blogombal Chapter 66 The Frozen City
Chapter 66 The Frozen City
The convoy traveled for about an hour, led by Xu Si, the "Messenger of Melting Wax".
Xu Si, who had been maintaining his "star trail" perception, suddenly twitched his brow.
The thick, boundless snowfield beneath my feet was noticeably different from the star trails I had sensed before.
"Slow down." Xu Si's voice came through the walkie-talkie.
The convoy behind immediately slowed down, and Xiao Luo activated his psionic barrier at the first opportunity.
"Is there anything strange about this?" Fu Xiaojian asked immediately.
"Not quite sure," Xu Sixing's eyes narrowed slightly, his scarlet gaze seeming to pierce through the thick ice and snow.
"Something's not right beneath this ice layer..." Xu Si slowly brought the "Melting Wax Messenger" to a stop, its massive sled-like chassis pressing down on the snow.
Xu Si pushed open the car door, jumped out, squatted down, and covered the cold snow with his palms.
"Ice Crystal Manipulation".
With a thought, the power originating from [Ice Heart] quietly activated.
A chill emanated from his palm, and the snow and surface ice in front of him seemed to come alive, slowly separating and melting to the sides, revealing a deeper, harder layer of ice beneath.
Xu Si increased the energy output, and the ice continued to melt downwards.
Everyone held their breath as they watched his every move.
A few minutes later, when the ice layer was cleared down to a depth of nearly one meter, the sight below made everyone gasp in horror.
That wasn't rock, nor soil, nor ice.
Instead, it was a huge, blurry but vaguely discernible glass curtain wall!
Behind the curtain wall lies an even darker and deeper space, where one can vaguely see the distorted outline of the GG sign and the shadows of the building, frozen in ice.
"This is..." Fu Xiaojian walked to the edge of the pit, leaned down and looked down, his face full of shock.
"A city? A city frozen beneath the ice?!"
Jiao Jiao also came over, her eyes wide: "My God! A frozen city? Like in the movies?"
Su Su's cold eyes were fixed on the scene beneath the ice, her fists clenching slightly.
Tashan scratched his rocky bald head: "My goodness, how long has it been frozen?"
Xiao Luo poked his head out of the Mengshi vehicle, wanting to look but not daring to.
Xu Si stood up, his starry eyes flashing with blood-red light as he tried to see further.
However, the ice was too thick, greatly obstructing his vision and perception.
"The scope is very large," he said in a deep voice.
"So, we might be flying over a modern city that's been completely frozen in ice." Fu Xiaojian was also deeply horrified.
This discovery left everyone in the convoy feeling a strange sense of shock and dread.
What they were standing on was not just a snowfield, but a tomb of civilization, a time capsule frozen in an instant.
"Can we find a way down?" Fu Xiaojian quickly calmed down, his eyes flashing with a thoughtful light.
"A city of this size is likely to contain unexploited supplies, especially... gas stations!"
Fuel is exactly what the convoy is currently lacking! However, finding it is a major challenge.
Xu Si placed his hand on the ice again, sensing the star trails extending downwards along the ice layer.
After a moment, he shook his head: "The ice is too thick, and the city is quite large. It will probably be difficult to find a gas station in a short time."
"Do you think this ice field wasn't created by that big guy?" Little Luo interjected.
"Not impossible"
Xiao Luo's words stunned everyone, and then a chill rose from the bottom of their hearts, even more biting than the cold of the icy plains.
If this ice field, covering countless square kilometers and reaching depths of tens or even hundreds of meters, was indeed caused by the activities of that terrifying entity known as the "Ice Sleeper"...
Its power level had completely exceeded their imagination.
That was no longer a strange occurrence, it was a natural disaster! It was a walking myth!
"No...no way?" Jiao Jiao's voice trembled.
Fu Xiaojian's face was extremely ugly. He forced himself to calmly analyze the situation: "The possibility is not high."
If it was indeed caused by it, this ice field should not have existed for very long, and the damage it caused to the city should have been enormous.
But the city below looks more like it was... instantly frozen in time.
Tashan concluded in a muffled voice, "Who cares what happened? This place is really weird! Knife, can we go down there? If not, let's get out of here!"
Xu Si did not answer. He closed his eyes and tried to combine the perception of "Star Trail" with the control of "Ice Heart" to the extreme.
The ice layer was no longer a solid obstacle in his perception, but a relatively "loose" network composed of countless ice crystal structures and weak energy flows.
He "saw" the distorted street outlines of the city below, the frozen lines of vehicles, and the collapsed overpasses—this was once a vibrant city!
Suddenly, Xu Si seemed to notice something and instantly opened his starry eyes.
"About one kilometer to the northeast, there seems to be an oil tanker under the ice!"
"Really?!" Fu Xiaojian's spirits lifted, and his fatigue vanished.
"Let's go!" Xu Si said without hesitation, turning around and jumping onto the "Melting Wax Messenger".
The engine roared, and the mimic snow sled turned and sped off towards the northeast.
The convoy followed closely behind, and everyone's heart was in their throats.
A kilometer can be covered in the blink of an eye at full speed by sleds.
Xu Si stopped the car again, and Xing Tong locked his gaze on a certain spot below.
"It should be down here," he said, pointing to the ground below.
"Below is an elevated road, and the ice layer is about twenty meters thick."
"Twenty meters..." Fu Xiaojian frowned.
"Wait, Brother Dao, why is the tanker truck on the elevated highway?"
Xiao Luo raised his doubts. He had been studying driving regulations these past two days, even though they were no longer of much use.
"It's the apocalypse, why are you still looking at traffic lights? Maybe they're escaping in a tanker truck?" the little girl suggested.
Xu Si ignored their bickering and placed his hand on the ice again.
"The ice layer is too thick. Forcibly breaking it open would make too much noise and might cause unnecessary trouble."
He pondered for a moment, a flash of bloodshot light in his eyes: "I'll try to open a downward-sloping passage, avoiding the load-bearing structure as much as possible."
"Then aim carefully, don't miss. Once you've made the hole, I'll support it with stone pillars to prevent it from collapsing."
"..." Xu Si glanced at Ta Shan with his bloodshot eyes, feeling that there was something wrong with what he said.
Xu Si walked to a spot slightly above the predicted location of the oil tanker, took a deep breath, and placed his hands lightly on the snow.
The "Extreme Cold Domain" was not deployed, but he meticulously controlled the power of [Ice Heart], concentrating it on a single point.
The snow and ice beneath his palm began to melt and vaporize silently at a visible speed. It wasn't violently shattered, but rather seemed to be directly "decomposed" by some invisible force, revealing a smooth, round hole about one meter in diameter that slowly extended downwards.
The cave walls were quickly covered with a new, harder layer of ice to prevent the surrounding ice from collapsing.
This scene left everyone in awe.