Chapter 72 Blue Ice Hotel (VI)
The two dials overlapped, and in a flash, Xiang Liangyu seemed to realize something. He rushed forward, grabbed Gu Ye's wrist and pulled him into the cave.
The wind and snow covered the cave entrance. Before I had time to catch my breath, I heard Quan Shengyan's voice tighten and he shouted, "Go!"
"Click"
Xiang Liangyu felt her feet sink. She looked down and found that the crack in the ice ladder was deeper than before and had even split. Without time to think, she grabbed her bones and ran down.
The moment he ran, the ice ladder shattered from the cave entrance and fell into the abyss below. Below the ice ladder was not thick ice, but endless darkness.
Xiang Liangyu turned her head to look back. The crack had extended to her feet. She grabbed Gu Ye, who was being dragged by her, and threw him towards Quan Shengyan who was waiting at the stairs.
Gu Ye fell to the ground on his back and looked at Xiang Liangyu in disbelief while he was still running.
The ice ladder had been completely shattered. Quan Shengyan squatted on the ground with his hands on the ice ladder. He saw that the broken ice blocks actually showed a broken shape and paused in the air.
Quan Shengyan turned around and glared at him. Gu seemed to have just reacted and ran to the entrance of the cave and pressed his hands on the ice.
With the help of the Remodeler and the Restorer, the ice ladder that was suspended in mid-air gradually overlapped and condensed into the original steps, but the cracks were still there.
Xiang Liangyu didn't dare to stop and ran down faster. However, when he saw two people with the same expression at the entrance of the cave , Xiang Liangyu paused.
Just when they were about to arrive, the ice under their feet melted into water in an instant, and Quan Shengyan and Gu also reached out their hands to Xiang Liangyu in an instant.
Xiang Liangyu stepped on the last piece of ice that was about to melt and leaped forward with all his strength.
She was suspended in the air, looking at the bottomless darkness below her feet, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. After being pulled up by the two, Xiang Liangyu sat on the ground gasping for breath, looking like she was injured.
Quan Shengyan didn't know where Xiang Liangyu was injured, so he simply treated her whole body. Only then did he realize that Xiang Liangyu was just physically exhausted and would recover if she had a good rest.
Xiang Liangyu took off his mask, took a long breath, and then looked at Gu Ye: "What did you just see?"
Gu was also far away from her and did not come up to her to talk nonsense like before. His expressionless face was exactly the same as Quan Shengyan's. Fortunately, Xiang Liangyu already knew Quan Shengyan's facial expressions, otherwise she would have been confused.
Gu Ye kept his voice calm and did not answer her question: "Why did you save me just now?"
If it weren't for her, he could have been sucked in so easily and died.
But Gu couldn't understand why Xiang Liangyu saved him.
Xiang Liangyu: "Forget it."
I didn't expect to get any useful information from him, but tonight's trip wasn't in vain. At least I knew there were non-game areas in the dungeon.
But Xiang Liangyu still felt a little strange. She glanced around and thought, since the non-game area was dangerous, why didn't they just tell the NPC who was also the manager?
She subconsciously raised her hand. The time on the back of her hand was still 6 o'clock, but this time the minute hand stopped at 59 and was about to move to "XII".
Xiang Liangyu stood up suddenly and said, "Get out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the cave began to shake violently. The icicles hanging upside down above his head began to fall, smashing into pieces of flowers on the ground. The road ahead was like raining needles, and walking in would be seeking death.
Quan Shengyan said, "Let's go downstairs."
It seems that this is the only way to go at this moment.
The three of them entered the downward-facing cave entrance.
The stairs going down were not made of ice, but ordinary stone stairs. The further you went in, the darker the light became. Gu Ye stood in front of the cave entrance, and Xiang Liangyu walked in front of him. As if he had noticed Gu Ye's gaze, Xiang Liangyu suddenly turned around.
Then she reached out and grabbed Guye's collar and pulled him in. Guye felt a chill on the back of his neck. The moment he turned around, the entrance to the cave was tightly blocked by a huge icicle.
He touched the back of his neck and felt cold, and a fear of death arose. He was almost crushed to death.
As the group walked down and were about to reach a flat ground, Xiang Liangyu grabbed Quan Shengyan in front of him, shook his head at him, then walked in front of him and was the first to go down the stairs.
It's damp and dark here, and there's a subtle smell of blood in the air.
Xiang Liangyu turned around and met the eyes of the person hiding in the corner.
"My dear friend, you look very tired. How about taking a rest?"
The next second, she was tied up with a thick and long rope, and Xiang Liangyu was really as she said, she was so tired that she could not stand, and had to rely on the people who tied her up to keep her standing.
Xiang Liangyu fell down and leaned against the wall. After seeing the faces of the two people clearly, she smiled and said, "You actually followed me."
Chu Li chuckled and said, "If we don't strike first, we will be the ones to die."
Xiang Liangyu leaned his head against the wall, looking up with a slightly sarcastic smile: "Really?"
Chu Li felt a sinking sensation on her head. The increasingly tight hands made her head feel as heavy as a rock. An intense fear enveloped her. She knew what was behind her without even looking back.
As the saying goes, a wise man knows when to act. Chu Li surrendered immediately: "Spare my life, I will let you go immediately."
After saying that, she loosened the rope on Xiang Liangyu in one breath and pulled her up. Only then did the feeling of restraint on her head completely disappear.
Quan Shengyan observed the surroundings and concluded: "This is a dead end. The only exit is blocked."
The restraint on his head was gone, but the danger was still there. Chu Li, because Gu was still there, quickly put his hands together and dared not look back: "Uncle Gu, please forgive me. We are trapped here and can't even protect ourselves. Can you kill me and run away after we get out?"
Xiang Liangyu patted the dampness on his shoulder and said, "Don't you have any shielding covers in your player mall? Buy one and lend it to me."
Chu Li was shocked and said, "Xiang Liangyu, points are very expensive!"
"I have it, use mine." Jiang Cangshu was very aware of the current situation and naturally realized that Xiang Liangyu had no intention of killing them.
As for the shielding cover, it is a thing that divides an area on the spot to shield the outside world. It can neither trap them nor cause any damage. Plus, it is on sale now, so you can get it at the lowest price. After rounding it off, it is considered that you didn't spend any points.
Xiang Liangyu asked: "Is there a time limit?"
Jiang Cangshu: "Yes, fifteen minutes, what do you want to do?"
Xiang Liangyu looked at Gu Ye and said, "Can you speak now? The system should not be able to detect you."
Gu Ye's heart tightened and he frowned: "How did you know?"
Xiang Liangyu: "I saved you twice. I won't ask too many questions. Just two questions. First, where did you get this watch? Second, what did you see just now?"
Seeing that Gu didn't say anything, Xiang Liangyu didn't rush: "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. I have a good relationship with the captain of the Salted Fish Squad. If I ask her to help me investigate, she might be able to find out everything about you."
"Isn't that right, Jiang Cangshu?" Xiang Liangyu glanced at her, her tone was relaxed. Jiang Cangshu swallowed and said, "Hahaha, right, right."
"Alas," Gu Ye sighed and muttered for a moment, as if he was talking to himself, but Xiang Liangyu heard it clearly, "It would be better if you didn't save me."
"I don't know about the pocket watch, it's available once you enter the game." Gu Ye said, "Just now I saw an avalanche. There was a higher mountain, and the snow collapsed along the mountain."
Xiang Liangyu was speechless: "You are making such a mystery about an avalanche."
"It's not an ordinary avalanche," Quan Shengyan said, "No matter if you are a player or an NPC, as long as you leave the game area and enter the non-game area, you will be sniped by the non-game area's sweepers. The sweepers have no entity, and their appearance is usually a natural disaster. As long as the intruders don't die, the disaster will not stop."
"Avalanches will continue to fall until the iceberg is completely buried."
Quan Shengyan paused for a second and looked at Xiang Liangyu: "Also, the player's shield is useless against NPCs. The main system will monitor us the entire time."
Xiang Liangyu was completely speechless: "..."
Chu Li: "So what you mean is that we can only wait to die?"
Isn't it just waiting to die? The two players' spiritual items have zero self-protection ability in the face of disaster. The two twins' healing skills can protect themselves, but it is difficult to clear a way.
"What are you waiting for? You're running away." Xiang Liangyu looked around, put on the mask and goggles in his pocket, and said, "You'd better go to the mall and buy some self-protection props."
Chu Li muttered, "The props in the mall are useless."
Jiang Cangshu: "The ice cave is five kilometers long. I know you are very strong, but if you want to lead the escape in such a dangerous situation, you will be in great danger."
Xiang Liangyu smiled slightly: "So you have to follow me closely."
After saying that, she walked up the stairs and stood in front of the blocked hole. She turned back and said to Quan Shengyan, "Protect me."
Quan Shengyan was startled for a moment, then the corners of his mouth turned up, and a familiar smile as warm as the sun appeared: "Yeah."
Gu Ye said dissatisfiedly from behind: "I can protect you too, why don't you let me protect you."
Chu Li sneered.
Xiang Liangyu took a deep breath, clenched his fist and smashed the ice hard. The moment it shattered, the earth-shattering sound came again. The ice curtain hanging upside down on the top of the cave had almost fallen off, leaving only some extremely large icicles hanging stubbornly. What was even more worrying was that the ice cave seemed to be collapsing.
"Run!" Xiang Liangyu ordered.
A new round of avalanche came again. Xiang Liangyu could see the crumbling ice spikes above her head. As the earth shook, the ground beneath her feet cracked, but she had no time to care about her feet. The ice spikes above her head began to fall one after another.
Xiang Liangyu could only break the ice spikes the moment they touched her. The impact was too strong. After she broke more than ten ice spikes, the back of her hand was already aching.
[You have been attacked and your health has been reduced. ]
Quan Shengyan walked side by side with her, the two looked at each other, and high-fived.
【Your health has been restored. 】
Chu Li's strong sixth sense almost allowed her to walk an extremely safe path. She could predict which icicle would fall and where it would fall. With this, she discovered that Xiang Liangyu was walking on an extremely dangerous path, commonly known as the unlucky path.
Chu Li calmed himself down, pushed aside Gu Ye who was blocking the way, rushed to Xiang Liangyu, took her hand, and said solemnly: "Follow me!"
The situation was urgent. More and more ice spikes fell and the fragments splashed on his body. If it weren't for the thick winter clothes, he would have been pierced into his body long ago.
Xiang Liangyu subconsciously didn't believe Chu Li, but for no reason. Perhaps it was because of her clenched fists, or perhaps she thought that the current situation had already tied the lives of five people together, so helping her was also helping herself.
Xiang Liangyu gave up her resistance, and under Chu Li's guidance, they did not encounter any attacks from falling ice spikes along the way.
But... Chu Li looked up at the cracks in the cave wall that were getting deeper and deeper, and fear like a tide overwhelmed her heart. A lot of snow had already fallen into the cracks, and the ice cave could no longer hold on. Another round of avalanches would completely and silently submerge them.
Xiang Liangyu naturally noticed the changes in the surroundings, as well as Chu Li's slower and slower running. Without saying anything, she picked Chu Li up and said, "Show me the way!"
Chu Li was so shocked by her action that his brain went silent for a second, then he pointed forward: "Go straight, turn right... No, turn left! Look above! Speed up and rush over!"
The exit of the floating iceberg was just ahead. Xiang Liangyu was about to rush out with all his might when, with a loud "boom", a huge rock collapsed at the entrance.
The next second, a deafening tremor came, and the ice cave collapsed from the inside out, and the speed was so fast that pieces of rubble fell from the top of everyone's heads.
Xiang Liangyu put Chu Li down, clenched his fist and smashed towards the boulder. Even though he used all his strength, the stone only cracked on the surface.
Xiang Liangyu continued to smash the rock, and finally, the rock could not bear the heavy smashing and completely broke into pieces. According to the principle of proximity, Xiang Liangyu pulled Quan Shengyan in one hand and Chu Li in the other, and rushed out with the two of them.
As soon as he left, the entire cave collapsed completely.
Three little heads popped out of the white snow. Xiang Liangyu and Quan Shengyan suddenly looked at each other and laughed for no apparent reason, perhaps because they saw the pile of snow on each other's heads, or perhaps because they were relieved to have escaped successfully.
Because there had been three avalanches, the solid continent was now covered with a thick layer of snow, and Chu Li breathed heavily.
It was originally dark at Iceland, but now it was bright, and a magnificent hotel stood in the distance.
Somewhere not far from them, Gu Ye's head popped out: "It's so cold!"
Chu Li looked around anxiously: "Where is Jiang Cangshu?"
[Player Jiang Cangshu's health has returned to zero, and he has died. ]
[NPC Bone has also obtained 5 heart gems. 】
Gu Ye said with a hint of pride: "Of course I can't let her die in the disaster, so I killed her."
Chu Liru was struck by lightning. She felt unbelievable but helpless at the same time. After all, NPCs and players are in opposition to each other, so there was no reason to save her.
Xiang Liangyu glanced at the depressed Chu Li and said, "If you die in a non-game area, you may not even be able to use the Undead Gold Medal. Who told you to follow me here? The ending is the same as death."
"It's just the difference between being completely dead and being resurrected by the immortal medal."
Chu Li blinked, crawled to Xiang Liangyu in the snow, and played the emotional card: "Then will you kill me? After all, I saved you."
As they struggled to climb in the vast snow, Xiang Liangyu did not answer her question, but asked: "Why did you survive? It seems that there is no gold medal for immortality in the first game."
After she finished speaking, she looked back at Chu Li, afraid that she would lie and not tell him. Who knew that Chu Li said nonchalantly: "I don't know either. After you killed me, I lost consciousness. When I regained consciousness, I came to Cloud City. The system said it was an unknown error and gave me a chance to revive. Later, I met Jiang Cangshu recruiting team members, so I joined their team."
Xiang Liangyu remained silent for a while, then she said, "What do your props mean?"
Chu Li: "Ah, this is roughly what can predict the coming of danger, but it I don't know what kind of danger it will be. This is also a gift from the system. It kept saying something like an unknown error, and after I apologized, it gave me a lot of novice gift packs, including this one."
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
She was now certain that this crappy game wasn't just about capturing bad guys and executing them for participating in the game. This rotten system simply couldn't identify what true evil was.
Xiang Liangyu, who had been with Chu Li for some time, knew her very well. Apart from being disrespectful and harassing teachers in class, always being the last in the class, flirting with handsome boys after class, and liking to cause trouble for her no matter what, the worst thing she did was probably not saving cats and dogs that fell into the water.
If this is considered evil, then the bad things Xiang Liangyu did hundreds of years ago, the props in the game are probably all SSS-level.
She really had a headache.
