"Huhu, this frozen sea is still the same old appearance that can freeze people to death, I don't know how such a hot place in the sea of floating light can coexist peacefully with this ice sea, it's really unscientific."

While scanning the cold and windy midwinter scene of the frozen sea on the deck, while complaining about the many unreasonable settings of the fantasy new world, Luo Zhengdao raised his head and drank the warm rum in the silver flask, and after a long time with the pirates' men, it was almost impossible to say that he did not get into the habit of drinking.

Drinking alcohol is definitely not a habit of life among today's arcanists, as they need to perform a series of complex calculations and configurations in their minds to knead the Mana particles to their effect, and the effect of alcohol is clearly contrary to the way the arcanists try to keep their minds calm and clear forever. In contrast, the daily life of the warlocks is much freer, even if they are drunk by prostitution and gambling, the warlocks rely on their talent to eat and eat, and they do not match logical thinking. In terms of attitude towards narcotics such as alcohol, Luo Zhengdao is more inclined to the warlock route, the magic card only needs to be activated to take effect, what he needs to worry about is whether he can withstand the curse of the Aragami behind, as for drinking some wine or something, this matter is inevitably related to whether he can cast spells in a smooth way.

Some earlier, he refused the kindness of his subordinates to see him off, and on the pier shrouded in morning mist, the expedition team led by Luo Zhengdao pulled anchor and set sail.

Limited to the material of the wooden hull, the Yaling battleship has little room for enhancement in terms of combat effectiveness, but other functions, such as functional cabins, have been greatly increased in number and area, which can better meet the needs of expeditionary activities.

The stern part of the ship, which was converted from a conference room and a luxurious restaurant, was comparable to the palace banquet hall in all aspects, and the chefs on board were specially selected chefs who were proficient in various genres of cooking techniques, and had learned new dishes that Luo Zhengdao had guided and improved, and the style was completely out of step with the famous dark cuisine of the New World. The well-equipped and well-staffed infirmary provided a solid material basis for the safety of the expedition, and even the usual neglected ordinary sailors had greatly improved their living conditions and daily supply levels, after all, the main task of the Yangwei was no longer combat operations, and it was the first priority to transform the cabin to meet the requirements of the expedition mode.

The journey was peaceful, but after arriving at the Frozen Sea, the good fortune in front of them seemed to run out all at once, and for the next two months, they just blindly wandered around the icy sea.

It is well known that the icebergs of the Frozen Sea move with the Aether Undercurrent and the winds of Mana, and the drifting path is almost unpredictable, and the iceberg that holds the evidence of the Overlord is impossible to easily identify from the outside. If the best way to hide a piece of sand is to throw it into the desert, then looking for an iceberg with no obvious appearance in a frozen sea full of icebergs is exactly the same. Because of this, in addition to trying his luck, Luo Zhengdao didn't know what else he could do, since he couldn't do anything, it was better to wait for the god of fate to take care of him!

"Your Majesty, please go back to the cabin and rest, the deck is protected by a magic circle, it's still too cold here, it may affect your health."

Marne Darlang, the first mate from Qiongzhou, has a lot of experience in seafaring, but he is not well-known, and he has been hollowed out by goblins a few times earlier, and Luo Zhengdao has learned to take those unknown subordinates into the operation as much as possible, so as not to be tracked by prophetic spells.

At this time, Luo Zhengdao, who was wearing a gray woolen army coat, heard the first mate's persuasion, and he said with a smile:

"Well, I'm fine, no one on the ship is frostbitten, right?"

Hearing this, the first mate of Darlang, who had two beautiful mustaches, nodded and said:

"There are a few sailors with a cold in the infirmary receiving the potion, and it is inevitable that some of the thousands of sailors in the fleet will be unwell, and this is unavoidable, Your Majesty."

Nodding with a smile, he reached out and buttoned the collar, Luo Zhengdao said:

"I'll stay a quarter of an hourglass time longer, and you can get busy!"

This gray woolen military coat looks very inconspicuous on the outside, but it is not so simple on the inside, the lining material of this dress is made of expensive mink fur, which is a luxury preferred by the upper class nobles during the Guangming Dynasty, especially in the cold inland areas, the price was once so high that even the small and medium-sized nobles could only covet it. Despite this, the warm clothes made of the fur of this rare fire-type monster still couldn't block the cold wind of the frozen sea, and it could always make Luo Zhengdao stay more comfortable in this extremely cold area, and of course he couldn't explain in detail to his subordinates why he had been on the deck longer than ordinary people.

"Dingding! It's foggy! Ding! It's foggy! ”

The rapid sound of fog bells from the high mast alerted the voyagers of the potential danger posed by poor vision, and the flagship Prouder slowed down. A large oil lamp at the bow of the ship is lit, and the light is focused by a metal concave mirror and shoots straight ahead, which increases the visibility distance of the searchlight to roughly ensure that the ship does not hit the iceberg headlong. At the same time, the two glass fog lamps at the stern of the Yangwei were also lit later, which is the simplest and most effective preventive measure to avoid collisions between ships in the fleet in the fog.

As the fog around him became thicker and thicker, and when he could only see a white scene in front of him, Luo Zhengdao's cold wind blowing on the deck had no practical meaning, so he had to sigh and turn around and walk to the cabin. It's not meal time yet, but after freezing on deck for so long, it's not a bad idea to eat a little to replenish the calories.

"Huh, the treasure map is shaking?"

Before Luo Zhengdao walked into the cabin, he felt an unusual vibration from his waist bag, and when his fingers trembled and spread out the dragon skin treasure map, sure enough, on the left side of the center of this treasure map, a strange red symbol appeared. Although I can't tell what this means at the moment, my intuition tells him that he is likely to be lucky today.

"Slow down! Slow down now! ”

Luo Zhengdao shouted and ordered the Yangwei to reduce its speed, and the battleship, which had been sailing at a low speed of about three knots, lowered several more sails, and the speed quickly dropped to about one knot.

Suppressing the ecstasy and excitement in his heart, Luo Zhengdao pointed to the port side of the Yangwei and shouted:

"Turn the lights to port!"

His Majesty's order must be carried out, and the bright beam of light from the searchlight at the front of the battleship moved to the left, and the pillar of light quickly pierced through the hazy fog on the sea, and a huge iceberg of the size of a medium-sized island loomed in the light of the snow.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao held a sail rope in one hand, flew up to the side of the boat and looked around, and shouted at the same time:

"Let's lean over and get ready to land the equipment."

"Bang Bang ......"

With a low pop, more than a dozen projectile anchor hooks shot out from the side of the ship, and these knock-off Goblin Navy props helped the ship to fix the ship to the side of the iceberg, and soon completed the preparation for berthing.

I have to say that compared with the iceberg, the wooden sail warship controlled by humans is like a group of small ants lying on the elephant, even if it is not a small boat, the Yangwei is a little bit immeasurable, and the size difference between the two is extremely large.

Now the place is found, but Luo Zhengdao has to sigh and can't enter, the size of this iceberg is as huge as a mountain, and it doesn't take long for hundreds of sailors to pull the net to sweep, and the survey results make Luo Zhengdao, who is full of expectations, feel stunned. There are no traces of zài's artificial carving on the iceberg, and there is no place similar to magic transformation, in a word, this place is simply too ordinary to be ordinary, not to mention the clues of the evidence of the overlord, not even a single bird feather has been found.

With an expression of disbelief, Luo Zhengdao hurriedly took out the treasure map and muttered:

"Strange, how could it not be? The ......" identified on this diagram

Halfway through the words, Luo Zhengdao swallowed the words of complaint back into his stomach, on the dragon skin treasure map, the red dot symbolizing the target has perfectly overlapped with the center of the map, which means that Luo Zhengdao is standing in the place where the evidence of the overlord is hidden, this fact is already a certainty. However, when he looked around blankly, this crystal clear ice and snow world made him fall deeper and deeper into confusion. Your sister, there is no clue about Mao, what kind of trouble is this?

"Your Majesty, we have only searched the upper half of the iceberg."

The soft words of the nearby subordinates can be described as waking up the person in the dream, Luo Zhengdao couldn't help but smash his fist on his palm, and said:

"That's right! The lion's head of the iceberg is below. ”

The freezing sea is no different from other areas of the Aetheric Sea, and only about a tenth of the surface area of the icebergs suspended in the aether particles is above sea level.

"Prepare the anchor hook and rope, and immediately send someone down to inspect it."

Luo Zhengdao said hello, and the sailors descended to the height below sea level with ropes tied to the spider-man, but fortunately, the weather in the frozen sea was too cold, and no matter how much water was frozen, it was frozen into ice, and the sailors did not have to worry about drowning.

"A set of reports, nothing found!"

"Four sets of reports, no anomalies found!"

"Two sets of reports, over here! On our side! ”

It is impossible to lack ropes on a sea ship in the age of sails, and soon Luo Zhengdao tied a thick cable around his waist and fell to the place where he found it, and when he looked intently at this strange being, he said to himself:

"What does this symbol mean?"

Through the light of the fire, you can faintly see the black abstract patterns hidden under the smooth ice surface, shaped like two snakes intertwined, giving Luo Zhengdao a certain sense of foreboding. In his experience, any unusual imprint or sign found during an expedition usually means that the risk of facing it later on will be doubled.