Chapter 72 Crystal Cave
The sound of "Karakera" kept ringing. Under the joint control of the four ice crystals, the ice surface cracked around against the norm, and a dark ice cave appeared. The ice cave stretched deep into the depths in layers of threads, leading to the deep and invisible underground. Flashes of cold wind came from the dark cave, making people's skin tremble uncontrollably.
"I have a question." Vivian asked several ice crystals: "This cave is tilted downwards, and it is all made of ice. If you walk up, you will probably slide all the way to the ground. Is there any way to prevent us from sliding?"
"There is a way, it doesn't slip inside." Panis said first: "We have worked together before. They know what to pay attention to in the caves used by humans. They have already processed the ice surface in advance, so don't worry about sliding down."
"That's so thankful." Vivian twisted the lantern and looked into the deep ice cave: "We just go on like this, we won't encounter anything, we always feel that there are many strange creatures hidden inside, which are pitch black."
"In theory, it won't be." Panis shook his head, "But be careful, keep your vigilance enough, and never have any problems in front of the target in the end. Our body shape cannot use the goblins' healing device."
So, everyone's eyes tacitly focused on Freya's face, nodded meaningfully, and looked away without saying a word. Freya's eyebrows were trembling, and she gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "You guys wait for me, and settle the score with you when I lose weight. I'm really angry this time, you should be enlightened."
"Give it, rabbit-eared fructose." Catherine suddenly stretched out her hand to Freya, and a piece of candy that emitted the fragrance of fruit appeared in her hand. Freya didn't think about it and reached out to pick it up. Catherine rolled her eyes, quickly took it back, and snorted coldly: "Reduce weight? Humph. I'm afraid you'll let us wait until the end of time. I really need to be enlightened. I think it's you."
"Woo, I'm fooled." Freya let out a small animal-like whimper, covering her face and hypnotized herself: "No, no. I can definitely reduce it. My perseverance can overcome all difficulties. Nothing can stump me, absolutely nothing can stump me."
"Okay, no more jokes." Catherine clapped her hands to attract everyone's attention. She said loudly: "I'm ready to go. By the way, four Ice Crystal friends, are you going to go down together? Or are you waiting for us here?"
"No, it's not fun at all, and it's not fun here." The small iceberg shook his body hard and expressed his firmness of rejection: "Anyway, this ice cave can last at least one month, which is enough for you to use. Since we don't have anything to do, we have to go to other places to play. By the way, you promised me and bring me a lot of wine and three days of food. Don't lie to me again this time. If I ask me to wait for so long, I won't believe you."
"Don't worry, I promise I won't lie to you." Catherine covered her mouth and chuckled, nodding, "When we leave the ice field, we will go directly to the nearby big city to buy wine and rush back. This is a promise made as a knight."
"That's good, then we'll leave." The blue hand made a series of ice cubes again, and several ice crystals came together again, as if they were coming. They kept making roaring footsteps and rolling sounds, gradually moving away on the ice field.
"I finally left, so nervous." Lina patted her chest until the ice crystals walked away. She finally had the courage to emerge from Catherine's back. The fearful expression on her face instantly faded away. She ran out of the deep ice cave with a slight slight look inside, "It's a very deep space. How many meters do they said they would go down? More than 270 meters?"
"Yeah, it's almost the same." Catherine nodded and said, "It's less than three hundred meters. It's not very deep, but they can create such a deep cave in just four people in twenty minutes, and it's so spacious that people have to admire their ability to control ice, which is worthy of being a creature formed by ice elements."
Catherine was right. Before, Blue Hand had been saying that they could open a small hole for everyone to enter and exit, so in the girls' imagination, it would be a narrow and narrow space of depression. But the girls obviously forgot that Blue Hand was talking about small, compared with the size he was used to. That is to say, for an iceberg with a height of more than ten meters high and nearly ten meters in diameter, it was a small hole, and for human body shape, it was a spacious tunnel. The cave in front of the girls was about three meters in diameter, not round, but the shape of the arches closer to the city wall. The uneven ice surface made Pannis have the urge to trim them. Standing outside the cave, you could hear a faint sound of whimpering wind coming from the inside, as if crying from a distance in the middle of the night, making people feel unconsciously creepy.
"Let's go, too." Catherine held a shield in her right hand and raised the crystal energy lantern in her left hand, and took the lead in tentatively walking into the ice cave: "Don't fall behind if you keep up, don't fall behind even in a safe place."
According to convention, Panis was still at the end of the team, and Catherine held the lanterns one by one, and six people lined up in a warning formation and slowly walked into the ice cave. It has to be admitted that the ice cave is a very wonderful place, and it is not as dark as everyone imagined. In other words, when entering with the lantern, it is not so dark. Walking in the ice cave, there are crystal ice on the top, bottom and left and right, and the smooth ice surface constantly reflects the light of the lantern, and a lantern can illuminate a very long distance. In everyone's eyes, the silver light flows on the ice surface around it, making the ice cave full of dreamy beauty like a crystal palace.
It is a very strange experience to move forward slowly in the ice cave. Unlike the girls imagined, the light blue ice around it is translucent. Not only can the vague shadows of the girls, but you can also see all kinds of strange things inside through the ice layer. Walking more than a hundred meters, a huge creature appeared in the ice layer on the right side of the team. The creature could only see part of the body. Calculated from its legs alone, the entire body is about twenty meters high and the body length reaches thirty meters. The mouth and teeth of the creature cannot be seen. However, from the shape of the claws, this creature should be plant-eating. I don’t know why it was frozen in the ice layer. After experiencing it, I don’t know how many tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years it has happened. Now it coincidentally appears in the eyes of the girls.
"What kind of creature is this?" When the giant creature first appeared, it scared several people. After all, it appeared without any warning, and the creature's body was well preserved, as if it was still alive but just asleep. However, Catherine immediately saw the real situation clearly, kept alert and leaned over, reached out to touch the ice surface, and asked in surprise: "This kind of creature seems to be somewhat similar to those we have seen in the traces of several lands in the Mountain Country. Is it the same type as them?"
"It's very likely." Vivian also squeezed over and used the light to simply outline the shape of the creatures in the ice on the notebook: "Maybe a long time ago, there were ordinary creatures living on the ice field? Judging from their size, they might not be able to survive by eating moss and lichens. In other words, there were still plants growing on the ice field at that time? It's unlikely that the surging ice elements here are enough to freeze most plants to death. How could it be possible to support such a large-scale creature?"
"No, your previous guess is correct." Eva stretched out her finger and poked the ice layer on the surface of the creature, and said twisted: "The goblin's qualifications record that according to the story of the Three-Eyed Tribe, in the early period, which was even more ancient than the mythical age, the Three-Eyed Tribe had just been born from the earth because of the will of Lord Yara. At that time, there was already many monsters on the ground. They said that there was no permanent ice field at that time, and there was only one whole Bute Plateau. The permanent ice field was formed in the early stage of the First Age due to a large-scale element outbreak. The element outbreak took only a few days to completely freeze the northern part of the Bute Plateau. It is estimated that at that time, many creatures that had no time to escape were frozen to death on the ice field, and then the bodies were preserved at low temperatures and were wrapped in slowly thickening ice layers, which finally formed what they are now."
"The people who are frozen to death in the novel are all peaceful, as if they are just sleeping." Lina said curiously: "It seems that they are not talking nonsense. If you look at this creature, if it is other causes of death, the body will inevitably leave traces of struggle, but it does not. As expected, many things in the novel are correct."
"I don't think it would be peaceful to freeze to death." Freya subconsciously tightened her clothes. Her previous experience in distress made her particularly sensitive to the word cold. When she heard this word, she seemed to feel the knife-like air conditioning cut her flesh and blood from the cracks in the clothes, making her unable to help but want to add a few more clothes: "I think freeze to death must be the most painful way to die in the world. Well, no, the second pain is second only to starvation."
"Didn't you think of a point?" Panis, who was at the end of the team, couldn't help but sigh, feeling helpless at the divergent nature of the girls' thinking, and sighed, "Did no one consider what the appearance of this creature means?"
"Of course we're almost at the frozen soil." Catherine rolled her eyes and said dissatisfiedly: "We are not fools. Since this creature may have been frozen at the beginning of the formation of the ice field, it means that the land is below, and there is nothing to say. We were just curious about it just now. By the way, can you recognize which kind of creature this creature is similar to? In the Earth Trace, didn't you say that most of the creatures now have the same origin as ancient times?"
Chapter completed!