Chapter six hundred and seventy-two the abyss
Kahn and Kasha arrived at the gate of the main castle as promised.
This time, no one stopped him, and the door leading to the howling abyss was opened, and the roaring wind outside the door was like the banshee's howling.
The sound of the trumpet in the deep valley was echoing, and the tall frost witch Lisangor was standing in front of the statue of the Holy Black Ice of the three sisters on the bridge, as if waiting for time to pray to them for peace in this trip.
They have been waiting for this day, and now, they are about to go deep into the abyss.
The two walked along the bridge without saying a word, and on the road, huge statues of guardians were quietly watching them. The roaring wind rolled into a vortex, whipping ruthlessly, and shouting.
"Are you ready?"
Lisangzhuo faced the two of them. She couldn't see her feet, so she stood on a defect near the stone bridge, close to the cliff of the Rift Valley. She was very close to her, and if she was not careful, she would fall into the abyss.
This is undoubtedly extremely dangerous, but no one will regard her as an ordinary blind girl. She has lived for tens of millions of years, which is enough to illustrate the situation.
Kahn nodded, because of the roaring wind, he didn't want to speak.
"Bring your climbing tools and go down from here, I'll wait for you first." Lisangzhuo pointed at the gap, and the huge crampons formed a shield to protect her, put her in the ice coffin. The ice melted and she disappeared.
"Is it gone?" Kasha was stunned for a moment, reached out to explore the place where Lisangzhuo stood, but she really couldn't touch anyone, and she must have teleported to the bottom of the abyss.
"Let's go, too," Kahn said.
"How to go?" Kasha poked her head out of the bridge deck. The bottomless abyss below was covered by thick fog and could not be seen. There were many small holes chiseled from ice axes on the side, which gave her some tips.
"I heard from Hala that it will take at least one day to climb down from here. We will hang the whole day on the ice wall. I really can't imagine how they persevered, and there are often accidents. If someone dies below, the living one will have to take the body up. This is a death order."
As she spoke, Kasha had already covered her skin nails. She inserted her paws into the ice wall and tried a little harder to test how deep the ice could be to bear her weight.
"Come here, just fly down," Kahn said.
"Oh." Kasha leaned over, put her hands on his shoulder, and her chest and abdomen were tightly pressed to make it easier for Kahn to hug her. "I'm ready."
"You hold the clock first," Kahn said.
"Why?"
"Look at the time, I want to know how deep this abyss is."
"Oh." Kasha took out the clock from the package and took a look: "It's just noon now."
It sounds strange because she saw the moon hanging in the noon night sky, and it was dark all day long when it was coldest.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a cry, and the wind flowing in his ears suddenly accelerated. Kahn actually leaned her body and fell straight from the gap in the bridge.
Their fall rubbed off the ice surface of the cliff protruding outward ten feet below. Kahn's direct and roughness scared Kasha, but as he spread his dragon wings, she gradually felt relieved.
The strong wind in the abyss passed by his ears, like a squealing elongated and deformed. They fell rapidly, and they were soon covered by thick fog.
During the fall, neither of them spoke, and the screaming wind was still whipping between the valleys, like a ghost's hand pulling them, covering the sound of talking. Kahn was resisting gravity and the speed of falling, while paying attention to obstacles that might suddenly appear hidden in the thick fog. Kahn didn't want to distract him and kept silent quietly.
She pointed her eyes at the ice wall that was passing by rapidly. The ice itself seemed to emit a dim and ethereal light reflected in the thick fog, so she would not be able to see her five fingers.
A remaining bridge piers standing on the ice wall passed by her eyes, and the bridge hole had been sealed by an avalanche. In the short moment when she passed by, Kasha saw a frost guard's horn helmet half buried in the snow, and the tools used for climbing were abandoned next to it, a circle of ropes, two cross-placed ice axes and a pair of snow boots with toes.
A scene of despair immediately appeared in her mind.
A team of three frost guards were performing a mission, climbing on the rock wall day and night, climbing down. Each time, only one person climbed down, and the other two were fixed on the ice wall as anchors to prevent falling and descending in turn.
One of them chiseled out an ice axe, but because he was too tired and had too shallow to eat ice, he fell down. He was pulled by the rope, and the sudden pause caused him to hit the ice wall heavily. What's even more fatal is that his arm was broken in this impact and could not be fixed on the ice wall, let alone continued to climb.
The teammates roared and ate his weight, but on the cliff where he was not in front of the village or behind the shop, he could only cut off his rope with tears, causing him to fall to die and melt.
After his death, his teammates found his body, threw away everything he could lose on him to reduce the weight, and then took it with him after re-fixing. It was not to go to the ground to hold a funeral, but that no flesh and blood could be placed in the abyss.
Just as she thought, Kahn slowed down, Kasa also noticed the abnormality and looked down.
"There is a breath of void ahead."
As they got closer, Kahn flapped his wings vigorously, blowing away the thick fog, and a bridge suddenly appeared like a ghost. The last moment there was nothing under them, and the next moment it appeared.
If Kahn hadn't slowed down in advance, he might have hit him head-on.
From a distance, the bridge seems to be covered with some kind of greedy weeds or thorns. But this is nonsense. Obviously, no life can grow and reproduce in this abyss. Even if there is one, Lisangzhuo will let them be wiped out.
The cold here seems to be shining from bottom to top, but the breath of void is emitted by this bridge.
Kasha wanted to turn around and look, but her tightly embraced posture made it difficult for her to see anything.
"How long has it been taken us to be here?" Kahn asked.
Kasha glanced at the clock and said, "It's only less than three minutes."
"Three minutes..." Kahn was slightly surprised. At the speed of their fall, even if they did not move freely throughout the entire free fall, they had at least moved thousands of meters, and this had not reached the bottom of the abyss.
It is no exaggeration to say that the howling abyss should be as deep as ten thousand meters, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the abyss is as deep as ten thousand feet.
"We are very fast, so there should be plenty of time. Let's explore the bridge below first." Kasha suggested.
Chapter completed!