Chapter 92 Winter Wolf (Part 1)
New York Private Noble High School, Meister.
Emma Frost looked at Eric Lanshere who was walking out of the classroom, and followed slowly.
"Do you know what Mr. Howlett usually likes, Jen?"
The two greeted each other and walked side by side. Recently, many students have seen the picture of the two talking together. Although they can't see any intimacy, they have always been generous but polite. The president of the school belle, but she has never had such a close relationship with any boy.
"Father, oh, dad, he seems to have no other hobbies except smoking cigars, and alcohol is average. He should like fighting the most, but I heard from Asazo that he couldn't find anyone for him to fight for too many years."
Erik pondered seriously, but Emma next to him frowned lightly.
"Why do you call him Daddy, he's not old at all..."
Emma slightly annoyed, she even suspected that James liked to fight because Eric was lying to her, Emma resisted the idea of using her ability to probe into the other person's thoughts.
She promised Eric that she would never read his mind again.
"Hey hey, no one knows about daddy's age."
Eric smirked rather furtively. The person who followed James the longest was the old housekeeper, Mr. Casper Foss, and he was over seventy years old.
"Looking young, no matter how old you are, Mr. Howlett looks at most twenty-five years old."
Emma retorted without confidence, but suddenly remembered that although she was still very young, less than seventeen years old, what should she do when she grew old one day? The girl began to worry about such annoying things at a young age .
"I'll see you later, Emma, Mr. Barney is here to pick me up, Dad! Why are you here?"
Eric was saying goodbye to Miss Emma Frost, when he saw his father waiting by the limousine, he ran over, and Emma behind him came gracefully, and fought James Hello.
"Let's go, get in the car, cough, go ahead."
James sent Eric to sit in the back row of the front seat. Emma had known for a long time that she gently stroked her ears, lowered her head and got into the car, and sat with James in the most spacious seat in the back row.
He looked at Mr. Lanshere, who turned his head a little resentfully and puzzled, and explained with a smile.
"Today I will take you to see a special event. I have invited Emma earlier."
Eric continued to look like "I don't know", and continued to complain.
Emma sat next to James with a smile on her lips.
"He smells like truffles," the girl thought wildly in her mind.
Drove all the way back to the manor, only a few attendants in the living room were holding two black and one white long fine fur coats, and waited for Emma and Eric to put them on.
Emma happened to be wearing a white coat and long skirt today. The skirt was not as long as the standard school uniform, but just reached the knees. Her long, white legs seemed to be wearing a pair of white stockings.
Poof!
Asazo shot up a puff of black smoke and appeared in the center of the hall. Emma looked at the red-skinned, black-haired and long-tailed man with some surprise, bowed slightly to him as a gentleman, and greeted him with a smile.
She has already heard about Asazo, but today is the first time to meet her.
"Bonjour, beautiful lady."
The red devil took Emma's hand, and touched her lips lightly on the back of her hand. The girl blushed slightly, and slightly bent her knees in return.
"Have you been to France recently?"
James looked suspiciously at Asazo's nondescript etiquette, and couldn't help asking.
When there is no important matter, he will not take care of Asazo's daily life, let alone restrict his freedom. After all, he is relatively relieved about the ability of the Red Devil.
Asazzo continued to talk nonsense in broken French, while taking the fur coat held by the attendant and putting it on himself.
James is a person who really understands French, but he can't understand what Asazzo is saying.
He shook his head, put on Asazo's right shoulder, Emma nervously took James' arm, and Eric grabbed Asazuo's other arm.
The four disappeared instantly.
Emma didn't feel any discomfort in this novel experience of time-space transformation, but an invisible picture and lingering black smoke flashed in front of her.
Between two breaths, the icy wind and snow suddenly blew on the cheeks, and the four of them were already on the top of a snow peak.
Suddenly arriving at a high altitude among the mountains, she and Eric were a little uncomfortable, their hearts were pounding, and their breathing was blocked for a while. James gently supported the backs of the two young people and channeled some biological energy , quickly eased over.
Their evolution technique is still in the first stage, and they are not mutant abilities of the flesh system, and their bodies are still relatively fragile.
Asazuo's long tail, which was left behind at first, seemed to feel too cold, so he shrank back into his fur coat, dodged around, and looked down the cliff.
Under the unknown cliffs and snowy peaks of the Alps, the assessment of this generation of wolves is about to begin.
They could only carry simple ropes and ice axes, climbed more than 1,000 meters of nearly vertical ice cliffs in the severe cold of minus 30 degrees, and finally fought a duel in front of James on the top of the snow peak The alpha wolf of this generation.
"Dad, the viewing angle over there is the best."
Asazuo teleported around and found a mountainside diagonally opposite the cliff, where he could see the entire cliff climbing process in a relatively complete way.
The four of them teleported away. Under the cliff, more than 20 candidates for this generation of wolves were raising their heads and beating their hearts.
"Ahem, Opal, have you been through such trials for generations?"
Bucky's hair had grown to his shoulders, and it was scattered casually. He looked up at the cliff that was completely covered by wind and snow after more than a hundred meters. asked the unpleasant old adversary.
Opper shook his head. His father belonged to the previous generation of wolves, and he was one of the nine "winter wolves". He knew that there was no so-called trial at that time, and only the best one would be selected as the head wolf.
"This is the first time Lord Wolf proposed it, and we have never heard of it."
Baki shook his head helplessly, it was the first time for this group of "second-generation wolves", so they were all on the same starting line.
"No, I'm missing an arm, and I still have to climb the cliff, **** Fack." Bucky cursed in his heart, bitterly thinking of the "good brother" who threw him here.
"Listen up! Only by climbing the cliff can you be qualified to become a member of the real wolf pack, and after climbing, only one person will be able to kill out and become the alpha wolf, so every climber will also become your competitor .”
Remus Pete glanced sharply at the twenty or so young men in single clothes. The howling wind and snow did not affect his sonorous words at all. Every word Remus said fell deeply into their ears. inside.
"Fall off the cliff, it's just a pool of rotten meat. If you want to quit now, it's still too late."
The other eight winter wolves dropped coiled black ropes and an ice pick one by one in front of them. Everyone took their equipment and walked down the cliff one by one.
Shut up! throat!
The ice picks dug into the cliff wall covered with a thick layer of frost one after another. Bucky was not in a hurry. He bit the arm-thick rope and pulled it hard with his single arm. He checked section by section, and then carefully considered the length of the rope. , and looked at the cliff more than a thousand meters high, with a dignified expression.
"Barnes! You don't actually have to go up."
Old rival Opper has climbed seven or eight meters, he shouted at Bucky jokingly, but he understood the implication.
Strictly speaking, I am not a member of the wolf pack, but a "relationship household" with a strange identity, and the disadvantage of being one-armed is too huge in this test. For his own good.
Bucky couldn't tell what his persistence was for, he was not a person who likes to ponder.
But he will never get rid of Steve's majestic and heroic posture pushing all the way on the World War II.
Not forgetting Mr. Howlett, he nodded in the air and looked at himself like hell.
Sergeant James Barnes gritted his teeth, tied the rope to the round hole at the end of the ice ax, tied the other end tightly around his waist, and climbed up the cliff.
Emma, who was watching all this on the other side of the mountain, unconsciously approached James, "They are here"
"A test."
Emma was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Is it a test of their courage and perseverance?"
James stared sideways at the girl's eyes. Her upturned nose was a little red from the cold, her eyelashes were flickering, and there were frost flowers hanging on them.
"Do you know anything about wolves, especially when they're in packs?"
Emma didn't know whether it was because her face became warm, or James was looking at her with burning eyes, her face was red and hot, and she shook her head slightly.
"Wolves are pack animals. Groups are very important to them. However, they do not completely occupy each other's lives. For them, life is a circle with two parts intersecting. There is each other but not the whole. Groups, but also ego."
James looked away, turned to Bai Shengsheng's frosty cliff, watched the black figures climbing up with difficulty, and continued to speak to Emma slowly.
"However, the wolf pack is a cruel group that is extremely rich in hierarchy, internal competition, and eliminated. This ensures that the alpha wolves will be more cautious, smarter, and braver from generation to generation, and it also ensures the reproduction of the wolf pack."
"So when they understand that even if they will become the targets of fighting and competition in the near future, they must learn to cooperate and unite in the face of crisis, then their test will be successful."
James' voice clearly reached the ears of the other three people, and they kept silent in tacit understanding, looking forward to the crowd gradually climbing to the middle.
"Ah **** ah!"
The first young wolf to fall appeared, and the violent snowstorm quickly obliterated his desperate roaring voice and figure.
The ice layer is too thick, so you have to constantly use ice picks to break the solid ice, and then try to climb the rock wall, otherwise the slippery ice surface is not only difficult to get your hands on, but also easy to break.
There are quite a few people here who have practiced the killing technique to the second stage, who can burst out a second stage of dark force in their hands and wedge their fingers into the stone wall, but this kind of attack consumes a lot of physical energy, and they can't use it at all at present. several times.
The continuous cold and violent snowstorm will quickly take away their physical fitness and heat. Even these little wolf cubs whose physical fitness far exceeds that of the most elite soldiers of this era will not last long.
Gradually there was the sound of losing strength and falling off the cliff, and it was particularly difficult for Bucky to persevere. He first cut out two holes for himself to stay in with the ice pick, and then pulled his body up with one pick.
His right arm is already a little swollen, and he can hardly hold the pickaxe.
Chick.Chick.
Opper above Bucky kept slipping downwards, rustling broken ice and gravel falling down.
Unfortunately, he encountered a loose rock wall, and a large piece of it peeled off. Opal smashed the ice ax down hard, but the shattering ice did not help him stabilize his body.
Finally, he got faster and faster and fell straight down.
"catch!"
Bucky's face was flushed, and his only right arm was tightly grasping Opal's forearm. The sweat on his head had already condensed into frost, and his hair was frozen into pieces of icicles, hanging upside down on his body, waist The rope on the top is connected to the ice ax that has been cut deep into the cliff.
"Fack! Whoa!"
Bucky's waist and abdomen curled up, and he hoisted Opper's body with one arm, pulling him closer to the ice surface of the cliff.
"Hoo hoo."
Finally, Bucky, who had tried his best, let himself fall in the air. Slowly, he shook his sore and almost unconscious palms, and pulled the rope again to climb up.
"Why?"
"What why?" Bucky was still panting, cursing in a low voice.
"Don't understand yet! This cliff can't be climbed alone, even with our physical condition, we can't climb it with such crude equipment, we must cooperate!"
Opper was stunned for a moment, then looked at the cliff above which was still invisible, and nodded thoughtfully.
"Tie a rope around your waist, and then connect each other. The more people, the better, so that you have a chance."
Bucky bit off the rope buckle attached to the end of his ice ax, shook his head and threw it to Opal, the short-haired boy who had never liked Bucky froze there.
His rope is in his hands, if.
Opper gritted his teeth, cooperated with one hand to connect the two pieces of rope together, and then wrapped them around his waist. He and Bucky looked at each other, and the two climbed up staggered.
They called out to the companions they met along the way. More and more young wolves tied ropes around their waists and connected them with others. From time to time, some people made mistakes or fell off, but they all relied on the ropes on both sides to stabilize them. Get in shape.
A long chain on the cliff was connected together. More than a dozen people climbed up slowly but firmly, and they were about to reach the peak.
James smiled, jumped up, and flew to the opposite side.
Emma opened her mouth wide. It was the first time she saw that James could fly. Before she could slow down, Asazo put two young men on their shoulders and teleported away.
At the peak of the thousand-meter cliff, apart from Bucky and Opal, a dozen or so testers who had just climbed up, only Colin Pete stood upright, facing James Howe who flew down from the sky and burst into a cloud of snow mist. Leeteuk knelt on one knee and saluted.
"Winter wolves" constantly jumped up from the cliff. They were full of vigor and fire, and they inserted into the ice cliff with their hands, and then catapulted up, carrying one or two testers who had fallen to the bottom of the cliff in their hands or on their shoulders.
It turned out that there were nine super fighters below all the time, and they were not really let down and fell to death.
"Fak. It's all a routine"
Baki cursed many times today, looking at the comrades around him who were still supporting each other and climbing up the cliff, the eyes of each other gradually changed.
(end of this chapter)