"When the commander of the Northern Gun heard that there was a riot in the Far North, he immediately rushed to the interior of the Far North. As for why the commander personally went to the far north, I don't know. But before the commander set off, he asked me to send a transfer notice to Lao Shanshen's team. ”

Although Beigun is the commander-in-chief of the Far North garrison, in general, the level is the same as that of the commander-in-chief of the Laoshan Shen Mecha Army, and the two sides are not in a subordinate relationship. Therefore, regarding the transfer of the two sides, although Lao Shan Shen generally obeyed the Far North garrison, it could not be said to be a transfer order.

"What kind of announcement?" Fei Rong asked.

When this communication soldier just thawed from the ice, the whole person was still unconscious, and it took a long time to get out of the negative state of space freezing, and after seeing Fei Rong and them, they didn't know what was going on, and almost thought it was the enemy's conspiracy.

After Fei Rong took out his identity card, the communication soldier believed Fei Rong's words, and then told them everything that had happened in the base.

It turned out that after Fei Rong and the others left, news came from the mobile outposts in the far north that there was a riot in the depths of the far north, and the cultivators and the alien races were mixed up and conspired together, and they wanted to break out of the third layer of the extreme north, unify the second layer, and then occupy the entire first layer and establish a slave state.

When they got the news, the rebellion of the third layer had already occupied all of the second layer, gathering a large number of forces, and there were also alien races that appeared from unknown places, and under the leadership of a few great cultivators and awakened people, they began to move towards the outermost layer.

After that, the North Gun took almost all the troops in the base and went to the second floor of the extreme north to suppress the riot. However, the situation in the Far North was unpredictable, and communication was quite inconvenient, so they cut off contact with the North Gun after that.

It wasn't until they were suddenly attacked from the direction of Kitunome and then completely frozen, it was already the third day since Kitagun left the base.

"I don't know the content of the communication, the password is not in our hands, I am only responsible for transmitting the information to the hands of the old ginseng. Later, at about eight o'clock in the evening of the second day after the departure of the Northern Gun Commander, Lao Shanshen's team also left his station. ”

"Where did you go?" Fei Rong asked again.

The communication soldier shook his head, he was just a small person, and he didn't even have to go to the battlefield, how could he be interested in such news? Of course, I don't know what the hell is going on.

Fei Rong sighed when he heard this, but he still didn't know anything.

Reaching out and patting him on the shoulder, Fei Rong got up from the stone, walked to the gap in a large stone, looked at the soldier standing guard and said, "Nothing happened, right?" ”

The sentry shook his head: "No one has found it, not even the animals, this place should be relatively safe." ”

The place where they are located is where the so-called "cordon" is located, which can be regarded as a vacuum zone between the entire Far North and the Far North garrison. Don't think that the cordon is very narrow, in fact, this area is still quite wide, even wider than the mountainous area where the original base is located and the mountainous area of the temporary camp combined.

This place is where mountains and plains meet, and the turbulent times are rugged and the terrain is complex, so there are few plants and few animals from the far north. Therefore, the Far North garrison used this place as a cordon, and there would be many patrols here in normal times, and once they found someone crossing the border, they would regard it as an escape.

But now, this area has become a veritable no-man's land.

The people inside didn't know what had happened to the Far North garrison, and there were no patrol soldiers guarding it at all. Poachers from outside don't usually show up in this area in search of prey, so for now, this is the best place for them to camp today.

However, the biggest problem with stationing in such a place is that the view is too wide, even if they have found a place to live in the corner of a few large rocks, whether it is the rising smoke or the fire, they can see it from the distant hillside.

You know, they don't have any dry wood to burn in this place, and all they burn is dry moss collected from nearby. On the tundra landscape, such a thick dry moss burns as well as the branches of old trees.

The only problem is that a lot of smoke is generated, and the root cause is the large amount of seeds mixed in with the moss.

In fact, they still have a lot of solid fuel obtained from the base, as well as a few energy furnaces that can provide heat, but these things are all life-saving things in the far north, and now that they have something to burn, they are still not suitable for use for the time being.

When he returned to the fire, Fei Rong saw An Xiaoyu writing dense words on a piece of paper, making various divisions and combinations. So he smiled and asked, "What?" Want to crack the ciphertext given to Lao Shan Ginseng by the commander of the Northern Spear? ”

An Xiaoyu smiled: "Idle is also idle." ”

Fei Rong sat next to him and said, "Although the whole country is in a state of fighting, all parts of the country will report to the central government of the imperial capital of the ciphertext format used. But in times of peace, the ciphertext used in each part is still something that you only understand, and you can really crack this thing? ”

An Xiaoyu rubbed his eyebrows and said: "I thought I had learned the basic format of the password in school, and I had also studied some ciphertexts for the mecha army, and I had always used my own password to contact the Eastern Wilderness Army, but I didn't expect it to be so easy to crack." ”

Fei Rong smiled, in this general aspect, An Xiaoyu is rarely able to show the immaturity of young people, which makes Fei Rong feel that An Xiaoyu, the commander, is very real whether he is a commander or a spiritual leader. It is this sense of realism that allows them to die down.

"Idle is idle anyway, if we can decipher it, we can have one more clue." Fei Rong leaned against the mountain rock and said.

"Hmm." An Xiaoyu continued to write and draw with a pen, and the rest of the soldiers had already begun to set up tents and prepare dinner.

However, since leaving the base, An Xiaoyu has entered the state of Bigu. Although the aura of heaven and earth in the extreme north is too thin, in general, there is still something to squeeze it. Using the aura of heaven and earth, it only takes a little bit to meet the needs of the body, and you can save material energy for the soldiers.

It didn't take long for An Xiaoyu to put down the pen and paper in her hand. The format of ciphertext used in various parts of the empire is very different, and the number of characters in the continental lingua franca can be described as vast, and it is simply difficult to understand a ciphertext.

"Gave up? Let's sleep. Fei Rong is not surprised, in his opinion, the matter of cracking the ciphertext should be done as a matter of relieving boredom, and if he really wants to solve it, it is a fool's dream.

An Xiaoyu shrugged his shoulders: "I don't have to sleep, just practice here, but the effect is much better than sleeping." ”

"Then I can arrange two more rotations to give them more rest." Fejon left to arrange a new shift schedule.

After getting up the next morning, they continued to move forward, although they didn't know where the North Gun went, but judging from the current news, the news of the internal turmoil in the Far North must be true, and since it was the cultivators, the awakened and the alien race taking the lead, An Xiaoyu still wanted to go and see.

Anyway, there are no clues now, and it is better to find a target and look at it while walking.

After passing through the vacuum zone, they soon entered the interior of the first layer of the entire far north. In fact, during the day, there is not much sunlight in the entire far north, and the sun appears from the horizon, and then draws an arc, and it looks like it is about to set over the horizon not far from the rising point.

An Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask, "When is the autumn equinox?" ”

Fei Rong smiled: "Tomorrow." ”

"No wonder ......"

Fei Rong said: "When the sun sets today, it will be a real eternal night, and there will be no natural light in the entire far north except for magnetic storms and extreme expanses. Then comes the unpredictable winds, the blizzards that can appear at any time, and all sorts of beasts that live in the night. ”

"So what kind of food do the beasts of the Far North live on?" An Xiaoyu said curiously.

Answering this question was another soldier: "The beginning of the food chain is, of course, with tundra, ferns, microorganisms and crops, and the first level of consumers is small animals like snow hares, snow mouses, and snow fins, and then carnivores, snow leopards, snow bears, snow wolves, snow eagles, and so on. But in fact, there are not many species, and the taxona of the Far North is very rare. And what we have to worry about is not such creatures, they usually hide when they see people. ”

"What kind of animals are we worried about?" An Xiaoyu asked.

Fei Rong took over and said: "It's what I told you before, and I still haven't studied where it came from and what it was eating." But scientists don't understand it, and the people we have met have some guesses, and the breath of these things is definitely very familiar. ”

"What breath?"

"Hey, hey! The breath of a corpse. Fei Rong said.

An Xiaoyu thought for a while and said: "You mean, these creatures are different from those normal creatures before, they are diurnal and nocturnal, and generally only appear in large numbers in the eternal night, attacking people from the far north, or simply picking up ready-made corpses for food?" ”

Fei Rong spread his hands: "This is not a normal thing, this place in the far north has been used as a penal colony for 10,000 years, and some strange creatures in the past have encountered these abandoned people who no one cares about, so it is normal to make food, right?" The small amount that was originally there will be accumulated over the course of 10,000 years, and finally a quantity that is balanced with these people. ”

An Xiaoyu sighed after hearing this, under such living conditions, it is indeed natural for some strange creatures to appear. Some creatures hibernate when the eternal night comes, and of course some hibernate when the eternal night leaves, and it's winter anyway.

The sun finally set the horizon, and An Xiaoyu could feel that the entire extreme north began to leave a state of equilibrium, and after the sun's magnetic field began to withdraw from the principle north pole, the geomagnetic field of the real planet began to lose its limit, showing a state of riot.

After any kind of law and power reaches the extreme, it can produce absolute power, which is a truth that An Xiaoyu learned after coming into contact with the law.

Especially for the whole planet, the interaction of the geomagnetic field and the magnetic field between the planets is almost fundamental to maintaining the normal operation of the entire planet. And before the planet was completely stabilized, the geomagnetic force lost the stellar magnetic field constraint from the Great Dao again under the immature control of the Heavenly Dao, and began to return to the original state when the heaven and earth first opened.

The winds began to get stronger, and the low temperatures caused by the darkness turned the entire far north into a zone of low pressure, and a large amount of air above began to descend downward, forming a huge storm that shifted eastward and suppressed in all directions.

The soldiers had already put protective shields on their faces, and all communication was carried out by shortwave communication inside the hoods. And their course of movement began to stabilize, and in such an environment, it was clear that complex marches were no longer suitable, and they began to move slowly towards a familiar location.

Fei Rong said to An Xiaoyu in the communication: "This situation is just the beginning, when the polar night comes, the great storm in the extreme north will last for a whole month, in such a storm, the weather will begin to change, and within a week, natural disasters will appear." ”

The natural disasters in the far north, An Xiaoyu did not treat it as an indifferent thing. You must know that in this place, the Heavenly Dao is very extreme, and its control over cultivators and energy precisely means that it has the weakest control over the laws and cause and effect in this land.

In this land, all the power comes from the power of heaven and earth that the Heavenly Dao cannot fully control, and An Xiaoyu does not dare to say that he will be safe and sound after encountering it. She is smeared here, so she has carefully remembered these experiences of Fei Rong.

The march in the far north was very boring.

In a short distance, they used to be able to reach a place that only took half a day to reach, and they walked for a day. On the one hand, it is because of the oncoming wind, and on the other hand, it is necessary to avoid some places where avalanches and collapses can occur, and there is also the difficulty of discerning the direction.

"Hey! If we hadn't come with you, we'd probably not be in this village until midnight today! Fei Rong sat on top of his chair, beating his boots, which had been frozen with snow and ice, shattering the snow shells on them, and falling to the ground and turning into a puddle of water.

In the evening, they came to the first target village after entering the far north, which was considered one of the outermost villages. The environment here is far from being so harsh, so the conditions in this village are not bad, and at least half a year of fuel accumulated is enough for them to survive the polar night.

Looking at the dried moss burning in the fireplace, An Xiaoyu found that they used a very primitive but also very practical water circulation heating system, which can make full use of the heat of the fireplace, reduce energy consumption, and increase the overall temperature of the room.

Fei Rong smiled and said: "The old pole is the head of this village, and when his grandson grows up, he can leave the extreme north and return to the imperial capital, the people in this village are actually similar, and they will be able to leave the extreme north in two or three generations, and the sins of their ancestors will be eliminated, and they are not cultivators." ”

The old pole is a thin-looking old man, because he has lived in a bitter cold and windy place for a long time, so the skin on his face is very rough, layer by layer, as if he has dragon scales. An Xiaoyu couldn't tell whether it was the cuticle that was ground out or the scars after being blown and frostbitten many times, in short, it was dense.

However, the old man still had a smile on his face: "Thanks to the bosses who take care of us, otherwise our life would not be so good, and this place in the far north can live as well as us, but there are not many." ”

"Hey! That's also your high consciousness, we haven't been to other villages, all of them are donkey dung and eggs, smelly and stubborn, and I don't know how to talk well. Uncle Pole, the polar night is coming, the extreme north is not very peaceful, you have to be more careful. ”

"Going to be a disaster?" The old pole asked nervously as he put some food on the table.

Fei Rong shook his head: "It's a man-made disaster!" Now, if it weren't for this happening in the Far North, I would have to suggest that even if you can leave, you'd better wait here for another generation. It's not peaceful outside! ”

"War again? What a sin! His grandson is ten years old this year, and he would have been able to leave the Far North in another eight years, but now when he heard that war was about to break out, he couldn't help but feel worried.

Watching the old pole leave, Fei Rong picked up the aluminum basin on the table and ate it by himself, explaining to the curious An Xiaoyu while eating: "When the people here come in, they are all extremely evil, and after a few generations, there is no trace of the year, and when learning the language, it is also passed down from generation to generation, so the speech is a bit ancient." ”

"I said, with the foot boss who was a soldier, it was thousands of years ago when the Three Thousand Family took a back seat, and now I have only seen it in TV dramas."

"People like them are actually the most simple, they have already transformed, if you want me to say that the laws of the empire are really too ruthless, it is enough to exile five generations directly, and it has to be the entire nine generations, is it just to sound good?" Fei Rong was very puzzled.

An Xiaoyu smiled: "Nine is the extreme of the sky, even if it is a supreme cultivator, it is impossible to intermarry with ordinary people and maintain the bloodline for more than nine generations, and the ninth generation will become an ordinary person." You still don't understand? The court never wanted the descendants of these people to go out from the far north. ”

"!" After Fei Rong scolded twice, he said stupidly: "It's a pity that they were all slaughtered, otherwise I would be able to find them to have a good fight in the future." ”

Thinking that the court pavilion was slaughtered, An Xiaoyu was also in a low mood. Seeing the old pole coming over to fill the fire again, An Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Pole, have you ever seen a large number of troops passing by here recently?" About ten days ago. ”

The old pole put a kettle on the fire, and the pot was full of snow: "Why didn't you see it?" Old soldiers! ”

"yes, can you elaborate on that?"