Screaming Cycle (Infinite Flow)

The closest to where the big red fish jumps is Baroque.

His reaction was quick.

Almost the moment the fish left the water, Baroque condensed an air bullet in his palm, and shot towards the two-meter-long fish.

The fish and the air bomb collided in mid-air.

With a muffled sound of "boom", the big fish was knocked to the left, drastically changing the trajectory of the parabola, and suddenly smashed into the magma pool, setting off a scorching wave that was one meter high.

Ice Grain hurriedly controlled the miniature UFO, carrying the three people on the ice to avoid the oncoming magma.

"Baroque, you control it!"

Saying that, Binglang stuffed the remote control in his hand to Baroque.

He needs both hands free.

Because, all three of them saw, as if it was a signal, when the first fish jumped out, the magma around the UFO began to churn up and down, and even vortexes of different sizes came out.

Baroque took the remote control.

For a moment, he couldn't hide the ecstasy in his heart.

But in the next second, Baroque told himself that now is not the time to do anything, they still need ice sleet to play the role of thunder.

So he just held the joystick with both hands, and pulled the UFO up into the air.

"Stand still!"

Ice Grail let out a loud shout, and at the same time released abilities with both hands in two diametrically opposite directions.

At the same time, two behemoths jumped out of the water, pinched left and right, and rushed towards the prey in mid-air.

They are also two fishes, with red body, long body and short tail, big mouth and well-developed teeth, but they are much larger than the previous "explored" fish - the longest one is nearly five meters from head to tail .

The jumping ability of these fish is astonishing. The height they can jump from the magma pool is three times their body length. For one thing, even if Baroque and the others raised the miniature UFO to the highest level, it would be impossible to avoid the attack of the fish school.

But Ice Grain hadn't naively planned to end all this by hiding.

He predicted in advance where the two fish would jump up, and the cold air condensed into ice crystals in the hot air, and then gathered into two pointed spears that were two meters long.

The tip of the spear points upwards obliquely, pointing straight to the relatively soft belly of the fish.

"Fly forward, fast!"

Ice Grail ordered loudly.

Baroque didn't have time to ask "why".

Instinctively obeying the boss's order, he increased the UFO's speed to the highest speed, and jumped forward suddenly.

In the next moment, two big fish crossed the edge of the ice floe, jumped over the highest point, and then fell down, pressing their own weight together with the potential energy generated by the acceleration of gravity into the ice spear shot by the ice shard. superior.

"Crack, Kick!"

All three heard the sound of ice shattering and breaking.

The two fish fell from mid-air and hit the lava pool heavily.

This time, the strange fish did not immediately dive back into the magma.

Both of them were pierced by the ice spear, and they turned their bellies and floated on the surface of the bubbling liquid, already dead to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a scene that made Bingsha and the others feel creepy appeared.

The three saw many hideous fish heads emerging from the lava pool.

They are like groups of piranhas in the Amazon River in the tropical rainforest documentary. They are attracted by the smell of blood and death. .

Even a calm and calm person like Binglao couldn't help gasping when he saw this scene.

Without anyone's instructions, Baroque immediately controlled the miniature UFO and flew straight towards the small island in the middle of the lake.

Two big fishes of four to five meters should be enough for them to eat for a while, if they don't take advantage of this to find the exit, they will have no place to run later.

However, the Baroque was still too naive.

I don't know how this seemingly inaccessible magma pool feeds a large group of strange fish, and they are obviously hungry.

In the short flight distance of more than [-] meters, the miniature UFO was attacked by at least seven or eight waves.

Ice Grail reacted quickly.

After figuring out what the monsters in the water are and what kind of attack methods they have, he has been able to predict in advance the time and direction of the monsters jumping out of the water by observing the vortex shape on the surface of the magma, thus Shoot them accurately with your ice spear.

But there are too many strange fish.

Even with the ice graupel sitting in the seat, the tattoos on the side to cooperate, and Baroque's fairly good aircraft control level, there were still two or three times when the big fish's body barely brushed the ice floe. The hot magma lifted by the fins splashed onto the ice floe, almost melting the ice plate out of a hole.

Ice Grain can only deal with the attack of the strange fish at any time, while trying his best to maintain the integrity of the ice under his feet.

Finally, after a few minutes of thrilling, the miniature UFO, not much bigger than a palm, landed on the island in the middle of the lake with hundreds of kilograms of ice and three big men on it.

The shoal of strange fish that followed them slapped the hot lava with their tails vigorously, circled around a few times without giving up, and sank into the lava pool angrily.

"Huh, really, it's too terrible..."

Baroque's heart was pounding, and his hands and feet trembled slightly due to the ulterior tension.

He felt it was time.

There will never be a better opportunity than now.

He hid his nervousness and apprehension under the excitement of having just escaped from death, and seemingly unintentionally handed back the controller of the miniature UFO to Binglang, "Boss, this is back to you."

Ice Grail took over the remote control.

"The air here is turbid and the temperature is frighteningly high. If you stay for too long, you will get dehydrated and faint."

Baroque was afraid that he would show even the slightest clue, so he didn't dare to make eye contact with him, pretended to be natural, turned away, turned and ran towards the black torii gate, "Let's hurry up and see if we can find an exit here!"

The island is not big, and it takes two steps to reach the torii gate.

After taking a closer look, the three realized that the torii gate looked dirty and dull black at first glance, but it was actually just some kind of metal that was gradually oxidized in a high-concentration sulfide environment, and the surface formed It's just a thick layer of gray-black rust stains.

Tattoo took out his dagger and scratched the surface of the torii a few times. After scraping off the rust on it, the dark red metal color underneath was revealed.

"It should be iron."

Baroque touched his chin and made a judgment.

The three of them circled the torii twice more, and found eight symmetrical holes on the pillars on both sides, each of which was about the thickness of a little finger and about fifteen centimeters deep. Judging by the shape, it should be possible to insert some holes. Columns of a specific texture.

Icegrain, Baroque, and Tattoo are all experienced S-level participants, and they have spent a long time in the maze. Based on intuition and experience, they judged almost at the same time that nine of the eight small holes were passed. The mechanism of this lava lake is located.

"But where is the 'key'?"

Baroque pointed to one of the small holes and made a poking gesture.

After speaking, he cast his eyes on the dark gadget placed directly under the torii gate.

Previously they were too far away to see clearly, but now that they got closer, they realized that it was a figurine about [-] centimeters high.

Like the torii gate, it has a rough texture, showing a deep and dull dark black, but as long as you scrape off a layer of rust on the surface with a knife, you can see the dark red metal color underneath.

Based on Baroque's experience as a major in world art history, he feels that the shape of this figurine has a bit of the flavor of the late Jomon period in Japan.

Tattoo tried to move it by hand, and found that the bottom of the iron figurine was firmly fixed in the rock formation of the island and could not be moved at all.

"Look!"

Baroque knelt down, his face was almost pressed against the iron figurine, and his fingers were caressing along the rust-covered pattern.

"Here, it seems to be an opening!"

As he spoke, his voice raised an octave, and his words were excited: "By the way, this pattern circles the figurine for half a circle from front to back!"

He straightened his upper body, and made a "split" gesture with his left and right hands in the air, "I think it should be some kind of container, probably—like a box!"

——As for what's in it...

Everyone glanced at the torii behind them, the meaning was self-evident.

"I'll try!"

Tattooed himself was the strongest of the three, he immediately knelt down and grabbed the horn-shaped brim of the iron figurine's head with both hands, trying to open the gap in the middle.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

His face was flushed from holding back, and beads of sweat dripped down his forehead.

But the iron figurines remained motionless.

"no!"

Tattoo took a breath and sat down on the ground.

"This thing is rusted to death, it can't be broken at all!"

Icegrain and Baroque also tried it in turn, and found that what he said was true.

"Ugh!"

The baroque iron figurine seemed to be choked by the sulfur smell in the air, and coughed a few times, "It would be great if Marco was here..."

He smiled helplessly, his tone seemed so natural and regretful, "Unfortunately, he has already..."

Hearing the words, the white-haired young man turned his head and glanced at Baroque. He didn't speak, his expression was indifferent, and he couldn't see any emotion.

Baroque wasn't sure if Binglao had any doubts, and he was afraid that if he said too much, it would appear that there was no money here, so he naturally changed the topic, raised his chin towards the figurine, "Boss, what should we do with this thing?"

"I'm trying to figure it out."

Ice Grail's answer was simple and indifferent.

In fact, his brain was running at high speed, trying to catch the slightest fleeting inspiration.

This figurine-shaped "box" had been placed in the sulfide gas for an unknown period of time, and it had rusted into a lump of iron. It would be impossible for the three of them to remove it with bare hands even after tossing for an hour.

So, how about removing the rust first?

This idea just popped into Binglao's mind, but he dismissed it quickly.

Because rust removal can only be scraped slowly with a knife, which is too time-consuming, and what they lack most now is time.