From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star

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 and snowfield, and to the south is the Corrupted Land.

The Corrupted Land was once a densely vegetated mountain forest. Since the Abyss invaded the Quel'dorei continent, this land has undergone several major changes.

Now it is a barren land. There are still some tree stumps that have not been completely corrupted on the ground, but they are all dry and full of traces of erosion by the Abyss.

When someone passes by, occasionally one or two lizards and poisonous insects will crawl out of the corrupted tree trunks.

Snap!

Lin Zeyu stepped on a hook-tailed scorpion to death and turned back to say: "This place is too corroded. Will our world become like this in the future?"

Lu Heng stood on the corrupted soil, looking at the entrance of the Ice Disaster Rift in front of him, and said leisurely: "Maybe we can't wait for the earth to be corrupted, and human civilization will no longer exist."

The reason why this land has been corrupted to this extent is that the elves have persisted in the invasion of the abyss for more than 700 years.

The dead trees and soil here have also been eroded by the abyss for 700 years.

Humanity may not be able to persist in the invasion of the abyss for so long, and may not see the land of Blue Star being 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 only care about the present and do what I should do. As for whether I can defeat the abyss, it doesn't matter. Just rush through it!"

Lu Heng thinks Lin Zeyu's attitude is very good. It is useless to think about whether you can defeat the abyss every day. It is right to give it a try without caring about the result.

Even if he died in the abyss in the end, at least he had resisted and would 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 one among the four of us."

Lin Zeyu was flattered by such an evaluation.

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

"Let's go. Let's go into the rift valley. Muyu will find the location of the elf team." Lu Heng waved forward and walked towards the entrance of the Ice Disaster Rift Valley.

"Okay."

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 all the way, and Su Muyu reported the situation detected by the Blue Luan Divine Bird along the way.

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

Not only Su Muyu, but when Lu Heng and the other two walked into the rift valley, they had already felt the abyss breath coming towards them.

Having experienced so many Abyssal Battlefields, I am too familiar with this kind of atmosphere.

Lin Zeyu swallowed his saliva and said, "There won't be an Abyssal Pollution Source here, right?"

He also called up the task panel and took a look, confirming that the second challenge task on it was [2. Find the Abyssal Pollution Source and remove the Pollution Source. ]

From past experience, as long as the "Abyssal Pollution Source" related items appear in the challenge task, there must be an Abyssal 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 Abyssal Pollution Source that is about to erupt on the Quel'dorei continent, and it is not surprising that this pollution source appears in the Ice Disaster Rift.

Lu Heng wanted to recall more useful information, and he replayed the battle of the fall of the Elf Main City in his mind over and over again.

However, the Abyssal Battlefield was fighting against the tide of skeletons throughout that time, and even the main task failed, so there was no chance to do the challenge task.

Therefore, in the battle of the fall of the Elf Main City in the previous life, I didn't know where the Abyssal Pollution Source 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 go faster." Lu Heng said as he quickened his pace and moved forward.

In the rift valley ten kilometers ahead, an elf team was using weapons to chop the ice layer that blocked the rift valley.

The blue phoenix bird flew down and spoke, "Elder Terris, we're 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 had evolved into a blue phoenix bird, which was very different from its previous appearance.

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

Lu Heng and the other four quickly followed. After entering the ice disaster rift valley twenty kilometers, 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 layer blocking the rift was all broken, and it was forcibly broken by weapons.

The broken ice layer stretched for five kilometers.

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

The freezing situation in the rift was far more serious than Lu Heng expected.

The hard ice layer was not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing was that the ice layer contained a strong abyss breath, making the ice layer translucent black.

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

Normal organisms will undergo different degrees of mutation after absorbing a large amount of abyss breath.

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

The so-called "positive" is just that it does not cause serious lesions to the body on the surface, and it may also bring different abilities to the creatures.

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

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

For example, the skin of the whole body mutates, causing allergic reactions of varying degrees, and even redness and ulceration when exposed to air and sunlight.

This mutation is actually the same as human gene mutation. Gene mutation also has "positive" effects, but the probability is very small.

After absorbing abyss energy, most humans will mutate into various terrible deformities.

For example, the whole body is covered with sarcomas, or the ends of the bones grow infinitely, or the skin of the whole body becomes mucous membranes and degenerates into soft-bodied monsters.

In short, the probability of "positive" mutations in creatures contaminated by abyss energy is very small, less than one in ten thousand.

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

Take Blue Planet for example. If the seven billion people are all polluted by the energy of the Abyss and collectively mutate, even if the chance of survival during the mutation process is only one in ten thousand, there will be seven hundred thousand surviving mutants.

That is to say, after Blue Planet is swallowed by the Abyss one day, humans will not necessarily be extinct. According to the one in ten thousand probability, there will be seven hundred thousand "new humans" surviving.

And those who died, for the Abyss, belong to "natural elimination" because they cannot adapt to the new living environment.

As for the seven hundred thousand "new humans" who survived, can they still be considered human beings?

Even if they are still considered human beings, does civilization still exist?

Apart from other things, technology has at least regressed to the steam age, and it is difficult for culture to continue to be passed on in the Abyss world.

And the surviving mutants are already the minions of the Abyss, obeying the will of the Abyss and becoming a new Abyss race, just like the Blood Race.

Perhaps by that time, the human race will have a new name, called "Demon Man" or "Abyss Demon Man".

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 body develops into a new civilization, it is no longer the original human civilization.

Sometimes, from the perspective of the universe, the rise and fall of a civilization is just a light spot existing in the long river of time.

The light spot of a brilliant civilization will be brighter, and the light spot of a weak civilization will be dimmer.

If there is really a will, observing these civilizations from the perspective of the universe, it is highly likely that it will not affect the extinction of a certain civilization.

Human beings are tiny in the universe.

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

All light spots will go out one day.

However, every civilization will do its best to continue and develop, even if it burns itself, just to make that light brighter, brighter...

...

Seeing the breath of the abyss permeating through the broken ice on the ground, Lu Heng had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and he thought a lot, and his heart became more determined.

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

Terris led a team of 50 elf warriors, who were chopping the ice in batches, breaking a path and continuing to go deeper into the rift.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Seeing this scene, Lu Heng frowned, feeling that this method was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

After all, the length of the Ice Disaster Rift is more than one thousand kilometers, and more than 60% of the area has ice layers, of which 30% of the ice layers are relatively thin and easy to handle.

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

To find a skeleton by chiseling ice in a 300-kilometer-long rift is not much easier than finding 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, but none of them work."

Lu Heng walked to the ice layer and stretched out his hand to press the ice surface.

These black icicles are very hard, and of course very brittle. They can be broken with a sword without much power.

The problem is that when this kind of ice layer stretches for 300 kilometers, it is a big project to chisel it all.

If on Blue Star, an engineering team is sent over to work with large excavators, it is not impossible to complete it.

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

Even if only the ice layer is chiseled and the broken ice does not need to be transported away, the time is shortened by half, and it still takes two months.

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

In other words, even if an engineering team is sent, this task cannot be completed.

Of course, if it is really on Blue Star, there is another option without regard for the consequences. Missiles can directly wash out 300 kilometers, which can achieve the goal.

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

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

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

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In addition to the hardness of the ice layer in the Ice Disaster Rift, there is a more serious problem, that is, the abyss breath that leaks out after it is broken.

Even the elves, if they absorb too much of the abyss, will be deformed and degenerate into fallen demons.

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

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

Tyrese shook his head and replied, "That's not necessary. I roughly know the location of the dragon's nest when it was alive. And when dragons die, they usually sleep in their treasure caves."

Dragons have a special hobby, that is, they like shiny things.

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

Dragons will store these collections in their treasure caves, which are usually near their nests.

When dragons die, they will be buried with their treasures.

For this reason, adventurers often look for the treasure caves of dead dragons, and as long as they find them, they can get a lot of wealth.

Dragons have high intelligence and do not want their treasures to be dug out after death, so they will hide their treasure 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 means that its treasure cave would be hidden in a very dangerous place.

Now, what Terris is looking for is the treasure cave of the frost bone dragon when it was alive.

As long as the treasure cave is found, there is a high probability that the skeleton of the frost bone dragon can be found.

Of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, the frost bone dragon chose the treasure cave as its resting place. If it is not, things will be more troublesome.

Terris pointed to the front and said, "The nest of this dragon is in front, and its treasure cave should be within ten kilometers of the nest.

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

Although we only need to find a twenty-kilometer range, it is still a big project.

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

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

Lu Heng pointed at this guy and said: "The way I said is your way."

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

He made a very pretentious pose, ready to summon the Void Stealer he tamed.

However, he finished reciting the summoning spell, and there was no response in front of him.

The air was quiet for three seconds. Lin Zeyu failed to pretend to be pretentious. He was immediately angry and 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 toasts, right?"

Squeak...

The Void Stealer bared its teeth and claws and called out.

Lin Zeyu still wanted to enslave it to do things, so he could only put the matter of cleaning it off later. He took out a shadow crystal core, threw it over, and ordered: "There is a treasure cave within the range of 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 went into the void, groping forward.

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

The Void Thief has the same hobby as dragons, and they all like shiny things.

The only difference is that dragons usually rely on robbing, while the Void Thief relies on stealing.