Chapter 509

Five more days passed.

In these five days, the team pushed westward at a constant speed of 400 kilometers a day. If you are on the road alone, the speed can at least double. However, in this team, except for a few high-level players with limited grades, others can't walk faster in terms of speed and physical fitness. Four hundred kilometers a day is the limit. After walking out of the Zambezi mountains, there is an endless frozen plain. In the meantime, the forest runs across, which is different from the desolate and quiet primitive forest in the old era. The forest in the new era seems more mysterious. The towering giant trees with cross skin and staggered roots stand like ferocious demon trees.

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

In the primeval forest of the new era, the danger comes not only from all kinds of mutant animals entrenched in the forest, but also from these terrible trees.

Of course, the scenery on the way is far more than the forest. The team passed high mountains filled with wind and snow, crossed dangerous virgin forests, passed quiet and beautiful natural lakes, and also passed through deep and dark underground tunnels. After five days, these people living in the eastern plain finally saw the danger and wonder of the Western tundra.

As the tundra deepens to the west, the climate becomes colder and colder. Even if marching during the day, the temperature of minus 20 degrees will be unbearable. Such a temperature is very common to the people of Georgia, such as adimili. Even compared with the real winter, such a temperature can be called warm. But the servants in the team are not good. Even if these surviving soldiers have an average level of three, the low temperature and strong radiation are testing their physique all the time.

This is the cruel side of nature. If you can't stand the test, you will sleep in a corner of the tundra. And things like this have happened twice. There were not many servants, but now there are only 13 left. Ten of these dozen people belong to the zero team, while the remaining three are Starry's subordinates. But Starley didn't care about the life and death of the servants. Like many high-ranking strong men, in Starley's heart, the servants were more used to transport supplies, serve as cannon fodder and decoration.

In this regard, zero can't blame anything. After all, this is a common problem of the strong in this era.

Five days later, the team advanced about 2000 kilometers to the West. That evening, when the team came out of a forest covered with silver frost, another rolling mountain ran across their way. The mountains are steep, like knife cutting, typical of tundra style. The mountain has been attacked by wind and snow for many years. The mountain extends from south to north, and the altitude also increases from low to high. From a distance, it looks like a slide.

Gegnya calls it tulash mountain. In their green capital language, tulash means "ladder to heaven".

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

Zero sum starry also beat up a snowstorm bear in the forest and took the big guy as everyone's dinner tonight. The appearance of the Blizzard Bear is very similar to that of the old polar bear. The difference is that its claws are translucent spar, which contains extremely strong ice energy. The prey caught by the snowstorm bear will freeze in a very short time, so it can't move, so it becomes the food of the storm bear.

But tonight, the violent bear was very unfortunate. It was watched by zero and starry, so it changed from hunter to prey. On the way to the west, zero and others also noticed that it seems that affected by the natural environment of the Western tundra, the mutant animals here have more or less the ability of affinity for ice elements. This ability makes them more resistant to cold, and can use one or more ice systems.

Or, like a wind and snow storm bear, directly store the ice energy on some organ or limb of the body, so as to damage the prey with ice energy while attacking.

Naturally, there is no need to bother to zero or starry in the handling of food. When the violent bear is thrown to the ground of the camp, the servants skillfully pick up the fur of the violent bear. If you get this bear skin to mobistone market, it may sell for a good price. Even in asgat, which is already called a rich place, the white bear skin is also a luxury that nobles compete to collect.

Now, after the blood was washed off, it became Leah's cloak and blanket.

Next, the paws of the violent bear. These spar like claws contain extremely pure ice energy, which can be used as energy spar. Energy spar has a wide range of uses, and pure energy spar like this is a superior product. Now, even if the violent bear dies, they still absorb the cold of the surrounding environment all the time, seal it, and then gradually convert it into ice energy.

The servants had picked up these crystal claws, washed them and handed them to zero, but zero gave them to these soldiers. Only the number of crystal claws is limited, and only a few people with weak physique are assigned to crystal claws. Taking this crystal claw with you can reduce the damage caused by the severe cold of the tundra to the servants.

As for the rest of the bear, its fur and claws are far less valuable. So the servants dismembered the whole violent bear, cut off the bear meat and roast it on the marching stove or Fishman's campfire. A moment later, when the bear meat was roasted golden, the rich meat aroma began to float over the camp.

A violent bear looks like it has a lot of meat, but it is actually divided, and the amount of each person is also very limited. For those with higher ability, it is a less efficient way to absorb energy through animal meat. Not every person with ability absorbs energy completely by burning food like zero. Like starry, 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 people with high-level ability has to be calculated by ton. Therefore, they are usually equipped with compressed foods such as nutrients, which taste worse despite their poor taste. However, it contains very rich energy, which is enough to supplement the daily needs of those with ability and save them from the food pile.

Before departure, a few high-level students were assigned enough nutrients. After eating two pieces of bear meat, Stanley took out the nutrients and squeezed a mouthful, and the dinner was finished.

The bonfire on the side of the people of Georgia was burning vigorously, and the light of the fire twinkled on the fish people's faces. Their meat has been roasted, but it is not eaten immediately. Instead, they closed their eyes as if they were praying. After a while, the fish people all opened their eyes, and then the bodyguard handed the food to adimili and Baltimore. While the two were eating, the other guards just waited quietly, as if it was time for the guards to have dinner after adimili had finished eating.

"Strict class system," Starley commented, taking another sip of wine. Shaking the already light wine bottle, starry began to regret that he had brought too little wine, while mobistone's exotic wine, starry tasted it and sprayed it out, which naturally could not be used for his slander. So when there was less and less wine to drink, starry drank only a sip almost every day. His cautious appearance is like a penny pincher.

Putting down the bottle, starry said carelessly, "the guy behind our ass seems to have disappeared two days ago. It's strange. Who will they be?"

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

"You can't be careless. Ryan disappeared before it reached Lvdu. I always feel that this mission is not so simple. Moreover!" starry said faintly: "your attitude towards those fish people is also very strange. How to say, you always feel that you treat them like friends rather than enemies."

Starry is not a fool. In fact, people who can become high-level are not mediocre. Knowing that he had felt something wrong, zero asked, "do you think all alien life except human beings should be our enemies?"

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

"If I believe that these people are here for peace, what do you think, Stanley?"

Now that Stanley has begun to doubt, zero feels it necessary to test his bottom line to decide how to deal with the next thing.

After hearing this, Stanley was stunned, then smiled and said, "no, brother, are you really going to be a messenger of peace? I said at the market, you or me. We have no power to promote the situation. We 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: "Stanley, maybe you'll laugh at me. But I've imagined more than once whether human beings can coexist peacefully with us and other higher life when 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. Alien species, animals and other life , they also have the right to live. Why should we exploit all this? "

"You're right, but that's all a hypothesis. The fact is that the planet is dying and the living space and resources are shrinking. Therefore, war is inevitable," starry sighed.

Zero suddenly asked: "Then tell me, what is the significance of the war on the Western tundra? You have seen these days. What are there here? Barren mountains? Vast virgin forests or ubiquitous radiant snow? I can't see the significance, you know, brother. Even if we lay down the whole tundra, is it suitable for human survival? Since the land is so barren, why Do you want to carry out the western expedition? "

A series of questions made Stanley speechless. After a long time, he said, "we are just soldiers. These problems should be headache for the big people. God knows what's in their heads."

"Well, let's not talk about these for the time being." zero said seriously: "suppose, suppose there is an opportunity that can make all life on this planet have enough living space. Starry, what would you choose? Destroy it to maintain the pattern of this era, or fight to protect it, even if you face former comrades in arms or superiors?"

It was another question that was difficult for starry to answer. After a moment of silence, the forthright man said with a bitter smile: "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? Do you see such an opportunity?"

"It's not clear yet. I only know that the answer will appear after this trip to Georgia."

"Really? What would you do if it were you? Well, I'm stupid. Since you have the idea of letting all life coexist, you must stand up and protect this opportunity. It's a dangerous decision, but I have to admire your courage." starry raised the bottle. "For your courage, I have to have another fucking drink."

Zero looked at him and carefully drank a mouthful of liquor, and suddenly he was unable to laugh or cry. In this speech tonight, zero did not shake out the whole truth, because without evidence, starry would not believe that the war was actually just a tool used by tyre. But it's not nothing. At least starry seriously thought about the hypothesis put forward by zero, and didn't say it was broken.

As starry said, zero to him is just an assumption. When the assumption becomes a fact, zero believes that starry will make the right choice.

Footsteps interrupted zero's thoughts, but adimili, who had finished dinner, came towards their two captains. Adimili sat down next to them and said in an exotic human language, "there's something we need to discuss with you two about our trip tomorrow."

"We have two ways to come here. One is to cross the whole mountain from a tunnel left over from the old times under the tulash mountain, but on the way, we will pass through an old age human base. The name of the base is very strange, which is named after the white blood cells in the human body. However, this is not the point. The important thing is that the base has now become a paradise for the dead , we prefer to call it the hall of the dead. "

Hearing the word "white blood cell", zero moved in his heart. In the previous base, also known as leukocyte, the data obtained from zero show that in the old era, there were more than one experimental base established for cloning program, and they were all named "leukocyte". So is there any information about the clone program in adimili's so-called Hall of the dead? Even, where is the Quaternary super life?

Whatever the possibility, it makes zero feel the need to go to the dead hall.