Act XIV. Venture through the Kuiper Great Heath in the rain

"You know, this wasteland is called Kuiper Heath, and it is said that it was once one of the oceans of the old era, but now that the ocean has dried up, these things are left here."

Bai Ge looked at the scene outside the window and said casually to Bamboo Frost.

Outside the car window, what you see is not a barren desert, but a lush forest, a vast field, just like the most primitive nature.

In the sky, a long howl sounded, and Bai Ge saw that above the clouds, a behemoth was swimming, accompanied by countless tiny translucent birds soaring around him, stirring up thousands of ripples.

"That's the cloud whale, probably the largest atmospheric creature, and there will be storms everywhere it goes, and those birds are also storm birds that are also atmospheric creatures, and these creatures come out in groups, and it looks like there will be a storm next."

Bai Ge explained simply, making Zhu Shuang drop nod slightly.

"You know a lot."

Her nose twitched slightly, as if she were sniffing the smell of the storm.

"It's going to rain."

Before the bamboo frost fell, a ticking sound was heard, and raindrops fell on the car window.

Tick Tick Tick Tick –

The continuous light rain quickly became intense, turning into a torrential downpour.

In the rain, even other vehicles in the distance could not see clearly.

All sounds were gradually replaced by the sound of rain, except for the sound of the pounding of raindrops falling on the car body that filled the ears of the three men.

The air smells of earth, thunder and lightning mingle, and the world is lonely.

Woo –

In the sky overhead, a long, heavy chirp caused the whole car to vibrate, and the bamboo frost lowered its face against the window glass and looked up, the huge cloud whale of more than a kilometer was looming among the clouds above the Flyer One, and the random flutter of its fins caused a gust of wind, just passing by, it was enough to change the weather.

In addition to the storm birds, other atmospheric creatures such as cloud jellyfish, fog snakes, and haze sharks follow it in the rain, creating a scene that people in the city may not see in their lifetime.

"It's worthy of being the Lord of the Storm, and this cloud whale is significantly larger, perhaps because of ......"

Bai Ge muttered to himself, the activation of the Abyss Relic attracted these huge creatures, and it seemed that there would be more creatures that were rarely seen on the next journey.

"Look over there!"

Bamboo Frost seemed to see something and hurriedly pointed to the side.

Bai Ge could only see a car approaching his side, but before he could make any further moves, he was enveloped by a huge torrent.

It was storm birds, flocks of tens of thousands of storm birds swimming in the rain curtain, they swept across the ground, forming an unstoppable torrent of rain.

That car was the unlucky guy who was hit by the torrent.

In an instant, as if swept away by a flood, the moving car was directly overturned, rolling twice in the fluttering wind and rain, and there was no movement at all.

The storm birds, unconscious, passed through the vehicle as if they were through the trees of a dense forest, twisting their trajectory and rushing elsewhere.

"Be careful of these storm birds, if you are hit by such a large number of birds, it is estimated that this car will not be able to support it."

Bai Ge admonished, the number of storm birds he saw now far exceeded that of the Orient Express, and he even felt that this cloud whale and this group of storm birds themselves constituted a large and complex ecosystem, and if they continued to stay somewhere, it might flood the lake again, or even become a small ocean.

From a distance, you can see a huge cloud covering the area, and the rain is falling down, gray and mist.

Bai Ge looked ahead, and suddenly, a premonition made him look to the side.

Almost at the same time, Bamboo Frost also smelled a subtle scent, and she quickly stood up.

"There are enemies!"

At the moment of the sound, only the sound of gunfire was heard in the rain curtain.

Bang bang bang –

The next moment, the sound of glass breaking burst out with the arrival of bullets.

Before Wilbur could react, Bai Ge had already used [Assassin Vision] to accurately capture these bullets and shoot them down one by one.

Although it was a sneak attack, with Bai Ge's consciousness focused, it was impossible for these bullets to cause harm to the people in the car.

"Targeting us?"

It's just that Bai Ge doesn't know the meaning of these people.

Are they trying to attack Wilbur, who finished first in the first stage, or are they coming for the Bamboo Frost or themselves?

"There were three cars, one on the left and one in the back, and the one on the left fired fire!"

In Bamboo Frost's eyes, although the heavy rain diluted a lot of pheromones, she still quickly discovered the enemy's movements, and the three vehicles were quietly surrounding the Flyer One by taking advantage of the previous rain curtain interference.

The bullet came through the rain screen, but "exactly" missed the target, merely grazed the body, and flew in other directions.

Bai Ge shrouded the entire car in the sphere of influence of the [Trojan Horse] at this moment, and attacks from the outside world would miss the original target due to errors and loopholes.

However, this is only a "loophole" after all, if the other party continues to get closer, then it will be difficult to deal with all the bullets even if it is deflected, Bai Ge can protect himself and Bamboo Frost, Wilbur is not injured, but the vehicle may have some malfunction because of the bullets.

A flash of thunder flashed, illuminating the world that was already as dark as night.

In the shadows, Bai Ge disappeared.

She looked to the left, and in the flickering lightning, an ordinary off-road vehicle appeared there, and with the vision of Bamboo Frostfall, she could see that the person sitting in the passenger seat was wearing a helmet on his head that covered his eyes, and was holding a sniper rifle towards this side.

This is a contestant who has seen it before, but it is unknown why he launched an attack on Wilbur's vehicle.

This kind of equipment is obviously not improvised, but has been prepared for a long time.

But.

Behind the sniper, a figure emerged.

Before the two people in the car were aware of it, Bai Ge used the [Shadow Jump] to come to the back seat, and without any hesitation, he reached forward with his right hand.

Click-

A part appeared in Bai Ge's palm, which was the key part of the engine, and it was the weakest point that Bai Ge found using [Assassin Vision].

Bang –

The next moment, the whole car began to deflect due to the loss of control, flew up on the uneven ground, and hit the ground hard, and the front of the car was deformed.

At the same time, Bai Ge returned to the Flyer One.

"That's one."

As he spoke, his right hand continued to stretch forward.

After determining the specific appearance of the parts, Bai Ge did not need to use [Assassin Vision] to reconfirm.

He [stole] the parts of the vehicle behind him, and almost at the same time, there was a huge crash behind him, which even the sound of the storm could not hide, and then fell silent.

"That's two."

As the bullets fired at the vehicle were deflected again, Bai Ge was about to reach out towards the vehicle on the right, as he did the same.

There was a scream from far and near, and I saw that tens of thousands of storm birds seemed to be attracted by something, and rushed towards the car without hesitation, only for a moment, the whole car flew into the air, and when it landed again, it was completely distorted and deformed, and could no longer move.

“...... Did you do it? ”

Bai Ge looked at the bamboo frost behind him, the girl had just opened her eyes at this time, her golden right eye flickered between the scattered bangs, shining in this dark storm.

"Hmmm......"

Bamboo Frost nodded, she just used the control of [Pheromones] to make the storm birds think that the car was an enemy and an attack target, so as to guide the entire flock of birds to impact it, in the environment where there are creatures, Bamboo Frostfall's [Pheromones] is the strongest weapon.

"These contestants have been prepared for a long time, I don't know if it's someone sent by Atlas or another camp."

Bai Ge said while thinking.

"Can I give it a try......"

Zhu Shuang said and closed his eyes again.

She was catching the pheromones left in the air, and although the torrential rain had made the traces extremely thin, the bamboo frost that had been strengthened had found some clues in them.

She saw that the people had gathered a month earlier, bought equipment, and signed up for the competition.

She saw the men saluting a person whose face he couldn't see clearly, reporting the situation, and taking orders.

She saw that among the equipment these people were hiding underneath, there were some signs that she was very familiar with.

“...... It's yesterday's Order, these people are yesterday's Order......"

Bamboo Frost said with a little surprise.

“...... They were the lower echelons of the Order yesterday, and it seems that they had been ordered by an officer to sabotage the Marathon. ”

These people were undoubtedly members of the Order of Yesterday, and the reason why they attacked Wilbur's Flyer One was not because of any white song or bamboo frost, but because they had won the first place in the first stage.

For the people of the Order of Yesterday, the marathon represents the end of the wars of the old era, and since then, the Olympic spirit of sports has run through the development of mankind, but there have been several times when the Olympic Games have not been successfully held for various reasons, and they are going to make such a "historical reproduction".

At least nominally.

Judging from the information currently known, the Order should have smelled the information about the Abyss Relic yesterday, so it sent someone to investigate, as for the officer behind it, maybe he had hidden his identity and become other contestants mixed in.

"Yesterday the Order? Why attack us ......"

Wilbur didn't understand it a little, but thinking of some plots, it seemed reasonable for the villain to send someone to chase and kill the runaway lady.

As for the Order yesterday, Wilbur didn't know exactly who they were, only that these guys must be bad people.

"I see."

Bai Ge nodded, and then, without hesitation, disappeared directly from the car.

“?”

Wilbur didn't quite understand, but Bamboo Frost didn't say anything.

After a while, Bai Ge returned to the car.

He had some rain on his body, but he didn't have any other stains.

The bamboo frost fell and stopped.

She smelled the smell of blood on Bai Ge's body.

There was no doubt that Bai Ge, who was originally simply destroying the vehicle so that those people could not continue to chase them, chose to turn back after learning that these people were the killers sent by the Order yesterday.

As for the fate of those people, the bamboo frost is very clear.

“...... Well, don't you think I'm cruel? ”

Bai Ge noticed Bamboo Frost's gaze and showed a slightly bitter smile.

"No ......"

Zhu Shuang shook her head, she knew Bai Ge's thoughts, if she were to be herself, she might make the same choice.

Faced with the organization that killed the people closest to him, Bai Ge's actions were very normal.

Although Zhu Shuang has not directly killed anyone in her mission so far, if she had met someone from the Order yesterday, perhaps she would not have been so merciful.

"Wait, wait, Mr. Heinlein, look ahead."

Just when Bai Ge and Zhu Shuang fell into thinking about the appearance of the Order yesterday, Wilbur, who was driving, suddenly shouted with a trembling voice.

The two of them looked ahead, and it was the scene of the huge cloud whale that was more than a kilometer old descending from the clouds.

In the translucent bodies of atmospheric creatures, tens of millions of tons of water are constantly falling into raindrops.

But the shocking sight was not the reason for Wilbur's trembling voice.

Bai Ge's [Assassin Vision] penetrated the rain curtain, and between the lightning and thunder, he saw the existence located at the head of the cloud whale.

Above the three pairs of compound eyes of the cloud whale is a beast with a pure white body.

The beast had hard scales, strong front paws, wings that connected its forearms to its body, and a long, thick tail, and its red eyes were staring at the cloud whale, its open mouth and fangs tearing at the fragile body of the atmospheric creature.

Boom –

As a beast with the name of the Lord of the Storm, the Cloud Whale is rated as [Fierce] above the wasteland, that is, it is a very dangerous existence, the reason for this is that it feeds on thunder and lightning, and at the same time has the power to release thunder and lightning, in extreme cases, a cloud whale is enough to trigger tens of thousands of lightning bolts in just a few minutes, destroying a city, not to mention the existence of this extremely large body.

The oversized cloud whale roared, and the water rippled around it, and then bright and dazzling thunder burst out from its body, and only for this moment, the world under the clouds was brighter than day.

The thunder spread like a silver serpent, quickly enveloping the monster that was attacking the cloud whale.

However, after the lightning that was enough to support the entire city for months of power had passed, the monster continued to attack the cloud whale as if it had not been affected at all.

"It's ...... Hunting this whale? ”

Wilbur said uncertainly.

"...... right"

Bai Ge looked at the monster at the head of the cloud whale, and his voice became much heavier.

It was like a hybrid of a legendary dragon and a cheetah, with electric light jumping among its scales, and in the rating of the International Astronomical Union, it was [mad].

It belongs to a species of creature called the Ember Dragon, which originally only had a [Strong] rating, but due to the specific changes caused by the abyssal erosion, this individual has turned white all over its body, and its strength has increased a lot.

These are two monsters with their own names.

[Silver Wind: Dawn].