Steel steam and flame

Following the direction and entering the white world in front of him, Cassia headed straight towards the assessment area. Along the way, I would stop and look at the sky from time to time, trying to catch the sound of the airship through the dark clouds. The assessors' means of transportation when leaving the tundra were all airships. They were evacuating on a large scale. The sound of the lift device must have penetrated through the clouds.

Five days later, the frozen peaks of the island community appeared in Cassia's eyes. At this time, it was basically certain that the assessment would be completely over during the time he rushed back. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. What happened was not that far away, and I can recall it very clearly now.

"I wonder what's going on with Ye Jielin." Cassia often thought about it when she was resting. Although there are no regulations in the assessment rules, Cassia is still worried about using cheating methods to get Ye Jielin a knight attendant, and whether it will be unilaterally canceled by the Imperial Council in the near future. He knew that every signal generator was followed by inspectors. As long as the records were investigated, it would be extremely easy to discover the truth.

"Probably now we are using various methods to determine whether I am really dead. The ice cave has already been dug up at this moment, and we want to find the body for final evidence collection." Cassia thought, "I also want to thank him for coming. , the last breath eliminated all traces, even if they had doubts, this doubt would soon disappear from their heads."

The next thing is to return to the empire as soon as possible and obtain detailed information about the assessment from the dark world. Cassia now wants to know whether Ones and the other six successfully obtained the signal generator and all survived to the end. In the future, it will be a very powerful force. Together with Ye Jielin, there are seven people in total. When the empire gradually begins to make final preparations before the war, they will represent even more. As important figures, hidden forces like Kiris would often not take the initiative to get involved with them, especially in this period.

It was already ten days before we actually arrived in the assessment area. The blizzard wiped out all traces, leaving anything on the surface of the snow only temporary.

The shadows of the surrounding peaks made Cassia feel familiar. Near the ice cave, the snow surface looked smooth. Even if someone came here to investigate, it would have been more than ten days.

Continuing to walk forward, Cassia thought about the original time interval, which was the time when he asked Cassie to come here to pick him up, and the current date was within it. When the surrounding undulating snow gradually decreased, Cassia saw a ring of icebergs ahead from a distance.

It may be more appropriate to say that it is a ring-shaped ice pile, stacked very high and high, forming a circle around the ice cave. There are obvious traces of excavation and excavation. If you capture it carefully, you can still hear a little sound of tapping hard ice.

At this time, he slowed down and observed on the spot for nearly two hours. After confirming that there were no snow vehicles or airships around, Cassia got into the snow and approached there carefully. The sound became more and more obvious, about two thousand meters, which was Cassia's current enhanced sound detection range, and he stopped.

Emerging from the snow, Cassia shook her head, walked to the ice cave helplessly, climbed up the ring-shaped ice pile more than ten meters high, found a nearby large ice block and sat down. The ice cave with a diameter of more than 100 meters has disappeared, and now there is a cylindrical pit with a diameter of nearly 200 meters.

The dull knocking sound was mixed with a shouting voice, and then it echoed in the deep pit, and then reached the sky. I don't know how long it has been digging. From the ring-shaped ice piles piled up around the pit, it can be inferred that it will not be very short. Completely unaware that someone behind him was looking at him, Cassie Hei was standing in the deep pit. His tail was sweeping the broken ice cubes, gathering them into a pile, then bending down to pick them up and throwing them away. Got out.

In addition to its sharp claws, the giant heavy sword Cassia made for him seemed to be of great help at this time. At least tens of millions of holy coins were spent to build it by mechanics in the dark world. Although it is not a pneumatic weapon, in terms of material, the low temperature of the tundra and the hardness of the ice do not pose any threat to it.

Cassia hacked the ice in front of him with a giant heavy sword. Cassia didn't speak, just sat on the ice pile and watched quietly. He looked very involved. After more than ten minutes, seemingly tired from doing the same thing for a long time, Cassie Hei inserted the giant sword into the ice, lay on the ground, and blew out hot air from his nostrils, as if Like a sigh.

At this time, a piece of ice walked through the parabola and landed accurately on Cassie Hei's head. Cassie Hei didn't seem to notice it. He just raised his head and looked at the ice pile in front of him. He probably thought it was rolling down from there. Regardless, Cassie put his head on the ice again, this time closing his eyes.

Then a larger piece of ice fell with almost the same trajectory, hitting its head and shattering. Only then did he realize that there was something behind him. Cassie Hei immediately turned his head and saw Cassia standing on the ice pile. She bounced up from the ground and ran over with a "boom" sound.

Soon after, a cloud of steam rose, slowly hurtling towards the low snow clouds in the sky. Cassie Hei's breath melted the ice cave again, turning the surrounding ring of ice into boiling water, waiting to be slowly frozen.

The blizzards that come from time to time will quickly erase all traces here. What happens here is destined to be visible only to the snow and cannot be known to others.

Two days later, Cassia and Cassie Hei completely left the tundra and arrived above the Empire's offshore waters where the temperature was rising. The temperature of the sun indicated that spring was gradually replacing the cold winter. It will also take a long time to return along the route we came from and reach the southern forest. There may be some discrepancies, but it is not important at all. Cassia seems to feel her new life from the season, which is a feeling without obvious constraints.

On the way back, Cassia took out a piece of solid red mercury from her body and fed it to Cassie Hei. And taking advantage of the opportunity, he experimented with the blood of Cassie Hei, who had grown a little again. Although it is not as irritating as concentrated dragon blood, perhaps because of the gradual changes in his body, Cassie Hei's blood can already make him enter the scaly state.

"The only way is to go back to the southern forest first and see if there are any containers for storage on the truck left there a few months ago." Cassia thought, watching Cassie Hei flying with excitement, and suddenly felt whether he would be able to do so. Something is inappropriate. But considering that it has grown a little bigger again, a little blood seems to be insignificant.

After twenty-four days, Cassia and Casshei finally returned to the southern forest.