Chapter 963: Lord of the Deep Cold
"They don't sleep, they wander there with their eyes open all the time. They are the dead and always protect their nests. ”
Back then, the survivor who had returned from sweeping the Hall of the Dead left such a memorable sentence for Adimiri. Of the 300 sweepers, only a few returned, and all of them were seriously wounded. Some didn't even survive for two days before they were killed by death. In the end, only two or three people survived, and since then, Midori has not continued to sweep the Hall of the Dead.
The Hall of the Dead is the name given by the Green Capital, and in the former research base, the Ice Corpse Demon who was mutated from a living corpse had no intention of leaving the base. Their presence only made the distance to the outside world a little farther away from the green capital, and did not cause substantial damage, so the base and the corpse demon remained. Unexpectedly, today, this black area in the green capital map came in handy.
As the team continued to advance, the wreckage of the car and the various parts or fragments of the equipment scattered could be seen in the tunnel. In the rear, the voices of the warriors in charge of the temple grew quieter, and Ademili knew that the warriors had completed their mission. They used their lives to buy a buffer time for the team.
The guards were still in hot pursuit, and the number of biological weapons was reduced by a few people, but it was still not enough to produce a decisive factor, and the enemy's combat power was not greatly affected.
The tunnel is the bridge between the base and the outside world, and its entrance is the base's material transportation platform. When the escort of the green capital came to the entrance of the tunnel and entered the automatic gate of the transport platform, which was not completely closed, ten warriors at the back of the team scattered left and right, each looking for cover and hiding. They will be in charge of the back of the temple and close the gates. It was a mission that was destined to be dead or alive, but from beginning to end, none of the fighters assigned to the mission hesitated, even for a moment.
There are several elevator shafts on the transport platform that lead directly to the interior of the base, and there is only one safe passage from there. The gate of the safe passage was closed, and several warriors stepped forward, picked up their heavy swords and slashed a few times, and then put the gate down. Phew, a dull crash sounded, and it went down the passage to the interior of the tomb-like base.
At this moment, a thick layer of mist was floating in the base, which was formed by countless dark ice chips. The shadow ice mist remained unchanged for many years, but when the sound was faintly heard, the ice mist began to flow slowly.
Apparently, the deceased who wandered through it already knew about the visitor's arrival.
The escorts all poured into the safe passage, and they didn't care about alarming the ice corpses in the base, and galloped on the iron ladder of the safe passage, making a dense sound of footsteps. Finally, moments after they left, one by one the guards crashed into the transport platform. With a slight sweep, they spotted the convoy and rushed into the safe passage.
The Guardian's striker even chased after him in the form of a flywheel, which sparked sparks in the darkness and descended the passage. A sharp spin at the turning point completes the action of adjusting the direction. They ran more quietly, and the iron ladder of the safe passage did not stop for a moment, and the iron ladder shook incessantly, falling a series of dust, making the air turbid.
In the blink of an eye, the guards were almost gone, but two guards suddenly stopped behind them. They glanced at each other, parted, and sought out the Green City warriors who were hiding behind cover.
One of the guards jumped onto a forklift and poked its head out when a heavy sword floated up from the darkness and slashed at its head. The guard immediately shrank his head, and the end of the needle-like ball slapped into the darkness, colliding with the heavy sword. The defender jumped back with his strength, and in mid-air, two more heavy swords flashed out, and finally slashed it in the air.
The battle on the other side ended quickly, killing the two guards. The Green Capital Warrior came out of cover and secured the blasting point with a bag of explosives prepared in the morning. At this moment, five or six more guards jumped out of the safe passage, and they were connected end to end, rolled into a flywheel, and lightning swept through the ground, and rushed towards them.
Seven or eight Green Capital warriors roared and met them with swords.
There was a fierce battle, and the blood danced wildly. After taking down the three guards, there was a boom and all the explosives exploded. The furious shockwaves and flames instantly engulfed the Guardian and the Green Warrior. The transport platform is filled with flames, and the explosion in a limited space causes the power of the explosion to be stacked and increased. The base's sturdy walls could not withstand the onslaught, and a large crack spread like a spider's web. The dome's brackets broke, and a large amount of debris poured down, blocking the open door.
The flames are still burning, and the corpses of the Green City warriors and guards are buried deep under the rubble, dying with the enemy!
"This way!"
Ademili pointed forward, and the convoy was racing through the complex passages of the base. Although it was the first time she had entered the Hall of the Dead, she could perceive that there was a deep cold energy coiling in a certain part of the hall. Ademili believed that that was where the Chill Lord was. So everything became simpler, and the shadow ice mist that filled the base was projected into Ademili's mental perception, which was a clear map of energy veins.
The Chill Lord's energy response was at one point in this vein map, and all Ademili had to do was direct the escort to advance towards the lord's location. There, it will be the location of the decisive battle between the corpse demons and the guards, and all they have to do is to make this happen.
The guards are chasing after them, and time is running out. Ademili's spirit was so concentrated that she had to make the right judgment at every fork in the road, constantly leading the guards to their intended location. Traces of corpse demons could already be found along the way, and there were even ice corpse demons passing near the left of the team. However, instead of attacking rashly, they quietly assembled.
Sometimes the sound of claws scraping through metal could be heard overhead, or two specks of blue ghostly fire fluttering, all traces of corpse activity. Ademili knew that they had penetrated deep into the heart of the corpse's lair.
Finally, they crashed into a research hall. This is supposed to be a biological testing base, where strange biological specimens are still immersed in utensils, or some dried corpses dressed in researcher's overalls. By this point, the view had become rather blurry. This is the place where the Shadow Ice Mist is at its thickest, and only the corpse demon can clearly grasp the location of its prey in this environment, and the others, including Artemiri, have become obscured.
It's like a thin veil across the world, and although you can see the outline, you can't grasp its clear face.
There was a strange movement behind him, and the screams of corpse demons rang out, as if sporadic corpse demons had already exchanged hands with the guards. Ademili let the guards stand still, and she vaguely felt that the ice-like energy began to change. It was as if a crack appeared in the ice, and more intense energy erupted from the ice crevice. At the same time, a beast-like roar sounded from the depths of the ice mist.
The Chill Lord was coming in their direction, and Ademili immediately opened a shielding force field for herself and her escorts. The force field acts like the shadow ice mist of the corpse demon, acting as a perceptual obscure. So in the senses of the corpse demon, the aura of the Green Capital warriors disappeared one by one. In this way, the presence of biological weapons is particularly glaring.
The deceased does not allow other creatures to step into their lair, whether they are warriors or biological weapons. After Ademili succeeded in making her personnel "invisible", the Ice Corpse Demon turned her attention to the Guardian. In the darkness, the blue ghost fire fluttered and swayed, and the ice corpse demon appeared from the darkness. They still retain the general silhouette of a human, but a layer of blue ice armor resembles scales.
Their nails are several inches long, and from time to time they have a blue sheen flowing hook-like nails, which are more apt than claws. A row of spikes of various sizes grow on the back, and when the mouth is split until the base of the ear is opened, a long tongue with mouthparts is spit out. The eyes have deteriorated, but the ice corpses with other perceptual means are unusually sharp and gather in droves in this experimental area.
When the flywheel transformed by the first Guardian pounced on the testing area, a corpse demon also fell from the dome, screaming and knocking down the Guardian. The flywheel was still spinning wildly, but the sharp bone spurs on the guard's body only grazed a series of sparks on the corpse demon's ice armor, unable to break through the defense of this seemingly fragile but actually hard ice armor layer for a while. The flywheel was still whistling, but the corpse demon plunged into its body, the crampons in the fiery cavity, the claw ends releasing the same substance as the shadow ice mist, and the guardian quickly froze from the inside out.
The corpse demon split his hands again, and the guard's corpse immediately split apart. The corpse demon picked up a piece of flesh with ice chips and threw it into his mouth and munched on it. And at this moment, more guards poured in, and the Ice Corpse Demon only rushed into the door to greet these cold visitors who had no feelings.
The entire experimental area immediately became a battlefield for corpse demons and guards, and the escort team of the green capital was ignored. At Ademili's signal, the guards cautiously moved towards the exit on the other side. At this moment, several dull roars sounded from the ice mist, and suddenly a large hand reached out from the ice mist, grabbing one of the guards inside. Moments later, the Guard's head rolled out of the ice mist.
The head fell not far from Ademili, and the head was already covered with ice chips, which was the deep cold for which the molecules were frozen!
Finally, a figure emerged from the ice mist. It was a two-meter-tall man, very athletic. The naked upper body is covered with clear muscle lines, and the skin is also covered with blue scales. It has an extra row of purple spikes on the back of its hands, knees, and back. The humanoid monster seemed to sense the presence of the convoy and turned its face in the direction of Ademili, and the crowd saw a hideous face.
On his bare head, his eyes glow with a chilling blue light. There is no nose, just two small holes that resemble nostrils. A mouth that's cracked to the base of an ear like a normal corpse, and a large mouth without lips covered in fangs.
Ademili was sure that this was the Chill Lord, and beneath its feet was a circle of blue ice mist that was as thick as liquid. When the Deep Cold Lord came all the way, he kept up with the ice flames that remained for a long time.
Perhaps it was the guards who attracted the lord's attention more, and after glancing in Ademili's direction, the Chill Lord strode towards the guards. There was still a distance of more than ten meters from the guards, and the Deep Cold Lord waved his hands upward, and immediately silently poked out a meter-long purple ice spike at the feet of many guards. The ice spikes pierced through the bodies of many of the guards, and the ice spikes released an extremely cold and freezing gas, which immediately caused the guards' light armor to climb up a layer of blue ice chips.
With a low roar from the Deep Cold Lord, his five fingers were folded. The ice spikes exploded, tearing apart the Guardian's body from within. Suddenly, there was a blue-purple blank space in the black tide.
Ademili stuck out her tongue secretly, her heart was worthy of being a lord-level monster with Icewing Marrog, and it was easy to kill the guards. The other Green Capital warriors were also photographed by the power of the Deep Cold Lord, and at this time, the Deep Cold Lord shook his hands. Purple light lit up from the ice spikes all over its body, and a blue-purple ice flame quietly coiled over its hands.
Grabbing the ice flame in his hand, the Chill Lord threw it into the Guardian camp. A cloud of ice flame smashed over, and suddenly everything within a radius of ten meters froze, freezing the defender's movements in mid-air. There was a flash of purple flame in the frost, and the defender immediately exploded. The Chill Lord roared and crashed into the Guardian army to kill.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ademili immediately gave the order to evacuate. As the Chill Lord and the Corpse Demon flicked off the guards, the escort left through the exit on the other side. Then seal it off, so that those guards can only tear and kill the corpse demons in the base, and never die.
"We succeeded, Mistress Artemili. One of the fighters said excitedly.
Ademili nodded, then said, "But we still have a lot to do. ”
There are indeed a lot of things that need to be done, first of all, the settlement of civilians in the green capital, and secondly, the need to meet with zero. Ademili only hopes that she will be able to meet Zero when she arrives in Dawn, and she has a lot of things she wants to know. For example, the black wave foreseen by these Hamomis.
Unbeknownst to Ademili, Zero was on his way back to Dawn. Two off-road vehicles were speeding through the wilderness, and there were not many people returning to Dawning City, except for Zero, who were Haiwei and Yeliu, as well as two soldiers. In addition to this, there was another passenger in Zero's car.
The passengers had wrapped themselves in a thick cloak, from which their claw-like hands occasionally peeking out, and from the occasional purple glow in the shadow of the hood, it was clear that the passenger was not human.
It wasn't on the list of returns, but it was added to it when it set off.
The passenger was indeed not a human, but a biological weapon sent by Ansula. Ansula called it the Courier, and its role was to act as a communication bridge between Ansula and Zero, and could accept some of the messages transmitted by Ansula, solving the problem of too far distance between the Creature Legion and the Core to communicate.
The messenger usually sat still, and even when everyone was resting, he sat on the cart like a dead thing, a strange sight that made the two soldiers who accompanied him creep away. In this regard, Zero is also quite helpless. Ansula seems to have given the Courier some sort of order early in the morning, such as that it will never leave within zero ten meters. However, the courier is not just a simple communication tool, because its long-range communication ability is also built on the basis of the ability to perceive the domain, so the courier can use some perceptual abilities.
On the return trip, Ansula only communicated with Zero twice. One was to report to Zero that the Kui'an Knights produced by the brood had formed an army of 5,000 men. In the other case, Notify Zero, and the reverse analysis of the Guardian has been completed. This will be followed by a reverse search of Prosius.
All this indicates that the Armageddon with Prosius is coming. For this reason, Zero also intends to advance to the twelfth rank. After a series of battles, he has accumulated enough evolution points to advance to the ranks. It's just that because people are on the way home, Zero doesn't put it into action. That day will come soon, though. While arriving in Dawning City and staying for a while, Zero plans to sprint to the next stage.
Three days later, he finally saw the Arc de Triomphe Bridge.
Dawning City is like a giant arsenal that has been in operation since the war in Middle-earth. During Zero's absence, Theon produced another batch of war supplies for Zero, and the recruitment process went smoothly. This time, Dawning City recruited not only the wilderness nomads who had been displaced to the city, but also the aliens.
So after Zero arrives in Dawn, Theon accompanies him around the boot barracks, where Zero discovers that at least twenty percent of the newly established army are alien soldiers. Theon's suggestion is that the average level of alien soldiers is higher than that of humans, and that they can be used as a special force. Zero had no objection to this, and it occurred to him that it was time for Fromman's Trident force to expand.
After saying goodbye to Theon, Zero drove back to the Mansion of the Black Rose alone. As soon as he entered the gate of the mansion, Zero saw Beonliz and Leah waiting at the foot of the steps in front of the main building. I haven't seen her for a while, and the second daughter's belly has bulged. Zero's eyes lit up, and two thin golden flames erupted as if they were substantial. Under his full perception, Zero can already feel that in the bellies of his two women, two little lives are growing healthily.
What made him even happier was that the little ones in the second daughter's belly all reacted to Zero's breath. The little life in Beonlise's belly forcefully reciprocated with a breath, as if a mischievous little guy was not to be outdone and stretched out his hand to touch Zero. Zero touched his own energy too strong, which would shock his own child, and quickly reined in his strength, so that the light breath swept through his will like a pair of immature little hands.
When the breath was gone, Zero felt a hint of joy lingering on the breath.
As for the little guy in Leah's belly, it is much more subtle, it does not transmit its own breath in reverse, but it makes its presence blurred and elusive, like a shy child. Therefore, it is certain that in the future, Leah's child will be born, and he must be a person with the ability to perceive the domain.
The two little ones were still born, and they each showed their amazing talents, which surprised Zero and at the same time felt a feeling of being a first-time father.
That mood is called anticipation.