Chapter 1912: Shante Island
"I can only send you here. If you get closer to the waters of Shante Island, the isinglass on the bottom of the boat will melt due to the water temperature." Old Taran lowered the sail, slowed the boat down, and looked at the man standing on the boat. Leo explained, and then asked curiously again: "Are you really not a god?"
Although some time had passed, the scene of Leo appearing in front of him still reappeared in his mind from time to time. Mountain-like icebergs shattered into ice shards in front of his eyes, and a man fell from the sky like a god. , such a scene perfectly matched the various descriptions about gods he had seen in those books. He asked the same question at that time as he does now, but the other party denied it.
"No!" Leo looked at Old Taran and gave the same answer. His eyes fell on the Shent Island that was clearly visible in front of him again. At the same time, he used his mental network to scan the island over and over again. .
After hearing this, Old Taran was silent for a moment, and then asked with concern: "Is it true that extreme cold weather will never happen again?"
"No." Leo gave a simple answer while receiving the information fed back by the spirit network. However, after finishing the answer, he felt that it was too simple, so he added: "Although there is no such extreme cold climate, The temperature is still not very high, and if you are not well protected from the cold, you can still freeze to death. In addition, if you want to cross the sea and go north, it is best to wait for a while, because the icebergs on the sea are melting, and it will be very dangerous in the near future. It is better to wait for all the icebergs to melt before crossing the sea to the land. Also, don't get close to the crystal forest. It is best not to go ashore. Instead, sail north along the coastline. After seeing the Verland Mountains, go ashore and then head west along the mountains. As we move forward, we should see the members of the Redemption Order when we see the Veran Cross-border Highway."
Old Taran asked anxiously: "Is the Redemption Order really as good as you say?"
It's no wonder that Old Taran asked this question, because all the books he had read that mentioned religion described religion as the most ignorant and crazy organization, like human sacrifice. It happened from time to time. In short, the image of religion in his mind was basically equated with evil.
However, he learned from Leo that the entire land was now ruled by a religion called the Redemption Order, which made him worry about the future situation of himself and the people on the island.
Although, he could also completely pretend not to know about the Redemption Order, and not tell the people on the island that the extreme cold climate has disappeared, and let the people on the island continue to stay on the island, not cross the sea to the land, and continue to live in isolation from the world. He continued to live as if they were the only survivors in the world, but after he heard about the purpose of the Redemption Order, he was absolutely sure that even if they did not go to land, the Redemption Order would definitely go to sea and find them in a few years. They will be even more passive when they are unprepared.
Faced with Old Taran's worries, Leo did not say any words of relief. What needed to be said had been said on the way before. As for whether Old Taran and the descendants of the survivors who were alone overseas would return to land. , he didn’t care whether he wanted to join the Redemption Order or not. After collecting enough scanned information about Shent Island through the spiritual network, he made an appointment directly from the bow of the ship, and then he stayed close to the sea towards Shent Island. Fly away.
Seeing Leo display his miraculous flying ability again, Old Taran temporarily forgot his worries and stared straight at Leo's flying back until he completely disappeared from sight.
Although Leo did not give any reference response or suggestion to his last question, Old Taran already had the answer in his heart, because he found that he had no choice at all. With his understanding of the current situation on the island, , in another hundred years, the island's resources may no longer be able to meet the needs of the island's population. At that time, they will either perish together, or leave the island and return to the land, so instead of passively returning to the land by then , it is better to take the initiative to return to the land now, and proactively contact the controlling forces on the land is the right choice.
Thinking of this, Old Taran tightened the scarf around his neck, quickly turned the rudder, turned the sailboat in one direction, pulled up all the sails, and sailed towards Garcia Island.
At the same time, Leo, who was flying rapidly on the sea, encountered the first attacker, a giant octopus infected by the power of the abyss. When Leo flew over its feeding area, it quickly stretched out dozens of fish from the sea. The rotten tentacles formed after the root mutated tried to catch Leo.
Leo had no intention of taking action at all. Instead, he controlled the psychic wings and slid through the gaps between the tentacles like a flexible fish. In the blink of an eye, he passed through the interception net composed of dozens of rotten tentacles. Just when avoiding the attack of the last rotten tentacle, his toes not only tapped the tentacles, but also contained the power of the abyss serpent. It was like a catalyst for some super powerful effect, instantly making the giant octopus contain The aura of abyssal power became extremely active, prompting the abyssal infection and corruption of the giant octopus's body to accelerate. Then the entire body of the giant octopus mutated into a foam shape and instantly collapsed into a pool of smelly juice.
In order to avoid being attacked by mutant creatures like the giant octopus that hunts completely on instinct and is contaminated by the power of the abyss, Leo released the breath of the abyss snake directly after dealing with the giant octopus, instantly causing the mutant creatures around to flee quickly. Until he landed on the special black rock formed by the cooling of the volcanic lava on the shore of the Shante Island, no mutant creatures came out to attack him again.
Leo's sight swept across the towering active volcano in front of him, and then fell on the volcanic rocks in the distance that were almost completely buried by the cooling lava.
Obviously, this volcano has had more than one large-scale eruption in the past hundred years, and the result of the eruption is that the area of the volcanic island has expanded outward by a large circle. The tourist buildings and facilities originally built on the coast of the volcanic island were also buried by the volcanic lava and moved to the inside of the island.
Until now, the giant volcano is still active. A large amount of lava emerges from the top of the mountain, forming six or seven lava flows that roll along the steep mountain, turning into lava rivers, flowing into the sea, and constantly cooling in the sea water, forming new coasts, making the island larger and larger.
According to the records Leo saw, when the disaster came, there should be a large number of staff on Shant Island responsible for the daily maintenance of various tourist equipment. Now these staff either died in the volcanic eruption or have migrated to Garcia Island.
If the volcano on Shant Island is not in an active period, this island is the most suitable place to live in the world now, because under the effect of geothermal heat, the temperature of this island is very comfortable, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as spring all year round. But then again, if the volcano on Shant Island is not active, there will not be enough heat to resist the low temperature cold wave sweeping the whole world.
On the surface, there is no life on this island, but in fact, the number of lives here is absolutely beyond imagination. Not to mention the reptiles and earthworms hidden underground that are contaminated by the abyss, just the abyss creatures hidden in the lava are enough to make those who rashly run to the island never return, and even if these people are lucky enough to survive the attacks of mutants and abyss creatures, it is probably difficult to survive the danger of being infiltrated and infected by the power of the abyss. Yes, at this moment, the entire Shant Island and the first-line sea area near the coast are full of the breath of the abyss.
In the world before the disaster, the Eye of the World wonder on Shant Island was the most famous wonder in the world. At least hundreds of thousands of people came here to watch this wonder every year, and those people did not have any problems of being eroded by the power of the abyss. Therefore, although the Eye of the World at the top of the crater of Shant Island was connected to the abyss outside, the laws of the world still took effect, blocking the penetration of the abyss power.
Now the Eye of the World at the top of the crater should have undergone some unpredictable changes, not only leaking the breath of the abyss in, but also allowing some abyss creatures to run into this world.
However, this world still rejects the power of the abyss, which prevents those low-level abyss creatures from going deep into this world. They can only move within the abyss domain formed by the Shant Island.
Although these abyss creatures are not dangerous now, as Sylvia interferes with and destroys the camouflage rules of this world, this world's rejection of the power of the abyss will also weaken. At that time, the abyss creatures here are likely to leave Shant Island and go to other parts of the world to invade and pollute this world in a normal way. Garcia Island, which is not too far from here, may be the first victim.
However, Leo did not worry about the survivors on Garcia Island. Now that he has discovered these people, he believes that Sylvia should have discovered these people as well. It won't be long before she sends people to Garcia Island to contact them.
With the elimination of the Kam worm queen in Leo's crystal forest, and his killing of the tree demon Quirin and taking away Quirin's soul, the power source core inside the crystal forest completely collapsed, and the special energy field formed by the entire crystal forest also quickly weakened and disappeared. The most intuitive feeling is that the crystal forest can no longer absorb heat from the surrounding air, which directly leads to the rapid rise in temperature in the southern land. Even if this temperature rise is cold for ordinary people, compared with the previous extreme low temperature that would freeze to death in a short time even with cold-proof equipment, the temperature in the south is now almost the same as that in the north. As long as you are well prepared, you can move around in the southern land.
In addition, the special power contained in the trees in the crystal forest that can infect any creature has also disappeared. Creatures entering the forest will not crystallize even if they touch the trees in the forest. Even the entire crystal forest may disappear completely after a while.
However, there should be some secrets in the crystal forest, because when he passed through the crystal forest, he could sense that there were several strong energy reactions underground in the crystal forest, and it seemed that something was being nurtured.
Although the energy reaction was very strong, with the current capabilities of the Redemption Order, there should be a way to deal with the source of these energies, so he did not intervene in this matter and left the Crystal Forest directly.
Since he did not intend to intervene in the Crystal Forest, he also did not intend to intervene in the current Garcia Island affairs.
He paused for a while, compared the data obtained from the mental network scan according to the situation he saw, quickly formulated a response plan in his mind, and then walked towards the top of the volcano.
At this time, he did not use the psychic wings to fly directly to the top of the volcano, because the surrounding environment was not very friendly to psychic energy. Not only the environment on the island, but also the sea area near the island had formed a suppression effect on psychic energy. For the same psychic skill, he needed to spend more than ten times the power to exert the normal effect, so he chose to let Lao Talan drive the sailboat to send him to the edge of the island. Otherwise, if he used the psychic wings, the psychic energy in his body might have been consumed when he set foot on the island.
Although he has various powers in his body, psychic energy is not the strongest among the many powers in his body, but if he encounters an enemy, he is more accustomed to using psychic energy to fight the enemy, so he has more psychic power in his body, and it will be easier for him to deal with emergencies.
Just now, through the scanning of the mental network, Leo has discovered various dangers hidden on the island, and it is not difficult for Leo to deal with these dangers. Just leaking a trace of the breath of the crystal snake has suppressed all the creatures on the island that are close to the abyss.
Soon Leo came to the crater on the top of the mountain, and saw that the lava in the crater had formed a huge lava lake. A large amount of highly toxic smoke came out of the lava, and rushed into the air under the guidance of the hot air, forming a black cloud column formed by poisonous smoke and connected with the sky.
Blood-red lightning constantly erupted in the black cloud column, and groups of blue-purple flames burned in the black cloud, and the eye-catching Eye of the World was suspended in the middle of the black cloud column. From time to time, a blood-red light was projected from the middle of the Eye of the World and swept across the island, and those creatures directly exposed to the light immediately mutated. A few were able to survive the mutation and gain new power, while the vast majority of creatures directly disintegrated into a mass of rotten meat during the mutation and turned into food for other abyss creatures.
In Leo's eyes, all the scenes such as poisonous flames and black clouds became blurred. What he saw was the space rift in the core of the Eye of the World. What surprised him was that the other side of the space rift did not seem to be an abyss of panic. Instead, it seemed that there was some huge creature blocking the other side of the space rift. From time to time, some black oil similar to blood seeped in from the other side of the rift and merged into the surrounding poisonous flames and black clouds.