"We wanted to go outside the tent to see what was going on, but there were intermittent gunshots coming from outside. The snowstorm was so heavy that we couldn't see anything more than two or three meters away. We were worried that we would be injured by stray bullets, so we could only continue to stay in the tent. It wasn't a good feeling, especially since we didn't know what kind of people or creatures were fighting with the retired soldiers.
"The doctor and I could only make wild guesses in the tent. Fortunately, the battle didn't last too long. After about two minutes, I found that the dogs in the tent had quietened down, and the gunshots outside had stopped. Strangely enough, after that, the snowstorm also weakened. As the whistling wind disappeared, I heard the voices of people talking. So Dr. Baker and I walked out of the tent.
"We found that the people who were talking were the two retired soldiers who lived in the same tent as me. When they saw us, they shut their mouths and returned to their previous expressionless faces.
"We tried to talk to them, but they refused to say anything, so we had to find other people. We set up a total of six tents during the snowstorm. Five of them were intact, but one of them was missing.
"I was quite surprised at the time. As the guide, I had to be responsible for such a thing. However, the problem was that after the tents were set up, I personally checked them one by one. If I felt that they weren't strong enough, I set them up again and reinforced them with ice bricks. Logically speaking, this kind of thing shouldn't have happened.
"The lost tent belonged to the biologist. He was originally staying with the geologist, but because of what happened before, they decided to separate for a day. So, he stayed with the three retired soldiers tonight. Other than the tent, his luggage and some experimental equipment were also blown away. He looked very frightened. His body was shaking, and he kept shouting, saying that we shouldn't have come here.
"The Chinese couple was comforting him. Baker and I wanted to go over, but we didn't expect Mr. Tyme to find us first. More accurately, he came to find Dr. Baker. He was still smiling, patting Dr. Baker on the shoulder and saying that it was his turn to work. Baker was stunned, then asked what happened. Mr. Tyme said that it wasn't a big deal. The strong wind blew away the biologist's tent. After that, a few hungry polar bears might have come, but they were also repelled by our people.
Therefore, what Dr. Beck had to do next was to help the biologist calm down as much as possible, so that the poor man could regain his sanity. He was so frightened that he even began to hallucinate and talk nonsense.
"The doctor and I were a little skeptical, not only because Mr. Tyme made it sound so easy, but also because we didn't see any polar bear footprints or corpses around. However, the doctor still got to work. When Mr. Tyme saw that I was still standing there, he suggested that I make a few cups of hot coffee for everyone. I agreed, but after I made the coffee, I found that the expedition team was missing two people.
"Of the three retired soldiers who stayed in the same tent as the doctor, only one was left. I asked Mr. Tyme where the other two had gone, and he said that they had something to do and went back halfway. When I asked if I should call a boat to pick them up, Mr. Tyme told me that there was no need. They had their own boat. However, while I was making the coffee, I clearly saw a small group of retired soldiers burying something. I saw something that looked like a human arm. I wanted to go closer to take a closer look, but the retired soldiers chased me away.
"I had a bad feeling in my heart, and when the doctor came back two hours later, he looked terrible. I asked him what had happened, and he hesitated for a moment before saying that the biologist had suffered too much mental trauma. However, he had already given the biologist a tranquilizer, which gradually stabilized his emotions. He suggested to Mr. Tym to stop the expedition and send the biologist back to the city for treatment, but Mr. Tym declined. After that, he used his usual optimistic tone to encourage the others, saying that we were very close to our final goal, and that victory was right in front of us, and so on.
"I was a little impatient. I stared into Baker's eyes and asked him if he had forgotten our previous agreement. Once one of us discovered something, we must immediately share it with the other person. I was sure that Baker had heard something from the biologist, but now he seemed to want to keep the information to himself. This made me very angry. When Baker heard me say that, he could only smile bitterly and tell me what he had heard from the biologist.
"He said that it wasn't a snowstorm that tore down the tent, but a very strange creature. It was difficult to find the right words and words to describe that ugly and terrifying thing. It was like the sea monsters that grew randomly in the deep sea in prehistoric times. Its body had organs that looked like both animals and plants. Anyone who saw it would definitely have nightmares at night. The biologist swore that it was not a species from Earth at all. It did not look like Darwin's theory of evolution at all. It was as if some creator had randomly put it together.
"As soon as it tore open the tent, it began to kill. It used the tentacles on its head to kill a retired soldier. The biologist was completely frightened and did not move. However, the other two people in the tent reacted quickly and immediately got up. They even kept their guns close to them when they were resting. It was as if they had known that this would happen.
"One of them pulled out his gun and fired, but the damage to the thing seemed to be very limited. It was shot a few times, but it didn't affect its movement at all. The two retired soldiers were a little confused. They didn't know where the vital points of the thing opposite them were. It quickly used its tentacles to strangle the neck of the retired soldier it caught.
"After that, it extended its tentacles to another person, but the retired soldier who was already prepared dodged it. However, the unlucky guy didn't expect that the tentacles could split into five smaller tentacles when stretched to the limit. As a result, he was also caught by the tentacles. It seemed that it felt that breaking his neck was too slow, so this time, the thing directly pierced the retired soldier's body with another tentacle. But at this time, other people who heard the gunshots came one after another. Some of them were even carrying rocket launchers.
"That thing didn't seem to want to fight, either. It stretched its tentacle toward the biologist. The biologist thought he was dead, but he didn't expect the tentacle to bypass him and grab his travel bag containing the new fossil. After that, it disappeared into the snowstorm under the hail of bullets before the siege was formed."
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