Chapter 509 Storm Fortress 1

Five days have passed.

In these five days, the team advanced west at a constant speed of 400 kilometers per day. If it is zero alone, the speed can be at least doubled. But in this team, except for a few high-level people with zero-class limited level, other people can't walk faster in terms of speed or physical ability. 400 kilometers a day is already the limit, and after walking out of the Zambis Mountains, there is an endless permafrost plain. During this period, the forests are crisscrossed. Unlike the desolate and quiet primitive forests of the old era, the forests of the new era are more mysterious. The towering giant tree with a staggered epidermis stands like a ferocious demon tree.

As soon as you enter the forest, you will feel creepy.

The primitive forest of the new era is not only dangerous by the various mutable beasts in the forest, but also from these horrible trees.

Of course, the scenery on the journey is far more than forests. The team passed through the mountains covered with wind and snow, crossed the dangerous primitive forest, passed through the quiet and beautiful natural lakes, and also passed through the deep and dark underground tunnels. In five days, these people living in the eastern plains finally saw the dangers and wonders of the western tundra.

And as the tundra deepens towards the west, the climate becomes colder and colder. Even if you march during the day, the temperature of only minus 20 degrees will be unbearable. Such a temperature is used to the Genia people like Adegli, and even compared with the real winter, such a temperature can be called warm. But the servants in the team can't do it. Even if these surviving soldiers have an average third-level level, the low temperature and strong radiation test their physique all the time.

This is the cruel side of nature. If it can't stand the test, the result is to sleep in a corner of the tundra. And two things like this have happened. There are not many servants, but now there are only 13 left. Of these dozen people, ten belong to the zero team, while the remaining three are Starley's subordinates. It's just that Starley doesn't care about the life and death of the servants. Like many high-level strongmen, in Staley's heart, the role of the servants is more to transport supplies, act as cannon fodder and decorate.

Zero can't blame anything about this, after all, this is a common problem of the strong in this era.

Five days later, the team advanced about 2,000 kilometers westward. That evening, when the team walked out of a forest covered with silver frost, another rolling mountain range stretched across their way. The mountains are steep, like knives, typical tundra style. That is where the mountain has been attacked by wind and snow for many years. The mountain extends from south to north, and the altitude is also low to high. From a distance, it looks like a slide.

The Gegnaans call it Mount Turash. In the language of their green capital, Turash means "the ladder to heaven".

It was night, and the team camped on the edge of the forest to rest. The servants and the fishman guard cleaned up large areas of snow and set up marching tents on the snow-free ground. Then the fishman guard picked up dead branches near the forest and made a bonfire. Compared with their primitive practice, the servants began to heat clean water and cook food with marching stoves and solid fuel.

Zero and Staley also hit a snowstorm bear in the forest and took the big guy as everyone's dinner tonight. The appearance of the snowstorm bear is very similar to that of the old polar bear. Differently, its claws are translucent crystals, which contain extremely strong ice energy. The prey caught by the snowy blizzard will coagulate in a very short time and become food for the blizzard.

It's just that tonight, this wild bear was very unfortunate. It was targeted by Zero and Staley, and turned from a hunter to prey. All the way to the west, Zero and others also noticed that it seemed to be affected by the natural environment of the tundra in the west, and the mutan beasts here more or less had the ability to affinity with ice elements. This ability makes them more resistant to cold and can use one to several ice systems.

Or, like a snowstorm bear, directly store ice energy on some organ or limb of the body, so as to give ice energy damage to the prey while attacking.

Naturally, the handling of food does not bother Zero or Staley. When the bear is thrown to the ground of the camp, the servants skillfully put out the fur of the bear. If this bear skin is sold in the Mobiston market, it is estimated that it can be sold at a good price. And even in Asgard, which is already a rich place, the snow-white bear skin is a luxury that nobles are competing to collect.

Now, after it is washed away from blood, it becomes Leah's cloak and blanket.

Next is the claws of the tyrant bear. These crystal claws contain extremely pure ice energy, which can be used as energy crystals. Energy crystals are widely used, and pure energy stones like this are even better. Now, even if the tyrant bears die, they still absorb the cold air of the surrounding environment all the time and gradually transform into ice energy.

The servants originally took these crystal claws out and handed them to Zero, but Zero gave them to these soldiers. However, the number of crystal claws is limited, and only a few people with weak constitution have been divided into crystal claws. Bringing this crystal claw on your body can more or less slow down the damage caused by the severe cold of the tundra to the servants.

As for the rest of the bear, it is far more valuable than its fur and claws. So the servants dismembered the whole bear, cut off the bear meat and roasted it on the marching stove or the fishman's bonfire. After a while, when the bear meat was roasted golden, the strong smell of meat began to float over the camp.

A bully bear seems to have a lot of meat, but in fact, the amount of each person is also very limited. For those who are more capable, it is a little efficient way to consume energy through animal meat. Not everyone with the ability is like zero, completely absorbing energy by burning food. Like Staley, after the food is eaten by him, only the protein in the food will be completely absorbed, and other things will be wasted in the process of digestion.

If you only eat ordinary food, the appetite of high-level capable people must be calculated by tons. Therefore, they are usually equipped with compressed foods such as nutrients, which taste worse. But it contains very rich energy, enough to supplement the daily needs of the capable person and save the capable person from the food pile.

Before departure, several seniors were divided into enough nutrients. At this time, after eating two slices of bear meat, Staley took out nutrients and squeezed them into a sip, and finished dinner.

The bonfire on the other side of the Gegnia people was burning brightly, and the flames flashed on the faces of the fish people. Their animal meat has been roasted, but they are eaten immediately. Instead, they closed their eyes as if they were praying. After a moment, the fishmen opened their eyes and handed the food to Amili and Baltimore by the bodyguards. While the two were eating, the other bodyguards just waited quietly, as if they had finished eating before it was time for these guards to eat.

"strict class system." Staley commented and took another sip of wine. Shaking the already light wine bottle, Staley began to regret that he had too little wine, and Starley tasted all of Mobstone's exotic wine and sprayed it out. Naturally, it could not be used as his slander. So with less and less wine to drink, Staley only takes a small sip almost every day. His careful appearance is like a calculating stingy.

Putting down the bottle, Staley said casually, "The guy behind our buttocks seems to have disappeared two days ago. It's strange. Who will they be?"

Zero spread out his hand and said, "I'm also curious about this. Anyway, we have to be careful."

"It doesn't work if you're not careful. Rennes disappeared before he arrived at the Green City. I always feel that this task is not that simple. And..." Staley said lightly, "You also have a strange attitude towards those fishmen. How to put it, you always feel that you treat them like friends rather than enemies.

Staly is not a fool. In fact, people who can become high-level people are not mediocre. Knowing that something was wrong, Zero asked, "Do you think all alien beings should be our enemies except human beings?"

"Of course not, I'm not a racist. But I know my position, and you. Zero, your boundaries seem to be a little blurred, which is not a good thing. Staley said slowly.

"If I believe that these Genia people come for peace, then Starley, what do you think?"

Since Starley has begun to doubt, Zero feels that it is necessary to test his bottom line to decide what to do next.

Hearing Zero say this, Staley was stunned at first, and then laughed, "No way, bro, are you really going to be a messenger of peace? As I said at the market, it's okay for you. None of us has the power to drive the situation. Either adapt to the whole situation or drown in the tide.

Zero was silent. He looked up at the sky shrouded in radiation clouds and said slowly, "Staly, maybe you will laugh at me. But I have imagined more than once whether human beings can coexist peacefully with us and other higher lives if we have enough living space. The end of the old era means that human beings are no longer the only intelligent life. Maybe we should admit that this planet does not belong to us alone. Aliens, animals and other life also have the right to live. Why should we exploit all this?

"You're right, but those are all assumptions. The fact is that the planet is dying day by day, and the space and resources for survival are shrinking. Therefore, war is inevitable." Staley sighed.

Zero suddenly asked: "Then tell me, what is the significance of the war in the western tundra?" You have seen it these days. What is it here? A barren mountain? A primeval forest or ubiquitous radiation snow? I can't see the meaning, you know, brother. Even if we lay down the whole tundra, is it suitable for human survival? Since this land is so barren, why do we have to go on a west expedition?

A series of questions made Starley speechless. After a long time, he said, "We are just soldiers. These problems should be a headache for those big shots. God knows what they are thinking."

"Well, let's not talk about these for the time being." Zero said seriously: "Assum, suppose there is an opportunity to make all life on the planet have enough living space. Staley, what will you choose? Is it to destroy it to maintain the pattern of this era, or can we fight to protect it, even in the face of former comrades-in-arms or superiors?

It was another question that made it difficult for Staley to answer. After a moment of silence, the bold man smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know how to answer you, because what you said is just a hypothesis. But zero, how can you ask such a question? Did you see such an opportunity?"

"It's not clear yet. All I know is that there will be an answer after this trip to Gegna."

Is that right? So what would you do if it were you? Well, I'm so stupid. Since you have the idea of letting all life coexist, it must be an opportunity to stand up and protect it. This is a dangerous decision, but I have to admire your courage. Staley raised the bottle: "For your courage, I have to take another sip."

Zero watched him drink a mouthful of liquor carefully, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. In tonight's words, Zero did not reveal the whole truth, because without evidence, Staley would not believe that the war was actually just a tool used by Tyre. But it's not that nothing has been achieved. At least Staley seriously thought about the assumptions put forward by Zero and did not say anything to destroy it.

As Staley said, zero is just a hypothesis for him. And when the hypothesis becomes true, Zero believes that Staley will make the right choice.

The footsteps interrupted Zero's thoughts, but Ademili, who had finished dinner, came to the two captains. Adimili sat down next to them and said in a human language full of exotic styles: "There is something that needs to be discussed with you two. It's about our trip tomorrow."

"When we come here, we have two ways to choose. One is a tunnel left over from the old-age under Mount Turash, but on the way we will pass a human base of the old era. The name of the base is strange. It is named after the white blood cells in the human body. But this is not the point. The important thing is that the base has now become a paradise for the dead, and we prefer to call it the Hall of the Dead.

When he heard the word "white blood cells", Zero's heart moved. In the previous base, which was also called white blood cells, the data obtained from zero showed that there were more than one experimental bases established for the * body plan in the old era, but they were all named "white blood cells". So is there still information about the * body plan in Ademili's so-called Hall of the Dead? Even the collection of the Quaternary superlife?

Regardless of the possibility, Zero feels the need to go to the Hall of the Dead.