Treasure hunter, sailing on the blue sea

When everyone finally explored the weak points of the iceberg in front of them, they were ready to dig in and open a passage to the inside.

The final method adopted was that Alka used the normalizing cross and relied on his already proficient control ability to spray out a thick pillar of fire.

It kept burning the iceberg in front of it, causing it to begin to melt. After burning for a while, the rest began to dig.

Repeatedly.

Without burning it with flames, the hardness of this ice block is really difficult to destroy, which greatly limits their digging speed.

According to this method. They cooperated with each other, and it took about two hours. The magic power in Alka's body began to be unable to maintain the flame, and he waved his hand to indicate that he needed to rest.

Although he could not maintain the flame continuously for two hours, maintaining the flame for a long time still consumed his magic power too much.

The total time lasted at least about 30 minutes.

Who would keep spraying flames for 30 minutes in a battle? Isn't this a waste of magic power?

Spraying such high-temperature flames out of thin air is not an easy task, and it consumes a lot of magic power every moment.

If Alka hadn't already reached the triple helix and had a treasure with him that had slightly more magic power than others, he wouldn't have been able to hold on for so long.

The rest of the people looked at the gap in front of them, which was only slightly deeper than three or four meters.

"No, this efficiency is too slow. We will have to wait until the end of the year until we dig inside."

Looking at this efficiency, Xia Detti shook his head and said.

A conservative estimate is that the radius of this mountain is about 700 to 800 meters, and the ice surface leading to the pit below is in the center.

With the current efficiency, Alka has to rest for 3 to 4 hours to maintain it for two hours. Even if the operation is completed without stopping at all, it will take about one and a half to two months.

Not to mention that this is impossible and the time will only double.

This kind of time consumption is almost unacceptable to them.

Because the ice gets harder as you go inside, mainly because you get closer to the treasure and you have to suffer the cold attack.

At that time, the consumption of maintaining the flame will further increase, and the power of the flame will even weaken.

After all, the ice here is not formed by the natural environment, but by the accumulation of too many ice elements, which will greatly affect the surrounding fire elements.

Too much ice element may even crowd out those fire elements.

At this time, after Jason inspected the newly excavated depression for a long time, he couldn't help but said, "Have you noticed that these ice blocks seem to be slowly recovering?"

After hearing this, the others gathered around and watched for a long time, and finally confirmed Jason's statement.

These ice cubes are indeed growing and solidifying slowly. Although the growth is very slow, it is still very obvious after looking at it for a while.

Seeing this situation, Alka shook his head.

"No, this method is completely unworkable."

If the ice can still grow slowly, it will take more time, and it may not be possible to break through it in a year, because they still have to go down to break through the ice in the underground pit.

I wasted two hours and came up with the stupidest way.

Now I can only think of other ways to solve this problem.

Jason looked at the ground they were stepping on and couldn't help pushing the snow away with his feet. After stamping his feet a few times, he said, "What do you think if we dig directly underground into the hole?"

Alka looked at the ground beneath her feet and nodded.

"You can give it a try."

This method sounds good, but I don’t know what kind of problems it will encounter when it is implemented.

The ground here must be frozen solid anyway.

Several people took tools and started digging into the ground beneath their feet.

Because it is frozen soil, it is much more difficult to dig than the soil outside, but at least it is much better than the ice.

The ice that formed the iceberg was obviously abnormal and extremely hard.

With their joint efforts, a pothole quickly appeared.

Pororo stood in the pit, facing the direction of the iceberg.

They were about to start digging inside. The hole expanded rapidly, all the way to the foot of the mountain.

"when!"

The digging tool suddenly touched something like a stone, and there was a metal-like collision on it.

"What's wrong? Did you dig up rocks?"

It is normal for huge rocks to block the road during underground excavations like this.

Pororo didn't say anything and changed his position, but it was the same.

At this time, several people who were digging realized something was wrong.

They started experimenting with the area in front of them.

It's not a boulder at all.

The land in front of them was all ordinary soil, no, it should be said to be frozen soil.

I don’t know how it was formed, but this piece of frozen soil is even harder than the ice above. It’s impossible to dig a tunnel downwards.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but stop what they were doing.

Jason sat helplessly on the ground next to him and couldn't help but scratch his hair.

Another method failed.

The people with mud on their faces looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.

He grabbed the tools and climbed out of the hole.

"Can we only dig with brute force?" Xia Daiti couldn't help but said while sitting on the edge of the hole.

This seems to be the case now.

Take a little more time and use brute force to dig down.

The others were silent when they heard this.

Because it seems like this is the only way.

They had just thought of cutting down the surrounding trees and burning them to melt the ice.

But there are not many trees around to be honest, and the islanders living on this island also need to use them.

Moreover, these trees themselves are alive. If you want to burn cold-resistant plants, you have to dry the wood, which takes a lot of time.

And their demand will definitely damage the local ecology.

Alka sat next to the pothole and glanced into the distance unintentionally.

Residents and children from several tribes were hiding in the snow and watching them.

For these children, outsiders like Alka were too strange.

Look at these children.

"I have an idea!"

"I have an idea."

Alka and on the shoulder, Lucilia said at the same time.

Hearing the sudden sound from the two of them, everyone else turned their eyes.

Lucilia on her shoulder patted Alka's face: "You go ahead and speak."

Alka did not delay, nodded and said: "Why do we have to dig into this cave ourselves? Aren't there hundreds of tribal residents on this island? We can mobilize them to help us dig."

Having said this, a silver snake appeared on the back of Alka's hand and began to roll left and right.

"And we just have to pay something."

After hearing Alka's words, everyone's eyes lit up.

"Wouldn't this be exposed?"

Pororo crossed his arms and said with a frown.

He felt that their actions were to dig out treasures, and such actions should be well concealed.

After hearing Pororo's question, several people looked at him.

Jason couldn't help but said next to him: "It's no longer possible to hide what we just did from the residents of this island."

They were digging holes and digging mountains. No matter which one they did, it took a long time. It was impossible to hide their actions from the residents of the island.

This is an absolutely revealing thing.

Not to mention that before them, a group of people with the same purpose came here almost every 10 years.

Many people will also ask about some information that the residents of the island know. If the residents of the island do not know anything over the past few hundred years, Alka will not believe it.

But no one would have thought that they were looking for the treasure buried beneath the center.

After hearing this, Pororo nodded in realization.

I see.

"This method is indeed feasible, and the remuneration is acceptable to us."

To be honest, it doesn't cost much at all to employ the residents of these islands.

Not to mention that the tribesmen on this island are not closed-minded people. They still leave the Hungry Triangle and the periphery by boat to conduct some trade.

They also have ships, but there are no merchants who are willing to come to them.

The population is too small, and supplies are not abundant.

At this time Alka shook his shoulders: "Where are you?"

"It's pretty much what you think, I'm also asking for help from others."

It's just that she just wanted to tell the Archbishop this information directly. Anyway, the location of the treasure has been determined.

It's no different from finding a treasure. Just let the Pope worry about how to break through these ice blocks.

However, rewards may be reduced.

But after hearing about Alka's method, I thought I could give it a try. After all, it would be several months before the archbishop received the news and rushed over to help.

Since everyone thought it was okay, Alka nodded.

He said to Jason: "I'll leave this negotiation to you, no problem."

After hearing Alka's words, Jason straightened the plush hat on his head, made a no problem gesture and said, "Don't worry."

After saying that, he walked directly to the place where the children were hiding, preparing to let him take him to their tribe.

The rest of the people were waiting where they were.

After about an hour, Jason came over with several tribe residents.

The leader was an old man wearing some ivory jewelry and holding a huge solid wooden scepter in his hand.

His left leg didn't seem to work very well, and there was a young man next to him supporting him.

Jason came over, shrugged helplessly and said, "The price has already been negotiated, but he has to communicate with you."

The old man who came over waved his hand and asked the young man supporting him to wait beside him while the scepter slowly came over.

As he moved around, the ornaments hanging on the head of the staff were still swaying from side to side, making crisp sounds.

The moment he walked over, he stared at Alka in front of him.

He twitched his nose obviously twice, looked at Alka and said, "Are you a resident of Home Island?"

Hearing this, Alka narrowed his eyes slightly.

This old man seems to be no ordinary person. He is also a toucher.

Xia Daiti and others next to them showed dangerous expressions.

"Don't be nervous. When I was young, I dealt with many residents of Home Island. It's easy to identify them."

As he spoke, he tremblingly came to the pile of mud and sat down next to it.

He stretched out his dry hand and slapped his knee.

"You want to hire the people of our tribe to help you dig out this iceberg, which means you have found the source of this cold source, right?"

"Don't be surprised, it's been 824 years since this place fell into the cold. Almost every ten years or so, the church will send a team to search for it.

Some people are serious and responsible, just like you.

Some people are careless and perfunctory, as if they are on vacation. "

The old man said, trying to dispel the vigilance of several people.

After all, they have lived here for 800 years, and countless church personnel have come here one after another to investigate.

Some people are tight-lipped, and there are also some people who don't mind revealing some of the information they know to the residents of these islands.

Over time, the residents of these islands came to know some of the reasons why the surrounding environment changed like this.

The information they knew was almost not much different from what Alka and the others knew.

The old man in front of him said to himself: "You know, according to the records of our ancestors, more than 800 years ago, this was a good place with spring-like weather all year round, and the food produced could be sold to several surrounding countries."

"The legend is that the Blessed Mother sent the gift, and we do believe in the Blessed Mother."

The information provided by the church does say that the residents on this island are all believers of the Holy Mother. There is no need to be too defensive, just say that they are members of the church.

"Don't look at me like this. When I was young, I was also a member of the church."

As he spoke, he also revealed a tattoo on his withered right arm.

Xia Detti looked at the tattoo, turned around, and said in Alka's ear: "He is a lone missionary of the church. He is indeed a member of the church."

The old man continued: "So I have a very deep understanding of this area. After all, when I was young, I followed a team that took over this task and came here to explore."

At this point, he opened his eyes slightly, stared at Alka in front of him with some cloudy eyes and said: "So, the source of the cold here is in the iceberg, right?"

There was a tremor in his voice, but he was so firm.

Alka nodded.

Not hiding anything.

Because there is indeed nothing to hide, just as the old man in front of me said.

The information they knew was almost indistinguishable from the information Alka knew.

"Okay, okay, okay."

The old man said, using his crutches hard to stand up. The surprise and excitement in his voice could not be concealed at all.

"So we thought we were on an ice capped island, but it turned out to be here? What's your name?"

Hearing the old man's words, Alka couldn't help but nodded. It seemed that the old man had indeed taken over this task when he was young.

The location given by the church also seems to be on the Ice Cap Island. Although it is called the Extremely Cold Triangle, the overall neutral location is the Ice Cap Island at the top of the triangle.

According to normal logic, and the fact that the ice cap island is colder than other islands.

Normal people would think this way.

"Just call me Alka."

"Okay, Alka, I will let the residents of our tribe cooperate with you."

As he said that, he couldn't wait to use his crutches and limped back towards the original road.

The young man came over immediately to help him.

After a while, a large number of tribesmen wearing various plush animal skins rushed over.

One of the strong men looked at Alka and said, "Are you Alka? The high priest asked us to listen to you."

Looking at the various digging tools in the hands of these tribesmen, they even brought their own tools.

nodded.

Start planning these people to dig into the inside of the iceberg.

…

The excavation operation is in full swing.

Even with the help of these tribesmen, it would be difficult to dig through without 10 days and a half.

Because the farther inside, the hardness of the ice became more and more outrageous, and the speed had to be slowed down.

When facing these stubborn ice blocks, Alka will use flames to burn out some focal points so that they can speed up the digging efficiency and save some strength.

And their ships also left the Arctic Triangle as early as the excavation started.

Jason and Pororo on the boat were going to some supply islands outside to buy some food and tools.

The hardness of these ice cubes greatly increased the wear and tear on the tools of the tribesmen.

Moreover, there is not much food on the island, so Alka can't let them go hungry to help him.

As time goes by.

The progress finally advanced 600 meters inside. According to Xia Daiti's detection, we can reach the top of the pit by digging about 160 meters further inside.

But here we encountered a problem.

The hardness of the ice has reached an extremely exaggerated level, no matter how the residents manipulate it. At most, it can only knock some debris off these ice surfaces.

Not as fast as these ice cubes can recover.

"Your mission is completed. These grains and tools have been given to you. Leave the rest to us."

Alka took out a gold coin bag from his arms, handed it to the man in front of him and said.

Seeing this situation, the strong man scratched the back of his head in annoyance.

"But we didn't help you dig in."

He felt a little embarrassed.

Alka and the others gave him new tools, enough food, and even money.

However, they have not yet completed their mission.

Seeing the simple appearance of these strong men, Alka smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay. Just leave the rest to us. Just tell the high priest."

The strong man nodded and said helplessly: "Well, you are really a generous person. I wish you all the best, and the Holy Mother bless you."

He said crossing his arms over his chest.

Alka nodded and returned the same greeting: "May the Holy Mother bless you."

After watching the residents of these tribes leave, Alka turned to look at the tunnel in the middle of the iceberg.

He said to Xia Detti beside him: "Let's go in and give it a try. Now we can only rely on ourselves."

With that said, several people walked into the tunnel, while Pororo stood outside and waited.

He was too big to spend a lot of time expanding the tunnel upwards because of him.

So even though he has great power, he can only watch and wait outside.