Time February 19, 2175

Witness No. 1, escorted by the "Crow" team, is crossing the Bering Strait. They originally planned to rest for a while in Wales Shelter 3 and then go straight to Chukotka Shelter 1. The planned passage time was 72 hours.

The escorts are all members of the non-governmental armed organization "Crow". The leader is a mysterious man who never takes off his mask. He directs this team of seventeen people to move forward in the long night.

"Beacon" guides their way forward.

There is nothing to see outside the car, but the driver still has to pay full attention, because their snowmobile may hit and freeze various ships on the Bering Strait at any time.

I think about how many people from the New United States tried to cross the Bering Strait to Asia to seek asylum, but most of them either died in shipwrecks or died of hunger and cold later.

"Captain, I heard that we are safe once we cross the Bering Strait." There is a newcomer in the team named Chu Shaorong. He is only nineteen years old this year and is the youngest member of the "Crow" in more than 20 years since its establishment.

The team leader glanced at him and nodded slightly before turning back to his room.

In addition to Shaorong, who was also used to the leader being taciturn, he smiled and sat next to the big brother in the team and said: "Hey, Brother Huan, what do you think the captain looks like?"

The full name of Brother Huan mentioned by Shaorong is Murong Qinghuan. He is a man with an enviably fair and slender face. He has a pair of narrow eyes, very much like a scholar in Kun Opera.

Murong Qinghuan was recalibrating the weapon data when he heard this and said, "I want to know what the captain looks like?"

Zhu Shaorong nodded fiercely: "Yeah, yeah, I'm curious!"

Murong Qing laughed happily: "It's simple. You just need to challenge the captain. No matter what it is, even if you compete with him to eat more, as long as you can win, you can ask him to open the mask."

Zhu Shaorong was stunned for a moment and then said in surprise: "Is there such a rule? Isn't it a little too hasty?"

Murong Qinghuan shrugged: "This is a rule set by the captain himself. Of course... it was not the case at the beginning. The main reason was that our 'Flower of Disaster' set a precedent, so the leader set such a rule."

Speaking of Ling Keli, the flower of disaster, she is the idol besides Shaorong.

His eyes shone brightly and he said: "Oh, that's right! Brother Huan, when we return to China this time, should we go straight to Dongsheng?"

"That's what the plan says."

"Doesn't that mean I can see Sister Keli?"

Murong Qinghuan glanced at Zhu Shaorong in surprise: "You guys can do it, but when will you get close to that woman? I'm warning you, a lot of brothers have died at her hands, so don't be stupid.

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Zhu Shaorong scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "Brother Huan, what are you thinking about? I am Sister Keli's little fanboy, what can I want to do?"

Murong Qinghuan nodded: "That's best."

Except Shaorong, who leaned against the carriage and looked at the uncertain lights, sighing softly: "Unknowingly, I have been staying so far away from my hometown for a year..."

Murong Qinghuan put away the weapon and asked: "Compared to your sister, your treatment is pretty good, right? Where is she now? Has she passed through Mars?"

Except Shaorong's heart tightened when he heard this, his eyes seemed to be able to see through the carriage and see the starry sky under the darkness.

Except for Shaorong's sister who participated in the "Deep Space Watcher" operation three years ago and became the first batch of brave men to try to leave the solar system, it is basically impossible for them to return to Earth, but their voices will always exist

, and provide the human world with the most authoritative deep space travel data in the next century.

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At the back of the carriage, in a separate room guarded by three people, a man wearing handcuffs and shackles was reading a book titled "Mass Amnesia", written by the Chinese writer Fu Cixin.

He stayed with books all day long in the slightly bumpy carriage. Basically, except for sleeping and eating, he read books at other times of the day, and they were all very rare paper books in this era.

This book "Mass Amnesia" is a book that the man has been reading recently. He has read it three times, but he still feels that he can read it a fourth time, because every time he reads it, he seems to have new discoveries and experiences.

When the snowmobile stopped to replace the energy core, the man put down his book. After rubbing his eyes and drinking water, he stood up and knocked on the door. The team member guarding the door stood up and opened the door for him, and then

Two people followed him to the bathroom to wash up and defecate.

The temperature outside has dropped to minus 145 degrees Celsius, and the oxygen content has also dropped a lot compared to the early days of the catastrophe.

In addition to Shaorong and Murong Qinghuan who were responsible for patrolling the periphery of the vehicle, there were four other team members behind them, fifty meters apart from each other.

Inspection work is only to eliminate hidden dangers, and generally speaking, no danger will be encountered.

But the parking area this time is very special, surrounded by ice-covered ships.

They are large and small, with different shapes, like frozen corpses in a cemetery, leaving only dim outlines in the cold wind of the night.

Except for Shaorong who drives a kinetic energy weapon with a built-in sub-morphic fusion core, this big guy does not adopt an ergonomic design like in the Japanese mecha anime, but more like an infantry tank equipped with many weapons and equipment. Of course, the key is here

At any moment, as long as you activate the assault stance with one click, this kinetic energy weapon can still transform into a five-meter-tall steel god of war.

The exoskeleton worn by Murong Qinghuan is the fifth-generation military standard mechanical exoskeleton of the traditional faction. However, the material selected is a special material with extremely high cold resistance and strong thermal insulation ability. It is especially good at handling operations in such extremely cold environments.

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At the same time, considering that the external environment temperature is low enough, both Shaorong's kinetic weapons and Murong Qinghuan's exoskeleton use a very rough external cooling method to reduce the high temperature problem in overload mode.

After patrolling a quarter of a circle counterclockwise around the snowmobile, except for Shaorong who stopped, he detected an extremely suspicious life signal under the nearby ice.

Murong Qinghuan also discovered something unusual.

There are many frozen corpses on the ice in the distance. They kept moving forward when they died, like statues.

Who knows that they died decades ago, but were a group of refugees who recently encountered an accident.

Murong Qinghuan glanced at it and reminded the personnel behind him: "If you find traces of heretics, report them to our team and prepare to evacuate."

The personnel at the rear quickly conveyed the message and quickened their pace to follow.

After the six people gathered together, they formed a triangle and established a defense line in place.

Murong Qinghuan opened his vision of psionic energy, and sure enough, there were some traces on the ice that were like the murder scene recorded by the infrared camera, and there were also some less obvious psionic energy fluctuations scattered on it.

After patting the big guy Shaorong on the head, Murong Qinghuan said: "I'll go to the front to take a look. Please protect me."

Murong Qinghuan nodded and at the same time converted his kinetic weapons into a combat readiness posture.

The five-meter-tall steel behemoth stood up slowly, holding a particle amplitude sword in its left hand, a .75-caliber self-locking weapon in its right hand, and some autonomous defense weapons on its shoulders.

After Murong Qinghuan jumped down, he whistled and walked forward. Behind him, Shaorong fired a flash bomb into the sky. In the blink of an eye, the entire area was illuminated.

Over at the main team, on the snowmobile, the team leader stood above the front of the car and looked at the inspection team 700 meters away, his eyes twinkling.

Witness No. 1, who had just used the toilet, looked at the flares in the distance through the car window and muttered to himself: "They will not sit still and wait for death."

The two "Crow" organization members beside him pushed him without saying a word and scolded him: "Go! Go back to your room!"

The man smiled and didn't care at all how others treated him.

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It is pitch black under the ice. In this ultra-low temperature environment, liquid water almost does not exist.

But there is one thing that can swim in the ice, and that is the "heresy" that Murong Qinghuan mentioned before. The reason why it is called "heresy" is because no scientist in the world today can explain clearly what these things are and why.

Even if they appear, it cannot be determined that they come from the deep space of the extraterrestrial universe. We only know that they can change their existence at will and are extremely dangerous.

Murong Qinghuan reduced the psionic energy detection radius, which can increase the sensitivity and detection depth of psionic energy perception.

There were frozen corpses all around, and Murong Qinghuan had long been accustomed to these. In New American League, he had seen much more corpses than this... Sometimes Murong Qinghuan was thinking, what if "

"The sun" suddenly appeared, and spring blossomed again on the frozen earth. Were the scenes of rotting corpses much more terrifying at that time than now?

Just when Murong Qinghuan was thinking wildly, a subtle movement in the "forest of corpses" in the distance caught Murong Qinghuan's attention.

He turned around without hesitation, raised his gun, and fired!

Everything happens in a blink of an eye, and all operations are done in one go.

The bullet shattered the corpse standing between the target and Murong Qinghuan. Behind the shattered fragments, a cloud of blood mist exploded from the body of a figure who was trying to dodge, and was blown to pieces before he could even scream.

At the same time, except for Shaorong who heard gunshots, the kinetic weapons quickly locked onto the target area and detected a large number of hidden life signal sources.

There is no need to identify friend or foe. In a place like the Bering Strait, except for Shaorong, a member of the "Crow" organization who independently undertakes escort missions, he will not bear any responsibility for his own alert and counterattack.

Therefore, less than three seconds after Murong Qinghuan fired his weapon, Shaorong's side also started suppressing fire.

As a result, flesh and blood flew everywhere in an instant!

Murong Qinghuan was fighting and retreating, holding a shield on his back, and bullets kept exploding on the shield.

Murong Qinghuan's body was under a huge load.

Just as Shaorong was covering Murong Qinghuan's evacuation, three figures leapt down from the giant ship with a height of 20 meters on both sides.

The teammates behind Shaorong were the first to notice the enemy attack and immediately raised their weapons to shoot!

However, in a sneak attack from a height of 20 meters, the kinetic energy weapon driven by Shaorong's teammate was smashed in the head by a heavy hammer just after it was lifted up. After shaking a few times, it fell down.

Except for Shaorong's reaction, which was relatively faster and more reasonable, he controlled the kinetic weapon and pulled it violently backward, finally avoiding the enemy's assassination even though he gave up his left arm.

Another member of the "Crow" team driving a kinetic energy weapon reacted more quickly. He and his cooperators cooperated with each other to not only avoid the attack, but also counterattacked the moment the enemy landed.

In the extremely cold Bering Strait, a fierce battle officially began between two large ferries.

Although the equipment of the "Crow" team is not the best, their cooperation with each other has been honed in actual combat of blood and bones. Therefore, when executing the battle plan, they can deal with it calmly without anyone's command.

Any emergencies.

Even though at this moment, these six people encountered a sneak attack, and one of their own personnel was killed and one injured, they quickly formed an effective counterattack and quickly evacuated in the direction of their own team.

However, at the same time, there was an unsettling light shining under the ice on our team's side.

Team leader 05 of the "Crow" organization glanced at the ice and then looked up into the sky.
To be continued...