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After leaving the meeting room, Catherine's mood was completely different from when she entered. Capullo had actually entrusted her with fighting for Allen. This was definitely an unexpected decision. It seemed that Capullo's eyes and ears could not penetrate deep into the earth's core. Otherwise, knowing her current relationship with Allen, the Marshal might not have given her this task. As long as Capullo wanted, he could find a younger and more beautiful woman than him, if Allen was so easily tempted by beauty.
The current situation was a bit subtle.
Capullo was very confident, and that confidence was based on his past experience of being defeated. Throughout his life, he was forced to retreat by Spenak. But who was Spenak? He was one of the two Sovereigns of Agares, a legendary figure on the same level as Orfasis, the King of Justice. Losing to such a person did not damage Capullo's honor in the slightest. However, as he had said, the current president had made a big deal out of it, causing the Golden Lion's reputation to plummet.
Even in the midst of the struggle between the old and the new parties, Windsor Bellow was like a brilliant meteor that streaked across the sky, covering Capullo with light. However, in reality, if the two of them were to fight, it was generally believed that Capullo had a higher chance of winning. Even though he had yet to recover from his hidden injuries, no one dared to underestimate the foundation of a legend.
Therefore, Capullo had never doubted any of his decisions, and it was almost impossible to hide them from such a person. Only an occasional coincidence like Catherine could plant a shadow in Capullo's line of sight.
Now that Capullo had given her such a chance, even if Catherine and Allen ended up together, it could be called a fake show and not arouse the suspicion of the old lion. For Catherine, this was an opportunity to legitimize her relationship with Allen. At that time, it would be justifiable for her to do something with Allen's help. At the very least, General Russen wouldn't say anything else if he left the Sunrise alone like last time.
Thinking of this, Catherine's lips curled into a smile.
Frost Star.
Amidst the howling of the wind and snow, the faint roars of wild beasts could be heard. It sounded like a wolf, but its voice was sharper, making Allen want to plug his ears. He regretted not taking Lauder's tactical helmet with him. Otherwise, the shield on the helmet would be able to block the pervasive snow powder for him. This was the third day since they left the Chaos Canyon. Before the day came, a blizzard suddenly blew. This storm made the world a blur. There was a vast expanse of white snow everywhere. It was crushed by the strong wind and turned into fine powder, completely blocking Allen's vision.
In such a snowstorm, one's field of vision was limited to a few meters, and it was difficult to determine the direction. Allen didn't know where he was going, but he couldn't stop. Otherwise, it wouldn't be long before he was buried in the snow. He had to find a shelter and wait for the storm to pass before making any plans.
He was lucky. It didn't take him long to find a low slope. The wind on the slope was a natural shelter. Allen sat down against the hillside, took off his backpack, rifle, and heavy saber, and wrapped his entire body in a cloak. By the time the wind and snow stopped, there was already a snow bag piled up at his feet. Allen pushed away the snow and stood up. Looking around, the ground was already submerged in snow.
This kind of environment was not good for him to hike. Fortunately, the wind and snow stopped, and there was light and shadow on the ground again. Using the sunlight as a reference, Allen regained his direction and continued to trek east. Two hours later, a forest quietly came into view. The ancient ginseng tree blocked the wind and snow, and the snow in the forest gradually decreased. Only the crown of the tree was painted with silver, building piles of snow. From time to time, snow would pour down from the crown of the tree like a silver waterfall.
Allen didn't know if this forest was the Holly Forest, but no matter what, it was easier to walk in the forest. Moreover, the spread of the forest line, from sparse to dense, was not up to him to choose. Unless he changed his route and bypassed the forest, that would be superfluous. The forest was quiet, and most of the frosty beasts were asleep during the day. However, the sky was gradually darkening, and the day was disappearing, and night was about to descend.
The sky gradually turned from gray to golden, indicating the arrival of dusk. Allen had already gone more than ten kilometers into the forest. The forest was lush, and all kinds of cold-resistant plants could be found everywhere. The rugged ground was covered with not too thick snow. The previous blizzard was blocked by most of the trees outside, preventing the wind and snow from entering the forest, and new snow was finally laid on the ground. The snow reflected the light of dusk, causing shadows of different sizes to appear on the uneven ground.
Not far from Allen, an extremely faint, even intermittent, but seemingly straight shadow caught his attention. In a place like the forest in the wild, there was almost no such thing as a regular shape. He walked a little closer, and found that the shadow was cast by the sunlight because the snow-covered ground had been lifted up a little, forming a long and short snow bank.
Allen squatted down, gently fiddled with the snow line with his hand, and even blew a few breaths towards the ground. A moment later, a rope buried in the snow was revealed. This rope was very thin, and its surface was covered with burrs. Dark green and dark brown colors intertwined. It looked like it was torn into strips by tree bark, twisted into strands, and finally woven into this long rope. The rope's workmanship was rough, and because it had been buried under the snow for a long time, it had already been frozen very dry by the ice and snow. As long as he pulled hard, it would be easy to break.
It was tied between two ancient trees. Allen raised his head and looked up. In the crisscrossed bare branches of the two ancient trees, he saw a sharpened wooden peg. They were facing the snow above. Obviously, this was a simple and primitive trap. Allen reached out to pull the long rope in the snow and broke it with a slight force. The part tied to the ancient tree on the right quickly retreated. The sound of branches and leaves trembling came from above, and then darkness descended from the sky in front of him. More than a dozen sharpened wooden stakes pierced into the snow in front of them like cannonballs, bringing with them snow powder.
It wasn't hard to imagine that if a wild beast had touched the trap, it would probably have turned into a corpse on the snow by now.
Since there was a trap, there must be someone who set it up. Judging from the primitive level of the materials used in the trap, it was probably not set up by humans, but by planet natives like the headhunter. Allen didn't want to waste any unnecessary time, so he bypassed the trap. Unfortunately, he didn't go far when his heart suddenly stirred. He immediately heard a sharp sound of something tearing through the air. He moved back and saw a long spear that was sharpened with wood and painted with dark red patterns piercing into the snow. As the spear swayed unsteadily, a few more spears shot out from the surrounding ancient trees.
Allen flashed left and right, avoiding two. The remaining three bolts of lightning shot towards him, and his eyes turned cold. Origin Energy rushed out of his body. The spear landed on the Origin Energy light screen and was bounced off. Fragments flew everywhere, sweeping through a fan-shaped area like bullets. The trunks of the old trees trembled violently, shaking off countless powder fragments. As for the low bushes and shrubs, they were even more blasted to the point that the grass roots were broken and the branches and leaves were shattered.
After a burst of random shooting, a figure staggered out from behind an ancient tree a few meters away from his right hand. After taking a few steps, he fell to the ground. It was a headhunter. A fist-sized wound was blasted out of his chest by the spear fragments filled with Origin Energy. The surface of the wound was bloody and bleeding incessantly. The injured headhunter twitched on the ground for a while before finally losing his aura.
At this moment, human-shaped shadows emerged from the forest. Allen raised his head and looked around. He was surrounded by headhunters. At least twenty to thirty headhunters appeared in the surroundings. They either squatted on the canopy of the ancient tree or drilled out of the withered grass. No matter where he was, he stared at Allen with murderous eyes.
Allen raised his hand and shook it. "Look carefully, I'm not your prey. How about this, I'll leave now. We can all save ourselves some trouble. "
However, in response to him was a series of roars, and a headhunter pounced down from the tree. He raised a machete made of an unknown beast bone in his hand and slashed it towards Allen's head. Allen sighed softly and a magic energy rifle appeared in his left hand like a conjuring trick. He connected it with three shots and shot it out.
The Origin Energy Bullet pulled out streaks of light and shot towards it. The headhunter brandished his saber and slashed at it. The bone saber immediately bounced off, and then it was shot twice in the chest and fell from mid-air. From the looks of it, he probably wouldn't be able to survive, but it wasn't enough to shock the other headhunters. The planet's natives shouted loudly and pounced towards Allen with their weapons in hand. Allen sneered. These headhunters, who were generally at Level 11 or 12, weren't even troublesome for Allen right now. It was just that it would take some time to deal with them.
The magic energy rifle was connected to a few shots in his hand, blasting apart the head of a headhunter and forcing the other three away. His right hand held Xue Yin and drew out a few surging red lights. The red light was like silk, illuminating the space in the forest as if it was coated with a layer of dripping blood. The headhunters who collided with the silk light first had cracks on their bodies, and finally shattered into fragments all over the ground.
In the blink of an eye, four or five headhunters died on the spot.
Allen stood on the spot with his left spear and right saber, sweeping his cold eyes across the surrounding headhunters. Just as they were about to organize another wave of attacks, a beam of light suddenly flashed from the depths of the forest and shot into the middle of the headhunters, causing an explosion.
This was a beam of light from a high-energy cannon!
Then, a series of gunshots rang out in Allen's ears. Sharp lines of fire interweaved into a net of fire, firmly enveloping the headhunters that surrounded Allen. Under this sudden attack, the headhunters continued to fall. At this moment, another sharp howl sounded in the forest. Two figures flashed into the middle of the headhunters, both of them using arc-shaped sabers to continuously harvest the lives of these planet natives.
Allen swept his gaze across them, but they were two identical twin brothers.
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