Chapter 16 The More You Grow Up
Heading north isn't necessarily a good idea, but it's certainly a crazy one. Although the three vultures have been freed for the time being, they will track them at any time. The most important thing is that the north has laid a trap to deal with the target worth more than 10 million, and when they go to the north, they take the initiative to approach the trap. In any case, the people who formed the trap should have surpassed the three vultures of Kavon, and it was difficult to predict the outcome when they crashed into the trap like this. While giving the enemy a surprise, it is also likely to be self-defeating.
Suppose this trap really exists.
On his way north, Ricardo had been thinking about it. The existence of the so-called traps, as well as the goals worth tens of millions, are the result of speculation, and all of them are based on Su's intuition, without any real evidence. The question is, although Sue has the ability of the occult domain, is his intuition 100% trustworthy? Even if the ability level of the occult is beyond the advanced level and the master who has advanced to the holy realm, I am afraid that he cannot be trusted 100%.
A group of nearly ten people braved the raging cold wind and marched north along the rugged and desolate terrain. From above, they look like a line of insignificant ants.
Wrapped in a windbreaker, Ricardo walked first on the desolate land. As far as the eye can see, there are desolate and lifeless ruins everywhere, and occasionally a few crooked high-voltage towers stand on the ground, which looks particularly desolate. Behind Ricardo were Leigh, Rigore, and his five henchmen, while Hanlen was at the end of the line.
After the battle with Matham, Hanlon was able to move freely after only half a day in a hospital bed. But when he woke up, he didn't say a word, just tidied up in silence, and no one knew what he was thinking. After Ricardo explained his plan to the north, Hanlon nodded and followed. After seeing the strength of Hanlun and Matham fighting hard, regardless of whether his injuries healed or not, with Hanlun in the team, people's hearts are much more stable.
Su was not in this group, and he walked far ahead of the group, conducting reconnaissance.
About fifty kilometers from the front of the team, Su bowed his body slightly, trotting forward on the complex and impassable ground. When he encounters a large chasm, he will suddenly accelerate, then bounce leisurely, stretch his body in the air, then contract and curl up, lightly cross the fissure, which is often more than 20 meters wide, and fall to the ground like a feather, and then continue to run forward.
He still likes this free-spirited and eclectic way of fighting, but this time it is still different from the past, he needs to lure the enemy into the ambush circle set up by the team behind him after determining the enemy situation, instead of attacking and destroying the enemy alone. Su was very uncomfortable with this method, as if she had been put on an invisible shackle. But with his knowledge of the abilities of Leigh, Rigore, Ricardo, and Hanlun, the combination of these people can be said to be all-round in long-range and melee attacks, and the fierceness of the combined attack power is by no means comparable to him alone. Realizing this, Su began to work hard to adjust herself to fit in and cooperate with this fighting group.
Su ran in a strange way, every few kilometers he ran, he would half-crouch on the ground, press his palms against the ground, and feel a slight vibration from the ground.
There is no absolute stillness in all things in the world, so the earth is indeed constantly shaking, but this shock is very slight, so slight that Su could not sense it before he developed the sixth-order ability of the perception domain. However, although the oscillation is slight, the composition is very complex, and its complexity is far beyond Pandora's image. When Su first sensed the earth shock, he tried to deconstruct the number of jù components of this shock, but as a result, his brain immediately suffered a sharp pain, and the body stored in his body was consumed by one-third of it almost instantly. At such a cost, the deconstructed number is only a fraction of the total, which is negligible. Moreover, these numbers themselves are disorganized, and should only be just fragments of an incomparably vast whole. Until you have the ability to sense the wider world, it seems impossible to peek into the meaning behind these numbers.
After the confrontation with Matham and Pandora, Sueben's already depleted evolution points increased by 22 points. This number was much lower than Su had expected, and he didn't expect to earn only these evolution points after a battle that was always on the verge of life and death.
This was accompanied by a not-so-good phenomenon, and after confronting Pandora, Sue found that her body began to become unstable both structurally and genetically, especially those related to the occult.
After realizing that his current ability was simply not enough to explain such a large number, every time Su touched the earth, he only looked for a vague feeling, or simply experienced the vibration of the earth. It doesn't seem to make much sense to do it like this, but it will always give him a vague sense of security.
The ground receded, and Sue and the squad behind him moved deeper and deeper to the north. The weather is getting colder and colder, and the surrounding environment is becoming more and more desolate, and after crossing the 958 line, there are almost no large-scale settlements to be seen. Most of the time, it's just a lifeless wasteland, and it's almost impossible to find food and water.
The wind was very cold. If by the standards of the old era, the temperature should now be below minus thirty degrees, which is much lower than the average temperature for this period in the old era. Cold, and lacking water and food, the environment in this area is too harsh for any living being. And standing here in the cold wind, you will feel a faint tingling pain on your skin, which is a warning from the body after sensing excessive radiation. Most people who grow up in the new era have a natural sensitivity and vigilance to radiation, so as to avoid places where there is excess radiation in advance.
Since entering the wasteland, the distance between Su and the team behind him has gradually widened. In this environment, even the dragoons with special equipment will find it difficult to advance. Only those with fighting domain abilities like Leigh and Han Lun will still seem to be at ease.
After entering the tundra, the sudden increase in radiation caused several weaker members of the team to take anti-radiation drugs. However, the duration of this drug is very short, and the effect usually only lasts for one day, so the team's endurance is beginning to be limited. And after a long day of trekking, it was obvious that the two Ricardos were already in a state of exhaustion. But Su in front of him was still moving forward, and there was no sign of stopping at all. At every certain distance, Sue would leave a mark somewhere, using symbols that only he and Ricardo could understand to indicate the time of arrival, the direction of travel, and the location of the next mark. This method is very primitive, but it is quite effective against an enemy who may be in control of the communication network.
When the two comrades-in-arms appeared obviously weak, Li Er didn't say a word, and directly grabbed the equipment of the two people and carried it on his back. Hanlun carried them on his shoulders and followed the main army. One of these two servants is an electronic warfare expert, the other is a doctor, and they are indispensable to the team. They also have the ability to strengthen the first-order combat domain, and their bodies are no worse than ordinary fighters. But even Ricardo felt a little overwhelmed by the intensity of the march, not to mention the obedience of these special experts who were not known for their physique.
Hanlon was no more, and on the northern battlefield, this taciturn man was no worse than Ricardo in terms of prestige and prestige. But Li, this beautiful and tough girl was not taken seriously by most men who were not familiar with her at first. But seeing Li, who was carrying equipment as big as her body, silently following the procession, the men began to reacquaint themselves with this bold and rugged girl, and there was some admiration in their eyes, of course, this did not include Rigore.
Before leaving, Suje Ricardo sent Helen his situational pass, and there was no more content. Sue believed that with Helena's non-human intelligence, a solution to the current predicament should be found. If she can't find it, then rely on herself, rely on hard work, rely on luck, no matter what she relies on, Su believes that there will always be a way. As for the source of the information about the three of Kavon, Ricardo only said that he also had strong enough friends at the Dragoon headquarters to intercept some strange information through the guò network, and this is how the news came about. Su then understood that the network was completely unreliable, even if it was a private network for the Dark Dragoon, which claimed to be absolutely secure.
Behind the group, three vultures circled, closing the distance between each other and closing the distance between them by the minute. The atmosphere between the three vultures was not harmonious, although the food in front of them was enough for them to eat.
Half a day after Ricardo's team entered the tundra, when night fell, the bloodthirsty Maria stood on the edge of the tundra, her fiery red hair standing out in the dim light. Behind Maria, stood a dozen strangely dressed people, all young, men and women. Everyone's outfit is full of leather and metal elements, and the overall style is the same as Maria's, exuding a mixture of femininity and madness. They were armed with a variety of weapons, mainly knives, including rifles.
Maria looked at the vast, lonely, and cold tundra in front of her, and then at the servants behind her, who had no equipment to support them, and a shadow swept over her cold and strange face.
The tundra environment was far harsh beyond her imagination. With her highly modified body, Maria can run rampant in the tundra, but her subordinates cannot. The pursuit came suddenly, and they didn't bring much food with them, and they lacked the necessary field equipment. Things like tents, high-energy fuel, compressed nutrients, and the necessary clean water are often inconspicuous in this dark, cold, and deadly radiation tundra. However, it was too late to transport supplies from the temporary base here, and the terrain here looked flat and gentle from afar, with no glaring obstacles, but the ground was full of rocks, rocks, and fissures, which were not suitable for trucks at all, and running was the fastest way.
But if you don't have the necessary supplies, it would be very dangerous, if not stupid, to go deep into the tundra. All of Maria's looks are in line with her aesthetic standards, in other words, since appearance is the first choice for meeting the standards, the other comprehensive elements are on average a notch lower. After all, not everyone's appearance can be directly proportional to strength. In such a tundra, at least half of them would not survive the night at all. If Maria chooses to enter the tundra alone, the lack of supplies will be solved, but new problems will arise.
Maria had absolutely no idea where Calvon and Lynch were, and likewise, they didn't know where she was. What she feared would be if she ran into Sue, Ricardo and their team alone after going deep into the tundra? In that case, Maria knew very well that she would be more than lucky. With just a captain and a major, Maria believed she could handle it alone. But the captains and majors at the front are completely different from dragoons in the ordinary sense.
Sue, Captain, has the ability to be a fifth-order in the Perception Domain. This is shown in the information, but it should not be forgotten that Su was a second lieutenant from the Curtis training camp, and was promoted to captain like a rocket in a short period of time, and in terms of contribution, he was only one step away from the major. The people who came out of the Curtis training camp could never be measured by universal standards, and this has become common knowledge for the Dark Dragoon.
As for Ricardo, the record of his abilities in the archives is mediocre, and there is nothing too surprising and remarkable. However, in the northern battlefield, in every major battle, in addition to the radiant Persephone, most of the outstanding achievements were indispensable to Ricardo, nicknamed "Bear Hound". Once or twice may be lucky, but too many times, it is not lucky that can be explained.
This is one of the reasons that worries Maria. Another reason is that at least half of the strength of the dragon rider comes from the servants, of course, with the improvement of the dragoon's own ability, the later servants have become dispensable, and they are more of a guarantee of a comfortable life. But if you want to reach this realm, you must at least have the strength to be close to the general, Maria is not only far from now, with her qualifications, I am afraid that she will not be able to reach this realm in this life. That's why she hates Bloody Mary so much. In her opinion, Bloody Mary, who has a rare talent for fighting, can completely get involved in the rank of general, but for one of the most stupid reasons, love, she finally became the plaything of men, and it is really a loss of face for women. As for the other talented female general, Persephone, she looked too much like a pure woman of the old days, and was not at all the type that the bloodthirsty Maria liked. So the more brilliant Persephone was, the more she hated and disgusted her.
The bloodthirsty Maria had become so disgusted with Persephone that at one point she even openly defied her. As a result of that attempt, Persephone began by stunning Maria with an elegant little slap and leaving her in a hospital bed for three weeks.
So Maria wanted to catch Sue more than the other two vultures, she wanted to completely insult Persephone's man, in her heart, this was equivalent to dozens of slaps back to Persephone, and that wonderful feeling would make her fall into a sea of countless * compositions! As for slapping Persephone with her own hands, she never thought about it.
What makes Maria's affection a little higher is that Kavon also did not carry any extra supplies, and now must be facing the same predicament as her. But Lynch, the cunning viper, always likes to hide in dark corners and then send bullets into the body of his prey at an unexpected time. As long as he started to act, no one could figure out Lynch's location, or even how many followers he had brought with him.
Maria cursed secretly. None of the three of them thought that Su would be so cunning and so cold-blooded, going directly to the north, leaving behind the remnants of the convoy of warriors and a huge amount of supplies and booty, and taking only the most elite subordinates. They captured more than 70 surviving fighters on the battlefield, and they thought that Sue and Ricardo would come to the rescue of these precious veterans, or at least start a guerrilla war with them in this complex area, but Sue actually said that he would go and go straight to the north. Judging from the traces left along the way, they walked very resolutely, without any hesitation, and did not waste time with doubts.
Beyond this tundra, and further east, there is another predetermined position. Judging from the current situation, Sue's target turned out to be there, and if this is the case, at their current marching speed, in another day, their squad will appear in the rear of the preset position. Although Maria didn't think that Sue would know the exact location of another preset position, the strange situation in front of her was too unsettling, and once they were allowed to cross the tundra and really appear in the position safely, then even if Sue was immediately torn to pieces, Maria, Cafon, and Lynch's mission would fail. If such a simple task failed in such a stupid ending, even she didn't want to think about it.
After weighing the pros and cons, Maria immediately summoned half of her more combat-ready minions and asked them to follow her into the tundra. The rest returned to the temporary base to stand by. Then she walked into the tundra first, the cold wind sweeping through her fiery red hair, like a torch that could be extinguished at any moment.
As soon as he walked into the tundra, Kavon's voice came from Maria's tactical board: "Hi dear Maria, have you entered the tundra?" I'm already fifteen kilometers away! ”
Maria replied in a cold voice, "Of course! But don't think I'll tell you where I am. Have you taken it with you? ”
"Bring it! Twenty-two! Kavon's voice was accompanied by a booming laugh.
"You brought 22 supplies?" Maria was a little strange.
"Not a single one! If they can't get the enemy's provisions, then they will die. Kavon was putting it mildly.