It was still early in the morning, and large clumps of snowflakes mixed with a fierce cold wind kept blowing over the peaks of Mount Tulash. The cold wind was fierce and shrill and eroded the mountain range all the time. Perhaps in another 100 years, the altitude of Mount Tulash will be greatly reduced, and there will be little to protect the natural tundra to the west.

Nature is cruel and does not depend on the will of any living being. It only follows the invisible rules, like a super brain, running according to the set haode program.

However, even the erosion of the Tulash Mountains by cold storms and snow has flattened the mountain, reducing its altitude and exposing the tundra to the west to the cold winds. At the same time, in the face of the threat of cold winds, the substances and microorganisms on the tundra will also adjust or evolve suitable for survival in response to different environments. This is the greatness of nature, as long as life continues, the best way to survive will always be found.

Between the peaks of Mount Tulash, a natural mountain road winds and winds, and it is the only way to cross Mount Tulash. As this artery passes through the highest part of the mountain, a ruined fortress can be seen.

The fortress is built of steel and stone, and it is so magnificent that it occupies almost the entire peak, like a giant beast lurking between the mountain paths. From the sky, you can see the towering forts scattered on the commanding heights of the fortress, and the inside of the fortress that has not yet had time to be capped and completed, and various functional buildings such as the training square, dormitories, equipment warehouses, and material warehouses have been built, but now they are allowed to be blown by by the wind and snow, and I don't know how many years they have been abandoned.

This is the Storm Fortress, even if it is not completed before it is taken, than Icewing Marrog. Judging from the half-built size of the fortress, it is not difficult to imagine that it will be a majestic military structure when it is completed. In fact, in the Green City scheme, Storm Fortress is designed as a small, self-sufficient city. In addition to the functional facilities that have been built inside the fortress, there should also be recyclable units such as water purification rooms and wind turbines inside the fortress, which have not been constructed, which has attracted the attack of Ice Wing Marrog.

Now in the training ground inside the fortress, there is a huge gap. Looking down from the gap, it is a space like a black hole. It is inhabited by the powerful abyssal mutant beast Marrog, and if anyone enters its lair, they will find that part of the fortress has been transformed into a sleeping environment by the ice wings.

It is a land of ice, an intricate labyrinth of ice crystals formed by zero-degree frost. Icewing Marrog inhabits the depths of the labyrinth, where the complex environment and the ever-shrouded Frost Home make the crusade against Marrog almost impossible to do.

Marrog is still very young, less than ten years since he evolved his intelligence and successfully advanced to the rank of Abyssal Mutant. As a result, it doesn't have its own breeding period like Anji Gullit, so this beast that inhabits the depths of Storm Fortress is very stingy. After demarcating the boundaries of one's territory, other beings are not allowed to live in one's territory.

Of course, for those who pass by and are few in number, as long as they stay for a short time, Marrog does not bother to wake up from his slumber to expel or kill them. Unless it happened to be during the active period of Icewing, then Marrog didn't mind cleaning up the guys who were staying on his doorstep.

And now, it's still a month before the ice wings wake up.

So in the early morning, Betsy, who was still wearing a long trench coat, was able to stand on the edge of the gap between the training grounds of the fortress and watch unharmed. Pedfanie stood right next to him, staring into the dark abyss below the square, and even the Blood Empress couldn't help but shudder: "Then it can't be some monster's lair down there, just looking down like this makes people shudder." I mean, this place is too weird. ”

"Who knows what's inside, why don't you go down and take a look?" Betsy squeezed his colleague as her gaze fell on the same crimson figure not far away.

Red Grand Duke Merlin!

After the Mobistone Bazaar failed and the magician Bane was killed, the Red Grand Duke of Gegnia sought out the Betsy again. Merlin claimed to know Zero's course of action and was willing to help, and under his leadership, the group reached the abandoned fortress by the evening of yesterday evening.

Leaving the square, Betsy came to the platform of the battery where the Red Grand Duke was. Merlin stood like a statue on the turret, his eyes piercing through the wind and snow falling on a corner of the road, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Betsy coughed dryly and said, "I blame me for being presumptuous, but for the sake of everything." I would like to ask you, Honorable Red Archduke, why you are so sure that our goal is to pass through this fortress. You know, if they go the other way and miss out, we're going to waste more time. And now, we don't seem to have any extra time to waste. ”

Merlin's deep voice replied, "Because I know Atemilie, she is a person who does not want to take risks, so she will definitely take the route of Storm Fortress." You can rest assured about this, if you still have doubts, I am willing to use the head as a guarantee!"

You're a fishhead at best. Betsy said secretly in his heart, but his mouth said: "Since Your Excellency said so, I naturally have nothing to doubt. But the Grand Duke has done so much for us, and I don't know what kind of reward you need?"

Merlin turned around like a whirlwind and said word by word: "Killing that black-haired and golden-eyed man for me is the most rewarding reward for me!"

"Naturally, there is no problem with this, and our target is actually this man. It's just that I'm curious that the Red Grand Duke Weishenme would be so attached to his life as a human being. ”

"This is my private matter, and I am under no obligation to answer you. Coldly dropping these words, the cloak was raised, and Merlin, dressed in bright red heavy armor, turned to leave.

Looking at his back, Betsy pressed one hand on his left chest and bent down and said lightly: "Of course, everyone has privacy, and I respect your secrets." ”

But when he raised his head again, a cold smile appeared on the cowboy's face.

Merlin left the battery, not knowing where to hide in the fortress. Although the red Grand Duke of Gegenia has been hanging out with Betsy these days, he is usually alone and very withdrawn and eccentric, except for necessary communication. Shortly after May's departure, Pedfanie also came to the battery. She sat down on the stone railing at the edge of the fort and swayed her long, thrilling legs in the void outside the bar. From time to time, a cold wind blew, blowing Pedfanie's red makeup fluttering, like a flame.

The Blood Empress pulled her windswept hair and spat out a sentence from her mouth: "I can't trust that fish-man." ”

"I don't believe him either. Betsy propped her hands on the stone railing and said lightly, "But this doesn't prevent us from cooperating with him." Merlin is familiar with the environment, and knows the fishwoman who hangs out with Zero inside out. In the presence of the Red Grand Duke, we can save a lot of effort. ”

"Do you think the red bricks will make a move when Zero shows up?"

"It's impossible to tell. But it doesn't matter, I didn't count Merlin in my power in the first place. ”

Pedefany's face was sinister: "The destroyer is mine, I'm going to tear that woman to shreds and bathe her with her blood!"

"Whatever you want, but you'd better suppress it with all your might at the beginning, or don't cry and beg me to save you. Betsy pulled a cigar from her long trench coat and put it to her lips, then stretched out her finger and popped out a flame to light it. Taking a deep breath, the cowboy exhales a smoke ring, but it quickly blows the wind away.

"But with our current liliang, is it too thin. In addition to Zero, they also have a Great Swordsman, a Destroyer, and a Martial Artist. In addition to these four high-ranks, there are also some annoying bugs. Pedfanie said with a frown.

Betsy grinned as she bit her cigar and laughed, "I'm glad you think so, you've finally learned to think with your head instead of your two extra lumps of meat." ”

Pedfanie laughed when she heard this, and deliberately rubbed towards the cowboy. She straightened up her erect twin peaks and rubbed them against Betsy's chest, and said, "My two lumps of flesh are sometimes much more useful than my head. ”

The cowboy reached out and grabbed the empress's chest hard, and he even used a little bit of a flame liliang. The blue flame in her palm grabbed one of Pedriffine's peaks, and the red dress of the Blood Empress showed no signs of burning, but the heat fell on the sensitive buds on her chest. But for Pedefany's physique, this kind of stimulation not only failed to make her feel pain, but gave birth to a strange pleasure, which made her moan uncontrollably, and her face was as red as a ripe cherry, delicate and delicate.

Betsy pinched and kneaded, and his pants were already bulging high, but he still said in an indifferent voice as if he didn't know the reaction of his body: "Our Liliang alone is naturally not enough, and the day before yesterday, I received a summons from an adult, and Thor also came." My lord meant to take Zero before Thor showed up, and for that, I've contacted our reptilian allies. The reptiles of Cazeras should be here in the next two days, so let's get rid of Zero on this mountain. ”

Pedriffine's eyes were already on fire from the cowboys, and she roared like a mother beast from her throat: "Whatever he does, let's break it off now." ”

As she spoke, Pedfanie reached out to untie Betsy's pants. But the cowboy grabbed her hand and pushed the Bloody Empress towards the void outside the stone fence. Pedefine's anger was all gone, and she quickly reached out and grabbed the stone railing, sticking herself to the outer wall of the fortress.

"If you want to do it, go to Denton, it's going to make you cool off with that big dick. Betsy winked mockingly at her colleague, and then took a cigar and left, not looking at the Blood Empress.

With a pull of her hand, Pedfanie jumped onto the stone railing. She screamed at the cowboy's back, "Betsy, you [sexual] incompetent, don't you even dare to sleep with your mother?

The hysterical voice of the Blood Empress hovered over the fortress, but it was not enough to vent her anger, and a loud noise was heard in the fortress not long after. Even the lair where the ice wings roosted kept throwing down stone dust from above, which made Marrog open his eyes. But before he opened his eyes halfway, he felt tired, so Ice Wing yawned, closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

It's another night.

The difference is that Zero Trip has already reached the halfway point from the foot of the mountain. It's a leeward col where the team rests. It's already night, and it's obviously not a wise choice to still hurry. What's more, they are already very tired, and even Zero feels a little tired. Mount Tulash was far more difficult than they had imagined, not to mention the steepness and narrowness of the trail, and the fact that the ground covered with a layer of vertical ice made the hike a chore.

Even the high-ranking members of the team are not able to advance quickly in the face of this environment. Others have to lower their center of gravity to maintain a sense of balance in order to move slowly on this icy mountain road. In some places, there are almost no trails to speak of, and the walls are so steep that they are almost perpendicular to the ground, and if it weren't for the fact that there are many protruding rocks on the surface of the mountain wall that can be climbed, it would have taken more effort for the team to get through.

At this time, the limitations of the human body are revealed. Except for a few high-ranking people who walked fairly easily, the others, including Brown, were already tormenting the difficult mountain path. But the fish people are much easier to walk, not only because they are familiar with the environment, but also because of their special body structure.

But Ademili, who has a nearly ninety percent resemblance to a human body, is obviously not so easy, she has to be taken care of by Balmomore all the way, and in some places, the captain of the guard directly carries her on his back. If this particular fish-man had been allowed to walk Mount Tulash on his own, Ademili would have to die on this high mountain.

At the end of the day, due to the slow pace, the team only came to the halfway point of the mountain. However, if you stand on the edge of the cliff and look up, you can see the outline of the storm fortress. At this rate, by the evening of tomorrow, the team should be able to reach the fortress. The conditions were much better than those halfway up the mountain, and at least without waking up the ice wings, the troops were able to pitch their tents in the fortress, rather than wrapping themselves in marching blankets to keep themselves out of the cold, as the uneven geography was not suitable for camping.

Standing on the edge of the cliff with zero negative hands, his slender body looking so small in the cold wind, as if a gust of wind could blow him off the cliff. But in fact, he was like a nail stuck in the ground, and no matter how fierce the cold wind was, it couldn't blow him at all.

Looking down the mountain, the earth was pitch black, like a bottomless abyss. Just like this era, humans, animals, and all kinds of other alien beings are helpless to live in an abyss called despair. Every day, every moment is a fight to survive. Fight with other beings, fight with your own people, even if you have to dye the earth with blood.

To change the status quo, it is necessary to cast a ray of light on this abyss. What Zero is doing now is looking for the spark that can bring light. Sometimes he thinks that the god in Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and brought hope to the world did not end well. And if you want to do the same thing, what will be the end of Zuihou?

He reached out and felt the cold wind blow through his fingers. The answer is like this gust of cold wind, you can feel it, but you can't grasp it anyway.

At this moment, Zero suddenly felt something, and quickly looked at the smooth mountain wall in the distance to the left. There was a long figure gliding over the mountain wall like a gecko, and crawling all the way up, disappearing from zero sight in the blink of an eye.

What is that? Zero had a question running through his mind, but it was another unanswered question.