Several off-road vehicles came down from the end of the coastline road and drove to the edge of the forest in Death Ridge. A few engineers jumped out of the car, and they walked around with unknown instruments on their backs. Soon, one of the engineers shouted: "My lord, I found it."
Rein jumped out of the car with a solemn face. This time he didn't drive his bullet locomotive, but took the car from the monitoring station. Pressing the one-handed sword "Arthur" with his hands empty, Rein asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, the signal fed back by the locator in Lieutenant Faro's body is nearby. It's just..." The engineer also looked around suspiciously, seeing that there were dense forests, and there was nothing suspicious about it.
Rein went straight forward, and soldiers jumped out of the car behind him. They were afraid that the second son of the Augustus family would lose track of him and quickly followed, but they didn't know who would take care of whom if something really happened. Rein hadn't walked a few steps when his feet suddenly sank. His face changed slightly, and he felt that the ground under his feet was no longer solid, but floating soil. He crouched down, reaching out and inserting his hands into the ground.
After the palm of the hand passed through the floating soil layer of about ten centimeters, there was a feeling of gravel. Rein snorted, his hands wandered in the sand, and he touched a cold and hard object after a while. He picked it up and pulled out a machine gun. Behind the machine gun, there is still a soldier's corpse clinging tightly. Just like that, half of the corpse emerged from the ground. Rein clapped his hands and stood up, succinctly shouted: "Dig!"
The twenty or so soldiers behind him did not dare to neglect, and immediately raised their machine guns. Without tools, they dug up the floating soil with their own hands, and found corpses in the sand pit. In order to prevent accidents, Rein asked someone to bring a safety rope, tied the soldier's waist with the rope and connected it to the off-road vehicle on the outside. After taking this simple protective measure, a dozen soldiers went deep into the sand and finally found Faro's body.
When the blood cavalry lieutenant's body and the remains of dozens of ordinary soldiers were placed side by side at Rein's feet, he sighed, knowing that he still underestimated those outsiders. Although the lieutenant Faro is an officer outside, he can only be regarded as cannon fodder in the core combat power of the blood cavalry. However, in this kind of wilderness, it is obviously not easy for a lieutenant and a hundred soldiers to be wiped out.
Looking at Lu's injury again, there was a penetrating wound on his chest, but it didn't hit the vital point directly. As an ability user in the combat domain, such injuries were not enough to kill Faro. Rein wiped Faro's face with his slender fingers, and there was a slight cold feeling from the fingertips. Looking at the corpse's whole body, there were signs of freezing. Obviously, Faro's fatal injury was caused by the ice in the element domain. Due to ability.
"Check if there is any quicksand terrain near Death God Ridge?" Rein said.
An engineer immediately searched for information with the brain in his hand, and replied after a while: "My lord, there has never been a quicksand in Death Mountain."
"In other words, it's man-made." Rein looked at the sandy land ahead where Faro and a centurion were buried. Even if the person who killed Faro was not a high-level ability user of the ice system, he must have attainments of at least six or seven levels. In other words, there are at least two guys with high levels of ability among the outsiders. Is this their trump card? Or just Part of it?"
No one could answer Rein's question, and the Ninth Knight did not expect the soldiers to be able to answer his question. He was just sorting out the context of the whole incident in his usual way. Rein's father often used the phrase "the wise go first". It means that wise people can always see farther than others, so they are one step ahead of others. Rein asked himself that although he didn't have the general talent of his elder brother Hart, he was not a fool either. Like Hart, he can't be two or three times ahead in everything, but he can still be one step ahead after estimating the opponent's methods.
From the crash of a patrol car before, to the death of Faro and a team now, it has shown that the opponent's strength is not weak. And to mobilize this level of power, their purpose must not be simple. Rein immediately asked the engineer to bring a tablet brain and called up the nearby topographical map. With Death God Ridge as the boundary, the coastline highway has been cut off if it continues to the south, and the north of this place is the circle of influence of the Dark Council. It is basically certain that if those outsiders want to leave, they will have to go west. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they will take the Death God Ridge, climb over the big crack and enter the southern end of the coastline. But the consequence of doing that is just to test Hart, who has already re-armed in Phoenix City.
These outsiders still haven't revealed their traces until now. It is obvious that they are well-planned and have certain local forces near the coastline as a cover to hide from the parliament's intelligence network. Of course, the number of outsiders will not be large, otherwise, if a large number of people penetrate the defense line, then the parliament might as well close its doors early. In this way, it can be basically confirmed that this foreign force belongs to a team with a small number of people but a large number of elites.
A team like this is best at point breakthroughs.
Rein tapped his fingers on the wilderness between Death God Ridge and Windmill Town. Every time he tapped, a mark would be generated, and each mark represented a hidden sentry point. The distance between each sentry point is about 10 kilometers. From the map, these sentry points are deep and shaped like a big net. Even if it breaks through a certain point, it cannot completely escape the detection range. On the contrary, because the distance between sentinel points is moderate, they can inform each other. One of them is attacked, and the other sentry points can respond immediately, playing the role of containment and delay.
Handing the intelligence brain to the engineer, Rein ordered: "In my name, order the nearby monitoring station to mobilize all soldiers, and arrange manpower deployment according to my arrangement. Let's see, how big is this foreign fish? "
Rein didn't dare to take it too seriously, and immediately contacted the headquarters in Phoenix City, and asked Hart for some capable people from the "Fallen Angels" to come over, preparing to surprise the outsiders.
While the Ninth Knight was busy casting nets for fishing, the big fish far away near the Great Lakes west of Death Ridge hadn't noticed the subtle changes near the coastline.
In the marching tent, after listening to Jin's request, Zero said: "Your sister, the gene has already collapsed. With normal methods, it is basically impossible to prevent this phenomenon from continuing to develop. At most, it will delay the speed of the collapse. .”
Jin's face darkened. For Alice, his mood can only be described as complicated. From the resentment and helplessness when she first learned that Alice had destroyed the town, to being chased and killed by her, and now that Tyre is dead, she has come to the end of her life without any restraint. During this period, I have experienced all kinds of things, and only Jin can understand the taste of it.
He had hated and felt helpless before, until finally he was relieved, and even now he hopes to keep this woman's life. After all, she was the only one who brought her warmth during those dark days. Before Zero came, although Jin had this idea, it was always limited by reality, so it was not strong. But after Zero came, this undoubtedly brought hope to Jin.
Even without the Faro incident, he would have found his chances to be close to zero. The blood knight lieutenant just gave Jin a better reason, but now, what Zero gave him was another disappointment. He didn't blame Ling, nor did he question Ling's refusal to help. Because Zero must know that if Alice can be rescued, then at least Jin will owe him a big favor. This is absolutely beneficial to Zero, and Zero would not say that if it were not the case.
But when Jin was disappointed, Ling said: "However, I have a personal method that I can try, but I'm not sure whether it will be successful, because there is no such precedent."
What Zero thought of was naturally his own DNA memory group. According to the characteristics of the memory group that can generate any life matrix, maybe letting them enter Alice's body might be able to repair the woman's genes that have begun to collapse. Of course, if Alice's life can be saved, Zero will also use the memory group to leave some controllable means in Alice's body.
After all, it's hard to say whether Alice will be an enemy or a friend in the future, and he is not generous enough to rescue a person who may become a major enemy casually, even if Jin may obey him for a while because of this. In turbulent times, one cannot be too careful.
Hearing the turn of the breath, Jin immediately cheered up, and said with joy: "Really? No matter whether it can be successful or not, this is always a hope."
"That's right, but you can also see that I still have things to do here, so I can't help you right away. How about this, we are going back to Asgard tomorrow, you all go with me, and we will talk about it when we go back " Zero said again: "Besides, you seem to have to discuss it with her. To be honest, I don't see any desire to survive in her."
Jin smiled wryly, nodded and said, "This is the biggest problem."
At this time, the sound of cranes working outside the tent, followed by the sound of splashing water. Zero and two people came out of the tent, just in time to see the Liu* boat breaking out of the water under the afternoon light. The streams of water flowing down from the hull reflected the skylight, and the water vapor stirred up on the lake surface slowly dispersed. The water vapor diffused the skylight and formed a gorgeous rainbow bridge on the lake surface, which lasted for a long time.
"God, so you salvaged this kind of thing..." Jin looked at the streamlined spaceship on the lake, and was beyond shocked.
The salvage project has now come to an end. After the sixth ship was pulled ashore, the cleanup work began. This final work involved draining the damaged part of the hull, after which the traction members were installed for the start of transport back to Asgard tomorrow. In the whole plan, the return journey is the most important issue. For this reason, Zero called everyone into the tent at night to study the return route and defense work. Work.
The night was getting dark, and Zero looked at the sixth ship that had already installed the traction components. The spaceship that once carried him out of the abyss of the ground fissure reappeared in front of him after more than two years of absence. And this time, Zero hopes that it can take him to explore more unknown worlds. It seemed that when he and the spaceship met underground for the first time, such a fate was already doomed in the dark, so Zero decided that from today on, this spaceship will be called "Destiny"!