Chapter 73

Qiao Ning was both amused and exasperated, and helplessly waved her hand in refusal: "That won't be necessary."

The glacier area has not yet been found, and the convoy must continue on its way.

Today marks the seventh day since the natural disaster. The fires have caused carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide levels in the air to soar, and the proportion of other toxic gases is also gradually increasing.

Players are dying and disconnecting every minute and every second.

After they got back on the road, Qiao Ning sat in the car and took out a black beast core.

Since a beast tide can form a tide, there must be a leading beast.

This beast core was inside the body of the giant python that led the beast tide.

Ice Scale and Man-Eating Flower had previously given her vague information, only sending her a signal that there was a large creature in the beast tide with stones inside its body that resembled Dark Stone.

Qiao Ning thought that some creature had swallowed the dark stone and hadn't had time to digest it, leaving it in its body.

Unexpectedly, what I received was a crystal resembling a beast's core.

Its material is similar to that of dark stone blocks that have been fused multiple times, but it is more crystal clear.

Most importantly, this thing is usable by players.

[Carboniferous Evolution Crystal: A crystal possessing mysterious evolutionary power; any creature that obtains it will gain an opportunity to evolve.]

Qiao Ning clicked to use it, and the evolution crystal disappeared instantly. Then, a layer of ice and snow condensed all over Qiao Ning's body, emitting a chilling aura, and melted into her body in less than a minute.

Qiao Ning opened her eyes, looked down at her palm, clenched her fists and then loosened them, as if she was feeling and adapting to some kind of power.

A moment later, a gust of wind and snow swept over her, and Qiao Ning disappeared from the spot inside the fortified vehicle.

Ice Scale, who was sharpening its teeth with a dark stone nearby, suddenly looked up, its furry face showing obvious confusion and bewilderment.

Where are they?

Its owner is so big!

How did they suddenly disappear?

Icescale immediately began searching the inside of the fortress vehicle, sniffing everywhere and not missing a single corner.

After searching for a long time without finding it, it couldn't help but let out a low, aggrieved, and anxious howl.

The next second, a gust of wind and snow swept in, and Qiao Ning's figure reappeared.

Binglin paused for a moment, then sprinted towards its master, pounced on her, and grabbed Qiao Ning's leg, refusing to let go, as if afraid she would suddenly disappear again.

Qiao Ning originally wanted to play with it after unlocking a new skill, but she didn't expect to scare it.

This evolution is different from the previous advancements after reaching a bottleneck in energy. It's as if her abilities, along with her entire being, have undergone a complete transformation in terms of inherent qualities and foundation.

Qiao Ning herself didn't know how strong her evolved abilities were. She only vaguely sensed that she could not only condense ice and snow and transform herself into ice and snow, but also create an ice and snow domain.

However, this field is still very unstable and requires a lot of energy accumulation or the absorption of an evolution crystal to stabilize quickly.

The number of animals in a beast tide is in the tens of millions, and the number of beast tides caused by fires is in the tens of thousands. However, not every beast tide leader has evolved into a powerful creature.

Its drop rate is terrifyingly low.

After using this evolution crystal, Qiao Ning cooperated with her teammates to clear out the beast tides many times along the way, but she never encountered a second evolution crystal.

"I was greedy." Even if she has good luck in the game, she can't just pick up something whenever she wants.

After Qiao Ning eliminated that beast tide, the other beast tides seemed to lose their power. Every time they tried to gather together, they would suddenly fight each other and split into multiple smaller beast tides.

It seems that this evolutionary crystal is the key to making all beasts submit to the leader.

Between 3 PM and 6 PM, thunderclouds formed, and lightning swept across the jungle area; only areas covered by ice were unable to form thunderclouds.

The system has updated with another natural disaster message.

The chat channel was filled with wailing, and some players even couldn't bear the despair and drove their cars into the blazing jungle in search of relief.

On the afternoon of the seventh day of the natural disaster, the number of players online was 325,662.

Qiao Ning and Bing Lin sat together on the roof of the car. Her skin was already excessively fair, and after this evolution, her skin was even whiter, making her look beautiful yet unreal.

Behind her was a raging fire that was spreading rapidly, but Qiao Ning seemed oblivious to it, focusing only on what lay ahead.

After an unknown amount of time, some emotion finally appeared on her expressionless face.

"There is a glacier ahead! Everyone should slow down to avoid losing control and crashing into the glacier where the ice meets the ground."

"We've finally found the glacier! With the glacier, we can survive the seventh day. We're saved!"

As the convoy got closer to the glacier ahead, Qiao Ning realized that the ice layer that seemed so close was actually separated from them by a long stretch of glacier.

"What do we do? There's not even a rope bridge; we can't just swim across, can we?"

"That water looks freezing cold; jumping in would definitely kill someone!"

Before the people discussing this could finish speaking, Qiao Ning heard a thud.

She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Binglin splashing around happily in the icy river. It even gave Qiao Ning a wink, signaling her to throw some toys over.

Qiao Ning casually tossed it a dark rock and sent it off to play by itself. Then she bent down and reached out to test the temperature of the glacier. Her hand instantly turned to ice and snow as soon as it touched the water, before returning to its normal shape in the blink of an eye.

"Don't touch the water in this glacier, it will devour and assimilate us."