Luo Binhan climbed to the edge of the lake, and his distorted face was reflected in the clear blue lake. But in this poisonous flame that tortured his body and mind, his thoughts became much lighter.
He put his right hand into the lake and touched the lake shore through his anti-freeze gloves. He found that it was not a naturally formed slope, but a flat, vertical ice wall like a reservoir wall. Because the liquid was extremely clear, the bottom of the lake seemed to be right in front of him, but his right arm couldn't reach anything.
He pulled off a frozen organ and threw it in. He watched it sink to the bottom for about thirty seconds. He didn't know how dense the lake was, but the depth of the area around the shore was beyond imagination.
This doesn't look like a purely natural landform.
The dry wind blew across the lake, and small ice particles hit his hood. The temperature here prevents moisture from flowing through the air, and the landscape changes appear to have been accomplished by wind erosion.
Luo Binhan still remembers the strange terrain he passed through on the road. Since time can cause such drastic changes to the planet's surface, facilities related to cold storage should take this into consideration. If there really is a cryostat wake-up console, it should not be difficult for the keepers to find, nor would it be easily eroded by natural accidents.
A location very close to the freezer, relatively hidden, yet stable and windless. There had better be a natural source of low-temperature refrigeration, otherwise there would be no need to choose this cold planet.
He searched the bottom of the lake. Among the seemingly impurity-free cold colors, a slightly clearer area caught his attention. The strange patch of color was extremely faint, like a flaw on a sapphire, but it was very close to the freezer under the ice bank.
Luo Binhan observed there for half a minute, hoping to see some gas emerging from the lake to prove that there was indeed a normal temperature area at the bottom of the lake, but he failed to do so.
Time passes gradually. He could only crawl along the lakeshore toward that area, and then roll into the cold waves with the silver box in his arms.
The extreme cold froze more body tissues near the wounds to death. Fortunately, the half-broken antifreeze suit still provided him with oxygen and vision. After crossing the lake, he found a huge silver-white metal plate lying near the distant lake bed. It is deeply embedded in the solid plate at the bottom of the liquid lake, and its luster is almost the same as that of an ice bed. The cold current passes around it, but is separated by some kind of transparent cover.
He adjusted his position as much as possible during the sinking process and successfully landed on the top of the cover. This device has a solid entity and cannot travel freely like an air shield, and Luo Binhan has not been able to find any device similar to a lock or switch.
The cold air emanating from the internal organs is spreading. Without hesitation, he smashed the plastic-like shield with his fist.
Lake "water" began to pour into the cover.
Luo Binhan didn't know whether the equipment underneath could prevent the penetration and destruction of liquid, so he had to squeeze in desperately. He fell onto the metal plate and found that its surface was lined with neat round covers, each with a pull ring and a number. Although the deep water environment affected his vision, he could barely make out the sequential numbers.
He crawled to the cover with 104 written on it, lifted it from the metal plate, and smashed the button hidden inside. He had finished it as fast as possible, but the lake "water" still seeped into the gap.
Buttons have no feedback.
Light, sound, vibration, all the reactions that Luo Binhan expected did not appear, only the liquid level continued to rise.
This made his heart sink, and at the same time his head felt like it was burning with fire. A deep voice was calling him, waiting for him, wanting to squeeze into him. He couldn't tell whether it was a nightmare that had become reality or a hallucination that occurred when he was about to die. He had never heard this voice before, but he felt an inexplicable intimacy, which made him strongly want to respond.
He unconsciously stretched out his hand towards the depths of the Mingbo, but Li Li's face flashed from his thoughts.
The metal plate has been completely submerged. Suddenly awakened, Luo Binhan took back his hand, turned his upper body over, and prepared to tear open the antifreeze suit on his abdomen and make a final attempt with the damaged gravity device. At this moment, he saw a faint glow in the ice wall not far away.
It was a small, square, transparent cabin that was emitting a warm yellowish color like sunlight. After a few seconds, it began to cross the ice wall and approached Luo Binhan. Its horizontal position is slightly higher than the lake bed, and it slides at a downward angle towards the console cover that was broken by Luo Binhan.
The cabin broke through the wall.
Immediately behind it, a stream of water formed from melted ice spewed out, and then condensed into a horizontal icicle at the bottom of the lake. The "lake water" close to the cabin boils and vaporizes in an instant, forming a large number of rising bubbles.
This commotion slightly disturbed Luo Binhan's vision. He dragged himself out of the cover a little anxiously and moved towards the square ice bin parked nearby. Now he could see what was lying in the cabin.
It was a pale and complete human skeleton. It looks so lifelike, no different from the model in Zhou Yu's home.
Luo Binhan didn't know if he had found the right thing, but the situation was already difficult to get out of. He held the strap of the silver box in his mouth and climbed on the lake bed with one hand. The surroundings were so dark and blurry that he didn't even know if he was really alive.
He climbed to the side of the small cabin and opened the door roughly. Several sheets attached to the outside were torn in two. Then he grabbed the skull and dragged it out of the crystal coffin-like container. .
There is a circular cavity at the top of the skull that seems to perfectly match the base of the jar-like container inside the silver box. So Luo Binhan let go of his mouth, let the silver box fall to the lake bed, and entered the password based on his gradually blurred memory.
The box was successfully opened on the third try. He grabbed the brain can fixed in the box and stuffed it into the hole on the top of the skull. A mechanical bite-like feeling came from his hand.
The dark and empty eye sockets of the skull suddenly lit up, emitting a strange blood-red light. After a few seconds, it broke free from Luo Binhan's hand and floated like seaweed on the bottom of the lake. Thick bloody light emanated from its brain and extended to near its ribs and spine, making it resemble an undead monster resurrected by black magic.
The skull's eyes flashed, and a voice sounded in Luo Binhan's mind.
"...Hello dear teacher, I am Blue Magpie from the Tower of Spiritual Rose. I am honored to participate in your research! The recorder shows that I have meditated for nearly a hundred days during the trip, and there is no network signal here at all. Could you please tell me where this is? Oh, and I can't help but say that your clothes are really unique. Is the hole in your abdomen a component of some kind of magical ritual? Or is it a disguise to move in a special area? ? Are you a traditional necromancer? Of course, I am by no means a conservative robeist, but your overalls look really... I think 'lifelike' is a more appropriate term. These wounds, blood clots, broken intestines , and textures - they can even freeze to death! How did you make it so realistic? It seems to be a very traditional technique. Did you use the remains of a real person? I must admit I'm not very comfortable with this practice yet, but I heard it's a common custom in some areas... Will you teach me this technique next? I can't wait to learn something new! Any genre doesn't matter, I I am willing to know all the secrets about magic, such as how you make this body operate so realistically, such as slowed heartbeat, lowered body temperature, cell necrosis, brain... Oh, wait, your brain skull is closed, look. No surgery was performed..."
Its voice gradually became softer. Luo Binhan was speechless and could only stare at it expressionlessly. After a while the voice sounded again.
"You, it seems, are an ancient law?" it asked uncertainly, "I'm not very familiar with your characteristics, but your current body values look like... God, you are now Really on the verge of death?!”
It screamed uncontrollably in Luo Binhan's head.
