She has always been the one solving problems, and she doesn't want to be the one creating problems one day.
They turned back and asked Kurum for some more details and confirmed that the three people didn't know any more. They didn't delay any longer, left their tents, stoves, and some dry food behind, and carried the supplies taken from other backpacks and continued to head north.
Esther still follows them.
According to their thinking, although the girl is not afraid of the cold, no one can tell what is wrong with her, and it is possible that her privileges suddenly stop working. Therefore, her best choice is to stay in the tent and wait for rescue with Kurum and the other two.
But Esther didn't want to.
She was worried about Rob, especially after hearing them say that Rob might be "contaminated by the light", she said she would go along no matter what.
Then it’s up to her.
Anyway, Xia Yibing has made up her mind. When the situation becomes absolutely necessary, she will not show mercy.
There was no way she would put Hitzfeld in any danger out of any mercy.
"Ow!"
"Ouch!"
Up ahead, Lily stood there and started barking again.
They passed through a series of undulating spines and saw a clear view ahead.
It was a crystallized ice surface. The wind and snow were further intensified when they blew into the gap. Only a thin layer of snow could be left on the ice surface. More snow could not be accumulated and would be blown away by the wind soon.
But what is really worth noting is not this, but the countless hundreds of ice sculptures standing on the ice surface illuminated by the strong light of the flashlight.
There are more than just people here.
From humans to animals, whether it is polar bears, Arctic wolves, snow foxes, pheasants...all kinds of them, as long as you can roughly name the species, you can see their carvings on the ice.
They were frozen to death.
Hitzfeld made a judgment.
You will be frozen to death the moment you step on the ice. Your whole body will solidify at the moment you are frozen to death. Then you will stand there and become an ice sculpture. Your body and mind will be frozen in the ice. Eternity and infinity exist here.
She immediately reached out to stop the others and asked them not to go forward for the time being.
The terrain here was a bit strange, and she felt it would be dangerous to continue going forward.
To verify this idea, she asked Xia Yibing to take a piece of roasted animal meat from her backpack and suggested that the woman throw it into the wind tunnel ahead like a frisbee.
Xia Yibing did as she was told.
A few people and a dog watched the piece of meat spinning and flying in the air... Then, the moment it entered the wind tunnel, a burst of cold wind suddenly blew, and it condensed and cracked in the air, and exploded into ice chips before it even hit the ground.
This is much more terrifying than the ice bomb!
Xia Yibing stared with eyes wide open.
Fortunately, I did this experiment, otherwise I would be frozen as soon as I touched it, right?
Just like those ice sculptures!
"What the hell...!" She wanted to curse.
She felt that the environment on the ice field was too harsh.
The temperature is minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius, water freezes into ice, and the snow is thick enough to reach above the chest. Walking against the wind requires several times more effort than usual.
Forget it.
The worst thing is that there are natural wonders here that can be deadly!
Before, it was the ice cave that collapsed, and now it’s the strong wind in the tunnel.
what else?
Aren’t they really playing Iceborne Survival?
"We can't leave here!" Hitzfeld frowned.
"Detour!"
"Try to see if you can get around it!"
The idea was good, but the reality was not good. They circled around the gap for half a circle but could not find a suitable way out.
The road on the left was completely made of an ice cliff. The ice surface was as smooth as a mirror and there was no way they could climb up it.
The road on the right... the flashlight could reveal a large snow pit. Now that they were experienced people, they immediately recognized that it was an ice cave environment, and stepping on it could cause a collapse.
Xia Yibing tried desperately, but she only poked the outside with her ice skates. At first, only some snow slid down, but they slid more and more like sand... and finally triggered a huge avalanche at the ice cave level. The whole scene was like a giant ant falling into a hole, and everyone who saw it turned pale.
The only option is to take the tunnel.
It would definitely not be possible to just leave, but luckily they still had Heidi.
Heidi had a gloomy face as she produced a few fruits and let everyone share them. They immediately felt a surge of blood in their bodies.
It’s like breaking the “wall” after extreme exercise, and a new force is generated in the body. It burns in the body like a flame, continuously providing power and heat.
Keeping this state as they stepped into the tunnel, the cold wind was still hard to bear, but at least their movements would not be frozen, causing them to stay in one place for too long and get the soles of their shoes frozen.
Fortunately, this terrible tunnel of death is not long.
After walking about thirty meters, the cold wind stopped.
"Woooooooo..."
Lily was shivering from the cold. She had been living in Wayne before and had never experienced such terrible cold.
"continue."
Hitzfeld's eyes were firm.
Now that we have come this far, there is no way to turn back.
Going further, they experienced crises such as the Iceman's attack, the Giant's pursuit, and being buried alive by an avalanche, and finally entered the theoretical ice lake.
“This should be the location of the former residence in local legends!”
Heidi shone her flashlight around and saw the outline of a dark forest appearing in front of her.
"This is the hometown of the legendary Ice Lake Warriors. It's the first place where Ice Lake Town existed!"
Hitzfeld gasped.
She didn't have the energy to respond now.
too cold.
Now each of them has white eyebrows... The ice and snow hang directly on their eyebrows and turn into frost, which must make them look extremely funny.
Xia Yibing wanted to say something, but suddenly, they felt a vibration in the ground.
Another Frozen Wood Golem?
This thing only looks scary, it's not dangerous to them.
But this time the vibration seemed different from the previous ones. Its vibration was not strong, but extremely long. It was obviously not the sound that could be created by a living creature by stepping on it.
wow-
There was the sound of water in the darkness ahead.
Everyone's expressions changed drastically.
Because they all thought of the most terrible natural disaster on the ice field.
Even more terrifying than the collapse of the ice cave is the backflow.
The collapse smashed through the entire ice sheet.
The sea water is coming up.
Chapter 43: After the Storm (Two in One)
The shaking continued.
At this moment, it is more biting than the most biting cold wind, and longer than the longest freeze... Facing it is like facing a person with holes drilled all over his body. You can't help but think about how penetrating the cold wind will be when it blows through those holes.
This is not an exaggeration, it is personification at most. Because the Arctic glacier is the one with countless holes drilled into it, and the disaster - or spectacle - that they are facing now is the ultimate torture based on this pain.
The first thing was the collapse. Whether it was the ground that the flashlight could illuminate or the endless darkness farther away, the collapse continued almost endlessly.
The vibration directly affected all the active ice cave tunnels in the glacial wasteland. Even the solid snow could not withstand the shock wave. It began to break and fall, accumulating all its weight and turning it into a torrent strong enough to break through everything. It rushed down from the holes in the glacier that "penetrated into the bone marrow" and rumbled into the deep sea below.
Then, as the snow that was blocking the holes and tunnels was drained away, just like squeezing out the dirt that was blocking the pores, the weight of the entire glacial wasteland changed dramatically.
Because it became lighter, it floated up a few centimeters. But its overall weight was still terrifying, almost equivalent to the weight of the entire Arctic continent being lifted a few centimeters and then pressed down. Even though this action was gentle enough, it still caused a more terrible consequence, that is, the tide.
The outer ice layer began to fall off, and the huge solid ice that left the main body of the glacier first lost the weight of the entire continent. They were directly lifted high by the sea water. Some of them hit the cliff and broke into pieces, and some tilted outward and fell into the deep sea.
The pressure is pushing the water upwards.
Just like a basin of water, if a person gently presses the surface of the water with his palm, he will feel a faint force resisting himself. If he exerts force, water will inevitably seep up through his fingers.
Now the Arctic glacier is the palm and the ice sea is the compressed basin.
The sea water is surging up frantically under the action of pressure. The pressure is so strong that it can be compressed in just a few seconds and gush out from hundreds of meters below through various tortuous tunnels to the surface. At this time, they are already at the end of their strength and are frozen into ice almost every millisecond by the ultra-low temperature of minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius. All of this combined will create the most splendid and terrifying natural wonder in the entire Arctic plate: that is, all the gaps that can gush out are gushing out ice crystal prisms. The sharp prisms will break through the snow and pierce any object that dares to live on it at this time into a gourd.
Sintara did say there would be a relapse, but he didn't say it would be this serious!
A row of ice cones popped out of the ice surface in front of the flashlight, and this scene shocked Hitzfeld and others. They realized that they had to get away from this area as soon as possible, otherwise the death ice forest rising from under their feet would tear the ice surface apart and kill everyone standing on it!
"Run!" Hitzfeld only had time to shout out one word before he ran to the side.
Her thoughts were relatively clear, and she chose the north direction, which was the direction to continue going deeper into the ice lake.
Because they are not familiar with this place at all, they have no idea about which area of the nearby ground has no ice holes, and which area can escape the piercing attack of the Death Ice Forest. The only information they have is the legend of the permafrost of the Depp-Valtina Ice Lake.
Cursed Ice Lake, some people say it freezes everything, even time... Hitzfeld doesn't really require it to be able to do that, but at least there is water under the ice lake, right?
No matter how thick the ice layer that freezes the entire lake has become over the past thousands of years, there is water underneath it. There are naturally no holes or cavities on the lake surface, so there is no doubt that we should go to the lake surface - this is the most ideal escape direction at this moment!
She made her choice, and naturally the others had no time to think about anything else and ran as fast as they could to catch up.
The flashlight beam trembled and pierced the surrounding darkness. I didn't have time to take a closer look while running. I could only hear the friction sound of ice crystals poking at my ears and behind me from time to time.
brush!brush!
It is clearer than a broken mirror, more moving than the sound effects in imagination. But behind it is the cold and ruthless natural rules, a death melody composed by nature in the extreme cold with the body of glacier.
"what!"
Hitzfeld wasn't sure if she was hallucinating, but she heard someone screaming behind her.
A sense of responsibility drove her to look back. She shone the flashlight over there and found that the Esther man hanging behind the team was gone.
she died?
No...she's on top!
The light shone upwards, and she immediately saw that Esther was pierced in the sky by an ice crystal prism. The girl's luck was really hard to describe, as the sharp cone pierced her backpack and took her up into the air. Esther was completely frightened by this change, her body was stiff, and she could only scream, but her screams were weak even in the wind and snow, not to mention the continuous collision and shattering of ice crystals around her. If Hitzfeld hadn't been paying attention to the situation of others, she might not have noticed her experience at all.
"Aisun!"
Xia Yibing took two or three steps and barely stopped, then turned back to look at this location.
She thought Hitzfeld was really crazy. Are you still thinking about saving people at this time?
Almost at the moment she shouted, the ice needles swept across the backpack straps, forcibly cutting off the connection between Esther and the backpack.
The girl fell down crying. Hitzfeld knew it was dangerous, but she still reached out to catch her.
But someone else did it.
A cluster of purple-red branches stretched out from outside the beam of light. The ends of the branches were as tough and soft as vines. They quickly caught Esther and wrapped around Hitzfeld's thighs and waist, pulling them over there at the same time.
"Stab!"
The next moment, a large cloud of white smoke spurted out from the ground where they were standing. It was the squeezed seawater that met the wind and snow and was frozen into the smallest ice crystals. Breaking through the white mist was a large cluster of ice crystal spikes. If the pulling action was any slower, both of them would have had more holes on their bodies.
"Time is running out!"
Heidi had a real headache carrying them.
Every second you waste when escaping could be fatal. Hitzfeld only stopped for Esther for more than a second, or even less than two seconds, but with this split second of difference, the road ahead was blocked by the ice forest of death.
This damn thing has a "second stage" because there is wind on the surface, which will accelerate the freezing of seawater. Although the temperature in the underground ice cave is also very low, there is almost no wind, so the seawater freezes at a slower rate. This situation will cause the fluid below to eject the solid above.
"Boom!"
