Chapter 263: Together
The further I went, the more I felt my body split in half by the strange temperature here, a surging heat that made me unable to breathe surging towards us, I felt the pain of my cheeks being burned by the fire, and I subconsciously closed my eyes, and the wind blowing in my ears was mixed with a suffocating heatwave.
The other half of the body felt a completely different temperature, the wind whistling in the ears was biting, and the cheeks became cold, and the biting ice made the flowing blood coagulate.
We felt the strange temperature and stared ahead in amazement, until the fog gradually lifted in the heat wave, and when the last mist disappeared before our eyes, we all stood at the bow of the ship and were shocked by the scene ahead.
We finally saw the light that had been blurred in the mist, but it was not light, but hot lava falling from the sky, and not far from us, a volcano was rising on the side of the wide sea channel that was spewing lava.
The towering peaks at the bottom of the sea are like an erected iron pillar, standing majestically in the seawater, we can also hear the deafening loud noise from the mountain far away, the red molten lava continues to flow out from the top of the mountain, covering the entire mountain, the hot and bright red molten slurry dyes the mountain, and from a distance it looks like a red-hot iron pillar plunging straight into the sea.
As far as the eye could see, there was a slow, hot molten slurry, and flames burning everywhere.
The closer we got to the sea, the more we felt the suffocating heat, surging at us, and our cheeks ached as if they were burning with fire.
The hot molten slurry continued to bulge and burst open, and the flowing wind swept up the molten sparks flying all over the sky, and the flowing air seemed to be about to burn, and I only felt that my mouth was dry, as if the water on my body was about to be evaporated by the high temperature here.
Rumble!
With a dull loud noise, we felt that the sea was shaking with it, and we looked at the top of the volcano, and a thick black mist erupted from the top of the mountain, which was already dark, and as the black fog spread, it became even darker, and the mountain covered by the molten was particularly dazzling in this gloom.
The black clouds were pressing heavily above our heads and spreading in all directions, and I looked around vigilantly, and suddenly I heard a louder sound coming from the top of the mountain than before, but it was covered by the black fog, and I couldn't see what was happening, and the ship began to shake violently on the surface of the sea again, as if the sky was falling apart.
"Look!" Tian Ji stared intently at the dense black fog.
We looked up and found a crimson light looming in the black mist, and the loud noise never stopped, and the rocks on both sides of the current were shaking, and the molten lava that flowed out was surging for thousands of miles.
Just when we were at a loss, suddenly everything stopped, and the strange silence made us at a loss, and we all looked around vigilantly and did not notice anything unusual, except Xie Tianhui kept looking up at the thick black fog.
"What the hell is ......?"
As soon as Ling Zhihan's words came out, Gong Jue raised his hand to signal not to speak, he listened to something, and slowly I could faintly hear the friction sound caused by what seemed to be something, quickly cutting through the air, but it seemed to be far away from us, and such a strong penetrating force must be amazingly powerful.
"Get down!" Gong Jue shouted in horror.
Before we could react, as soon as we hesitated, a touch of red came out of the thick black fog, and through the black fog quickly smashed down to the sea, and then, the dense black fog seemed to be torn into a thousand holes, and countless fireballs of that kind fell from the sky like broken bamboos.
Only then did we realize that it was an undersea volcanic eruption, and magma was ejected and fell rapidly into the sea in all directions.
In an instant, the sea was boiling, and all around us were molten and blazing flames, and the wooden boat was hit in several places, and the fire immediately spread, and the wooden boat, which was already full of holes, became more and more damaged on the surface of the sea.
The volcanic mountain stretched out a hand to cover the current, and the gushing magma dripped down the mountain wall to the surface of the sea like a splash of molten iron, like a curtain hanging low.
Anything that passes from here will be burned to ashes.
"Don't go near the molten lava, go to the right." Xie Tianhui shouted to the man at the helm.
But when the boat reached the right side of the sea, we stood in despair again.
I never thought that there would be an iceberg next to the flowing sea of fire, and the iceberg on the left turned out to be the same as the volcano next to it, and it was like an outstretched hand, covering the kaido on the left, no wonder the water flow and temperature here are extremely weird, it turns out that it is because of these two mountains.
The magma of the volcano falls on the icy sea surface and is instantly cooled, and then washed away by the seawater, and the magma is cooled by the hot gas rises, and then condenses into ice after being cold, and these condensed ice forms sharp ice cones on the iceberg, which are constantly falling under the hot steam of the volcano, like an ice sword flying down from the sky, falling to the sea surface and then cooling the magma.
It is an unending, perfect cycle, and at the same time forms a natural and impassable moat in this sea lane, from which you will be burned or stabbed to death by falling icicles.
"What now?" The palace lord was also confused for a while.
Bang!
Something struck us violently at the back of the ship, and we all fell to the deck, and when we got up and saw in horror, the tail of the that had been stabbed by the pheasant had reappeared.
I was shocked, the ship was getting closer and closer to the ice volcano in front of me, and there was an invulnerable tail in the back, no matter how you look, this time we will all die.
"Why is this brute chasing after us?" Tian Ji's voice was a little desperate.
"Let's kill its baby, replace me, and bite you." I said weakly.
"If it's for revenge, Wormtail only needs to capsize and sink our ship, and then bite us to death one by one, so why doesn't it attack all the time?" Ling Zhihan was puzzled.
"yes, why didn't it just capsize the ship?" Xie Tianhui looked at the tail and muttered to himself.
The magma that fell from the sky hit the tail of the worm, and although the monster was indestructible, it was hit by the magma and wailed from time to time, but it did not hide and flinch, and followed our wooden boat, and I saw that it was covered with bruises.
"Which of you took something?" Xie Tianhui turned his head and asked sternly.
For a long time, one of Tianhui's subordinates hesitated, took out an egg from his body, and the tail behind the boat suddenly let out a long roar, and we immediately understood that the tail chased all the way, and it turned out to be for this egg that was taken away.
"You're looking for death." Xie Tianhui was furious, snatched the egg from the man's hand, and kicked the man into the sea without saying a word.
The tail in the back immediately tore the man into pieces, and Xie Tianhui just wanted to throw the egg into the sea, but I stopped him.
"Even if we can pass through the ice volcano in front, the tail behind us will not let us go, the molten slurry can hurt the tail, where the egg is, the tail will follow somewhere, lead it to the bottom of the volcano, only by getting rid of the tail, we may still have a chance to escape." I say.
"Somebody has to sail the boat over." Xie Tianhui looked at me. "Someone has to stay."
"I'll stay, you go." My voice was resolute.
"I'm fast, hand me the eggs." Tian Ji stood beside me and said.
"If you don't go, I won't go." Gong Jue said.
Ling Zhihan also nodded, Xie Tianhui was right, there must be someone to stay, but the person who stays will not survive in the molten slurry, I know that the palace lord will not agree to me stay, but time is tight and it can't be wasted at all.
"You said that everyone's existence is useful, I will help you lead away the tail, you take my people away, otherwise everyone will die together." I said to Xie Tianhui.
He was stunned for a moment, and with a wave of his hand, his people understood, and couldn't help but say that he pushed Tian Ji and Gong Jue and Ling Zhihan into the sea, and Chi Wei saw that someone had fallen into the water, and just went to attack, I raised the egg and stood at the stern of the boat, and Chi Wei's attention immediately fell on me, and it seemed to care more about the safety of the egg in my hand than revenge.
When Akai Yoshitaka saw that I was holding him back, he jumped into the sea with the rest of the Toei people, and I took the helm while holding the egg, and re-sailed the boat to the bottom of the volcano.
The tail was hit by the falling molten lava, but it was still close behind the boat, and I saw the palace lords floating on the sea, shouting something, but I couldn't hear it clearly, I smiled at them faintly, and there was a kind of reluctance.
"Everybody's existence is useful, you keep asking, I brought you here, what is your role."
The voice came from behind me, and I was stunned, thinking that there should be no one on the boat, and turned my head to find Xie Tianhui actually standing behind.
"Why haven't you gone down yet?" I was taken aback.
"You seem to have been forgetting to ask another thing." Xie Tianhui walked up to me.
"What's the matter?"
"What is the role of my existence?" Xie Tianhui replied calmly.
"You ......"
I don't understand why he suddenly said such inconsequential words when he was on the line of life and death, I was just about to ask, Xie Tianhui suddenly snatched the egg from my hand, and before I could react, he had already pushed me into the sea.
I swam out of the sea, wiped my face, and looked at the boat rowing towards the volcano in a blank and shocked manner, Xie Tianhui saved me again, only this time, he used his own life.
Everyone exists to be useful, and Xie Tianhui's existence is to keep me alive!
My mind went blank, and I didn't understand why this person, whom I didn't even know, did this, only to see that the wooden boat was so close to the volcano that Xie Tianhui let go of the rudder and let the ship rush towards the magma that could melt everything in an instant.
Then he held the egg high, and I could see his face, full of fearlessness and determination, with an uninhibited smile on the corner of his mouth.
As soon as the hand was released, the egg fell on the deck and fell apart, and the tail roared in resentment, desperately opened its bloody mouth and bit down on Xie Tianhui, and the hot magma poured down all over the sky, and in a dazzling firelight, I only heard a short wail from the tail of the dragon, and it was drowned in it.
The palace lords swam to my side, signaling that they must dive immediately, I stared at the sea of fire with blank eyes, and I couldn't let go for a long time, I knew that I would never see Xie Tianhui again, so I could never know why he wanted to save me.