50. Ice Sheet Tour
The violent shock made Cangzhu and Xu Banxia in the cabin feel extremely turbulent, and after a while, the two of them grabbed the handrail hard to keep themselves from being thrown off by the violent vibration, until the boat slid on the ice field for a long distance and slowly stopped, and then the two of them let go of their hands.
Xu Banxia was okay over there, the metal seat on Cangshu's side had been pinched out by him with a lot of chips and dents. Cangzhu touched his head embarrassedly, did not speak, but wanted to look outside. In a situation where the situation is not clear, the two of them will not rush back into this snowfield.
Although Xu Banxia has never seen snow since he was born, he has only heard the old mayor of the cave town talk about this kind of thing. She was still a little excited when she saw it for the first time. It's just that due to the unknown environment outside, and the uncertain future that Cangshu saw in the illusion before, he didn't rush out of the boat rashly.
"Toot!" The two turned on the ship's detection device, and suddenly, a voice resounded throughout the snowfield, and then the two saw a rough scan of the area on the screen. On this scan, the two of them didn't see the disc-shaped monster seen in the Atractylodes illusion, and around it, only a few low bushes dotted the endless white world.
After saying that there was no danger in detection, Cangshu and Xu Banxia got out of the boat and put the ship in their watches, standing on the endless ice field. Xu Banxia looked at his watch and pointed in one direction and said, "Let's go!" Cangshu nodded silently, and then the two of them began to continue their journey south.
"Squeak, squeak!" The feet of the two people stepped on the snow and made a crisp sound, and Xu Banxia curiously leaned down and picked up some snow particles with his hands and put them in front of his eyes to observe carefully. The strange hexagonal pattern on the snowflake attracted Xu Banxia's attention, but the snow particles didn't last long before they were melted by Xu Banxia's body temperature.
"Atractylodes, it turns out that snowflakes are really hexagonal! I thought the old mayor was lying to us! I didn't expect to actually see it, but they couldn't see it. Xu Banxia said this to Cangshu as he walked, and Cangzhu seemed to be preoccupied because of the previous vision, and when he heard Xu Banxia's words, he only replied perfunctorily, "Hmm!" ”
What's more, Cangzhu felt that the wind that had been blowing non-stop since the two of them got off the boat suddenly stopped, and a layer of black clouds gathered under the originally dim yellow sky clouds that made people look extremely dark and terrifying. There are also some strange lightning bolts in the clouds from time to time.
Xu Banxia, who was speaking excitedly, also discovered the abnormality above the sky at this time, and with the gaze of the two people, it only took a short time for this strange black cloud to cover the entire sky! Then there was a thunderclap in the sky, which made Cangshu and Xu Banxia uneasy, and after the two glanced at each other, they both noticed the abnormality of this strange cloud.
"Didi! Watch for nearby caves or other sheltered places! Atractylodes hurriedly used his watch to explore the surrounding terrain in search of caves to hide into. The reason why Cangshu didn't dare to release the ship was because those thunders and strange clouds in the sky brought a great sense of shock to the two people on the ground! It was as if something was announcing that this was their home turf.
Cangshu's worries are not unreasonable, and Xu Banxia, who has been fighting with him for a long time, is very clear about Cangshu's thoughts. The two of them didn't even dare to speak loudly at this time, and only communicated with their eyes. The watch also made eye contact between the two, and finally found a cave nearby, just in the direction of progress.
Seeing that there was a place to hide, the two men hurriedly ran towards the mouth of the cave. But where is it so easy to run in the thick snow, and the snow is knee-deep and goes down to a hole in the foot. Without running two steps, Xu Banxia was already out of breath, and although Cangshu could forcibly kill a way with his own brute strength, how could Cangshu, who had always acted with two people, leave Xu Banxia.
At this time, the strange clouds in the sky have filled the entire sky, and the wind that had stopped gradually strengthened, at first it was still a slight breeze, but the power of this wind began to gradually increase, and the wind tease at each moment was several times stronger than the previous moment, and soon developed into a storm!
"Whew!" The violent storm rolled up the floating snow on the ground, and suddenly countless snow particles between the sky and the earth turned into small and sharp blades, cutting the whole earth! Xu Banxia was already about to lose his ability to run, and when he encountered such a strong wind, there was a white expanse in front of him, and he couldn't see the road ahead clearly.
Xu Banxia opened her mouth to shout for Cangshu to hear, but found that her shouting couldn't suppress the whistling sound of the surrounding wind at all, although the clothes on Xu Banxia's body and the hat on her head at this time were all fine products from the "warehouse", and the snow particles couldn't be cut at all, but every tiny snow particle hit her clothes fiercely, giving her a feeling of being pierced by a sharp blade.
Just when Xu Banxia had stopped at the stall where she couldn't move forward at all, she saw a big black hand firmly grasping herself through the goggles, and then forcibly "pulled" her out of the snow, half-holding her and continuing to move forward. Xu Banxia was frightened when she first found this big hand, but then from the wrist of the big hand that hugged her, she saw the multi-functional watch!
It was Atractylodes that saved me! In the fierce wind, although Cangshu, who walked with brute strength, successfully walked to the entrance of the cave, when he turned around, he found that Xu Banxia had not followed, and there was a white expanse around him, and even his goggles could not see through the wind and snow that covered everything. Cangzhu, who was worried about Xu Banxia's safety, couldn't take care of it at this time, returned the same way, and maintained the detection function of the multi-functional watch and the contour scanning function of the goggles at any time.
The hard work paid off, and Cangshu finally found Xu Banxia, who was almost unable to move due to exhaustion in the snow, and then pulled her out of the snow and took her back to the cave with half a drag and half a hug. After getting rid of the wind and snow, Xu Banxia sat on the ground, panting, while Atractylodes cautiously looked at the storm on the outside, hoping that the wind could be smaller, because the cave where the two of them were now seemed to have only one passage that could be said to be very narrow, and could only allow a person to barely pass through with a backpack, and as for the deeper places, Atractylodes did not explore.
When the two entered the cave, the wind did not stop, and something more serious happened, countless lightning mixed with the wind fell from the sky, and several bright lines were forcibly split in the white wind and snow. The two of them looked at everything outside in amazement, but they didn't expect something more serious to happen.
The lightning that slashed from the clouds drove all the little monsters into the cave where Cangshu and Xu Banxia were hiding, and one of the little monsters like a rabbit was struck by the thunder and lightning the moment they fled into the cave! But the little rabbit-like monster ran into the cave without incident, and in the next second, the rabbit began to mutate.
White fluff, two long ears, and a shaky black nose are all somewhat similar to the rabbits seen in the old world of Atractylodes, except that the paws are suckers like octopuses! At this time, the monster dressed as a rabbit had become huge under the stimulation of the lightning, and the original sucker-like claws began to grow sharp nails, and the originally docile face became hideous and terrifying.
Seeing this scene, Cangshu pulled out the Thunder Knife to block in front of Xu Banxia, and then took advantage of the painful stage of the monster's transformation to slash it with one sword! "Poof!" Blood splattered, and the transforming monster stopped after a knife light, and then fell to the ground in pain and struggled to convulse.
Just when Cangshu was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he found that things were not so simple, the lightning before was actually condensed in the body of this monster, and when the monster died, the thunder and lightning turned into a ball of light suspended above the corpse. Seeing this, Cangshu hurriedly pulled Xu Banxia into the narrow passage. And with the movement of the two, the thunder ball also followed the movement of the two, but fortunately, Cangshu used the thunder knife in his hand to throw out a lightning bolt to lead the thunder ball over, and the two took advantage of this gap to get in.
After drilling towards the passage for a while, the two of them heard a violent noise from the hole outside, and then countless smoke and dust rushed down the passage, and the two of them understood that it was the thunder ball that exploded, and it seemed that the hole was also blown up! The two sighed, and continued their exploration of the interior of the cavern, hoping to find another exit from the cavern, otherwise they would have to return to the passage to dig up the rubble.
Walking towards the depths of this passage, Cangshu and Xu Banxia found that the path gradually widened, and finally after jumping over a stone sill, they finally reached the bottom of the cave, which is a very huge cave, and there is a small gap in the ceiling of the cave, and from time to time some fresh air pours in, making this cave not so stuffy!
Cangshu and Xu Banxia did not continue to move forward after coming to this cave, everything that happened just now made the physical strength of the two of them a little overdrawn, especially Xu Banxia, who was already moving with two feet when he walked at this time. I think I used up almost all of my strength in the wind and snow just now.
After Cangshu looked at Xu Banxia's situation, he asked Xu Banxia to sit down on the spot, explored forward for a while, and then returned and told Xu Banxia: "This cave is not a dead end, there is still a long way to go, but I see that you have been tired like this, take a rest!" Xu Banxia was also tired at this time and didn't want to say anything, so he nodded and agreed.
So Cangshu waved his hand and released the boat, and carried Xu Banxia into the inner room that belonged to her in the cabin, and let her sleep. Atractylodes retreated, came to the cab and began to operate. Because in the previous vision, the disc monsters that Atractylodes saw that could bite metal alive made him feel uneasy, so Atractylodes converted the energy of one of the ship's batteries used in high-speed mode into a power grid and shrouded it in the enclosed facility.
Then after eating a few bites of food, Cangzhu looked at the surrounding scene with the external camera of the boat, and when he turned on the searchlight and saw the real scene inside the cave, Atractylodes' heart could be said to have stopped beating for a few seconds.
Because he saw countless murals-like things carved on the walls of this cave, and the content of these murals was the "Xiake Tower" that Cangshu and Xu Banxia had seen on the island before, and the content of the mural was that the "Xiake Tower", a strange bird on the dock, was fighting a monster covered with tentacles, and more than half of the humans around him thought to be dead, while others bowed respectfully in front of the two monsters.
Cangshu turned the camera to the deep passage not far away, where he had heard some unusual sounds as he had just explored, and what secrets would there be?