After confirming the situation at the northern edge of the shadow plane, Xia Duo quickly returned to the middle of the dark ice plain, and shuttled back to the main plane with the help of the shadow contained in a crack in the middle of the extremely northern ice plain of the main plane.
Then, he transformed into an ice element and merged into the ice, and continued to escape downwards. After traveling for more than thirty meters, it suddenly became clear to Xia Duo that a large fault actually appeared!
The warm air flow from the west kept reverberating in this relatively small space, and even formed a small pool of about ten meters below.
Unfortunately, there is still ice under the pool, so it seems that there is an environment that can support the survival of life, but in fact there is still no life.
But Xia Duo believes that in areas close to the ground where there are earth and rocks, a certain degree of ecology will inevitably be formed. Even if the living space is large enough, it is not impossible for intelligent creatures to survive.
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Skipping the small space, Xia Duo continued downwards. Not mentioning the Long Kuang Mystic Lock Control Center for the moment, he had already become quite interested in the special environment of the Far North Icefield.
If there is an opportunity in the future, we still need to arrange for some people to investigate and study it here.
Of course, this time, the main focus is to find the Long Kuang Mystic Lock Control Center.
Soon, Xia Duo descended to a hundred meters below the ice, but even so, he could not find the shadow of the earth and rock structure. Even with his instinctive perception of the ice element now, it is estimated that there will be no earth and rock structure after a few hundred meters. .
The reason why I mention "hundred meters" is because this depth is roughly the same height as the land where Netheril is located, similar to the concept of zero altitude on the earth.
If it went further down, if it was still ice, it meant that it was most likely an ocean. But what he didn't expect was that the middle of the ice sheet was already an ocean.
So where is the Dragon Crazy Lock Control Center?
seabed? Or is it on the "sea" side further south?
According to the original record of the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll, the control center is indeed at the seaside, but now it is not known whether the sea is an outer sea at the edge of the plane or an inland sea like the Narrow Sea. It is no longer possible to test.
Moreover, the only continent that had experienced the Great Rip, the ancient geography could no longer correspond to the documents, unless we could go back to the era when the Great Rip occurred and record the old and new maps.
It's just that even in the era when the Great Rip occurred, the Dragon Mad Lock was a long time ago, and ordinary people might not be able to know its secrets.
It is precisely because the times are moving forward and the high-ranking families have fallen into the mortal world that a large number of ancient secrets have been spread. It can be said that the further back in time, the more difficult it is to know the information about Long Kuang Mysuo.
Of course, this "ancient" is not the "ancient" that is closer to contemporary times like the Crown War, but the "ancient" that was at least before that.
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Next, Xia Duo continued to travel vertically downward for about a hundred meters, but he still didn't reach the bottom, and there were already a lot of elemental biological activities at this depth.
Those elemental creatures are similar to his current elemental state, and can basically be regarded as taking the form of ice, but unlike him, each of those elemental creatures has elemental essence.
Knowing that elemental spirits can be used to cast spells automatically, Sha Duo will certainly not let go of these treasures that come to his door.
For the time being, he didn't have much time to hunt elemental creatures, but if he couldn't catch the ones that came to his door, then he wouldn't be very good at being a master.
The vast majority of elemental creatures only have instincts and are not considered intelligent creatures. Of course, in theory, elemental creatures can also possess intelligence. Xia Duo also hopes to meet such intelligent elemental creatures!
But for now, his attitude towards elemental creatures is no different from that towards poultry and livestock such as pigs, dogs, sheep, and chickens. As long as they can be used by me, they can naturally be used.
Calimshan in the south is a country full of elemental creatures. Even the Calimshan people have a considerable proportion of elemental blood in their bodies. Legend has it that their ancestors were intelligent elemental djinn from the elemental plane.
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After handling a few elemental creatures, Xia Duo returned empty-handed this time, but he did not go deeper into the ice. Of course, there will be more elemental creatures going down, but the deeper you go down, the more complex the matter and elements are. The boundaries will become increasingly blurred.
If you are not careful, you may travel to the elemental plane, especially when this area is likely to be the main plane ocean, you need to be more careful.
Of course, to truly and completely blur the boundaries between elements and matter is far beyond what can be achieved by just a few hundred meters, but it doesn't make much sense to go further.
Referring to the capabilities of the countries in the Everesca Alliance on the projection plane, they probably will not explore infinitely downward from here. When they reach more than 200 meters under the ice, they will also make the choice to change direction.
Of course, it is also possible that those elven countries have found clearer guidance before they can accurately find the Dragon Madness Lock Control Center in the vast ice field.
But for Xia Duo, he has decided to change direction. He will first go south from the center of the ice sheet and find the "coast" of the Arctic "sea".
However, there is no need to travel under the ice. After all, the ice sheet is too big, and the speed of melting ice is much slower than flying in the air.
He first picked an intermediate point between the middle of the ice sheet and the southern snow line, and then went down from that intermediate point for 200 meters to make sure that no earth and rock structures were found, and then continued south to find the intermediate point.
In this way, after repeating the operation several times, Xia Duo finally touched the land under the ice!
At this time, the distance between him and the snow line in the south was almost the distance from Daxia to the Far North Icefield. This shows how vast the Far North Icefield is.
At the same time, it also shows that there is a large amount of land in this area, which is only deserted because it is covered by ice and snow, but there is one thing to be thankful for.
That is, the Far North Ice Sheet does not need to worry about melting ice and snow and rising sea levels for quite some time. Instead, it needs to worry about the snow line continuing to move south.
But what is the specific moving speed? For the time being, the countries in the North do not have clear data, and there are not even many observation records.
Just based on historical records, the snow line in the north is constantly moving south.
If there was no such thing as Long Kuang Mi Lock, Xia Duo might not take this matter to heart, just like the people on earth worry about the melting of Antarctic ice and snow and the rise of sea levels.
It only rises by a few millimeters a year, and sometimes even drops. It will not have any major impact on human production and life for quite some time.
In the Magic World, the same goes for the snow line in the north moving south. If it only moves a few millimeters south every year, no one will care about it now or in the future, let alone now.
Even if the annual southward movement is measured in meters, it will take many years for the snow line to cross the Narrow Sea!
But if it were really moving south at a rate of several meters per year, someone would have discovered such an obvious change in the past, and there would be no time for Xia Duo to worry about it.
(End of chapter)
