Chapter 510 Storm Fortress 2
"What about the second choice?" Starley asked.
Ademyli replied: "The second road is to climb Mount Turash and pass through the storm fortress. Down the mountain is the emerald field, which is a natural ice tundra. Our green guenia is on the west side of the ice tundra.
"What's the difference between the two roads?" Zero asked the point directly. There must be a huge difference between the two roads, otherwise Adi Milli would not have asked what she and Staley meant.
"Through the dead hall from the old tunnel will greatly save time, and it will be relatively easy to walk without being affected by the cold climate brought by high altitude. But the problem lies in the Hall of the Dead, where we once sent troops to sweep it. But a team of 300 people finally returned with no more than ten people. The hall of the dead has been occupied by the ice corpse demons. As for our number, even if you two captains and other powerful subordinates want to pass, you have to pay a certain price. Adimyli said with a straight face.
"Ice corpse?" Obviously, neither Zero nor Staley have heard of this kind of monster.
Ademili explained: "These monsters evolved from the bodies of the base staff. At first, they were just living corpses. A small number of the living dead left the base and wandered in the jade field. After we found it, they were all annihilated. From this, we found the existence of the dead hall. According to the traces of these living dead people passing by, we found the dead hall and fought with the living dead inside. However, there were only about 15 people in the reconnaissance team at that time, and this number was quickly submerged by the living dead.
After confirming that the reconnaissance team was completely destroyed, we sent another team to the dead hall. There, our soldiers found that the living dead had eaten up the bodies of the former scouts. Without food, the living dead began to kill each other. The team did not dare to stop and withdrew quickly. When we organized a team of 300 people to eliminate the dead, we found that they had changed in the hall of the dead. Adeili said, "According to the description of the survivors at that time, we learned that the living dead had evolved. I don't know whether it was the reason for devouring the bodies of our scouts, or whether the killing of the living dead caused their genes to mutate. In short, they have evolved into another kind of monster. They become more agile and fast enough to avoid attacks from high-energy beams. They have become stronger, and both their strength and defense have been greatly improved. The most significant change is that they actually have a sense of ice and dark elements, so they can release a shadow ice mist substance. In the shadow ice fog, the field of vision will be greatly limited. Not only that, spiritual perception and exploration instruments will also be greatly affected. In addition, ultra-low-temperature ice fog particles will affect speed and continuously consume the energy of organisms in the ice fog. This is a kind of home field-like existence, but this home field is supported by the ice corpses.
"In addition, a deep cold lord has been born in the cold corpse demon. This king of corpse has a deep cold halo, which is similar to the shadow ice fog, but the negative effects are far greater than the shadow ice fog. In addition, we only know that it can also release cold flames and ice thorn hell, which are high-level ice abilities. As for whether the Lord of Deep Cold has any other abilities, we don't know. Ademili stressed: "So if we want to pass through the Hall of the Dead, we can save time on the journey, but we have to face an army of monsters composed of a cold lord and more than 300 corpses. Even if you can pass at that time, I'm afraid there are only a few people who can get out.
"So what about the other way? What kind of storm fortress is another old-fashioned base? Starley asked.
Adimili shook her head and said, "No, the Storm Fortress is a defensive fortress built by our Gegna."
Because after Tulash Mountain is the field of emeralds, which is already within the area of the Green Dugenia, Gegna will build a defensive fortress on Tulash Mountain. The storm fortress is located on the only way down Mount Turash, which can be said to guard the traffic arteries. Without Genia's permission, any creature that tries to forcibly pass through will be tested by the storm fortress unless it is of the northern long wings.
At the beginning of the design, the Storm Fortress was a steel fortress with both attack and defense. In the fortress defense plan passed by Lvdu, the storm fortress will garrison 200 fishman swords, 100 fishman gun commanders, 10 captains, two deputy commanders and one commander for many years. In addition to individual equipment, the weapons are also equipped with a heavy artillery weapon "Wind Cannon" independently developed by Green City.
Wind gun is a heavy gun that uses air compression technology combined with physical shells to achieve long-range strikes. The shooting distance can reach 2,000 meters and the shooting frequency is 10 rounds per minute. The wind gun has two shooting modes of direct shooting and ejection. The direct shooting mode shell speed can reach 2,500 meters per second, and one gun can flatten the whole mountain; The projectile mode can accurately control the bombardment landing point, and the explosive coverage of the shell is increased by about 20%, which is a sharp weapon for positional attacks.
It can be said that the whole storm fortress is well equipped. It is like a copper wall on Mount Turash. As long as it exists, it is an insurmountable barrier in the new era of lack of air flying tools.
However, during the construction of the storm fortress, something happened, which made the fortress unable to complete as planned, let alone garrison.
"In the middle of the construction of the fortress, an abyss-level muta monster attacked us. It was ice-winged Marrog. Although we tried our best to stop it, the abyss-level mute beast could not be repelled by the power that even a regular army did not have at that time. After being attacked by the ice wings, all the workers and soldiers involved in the construction died, and even the storm fortress, which had not yet been completed, suffered great damage. In the end, our storm fortress became the nest of this monster. Adimile's tone was full of helplessness.
How tricky the abyss-level muta beast is, but Zero has experienced it himself. Just under the base of his own company, there used to be an abyss lord Angel Gul. On that day, in order to eradicate this mute beast, Zero wasted the power of nine cows and two tigers. Moreover, at that time, Angie Gulit was in a weak period before he got it. If it was in its heyday, it was a question whether the people present could return it all over.
Abyss-level mute beasts have often evolved into intelligence, and they are smart, cunning and cruel. After occupying a place as a nest, the vicinity of the nest will be designated as its own territory. Other creatures cannot live in its territory without its permission. At that time, Anji Gulit allowed a variety of creatures above the base to exist, but he systematically used these creatures as food after the birth of his young son.
Every abyss mutan beast is by no means easy to get together. Even if there is only one, it is comparable to an army. After hearing that the storm fortress was used as a nest by an abyss mutable beast, Zero couldn't understand why Ademili still chose this route. Compared with the ice-wing Marrog, the cold lord and the ice corpse demon in the hall of the dead look much cuter. Obviously, the pressure passing through the dead hall is less than that of the storm fortress, even if that place is equally dangerous.
seemed to see zero questions, and Adimili explained: "Although the storm fortress is occupied by ice wings, it is only in summer that Marrog will wake up in a deep sleep and haunt the nest. Now it is still a month before it wakes up, and we can safely pass through the storm fortress. But the hall of the dead is different. The ice corpses will never close their eyes. The dead will always wander in the hall and attack all the lives entering the base.
So that's the case. There seems to be no need for a choice. As long as you are not a fool, you will choose the Storm Fortress instead of the Dead Hall. Staley laughed.
For this point, Zero will naturally not give up the difficulty. Although he is very interested in the Hall of the Dead, he knows that this is not a good time, and he has no right to pull people into a dangerous situation for the sake of his selfishness. So the route for the storm fortress tomorrow was confirmed. Seeing that it was getting late, Ademily also left and went back to her tent to rest.
Zero also returned to his tent, which was very warm, thanks to the constant temperature system of the marching tent. This marching tent developed by Asgard has a temperature self-adjusting function. In addition to isolating wild radiation, it can also keep the tent at a moderate temperature.
The newly hunted bear skin was spread flat on the ground, and Leah slept sideways on the bear skin. She was covered with a marching blanket and seemed to be asleep. Ling knew that she was not sleeping, because when he came in, Leah's breathing intensified a little. Obviously, she was still awake.
Zero came to her side and lay down, gently stroked Leah's hair and said, "Can't you sleep?"
Lia turned around and got into Zero's arms, wrapped her hands tightly around Zero's waist and smiled, "I didn't see you come back. How can I sleep?"
"Actually, you don't have to accompany me to suffer in such a place." Zero kissed the girl's forehead and said lightly.
Lia shook her head: "No, if I want to stay in a comfortable home waiting for you to return, I would rather go to the battlefield with you so that I can be with you all the time. Don't worry, I won't be a burden to you. Although I'm not as capable as Sister Beisi, I'm sure I can do something for you!"
Zero sighed: "You have done well enough. You don't have to force yourself too much. Besides, there is nothing tiring or cumbersome, whether it's you or Bisi. You are all important people, and it is my business to protect you.
Led Ling's words, Leah smiled happily. She squeezed into Ling's warm chest a little more and said softly, "Zero, after this Western Expedition. I want to have a baby for you, okay?"
"Child?" Zero is very unexpected.
"Yes, don't you like it?" Leah raised her head and looked forward to it.
"No, that's not what I mean. What I want to say is that one is too few, and it will take ten or eight anyway. Zero laughed.
Lia suddenly blushed and pretended to be angry and said, "You think I'm a sow. How can I give birth to so much?"
"Okay, okay, then give birth to two. A boy and a girl. The man is like me and the woman is like you, okay? Zero patted the pink back of the man in his arms and coaxed.
Lia nodded: "It's almost the same."
Spin whispered, "If you like a lot of children, I'll work harder at most."
Zero pinched the tip of Leah's nose and said, "Don't think about it so far away. Go to bed quickly. We have to climb the mountain tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Leah said obediently, and she snuggled up and closed her eyes. After a while, there was a uniform sound of breathing, but it was already asleep.
At this time, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and he looked at Leah's heart and sighed gently.
Continuing offspring can be said to be the top priority in the new era. The cruel living environment forces human beings to fight the threat of death by speeding up the fertility cycle and increasing the number of births. As long as future generations are born, no matter how cruel the reality is, there will always be hope.
In fact, it is unknown that men with some power in the wilderness usually have groups of wives and concubines at home. The only task of wives is to have as many offspring as possible. Although they have become production tools, they have no complaints about it. The reason why this is so is because of the cruelty of this era.
The emergence of capable people distinguishes them from ordinary human beings. But capable people are evolving, and ordinary people in the wilderness are not unstoppable. Mutant tissues that can resist strong radiation are actually a kind of evolution, but this is a pathological evolution. Perhaps after several generations or even dozens of generations of evolution, the genes of mutant tissues will tend to stabilize and even be optimized to be attached to ordinary people like skin tissue, so that they can survive even if they are exposed to radiation.
As for another evolution, it is manifested in women.
Perhaps due to the strong need for reproduction, women's genes are also quietly changing. Their physical organization is constantly adapting to the needs of the times, and now a 13-year-old girl has the basic requirements of giving birth to offspring. The fertility period has been reduced from 300 days in the old days to 150 days, and the fertility period has been reduced by half, which means that more offspring can have children.
However, this also brings a serious problem, that is, the probability of newborns's death is very high. Only two or three of almost ten babies born at the same time can survive.
Hearing that Leah wanted to have children for herself, Zero sighed. Leah's physical fitness is fully suitable for childbirth, and with her current strengthened physique, the baby she gives birth to will be very healthy. From any point of view, this is a woman's very reasonable and physiological demands. The problem is zero. As the * body of super life, zero knows that he has the possibility of infinite evolution.
Because of this, he also knows that evolution must precede fertility in terms of genetic priority. That is to say, all the energy of his body is ready for evolution all the time, which is an irreversible instinct. Zero can leave [sence] in Leah's body like other normal men, but it is unknown whether [sence] has a substance that combines with [egg] to produce an embryo.
Because under the determination of instinctive priority, I am afraid that this substance that should have existed in the [sence] sub will also be removed early in the morning and converted into pure energy for zero use.
So, Zero is not sure whether he can make Leah or Beyonice pregnant with her own child. However, everything is always relative. Although instinct will rank evolution as the first priority, zero still has 100,000 DNA memory groups. Theoretically, if Zero can master these 100,000 memory groups freely, then he can completely make up for the defects caused by instinct.
It's just that for him now, although he has a huge gold mine, he still lacks a key to open the gold mine.