Chapter forty-ninth cracked ice
Just behind the running people, the smooth caves and ice surface cracked to both sides for no reason, accompanied by the tremor under their feet, like a giant beast made of frost opening its mouth. Under the crack is a deep dark space, and the ice walls on both sides are full of broken ice layers. The sections of these ice layers are very sharp, as if they are sharp knives. If anyone accidentally falls down, they may have been cut into countless segments by these sharp blades made of ice before they can fall to the ground.
The broken ground extended very quickly, and the cracks on the ice spread along a cracked main line like spiders to the sides. Large pieces of frozen snow were torn open under the force of the earth, falling rapidly towards the depths of the cracked cracks, and finally hit the raised rock wall, making a dull sound of impact.
The scene in front of me seemed as terrifying as the end of the world. My feet were trembling, the earth was roaring, and even the fog on both sides seemed to be rolling. No one could have imagined in advance that such a terrible thing would suddenly happen on the seemingly calm ice field.
Even while running, the people in the adventure team still maintained their basic formation, and Catherine was still at the forefront of the team, responsible for leading the way and pioneering tasks. Years of experience have produced results here. The female knight did not fall into chaos because of the pursuit of the cracks and the roaring sound. While running hard, she still had enough energy to observe backwards. After confirming the trend of the cracks, she led everyone to the side and ran out in a direction that was nearly perpendicular to the cracks. Rather than running, it was better to say that everyone was rolling and slipping. Everyone seemed to have finally found a way to move forward at high speed on the frozen snow and ice, that is, just squat or sit on the ice, holding a sharp weapon in her hand as a tool to support it on the ice, and using the power of her arms to push herself forward.
The timely turn finally achieved the results. After seven or eight minutes of race, everyone finally got out of the coverage of the cracked ice surface, and heard a roar in his ears gradually fading away. But no one dared to stop, and no one dared to be sure whether the ice layer close to the newborn crack could remain stable enough after such a large-scale action. If we stopped now, it might have happened that we could avoid the swallowing of large-scale fractures, but due to negligence, the tragedy that was finally affected by the aftermath. Therefore, even though we had escaped the pursuit of cracked ice, the six people continued to run five or six hundred meters, and then stopped and looked back in fear. In the rear, the ground seemed to be gradually returning to calm. The sound of the ice layer breaking became smaller and smaller. The position we had just walked had been occupied by the rift valley. If we failed to escape in time just now, we would inevitably fall from the middle of the newborn crack, and there would be no exception.
"What is that?" Lina's thick cotton coat was covered with snow and ice. She was sitting on the ground panting. In fact, under normal circumstances, she would not feel too tired even if she ran at all her strength at this distance. When the scene just now was too amazing, the strong psychological pressure made her consume a lot of extra physical strength. At this time, she had to hurry up and adjust her breathing. But even so, she still couldn't control her curiosity and asked in fear: "How could the ice break suddenly? And it was so intense."
"It's probably a natural phenomenon." Catherine did not sit down and rest, but directed Eva. The two of them protected the two casters who were sitting down and resting on the left and right to prevent another emergency. The female knight protected the shield in a very awkward position, and his eyes were patrolling vigilantly in the mist. She said to Lina: "Before coming, I have sorted out all the information about the permanent ice field that I can find. It has indeed mentioned that the ground cracks of unknown reasons occur on the ice field occasionally, but they are not often encountered. We only show that our luck is so good. Hey, where did Panis and Vivian go? I remember they were still there a minute ago, why did they disappear in a blink of an eye?"
"It won't fall, right, I'm just joking." Everyone knows. Freya is joking. No one will believe that several legendary pros have escaped. Pannis, the demigod, was swallowed by the cracks. However, even though I knew it very well, Catherine still glared at Freya fiercely. Freya was reinstalling the metal equipment on her boots, and waved to Catherine indifferently and said, "Don't be so nervous. I saw him a few dozen seconds before we stopped, so I was following us, so it's impossible to really fall. Don't worry. Besides, even if I'm really caught up with the cracks, don't forget that he still has an inherent spiritual realm. The power of the domain is enough for him to escape."
"Well, I've heard Vivian's footsteps." Catherine nodded and stared at the depths of the fog behind the few people. Not long after, Panis held Vivian with one hand and rubbed his waist with the other, and walked out of the fog with a pitiful look. Seeing Panis' embarrassing look, Catherine's lips wrapped under a thick scarf were raised, and she held back her smile and asked, "Why are you so slower, and she looks like she was beaten up by a group of people in the middle. What happened?"
"Don't mention it." Panis pulled Vivian back to the team, and then began to sort out the cotton hat that almost fell off on his head, muttering and complaining: "I guess you didn't notice it. There were so many broken ice coming towards you behind."
Panis is right. Due to unexplained changes, the ice layer was not only forcibly torn apart at the beginning, but also constantly collided with each other. The power of this collision is immeasurable. Under the impact, the broken ice was pushed by a huge force and shot out rapidly around. The hardness and speed were enough to create a considerable killing effect.
Before, Panis followed Vivian on his back and felt that many broken ice flew from behind. After sensing that many broken ices were flying from behind, he had to adjust the position of the mage girl, hugged her in front of her with his left hand, waved a one-handed sword with his right hand, and tried his best to knock down the ice cubes. It was not difficult to deal with these ice cubes with the strength of a demigod. The dense broken ice was knocked down one by one and could no longer have any impact on the girls in front of her. However, the tragedy happened at this time. Due to excessive concentration on the ice cubes behind, Panis finally felt the malice from the ice field, slipped down by the smooth ice surface, and rolled down a small slope with Vivian. He rolled to the bottom of the slope before he patted the frozen snow on his clothes, and pulled Vivian, who was happily mocking him, from the ground, and returned to the slope with great effort, and chased towards Catherine and the four of them.
"It's so pitiful." Katherine covered her mouth and suppressed her smile, walked over to help Panis slap the broken ice covered with clothes, and whispered: "Thank you for your hard work,"
"Then I worked so hard, is there any reward?" Panis's voice immediately became obscene and said with a smile: "There must be a reward."
"Yes." Catherine raised her eyebrows. Although she knew that Panis couldn't see it, she still said with a smile: "Next time you do something wrong? When you are in a state of mind, I will kill you directly to keep a breath. How about it? I'm very satisfied with this reward."
"I'm wrong, I'm really wrong." Panis lowered his head and whimpered, "Please keep a breath."
"Stop making trouble, talk about serious business." Catherine rolled her eyes and punched Panis on the shoulder, pointing to the new life cleft and said: "That should be what the information says, the ice displacement phenomenon, have you encountered it before?"
"I don't have such good luck." Panis shook his head vigorously and denied: "This thing is said to have happened once or twice in ten years, and it is generally not large in scale, so it is not so easy to see. Who knew that as soon as we came in, the ice field gave us such a big gift. Fortunately, it did not cause any losses. This natural phenomenon of natural disaster level, even ice crystals may return to the element core state, and even the element core is damaged, let alone our flesh-and-blooded creatures."
"If I encounter Ice Crystal, I will die?" Catherine said in surprise: "Aren't they made of ice? Even if they really fall, it's okay, so how can they die?"
"Because some ice displacements do not end so simply." Panis explained: "Sometimes the ice displacements are divided into two stages. What we see belongs to the first stage. For some reason, the ice layer on the ground is twisted and torn apart. Generally, after the first stage, the ice crystals are at most severely damaged, and the core will not be problematic. However, sometimes there is a second stage. The cracked ice layers will soon approach each other again. After they collide together, they will crush each other. That kind of power, even if the demigod encounters it, it will be crushed to pieces, which is enough to completely destroy the core of the ice crystal. In this way, the long life of the ice crystal will eventually end."
"Wait." Lina suddenly interrupted Panis' explanation and asked carefully: "You just said that there might be a second stage?"
"Yes." Panis nodded and said, "This is what I heard from the ice crystals. No one can tell who will be there or who will not be there."
"I don't think it's important where I heard it." Lina shook her head and said, "There is only one key question. If the ice layer re-enters and hits it with great force, many places will collapse and shatter."
Chapter completed!