Hearing A Kai's shout, everyone on the 'Mercemen Association' looked towards him, with doubt written all over their faces. However, Tang Yu trusted A Kai very much, and he immediately shouted, "Throw this thing down immediately."
Ah Kai quickly added: "Don't take it directly with your hands."
Tang Yu nodded, and they controlled an auxiliary robot to throw the black ice on the ground back into the sea.
Ah Kai heaved a sigh of relief, and then he heard someone exclaiming, "Qiu Yuan, Qiu Yuan just took a piece of black ice down to study it."
"What?"
Ah Kai grabbed his hair and said, "You are really going crazy. Throw the things away immediately. Also, check your companion and see if he has..."
Before he finished speaking, someone stumbled out of the cabin of the opposite ship and suddenly fell to the ground.
The man raised his head, stretched out his hand, and said in a weak voice: "Help me, my protective suit is torn, I... I'm so cold."
Of course he felt cold, his arms and back were already covered with black ice, and under the light, the ice was spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye, covering other parts of the man's body.
"Qiu Yuan."
A girl exclaimed and ran over, apparently trying to help him.
Akai yelled: "Don't touch him!"
Tang Yu quickly stopped the girl. The girl in the biohazard suit cried anxiously, "Team Leader, that's Qiu Yuan, that's Qiu Yuan. Let's find a way to save him."
Tang Yu turned around and called out, "Akai, is there any way to save him?"
Ah Kai sneered: "That thing is 'Death Ice'. Why do you think it is called that? It is because once you are touched by it, there is no hope!"
"Your ship has been contaminated. Please come here quickly. However, you must be inspected after you come here."
Tang Yu looked at the crew member who was gradually being "swallowed" by the ice, gritted his teeth and said, "Abandon ship, everyone go over immediately and get checked!"
"Team leader, how can you give up Qiu Yuan? No, I want to save him. I want to save him."
The girl struggled to throw herself at the researcher on the ground. Tang Yu raised his hand and tapped her on the back of the neck. The girl immediately lost consciousness and fell on Tang Yu.
Tang Yu saw that some black ice had spread out from the cabin. They were moving very fast, like a dark tide, and in a blink of an eye they had already arrived next to the researcher named Qiu Yuan.
The ice on the ground immediately crawled towards him, from his feet, to his waist, and 'joined' with other ice on the researcher's body, then picked up speed and engulfed the researcher.
In a blink of an eye, the researcher named Qiu Yuan had turned into an ice sculpture, but the black ice still showed no intention of stopping its spread. It spread very "greedily" to other corners of the deck. Moreover, it was not known whether it was accidental or whether the black ice could sense the presence of humans.
The black ice layer spreading on the deck was obviously spreading more towards Tang Yu and others.
"What on earth are these things!" Tang Yu raised his hand and a blazing flame immediately rose in front of him. As the black ice touched the flame, it immediately evaporated into water, but some black ice still broke through the flames.
It was just that after passing through the flames, its speed slowed down a little and the ice layer became thinner.
But it still spreads forward unswervingly.
“Come here quickly!”
A Kai shouted, he had already moved the boat closer to that side, Tian Yang and several others were standing at the side of the boat, meeting the researchers from the 'Fishman Association'.
Tang Yu seemed to be the heart of the element. He retreated while creating flames to continue the spread of the ice. After everyone on the ship had left, he turned over and jumped onto the deck of Akai's ship.
Ah Kai quickly drove the boat away, away from the ship of the Fishman Association, and shouted to Tang Yu: "Blow it up!"
Tang Yu didn't ask why. He raised his hands and an orange fireball lit up above his head. The fireball gradually grew bigger. When it was the size of a washbasin, Tang Yu threw it over and hit the fuel tank of the ship.
Suddenly, a huge fireball rose in the sea, and the ship of the "Murloc Association" was blown into pieces. The impact caused gusts of wind and waves, and swept away the floating ice that had originally accumulated around it.
A Kai took the opportunity to turn the boat around, sailing at full speed and returning along the original route.
Watching the fire in the distance being gradually swallowed up by the surrounding darkness, Tang Yu sighed, called a female researcher and asked her to keep an eye on the girl he had knocked unconscious before.
People felt sorry for the girl. It turned out that she was engaged to the researcher named Qiu Yuan and planned to get married next month. Unexpectedly, during this trip, her fiancé fell asleep in the dark sea, which made people sigh.
Tang Yu came to the control room in a depressed mood, looked at A Kai who was driving the boat, and asked: "What on earth is that?"
A Kai switched to autopilot, freeing his hands. This allowed him to pick up the wine flask next to him and take a sip before saying, "Like I said just now, that thing is 'Death Ice'. So far, no one knows how it was formed and what the principle is. I only know that it should appear inside the dark sea and should not come to this edge."
"That thing is like a living thing, it will chase living things. I guess it should detect our body temperature and use that as a basis. As for whether it is true or not, I don't know."
"In addition, it can assimilate the tissues of living organisms and pollute the surrounding environment, transforming it into an ultra-low temperature zone suitable for its existence."
"It can quickly and massively absorb moisture from the air to grow stronger. If you come into contact with black ice, I mean, contact without any protection, then you will be contaminated by it."
Ah Kai took another sip of wine before continuing, "I led a ship before, and we encountered something like this in the inner area of the dark sea."
"The person who came into contact with it didn't feel anything at first, except for feeling thirsty. But soon, he got hypothermia, and ice began to cover his skin, and frost formed in the surrounding area for no reason."
"Once entering this stage, death will come quickly. The black ice quickly spreads to the entire body of the prey. Moreover, we found through instruments that it penetrates deep into the body of the prey, and then crystallizes the blood, organs and even bones. Eventually, the corpse will disappear in the ice layer, and even the cell tissue will become part of the ice."
Ah Kai nodded: "So, the black ice may just look like frost, but in reality it is some kind of living creature. Of course, I'm not sure about this. What I can be sure of is that before it turned into ice, it may have been the flesh and blood of some kind of creature."
"Just like your
Now he has become part of the ice of death."
Long Dan shuddered when he heard this: "Stop talking, I'm getting goose bumps. When I think about the possibility that those ice cubes were originally flesh, blood, and internal organs, I feel like vomiting again."
Tianyang frowned slightly and looked at Tang Yu: "When we were on the shore before, you and Longdan told me that there was something abnormal in the dark sea. Now, the 'ice of death' that should have appeared in the inner area of the sea has come to the edge. Could it be related to the abnormality in the dark sea?"
"What's wrong with the Dark Sea?"
Tang Yu was silent for a moment before he said, "This month, we received a murloc's body. Well, our association has been recycling murloc bodies from gold diggers at sea for many years, and of course we have recycling standards."
"Anyway, the body we received was said to have been salvaged near the Dark Sea. There are many abnormalities in the body. To put it simply, there are some phenomena on the body that shouldn't be there."
"So we speculated that something abnormal had occurred in the dark sea, and then we contacted Akai, but it was not until yesterday that Akai agreed to let us go out to sea."
"However, we don't know what happened inside the Dark Sea."
A Kai said expressionlessly: "The Dark Sea, as well as several other known dangerous seas, are listed as restricted areas for a reason."
"It's better not to study some things. Otherwise, you might bring the danger outside, or even into the fortress."
“That’s when it will be a real disaster.”
Longdan whispered to Tianyang: "Don't be fooled by his big and strong figure. Sometimes, he can really make sense."
Ah Kai glared at him and walked out of the control room: "I'll go check the ship."
He was worried about the black ice still clinging to the hull.
The control room had limited space, and Akai's ship was much smaller than the one of the 'Murloc Association'. As a result, the researchers of the association could only stay on the deck.
When the girl woke up and found out her fiancé was gone, she was completely distraught and huddled in a corner with her head in her hands, not saying a word.
Tianyang and Yueguang came to the deck and stood aside, keeping a distance from the researchers of the association.
Moonlight glanced at the girl, turned around, leaned against the side of the boat and said, "We need to have someone keep an eye on her."
Tian Yang glanced at her and said, "Are you worried that she might do something impulsive?"
“This is one of them.”
Yue Guang used her hand to gather the hair that was blown by the wind. "Secondly, when faced with a sudden change, some people's psychology will collapse and become distorted, and they may do things that hurt others."
Tianyang nodded, thinking it made sense, so he secretly communicated with the black fog, so that his perception could cover the entire ship, and any abnormalities on the ship would not escape his perception.
He first scanned the hull inside and out to confirm that there was no black ice attached to the hull, then extended part of his thoughts, gathered them into lines, and randomly scanned the nearby area to prevent any floating ice from approaching them.
Now, after communicating with the black fog, Tianyang's thoughts were condensed into lines, and he could already scan things within 10 kilometers. At this moment, he was like a live radar. Just as Tianyang was scanning the sea area in front of the ship, suddenly, in his thoughts, a warship with a main gun and multiple weapon platforms appeared!