Chapter 509

Five days later.

During these five days, the team moved westward at a constant speed of 400 kilometers per day. If it's zero on the road alone, the speed can at least double. But this team, in addition to the limited number of high-level zero, the rest of the people regardless of speed or physical ability are unable to walk faster. Four hundred kilometers a day is the limit. After walking out of the zambis mountains, there is an endless permafrost plain. Different from the desolate and quiet primeval forest of the old era, the forest of the new era is more mysterious. The towering giant trees with staggered skin and roots stand like ferocious demon trees.

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

In the primeval forest of the new era, what is dangerous is not only all kinds of changeful animals in the forest, but also these terrible trees.

Of course, the scenery on the way is far more than the forest. The team passed through the high mountains filled with wind and snow, the primeval forest full of danger, the quiet and beautiful natural lake, and the dark underground tunnel. After five days, these people who live in the eastern plain finally see the danger and wonder of the Western tundra.

And as the west facing tundra deepens, the climate gets colder and colder. Even if you march in the daytime, the temperature of 20 degrees below zero is unbearable. This kind of temperature is quite common to the people of Georgia like adimili. Even compared with the real winter, this kind of temperature can be called warm. But the servant soldiers in the team can't, even if these surviving soldiers have an average level of level 3, but the low temperature and strong radiation are testing their physique all the time.

This is the cruel side of nature. If it can't stand the test, it will end up sleeping in a corner of the tundra. And there have been two such incidents. There are only 13 servants left. Of the dozen, ten belonged to the zero team, while the remaining three were starry's men. Just Starley didn't care about the life and death of the servant soldiers. Like many high-level strong men, in Starley's heart, the role of the servant soldiers was more to transport supplies, serve as cannon fodder and decoration.

Nothing can be blamed for this. After all, this is the common fault of the strong in this era.

Five days later, the team advanced about 2000 kilometers westward. That evening, when the team walked out of a forest covered with silver frost, another rolling mountain range crossed their way. The mountains are steep, like knives, typical of tundra style. It is the result of years of wind and snow. The mountain extends from south to north, and the altitude increases from low to high. From a distance, it's like a slide.

In the language of their green capital, turash means "the ladder to heaven".

It was night, and the team camped at the edge of the forest. The servants and the fishman guards cleared large areas of snow, and then set up camp on the ground where there was no snow. Then the mermaid guards picked up dead branches near the forest to make a campfire. Compared with their primitive practice, the servants used marching stoves and solid fuel to heat water and cook food.

Zero and starry also hit a Blizzard Bear in the forest, and the big guy as tonight's dinner. The appearance of Blizzard Bear is very similar to that of polar bear in old times, but its claws are translucent crystal body, which contains extremely strong ice system energy. The prey caught by Blizzard bears will be unable to move due to blood coagulation in a very short period of time, which makes it become the food of Blizzard bears.

But tonight, this bear is very unfortunate, zero and starry two people stare at, thus from the hunter into prey. Along the way to the west, zero and others also noticed that, it seems that due to the influence of the natural environment of the Western tundra, the mutants here have more or less the ability of ice element affinity. This ability makes them more resistant to cold, while using one or more ice system capabilities.

Or like a snowstorm bear, it directly stores the ice system energy in some organs or limbs of the body, so as to give the prey ice system energy damage while attacking.

When the bear was thrown to the ground of the camp, the soldiers skillfully pulled out the bear's fur. If you get this bear skin to mobistone market, it will sell for a good price. And even in asgart, which has been called a rich place, the snow-white bear skin is also a luxury among nobles.

Now, after being washed out of the blood, it becomes Leah's cloak and blanket.

Next, the paw of the bear. These crystal like claws contain extremely pure ice system energy, and they can be used as energy crystals. Energy crystal has a wide range of uses, such as this kind of pure energy stone is superior goods. Now, even if the bears die, they are still absorbing the cold of the surrounding environment all the time, storing it, and then gradually transforming it into ice system energy.

The servant soldiers originally took out the crystal claws and gave them to zero, but zero gave them to the soldiers. Only the number of crystal claws is limited, only a few people with weak constitution get crystal claws. With this crystal claw on your body, you can reduce the damage caused by the cold in the tundra.As for the rest of the bear, its fur and claws are far less valuable. So the soldiers dismembered the whole bear, cut off the meat and roasted it on a marching stove or a fisherman's campfire. A moment later, when the bear meat is golden, the strong smell of meat begins to float over the camp.

A bear looks like it has a lot of meat, but actually it can be divided, and each person's share is also very limited. For those with higher-level ability, it is a less efficient way to absorb energy through animal meat. Not everyone who has the ability to burn food is like zero. Like starry, after food is eaten by him, only the protein in the food will be completely absorbed. As for other things, they will be wasted in the process of digestion.

If you only eat ordinary food, the appetites of high-level people have to be measured by tons. So they are usually equipped with compressed foods like nutrients, which taste worse even though they taste worse. However, it contains a lot of energy, enough to supplement the daily needs of those with ability, and rescue them from the food pile.

Before departure, more than zero high-level students were given enough nutrients. At this meeting, after eating two pieces of bear meat, Stanley took out nutrients and squeezed a mouthful, and then finished his dinner.

The bonfire on the side of the gnonians was burning vigorously, and the light of the fire flickered on the faces of the fishermen. Their meat had been roasted, but it was not eaten immediately. Instead, they closed their eyes as if they were praying. After a moment, the fishermen opened their eyes and the guards handed the food to adimili and Balmore. While the two were eating, the other guards were just waiting quietly, as if adimili had finished eating before they arrived for dinner.

"Strict class system." Starley commented, taking another sip. Shaking the already floating wine bottle, starry began to regret that he had brought too little wine. However, mobistone's exotic wine, starry, could not be used to explain his slander. As a result, with less and less wine to drink, Stanley only took a sip of it almost every day. He was as careful as a miser.

Putting down the bottle, Starley said casually, "the guy behind us seems to have disappeared two days ago. It's strange. Who are they?"

Zero opened his hand and said, "I'm curious about that, too. Anyway, we have to be careful. "

"I can't be careless. Before we get to the green capital, Ryan is missing. I always feel that this task is not so simple. And... "Starley said faintly:" you have a strange attitude towards those fishmen. How to say, it always feels like you treat them as friends, not enemies. "

Starley is not a fool, in fact, can become a high-level people are not mediocre. Knowing that he had already 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 where I stand, and you. Zero, your line seems to be a little blurred, which is not a good thing. " Starley said slowly.

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

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

Listen to zero say so, Starley is a Leng at first, then says with a smile: "won't you, brother, do you really plan to be a peace messenger? I said at the fair, you or I. We don't have the power to push the situation. Either adapt to the whole situation, or drown in the tide. "

Zero silent down, he looked up at the sky covered by radiation clouds, slowly said: "Starley, maybe you will laugh at me. But I have imagined more than once that if we and other higher life have enough living space, whether human beings can live in peace with them. 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, animal and other life also have the right to survive. Why should we exploit all this? "

"You're right, but it's all hypothetical. The fact is that the planet is dying, and its living space and resources are shrinking. Therefore, war is inevitable. " Stanley sighed.

Then you tell me, what is the meaning of the war in the West tundra? You've seen it these days. What's here? Barren mountains? The primeval forest or the radiant snow everywhere? 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 carry out the western expedition? "

A series of questions left Stanley speechless. After a while, he said, "we are just soldiers. These problems should be solved by those big people. God knows what they are thinking."

"Well, let's not talk about that." Zero seriously said: "suppose, suppose there is an opportunity for all life on this planet to have enough living space. Starley, how would you choose. Is it to destroy it and maintain the pattern of the times, or can we fight to protect it, even against former comrades in arms or superiors? "It was another difficult question for Stanley 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 there will be an answer after this trip to Georgia."

"Yes? What would you do if it was you? Well, I'm stupid. Since you have the idea that all life can coexist, you must come forward to protect this opportunity. It's a dangerous decision, but I have to admire your courage. " Starley raised the bottle. "I'm going to have to have another damn drink for your courage."

Zero looked at him and carefully drank a mouthful of liquor, suddenly some laughing and crying. Tonight, zero did not shake out the whole truth, because without evidence, Stanley would not believe that the war was in fact just a tool used by Tyr. But it's not nothing. At least Stanley thinks about the hypothesis put forward by zero seriously and doesn't destroy it.

As starry said, zero is just a hypothesis. When the hypothesis becomes true, zero believes that starry will make the right choice.

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

"There are two ways to come here. One is a tunnel left over from the old age down the tulash mountain, which crosses the whole mountain range, but on the way, we will pass a human base of the old age. The name of that base is very strange. It's named after the white blood cells in the human body. But that's 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. "

Hear "white blood cell" three words, zero heart move. In the previous base, also known as white blood cells, the information obtained from zero shows that there was more than one experimental base established for the cloning project in the old era, and they were all named "white blood cells". So in adimili's so-called Hall of the dead, is there any information about the clone program? Even, where is the collection of Quaternary super life?

Whatever the possibility, zero felt it was necessary to go to the hall of the dead.