Qin Bai and the others were taken aback, then they quickly ran towards the cafeteria.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, they saw a person rolling around on the ground, while the people around him looked terrified.

What did you see?

Hu Jie went up and asked.

“Brother Jie, just now… just now a strange person appeared. We just asked him who he was, and he suddenly reached out and gouged out his eyes, and then disappeared.”

Qin Bai went over and saw that the man's eyes were indeed gone. He was covering his eyes and screaming incessantly.

"Where did that person come from, and where did they leave from?"

Qin Bai asked.

"I don't know either. He just suddenly appeared. Nobody saw where he came from. But after he gouged out his eyes, he seemed to say something, and then he walked inside and disappeared."

Qin Bai drew his Tiger Soul Blade and went to the back of the cafeteria.

This is the cafeteria's kitchen, the place where food is prepared.

There shouldn't be any other passages here, but Qin Bai still carefully checked every place, only to find that there wasn't a single person in sight.

Zeng Qiangguo stayed by Qin Bai's side the whole time, but he also found nothing.

It's as if that person is a ghost.

"Brother Qin, do you think it was that rotting corpse again?"

Zeng Qiangguo asked in a low voice.

"I don't know. The situation here is very strange. Since we can't see anything in these two places, let's go directly to the last place."

Qin Bai was referring to the place that only soldiers could enter.

They came to the sign that said "No Entry" but ignored it and continued forward.

But they hadn't gone far inside when they had to stop, because...

For some reason, there was a layer of snow on the ground ahead!

"This is a shelter, where did the snow come from?"

Zeng Qiangguo looked surprised.

It was just plain snow, but there were footprints on it that stretched all the way in.

"You sent someone over?"

Qin Bai looked at Hu Jie.

Hu Jie shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, this place looks very dangerous, I didn't send anyone over."

Qin Bai frowned. If that's the case, perhaps someone in the team wanted to go in and take a look, or perhaps it was someone else who did it.

But no matter what, there must be something wrong with it.

"Go in and take a look, be careful."

Qin Bai gave Zeng Qiangguo some instructions, and then walked inside step by step.

Hu Jie and the others were somewhat conflicted, but they gritted their teeth and followed.

There was no other way; Qin Bai was their only hope now.

The entrance to the shelter was surrounded by ice corpses, and the situation inside the shelter was also terrifying. If they didn't follow Qin Bai now, they wouldn't know when they would die.

The snow wasn't thick, only a few centimeters high, and shoes made a faint sound when they stepped on it.

They proceeded cautiously, constantly on guard against their surroundings, but even after reaching an open area, they encountered no danger.

But when they arrived, everyone was stunned.

Because inside, it was a scene of ice and snow.

Moreover, they saw many ice sculptures of soldiers, standing in neat rows, all looking in the same direction.

"Are those people?"

Zeng Qiangguo asked with some uncertainty, because the ice sculptures looked so realistic, like living people frozen directly, but also like they were carved.

"I don't know, let's go take a look."

Qin Bai led them toward the direction of the ice sculptures of soldiers and came to the side of one of the ice sculptures.

After careful observation, they determined one thing: these ice sculptures were filled with people!

In other words, all the soldiers who originally took refuge there have turned into ice sculptures.

This differed somewhat from what Hu Jie had said about the disappearance, so Qin Bai asked again, "Are you sure that someone disappeared from the shelter back then, and didn't just turn into an ice sculpture?"

"Boss, I really wouldn't dare lie to you. At a time like this, what good would it do me to lie to you?"

Hu Jie was about to cry.

Qin Bai didn't believe that Hu Jie would deceive him at this time; there was no need for him to.

But why were others disappearing one by one before, but here all the soldiers have turned into ice sculptures?

Another question is, it seems that only soldiers were turned into ice sculptures, but what about those who entered the shelter?

Where did they go?

Nobody knows.

After looking for a while and finding nothing, Hu Jie suggested, "Boss, why don't we continue following the footprints? There seems to be nothing here, even the snow is so clean."

Qin Bai also noticed this; apart from the initial footprints, they didn't see any other footprints.

The traces here now are all left by them.

"Let's go, let's follow the footprints and take a look."

Qin Bai and the others returned to their original spot, but as they prepared to continue following the trail, they witnessed something shocking.

footprint……

It's gone!

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. They had all seen the footprints and remembered that they extended forward. So why did the footprints disappear after they looked at the ice sculpture?

This is snow, not sand; once footprints are made, they can't be removed.

Qin Bai squatted down and examined it carefully. The snow surface was very smooth, as if it had not been disturbed by anyone.

Inside this shelter, all sorts of strange things happened, but Qin Bai remained much calmer.

"Keep moving forward."

Qin Bai continued forward, with Hu Jie and the others following closely behind.

Qin Bai remembered that the footprints were always forward, so if they just kept walking forward, they should be able to see something.

As Qin Bai walked, he stopped.

"Boss, what's wrong?"

Hu Jie asked in a low voice.

"See for yourself."

Qin Bai pointed ahead.

Hu Jie stuck his head out and almost cried out.

Because before him appeared an incomparably magnificent sight.

It was a tree made entirely of ice, with branches linking to the top and covering a large area in front.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad, but the problem is inside the tree, where many people are frozen. Judging from their attire, they seem to have entered the shelter from the outside.

"This...they didn't disappear, but were brought here by this tree? But why would the others forget about them?"

Hu Jie looked puzzled.

Qin Bai, of course, had no idea that there was such a huge creature inside the shelter.

Just as they were whispering about whether to go back, the ice tree suddenly changed.

One of them slowly descended from the branches of the ice tree, then fell directly to the ground like a ripe fruit.