In the dried - up Arctic forest, inside a cave on a cliff, there were two men and a woman, all of them injured. The woman was bandaging the abdominal wound of a swarthy man while saying to the one - eyed man at the entrance of the cave, "Captain, this mission has cost us too much. Xiaolu, Pizi, Erlv, and Miaomiao are all gone." The swarthy man's eyes were also blood - red, filled with deep grief. He murmured, "We've endured so many hardships. We were on the verge of getting the qual...