounded.

The ice cave is not big, but it is quite large. Andrew estimated that it was roughly equivalent to a circular area with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and the depth from the cavity to the surface of the ice layer was several meters. The year-round freezing made it impossible for them to be destroyed by firearms in a short period of time. Someone in the team carried artillery, but Andrew didn't think that a few rounds could blast through such a thick layer of ice.

At this time, a captain made a gesture and asked if he needed to bring someone in for a surprise attack. Andrew did not answer immediately and looked ahead quietly. The ice layer has become a natural barrier between the two. If the remaining more than a hundred people following behind can arrive at this time, there is no need to consider the loss required to destroy the ice layer. But now, in order to rush on the road, and also considering the nature of the enemy, without ammunition to meet the saturated fire suppression, Andrew has always been unwilling to let these people fight in close combat with the enemy.

"The impact of the left shoulder injury is still uncertain. After the enemy enters the scaly state, the only ones who can resist a little are me and a few captains. Even if they are equipped with blue and silver bullets, there are no heavy weapons to change the firepower. It must be powerful, and relying solely on fire blunderbuss is always a bit inferior." After thinking for a moment, Andrew still believed that he needed to understand the enemy's current situation first.

Waving to one of the captains, Andrew asked him to lead five people to start clearing the snow that buried the entrance to the ice cave, while the others stood on guard.

The movements seemed gentle and slow. The several people cleared the snow very quickly, without the upper limit of ordinary human physical strength. Within a few minutes, a gentle slope-like depression appeared in front of everyone. There is also a slight gap exposed at the entrance of the ice cave. Through him he could see only darkness in the ice cave and the dead, dry air.

It was so quiet, not even air was flowing inside. The temperature sensing was the same as at the beginning, nothing was captured, and even after careful listening, there was no sound. At this time, Andrew tightened his clothes filled with special steel-cased bombs. Under a few silent orders, the two captains each led three people to both sides of the entrance, and shot several flares in succession through the gap.

White light illuminated the ice cave. In the bright light of about ten meters per second, the eyes of more than a dozen people glanced at it from various positions. There was nothing gained, just some traces that someone had been here, the most obvious was the black box at the end of the ice cave, which contained two firecrackers that had not been taken away.

It suddenly became a competition of patience. Andrew did not act rashly. Several captains swept away a piece of snow and pressed against the ice to catch the sound, trying to determine whether the enemy was moving in the ice cave. Seeing that there were no results, Andrew asked the two captains and several other members to dig out several blocks of ice from elsewhere and compact the snow at the entrance to reveal a larger observation space.

Still unable to observe anything, Andrew then asked the two captains to take several people one after another to carefully go into the ice cave to check. Others followed closely behind, and the formation spread out, which ensured that a larger range and stronger firepower assistance could be provided in emergencies.

"Evacuate immediately if there is any situation." Before giving the order, Andrew said with a gesture, "There must be a trap set by the enemy in the ice cave."

I don’t know when it started, but Andrew could already capture the rising heartbeats of some people in the team. This is a very normal situation, because he also feels a lot of pressure.

A captain led three members into the ice cave. The remains of the signal flare just now fell on the ice, and a little residual smoke was still coming out. Four lines of sight instantly scanned the inside of the ice cave. As soon as one person made a gesture indicating that no enemy was found and was waiting to be observed, a tactical knife was deeply inserted into his neck and penetrated directly.

As blood spurted out, the sound of gunshots echoed with a rumble. Only the captain got out in time, and the other two's bodies and brains exploded, and they fell heavily at the entrance.

Several signal flares followed up and poured into the ice cave. Several team members with shooting angles had already begun to fire bursts at the general area where the enemy was hiding. The formation quickly closed in on those people, and ice cubes flew with crossfire. After three or four breaths, dozens of steel-cased bombs with counting down accurately rolled down on the uneven inner wall of the ice cave like chess pieces and exploded with a bang.

At this moment, nearly half of the people, led by several captains and Andrew, fired indiscriminately at the explosion area while rushing into the ice cave in a few steps.

The violently flowing air already smelled of gunpowder smoke. Andrew squinted his eyes and directed the team to disperse. At the same time, his exposed skin was completely covered by a layer of rough white substance. It looks like an exoskeleton, but it's not as hard as a bone. The white substance is in the shape of a thick film with some wrinkles and sticks to the body.

As he took a few steps, the thin film was filled with something, and the visible wrinkles disappeared instantly, but it still looked rough. His body also swelled with the filling of the thin film material, his clothes had several tears, and the special steel-cased bombs hanging all over his body were also highlighted, growing like tumors on his body.

The team members' gun muzzles were all discussed for a moment, and the ballistic lines were visibly changed, and now they were all focused on Andrew.

"Dong Dong Dong!" Clusters of bullets hit Andrew, making a hollow sound like rocks hitting a deep pool.