Although the image was a little blurry, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha could still tell that the dark shadow was formed by a large group of bugs.

If it's just insects, the problem is that if you compare the size of the ice bridge passage, it is not difficult to estimate that these insects are very large, almost as big as a human.

And that's not all, as Leo continued to zoom in on the map, they found that there were some huge spaces inside the ice bridge, and that there seemed to be a large number of these bug-looking creatures inhabiting them.

"What is this?" Sylvia couldn't help but ask.

"I want to know too. Leo shook his head and said, "But it's certain that these bugs didn't exist when the Reynolds passed through the ice bridge, otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to cross the ice bridge smoothly." ”

"How do these insects live in the ice bridge, it stands to reason that there should be no plants in the ice bridge that can survive?" Tessa Mocha frowned and said, "According to the size and number of these insects, it definitely takes a large forest and all kinds of animals to maintain their most basic living conditions. ”

Sylvia suddenly speculated, "What if these insects don't live in the ice bridge all the time, but only recently and accidentally entered the ice bridge through the crack on the outer wall of the ice bridge, and when they were about to leave, the ice bridge crack was re-sealed, making them trapped in the ice bridge?"

Leo couldn't help but frown when he heard this, because Sylvia's words reminded him of the gray mist.

On the north side of the ice bridge is the Endless Ice Field, where no living creatures can survive, this is already a recognized fact in the Velen world, and in the notes of the Tower Wizard, it is also recorded that the Tower Wizard's exploration of the Endless Ice Field, although it is still only explored in the edge of the ice field, but it is enough for them to be sure that no creature can survive in such an extremely harsh environment.

Since it is impossible for creatures to break into the ice bridge in the endless ice field north of the ice bridge, then it can only be the sea on the south side of the ice bridge, but there is no such bug in the sea, so the only answer is gray fog.

Originally, Leo thought that the ice bridge could block the penetration of the gray fog, but now it seems that as long as the outer wall of the ice bridge is damaged, the gray fog floating on the sea surface may penetrate into it, so if they enter the ice bridge tomorrow, then they need to be very careful, otherwise they will fall into the gray fog, not to mention the monsters in the gray fog, even if they don't encounter monsters, it is a headache to be brought into an unknown time by the gray fog.

Leo told the two of them his reasoning, Sylvia knew what the Grey Mist was and quickly understood Leo's thoughts, while Tessa Mocha had no idea what the Grey Mist was a bit cloudy, but she still understood that Leo was saying that the Grey Mist was very dangerous and should not have any contact.

Although Tessa Mocha didn't know why Leo was saying this, she instinctively felt that following Leo's tips was the best way to avoid accidents.

After analyzing the map and deciding on the passage and route to walk tomorrow, Leo marked the route he had chosen, and then sorted out the prepared luggage and other items, and went to rest.

Early the next morning, the three of them woke up one after another, freshened up, carried their respective luggage, and left the small villa.

The town was still silent, and the townspeople were still hiding behind the house to observe Leo and them, but when they saw Leo and the others with their bags on their backs, they seemed to realize something, and they all had evil smiles on their faces.

However, they didn't know that the situation in their town had been notified to Leah Vinistan by Sylvia and the others using a special method, and it wouldn't be long before they had to face the army of Dyadat and a powerful being who had just been promoted to become a demigod.

After leaving Taniko, the trio went directly to the entrance of the ice bridge, and when they reached the location, they let go of the pack beast, which would follow the route back to Taniko on its own.

At the entrance, Leo called up the map again, and last night because of the automatic analysis program, the new data was also restored to the map under the operation of the program, and it was supplemented later.

As Leo had predicted last night, after the probe probe, the area behind the ice bridge appeared from time to time with that kind of bug-like creatures, and the number of them increased a lot, and Leo even saw objects similar to insect nests in some slightly larger ice caves.

"I looked like there was going to be a lot of trouble! I studied the creatures there when I was in the wasteland, and although in the eyes of most people, bugs are inferior creatures with no intelligence, but they don't know that bugs are actually intelligent, but their wisdom is all focused on hunting, defense, reproduction, etc. Tessa Mocha looked at the shadows that represented the bugs, pointed to the location of the shadows, and said: "These bugs obviously have a lot of intelligence, you see the place where they gather, just in the middle of the area that seems to be a hive, and the distance between them is almost equal, this should be the best distance for them to transmit information, that is to say, no matter which bug we encounter, we will alarm all the bugs in the ice bridge." ”

"Do you have any good solution?" Leo looked at Tessa Mocha, knowing that the other party had suddenly analyzed these bugs, definitely not casually, there must be something to follow, so he asked according to the other party's thoughts.

Tessa Mocha said with great confidence: "Just let me solve it when the time comes, I know a lot of ways to solve these bugs." ”

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and couldn't help but smile, laughing inexplicably at Tessa Mocha.

"What's so funny about that? Isn't it right for me to help?" said Tessa Mocha, with some displeasure.

Sylvia asked directly, "Why would you be interested in killing those bugs?"

Tessa Mocha was stunned, looked at Leo and the two, couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said, "I do have some selfish intentions, but it shouldn't be wrong for me to want to help!"

"Of course not. Sylvia shook her head and said, "But we want to know the reason so as not to cause any misunderstanding, and I don't think you want any misunderstanding, right?"

Tessa Mocha pursed her lips, thought about it for a moment, and said, "When I came here yesterday, I felt that there was something in it that would help me grow, and when you showed the map just now, I was sure that the things that would help me were the bugs, so I hope you can let me catch these bugs." ”

After listening to Tessa Mocha's explanation, Leo and Sylvia both understood that those bugs should have been favored by the World Tree Seed in Tessa Mocha's body.

Although I don't know how this will help the growth of the World Tree seeds, this matter is not bad for them, and it is also a good thing that someone can stand up and take the initiative to clean up those bugs.

Leo nodded and agreed to Tessa Mocha's request, and then he used the Universal Recorder to record the three of them's vital features, and then made a corresponding mark on the map, which would move with their movements, to determine their location on the map.

After completing the marking, he climbed to the entrance of the passage he had chosen last night, smashed the snow through the entrance, and walked inside.

The ice cave is very slippery, and Leo needs to use a special method to keep the psionic energy out of his feet in order to grasp the ground.

Sylvia and Tessa Mocha then went to the ice cave and they used their own methods to keep themselves walking steadily on the smooth ice.

This ice cave passage is very large, about six meters in diameter, compared to the arc at the top, the bottom looks much smoother, and four or five people walking side by side are no problem.

According to the instructions on the map, the road behind will be relatively flat and easier to walk than other ice cave passages.

Because of the permeability of the ice, the inside of the ice cave did not look dark, and Leo did not light the torches, let Sylvia and the others follow, and walked forward.

The three of them walked steadily through the passage, and the situation in the ice cave was about the same as the previous detection by the detector, there were a few places marked by the detector as weak ice, because the ice had become much thicker and the danger had diminished a lot in the whole day, but in other places, because the ice bridge had moved slightly throughout the day, there were some small cracks.

It's just that these are not big problems, and Leo can easily detect these subtle changes with the spirit net, but this also makes Leo realize that there is a problem with his method of using the detector.

The distance between yourself and the detector is too far, and if there is any problem in the middle of such a long distance, the data scanned by the previous detector will also be invalid.

So Leo, who found the problem, slowed down the speed of the detector through the universal recorder, and when they caught up, he sped up again, trying to keep them within an hour's distance between them.

Therefore, Leo quickened his pace on the road, and the first batch of bug biomarker sites that could only be reached at noon arrived in two hours after entering the ice bridge, and to Tessa Mocha's disappointment, there were no detected bug creatures here, but there were still traces of bug creatures on the ground and traces left by crawling away.

Restraining the look of disappointment on her face, Tessa Mocha quickly checked the traces on the ground and said: "This insect has seven pairs of insect feet, the first three pairs are very sharp, can easily cut the ice surface, and are their main attack weapons, the back three pairs of insect feet are very strong, and have buckle claws, which can buckle the ice surface, and the last team of insect feet are under the tail, which should be very long and can play a balancing role." As she analyzed, she sucked in the air around her and said, "This insect is a carnivorous bug, and it can spray a kind of acid. These insects were very hungry, but they didn't climb out of the ice bridge and hunt outside," she said, she seemed to think of something, her face was a little serious, and said: "There should be a female worm here, and that female worm should be in a weak state at the moment, so you need to control the swarm to protect yourself, if the female worm is not injured, then she is transforming and promoting." ”

Leo was also a little surprised to see that Tessa Mocha was able to analyze so many things just from some vague marks and residual smells on the ground, so he asked very seriously, "Is this a good thing for us, or a bad thing?"

"It's not a bad thing, but it's not a good thing either. Tessa Mocha smiled and said, "It's not a good thing to face a group of hungry and aggressive bugs, but ......," she said, pausing and muttering, "Just leave it to me then." ”

Seeing that Tessa Mocha was so confident, Leo didn't say anything, and continued to walk forward, and the passage behind began to shrink gradually, but no matter how it narrowed, it was much wider for Leo and them.

After walking some distance, Leo and the others came to a relatively spacious ice cave, which was the intersection of several passages, and compared to the one Leo chose, the other passages were a little difficult to navigate according to the scan of the detector.

And in this freeze, Leo and they found a corpse, a corpse of a bug, to be exact.

I saw that this insect was about a meter tall, with a huge body, and it looked like a common insect called a wart, but it had seven pairs of limbs, the same as Tessa Mocha's previous analysis.

At the moment, this insect is only an empty shell and broken limbs, and the meat and internal organs in it have been eaten, judging from all kinds of traces, it should not be eaten by other insects, and this insect did not resist when it was eaten, it felt like it was eaten voluntarily.

Tessa Mocha walked up to the remains of the bug, put her hand on the remains, and then saw that a large number of vine-like tentacles suddenly stretched out of her hands, touching the remains of the worm, and the remains quickly melted away the moment they were touched, absorbed by the vines.

Leo walked to the side and looked at the vine, although he didn't feel any hostility from Tessa Mocha and the vine, he could feel that his nightmare power seemed to be spontaneously contracting, restrained, hidden in the other forces of his body, as if he had encountered a natural enemy.

"Is this from the World Tree Seed?" asked Leo, who was aware of the abnormal power of the nightmare.

The power of nightmares is the one that Leo uses the most, and it is also the most practical power in Leo's body, and he is also curious about the origin of the things that can restrain the power of nightmares, and it is also convenient for him to think of some countermeasures in advance.

"Yes. Tessa Mocha didn't hide it, nodding her head to acknowledge Leo's guess, though she had no intention of explaining further.

Leo didn't ask, picked up a piece of the carapace fragment of the insect from the side, looked at it, and felt that there seemed to be nothing more interesting except that the carapace was very hard.