It was about six hours' journey from the station to the assessment area. After taking a look at the other people in the car, Cassia closed her eyes again. The back door was frozen by ice and snow, and under a flickering lime lamp, there were only about thirty people.
The white breath exhaled by people's regular breathing predicts that this group of people who have all fallen silent are still alive.
The snow vehicle is comparable to a small truck. One can carry thirty-five examiners and various weapons they carry. The violent shaking and roaring engine from time to time tell them that the road conditions are not very good. There is often snow.
The sound of the top of the vehicle hitting hard ice came in, but no one opened their eyes. The atmosphere and environment were normal, dropping below freezing point.
Cassia's spirit was highly concentrated and excited at this time. The induction force field drove the blood to burn, and she could not feel the cold at all.
When the people in this carriage opened their eyes one after another, a window in the front of the carriage was pushed open, revealing the co-pilot with frost on his eyebrows: "It is expected that all snow vehicles will arrive at the assessment area in ten minutes.
Outside the edge, I won’t talk about the rules. The handle of the carriage door is not locked and can be opened by going up on the board. Please be prepared and choose the time and place to get off. By the way, I will tell you something here.
The speed of the vehicle will be maintained within a certain range and will not slow down when someone gets off the vehicle. Of course, attacking transport vehicles will be disqualified immediately."
After saying that, without waiting for others to ask, the co-pilot closed the small window. Ten minutes later, maybe not that long, with a long sound of the car horn, the snowmobile started for the first time. Everyone closed their eyes again
, the perception immediately dispersed, and they were all measuring the approximate speed of the vehicle to estimate their accurate time to get off.
It was already dark outside. There was a small window behind everyone, but they could not observe anything. The peaks used as reference points were all hidden in the darkness at this moment. This situation was unexpected for many people.
In a random situation, the distance calculated through perception will not be very accurate. Cassia noticed something. The speed of the vehicle is indeed within a range, but it is controlled by the two drivers and has been switching irregularly. This makes the speed from
The drop-off point determined on the map is not easy to grasp.
Five hours later, the first person silently opened the compartment door and jumped out of the vehicle. The number of people in the compartment gradually decreased. At exactly 2 o'clock in the morning, Cassia stood up from her seat and jumped into the snow.
After landing, he rolled to the side. He immediately controlled his body temperature and stood still on the spot. The sound of snowmobiles was fading away. In the windless night, the spreading sound ripples acted as another layer of sound.
a pair of eyes.
No one followed, so Cassia looked around at the almost identical darkness, and with her excellent sense of direction, she walked towards the place where she had buried the iron box.
The second type of creature will start to be released a few hours after everyone is sure to get off the car. Now, there must be several large airships for communication hovering above the layer of black clouds, receiving numerous snow vehicles.
Release all the signals.
With the assistance of sound reflection ripples, Cassia's forward speed is very impressive. There is no impact from the snowstorm, and there is only the "crunching" sound of the snow in the quiet night. She takes a break every hour, and Cassia is not in a hurry to rush on the road.
While he was on the road, Cassia often opened the cover of his mechanical watch to check the time. About seven hours later, when he was about to start his journey again after resting, other assessors finally appeared in his perception. Only then did the darkness subside a little, but his vision was still blurred.
Trapped within a radius of less than one or two meters around him.
He was about eight or nine hundred meters away from him, almost reaching the limit of sound ripples that Cassia could perceive. His body temperature had always been kept at a safe temperature, and in the dark night environment and waist-deep snow, he was ambushed at this time.
Catching someone who is up will be very fatal.
Choosing to wait for the man to leave, Cassia buried herself in the snow and "watched" the man silently move in the other direction. The speed was very slow, and Cassia thought he had discovered something, so he sped up and made a sound.
frequency, and explored the entire circle around him.
Afterwards, Cassia lurked motionless in the snow and wrote down the frequency of meeting the assessors. While thinking about this, at the edge of perception, the person moving forward suddenly stopped moving. For about six seconds, a delicate
The dull sound of gunfire swept through the thick snow and reached Cassia's ears.
"A sniper with temperature sensing ability." Cassia said in her heart. After waiting for about ten minutes, the sniper entered the sound detection range and came to the dead man's side. Probably trying to find something on the body.
There is nothing that can be used. Among a large number of examinees, many are from big families and may have some special weapons and equipment.
A minute later, Cassia "saw" the sniper start to move, with the same caution, perhaps because he still couldn't give up on the sniper rifle equipped with a silencer. Such a dark night was too quiet, and the crunching sound of the snow could become a place.
noise inside.
Holding a firecracker in the snow, Cassia once again controlled to lower her body temperature: "If the direction does not change, according to his speed, we will reach the nearest position in about half a minute, which is about three hundred meters."
"Left and right." The sound ripples in his head were like delicate and even mapping drawings. Cassia observed the man's movements and reactions, and the muzzle of the gun had already locked the sniper's body. When he sensed something was wrong, he half-pressed the trigger.
The bullets can be fired out in an instant. There is no wind and no snow, and the traces of progress in the snow are very obvious. This is what Cassia is worried about.
Cassia, who was not consistent with the environment, realized that the night was as concealed as it should be. It was half an hour after the sniper left that Cassia poked her head out of the snow and continued to move forward. On the way, she passed by not long ago.
Next to the dead man, a big hole was blasted from his chest, and his whole body was frozen into ice. The white and green color was especially visible in the vague black. The bag he was carrying was opened, and a pile of bullets fell into the snow.
Soon after, the field of vision expanded sharply, reaching thirty or forty meters away. Cassia, who was advancing, could occasionally see the traces of other people moving forward on the snow. At this time, a deep red light was also projected onto the gray and white.
On the snow, in an instant, the white world was covered with red light, as if it had been infected by falling blood.
Cassia raised her head, and several huge dark red patches appeared on the black clouds. Then the dark red became brighter, and several fiercely burning huge red flares finally broke through the black clouds, bringing a billowing tail of smoke to the snow.
The sky under the clouds. After burning for only a few seconds, the flare turned into a sheet of smoke and scattered.
This is a signal sent by the empire's communication airship, which means that all examiners have left the snow vehicles. After eight hours of adaptation time, the Avalon Agency specially trained for this assessment
Class II creatures will also be released. (To be continued)