Chapter 453: Reinvention (5)
They continued to follow the path left on the snow, and for an hour and a half, the traces on it were completely gone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoThe large cloud of snow that fell from the trees buried all the traces, and the eyes could not distinguish them. The nine people looked at the delicate snow in front of them in a daze, their footsteps stopped in place, they couldn't find a specific direction, and they didn't know where to go. Most of the surrounding scenery is the same.
Gabrie climbed an ancient tree and looked into the distance, and now there was no trace of it. The actual situation also differed from Gabby's judgment, which he had always believed would not happen until the traces were completely gone, and it should have been after he walked out of the woods. But because of the weather, all the influencing factors are changing.
He took out the test tube in the small pocket of his waist and looked at it, which contained a clear liquid with no other obvious features.
"There's still half an hour before the debugging stuff works. He said to the other eight people who were guarding the area, "You can rest during this time, and you have traveled such a long way." The tone was very calm, and in the end Gabri still put up with his anger, and these people had not caused him any trouble so far. The people who caused the trouble had died a few hours earlier, though the whole process had not gone through his hands.
Half an hour was not a long time, but in the woods, which were so quiet that only the sound of the wind remained, it took less than a few minutes for the body to cool down. Gabby himself had been resting on the tree, leaning against the trunk with his eyes closed, like a sloth lying there, motionless, with only a slight heaving of his chest.
It seems to have fallen asleep, a few other people speculated. They pushed out a place with a little less snow in the snow and gathered together, on the one hand, on the one hand, and on the other hand, to reduce the decline in physical fitness.
They also want to rest with their eyes closed, but the stimulant is still working, and the body does not allow them to close their eyes. There were few people in their contemporaries who could ignore the effects of doping as Gabri. The nine of them waited in silence for time and walked quietly over.
When Galley opened his eyes, it was half an hour later. His biological clock is so accurate that it can be compared to some of the more sophisticated mechanical clocks. When it comes to adapting to a variety of chemicals, you need this meticulous precision. Probably developed in a large number of experiments, this ability to have a precise biological clock.
He jumped from a tree and landed in the snow half waist deep.
"Ready to go. He said with a blank face, the time gap between him and the enemy had widened. Whether he could catch up with the enemy after this, he himself did not have an accurate answer in his heart. It was snowing heavily, and the environment had a very strong impact on various chemicals, and he wasn't sure if the tracking materials left behind by the enemy would lose their due effect in the heavy snow.
The clear liquid in the test tube turned yellowish at this point, and it was so viscous that it seemed to form lumps inside. Gabby then took a small sprayer out of his backpack, mixed it with a thinner-like liquid, and poured it into the compressed jar of the sprayer.
At this point, the others swept away a small layer of snow from the surrounding area, revealing a layer of snow that had been around about an hour earlier.
He told everyone to hurry up and put on their breathing masks, and he put the whitening mask over his face. Then everyone added two more dark lenses to the glass of the mask's eyes.
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Gabrie raised his hand, stood on the head of the wind and squirted into the air a few times. The mixed liquid inside is sprayed out in the form of mist, as if it does not have the characteristics of most liquids, and it does not turn into a hoarfrost at the first time in an environment of more than ten degrees below zero.
The mist disperses into the air at a breakneck speed and is diluted. There are no noticeable changes around us, nothing is working in its original form and rules.
A few other people seemed to have seen this kind of thing a few times, and for about half a minute, other colors appeared on the surface of the snow in the dark lenses. There are blackened, red patches, not many in number, and the patches are very unstable, some of which are slowly dissipating.
The patches formed a line that pointed to the distance of the woods. Gabby took out the map and compass, thought about it for a while, and finally decided on the general direction of progress, and chased after the team.
It took them a lot of time to get out of the deep woods behind them, and the distance between them and the enemy was much longer at this point.
Gabby looked at the gentle slope in front of him, which was completely covered in snow, and a sense of powerlessness finally rose in his heart. The snow was still falling in large areas, and the thickness of the snow was no longer infinitely thickened at this time. They gained weight, and the bottom layer of snow began to be compacted, at which point the thickness dropped a little. This could be good news. I don't know when, the sudden much lighter wind has become another comfort in their hearts.
The snowflakes had fallen almost vertically, dense like curtains hanging from the sky. The surface of the snow was blown up by the wind and the field of vision was greatly obstructed, and the object began to blur from a hundred meters away.
Gabry and the others walked up a gentle slope along one side of the cliff, where they could hear the sound of rushing water from the mountain stream below.
Now, they're getting into trouble if they don't move forward. It is no longer easy to extract the traces left by enemies in the snow through flasks. Every time they judged the direction of the enemy's escape, they took dozens of times longer than in the woods. And I had to sweep the snow away several times at a time to see the obvious red patches.
Under the dark lenses, the red patches are becoming smaller, and the chemical traces are slowly diluted by the snow, and it will not be long before they disappear completely. Gabri no longer had absolute expectations in his heart to catch up with the enemy.
"When the traces are completely gone, go back along the road to join Shannar and them. Gabbrey thought to himself, of course, it would be best to follow the traces to find the enemy, and he didn't think that the odds of such a possibility were great.
It is certain that toxic substances have already begun to destroy the enemy's body. At this point, the enemy's mobility should have dropped to the level of ordinary people, a small part of the blood began to coagulate, and the tissues of the body far away from the heart would lose consciousness before one step, and control would become troublesome at that time.
And the horror of type 5 toxic substances 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 if one part goes wrong, it will inevitably drag down all other aspects. And the speed of the chain reaction is also very fast.
It had always been a white expanse all around, and Gabry and the others had walked a long time on the gentle slope, but they did not have the real feeling of advancing many distances at all.
Someone in the group suggested going back along the road to join up with Shannar and the others, saving time to find other prey. There were also a dozen captains, as well as an enemy colonel. There are many more objectives, and there are many opportunities to earn points and high ratings, not just enemies that you can't find in front of you.
Not long ago, Gabry searched for traces. Most of the potion in the small sprayers was used, but no matter how many layers of snow were swept away, the blackened red patches never appeared in their dark lenses. It has to be admitted that they did lose all traces of the enemy, and it was not only the enemy who was trapped by the heavy snow, but also themselves.
Gabry put away the sprayer, ripped off the mask, and inhaled a few breaths of cold air into his stomach.
Not far away there was a wood, faintly blue-black. His intuition told him that the enemy might go there. The onset of toxicity of poisonous substances is during this time, and perhaps a short distance will be able to turn over frozen enemies in the snow.
Down the gentle slope was the woods, and it would take about four or five hours to search through them, just before it was completely dark.
Gabriel thought that Shanrna's movements would not be much faster than his own, so he decided to go to the woods, and if it didn't bear fruit, he wouldn't miss anything when he returned. They need a break too, and the woods are a good choice.
The others nodded in agreement, and Gabre was adamant. The others didn't want to upset Gabry. Because they knew very well that even if those three men were not killed by the enemy, they might die one after another due to other accidents on the way to pursue the enemy. There is no equality between them and Gabri, so there is no fairness at all.
The woods under the heavy snow were almost identical, and they felt like they were back to square one. Unable to find any valuable clues, they could only follow the edge of the woods layer by layer, and it took them about two or three hours to carefully search the woods, the area where the enemy was most likely to walk, but still did not get a single message.
It was getting darker earlier, and after a whole day of heavy snowfall, it finally became lighter, the wind became lighter, and the frozen leaves no longer collided with each other and made a sound.
They began to walk back, and the light was much darker on the way, probably getting dark earlier.
Having completely lost his prey, Gabby was in no mood to hurry back to join Shanrna.
"Find a place to recuperate, regain your mental and physical strength, and then set off in about six or seven hours. He said to those behind him, no one objected, and they had been running for almost a day following the enemy's trail, demanding attention at all times, which made their heads ache.
"There's a cave there. Someone pointed not far away, and everyone looked wide-eyed, and the color of the mountain was about to blend with the dim light of the woods.
"It's right there, little by little past the trees. The snow was light, and if other teams passed by, it would be easy to spot us within two or three hours. Gabriel said, swinging nimbly over the tree and jumping in front of the cave.
The cave was not sealed, as if there were other exits connected to it, and as Gabry stood in front of the cave he felt a faint wind blowing in his face, a few degrees colder than in the woods. And it had a familiar smell in it, which was the smell of blood. In addition to the basic courses in school, he studied chemistry himself. Likes to tinker with all kinds of potions and chemicals, many of which are biopharmaceuticals. In most of the experiments, we look at what the agent does to the blood.
And even if you are not familiar with it, as long as the smell part has been surgically modified, the smell of blood can still be detected. The others also came to the cave at this time, and they all smelled the blood in the wind to varying degrees.
Several people glanced at each other, and their bodies tensed up again. They turned on the flashlight fixed to their heads, tightened their winter hats, and then regrouped, picked up their guns and walked in little by little.
Carefully observing the front, the space inside the cave is very spacious, and not far from entering, several molecules appeared, and each molecule had a wind blowing out of its mouth.
Gabbey had two men stay here, and when he saw something was wrong, he immediately opened fire. In the cave, the sound of gunfire can be heard far away in an instant, and there is no fear that they will not hear it.
He himself followed the smell of blood with the others. The smell of blood became stronger here, the cave was not very deep, and after walking maybe a few tens of meters away, they found the source of the wind.
"The cave here is like a tree root, and it spreads from the top of the mountain range to the bottom of the mountain. Gabby looked at the small wind cave above his head, and judged in his heart, "No wonder the wind is so cold, it all pours in from some holes in the top of the mountain." β
These air vents are so small that Gabriel thinks they can be compared to the air conditioning ducts in a home, but there are more of them. After walking through that wind cave, the air suddenly warmed up a few degrees, and the smell of blood was even worse than before. They felt that they were close to the source of the smell of blood. In the light of the flashlight, they saw the end of the cave, where the space was a little larger, a small cavity.
In the cavity, they saw a dark shadow in the light, imprinted on the stone walls of the cave, as if it were something from some living organism.
Several people leaned against the mountain, twisted a few glow sticks at the same time, and threw them into a dark cavity to illuminate the inside. There were no people, only a few scattered snow-white dry bones, but obviously not human, as if they were some animals. Judging by the color of the bones under the fluorescence, it has been dead for some time.
In one of the corners of the cavity, they saw something resembling a nest. It had been gouged by some animal with sharp claws, and there was a small shallow pit. Inside the shallow pit is the source of the smell of blood. There was a pile of complete animal organs, as well as a cleanly cleaned skeleton, as well as a pair of fur and a huge head. It's the head of a brown bear that lives here and hibernates.
A few people walked over and turned the flashlight to the maximum.
The shallow pit was filled with brown bear's organs and blood. The blood has not completely clotted, only half of it has become jelly-like. There were also large patches of clotted blood on the ground at the edge of the shallow pit, probably spilled.
Gabby watched carefully from the sidelines. Through the huge brown bear head, it is completely possible to imagine what kind of strong body this hibernating brown bear will have. The average brown bear weighs about eight or nine hundred kilograms, but this adult brown bear may be considered an outlier in this ancient mountain range, weighing at least about a ton and a half, Gabbrey thought.
But such a huge brown bear is dead, and all the meat is eaten clean. And it seems that the time has only passed, and the colors on those organs are still fresh. Just as Gabriel was contemplating who had killed the brown bear, he felt something wrong with the blood clotted in front of him under the light. It's the difference in color, it's the difference in taste, and it's the difference in the essential composition of the blood.
He had a bad premonition of his own, and immediately crouched down and grabbed a handful of blood frozen into ice, and put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully for a few seconds.
"Go back!" Gabry immediately yelled, "there may be something wrong with the two people out there." β
The others didn't understand what was happening, so they could only run back after Gabri.
Gabrie didn't have time to explain. In his eyes, the blood that had become ice cubes had two colors, and if you carefully distinguish them, you can completely see the difference. That piece of blood came from two different organisms. One of them is obviously the brown bear's, but who would the other be?
Gabby was unsure, but he had already thought of a possibility. That's the enemy's, and the toxic substances circulate in the bloodstream and act directly on the bloodstream. And it has already worked, so that the blood of the enemy begins to clot.
The enemy does not have the ability to configure an antidote, and can only use the most primitive methods to reduce the toxic substances in the body, preventing them from continuing the cycle. It's old, but it's definitely practical, and it's theoretically possible. That is to drain all the blood in the body, and then remake enough blood through your own bone marrow to maintain the basic functions of the body.
It takes a lot of energy to make blood from the bone marrow, and the brown bear that is hibernating is full of flesh and blood that can be linked to enough energy.
"What a terrifying ability to digest. Gabry's whole face tensed, his mouth gritted his teeth, and he didn't know what to say, and finally said this.