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Near the fog area of H312, three figures wearing white cold-proof suits rushed in front of the barrier separating the two realms.

These three people are none other than Gong Ren and his party from the [Rose] team.

The snow in the river is a little shallow, not as deep as the snow that has piled up outside, but it is more than the knees of many people.

Ma Huilin, the shortest of the three, even half of her body was trapped in it.

At this time, Gong Ren naturally took the lead, his huge body opened up a path in the snow, allowing Ma Huilin and Qingfeng, who were following him, to step on the marks left by him, and using this way of walking could save the physical consumption of the two of them.

Even so, the snow made it difficult for the men to move forward.

Not long after entering the misty area, Gong Ren seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly motioned for the two behind him to stop.

"What's wrong, what's the situation?" Aomine leaned in and asked.

Regarding Gong Ren's understanding, Qingfeng knew that he would not suddenly stop for no reason, he must have noticed something unusual.

"This area of fog...... It's not like what we've ever explored!" Gong Ren's tone was cautious and worried.

"Huh?"

"I just noticed where we came in. ”

"After comparing the distances, I found that the visual range of this fog area is only half of that of other fog areas!" Gong Ren said solemnly.

The line-of-sight distance of a first-order DOV in the general fog zone is ten times that of an ordinary person, that is, 100 meters.

And in the H312 fog area, there is only a visual range of 50 meters!

The information given by the bearded man did not explain this question, and it was clear that they did not notice the difference in sight distance.

If Gong Ren hadn't had the habit of recording the points of travel, I'm afraid he would have missed this important information.

"What does a thicker fog mean?" Ma Huilin said suspiciously.

"Maybe this change in the fog made the Ice Fruit born here, right?" Aomine guessed.

"I don't know, but Brother Feng, did you succeed in the idea of reducing the power of the combined attack technique I mentioned before to reduce the consumption. Gong Ren thought about it and asked Qingfeng and said.

Aomine shook his head and said, "I can't do it, my ability seems to only be able to use a burst attack, no matter how I control the output, it will drain all the energy." ”

Gong Ren frowned and said, "I have 5 C-grade nutrients on my body, even if I fight to the death in the end, I can only use 7 combined attack techniques......"

"Rest assured, I don't think there are any mutated creatures that can eat our combined attack skills the next time unharmed, the strange fish in Kaifeng before didn't turn into meat foam with one blow~" Qingfeng patted Gong Ren's shoulder optimistically.

"Let's go, what's the use of thinking about this and that here!" Ma Huilin said dissatisfiedly.

"Well, let's move on. Gong Ren straightened the snow hat he was wearing on his head and continued his snow pushing journey.

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Because she only needed to step on Gong Ren's footprints to move forward, Ma Huilin had extra energy to look east and west, no, in her sight, some different creatures appeared.

"Hey, that's a reindeer, right?" exclaimed Ma Huilin in surprise.

Gong Ren stopped, gasped, and looked in the direction Ma Huilin pointed.

At the end of the line of sight, blurred figures.

However, the iconic forked horn still made Gong Ren recognize their identity - reindeer.

"They seem to have noticed us, too. Aomine said.

As Aomine said, when the [Rose] team stopped, the reindeer over there seemed to be interested in them as well, and walked a few steps towards them, but when they got closer to a distance of thirty meters, they stopped approaching.

This is a small reindeer population, with a total of five gray-white reindeer coming into view of the trio.

They tilted their heads, their big eyes revealing curiosity.

However, after observing for a while, he saw that the two-legged sheep did not move, so he ignored them and returned with his head shaken.

"Hey, don't you ignore us?" said Ma Huilin.

"Gong Ren, look at your appearance, do you have any findings?" Qingfeng asked as he looked at Gong Ren.

"No, I'm just emotional. Gong Ren also straightened out his breath at this time and said slowly.

"These reindeer were originally from the Russian bear side and went south for the winter, but it seems that they were attracted here by the fog. ”

"The props we prepared to hide the smell don't seem to be working, and these reindeer should have sniffed us before we found them. ”

"In that case, we don't ...... about giant bears," Aomine said with a frown.

"It's okay, with our current vision, maybe we can't see as far as the giant bear, even if the smell can't be hidden, it doesn't matter. Gong Ren said indifferently.

But...... These reindeer don't seem to be willing to step into this side of the river, is there something in the river?' Gong Ren looked at the departing reindeer and thought secretly.

'Hopefully, I'm overthinking......'

Gong Ren continued to exert his strength and led the team forward.

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The passage of time, in the foggy zone, is imperceptible.

The fog made everything look so hazy.

Here, after nearly an hour of progress by the [Roses] team, they finally reached the end of the river.

"Look, there's that mutated fruit!" Ma Huilin exclaimed in surprise.

Directly in front of the three of them, there was a mutated plant that looked a little strange.

The blue leaves stand out so much in the snow!

Surrounded by three blue leaves, a pale blue mutated fruit hangs from the top of the plant.

Due to the distance between them, the three of them could not see the details of the light blue mutated fruit.

"It's a good start to find a mutant plant here!" Aomine said happily.

"Brother Feng, let's go and pick it off~" Ma Huilin was eager to try, wanting to move towards the mutant plant.

"Wait a minute!" Gong Ren, who had not spoken since the beginning, suddenly opened his mouth to stop the two of them.

In fact, long before Ma Huilin, Gong Ren noticed this mutant plant, but he didn't squeak, but observed its surroundings.

The blue mutant plant was born in a distant depression in the snow.

As you can tell from the snow layer, there should be the location of the lake.

'Is this a plant that grows on the ice?'

When Gong Ren was puzzled, he suddenly remembered the cautious attitude of the reindeer herd towards the river before.

The animals are not vigilant for no reason, and it is clear that the reindeer have suffered something in the river, or on the ice!

"What's wrong?" Qingfeng grabbed Ma Huilin, who was about to run out, and looked at Gong Ren and asked.

"I think that could be a trap. Gong Ren told the two of them his speculation.

"Isn't it?" Ma Huilin was a little reluctant to give up on the strange-looking mutated fruit.

"Just give it a try. ”

Aomine bent down, grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, and formed a hard snowball in the palm of his hand.

With a 'whew', Aomine slammed into action, and the snowball was thrown towards the light blue mutant fruit!

The snowball hit the bullseye with unmistakable accuracy!

The pale blue mutant fruit was smashed by the snowball and shook violently, but there was no hint of meaning that it was about to fall.

"Huh?" Qingfeng snorted suspiciously, it seemed that nothing had happened, and it was not like Gong Ren said, it was a trap.

However, all of a sudden, there was a huge change over there!

A hideous mutant fish more than ten meters long sprang out from below!

This mutant fish is completely transparent, only the top of its head is colored.

At this time, the three of them discovered that the blue plant that had just been considered a mutant plant turned out to be a sarcoma growing on the top of the head of a strange fish!

Like a monkfish in the deep sea, it hangs a small lantern to trap ignorant prey passing by.

But compared to the monkfish, the size of a strange fish is much larger, and it is not an exaggeration to say that even if you put a reindeer in front of it, it can swallow it in one bite!

The strange fish jumped up and walked seven or eight meters high, and when it reached the end, it turned around and plunged headlong in the direction it came!

The expected impact sound did not come, just as it was silent when it appeared, and the strange fish that fell quietly drilled back!

If it weren't for the fact that there was a two-meter-wide pit in the same place, the three of them would have thought that what they had just seen was just an illusion.

"Thanks to Gong Ren...... If it hadn't been for your reminder just now, we might have been buried in the belly of the fish by now......" Aomine gasped in surprise at the strange fish.

Gong Ren patted Qingfeng's shoulder and said, "The danger of this misty area is higher than what we have ever been to, we have just arrived in the inner circle, and we have encountered mutant creatures of this level......"

"I kind of know why the adventurer squads that came in haven't heard from them. ”

Gong Ren took out the paper map, and after making sure that the route they were traveling was correct, he started moving forward again.

Another hour passed.

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When it comes to the hierarchy of mutated creatures, adventurers are simple and crude.

The ones that first-order adventurers can deal with independently are called first-order mutant creatures.

The kind of mutant creatures that need to be dealt with as a team are called giant mutated creatures.

For example, the 'cockroach rat' that Su Meng first encountered in the dark sand of the Divine Fox belonged to the first-order mutated creatures, and the giant python was a first-order giant mutant creature.

And the white bear in the center of H312 is a second-order giant mutant creature.

Of course, even the same kind of mutant creatures have a huge difference in strength, just like the individual gap in Shaga's mutant dog group.

Therefore, the strength of mutant creatures cannot be generalized by the so-called rank.