When Froude shouted out that familiar foul language, it was deafening.

Therefore, Dai Bingcheng was shocked by the voice coming from the communicator and frowned, and then realized that this voice was definitely not said by any of his old subordinates - maybe some people would have spoken to themselves like this in their hearts a few days ago, but by this time their relationship had returned to the honeymoon period, and he had once again become the "Director Dai" of the big tree in people's hearts.

He was puzzled by the conversation that had come from the communicator before, and by this time he had to convince himself that the more than ninety people who were on a surprise mission in the city seemed to be in some strange situation.

He tried to contact the others, but they didn't give him any response, even though the line was still open. A minute later, the officers who were on the assault mission were collectively disconnected from the battlefield channel.

Dai Bingcheng sighed slightly, tore the communicator off his ear, and asked Hu Yanling on the side: "Who do you think it will be?" ”

Hu Yanling also cut out of the battlefield channel, and shook her head solemnly: "I can't guess." ”

The Secret Service has regarded the Gate of Truth as its greatest imaginary enemy for years, and in fact does deal with it on a regular basis. But they still don't know a whole about that organization – and neither do they.

Before the cataclysm, a spy from the Secret Service infiltrated the upper echelons of the Gate of Truth, but was later exposed due to confidential information about Adam, ultimately depriving them of a valuable source of information.

Right now, they knew that Dao was in the base camp in Murmansk City, and the other party also had a few quite strong high-end combat forces - such as the "Nameless King" among the three elders. The only three saints of the Twelve Saints remained.

The Fourth and Sixth Saints were among the most famous figures in the Old World—they were classified by more than twenty countries as extremely dangerous and wanted to be killed on the spot.

But when it comes to the First Saint, he is invisible to many. There is very little information about him—not that people don't know what he looks like, but that he doesn't know what he means to be the number one of the twelve.

This person appears to be rather harmless in the intelligence system of the Secret Service. He spends most of his time in his nest and rarely leaves the United States. It is said that before he became a saint, he was just an ordinary American citizen who could not have been ordinary - he had never even eaten a ticket.

Therefore, the meaning of "can't guess" in Hu Yanling's mouth should be that she can't guess whether it is the first saint or not.

Because they know a lot about the other people, and the response is extremely adequate.

In the original plan, whether it was the elder or the white knight, these more than ninety elite warriors could support it for a period of time. As the King of Bronze, Dai Bingcheng is a reserve combat force and is ready to provide support at any time.

But now the situation is that the vanguard is almost completely annihilated.

Dai Bingcheng did not rush into the city, but watched from a distance for a while - there was no sign of a counterattack from the xenomorphs. The gunfire in the city also stopped. It is unlikely that the opponent will prepare a counteroffensive. Rather, it should be preparing for defense.

The disappearance of more than 90 people was not the full force of the operation—well-equipped regular ground troops were also arriving, and Dai Bingcheng had already seen billowing smoke and dust on the southern horizon.

So in this situation, he made a cold and conservative decision: "Wait a minute. They can't run away. ”

The sacrifice of those more than 90 people would not have a fundamental impact on the outcome of the war, because he knew that Li Zhen had achieved the first and most important goal of the war.

He slew the other one.

There is already a huge gap in the strength of the two sides, and he doesn't mind playing more securely.

Hu Yanling could understand Dai Bingcheng's thoughts—she felt that this was indeed his style. "Sacrifice some people for the sake of the overall situation", many people can say this truth. But few people actually do it—even those who have nothing to do with them.

She didn't know whether to admire such a Director Dai or dislike such a Director Dai. So she couldn't help but think of what the two of them had said before.

Dai Bingcheng asked her to come over from Ying Ran and take her to the battlefield. She was a little puzzled - she knew that she was not an outstanding person in martial arts, and she was not a skilled strategist. However, just a few dozen minutes ago, she finally understood the other party's thoughts.

He found such a rare time when two people could be alone and say those words......

wants to "get back together" with Du Qixi.

In fact, she herself did not doubt that Dai Bing had become Du Qixi's defense - Du Qixi was a qualified soldier, and he could indeed endure "lovesickness and self-suffering" and pretend to be a passerby with himself.

Everything has a reasonable explanation. It doesn't matter if those explanations are about the big picture, the country, the human race, or something else.

But she just felt sad.

From the day she entered the school affiliated to the Secret Service Mansion, she knew that her life would be different. When she was older, she began to yearn for love, but she also knew that it was difficult for a person like herself to have the kind of love in the eyes of ordinary people.

She may not be able to walk along the forest path with her lover in the afterglow of the setting sun, or hold hands to see an all-night show and drink a cup of hot soy milk when the sky is showing the whiteness of the fish's belly. Even something as trivial as coquettish and angry is unattainable - because she is a warrior.

Later, when she met Du Qixi, she thought that maybe everything was not so bad.

It's just that at that time, I didn't expect that God would only give her two years, and then there was desperate sadness and pain.

And she had to go through it twice.

So she stood beside Dai Bingcheng and smiled, sucking the biting air into her lungs.

She thought it was kind of funny. I'm not a little girl now.

is not the little girl who regarded love betrayal as more important than life.

People at Mr. Dai's age often have a hard time understanding his own generation, which in most people's eyes is irrational and self-willed. But she knew that Dai Bingcheng was an exception — perhaps he didn't care about it in his heart, but he knew how to use that stubborn emotion.

Director Dai would not spend so much time and effort talking to himself just because he cares about the emotional life of his subordinates. Hu Yanling realized it from the beginning. It seems that something is wrong with Du Qixi.

And the biggest possibility she could think of was that he "defected".

He was ordered to go to Southern Luzon to gather intelligence, but in the end he sat in a high position - no matter who is in this situation, it is easy to have other thoughts, let alone Du Qixi.

Hu Yanling bitterly felt that perhaps he and himself had the same resentment when facing Dai Bingcheng.

Perhaps this resentment made him make another choice, and now Dai Bingcheng is trying to redeem him with himself.

She wanted to laugh out loud at the thought of this, and felt her chest fill with a pleasant pain.

I'm not a little girl. She said to herself.

Dai Bingcheng glanced at her: "What's wrong?" ”

Hu Yanling put away the smile on the corner of her mouth and shook her head: "It's good to see reinforcements coming." ”

……

……

"Their reinforcements are coming, and we don't have much time." Vivien glanced south. Said worriedly. "And that thing inside is out of control."

Froude took a few steps irritably, and finally spread his hands helplessly: "What do you mean - we spent half a month formulating a plan and planning strategic defense. And now, in less than an hour, our plan is over, and we have to move from strategic defense to strategic shift? ”

He laughed weirdly, "Did you ever think that guy would be so vulnerable?" Five minutes? I think I can drag it for at least fifty minutes! ”

Vivien frowned: "Now is not the time to hold accountable. We'll have time to look into this kind of thing in the future - now what you're going to do is get Christina out of here. Even at the expense of yourself—"

Froude whistled, "Great—even at my own expense." So are you planning to stay here and give us two a little time? What can you do with your brains—what can I do with that little girl to get out of the city? ”

"There's also a plan for A." An old voice came.

Froude and Vivien turned back at the same time. What he saw was the silver-haired Longinus, one of the three elders of the Gate of Truth.

This old man, who usually only wears a long robe, is wearing a combat uniform at the moment. Heavy body armor draped over his body. It didn't make him look mighty, but he looked a little embarrassed. And he was holding Christina in his hand - the girl was in a rather strange state at the moment.

Her face was full of anger and grief. He was trying to kick Longinus in the leg and trying to break free from his grasp.

However, everything was in slow motion—it was as if the speed of time on her body had become a third or slower, and she was still bent down as Longinus moved her body slightly.

He looked at the "faithful" brothers around Froude. Nodding: "You're doing a great job." Now you've got to do better - you two have to get out of the city, and we've got a plan for it. ”

Froude was deflated. He put his hand on his forehead and said dejectedly, "Actually, we can go together—you know that I'm not suitable for those things, and even An Ruosu is much better than me......"

Longinus looked at him solemnly: "That man has the gun in his hand. No one knows the power of that thing better than I do. ”

Vivien put her hand on Flod's shoulder, leaned over, kissed him lightly on the forehead, and whispered, "You go." Live with Christina and our share. ”

Froude was speechless. He looked at Longinus, then at Vivien, and sighed deeply, "Don't expect me to say anything like take care. I know you're all going to die. ”

Then he took Christina from Longinus's hands.

The girl was instantly back to normal - she kicked Froude in the leg and shouted, "I'm not leaving!" I'm going to stay here! I'm going to kill that imposter! ”

The three looked at her with pity. Froude sighed: "My little princess...... This may be your last time. Next, the two of us have to run away. ”

Christina pulled out her hand vigorously and looked at the three people angrily: "I don't!" ”

Froude smiled wryly: "Well, I had to-"

"How dare you do that to me! - Christina's eyes widened. Try to turn around and run away.

But Froude had already beckoned to her: "Come on, let's go." ”

Christina stepped back. But then she slowly turned around and pinched the corners of her clothes with both hands, looking quite shy.

Froude said again, "Okay? ”

The little girl nodded, and two blush flew up her cheeks: "...... Good. ”

"Then, follow me." Froude turned and beckoned to the executives, and without looking at the two men behind him, strode out of the street.

……

……

It's getting colder.

It's an eerie and eerie cold – the temperature drops by almost twenty degrees Celsius in just one hour. For the silent buildings that stand in the city of Murmansk, it means that the thick ice on them has become a little harder. But for humans, or for all living things, it means terrible and deadly lethality.

Scattered xenos roaming the streets and buildings began to die—even their highly alienated bodies couldn't cope with the cold, and the billowing smoke from the south became a little less loud—even if they had been well prepared. Reinforcements did not expect that a natural environment awaiting them here would be minus 82 degrees Celsius. Some combat vehicles began to break down. Other careless soldiers were severely frostbitten to death.

If they hadn't known some information in advance, they would have thought that the people at the Gate of Truth had developed a terrifying ultra-low temperature weapon.

Li Zhen was also hiding in an armored car - he had joined up with reinforcements ten minutes earlier.

He got in touch with Yanjing a few days ago. The other party used a super-technological device from Southern Luzon to find themselves through the barrier and convey a battle plan. And he also revealed some information with reservations. In the end, it was decided to act together with them.

Even he couldn't stay outside right now—the cold would frostbite his body. And the regeneration of his body also requires energy. He replenished nearly twenty concentrated high-energy injections. I felt that the strength I had just lost was back in my body.

He took out one of the biggest threats of the trip in five minutes, but no one knew that the short five minutes of Lu Dao could be called thrilling for him. Because he made a decision that so far is not clear whether it was wise or stupid - he demanded that the Airborne Forces first paralyze all electronic equipment in the city of Murmansk.

This means that the force field generator that had been restraining that arm was also ineffective.

And so it was like he'd been guessing all these days. The spear of Longinus in his hand resonated with the arm. The ensuing power allowed him to finally break through the power realm of that one to a limited extent, so that battle became a battle between an "ordinary person" and a "capable person", and there was no suspense.

But what was happening now was also telling him that he seemed to have opened Pandora's box.

The temperature has dropped to minus 82 degrees Celsius, and the trend continues. Although combat vehicles have been modified to resist hypothermia, these temperatures still cause nearly one-third of vehicles to break down. And the soldiers who accompanied the car had to stay in the car to keep warm - no one dared to get out of the car just wearing the layer of winter clothing on them. The clothes are resistant to low temperatures of minus 60 degrees, but they are not super low temperatures like the current one.

It's all because of that arm. Having lost the shackles of human technological instruments, it began to show its strength wildly.

Li Zhen didn't expect things to come to this point, and Rong Shu didn't expect it either. Some of the dozens of people he brought with him were sent back, and only he and Wang Meng got into the car with Li Zhen.

At the moment, he sighed beside Li Zhen: "It looks like I can't help anything." ”

Li Zhen shook his head slightly: "Maybe it's also a good thing." ”

Rongshu was stunned and expressed his objection: "This reminds me of 1911. You should remember the Battle of the Arctic Circle. ”

"Hmm. Also in Murmansk. Li Zhen nodded.

From December 1911 to February of the following year, the Arctic Circle was defended.

That battle also took place near Murmansk. At that time, the combined forces of the Europeans tried to retake Siberia from the Empire, besieging the forces of two divisions of the Empire in the city of Murmansk.

Faced with an enemy of nearly 100,000, the Imperial Army could only hold on and wait for reinforcements. However, the fighting on the southern front was also in trouble at that time, so they did not wait for a single reinforcement for these three months.

But no one expected that the winter of that year would be surprisingly cold - in December, the temperature reached minus 40 degrees Celsius, heavy snow after snow, and the sunny days did not exceed half a month.

The coalition forces planned to wait for the snow to stop and heat up before launching a general offensive, but they waited for three months.

Three months later, imperial reinforcements arrived, and the combined forces of the Europeans had to retreat. And by that time, their number had gone from 100,000 to less than 50,000.

What Eiski means is that it is possible for those at the Gate of Truth to do the same.

No one dared to get out of the car - minus 82 degrees Celsius, and even the carbon dioxide that came out of the exhaled mouth froze. All they could do was rely on these vehicles to besiege the city, while the other side hid in the warmth of the room—and even now that the power was out, no one would suspect that they still had a contingency.

With the technological support of Southern Luzon, air strikes may be a good option. But they didn't just come for the sake of annihilation - there was still something they wanted in the city.

Li Zhen understood what he meant, and he also laughed: "So I said, it's not necessarily a bad thing." This becomes a battle between capable people - no need for street fighting, just a battle between a few people. ”

But just as he finished saying this, the soldier in front of the car suddenly spoke: "General, look over there!" ”

Li Zhen immediately walked to the front of the car.

So he saw that in the distance, in the city of Murmansk, there was an entire high-rise building that had been plated with a layer of copper—a red, magma-like film of copper. (To be continued......)