Treasure Hunters, Sail the Blue Sea

Chapter 164

"when!"

A crisp voice sounded.

One end of the pickaxe used to dig the iceberg broke directly, and the broken pickaxe flew out in a spiral, leaving only a very shallow pit on the ice in front of it.

Looking at the pickaxe in his hand, Alka reluctantly threw it aside.

Next to Xia Dai mentioned that they were the same.

The icebreaker in his hand couldn't have much impact on the ice in front of him at this stage.

The only thing that can have an impact now is the flame in Alka's hand.

But the extent of the impact is limited.

It can only burn a thumb-sized depression at most, and trying to melt the entire ice surface is simply a dream.

"What should we do now?" Jason asked, looking at the broken pick in his hand.

They are in trouble again.

These ice cubes are really hard to handle, and the hardness feels outrageous.

They have already reached this point, and they can only find a way to dig out the ice in front of them.

Look at the pickaxe in your hand.

Now it is the tools that limit their opportunities to explore forward. With their strength, if they have better tools, they should be able to destroy the ice in front of them.

Alka thought for a while and said, "You all temporarily limit the recovery speed of the ice surface, and I will prepare some better tools."

Hearing Alka's words, several people nodded.

And Alka returned to the ship the same way, and came to the studio in the cabin.

The right arm was covered with precision hands, and blue stripes flickered on it.

Alka is going to spend some materials to make a few magic pickaxes. Although it is a bit extravagant to do so, it is still worth it for a treasure.

At worst, let the church reimburse them later, after all, they are taking over their tasks and doing things for them.

Thinking of this, Alka came to the workbench and started to make it.

After about a day or so.

Arka returned to the excavation site with the tools.

At this moment, Xia Daiti and the others were resting in the nearby tent.

Seeing Alka's arrival, they all walked out of the tent and took new ice-digging tools from him.

Jason swung the pickaxe in his hand twice.

"How do you use this thing?"

Because this pickaxe looks no different from ordinary pickaxes, except that its materials seem to be more advanced.

An eye logo in a square box can also be seen on the grip.

Arka put the pick on his shoulder and walked into the hole.

While walking, he said, "Come in with me, and I'll show you a demonstration."

After coming to the previous ice surface.

Arka held the pickaxe high in both hands, and the magic power flowed along the handle all the way to the pickaxe facing the ice.

A thin layer of silver radiance appeared on it, and then Arka smashed hard towards the ice.

The 30-centimeter-long pick plunged directly into the ice, and Alka once again poured magic power into it.

Able to see the pickaxe, it vibrated several times, and took advantage of the situation to hold the pickaxe hard.

A large piece of polar ice broke into several fragments and fell off, revealing a cone-shaped crater about 40 cm deep.

Seeing the effect in front of him, Alka nodded in satisfaction, turned around and said to everyone: "How is it? Not bad."

This kind of ice-breaking device is described by Alka's incantation. In addition to the stronger material, its function is to increase the sharpness, and it has a strong shaking structure at the rear.

When one end is inserted into the ice cube, vibrate it a few times quickly, and pry the ice cube up and down directly.

Greatly increased the efficiency of ice breaking.

Seeing Alka's behavior, and then looking at the ice pick in his hand, Jason walked up.

Do the same.

However, due to differences in physical fitness and magic strength, Jason only made a 20 cm pothole.

But this is enough, the effectiveness of this tool has been fully proved, which will greatly speed up their speed.

Efficiency is significantly improved.

"Okay, everyone, come on, let's get started."

As they spoke, the four began to wave the ice picks in their hands, digging towards the ice in front of them.

"Come on! Come on!" A childish voice came from behind.

The doll Lucilia cheered them on with two streamers next to them.

Alka made a lot of weird things for Lucia.

……

"Finally, finally dug here."

Panting, Jason threw away the badly worn magic pickaxe in his hand, sat on the ice, and took a rest regardless of the coldness of his buttocks.

The rest are not much better than him.

They all leaned against the ice everywhere and began to pant.

The exhaled breath immediately turned into cold mist and dissipated in the air.

They finally dug to the top of the pit, and the cold here has reached the limit that several people can accept.

Even though the three of them were wearing thick clothes, and in such a pothole, they still felt the biting cold, which drilled into their bodies.

In order to avoid illness and frostbite, magical powers had to be used to dispel these biting chills from the body.

This increased the consumption of magic power in their bodies.

Even Julia, who is more resistant to cold, put on a thick layer of clothing to keep out the cold.

But that's enough for her.

It took them a whole week to reach the 160-meter distance.

Because the hardness of the ice cubes will increase slightly every time they dig 10 meters into it, greatly slowing down their speed.

Apart from resting and eating, they just kept digging.

But it took a week, because it took them three days to dig the last ten meters.

The last few days it was almost like they were digging for ice with a little spoon.

This week's excavation even caused some blisters on their palms due to their physiques.

It can be said to have honestly experienced the feeling of a miner.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and finally dug to the destination when the pickaxe was seriously worn out.

The chill coming from below is so obvious and piercing.

But the ice under their feet didn't seem to be anything special.

Of course, it's just from the naked eye.

Xia Daiti half-knelt down and squatted down, padded with thick clothes, and touched the ice under their feet with both hands.

The coldness of the ice below, if not covered with clothing, is likely to frostbite the skin of the hands.

The silver ripples kept passing downward, probing the environment below.

Due to the excitation of the treasure and the so-called attack, the energy below is abnormally chaotic, which will interfere with Xia Daiti's detection.

Before, she could only detect that there were obvious potholes here, because the gap between the ice and the soil was still very obvious.

Now that we are at the top, we can investigate more carefully.

"That's right, it's right under our feet, and this is where the entrance of the cave is."

As he spoke, Xia Daiti took a pickaxe and drew a circle of one and a half meters between them.

The scratch disappeared within ten seconds.

Xia Daiti continued: "There is still a thick layer of ice here, about 20 meters deep, and there is a hollow layer below 20 meters. There is no ice, but it is full of energy."

That is their final destination this time, and they still have to dig down to a depth of 20 meters.

This is not an easy task.

Downward and closer to the area where the treasure is located, the hardness of the ice can be imagined.

Looking at the position marked by Xia Daiti, Arka stood up after resting for a while, holding his pickaxe in both hands, poured magic power into it, and smashed it down vigorously.

With a crisp sound.

The effect is not satisfactory.

Only a small crater appeared, and a few ice slags flew out.

The hardness of the ice below has increased again, once again exceeding the range that the tools in hand can dig.

Seeing such a scene, Jason next to him sighed helplessly.

Although they had expected it, the thing they feared most still came.

"The distance of 20 meters is really far."

Alka said helplessly, then threw the pickaxe in his hand aside.

The hardness must be exaggerated as the 20 meters go down, even the magic ice pick is hard to have a better effect.

I know it's not that easy.

It's really troublesome.

To be honest, it would be better to put a few powerful monsters waiting for them next to the treasure.

Even if it's a puzzle.

Alka would rather decrypt and fight monsters than face this outrageous blockade.

This is not at all consistent with the actions of treasure hunters.

The things that block them are so unpretentious.

I never thought that one day I would be overwhelmed by the hardness of the ice cubes.

Good, so they exercise their patience.

I couldn't help but start to sort out the known information in my mind, looking for a better way.

First of all, you can know that he must not go down, and he will be beaten 100% if he goes down, and his life may even be in danger.

The task of going down to turn off the ancient guards can only be handed over to Xia Dai who has no treasures to mention them.

From the difficulty of the task, we can know that as long as they are not the ones who master the treasure, the ancient guards will not attack them.

Otherwise, the number of spirals must be marked behind the difficulty.

If they really got through and came to the pothole below, what stopped them first should be the piercing chill brought by the excited treasure.

After surviving this icy cold, turning off the ancient guards will make the treasure's excited state fade away.

That's how you're done.

It sounds very simple, just go to the ice below, and they have already stopped them.

Thinking of this, Alka couldn't help turning his head to look at Lucilia who was skating on the ice.

Wouldn't it be easier if it was just a tunnel through which Lucilia could pass?
Tell Lucilia to turn off the elder guard.

It seems feasible, as long as Lucilia is given protective measures to ensure her safety.

Thinking of this, Alka decided to dig a small tunnel down first, so that they could observe the situation below.

If the situation is more optimistic, let Lucilia go down through this tunnel to close the ancient guard.

"Let's dig a small tunnel, 20 centimeters wide, let's look at the bottom first."

Hearing Arka's suggestion, the others turned their heads to stare at him.

Although I don't know why?But since A-Ka said it, he had to try.

After all, there is no good way now.

Only one step at a time.

Flames started to gushes out from Alka's palm, burning towards the location marked by Xia Daiti.

After burning for a long time and resting for a while, finally a 10 cm deep pothole was burned.

Okay.

Potholes with a width of 20 cm may not necessarily be dug out.

"If you only need 20 centimeters, I will try."

Julia suddenly said, the magic power gushed out, and a circle of light appeared behind her, and three liquid ribbons flew out.

How is she going to do it?
Following her control, the liquid on the three ribbons showed a metallic luster, and then they overlapped each other, forming a cone shape, touching the pit that Arka had just burnt with flames. , and then spun wildly.

Turned into a tiny drill bit.

The friction between the drill bit and the ice surface made a screeching sound, but it could be seen that the crushed ice was splashing wildly around.

effective.

The little drill made of ribbons was much more powerful than they thought.

It is almost a very smooth downward drilling, although the progress is slow, but the naked eye can see that it is turning deeper and deeper.

In this way two days passed.

Rested several times.

Julia wiped the sweat from her forehead, although the meditation during the break restored her physical strength and magical power.

But keeping her under control like this made her mentally exhausted.

"Come on, get ready."

As the words fell, the three ribbons gathered together suddenly emptied, and a section fell directly down.

This means that they have drilled a tunnel.

The impact of energy gushes out from the tunnel.

The ribbon was washed away immediately, and several people leaned against each other and retreated back again and again.

Gray energy and light blue ice energy continuously emerged from that small tunnel that was only about 20 centimeters wide.

Biting chill, frenzied gushing out.

What was visible to the naked eye began to freeze again.

As for those gray energies gushing out, Alka could feel that they were continuously impacting his body.

And it only hit him alone. When these energies passed through Xia Daiti's people, they didn't do any harm.

Only Alka retreated after being beaten, his hands and feet were numb.

He quickly stretched out his hands, the magic power gushed out, and a layer of water-like shield appeared.

However, under the biting cold around it, frost immediately formed and turned into an ice shield.

This instead enhanced his defense, resisting the gray energy rushing towards Alka.

The silver ripples under Xia Daiti's feet continued to spread around, bringing up layer after layer of holy light flames.

Clearing the chill around here.

Otherwise, the pothole would freeze again, so wouldn't it be in vain for them to spend so long.

The 20-meter pothole when the energy gushed out crazily was smashed before it could freeze.

These accumulated energies gushed out crazily, and after about 10 minutes, they finally subsided completely and rushed out of the tunnel.

Because of these gushing energies, a blizzard blew outside, making Porolo, who was on guard outside, have to huddle into a ball to resist the violent blizzard.

Alka then sat down on the ice weakly.

The gray energy that gushed out just now must be the energy of the ancient guard's attack.

The goal is very clear, that is to beat yourself.

Just like what the message said, he targeted the person with the treasure to attack.

Without energy, the raging people immediately came to Alka's side to check the other status.

Alka waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and said, "I'm fine, I'm just a little bit out of strength."

"Why do those energies have to attack you?" Xia Daiti couldn't help asking.

Because several people could see it, those gray energies didn't cause any harm when they passed through them, but when they passed through Alka, they hit him like a heavy hammer.

And those energies are far away, but if they are close, even if they pass by, they will turn around and hit Alka.

It's as if he's drawing fire.

Alka shook his head helplessly.

"I don't know. It may be that there is something different in the energy below, or because some of my physique attracted them, so I was attacked."

After resting for a while, Alka finally recovered a little.

Several people came to the pothole.

Xia Daiti's silver ripples passed down again.

This time the detection was more careful. The energy in the cave below had little effect after gushing out.

"The pothole below seems to be some kind of ruin. There are two high-energy objects confronting each other. One of them should be the treasure that the church said, exuding a very obvious chill."

"There is something attacking the treasure next to it. It is a round ball with four legs. It is very big, about three meters."

Hearing Xia Daiti's words, two cards appeared in Alka's hand, with 1 and 2 written on them.

Alka threw the No. 2 card directly towards the bottom of the pothole.

As the card fell, it turned into a mirror, with a silk thread hanging from it in Alka's hand.

The No. 1 card in Alka's hand also turned into a mirror, but the picture displayed in the mirror was the picture reflected on the No. 2 mirror.

However, only a blue energy cluster and a gray light beam can be seen below.

The rest of the place is very dark and I can't see clearly.

Although the two confronting objects are emitting light, they are not scattered.

Alka controls the lantern to float down, providing light source.

At this time, the mirror in their hands appeared the picture below.

Several people looked at the screen.

Alka used the thread to control the mirror to rotate slowly, trying to record the environment below completely.

It can be seen that there are obvious ruins below. Although the ruins are dilapidated, they are definitely man-made.

Or it was created by other intelligent creatures.

A blue energy cluster floated on a corpse, and the original appearance of the ancient guard was also revealed.

A thick round ball, with serious defects on the side, the top is dilapidated, and the structure inside is even exposed. A luminous component is on the structure, so conspicuous.

There is a small depression in front of the ball, and the gray energy is ejected from there.

At this time, the ball was falling obliquely on the ruins, and his two thick mechanical cylindrical legs were still fixing him.

The other two have been completely destroyed, and they need to rely on the ruins to stabilize their figure.

Through the situation where everyone sees the picture.

Alka compared all the information he knew to the scene on the screen and began to speak.

(End of this chapter)