Chapter 447: The Gate to the Far North

In the cold world, the top of the snowy mountain seems to be within reach, yet out of reach. The cold wind is like a knife, blowing across the exposed rocks wantonly, rolling up waves of snowflakes, as if the ruthless years are carving their own traces.

"Bang."

As the trekking poles were inserted into the exposed rocks, this snowy mountain that had not been visited for many years welcomed the first batch of visitors.

The exploration team composed of dwarves and goblins is climbing up the snowy mountain.

Each member is equipped with a special strange armor made by the committee, which greatly improves the flexibility, survivability and sustainability of the strange armor at the cost of weakening defense.

However, as an exploration team that is going to explore outside for a long time, the supplies they can carry are relatively limited. Therefore,

Facing the falling snowflakes, they did not activate the shield, but let the snowflakes cover the strange armor.

A goblin explorer patted the white snow that was already several centimeters thick on his shoulder, and the heating array inside the armor was providing warmth.

Relying on the support of the strange armor, the exploration team has been able to persist until now.

Calvin looked firmly at the peak. He stroked the rough rocks with one hand, feeling the pulse of the mountain, and held the trekking pole tightly with the other hand, moving forward continuously.

In the vast Dragon Ridge Mountains, there are more than a dozen exploration teams similar to theirs. They explore separately, looking for the dwarf entrance to the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the north.

On the snowy mountain, there is no other sound except the sound of wind and the creaking sound underfoot. Every step seems extremely heavy, and the footprints on the snow are quickly filled.

As they climbed, the exploration team came to a natural platform on the mountainside. At Calvin's call, the team cleaned up the platform and rested on the spot.

Due to limited conditions, the members of the exploration team sat on the ground wearing strange equipment one by one.

They took out the compressed energy bar from their backpacks, and then activated the energy core. When the wind, snow and cold around them were excluded, they opened their helmets and threw the energy bar into their mouths.

After biting the energy bar, they closed their helmets and closed the energy core again.

Calvin stood on the edge of the platform, chewing a tasteless energy bar and looking at the vast mountains in front of him.

Dwarf Territory: The Far North Gate, where is it?

He took out the strange device issued by the committee from his backpack. On a metal plate wrapped in glass, the blue diamond pointer was pointing to the front of the mountain.

According to the committee, this pointer points to the direction of the frost dwarves. The only problem is that this group of frost dwarves seems to live inside the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

They seemed to have taken the initiative to scrap the Far North Gate and cut off contact with the outside world in order to avoid being involved in the bloody civil war after the collapse of the Clan Kingdom.

Their plan was probably successful. In the records of the civil war in the Silver Gate, there was no mention of the existence of the Frost Clan. After the civil war, the Silver Gate, which had lost a lot of information, did not even know that there was a section of the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the north that had been developed by the Clan Kingdom, let alone the Frost Clan inside.

They succeeded, and the committee was in trouble.

Although the location of the frost dwarves can be locked through the strange machine, the Far North Gate to the Dragon Spine Mountains cannot be found.

The committee cannot enter the Dragon Spine Mountains either. It is impossible for the committee to dig another passage to the interior of the mountains in this section of the Dragon Spine Mountains, right?

This is not impossible, but the cost of breaking ground in the Dragon Spine Mountains is too high. Even for the clan countries, it took countless years to slowly dig out the surface dwarf territory.

Moreover, even if the committee digs out a passage, it will not be of much use. Unless the committee increases its investment and builds a new surface dwarf territory based on the dug passage, it can only be used as an ordinary passage, and the cost-effectiveness is too low.

Therefore, the committee decided to send an exploration team to wander around the Dragon Spine Mountains to try their luck. It would be best if they could find the Far North Gate. If not, they would wait until the committee conquers the North Land, and Roland would take the time to come here in person.

Calvin bit the energy bar, raised his right hand, and started the armored terminal on his right hand. He enabled the built-in scanning function of the terminal.

According to the speculation within the committee, the scrapped Far North Gate is most likely buried in the ice and snow. Although the exact location is unknown, the committee has roughly locked the scope of the Far North Gate through the dwarf map and the efforts of the exploration team.

The terminal began to scan the area in front of it. The terminal raised the screen, passed through the ice and snow, and displayed the true appearance of the Dragon Ridge Mountains on the screen.

Calvin looked at the snow mountain structure on the screen, looking for artificial buildings or unnatural traces.

He first scanned the bottom of the mountain range, and everything he saw was not much different from what he had seen before. They were all natural terrains that were very common in this section of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, and he didn't see anything worth paying attention to.

After checking the bottom, Calvin also raised his right hand and began to check the situation above the Dragon Ridge Mountains bit by bit.

Calvin, who had been exploring the Dragon Ridge Mountains for several months, stared at the snow mountain structure displayed on the screen with some numbness.

And just as Calvin was accustomed to it and checking numbly, he saw a noteworthy terrain.

This seemed to be a concave pit, with a circular mountain wall surrounding the pit, ice and snow filling the entire pit, and below the pit, there were some uneven things.

This was not the first time he had found such a noteworthy terrain. He had found similar places several times before. He was very excited at first, but after digging several times and finding that it was just a natural pit, he was no longer so excited.

Of course, we still have to dig it.

Calvin marked this suspicious place on the terminal, and then continued to scan.

After scanning all areas of vision and confirming that there were no other places worth paying attention to, Calvin also sent the marked location to all members of the exploration team.

As the marked location was entered into their terminal device, the exploration team members who were resting behind Calvin also stood up one by one.

They patted the white snow on their bodies and walked behind Calvin one by one.

Then, the wings of the exploration team members' strange mechanical armors unfolded on their backs.

"Let's go."

After Calvin finished speaking, he activated the shield core and jumped off the platform in person. The members of the exploration team followed closely and jumped down one by one.

In the ice and snow of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, the exploration team members activated the shield core. Under the protection of the shield, the explorers unfolded their wing suits and flew quickly through the blizzard.

Relying on the mobility and flexibility provided by the wing suits, Calvin led the exploration team to the target location in less than ten minutes.

They landed on the thick ice and snow, looking down, all they could see was endless ice and snow. Putting away the wing suits, the explorers reopened the terminal and conducted a detailed scan of the terrain below. After confirming the location of the protrusion, the exploration team members took out the tools and began to dig down.

The explorers dug a one-meter-radius channel in the ice and snow, and the ice walls on both sides of the channel were reinforced with the magic array built into the strange armor to prevent collapse.

Although the ice became harder and harder as they went down, it was just ordinary ice and snow, and no matter how solid it was, it could not stop the explorers.

Soon, in less than half an hour, the explorers arrived under the ice and snow.

Calvin inserted a shovel into the ground, and when he shoveled out the ice and snow, he also mixed in a piece of bluish-white stone.

"Huh?"

Calvin stretched out his right hand and grabbed the shoveled stone. His right hand rubbed the stone, and Calvin's eyes lit up.

This stone has obvious traces of man-made, not a natural mineral. Although Calvin is not a clan dwarf who grew up in the Silver Gate, but a free dwarf who lives with his parents in the human town of Donnar, Calvin has a better understanding of dwarf craftsmanship thanks to his parents' education and inheritance.

In addition, although he prefers adventure and exploration to blacksmithing, he has also made up a lot of relevant knowledge in order to join the official exploration team of the committee.

He already has a certain foundation, coupled with his studies during the committee period and his experience in exploring the Dragon Ridge Mountains. Although Calvin is not a professional dwarf craftsman, he has a deeper understanding of dwarf craftsmanship than many dwarf craftsmen.

Take catering as an example. Calvin can't cook, but he can eat, and he can taste the ingredients and cooking methods used.

Based on his experience in exploring dwarven ruins in the Dragon Spine Mountains over the past few years, he knew at a touch that this thing was a dwarven artifact from the period of the Kingdom of Clans.

Although this is not necessarily the Far North Gate to the Dragon Spine Mountains, this is the first time that the committee has found traces of dwarven artifacts in the Dragon Spine Mountains in the north.

Given the harsh natural environment of the Dragon Spine Mountains in the north, even the Kingdom of Clans cannot build too many buildings on the ground, so there is a high probability that this is the Far North Gate.

Thinking of this, Calvin's eyes lit up and he quickly called on the members of the exploration team to speed up the excavation.

The exploration team quickly cleared the buildings under their feet. After clearing the ice and snow on both sides of the buildings,

what came into the eyes of the explorers was a wall in the classic style of the ancient dwarves.

Seeing the appearance of the wall, the members of the exploration team were overjoyed. According to the habits of the Kingdom of Clans, a place that can build a wall of this style would be a very important place even if it is not a dwarf territory.

After months of exploration and countless suspicious locations, we finally found the real dwarven ruins.

While other explorers continued to dig, Calvin flew out of the passage and turned on the communication device on the snow.

After turning on the communication device and finding that the signal was not very good, Calvin did not hesitate and directly activated the strong connection mode, greatly improving the signal connection at the cost of increasing energy consumption.

After the signal was connected, Calvin sent all the news and coordinates of the discovery of the dwarven ruins to the committee, and then maintained the strong connection mode, waiting for the committee's reply.

After waiting for a few minutes, Calvin also received a response from the committee's exploration headquarters.

Decide whether to dig on your own to send follow-up support.

After receiving the response, Calvin also replied, he released the strong connection mode, he first used local materials,

and used ice and snow to create a large tower mark on the snow.

Then, after replacing a new energy crystal for the communication device, Calvin also jumped back into the passage and followed the team members to dig the ruins under his feet.

As members who were sent by the committee to explore the North, the exploration team had at least five years of experience in ruins exploration. Therefore, the experienced exploration team quickly came down from the wall and groped their way to the floor.

Subsequently, through the scanning of the terminal, the explorers' perceptions and their rich exploration experience, the explorers looked through the floor and determined the existence of the underground layer.

Calvin took out the special alchemy potion and mithril tools from his backpack. He squatted on the floor and simply arranged a magic circle on the floor with the mithril tools. Then, he opened the alchemy potion and moved towards the center of the magic circle. Fall down.

The floor was quickly corroded by the rapid alchemy potion. Calvin took out a foldable stick from his backpack.

Activating it, the entire stick became red hot.

Later, Calvin used a stick to poke at the place where the potion was corroded, and heating made the potion more effective.

After a series of operations, Calvin finally penetrated the floor. He pulled out the stick, refolded it and put it away. He stretched out his senses and observed the situation on the underground floor through the small hole made.

Compared to the dwarf ruins that Calvin had explored before, this underground level was not only empty, but also very clean. The frost dwarves seemed to have had time to clean it up before leaving.

Calvin thought for a while, then took out a bottle of silver-white potion from his backpack, and poured all the silver-white liquid into the underground through this small hole.

The silver-white liquid fell to the ground through the small hole, and then it was activated and the liquid began to gather.

A small silver-white metallic spider formed.

Under Calvin's control, the little spider began to scan and deeply explore the underground layer, checking various traps and dwarf runes that were common in dwarf ruins.

While Calvin controlled the little spider, other explorers began to carefully expand the cave.

It took the explorers most of the day to find a small passage that allowed them to enter the underground layer. At the same time, the little spider controlled by Calvin had also penetrated deep into the underground layer and found the underground layer. marked.

Gate to the Far North.

Through the little spider, Calvin saw the extremely vague ancient dwarf writing on the stone pillars.

Although the text is very vague, if the Gate of the Far North in the ancient dwarf text corresponds to it, the remaining traces will match up.

I actually found it.

Calvin put away the terminal, sighed inwardly, followed the explorer, and jumped into the underground level through the passage.