This winter can be said to have ushered in the biggest cold wave in recent decades, and the temperature outside the wall has dropped to below minus 10 degrees Celsius.
Nowadays, it is difficult to distinguish between day and night without looking at the time.
"I never dreamed that one day I would be able to take a car and go outside the black wall."
Nicole was wearing a thick fur, sitting with David, looking at the front -
Black wall!
The huge black wall is more than ten meters high, and there are people from the Black Corpse Team taking turns guarding the top of the city wall.
Nicole raised her hand to look at the watch on her wrist and said to David: "Squad leader, oh, no, leader, are we unable to come back alive?"
"Our industry..." David, who became the leader of this expedition, said with a wry smile: "We are always facing death at any time. Every time we go out of the Black Wall and come back, we can say that we have made a profit."
Of course, both Nicole and David are more open-minded when it comes to matters of life and death.
The average life expectancy of people within the Black Wall is less than fifty years old. The average life expectancy of the gray mask group is around forty years old. However, as Nicole of the Black Corpse Team, she naturally knows some inside information. This is actually still
The government has embellished statistics. The real life expectancy of the gray mask group is actually only about thirty-five years old.
Nicole feels that she, who is about to turn thirty, has actually lived a long life.
"If we can come back alive..." David felt that the topic was too heavy now, and said: "Our masks can be upgraded. In that way, you don't need to take a fake wedding photo and send it to your grandpa, but you can
Really married."
"I will not get married. I will definitely not have children. You should know very well that even if we are born with gray masks like us, we will probably give birth to gray masks even if we change to high-level masks. I don't want to give birth to children with gray masks.
Come into this world."
There was a long motorcade in front and behind, and on both sides of the motorcade, ordinary members of the Black Corpse Team were riding horses in cotton-padded jackets.
Nicole recalled that in the previous roundtable meeting, Opapu told her plan to regain the golden mask.
To be honest, in the past few decades, the Silver Council has considered the idea of recapturing the Golden Mask more than once.
However, after James was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, he actually wanted to conduct such an expedition again?
In fact, the Silver Mask Council no longer has much hope of regaining the Golden Mask. The real intention of setting up such a name is to find ways to develop new land outside the wall. Nowadays, due to the resource crisis, the population inside the wall will decline in the next few years.
There will definitely continue to be negative population growth. Only by exploring new lands outside the wall can there be hope. Anyway, at least for Nicole, she absolutely does not believe that the golden mask can really be found outside the wall.
At this time, Nicole has put on a white mask and a red mask at the same time. And through the white mask, there is no supernatural spirit outside the wall at this time.
The city gate slowly opened at this time.
Outside the wall is a world covered in ice and snow.
And this scene... also caught Dong Xie's eyes.
Dong Xie and his mother Ziyi were also sitting in a car at this time.
The two of them are now wearing blue masks. It is precisely because of the privileges brought by this mask that they can be specially equipped with cars. As the first and second place in the survival competition, the two of them were immediately forcibly recruited.
This expedition team. After all, they traveled through the underground and escaped in front of countless supernatural beings and won the first and second place in the marathon (at least in the eyes of others).
When they learned that they were immediately included in the expedition team, Dong Xie and his mother Ziyi were somewhat dumbfounded. Only a ghost would believe that this was not the arrangement of the apartment.
And among this expedition team, there is probably Kuang Wenxuan and others.
In this scarlet mission, there should be restrictive protective measures before leaving the black wall.
In any case, from now on, the danger of this bloody mission may have just begun.
Dong Xie believes that the period of time inside the wall is the key for the apartment to collect intelligence for them and find clues about how to survive. Now, they have both blue masks and white masks. Even if they go out of the wall, they have the greatest chance of survival.
Assure.
But on the other hand... he still has a lot of questions about this expedition.
Looking at it now, the survival competition also has another purpose, which is to select talents for this expedition. This expedition is also very noisy, and the five silver-faced councilors are obviously aware of it. So, are they really going to recapture the Golden Mask?
Once the golden mask is put on, one can become the undisputed king, and any member of parliament will flock to it. If the mask is taken back, who should wear the mask? I am afraid that there is an unknown power game at the top of the government.
At this time, the car began to drive slowly toward the outside of the city wall.
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The snow started to become less heavy.
The sky was gloomy and there was not a trace of sunlight in sight.
The horses specially used by the Black Corpse Team are domesticated very strictly. Their subcutaneous fat is much thicker than that of ordinary horses and they are extremely resistant to severe cold. If not, they would not be able to participate in this expedition together.
Dong Xie looked at the horses following the march behind the car and the black wall getting further and further away. He was thinking, I'm afraid, he won't come back again. The apartment will not be merciful to these Black Corpse Team members, most of them
They should all die.
"You two," the driver driving in front said, "At seven o'clock, there is a split-faced spirit approaching."
"Split face..."
Before Dong Xie could continue, the driver continued: "We will not speed up for the time being, as the Face Splitter cannot sense our masks remotely. But please be prepared, if a large number of Face Melter spirits appear, we will have to speed up.
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The biggest problem that the team encountered outside the wall was the problem of gasoline supply. You must know that there are no gas stations outside. Once the gasoline supply is exhausted, the only way to return to the black wall is with the help of horses.
"I thought..." At this time, Mu Ziyi said: "There will be strange spirits everywhere outside the black wall."
"It also depends on the situation." The driver explained to Dong Xie and Mu Ziyi: "The black wall is so long, how can it be possible that there are supernatural spirits everywhere... Oh, the Face Splitter has changed its direction of travel."
Dong Xie continued to look out the car window.
The silvery white ground and sparse trees were quite different from the scene outside the black wall that he had originally expected.
The car was traveling very slowly. After driving like this for about five minutes, the convoy changed direction.
Obviously, a strange spirit appeared in front.
The convoy was going straight at first, but later on, it was basically circling parallel to the black wall.
I don’t know how long it took to circle around before the convoy stopped.
At this time, it had been about an hour since we left the Black Wall. But because we kept going around, the straight-line distance to the Black Wall was actually less than two kilometers.
The further away from the black wall, the more dangerous it is obviously.
"Get out of the car first."
After Dong Xie and his mother Ziyi got out of the car, they felt a cold wind blowing.
At this time, a horse from behind ran up.
The horse ran to the car in front and reported: "Leader David, the situation seems not to be good today, why not send a scout team wearing white masks first..."
"It's too early to send scouts." David is the leader of this operation. This is also because of his rich experience over the years and he is trusted by the leader. "We are still seven kilometers away from the location marked on the map.
distance, but it keeps taking detours."
David was quite worried.
Normally, the main job of the Black Corpse Team outside is to dump corpses, and in order to prevent the corpses from turning into strange spirits and remaining at the gate of the city, they must be thrown to a farther location.
"Golden Mask..."
David looked at the cold wind outside. Once it got dark, the consequences would be even more disastrous. Even if there were corpse chasers, there would be many problems with so many supernatural beings outside the wall.
"We have to travel at least one to two kilometers before dark." David scratched the hair on his forehead, "Then we can set up camp."
It can be said to be extremely difficult to travel even one kilometer outside the wall.
Every time the Black Corpses go outside the wall, it can be said to be a death march.
"Leader David!" The man on horseback continued: "If you want to continue marching, it is better to send out scouts. There are too many corpse chasers inside the wall here. Once it is damaged, the consequences will be disastrous!"
"We must send scouts. I can only send people with gray masks, and they cannot wear white masks. Every white mask is an important property of the Black Corpse Team."
And there is no doubt that this will result in heavy casualties!