Chapter 163 Ice Cone
Sometimes having too many people is not necessarily a good thing.

Faced with so many enthusiastic hunters who came to help search for Ye Zheng's whereabouts, if Ye Zheng still had some sanity left, he would probably feel a lot of pressure, right?
Feng Ling and Li Qing returned to the team in silence.

The hunters had almost rested, and everyone set out again towards area B.

Compared to the cold and strenuous march through the snowy forest, the journey in Area D was incredibly smooth for them.

Li Qing was multitasking. While following the team, he used his mobile phone to search the Internet for information on Slavic mythology.

Two hours later, the team finally arrived at the outskirts of Area B.

There are many ice cones more than one person tall piled on the ground here. Dozens of meters away, you can see the space wall with ripples and the raging blizzard at the other end of the space.

The cold frightened the hunters.

The wind and snow in area B seem to be stronger and colder than in area A.

Li Qing was browsing the web, but the network signal on his phone was reduced to 1 bar, so the web page failed to load.

He put away his phone and looked up for Feng Ling. Seeing that Feng Ling had put on his winter clothes again and was about to enter the Area B maze, he quickly covered the weasel in his arms with both hands, trying to keep it warm.

The team was silent and depressed.

Perhaps it was because the severe cold was so unbearable that it extinguished the passion in the hunters' hearts.

When you are about to enter area B, you can almost feel the cold wind and snow in the maze as if cutting a knife.

Xu Yiming in the team hesitated for a moment and called out to Feng Ling, the leader: "Feng Ling, wait a moment."

Feng Ling turned around and looked at him.

Xu Yiming turned around and looked at Su Yuqing behind him, and said hesitantly: "Old Su, why don't you stay outside? I think it's snowing hard inside. If you go in with us, you probably won't be able to handle it."

Su Yuqing coughed softly and panted as he replied, "I came all the way here just to find Ye Zheng. Now that the maze is in front of me, you want me to stay outside?"

He exhaled a few times and said anxiously, "Alright, let's go now. Don't worry about me. I have other clones anyway. Just take care of yourself."

"No, can you not be so stubborn?" Xu Yiming frowned and said, "Given your current situation, you can't help much even if you go in. I have to find Ye Zheng and take care of you. Can you just think of it as reducing my burden?"

Xu Yiming felt very uncomfortable.

He has a wide social circle and many friends, but there are only two or three close friends with whom he can confide, and Su Yuqing and Ye Zheng are among them.

Now Ye Zheng’s whereabouts are unknown. If anything happens to Su Yuqing again, he will blame himself for the rest of his life.

As for Su Yuqing's clone ability, Xu Yiming knew it better than anyone else. Every time Su Yuqing created a clone, it consumed a lot of energy! Of course, it was better for the clone to be alive than dead!
The two started arguing outside the maze.

Feng Ling could not judge this matter and could only watch the fun from the sidelines.

At this moment, a hunter in the team suddenly shouted: "Look at these ice cones! There are people in the ice!!!"

Everyone was startled and subconsciously looked towards the nearby ice cones.

There happened to be an ice cone next to Feng Ling. He took a quick glance but couldn't tell what was inside.

This kind of ice cone is somewhat like an ice lump formed after melting snow. It is thick at the bottom and thin at the top. It is not transparent, but layers of gray, with mud, sand and dead leaves inside.

Feng Ling took a few steps closer.

There was a vague outline of a human figure wrapped in the ice.

It's too blurry and I can't see clearly at all.

She was just thinking about whether to break the ice to check, but a hunter had already done what she wanted to do -

Click!

Very crisp sound of breaking ice.

Then someone yelled "Fuck!" and all the hunters gathered around. "It's really a person!"

"It's the hunter who came in with us! The winter clothes he's wearing are the same as the ones we're wearing!"

Feng Ling also hurried over to take a look.

I saw that a layer of ice on the side of the ice cone was scraped off, and half of the arm of the corpse was torn off. However, what flowed out of the crack in the corpse was not blood, but a red and white gelatinous substance.

This scene is really weird.

Judging from the posture of the corpse, the person should have been alive when he was made into an ice cone. Why is there no sign of resistance? And the inside of the body has become such a horrible state...

The hunters were all a little angry when they saw their compatriots being killed.

They looked around vigilantly and checked other ice cones, trying to find survivors.

"There are people in here too!" another hunter shouted.

For fear of hurting the person inside the ice, they were more careful this time when breaking the ice, but what they got was a hollow skin bag.

Xu Yiming examined it carefully. There was no flesh or bones. Inside the ice cone, there was only a layer of skin that was frozen as hard as cardboard.

Is this still a person?

It was just like...it was drained from the inside.

"The winter clothing this person is wearing is different from ours." Xu Yiming said thoughtfully, "He might be from the previous expedition team."

When Su Yuqing mentioned the expedition team, he immediately became excited. He squeezed through the crowd and wanted to check the body himself.

Xu Yiming took off a watch from Pi Nang's hand and sighed softly, "It's not Ye Zheng, it's Gu Xizhe."

He saw the engraving on the back of the watch.

Everyone fell silent.

Gu Xizhe was also among the first batch of people to participate in the experiment. Although his card growth in the later period was not as significant as Ye Zheng's, he was definitely a leader among the inspectors and was very popular among the people.

But who could have imagined that an elite member of the Supervisory Bureau would die in this way.

Some people bowed their heads and said nothing.

Someone's eyes were red.

Xu Yiming carefully put away Gu Xizhe's watch, put it in the innermost pocket of his clothes, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go."

Feng Ling glanced at the expressions of the crowd and thought this might be an opportunity, so he said, "Even Gu Xizhe is in trouble. It must be very dangerous in Area B. Why don't we act separately?"

Xu Yiming was slightly stunned and looked up at her.

"No matter what your plan is, I must go in there." Su Yuqing said with a cold face.

He was still very excited, completely different from his usual reserved and humble self.

Feng Ling looked at the hunters calmly, "Everyone came to participate in the cleanup operation, and we have actually achieved our goal. We have eliminated a large number of contaminated bodies in Area A. Entering Area B to look for people is an additional plan. However, now that we have discovered that there are highly dangerous and deadly creatures in the maze, I think that for safety reasons, everyone should make a new choice and make a careful choice. Is it necessary to risk your life to look for a stranger?"

Xu Yiming nodded upon hearing this. "That's right. There are too many unknown dangers in the maze. There is no need for all of us to go in. I'm not afraid to say something sentimental. Those who choose to stay don't mean they are cowards, because someone has to become the spark. We can't all die, right?"

The hunters looked hesitant.

They do not consider themselves cowardly; it is precisely because they dare to fight against alien species that they sign up for the clearing operation.

But if even a person like Gu Xizhe cannot handle the dangers in the maze, it will indeed make people retreat.

At this time, Li Qing added another handful of firewood and slowly said: "I think... I may know what creature did this."

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