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The pressure from the steel barrage suddenly decreased, and Hydra's four heads roared towards the sky. The roars were sharp and distant, like the sound of the tide echoing on the ice.
With its pathetic IQ and inadequate brain, it hadn't yet realized what would happen next. It only knew that the torrential blows on its body suddenly disappeared, and the steel and flames that suppressed it also disappeared.
The severed long neck was dead and drooping limply, and golden flames were burning in the pupils of the remaining four snake heads. It looked at the people on the deck with the eyes of looking at its prey, until its eyes met Constantine. A trace of vague fear was revealed on its hideous facial bones, which was actually human.
But Constantine didn't even pay more attention to this Hydra. When he calmed down and concentrated, he could smell more fishy smells coming from under the side of the ship, and hear the sound of dense scales scraping against metal, like herds of wild boars trampling on dead leaves in the winter forest.
Obviously, the monster approaching from behind the Imer was not just this one.
At this time, Regis Love was already walking forward slowly with two fire axes in her hands. She was wearing a slim silk nightgown under her white winter coat. The cold wind blew her skirt, like flowers blooming in the snow.
In front of Hydra's huge body that was like a sperm whale, Rigidreve was as small as an elk challenging an African elephant. After a moment, it finally noticed that the girl who had just dealt a heavy blow to it was gradually approaching.
Three of the four swaying figures were staring at Constantine, while the remaining one was looking down at the delicate and slender girl in the cold wind. The girl did not look very threatening, but the closer she got to him, the stronger the sense of danger that pricked his nerves became.
The distance between Rigidrev and Hydra grew closer and closer, and her footsteps became lighter and lighter, until finally she looked like Shuofang flying low over the deck.
The remaining four heads of Hydra finally focused all their attention on Rigidref at the same time. Those bloody mouths, which were as huge as rolling shutters when opened and had sharp teeth that could crush steel, gathered the reaction of some elements. Extremely cold white frost, golden thunder fragments, green thick acid mist and invisible but high-temperature airflow that made the surrounding air seem distorted, all overflowed from the gaps between Hydra's teeth.
According to legend, serpent dragons are the closest subspecies to dragons. Every time they grow a head, they gain a new spirit, until they finally gather the elements of the four great monarchs and become a true Hydra.
Now this giant snake has grown five heads, and it must have a very high status even among the Hydra clan.
When Rigidrev launched the charge, Hydra clearly retreated.
Just as humans will subconsciously dodge when faced with a sudden crisis, snakes will also make similar movements when faced with danger.
Although Regirev only launched the charge silently, without any elemental fluctuations on her body and without chanting any high-pitched and ancient words, Hydra knew very well that she was a more difficult opponent than the sperm whale.
But as the top predator on this ice field, Hydra is never a waste who sits and waits to die. Two of its four long necks that contract like springs suddenly pop out, and its speed is even faster than a bullet, setting off a roar similar to a sonic boom in the air.
The two hideous heads were like two sharp swords stabbed by a peerless swordsman, attacking Rigidrev from two different directions, one above and one below.
There shouldn't be any carbon-based creature in the world that could withstand such an attack. Whether it was the surging and violent elemental turbulence or the kinetic energy that could pierce or overturn a truck in an instant, theoretically it should be able to turn Regislove into a blurry mass of flesh and blood within a second.
But Rigidrev suddenly jumped up, her skirt spread out, and she swung the fire axe with a sharp whistle, smashing it down heavily on Hydra's two long necks.
But she underestimated the instinct of the beast and ignored the cunning and treachery of the dragon subspecies. There was actually a third long neck hidden behind the two heads that stabbed in front. The head that followed closely behind had a bloody mouth and was approaching Rigidref who was falling like a small locomotive with tremendous force.
The girl's condition at the moment was extremely dangerous. She couldn't dodge in the air without a foothold.
But she actually flew out a fire axe, and chopped off a snake head below. The kinetic energy of the snake head, which had begun to show signs of dragonization, had not yet been reduced. After separating from the long neck, it continued to fly forward a distance of more than ten meters, hitting the iron guardrail on the edge of the deck and completely deforming it.
Facing the snake head that was charging at her like the front of a train, Regislove simply snorted coldly. She did not dodge. At a certain moment, a crackling sound of bones popping came from her slender body, and a dragon bone state similar to that used by Lu Mingfei and Yuan Zhisheng was activated in Regislove's body. The delicate girl's bones tightly bit and strangled the steel cable like a tower crane. Her free hand clenched into a fist, and there were actually hard bone protrusions on the joints of the fist.
Then the punch landed on Hydra's facial bones, which were harder than bronze, and shattered them. The huge kinetic energy was completely absorbed and returned by Rigidrev in an instant. The long neck trembled and flesh and blood fell apart, as if the cervical vertebrae were trying to break free from the constraints of the muscles to breathe fresh air.
Then another fire axe accurately fell on the other long neck that Hydra popped out. The axe blade cut through the scales, tore the flesh and blood, and embedded itself into the cervical vertebrae. Hydra struggled violently.
A light snow fell from the sky. The boiling blood gushing out from Hydra's wounds dyed the flying snow red. The air was filled with a disgusting fishy smell. Hydra, who had lost four heads in a row, finally showed fear, but at the same time its pupils turned scarlet, as if its reason was overwhelmed by madness.
Nono looked solemnly at Regislove, who was panting slightly after falling on the frozen deck. She had lost her shoes at some point, and her bare white and delicate feet were stepping on a snake head that was still open and trying to swallow something after being cut off.
After a moment, Rigidrev bent down, and her seemingly non-lethal fist easily smashed Hydra's hard skull, pulling out a sharp section of spine that was covered in blood and emitting hot steam from deep inside the skull.
Then Rigidrev slowly swung the fragment of the spine, reminiscent of an assassin charging at you with his dagger.
Hydra's headless long neck was waving in the air, reminding people of the giant octopus monster emerging from the deep sea in myths and legends. However, with the blessing of the dragon bone state, Rigidref showed physical fitness that even far exceeded Caesar and Chu Zihang. She smashed the snake's tail and long neck in mid-air with her fists, and broke in front of Hydra so forcefully.
She used her wrist, whose bones were tightly connected and whose hardness was even greater than that of fine steel, to block the long neck that was coming down again. She tore off a large piece of flesh and blood and threw it into the mouth of the last snake head, which had opened its bloody mouth and was about to release a certain word spirit. The sharp spine pierced out and pierced Hydra's abdomen from the front.
After doing all this, Rigidrev retreated like lightning, and a sour and smelly liquid spurted out from the giant snake's abdomen. Then a white phosphorus incendiary bomb was thrown accurately into the wound where the internal organs could be seen. Dense white smoke then spurted out from the gaps in the wound, all of which were white phosphorus powder.
The poison and flames devoured the monster's flesh and blood madly. After a moment, it burst into flames and turned into a living torch, dancing wildly and falling from the deck.
A few seconds later, a heavy roar was heard on the ice, but more roars came from the side of the deck.
Constantine took a step forward. "Leave it to me next." He said, "I think there's something wrong with the body in the ice. Maybe the facilities on the ship can help us figure out whether he is Professor Schneider or not."
The next moment, dozens of snakes more than ten meters long stretched out from the edge of the deck. Their thick snake bodies were like giant trees covered with scales, and their ferocious golden vertical pupils flashed with crazy light.
Nono gritted his teeth.
It turned out to be a whole group of three or even five-headed Hydras. No one knew when they bypassed the ice and came to the rear of the Imer.
"You are very strong." She looked at Ridgelife who was adjusting her skirt beside her.
"From the outside, I look no different from you. According to Vincent's theory, I don't believe that the Kingdom of God really exists in this world... There are at least ten people like me even on the icebreaker in the Far North. Why do you think I can be called a saint?" Rigirev sneered, "I am much stronger than other sisters. My blood can calm down the fallen hybrids on the verge of collapse. My great-grandmother Maria of the Star was polluted by that door, and I inherited that pollution... For many people, the only thing they want to get on that ship is the blood of God. I don't need the blood of God because that thing is flowing in my body. I am a pathetic Holy Grail. I was born to be free instead of imprisoned. I have seen the sky, the sea, the forest, and all kinds of handsome guys, but those things never belong to me. So I want to escape. Whoever doesn't let me leave is my enemy. Whoever is my enemy, I will chop him into pieces with an axe."
She spoke calmly, but her tone was extremely cold.
"The academy... they won't imprison me and draw blood for experiments, right?" she said quietly.
Nuonuo was stunned for a moment. She thought of what would happen to Lu Mingfei if he was captured, and suddenly she felt tired and a little scared.
"The academy will," she said, "but we won't, because I'm a desperate man struggling in the cracks of this world just like you." Nono put her forehead close to Regislove's forehead. Blood was still flowing on the hem of Regislove's skirt. Heat rose from her body, and the mist enveloped both girls.
"Miss Chen, there are people on that boat." Yusuf shouted.
Nono's head suddenly raised, she snatched the telescope from Yusuf's hand and looked at the Yamal which had become a ruin in the distance.
It was a man. He was standing on a relatively intact porthole, with the corpses of two giant snakes lying at his feet. He was wearing a tuxedo in this climate, with blond hair and very long forehead hair.
Although it was just a slightly blurry figure, Nuonuo recognized him.
"Patsy..." she whispered.
Chapter 546: Little Goddess's Symphony of Destiny
"The facilities and equipment of this ship seem to be more complete than those of the Yamal." After putting down the fire axe and exiting the keel state, Reggie Reeves was once again the beautiful girl with clear eyes hiding under the white winter clothes.
Nono nodded and said, "After all, there is no need to provide services for hundreds of people like in the Far North. Apart from the necessary living and activity cabins, the other cabins are basically related to weapons, fuel and scientific research."
Whoever had rammed the Imael with the snakes and the out-of-control nuclear-powered icebreaker had misjudged the strength of these stalkers.
Even though all the members of the Far North were mixed-bloods and well-armed, Nono was confident that she could defeat them with the help of the crew of the Imer when a boarding battle actually took place. A group of pythons that were not even fully distorted could not pose any threat to her.
At this moment, the doctor on the ship had already used a forklift to bring the piece of ice that fell out of Hydra's abdomen into the medical cabin for autopsy. Nono and Reggie Reeves were drinking coffee in the lounge next door while waiting for the results.
Pasi Gattuso, who appeared in the ruins of the icebreaker, was also brought back from the ice by Yusuf and his task force. He has now been isolated in a separate cabin for intelligence verification by the crew.
The battle on the deck was quickly quelled after Constantine joined. The crew was cleaning up the battle, using an engineering forklift to push the several-ton giant snake carcasses, shell casings, and scrapped guns through the gap in the iron guardrail into the icy sea, and using a high-pressure water gun to clean the highly corrosive blood flowing in the cracks of the deck like a stream. As for the densely packed snake carcasses on the ice between the Yamal and the Imer, they were left alone.
This year's winter was particularly cold, too cold even for the Arctic under the polar night. Under such circumstances, there were few fishing boats or warships in the nearby waters, and even those small-tonnage icebreakers had difficulty breaking through the nearby ice.
When the ice melts in summer, the bodies frozen in the sea ice will fall into the sea and become food for other marine life.
Yusuf and his crew were hired by Su Enxi, which was similar to the ancient contract of selling their bodies. They had seen how powerful their employer was, and they were told before they set out on this journey that they might encounter some supernatural things that were difficult to explain with common sense. The confidentiality agreement signed by everyone before boarding the ship ensured that they would not leak the secrets of the dragon clan.
"You and Yusuf went to the ruins of the ship to investigate. Did you find anything valuable?" Nono asked.
There was only one person among them who came from the Far North and had been on the Yamal, and that person was Rigid Reeve.
The current situation is too weird, whether it is the two Yamals that appeared in the same channel at the same time, or Professor Schneider who was supposed to be in the control center at Hilltop Academy in Chicago to command the executive department but appeared in Hydra's abdomen and was wrapped in ice, and Pasi Gattuso who seemed to be in a different camp from the snake group. What happened in just a few hours has made this hunting trip confusing.
In fact, if Nono knew that Percy had been killed by Lu Mingfei with her throat cut in Odin's Nibelung above the viaduct, what she would feel now would not just be weird but horrifying.
"I went to check the top cabin and the engine room, and strangely, I didn't find anything unusual." Rigidrev said, curled up on the sofa. Her feet were exposed under her winter clothes, like the most exquisite jade works of art.
Nono noticed the hidden meaning in Reggie Reeves' words, "Why do you feel strange that nothing unusual was found?" she asked.
“Because in my memory, that ship was simply a hatchery left by a devil who wanted to take revenge on everyone.” Rigidrev said softly.
Nono's pupils contracted slightly.
The word hatchery was not unfamiliar to her. When high-level dragons were about to revive after being reborn from their cocoons, white filaments would grow from their embryos. The filaments would kill all living things around them and supply all the life force to the embryos. At this time, the area covered by the white filaments was called a hatchery.
"My great-grandmother, Maria of the Stars, has been dead for decades according to your intelligence, right?" Reggie Reeves asked softly. Nono nodded, "The database shows that Maria of the Stars had died before Vincent left Argentina. The Far North held a secret funeral in Siberia for the ashes left after the former saint was burned... I think there are many doubts about this matter, but the Far North is just an insignificant organization to the school board. Whether your saint is dead or alive will not have any impact on the school, so we didn't investigate further."
"In fact, Grandmother Maria boarded the Yamal before Vincent. She was contaminated by the breath that flowed out of the gate to the Kingdom of God in 1943, and her body was quietly undergoing some kind of mutation. Vincent was worried that this mutation would be discovered by the secret party, so he made her fake her death in advance and boarded an icebreaker, traveling on the high seas all year round." Rigidlife said, her expression didn't change much, but the flames of hatred and anger burned deep in her pupils.
"She should have died, right? And it was because of an accident, and that accident was related to Vincent." Nono was like a mind-reading devil. Just by looking at Reggie Reeves' eyes, he could guess what she was thinking. "You should have lived with her for a while. She was very good to you."
"No, she is not dead." Rijirev said coldly, a trace of sadness reflected in her silver-gray pupils, "but her life is worse than death."
"What do you mean?"
"Thirteen years ago, Grandma Maria suddenly disappeared from our side. Vincent told me that she was too old and had died... But one night I heard the sound of an owl from the wall of the cabin. Grandma Maria once taught me how to communicate with owls like a witch." Reggie Love sounded like she was telling the beginning of a horror story, and Nono shuddered for no reason.
"I followed the guidance of that voice and went deep into the watertight compartment, where I met Grandma Maria." Ridgelife curled up even harder, her whole body trembling slightly. Nono had to hug this girl, who was like a child at the moment, tightly to give her a sense of security.
"Her body had completely mutated. She looked like the skeleton of a giant, with a huge chest and dense ribs, and a thick twisted spine. Her legs had also degenerated into long snake tails, like a dead Titan python. Hundreds and thousands of blood vessels grew out of the gaps in her tailbone and pierced into the steel plate at the bottom of the watertight compartment, as if she was turning the ship into a part of her... But Grandma Maria was still alive. Her head was imprisoned and soaked in a box filled with mercury. She couldn't escape or die. She told me to escape, and also told me never to go back and never to dream of getting close to the kingdom of God. I asked Grandma Maria what she wanted to do, and Grandma Maria told me she wanted to die."
Nuonuo still remembered the photo of Maria the Star that she and Lu Mingfei had found from the academy's materials. She was such a beautiful woman, but she eventually turned into a monster that was neither human nor ghost. There was no doubt that it was Vincent himself who made her like this. That old man never gave up on finding the entrance to the kingdom of God.
Then she remembered that a similar thing had happened in another part of the ocean on this planet.
The Lenin, which was once used by Herzog to awaken the underwater Takamagahara, was eroded by a dragon embryo brought out from an unnamed port in Siberia before it sank. The old dog allowed the embryo to erode the Lenin with the purpose of turning the entire Lenin into nutrients for God. Then, would Vincent and even the bigwigs behind him not know that Star Maria was eroding the Yamal? What was their purpose in doing so?
wake……
Another God?
"I checked the power compartment, watertight compartment and the top cabin where I used to live on the Yamal. Although the entire ship was almost completely scrapped, I could still vaguely tell from the cabin structure that it was indeed the Yamal... But the problem was here. I didn't see Grandma Maria in the watertight compartment, not even a trace of her having been there. Although the top cabin was luxuriously decorated, it was completely different from the style I used to live in."
"What you mean is that it can be confirmed that the ship is the Yamal, but it is not the Yamal you have been on?" Nono said softly.
The Far North, Vincent, Odin, Maria of the Stars, the Kingdom of God...
Too many strange things were happening, and her profile couldn't even find the only truth from the countless messy lines.
Just at this moment, the door of the medical cabin was pushed open from the inside, and the doctor who was taking off his mask nodded to Nono, "I have made the autopsy report." He said.
The autopsy of Professor Schneider's body lasted a full four hours, and this was after three doctors joined the operation.
Nono and Reggie looked at each other, and then she took the report from the doctor.
"…The hierarchical structure of the brain tissue was normal, the brain tissue showed empty reticular changes, some nerve cells were swollen, the nuclei were displaced, and the perivascular spaces were widened… Some brain tissues were autolyzed and liquefied. The hierarchical structure of the cerebellum was normal, the gray matter and white matter boundaries were clear, and some brain tissues were autolyzed and liquefied.
"The myocardial hierarchical structure is normal. The left and right ventricular myocardial cells are red-stained, with visible horizontal striations, loose interstitium, blurred and lightly stained nuclei of some myocardial cells, and myocardial fibers are broken horizontally. The aortic wall is thickened, with hyperplasia of fibrous tissue and lipid deposition and calcification. Blood clot tissue is seen in the cavity of the right coronary artery, and no changes are seen in the left and right atria."
"The alveolar cavity is dilated, partially ruptured and fused, the alveolar wall blood vessels are obviously dilated and congested, and there is a large amount of pink homogeneous edema fluid in the alveolar cavity."
"…Forensic pathology diagnosed death as electrocution: electrical spot on the skin of the index finger of the left hand."
"It's basically confirmed that he died from a strong electric current, but he should have been very weak before he died." The doctor sighed, "A large part of the deceased's lungs were removed by a sophisticated surgical method, and his trachea was replaced with an artificial product. His respiratory system was devastated many years ago. It's hard to say whether he was able to hold on for so long was a miracle or just because of his strong willpower."
"Thank you." Nono said softly.
She had originally doubted the authenticity of Professor Schneider, but when she heard the doctor accurately say that he had been injured by the extreme cold in the Greenland Ice Sea incident many years ago, she immediately confirmed that the body was indeed Schneider himself.
Unfortunately, there is no way to contact the college headquarters now. She is a wanted criminal, and contacting the college now will quickly expose their location.
She was very curious about what the thing hidden in Kassel College was if the Professor Schneider who appeared before them was really him.
After the doctor left, Nono and Reggie Love pushed open the hatch together and prepared to check the ice clearing situation. They had to speed up to catch up with the Far North which was gradually entering the Arctic Circle.