Steel Steam and Flame

They continued to follow the path left on the snow, for about an hour and a half, the traces on it disappeared completely. The large mass of snow falling from the trees buried all the traces, and the eyes could not tell. The nine people stared at the delicate snow face in front of them in a daze, and stopped in place, unable to find a specific direction, and they didn't know where to chase. Most of the surrounding scenery is the same.

Gabriel climbed up an old tree and looked into the distance. Now there were no intermittent traces. The actual situation is also different from Gabriel's judgment. He has always believed that it should wait until the traces are completely gone, and it should happen after walking out of this woods. But because of the weather, all influencing factors are changing.

He took out the test tube in his waist pocket and looked at it. It was filled with a transparent liquid and had no other obvious features.

"There is still half an hour before the debugging can be effective." He said to the other eight people who were on guard. "You can rest during this period and you have taken such a long journey." The tone was very calm, and finally Gabriel still held back his anger, these people haven't caused him any trouble yet. The troublesome people died a few hours ago, even though the entire process did not pass through his hands.

Half an hour is not long, but in the quiet woods where only the sound of the wind is left, the body cools down in less than a few minutes. Gabriel stayed in the big tree, resting against the trunk with his eyes closed, like a sloth lying there, motionless, only a little undulation in his chest.

It seemed that I had fallen asleep, the other people guessed. They pushed out an area with a little less snow in the snow, and gathered together, alert and warm to reduce the decline in physical fitness.

They also want to rest with their eyes closed, but the effect of the stimulant is still there, and the body does not allow them to close their eyes. There are not many people who can ignore the effects of stimulants like Gabriel. The nine people just waited silently for time to pass by.

When Gabriel opened his eyes, it was just half an hour later. His biological clock is very accurate, even comparable to some slightly more precise mechanical clocks. When adapting various medicines, this nuanced precision is needed. May be developed in a large number of experiments, but this precise biological clock ability.

He jumped from the tree and landed in the snow half waist deep.

"Ready to go." He said blankly, the time gap with the enemy widened. Whether he could catch up with the enemy after this, he didn't have an accurate answer in his heart. Now it is snowing heavily, and the environment has a great influence on various chemical substances. He is not sure whether the tracking substances left on the enemy will lose their due effect in the heavy snow.

The transparent liquid in the test tube turned pale yellow at this time, and it was as thick as it had clumped inside. Gabriel then took out the small sprayer from his rucksack, mixed it with a thinner-like liquid, and poured it into the compressed jar in the sprayer.

Others swept away a small layer of surrounding snow at this time, revealing the snow layer from about an hour ago.

He asked everyone to put on breathing masks and put the white mask on his face. Then everyone added two dark lenses to the glass of the mask eye.

"Chichi,,,"

Gabriel raised his hand, stood in the limelight and sprayed the air a few times. The mixed liquid inside was sprayed out in the form of mist, as if it did not have the characteristics of most liquids. In an environment of ten degrees below zero, it did not turn into a hoarfrost for the first time.

The mist diffused into the air at a very fast speed and was diluted. There is no obvious change around, and everything is running in its original form and rules.

Several other people seem to have seen this kind of thing several times. For about half a minute, in the dark lens, the surface of the snow has other blurred colors. These are some blackened red patches, not many in number, and the patches are very unstable, some of which are slowly dissipating.

The patches formed a line, pointing to the distance of the forest. Gabriel took out the map and the compass, and after thinking about it for a while, finally decided on the general direction of advancement and led the team to chase.

It took them a lot of time to get out of the deep woods behind them, and the distance with the enemy was lengthened a lot at this time.

Gabriel looked at the gentle **** in front of him completely covered by snow, and finally felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart. The snow is still falling in large areas, and the thickness of the snow is no longer unlimited at this time. They gained weight, and the bottom layer of snow began to be compacted, and the thickness decreased a little at this time. This may be good news. At some point, the sudden loss of wind became another comfort in their hearts.

Snowflakes have fallen almost vertically, densely like curtains hanging from the sky. The snow surface was blown up by the wind with large patches of powdery hoarfrost, and the field of vision was greatly obstructed. Objects began to blur a hundred meters away.

Gabriel and others walked up the gentle **** along the cliff on one side, where you can hear the sound of the rapid flowing water of the mountain stream below.

Now, they have become troublesome without taking a step forward. It is no longer easy to extract traces of enemies left on the snow through potions. Every time they judge the direction of the enemy's escape, they spend dozens of times more time than in the woods. And every time you have to sweep away the snow a few times before you can see the obvious red patches.

Under the dark lenses, the red patches become very small, and the chemical marks are slowly being diluted by the snow, and it will be completely gone in a short time. Gabriel no longer had absolute expectations of catching up with the enemy.

"When these traces disappear completely, I will return along the road to meet Sanna and the others." Gabriel thought this way. Of course, it is the best result to follow the traces to find the enemy. He believes that this possibility is not high.

It is certain that toxic substances have begun to damage the enemy's body. The enemy's mobility should be reduced to the level of an ordinary person at this time. A small part of the blood begins to solidify. The body tissues far away from the heart will lose consciousness before one step, and then control will become troublesome.

And the scary part of the fifth type of toxic substance is not the effect of blood clotting, but a series of chain reactions caused by blood clotting in the body and blood vessels. The body is a whole, and a problem in one part will inevitably drag down all other aspects. And the speed of the chain reaction is very fast.

The surrounding area was always white. Gabriel and the others had walked on the gentle **** for a long time, but there was no real sense that they had advanced a lot.

Someone in the team proposed to return along the road to meet Sanna and the others, saving time to find other prey. There are more than a dozen captains, and an enemy colonel. There are still many goals, and there are many opportunities to earn points and high evaluations, not just the enemies who can’t be seen in front of them.

Gabriel searched for traces not long ago. Most of the medicine in the small sprayer was used, but no matter how many layers of snow were removed, the blackened red patches never appeared in their dark lenses. I have to admit that they have indeed lost all traces of the enemy. It is not only the enemy but themselves that are trapped by the heavy snow.

Gabri put away the sprayer, pulled off the mask, and took a few breaths of cold air into his stomach.

There is a forest not far away, faintly blue and black. Intuition told him that the enemy might have gone there. The toxic onset of toxic substances is this period of time, and perhaps a short distance away, the frozen enemy can be found in the snow.

When the gentle **** is down, it is the forest. A rough search in it will take about four or five hours. At that time, it just happened to be completely dark.

Gabriel thought that Sanna's movements would not be much faster than his own, so he decided to go to the woods. If there is no result, he will not miss anything when he returns. They also need to rest, and the woods are also a good choice.

The others nodded in agreement, and Gabriel's attitude was firm. Others were unwilling to upset Gabriel. Because they knew very well that even if the three people were not killed by the enemy, they might die one after another because of other accidents on the way to pursue the enemy. Between them and Gabriel, there is inherently unequal, so there is no fairness at all.

The woods under the heavy snow are almost exactly the same, and they feel that they are back to square one. They couldn’t find any valuable clues, so they could only follow the edge of the woods layer by layer. It took about two or three hours. They searched the woods where the enemy is most likely to walk, but Still no information.

It was getting darker in advance, and the heavy snow that had fallen for a whole day finally had a tendency to become smaller at this time, the wind was even smaller, and the frozen leaves no longer collided and rubbed each other to make a sound.

They started to walk back, the light was much darker on the way, and it might get dark early.

Having completely lost the prey, Gabri did not rush back to meet Sanna in a hurry.

"Find a place to repair, restore your spirit and strength, and set off in about six or seven hours." He said to the people behind him that no one had any objections. He followed the enemy's trail for almost a day and asked to concentrate at any time. This makes their heads hurt.

"There is a cave." Someone pointed to a distance and said, everyone opened their eyes and looked over. The color of the mountain was about to mix with the dim light in the woods.

"It's right there, a little bit past the tree. The snow is small, if other teams pass by here, it will be easy to find us within two or three hours." Gabriel said, swinging flexibly after climbing the tree. In the past, jumped to the front of the cave.

This cave is not sealed. It seems that there are other exits connected. Gabriel stood in front of the cave and felt a faint wind blowing on his face, which was a few degrees colder than in the woods. And there was a familiar smell in it, which was the smell of blood. In addition to basic courses in school, his own learning direction is chemistry. I like to play around with all kinds of medicines and chemicals, many of which are biological medicines. During the experiment, most of the process will depend on the effect of the medicine on the blood.

And even if you are unfamiliar, as long as the piece of smell has undergone surgical modification, the smell of blood can still be detected. Others also came to the cave at this time, and they all smelled the blood in the atmosphere to varying degrees.

Several people looked at each other, and their relaxed body tightened again. They turned on the flashlight fixed to their heads and tightened their cold-proof caps tightly. Then they regrouped, picked up their guns and walked in a little bit.

Observing the front carefully, the space inside the cave is very spacious, and not far from entering, several molecules appeared, and there was wind blowing out of each molecule's mouth.

Gabriel asked two people to guard here, and immediately shot at something wrong. In the cave, the gunfire can spread far away in an instant, and they are not afraid that they will not hear it.

He himself led others to follow the smell of blood and move on. The smell of blood has become stronger here, the cave is not very deep, it may be tens of meters away, they found the source of the wind.

"The cave here seems to be tree-rooted. It spreads from the top of this mountain to the foot of the mountain." Gabri looked at the small wind hole above his head and judged in his heart, "No wonder the wind is so cold, it's so cold. It poured in from some holes on the top of the mountain."

These wind holes are very small, and Gabriel thinks they can be compared to household air-conditioning ducts, but there are more. After passing through the wind cave, the air suddenly warmed up a few degrees, and the **** smell became even worse. They feel that they are close to the source of the smell of blood. Under the light of the flashlight, they saw the end of the cave, where the space was a little bigger and it was a small cavity.

In the cavity, they saw a dark shadow under the light, printed on the rock wall of the cave, as if it were something on the living body.

Several people leaned on the mountain, turned on a few glow sticks at the same time, and threw them into the dark cavity to illuminate it. No one, only some scattered white and dead bones, but obviously not human, but some animal. Judging from the color of the bones under the fluorescence, it has been dead for a while.

In a corner on the edge of the cavity, they saw something similar to a nest. There was a small shallow pit that was pierced by some animal with sharp claws. Inside the shallow pit is the source of the smell of blood. There are piles of intact animal organs, a clean skeleton, a pair of fur and a huge head. It is the head of a brown bear that lives here and is hibernating.

Several people walked over and adjusted the brightness of the flashlight to the maximum.

The shallow pit was filled with brown bear organs and blood. The blood hasn't completely coagulated yet, only half of it is jelly-like. There are also large patches of coagulated blood on the ground at the edge of the shallow pit, which may have been spilled.

Gabriel walked around and watched carefully. Through the head of the huge brown bear, one can fully imagine what kind of strong body this brown bear is hibernating. An ordinary brown bear weighs about 100 kilograms, but this adult brown bear may be considered an outlier in this ancient mountain range, weighing at least about one and a half ton, Gabriel thought.

But such a huge brown bear is dead, and all the meat has been eaten clean. And the time seems to have just passed, and the colors on those organs are still fresh. While Gabriel was thinking about who killed the brown bear, under the light, he felt something wrong with the blood clotting in front of him. That is the difference in color, the difference in taste, and the difference in the essence of blood.

He had a bad feeling, so he immediately squatted down and grabbed a handful of blood frozen into ice, and looked at it carefully for a few seconds.

"Go back!" Gabriel shouted immediately, "There may be an accident with the two people outside."

Others still don't understand what happened ~www.ltnovel.com~ can only run back after Gabriel.

Gabriel was too late to explain. In his eyes, the blood that has become ice cubes has two colors. If you distinguish them carefully, you can see the difference. That piece of blood came from two different organisms. One of them is obviously that of the brown bear, but who will the other be?

Gabriel was not sure, but he had already thought of a possibility. That is the enemy's, and the toxic substances circulate in the blood and act directly on the blood. And it has worked, causing the enemy's blood to begin to coagulate.

The enemy does not have the ability to deploy antidote, and can only reduce the toxic substances in the body through the most primitive methods to prevent them from continuing to circulate. Very old, but absolutely practical, and theoretically possible method. That is to release all the blood in the body, and then re-create enough blood through one's own bone marrow to maintain the basic functions of the body.

It takes a lot of energy to make bone marrow blood, and the brown bear that is hibernating, the flesh and blood can be linked to enough energy.

"What a terrifying ability to digest." Gabriel's entire face was tense, his teeth clenched in his mouth, and he didn't know what to say, and finally said this sentence.