"Get out and explore the way, don't let me see you within an hour!" Li Yi ordered in an undeniable tone.
"Yes, sir!" Feld had a bitter face and pushed open the cabin door to patrol. He offended the boss and was destined to have no good ending. The generous rewards Li Yi gave him every month were his lifeline.
Alger, who was playing dominoes, smiled happily. He found these black and red dominoes from Lhasaro's battleship and immediately fell in love with them. He piled them up for a long time and pushed them back, and listened happily to the crackling sound.
Li Yi was preparing his luggage, a portable waist bag, with a lighter powered by fire-type spirit crystals inside - it can spray a thousand degrees Celsius flame in extreme cold and deep water. There is also a heater driven by spirit crystals, which is a prop to maintain body temperature in the ice circle, maintaining the life of the explorer. Tracer bullets, alcohol cotton threads and bandages, etc. In addition, military pickaxes and daggers are tied around the waist.
The most important thing is the fur of a few ice bears. The ice bear is a powerful creature on the outside of the ice circle. It is covered with long white hair, mostly green peaks and gold grades, and there are also rare gold grades. Originally, Lhasaro bought many gold grades and primary ice bear skins at a high price, and was preparing to disguise themselves as ice bears to gain more gains in the ice circle. This can avoid unnecessary conflicts with local creatures in the ice circle. Now that all of them are cheaper, Li Yi, he also specially found a bear skin for Isabella to wear. The bear skin is disguised with her superb illusion, and it is difficult to tell whether it is true or false.
The ice circle is extremely unwelcome to foreign humans. Those ice spirits have extremely high intelligence. They know that humans come to steal their children every year, train them to fight and kill humans, and are forced to sign blood contracts, etc. Many of the teams of explorers who are weak but want to make a fortune in the ice circle are torn apart by the ice spirits, and their corpses are gone.
After sailing on the sea for two days, the sea water gradually turned dark blue. From the floating boat, you can see the dense diamond-shaped ice crystals in the sea, and the ice crystals and sea water mixed together. Looking forward, it suddenly became dark in front of you. The continuous icebergs formed an ice-blue wall, even obscuring the sunlight.
This ice wall, which is thousands of times larger than the Maginot line of defense, isolates the inside and outside of the ice circle into two worlds. The translucent ice peaks that form the walls cannot even leap into the clouds. The cold current above can not only freeze everything in an instant, but also contains powerful tearing power. Lhasaro wrote in his navigation diary that he once saw a high-level gold ethereal trying to leap the outer ice wall, but only halfway through, it was torn into pieces by the turbulent flow. The power of nature cannot be underestimated.
At this time, you can only dig a cave on the ice wall, then pour it into the hole layer by layer with fuel, ignite it, and melt it into water, and then move it in bit by bit, finally open up the ice wall and enter another world. The ice wall itself has a strange healing ability. If you don’t travel to that end within half a day, the road behind you will be blocked and you will be cooked by the heat generated by the fuel.
"This is a physical job!" Feld waved the iron pickaxe vigorously. Those ten thousand-year-old ice were not so easy to dig. He could only break the gap the size of a bowl with one blow with all his strength. He used an iron pickaxe made of gold-grade metal. Ordinary green-grade metal could not produce any scratches on it.
"Don't be lazy, pour the fuel on!" Li Yi was wrapped tightly in his clothes, making his hands and feet inconvenient. He gave orders at the top of his throat, but as soon as he said it, it was blown away by the cold wind.
"Can this fuel really burn through the ice?" Alger asked in confusion.
"No matter what, if it doesn't work, we'll just find another team of explorers to get into the ice circle." Li Yi lit the amber-shaped oil, and the orange-red flame suddenly rose ten feet high! If it weren't for the bear skin and lynx skin on his body, Li Yi would have been burned. He felt a sultry heat and fled from the hole with a gasp.
"Aoao! This firepower is just like the flames emitted by the golden-level fire spirit. No wonder it can penetrate the ice layer!" Feld screamed strangely. He was not afraid of the flames. He stood in the ice cave and dug hard.
The sun sets westward, dark red flowing clouds stack on the sea surface, the sun gradually sinks into the sea, and the clouds in the sky are like a gradually changing colored brocade, extending from the western sea level to the east. The blue sky looks extremely high and vast, as if it is about to suck all the souls in.
The work of digging the hole was over. Feld raised his musket and smashed the last layer of ice. Then the blizzard rushed from that end, and a circle of white ice was blown out of the hole. Li Yi blocked the thick and hard ice slag with his hands, crawling into the hole in the cold wind. His body was immediately covered with snowflakes, looking like a snowman piled up in winter.
"Ah, it's so good! The heavy wind and snow make me feel so good!" Feld howled like cramps, rolling and crawling in front.
"Bastard, please help me!" Li Yi was so choked by Fengxue that he couldn't breathe. "Felder, you're dead! You don't even put a three-dimensional shield on me..." He crawled in the cave filled with wind and snow with difficulty.
"Boss, didn't you say you wanted to experience the scenery of the ice circle yourself? Didn't you want to feel it? Why are you afraid of the wind and snow?" Feld had a sense of revenge, "I don't mean to offend you, this is what you said."
"I won't bother with you for now, I'll just change into bearskins." Li Yi glared at Feld, and he wiped his goggles. There was a snow-white world in front of him. The cold wind was howling and the flying snow covered his sight. He could only see the mountains and a few cedars not far away.
A sensational sound came out, and the group of "ice bears" climbed behind a leeward hill.
"Boss, what should we do now? Let's destroy the ice spirits' nests and catch their young spirits?" asked Feld.
"No hurry, I have worked hard to catch dozens of high-quality young spirits, but they are worth tens of thousands of golden spirit crystals. And it is impossible to catch so many throughout the winter. Unless we are extremely lucky, we can catch mutated ones, or close to mutated young spirits, so that we can sell them for a good price, otherwise we would rather not catch them." Li Yi calculated, and he focused on young spirits with quality in mutated ones.
"That's very difficult. The quality of the previous generation is high, and the quality of the breeding offspring can increase accordingly. If you want to get a mutated spirit, you must go deep into the ice circle and find a group of red-level ice spirits. This is how you can encounter it. Even if you have good luck, it will be even more difficult to catch it. Boss. Do you really have to do this?" Feld asked again.
"Why do you say so much? What else can we do besides doing this? Can you get money with other methods? You eat so many spiritual crystals every day and your appetite is getting bigger and bigger. If you don't do this, do you support yourself?" Li Yi replied viciously.
"That's true..." Feld said nothing.
"It's really hard to adapt to this ghost weather. It seems that my body is too weak and I have to be strong." Li Yi barely resisted the impact of wind and snow. Due to the good warmth and spiritual power-driven heater, he didn't feel cold.
"Boss, according to the age level of human beings, you are only in childhood and your body has not matured yet. Exercise can cause damage to your bones." Isabella suggested.
"Life is still very long. As long as I am careful, it is okay to live until I am twenty years old." Li Yi took out his telescope and looked around. He wanted to tell where this place was. The ice circle was divided into twenty-four zones by explorers who have been exploring for many years. They are represented by a, b.c, d...z. Each zone is divided according to the types of ice spirits. Different types of ice spirits have different habits. Explorers can formulate hunting plans based on their habits, find many drawings of the ice circle from Lhasaro's warships, and mark useful information on them, such as where there is a nest of some kind of ice spirit, etc.
"Well, I saw a patrolling rounded Gotha beast. It was probably area i or area S." Li Yi saw from the telescope that half of the ice mound was collapsed, and a white threaded double-horned head with ugly faces and eyes hidden in wrinkles. It was a species called "rounded Gotha beast". "We are closer, and this ice spirit looks very strong, probably with the strength of the first level of gold."
"Okay. Kill all its tribesmen, steal their cubs, and burn their nests to white ground!" This vast snow-white monotonous world made Feld extremely bored. Suddenly, he had a goal, and he involuntarily developed a desire to destroy.
"It's normal, bastard!" Li Yi helped the snowproof goggles on his face, "The people patrolling outside are all gold-level primary level, do you think the one inside will be green-level?"
"Ah, haha, I was wrong..." Feld reacted, laughed embarrassedly, and stopped talking.
"The nest of the rounded Gotha Beast is usually located fifty meters deep underground. The ice circle is actually a giant ice cube frozen by sea water. It is fifty meters underground or ice. It is estimated that it will take thousands of meters underground to dig out the sea water. There is no soil at all here. It is really magical! There is also the legendary absolute zero degree. I don't know what kind of power can make all this." Li Yi thought, and while approaching carefully, they were only five hundred meters away from the patrolling rounded Gotha Beast.
This is an extreme distance. If you move forward, you may be found. So now there are two choices in front of Li Yi. One is to launch a raid and kill it. The other is to continue disguising as an ice bear and see if the other party shows hostility.
The relationship between the alien ice spirits on the ice field is very friendly, because the ice spirit relies on the outside ice-type spiritual power to nourish itself. The spiritual power is endless, abundant and endless, especially on this ice field. Therefore, there is no competition, no motivation to fight and grab each other, and the ice field is vast and boundless, so there is no saying of competing for territory.
Some ice explorers saw this and asked their ice spirits to steal the young spirits, but as soon as they approached, they were torn to pieces by the angry wild ice spirits. This is because the spirits passing through the Blood Deed carry a special and incomplete breath, and the wild ice spirits seem to regard them as human lackeys.
"And we have a voluntary contractual partnership, there should be no problem. Let's go and meet it." Li Yi decided to pay attention.
The rounded Gotha Beast had a projection of Li Yi and others in the tiny eyes of the rounded Gotha Beast. It distinguished its breath and found that the other party was a small group of ice bears, probably passing by. It looked a little anxious, and kept digging the snow with its hooves, glanced at them and left them alone.
"This patrolling rounded Gotha beast looks like a lordless person. Is it something happened in their nest?" Isabella was a little confused. As a master of emotions and psychology, her understanding of the spirit's heart is no less than that of Li Yi's understanding of humanity.
"You'll know if you go and take a look." Li Yi went around the back of the ice hill and found a hidden cave, and they entered it.
Walking through a winding corridor, an elliptical underground hole appeared in front of you. The top of the hole was as smooth as a mirror, and the light outside could easily penetrate it, and the design was very exquisite. But what shocked them was that there was not even a rounded Gotha beast here, and it was empty!
"Strange, where is the Gotha beast? Where are their young spirits? All the young spirits are missing. It's not that the young spirits have been stolen. They are all dispatched to find the thief, right?" Li Yi guessed.
"It must be like this, what should we do now?" Isabella asked.
"Help them find it. Since they can steal young spirits from such a powerful rounded Gotha Beast tribe, the other party must be an explorer with great strength. We can use the power of Gotha Beast to kill them, and the fisherman will benefit." Li Yi likes to deal with people the most.
"But they will definitely stay away from here after they succeed. How can we find them?" Feld asked.
"The time we entered the ice circle is the beginning of the ice spirit breeding period. It is useless to come early and not wait for the young spirit to be born. So even if they take one step ahead of us, they will not leave for a long time. Moreover, as soon as something happens, traces will be left, and these traces are the basis for us to find." Li Yi said as he walked to the place where the rounded Gotha beast breeds young spirits. He found a large hole half a human-tall height in the corner.
"These people came in from outside and stole the young spirits, but how did they know exactly where the young spirit breeding area is here?" Li Yi was a little confused. He drilled into the thief hole and crawled outside.
I suddenly lit up before my eyes, and there was a valley like a basin in front of me.
"The rounded Gotha Beast has lost their traces here, so it has to scatter and search," Li Yi looked at the messy footprints on the ground. "These footprints have not been covered by ice and snow. In other words, those people have not yet walked away. They should have an ethereal one, carrying them away, but it is impossible to fly long distances in such bad weather."
"But in which direction did they fly?" Feld looked at the heavy snow and felt helpless.
"Of course, you are running along the wind direction. In this case, the faster you run, the safer it is the farther you go," Li Yi took out a note, tear off a corner and threw it into the air. The wind blew the paper scraps up, "No, this is the direction they escaped."
Feld was amazed, and he left a mark on the rounded Gotha beasts, prompting them for the direction of the thief.
The sky was gray, and on the snow, four explorers were walking. The ice slag had accumulated a thick layer on their bodies, which was swept by the cold wind, and fell to the ground slowly. Judging from their body shape, three tall and strong, one petite, and seemed to be three men and one woman.
"Brother, how do you divide the gains this time?" the man walking at the back suddenly asked.
Chapter completed!