Chapter 416: Iceland Battlefield "South": The Battle of the World Tree (asking for monthly tickets)
Time: September 1, 00:10 am.
The southern part of Hofsjokull glacier, Iceland.
Under the cover of night, a brown convertible came from the distant horizon and drove into the endless glacier.
Amidst the humming of the engine, the wheels left two lines of white marks on the ice. In the back seat, the whistling wind and snow brushed against everyone's cheeks, and the flock of crows above their heads was scattering across the glacier.
The hacker rubbed his hands, wrapped his scarf tightly around his neck, and exhaled a breath of warm white air into his palms.
He looked up at the blue aurora, thinking that such a quiet time would last for a long time, but the next moment the dead silence shrouding the glacier was broken by someone.
"Mr. Captain, quickly get your members out of the car!"
Suddenly, a young man riding a flying shark fell from the sky. His immature and rapid voice penetrated the wind and snow, broke the silence above the glacier, and reached everyone's ears.
The members of the White Crow Brigade looked up at the sound and looked at Xizel sitting on Yagubaru's back.
"Ah...what's wrong?" The hacker was stunned. "His Royal Highness the Third Prince looks very anxious."
"Who knows." An Luns also raised his eyebrows.
The next moment, as a crow in the car turned into black feathers and spread out, Qi Yuanli's figure appeared on the passenger seat of the convertible.
"Twelve o'clock, at the bottom of the glacier," he reminded.
Upon hearing this, everyone in the brigade turned their eyes and saw a huge black shadow swimming at the bottom of the glacier, approaching the convertible. The silhouette was as large as a whale, but its shape was...
——Like a wolf!
"roar--!"
At this moment, accompanied by a powerful roar, a gray-white giant wolf broke out of the ice. Its pupils were black, like an alien parasitized by a strange creature.
The moment it broke through the ice, the giant wolf raised its claws and tore the convertible into pieces. But fortunately, the members of the group had already evacuated in time before it could do so.
At this moment, they were standing fifty meters away, looking up at the uninvited guest.
The giant gray wolf that came into view was over thirty meters long, standing on the top of the glacier like a snowy mountain. A girl in a hospital gown sat on the wolf's back.
The girl has straight black hair and a teardrop mole at the corner of her eye. Her eyes are empty at this moment.
The demon "Firio", the world tree "Shang Xiaochi"...
The figures of the two were reflected in Yagubaru's upright deep blue pupils, and it recognized their identities at the first moment.
"Xizel, come down." Almost the moment it finished speaking, its body expanded a hundred times.
"I get it! Be careful, Yagubaru!" Xizel shouted, summoned the Atlas of Wonders, loosened his fins and detached from Yagubaru's shark back.
The cold wind from above the glacier blew in his face, his long white hair was blown up by the wind, and his white cloak fluttered.
“Crack!”
César crushed the "Christmas sleigh" as he tumbled down from mid-air. From the aurora-filled sky, a reindeer's cry was heard, and then two reindeers, dragging a red sleigh, came flying down.
He landed on top of the sled, which was hurtling towards him. Two elk, treading on the snow, pulled the sled upward.
At the same time, in the blink of an eye, Yagubaru had grown to a length of two hundred meters. It plummeted like a mountain, carrying the force of an avalanche. Its bloody maw yawned open, a terrifying abyss looming over the giant wolf and the girl on its back.
As long as it can swallow Shang Xiaochi and Firion into its mouth together, then while the two members of the rescue team are trapped in the shark's belly, it can go with Xizel to support people on other battlefields and reduce casualties.
But obviously this idea is still too naive.
The next moment, Shang Xiaochi suddenly raised her head, her long black hair fluttering in the wind, and a blood-red light bloomed from her chest.
"Red light, a mythical wonder..." Qi Yuanli stared at the scene with his deep eyes and thought silently.
In an instant, pitch-black thorns grew from the girl's body and spread outward, spreading in all directions like a wildly growing jungle.
“Puff—Puff—!”
Yakubaru was pinned in mid-air by a thousand thorns, like Jesus on a cross. Its scales couldn't stop the branches of the World Tree, and thick blood flowed down the giant shark's body.
Like a black waterfall, it falls to the earth.
"You want to stop Shark Shark?"
The next second, it raised its angry and ferocious head, and its body expanded further, from 200 meters to 500 meters, entering its complete form, and all the thorns in its body broke off.
But at the same time, everyone in the brigade could not escape. The thorns were so fast that it was like a rain of arrows.
"Hey, hey, hey..." Robert was stunned. His pupils reflected a dark thorn coming towards him. It was too fast for him to react. It was as if someone had splashed ink on his eyeballs. In the blink of an eye, his vision was covered by a thick black.
In almost an instant, his mechanical box was pierced by thorns, and blood spurted out from the gap.
From head to heels, like meat on a skewer, Robert was skewered on a bundle of thorns.
Under the moonlight, a blood-soaked figure caught everyone's eye. The next moment, the thorn that had pierced his body stirred slightly, and his body instantly dissipated in a bloody mist, leaving not even a speck of flesh behind.
"No way..." the hacker muttered.
"Wow..." An Luns was also slightly stunned. If he were in Robert's position, he would have been dead too.
Immediately afterwards, another large group of branches and thorns came towards Qi Yuanli and others. Qi Yuanli was startled at first, and then took out a playing card - "King" from between his fingers.
The colorful clown danced on the card surface and delivered the stolen Tianqu into Qi Yuanli's hands. It was a colorful compass.
It was Zhou Jiuya’s “Tonggu Compass”.
In the battle of Lake Hunting, Qi Yuanli used the mechanism of "Big Ace" to steal Zhou Jiuya's Tianqu.
The moment he grasped the compass, an overwhelming shadow enveloped the glacier.
“Boom!”
The Nine Dragon Cauldron descended from the sky, creating a gust of wind that swept across the heavens and earth, blocking the path directly in front of the group. The cauldron trembled and roared, its body ripped open by the thorns of the World Tree, barely holding back the thorny jungle spreading from afar.
"Carrot head..."
The hacker stood there in a daze, muttering belatedly.
"It's really exaggerated, this is the mythical level." An Luns licked his lips.
Ayase Origami opened her eyes slightly.
"Mythical God level?" The hacker murmured palely, "Damn, I encountered it already... Is there no novice level? How come we went directly to the final boss... Captain, what should we do?" He raised his head and looked at Qi Yuanli.
Qi Yuanyuan remained silent, his deep eyes moving around. He realized something was wrong:
——Where did the wolf go just now?
His thoughts had just come to this point, and time seemed to freeze in Qi Yuanli's eyes. He scanned the entire glacier through the perspective of countless crows.
Finally, he seemed to realize something. Thousands of crows lowered their eyes at the same time, and the azure ice surface was reflected in their pupils. At this moment, there was a dark shadow lurking under the ice for a long time.
The black shadow swam over at high speed, getting closer and closer to the hacker's feet!
"Hacker, be careful." Qi Yuanli raised his eyebrows and shouted in a low voice.
However, just as Firion broke through the ice and bit the hacker's back.
Suddenly, a cold and noble figure descended from the sky. She plummeted like a falcon, creating a visible ripple of air.
Then, with a deafening sound of breaking through the air, he stabbed the two daggers into the shoulder bone of the giant wolf.
"roar---!!!"
Amidst the wolf's hysterical howls, the dagger pierced deeply, pinning it to the ice. Immediately, the uninvited guest slowly raised his head from the wolf's back, his clear hair fluttering in the wind.
Although the members of the brigade had never seen the Queen's final evolved form, they still recognized her from her cold figure and the two daggers in her hands.
Queen Colossus.
She lowered her eyes to look at Firion's head, her dark pupils illuminated by the aurora in the sky.
In a flash, the Queen Colossus pulled out the daggers from the giant wolf's back. Her figure was as fast as the wind and as frantic as a falcon. The two daggers swept across the pale giant wolf's body in circles, leaving patches of blood.
The wolf's blood nearly dyed the polar glaciers red. But the next moment, the wolf suddenly reversed its decline. It roared and snarled, and a white light emanated from its body, sending the queen flying dozens of meters.
The stone statue of the queen turned upside down in mid-air and slowly landed on the ground. Her black battle skirt swayed like a bird's tail feathers, and her feet plowed a groove on the ice.
"roar--!"
Then, suddenly, a wolf over twenty meters tall plummeted from the sky onto the glacier. The entire Hofs Glacier rumbled and trembled for a moment, and the broken ice swept away with a white mist.
A pair of bone wings spread out from behind the Daytime Wolf, with two figures sitting on the wings, a girl in a red dress, and a young man in a gray-white cloak.
Xia Pingzhou dismounted from Bai Tanlang's back. A halo of black and white light swirled around him, like a track or a circular chessboard, with chess pieces spinning around him like satellites.
Bai Tanlang slowly raised his eyes and stared at Firion, meeting his eyes covered in thick black.
"Son..." it said hoarsely.
Firion remained indifferent, but his breathing became deeper and more violent, and his brow ridges were deeply arched.
Xia Pingzhou and Qi Yuanli looked at each other, then scanned the faces of each member, and finally stopped at Ayase Origami's face.
She also looked at him silently, and the glance between them seemed to last for an eternity. After a while, the cold wind from Iceland blew in, and the girl in the kimono slowly lowered her head, no longer looking at him, her eyes obscured by her falling hair.
"I'm not here to fight with you." Xia Pingzhou said calmly, looking away from her face. "Let's talk about it after you settle the score with me, otherwise we will both suffer."
"That's right...I can tell." Qi Yuanli stared at him and said coldly.
"How are you, everyone..." The blood descendant walked over confidently and spoke with a smile, her red skirt and golden hair fluttering in the cold wind.
"Stop talking, traitor," the hacker said. "You actually went with him."
Xia Pingzhou ignored the group members and looked up into the distance.
As the blanket of snow and fog faded, a majestic giant tree emerged from the glacier. Looking up, one could see no end. The World Tree had pierced the atmosphere, perhaps reaching a full ten thousand meters.
The clouds and mist swirled around the surface of the World Tree like a halo surrounding a giant god, obscuring part of its trunk.
It was deeply rooted at the bottom of the glacier. A layer of black could be seen flowing beneath the ice, spreading silently like the veins of the earth. Those were the roots of the World Tree.
At this moment, Yagubaru and Xizel were circling above the World Tree. They had no idea where to attack the giant tree in order to destroy it.
"Shang Xiaochi..."
Xia Pingzhou's face darkened slightly, and he murmured softly, "Are we still late?"
"Captain, do you want to fight?" An Lunsi approached Qi Yuanli, "I feel really bad that Carrot Head was killed like this."
"No, there's no need to fight... We just need to avoid the mythical ones. Our goal is to get the base of the Savior Society..."
But before Qi Yuanli could finish his words, suddenly, a huge game prompt box appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The scene was eerie and terrifying. The blood-red text in the prompt box flickered like a torch, illuminating the eyes of each of them and causing their pupils to shrink slightly.
[The game scene has been loaded - "Jurassic World", loading progress: 100%.]
【Tip: Game is loading.】
Seeing this, Xia Pingzhou's expression suddenly changed, and his thoughts raced.
Game scene?
Is Mario here too?
Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head and looked around, and finally his eyes stopped on an iceberg in the distance.
Standing on the top of the iceberg was a boy in a hospital gown holding a black handheld game console, looking down at everyone with no expression on his face.
"Hello again..." Mario looked up from his handheld game console and said indifferently, "NPCs."
【Welcome, our player, your "birth point" has been randomly determined. 】
As the prompt box appeared in front of everyone, all the figures in the southern part of Hofs Glacier, including Firion and the giant tree that pierced the sky and the earth, were completely swallowed up by a stream of data.
Then, it disappeared.
After a moment, there was silence on the glacier, as if nothing had happened.
only……
The avalanche was about to come, and icebergs collapsed one after another. The rumbling sound was endless, echoing between the white sky and earth.
A bright sun emerged from the broken sky, illuminating the earth like dawn.
Under the blazing sun, a desert resembling a distant past shone with brilliance. The massive trees surrounding the group grew wildly, like demons reaching upwards, attempting to reach for the sky.
The figures of the hacker, An Luns and others were covered in sunlight, standing there in a daze.
"This is……"
They murmured in unison, their hearts filled with great confusion and shock.
"That kid from the Saviors." The hacker suddenly remembered, "Cat Lover and the Ripper have fought against them before."
A vibrant and wild green comes into view, it is actually a primeval jungle.
To the east of the jungle lay a vast grassland and a long river, while to the west, deep within the jungle, stood a tall cliff.
At this moment, a pixelated gate slowly emerged from the high cliff deep in the jungle.
Then a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy in a hospital gown pushed open the door and walked out.
Xia Pingzhou raised his head silently and met the eyes of the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy.
"The chess player..." Mario murmured. He remembered this person.
After a while, Xia Pingzhou turned his head again and looked into the distance. He saw that the World Tree was now rooted in the center of the endless wasteland. Its towering branches blocked the sunlight, causing the wilderness to be dark, as if night had come.
Shang Xiaochi is inside this giant tree.
Finally he looked towards Firion's side.
At this time, the injuries caused by the Queen Colossus on Firion's back had all healed... The mentor had obviously used some means against the demons to improve Firion's physical ability and regenerative power to such an incredible level.
Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou slowly looked away. "I'll go deal with the kid with the game console first, and then let you out of here... Help hold back the World Tree and Bai Tanlang's child. If possible, try to minimize the number of casualties."
"A traitor, and he's giving orders?" The hacker frowned.
"Do as he says." Qi Yuanyuan said calmly, with a few more playing cards at his fingertips.
He turned to look at White Wolf, who had already roared and rushed towards Firion. The two huge wolves were fighting each other. "An Lun Si, come with me to help White Wolf."
"Got it." An Luns smiled slightly.
Qi Yuanyuan's deep eyes looked further away. Xizel was riding on a Christmas sleigh, and Yagubaru, who had transformed into a two-meter-tall form, was speeding under the scorching sun.
The World Tree mobilized thousands of thorns, like a black rainstorm chasing after the man and the shark.
Urushihara was silent for a moment, then said, "Bloodline, Ayase Origami, go and block the World Tree with His Royal Highness the Third Prince and his sharks. Your lives come first."
"Traitor No. 2, I got it." The Bloodborn said playfully, his hands on his hips, "By the way, where are Robert's people?"
Ayase Origami remained silent, a strand of cool hair swaying in the wind at the tip of her ear.
Hearing her name, Xia Pingzhou paused slightly. He glanced at the kimono-clad girl in the distance from the corner of his eye and lip-synched silently:
"wait for me."
The girl in kimono was slightly stunned.
Xia Pingzhou withdrew his gaze and moved forward.
He walked into the primitive jungle alone.
As far as he could remember, this was his second encounter with this jungle. The first time, he was still trying hard to find a way to escape from this jungle with Su Zimai, because he knew that the dinosaurs summoned by Mario were invincible.
This time, Xia Pingzhou chose not to look back and took the initiative to greet Mario on the cliff.
(End of this chapter)
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