The crackling of the fire was the only sound of this quiet night.

In the cave, Alan had already picked a clean and flat place to spread the hides. The hides were first smeared with snow, then melted into water with fire, washed, and finally smoked and dried on the fire to remove the fishy smell. Spread on the floor, there is a soft and warm bed. Alan patted the animal skin and said, "You sleep." ”

Catherine shook her head and said, "Don't confuse me with those noble ladies, I have been in a bad environment, you don't have to work so hard." ”

"But it's always more comfortable to sleep that way."

Catherine walked barefoot, and Alan's gaze fell on her fangy toes. He suddenly found that Catherine had walked barefoot all the way from the center of the earth to the surface, but there was not a trace of dirt stained with her bare feet, and he really did not know how she did it. He vaguely felt that it had something to do with Catherine's skill in moving. If he could do this like her, then his movement skills would be taken to another level.

"But don't you come?" Catherine sat down in the corner of the hide, patted the side and said. She was on her side, and her petite stature took up only a third of the skin, leaving enough space for another Ellen to lie down.

Alan was unkind and sat directly beside her. But he was not sleepy now, so he sat against the mountain wall, facing the campfire and the wind and snow at the entrance of the cave. At this time, the waist tightened, and it turned out that Catherine wrapped her hands around. She leaned on Alan's chest and said, "Don't move like that, you smell so good." It gives me a lot of peace of mind......"

Reaching out through Catherine's strangely colored hair, which finally landed on her shoulder, Alan patted her and said, "Then sleep." ”

After saying that, I found that Catherine had already fallen asleep. In the firelight, her eyelashes could be seen twitching slightly, and her little face arched in his arms like a cat, and then fell asleep quietly. From time to time, the cries of some underground creatures could be heard in the deep passages behind them, reminding Eren of the days and nights he had spent underground. Looking at the girl in his arms again, Alan only felt that fate was so wonderful.

If someone had told him that he would be so close to Catherine before that, he wouldn't want to believe it. But now, he was the man in Catherine's life, even if the powerful girl was still unwilling to admit it.

Thinking of the crazy scene with her in the center of the earth, a fire also ignited in Allen's body. Catherine quickly sensed his male reaction, she opened her eyes and said in a daze, "I'm going to be on top this time!" ”

Before Alan could answer, the girl had already pressed hard with both hands. The force of the explosion caused Alan to lie on the ground, and Catherine was already sitting on his waist. The expression on her face was somewhere between sober and confused, and it looked particularly seductive. A moment later, Alan was enveloped in the tight, warm world again, and Catherine lifted her little face from her long hair and let out a moan of satisfaction.

So in the light of the fire, the two figures in the cave were tightly entangled, until the fire was extinguished, and the gasps of the two were still heard in the darkness, and Catherine occasionally chuckled smugly.

The sky was quietly brightening.

In the extinguished fire, a piece of scorched wood suddenly snapped and broke in two. Alan turned around and suddenly bounced off the ground, only to find that he was the only one left in the hole. On the side of the hill, he saw a line of words: Go first, my little man.

Needless to say, it was left behind by Catherine. Alan shook his head and smiled, reached out and wiped it on the mountain wall, and the handwriting disappeared. He got up to gather his things, kicked the fire away, and finally flung the hides as a cloak on his back, and now he looked like a hunter on the surface.

If there were hunters on Frost as well.

Walking out of the cave, Alan glanced at the cave where the two of them had been kept warm last night with some reluctance. Then he turned around, let out a clear roar, and swept down the high slope like a great bird, throwing himself into the woods not far away. Orienting himself to the shadows of the sunlit trees, Alan headed east. The Kaiyan base was located to the east, and he didn't know where he was now, but as long as he walked east, he would always find something.

The footprints he left on the snow were very deep, and in addition to the weight of the heavy knife itself, the weight of the rucksack that bulged up again was not light. The Crystal Thorn Python he and Catherine had killed was no ordinary thing, and in Catherine's words, it was almost full of treasures.

The most valuable thing is, of course, the snake blood, which is the essence of the giant python. At that time, the snake's blood was absorbed in large quantities by the demon salute, and some of it was transfused to Eren. Alan was affected by the snake nature and had a relationship with Catherine, the blood essence of the giant python not only enhanced Allen's source power and accelerated the healing of his injuries, but also some of the genes of the crystal python were taken away by the source device, causing the nature of Allen's source power to also undergo subtle changes.

This change had been noticed by Alan in the few days he had been on the surface, from his encounters with life underground. The attacks he now unleashes, or the abilities he unleashes, will have the electric snake entwined around it. Those light purple electric lights came from the ability of the crystal python, and after its genes were plundered by the source device, they were transformed and then combined with Allen's own genes, so Allen's source power and combat skills also changed accordingly.

These electric snakes add electric shock and paralysis to Eren's attacks, and more of their use is yet to be discovered by Allen.

In addition to snake blood, the scales of the python are very strong. These scales are the size of a palm and have an uneven surface. They were sturdy, and Catherine had to carry her gun with all her might to pierce the scales. At the same time, they are very light, and the amount of each scale is only about a few tens of grams. The rough surface can effectively disperse energy-type attacks, which has been indirectly confirmed by the fireball of Mother Earth at that time.

If you use snake scales to create a set of scale armor, you will undoubtedly have a little more guarantee of survival on the dangerous battlefield.

It's a pity that Allen's backpack has limited space and can't fit all the snake scales, so he only picks a dozen scales with the best properties and puts them in. But the weight of the rucksack is not because of them, but from something else.

Crystal Thorn.

Allen and the others took off twenty intact crystal thorns from the giant python, which should have been bone spurs, and under the transformation of the giant python again and again, these spikes have also undergone qualitative changes. They are completely crystallized from the inside out, and even naturally generate some crystal filaments, which greatly enhances the energy storage ceiling of the crystal thorns. After the death of the python, the source power in the crystal thorn was still full, and Catherine deduced that these should be the energy storage nodes of the crystal python, acting like a backup battery. When needed, provide additional source power supply for the crystal python.

This kind of crystal thorn can be processed and cut to make it a raw material for magic weapons or conductive patterns, and can also be used as a simple energy unit, and the application surface is more extensive than snake scales.