According to the address given by Jack, the specific location of the mine he opened should be in the central Alps, located in the Grand St. Bernard Pass east of Mont Blanc from the border between France, Italy and Switzerland.

It's just that since Jack signed a covenant with the leader of the werewolves, Jack sealed the mine, to be precise, it was a mine that had been left behind, and Jack deliberately sealed it for secrecy, and he had seen the powerful power of those werewolves with his own eyes, in order to borrow such a power to have a surprise effect, he secretly hid this force, and didn't want others to know, in fact, in the end, it was also a cocoon to bind himself, no way, those werewolves were too edible, and a leader of the HS Party couldn't afford to raise them, It can be seen that in fact, even if Raphael and Simmons don't do it, he may not be able to escape the poisonous hands of those werewolves in the end!

Although I already have a certain number in my mind, I still feel a little uneasy in my mind about the snow devil that Suzaku said.

In the middle, I also asked Suzaku a few times, what is that snow devil?

Unfortunately, Suzaku had fallen into complete silence since he had tormented me that night, and no matter how much he called, he didn't talk to me, and on the way to the mine in the Alps, my mind was full of doubts, and at last, I couldn't help but think...... Can you find clues in some myths and legends?

In the myths and legends of the East, there is absolutely no such monster as the Snow Devil, not even in folklore, I am very sure of this.

So...... What about Western myths and legends?

The mythological system in the West is very confusing, there are many systems, but among these systems, I did not think of any relevant information about the snow devil.

But...... Western folk myths and legends, I don't know, but then I thought about it, so I called Hathaway, who is more or less an expert, especially the things in this horn, especially proficient, after all, she also likes this.

As a result, Hathaway didn't know, but Hathaway said that she could look up some of the documents left by his maternal grandfather, give me the answers, and agree to meet me at the Great St. Bernard Pass.

We set off overnight, arrived at the French-Italian border in the early hours of the next morning, and then picked up a random car there and drove straight to the Great St. Bernard Pass, where I decided to wait for Hathaway for a day or two, and she needed her to bring our equipment with me.

In fact, I still underestimated Hathaway's speed, and by the time a few of us arrived at the Great St. Bernard Pass, Hathaway was already waiting here with a large number of people, and my eyes were straight when I saw it, because this woman came with the army at all!!

No, mercenaries, to be precise.

Because these people do not wear uniform combat uniforms, they can only be seen as foreign military uniforms, but they can't see the country, and there are no collar badges, epaulettes or anything...... It's a look that easily reminds me of some people I've only seen in TV shows before - mercenaries!

A group of people who are fighting for money alone, there are no such people in our country, but they do have a long history in the Western world, from barbarians in the ancient Roman army to European prisoners exiled to Africa during the post-colonial period, all the way to veterans today......

In short, this group of people has never disappeared from the Western world, including some wars that have broken out in contemporary times.

In the land I am currently in, they are legitimate.

Where there is war, there are them, so they are also called war wild dogs.

This time, Hathaway brought at least two thousand mercenaries, all gathered at the Great St. Bernard Pass, and when I arrived here, my eyes barely glared at the ...... I was really surprised!

As for Hathaway, this girl changed into a combat uniform again, wore a big sunglasses, sat in a jeep of amazing size, looked cool, and when she saw me, she waved at me from afar: "Hey, God! I've figured out what that snow goblin you want to investigate is! In my grandfather's collection, I found information about them! ”

Where do I have the heart to care about the snow devil now?

As soon as I saw the soldiers in the Great St. Bernard Pass, a cold sweat came down from my head at that time, and a brisk step rushed towards Hathaway, directly lifted her off the jeep, and couldn't help but ask her: "What do you want to do?" Are you here to fight? ”

Hathaway was obviously stunned for a moment, and then she laughed, the flowers and branches of laughter trembled, and the eyes of the group of big-headed soldiers around her were straight, and she laughed for four or five minutes before finally stopped, her eyes flowed, and then she said to me lightly: "What am I doing?" To defend my property, of course. ”

Defend her property?

I didn't quite understand it, and I couldn't help frowning: "What is your property." ”

Hathaway didn't explain directly, but instead raised her hand and pointed to the mountains around her, and then asked me, "Do you know how much everything here is worth?" ”

The corners of my eyes twitched, and I didn't answer, because I didn't know what she meant.

"The vast area of the Great St. Bernard Pass stretching into the eastern Alps contains countless natural mineral deposits, but no one has been able to interfere with them here, do you know why? Because this is the Land of the Lord! ”

Hathaway exhaled a long breath, a puff of white smoke came out between her red lips, and said slowly: "On March 30, 1282, the day before Valentine's Day, a young girl in Palermo was raped by a French soldier, which triggered a frenzied revolt in Sicily, and they attacked every Frenchman, and put forward the slogan 'It is the will of every Italian to drive out the French', the abbreviation of this slogan is' Mafia', or Mafia, in Arabic, means place of refuge, so that operation, which is called 'Mafia the Mad', or 'a place of refuge that God cannot provide', was led by the predecessors of the Gambino family, who also rose to prominence in Sicily during that period. Later, after that terrible uprising, the vast area of the Great St. Bernard Pass extending into the eastern part of the Alps was allocated to the Gambino family as a way to settle the conflict at the expense of it, and it has since become a land of lords.

The abundant mineral deposits here are also one of the important sources of income for the Gambino family, so they have always been far ahead of the five families.

Why did Silvio lose to Jack back then? It's because Jack has mastered this place, he has the wealth in his hands!

Unfortunately, Jack banned mining, and this place has been abandoned for two years, and now this place belongs to me. ”

I vaguely guessed what Hathaway was going to say, and stared at her subconsciously.

"It's simple, a deal!"

Hathaway snapped his fingers: "I support Raphael, help him to press the Gambino family bow, and then, after he wins, of course, he wants to divide the Gambino family, so he divided this place to me, anyway, he was upset when he thought of this place, his father Silvio was defeated because of this place, and it was normal for him to divide it to me." Now, of course, I'm going to get rid of those filthy monsters and mine them as normal. ”

When I said this, Hathaway's eyes were shining, she looked like a miser, and she asked me proudly: "You say, if those monsters don't give them a chance to sneak attack, can the bullets and shells of my soldiers kill them!?" ”

I thought about it, and finally nodded, I have felt the physical defense of ordinary werewolves, if you bring enough weapons, it is not impossible to fight! The last time Raphael failed, it was because he was attacked by a sneak attack, he was caught off guard, and he collapsed without a fight!

If you raise your vigilance and open your defense, it's not that you can't fight!

"That's it, when the time comes, you go and poke the nest and get those things out, and my people clean them up!"

Hathaway waved her hand: "Alright, you come with me, now it's time for me to talk to you about this snow devil." ”

Although looking at the long guns and short cannons in the hands of those mercenaries, I still think Hathaway is a bit exaggerated, as if it has pushed things to a point where it is difficult to recover, after all, this time my main opponent is still the werewolf leader with silver coat on the body that Jack said, not those werewolves, if you can't deal with that leader, the rest are blind, no matter how many mercenaries Hathaway brings, it is useless, and in the end everyone has to play together, if you can kill the werewolf leader, the other werewolves, I don't think it's a problem, There are four of us who are ninth-level masters alone!

To put it bluntly, the existence of these mercenaries is dispensable, if I win, they will at most clean up the battlefield, if I lose, they will become a burden, and when the time comes, I may reach the point where I can only throw them down and run away by myself.

However, Hathaway has already brought people here, and she is supposed to guard her own property, so what else can I do? I can only pinch my nose and admit it!

What makes me most curious at the moment is the thing called the snow devil, in Suzaku's words, these two words have been repeated, so it can be seen that this snow devil should be a very important thing in this matter, can I not care?

So, I simply followed Hathaway into a large SUV, and there was a faint smell of fragrance in the car, which belonged to Hathaway, and it was obvious that this car was the car she had been riding in.

Then she took out a piece of cloth from the car and handed it to me, and when I opened it, it was a clay tablet, black and obviously a clay tablet that had been precipitated over time, with some garbled marks carved on it, like words.

"Is this cuneiform?"

I was stunned for a moment.

Cuneiform is an ancient script originating from the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, which was invented by the Sumerians around 3200 BC and is one of the earliest scripts in the world. Only a very small part of it will be written on stone, metal, or wax plates.

Anyway, almost as long as it is found that it is written on clay tablets, especially those found near the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, nine times out of ten it is cuneiform.

This script is actually difficult to decipher, because it was the original hieroglyphic system, and the glyph structure was gradually simplified and abstracted, and the number of characters decreased from about 1,000 in the early Bronze Age to about 400 in the late Bronze Age. To put it bluntly, it is a complex text, and it is difficult to decipher.

"There's some information about the snow devils mentioned above."

Hathaway shrugged her shoulders and whispered, "This tablet was found in the Euphrates River Valley, and if what is written above is true, then the snow devils once appeared in the Euphrates. ”

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