Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ice Palace, Spirit Beast

After turning a corner, the pathfinder team saw a bright light in the distance that seemed to be the exit of the hole, this discovery could not help but surprise everyone, the long-lost light made the already somewhat tired people a lot faster, walked for more than ten minutes before walking to the light source, looking at the scene in front of them, everyone no longer knew what mood they were in to walk into.

If the island is a fairyland on earth, this is the world of ice and snow, walking in the frozen corridor reminds Jiang Yu of the scene of Frozen, the top and bottom are all white and blue ice, and the ice on both sides of the corridor is even more frozen, all kinds of creatures that have not been seen and scattered human corpses, which look lifelike as if they are alive, and what makes Jiang Yu very curious is the dark blue light hanging above his head, and the light source that everyone saw before is also emitted by this thing, as for why it is bright to this day, I don't know.

The frozen corridor aroused everyone's curiosity, and at the end of the walk, a huge ice door blocked the way for everyone to continue their exploration, and everyone stood in front of the door looking a little too small.

"Professor Jiang, how is this ice door going to be broken?"

"Well, it's a good question, the old man also wants to know how to break it!"

"Did you notice that the scattered patterns on this ice door look a bit like puzzle pieces?"

"Hmm... Jingwen is right, it's really like!" Chang Qing gave a thumbs up and praised.

"That's true, but how can this be moved?" Jiang An said and stood on tiptoe and touched the nearest pattern, what he didn't expect was that the seemingly fixed and flat pattern was actually pressed in.

"Wow... The person who designed this mechanism is idle, Dan, is it painful?"

"If the old man didn't guess wrong, these blocks can be replaced next to each other, and the method should be to replace the concave ones with the convex ones, Xiao Yu, you can try them. After Jiang An finished speaking, he took two steps back.

Jiang Yu nodded, jumped up, pressed a pattern into the door with his left hand, and pushed another piece to the left with his right hand, and under the effect of the force, the block pattern really changed positions with the square pattern pressed in by his left hand, and the most excited people to see this scene were Xu Jingwen and Jiang An.

But then there is another problem that makes everyone difficult, this problem is also the key to unlocking the stone door, that is, what is the complete pattern of this ice jade stone door, because the ice jade door pattern is a carving rather than a picture, so whether it is color or line, it will be dazzling and difficult to start, so it is difficult.

With this question, everyone retreated four or five meters away, so as to observe the pattern of the entire door, so as to find the law, this look is two hours, because of fatigue, all the mercenaries set up tents to rest in place to replenish their strength, and the most devoted to watching is Jiang An and Xu Jingwen, Jiang Yu, who was eating dried meat on the side, already had some clues at this time, but he was not sure.

At this time, Jiang An repeatedly looked at the photos on his mobile phone and the patterns put together in his notebook, but the donkey's head was always wrong when he put it together, which made him extremely distressed.

"What did Jingwen find?" The helpless Jiang An had to turn to Xu Jingwen on the side, Xu Jingwen also shook her head and sighed when she heard this: "Teacher, there are too many patterns in this square, and the pattern is too severe, not to mention that this is a line carving, it is too difficult!"

After eating the jerky in his hand, Jiang Yu clapped his hands and walked to Jiang An's side and said, "Second grandfather, will these patterns have anything to do with those totems?"

When the two of them heard this, their eyes lit up, yes, since they entered the village, all they have seen are totems and the like, and all the carvings are inseparable from the totem, so this ice jade door may also be related to the totem.

"Xiao Yu is right, even if it is not the totem I saw before, it is definitely related!" said that the two took out the photos they had taken before as a template, and began to look for similarities!

After the comparison, the clues gradually surfaced, the appearance of the clues was like a fuse out of control, the pattern of the first part has been marked by the two of them in the notebook, the two of them danced excitedly like children, Jiang An happily handed the notebook in his hand to Jiang Yu and said: "Xiao Yu, I'm going to trouble you next!"

Jiang Yu nodded, of course he knew why he bothered himself, after all, in front of such a large ice jade stone gate, only he could easily replace each piece of pattern, and the ninety by ninety square of eight thousand one hundred pieces was numbered by the two of them.

Of course, the numbers are not from 1 to 8100, but from 1-90, 2-90 ... 90-90, so that the mark is a little clearer, the front is a vertical row, the back is a horizontal row, Jiang Yu took the notebook and began to restore the pattern, Jiang Yu carefully restored each step for fear of making a mistake, after all, as long as the wrong step is a new observation and restoration, maybe it will be easier than the first time, but it will waste too much time.

With the memory of the first part of the restoration only took fifteen minutes, this time is already extremely fast, the pattern of the first part is also displayed in front of Jiang Yu and several people, is the head of a person with a mask, and this mask Jiang Yu has seen, it is the utensils hanging at the head of the bed in one of the nine wooden rooms before.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yu turned his head to the two who were still cracking the pattern and said, "Second grandfather, the mask in this pattern is exactly the same as the mask in the wooden house before, so I guess..."

"So you're guessing that the nine utensils are the prototype of the whole pattern?"

Jiang Yu looked at Xu Jingwen who was speaking, nodded and said: "That's right, so I guess that the nine houses, the nine utensils, all of these are all to leave a hint to enter here, if I guess correctly, this door has been opened, and the white bones on the ground before are the best proof, but the people who enter here should all stay inside permanently for some reason, so I dare to conclude that there must be a big danger inside!"

"According to you, who brought the gold-inlaid jade seal out of this place?"

Jiang Yu shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe there is such a person who escaped from this place!"

"Okay, don't speculate, quickly open the door and see the truth at a glance!"

Seeing Jiang An say this, the two couldn't help but nod together, and after knowing the answer, the puzzle became extremely smooth, and finally two hours later, a whole set of patterns was completely spelled out by Jiang Yu.

The pattern is a person, wearing a strange mask, wearing clothes made of fur, holding a scepter in his left hand and a bone knife in his right hand, a copper mirror hanging around his neck, a drum and a bone mallet hanging on the right side of his waist, and a copper bell tied to his left side.

After a click, the whole pattern fell into the door, as if it had touched the mechanism of the ice jade door, and the door in front of everyone finally opened, and a cold wind hit the face, which made people shiver, but what was reflected in front of them was dark and daunting.

When the ice door was not opened, Xu Er had already ordered everyone to pack up and get ready, Xu Er, as the leader of the forward troops, took out a lighting stick at this time, and it emitted a white fluorescence with a slight fold, and threw it straight away, and with the light, everyone only saw a small part of the illumination, so the answer was only that the world behind this door was very big.

After a little discussion, the vanguard troops followed Xu Er's steps, and stepped into this dark world first, as Xu Er's feet fell, the entire pitch-black world sounded like triggering something, and then the whole world became brighter, and an ice palace appeared in front of everyone.

There is a dark blue sky lantern hanging on the top of the palace, which is why the palace is illuminated, there is a circular altar in front of everyone, that is, in the middle of the entire palace, there are nine steps around the altar, each step has nine layers, except for the step in front of Jiang Yu, the other steps correspond to a coffin, the coffin is directly made of tree trunks, each trunk is at least about three meters in diameter, at this time the eight trunk coffins are wrapped in thick ice from head to end, and the ice is carved with various patterns with colors, which looks quite gorgeous.

Eight coffins hold the huge ice sculpture on the altar like the stars holding the moon, the statue seems to be a toad several meters high, and its huge size almost occupies the entire altar, and at this time it is lying on the ground and closing its eyes as if sleeping.

In front of the altar, there is a dense towering ice forest, there is an ice forest road in the middle of the woods, and the end of the path is also the end of the ice palace, and at the end there is an unknown number of layers of stairs to the sky, as for what is on the top of the stairs, everyone can not see.

After everyone carefully observed for a long time, they became bold when they saw that there was no danger, but Jiang Yu had a faint bad premonition, and at this time he was on guard at any time by Jiang An's side, Jiang An took a photo carefully with his mobile phone at this time, although he could not inspect the corpses and items wrapped in the ice coffin, but it was still okay to take pictures, after all, this was also a great discovery.

At this time, a sharp-eyed mercenary saw the ice blue gem inlaid on the top of the ice toad's head, and when he saw the wealth, he couldn't help but climb on top of the ice toad's head while Jiang Yu and his party were observing the ice forest, and began to pry the gems with a saber.

Because of the cold, the strength was not well controlled, and the hot blood on his left hand slowly flowed from the palm of his left hand, dripping on the top of the ice toad's head, Jiang Yu was taken aback when he turned around, and immediately stepped forward to stop: "Don't touch things!"

However, it was too late for him to speak, and when the warm blood flowed to the ice toad's mouth, the ice toad, which was originally like a statue, suddenly opened its eyes, and the round golden eyeballs were blue and white oval eyes, which were very cute to say but looked extremely scary when they were close, and the ice toad who opened his eyes grunted his whole body as if it was inflated, shattering the ice cubes that wrapped his body, and the mercenary who was crawling on top of the ice toad's head was also shocked and flew up at this time, and the ice toad's golden eyeballs turned upward, and the long tongue as fast as lightning swallowed the mercenary into his stomach.

With another grunt, the ice bump behind the ice toad actually splashed out white venom, spraying in the direction of Jiang Yu and his party, Jiang Yu dragged Jiang An's arm to dodge, and everyone behind him also dodged one after another, and the people who didn't dodge turned pale in an instant, and this scene made the faces of the people who were lucky enough to avoid change greatly.