The advancement of the "reinforcements" on the southern front has stopped - they are barely "at the city". But in fact, these people can no longer move.

The temperature reached a terrible minus 97 degrees Celsius, and heavy snow fell in the sky - it was carbon dioxide snow condensed under extremely low temperatures. But hiding in the car was not safe, even though the temperature in the car reached more than minus 30 degrees Celsius. Obviously, the external temperature has far exceeded the limit that the warming system in the car can withstand.

It can be foreseen that these "reinforcement forces" may still need reinforcements, otherwise they will all turn into sculptures on this snow field.

Perhaps the safest one is Dai Bingcheng. Li Zhen always maintains a temperature of more than 20 degrees above zero, and he cannot truly experience what it feels like to be minus ninety-seven degrees below zero.

When Li Zhenfei arrived at the temporary command center, Hu Yanling and the guards' eyebrows were covered with frost. The heater had been turned on to the maximum power, but the ubiquitous chill still penetrated through the gaps everywhere.

Li Zhen put Dai Bingcheng down, and his guards used battlefield medical kits to aid him first. However, their movements were extremely clumsy and they could hardly even take a shot. So Li Zhen treated Dai Bingcheng's wound, and Dai Bingcheng kept staring at him and asked, "Is it the thing that matter?"

Li Zhen nodded and added: "I didn't expect it to be this level before."

Dai Bingcheng frowned and reached out to touch his left eye wrapped in bandage: "Can you control it?"

But Li Zhen asked back: "Have you brought what I want?"

Dai Bingcheng nodded: "Outside the city, in the car."

"Then I might be able to give it a try." Li Zhen stood up and nodded at Hu Yanling on the side. "Long time no see, Sister Yanling."

The gap in status makes the title "Sister Yan Ling" look a bit strange, but it undoubtedly quickly brought the relationship between the two people closer. Hu Yan Ling smiled and shook her head: "Long time no see - you shouldn't call me that."

"You will never become younger than me, right?" Li Zhen smiled, then waved his hand, "Then I'll leave."

He lifted the curtain before the two of them spoke and quickly disappeared into the sky.

Dai Bingcheng looked at the "snowflakes" flying in from outside and melted quickly, and whispered: "Do you think he really didn't expect it? Or do you want us to watch it?"

"He is a very simple person." Hu Yanling tightened his clothes and replied.

"... People can change, Yan Ling." Dai Bingcheng shook his head unanimously, and was silent for a while. He said again. "He is terrible now. I can't imagine it if I didn't see it with my own eyes."

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...

Li Zhen was not in a hurry to find what the reinforcements brought. He flew to the top of a building near the Gate of Truth.

From here, you can see the building at the headquarters of the Gate of Truth. The most eye-catching thing is a giant warehouse—a very similar to the warehouse that once was parked on planes, but this one is four times larger. This thing is like a tall building without windows. It stands quietly in the center of the complex.

Based on the information obtained from Wang Meng's mouth, this is where the arm is placed.

Strangely, he could see it. The building was gray.

——All buildings were covered with ice and snow, only this one was not. He narrowed his eyes and even saw a trickle of water slowly winding down from the roof.

There is no doubt that the temperature is higher there. Li Zhen knows that it is not because there is a human machine inside keeping it warm. Even if there is, it cannot be done so.

So he realized that his previous inference was correct.

This arm is absorbing heat, or energy.

The nearby became cold not because it had self-awareness and caused low temperatures like a capable person, but because even the heat in the air was absorbed by it, the entire area was cooling down.

But so far, this thing cannot absorb energy from humans at least, perhaps precisely because it does not have "self-awareness"?

He jumped down the stairs.

The ice layer on the ground was so strong that it was outrageously strong - even if he fell from a seventeen-story building, there was no crack on the ice.

He raised his foot and walked along the street and passed a gate. There were fortifications on both sides of the gate, but the people inside watched him walk through the middle with no objection in their eyes, which were frozen into ice beads.

He traveled unimpededly and finally destroyed the iron gate at the entrance with brute force. The corridor behind the door was quiet and everything turned into an ice sculpture. He walked past several people, recalling the topographic map that Wang Meng had drawn while walking. So far, it was still the periphery of the base, but at this time, both the periphery and the inside became unprepared. None of the guys around him opposed his arrival.

And he was resisting some kind of temptation, which made him unable to help but come here first to "look".

This feeling is not unfamiliar. He had experienced it once six or seven years ago. At that time, he was still a young man who knew nothing and met Adam one night.

Some irresistible message came from the skeleton, causing him to walk into the cave like a puppet in a daze.

But now he can at least remain rational and be conscious of the existence of that "temptation".

It's like a thirsty person seeing food and water. He knows that those things may be poisonous and he can control himself from touching those things, but no matter how strong willpower is, he cannot curb the desire for "longing" in his heart - unless he is neither hungry nor thirsty at all.

Li Zhen held the slightly trembling Longinus gun in his hand and looked at the wall. An electronic clock hung at the corner, and the time showed that it was July 28, 2020.

Finally he came to the entrance of the "tall building" and then he saw a man.

A beautiful white woman was sitting on the wall at the door, wrapped in a thick warm coat. When she saw Li Zhen, the other party was not too panicked, but slowly stood up. She looked at him carefully for a while and introduced herself: "I am Vivian."

Li Zhen discovered a very interesting fact - people from the Gate of Truth seemed to be so calm and composed when facing destruction. It was unclear whether it was due to "faith".

He nodded: "I know you. So, are you staying to guard the gate?"

"I know I can't hold on." Vivian shook his head, "so my purpose is to tell you something--before you open this door."

"Well, the necessary procedures before handover. You said."

Vivian was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect Li Zhen to be as calm as she was. But after a moment she realized the reason - there seemed to be no power in the world to stop him. So she smiled bitterly: "First of all, I have to tell you that the thing inside is terrible, and it seems to be closely related to you and that person."

"You should know that we used to poison you - your body cannot be immune to or heal itself. Now I can tell you that the virus is improved with the extract from that thing. What's amazing is that it only works for you."

Vivian mentioned one thing Li Zhen minds the most - the gun in his hand can indeed suppress the power of that kind of virus. However, he never wants to live with such a gun for the rest of his life. Therefore, his expression changed: "Do you have a cure in your hands?"

Vivian shook her head: "Sorry, we don't. I'm just reminding you what kind of connection it might have with you."

Lee Zhen shrugged: "Is there any more?"

"The new humans we created are also because of it. We have cut some genetic fragments from its cells - surprisingly, those fragments perfectly merged with human genes and created stronger individuals. If you come later, we will do more perfectly."

"I'm not very interested in this." Li Zhen said. "And what?"

Vivian's face did not change, but his voice seemed a little excited: "I mentioned its genetic sample. The last thing I want to tell you is that it contains all the known information. I know you have studied genes of species - there are almost all the genetic information of mammals, reptiles, and birds. However, this thing... you can find information from it about all the known organisms on the earth. In other words, we have it. We don't have it, and it also has it."

"The most important thing is that all characteristics are explicit."

Li Zhen thought about the meaning of this sentence for a moment, then raised his head: "For example, it should have wings, horns, cheeks, feathers, scales, mucus, and hooves... At the same time, it should be warm-blooded, or cold-blooded?"

Vivian nodded: "It is the case in theory, but it may not be like this. For example, you don't have wings on your body now - everything exists under the control of the ontological consciousness."

"I understand." Li Zhen nodded, "Tell me what I want to explain?"

Vivian took a deep breath and said slowly: "From a biological perspective, that thing is the ancestor and origin of all living things. Of course, it can also be said to be the end and fusion of all living things. It can be regarded as the source or the final point of evolution. So, if you think about the 'last day', do you think of anything?"

Li Zhen nodded calmly: "There is a great possibility that it is the mysterious catastrophe - just like a species to humans."

Vivian looked at him and frowned slightly: "You are not surprised?"

"I know more than you think." Li Zhen said, "Are you finished?"

Vivian pursed her lips: "I'm done. Now you can do what you want. My full name is Vivian Longineus."

"It's his daughter." Li Zhen smiled and paused slightly, "Where is Kitagawa's skeleton?"

"…on the second floor of the underground, b214." Vivian closed her eyes.

However, after a while, she did not feel the pain. So she opened her eyes a crack and found that Li Zhen walked past her and placed her hand on the door panel behind her.

She hesitated for a while and finally asked before she was about to turn around and leave, "Don't you kill me?"

"You should be glad you didn't plan to kill me," Li Zhen said without looking back, "but it doesn't mean you are innocent - you have a share of the things you do. I will leave you to the judgment of the dead in the city of Murmansk - if you can escape alive."

After saying that, he closed his eyes slightly and felt the warmth coming from the door panel.

Vivian didn't know when she left. But Li Zhen knew that her chances of survival were pitifully small. In the entire city of Murmansk, there was no place to survive a single person except this building and near herself.

He felt the warmth - the warmth was waving slightly, as if a flame was burning behind the door.

And the Longinus gun in his hand became more and more restless.

So after a minute, he took a deep breath and pushed open the door.

A white mist appeared in front of me - because the cold outdoor air meets the hot air in the room, the water vapor condenses.

And there is a slight light after the fog.

This scene made his heart hop violently - he remembered the dream he had had since seven years ago. It was a dream that lasted for seven years, and in the dream he was like a level breaker.

——Traveling hard in a river made of blood, and the end of the river was also like this fog at the beginning.

He subconsciously looked down, and then his pupils expanded violently, as if he was a dying person.

There was red liquid on the ground. Those blood-like things did not meander and flowed over slowly. The sticky and bright liquid emitted a slight smell of blood and a hint of sweetness.

He held his hand tightly, hid his slightly trembling fingertips in his palm, and took two steps out of the mist that covered everything.

It was a huge arm burning with flames.

Wang Meng said that the arm was more than ten meters long. But at this time it had reached the ceiling of the warehouse. It was like a human arm was magnified countless times. There were blazing flames on it. The palms that were standing on the ceiling were spread out like a spasm. The fingers pressed against the ceiling, as if they were planning to push it through.

And blood flows out from one end of the arm - huge blood vessels poked out from the fracture, and those blood vessels are expanding and gushing out the flowing blood.

If I remember correctly, Wang Meng said that the other end of the arm was closed. Li Zhen frowned, and he realized that this "blood flowing" scene might not be a bad thing for that arm at this moment - it means it has regained its vitality and started to grow, and continuously created new blood with the energy it absorbs...

Trying to retrieve his lost torso.

He didn't know what the scene in front of him meant compared to that dream. In the dream, he was in a river of blood, and in this room, the surface of the ground was covered with blood.

However, such doubts did not bother him for too long, and another thing attracted all his attention.

The palm that is supported on the roof has only four fingers.

It lacked the little finger, and a wound did appear at the end of the palm, and blood kept overflowing from the wound.
To be continued...