"Hero, you must believe me..." Pelican Snow Fairy said in a weak tone.
However, I heard Poinsettia's command: "Fly over there."
The Pelican Snow Fairy followed immediately. When the two of them got closer, the poinsettia became clearer.
He pointed out where he was staring with his finger and showed the Pelican Snow Fairy carefully: "This place is different from other places. This seems to be... a broken icicle."
Pelican Snow Fairy looked up. He soon discovered the place Poinsettia mentioned, and couldn't help but agree: "Yes, yes. This mark does look like it was broken."
As he spoke, his wings seemed to gain some strength. But then he thought about it and became even more shocked: "This..."
"...come closer."
Poinsettia said again.
The two of them approached the cross section of the ice, and the poinsettia jumped up and stood on the ice. The Pelican Snow Fairy wanted to run away, but after seeing Poinsettia's cold eyes and the sword ready to go, she retracted her thoughts.
He also returned to his human form. Standing nearby with Poinsettia, the two soon made further discoveries.
"This was not broken by a sharp weapon or brute force." Poinsettia leaned down and rubbed the surface of the ice, "There are melted pits and re-condensed slippery surfaces on it. Hmm..."
Pelican Snow Fairy is a little confused about what to pay attention to when it comes to poinsettias. But when Poinsettia stood up quickly, she asked, "Let me ask you. If you fall from here, where is the place below?"
As he spoke, his pupils reflected the bottomless darkness of the cave.
"It's...an underground river."
"Underground river?" Poinsettia looked sideways, "Where does it lead to?"
However, the Pelican Snow Fairy could only shake his head: "This... I don't know. In the past, there were indeed eaters who fell due to various reasons, but I just treated them as dead, and I couldn't chase them anyway. If you can’t catch up, it’s even more uneconomical.”
Hearing this, Poinsettia's expression changed.
"If there is an underground river under the ice..."
Thinking like this, he immediately raised his head, his eyes piercing the Pelican Snow Fairy like thunder and lightning:
"You, come down with me."
"Ah..." Pelican Snow Fairy heard this and looked at the dark abyss again, quite reluctantly, "Actually, my point of view is that young heroes have their own destiny... You and I might as well go first Go up and plan for the long term..."
"Shut up." Poinsettia grabbed half of his wings, "Change back and prepare to throw you away."
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On the other side, under the turbulent current, Fu Yunge had no time to think about other things. The violent jolts had caused cracks in the ice beneath him.
"I'm afraid I'm really going to be buried now..."
Fu Yunge clung to the edge of the ice cube with both hands, and the cold water lapped at his whole body. As the underground river turned rapidly, the temperature around him gradually rose.
"It feels like the ice cubes are melting faster..." He murmured in his heart, "It can't be that... worst case scenario, right?"
The amount of broken ice passing by increased, and it must be that the large ice blocks at the front and back were melted into smaller parts. And the water temperature can also be felt to have increased, like a flood in late autumn.
"Ahem..." He suddenly choked on the splash of water and coughed for a while.
"We must leave the river as soon as possible and go to the side..." Fu Yunge could feel that the piece of ice he was attached to could not hold on for long, and the crisp cracking sounds made his sense of crisis clearer.
The place next to me gradually became brighter at some point, instead of the original darkness where I couldn't even see my fingers. He could barely make out the rugged stalactites above his head, but there seemed to be no place to stand on either side.
If so, he could only take one risk.
In the chaos, Fu Yunge forcibly mobilized the energy in his Dantian. Although he was given a sharp pain in return, the strength also came to his limbs as expected.
Closing his eyes, the surrounding environment gave him an idea of survival in a desperate situation.
Suddenly, with confidence in his chest, he straightened up like a carp and stood up on the ice. At the same time, there was a violent cracking sound under his feet. He immediately made up his mind, gathered all his strength, and jumped up!
Fu Yunge bit his lip with a kick that was full of vitality that he had not experienced in a long time. He endured the incomparable pain and flew up diagonally!
Seeing that the overhanging rocks were close at hand, Fu Yunge stretched out his arms and stretched out his fingers! With one move, he actually grabbed the jagged stone cone!
But almost at the same time, Fu Yunge's heavy body caused the stone cone to break! Fu Yunge made a prompt decision, risked his life, jumped again, faced the direction he came from, and grabbed two more stone cones!
Although the movement was not far this time, it also exhausted the power Fu Yunge could control. In addition, his hands were blurred with blood and sweat, and the stone cone became increasingly slippery in his palms.
However, Fu Yunge did not intend to return all the way in this way. After several gasps, when he could no longer hold on to his hands and separated from the stone cone, he had already spotted a piece of broken ice swimming towards him, poured his true energy into his toes, and jumped down in the air!
With a "click", just when Fu Yunge touched the ice, the ice suddenly shattered due to the sudden impact. However, Fu Yunge had already planned. He spotted another ice floe upstream and used his strength to let his body fly out again!
Another near miss. However, due to the turbulent water flow, Fu Yunge immediately realized a big problem. That is to say, just jumping between ice floes in this way and trying to go back against the current would be underestimating the speed of the water flow. He made several jumps that consumed a lot of power, but he barely made any progress. If he continued like this, his power would be exhausted, but the water flow would not stop at all.
"This time, I was careless..." He breathed heavily, but did not dare to stop. Because once you give up, it means all your previous efforts have been wasted.
His whole body was soaked, whether it was river water or sweat. Exhausted, his legs were suffering from the pain caused by the operation of Qi. At this moment, he had gone through several cycles of numbness and severe pain.
"hateful……"
Fu Yunge's eyes were already dim.
And at this moment, it was just a brief lapse of concentration, and he suddenly felt a slip under his feet.
The ice surface was covered with smooth water for some reason. The soles of Fu Yunge's shoes rubbed back and forth on the ice. Once they encountered water, they immediately slipped.
With a muffled "pop" sound, Fu Yunge fell heavily on his back to the ice, and even a small dent was made on the back of his head.
The world in front of him gradually shrank into a thin crack, and soon, it was completely buried in darkness.
…………
"Hey, this is the first time I've been to a place like this in so many years..."
Pelican Snow Fairy's tone seemed a little desperate. But he was quickly interrupted by Poinsettia: "You used the ice cave to kill so many people. Have you never thought about today? This is a kind of atonement, but of course, it is not enough."
The Pelican Snow Fairy defended herself repeatedly, and even her feathers seemed to be bristle: "No, no, I promise God, I rarely kill people. What you see in the cave is almost all my achievements in the past six hundred years. Already..."
