After leaving the underground shelter, Su Yao and Ling Yu headed towards the new supply point indicated by the system—a frozen sea-crossing bridge. This bridge, once a transportation hub, now resembled a white dragon lying across the sea, covered in ice and snow.
They stepped onto the bridge, the biting sea wind slicing across their faces like knives. Due to the extreme cold, the sea was frozen solid, and muffled cracking sounds echoed from beneath the ice, as if some immense force was surging within. The bridge was littered with abandoned vehicles, mostly buried under ice and snow, resembling cold mounds of metal.
During their search for supplies, Su Yao noticed a faint energy emanating from a large transport truck. She and Ling Yu struggled to open the door, finding the truck filled with sealed metal crates. Just as they were about to open the crates to inspect the contents, the surrounding vehicles suddenly began to shake violently; a group of ice-armored crabs had crawled up from under the bridge.
These ice-armored crabs were enormous, with shells as hard as steel and pincers covered in sharp ice spikes. They slithered rapidly towards Su Yao and Ling Yu, crushing ice and snow in their path. Su Yao used her spatial ability to teleport Ling Yu to the roof of a car. The ice-armored crabs swarmed around them, relentlessly attacking the vehicle with their pincers, quickly deforming it under their assault.
Ling Yu waved his hands, and a large number of ice spikes rained down from the sky, shooting towards the Ice Armor Crabs. Some of the ice spikes struck the Ice Armor Crabs' shells, breaking them off directly, while others pierced into the gaps in the shells, causing them great pain. The Ice Armor Crabs became even more ferocious, frantically ramming the vehicle, trying to shake Su Yao and Ling Yu off.
Seizing the opportunity, Su Yao activated her Wind Blade ability, sending wind blades flying towards the eyes and pincer joints of the Ice Armor Crabs. The wind blades struck, injuring the eyes of some of the Ice Armor Crabs and causing them to become disoriented. Su Yao and Ling Yu then jumped off the roof of the car and continued their attack on the Ice Armor Crabs.
During the battle, Su Yao discovered that the Ice Armor Crab's abdomen was relatively vulnerable. She used her spatial ability to teleport beneath one of the Ice Armor Crabs and then stabbed it hard in the abdomen with her weapon. The Ice Armor Crab was severely injured and collapsed to the ground, struggling. Seeing that Su Yao's attack was effective, Ling Yu also used his ice-type ability to freeze the legs of several Ice Armor Crabs, then attacked their abdomens, finishing them off one by one.
After dealing with the ice-armored crab, they returned to the transport vehicle, opened the metal crate, and found advanced heating equipment and special energy batteries inside. The heating equipment could automatically regulate the temperature to withstand the extreme cold, while the energy batteries would provide a longer-lasting power source for their supernatural abilities.
Continuing along the bridge, they arrived at a bridge tower in the center. The system indicated that there might be a large supply of resources here, but the tower was surrounded by a powerful energy shield. This shield was pale blue, with electrical currents flowing across it, and appeared difficult to breach.
Su Yao activated the system scan, searching for weaknesses in the shield. After scanning, she discovered that the shield's energy source was several energy generators at the base of the bridge tower. Destroying these energy generators would cause the shield to disappear.
However, the bridge tower was surrounded by various traps and defensive devices. There were ice spike traps hidden in the snow, which, once triggered, would shoot ice spikes from all directions; there were also some automatic mechanical ballistae that would lock onto targets and fire bolts with a freezing effect.
Su Yao and Ling Yu proceeded cautiously. Su Yao used her spatial abilities to avoid the ice spike traps, while Ling Yu used ice walls to block the bolts from the mechanical ballistae. As they approached the bottom of the bridge tower, they were attacked by a flock of mechanical birds.
These mechanical birds were made of metal and ice, with wings as sharp as knives. They swarmed towards Su Yao and Ling Yu, attacking them with their wings. Su Yao used a fusion skill of spatial and wind blade abilities to create spatial wind blades, slicing the approaching mechanical birds to pieces. Ling Yu, on the other hand, used his ice-based abilities to create ice mist, disrupting the mechanical birds' vision, and then seized the opportunity to attack them.
After a fierce battle, they finally reached the bottom of the bridge tower and found the energy generator. Su Yao and Ling Yu worked together to destroy the energy generator, and the shield disappeared. They entered the bridge tower and found a large amount of food, water, and various tools inside. These supplies were crucial for their survival in the apocalypse.
After collecting the supplies, they prepared to leave the bridge tower. But at that moment, the bridge began to shake violently, as if a greater danger was about to strike. They had to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible and head towards the next place where there might be supplies.
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