Chapter 988: After the Ice and Snow Melted
"That's enough."
Meng Ma said happily, "Anyway, these grandsons can't run far, they must be in the hole in the hole!" ”
Yun Qianhe also stepped forward to express his gratitude to Chu Ge.
After all, if it weren't for Chu Ge's vigilance, he would have become a dead corpse by now.
"Thankfully, we took you with us."
Li Jianguo also said happily, "Brother Chu Ge, you are really our lucky star!" ”
After repeated inspections, there were no more traps set by Mr. Bai left at the scene, and everyone expanded the search area all the way to find the main camp of the advance team.
They estimated that Mr. Bai would not lie on the major joints, and there must be a relatively large col nearby.
Sure enough, after five minutes of south-west heading, the towering valley caved into a large chunk and a natural haven appeared.
Not only is the blizzard much smaller than outside, but even the temperature seems to be a few degrees higher, which makes everyone's frozen skin feel a little soothed.
"Whoa, whoa!"
Just as they were about to step into the col to search, several soldiers wearing white camouflage uniforms suddenly appeared out of the white snow, pulled their bolts, and looked at them very vigilantly.
There were even two light armored vehicles, both of which were driven out of the snow nests, with heavy machine guns on the turrets and anti-tank rocket launchers, all aimed at them.
"I'm Li Jianguo!"
The Titan Prince shouted majestically, "Is it the 'Hidden Dragon Force'?" ”
The large forces of the Celestial Organization were all wiped out in Antarctica, and the peerless murderers such as the Pioneer, Mr. Bai, and Dr. Bacteria all entered the cave world alone, and it was impossible for them to have such an organized armament.
Therefore, Li Jianguo concluded that they were his own people.
Sure enough, after a closer look at the other side, they all put down their weapons.
However, the eyebrows hidden in the white camouflage suit were still full of vigilance, and the light armored vehicles not far away, without turning the turret, were still firmly locked onto them.
It was only when they met the seriously injured commander of the hidden dragon, the major general surnamed Li, in the silver-white negative pressure insulation tent deep in the mountain col, that they knew the reason.
Major General Li is indeed on the verge of dying.
But it was not because of frostbite, but because he was assassinated by Mr. Bai.
The advance team entered the cave world one day earlier than the six of Chu Ge, and it was fine for half a day at first, but soon encountered the natural disasters of the alternating cycle of the four seasons and the rapid changes.
The floods at the turn of spring and summer, the scorching heat of midsummer, the depression of autumn, the severe cold and blizzards of winter, even if everything recovers, there are all kinds of highly aggressive snakes, insects, rats, ants and mutated beasts, fearless to attack humans - this is a hell on earth.
In the previous natural disasters, the advance team did not lose much manpower, but lost a large amount of equipment and materials.
When the blizzard began to rage, they happened to be in this valley with extremely high wind speeds, and they were overwhelmed by the strong wind, so they had to look for a col to take refuge.
At this moment, the elusive Mr. Bai attacked them, and with the help of the bad weather with extremely low visibility, launched an assassination of them without a trace, and the assassination combined with the severe cold caused them to suffer heavy losses at once, and at least a third of them were missing.
Even the Supreme Commander, Major General Li, was mortally wounded in a fierce battle with Mr. Bai.
Fortunately, Major General Li's deathmatch created a buffer time for the rest of the advance team to set up defensive positions.
They finally established an impermeable defensive ring in this mountain col, surrounded by mines and infrared surveillance equipment, and Mr. Bai didn't seem to want to waste time on them "little fish and shrimp", and disappeared into the wind and snow at some point.
They waited anxiously for a long time, until Chu Ge and the others arrived—and that's how it happened.
"A king of killers dares to attack the entire advance team, and dares to set traps in close proximity, waiting for the arrival of six special masters!"
Chu Ge's six faces were pale, and the peerless murderers of the highest level of the Heavenly Human Organization were really bold and crazy to the extreme.
You must know that there are four murderers of the same level as Mr. Bai under the command of the pioneer.
This vicious battle is not easy to fight.
However, if we think about it from another angle, Mr. Bai's appearance also shows that the progress of the pioneer in the cave within the cave is not as smooth as he expected.
The reason why Mr. Bai took the risk of delaying time was because they were blocked in the hole within the cave and could not get what they wanted.
"We're going to hurry, it's still too late to catch up with these bastards!" Jiang Li said with blazing eyes.
Yun Qianhe immediately helped Major General Li to treat.
His wrinkled, rough palms like tree bark gradually burst into clusters of green light, giving birth to green threads like young shoots.
These "shoots" lightly wrapped around Major General Li's deep wounds.
Not only the fragmented flesh and blood in the depths of the wound were reborn and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Even Major General Li's life magnetic field was rapidly agitating, expanding, and returning to normal operation.
And Chu Ge and the others took the opportunity to gather all the materials and equipment that could still be used, as well as soldiers who were mentally and physically good.
By the time Major General Lee regained the ability to speak and stand, they had already organized a small detachment of three armored personnel carriers and two light all-terrain vehicles, twenty-four soldiers and five power armor.
The data center in the main camp has also been repaired, and the tactical watches, tactical goggles, and tactical helmets that everyone carries with them can be connected to the combat data network.
At this time, the blizzard outside gradually abated.
As the signal continues to increase, the connection of the combat network is becoming more and more stable.
"Put it on and try it."
Li Jianguo motioned for Chu Ge to put on the tactical helmet he had been issued before the operation began, and pulled down his goggles.
Then he helped Chu Ge press the side of the tactical helmet, a virtual button.
"Huh!"
Looking through the goggles, the scenery in front of Chu Ge's eyes suddenly became very different.
Originally, the world was white, the mountains were bloated, and the roads and ravines were filled with snow, turning into an endless white wasteland.
There is no way to distinguish between east and west, north and south, and there is no obvious landmark, and there is no way to distinguish the coordinates of yourself or the hole in the hole.
In the goggles, the snow disappears, and the mountains and ravines buried deep under the snow are all clearly revealed, and there is a series of data falling like a waterfall, detailing the height of each mountain range, the angle of each ravine, and recording every road opened by the advance team, informing the user, the destination of each road, and the hidden dangers around the road - such as ferocious beasts, invisible swamps, and so on.
Major General Li, who had finally recovered, told Chu Ge and the others that the advance team had explored the coordinates of several ancient ghost towns that had appeared, and roughly calculated the possible location of the cave within the cave - it was a pity that it was disturbed by a blizzard.
Now that the blizzard is gradually weakening, judging by the duration of the previous natural disasters, the "winter" of the cave world is almost over, and it is a precious "window period" for action.
However, there are still plenty of troubles to face – as winter passes, the chaotic aura is sure to quickly melt all the snow, causing new floods or soaking the otherwise hard pavement into mud pools and swamps.
In addition, when winter turns to spring and everything recovers, many strange beasts will wake up, and they will become a serious threat to the team when they are hungry.
A similar scene had already been encountered by the advance team a day ago, but that time, the level of various natural disasters was not as violent as it is now.
It is estimated that this time the recovery of everything will be more difficult to deal with than last time.
So, they must find the Ancient Ghost City as soon as possible, calculate the exact coordinates of the cave within the cave, and enter it - the cave within the cave is the center that controls the world in the cave, like the eye of the storm, the calmest place in the storm.
Without further ado, the wounded were settled in caves on high ground, and they set off at once.
Along the way, as Major General Li said, as the temperature continued to rise, the snow melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after just two or three hours, the whole world once again became a water town.
Fortunately, this time, there was no heavy rain in the sky, and the snowmelt did not turn into a flood, and soon seeped into the ground and disappeared.
The trade-off is that all roads become wet and soft, and the slightest carelessness can cause the armored vehicle to get stuck in a blister and become unable to move.
They had to climb out of the armored car at any time, using the amazing power of the Awoken to push, pull and tow the car out.
In the process, they will continue to encounter attacks from strange beasts, from poisonous bees larger than human heads, to giant centipedes and horses comparable to pythons, and of course, jackals, tigers and leopards as big as rhinoceros.