From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 394: Abyss Distortion, Method of Finding Dragon Treasure Cave

The Ice Rift, like a winding scar, stretches from west to east across the northern land of the Quel'dorei continent.

To the north of the rift is the Frost Plains, and to the south is the Corruption.

The Corrupted Lands were once a densely vegetated forest. Since the invasion of the Quel'dorei continent by the Abyss, this land has undergone several major changes.

It is now a barren land. There are still some tree stumps that have not completely decayed on the ground, but they are all dry and full of traces of erosion by the abyss.

When someone passed by, occasionally one or two lizards or poisonous insects would crawl out from the rotten tree trunks.

Snapped!
Lin Zeyu crushed a hook-tailed scorpion to death with one foot, and turned back to say, "This place has been corroded so badly. Will our world become like this in the future?"

Lu Heng stood on the corrupted soil, looking at the entrance to the Ice Valley ahead, and said leisurely: "Perhaps human civilization will cease to exist before we can wait for the earth to be corrupted."

The reason why this land was corrupted to this extent is that the elves persisted in the invasion of the Abyss for more than seven hundred years.

The dead trees and soil here have also been eroded by the abyss for seven hundred years.

However, humans may not be able to hold out for that long against the invasion of the abyss, and may not even see the land of the Blue Planet corrupted to this extent.

Lin Zeyu understood what Lu Heng meant, but he never thought about such distant things: "Seven hundred years is too long. I just focus on the present and do what I need to do. As for whether I can defeat the abyss, that's not important. I just need to rush forward!"

Lu Heng felt that Lin Zeyu’s attitude was quite good. It was useless to think about whether he could defeat the abyss every day. The right thing to do was to give it a try without caring about the result.

Even if you die in the abyss in the end, at least you have resisted and you will not regret not doing anything.

Xie Shien reached out and patted Lin Zeyu on the shoulder, saying, "I didn't expect that you are the most open-minded among the four of us."

Lin Zeyu felt a little flattered when he heard such an evaluation.

Because he is the one with relatively low combat power in the team, he always tries to help the team in various ways and demonstrate his own value as much as possible.

"Let's go. Let's enter the rift. Mu Yu will find the location of the elf team." Lu Heng waved his hand and walked towards the entrance of the Ice Disaster Rift.

"it is good."

Su Muyu nodded in agreement and released the Blue Luan divine bird to fly into the rift valley first to search.

The four of them walked forward, and Su Muyu reported along the way what the Blue Luan Bird had discovered.

"The aura of the abyss is indeed very strong in the rift valley. This is the strongest abyss atmosphere I have ever seen in a large area."

Not only Su Muyu, but Lu Heng and the other two also felt the breath of the abyss when they walked into the rift.

Having experienced the abyss battlefield so many times, I am too familiar with this atmosphere.

Lin Zeyu swallowed his saliva and said, "Is there a source of abyss pollution here?"

After he finished speaking, he pulled up the task panel and took a look, confirming that the second challenge task on it was [2. Find the source of abyss pollution and eliminate it.]

Judging from past experience, as long as there are entries related to "Abyss Pollution Source" in the challenge mission, there must be an Abyss Pollution Source in this world, and it is the kind of pollution source that is about to erupt.

In other words, there must be an abyss pollution source on the Quel'dorei continent that is about to erupt, and it is not surprising that this pollution source appears in the Ice Rift.

Lu Heng wanted to recall more useful information, and replayed the battle of the fall of the elves' main city over and over again in his mind.

However, during that time, the entire battle in the Abyss Battlefield was spent fighting against a tidal army of skeletons, and even the main quest failed, so there was no chance to do the challenge quest at all.

Therefore, in the previous life's battle for the fall of the elven main city, no one knew where the source of the abyss pollution was.

Just as Lu Heng was lost in his memories, Su Muyu reported, "We found the elf team. I'll go say hello to Elder Terris first."

"Okay, let's speed up." Lu Heng said as he quickened his pace and moved forward.

In a rift valley ten kilometers ahead, a team of elves were using weapons to chop at the ice that blocked the rift valley.

The blue phoenix bird flew down and spoke: "Elder Terris, we are here."

Terris looked back and saw a handsome fairy bird flying down, which he had never seen before.

After returning from the elf world, Su Muyu's scout eagle has evolved into the Blue Luan divine bird, which is very different from its previous appearance.

However, Terris recognized who summoned this handsome fairy bird and said, "Great, you can definitely help if you come over."

Lu Heng and his four companions hurried to catch up. Twenty kilometers after entering the ice disaster rift, the ice on the ground and the mountain walls became thicker and thicker, and even began to block the road.

As he walked along, Lu Heng saw that the ice blocking the rift was completely broken, and was forcibly broken by weapons.

The broken ice stretched for five kilometers.

Moreover, the further they went, the thicker the ice became. The elven team almost dug a hole through the ice that was more than ten meters thick.

The freezing conditions in the rift were far more serious than Lu Heng had expected.

The hard ice layer is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is that the ice layer contains a strong breath of the abyss, which makes the ice layer appear translucent black.

This means that the deeper you go into the rift, the stronger the abyss breath you breathe, which has a huge impact on the body of living things.

Normal creatures will undergo varying degrees of mutation after absorbing a large amount of abyss energy.

This mutation may be "positive" or "negative".

The so-called "positive" effect only means that it does not cause serious pathological changes to the body on the surface, and may also bring different abilities to the organism.

For example, after humans absorb a large amount of abyss energy, they may grow wings and fly in the sky.

Of course, this kind of mutation does not exist alone. When wings grow, it may bring other side effects due to changes in bones and skin.

For example, the skin all over the body may change and produce allergic reactions of varying degrees, and even turn red and ulcerate when exposed to air or sunlight.

This kind of mutation is actually the same as human gene mutation. There are also "positive" gene mutations, but the probability is very small.

After absorbing the energy of the abyss, most humans will transform into various terrible deformities.

For example, the whole body may be covered with tumors, or the ends of the bones may grow infinitely, or the skin of the whole body may become mucous membrane and degenerate into a soft-bodied monster.

In short, the probability of a creature contaminated by the energy of the abyss undergoing a "positive" mutation is very small, less than one in ten thousand.

Of course, for the abyss, the probability of contaminated creatures undergoing positive mutation is only one in ten thousand, which is enough.

Take Blue Planet for example. If all of its seven billion people were contaminated by the energy of the abyss and collectively mutated, even if the chance of survival during the mutation process was only one in ten thousand, there would still be seven hundred thousand deformed beings that would survive.

That is to say, when the blue planet is swallowed by the abyss one day, human beings will not necessarily all become extinct. According to the probability of one in ten thousand, 700,000 "new humans" will survive.

Those who died were considered "natural selection" by the abyss because they were unable to adapt to the new living environment.

As for the 700,000 "new humans" who survived, can they still be considered human beings?
Even if we are still human, does civilization still exist?

Apart from anything else, technology has at least regressed to the steam age, and culture will find it difficult to continue to be passed on in the abyss world.

The surviving deformers have become minions of the abyss, obeying the will of the abyss and becoming a new race of the abyss, just like the vampires.

Perhaps by that time, the human race will have a new name, called "demon people" or "abyss demons".

Therefore, in a world swallowed by the abyss, whether civilized creatures will be extinct may be controversial, but civilization itself no longer exists.

Even if the newly generated deformed forms develop into a new civilization, it will no longer be the original human civilization.

Sometimes, from the perspective of the universe, the rise and fall of a civilization is just a light spot in the long river of time. The light spot of a brilliant civilization will be brighter, while the light spot of a weak civilization will be dimmer.

If there really is a will that observes these civilizations from a macroscopic perspective of the universe, it is highly likely that it will not be affected by the demise of any particular civilization.

Human beings are insignificant in the universe.

Perhaps human civilization struggling in the abyss will not have any impact on the macro-evolution of the universe.

All lights will go out one day.

However, every civilization will do its best to continue and develop, even if it means burning itself, just to make that little bit of light brighter and brighter...

……

When Lu Heng saw the breath of the abyss seeping out from the broken ice on the ground, his mind was filled with a myriad of thoughts. He thought of a lot and became more determined.

While they were thinking, the four members of the team had already arrived at the location of the elf team.

Tyrese, with a team of 50 elven warriors, was chopping at the ice in batches, breaking a path to continue moving deeper into the rift.

Seeing this scene, Lu Heng frowned, feeling that this method was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

After all, the ice rift is more than a thousand kilometers long, and more than 60% of the area is covered with ice, of which 30% is relatively thin and easy to handle.

The remaining 30% is the deep ice area. Even if we only count this area, it is 300 kilometers long.

To find a skeleton by chiseling ice in a 300-kilometer-long rift is not much easier than looking for a needle in a haystack.

Lu Heng looked at the elf warrior who was chiseling the ice, turned back and asked, "Elder Terris, is this the only way to chisel through the ice?"

Terris spread his hands helplessly: "I have thought of other ways, and none of them work."

Lu Heng walked to the ice and pressed the ice surface with his hand.

These black icicles are very hard, but also very brittle. They can be shattered with a single sword strike, without requiring much force.

The problem is that when this ice layer stretches for 300 kilometers, it would be a huge project to break through it all.

If we send an engineering team from Blue Planet and use large excavators to do the work, it would not be impossible to complete the task.

However, even if it can be completed, it will take four or five months.

Even if we only break through the ice and don't need to transport the broken ice away, the time can be cut in half, but it will still take two months.

However, this time the abyss battlefield only lasts 30 days.

In other words, even if an engineering team was sent, they would not be able to complete the task.

Of course, if we really were on the Blue Planet, and regardless of the consequences, there is another option, which is to use missiles to bombard the ground, directly bombarding it 300 kilometers away, which would be able to achieve the goal.

However, this is the elf world, and there are no such advanced technological weapons.

In fact, even if the elves mastered the same level of technology as humans, they could not produce so many technological weapons.

Because the elf population on this continent is only 30,000.

……

In addition to being hard, the ice layer in the Ice Disaster Rift has a more serious problem, which is the breath of the abyss that spreads out after it is broken.

Even the elves, if they absorb too much aura from the abyss, will become distorted and degenerate into demons.

No wonder Tyrese sent a message back to inform Queen Orianna that the mission would be difficult to complete.

Lu Heng thought for a moment and asked, "Can we just search blindly? Do we have to dig through the hundreds of kilometers of ice in the rift to check?"

Tyrese shook his head and replied, "That's not necessary. I roughly know the location of the dragon's lair when it was alive. And when a dragon dies, it usually rests in its treasure cave."

Dragons have a special preference, which is shiny things.

Gold, gems, jewelry, and other treasures are all collections of dragons.

Dragons store these stashes in their treasure caves, usually near their lairs.

When a dragon dies, it is buried with its treasure.

For this reason, adventurers often look for treasure caves of dead dragons, as they can get a huge fortune if they find them.

Dragons are very intelligent and do not want their treasures to be dug out after they die, so they hide their treasures in caves.

The more powerful the dragon, the more dangerous the location of its treasure cave.

The frost bone dragon that Lu Heng had seen in his previous life must have been very powerful when it was alive, which meant that its treasure cave would be hidden in a very dangerous place.

Now, what Tyreese is looking for is the treasure cave where the Frost Bone Dragon hid his treasures when he was alive.

As long as you find the treasure cave, there is a high probability that you will find the skeleton of the Frost Bone Dragon.

Of course, this has a prerequisite, that is, the Frost Bone Dragon chose the treasure cave as its final resting place. If it were not there, things would be even more troublesome.

Terris pointed ahead and said, “The dragon’s lair is just ahead, and its treasure cave should be within ten kilometers of the lair.

"That is to say, we don't need to search the entire Ice Disaster Rift Valley. We only need to search within this 20-kilometer range."

Although we only need to search within a 20-kilometer range, it is still a big project.

"If it's twenty kilometers, it will be easy. There's no need to break ice. I have a way." Lu Heng has already thought of what to do.

At this time, Lin Zeyu also stepped forward and said with a chuckle: "I have a way too."

Lu Heng pointed at this guy and said, "The method I mentioned is your method."

Lin Zeyu spread his hands: "Alright, come out. My summon!"

He struck a very pretentious pose, ready to summon out the Void Thief he had tamed.

However, after he finished reciting the summoning spell, there was no response at all.

The air was quiet for three seconds. Lin Zeyu failed to show off and immediately became angry. He threw out the Void Hook, tied the Void Stealer's neck and dragged it out of the void, cursing: "You don't want to drink toast, right?"

squeak...

The Void Stealer began to scream and bared its fangs and claws.

Lin Zeyu still wanted to enslave it to do things, so he could only put the matter of dealing with it aside. He took out a shadow crystal core, threw it over, and ordered: "There is a treasure cave within the 20 kilometers ahead. Find it, and the number of crystal cores will increase tenfold."

When the Void Thief heard this, it made a gurgling sound and dived into the void, groping forward.

Lin Zeyu laughed and started to brag: "The job of finding the treasure cave should be left to my treasure hunting demon."

Voidthieves share the same hobby as dragons: they both like shiny things.

The only difference is that dragons usually rob, while void thieves steal.

(End of this chapter)