The Ice Bear Abyss thought for a moment and said, "We can go in later." ”

Catherine nodded.

Shi said, "Then it's decided. ”

The ferry was about to enter the center of the maelstrom, and it was moving faster and faster.

Shi pointed to the bottom of the boat and said, "Do you see this line?" Yun and I will sit in the first half and enter first, and you will drive in the opposite direction for a while, and then re-drive to the center of the maelstrom. ”

This should have been the means that Stone had prepared when he built this ferry.

Sure enough, there was light along the line. Stone gestured to Catherine, and moved towards the front half of the ship, while Catherine moved a little back, her hands clinging to the side of the boat.

"Bang".

The ferry split through it, the first half of which accelerated towards the center of the maelstrom with stones and clouds, and the second half of which took Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss in reverse. The two sides quickly distanced themselves, and Catherine watched as the stone and cloud sped through the maelstrom, suddenly disappearing into the center of the maelstrom.

"We can actually not go in, can we?" asked the Ice Bear Abyss.

"yes, but you can't find the exit if you don't go in. Catherine looked back at the old barbarian, "I have a gut feeling that the exit is in the maelstrom. ”

The two looked at each other for a few seconds.

"I see. After a while, the Ice Bear Abyss nodded, "Let's change positions, I'm in front." ”

"Good. ”

The center of the maelstrom appears to be dark. Strangely, although countless flowing lava formed this huge whirlpool, not a single trace of the dark red light emitted by the hot lava emanated from the center of the maelstrom. Looking at the center of the whirlpool for a long time, where it leads, you will feel distracted and lose the ability to think. If Catherine hadn't discovered it in time, the Ice Bear Abyss might have plunged headlong into the lava.

"Don't look there, I couldn't think about it just now. The abyss of the ice bear that awakened warned Catherine, "There's something in there that is going to enter my mind. ”

Catherine thought for a moment and said, "I suspect there's the one we once met. ”

Catherine accentuated the words "the one she once met", and the Ice Bear Abyss immediately thought of the projection of Hisuru in the gap in space.

He couldn't help but nod and said, "If it's really that one, it does have this ability." Are you still insisting on going in?"

"Don't you remember what he said, we have to 'go back to the way we started.'" ”

"So you think going into the maelstrom is the 'original path'. ”

"Perhaps. Catherine gave a quick glance at the center of the maelstrom, "We've been looking for the exit to the box, and I don't think the one won't be unaware." ”

In fact, by now, they have no choice. The lava swirling into the maelstrom sucked the half-cut ferry boat they were on, and even if the bull's eye was released, it was difficult for the two to escape the suction. Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss are not so much discussing as finding a reason for themselves to enter the center of the Maelstrom.

What exactly was in the maelstrom, Catherine still can't imagine. All she knew was what the control had said, and her own guesses.

Suddenly darkness descended, and the mind stagnated. Catherine didn't know how long it had been, but the face of the Ice Bear Abyss appeared in front of her eyes. The old savage slapped her face with his hand, and kept saying, "Don't fall asleep, don't fall asleep." ”

A subtle pain came from her face, and Catherine struggled to keep her eyes open and exhaled a white breath. She finally came to her senses, and then immediately shivered.

It's cold!

Catherine sat up and found herself lying in a snowy field, while the Ice Bear Abyss was wrapped in thick fur clothes.

"You'd better change your clothes. The old barbarian reminded.

Catherine rose from the snow, her mage robes changing to those common in the Northlands.

"What is this place?" she asked, surveying her surroundings, "this is the center of the maelstrom?"

"I guess, I've been here since I woke up. Pointing into the distance, the Ice Bear Abyss said, "There is nothing around us, and the only place we can go is there." ”

Catherine looked in the direction the Ice Bear Abyss was pointing and saw a huge black shadow towering there. Because the shadow was so large and towering that it couldn't be seen in its entirety, the upper part of it was completely submerged in the clouds.

"It's not that it's all about scrap collected by scrap cleaners. Catherine stood up and patted the snowflakes on her body.

"It depends on what you mean by scrap. The Ice Bear Abyss grabbed a handful of snow and rubbed it vigorously for Catherine to see.

That snow didn't melt.

Catherine reached out and picked up a handful of snow from the palm of the Ice Bear Abyss. There was a chill between the fingers, but it was only cool, not slippery. She brought her hand to her eyes, her thumb and forefinger kept rubbing, and a small cluster of flames suddenly appeared between her fingers. After a few moments, the snow between the fingers finally melted, turning into a thin layer of silvery-white metal covering both fingers.

"These are all metals. ”

"Most of it is so-called scrap. ”

This ice and snow world is very similar to the real world, you can feel the cold, you can see snowflakes flying, and you can even see some lifelike animals running in the snow. However, when the Ice Bear Abyss caught a white fox, the two also found that the white fox was metallic. Although the white fox has flesh and blood, and its internal organs, bones, and muscles are like living creatures, it is only like it. As long as it is burned with a flame, it will melt into metal.

Of course, the melting point of everything in this world is very low. The temperature of the flame produced by Catherine is completely incomparable to that of a furnace fire in metal smelting. It can be seen that the metals of this world are by no means those of Gear City.

The two of them walked towards the towering shadow for several hours, and Catherine looked back at the two long rows of footprints left on the snow, and then looked ahead, the distance between them and the shadow seemed to have not changed.

Catherine said, "It's not going to go on like this, it's too far." I don't think I will be able to reach it in another two or three months. ”

Ice Bear Abyss felt the same way, nodded and said, "Then let's go to that forest and have a look." The forest he was talking about was a forest that appeared on the right hand side of the two of them.

The forest was abrupt, as if it had suddenly appeared. Based on past experience, both felt that they should not take the risk of checking it out. But it's not a problem to keep walking stupidly like this.

The two turned and walked towards the forest, stopping at the edge of the forest to observe.

The trees in the forest are high and low, tens of meters high, and the low ones are less than the height of a person, and the trees are quite dense. Each tree is covered with a thick layer of snow that looks like the leaves of these trees.

The biggest problem with entering the forest is to open the way, and this dense forest is a difficult task for the pathfinder.

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