Chapter 952: Finding the Way
The wind and snow shouted, and the ice chips carried by the wind whipped like bullets on the protruding ice rocks that were exposed to the ground.
Under the gray sky, the white ice fields stretched as far as the eye could see. Depressed and monotonous, it is the eternal main color of the Arctic Ice Field, and when you look down over the ice sheet, all the scenery seems to be a repetition of the previous one, and even the most familiar guide does not dare to guarantee that you will never get lost.
In a vast white valley of snow, there is a river that stretches from the bottom of a dormant volcano to the surface, and the warm current that flows from the depths of the earth carries the smell of sulfur all year round, and the water flows to the surface, and the top layer of the river has long since formed a hard and thick layer of ice.
"Ha, it's finally caught!"
As soon as the snowdrift by the river moved, a black figure jumped out of the snowdrift, ignoring the snow chips all over his body, and ran to the ice on the river in three steps and two steps, pulling the fishing line hanging in a large ice cave on the river, and a four-legged monster fish with no scales and white eyes crackled and bounced out.
The lively strange fish had just come into contact with the cold air on the river, and after a few convulsions, it immediately froze into a hard stick, and the angler put away the fishing line, happily picked up the strange fish, and ran quickly towards the crater.
On the side walls of the outer crater, there are many cavities carved out by the lava, which are dense like honeycombs, large or small, and the blue-gray volcanic rock is faintly visible under the thick ice and snow formed by the condensation of water vapor.
The angler had just returned to his den, one step from the hole, when suddenly his body stiffened, and he turned around faster than he had used to get in, but before he could take a step, he was already frozen there.
In the short moment when he turned around, the ground one step behind him had turned into a snow swamp, and the strange fish in his hand fell to the ground, and was smoked by the heat near the crater, and came back to life, bounced a few times, and fell into the snow swamp, and the whole fish disappeared.
It turned out to be my own people!
Stopping before stepping into the snow swamp, the man was not angry but happy when he saw this.
After more than a year of fighting, everyone knows that the demons with the talent for casting spells are probably going to be necromancers, not to mention that once the two clans meet, there is no need to ask for identity, and the way to greet each other will never be so gentle.
"Under the command of the Military Intelligence Department behind enemy lines of the Chinese Army, the scout captain of the 3rd Field Ranger Corps, Temo. Sharon, meet Your Excellency. β
Raising his hands in recognition of each other, he waited for a dozen or so breaths, and was not attacked, the scout turned slowly and cautiously, and sure enough, he saw two more figures slowly appearing in the originally empty hole, turning from virtual to real, one tall and the other petite.
"How did you find ours?" Nodding in return, Lin An said strangely.
Although he had no intention of hiding, he just didn't want to scare this hard-to-find Terran, and used the lowest level of invisibility to hide his figure, but he shouldn't be recognized at a glance by the scout who just walked to the entrance of the cave.
"The two of them were not villains," the scout smiled, "The four-legged lava fish is the most sensitive to the smell of sulfur, and the four-legged fish caught by the villain in the past will wake up before they enter the hole, but the two of them have probably cleared the smell of this hole before, and the smell of sulfur is a little lighter, and people can't smell it from their mouths and noses, but the four-legged fish can identify it, so ......"
Lin An understood, "It's worthy of being a scout, and even this flaw can be detected!" β
From the words of this scout, it can be seen that he has been living in the vicinity for a long time, and Lin An has already observed this volcanic cave, and there is only one trace of a human life.
"Your Excellency." Feeling that the two uninvited guests were still good at talking, the scout seemed to relax a little, but in fact, his calves tied to the ground were tense, ready to make a move.
Lin An saw the scout's uneasiness, and said it directly:
"Is the battle in the Icefields over? I came in all the way, and I didn't see any trace of the demons, where did the northern front advance? β
"You don't know?" The scout's eyes widened, a hint of suspicion flashed.
"As far as I know, more than a year ago, the demon undead army went south, and it was still in a stalemate on the front line of Gaunt City, but for more than a year, I haven't received information from the outside, and I don't know how far the war has developed."
Speeding all the way in the sky, there was no trace of war or human and demon, Lin An asked Hades the Great to suspend his trip on the grounds that he didn't know the exact location and needed someone to lead the way, allowing them to find someone to understand the current situation.
The ice field is vast and sparsely populated, and if it weren't for the stumbling upon this scout, Lin An would almost have wondered where the spatial crack in the return path had sent them.
"The stalemate in Gaunt City has been more than half a year ago, half a year ago, the army has been ordered to retreat to the no-man's land north of the Sana'a River, rebuild the battle line on the grassland, and is in a stalemate with the demons, as for the current battle situation, the villain has been sneaking into the area behind the enemy for a long time, and it is not clear."
Lin An had faintly expected it, but he couldn't help but be moved when he heard the words, and said:
"On orders? On whose orders? β
Who would dare to order the Northern Front Legion to abandon the city of Gaunt, which is incomparably symbolic to the Terrans?
"Of course, it is an order from His Majesty the Emperor." The scout said inexplicably.
No, if the Emperor wanted to give up the front line of Gaunt City, he would have ordered it long before the envoys sent an envoy, before the plague broke outβthe Emperor of Alabham had put the lives of his sons who had the right to inherit on the gambling table, and he would never give up the battle line of Gaunt City, which had been held up at such a cost.
Lin An's mind was in chaos, she had only been away for more than a year, and the battle situation had changed so much that she was stunned.
But she didn't dare to contact Lancet through the Ring of Artemis, lest they be pulled in - she had to admit that the pressure on Lin An from Emperor Hades was unprecedented, and she did not dare to take the slightest risk.
After a few thoughts, Lin An didn't ask any more, no matter how much she asked, the scout cavalry in front of her would not be the one who could answer her, and even if she knew, she wouldn't be able to change the situation, rather than making her heart weak, it was better to pretend that she didn't know.
With such a thought, Lin An changed the question:
"So, the fortresses and fortresses that our Terrans built on the ice fields have been demolished and destroyed? How many of you scouts are there in the area behind enemy lines? Are there any of you guys near Mapei? How can I find you? β
The content of her question already involved military secrets, and the scout was about to push off the lies made up in his heart, but his eyes were matched with those sparkling lacquer eyes, and his whole soul seemed to be sucked into the whirlpool deep in those eyes.
Being able to go deep behind enemy lines and carry out the task of collecting the movements of demons alone in the cold and lonely ice field, the will of this scout ranger captain is naturally not ordinary tenacity, even the most tragic torture, not a word can be pry out of his mouth-
He felt as if he was in a trance, and when he came back to his senses, the two people in front of him were gone.
He was stunned for a moment, quickly recalled his previous memory, and clearly remembered that he fluently said the false information that he prevaricated, but the other party did not stay after receiving the information, left him two pieces of smoked meat as payment, and left.
"What a nice man!"
The scout quickly changed his den, and was busy for most of the day, when it was dark again, and the rumbling in his belly sounded, and the aroma of bacon aroused a sense of hunger, and he was sure that the two uninvited guests would not return, so he left what happened today.
Afterwards, when he recalled this incident, he found that the impression of the two in his mind had long been blurred, and no matter how he recalled, he could not say any specific characteristics of the two.
ββ¦β¦ According to the scout's memory, Merlin's army had largely withdrawn from the ice field, and even the spies who were conducting military reconnaissance behind enemy lines had no eyeliner on the Mapei line further north. The Demon Front has overwhelmed the front line of Gaunt City, and ninety percent of the undead army has gathered on a new front, and there are probably very few people left behind, so we may have to try our luck to find a guide who knows the specific situation north of Ma Pei. β
Combing through the information collected from the scout's memory, combined with his own past experience, Lin An carefully organized the language in his heart.
Back in front of Hades the Great, she had deleted all unnecessary content, and concisely informed the information about Babel, and deleted all the rest of the irrelevant information, so as not to provoke the attention of Hades the Great, which was by no means a good thing for the Muses.
At this time, there was no fear that the world would not be chaotic on the side to stir up right and wrong, Lin An passed the test very smoothly, and he was very glad that Angus was fainted by Hades the Great.
Of course, she also knew that Emperor Hades must know the intention behind her actions, but as long as Lin An did not interfere with his purpose, he completely turned a blind eye to this kind of unfounded scheming, and even adopted Lin An's ill-intentioned proposal to arrest a high-level demon clan to understand the situation.
The five fingers were buckled in like tofu, and in a moment, the male palm with distinct bones and white as if it had magic power that made people unable to take their eyes off it left the Tianling cover, and with a shake of his fingertips, a few drops of blood fell on the white snow like plum blossoms, and it was like oil meeting fire, and it burned up, and in an instant, a half-zhang deep pit burned on the snow layer.
A moment ago, he was also a heavy general who stayed in the rear, and Lofink who stayed in the rear of the demon clan and sat in the Mapei Fortress. Sergigia's eyes widened, not understanding how bad luck could befall him without warning.
His corpse slowly fell into the pit, staring at the gray canopy of heaven without a blind eye, and after a few breaths, it completely vaporized, leaving not even a trace in this world.
Lin An was stunned, and Titi frantically withdrew for dozens of feet, looking at each other.
I don't know what Emperor Hades saw in the soul memory of this demon general, but it actually caused a trace of the domain power in his body to leak out.
"By the way, the Ice Plains Demon Clan was cut off by the Hades Great and abandoned in the Muse Continent, and their descendants are probably instilled with hatred for the Hades Great from the moment they are born - in the memory of that demon general, I am afraid that there will be no good things to say about him."
Accompanying such a strong man, even though Lin An knew that Emperor Hades should not touch them before entering the Tower of Babel, the psychological pressure it brought to them was constant all the time, making her tense her nerves and figuring out his thoughts.
Just thinking about it, as soon as his wrist tightened, Lin An was pulled by Titi and jerked back from a distance farther than before.
I saw that the huge power of the realm was suddenly released, and the flames rose into the sky.
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