Steel steam and flame

I don’t know if it’s the right decision, but having the opportunity to leave these invisible help may play an unexpected role at some time in the future, Cassia thought before taking a break. By now, with the improvement of his understanding and knowledge, he understood more and more how huge a power or family that was deeply rooted in the empire would be. That is a complete structural system, like an ecology that is completely connected from top to bottom. The person who stands at the top and holds the control does have tremendous power.

But fortunately, there is more than one such family force in the empire, and Cassia doesn't know why she feels lucky. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that countless possibilities can emerge from the gap between them. Otherwise, when the empire becomes as solid as an iron plate, the erosion of germs from top to bottom will infect everything it belongs to in an instant.

It was a terrible state and scene. Cassia breathed out a breath, cleared these irrelevant thoughts and entered a semi-sleep state.

"Are you still there?" Not far away, Lucius asked Na'e Mi with the touch of his fingers. The two of them were destined to not be able to rest well. In such an open area without any cover, the two of them really couldn't figure out how to deal with danger. All hopes were placed on Cassia. From the fact that he simply blocked the snake with his forehead and caused it to be killed by his own ejection force, it could be seen that Cassia's strength was much higher than theirs.

"I don't know." Although her eyes were closed, Na'e's eyes kept moving. Not knowing Cassia's temper, the two of them didn't dare to interrupt rashly. After all, if they had other ideas, they had no power to resist at all. "They can't feel the body temperature."

Na'e Mi kept trying, but the only things she could feel were Lucius and herself beside her.

"Can his body not perform any activities? Even if the body temperature can be controlled, it cannot last for such a long time. It must return to normal within a certain period of time to supply basic heat to various organs in the body. But... ,," Falling into unanswered conjectures, Na'e fans recalled the information they had read in their family, but none of them could be used on Cassia. I don't know how long it lasted, but my head finally couldn't hold on any longer, and the fatigue accumulated in my body expanded in a weird feeling of relief. The two of them rested one after another, leaving behind a feeling that was about ten meters away from their bodies.

At five o'clock in the morning the next day, Na'emi and Lucius woke up. The surroundings were still dark, and he couldn't see anything at all. He could only rely on the sound of breathing to confirm that there were other people around.

Panic and fear of the pervading darkness prevented them from even thinking of lying down again. "I will call you tomorrow morning." After receiving such a promise, the two of them still felt unreliable. They knew that if Cassia wanted to leave, he could disappear quietly without them noticing.

"Mr. Tussos?" Na'emi called out softly, but there was no response. Lucius reached for his backpack at this time, trying to take out high-energy fuel to light it.

"Continue to rest, the light is still too weak." Cassia "saw" Lucius's movement and interrupted it in time. "Don't try to create light in the dark. A little light can be detected by creatures and examiners far away. catch."

Seeing the two of them sitting still, Cassia said comfortingly: "Don't worry about me leaving alone. The route is the same. As long as you don't cause trouble, I won't mind if you follow me."

It was already three hours since we set off. In the gray-black world, Na'emi and Lucius were always tense. A slight sluggishness in their footsteps can cause them to lose Cassia's figure in a few seconds. The rush turned into a tug-of-war of physical strength. Even if they followed the traces left by Cassia, after two or three hours, white smoke gradually emitted from their bodies. Looking at Cassia and Na'emi in front of her, there were still only cold colors representing a cold environment.

"Monster." Na'e's fan had already made a conclusion in her mind.

Cassia walked in front, and the black shadow of the mountain peak got closer and closer. The black and white mountain is like the scars left by the wind and snow on its body, with a cold and harsh atmosphere. The traces in the snow gradually become more numerous as we get closer to the mountain. Frozen corpses of second-category creatures appear frequently, but there are more examiners.

Passing by a battlefield, dozens of assessors were fighting with a group of second-category creatures. The corpses were frozen into ice statues and remained in place, with the impact area being close to one thousand meters. I don’t know whether they were surrounded or actively besieged. Avoiding the battlefield, Cassia slowed down a bit at this time, because several gunshots could be heard from time to time. Any mountain peak was a gathering place for examiners, and battles would become more frequent here. .

"Pay more attention to your surroundings." Cassia said to Na'emi and Lucius. He expected to reach the foot of the mountain in an hour or two after noon, and he didn't know what he would encounter along the way. But it is certain that the second-category creatures will gather here consciously, and the Imperial Council will not let the assessors hide.

From the moment she could see the blurry black shadow of the mountain peak, Na'emi had been spreading her temperature perception to its maximum range. She wanted to do something to help the current team, which is not a team. Everyone should use their own abilities to increase the survival rate of the three of them, she thought. But looking at the man who had been silent for a long time in front of her, she felt that her idea was unreliable.

When she was thinking this, Lucius pulled her on the side. Following Lucius' gaze, Cassia had already given them a stop signal with her hands behind her back, and at the same time naturally drew out the pneumatic sword.

There was something more than eight or nine meters buried in the snow on the left front, and the ubiquitous sound made Cassia almost no blind spots in this environment. If possible, he could also "see" things more than ten meters deep under the ice.

Na'e was as confused as Lucius, but also felt fear. Because they can't feel anything, under this vast white snow, they are patients suffering from snow blindness. Apart from the dazzling white, there is nothing else.

And just as they were sighing, a sharp air explosion sounded. The two of them saw that the calm snow on the left front was instantly divided into a channel, and a solid white shadow faced the channel at the same time. The impact passed. The next moment, amid the ear-piercing screams, a long, bright tongue suddenly appeared and was cut in half. The flat lizard, which was less than half a meter tall, immediately jumped up from the snow. Its four legs, which seemed too small compared to its body, almost spun around, and it fled back quickly with it.

At the same time, several people jumped out of the snow behind them. They immediately raised their guns and attacked fiercely. They did not stop shooting until the chameleon's body froze into ice and was broken into pieces by bullets.

"Thank you!" Several people behind him saw Cassia put away the pneumatic sword, and then they came over and said. They had been squatting in the snow for hours.

Shaking her head, Cassia continued on her way, but unknowingly, the small team grew again. The five people who were surrounded by the chameleon just now also followed. Soon after, Cassia met other teams of assessors rushing to the foot of the mountain. It seems to be a default rule, they are all far apart, and each follows their own route.

After noon, under the pressure, Cassia could already see the sharp edges and corners on the dark mountain top. On a small open mountain rock without much snow, probably close to a thousand people gathered there peacefully, each waiting for his team members to arrive. The atmosphere was a bit stiff, but it was better than not being violent.

This is the outermost mountain peak in the assessment area, and they would choose to meet here, which to a large extent shows that these people will be the foil for others. It is indeed difficult for the small families and small forces in the empire to generate the power to attack the solid barriers of the four forces. Even if they do exist, they will be seriously insufficient in number.