Counterattack Xiaoxian

The third one is fear. He has never known fear. He is also a little afraid. Fear of the unknown. This is probably the instinct of a living thing!

Tieshu's face was tense, and he pinched his fingers casually, and his skin immediately glowed with a layer of red gold. He paused for a moment, and then began to move in the direction of a smoke column that sometimes disappeared in the far distance.

As he ran, he felt colder and colder, and his emotions were also drifting away. It seemed that all the joy, anger, love and hate were slowly dissipated with the heat, leaving only numbness...

After about half a day, he finally discovered a ruin, and the smoke column was on a high mountain not far behind it. It was an active volcano, with dust and stones falling from time to time, and it was covered in snow for about several kilometers. Among the swirling dust.

The ruins consist of a towering castle and its auxiliary buildings, but now there are no traces of human habitation. Thick volcanic ash has deeply buried most of the buildings, making it impossible to see their original appearance and there is no way to find them.

Tieshu covered his mouth and nose and continued to move forward, climbed to the crater, looked at the hot magma hitting his face, and jumped in without hesitation when there was a break in the eruption.

Less than halfway, he was captured by something like a yo-yo, and was quickly transferred nearly a kilometer through holes one after another. After he stood firm, he found that he had arrived at a stone hall.

He observed that the hall was made of stone bricks, and guessed that this might be the interior of the castle covered in volcanic ash. Then he noticed that there were transparent pipes coiled above the hall, with red magma flowing inside, which provided both heat and energy. lighting.

The hall is high and empty. There are three rows of people standing silently. Each row has about seven or eight people. Most of them have oriental faces. They are wearing uniform gray uniforms and have dull expressions. They seem to be staring at the iron tree and seem to have nothing in mind. look.

The strangest thing is that these people all wear search lights on their heads, but the head of the light is not pointing forward, but hanging down toward their faces.

At this time, a searchlight came on, emitting an orange light. The owner of the searchlight was illuminated by the light and seemed to be alive. His eyes gradually became brighter, and then his face became vivid. He moved his lips slightly and said in Chinese: "Welcome to the Council of Commissioners." Qinglong Shelter is very honored to have Mr. Tieshu, the member of the Qinglong Sanctuary, come to this place of suffering."

This man was about the same age as Tieshu, and looked to be of mixed race. His black hair was thick and thick, but it had no luster and was as dry as thatch.

"Black...Mark?" Tie Shu asked uncertainly.

"You can call me Jersey, you can call me Black Mark, I don't mind. Is the journey going well?"

Every second the man who calls himself "Black Mark" is exposed to the orange light, the color on his face becomes more intense.

Tieshu nodded, and Black Mark signaled for the team to disband, and then led him to an oval stone room with tables and chairs, and maps hanging on the walls, giving it a bit of a command room feel.

The two of them sat down, and Blackmark said a little tiredly: "I like to speak frankly. The shelter is currently in dire need of supplies, and we need your assessment before we can increase the budget. No matter what the council plans, I know that the stepping stone plan was promoted by you. , I believe you don’t want to see a bad situation.”

Tieshu said without any nonsense, "Captain Mark, you need to explain the reason for the sharp increase in consumption."

"The reason I have stated in the report submitted before is that we have made significant progress recently and may have a very good opportunity to get into them."

"Didn't all the groups of personnel you sent out lose contact?"

"NO! It's just temporary. I heard about your situation, and like you, I believe there will be a turn for the better."

"Why?"

"Intuition! My intuition."

Tieshu couldn't help but be a little stunned when he remembered that he had told the council the same thing, but Black Mark took out a pair of headlamps and asked him to bring them with him, saying, "I'll take you to see it."

Black Mark helped turn on the headlight. After being illuminated by the orange light, Tie Shu felt as if his lost soul had returned, and his body felt a little warm.

"You have to know that in the short period of time when the soul lamp was turned on, thousands of dollars were spent. We live on money."

Black Mark walked up the indoor stone steps and arrived at a dome in about half an hour. The dome was covered with a layer of cooled lava material. It was rough and uneven, but as transparent as glass, and he could see what was going on outside.

The outside world was dark, without stars or moon, but not long after, I saw a faint white shadow passing through the sky, and then several more white shadows flew by at different intervals. Once, the white shadow even appeared. hovering low above them.

"We call this thing Magu. It is difficult to find during the day and difficult to deal with. In the beginning, a Magu once killed a small team."

"Of course they also have weaknesses. As long as they don't move or make noise, you won't be discovered in most cases. Moreover, they hate volcanic ash and rarely approach them actively."

Tieshu asked: "Why?"

Blackmark replied: "This still needs to be studied. No harm has been observed from volcanic ash. Maybe they are just disgusting. What I want to say is that what you just saw is very abnormal, and something must have happened."

He added: "You understand what I mean, right? Magu will not conduct concentrated reconnaissance on the gray rock area where the shelter is located for no reason. This must be a chain reaction caused by previous actions. It shows that my people have not completely failed. So action should continue and the budget must be increased."

Tieshu didn't say anything, and looked up at the dome. After a while, another white shadow passed by, looking a bit like a fairy.

At this time, there was a howling of wind, the sound of a strong wind pushing through the crack of the door. If you listen carefully, it should be coming from inside the castle. When Blackmark heard it, he looked happy and said, "There is something new."

They returned to the original stone room, where three people were waiting. They looked haggard as if they had played mahjong for three days and three nights, but they all had their "soul lamps" lit.

Blackmark introduced that these were the three team captains under his command. One of them, a short-haired woman, said: "The sentinels found traces of No. 7. He may be trapped in the P1 area."

Blackmark perked up and said, "When did it happen?"

The short-haired woman said: "Eight hours ago, Blue Star time."

Black Mark walked to the map, looked at it a few times and said, "Is there any mistake? That place is the Zaoyan."

Another young man wearing a single earring said: "If it is true, No. 7 may not last long."

Black Mark made a quick decision: "Well, it's easy to be discovered if there are too many people. You and Lu Dan will come with me to rescue, and Uncle Ya will stay behind."

The man named Uncle Ya was an honest-looking old man. He responded: "I'll ask the logistics team to prepare supplies."

"Wait a minute, prepare one for me, I'll go too." Tieshu, who was watching, suddenly said.