In the extreme snow forest, a group of people are struggling through the forest, and the creaking sound of stepping on the snow is chaotic in this untouched place.

It has been ten days since the group entered the forest.

On the night of the seventh day, all the samples were completed, and at dawn the next day, the team set off again.

Now it seems that the situation of the team is not bad, everything is stable.

Although it seems to be getting colder and colder. But for the low temperature, people don't have much feeling, and the scholars carry a lot of magic crystal insulation devices with them, not afraid of the invasion of cold snaps. And the demon warriors, all of them are wearing demon armor, and they are not afraid.

As for some of the high-level demonic beasts that I gradually encountered after going deeper, that kind of paint was very effective. Shainin even saw a strange magical beast that he had never seen before appear in front of them close at hand.

The crowd was shocked, and it was time for several demon fighters to draw their knives and prepare to attack. The beast sniffled and ran away as quickly as if it had seen a ghost......

So, in addition to the difficult roads, this is actually more like a winter outing. Oh, and by the way, the big scientific discoveries.

Xie Ning thought leisurely.

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Suddenly, the line stopped.

Xie Ning looked over and saw a noise in front of him.

Gradually, the noise came, and it became clear.

"We're out of the forest! Out of the forest! Ahead is the depths of the Far North! ”

Shainin walked briskly forward.

A spectacular scene appeared in front of Shainin after walking just a few dozen meters.

The snow of the flat river is white, spread flat on the whole land, stretching endlessly, until the end of the earth. The snow-capped peaks are dotted among them, except for the howling wind, everything is quiet.

The afternoon sun was shining straight down on the snow. Stained the snow with a harsh glow.

"Looks like we're going to wear sunglasses......" Shainin muttered.

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"There is a way!" Suddenly, a man cried out.

Xie Ning took out his sunglasses and put them on, and began to look into the distance. Sure enough, not far away, a road covered by thick ice and snow, but with obvious artificial traces, appeared at the end of the sight.

The crowd stirred.

When the people regrouped and finally walked into the vast snowfield, everyone had an irrepressible smile of excitement on their faces - this was the first time that mankind had safely entered the depths of the far north!

"What is this?" The team had not gone far before Academician Qian suddenly pointed to a small strange object under the ice.

"It seems...... Is it a magic crystal? Use an empty magic crystal. ”

Xie Ning squatted down, the circulating purple magic energy had covered his outstretched right hand, and a blazing white flame erupted violently, and the ice quickly melted, revealing the true face of the unknown object below.

"There's no way we're going to leave a magic crystal here—a legacy of the barbarians!" Shainin said categorically.

Professor Qian was stunned, and suddenly shouted loudly.

"All of them! Elder Yuan, you lead the vigilantes and the first group to quickly conduct sampling. Old Duan, you are in the second group. The third group followed me. After sampling, I have a hunch that we are not far from completely cracking the truth about the barbarian invasion! ”

She motioned for Shainin to follow, and she was already in a hurry to run towards the large pile of instruments she was carrying on a snow camel.

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On the seventeenth day, the crowd had been marching through the snow for another week. The condition of the team is a bit poor, although there is always the assistance of the magic war, and more than half of the time sleds. But perhaps because of old age and frailty, several old scholars who had been trekking in the forest for nearly a month finally fell ill. Shainin had to arrange for several demon wars to take care of them at all times.

The people also lost the ecstasy of entering the depths of the far north - it had been a few days of traveling, except for the larger, more violent spatial rifts, the discovery of several suspected spatial passages and the collection of more complete data, and the occasional scattered magic crystals under the ice of the snow, and a large number of empty igloos like military camps that had been buried deep in the snow......

Others, nothing was found! The entire depths of the Far North turned out to be ...... Empty!

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While the team began to prepare for camping, Xie Ning and several people climbed a Xiaoice peak with Academician Qian, who insisted on coming with him.

"There isn't even a city yet?"

He looked into the distance and muttered.

"Yes, let alone the city. Except for the occasional traces of what appears to have been encamped, there is no sign of a settlement or any production at all. How can they not have strong logistical support for their thousand-year war with us? ”

Yang Linkai was already puzzled.

"Don't forget, magic wars don't need logistics. The barbarians don't have the logistical-dependent magic technology of ours. And those demonic beasts, in addition to being equipped with cavalry, aren't the others just like the barbarians' military rations? ”

Xiao Ledong was already gritting his teeth and said coldly: "And as long as they rush out of the Far North Forest and come to our human land, they will have something to eat!" This group of bastards is indeed a locust-like race! ”

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"No matter how locust-like they may be, they should have civilians in charge of production - or at least women and children. This is an inevitable social model. ”

Academician Qian also spoke: "And we have been in the depths of the extreme north for a week, but we have not found the slightest trace of the barbarian life. In other words, the discovery of the space passage, coupled with the anomalies in this place, has formed a sufficiently rigorous chain of scientific evidence and logic - our first guess is correct! Barbarians, definitely from the heterogeneous plane! ”

Academician Qian had already taken a deep breath, and she concluded.

"Tomorrow, keep going deeper! I'd like to see how they managed to send such a huge force and a demonic beast at once! ”

Xie Ning's face was pale, and he had already turned around and walked down the mountain.

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Twenty-fourth.

"General, academician, I smell the sea breeze again......" A demon Zhan hurriedly walked over and whispered to Xie Ning, who was walking forward with Academician Qian in his arms.

"So we're almost in the far north? The sea ahead? Academician Qian, who was a little sluggish, suddenly perked up.

"I'm afraid so." Mo Zhan replied with a smile: "Academician, I think that if there is really any anomaly that can be found in the depths of the extreme north, I think we are not far from it." ”

Before the words fell, another noise came from ahead.

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It didn't take long to see a sleigh that had already arrived in front of Xie Ning with several demon fighters on it constantly using the wind sequence.

This is a forward reconnaissance team sent by himself! Shain's heart was suddenly shocked.

Could it be that something has happened ahead? He thought to himself, a little uneasy.

"General, we've found it! We've found it! ”

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw that a demon on the sleigh was already full of surprise and said.

"What did you find?" Academician Qian asked urgently.

"An arch, such a big arch! It could never be a naturally formed arch! Just around the corner in front! The warrior exclaimed excitedly, his hand already pointing to the location of a Xiaoice peak behind him.

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"Let's go, let's go right away!" Academician Qian had already hurriedly climbed onto the sleigh.

"Wait a minute, Academician." Shainin said in a deep voice.

"Go, herald, the team forms a vigilant formation, and slowly enters! In these last moments, I don't allow any surprises to happen! Then, Xie Ning had already turned his head and shouted sharply to a demon war beside him.

"Yes! Checkmate! Demon Zhan stood up and saluted, and quickly left. After the sound of the password, the team had already escorted all the scholars according to the standard defensive formation, and began to advance slowly.

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"Is this a miracle?" In the crowd, a man muttered.

When Shainin and the others bypassed that ice peak. The last veil of the Far North was finally slowly falling before the eyes of the Imperial Far North Scientific Expedition.

Under the cold wind for thousands of years, after the snow peak for 10,000 years, a huge gate stands quietly on the snow, silently announcing its existence to the people who have turned around the foot of the mountain.

It is an extremely large, mutilated, semicircular door. Shainin made a rough estimate that it could at least run dozens of magic crystal chariots in parallel.

It appears to have been destroyed, and it is riddled with craters and signs of explosions. But there are also strange lines that still linger.

Xie Ning carefully looked at the broken lines, and he suddenly felt ...... I seem to have seen similar lines somewhere?

The traces of the wind and snow did not seem to work at all on the door, and there was no ice or snow in the large area centered on the door, and even a little brown damp earth was exposed. And outside a certain range, it suddenly turned into a crystal clear ice field!

Around the door, there were countless empty magic crystals, as well as some messy objects. On all the objects, there is a very clear barbarian mark - a round of broken blood.

Giant Gate ...... It doesn't seem to be naturally mutilated, but artificially damaged! Xie Ning, who was looking at the giant gate, suddenly moved.

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A demon warlord walked towards the giant gate step by step with a detector.

It's strange that the giant gate doesn't seem to have any signs of spatial magic energy reaction, but it can faintly feel that a magic field of elemental magic energy is protecting the scope of the giant gate, and even there is not even ice and snow near the giant gate.

The readings of the detectors of the scattered demon battles also came one after another. It seems that there is not even space energy in this area - there is no danger in any way.

"Set up a cordon, everyone scatter and search, and take anything you think is worth studying." Academician Qian's voice trembled slightly.

The voice did not fall.

"Ahh

The crowd suddenly looked over, only to see that the demon battle who walked towards the giant gate had fallen in a pool of blood! In the air beside him, a thick shadow flickered.

"Barbarians! Shadow Assassin! A man said through gritted teeth.

"They invaded? Did they invade? Academician Qian's face suddenly turned pale, and she said incoherently.