Those human-shaped cracks appeared on the solid ice of the wall. As their bodies cracked slightly, a biting cold wind spread out from inside, and the temperature in the entire elevator shaft dropped rapidly.
One of the workers who was wearing a mining lamp was slightly touched by the cold wind. His body instantly turned into a strange indigo blue, and then he fell downwards weakly.
When passing by the young explorer, he subconsciously reached out and pulled. With a "click", a frozen arm remained in the boy's hand, and the frozen body continued to fall downwards.
The others who saw this scene immediately took a deep breath. If they were touched by this cold air, they would be dead! !
Seeing the cold air approaching the people on the rope ladder, Charles quickly rushed into the elevator shaft. He raised his eyes quickly and saw transparent tentacles with arcs of electricity growing out from the surrounding walls like seaweed.
Many of the tentacles were quickly frozen, but more of them were raised high and smashed heavily on the cracks in the ice.
As the broken ice was shattered like glass, the extremely critical situation was greatly alleviated.
"Attack the ice!! These things can only live in ice! Without ice, they have no foothold!!" Hearing Charles' reminder, the other explorers began to fight back.
The entire elevator shaft suddenly became a mess, with cracks covered with broken ice and frozen corpses constantly falling from above.
It seemed that both sides suffered losses, but it was obvious that this situation was in Charles' favor. As long as they got out, the entire island would be completely destroyed.
Charles knew this, and those things knew this, and they wouldn't let this happen either.
Just as Charles was holding his organ jar and climbing up the rope ladder with his claws, panicked noises suddenly came from above. "Oh no! The exit is getting narrower! They are going to trap us to death here!"
Hearing this, Charles suddenly became anxious. He wanted to go up quickly, but found that the rope ladder above was full of people.
In desperation, he exerted the muscles in his lower limbs and pushed hard against the wall in front of him.
After a brief moment of flying in the air, Charles stretched out his steel prosthetic limb and grabbed it tightly, directly getting stuck on another wall.
As he activated the power of the flashing relic, Charles, who was clinging to the wall, flashed frequently and moved closer to the top.
Just as Charles' stomach began to ache again, he finally reached the top of the elevator shaft. The exit that should have been there was gone, and in front of him was a wall of ice that was getting thicker and thicker.
"You think you can seal me with just these?" Charles' body gradually began to deform, and within a few seconds, a gigantic bat monster filled the stairwell.
A dozen mining lamps shot from below, illuminating Charles' body from bottom to top. Under everyone's gaze, the huge bat monster opened its ferocious mouth.
Extremely harsh sound waves began to echo in the narrow space. Just as others covered their ears with painful expressions, the ice layer above began to gradually crack and collapse, and the disappeared hole reappeared in front of Charles.
Charles not only saw the exit, but also saw the crack monsters in the surrounding ice dust. They overlapped with each other, like distorted words moving in the ice.
He thought it would be a tough battle, but when Charles saw his daughter's green fluorescent cross pupils appear at the exit, he knew it was all over.
The girl, who looked like an elf in the legend, lightly stepped her slender bare feet and jumped directly down.
Both the ice and the cracks were quickly swallowed up by Shanshan, and of course this also engulfed Charles and the others below who did not have time to escape.
When Charles came to his senses again, he found that he had returned to Sodom. To be exact, the entire elevator shaft in SITE6 had been teleported up there by Shan Shan.
The winding and twisted white metal tunnel fell on the artificial island, and combined with the melted ice water, it looked like a cut intestine.
Alia and others came over and quickly rescued the people inside.
Shanshan stretched out his right hand and helped his father, who had transformed back into a human form, out. He said with a reproachful tone, "Didn't you agree to find me if there was any danger? Why didn't you notify me in advance?"
Charles, who was soaked in the melted ice water, gently shook her arm away. "God knows what that thing is. What if it hurts you? Besides, the situation just now is not that critical."
Charles looked into the distance, at the bright SITE6 under the searchlight. The place that had been melted into water by Lily was now being condensed into thin ice again, and this low temperature was still spreading to the surrounding sea. Those things had not given up yet.
After Shanshan's body flashed slightly, a large piece of ice appeared in front of them, and inside this piece of ice were two human-shaped cracks.
Seeing his daughter's hand reaching for the ice, Charles was about to stop her, but he saw her shining fingers reaching through his arm to the crack in the ice.
"Dad, these things are really strange. They have no entity."
"What's so strange about this? Aren't there many intangible things in the Earthsea? I don't know why these things want to occupy here. Could it be that this place is some kind of Feng Shui treasure land?" Charles frowned as he looked at the station in the distance, trying to figure out a countermeasure for this thing in his mind.
Shanshan shook her head, she gently broke off the ice cubes in front of her with her hands and ate them one by one. "No, they are not ghosts or something like that, they are just the opposite of us."
"What do you mean? Have you figured out the origin of this thing?"
"Hmm," Shanshan pursed her lips and said, "What I mean by them being insubstantial is, how should I describe it? They are like bubbles in the sea water. They are cracks between solid objects."
After hearing his daughter's explanation, Charles asked, "You mean they are the rifts themselves? What kind of rifts can have intelligence? And have the power to freeze everything?"
"Then I don't know. I didn't taste it."
After hearing his daughter's words, Charles looked at the station in the distance and thought for a while, then turned his head and shouted to the side: "Alia! Pass on my order, Sodom, fire at full power, I want to blow this place to pieces!"
Since these things exist based on the solid itself, the solution is very simple. As long as the solid itself is eliminated, they that depend on the ice will naturally disappear.
"Dad, do you want me to go?" Shanshan's delicate face showed eagerness to try.
(End of this chapter)