Ice blocks the size of human heads rained down on the three divine servants below like violent cannonballs.
They were terrified, yet they clung desperately to the rope as if it were their only lifeline. And the sturdy nails, having done their job, held firm.
Lin Mo climbed more than ten meters, looked up, and saw one of the divine servants suspended in mid-air at the end of the rope.
As a result, the following teams had no choice but to suspend their climb and wait quietly for the teams ahead to recover from the sudden disaster.
Time passed slowly in anxious waiting, and finally, the first group recovered and continued climbing.
At this moment, Lin Mo noticed that the part he was currently climbing had a smooth and flawless surface covered with a layer of melted ice. Sunlight pierced through the clouds and shone on the ice surface, making it glisten with a wet, sparkling light.
Lin Mo took a deep breath, feeling the icy air seep into his lungs.
Keep looking up.
In the nearby rocky area, the colors seemed even darker, and the surfaces of these rocks were covered with distinct textures. When glaciers squeezed and overlapped each other, if the combination was not perfect, it would form long and narrow platforms and various cracks and flaws.
Even more peculiar is the presence of some vertical pipes hidden here. These pipes, eroded by the long-term effects of feng shui, have become large enough to accommodate a person.
Tomon shouted at the top of his lungs, signaling his men to keep going.
Lin Mo walked almost side by side with Tomon.
With the fierce chopping of the climbing axe, streams of ice crystals, like twinkling stars, cascaded down into the dense forest below.
They swung the stone hammer, driving the iron nails deep into the hard ice layer time and again, providing a stable fulcrum for the rope. However, before they had even climbed halfway up the mountain, the iron nails they had brought were all used up, and they had to switch to using corner nails as a substitute.
After that, Lin Mo could only follow the example of the servants of the gods, kicking the hard ice layer with his spiked boots again and again, trying to carve out footholds.
Two hours had passed in the blink of an eye. Lin Mo felt that his legs were so numb that he had almost lost all feeling, as if they no longer belonged to him.
How much longer can it last?
Lin Mo and Tomon both looked uneasily at the divine servants on patrol.
The bugle remained silent; there was no sign of the enemy.
After climbing for three hours, Lin Mo's team caught up with the team in front.
This is not good news.
This means that the team ahead has encountered trouble, slowing them down.
Looking up, I saw the sun beginning to set.
The upper third of the city wall is crystal blue, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on it, reflecting light like thousands of rays of light, so dazzling that it hurts the eyes.
In this dazzling light, all the figures appeared blurry and hazy, as if shrouded in a light veil, with only the group at the very front remaining in shadow.
At a height of 200 meters on the city wall, they stopped in their haste to climb upwards and instead approached a vertical pipe with extremely slow and determined steps.
As they struggled to move, suddenly, a deafening roar erupted—a sound as if the heavens and earth were collapsing, terrifying everyone. It seemed as if the entire city wall was trembling, emitting a heart-stopping rumble.
In the sky, ice crystals danced, and screams mingled with the sounds of people falling, creating a chaotic symphony. A huge piece of ice, a foot thick and over twenty meters square, suddenly shattered from the steep wall.
The ice and stone, like a raging beast, tumbled and shattered under the force of gravity, emitting a deafening roar.
The ice chunks that were lifted up spun in the air like runaway tops, swept across a dense forest, and then rolled down the hillside.
Lin Mo reacted swiftly, grabbing Zhao Yue'er's wrist and pulling her close. The two huddled together, barely managing to avoid the boulder that had fallen from the sky.
However, not everyone was as lucky as them. One servant of the gods was not spared from the disaster; a flying pebble struck his face, causing blood to spurt out, his nose to break, and him to scream in agony.
When Lin Mo raised his slightly tired eyes again, he was shocked to find that the group of divine servants who had been attached to the ice wall had disappeared without a trace.
The figures, the ropes, and the nails firmly driven into the ice had all vanished, as if they had never existed. All that remained in his sight was the desolate, empty blue sky above.
Right where they had just struggled to climb and cling, a striking scar remained on the ice wall.
Lin Mo looked down and saw a faint red stain far, far away below—the mark left by the divine servant who had accidentally fallen. That red stain...
Seeing this, Lin Mo couldn't help but take a deep breath, "If there were guards on such a city wall, it would be impossible to climb over it!"
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