At this time, the mountain road where the White Frost Castle team was located.
Howling heat waves accompanied by scorching water vapor erupted upward from the underground abyss, and the terrifying air waves pulled every member of the exploration team.
A Level 5 hunter was carried by the air wave and suddenly lost his balance. He screamed and was pulled into the void outside the mountain path by the air wave and was about to be carried into the air.
Suddenly, the general in the team stretched out his hand, grabbed his collar, and pulled him back.
But half of his body was burned by the heat and moisture, his skin turned red and blisters appeared, and he screamed in pain.
This water vapor eruption lasted for more than ten seconds before it subsided.
The general immediately put the hunter on the ground and shouted, "Quick, take off his armor and clothes, and get the medicine!"
They handled it promptly, but even so, there was still a piece of skin on the hunter's chest and thigh that was stuck to the clothes. The general had no choice but to tear it off along with the clothes, and the hunter fainted from the pain.
After applying medicine and bandaging the wound, the hunter was still not out of danger.
The general called a colonel of rank 6 and asked him to take the injured back to the base vehicle.
Seeing this scene in the base vehicle and conference room, Lin Jianping became more and more certain that only elite teams could be dispatched to explore the royal capital.
Ordinary soldiers would be killed if they went there.
With the airflow just now, ordinary soldiers were unable to stabilize their bodies and were blown away in an instant.
Even if they are not carried away by the air flow, if they are accidentally hit by the hot air, they will either be seriously injured or die on the spot.
What's more, when we look at the picture now, we only know that the airflow is extremely hot, and God knows whether there are toxins in it.
the other side.
On the mountain path, after treating the wounded, the general led the rest of the people to quicken their pace and explore downwards.
During this period, another hot gas eruption occurred.
The interval is about one and a half hours.
Finally, the exploration team reached the vicinity of the royal capital.
It's very hot here.
The temperature has reached about 50 degrees and everyone's forehead is sweating.
The high temperature comes from a magma river below, which flows quietly but emits astonishingly high heat.
It made the abyss, which stretched for who knows how many kilometers, emit red light, and also made the royal capital in the distance painted with a layer of blood-red color.
The distance was close enough that one could see with the naked eye that the walls of the royal capital were unusually tall and majestic.
Measurements made through instruments revealed that the wall was 27 meters high.
The high wall seemed to be built with bones. Looking around, every section of the wall was filled with the skeletons of a large number of creatures.
Among them, the spine and sternum are the largest in number, followed by the skull, and then various broken bones.
They were illuminated red by the light of the river of magma, as if every inch of the walls was covered in blood.
Moreover, the entire Skeleton Wall was filled with a gray haze that floated around, and it seemed that even the royal city had been occupied by them.
Above the Skeleton King City, there is a plant that looks like a mushroom at regular intervals.
Those things have thick roots and wide handles. I don't know what they are used for.
The general of White Frost Castle wiped his sweat and said in a deep voice, "Rest here and replenish water. We will go deep into the royal city in 20 minutes."
The team members nodded silently and found a relatively cool corner. They ate quietly and replenished water.
Eating took 10 minutes.
For the next 10 minutes, they closed their eyes and took a nap.
When the time came, they opened their eyes one by one.
Eyes, check your weapons, and prepare to set off.
"Are you ready?" The general glanced at his troops.
The team members all nodded, and the general said, "Okay, let's go."
They explored forward, and as they moved forward, the mountain path became wider and wider, until finally, the mountain path merged with the platform supporting the royal capital.
Although due to the angle, the exploration team could only see a limited corner of the royal city, it still gave people a very grand feeling.
As the city wall came into sight, the general raised his hand and said, "Stop."
"Kurt, take some smog sample and analyze its composition." The general was worried that the smog was poisonous.
In the adverse world, you can never be too careful.
The person who was called was also a hunter. He swiftly took out a gas mask and put it on, then took out an instrument that looked like a gun.
The hunter named Kurt walked alone to the vicinity of the haze, extracted a unit of mist with the gun-shaped instrument in his hand, and then returned, analyzing the mist inside.
Soon, a list of the composition of the gas came out.
Kurt took a look and said with a tingling scalp: "The fog is poisonous."
"There are many types of toxins, and one type of toxin accounts for a larger proportion."
"This toxin can make our blood coagulation function ineffective, etc... God, there is something in the fog."
"It's a living thing!"
In the base vehicle, everyone in the conference room stood up when they heard this.
Soon, a set of pictures appeared on the screen.
This is the enlarged image.
In the picture, you can see a worm-like thing wriggling. The worm has a slender, translucent body, and some tiny spots on its head form the pattern of a human skull.
There are two curved hooks at the tail and the body is covered with fine hairs.
The voice of General White Frost Castle came from the screen: "We found that there are insects floating in the fog that are difficult to see with the naked eye. If you rashly enter the fog, you may encounter unexpected events."
"The size of these insects is so small that only closed full-body protective suits can prevent them from coming into contact with the human body. We don't know what the hazards of these things are at present."
"What we know now is that they should secrete toxins and leave them in the air."
"I plan to use a hover camera to go deeper into the capital. If there is fog inside, we may have to turn back."
Lin Jianping nodded: "Okay, General Dai Lin, be careful and don't force it."
"OK."
Outside the royal city, after obtaining the consent of the expeditionary commander, General Dai Lin asked Kurt to control the hover camera and let it enter the fog.
Soon, the hover camera went deep into the fog and arrived at the city wall.
It flew upwards, sliding along the wall made of the bones of many creatures, and after a while, it arrived on top of the city wall.
The camera passed over the city wall and entered the interior of the royal city.
Through the real-time images transmitted back by the camera, General Dai Lin and Tian Yang and others who were far away in the base vehicle could clearly see that the huge towering buildings in the royal city were all built with flesh, blood and bones.
The entire royal city was unusually quiet, with no signs of illegal activities.
Through the camera, people also saw that the thick fog covering the city wall did not spread into the interior of the royal capital. It silently rolled around the city wall and the edge of the royal capital, forming a line of defense.
Seeing this, Dai Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
If it only covers the city walls and the peripheral areas, he still has a way to deal with it.
Then the hunter controlled the camera to return.
The strange insects in the mist seemed to have no interest in the cold instrument with no living creatures on it. They neither attacked it nor attached themselves to it.
After recovering the camera, General Dai Lin called a colonel and said, "Morgan, build us a bridge."
As a rank 6 'Apostle of the Earth', the colonel knew exactly what he could do. He laughed dryly, squatted down, and pressed his hands on the ground.
The star essence is transformed into elemental energy and continuously injected into the earth.
The ground began to shake, and suddenly, a large rock layer lifted up the White Frost Castle team. The rock layer continued to rise, slanting across the fog covering the city wall and probing into the interior of the royal capital.
At this moment, the gray fog that had been quietly pervading began to boil.
Those strange insects floating in the air locked onto their target. They squirmed in the air, quickly swam into the air, and gathered towards the White Frost Castle team.
General Dai Lin yelled, "Get out of here!"
The general's fighting spirit exploded, forming a circle of air waves that spread in all directions.
Wherever the air wave went, the fog dissipated, and the strange insects in the air burned up and fell to the ground.
Dai Lin exploded three times, each time preventing the gathering gray fog from getting close. At this time, the stone bridge had crossed the city wall, passed the foggy area, and arrived at the fog-free area.
"Go down!" Dai Lin shouted.
One by one, the team members jumped down. The height of more than thirty meters was not a problem for them.
Finally, Dai Lin carried the Elemental Heart Colonel, jumped off the stone bridge, and landed on the ground.
Looking back, although the gray fog was boiling, it showed no sign of spreading into the inner part of the capital.
When he landed on the ground, Dai Lin discovered that the ground under his feet was not a rock layer, but a dark red hard crusty substance.
Add to that the flesh-and-blood buildings in the capital, and Dai Lin frowned: "It's like walking in the corpse of some giant monster."
Fortunately, although the environment looked terrible, there was no smell of decay or corpse in the air.
There was no smell in the air.
Next, if following the normal process, the exploration team should first explore an area, find suitable buildings, and set up a camp to prepare for the arrival of other exploration teams.
However, looking at the buildings made of flesh, blood and bones everywhere, even Dai Lin was unwilling to enter any of them. He just wanted to go deeper and find out as much as possible about the general situation of this "Flesh and Blood King City", and then returned to the base vehicle.
Therefore, after giving a brief report to Lin Jianping, he led his team forward.
They easily found a wide road and followed it deep into the royal city. After a while, they saw a huge platform.
There is an imposing palace on the high platform.
"Let's go up and take a look."
Dai Lin was the first to step onto the first step. The main body of the step was gray-white bones with hardened flesh and blood attached to it.
From time to time, complete skeletons of unknown creatures can be seen on the steps. It seems that when these creatures were still alive, they were buried directly in the steps and left to die and decay.
Affected by the atmosphere of the royal capital, the exploration team members did not communicate at all. They concentrated on their journey in the dead silence, just wanting to complete the task quickly and leave this depressing place.
In a blink of an eye, the top of the platform came into view.
But at this moment, Dai Lin suddenly stopped, because he saw two tall figures embedded in the wall on both sides of the gate of the palace on the top of the platform!