Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

They had no climbing experience and hadn’t yet learned the necessary skills in school, but everyone had some basic knowledge: there were many potential dangers on a snow-covered mountain.

Not to mention other things, just the gusting winds—sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and even stronger than on a cliff—were enough to make them unsteady on their feet.

The members of the Adam Squad naturally roped themselves together. No matter how powerful their combat skills were, the two girls, Ruo Manni and Sheila were still relatively lighter and more delicate, and thus the most unsteady in the strong wind.

Therefore, the most skilled Hebrew Adam took the lead with Ruo Manni, while the tall and strong Tino Venamoinen helped Sheila, with Tamaki Kazia and Su Forty-Three bringing up the rear.

In this interstellar era, there are many advanced technologies that people of Earth’s era couldn’t even imagine—extremely, extremely convenient.

For example, the specially designed combat suits they wore, the military caps on their heads, and the military boots on their feet were all resistant to knives, bullets, water, fire, and corrosion. They also had automatic color-changing, temperature-adjusting, and self-cleaning functions.

Walking on the glacier-covered with thick snow, aside from the cold sensation on their exposed faces, Ruo Manni felt a comfortable warmth all over her body, without feeling the external chill at all.

However, the fierce winds on the glacier, which were stronger than a Category 12 or 13 typhoon on Earth, significantly slowed down the Adam Squad’s pace.

Ruo Manni had to devote most of her energy to steadying herself. Every time a gust of wind howled past, she had to use her psychic power to counteract some of the wind’s force to avoid being blown away.

In this regard, Sheila was having a much tougher time. She could no longer care about the difference between men and women; she clung tightly to the arm of the big guy, Tino Venamoinen, just to avoid being blown away like a kite.

Logically speaking, due to a combination of factors, the glacier flowing down from the mountain peak is not completely smooth and flat.

However, with palm-sized snowflakes falling from the sky, the entire glacier was covered with snow. As the strong wind blew intermittently across the surface, the Adam Squad saw what appeared to be a flat glacier.

But when they stepped onto it, they discovered obstacles everywhere, with unexpected traps that could open up at any moment.

In the future, the traps might be fatal.

Not long after the Adam Squad stepped onto the glacier, they were walking through the snow when they reached an area with no visible signs of danger. Hebrew Adam walked over without incident, and Ruo Manni also passed without any issues.

But when Tino Venamoinen stepped over, the snow under his feet suddenly collapsed, revealing a deep, bottomless pit, and he fell right into it.

If it weren’t for Ruo Manni in front of him and Sheila behind him, who quickly reacted by grabbing the climbing rope around his waist and steadying themselves, and then Hebrew Adam and Tamaki Kazia grabbing them, the entire Adam Squad might have been pulled into the pit by Tino Venamoinen.

This incident gave the Adam Squad quite a scare.

After that, everyone proceeded with caution. As they were walking, Hebrew Adam suddenly stopped. A long, horizontal depression appeared in the snow ahead of them. The drop, which was less than twenty centimeters, was easy to overlook.

However, having learned from the previous pitfall, Hebrew Adam didn’t dare to take it lightly and stopped to let Ruo Manni “observe” for a moment.

When Ruo Manni “looked,” she was startled to find that beneath the snow was a long crevice over a meter wide and dozens of meters deep, with only a thin layer of snow covering it. It was easy to imagine the consequences if they had stepped onto it.

Thus, this glacier path was indeed very difficult to traverse.

In the forest, many of the mutated trees were killed or injured by Hebrew Adam’s explosive rounds yesterday. When Hua’s team and Asimu’s team passed through, because they had more people and were stronger, the surviving mutated trees ended up holding back.

As a result, it took only about half an hour for Hua’s team and Asimu’s team to get out of the forest, and the other military academy students following them had the same experience.

Although Adam’s squad was slightly ahead of the other students, the glacier path was too difficult to traverse. When Hua’s team reached the Glacier River, Adam’s squad had only climbed about eight hundred meters.

“Is there a team up there? Is it the Second Prince and his group?” Dean Atchison, with sharp eyes, spotted some blurred figures.

Upon hearing this, Mina-Olli “looked” over. After a while, she nodded and said, “There are six people in total, four men and two women. Although I can’t see their faces clearly, their silhouettes are definitely them.”

“They really are hard to get rid of, aren’t they? Not even a thought to inform us after something happened,” Dean Atchison said angrily.

“Alright, stop talking and hurry up,” Hua Deli ignored his complaints.

“A lot of military academy students have already gotten onto the Glacier River,” Ruo Manni shouted to her teammates. Even in the interstellar era, there were times when communication had to rely on yelling.

Ruo Manni noticed the students catching up even earlier than Hua’s team did.

“Ignore them; we’ll just go at our own pace,” Hebrew Adam shouted back.

It seemed like ever since Adam’s squad encountered that mutated fourth-tier psychic core tree yesterday, their luck had turned for the worse. When they were on the glacier river, there was wind and snow all around them. Less than ten minutes after Hua’s team got onto the glacier river, the sky suddenly cleared, the snow stopped, and bright sunshine descended from above.

This sudden change in weather made Ruo Manni feel like she had gained new insight. What kind of luck is this? Could it be because Mina-Olli and Hua Deli are favored by the heavens, while they are outsiders?

Under the bright sunlight, the scene on the glacier river was very clear, so Adam’s team felt that the other military academy students weren’t far behind them.

However, luck can be unpredictable. Just a moment ago, Ruo Manni thought Hua Deli and Mina-Olli were favored children of the heavens; now she felt like they were illegitimate children.

The reason for this shift in perception was that the following military academy students, including Hua’s team, encountered a group of strange and suddenly appearing mutated beasts. Meanwhile, Adam’s team, being far ahead, managed to avoid these beast attacks.

“Isn’t this too obvious? The instructors went there and attracted so many mutated beasts; that’s impressive,” Su Forty-Three remarked.

“Let’s move quickly so the instructors don’t find us a nuisance,” Ruo Manni hurriedly said.

With the wind dying down and the snow stopping, they no longer needed to shout to be heard, making conversation much easier.

While Adam’s team was gleefully enjoying the situation, they were also making a concerted effort to climb and increase their distance from the others.

But the fact proved that gloating is unethical, especially when mocking the favored children of the heavens; it often brings retribution.

As Adam’s team was climbing energetically, they didn’t expect that the teams behind them would encounter mutated beasts, with the sounds of fighting growing louder. One of the fourth-tier mutated beasts, on the brink of death, emitted a sharp screech to attack the military academy students.

The Adam team was suddenly stunned during their climb. They felt an eerie silence around them, so quiet it was almost suffocating.

Then they heard a muffled sound from above as if something was collapsing.

Recalling their basic knowledge, they remembered two words…

“Move to higher ground!” Hebrew Adam ordered decisively.

The first response was a deafening roar, and then the Adam team saw the heavy snow on the cliff ahead suddenly collapse…