Chapter 972: Black Snake Valley
The biting cold wind blew dryly.
The desert of the Odin Icefield is clean, washed by countless years of frost and strong winds, and the desert here is dry, except for moss lichens and some small shrubs, which are large and large clean and exposed boulders.
Except for the short summer when the edge of the Odin Ice Sheet will reveal some gray-brown deserts, the rest of the time the entire Odin Ice Sheet is a white expanse, and Frost is the ultimate ruler of this continent.
Even today, countless giant icebergs can be seen floating on the sea near the Odin Ice Field, and countless giant glaciers are flowing slowly on the desert. Enzo and his soldiers carefully climbed over a 100-meter-wide glacier, carefully laid iron stakes on both sides of the glacier, and tied a thin steel wire in the middle, with the help of which he could quickly slide across the glacier on the way back, so that he didn't have to work as hard as he did now.
Unbeknownst to Enzo, Linz had learned that he had been forced deep into the Odin Ice Field by Arthur, and he was marching across the desert with his soldiers wracking his brains about how to deal with it this time.
If he returns to New Dunker with nothing at all, it is likely that he will be subject to military justice. But if you work hard to complete the task, the alien race in early summer is not easy to deal with. After a long winter and spring, the Odin Ice Field in early summer is the most dangerous time, countless alien races will come out to hunt everywhere, once entangled by the alien hunting team, it is really a fatal thing.
The best outcome is to snipe two or three important targets on the edge of the Odin Icefield, and then take them back.
No matter how arrogant Arthur's group of dogs is, they don't dare to execute Enzo indiscriminately, it's just to put a few of them in the water prison and toss for a while, this kind of thing, Enzo doesn't care, he has long been used to living in the water prison these years.
After a long day of trekking on the desert, Enzo and the others finally came to the Black Snake Valley at night.
It is a rugged and convex valley with extremely complex terrain. The twisted valley floor stretches for more than three hundred miles. There are tiny rat and snake burrows everywhere. The huge number of rock rats rely on plant rhizomes to survive, and their survival is to feed a very large number of black snakes.
The black snake here is not venomous, has no other functions, and has no natural enemies. So they live very comfortably in this valley, one by one chubby meat is tender and fat, Enzo has tasted the delicacy of the black snake in the Black Snake Valley several times, and this time he deliberately chose this place as a temporary base camp.
Enter the Black Snake Valley for about three miles. A vacant lot was chosen and a tent was pitched. Trenches were dug around the perimeter and powdered to repel snakes and insects was sprinkled. Enzo pulled out two more magic scrolls, turning the dirt near the camp into a solid rock formation. At the same time, two stone walls were raised to connect with the surrounding boulders, firmly guarding the camp.
The 300 soldiers who followed Enzo were all veterans of a hundred battles, veterans rolling in the pile of dead. After years of life and death on the battlefield, coupled with Enzo's deliberate teaching, these soldiers generally have the strength of status. Three hundred status soldiers, such an army is a first-class strong army in any empire on the Western Continent.
There is no need for Enzodo to talk nonsense, the soldiers have spontaneously arranged light and dark sentries and patrol scouts for the night, and at the same time, a team of soldiers went deep into the Black Snake Valley, but in an hour's effort, they captured more than 200 fat snakes alive and came back.
Able to follow Enzo to crawl out of traps and ambushes again and again, these soldiers are extremely capable of surviving in the wild.
The sharp dagger cleaved through the black snake's tough skin. With a light smile of enjoyment, the soldiers swallowed the snake gall into their stomachs. All the snakeskins have been stripped off and turned into long, flexible ropes after a little scrubbing. The snake meat is cut into pieces and thrown into the soup pot, just add a little salt foam, and then throw in a little sun-dried vegetable leaves, etc., and the good snake soup is ready.
Although these black snakes are not even magical beasts, they can freely reproduce a huge group in such a cruel environment as the Odin Ice Field. Their vitality is extremely tenacious, and the energy contained in their qi and blood is also extremely vigorous. The snake soup stewed with black snake meat contains a huge amount of heat, and a large bowl of snake soup is enough to keep these warriors warm in the biting cold wind.
He gulped down the snake soup and spit out a few snake bones. Enzo dropped the iron bowl and began to cruise around the camp with Vic. This is also Enzo's old habit every time he takes someone out. The slightest negligence on the battlefield can cost them their lives, and only by being careful, careful, and careful can they and more of their fighters survive.
After inspecting the tent where the baggage was stored, inspecting the surrounding posts, and familiarizing myself with the nearby terrain, it was completely dark.
The night of the Odin Ice Field is exceptionally clear, because there is no disturbance from the lights in the city, and the starry sky here is particularly clear. Here, it is possible to see several times more stars than in the city. Countless planets shining with multicolored light hung in the night sky, densely forming a brilliant light curtain.
Under the starlight, Enzo sat upright on a boulder, a rough topographical map of the Odin Ice Fields in front of them, and whispered a plan of action for the future. The Odin Ice Sheet is an absolute forbidden place for humans in the Western Continent, and this topographic map is exceptionally simple, just roughly depicting the general location of some important landforms in the Odin Ice Field, but this is already an easy achievement that the Western Continent sacrificed hundreds of thousands of intelligence personnel.
The biting cold wind howled, and the 'sizzling' of countless black snakes could be heard in the distance. There is also a 'squeak' sound of a rock rat being hunted by a black snake before it dies. But neither the 'sizzle' nor the 'squeak' could break the terrible silence of the Black Snake Valley.
"Arthur is ruthless this time, and wants us to catch a wizard and go back!
"But it's not surprising, which of the tasks we've received over the years has been easy to complete?
"But this time it was obviously Arthur's own order, and we were only demoted one after another in the past, this time, ......?"
"Well, if we don't get any results this time and go back empty-handed, we'll be in big trouble. ”
The group sat around Enzo and whispered about what to do with the matter. This mission was different from the previous mortal missions, in that they were either attacking orc hunting parties, raiding alien villages, or holding on to an important stronghold, all of which had specific objectives to carry out.
But this time, Arthur played a false game on them, just asking them to capture a wizard!
But no one knows where the branches of Odin's Temple are, and no one knows where to find the wizards of Odin's Temple. Moreover, any wizard has a large group of holy guards around him, and they are the souls of the alien tribe. If you want to attack them, unless you send a large army, you can only rely on more than 300 soldiers, even if they are all veterans and elites, it is also an act of death.
"It's impossible to be a wizard!" Enzo said in a low voice, stroking the map lines on the parchment, "but if we go back empty-handed, we will definitely be unlucky, there is no doubt about it." So, let's hang around here for a while, try to attack and kill two or three orc hunting teams, kill a few leaders of alien races, and if we can kill their royal family or members of the royal family, it will be even better!"
Distributing the magic scrolls sent by Gavu to Vic and the other brothers, Enzo said in a deep voice, "Don't be stingy, use these things when you should use them." Anyway, our goal this time is to get the brothers back one by one! !”
As Enzo spoke, a long wolf howl suddenly sounded in the desert in the distance.
Enzo and the others closed their mouths at the same time, and they turned their heads sideways, their ears twitching slightly, and quietly listened to the terrible wolf howl.
Vic's face changed suddenly, and he muttered in a low voice: "It's the howl of werewolves, not the wolves, it's the werewolves! Moreover, it's the werewolves of the werewolf clan's strong battle tribe, the green wolf clan!"
After so many years of dealing with aliens and dozens of fights with werewolf cavalry, Vic has long been able to hear whether this is a werewolf or an ordinary wolf pack from the wolf howl, and can clearly distinguish which kind of werewolf is the werewolf who makes the howl.
Among the werewolf clan, the green werewolf belongs to the middle and lower class werewolf warriors with the strongest combat effectiveness and the most tenacious fighting will. The howling of the green werewolf is high-pitched, high-pitched, faintly with the sonorous sound of gold and iron, and it is the easiest whistling sound to distinguish.
Thousands of points of green light suddenly lit up in the distance, and with the bright starlight in the sky, Enzo and the others saw the wolf cavalry rushing towards this side like a tide more than ten miles away at the same time—three thousand wolf cavalry, more than 10,000 wild wolves!
The three thousand wolf cavalry was terrifying enough, but what was even more terrifying was the pack of more than 10,000 wild wolves that had been so hungry that they had to bite a few bites of a stone after a long freezing season. The wild wolves of the Odin Ice Field are much stronger than the wolves of the Western Continent, they are more than two meters long, and their strength is comparable to those crazy bulls in the Western Continent, and five wild wolves can easily kill a low-ranking warrior!
With more than 10,000 wild wolves, if such a hungry and crazy wild wolf pack appears on the frontal battlefield, a 10,000-strong heavy infantry division will have to pay an extremely heavy price in order to eliminate these wild wolves with the advantage of equipment.
"Enemy attack! Prepare for battle!" Enzo let out a low growl.
There is nothing more desperate than encountering a raiding wolf cavalry in the dark of night. Enzo smiled bitterly, the wolf cavalry still has good strength at night, and the human warriors do not have their perverted talents, and the night will greatly weaken the strength of the human warriors.
What's worse is that Enzo has no way to escape.
Even if he ran away with his brothers, they would not be able to outrun these ferocious wolves on their feet!
Fight to the death, that's all. (To be continued)