"So now, can you tell me where this project is?" Sue asked. He didn't want to wander aimlessly over a vast area of thousands of kilometers.

Douglas walked over to the old era map of the Federation hanging on the wall, reached out to a point, and said, "The location of the project is here." However, after the outbreak of war, the mountains and the sea became impassable for humans. The place was sealed. After all these years, no one knows what exactly happened there. Are you sure you want to go? ”

Sue looked at the place where the doctor was pointing, it was a city, on the west side of the mountains, facing the sea by the mountains, with an airport, a port, and a railroad along the coastline connecting it to the rest of the continent. As the doctor said, after the war, the mountains and the sea became impassable for humans, and the railroad was no longer in operation, and even the locomotive was no longer usable after decades of erosion. Any unknown area means immeasurable risk, and since the Ice Throne project is directed to create living weapons, no one knows what exactly happened there after decades of closure. At least one possibility is that the people involved in the project have survived and thrived until now. Just like the predecessors of the Bloody Council's major families, they were the big families of the old times who survived on their refuge bases.

When Pandora mentioned the Ice Throne, Sue had a vague feeling in her heart, but this feeling disappeared immediately, and Sue didn't have time to understand it. When Douglas explained the Ice Throne project, the same feeling resurfaced, but it was so much clearer that Sue almost caught it. But not long after it had dissipated, when Douglass pointed out the location on the map, that feeling rose again in Sue's mind, and it was very clear and intense.

Is that...... Calling and fear.

The call of temptation and the transmissive fear intertwined in Sue's mind, making his face pale for a moment. However, Sue covered it up well and didn't let Douglas find out.

Su already faintly felt that there were all kinds of indescribable connections between the things that seemed to be related in this world. But these connections are hidden behind everything, and the only way to perceive them is to rely on intuition, so they are not accurate. After raising his perception ability to the eighth order, Su began to realize the various connections behind the tangible world, but this feeling was only a process from nothing, and there was still an infinite distance from understanding. In order to generate the Rush of Speed, Su invested all the evolution points he had gained into the Fighting Domain, and discovered that abilities in other areas were also helpful in perceiving the connections behind the world. For example, the combat domain improves clarity, making the connection that has been perceived clearer. The psionic realm increases space, spell-like increases time, and the occult doesn't seem to have much effect.

So now, Su can be sure that the Ice Throne must have something to do with herself. But what exactly is the connection, you have to look at it to find out.

At this time, Su suddenly felt a faint fluctuation around him, he looked sideways, and found that Medirri's face was pale, her body trembled slightly, and the blue in her pupils even showed signs of collapse. He immediately grabbed the crumbling girl and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Medirri quickly recovered from the unknown, shook her head, and said a little weakly, "It's okay now. It's just that for some reason, it was very uncomfortable just now. ”

Seeing that Medilli had recovered, Sue finally relented and took her farewell to Dr. Douglas.

"Wait a minute, young man!" Dr. Douglas stopped Sue and asked, "Can you sue me, what level of ability are you?" I don't like the Iron Gate guys, but I know that there are at least a few Seventh Order guys among them. ”

Su thought for a moment and said, "Eighth Order." "He doesn't intend to say anything specific. Knowing the ability of a capable person, he can also arrange the corresponding tactics, and there is obviously a considerable distance between Su and Dr. Su and the mutual trust, and there is obviously still a considerable distance.

Douglas sighed and muttered, "Eighth Order...... The Eighth Order can silently kill all the upper echelons of the Iron Gate? It seems that the gap between the seventh-order and eighth-order abilities is indeed not something that can be explained simply by rank. No wonder some people always say that the eighth order is the dividing line, and if you cross it in one step, you will be in heaven. ”

For Douglas's feelings, Su himself also agreed. In the list of abilities of the Dark Dragoon, each of the eighth-order abilities has very terrifying power, far from being comparable to the seventh-order abilities, and because of this, the eighth-order to tenth-order abilities are all called the holy ranks to show the difference. And above the Holy Order, I heard that there is even an eleventh-order ability to save zài! It's just that Sue has never heard of anyone who possesses such abilities that should only belong to mythical gods.

However, although the eighth-order ability was hugely powerful, it was not to the point where he could kill the seventh-order ability at will. The reason why he was able to destroy all the leaders of the Iron Gate overnight was because Su possessed spatial detection and extremely fast advance were extremely rare powerful abilities even among all the eighth orders, and Su, who possessed these two abilities at the same time, already had the ability to compete head-on with ordinary ninth-order abilities.

Su suddenly remembered, with the huge, complete, and rigorous research system of Klan City that he had seen so far, why had he not been able to develop an eighth-order ability for so many years? Douglas has already deduced a genetic map containing ninth-order abilities, and it stands to reason that he should never be able to study even an eighth-order ability, at least he should come up with a trial dosage form. Since she had this doubt in her heart, Sue asked in passing, but did not expect Douglas to answer.

Douglas groaned for a moment and said, "This question is not surprising. If you just want an eighth-order ability, it's actually not that difficult. In my private collection cabinet, there are already a few eighth-order ability recipe potions, but I don't want to publish them. The eighth-order ability is indeed a dividing line, and if you step over it, it is not necessarily heaven, but also hell! ”

"Hell?" Su listened intently. Douglas, who was able to single-handedly build Crane City, has a wisdom rarely seen in his time, and he is not alarmist.

"Everyone knows that the eighth-order abilities are extremely powerful, but because of this, their changes to the human body and genes far exceed the abilities below the seventh-order level. In fact, the change has become so drastic that it is beginning to affect the survival of humanity itself. We all know that the descendants of capable people are much more likely to have innate abilities than ordinary people. And those who have the ability of the eighth order, his descendants will be born with the ability! In fact, this means that after more than a dozen generations, or even only a few generations, the human beings we see will no longer be human beings in the sense of the old era, and they can no longer be called human beings. The reason why I didn't release the Tier 8 Ability recipe to the public is that I want to continue to change and refine them. My ideal is very simple, that is, to create an eighth-order ability that will not affect the genetic inheritance of human beings. ”

Douglas's voice was low and gentle, but it made it impossible to doubt the dreams and determination that lay deep within. But he smiled wryly and said, "It's a pity that my ability is limited, and progress is very slow. Over the past few decades, under the premise of limited influence on genetic inheritance, only enhanced seventh-order abilities have been developed. There is still a very long way to go from the real Eighth Order. ”

Speaking of this, the old man sighed deeply, a look of memory and reverence appeared on his face, and said, "If the teacher had presided over this project, he might have broken through to the ninth order long ago." My teacher, he is a genius who spans several eras before and after! ”

When I came out of Crane City, it was still late at night. Sue and Medirli walked side by side in the deserted wilderness, and as far as the eye could see, there were low-hanging radiant clouds in the sky, and there was no longer a single figure in the four wilderness except for the wilderness and ruins everywhere, not even a single creature swimming. Only at the end of heaven and earth, the majestic and silent mountain range, seemed to stare at Sue, waiting for his arrival.

Su narrowed his eyes and looked around the world, and for a while he had some illusions, as if there were only two living people left in the whole world, he and Medirli.

The huge loneliness hit like a tide, and it flooded Sue's consciousness in an instant. In his perceptual world, there was nothing but coldness, silence, and loneliness. He saw Medirli beside him, but he couldn't feel any life in her, as if in another moment, she would die immediately. And the corpse will not be left behind, it will turn into dust at the moment when consciousness cannot capture it, and merge with the whole world.

It's a dead world, with no water and no life, just bare rocks, howling hurricanes, raging energy, and a temperature difference between day and night that can vary by hundreds of degrees.

In this world, there is Sue.

Su's body trembled suddenly, as if waking up from a nightmare, and instantly returned to reality.

Medirri is real, and there is a terrifying breath of life in her body. Although the night was quiet, there were still many small noises intertwined. Lots of tiny beings are struggling, fighting, and multiplying beneath the soil, trying to survive in an environment that is just as harsh as a single life. Even a small insect that is less than a centimeter, even if it is hidden more than ten meters deep underground, it can't hide Su's perception.

When Su unleashed his perceptual abilities with all his might, the true face of the world finally appeared in front of him. It's a noisy, turbulent, and vibrant world. Countless lives are changing and evolving at an alarming rate, and the ubiquitous radiation has even become a source of energy for some unknown and wonderful species. If we do not think from the perspective of human beings, then we will find that this world is perhaps not much worse than the old times, just as vibrant, but more vibrant, and every living being is burning itself for a chance to evolve. This is the world that burns.

Although he looked at such a vibrant world, Su's heart was still stuck in the world just now, cold and silent, and dead.

At this time, Medirli quietly shook Sue's hand. Although her hands were cold, they were much warmer than the world in Sue's heart, and they also pulled his consciousness back into this world.

"Are you feeling better?" She asked.

"It's a little uncomfortable, but it's okay now."

After meeting up with the servants stationed at the Iron Gate, and after a few days of preparation, Sue and Medirri set out on a quest to find the Ice Throne. The three servants were all left behind, guarding the base in the western region of the Great Lake. The first way to the Ice Throne is to climb over mountains thousands of meters high and stretch for hundreds of kilometers to reach the sea. Many of the peaks in the mountain range are not even in the radiation cloud all year round, and the environment is extremely harsh, which is simply not something that the three servants can bear.