These two days were extremely difficult for the people in Cambe Town, after the earth-shattering avalanche, the snow and gravel used by the entire Cambe Town were submerged by almost half, fortunately, the disaster was discovered early, and the people in the town were evacuated in time, plus when the avalanche reached the side of Cambe Town, it had been weakened to the extreme, which did not completely destroy the entire Cambe Town.

Compared to the town of Cambay, the forward camps of climbers set up in the mountains of Rum are really miserable, and the mountaineers association in Cambe town has sent people to inspect them after the disaster, and the forward camps that are not much smaller than Cambay have been completely destroyed by avalanches.

The only thing to be thankful for is that it is winter, not the season for mountaineering, so there are no mountaineers here, and the frontier camp is not open, only the mountaineering association sent a few unlucky people to stay there to take care of some facilities in the frontier camp, as for the people who stayed there, there is basically no possibility of survival, although their bodies have not been found yet, and the mountaineering association is still sending people to search and rescue, but everyone knows what the result is.

The Mountaineering Association has prevented three groups of people from entering the mountains in search of survivors, including local residents, enthusiastic travelers, and a large number of the town's reserve militia, among whom Colin is a special presence in the hunting merchant.

Unlike others who were forced to join the search and rescue team in accordance with the Imperial Rescue Law, Colin volunteered to join the search and rescue team, and he behaved so actively, not because he was a warm-hearted person, but because he was a secret agent of the Imperial Special Operations Service in Sardinia, and his men were near the Steps of the Rum Peak when the avalanche occurred.

The Imperial Special Operations Unit was established three years ago by direct order from the Emperor, and at that time the Special Operations Service was mainly responsible for dealing with the infiltration and intrusion of transcendents from the United Kingdom into all walks of life in the Empire.

It is precisely because of the special nature of the mission that the Special Operations Unit has had great power from the very beginning of its establishment, and ordinary agents like him can dispatch the local police station and gendarmerie at any time to assist in the investigation and arrest of suspects when performing their tasks.

No one in power would have reassured those in power with such a large authority, all of which were divided into three divisions according to their administrative area, each of which was not subordinate to each other, and could only be commanded by the headquarters in the imperial capital.

However, these three divisions have a difference in strength and weakness because of their geographical location and the opponents they need to face, among which the southern division directly faces the United Kingdom, so it has a greater skew of resources and more manpower, with more than 100 standing personnel compared to 6 or 700 non-establishment personnel, and the power of the head of the division is already large enough to mobilize a main battle corps to assist under limited conditions.

The branch located in the west directly faces the Black Forest, although there seems to be nothing going on there, no one from the United Kingdom will be able to cross the Black Forest to reach the territory of the empire, but the hidden monsters in the Black Forest seem to have entered the activity period in recent years, and many hidden clans have appeared in the surrounding areas of the Black Forest, posing a great threat to the surrounding villages, mines and towns, so the power and resources obtained by the west branch are also extraordinary.

Only the eastern branch is located in the hinterland of the empire, there are imperial fleets patrolling the coastal waters, and there are layers of defense by police, gendarmerie and various intelligence agencies inside, so there is basically no United Kingdom transcendent who can infiltrate here, so the eastern branch has the least overall resources, and the entire department is only six permanent personnel when it is the least, and Colin is one of them.

Colin himself was not a natural transcendent, he was originally just an ordinary soldier, he was wounded in the war with the United Kingdom, because there was no timely and effective treatment on the battlefield at that time, resulting in extensive necrosis of one arm and both legs, and he had to be restrained.

Losing an arm and both legs, the whole person can be said to be useless, even if there is the care of the Imperial Logistics Department, there is no problem with food, shelter and so on, but for me, that state is more uncomfortable than death.

Like most disabled warriors, Colin contemplated suicide and ended his miserable life, but luckily before he could make up his mind, an event emerged that saved him from the abyss.

At that time, a secret research institute of the empire came to the logistics department to arrange for them to live in the apartment of these disabled soldiers to recruit voluntary experimenters, according to the person's explanation at the time, the process of the experiment will bring extreme pain, ordinary people simply cannot bear that kind of pain, only the soldiers who have experienced the cruelty of the battlefield and the despair of life can survive the pain, and the benefits of the experiment will be possible to restore the mutilated limbs of the soldier to normal, and will also gain some unimaginable abilities.

At that time, the appearance of this secret research institute was undoubtedly like a life-saving straw for those who had fallen into despair and were already thinking about suicide, even if this person repeatedly reminded the applicants that they would suffer excruciating pain and be in danger of death, it still did not stop those who were desperate from grasping at this straw.

As a result, after signing the agreement for voluntary experiments, on the third day, those who signed the agreement were taken in batches to a secret laboratory to undergo various experiments.

To this day, Colin is reluctant to recall any details of the experiment, and if he can, he even hopes that someone will be able to erase that memory.

He still remembered that time he was constantly cursing the self who signed the agreement to participate in the experiment, he wanted to kill himself with his last strength countless times, and even wanted to bite his tongue to kill himself as some stories say, but these failed, and he also knew from the people in the institute that the so-called tongue-biting suicide does not exist, even if the tongue is bitten, as long as the trachea is not blocked, it will not die.

He didn't know how he survived that time, but he only regained his ability to think normally one day when someone from the institute told him that the experiment had been successful, and he realized that the hands and feet he had lost before had returned to his body, and he also found that he had some extraordinary abilities and some abnormal organs.

Although the abnormal organ made him feel that he was transforming towards dehumanization, he didn't care, for him to be able to grow his hands and feet again, to be able to live like a normal person again, without having to be under that kind of strange gaze all the time, was already the best result.

And he knew very well that compared to the same group of comrades who came to the research institute with him, he was already very lucky, because from the mouths of those crazy scholars in the research institute, he knew that he was the only one among those people who successfully completed the positive mutation, and the others either died in the mutation or completely mutated into monsters.

To this end, he also asked the scholars to take him to see one of the losers, and that inhuman form cannot be forgotten even today.

When he left the institute, Colin thought that he would return to the army, because there are special departments in the army, but what he didn't expect was that he was assigned to the secret organization of the Imperial Special Operations Department and became one of the secret agents.

Although he was not very comfortable in a place like the Special Operations Division at the beginning, and made a lot of mistakes, fortunately, the task of the Eastern Division was not particularly heavy, and the result of his mistakes was only to receive some reprimands, and he would not be punished more, let alone put his life in danger, and this also gave him time to adapt.

It's just that as he adapts to the current work in the department, he feels that the work is a little too easy, and he can't exert the kind of power he has now, and he craves more difficult tasks and more power.

That changed a little over a month ago, and Colin got the task and power he had hoped for, but he wasn't too happy about it.

He still remembered that he suddenly fell ill that afternoon, and he had a high fever and felt like he was going to die, but the illness came and went quickly, and he was cured late that night, and he returned to normal, at least on the surface.

At that time, he didn't pay much attention to it, because the sudden occurrence of various tasks attracted his attention, and news of monsters attacking humans came from various counties and cities in the east, and some monsters were killed on the spot by the patrolling gendarmes, but many more monsters killed the policemen and gendarmes who stopped them, and fled into the forest.

Because of the sudden appearance of these monsters, the Imperial Capital Headquarters increased the voluntary investment of the Eastern Division, sending nearly 200 men at one time, and also giving the secret agents of the branch great authority to mobilize the army.

As one of the first members of the Eastern Division, Colin was naturally promoted and assigned to four subordinates, and was assigned to the mountains of the Rum Peak, where he was responsible for the security of this generation.

Although the Rumhorn mountain area is remote, it is still the focus of the Special Operations Division, not only because in the eyes of these secret agents, there is no place to be absolutely safe in this tense period when man-eating monsters are constantly appearing, but also because it is a key location to hunt down man-eating monsters.

According to the information received, a large number of man-eating monsters escaped from the encirclement and suppression led by the Special Operations Department, and fled north, apparently preparing to escape into the northern ice fields to avoid the pursuit of the Empire, and according to various analyses, the Rum Peak is the most likely place to cross the Vinowian Mountains, so the Rum Peak Mountains have become the last line of defense to prevent these man-eating monsters from escaping.

The various battles that took place in the mountains of the Rum Peak for more than a month proved the analysis of the Imperial Intelligence Service, Colin had led his men to intercept and kill three groups of man-eating monsters, and there were even two casualties among his men, but the number of casualties was quickly replenished, and five more were added.

Although the mission was carried out smoothly, because of the successful completion of the three interception missions, Colin's position was promoted, but he was not happy in his heart, because he found that there was something wrong with his body, and after a few years of stabilization, the mutated body organs after the experiment suddenly changed, and the mutation had begun to expand, and the dominant mutated organs began to appear on the surface of the body.

All kinds of anomalies made Colin think of the monsters that appeared all over the country on the day he had a high fever, and he felt that the mutation of his body might also be related to this, and if he didn't stop it, he might become like those monsters who were hunted down by the Special Operations Division.

It was precisely because of worry that Colin didn't pay attention to the task at all in the past two days, but focused on how to stop his body from mutating, and even this time he didn't personally lead the task of killing a few man-eating monsters, but handed it over to his deputy, but he didn't wait for the news he wanted, but lost all the contact with his subordinates because of the big avalanche, and it seemed that he was already lucky.

Colin is not worried about the punishment above, after all, it is understandable that there will be large casualties in this kind of natural disaster, but he must find the corpses of his subordinates and the monsters that are being hunted, because recovering these corpses is the most rigid rule of the Special Operations Division, if he can't find all the corpses, then he will face the punishment of dereliction of duty, losing his current position is small, and the worst thing is to become the person under investigation and accept the loyalty review of the Internal Affairs Department of the Special Operations Division.

In the rigorous scrutiny process of loyalty censorship, it is absolutely impossible to hide the conspicuous mutations on his body.

So he followed the search and rescue team into the mountains, either to find the bodies of his team members and man-eating monsters, or to become a fugitive, crossing the Rum Peak to the Northlands.

"Mr. Colin, drink a little!" the local hunter who had dealt with Colin took out a leather bag and handed it to Colin, saying, "This is a specially prepared cold wine, and if you drink it, it will be warm all day." ”

"Thank you. Colin thanked him, took the skin, and took a sip absentmindedly.

The hunter took the skin, wiped the mouth of the skin, drank a few sips of it himself, then re-plugged it, carefully put it back on his waist, and while shouting and directing the hunting beast he had specially trained for hunting, as if he was deliberately looking for a topic to pass the time, he asked Colin: "It's really surprising that a rich man like you also came to join the search and rescue team, is it because someone you know has also disappeared in the avalanche?"

Colin, who didn't like to be questioned very much, frowned, and a trace of displeasure arose in his heart, but he did not show his displeasure, but nodded slightly, and said: "I have a few guys who entered the mountain two days ago, and then disappeared, although the hope is very slim, I still want to go into the mountain to find them, even if I can't find them, I must find their bodies." ”

"You're such a good boss!" the hunter complimented him.

At this time, the leader of the search and rescue team in front probably felt that it was not efficient for everyone to get together, so he greeted everyone loudly, divided the search and rescue team into ten squads, and each found a place to search for the past, maybe it was because he was standing very close, Colin happened to be arranged with the hunter.

The two of them searched towards the depths of a mountain forest, and they didn't know how long they searched, but Colin suddenly felt a sense of exhaustion in his body that he had never felt before, and wanted to sit down and rest.