Steel steam and flame

I didn’t like Elix very much in the first place, and because of his status as a vice-captain among the guards of the Holy Fathers, Lisuman told herself at first that she could just get along with him peacefully, but now, after a few months of getting along with him, Even if the other person has a face that is very popular with women, it seems that it can no longer offset any negative emotions.

"Do you want to destroy these stone paintings?" He knew Elixir's plan, and he succeeded several times along the way. With her own intuition, Kelisuman seemed to know that this long exploration mission was about to end, so she no longer acquiesced in Elix's behavior.

Walking in front, she originally wanted to say something that only she knew to arouse Elix's interest, and then stopped at key points to observe the reaction. But with this aimless and scattered progress, Li Suman's loose aura is gradually converging.

The range and sensitivity of perception were much higher than that of Elix. It was only when Lisuman noticed something around her that Elix began to smell abnormalities in the air.

There was a familiar smell, and Elix couldn't remember what it was. Following the Holy Fathers all year round made him forget a lot of things, both in his memory and in his body. But as the temperature gradually dropped, until the two of them had advanced several thousand meters, he finally remembered that the smell was very much like the seaside air that had been soaked in salt all year round. The salt from the sea water entering into the air little by little over a long period of time is an indescribable feeling.

"Captain Lisuman." The footsteps behind her disappeared, Lisuman turned around, and the solid beam of light hit Elix's face directly, "If you don't want to continue moving forward, you can go back directly, no one will stop you here. "As she said that, Li Suman, who was still smiling at the corner of her mouth, moved forward again, but her smile had been completely replaced by seriousness.

"Boom!" Without any coincidence, Li Suman walked less than ten meters ahead when the bright flashlight in her hand suddenly lost its light, accompanied by a crisp sound of glass fragments hitting the ground. Elix, who had no choice but to follow behind, immediately stopped. In his sight, almost in the blink of an eye, Lisuman seemed to be frozen. A cold current wrapped around her body like a white mist appeared on her body, and all her breath turned into... The slowly falling frost powder.

Then, something that would not normally be observed appeared in their eyes at the same time. Li Suman raised her hand at this time, and the cold current disappeared instantly. It was like a large area of ​​fluorescent moss had grown on her body, and she was also wrapped in a light blue fluorescence for a short time. It was a film-like object that seemed to be there but not at all. It followed the lines of her body in great detail, depicting a shadow that was about one-third larger, covering it.

Almost subconsciously, he looked at his feet, but under the dim light there was only a piece of hard rock ground that no one had set foot on for a long time. There was nothing except some gravel. The next level of the spiral, when Li Suman reacted, she suddenly turned her head to the side for no reason. At this moment, her eyes seemed to be able to see others rushing to the same destination through the layers of obstacles in the space. Others come.

Sloppy footsteps turned into running, Li Suman raised her finger, and the blue fluorescence suddenly surged. When a subtle white glow appeared in it, the surroundings were completely illuminated, and the temperature that was close to negative began to rise sharply. This is a conch shell-like tunnel with a height of nearly a thousand meters. It slowly contracts and spirals towards the only point, and finally comes together.

Perhaps the tunnel itself was formed by a conch shell that transformed into a fossil over a long period of time. Because Li Suman believed that there should be no nutrients in this hard rock, but there were large areas of fluorescent moss growing here.

The speed was maintained at a speed that did not actively squeeze out the air to make an explosion sound. The soaring light source on Li Suman's finger was like the only lamp in the darkness. Not only did it disperse all the surrounding light, the colder the air went downwards, it also became colder in a short moment. Heated, the air expands into gusts of wind, squeezing along the spiral tunnel toward the huge exit at the beginning.

The downward trend of the spiral corridor was not obvious. At Li Suman's speed, until she drew a spiral that could not be connected from end to end, she felt that she had only gone down a few hundred meters, but this spiral was The length is close to more than ten kilometers.

But it won’t be far away, Li Suman said to herself. Even though the air around the light on her finger was distorted in waves due to the high temperature, she could still tell that the temperature here was rapidly decreasing with depth at an irregular rate. In the silent space, there was an inexplicable sound at this moment, like the whine of a dead conch shell in the wind on the beach.

Glancing at Elix who was several hundred meters away from her, Lisuman had no intention of waiting for him. If you want to reach the final point of the spiral, it may seem like a short distance, but you need to run a thousand or even ten thousand times the distance by foot. It won't be a short time. Li Suman calculated based on the data she imagined and got the answer that would take three hours.

It was a terrifying journey and length, but Li Suman felt happy because of it and felt lucky to encounter something new and rare. The pale blue shadow that enveloped her now doubled in size, but also became blurrier. After a very brief stay, she took steps towards the coldest place at the end of the spiral.

At the same time, people from different places and forces, at different times, noticed the sound caused by the air in the corridor in their own way. Following Li Suman's footsteps in their own ways, when they noticed the sudden drop in temperature, everyone was destined to stop again.

Although the routes are different, the format is exactly the same. The strong ones from all the forces all set off, and the air that had been silent for an unknown period of time in the spiral space finally became energetic. In the sound of the air that was constantly expanding and exploding, the sound of "Woo-Woo" changed from a vague state to a real floating in the air. The sound in my ear.

It was a solo of only one tone, a mournful lament that haunted everyone.

Three hours of rapid running is not considered any consumption at all for those who are heading to the point where the spiral passage ends. As fifth-stage surgeons, whether it is the empire, the entire Post-Phase Continent, or the Three-Phase Continent, which is almost the entire land world observed, they are the real strong ones, and they will never know the fatigue of the Ultimate Alloy The ultimate machine created.

When the distance around the spiral corridor begins to decrease geometrically, the temperature also drops to about two hundred degrees below zero with the spiral distance, and the height of the corridor shrinks to only fifty or sixty meters.

Lisuman, who was walking at the front, slowed down at the end and waited until Ilix came to her side and several members of other forces caught up with her before she walked with them through the last section of the spiral corridor. distance.

Not long after, a huge black void cavity appeared in everyone's perception, facing the end of the spiral tunnel.