Light Fortress
Chapter 449 - 96 Frozen Snow_2

Chapter 449: Chapter 96 Frozen Snow_2

A wisp of Chi Huo ignited between his eyebrows, crackling softly but inconspicuously. Under the blow of the cold wind, it almost blended into the same pale white as the snowy mountains.

"Is the ’Lamp of Sorrow’ buried in such a place..."

Gu Shen furrowed his brows, deep in thought.

It was vast!

The snowfield was enormously vast; the snow had piled up for countless years. Searching for a bronze lamp the size of an arm in such a place was like looking for a needle in a haystack!

Although the environment was harsh, fortunately, the Spiritual Link could still be established.

"There are ’people’ here."

Chu Ling’s voice rang out again.

At the same time, an image entered Gu Shen’s field of vision.

It was a thermal imaging sense map.

Two figures appeared in the vast expanse of snow far away, their forms blurred in the thermal imaging.

Gu Shen squinted his eyes.

Those who could reach the tundra were very likely not ordinary people.

This place had already passed the "safety line" warned by the Federation Government. Ordinary travelers could not venture deep into such a hostile, uninhabited area, let alone stride briskly through the heavy snow.

The two figures walked very steadily and quickly.

They were Transcendents!

Gu Shen instantly subdued the Chi Huo at his brow, crouched down, and lay flat. His spiritual power was sharp, but he still didn’t know the details of the others. Rashly rushing out might attract attention instead.

He buried himself in the howling wind and snow.

The two figures reached the front of a snowy mountain and slowly came to a halt.

The distance was too great.

Blocked by thick mountain rocks, Gu Shen squinted his eyes, pondering something.

"The environmental noise is too loud...the target’s voice cannot be captured." Chu Ling said, "I can’t discern the content of their conversation."

"No matter."

Gu Shen had completed his final consideration.

He held his breath, swooped down from the top of the snowy mountain like a thousand-pound boulder crashing down!

"Whoosh—"

He took out the Truth Ruler.

The next moment, the majestic wind and snow swept through the air, converging on either side of his spine.

Gu Shen’s body, as hefty as a chunk of iron, lightened. He seemed to transform into a kite, his sleeves instantly coated with a layer of frosty white from the wind and snow.

Accompanied by the buzzing trembling sounds, the mountain ridge’s fierce wind lifted him from his fall, nearly pulling him straight upward, and finally he perched in the air like a snowy eagle, because the extremely tight mountain rocks prevented the two stationed Transcendents from detecting Gu Shen’s presence at all.

It was precisely because of the two thermal imprints behind the mountain rocks, showing no unusual reactions or movements.

Gu Shen boldly released his own "Chi Huo" to scout the outside situation.

A wisp of flame, wrapped under the silver arc of the Truth Ruler, shot out and instantly swept back.

Less than a second.

Chi Huo had clearly discerned the "real and fake" of those two Transcendents...

"These are two second-level Transcendents."

Gu Shen transmitted this data back to Zero Zero One.

"They haven’t detected your ’trace’, theoretically they should not be higher than the fifth level." Because of the timely transmission of Chi Huo’s data, Chu Ling immediately interrupted the deduction of information about these two people. "However, this doesn’t seem to be good news."

"Indeed..."

Gu Shen did not feel relieved; on the contrary, he hovered in the vast snow, his expression growing more solemn.

With such strength, it would be difficult to survive alone in this environment.

There must be stronger Transcendents behind these two guys.

Chi Huo flickered covertly in the wind and snow, shimmering like the eyes of an eagle, firmly watching the two "Transcendents"... At the position where the two stood, at the foot of the mountain ridge, snow slid down.

A metal password door, perfectly concealed by heavy snow, now gradually revealed itself bit by bit.

They were undergoing identity verification!

With a "beep".

The alloy door opened.

The two Transcendents disappeared from view. After the password door closed, the thermal imaging sense map instantly dissipated...

"The craft of this door is very special, it’s likely made of Strong Logic Material. I can’t see what’s inside until I link to their database."

Chu Ling’s voice was heavy.

More than that, Gu Shen was even more worried that he might have arrived too late.

Someone had arrived one step ahead of him!

And... not just one person!

He landed back on the mountaintop and thought silently.

Were these people also here for the "Lamp of Sorrow"?

"The East Continent Government has not deployed the Heavenly Eye in the Tundra’s uninhabited region, and the link conditions are also quite poor, so the ’surveillance’ capability here is very weak," Chu Ling said. "I tried to pull data from the adjacent areas and perform data retrieval, but there’s too little information... The search results are poor."

This statement, however, awakened Gu Shen.

"Something’s not right."

Gu Shen muttered, "According to my judgment... after the Copper Human Lamp has been stripped of spirit, it should just be an ordinary mundane object. Does such an item warrant such attention?"

If the material carrier of the Copper Human Lamp also possesses incredible abilities,

then the Li Family would have probably heard of it over these six hundred years and started to have suspicions about the four lamps on Divine Temple Mountain... With the capabilities of the Li Family, it would be impossible for them to be unaware of the existence of ’spirit projection’."

So... these people were not here for the Copper Human Lamp?

"Perhaps... they had arrived here long ago?"

Gu Shen entertained this possibility in his mind.

He sat atop the mountain, silently observing the alloy cipher door... Clearly, the belly of the mountain concealed a secret base, building such a facility was no simple matter.

The guys who arrived before him were probably numerous.

What were they up to?

Before long,

another person walked out of the door, carrying a heavy sack... Gu Shen silently rose to his feet, sliding down from the mountaintop, steadily descending.

He followed silently behind the other, closing in gradually amidst the heavy snow.

"Such strange attire..."

Gu Shen frowned.

The wind and snow flared the man’s coarse linen robe, carved with obscure and strange characters; definitely not the style of the East Continent.

"These are scriptures from some church in the Southern Continent..."

Chu Ling’s voice also held surprise.

"Southern Continent?"

Gu Shen had never expected that the fellow hiding in the Tundra’s snow would actually be from the Southern Continent?

That place was full of churches, diverse beliefs, constantly in turmoil... In certain extreme areas, there would often be defectors fleeing.

But how could defectors run all the way to the northern Tundra? The conditions here were hardly any better than in the Southern Continent...

The next moment Gu Shen released his spiritual power.

As a result... the person leaving alone was completely unaware.

This was actually not a Transcendent, just an ordinary person!

Gu Shen quickly approached, extending his palm and lightly patting the other’s shoulder.

The almost ghostly contact startled the man, and the moment he turned around, he saw a streak of Chi Huo smash into his forehead.

Gu Shen did not even conduct an interrogation.

After confirming the other’s identity... he directly invaded his mind with spiritual power, rapidly retrieving the information he wanted.

He frowned.

A torrent of disordered, chaotic information flowed along with the Chi Huo into his mind.

What met his gaze was blood and fire!

Crude courtyard walls were knocked down, massive elephants collapsed heavily, blood splattered everywhere, gunfire blazing fiercely... These were the locked contents of this man’s memory, a war.

In a pool of blood, lay a shimmering piece of silver foil; the man reached for it, and it was engraved with a silver "trident"... The memory fragmented, clearly having been tampered with by powerful forces.

The scene shifted, countless voices were shouting in an obscure language.

Gu Shen could not understand, but he saw one silver foil after another.

All engraved with that "trident"...

Was this a distinctive object of some church?

Gu Shen frowned.

After that... only the cold, harsh snow remained.

This man had been brought here.

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(PS: Forgot to send blessings yesterday, wishing all the readers taking the college entrance examination can perform beyond their usual, and get admitted to the universities of their choice~ Although by the time you see this, you would probably have finished the exam already?)