Chapter 270 Extinction 2

Looking at Zero's doubtful expression, Cario smiled. The instructor sat down in his chair, then pointed to the chair in front of his desk, signaling Zero to sit down. Cario laughed and said, "You see, the recruits of the Hammer of Destruction are not recruited at all times. After all, there are not many recruits above the average level above the third level. So there are only one or two training camps a year like the ones you have stayed in. But for the rest of the time, the damn bourgeoisie doesn't let me be idle, so he has to work as a task dispatcher when he has time.

If Valkyrie is here, he will definitely be dissatisfied with Cario's statement. The responsibility given to him by Asgard is not a simple task height officer, but a first-level strategic staff officer. The mission release of the headquarters is only a small part of his work, and Cario's main job is to be responsible for the strategic planning and scheduling of the whole Asgard. In the headquarters, it has a very high right to talk.

Naturally, Zero doesn't know these. So he just nodded and asked, "Intor, your injury..."

"It doesn't matter. Anji Gulit is not qualified to kill me. In fact, I can heal by myself without entering the culture tank. Callio said very hard, as if he had thought of something, and waved his hand with great regret, as if to sweep away the topic of discussion between the two. He said, "To get back to the main idea, this time to let the Golden Cat call you up is a task that wants to take advantage of you."

The word cheap made Zero's nerve jump down gently, according to his understanding of Callio. This so-called cheap thing by the chief instructor is usually linked to the difficulty.

Cario continuously entered some instructions on the light keys at the corner of the table and automatically lowered the blackout curtain from the office window. And the wall behind Cario also turned out with a light screen, which showed a topographic map west of the Urian Mountains. On this 5,000-kilometer-long topographic map, a blue light belt extends from Asgard as the starting point towards the western permafrost plateau. On this light belt, there are red and green light spots flashing.

Carrio explained: "The light spots of these two colors represent the alien species we have found so far. Green light spots represent friendship, and red naturally represents hostile relations..."

There are seven red and green light spots on the blue light belt. As they were twinkling, suddenly a green light spot went out and turned gray.

"This is your task." Callio pointed to the gray light spot and said, "The Aarons look like a half-human bird. They retain the ability of birds to fly, have the same intelligence as adult humans, and have begun to use simple weapons.

As he spoke, a three-dimensional model of a half-human bird appeared on the light screen. It has a human-like upright body, but its arms are connected to a flesh membrane on its side like a pterodactyl. This Aaron model holds a long gun and automatically makes some stabbing movements. The action is simple but very sophisticated, which is an effective field fighting technique.

"This gray light spot is the village of the sub-ethnic family. The village is not big, and there are hundreds of Aarons living there. In these friendly alien territories, we are all equipped with life monitors. Just a few days ago, the life monitor set up in the Aaron village showed that all life in the village had disappeared. It's not invasion, but extinction, without any life reaction. Cario said while smoking: "The headquarters has issued a series of orders, including investigating the cause of the death of the Aaron people and annihilating them if they are invaded by foreign enemies. This order was supposed to be issued in the morning, but I happened to see you come back, so I asked you to execute it. This is a D1 task. If it weren't for me, I wouldn't have the authority to accept this task according to your team's rating.

The headquarters is divided into six levels from E, D, C, B, A and S from low to high. Among them, each level is divided into three levels from 1 to 3. With zero team only level E, it is naturally impossible to accept D-level tasks, so directly throw the unreleased tasks to zero. Cario can be said to have taken good care of him.

Zero naturally has no reason to refuse.

"Go ahead and finish it beautifully. Then, invite me to dinner!" Callio smiled.

Zero nodded and agreed to leave. After he left, Cario's smile gradually disappeared and even became a little awe-inspiring.

The reason for the Aaron genocide is not simple. These half-bird adult individuals have the same third-order power and agility as those of human abilities. Coupled with simple and practical spearmanship, it is not pleasant to be entangled by them. It's not difficult to kill one or two half-birds, but it's not easy to kill the whole Aaron family.

The reason why the headquarters released this mission is to find out that the cause of the extinction of the Aaron people is disease? Or is it a species conflict? Or did it do it on purpose? If the first two are okay, if it is the latter, then Asgard must consider updating the monitoring mode and strengthening the monitoring force.

When he thought of this problem, Cario naturally remembered what happened at the Cossack military base. After he and Valkyrie woke up, they immediately reported to Ben that the command release system had been used. Naturally, I paid attention to this matter and asked the two to investigate it secretly. But to this day, the two still have no clue.

The people behind the scenes are smart and clean, and can't find any relevant clues at all. Callio is very clear that this investigation should not be completed in the short term. The chief instructor is not a patient person, so Cario has already entrusted this work to Valkyrie.

He turned his head and looked out of the window at the virtual sky, and his mood was very complicated. Under this peaceful surface, Callio felt strong uneasiness. Uneasiness is like an undercurrent, turbulently impacting the peaceful reef of Asgard.

When the old man Kario fell ill and was worried about the safety of the city of Asgard, the divine country, Zero, who had always wanted to make money, had called Feng and others to drive an SUV that was also rented off-road vehicle. Along the main highway connecting the north and south, Asgard has been driven out. Through the long and dark passage, when the hydraulic gate opened and the two sides of the mountain wall used for concealment were divided equally, a world of ice and snow appeared in the eyes of the four of them.

The front baffle of the super wild car has been removed, and a snowblower has been installed because it has to walk in the snow. The snowblower is a peripheral part of the car, and its shape is a rectangular steel channel. There is a thin seam facing the front of the steel channel, and a strong suction device is installed in the thin seam, which will generate great suction to the space ahead. The snowdrift in front of the car was pumped into the steel channel, then secretly covered with thousands of steel wheels to grind into powder, and finally spewed out by the porous snow extractors on both sides.

As a thick white smoke spewed out from each end of the car, the car drove forward at a constant speed of 40 kilometers per hour and gradually drove into the western wilderness covered with ice and snow. The speed of off-road vehicles is not fast, but in an environment where snowdrifts piled up to three meters high, such a speed is rare. Today's weather is quite good. There is no wind and no snow. At this moment when the red sky is covered with ice crystals in the radiation clouds, it reflects magnificent colors.

The color is magical, but it is difficult for people nowadays to be in the mood to appreciate it. It is not easy to live, and it is difficult to be in the mood to see the scenery.

The car drove through the periphery of the Cossack military base according to the instructions of the electronic map. This land seems to have been ploughed again, revealing the ** strata, and even the wind and snow have no time to bury it all. From afar, nearly half of the buildings on the surface of the base are damaged, and it is not difficult to see the fierceness of the day's war from the other side. However, it is less than a month apart, which makes people feel far away.

Continuing to travel west is an endless tundra. In a flat river, there is a bulge, which turns into an old tree frozen into a pillar of frost. Life on the tundra is rare, and occasionally a few Fenli wolves run by. This kind of magic wolf is very alert. When the car is still at least 300 meters away from them, it has found zero uninvited guests. Their golden eyes looked at the SUV, then let go of their four hooves, ran like flying, and quickly left the sight of Zero and others.

Seeing this scene, Feng couldn't help sighing and had to enter the sniper gun borrowed from Zero. He was going to shoot these magic wolves, but after all, the fur of the Fenli wolf was very popular with noble men. Fur can be made into a fur coat, or a fur collar to decorate the coat to highlight their aristocratic atmosphere. A complete fur, if converted into a successful value, is worth at least 300 points!

So, the journey turned from the plain into the icy forest under the regretful voice of Feng. The dense forest composed of conifers covers an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers and becomes a natural barrier to isolate human civilization. Dozens or even hundreds of indescribable alien intelligent organisms live in this dense forest and the land behind the forest. And the expeditionary force sent by Asgard, the Golden Tomahawk's journey was only through the icy forest and reached the screaming canyon 300 kilometers behind.

In the icy forest, these conifer members are much taller and straighter than their peers in the old days. They usually need ten people to hug, up to more than 300 meters. What's more, it is nearly 500 meters tall. Such a giant tree is full of needle-like leaves, and the leaves are fat and thick, storing the energy of the giant tree without losing it too quickly. When the cold winter comes, these needle leaves become the lifeless or lack of food living in the woods.

There is plenty of water in the thick conifers and plant fibers that can satisfy hunger. Although every conifer is covered with frost, the thick skin isolates the coldness of frost and snow and preserves the rich nutrients in the leaves.

When the SUV drove into this forest, it gave birth to a sense of entering the giant country. The tall trees are like pillars that support heaven and earth, presenting a strange world in the eyes of more than 100 people. Although it is a cold winter, there are still traces of life activities in the forest. The most common is a strange creature that is only the size of a fox but looks like a wolf.

These mute creatures, known as fox wolves, have two large fluffy tails, which allows them to glide briefly in the air. Fox wolves feed on needle leaves. After eating these foods, a special organ in their bodies will digest part of the food and turn it into a poisonous gas. When needed, fox wolves emit toxic gases like skunks. The toxic gases they release will not spread with the wind, but will permeate within a certain range for a long time, so as to defend against the attacks of other mutatic beasts.

In addition to fox wolves, there are several other alien creatures active. They chase in front of giant trees, grab food, or even tear them up for their territory. But no matter what they are doing, as soon as they hear the sound of the SUV engine, they will run away, so that Zero can only see the strange figure.

The village of the Aaron people is in the dense forest, just like the instructions of no electronic map. It is not easy to find this half-bird village in a sea of trees. Several people also went around in the dense forest and finally found the place of the Aaron village. Obviously, a cut and cleared open space has become the place where the Aaron people built a village. From afar, the open space is a piece of thatched hut, which is a very simple construction method, and the materials of the house are also made from the local materials. This half-bird village makes zero human beings have a primitive amor.

According to Asgard's record, Aaron's society is currently equivalent to the primitive human era. They are a mother society, and the maternal Aarons occupy the position of leader in the village. The male Aarons are responsible for hunting, construction and all other heavy work. In the record, not only the Aarons, but also the reproductive cycle of other intelligent races is longer than that of mute beasts, which is closer to the fertility cycle of humans in the old era.

However, during the reproductive period of several years, the born offspring still die in a very high proportion. Otherwise, human beings may not be able to defend the entire civilized circle that occupies the coastline. From the emergence of the first generation of Aaron people to now, they have been bred for three generations, but their ethnic group has only grown from more than 20 people to more than 100 people now. But even so, the Aarons are already a more populous race among the recorded aliens in Asgard.

The SUV parked at the entrance of the Aaron village, saying that it was an entrance, but it was just a wooden toon as a sign. Three skulls are nailed on the wooden toon. Judging from the appearance, they are humans, fox wolves, and a relatively rare mutatic beast giant tooth bear. Obviously, this wooden toon is not only a sign of the village, but also a warning. However, from the current situation, this kind of warning is not very useful.

Half of the huts in the village were burned to ashes, leaving only black marks. In the open space of the village, there were more burn marks left by the fire. The fire was probably very fierce, and the temperature of the fire was so high that it roasted the ground into glass. Seeing this scene, the four people frowned. The natural flame needs to be heated in a sealed environment to achieve a high temperature of baking the ground into glass. The four sides of the village are ventilated, and the air flow is very obvious. Obviously, such an environment cannot achieve high temperature conditions.

Then the remaining possibility is the work of the capable person in the element domain. Using some capabilities in the elemental domain can indeed produce high-temperature energy damage in an open environment. And the high-temperature energy that can crystalliz the ground is at least the fifth-order power. A fifth-order element domain ability, no matter what type of element destruction he is proficient in, is a terrible opponent.

So several people immediately entered the state of war, with zero Browning pistols, plain alloy heavy swords, and Feng's Tang knives in hand. Only Ma Pei had his hands empty, but the blood vessels under his skin were raised so that he could transform into an armored rhinoceros at any time.

The village is quiet and strangely quiet. The strange source was that there were no bodies. A few dozen people swept the village back and forth several times, but none of the bodies of Aaron were found. The valuable thing found only turned into a black carbon life sensor. Judging from the traces of destruction, it was also damaged by a high heat attack.

It is not normal to have no corpses, although there are few carnivorous beasts like corpse wolves in the frosty forest. But it is winter, and the body can be kept fresh for a long time. Fresh meat is the favorite of many mute beasts, especially the intelligent life of the Aaron clan. Their flesh and blood are like a tonic for other mute beasts.

But even if they are visited by these beasts, the whole village can't even see the shadow of the corpses, and the low-intelligent mute beasts can't make such clean hands and feet.

"Keep looking." Zero said lightly and gave this simple order.

However, this time, the four people turned over almost all the corners of the village without any trace. But whether they are willing to accept it or not, there is nothing suspicious in the village except the traces of damage. It was not until the four people expanded their range to 500 meters around the village that they found messy battle marks in the east.

This is a forest nearly 500 meters away from the village, and the bodies of sub-ethnic people are occasionally seen on the nearby giant trees. The ground and several tree trunks showed large burn marks, among which there were even several burnt corpses. In front of a huge tree, there is a ten-meter simple wooden gun. The unusually sharp tip of the gun stabbed the ground, and a piece of leather was deeply pricked under the tip of one of the guns.

The leather is dark red, with uneven edges and tear marks. It can be inferred that at that time, the Aarons must have attacked those who destroyed their villages by throwing guns in a cluster. But unfortunately, so many long guns only tore off one piece of the other party's robe. Zero took out the leather fragments from under the gun and found that there was still a metal coil in the sandwich. This is a defensive sandwich. The metal coil not only plays the role of blocking attacks, but also plays a buffering role because of certain elasticity.

This kind of alloy coil serves as a defensive sandwich, which is expensive, at least not everyone can afford it. It can be seen that this capable person who attacked the Aaron people has some strength.

The traces of the battle started from here, and the dense forest to the southeast penetrated nearly a kilometer. On this journey, some more bodies of the Aaron family were found. Some of them were seriously burned, and some had been eaten by wild animals and were flesh and blood at the scene. But these bodies add up to less than half, and at least 30 bodies are missing. At the edge of the battlefield, there were some irregular traces stretching towards a downhill, looking like the murderer dragging the body in that direction.

So a few people followed the traces forward, and the terrain gradually declined, forming a small slope. There is a vertical stone wall with a drop of ten meters at the curved slope, and there is a 100-meter-long and ten-meter-wide ditch under the stone wall. This ditch is like scars on the ground, and a dark cave appears at the stone wall on the other side of the ditch. Drag marks from the uphill also appear in the ditch and extend into the cave on the other side.

The hole was dark, as if a giant beast opened its mouth and waited for its prey to come to its door!