Steel steam and flame

"Let the team focus on surrounding me, and we will not make many mistakes. If the prey is found later, the attack method must also be changed. If we gather too densely, it will give him a good opportunity to launch unknown weapons. Next, let the airships join in the encirclement and suppression. Although there is a deviation in accuracy, large-scale strafing and bombing can also give the enemy a fatal blow."

"I will step up and launch another plan, and you should be careful yourself. I don't know the extent of the changes that occurred after the prey came here, but it is enough to make us vigilant." El said, and then handed the communication to Stian.

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Lying in a piece of ice and snow, only her eyes and nose were exposed. The cold made Cassia feel very comfortable, and the burning blood was somewhat relieved, but the air she exhaled was still extremely dry. The ice and snow around her nose had melted into water and seeped into it. under his body.

There was faint steam smoke coming out of the whole body, and Cassia quietly looked at the sky with dazzling light above the thunderclouds. It was only the afternoon, and it had only been a few hours since the round-up started. It felt like time passed very slowly. Ever since he hid in the ice and snow, he didn't want to move. His body felt tired, and the pain stimulated his spirit, which kept him energetic.

After staying in the uninhabited land of the volcano for a while, gaining resistance to "germs" only reduced part of the energy damage released by the circular device. This is the result of the body being stimulated to enter a scaly state. Waking up from the dream, Cassia found that her blood had become much more violent, as if she had returned to the time after the operation, and there were many things she was uncomfortable with.

But it is not without gain, at least the energy contained in the thick blood like liquid metal is several times that of the previous period. It has been almost an hour since the scaly state, but there are still some black scales on the body that have not completely disappeared. They are almost stubbornly adhered to the skin, unwilling to return to Cassia's body.

Cassia watched several airships in the sky slowly land under the thunderclouds, and knew the enemy's current plan in her heart. This gave him a long period of blank time, which not only allowed him to recover from the damage caused by the hazy white light, but also made it possible to reach the crater next to the top of the mountain in a safer and more secure way without haste. .

Her breathing gradually became calmer, and when her heartbeat returned to normal speed, Cassia stood up from the ice and snow and moved her body.

There are still six airships hovering around the top of the mountain, receiving information constantly transmitted to them from inside or on the surface of the mountain, and monitoring the visible range. These airships are equipped with telescope-like devices. As long as the distance between the two is careful, it is still possible to find Cassia moving.

For this reason, Cassia specially took off a set of enemy's clothes and put them on. The ability to auto-mimic allows him to better blend into his surroundings. From time to time, strong winds would stir up a misty snow and fog. Not long after Cassia advanced, he roughly figured out the conditions and geographical location factors for the generation of these snow and fog.

Hiding in the snow and mist and approaching the crater a few kilometers away made him go much faster. There is no obstacle from the enemy along the way. At this stage, they are focusing on the sudden gap. It will not be long before the enemy realizes that their judgment has appeared. It may be an hour or two, or it may be several hours later. It's a mistake.

The steps became slower and slower, and when the light coming from a very far distance changed its angle, Cassia, who was holding the circular device, could finally see the crater from a distance. It is an irregular circle, approximately elliptical in shape. A ring of rocks protrudes around it, covered with dark blue ice, shaped like a calm lake gradually sinking into the ground.

The crater was very large, and Cassia realized at this moment that the mountain peak she had just come over was just a raised, higher outer edge of the crater. The irritability she felt at the foot of the mountain rose up in her heart, and after exhaling a breath of hot breath, Cassia looked at the time, and it would be evening soon.

Carefully approaching the crater, Cassia slid down from the outer edge and came to the hard ice. A slight tremor in the morning indicates that the volcano is in the awakening stage. There were some white cracks on the ice. The broken ice there melted, and small pools of water were visible.

It's not as cold as the mountain peaks here. Most of the wind is blocked by the outer edge, and the snow and fog raised even become a blurry cover, blocking the sky above. The surrounding temperature is several degrees higher, and the dark color of a piece of lava that has been condensed for hundreds of years can be seen under the ice. There were wisps of light smoke emerging from the cracks in the ice dust, along with a string of bubbles full of sulfur smell.

Cassia walked through most of the solid ice, trying to find a weak point where the lava condensed. The huge volcano seems to be on the verge of erupting, but Cassia knows that this is only the first sign. If he wants to wait for it to erupt naturally, most of the time will be calculated in weeks or months. And under the current situation, it is very likely that the volcano will remain in this state for several years. There are not many incentives. Even if enough power is accumulated, the energy required to break through the blockade and oppression of the volcano itself is extremely huge.

Cassia expected that the volcano under his feet would be in the state he imagined. With just a little strong stimulation, the energy could be completely spewed out in a very short period of time.

Finding a weak point, Cassia picked up the circular device and smashed it down hard. The hardness of the ice layer did not even have the chance to leave scratches on it. After a "bang" sound, a two- to three-meter-deep pit appeared under Cassia's feet. White cracks like snowflakes spread out, and soon stopped growing, maintaining a specific size range.

At this time, the "bang bang" sound of the circular device turning into a "ding--" sound of metal colliding with each other. The ice layer is very thick, and after a few meters of depth, its hardness is not much worse than that of ordinary steel. If the circular device is hit, it will only splash out fist-sized ice cubes, and the depth will decrease very slowly.

I switched to a musket, and after firing all the bullets, the depth dropped again by one or two meters. After moving out the scattered ice cubes, the color of the condensed lava became much clearer under the ice layer, and one could clearly see the curved lines left by time on it. Leaving himself less than half of the bullets, Cassia used the revolver to destroy the increasingly hard ice. The effect was not obvious. The power of the blue silver bullet directly caused the ice layer to explode, and the scattered cracks made the crystal ice blurred. Although the bullet had sunk in, if you wanted to remove the broken ice cubes, you would have to expand the surrounding area.

This is very similar to digging a hole. Without specialized tools, you can only dig deeper layer by layer in a circular trapezoidal manner. The initial area actually determines the final depth. And now at a depth of several meters, the sky above has also been cut into shapes. The temperature suddenly dropped a lot, and cracks appeared to appear in the ice. In fact, within ten seconds, those cracks froze and stuck together again. Only the color remains,

"I hope it won't cause the enemy to notice." Cassia thought this way. He was worried that the large amount of steam mist generated would reveal his current position, but in the end he pulled out the pneumatic sword.