Two days after the fall of Remut, the lives of the citizens of Flaming Eye remained the same. During the hot day, there was no one in the town in the morning. At noon, the street gradually became lively. Most of the people went to work in factories and outside the town, and a small number stayed at home, mainly the elderly and children who had no labor force.
And at night, the eyes of the flames will usher in the real lively time of the day. Alan's tavern had an accident a few days ago, and it is still under reconstruction. For this reason, many people laughed at Alan as an iron cock, and would rather spend money on women's stomachs than repair their broken tavern.
It's not just Allen's tavern on the Eye of Flame, but another "good old man" tavern opened in a remote place to the west of the town. It's just that the old Hawk who runs the tavern has a bad temper, and the wine he brews is bitter and hard, so few people patronize him on weekdays. Now that Alan's tavern can't be visited for the time being, the men in the town have nowhere to go, so they naturally flock to this old and old tavern.
Nostalgic music is playing in the tavern, and the lights are not as lively as the Flame Bar, let alone the dancers dancing spicy dances. Large stretches of cobwebs can be seen everywhere in the corners of the tavern, and the wine tables or chairs have been old for some years, and they would shake from time to time when placed on the calm ground, making the beer in the stained wine glasses wobble.
Even though the conditions of the tavern were so poor, the place was packed with people in the past two nights. People sat around the table and threw themselves into the chairs. The candles on the table flickered the light and shadow on their faces, making people seem to have returned to the old days.
The Flame Bar is blazing, making people burn with all their enthusiasm. But the good old man here is nostalgic, people can remember those lost things under the dim light, whether it is beautiful or sad.
In the east corner of the tavern, a man sat alone. He was facing the bar, on which were scattered bullets and a bottle of old Hawke's wine that had been stashed in the cellar for some years. It was almost the best thing in the tavern, so many men smacked their mouths looking at the slightly purple-black halo of red wine, but no one dared to step forward to ask for a bosom.
Because they know that the man sitting there is something they can't afford to provoke. This man and six or seven capable users became the personal guards of Tiesen Company not long ago. In the small place of Flaming Eye, there is rarely a single capable person on weekdays, but now there are nearly eight people pouring in at once, and people are not only guessing whether Tie Sen Company will make any big moves next.
Naturally, the citizens of Blazing Eye couldn't tell the strength and the number of abilities of these ability users. As long as they know that any ability user can raze the town to the ground, this is enough for them to subconsciously stay away from the man sitting at the bar.
Zero doesn't mind being isolated, the group of ability users is incompatible with most ordinary people. Although they are considered to be the same race, from a genetic point of view, ability users are creatures that are gradually moving away from the human race. While people are afraid of capable people, they also learn to stay away from them, lest when a certain capable person gets out of control, they will be drawn into the vortex of death.
He drank wine alone, and relaxed in zero safety after doing nothing in the eyes of the flames these days. He didn't do his own training every day like a few people. In the past few days, except for participating in the combat meeting between the three captains, the rest of the time was almost either sleeping or resting. In Feng's words, it's just eating and waiting to die.
Zero has no objection to this. He knew very well that the next trip to Jotunheim would definitely not be easy. A qualified fighter must not only exercise his combat skills frequently, but also know how to rest.
What Zero is doing now is to relax the tight spring in his heart, so that when needed, it will become stronger and adapt to greater pressure.
It's just that from an outsider's point of view, this seems to be more of an excuse for laziness.
Just as he poured himself a small cup of red wine, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a tall woman walked in.
It is vegetarian.
She still wears the night god's tactical uniform, but now has a long coat over it. When the hem of the long gown flutters, it will always set off the graceful curves under the gown, making the gazes falling on Su's body more intense.
With the continuous improvement of abilities, while the genes are evolving, they will also complement and transform the physical defects of the capable person. Therefore, in the world of ability users, women are all hot and good-looking; while men are physically strong, handsome and mighty. Although everyone's shape is different, in general, they are all evolving towards the goal of "perfect".
For example, when Zero first met her, she had a hotter figure. But the skin is rougher and looks more ordinary. And now Su is already a sixth-order Berserker, the improvement of her ability has made her figure completely show the golden ratio, and at the same time, Su's skin has become smooth and elastic, and the original ordinary appearance has also been improved on this basis. Change.
The part that has changed is not obvious. If you compare Zero with her first meeting and the current appearance, you will find that her current changes are just a little bit upturned nose, a little longer eyebrows, and brighter eyes. And the lips are slightly thicker. But these subtle changes, through the cooperation of the five sense organs, are beautiful enough to turn all the men in this tavern into beasts.
Now these men are still sitting in their positions, firstly, Su is heading towards Zero, and secondly, they know that Su is also a capable person.
Su sat down next to Ling, no one dared to sit next to Ling anyway, he was sitting alone at the whole bar, Su had enough space.
"Won't you buy me a drink?" Su Chaoling pouted at the bottle of red wine next to him.
Ling smiled and shook her head, asked the bartender for a drink, then poured it for Su, and pushed it to her: "You came here on purpose, maybe just to drink the bar."
Su gulped it down in one gulp, with a few drops of wine on his lips at the end. Her lips parted slightly, Lilac's little tongue swiped them clean. These movements are full of charm, and even Zero is slightly surprised, and it takes a moment to recover.
"Captain Agatha asked me to inform you that we have to prepare. There has been news from Jotunheim that they will come to collect the goods tonight." Su said casually.
Zero's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded, "They're finally here."
Jotunheim and Tiesen Company have a set of contact methods known to guides. It is an energy spar given to Tiesen by the creator, which can play a role similar to elemental communication. But the communication is one-sided. The communication spar placed on Tiesen's bed will only be notified to Tiesen in advance through the communication spar when Jotunheim's side comes to receive the goods every month.
Just 10 minutes ago, Agatha received a communication signal, asking a successor of the Tiesen family under her control to let the factory start preparing goods, and at the same time, she also asked the Sulai Tavern to give change to prepare for the upcoming operation. Prepare.
According to Tiesen's memory, Zero and the others knew that Jotunheim would come with some mammoth-sized corpse beasts every time they delivered. Sulfur and thermal batteries will be sorted and placed in containers. After being checked and accepted by orderlies with certain intelligence, the goods will be loaded onto trucks and then pulled away by Jotunheim's corpse beasts.
To do this, they devised a plan.
This operation will be participated by zero and their eight ability users, and the servants and thunder guards will stay in the eyes of the flames. The fewer people traveling to Jotunheim, the harder it is to be detected. What's more, if you go deep into the corpse country, the strength of both the servants and the thunder guards can be ignored. After all, their task was not to destroy Jotunheim, and even if they were, bringing servants would be of little use.
After Jotunheim's living corpses arrive, Zero and the others will prepare an extra container. After the living corpses have inspected the goods, Zero Eight will hide in this container, and then the servants pretending to be workers will transport the container to the truck. On the way, Agatha will activate a "perception blocking" ability. The basic ability of this perception domain is not very useful for high-level or even ability users of the same level, but it is enough to fool the living corpses accompanying the car.
The general direction of the whole plan is determined by Zero, while the details of the plan are supplemented by Agatha. As for Berrien, who admired the aesthetics of violence, he hadn't taken any courses related to strategy at all.
Of course, no plan is perfect. In the eyes of the planner, no matter how perfect the plan is, there may be variables. What Zero envisions is only the most feasible plan. As for the variables, it can only adapt to the situation.
After drinking the last drop of red wine in the bottle, he paid zero for the wine and left with Su Yang.
Two hours later, two long sirens and one short siren sounded above the Eye of Flame, which was a signal that Jotunheim's living corpses were about to enter the city. The siren is heard and the good old man's bar closes early. The drinkers left one after another, and returned to their homes like the pedestrians on the street, and carefully closed the doors and windows. Curious children will be taken from the window by their parents. The crowd of the living dead is not a pleasing picture. No parent wants their children to stay awake at night after seeing those horrific dead people.
In Tiesen's villa, Ling who heard the siren came to the window. Looking through the window on the fourth floor to the outskirts of Eye of Flame, a gray torrent is rolling in. Appearing in front of the torrent are four mammoth-like monsters. Their appearance is very similar to mammoths, but they are hairless all over, and their bodies are damaged in many places, and the tissues under the flesh can be seen. The pipe groove connects the head and chest and abdomen, and bursts of green light flow in the pipe groove, which is mysterious and weird.
This is a giant war beast that transports supplies in Jotunheim, and it is not good at attacking itself. They are good at attacking, and the guards are a dozen black corpse wolves on both sides of the torrent. Their body shape is similar to that of a Fenli wolf, and they are hairless like a living corpse mammoth. Their black flesh is rotten in many places, and their blood red eyes are constantly shining with crystal light. Their four claws are constantly overflowing with red halos, and they will leave streaks of light in the air as they move around, which is obviously not just for decoration. When the corpse wolf walks around, it will occasionally open its mouth and exhale. There are patches of red foehn in the breath, no accident, it should be the main attack method of this corpse wolf.
In addition, the rest of the team were ordinary living corpses. There were nearly a hundred of them, and they followed the torrent of death and poured into the eyes of the flames.
Both the mammoth and the corpse wolf are new weapons that Zero and the others have never seen before. After seeing them, neither Zero nor Agatha's eyes can be called relaxed. Judging from this, Jotunheim's biological weapons should be more than these.
The torrent of death drove into the small town, and arrived at the loading and unloading place of the Tiesen factory with ease. In the team, a messenger came out. It looks like other living corpses
There is no difference in appearance, but it can use human language like the creator. After the messenger skillfully had a brief conversation with the company's supervisor in charge, he went to inspect each of the containers that had already been loaded.
While the messenger was inspecting the goods, a few people who left the villa and came to the factory entered through the back door of the warehouse, and quickly got into an empty container that had been prepared. Some goods had been packed in front of the container for cover-up purposes. Zero and his entourage quickly got into the space behind the goods. When Agatha set up "perception blocking" around the container, the container was completely sealed.
In the pitch-black cargo box, a faint yellow fluorescent light lit up after a while. The light came from the fluorescent sticks in the hands of Feng and Johnny, and several fluorescent sticks were stacked and placed at the bottom of the box to act as lighting. After doing all this, the container shook for a while, but the factory started loading.
Agatha sat cross-legged on the ground, with a portable brain in her hand. After Agatha entered several commands one after another, several hidden cameras installed outside the container were connected to the brain. The cargo box that hides the eight capable users of Asgard is placed at the bottom under the intentional dispatch of the servants, so that everyone in the box can observe the external environment conveniently.
After a moment of information connection, several windows opened on the screen of Zhinao. Through these windows, the information of the external environment can be seen at a glance.
After the cargo was loaded, the living corpses connected the twelve-wheeled pallet truck with iron and mammoth. Each mammoth grabbed a cart full of goods and slowly drove out of the factory. As soon as they moved, a dozen black wolves immediately dispersed to act as guards. Ordinary living corpses are still in the rear, their work is not only a hard labor when loading and unloading goods, but also one of the guards on the vehicle.
Just like that, the torrent of death left the Eye of Flame. After they left, the residents of the town breathed a sigh of relief, and the town became lively again.
The journey was unexpectedly long.
After leaving the Eye of Flame, the torrent of death left the scorching valley where the town was located after a day's trek. Beyond the valley was a flat plain, like most of the wilderness along the coast, but wilder here. From the camera installed on the outside of the container, there are only occasional low trees on this plain, but no signs of ruins or even electric towers.
Although the plain is desolate, it does not mean that it has no life. On the contrary, the plains are full of mutated plants, and the mutated cattle that appear from time to time are frequent visitors to the plains. They swept the weeds on the plains all the way. These herbivores, even though their genes have mutated, still eat weeds. And wherever the mutated cows go, they will always see corpses of wolves haunting in groups, and the occasional single person in the herd will become a delicacy in their stomachs.
In addition, sharp pigs, ground burrowing rats, double-headed eagles, and steel horned leopards appeared from time to time, embellishing the vitality of this plain.
At the end of the plain, there is another towering mountain. The mountain is steep, and its shape is like a knife, piercing straight into the radiation clouds of the sky. The base of the mountain is as wide as many kilometers, and there is no end to the north and south when viewed from left to right. There are dense forests at the bottom of the mountain, but the trees become rarer as you go up. On the halfway up the mountain, there is a yellow-brown mountain. To the mountains close to the radiant clouds, there is already a snow line. Above the snow line, the snow is white and extends into the clouds.
On the sixth day after leaving the Eye of Flame, the supplies team began to cross the plain. This was the result of the living corpses not knowing how tired they were and being able to travel day and night, otherwise it would have taken a few more days of work. The team entered again from a certain part of the high mountain in front of them, and went up along the rugged mountain road. Two days later, the team entered the world inside the clouds. Seen from the camera, the whole world is beautiful.
The freezing wind mixed with ice chips whizzed and flew, and there were shocking lightning flashes from time to time, and it ran thousands of miles in an instant. In this cloud world, there is almost no protruding part of the mountain. Anything that was too sharp had been ground away by the strong wind, leaving only flat and bare stones. In this cruel environment, there is no room for a little fragility, so the remaining rocks are all as hard as steel, otherwise they would have been wiped away by the cold wind and freezing air.
Even for a tireless living corpse, walking in such an environment is very hard. In the clouds with howling winds, only war giants like mammoths can walk against the wind. And the black wolf who was acting as the guard had to lower his body and crawl forward by taking advantage of the ups and downs of the mountain to block the wind. As for the other living corpses, they were blown upside down and walked among the clouds on the top of the mountain for two days. When they left this life-forbidden land, at least twenty living corpses and two black wolves stayed on the mountain forever, becoming those icy corpses. Ornament of the world.
It took another two days to leave the mountain. Calculated in this way, it has been thirteen days since Zero and the others left the Eye of Flame, half a month, whether it is short or long, but Zero and the others have already left the coastline for tens of thousands of kilometers. After staying in the container for so many days, even Feng, who talked the most, became silent, while Berrien became irritable.
Fortunately, three days later, the team bypassed a vast radiation lake, and after entering a forest behind the lake, they finally arrived at their destination.
Jotunheim, the kingdom of living corpses is located in this vast primeval forest. The hinterland of the forest was cleared out of an open space about ten kilometers wide, and Jotunheim was built on this open space. On the screen of Agatha's brain, due to the viewing angle, the sights that the zero-level people can see are very limited. But no matter what angle you look at, you probably can't miss a tall square dust pillar standing in the middle of Jotunheim.
The Fangchen Column is made of blood-red rock, the entire column is dark red, and there are thick black lines all over the column body. In these lines, a dazzling red light sometimes flashes, but I don't know what it is for. I don't know what else was built on the giant pillar. I saw occasional streamers blasting from the top of the giant pillar to the sky, and then exploded like fireworks, bright and bright.
When everyone's minds were attracted by the obelisk in the middle of Jotunheim, Zero suddenly felt a chill behind him. The chill came from bottom to top, instantly swept across his spine and went straight to the back of his head, and the fragments of hair immediately rose slightly, and each root stood upside down.
A huge danger looms in the air!