Set Sail (Light Novel) Chapter 87, Ice Castle (2)
The team of 20 people sent out by each class is divided into 4 groups, with 4~6 members in each group, and has a team leader.
All participants are ready on shore, and teams walk through the ice floes on the water, from different entrances from all sides, and at the same time enter the ice and snow maze.
"It's funny, how was this water maze built?" Coke rushed to the front and stepped into the entrance.
"It's so cool here!" Christina walked into the maze and stretched out comfortably.
The Ice Palace completely washed away the temperature on every strand of everyone's hair, and it was cool.
The five-person team, Christina and Streamer, were wearing summer casual clothes, and when they suddenly came here, they all suddenly felt cold. Cola immediately sneezed.
Class E also has 4 groups, and Yuzu happens to be assigned to be with the leader of Class E. But Nangong is not among them.
Streamer looked around the walls, floors, and stairs, all made of running water. In some places, they were simply frozen into ice cubes, and the icicles were carved with exquisite patterns.
The details are well done.
"President, how much time did it take you to prepare for this scene?"
"It's fine! This part is in charge of the swim club, and it seems that they have put a lot of thought into it this time. ”
Cola tapped his fist on an icicle next to him and walked around.
"Ah, no matter how beautiful it is, I'm going to tear it down today anyway!" Fez said with a smile.
Fez looked curiously at Coke next to him, smashed a wall with a casual punch, and picked up an ice brick and put it to his mouth. There was a creaking sound of ice crumbling in his mouth. I do not cherish the fruits of the work of the swimming club.
Fez's mouth grinned, and the ice was bitten between his teeth, as if he were on an outing. "Hmm...... Xia Han, do you want to have a try? ”
Christina: "Let's go, it's time for us to get down to business." ”
After walking through the corridor and up the ice stairs of two or three floors, a transparent door appears in front of you. It was like a shaky film of water, and the light that passed through it was refracted so that it was impossible to see the scene on the other side of the door.
"This doesn't look like an ice cube."
Christina reached out to touch it, and the palm of her hand passed through it with a gentle click, and then Christina stepped into it with one foot, and in an instant, her whole body disappeared before her eyes.
"Nana?" Xia Han's voice echoed in the quiet ice castle.
Christina came back with her little head stretched out from the side of the door, and her finger poked at the door made of water, and there were ripples.
"Come here, everyone, it's safe here!"
"Hmm."
Woohoo......
Several people stepped across the water film one after another. The curious Coke walked back and forth several times, inadvertently blocking the streamer behind him, and was later dragged away by Christina's collar.
Fez walked last, poked the water film a few times with the crushed ice in his hand, and swaggered over.
"Miraculous creation! Interesting, interesting! ”
Coke followed the back of the five-person team, looking left and right along the way.
On either side of the ice tunnel are two streams of clear water that appear to come from above.
The streamer looked overhead, where the ice was thick, and a few slowly moving black shadows could be faintly seen in the snow-blue.
There's probably a passage on it too, streamer guess.
"Someone has already gone to the upper floor, our team needs to speed up!"
It was quiet, with the occasional drop of water sliding down the ice eaves and landing in a small puddle with a ticking sound.
The footsteps of the five Coke people suddenly broke the quiet mirror.
A box made of ice cubes rests quietly on a piece of ice floes in the waterhole. According to the watch's prompts, that's what the mission goal of the trip should have.
"Ha, we're lucky, it looks like there's something here." Christina turned to look at the boys.
Cola looked at the ice floe in the pool, then at the water in the pool, stretched out a hand and cautiously poked into the water, and immediately withdrew it with a bang.
"Shhh...... Whoa...... Freeze your hands! "The water temperature is close to freezing!
The ice floes are a short distance from the shore. Fez went to the small waterhole and looked around, but there was nothing to be found. "How about jumping on it?"
Xia Han shook his head. "The ice is slippery, and it's too dangerous to do that."
"Use the ice floes, build a bridge, and walk over it......" Christina was still thinking.
Streamer stepped forward and volunteered. "Let me do it." Because the streamer knows the specialties of the rest of the team, he should be the one with the best body among all the people present.
Agile bodies flickered in the air, streamers stepping on the sloping walls around them, each foot sinking a full three centimeters below the ice.
After three or two steps, the streamer fell steadily into the center of the small floating island. Then I felt for the box and brought it back.
However, no matter how hard everyone tried, the box could not be opened, as if it was broken.
"What's going on?" Streamer was puzzled, frowning and pondering. Flying
"Hey, hey! Well done! Christina came over and looked at the trophies of the trip, but after several attempts, the girl failed in the end.
"It looks like a fake box!" Cola crossed his arms around his chest and touched his chin with his left hand to take a closer look. Or...... Do you need a key or something...... to be able to open it! ”
"Let me see!" Fez walked over and smashed the small box made of ice cubes with a punch, and in an instant, the ice crystals were everywhere, and the scene was beautiful.
“……”
The crowd was speechless for a while.
For Fez, violence is the easiest key to open a box.
The small ice chest shattered, but there was nothing inside.
"Or is there nothing? This is the level designed by which guy. ”
"It must be the same designers from last year."
"Alas, what a waste of our time, a disappointment."
"It's been in vain. Let's go, keep going, we can't fall behind the other classes. ”
"Nana, why are you so positive today!" Fez, with his hands behind his head, complained.
"Hmph, it would be best if it could have ended earlier!"
Cola and Xia Han followed Christina towards the gate. Xia Han looked back at the streamer and Fez, who were stagnant in place. "Hurry up and keep up, don't get lost."
"Hmm!" The streamer answered.
"Alas! What a pity! Fez's heart felt very sorry.
"That can't be ......"
"But...... What is that? Just as Xia Han and the others had already left the hall, Fez and Streamer raised their heads at the same time, and suddenly saw that they were in an ice wall next to the ceiling, although it was vague, but the two of them could be sure that there seemed to be something hidden in it.
But it's a bit high, so if you want to go up......
Streamer and Fez glanced at each other thoughtfully, and instantly understood what they meant.
The agility of the streamer is a specialty that Fes does not have, and Fez's destructive power is incomparable to no one in the five-person team.
Fez stomped on the spot, slicing off the crumbling ground, and shot out one by one, thrust into the slick wall with all his might.
Streamer stepped on the stairs reached in the air, walked up to the dark shadow, and smashed the wall with a punch, smashing a large hole in the ice, and ice chips splashed along the fist.
The cooperation between Streamer and Fez is unexpectedly in tune!
Sure enough, there was a beautiful little box in the ice cave, and as expected, the streamer took it out and returned to the surface with satisfaction. Christina, Coke, and Xia Han also heard the movement here, and immediately rushed over and appeared in the hall.
"I just missed 3,000 points!"
"Ah......" Fez, agreeing with the streamer's words, a pair of clear eyes, quietly staring at the box in the streamer's hand.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Coke, who had already walked a long way, saw that Streamer and Fez did not keep up with the team, and at this time I heard movement behind me again. So Coke immediately turned back the same way.
Coke's head appeared in front of the streamer before the other parts, and as soon as he returned to the small palace, Cola saw the thing in the streamer's hand. "Huh! Streamer...... Another refrigerator? You guys...... Scold...... Where did you find this? "Cola followed the traces of destruction in this igloo and immediately found clues on the transparent ice wall, so it was." If you accidentally check it, you'll miss it! ”
The crowd gathered around.
"Don't worry, don't blink, I shouldn't let you down this time." Fez said with a smile, but his eyes were also full of anticipation when he stared at the box.
Streamer glanced at the expressions on everyone's faces, and smashed the box into slag with a sharp punch, pushing away the broken ice, and a black quaint key quietly remained in the palm of Streamer's hand.
"Huh! Not bad! Streamer! "As soon as Christina and Xia Han appeared in the palace, they saw that Streamer and Fez had already found the mission item, although I don't know how the two of them did it, but all in all, this is a good thing.
Christina looked like a leader praising her subordinates, and patted Streamer on the shoulder with a grin.
The key is cold.
"A black key." Xia Han saw this metallic object and fell into deep thought. "Keys? It always feels a little familiar! I think I've seen this somewhere! Oh! It's Nana! ”
"It's the souvenir we got from clearing the escape room last week. Hee-hee! I, the president, selflessly donated my private property to Sports Week. ”
"It's a bit of a pity, though, that this isn't our quest item. I don't know which class it is? Well...... Let's keep it for now. Maybe we'll be able to use it later. "Kristina was a little disappointed, it would have been nice to have just enough of her quest items to get her hands on.
A quest item, but 3000 points! It's better to do the task more steadily.
As for the head bounty on the opponent, the speed of the money is still a bit too slow.
Walking out of the side room of this palace, there are several winding ice and snow corridors outside the door, and I don't know where the end leads. As the distance extended, the view in the corridor gradually widened.
"Is this the labyrinth in the heart of the entire Ice Castle?"
Once you enter the labyrinth, it means that your next route may intersect with the teams of other classes.
"Well, let's go!" Looking at the 3D map projected on her watch, Christina did not hesitate at all and led the team to the forefront.
It's time for the show!