Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

The strong cyclone shattered the ice, and the aircraft slowly landed behind a wind-blown snow mound. The engine was turned off, and Nicholas continued to look at the snow scene outside the porthole with a calm expression. In the cage not far behind him, the zombie Lola was still It hit the railing one by one.

The cabin was warm and dry, and after a while, a layer of mist formed on the glass.

Jessica was standing one meter behind the pope, holding a medicine bottle and warm water in her hand, looking at his back with worry, and was about to persuade him to take the medicine and rest for a while, but she also heard Nicholas say: "How far is it from the Antarctic base?"

"The straight-line distance is 137.5 kilometers, just out of the monitoring range of the base." Jessica couldn't figure out the purpose of Nichols' question, but she still gave the answer respectfully.

Withdrawing his gaze, Nicholas sat upright, closed his eyes and remained silent for a few seconds, then sighed suddenly, and said softly, "It's already so far——"

Jessica was slightly taken aback, "What did you say?"

"Me and Congxi," Nicholas said indifferently, and turned his head to look at her after speaking, "Can't we really get closer?"

That kind of tone was like a child asking for parental consent. The boy in front of her was sickly and thin, and Jessica felt uncomfortable for a while. She avoided the other party's request and just said, "My lord pope, take the medicine. Alright."

Nicholas nodded slowly, and took the medicine bottle in Jessica's hand. The translucent glass bottle lay in the palm of his hand, and the label on the bottle had instructions for taking the medicine written by a new man.

"Go and open the sunroof."

"Yes," Jessica saw that the Pope was just staring at the bottle in a daze, and couldn't help reminding, "Father specially ordered you to take this medicine, so you must take it."

Nicklus gave a absent-minded hum, and Jessica turned back to the main control room.

After the CNC door was closed, Nicholas quickly screwed on the cap of the bottle and poured the pills into his pocket, then picked up the teacup and took a shallow sip of warm water.

At this moment, the alloy skylight on the top of the aircraft opened, and the airflow blew away the snowflakes on the surface of the glass. Nicklus raised his head with great effort, his eyes passed through the square window, and in an instant, thousands of bright sparks fell into the world, falling into the sky. The bottom of the silver-gray pupils of the young man faintly swayed like water.

"You promised to accompany me next time—"

"In the end, I missed the appointment..."

When Jessica returned to the cabin, she saw Nicholas burying her head in drinking water, with her head lowered and her shoulders trembling slightly. She took another look at the empty medicine bottle on the table and breathed a sigh of relief.

Without looking up, Nichols asked hoarsely, "Where did Angel go?"

"Father put him in charge of vigilance, he should be near the aircraft."

"You all go," said Nicholas. "It's no use guarding a dead man. Go and help him."

Jessica was a little embarrassed, "Father wants us...to stay with you."

"He just wants to make himself feel at ease," Nicholas curled his mouth with a wry smile, glanced lightly at Laura in the cage from the corner of his eye, and said lightly, "Forget it, it's fine if you stay. I feed Laura, and no one will take care of her in the future, at least she will have a good meal in the end."

"Pope, you—"

Nicklus raised his hand to stop, "It's okay, just do as I say."

Jessica didn't speak, and Nicholas didn't care about her. He stood up to get a pair of divination cards on the table, and said to himself, "I've never given a fortune to Congxi's child, and now I'm suddenly curious... ..."

Skinny fingers caressed the cards, thumbs flipped, and the 78 cards rattled along with the skillful shuffling movements of Niklus——

"He came to the world with a certain purpose. There are good and evil in his soul. He has experienced more than one death. In fact, I can probably guess the content behind the card, but—" the low voice of the narrative suddenly After that, Nicholas twisted out a card and flipped it over gently.

Jessica looked over suspiciously.

"I want to verify it myself."

——No.13th month in the ancient calendar symbolizes death and rebirth. The undead in armor rides a white horse, and the people behind him are either dead or fighting fearlessly.

The gloomy face of the card makes it the most misunderstood divination card, but Nicholas seemed to have sensed it, and said with a chuckle: "Death card, his death will be a turning point for everything."

Jessica took a deep breath, looked at Nicholas in disbelief, and said hesitantly, "You mean... the young master... will die?"

"I'm not sure if this kind of death refers to what has already happened or is about to happen." Nicholas adjusted the back of the seat to a comfortable angle, wrapped the blanket tightly, and looked at the night sky calmly, "Cong Xi said This is the best place to see the aurora?"

Jessica said, "Yes, Father said so."

"Turn off the lights," said Nicholas, "sit down too, and wait together."

"Yes……"

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A winter rain in the Australian mainland has no intention of stopping at all. The foundations of Sydney are sinking, the fire breaks through the sky in the rain, thick smoke is billowing, and the sound of explosions is heard from afar, mixed with the smell of burnt man-made bodies, drifting along the coastline for a long time. Far.

Due to the fact that Nofiler can monitor the subordinate bases of the 'Innovation Organization' through the system, it is obviously not a smart choice to use the aircraft of the Sydney base to go to the Antarctic. They had to swim back to the beach and make another plan.

The temperature in winter in Australia is not too cold, but the combat uniform is completely soaked in sea water, wrapping his body like a heavy iron sheet. Bai Yi rests his hands on his knees, panting slightly. It takes only a few hours to change back to his original body, even though it is over. The mutant devours, but the transformation of body functions has not been completed, and it is inevitable that some physical strength will be exhausted after a lot of tossing.

"How are you?" Bai Yi took a breath, and asked while looking back.

Except for their clothes being soaked and slightly embarrassed, the other three guys seemed to be okay. Silvison had already started contacting Snow and the others. Conrad pointed his sword at Su Chen, and that bastard Su Chen even leisurely pointed the toe of his boot. Bullying a hermit crab...

Yes, three non-human perverts, what can Nima do?Bai Yi wiped the seawater off his face depressedly, and changed his words: "What are your plans now?"

"Snow's aircraft is coming, let's wait for a while, and fly to the Antarctic continent first," Silvison put down the communicator, looked up at Bai Yi, walked over and pressed Bai Yi directly into his arms, letting him Leaning on his shoulders to rest, he said, "You pay attention to conserving your strength."

Bai Yi had a worried expression, lowered his eyes, and said in a low voice: "It takes at least two hours to fly to Antarctica here, I'm afraid..."

Before he finished speaking, Silvison understood what he was referring to, and was about to speak when Su Chen, who had his back to the two of them, suddenly said, "Don't worry, Nofell will not kill Father, but will kill Father instead." Protect it well."

The two were startled at the same time, and looked over suspiciously. Conrad grabbed Su Chen's throat with his sword, and said coldly, "What do you mean?"

"The only way to destroy the D virus is to destroy the genetic code. The reason why the alliance has been unable to develop antibodies is precisely because the D virus mutates quickly, and Father has done what the alliance's waste can't do—" Su Chen didn't mind resisting at all. The sharp blade on the side of the neck, but bent down to hold the hermit crab in the palm of his hand.

Bai Yi came to his senses suddenly, "Does he have antibodies?"

"It's not just antibodies." Su Chen turned around, looked at Silvison and Conrad slyly in turn, and finally landed on Bai Yi, and said, "You should have heard that he is also a mutant, right? "

Hearing this, Bai Yi recalled what Bai Congxi said on the night of the Creation Day, and nodded with a complicated expression. Su Chen continued: "The fighting ability of the tenth-level mutant is not outstanding. His characteristic is that he has nine kinds of D viruses. To put it simply, if Father dies, we will all die. The genetic code of the D virus will collapse, and there will be no new infections. Existing zombies will be slowly metabolized by nature. Hundreds of years later, The world will go back to how it was before.”

"Healing is always a relatively slow process, and this is the salvation that has been brewing in his heart for a long time."

"Nofiler naturally doesn't care whether the world will return to its original origin, but he cares about Bye's body..."

Silvison looked at him strangely and said, "These should be the most important secrets. I'm afraid even Nicholas doesn't know about them. How could Father tell you?"

"Of course he will tell me," Su Chen said with a smile, "He still trusted me when I was at the base, tsk tsk, it's a pity—"

It was too late to say the unfinished content, and the fierce fist approached the side of his face. Su Chen only felt his whole head slamming, and then the world spun, and the back of his head hit the sand. The sore surface on the inner wall was broken by teeth, the eyelashes were raised, and those eyes that were always smiling provocatively faced Bai Yi's gloomy face.

"You betrayed him," the clasped joints creaked, Bai Yi's calf pressed against Su Chen's abdomen, pressed down hard as if venting his anger, and interrogated each word: "Why did you betray him?"

"hiss--"

The result of devouring the mutant has been revealed, and the force on the abdomen is extremely terrifying. Su Chen opened his mouth and choked out a mouthful of blood foam, and raised his jaw slightly, but he didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, but stared at the other person's eyes with a frivolous voice The hooligan smiled and said, "I want to live. I long to become a human being. I will work for anyone who can meet this requirement. What do you think of this reason?"

"Su Chen—!" Idle's right hand clenched into a fist, trembling with great force, Bai Yi crushed the name between his clenched teeth, and punched the sand on the side of the opponent's face with his last punch inside.

Gray rain fell from the sky, crackling and falling on Su Chen's face, he raised his eyes to look at the layers of cumulonimbus clouds, whistled for a long time, and said as if talking to himself: "Why do you blame me? "

"In the end, I'm just a special case of Father's research products. If I escape, I will escape. On the contrary, it's you, Bye. Isn't your idea of ​​killing him also a kind of betrayal?"

Bai Yi maintained this threatening posture, bit by bit his lower lip tightened.

"How about it, Bye, do you really want to kill me?"

"I won't." Bai Yi said.

Su Chen was startled for a moment, then showed a clear expression, and said with a smile: "It is indeed more beneficial for you to keep me. If you want to go to the Antarctic base of the 'Innovator', it is better to have someone lead the way—"

"No," Bai Yi let go of the other party's neckline, stood up, glanced coldly at Su Chen, who was full of confusion, and said, "If Hill nods, I will kill you without hesitation, but it's a pity in his heart , and you, Su Chen, I really can't figure it out, what good does it do you to provoke me?"

"Do you want to live or die?"

The smiles in Su Chen's eyes narrowed, his eyes were calm, as if he was thinking, and after a few seconds of silence, he said: "A long time ago, I really wanted to live. I inherited the thoughts of every failed eighth-level mutant. I Don't want to be abandoned by Father like them—”

"But now, I don't know exactly what I want."

"Because Shelley's death is related to the teacher?" Silvison, who had been silent all this time, stretched out his hand to Su Chen, and said slowly, "So, are you wavering this time?"

Su Chen held Silverson's palm back, stood up with strength, ignored the other party's question, but changed his words and said: "Ian is on our aircraft, and Brook happened to meet him when he left the alliance's foreign base. So we can only bring it together.”

"You took Ian hostage?" Bai Yi asked back.

"It was originally like this, but now I'm not sure," Su Chen raised the corner of his mouth cunningly, "If that kid was smart enough, he wouldn't have gone to the base with Brooke. I'm afraid he is already far away."

Half an hour later, the aircraft arrived, and the four of them each put on a set of clean combat uniforms. Without taking a break, they gathered in the cabin to summarize the situation mastered by all parties.

Antarctica is nearly 3000 kilometers away from Australia, and it takes more than two hours to fly in a straight line. The center of the combat platform presents a holographic image of the entire Antarctic continent. According to the coordinates provided by Su Chen, the base entrance is located in a naturally formed glacier gap.

During the whole meeting, Bai Yi was deliberately observing Su Chen's actions. Although this guy directly mentioned the entrance of the Antarctic base, he didn't say a word about the division of his own camp. happily drinking a glass of blood.

Bai Yi really couldn't figure out what was going on in his mind, the more calm the other party was, the more uneasy he felt.

"The satellites of the alliance cannot capture the situation of the Antarctic subsurface. I am afraid that we must go deep before we can use the terminal to dynamically analyze the base model."

Snow raised his head from the light brain, with a complicated expression on his brows.

Silverson saw the clues of his subordinates and asked, "What's the problem?"

"The inability of the satellite to capture images is not due to a technical problem, but the base does not seem to exist, which is... a bit unusual."

"It doesn't exist—" Conrad repeated Snow's conclusion, then looked coldly at Su Chen, who was drinking blood calmly, and said, "Is there a problem with the coordinates you provided?"

"The coordinates I provided are absolutely true, Colonel Statham, your eyes like this are really scary~" Su Chen bit the edge of the glass lightly, with no fear in his eyes, his eyebrows and eyes curled up, and he smiled like a malicious bird The fox said, "You and Hill are both pure blood, can't you guess what areas in this world are beyond the reach of machines?"

"Fields that machines can't detect?" Snow suddenly realized something, and looked at his captain questioningly.

Silverson said, "It's the spiritual domain."

"How is it possible?" Bai Yi said in disbelief, "Under the ice is Quincy Nofiler's spiritual realm?!"

"I didn't believe it at first, but the feedback Lothar gave me some time ago was not that the teacher had escaped from prison. The Military Intelligence Department provided me with a video of the prison in the last month. There is only the body, and more than 400 years ago, it was only Teacher Quincy’s consciousness that escaped from the distant galaxy.”

Conrad recalled: "The teacher once mentioned that there is only a theoretical possibility for the conscious body to voluntarily leave the physical body."

"It seemed he had reservations about our teaching," Silverson said.

"You mean that Nofiler can use his own spiritual domain to create the entire Antarctic base?" Bai Yi asked.

"'Antarctic base' is just a code name. As long as you are in the world of the spiritual realm, Nofiler does not need a physical body. What you will face is his young and powerful consciousness, but what is even more frightening is——" Su Chen He stopped suddenly, and raised his wine glass to Bai Yi, as if paying tribute, "He can create a world under the ice, and he will create hundreds of guards for his world, and you only have six of them."

Silveson and Conrad didn't speak. As the two most valued students of Quincy Nofiler, they are very aware of the teacher's profound attainments in the field of mind control. Destroying consciousness with consciousness is enough to swallow all the perception of a creature Exhausted.

Su Chen looked at the two of them one by one with a smile, playing with the taste: "How about it, two adults, how do you plan to get rid of your beloved Teacher Quincy?"

"You don't need to worry about this." Conrad said coldly.

"Mr. Quincy is a very strict person," Silverson explained, "He won't take action against us easily until he confirms that there is no use value."

The aircraft crossed the sea and headed south.

After leaving the range of cumulonimbus clouds, the freezing rain stopped, and the temperature began to drop rapidly when entering the Antarctic Circle. A layer of water covering the surface of the aircraft condensed into an ice shell, distorting the white world of ice and snow outside the porthole.

Three hours passed in a flash, and Winnie controlled the aircraft to land on a flat snow field. As soon as the propulsion device was turned off, Angela opened the hatch and jumped off the aircraft first. Snow followed closely behind with the optical brain in his arms. Behind are Su Chen and Silverson.

The bitter air rushed into the cabin in an instant, cutting through the skin like a blade. Bai Yi got up and was about to jump off. A thick snow combat uniform was draped over his shoulders and wrapped tightly. Bai Yi's body was unnaturally stiff. for a moment.

"It's cold outside." The man said simply.

"Thank you, Captain Statham." Bai Yi didn't look back, stepped aside, took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair, "It's inconvenient to move around while wearing it, and I don't need it anymore."

The rejection was so straightforward, Conrad thought to himself, his eyes stayed on the coat that had been taken off for a few seconds, and then turned to look at Bai Yi.

"His ability to manipulate the spiritual world far exceeds your imagination—"

Bai Yi was slightly taken aback. At that moment just now, he had rehearsed many kinds of words that Conrad might say next, but none of them looked like this.

"In his spiritual domain, what you see, hear, and all your senses may be illusions created by him. He will use his consciousness to destroy you, so you can only use your consciousness to resist—"

Bai Yi raised his head and met those calm eyes.

"Follow Hill closely, protect yourself, I——will always be behind you."

After finishing speaking, Conrad walked around Bai Yi and jumped off the aircraft without looking back.

It was winter in the southern hemisphere at this time, the temperature reached minus [-] degrees, but there was rarely any wind and snow, the air was cold and humid, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.

The extreme night blurs the concept of time, the atmosphere here is extremely transparent, and the trajectories of the stars are clearly visible. Bai Yi stepped out of the cabin door and looked up, feeling that there is a star in the sky that is very bright.

The glacier gap that Su Chen mentioned is nearby, and Snow is surveying the terrain with various terminal instruments, while Winnie and Angela are on guard.

Not far away, Su Chen's arms were bound by alloy chains. Beside him, Silvison stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the night sky slightly.Bai Yi approached and followed his gaze to see that unusually bright star. He couldn't help saying strangely: "In my impression, I never knew there was such a planet."

"That's normal," Silverson said. "It's impossible to see it on Earth, no matter how advanced the instrument is, let alone with the naked eye."

Bai Yi didn't understand, but became even more puzzled, "Then it is—?"

Silvison withdrew his gaze, turned his head slightly, and looked at Bai Yi calmly, "Its name is Io. I told you that I spent my whole childhood there."

In an instant, Bai Yi recalled the picture he had seen in Silverson's spiritual realm long ago, but that was a planet that could only be observed on the blood race's home planet Lothar, and this place is obviously... the earth?

Could it be that--!

Bai Yi's mind sank in vain, "We are..."

"Spiritual Realm," Silverson said indifferently, "I haven't seen it for hundreds of years. I almost forgot the fear of being trapped in the teacher's spiritual realm."

"When did we come in?"

"I don't know."

Bai Yi looked at Snow and the others who were still investigating, and couldn't help but tighten his brows, "They haven't found it yet?"

Su Chen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly let out a short laugh, shook his head, and said, "Those who have never experienced the invasion of Nofiler's thinking can hardly notice the difference. I'm afraid there are only Hill and Conrad in it." noticed."

Hearing this, Silvison gave Su Chen a sideways look with a half-smile, and the latter pursed his lips, winking at the two innocently.

Bai Yi was very surprised, "Colonel Statham also found out?"

Sylvison smiled and nodded, looking at Bai Yi with subtlety, "Conrad discovered it earlier than I did. Didn't he remind you to be careful just now?"

Thinking of what Conrad said in the cabin, Bai Yi suddenly understood, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt something was wrong, "Since you have already discovered it, why haven't you responded?"

"The only master of the spiritual world is the one who constructed it. In the face of this absolute dominance, all our reactions are futile." Seeing Bai Yi's uneasiness, Silvison comforted him, "You don't have to. Too worried, since the teacher has a purpose to lead us into his spiritual domain, we just need to wait for him to come to the door on his own initiative."

As if in response to the last sentence, a terrifying tremor came from the depths of the ice layer before the words fell.

The ground was shaken, the hard ice surface continued to burst open, and the spider web-like cracks spread rapidly. The ice layer on the ground continued to collapse. A rotten palm climbed onto the ice surface, and a piece of paper with only half of it left protruded from the dark gap. With a cheeky head, the smell of rotting corpses filled the air, and thousands of zombies crawled out from the ground.

Everyone is on guard at the same time.

Conrad stared at Bai Yi's direction for the first time, his gaze froze, and at the same time Snow reminded in alarm, "Boss, be careful!"

In the next second, a gap opened on the ice surface, and the aircraft rolled down. With a loud bang, flames shot up into the sky. Everything happened in seconds. Silvison immediately pushed Bai Yi into his arms, and pressed Bai Yi tightly. Protecting his neck and head tightly, the scorching air surged towards him, throwing the two of them violently.

"team leader!"

"Bye—!"

The billowing black smoke obscures the sight, the whole world is spinning, the senses strengthened by the virus are extremely sensitive, and at the same time, it will bear hundreds of damages from ordinary people. Everyone was shouting, he pushed Silvison away and turned over, choking out a mouthful of blood, several ribs were broken in his chest, blood poured into the trachea, and his mouth was filled with a sweet and bloody smell.

Something was approaching quickly behind him. Bai Yi sensed the danger but had no time to turn around. The palm on the back of his head was suddenly pulled away. Silvison strangled the neck of the zombie with one hand, and suddenly exerted force with his five fingers, which directly twisted the spine with a click.

"Self-healing takes time, Bye, just rest and don't move around!"

The zombies under the ice were like sharks smelling blood at this moment, roaring and rushing towards the two of them. Silvison kicked half of the head of the nearest zombie, holding the lightsaber in his left hand without stopping. The electric arc cut through the air, the bright lightsaber slashed down, and the blood spurted out. The three headless rotting corpses collapsed stiffly in front of them.

"There are too many, I have to help you!" Bai Yi struggled to get up, and drew out the dagger, only then noticed that Silvison's right arm was drawn to his side, a broken bone was raised, and the whole sleeve was wet with blood A big, "Hill, your arm."

Silvison didn't even look at it. He grasped the fractured area with his bare hands and suddenly exerted force, directly pushing back the bone that had pierced through the flesh, "I'll heal quickly, don't worry."

The backs of the two are facing each other, there is no need for any communication, and the tacit understanding reaches the extreme in silence, while fighting each other, they carefully guard each other's backs.

The sound of bone regeneration came from the chest cavity. Bai Yi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, panting heavily, and said, "Is this an illusion or reality? The pain is so fucking real."

"His mental power is strong enough to affect the real world. This is the South Pole, and it is also the spiritual realm," Silveson said. "It seems that the teacher is getting impatient and is urging us to go down as soon as possible."

Bai Yi looked around and asked, "Where's Su Chen?"

Silverson said: "I didn't care, he won't die easily, he probably ran away."

All of a sudden, a silver light slashed across the sky, blood mist filled the sky, and pieces of flesh flew across, like a scarlet rain. Conrad rushed out of the corpses with double blades in his hands, his cold breath was like the coldest god of war, sharp His eyes pierced through all obstacles, and finally locked on Bai Yi firmly.

Almost at the same time, Snow, Winnie, and Angela came from another direction, and the six joined up.

Silvison clasped Bai Yi's arm with one hand, slashed his hands to kill the zombies rushing towards him, and said in a deep voice, "Go to the gap, let's go see Teacher Quincy."

As soon as he finished speaking, the others immediately understood. Snow and the others immediately cleaned up the zombies beside him, drew back and gathered their positions, covering behind Bai Yi and the two captains, and walked towards the crevasse of the glacier.

In just a few minutes, the ice surface was covered with rotten minced meat, and the air was thick with blood.

Bai Yi quickly fixed several lightweight pulleys on the ice, and lowered the cables. Silveson took the ropes in Bai Yi's hand, threw one of them to Conrad, and then wrapped one arm around Bai Yi's waist, After exhorting, "Hold me tight", I jumped down the gap.

A swarm of losers rushed to the edge of the rift, and some of them had already begun to climb into the rift valley. If they just went down to the base like this, the tens of thousands of losers in front of them could only follow behind them lingeringly.

In the confusion, Winnie and Angela looked at each other, and the latter nodded without hesitation. Winnie reached out and grabbed Snow's arm, pulling him directly behind, "You cover the Boss and Bye and go first!"

Snow was well aware of the stakes at hand, so he just said, "Be careful."

Winnie combed her fluffy curly hair into shape, turned her head, smiled lightly and raised the corners of her lips, but her eyes were determined and cold like never before, "I will give you the Boss, Major, I must not let you die before you die." He bleeds even a drop of blood, remember!" After speaking, she threw out the lead wire with ten fingers, pulled the flying blade, and rushed into the corpses without looking back.

There are tens of thousands of zombies on the surface, and they are still crawling out of the ground. Winnie's words are more like last words than entrustments. Even as a blood race, it is impossible to resist the continuous stream of zombies. She has already done it. Preparations for the bloody battle to the end——

Looking at it from this angle, although Winnie's fighting back is slender, it seems to have a thunderous momentum.

Snow had always been calm and restrained, and rarely had any emotional ups and downs, but at this moment he was in a trance at an inopportune time.

"What are you still doing?"

The girl's sharp voice sounded from behind, and she slapped the vest vigorously, Snow staggered forward unexpectedly, just as he turned his head, he saw a figure flash past from the corner of his eyes.

Angela flew to guard the other direction, her skirt fluttered, and the alloy soft whip wrapped around a zombie's neck like a snake, and then with a swing of her long arm, the zombie was dragged and hit the ice wall, its head burst, red and white The brains burst out and intertwined into a thrilling radial trace.

"Did you hear that, stinky weapon! Hurry up and leave!"

"Let's go!!!"

The crowd of corpses became restless, and everywhere Winnie and Angela went, blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Behind Snow was the cliff, and in front of him were tens of thousands of zombies suppressing them. The whole world was in chaos. He took a last look at his teammates who were fighting hard, then picked up the rope and stuck it into the safety buckle on his waist, and bent down to climb on the ice. On the edge of the face, the forefoot of the military boot kicked hard on the wall, and slid down with a swish.