Chapter 163 There is strength in numbers

Author: Don’t drink Coke?

Chapter 163 There is strength in numbers

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

The last 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.

They kept burning the iceberg in front of them, causing it to begin to melt. After burning for a period of time, the others 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 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 others looked at the gap in front of them, which looked like it was three or four meters deep.

"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 becomes 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 cost 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 his 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 began to dig 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, but 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 is formed, but this piece of frozen soil is even harder than the ice above, and digging a tunnel downward is simply not feasible.

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 few 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.

The current situation seems to be like this.

Spend 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.

Just now they thought of cutting down the surrounding trees and burning them to melt the ice.

But to be honest, there are not many trees around, 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 destroy 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 Lucilia said at the same time.

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

Lucilia on the shoulder patted Alka's face: "You go ahead and say it."

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.
To be continued...