Chapter 553 Infiltrating into the Dark Abyss Sixteen
Chapter 553: Diving into the Dark Abyss (16)
Within a quarter of an hour, other people who had gone to rest rushed back to the control room. When Elaine, a young white bear man, arrived, he was still hiding behind Constantine with a face on his face.
"We're about to land, please sit down and be silent." Tristan put away his smile and sat back on his captain's seat to give instructions.
The Ice Crystal is expected to land at Tulcea, a seaport in the southeast of the Romani territory. It happens to be evening. Although it is a good choice to go ashore in the dark twilight, it will inevitably be ambushed by the enemy. The landing process may be very dangerous.
"Confirm again," Ivan asked in a low voice, "Are you sure the enemies think we are dead?"
"Well, God knows." Tristan shook his head.
The bottom of the Black Sea is dark and hidden. The Ice Crystal sailed all the way under its cover without being attacked. Once ashore, the situation was completely different: everyone walking in the wilderness of Romani was like a living target.
They will be attacked by foxes at any time. Their safety is completely based on not being detected by the enemy, and this foundation... is not very reliable from the beginning.
The ship rose silently from the bottom of the sea, barely touching the bottom of the sea, and slowly docked.
"Turn on the optical camouflage to the maximum. Everyone, come ashore." Tristan commanded.
The outer shell of the [Ice Crystal] has the ability to deflect light and looks almost transparent from the outside. Under the protection of an additional layer of barrier, its transparent effect is further strengthened. The ship is safely parked on the rocks on the coast.
During this time, he perfectly hid himself in the black reefs, almost blending into the environment.
"Okay, there is nothing unusual around, let's go." Ivan warned and waved his hand.
Tristan jumped out of the hatch first and landed lightly on a large flat rock in front of him.
Ivan jumped down immediately. He calculated the rhythm of the tide hitting the shore, so that the impact sound of landing was masked by the tide.
Boles, the very conspicuous dragon-man golem with a metallic luster all over his body, covered his whole body with a black cloak. He picked up Elaine, a young white bear man, and jumped off the boat. He landed (surprisingly) quietly.
Master Merlin used a light falling spell and floated down lightly. He controlled the magic so skillfully that the excess light emitted when using the magic was suppressed to the point where it was almost invisible.
Yagloi and Persiva also jumped down. Although their movements were not very light, they did not make much noise.
Lianyin brought Constantine down and also used the Light Falling Technique. Her control over magic was no less than that of Master Merlin. The excess light from the magic only appeared for a moment, and was so dim that it was almost impossible to see it.
Bediwell (Albert) also tried to fall down lightly. Inside him was Albert's consciousness, and the big cat still landed in his feline way, landing on all four limbs at the same time to disperse the impact.
Come on.
"Huh?" Ivan snorted. Bedivere's movements looked different from usual?
The last one left was Rabbit Ryder. When he was about to jump off the boat, a strong wind suddenly came. The half-jumped rabbit was completely overturned by the strong wind and fell to the ground with an ugly clatter.
"Shh! Keep your voice down!" Ivan urged in a low voice.
"Hug, I'm sorry..." Ryder reluctantly climbed up and patted the mud on his body.
"The clothes you just changed are now dirty again. There's really nothing you can do about it." Tristan sneered and said, "Brother will give you a bath when you get back, hehe."
"No, thank you!" Rabbit said with a sullen face.
"Now," Ivan turned to the white bear Elaine: "Can you feel anything? In which direction is the destination?"
"Ugh..." The white bear boy covered his forehead and felt attentively. From the moment he entered Romani's territory, he had a very annoying feeling. Now, he is trying to find the best feeling among those annoying feelings.
A nasty kind.
Full of malice, as thick as a swamp, with a rotten smell, whispering of hatred and resentment.
It's absolutely unmistakable. The boundless darkness is right here.
"In...in that direction." Elaine stretched out his finger. His instinct made him want to run away from the opposite direction immediately, but his finger seemed to be attracted by magnetism, keeping it straight.
The leaning ground indicates the [location of darkness].
"Northwest?" Although Ivan had long expected that things might turn out like this, Ivan still wasn't happy to see this.
No matter what the thing Elaine pointed out is, it is in the interior of the Romani territory. This means that this expedition may need to cross hundreds of kilometers of land, and this journey will take several days and nights.
After all, the danger involved can be imagined.
"Is it really like this?" Tristan also expected all this and immediately sighed: "Walking on the ground is not a pleasant thing. I'd better rely on my little friends."
The fishman prince instantly summoned his familiar, an ice mole.
"Let's do it." Tristan ordered, and the ice mole had already burrowed into the ground and dug a burrow in an instant.
"Mole?" Bedivere (Albert) walked to Tristan and asked in a low voice, "The road seems to be very long, can your little mole be able to bear it?"
"It can dig through the eternal ice wall with diamond hardness for three days and three nights without getting tired." Tristan explained impatiently, "This bit of soil is nothing."
The fishman prince turned to the mermaid crew and ordered: "You stay and guard the [Ice Crystal]. If there is any movement, hide in the deep sea. Wait quietly until we come back, do you understand?"
"Yes, Your Highness," the mermaids said respectfully.
Tristan didn't wait for the mermaids to finish speaking, he had already jumped into the tunnel first.
"What are you waiting for? Follow me quickly." Tristan urged.
Seeing everyone jumping into the hole, Ryder subconsciously touched the [Lord of Time and Space] in his hand and jumped in.
Bang! Something broke when it landed. It was the Achilles tendon of the rabbit's heel.
I fell when I jumped off the boat, and my left foot, which was already aching, was sprained due to another strong impact.
"Woo." The rabbit made a low grunting sound.
"What's wrong?" Everyone looked back at Ryder in surprise.
"I twisted my foot." The rabbit tried to stand up, but burst into tears because of the severe pain.
"We have just set off and there are injured people. How unlucky." Ivan groaned.
"Let me take a look." Merlin walked over to check on Ryder's injury: "This is quite serious. The tendons are all torn. Why are you bunny people so weak..."
It shouldn't have been like this. Ryder thought to himself. This is actually one of the old injuries he got when he traveled through the [Great Storm] with the [Silver Shadow]. It only took a few days after it was cured. I didn't expect such a mistake.
The yang error recurred.
"Stop talking and pick it up for me."
"It's just a minor surgery, don't worry. It's just more time-consuming." Merlin turned to everyone and said, "You go ahead. I'll cure the rabbit and I'll catch up later."
"That's not possible." Ivan frowned. It doesn't matter much if the team is missing Ryder, but the assassin Merlin is absolutely indispensable.
Only two people in the team, Merlin and Lianyin, were able to use the teleportation technique. In an emergency, it was entirely up to them to escape. One less person meant more danger.
"Is this okay?" Tristan had already raised his hand and collected the moisture in the air to create a large piece of ice. He continued to shape the ice, and finally made a large sled that could seat four people.
"I see, then I can perform the operation with peace of mind." Merlin picked up the rabbit and walked onto the sled, "But------"
"I know, we need to make the tunnel as flat as possible, right?" Tristan replied quickly, "That's not a problem."
It was originally a tunnel dug by an ice mole, and by using ice magic to fill the small holes in the ground, it was not a problem to make a smooth road.
Although it is very troublesome.
"...You don't have to do this. Leave me alone." Ryder whispered, his tone filled with guilt.
"We never leave our companions behind." Ivan said, "Let's go."
In this way, the ice mole dug a hole in the ground to clear the road, Tristan smoothed the road with magic, and the draconian golem Bors pulled the sled, and the group moved forward in a mighty northwest direction.
Ryder was sitting on the sled watching all this, but his face was very ugly.
(Why can you take all this for granted?)
(Can you give me some reaction? Despise me, scold me, resent me, okay?)