The far north is shrouded in darkness under the long night, and the ice fortress of the demon hunters is like a lighthouse in the long night, holding on to a ray of light on this dark ice field. For thousands of years, no matter what aliens have done to these demon hunters
No matter how much you hate it, and no matter whether these demon hunters can really be called "noble", at least one thing must be certain, that is, these night watchmen have actually protected human civilization and ensured that fragile humans have survived the turbulent times in history.
The darkest age.≮≦∈≧网.┯╈.╇╳o╈m
Even without considering this historical significance, just thinking about the consequences of those crazy Presbyterian Orders once they broke out of Corpus, Hao Ren could not allow this ice fortress to fall.
Under the leadership of several master demon hunters, Hao Ren and his party walked through the depths of the Ice Fortress. Under their feet was the ice that had not melted for thousands of years, and above their heads was the clearest sky on the planet. From time to time, they could hear sounds in their ears.
The wind howled, while the heavily armed hunters in black stood guard at every post quietly. A strange feeling came to Hao Ren's heart, and Hao Ren felt that he was standing on a watchtower, which was nailed to the North Pole.
, nailed through the thick ice caps, nailed through thousands of years of history, and nailed through all the races and cultures on this planet. The age of mythology was ended by it, magical civilization was also ended by it, and human civilization was
It grew up under its watch, and countless hunters in the dark night stood here quietly watching the whole world...
However, ordinary people know nothing about all this.≡.┯╊.┯╳
Lily was still very energetic despite the cold wind, or she was more energetic than anyone else since arriving at the North Pole. The husky girl ran around Hao Ren happily, enjoying the feeling of the cold wind blowing on her face and sighing.
: "It's so kind, so kind... It feels like I'm at home. But having said that, the environment in this place is quite bad for ordinary people."
"Actually, it's the same for witchers," Bai Huo seemed to smile, "I never feel that my hometown is very comfortable. It's dry and cold here. Besides ice, I can't see anything else every day.
Color, the only food I can eat is fish and seals, and other food requires a lot of energy to be transported from the inner 6. Life on the ice sheet is very boring. Training, patrolling, day after day, so when I was very young, my biggest dream was
Become a hunter. Although this level is very low, even young hunters can have the opportunity to travel around the world. Unfortunately, the ancestral blood was detected in me, so I trained twenty years longer than ordinary demon hunters. In this way
…I do envy those young hunters who were born outside the Arctic.”
"Were you born here?" Lily glanced at Bai Huo in surprise, "I thought you were sent to the headquarters to receive an elite education. It's like this in movies. By the way, your parents are here too.
In this castle?”
"They have been dead for many years.≠≤≧≤网≡.╋╬.╊" Bai Huo said lightly, "When I was very young."
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment, because what everyone immediately thought of was the countless generations of endless war between demon hunters and aliens. Hao Ren twitched his lips unnaturally: "It's... when we fight against aliens.
"
"Ah, no," Bai Huo saw that everyone had a misunderstanding and quickly waved his hands, "My mother is sick, and my father took too much magic potion and went to fight with the volcano..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the place fell silent, and the atmosphere was instantly colder than the big ice field outside. Even Lily's incredible reflex arc was a little unable to react. If a normal person looked at the setting of White Fire, they would definitely think that she was that
She is a girl who suffers a great deal of hatred and bears her fate, the kind of girl whose parents died and her whole family died at the hands of a demon. But who would have thought that her father died of taking drugs... Girl, why don't you act according to common sense?
Bai Huo didn't feel the atmosphere was different yet, and one person continued: "It was all a long time ago, and I don't have a deep impression of them... It was my mentor who brought me up. Why don't you talk anymore?
?”
Vivian opened her mouth: "...It's nothing. I feel like your life experience...is a bit different from what I imagined. ≡网≈⊥∥. I thought you were going to settle a series of family grudges. The devil hunter in my impression
It’s all in this style.”
"Are all the demon hunters in your mind bitter and vengeful?" Bai Huo shrugged, "We also have our own lives, relatives and friends, emotions, hobbies and personalities. 'Hunting' is not everything to us.
.My tutor likes chess. I like reading comics, do you think this is incredible?"
Vivian said lightly: "How many demon hunters have ever thought that the 'monsters' you hunted are actually the same."
The topic became a little tense for a while, but before the atmosphere turned bad, Master Ksuzov, who was leading the way, suddenly coughed twice: "Now the overall situation is more important, so we should put this kind of irrelevant private conversation back for a while."
If she had followed Vivian's usual habits and asked a "junior" to teach her such a lesson, she would definitely have to say something in return, but this time she just waved her hand indifferently and nodded lightly to Bai Huo: "There is no malice."
Bai Huo lowered his eyes: "Me too."
Watching all this, Hao Ren had some subtle emotions in his heart. ≮≤网v.╬╊.╃┭o┯m There is no essential difference between demon hunters and aliens. Even those aliens originating from Horleta
They are still distant relatives of the demon hunters. However, the 10,000-year dispute has completely severed the connection between them, even deeper than the conflicts between aliens. I don’t know when, the demon hunters even
The aliens no longer regard the aliens as spiritual creatures with the same feelings, but roughly refer to them as "prey". The aliens also do not care at all whether the demon hunters have emotions and desires, but only regard them as a kind of disaster and plague in the extreme.
This absurd contradiction and separation will eventually produce an even more absurd result, that is, when a demon hunter talks about his family life, an alien will find it incredible.
Even though they know from common sense that this is normal, they cannot emotionally believe that the other person is a creature of the same flesh and blood as themselves.
This absurd separation situation...when will it really end?
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Master Ksuzov's voice: "Ahead is the Tower of Stars. The gate has been closed, and the situation on the other side is not optimistic."
Hao Ren immediately woke up from his meditation and looked forward with great curiosity. He had been wondering where the Star Tower was all the way because there was no obvious sign from the appearance of the Ice Fortress that it was surrounded.
The tall tower building in the middle, but according to Bai Huo's description, the tall tower should be a magnificent facility. There is no reason why you can't see it while walking on the street.
After seeing the situation in front of him, Hao Ren finally understood why the "tower" could not be seen outside the fortress.
A huge pit appeared in front of everyone!
The diameter of this deep pit reaches one hundred meters by visual inspection, and its shape is a regular circle, extending like a shaft leading to the center of the earth. A kind of chaotic darkness shrouds the shaft, and thick fog fills its depths.
It seems like there is another world. The wide spiral staircase and a series of complex supports and divided structures are arranged on the wall of the pit, which should be the road to the lower level and the rest stop.
Surrounding this shaft is the largest square in the Ice Fortress. Countless heavily armed demon hunters are stationed in the square, and patrolling soldiers can be seen everywhere. It is really heavily guarded.
This is the Tower of Stars.
"...Didn't you say it was a tower?" Hao Ren stared for a long time, feeling deceived, "This thing is a trap!"
"This is the Tower of Stars," Bai Huo nodded expressionlessly. "It extends downwards, all the way into the Arctic Ocean, but at a certain stage, it will 'go up' and pierce into the space of Corpus.
Entrance."
"Normally we call this thing a well..." Nangong Sanba's mouth twitched, "Are you sure this wasn't the original construction work that took the drawings backwards?"
"You talk so much nonsense," Nangong Wuyue slapped her brother on the head, "To us sea people, this thing is just a tower!"
"Ignore Ta Bu Ta for now," Hao Ren waved his hand and turned to look at Bai Huo, "Can you open the door now?"
"Now?" Bai Huo was a little surprised, "Aren't you waiting for the army? They will arrive soon."
Hao Ren nodded: "No wait, I want to see the situation on the other side first."
Bai Huo asked the old hunter beside him: "Master Ksuzov, is it convenient to open the door now?"
Ksuzov put his hand on the icicle beside him, and the icicle shimmered with light and made a subtle ringing sound. After a moment, the old hunter exhaled: "You go in."
As the old hunter finished speaking, the strange chaos inside the "tower" of stars suddenly disappeared like a phantom, and the thick layer of fog deep in the giant pit also became thinner.