Steel steam and flame

Heavy rain, heavy snow and hail show no signs of stopping. The cold wind blowing from the depths of the endless sea has a vague tendency to slowly become stronger. The canopy layer hundreds of meters above the ancient tree has been making a roaring sound, which has become the scene at this moment. The best disturbing ambient noise for all the creatures hiding in the forest.

Asking Cassia to stay where he was and not move around, Cassia put down the second generation holy sword, fixed it on his back, and then jumped down. The second-generation Holy Sword, which weighs more than half a ton, is not suitable for carrying when conducting external reconnaissance. In the forest area close to the Endless Sea, the air carries the salty and fishy smell of seawater all year round, and the humidity makes the land far more humid than in the inland forest area. Soft, even though the rain and snow at the moment can very well erase traces of footsteps, smells, etc., the depth of the footprints is too obvious, which will expose more information in a short time.

Hiding the temperature and breath, Cassia recalled the ground information collected while flying along the outline of the Endless Sea, and leaned towards an area where no one might have passed. The brain also has information about the recent period provided by Hai, but comparing it to what was observed in mid-air can only serve as a reference.

Slowly unfolding his mental perception, and in the environment where the sound wave pulse was affected, Cassia moved forward at a slower speed, always allowing the body that automatically mimicked the environment to hide under the shadow of several ancient tree trunks. The purpose of coming here a few months ago was different from now. It was only then that Cassia regained the feeling of fighting in the forest.

The body is adapting, and the speed and effect are exceeding expectations. After traveling less than a few thousand meters, just like the shadows created by lights everywhere in the city at night, this action that requires active control has become almost instinctive. .

Going more than ten kilometers away, Cassia found nothing worth noting. Two second-class creatures were observed, hiding more than ten meters below the ground, like bears entering hibernation early, but regarding pollution, neither intuition nor conscious exploration produced signals.

"The self-cleaning properties of the southern forests make it less likely to survive pollution. Or are we the ones who came here later in time, and the possibility of encountering pollution is not as good as before?"

Already fifteen or sixteen kilometers away, Cassia climbed to the middle of an ancient tree, breathing the cold and moist air and thinking——

On the way here, Cassie and I hacked the place where he died. We originally thought there would be useful clues, but what we saw was not the scorched earth as imagined, nor a patch of vigorous radiation-affected plants. It is a deep pit with a diameter of several thousand meters that has become a lake...

Due to the radiation pollution spread by the uranium and gold, the soil, trees, etc. in the entire area were dug away one after another during the period, leaving nothing behind. No one was guarding there. After all, except for the air, everything that could be taken away was packed and shipped back to the empire. There was no condition to hide anything.

Without some clues, the only things of value in the forest are polluted and temporarily inaccessible fragments of the ancient historical world tree.

Based on the currently known information, the next batch of contaminated dragons are already on their way to the extreme areas of Houxiang Continent. As for where they will land, there is currently no detailed information. The polluted dragons themselves have no hope, and even if they are encountered, their lowest stage is the average strength starting from the fifth stage, and with the influence of pollution, the destructive power will only be more shocking. This reminded him of the second-class creatures that were transformed by the Avalon Agency in the knight squire assessment, and there was no possibility of success for him and Cassie Hei to join forces.

The target is still the spread of pollution, attached to ancient trees, or to the second type of creatures. As long as there is pollution, it can become a target.

In addition, Cassia thought about the intelligence information about the will of the new world tree.

He already knows a little about underground creatures and the underground world. Below the southern forest is the largest entrance to the underground world on the Three-Phase Continent. There has been no movement. This is entirely because of the new world tree and the dragons that are resident and alternate here. categories.

If the pollution comes from the underground world, it should have been analyzed by scientific research institutions in the human world long ago. But until now it has entered the field of vision of most people, the only reason he can think of is that this time the pollution was due to the intervention of the third general, bringing something belonging to the root network of the ancient historical World Tree.

From the very beginning, the cleaning up of pollution did not attract the attention of various families and forces, and it became a problem that was avoided by each other. After a short time, the surgeons began to spontaneously go to extreme areas to hunt and collect pollution. Perhaps it was the cause of this pollution. The peculiarity was discovered.

Do you really just want to distract the attention of the various families and forces on Houxiang Continent and bring chaos to the desired level? Or does the third general have another hidden purpose?

Cassia knew that this was not a question that his keen sense of smell found. The four forces, the military, etc. would probably think about this issue. If it is related to the root network of the world tree in ancient history, it will definitely become the focus of attention.

Shortly after resting on the ancient tree, Cassia followed the trunk to the ground and continued walking through the cold rain. This time he didn't stop until he was twenty-five or six kilometers away. Finally, as evening approached, he discovered traces of other operators through his mental perception.

The twelve-person team was dressed in dark gray raincoats, and each person carried a large backpack full of ammunition. More than half of them carried detachable individual aerial bomb launchers and a total of four aerial bombs.

The team moved forward silently in the heavy rain. Cassia then quickly closed the distance with them, sneaking within a hundred meters, and followed them all the way for nearly ten kilometers before finally hearing someone among them speaking in standard Imperial dialect: "Take turns to rest and watch. Start with a small team."

It was the captain who spoke, "After midnight tonight, the heavy rain may turn into complete heavy snow, mixed with hail, just like the previous few days. It's very tiring for everyone to go back and forth to the temporary supply trading point, but it only takes three days to return to the hunting ground. Days and days, keep at it.”

As he said that, the captain patted the weapons and raincoat on his body, "It's just two ends. We changed into a whole new set of equipment, prepared supplies, and bought an aerial bomb launcher. Even so, we still have close to five One million holy coins have not been used. According to the intelligence, the next polluted dragon species will not land until more than two weeks later. During this period, it will be enough for us to do two more businesses."

"After we finish, we can choose to rest for a while..."