The team was divided into three groups, moving forward in staggered positions dozens of meters apart. The very loose formation helped prevent serious losses in the first place even if they were attacked by hidden attacks.
Soon after, the team stopped, and several people following the traces dispersed around, each person walking along a different trace.
"I wonder if Ernes has guessed the reason why we can always find them." Yi asked worriedly as he walked towards Prisla.
"I don't think so. This is the technology from the Flame Alliance. It was not long ago when I thought of it. Ernes and his team also have pharmaceutical experts, and they are deeply trusted by others. No matter how doubtful they are, they will never think of it.
We can also think of ways to catch even the smallest leaks of those concentrated pharmaceuticals." If he was very confident, Prisla was very sure of the abilities of his company members, and at the same time he was praising the increasingly advanced pharmaceutical sciences in the Flame Alliance.
"I hope so." When they talked again, the team was already on the road of pursuit. Maintaining a constant speed, according to their recent habits, when they heard or saw obvious signs of battle on the road, Yi and Prisla
This will allow the team to increase their speed.
Zero was alone in the team observing the traces and the surrounding environment. He had another way of tracking the enemy. No valuable traces had been found so far. Only his intuition told him that the target was within a huge range in front of him. This is
Enough is enough, a voice inside told him.
Cassia erased the mark left behind, glanced at the more than thirty mutilated corpses around him, and sped up. This was one of the teams following the ferocious giant bear-like creature. The mark said it was only far away.
From a distance, they could see that Ounes and the others were under attack. So they had to stop and spend some time to resolve these obstacles.
I also asked something from their mouths. The giant bear seemed to have been injured in the battle with the dragon, and it was not caused by the examiner. Except for dragons that actively attack other creatures, the remaining creatures seemed to be injured.
Are they all implanted with an order not to harm the same kind? Cassia took this into consideration, and finally came to the conclusion that this was probably an instinctive problem of dragons that even the Avalon Agency could not solve.
Half an hour later, Cassia faintly caught the sound wave coming from the front. Stopping where he was, he made some camouflage traces. Using the steel shell bomb on the body, Cassia made several traps to remind him.
Then he got into the snow and lurked in the other direction, waiting for Yi and Priscilla to follow the traces on the snow to catch up.
Guarding and waiting seemed to be the same long thing. Biological time told Cassia that about three hours had passed. The snow gradually turned black following the light. It was also at this time that footsteps came from not far away.
Awakened Cassia who was in a semi-sleeping state.
It was a very neat sound, but Cassia could clearly see the details and quickly figured out their approximate number. Under the sound wave detection, it was a team of about thirty people who quietly moved forward in the darkness.
They were silent. They didn't notice Cassia lying in the snow a few hundred meters away, and walked away indifferently.
When the team was about to leave the limit of the exploration range, Cassia sat up from the snow and immediately followed them. Becoming a ghost stalking in the dark night, Cassia hung her shoes on her waist and stepped on the footsteps of the group in front.
The trail moved forward without making a sound.
Counting their steps, the team advanced about four thousand meters before stopping. Then they filed into a natural ice cave and began to rest. Cassia was lying nearby in the snow.
The sky started to get brighter the next day, so the team left the ice cave and prepared to set off.
"First explore those traces and have the team move a few kilometers further to the side. The time is almost up, and I think today is likely to be the time when they meet." A rich voice gave the order, and along with the response, there was confusion.
The footsteps followed quickly and uniformly. But a few seconds later, when the team was less than a few hundred meters away, a soft sound that had lost its momentum came from diagonally behind them.
Someone triggered the trap Cassia set up next to the corpses. The lethality of the reinforced steel bomb was even as high as that of artillery in the wide space. The sound of continuous explosions was just as Cassia expected, making this world without morals.
clear signal.
After attenuating for thousands of meters, the sound of the explosion was like a dying bee trying to fly, and it would fall to the ground at any time. The thirty or so people leaving also noticed the explosion in the distance, and pressed the button at a faster speed.
They followed the traces back and hid in the ice cave.
Perhaps due to the rush, the thirty or so people did not notice a pair of statue-like eyes embedded in the snow from the beginning. There was no energy in them, and the pupils were in a state of half-dilation and half-contraction. Without a clear target, the sight was
It won't focus on any one person, so it's impossible to say that anyone will notice that through a thin layer of snow, someone has completely stored them in their heads in the form of photos.
"A third-party team?" Cassia analyzed everything she just saw and compared the faces of these people one by one with the appearances in her memory, but did not find the shadows of Yi and Priscilla. It was just that another person entered at this time
In his sight.
"Andrew." When the name came to mind, some information about him quickly emerged. Cassia still remembered that in the melee a few days ago, he was a surgeon with the ability to fully cover bones. But that night
Ernes and others have talked about him, and they have clearly stated that Andrew's full-coverage bone surgery capabilities are only superficial, and few people know about his actual surgical development until now.
After just thinking for a moment, Cassia focused on the sudden idea: "Andrew might be able to help me take my plan to the final step,,,,"
An hour later, Cassia had already disappeared from the spot. By the time he emerged from the snow again, put on his shoes and walked on the traces of more than a hundred people, another half hour had passed. He looked towards the covered
At the end of the trail where the color of the snow gradually became assimilated, Cassia let out a breath.
Seven or eight new corpses had already climbed up the hoarfrost, and yesterday's frozen corpses were turned into red ice cubes by the explosion and scattered all over the ground. Cassia looked at the direction of Andrew, thoughtfully.
By the time the new body turned into stiff ice, Cassia completely melted into the white environment.
Near noon, the same place welcomed different guests. Andrew looked at everything around him, and soon the same scene repeated itself, and was also wrapped in the snow in front of him. (To be continued)