On a summer evening, the weather is fine. It was five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was hanging obliquely in the western sky, and the sun was staining the clouds red in the sky. Under the illumination of the setting sun, a long pontoon bridge was suddenly erected on the radiant sea, one end of the pontoon bridge was suspended on the sea, and the other end crossed the sea surface of 600 meters, extending to the coast, freezing on the beach by the coast, fixing the pontoon bridge and the coast together.

Looking to both sides along the coast, the shore is a mixture of mud and gravel, and the sea tribes don't seem to like this kind of land, and the wide stretch of coast is completely unpatrolled. Further on, there is an island made of jagged boulders, like a small mountain, no, to be exact, it is an undersea mountain, the part that protrudes from the water is about five or six hundred meters, and from the water it stands up in the air. The whole island is larger than expected, and the cross-sectional area from the height is more than three square kilometers, but if you count the surface area of the entire mountain, this number will increase several times. Due to the complexity of the terrain in the mountains, it is difficult for the sea tribes to patrol normally, so only a few spacious places are manned, and the rest of the places are defensive hollows.

On the bridge made of ice floe, not a single figure is visible. But if you look closely, you will find that in fact, several people in the adventure group, each wearing a white cloak, bent down and bent over, allowing themselves to visually merge with the white ice floe, blocking their figures by both sides of the 20-meter-wide ice floe bridge, so that they would not be seen by the underwater sea tribes.

"Eldest sister, I beg you. Vivien squinted at Catherine sadly, and whispered, "Please put that lamp down, it's more than two hundred kilograms, and I think it's heavy." You put it in place, this ice bridge can be held up until tomorrow night, and then we can get it together, okay?"

"No, absolutely not. Catherine shook her head vigorously: "Put it here, what if someone steals it, it's worth 100,000 gold coins, such a valuable thing, you must carry it with you, so that you can rest assured." ”

"The Western-style pavilion at our house, I think it is more valuable and more valuable. Lina rolled her eyes and said: "If you say so, you should also carry it on your body at any time, it is not reassuring to put it in the holy capital at all, eldest sister, go back and carry it." ”

"It was a turtle walking with its shell on its back. Before Catherine could finish her sentence, she saw a large green sea turtle with a diameter of four meters, waving its four flippers, leisurely swimming over the edge of the pontoon. Catherine blinked awkwardly, coughed dryly, and said, "Okay, if it's possible, I really want to carry the mansion on my back, but unfortunately I can't carry it." ”

"Catherine, I think you're overlooking one thing. Pannis said: "This lighting appliance is a mission tool provided by the Sea Clan for us, if it is not damaged during the mission, it will be returned, it does not belong to us, and it will not be included in the reward." In other words, if it is lost or damaged, we will not lose anything, keep it intact, and we will not have any extra gains, understand?"

The muscles in Catherine's back stiffened, and she stopped with a tangled face, and said painfully: "Actually, I understand, but putting it down, it's like piling up shiny gold coins here for nothing, it's too painful, I'll carry it on my back." ”

"If you put it down, I'll be responsible for asking Doris to pay for a new pair of these lights. Pannis was really helpless, sighed and said, "If you don't put it down, I won't care." ”

"Are you serious?" Catherine's eyes lit up, and she almost straightened up in oblivion, but fortunately she held back in time, and just said expectantly: "You won't be in the end, use the reason that you are only responsible for applying, and whether she agrees to do it is none of your business." ”

"Hey, it's so sensitive at this time. Pannis twisted his face away and said in a muffled voice, "Don't worry, I won't be perfunctory." ”

Catherine hesitated for another half a minute, then reluctantly unhooked the lamp from behind and put it on the ground, stroking the shell of the device like a farewell: "I'm sorry, I don't want to abandon you, but ...... But ......"

"Don't do it, hurry up. Freya pushed Catherine hard to push her away from the spot, "If you finish it early, you still have a chance to reunite with it, don't waste time." ”

Finally, after a brief hiccup, several people began to bend over the ice again. The ice was slippery, but this did not pose a threat to this group of high-level professionals, and what really needed everyone to be cautious was the sight of those patrolling controlled sea tribes below the surface. Everyone knows in their hearts that if they are discovered by the enemy in a place that is deep in the enemy's defensive circle, they are likely to fall into a bitter battle and even bring their lives to danger, so how to avoid the enemy's sight has become the most critical issue. In order to ensure as much safety as possible, whenever they enter the field of vision of the underwater patrol, even if they are across the ice, everyone will lie down directly and crawl forward on the ice, in order to reduce their height and prevent the patrols on both sides from detecting. The patrols of the Sea Clan only reacted to the pontoon bridge at the beginning of its appearance, and every patrol that passed by for the first time would stop and drill through the water under the pontoon, but when they realized that it was not a sapient creature and ignored it, they would never pay attention to it again, and every time they passed by, they didn't even raise their heads, and directly ignored the pontoon.

"We're going to pick things up. "A few people walked and stopped on the pontoon, a distance of 600 meters, which can be completed in a few minutes under normal circumstances, but half an hour has passed, and a few people have only walked halfway. Pannis said a little anxiously: "If we delay any longer, it will be dark, according to the observation of the bottom of the sea, it will not have much impact on them after dark, but it will cause us a lot of trouble, we must find a hiding place on the mountain before dark to spend the night, and start looking tomorrow." ”

"It's getting dark?" Lina said in surprise, "No, it's summer, it's still bright at eight o'clock, it's not yet six o'clock, we have at least two hours, we must be in time." ”

"You're ignoring a problem. Pannis shook his head and said, "It's dark very early at sea. If you look around, the sun can't pass through the fog, and once the sun continues to move and the angle of inclination increases, the sunlight will be blocked by the fog, and it will soon get dark. Of course, it won't be as dark as a real night, but the view will definitely be affected, and you may be distracted and ignore the presence of a patrol. ”

Lina looked around and looked at the wall of fog that surrounded the island. The Fog Wall is very high, and although humans cannot accurately measure the height of the Fog Wall, according to the records left by the Dragons and Winged Humans, the height of the Fog Wall is about 5,000 meters. Such an altitude is a barrier for non-flying races, and it is simply insurmountable.

"If you only read books, you really can't grasp a lot of knowledge. Lina nodded thoughtfully, "At least the novel doesn't mention that the island here will get dark earlier than on the mainland." ”

"Shhh Pannis's ears moved, and he suddenly stopped Lina: "Another patrol is coming." ”

Several people quickly lay down, covered their bodies with white cloaks, and lay motionless on the ice, when a sound of water sounded, and the patrol swam across the pontoon bridge from the water. The ice was so thick that it was impossible to see through the ice to see below, but everyone had the illusion that they could see the sea tribes swimming underneath.

"Let's go. Pannis moved his finger and pointed to the pontoon in front of him: "It's safe now, you can crawl through." ”

The girls did not hesitate and crawled forward quickly with their hands and feet, not caring about the cold of the ice. After another twenty minutes, the beach on the coast was finally in front of me.

"The most troublesome part of the road is finally over. Catherine exhaled and gave Vivien a thumbs up, "Thanks to you, if it weren't for your spells, I'm afraid we'd have fought all the way." ”

"We can't relax just yet. Freya observes the island with a far more than normal vision as a gunman: "There are three patrols across the beach that may spot us, but their movements are fixed, and there is only space to be used in their sight. You see, the two patrols on the right have turned that corner, and the patrol on the left has just turned. If we're fast enough, we can run the last stretch before the patrol on the right returns from the corner, and then cross the beach and hide behind the boulder in front of us, where we'll be safe for the time being. ”

"I advise you not to be too optimistic. Pannis shook his head and said, "I'm afraid things are more troublesome than you think." ”

"I agree. Catherine said to Freya, "Have you ever wondered why there is an empty space on the beach when the whole island, from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the sea, is so well defended?

"Immersion of earth, gravel, seawater. Freya's face changed: "Is it a swamp?"

"It's not a swamp, but it's pretty much the same. Pannis sighed: "This kind of textured ground, once stepped on, tends to sink into waist-deep soft muddy ground. They don't have a strong suction like swamps, but they're still very, very difficult to walk, which is why the sea tribes use the beach as an empty space. Once we sink into the ground, it is impossible to run to the back of the boulder in the expected time, and it is inevitable that they will find it, and we must think of individual solutions. ”

Freya and Catherine frowned at the same time, biting their lipes in deep thought. Lina, who was on the side, suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled, took out a few pairs of protective goggles for diving and a few thick air tubes from her backpack, and asked mysteriously: "I don't know if you have heard of it, there are several novels that record an ancient sport called mud wrestling." ”

"Well, that's terrible. Catherine immediately understood, and said with a wry smile, "It seems that we will have a very difficult time tonight." (To be continued.) )