Starting from Zero

"It's cold!" Hong Yue said tremblingly.

"Hold on, this is excessive airflow and won't last too long."

"But I'm freezing up!"

" Hold on."

I just finished talking. The outside air pressure suddenly returned to normal, and the strong wind stopped instantly. I quickly removed the protection of the mercury shield and spread my wings. The light shone back on us and brought some warmth. Hong Yue's face has become white, and his body is shaking, which is very difficult to deal with.

"Are you okay?" I asked Hong Yue, holding on to him.

"No...it's okay, but my body is a little stiff."

"Xiaofeng." I quickly summoned Xiaofeng to help. A large group of Fireball immediately solved our problem, and I felt that my body was back to normal soon. However, the problem in this place is relatively low. Xiaofeng cannot stay outside for a long time. After her body is not cold, I hurriedly let her go back.

The depth of this valley is beyond our imagination, and the intermittent cold air just now circulates every 20 minutes, the time is quite precise. It took Hong Yue and I almost the entire afternoon to go all the way down to the bottom of the valley.

The bottom of the valley is a frozen river, and some water is still flowing under the ice layer. The width of the river is more than 50 meters, and there are icy cliffs on both sides. Compared with the above, the temperature here is slightly higher, but the ambient temperature is still more than minus 40 degrees. Although the sky is completely dark, it is very bright here. The surrounding ice crystals reflect a kind of blue light, which looks quite dreamy.

"Look." Hong Yue ran to the front suddenly, but the ground was too slippery. She fell off a split after two runs. I originally wanted to help her, but the distance was a little far away, so I didn't have time.

"Slow down, this is not snow, and the ice has no adhesion." As I said, I knocked on the ground with my right toe. Oh la la, a large row of steel nails popped out from the bottom of the magic dragon boots, and the same steel nails popped out after changing the same posture of the left foot on the ground. With this, walking will not slip.

Hong Yue helped me to get up, followed me carefully to the place she started to see. The environment here is no different from where we landed just now. The surrounding area is full of crystal ice, but there are a lot of battle marks on the ground and walls here. The glacial ground under my feet has obviously been hit by heavy punches, and the huge radiating cracks on the ice surface can only be made by really red. As for the large and small potholes on the wall, it is even more obvious. Most people will not have such a strong destructive power.

The traces of fighting extend all the way forward. This is the best sign. As long as we follow this route, we will definitely be able to catch up with the real red. "Hong Yue, come here."

"What are you doing?"

"I'll carry you, so hurry up."

Hong Yue thought it over or jumped Up here. I put my toes on the ground again, and put the nails back, and then I shook my foot and an ice skate bounced out. Skating is much less effort than walking, and it is very fast. speaking of which is strange. Although traces of fighting can be seen everywhere, we didn't see any dead bodies or bloodstains along the way, except for the pitted ground and crushed ice on the ground.

After running for a while, the river suddenly entered a cliff and there was no way. The river entered the mountain through a hole on the cliff, but the hole was below the ice surface and we couldn't get in. The traces of the fight also come to an end here. The fact that the ice surface is not damaged means that the true red did not follow the river into the mountain. Surrounded by cliffs on three sides, the only entrance is the direction we came. If True Red does not fall into the river, it can only go from above.

Hong Yue and I quickly started looking for a way along the cliff. The red impossible disappeared without help. There must be other exits in this place.

After searching for a while, I suddenly found a hole on the cliff above my head, more than 50 meters above the ground. The ice layer here is too smooth, and many things caused by the mixing of reflection and refraction are unclear. Otherwise, it would not take us so long to find the hole.

I used the dragon's tendons to aim at a point above the hole, and when I moved my finger, the head of the cable flew out and was accurately embedded in the ice. Picking up Hong Yue and putting on the steel nails of the shoe soles, stepped on the cliff wall and went directly to the hole.

The light inside the cave is brighter than the outside. The blue light shines from the depths of the cave. The whole cave is entirely made of ice, and there is ice everywhere.

"Oh my God! What is this?" Hong Yue was suddenly startled by what was in front of him.

There is a human being under the ground not far in front of us, his body is all under the ice surface, and only one hand is stretched out on the ice surface moved towards Tian seems to want to grab something. Although the corpse looked longer, the person's appearance was basically intact, and he looked like a living person except for a little dry skin.

I walked carefully to the poor beast and looked at it under the ice. "It looks like a European."

"It looks scary." Hong Yue carefully kept his distance from this guy.

"Perhaps we should ask what it knows."

"Good idea."

I took out the magic necklace from the bracelet and wrapped it there. On the arm that only stretched out in the air, I saw the whole body suddenly lit up with white fluorescence.

"Who? Who awakened me?"

"A passing person." I held the necklace's embellishment and said: "I saw a girl from here this afternoon Did you pass by?"

"I've been sleeping, even if I have it, I don't know."

"Then how did you die here?" I really want to know this guy. The cause of death, because if you don’t know it, it may become our cause of death.

The voice of the corpse rang slowly: "It was an Oriental monster who killed me. According to the legend, it should be a kind of Chinese mascot. But I don’t know why the Orientals put so dangerous As a mascot."

"Can you describe what that thing looks like?"

"This is not easy to say. After so many years, my memory is a bit vague, and this The shape of the thing is very special. It has a general shape similar to a four-legged carnivore, with white hair all over its body. By the way, it has paired horns on its head, some of which look like antlers."

"Qilin? "

"Yes, that's the thing."

Hong Yue both hands crossed near chest pondered, "Obviously there is a frost Snow Qilin living here, but Qilin is supposed to It’s a gentle creature, it shouldn’t hurt people for no reason!"

I knocked on the ice and asked the corpse below: "Why did you come here?"

"I It's Paladin from the Templar Knight regiment. He came to kill Qilin on the order of the church."

Hong Yue said with relief: "It's not so strange!"

"Why did the church let you kill Qilin? "

"Because Qilin is an evil beast, it does not respect the guidance of gods."

"God? Which god?"

"Of course it is extremely bright and generous The selfless Light God."

Hong Yue said disdainfully: "You can't tolerate even creatures that don't respect yourself. It is indeed generous and selfless."

"You can't slander the incomparable. Great Light God." This Paladin really is determined. "You have to pay for what you say, fast to be incomparably great..."

I pulled off the necklace, the rays of light on the corpse disappeared instantly, and the sound suddenly stopped.

"It's an idiot." Hong Yue turned and continued to walk into the cave.

I quickly followed along. "Which way are you angry with an NPC? At least we got some news."

"But we still don't know the whereabouts of True Red."

"At least we didn't go the wrong way. ." I pointed to a huge crack that just appeared in front of us. The entire wall here is covered with densely packed cobweb patterns, and if you touch it again, it will probably disperse completely.

"It's a masterpiece of real red again."

"It looks like this punch is not weak."

"Which punch of real red is too weak? "

"Eh, there seems to be wind here." I pointed to the passage in front.

Hong Yue followed me to the other end of the passage, and the passage suddenly ended after turning a bend. We immediately entered a huge unimaginable space. This is a world made of ice, with walls, ground, and zenith, everything is made of ice. There is something more spectacular in this huge ice cave—a city.

The area of ​​the city in front of it is not too big, let alone Isengard, it is not a big city even when compared with the Yunxiao City entrusted to the War Blood League. But the structure of this city is really amazing. It is made entirely of ice. There is only one city wall in the whole city, and the other three directions are directly protected by icebergs. The only direction facing the passage is a five-kilometer-wide ice city wall. On the top of the city wall is a row of rare beast ice. sculpture.

There are a few tall buildings in the city behind the city wall, and you can directly see the top structure of the building from here. It can be judged from the roof of the hanging corner and eaves that this is a Chinese-style building, but here should be regarded as the boundary of India, how can there be a Chinese city?

"Really red." Hong Yue called out suddenly.

On the top of an icicle in front of us, really red is paddling his feet and looking at something. She turned her head back immediately when she heard the shout. "Why did you come down too?" Zhen Hong rolled over and fell to the ground and ran towards us.

"It's not to find you yet." Hong Yue half true half false complained: "Walking and suddenly discovering that you are missing, we found a hole, and wanted to see if you were there. Inside, the ground suddenly collapsed and we fell together."

"Then how did you get there?"

I pointed to Hong Yue: "We didn't jump directly. Coming down. After the ice broke, I kept climbing down with Hong Yue on my back. By the way, I saw a lot of cracks on the road. What are you fighting with and there are pits everywhere?"

" A medium-sized devil beast, there are a lot of them, but I have killed them all." Real Red doesn't matter.

"Why didn't we see the corpse?"

"That thing is made of ice. Once broken, it will be broken ice scum. You must have seen it and didn't pay attention. "

I nodded referring to the city in front: "Did you go in?"

True Red shook his head: "Did you see the ice sculpture on the city wall?"< /p>

"What's wrong?"

"Those are magic ice statues, similar to golems. As soon as they get closer, they will automatically attack. I tried several times, but there is no way. Come closer."

"Is it so powerful?"

Zhen Hong shook his head again and said: "Not so powerful. I punch these things one by one, but they only need to be broken. It will slowly melt to the ground, and then a new entity will appear on the city wall. I have been fighting here for a long time, and simply can’t finish it."

"Infinite rebirth." Hong Yue looked at the ice Chengdao: "Have you tried using fire?"

True Hong did not answer but took a torch from behind and handed it to us. There is a large block of ice on the top of this torch, and it looks like the shape of a burning flame.

"Frozen?"

True red nodded: "I just lighted it, and the fire on the torch froze."

I am good at After playing it, the torch still clinked. "Good guy, it's hard enough."

"Should we go back now or find a way to get in?" Zhenhong asked me.

Hong Yue said: "It's all here. Would you agree if you don't go in Purple Moon?"

"Of course." My unexpected answer stunned Hong Yue NS. I took out the map and marked the location on it, then put the map away and said to the two of them: "There are still a lot of things in the guild. We don't have time to delay here. Let's leave first, and come back later when we have time." < /p>

Although Hong Yue was taken aback, he agreed with me. We first returned to the canyon and then climbed out of the valley little by little. Back on the Xuefeng, we had another night of trekking and finally reached the border of China after dawn. After crossing the border, it was easy. We took out the scroll and sent it directly back to Isengard.

As soon as Zhen Hong and Hong Yue arrived at Isengard, they couldn't keep going offline, and I ran to try to report peace to Rose and the others, but I didn't know how to rush. The left-behind players said that the main Chief-In-Charge in the guild had all gone to Steel City, so I had to go to Steel City again.

After the Transmission Formation, I felt something was not quite right. Gangcheng was actually quiet and could only hear the sound of some large mechanical cooling fans. Gangcheng is the heavy industry base of the guild. The most noisy city of all cities is here, but today it is surprisingly quiet. I ran in the city for a long time and hardly saw anyone. Except for some automated machinery that was working rumblingly, most of the equipment stopped. What is even more strange is that some large-scale equipment is missing.

The last time I came to Steel City, I had more equipment than now. Later, we introduced a lot of new equipment from Germany and the United States. We also developed a lot of equipment ourselves. It is said that these equipment should be very talented. Yes, but the steel city is actually more empty than last time, which is really strange.

Suddenly I saw someone rushing over, so I hurriedly pulled him. "I finally saw a living person."

"President?" I was taken aback when this player was caught.

"Where are the people here? What are you doing in a panic?"

The player pointed to it. "Everyone is busy with the things you brought back. I have to get the parts. You should ask someone else." The player ran away like a gust of wind.

I ran to the original ground passage in a muddle-headed manner, but it was completely different here. Originally, the only entrance to the ground in the steel city was a long stone staircase passage, but now it has turned into a large group of elevators and countless spiral staircases. Several large elevators loaded with goods are slowly rising by the wall in front, and many players are busy moving in and out to load things on a parked elevator. A large number of NPCs and players on the artificial spiral ladder are running up and down like ants on a hot pot, and they don't know what they are doing.

Looking at everyone, there might be a large-scale project on the ground. I found a lift and followed it up to the ground. I was completely dumbfounded when the conditions on the ground appeared in my sight. It turned out to be a warehouse above the elevator, and the huge space is no smaller than the hangar of a large passenger plane. The room was full of large and small boxes, and groups of devil beasts pulled some boxes to the outside of the warehouse by pulling flat carts.

I walked out of the warehouse almost unconsciously. The outside scene is even more shocking. The desert on the top of the steel city was gone, but a huge work area like a field airport was added. The ground paved with steel plates is extremely hard, and some grotesquely shaped buildings stand irregularly in all directions, which feels quite weird. Looking back at the warehouse I walked out just now, its appearance is different from the general warehouse. This guy seemed to be a tortoise shell buckled on the ground, like a bunker more than a warehouse.

A large group of people on the huge flat square are constructing the base of a building. Because there is only a foundation, it is impossible to see what is being built. Just as I was about to walk over, Woma's voice suddenly appeared behind me: "Purple Moon? Are you here so soon?"

"Woma? What are you doing here?"

"Look over there and you will understand." Woma pointed to our side.

I turned my head and saw only a huge support frame and a large number of workers. The corner of the warehouse blocked most of that thing, so I had to run over to look. As soon as I left the shadow of the warehouse, I immediately saw the whole picture.

First I saw a large row of steel arches. The huge metal support frames were all incomparable gigantic, and they were all painted in yellow and black stripes, which looked quite powerful. Inside these arches, a giant crane (pronounced'hanging') is busy on the track. These arches were obviously built to support the hanging.

Under the huge arch, an already basically formed item is undergoing final assembly. I can roughly see that this is the head of an Insect. I am not an Insect scientist, and I cannot judge what kind of Insect it is for the time being based on this incomplete head.

This Insect head is completely welded from metal, and its huge volume is very scary. The giant head, which is almost the size of the Great White Shark battleship 2/3/2021, has a pair of large pliers-like mouthparts in front of it, which looks very offensive.

Suddenly I remembered what it was, and looked back at Woma, who had walked up to me. "This is the army ant fortress? You have already started to build it?"

Woma smiled and said: "When the people from the research institute came to show me the little ant Totem, I started to let them It’s built. The last time you did a big clearance at the research institute, we were so busy. I really don’t know why there are so many strange things in your storage space."

"I just don’t love it very much. Just organize things." I smiled and pointed to the huge head: "How do you design the movement mechanism?"

"In fact, this is what we are worried about." Woma took me to the side. As I walked over there, he explained: "The Army Ant Fortress has no movable mechanism at all. If it is in the real world, then I think it should be just a relatively large sculpture. For example, the big pliers-like mouth, it and this head The part is totally a whole, let alone biting things, don’t even want to move. But the ant Totem you brought back insisted that as long as the general shape is made, it can make this thing move. We are worried about this now. Is what the guy said is true."

"I think it should be true. After all, it is not good for it to deceive us." I looked at the big head that was about to be completed and asked:" Did you only build one head?"

Woma pointed behind us. It used to be on the opposite side of the warehouse, but now I see that there are many such supporting arches on this side. "The chest of the army ant fortress is being built over there. The one you are building behind is the abdomen. Ant legs are being built in the two places on the left. There are already three finished legs in the warehouse over there. It will not take long for us to do it. The final assembly is in progress. I hope that Totem is telling the truth."

"What should I do when such a big thing is assembled? There seems to be no large enough hoisting equipment nearby, right?"

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"Have you forgotten that we have a gravity resistance device? Although those things cannot be moved, it is still possible to make straight up and down lifting equipment. If the progress is fast enough, we will be able to see the completed army tonight. It’s an ant fortress. Whether you can really make this steel sculpture move depends on tonight."

I brought these Insect Legions back in the tropical rain forest for the 800-level mission level they said. Otherwise, I probably won't help them. Each of these 13 races has its own race castle, and there is no need to build complicated joints. As long as the physical shape is created, they can use magic to make these big guys move. Although I was skeptical, I believed them for the 800-level mission. Woma and I have similar views, and worry about the truthfulness of what they say, so this time we will build one of them first. If you can really move, it won't be too late to build other castles. If you can't move, then it will be a lesson.

I didn't leave Steel City all day today, and Rose and the others are here. After I saw them, I showed them the Divine Weapon Sifang Zun, and told them some information about the red new national device. Of course everyone was very happy, but now everyone’s mind is focused on whether this steel ant can Moved, and did not show too much excitement.

Because of some minor problems, the construction progress was delayed a little bit, and it was still not completed after dark. The square lamp driven by the magic crystal was lit on the huge square, and the big metal ant was quietly crawling on the ground. Groups of workers are busy making connections and adjustments outside and inside the ant.

This big ant is not solid, it also has a lot of space inside. Although the internal space utilization rate is not high due to its strange shape, the final effective area is still four-fifths of the effective space area of ​​the Great White Shark. The whole big ant used millions of tons of steel from us. If it weren't for the reinforced steel ground, it would have sunk into the sand.

It was not until dawn that the huge metal ant was finally completed. This huge guy is just crawling on the ground so quietly, its body is directly on the ground. Those long legs do not support the body, but are slanted on the side. The black metal surface was painted with some red markings by the workers, which looked quite eye-catching, but now this posture really does not show any imposing manner.

Rose gave Totem to me again, and they said that of course I should do such an important job for the first time. Everyone pushed through the gate of the ant chest and entered the military ant fortress, which was similar to the interior of the Great White Shark shipyard. The compact room arrangement creates a lot of space for the public area. Following the stairs, we climbed to the head of the ant in the army ant fort. The control room is on the head of the ant.

Entering the control room, we have a rough look at the internal environment. This place is more a hall than a control room. There is a hemispherical convex part on the left and right sides of the room. Those are the eyes of ants, but the eyes of pure steel are opaque. We can't see anything through it. Even the light here is our own. Provided by the light source.

There is a one-meter high table in the middle of the room. The top surface of the table is inclined, like a console, but there are no buttons here, only an ant-shaped groove. The fool also knows that I must put the Totem in my hand to start this thing.

red's Ant Race Totem kept flashing red light, and it suddenly screamed when I brought it close to the slot a little bit. "Wait a minute."

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