Steel steam and flame

They continued to follow the path left in the snow, and in about an hour and a half, the traces completely disappeared. The huge clumps of snow that fell from the trees buried all the traces, making it impossible for the eyes to distinguish them. The nine people looked at the delicate snow in front of them in a daze, their footsteps stopped in place, unable to find a specific direction, and they didn't know where to pursue. Most of the surrounding scenery looks the same.

Gabri climbed up an old tree and looked into the distance. Now there were no traces of discontinuity. The actual situation was also different from Gabri's judgment. He always thought that it would happen after the traces completely disappeared, which should happen after walking out of the woods. But because of the weather, all influencing factors are changing.

He took out the test tube in the small pocket on his waist and looked at it. It contained a transparent liquid with no other obvious characteristics.

"There's still half an hour before the debugged things will be effective." He said to the other eight people who were on guard around him. "You can rest during this time. You have traveled such a long distance." His tone was very calm, and finally Gabri still managed to hold back his anger. These people had not caused him any trouble so far. The people who caused the trouble had died a few hours ago, although the entire process had not passed through his hands.

Half an hour is not long, but in the woods where the only sound is the quiet wind, the body cools down in less than a few minutes. Gabri himself had been staying in the big tree, resting against the trunk with his eyes closed, like a sloth lying there, motionless, with only a slight rise and fall in his chest.

He seemed to have fallen asleep, several other people guessed. They pushed out a place in the snow with a little less snow and gathered together, keeping watch while keeping warm to reduce the decline in physical fitness.

They also wanted to rest with their eyes closed, but the effects of the stimulants were still there and their bodies did not allow them to close their eyes. There were only a few students among their contemporaries who could ignore the effects of stimulants like Gabri. The nine people just waited in silence for time to pass by quietly.

When Gabri opened his eyes, it was still half an hour later. His biological clock is very accurate, even comparable to some slightly more precise mechanical clocks. This meticulous precision is needed when adapting various medicines. This precise biological clock ability may have been developed through a large number of experiments.

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

"Get ready to go." He said expressionlessly, the time gap between him and the enemy widening. Whether he could catch up with the enemy after this, he didn't have an accurate answer in his mind. It was snowing heavily now, and the environment had a great impact on various chemical substances. He was not sure whether the tracking substances left on the enemy would lose their due effect in the heavy snow.

The transparent liquid in the test tube turned light yellow at this time, and was so viscous that it seemed to be caked inside. Gabri then took out a small sprayer from his backpack, mixed a diluent-like liquid, and poured it into the compressed can in the sprayer.

At this time, others swept away a small layer of snow around them, revealing the snow layer from about an hour ago.

He asked everyone to quickly put on breathing masks, and he also put the white mask on his face. Then everyone added two dark lenses to the glass pieces of the mask's eyes.

"Chichi,,,"

Gabri raised his hand, stood in the spotlight and sprayed a few times into the air. The mixed liquid inside was sprayed out in the form of mist. It did not seem to have the characteristics of most liquids. In an environment of more than ten degrees below zero, it did not immediately turn into white frost.

The mist dispersed into the air at an extremely fast speed and was diluted. There are no obvious changes in the surroundings, everything is operating in its original form and rules.

Several other people seemed to have seen this kind of thing happen several times. In about half a minute, other vague colors appeared on the surface of the snow in the dark lenses. They are some darkened red patches, not many in number, and the patches are very unstable, and some of them are slowly dissipating.

The patches formed a line, pointing into the distance of the woods. Gabri took out a map and compass, compared them and thought about them for a while, and finally decided on the general direction of travel, and led the team to pursue them.

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 lengthened a lot.

Gabri looked at the gentle slope in front of him that was completely covered with snow, and finally felt helpless in his heart. The snow was still falling down in large tracts, and the thickness of the snow was no longer unlimited at this time. They gained weight, and the bottom layer of snow began to be compacted, and the thickness actually dropped a little at this time. This may be good news. At some point, the wind that suddenly became much lighter became another comfort in their hearts.

Snowflakes have fallen almost vertically, as densely as curtains hanging from the sky. Large amounts of powdery hoarfrost were blown up by the wind on the surface of the snow, which greatly hindered the field of vision. Objects began to blur a hundred meters away.

Gabri and others walked up a gentle slope along the cliff on one side, where they could hear the sound of rapidly flowing water in the mountain stream below.

Now, it's becoming troublesome for them to move forward. It is no longer easy to extract the traces left by enemies 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 each time you have to sweep the snow away several times before you can see those obvious red patches.

Under the dark lenses, the red patches became very small, and the chemical traces were slowly being diluted by the snow, and they would disappear completely in a short time. Gabri no longer had any absolute hope of catching up with the enemy.

"Wait until these traces disappear completely, then go back along the road to meet Shanerna and the others." Gabri thought in his heart. Of course, being able to follow the traces and find the enemy would be the best result. He thought that the chance of this possibility was not high.

It is certain that the toxic substances have begun to destroy the enemy's body. At this time, the enemy's mobility should have dropped to the level of ordinary people. A small part of the blood will begin to coagulate, and the body tissues far away from the heart will lose consciousness earlier. At that time, control will also become troublesome.

And the scary thing about Type 5 toxic substances is not the effect of blood coagulation, but the series of chain reactions caused by blood coagulation in the body and blood vessels. The body is a whole, and if there is a problem in one part, it will inevitably drag down all other aspects. And the chain reaction is also very fast.

There was always a vast expanse of white around them. Gabri and the others walked on the gentle slope for a long time, but there was no real sense that they had advanced a lot of distance.

Someone in the team suggested returning along the road to meet up with Shan Erna and the others to save time in looking for other prey. There were also a dozen captains, and an enemy colonel. There are many more goals, and there are many opportunities to earn points and high ratings, not just enemies that are nowhere to be seen.

Not long ago Gabri conducted a search for traces. Most of the medicine in the small sprayer was used, but no matter how many layers of snow were swept away, those blackened red patches never appeared in their dark lenses. They had to admit that they had indeed lost all traces of the enemy. It was not only the enemies who were trapped by the heavy snow, but also themselves.

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

There is a forest not far away, vaguely green and black. His instinct told him that the enemy might be there. It is during this period that the poisonous substances take effect. Perhaps within a short distance, a frozen enemy can be dug out of the snow.

Down the gentle slope is the forest. It will take about four or five hours to search through it. It will be completely dark at that time.

Gabri thought that Shan Erna's movements would not be much faster than his own, so he decided to go to the woods. If there was no result, he would not miss anything when he returned. They also needed a rest, and the woods were a good choice.

The others nodded in agreement, but Gabri's attitude was firm. Others were unwilling to make Gabri unhappy. Because they knew very well that even if those three people were not killed by the enemy, they might die one after another due to other accidents while chasing the enemy. There was no equality between them and Gabri, so there was no fairness at all.

The woods under the heavy snow were almost the same, and they felt like they were back where they started. Unable to find any valuable clues, they could only follow the edge of the woods layer by layer. It took them about two or three hours to carefully search the areas in the woods where the enemy was most likely to walk, but Still haven't gotten any information.

The sky was getting darker earlier, and the heavy snow that had been falling all day finally began to lighten up. The wind became lighter, and the frozen leaves no longer made any sound as they collided with each other.

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

Having completely lost his prey, Gabri was in no mood to rush back to join Shan Erna.

"Find a place to repair, recover your mental and physical strength, and set off again in about six or seven hours." He told the people behind him. No one had any objections. He followed the enemy's traces for almost a day, requiring concentration at all times. It makes their heads hurt.

"There is a cave there." Someone said pointing not far away. Everyone looked over with wide eyes. The color of the mountain was almost mixed with the dim light in the woods.

"It's right there, passing through the tree a little bit. The snow is light. If other teams pass by here, it will be easy to find us within two or three hours." Gabri said, and swung flexibly after climbing up the tree. Go over and jump to the front of the cave.

This cave was not sealed, and there seemed to be other exits connected to it. Standing in front of the cave, Gabri felt a weak wind blowing on his face, which was several degrees colder than the wind in the woods. And it had a familiar smell to him, that was the smell of blood. In addition to basic courses in school, his direction of study was chemistry. I like to tinker with various agents and chemicals, many of which are biological agents. During the experiment, most of the processes will look at the effect of the medicine on the blood.

And even if you are not familiar with it, as long as your sense of smell has been surgically modified, you can still detect the smell of blood. Others also came to the cave at this time, and they all smelled the smell of blood in the atmosphere to varying degrees.

Several people looked at each other before their relaxed bodies tensed up again. They turned on the flashlights fixed on their heads and tightened their cold hats. Then they reorganized into a team, picked up their guns and walked in little by little.

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

Gabri asked two people to guard here and shoot immediately if something was wrong. 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 and others followed the smell of blood and moved on. The smell of blood became stronger here. The cave was not very deep. After walking maybe dozens of meters, they found the source of the wind.

"The cave here seems to be like a tree root, spreading from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain." Gabri looked at the small wind cave above his head and judged in his heart, "No wonder the wind is so cold. It pours in from some holes on the top of the mountain.”

These wind holes are so small that Gabri believes they can be compared to household air-conditioning ducts, only there are more of them. After walking through the wind cave, the air suddenly warmed up a few degrees, and the smell of blood was even worse than before. They felt they were close to the source of the blood smell. Under the light of the flashlight, they saw the end of the cave. The space there was slightly larger and was a small cavity.

In the cavity, they saw a dark shadow under the light, imprinted on the stone wall of the cave, as if it were something from some living organism.

Several people leaned against the mountain and turned on several fluorescent sticks at the same time, throwing them into the dark cavity to illuminate it. There was no one, only some scattered snow-white bones, but they were obviously not human, but seemed to belong to some animals. Judging from the color of the bones under fluorescence, he had been dead for some time.

In a corner at the edge of the cavity they saw something like a nest. There was a small shallow pit that had been dug by some animal with its sharp claws. Inside the shallow pit is the source of the smell of blood. There was a pile of complete animal organs, a clean skeleton, a pair of fur and a huge head. It's the head of a hibernating brown bear that lives here.

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

The shallow pit was filled with brown bear organs and blood. The blood has not completely coagulated yet, only most of it has turned into jelly. There was also a large amount of coagulated blood on the ground at the edge of the shallow pit, which might have been spilled.

Gabri walked around and watched carefully. Through that huge brown bear head, you can completely imagine how strong this hibernating brown bear will be. An ordinary brown bear weighs about eight or nine hundred kilograms, but this adult brown bear may be considered an anomaly in this ancient mountain range, weighing at least close to a ton and a half, Gabri thought.

But such a huge brown bear was dead and all its meat had been eaten clean. And it seemed that not long ago, the colors on those organs were still fresh. Just as Gabri was thinking about who killed the brown bear, under the light, he felt something was wrong with the blood congealed in front of his eyes. That is a difference in color, a difference in taste, and a difference in the essential composition of blood.

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

"Go back!" Gabri yelled immediately, "Something might have happened to the two people outside."

The others still didn't understand what happened, so they could only run back behind Gabri.

Gabri had no time to explain at this time. In his eyes, the blood turned into ice cubes had two colors. If you look carefully, you can see the difference. That piece of blood came from two different organisms. One of them obviously belonged to the brown bear, but whose could the other one belong to?

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

The enemy does not have the ability to prepare antidotes and can only use the most primitive methods to reduce toxic substances in the body and prevent them from continuing to circulate. It's old, but it's definitely practical, and it's a method that may work in theory. That is to drain all the blood from the body, and then re-produce enough blood through the own bone marrow to maintain the basic functions of the body.

It takes a lot of energy to make bone marrow produce blood, and the hibernating brown bear's body is full of flesh and blood, which can provide enough energy.

"What a terrifying digestion ability." Gabri's whole face tensed up, and he gritted his teeth. He didn't know how to evaluate it, and finally said this sentence.