Squatting on the snow at half past zero, fingers gently skimmed the edge of a footprint.
After Merlin captured adimili, zero followed him and left the storm fortress. He chased the red Archduke deep into the hinterland of tulash mountain and came here all the way. He picked up the snow mud at the edge of his footprints and smelled it. Suddenly, the faint smell in the snow mud went into zero's nose. Zero sniffed in the air again. At least dozens of different flavors were distributed in the air.
These tastes are indistinguishable to ordinary people. They are entangled together and have little difference. But this can't hide from zero's nose. As early as when he first entered the wilderness, zero had learned to distinguish the tastes of different prey in order to track the prey. After having the ability, his senses become more sensitive. As long as he remembers a taste, he can follow it hundreds of miles away.
With such a hard breath, the smell was immediately classified into zero categories. The smell of mud and wood, the smell of animals and the freshness of running water are clear one by one. Among these flavors, zero finally found a flavor consistent with Merlin. He continued to chase after the smell left in the air. It was by this method that Merlin set a trap many times to lead away zero, but he couldn't get rid of him.
A moment later, there was a sound of water ahead. Zero drill out a hard bush like a steel thorn. I saw an ice waterfall hanging naturally between the mountain streams. Now the ice waterfall began to thaw, and many ice bamboo shoots melted into water and flowed down, turning into a stream in the low-lying place and flowing down the mountain.
Merlin's smell disappeared near the ice waterfall, but his footprints appeared on the other side of the stream. Zero flashed across the stream and continued to chase the footprints, but if you walked a hundred meters further, even the footprints disappeared completely. In this way, zero loses all clues.
Zero frowned, carefully observed the surrounding environment, hoping to find some clues. But after searching around the neighborhood many times, he got nothing. It can be seen that when Mei Lin came here, he must have used some method to hide his smell, deliberately left footprints to lead zero to move on, and then suddenly interrupted the so-called cloth doubt array, so that zero could not guess his trace at the moment.
Back to the streams, zero's eyes fell into the flowing stream. In the present environment, only the continuously flowing stream can get out of the smell. In other words, merlin got rid of zero tracking through this stream.
Straight down?
Zero didn't hesitate, opened up all the speed along the stream and chased down the mountain.
After he left, a red figure appeared above the ice waterfall in the mountain stream. Wearing a red heavy armor, Duke Meilin sneered and watched the figure go away. The mountain above the ice waterfall was invaded by the cold wind into a natural cave. An ice curtain hung at the outer foot of the cave, which became a natural cover. Merlin went through the ice curtain with an axe into the cave. In the cave, adimili stood straight and looked at Merlin.
Merlin leaned the flame against the rock wall and said faintly, "you didn't inform him with your mind. It's beyond my expectation."
"Because I want to ask you myself, brave Archduke Merlin, why do you do this?" adimili, although she has no combat ability, her momentum is very high: "tell me, those who attacked us and midra of the insect kingdom, did you take them to the storm fortress?"
"I only took those human beings in the past. As for midra, I was quite surprised by its appearance." Merlin showed a thoughtful expression: "from this point of view, although midra has formed an alliance with us and the Blackstone temple, she has a different heart, otherwise she will not provoke those people."
"No matter midra, I only ask you why Archduke Merlin did this!" adimili asked.
Merlin suddenly raised his head, his eyes burst out like electricity: "everything is for me, for the respected Lord hamermes. Adimili, I can't let you bring the human back to Georgia, the man named zero, he must die here!"
Adimili shook her head and said, "what are you talking about? Archduke Merlin, zero is the son of the planet. Lord Hermes personally ordered me to take him back. You're disobeying your adults by doing so!"
"Even if you disobey the Lord, I won't let you take him back. Otherwise, we will lose Lord hamermes." Merlin sighed softly, "adimili, your talent in spirit and will is almost comparable to that of adults, so we all respect you very much. But you are still too young and you don't understand some things."
"I don't understand why you want to do this. But please believe me, Archduke, zero won't be bad for adults," adimili said.
Merlin's chest fluctuated sharply, and her mood seemed to become too excited. About a second or two later, the Archduke calmed his mind and said in a calm voice, "adimili, the key is not zero. It is Lord hamermes. After you left, I had secret talks with him several times. Although he didn't speak clearly, I can piece together a general idea from his words, sir!"
Speaking of this, Merlin suddenly turned his head to look at the ice curtain outside the rock cave and grabbed it out like lightning. The flame against the rock wall jumped back into the Duke's hand silently, and at the same time, the ice curtain burst into pieces.
Tens of thousands of broken ice rushed towards Merlin under the traction of the shock wave. These usually fragile broken ice are now driven by the shock wave with full penetration, and even the ripe cow leather can be broken at one blow. Merlin didn't dare to be careless. The flame whirled like a wheel to block the broken ice. At the same time, she had to carefully pull them to the other side of the cave to avoid hurting adimili by mistake.
After blocking the attack, the flame was on the ground, and Merlin looked at the man in front of her.
The broken black hair fluttered slightly, like a burning black flame. Under his black hair, he had a pair of strange pupils. The different color pupils of black left and gold right made him show his charm different from ordinary people. Men's facial features are as exquisite as a picture, but they don't give people a sense of weakness. On the contrary, under the exquisite appearance, there is a killing opportunity that can make Merlin feel acupuncture like pain.
He was slim, at least much thinner than most human men Merlin knew. As we all know, strength is often proportional to the size of the body. For example, those abyss beasts, which one is not a huge guy. The ice wing perched in the storm fortress is already a slender person, but its head and tail length is nearly 500 meters, not to mention other abyss mutants.
As for human beings, the guys with huge physique are the representatives of violence aesthetics, even Merlin himself. With nine levels of power, when he goes all out, his height can even rise to nearly three meters.
Even in the normal state, he is much taller than the man in front of him. But in him, being thin doesn't seem to represent weakness and weakness. On the body outlined by the close fitting tactical clothes, the muscles are uniform, moderate and almost perfect.
This seemingly slender body hides the explosive power of terror. The even and moderate muscles not only provide them with full explosive power, but also reduce the load on the body and reduce the usual energy consumption. If you have to describe it, this body is the most perfect human weapon Merlin has ever seen.
"Zero?" Merlin gently called out the man's name.
In response, his hand hung low and didn't even have a gun in his hand. But if necessary, zero can shoot instantly like a magician. For him, this is no longer a technology, but just an instinct.
Terrible instinct!
When Duke Merlin looked at him, zero was also not idle. The golden pupil of the right eye opens the ability of structural detection, and the undetectable detection waves can fall on the red Archduke. So Merlin fell into zero's eyes and was structured into a three-dimensional model, which produced all kinds of data.
Merlin's body structure is not much different from that of other people in Georgia. He has a fish like head and a human like body, but his lower limbs are more conducive to running. If we have to distinguish, it is the muscle strength of Archduke Merlin. Under the action of structure detection, zero gets a set of data. Among them, the muscle strength of Archduke Merlin is more than three times that of Baltimore.
It means that the basic defense, basic power and explosive power of the red Archduke are amazing. Merlin's heart, in particular, is not any biological tissue, but a crystalline container. There is no doubt that it is not only an energy crystal, but also the energy center of Dagong. It provides a steady stream of surging power for Merlin, which is also the most important distinction between Merlin and other Georgian people.
You know, whether adimili or Baltimore, they are standard living beings. However, Duke Merlin's energy crystal made zero smell the smell of biological weapons. This reminds zero that ludugnia should have been the biochemical Kingdom created by the real king under procius. If we follow the normal procedure, the real king Hermes will mass produce biological weapons from the design of the dark crown, rather than self-conscious life like adimili or Baltimore.
The biggest difference between biological weapons and life lies in controllability and freedom of will. Adimili and Baltimore have independent consciousness, so they are life rather than biological weapons. As for Merlin in front of him, he also has independent consciousness, but his body, at least part of his body, is obviously a model of biological weapons.
Zero can't help guessing that the so-called red Archduke is actually a biological weapon created by Hermes, a biological weapon with independent consciousness!
"Archduke Merlin, I don't know why you want to take miss adimili away. But as my important guide, I'm sorry, I want to take her away." zero asked, in a friendly tone, but the nerves that have been on the brink of war have not been relaxed for a moment.
No flaws.
Merlin thought so.
He was surprised that zero broke through the ice. Merlin didn't want to see through the formation of suspicious soldiers set up by himself so quickly. What's more, zero may have known from the beginning that he was not in the downstream but in the upstream. His departure was just to show Merlin, and then turn back from the rear to find the hiding place of Merlin and adimili. This idea made Dagong feel a little frustrated, but it flashed away.
Merlin's ambition has long been honed to the extent that ordinary things are difficult to shake. Even if he seems to lose, he will not easily admit defeat.
He tightened the flame judgment in his hand and said faintly, "I don't look like such a generous person. If you want to take adimili, please ask my old man first."
Zero's eyes fell on the flame judgment. Judging from this weapon, it is not difficult to judge that Archduke Merlin is a very brave melee fighter. Moreover, the previous structural detection has told zero that the power of Dagong is only high but not low. It is not difficult for him to draw a conclusion when the two are at loggerheads.
Merlin is probably three points better than the destroyer.
This is a difficult opponent.
But for zero, it is just an emotion. He will not retreat because of the strength of his opponent. If Merlin doesn't dare to face it, how can he face Proteus, the star beast that even agradis can't completely destroy?
Merlin and prosius are completely opponents in different orders of magnitude.
"I don't think you want to fight here?" zero said.
Merlin smiled. "I can't see you're still a gentleman. Let's fight outside. However, if you want an open environment to be better for yourself, I'll correct your mistake."
"Then let me see the bravery of the red Archduke." for Merlin's statement, zero is noncommittal. He smiled faintly, then went to the edge of the cave and jumped down.
Stepping on the smooth surface of the ice waterfall, he slipped down like a skate. When he was about to reach the ground, he jumped gently, and zero had fallen to one side of the stream.
"Don't go away, Emily," Merlin ordered, leaping out of the cave.
The red Archduke fell to the opposite side of zero like a flame, and his feet wrapped in the heavy armor even sank into the ground. When he pulled it up again, a pile of mud powder exploded on the ground one meter around, forming a circular shallow pit around Archduke Merlin.
Located on both sides of the stream, neither zero nor Merlin was in a hurry. Their prestige was not released for the first time, but slowly condensed and continued to climb to the top. This is a hundred times more difficult than fully opening the power immediately, and the advantage of such concise power is that when it reaches the critical point, it will be more powerful and knock down the opponent with a thunderous blow.
Obviously, they both had the same idea. But unexpectedly, the other party's mind coincided with his own. This makes the situation even more unpredictable.
At the moment when both of them paid attention to their opponents, suddenly, zero seemed to find something. He showed a slightly surprised expression and didn't move, but his eyes turned to the left in a very small range.
It was such a subtle action, but it was a huge flaw in Merlin's eyes. Archduke Merlin gave a violent drink, and his prestige climbed to the peak in an instant. His whole body radiated a faint halo of energy. The flame was like an axe dragging the Duke's body, and Merlin was like a flame sprinting straight towards zero.
He finally found the first chance!