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The Reunion Movement naturally didn't know about the changes in the mines, but not long after, the Ursus soldiers suddenly launched a breakout. The sudden increase in the number of people and the sudden counterattack by the other side caused heavy losses to the Reunion Movement's front-line soldiers.

"What's going on with them?"

The huge number of Ursus soldiers quickly tore open a gap in the southwest corner. Everything changed too quickly, and it was difficult for the unit group to make an accurate response in time.

Carters narrowed her eyes and sensed the sharp change in the Ursus army's offensive through the cold mist she released on the battlefield. A highly threatening fluctuation was looming.

"Retreat! Be careful of traps!" Frost Star's reaction was not slow. After realizing the abnormality and considering the potential danger, he immediately adopted a conservative strategy.

Ling Dengxian was a little at a loss. Although he was not standing at the front, his helplessness faded away when he saw the obvious black crowd breaking through the encirclement and blending into the snow forest.

He thought he would be scared and doubt whether he could stand firm.

But in fact, his heart was indeed beating wildly, but was it out of desire? !

Something in his blood vessels, which retained a certain moment of awakening, was slowly awakening... He wanted to find something, and his intuition told him: Go, stand in front of the torrent, and you would be able to find a clue.

Almost immediately, Ling Dengxian broke out in a cold sweat:

My god, has he been living too comfortably recently? He actually got into such a dangerous situation... It's not dangerous anymore, this is the rhythm of courting death!

"What's going on?" He shook off the strange thoughts and jumped down from the commanding heights. His feet slipped and he almost fell, but he still kept his balance and took a few steps smoothly to the Yeti team.

"They... gave up the mine?" Frost Star was a little uncertain because it seemed a little too easy.

This is not quite accurate, but if they want to take over the mine, they will need to make greater sacrifices based on the Ursus manpower just now.

"Is it unusual for them to do this?"

"A little bit... If the old man hadn't brought people here, the Ursus defenders might have been able to use their fortifications to delay the nearest Ursus Army Group to rush to rescue them." Frost Star was puzzled and became more alert. "Could it be that... there is a trap in the mine?"

"But they all escaped." The member of the Yeti team who usually doesn't talk much said, "If there is a trap, at least someone has to stay behind to be useful, right?"

"So many people left but only a few remained... Yangge! Take your men to monitor the movements of the escaping Ursus soldiers to prevent them from being surrounded and surrounded!" Ling Dengxian realized the potential danger and subconsciously spoke up.

Yangge, a member of the Snow Monster Team, looked at Frost Star, who nodded. He then pulled up his hood, picked up his knife and led his men to quickly cross the snow slope and start moving.

Carters looked up at him, but didn't say much about his overstepping behavior. Instead, he turned his gaze toward the mine and let his thoughts wander.

Obviously, the captains of the team, including Hong Dao, also realized that something was fishy. After simply organizing the team to treat the wounded, they immediately sent someone to find Shuang Xing: "Shuang Xing, what should we do in this situation?"

"I don't know what's going on inside... Send someone to carefully check it out. Remember, be careful! Don't let anything unexpected happen."

"I'll go," Ling Dengxian volunteered, "I'm good at self-protection, and I've also learned a little stealth."

"Aren't you in logistics? How did you learn this?" Shuangxing looked suspicious, but soon became relieved. "But since you are such a good fighter, it's not surprising that you know some stealth."

"I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that you've blown up a mine before."

Ling Dengxian thought about what he had done in Longmen and felt a little guilty: "Who should I be with, or should I be alone?"

"Take Big Bear with you. It'll be good to have someone to look after you." Shuangxing nodded. Big Bear was stunned: "What? What? Me?"

"why me?"

"Because you have thick skin and can take a beating." Frost Star joked.

"No... no way... didn't I just step on a landmine once before..."

"Just kidding, but Big Bear is very strong and his reactions are not slow. Even though he stepped on a landmine, he still passed the test."

"It doesn't matter if you step on a landmine..." Ling Dengxian shut up and put himself in other people's shoes. He felt that stepping on a landmine occasionally was no big deal.

"Go as quickly as possible. We still need you to take care of the wounded here." Shuangxing adjusted her breathing. She did some emergency treatment and Ling Dengxian could leave for a short time.

"Okay." Ling Dengxian rubbed his temples. His mental strength was depleted, but he could still continue fighting. He unsheathed the Red Lotus, adjusted his state, and took the big bear to the mine cave. The latter followed with a mutter.

Ling Dengxian raised his hand to release the white flame and probed into the entrance. There was no unusual movement. He sensed the terrain and nodded to Big Bear. The latter took a step closer to him, picked up the knife and followed nervously.

After confirming again and again that there was no one there, Ling Dengxian stepped into the door. An unsettling smell made him alert, and Daxiong froze and his face suddenly turned pale.

"What's wrong?" Ling Dengxian did not miss the change in his expression. He asked without any smile on his face while remaining alert. Although he was somewhat familiar with this smell, he had smelled it in the mountains in Victoria, the Lungmen slums and the control center...

"This... is the smell of blood... and it's very strong..." Big Bear's sense of smell is much stronger than that of the average Ursus person, and this makes him more deeply aware... that there are a lot of fresh corpses here.

Ling Dengxian's guess was confirmed, but when he saw the first corpse, he overturned his speculation that the Ursus defenders were desperate and slaughtered the infected.

"Killed in one blow... open wound, acute and massive blood loss." Ling Dengxian calmly judged the cause of death of the Ursus soldiers on the ground, but he cared more about their expressions than the miserable deaths of these corpses.

Terror, all terror without exception.

He has been in Ursus for some time. From the language of the Ursus people to their living habits, the rough and bold temperament is widely present in their blood. This also means that when facing life and death threats, those with bad tempers among them should not only feel fear, but also anger or unwillingness.

If even one of the nearly sixty bodies on the ground showed different emotions, he would attribute it to coincidence, but no.

"Doctor Bai Ge...his and their expressions are so scary..." Da Xiong was naturally scared. In fact, Ling Dengxian also wanted to be scared, but according to the law in a certain corner, "there must be at least one or more people who are not scared in the same dark scene", he could not be scared.

“The existence that would cause these Ursus defenders to fall into such terror before their death...the one that killed them is either so powerful that they are completely unable to resist, or it itself represents horror.” Ling Dengxian shifted his gaze and his pupils shrank.

"What is this?!" White flames suddenly lit up, and a large area of ​​space was illuminated like daylight. Some daily necessities and food storage could be seen deep in this area. It was probably the dining area in the sentry area. What shocked the two was that in addition to the large bloodstains on the ground that they were mentally prepared for, there were also many deep black areas. The heavy black fog was floating up and down, which was disturbing.

"This... I have never seen this. In all the years we have been in the ice field, my elder sister and I have never seen these things!"

Ling Dengxian stared at the black areas for a while, and after making sure it was safe to stand outside the areas, he tried to ignite the white flame and throw it into the black areas.

"Doctor Bai Ge, what are you doing--" Big Bear was naturally frightened by his reckless behavior, but the next moment the changes in the dark area made both of them stare.

Melting, the black faded, the originally gloomy ground of the mine cave reappeared, and the unsettling atmosphere gradually dissipated. Ling Dengxian stared at the white flame that was still burning quietly, reached out to hold it up, and felt deeply confused in his heart.

Who left or created the black area? Why could the white flame devour it so easily?

He didn't seem to understand the fire burning in his chest.

The black area looked like a tough target no matter how you looked at it, but the white flame burned it very easily and even increased its size a bit.

"Let's go." Ling Dengxian knew that now was not the time for him to think about these issues, as there was intelligence waiting for them outside.

"Um... Doctor Baige, do you smell any smoke?" After the abnormality disappeared, Big Bear regained his spirit and poked him on the back.

"Really? But now that you mention it, the temperature inside is indeed much higher than outside, beyond the normal range."

"Doctor... Based on my experience, this must be a fire. Should we evacuate..."

"Can you judge the size of the fire?" Ling Dengxian asked.

"Well, the smoke is pretty light. I can't tell from the distance."

"Supplies." Ling Dengxian took a deep breath and looked at Daxiong. "We are operating this time for supplies. If we can't get enough supplies...the sacrifices of those soldiers will lose half their meaning. The supplies here are not enough."

"Also... we haven't seen a single infected person yet, which is not normal. According to Tallulah's plan, we still have to confirm their safety."

Ling Dengxian looked at the big bear, then looked into the depths of the dark cave, feeling uneasy.

After a moment he spoke:

"Then you go back to find Frost Star first, I'll continue to explore the way, don't worry, I'm very good at protecting my life."

Ling Dengxian suppressed his fear of the darkness and decided to go deep into the cave alone.

"Then I'll notify the others to move the supplies here... Doctor Bai Ge, please don't die."

Ling Dengxian's face darkened: "Can you give me some hope?"

But when he turned around, the big bear had already run away.

"..." Ling Dengxian asked himself, if it were him, he might be able to run faster than the big bear.

Forget it.

Ling Dengxian tried hard to increase the brightness of the white flame again and quickly passed through the rock corridor. The light soon illuminated a fork in the road, one side went up and the other side went down. He thought calmly and ran up decisively, because the increasingly thick smell of smoke came from that side, and he had to confirm the spread of the threat first.

Then he was persuaded to retreat by the collapsed scorching rocks. "It seems that the fire is behind this, cough cough..." Ling Dengxian choked a few times and turned around decisively.

"There's still time... maybe."

He started running, but his feet slipped on some sticky liquid and he fell at a very steep slope. Ling Dengxian's eyes flashed, and he flipped his body to regain his balance. He drew his sword and rose up before hitting the ground. Then he felt an emptiness above his head, and the light of the torch appeared.

Ling Dengxian drew out his sword and swung it left and right to cut the rock wall at the entrance, then drew his sword and landed it steadily on the ground.

The strong smell of blood rushed into his nostrils at this moment, and the view illuminated by the fire on the rock wall showed him the tragedy that had already happened.

Limbs, blood, silent fear, this is undoubtedly the theme that the scroll in front of us wants to express.

There is no weird feeling of a cult, only the violence of pure massacre.

Ling Dengxian felt a little nauseous and couldn't help but stab the sword in his hand into the ground. He wanted to breathe heavily to relieve the pressure, but he didn't dare to breathe too much bloody air among the corpses.

Quick and dense footsteps approached, Ling Dengxian looked up and saw the silver-haired leader and a team of Reunion fighters rushing in from the opposite entrance.

Tallulah paused, but she quickly understood what was going on: "... Already, like this?"

"Hmm..." Ling Dengxian couldn't say anything more and could only nod.

Although they knew what was going on, the first thing Tallulah and the others saw was Ling Dengxian half-kneeling among a pile of corpses with a sword in his hand. The air was filled with slight sword energy that Tallulah could detect.

The anger caused by misunderstanding at that moment gave those with ulterior motives an opportunity to take advantage of.