Test area, ice cellar.

"It's a pretty big space. Xia Ming looked at the space around him.

"It's okay. "There are traces of human activity here, and it is said that eight hundred years ago, it was a sacred place for a certain religion, but then they mysteriously disappeared." ”

They walked along this rocky space, and although the space was getting smaller, there were many circular caves on the rocks on both sides, which the old man said were caused by the erosion of flowing water;

Xia Ming asked, how powerful is water?

The old man said to him, "The water drops and the stones wear through the stones;

Xia Ming said, that's a child's story, when have you ever seen water dripping through stones?

The old man laughed and said nothing.

The air is starting to get cold, it's a sense of a closer level, and although the cold is full of winter, the cold at the moment is coming from underground.

Further in, the ground began to tilt, and the old man walked in front, holding a torch, and he suddenly stopped. Xia Ming and Su Lingxuan looked down and saw a bottomless staircase under their feet, glowing with cold white gas.

"This... What kind of place is this?"

"What, scared? young man. ”

The old man walked down first, and said with a smile, "This is where I'm going to take you - the ice cellar." ”

Xia Ming thought, how can I have an old acquaintance here?

As the firelight moved forward, they gradually saw the object in front of them, a stone wall with no gaps.

Isn't this the so-called "cellar"? Why is there no entrance, could it be that the so-called "ice cellar" is actually a peerless supernatural power, and the masters in the book like to engrave their lifelong learning on the stone wall.

The old man pressed his hand on a stone pillar in front of the stone wall, and suddenly there was a rumbling sound, and a chill suddenly poured out of the stone wall, which was actually a door.

"You know, it's amazing. The old man said proudly, "This is what is recorded in ancient books - fingerprint unlocking - without me, absolutely no one can open this door... Huh?!"

The door slowly opened, and the old man suddenly felt like something was choking his throat.

"You.. It's okay!"

A cloud of cold air like a very human shape poured out, and Xia Ming thought that he was possessed by something unclean.

"This, this, this."

The old man rushed in with his head in his hands, and looking at the unclosed drawers from the walls around him, he ran over, "I'll go, the V-ventricular fluid of the rat devouring rats. Red Spider β type: Demon Ape.. Damn thieves.. Unexpectedly, it's all gone!"

"Hey, hey, you're alright... Didn't you say that no one would be able to open this door without you?

"That's true, but I'm not the only one who can open this door, as long as you put your hand on the door, it will work whether you are alive or dead. ”

The old man painfully pushed back the open drawers one by one.

The walls on all four sides had been remodeled, and they had carved long stone chambers out of the rock to create hidden spaces, and the drawers had been made of another unknown material.

No, Xia Ming didn't think it was a stone wall, it was too smooth, like a frozen river, it was ice! He looked at his feet again, transparent ice blue, like an amber bead on a wizard's wand in the firelight, a ferocious, hideous insect was trapped inside... Wait, how can insects be ferocious and hideous?

"This, this, this.. This, this, this.. This is.. What.."

Xia Ming's cold hair stood up, he lay on the ground, the eyes of a huge creature under the transparent ice were looking at him, it opened its bloody mouth, and the sharp and jagged teeth in its mouth were all exposed, it seemed to swim up bravely, but Xia Ming felt that he had fallen into its mouth.

Needless to say, a guy with these teeth is anything but a good one.

But fortunately, it was frozen in the ice, if it was bitten, it would be useless, I don't know if its teeth are poisonous?

"It was supposed to be some kind of monster that lived in ancient times, but don't be afraid, it's dead, and at least a hundred years old, because it was here when we found it.

The layer under your feet is not a block of ice, it has a structure like glass but is as hard as a steel plate, and we have not knocked out a single piece of slag since we started the academy. This technology does not conform to the historical record, and we unify it with the technology of the previous civilization. ”

"Pre-civilization?" Xia Ming muttered these three words.

"That's right. The old man said in a very professional tone, "Walls, puppeteers, ordinal codes, monsters, the royal family created them with gods, and we interpret them with pre-civilizations."

Boy, do you believe that there are gods in this world?"

Xia Ming said: "Do you believe that in this world, pies fall from the sky?"

The old man said, "I'm sure the kitchen knife will drop upstairs, what about you, chick?"

The old man looked at Su Lingxuan again, Su Lingxuan shook his head slightly, and said blankly: "I.. I don't know. ”

"It's all honest kids. The old man laughed, "But damn it, someone took our test tubes! This thing is just like the myth, it can make demons real!"

"What do you mean?"

The old man said, "Do you remember the assessment of the entrance meeting?"

Xia Ming pondered: "Of course I remember, but you have died a lot of people, and it doesn't look like acting... The instructor seems to have said something unexpected.. Could it be.."

"That's right, those creatures aren't extramural monsters at all, they're normal creatures that are injected into their bodies using the ventricular fluid we extract from monsters. ”

"So how could it be.." Xia Ming asked in horror, panic both because of those dead executors and because of their blood.

"What happened over there, I don't know, I have to ask the person who arranged it, but the blood samples we kept here did lose a few, and they were only found the next day after the incident, and they should have been lost a long time ago, because those blood samples were mixed with the blood of the eighth lord's 'Demon Star', and the blood samples of monsters that touched the blood of the lord's blood will greatly increase their activity, and even normal species may evolve into real monsters, and its danger level is the highest S, or double S, and the place where it is kept has not been opened for ten years. ”

The old man said in a calm voice, "If these people started planning some kind of plan ten years ago, it would be too dangerous for us and even for humanity. ”

"Become.. Become a monster .. There's no way a human being can become. Monsters?"

"Theoretically, yes, but the blood of human beings and monsters seems to be inherently intolerant, and the mixing of the two will produce a large number of bubbles, and injecting into the human body is equivalent to injecting air into the blood vessels, and humans will die before evolution is complete.

Moreover, we absolutely prohibit such experiments. ”

The old man said: "I am telling you this because I want to tell you about i943." ”

"i943?" Xia Ming said, "it sounds familiar." ”

"I know. Su Lingxuan said suddenly.

"You know?" Xia Ming was stunned.

"Have you forgotten? you single-handedly hunted it down in front of Prometheus' Hall, and your story went viral among us for weeks. We are all.. Adore.. Yours. She said with her head down.

"It turned out to be the wolf?" Xia Ming suddenly said, and then said very excitedly, "But how is that possible, I didn't do it at all, and things that night were very complicated." ”

Su Lingxuan was a little puzzled, because since then, their sisters have also debated whether he is a "cheater" or not. And she thinks that such a powerful person, of course, only the "cheater" at that time is in line with the image in her heart.

The old man patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully, "Well, young people are honest and reliable, but sometimes young people who are too reliable will lose points in front of their sisters." ”

"Old man, get down to business, what do you find, I'll finish it early tomorrow. ”

"The information we got is, 114 hunted i943, 114 found i943 alive and saw it with a mysterious hunter, 114 hunted and evolved i943, everything points to 114, as if it was deliberately arranged, so we can always remember your name and number, and now I suspect someone is taking advantage of you. ”

"Use me?" Xia Ming also felt that something was wrong, including this incident and what happened today.

"That's right, this should be arranged by the academy leaders, they may be using you to fish, Vargana kid likes to play this trick the most. ”

The old man walked over to a smooth wall as he spoke, and then he turned his head to Su Lingxuan and said, "Female doll, you'd better go over it, otherwise you won't be able to sleep well in the next month." ”

Su Lingxuan turned her head obediently, and Xia Ming asked in surprise, "What about me?"

"You're the to me. He reached for a tab.

Xia Ming hurriedly said: "Wait, wait, you won't hide its corpse, right... I'm going to turn around!"

"I said that you are a good man, if I hadn't seen the virtue of your kid with my own eyes, who would have guessed that the academy would take you fishing, I originally thought that you were some kind of amazing junior, the future of the territory, and the pillar of the hunter."

The old man pulled the pull ring hard, and he said: "i943 has traces of cocooning, but it itself is an extramural creature, only the intramural creature injected with blood can turn into a cocoon when it evolves, now I want you to confirm whether it is really i943, or whether the i943 you see is the same?"

The door was heavy, there were no shafts and wheels or anything like that, Xia Ming stepped forward to help, and found that it was sliding using friction, open this door, just grab the pull ring, and then lean back.

"Why do you want me to be sure?"

The door opened slowly, but it was like a huge stone brick pulled out of the wall, and the entire door was two meters deep.

The old man said, "Because we have another strange discovery. ”

"How do you turn into a cocoon?"

"Cocooning means that when a normal species evolves into a monster, it will grow something like silk from its skin to protect itself, and the inside will differentiate and grow like a fetus until it matures.

The process will be quiet, and you may only hear their heartbeats because it's strong, like a drum."

"Is it like this?"

Bypassing the blocky door, Xia Ming asked in a daze, pointing to a huge white object in the center of the ice cellar.

"This.." The old man stared at the cocoon with wide eyes, "How is this possible?"

Laugh at~

Suddenly, a black bone spur emerged from the cocoon, and a viscous liquid gushed out.

"Not good, hurry, close the door and run!"