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One day later, the two arrived at a supply place buried by the Webley family. But there was only a small amount of food and a few weapons and ammunition left, and someone had already arrived there in advance. But the remaining items were enough for the two of them. During the journey, Ye Jielin used the medicines obtained from her family's biological laboratory and rarely encountered second-category creatures. For reviewers, because the route is safe and remote enough, so far there has been no problem that the two of them could not solve together.

After taking the supplies and moving forward for a while, when the shadow of a mountain gradually became clear in their sight, Iyeta and Ye Jielin separated and went to the place agreed with Hai alone.

Because she did not rush to the gathering place within the family within the stipulated time, the only person Ye Jielin trusted during the assessment was Cassia. As a result, with her current strength, it seems that she can't do anything and can only look around. Just like when taking part in the assessment, the Webley family has the same view on those of them who are in the second stage of the operation. Feel the atmosphere. If you can survive to the end of the assessment without relying on the strength of other members of the family, it will be your victory.

There were still a day or two before the appointed time, so Ye Jielin did not go to the foot of the established mountain to wait immediately, but chose to observe the surroundings. She considered whether to join a team during this period to train herself.

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"Clan Leader, the plan has been launched, and the early batch of experimental creatures have been released. Within the next day, all the creatures we brought in in the assessment area will be liberated."

"Have the traces been dealt with cleanly? After all, this is an assessment led by the Imperial Council, and the Avalon Agency is still behind it. Once it is discovered that these things are mixed into the assessment, emergency measures will definitely be taken. In this case, we cannot achieve our goals Purpose. You know, these creatures were originally sold to our big customers in the Flame Alliance." Torvillest saw someone walking into his room and slowly woke up from his rest. His eyes soon became bright. He had not dealt with anything in the past few days, and had been waiting for his subordinates to report on the latest progress of the assessment.

"It has been set up. There may be a deviation in time, but it is not significant. Within a week, without specially prepared inhibitors, they will all die due to body failure. We have not yet solved the effect of dragon tissue erosion." The man's words made Torvillest feel a little more at ease.

"As for the experimental subjects, a total of twenty-three were released. This time there was no tracking team. I am very worried about their condition. They have strength, but their minds are still blank. Especially No. 0, there are other arrangements Is the person around?"

"I think the situation should not be bad. Because the imperial communication airship controls the air domain in the assessment area, we don't know the specific status yet, but before the assessment started, you have also read the detailed data. Patriarch. Comparatively Next, in terms of personal hard power, the experimental subjects still have the advantage. And I think No. 0 is the least to worry about. All the physical data are top-notch among the experimental subjects in the circle. And for safety and insurance, the solid state in his body is Red mercury is a product of the Theocracy, which we snatched from Cassia. The only unstable factor may be the control of this power. Before the assessment, he was only in the training ground of the experimental site. I have fought with some second-category creatures."

"Then we can only sit here and wait for the news after the assessment..." There was fatigue in his words. Tovilest was already over a hundred years old, and most of this time was spent on himself. experiments, or in other words condensed on two experimental subjects. One is No. 1, which was originally created to extract unstable factors in the middle of the experiment. However, compared with the accuracy of human control, the self-evolution of living things is still far higher than human capabilities, resulting in Finally completely lost control. Now Number Zero is the biggest bargaining chip in his hand. Many things and data must start from Number Zero in order to take a complete step.

"At present, facing the Imperial Council and the Avalon Agency, we really can only wait here."

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We have arrived at the edge of the second mountain peak, and there are still two mountain peaks far apart from the agreed place. The gradually increasing cold wind kept Cassia traveling at a high speed. Along the way, he would occasionally encounter teams specifically designed to hunt down other examiners. Although there is not much threat to him, he can always find those lurking in advance. At this moment, Cassia no longer thought about avoiding or watching those people's actions towards her. What happened on the airship made him understand that assessments are assessments. He was originally a part of the Imperial Council's calculations, and sometimes giving in would lead to even greater trouble.

They are all solved relatively easily. After all, the most powerful group of examinees are not bored enough to do these things. All their efforts and plans were spent on the last thirty-six ferocious creatures, and other people in the family would take care of these trivial matters.

As for the second type of creatures, because the route needs to pass through an assessment center area, a period of time has passed, and the increase in their desire to attack and hunger has made them even more violent. Among them, Cassia also encountered an unusually ferocious creature with chameleon-like protective scales all over its body. Although its size was comparable to that of an ordinary animal, its strength, speed, and bite force were beyond what Cassia had ever seen in the assessment area. The most top-notch.

It took a long time to solve it, and then Cassia wanted to fill her stomach and discovered the difference in the creature when she dissected the body. It can be seen as a sheep that has been changed by the environment. Herbivores are equally ferocious when they become carnivores. After death, the scales naturally turn to blood color. The skin on the body is more like some kind of inhibitor, because when the skin is broken open, there is no obvious blood, but a lot of severely compressed proliferating dragon tissue vying to expand, with a lot of The activity was so high that it lasted for more than half an hour at extremely low temperatures before it completely lost its activity.

The strength and speed may be derived from these compressed dragon tissues. Cassia spent some time to completely dissect the entire corpse. Some structures and newly extended organ structures caught his attention. The compression of dragon tissue is one thing, and the fine blood vessels throughout the hard horns are another.

Writing this down, Cassia naturally thought about asking the old professors when she went back. But later I realized that this convenience may no longer be available in the future.

"If you decide to build your own power and team, you will need to recruit various professional talents." Cassia sighed, and the speed of the journey became even faster at that time.

We are aware of the danger of this creature. The number is currently unknown, but the threat is far greater than other second-category creatures. If they form a group, Cassia believes that even the big alliance that Na'e Mi will be in soon will not be able to resist.

Afterwards, Cassia just focused on her way, trying to avoid unnecessary fights with other assessors. On the afternoon of the fifth day after the assessment began, Cassia successfully arrived at the foot of the scheduled mountain peak. He rested in the surrounding snow, and after his physical strength had basically recovered, he walked to the agreed-upon location and prepared to wait there in advance.

The location is not really at the foot of the mountain, it is just an accurate mark, and it still has to go a lot further out. Fortunately, there were no examiners around, so Cassia kept clinging to the exposed rocks visible at the foot of the mountain as she rushed over. He is relying on sound to detect some places that can be used as temporary resting places.

A blizzard could come any time on the sixth day. The power of the cold wind has stirred up a lot of snow and fog. When a snowstorm comes, the snowflakes will be ground into snow crystal dust in the air, turning into a mist-like thing that covers the entire sky. The surface of the snow at this moment is shaped like the surface of a hot spring in winter, with white mist rolling over it. It's not a good time to travel after a snowstorm starts. Hail that can fall at any time can be accelerated by hurricanes, and its small size will have no impact. But this is the tundra, and Cassia has no expectations for the weather here.

Lying down in the snow around the predetermined location, Cassia exhaled, let go of her senses and closed her eyes. It was still afternoon, and there were still about three hours before it would get completely dark.

"I hope I can come here within this time." Cassia thought, the snow brought by the wind quickly covered him, and the intensity of the blizzard began to show its power. If we wait until tomorrow, the journey will become more difficult.

At this time, we started to think about food issues. The snowstorm will last for about a week before it subsides. The middle period of time is almost the time for all examiners to stay in caves and ice caves to rest temporarily, and the same is true for the second-category creatures. Finding food can become difficult then.

Just immersed in his thoughts, Cassia later transferred the assessment map he had written down into his head and began to refine the plan after the snowstorm stopped. After the blizzard, thirty-six ferocious creatures will be released soon, and the true face of the assessment will be revealed. It has been rare to meet examiners in recent times. Except for that alliance, Cassia has not met more than a hundred examiners so far.

But there will be a big difference later. A large number of people will gather around the thirty-six ferocious creatures. Judging from the largest identity number known, the number of people participating in the assessment this time is close to 400,000. Half of them have been removed due to various reasons in advance, which is still a large number.

The gunshot interrupted Cassia's thinking shortly afterwards. It took nearly a minute or two before someone intruded in the sound ripples. The speed is very fast, and the moving position is not a straight line, but an irregular serpentine route that Cassia is very familiar with. It is a way of traveling that almost all surgeons must master to avoid the fire network.

Just as he was thinking that the battle between other examiners might have spread here, a shout in the wind and snow completely awakened Cassia's body, which had almost fallen into a state of rest.

"Cassia, there are three people behind you!" It was still the same voice, but now Cassia heard it with a different flavor. Perhaps it is because he is worried about encountering powerful examiners and second-category creatures during this period, or perhaps he will disappear for a long time soon, and communications and messages will be erased by time.

For the first time, I feel that I have been very lucky in the past two years. I have been able to meet trustworthy friends and learn from them some methods of living well in this world.

A pair of bright cross pupils bloomed in the snow, and Cassia felt strange for a moment. After turning on the rejection reaction this time, the induction force field that had a great influence on me in the past few times seemed to have completely disappeared, but my body was still relaxed and energetic, which was enhanced by the induction force field.

Without thinking much, Cassia turned over in the snow, put her hands and feet on the ground, and approached the target directly based on the sound detection. This may be because when he invaded Cassie Hei's body in the southern forest, he awakened a part of the hidden instinct memory. When the idea of ​​crawling forward appeared in his head, he did not need to actively control it, and his arms and legs were squirming in the muscles. Below, slight deformations have occurred. Even though the change is small, it has to be said that this greatly improves the speed of crawling.

At this moment, it seemed that he had really turned into a dragon without wings and tail. At the same time, under Cassia's control, a piece of alloy spikes two to three millimeters long appeared on the shoes and gloves at the same time. The Webley family was specially designed for freezing. The original environment design was originally intended to be used on ice, but the stronger friction further increased the crawling speed on hard rocks.

The rolling snow mist on the snow prevented Cassia's movements from being noticed by the three people in the sound ripples, and the temperature sensing was also unable to capture Cassia moving in the snow.

Ye Jielin continued to shout loudly toward the front. She remembered that the approximate meeting place agreed upon was here. But the surrounding snow and fog had the same effect on her and the enemy. At this moment, she had no idea that just a second or two ago, Cassia had already slipped through the snow beside her.

Within tens of seconds, Cassia came to a person's side, less than ten meters away. At this time, the limbs were like giant frogs. In the muffled sound, the natural mimicking function of the clothes made the snow-white Cassia leap diagonally out of the snow. At the same time, he pulled out the tactical knife in mid-air.

At a distance of just ten meters, Cassia leaped over the enemy in less than a second. From a top-down perspective, he could clearly see the enemy slowly turning his head to check the source of the sound, and the expression on his face. vigilance and doubts.

The two crossed each other in the spreading snow and fog. When Cassia dived into the snow again as if she was diving into water, blood was flowing out from one side of the target's head and ears, and his body was immediately blown by the cold wind. Fall down.

On the other side, Cassia landed on the ground and rolled a few times to remove the inertial force from her body. Then her body made a big spin and was already approaching another target.

Because the dead person had no chance to make any sound, and the muffled sound was somewhat offset by the sound of the wind, the remaining two people were not alert.

Maybe his teammate's disappearance for a few seconds wasn't enough to attract attention, Cassia thought as she stopped in the snow. At this moment, his arm also grabbed forward in an instant, and then pulled it towards himself with great force. The enemy's running body was pulled directly into the snow. When he reacted, he subconsciously pressed the trigger, but only fired a few times at the sky. Then a hand passed through the snow and held his neck.

The last person finally noticed the movement and immediately called out the name of his teammates.

There was no hesitation. The instinctive response at this moment was much faster than his thinking. When the words fell, he had already fired several shots at the location where the gunshots were heard. But I couldn't feel what I had hit at all.

He immediately squatted and moved while calling his teammates' names again, but there was no response. For about ten seconds, it seemed that he was the only one left. In the world separated by snow and fog, he felt as if he had entered another world line.

No longer moving, he breathed out gently. Just as he was about to take a deep breath to calm his breathing and heartbeat and reduce his sense of existence, a bullet opened a semicircular channel on the surface of the snow in the snow fog, accurately Smashed his head. The gunshot then passed through his body and drifted into the distance.

When Cassia stood up and walked into the body to see if she could find some food, Ye Jielin came out of the snow and fog.

After taking off the mask, her pink face was revealed. Ye Jielin shook her head as if sighing: "It seems that it's not easy every time I want to hit you."