Chapter 416: Chapter 415: Return Chapter 416: Chapter 415: Return “Crack!”
The fiery red figure struggled to fly up from the Great Rift Valley, collapsing onto the snow as soon as it steadied itself.
Its feathers were disheveled and dull, its widespread wings trembled slightly, obviously devoid of any strength left.
Several mbers of the Fire Phoenix army in protective gear imdiately surrounded it, pulling out dicines to spray on its wings, while others patted incessantly to promote absorption of the dicine.
Zhao Li walked over from a distance, glanced at the exhausted Fire Phoenix Pheasant, and asked with a heavy voice, “Hao Zi, how’s it going?”
“Reporting to the deputy leader, we’ve explored to a depth of over a thousand ters, but this is already the limit for the Fire Phoenix Pheasant. Regarding Professor Chen’s side…” Tong Hao looked towards a nearby tent and continued, “Unless a few Generals personally co over or we invite a more professional team…”
“We’ve run out of options.”
Zhao Li looked silently into the pitch-dark Great Rift Valley, then turned towards the tent.
Standing at the tent entrance, Zhao Li hesitated for a mont, “Professor Chen”
“Co in.”
Inside the tent, with simple instrunts placed around, a small ball-like Ice Plateau Saber-Toothed Tiger was tearing and biting at a sleeping bag.
Chen Yixing was seated at a makeshift desk in a white lab coat, looking at a docunt laid out in front of her for a long ti without turning it.
Her dimly lit curly hair draped near her ears, making her look sowhat haggard.
Zhao Li glanced at the helt on Chen Yixing’s desk, his Adam’s apple moving up and down; he knew it belonged to Shao Zifeng.
The day they arrived next to the valley, aside from so ssy traces, there was nothing but a helt lying in the snow.
“If you have sothing to say, just say it.”
Chen Yixing’s voice was sowhat cold, still looking down at the blank docunt before her.
“Professor, a thousand ters below the Rift Valley is already the limit of our exploration. I believe that continuing to waste ti like this is pointless. It’d be better to seek help from within the country, although…” Zhao Li really wanted to say that even this would be pointless.
The bottom of the Great Rift Valley was out of sight, and even with Shao Zifeng’s powerful pet, the chances of survival were almost nonexistent.
This was virtually the consensus among everyone, with only Chen Yixing still holding on.
“Hmm, anything else?”
Chen Yixing’s tone was unfluctuating, as if discussing a trivial matter of no concern.
Zhao Li stood for a mont longer, said nothing else, and left the tent.
After he left, silence returned to the tent. The Ice Plateau Saber-Toothed Tiger stumbled over to Chen Yixing’s side, hugging her leg in an attempt to get her attention.
But Chen Yixing remained statue-like, staring blankly at the helt on the table.
“aningless, huh…”
Chen Yixing picked up her phone and dialed a number, “Haiyuan, how’s it going with the task?”
“Professor, things are going smoothly. The superiors have already agreed to halt the construction of the new station and have the construction team use more professional equipnt to search,” Haiyuan said before pausing and continuing, “I’ll escort them on the way and make sure they hurry over.”
“By the way, Old Master Gu asked when you’re planning to return to the Imperial Capital. It seems the research institute has made another breakthrough.”
“Let’s talk about that later!”
She hung up the phone.
Chen Yixing sat quietly for a while, preparing to write her paper on the ‘Star’ attribute.
No matter whether Shao Zifeng could survive or not, this honor belonged to him.
Glancing at her wristwatch out of habit, Chen Yixing suddenly sat up straight.
Seeing a red dot that had appeared on her watch, her face showed a mix of sorrow and joy.
Before long, Zhao Li and the others suddenly received notification from Chen Yixing.
“Everyone, stop all activities and set off imdiately to ice do Point A.”
…
In Antarctica, the fierce cold wind seed to never stop, whipping up snow dust that draped this ancient continent in a veil of white.
The continuous snowy peaks were covered with thick snow, constantly blown away by the wind. Under the leaden clouds, the mountain tops appeared to emit wisps of smoke.
At the foot of the mountains, the void suddenly twisted.
A deep blue dot swirled and expanded, forming a half-human-high deep blue vortex.
Thump!
Two dark figures were spat out one after the other, the deep blue vortex vanishing imdiately afterward.
“Ugh—”
Shao Zifeng doubled over, hunched on the ground, continuously dry-heaving due to the dizziness from the teleportation.
The burly toothed dragon extended its disproportionately small front claws, cocked its head for a glance, and finally quietly withdrew them.
“Damn it, if I use a teleportation array again I’ll… ugh—”
Before he could finish his sentence, spasms in his abdon made him involuntarily dry-heave again.
After a while, the residual effects of teleportation slowly dissipated.
The bone-chilling wind made him shiver uncontrollably.
Shao Zifeng, his face pale, tightened his protective suit and looked blankly around.
It seed to be a place he had never been before.
But now was not the ti to think about this; without proper equipnt, he urgently needed a place to hide.
“Yaya, make a hole for in the mountain.”
“Roar!”
The toothed dragon let out a protesting growl, clearly dissatisfied with the na.
“Co on, we’ll talk about the na later, later, later, I’m freezing to death here.”
The toothed dragon didn’t hesitate any longer. Its amber eyes glowed with a green light, and tiny swirls of wind appeared on the snow around its claws. Then, with a roar, it charged towards the nearest snow peak.
Boom!
With a loud rumble, the toothed dragon stood up from the rubble, looking towards Shao Zifeng with a tinge of pride.
Shao Zifeng looked up, his eyes wide.
His body was trembling, whether from the cold or sothing else.
“Gurgle?”
The toothed dragon cocked its head, looking up with so confusion.
Thick snow from the violently shaking mountain rolled down, engulfing everything in its path.
Damn it.
Shao Zifeng cursed under his breath.
“Run for it!”
With that, he sprinted off.
The toothed dragon also realized what was happening and, no longer concerned with pride, scrambled toward Shao Zifeng, each heavy step sending vibrations through the ground.
As he ran, Shao Zifeng glanced back and yelled, “Idiot, use Hurricane Wings!”
“Woo~”
The toothed dragon let out a pitiful growl, its eyes twinkling with green light again.
Ghostly wind elents ford a blurred pair of wings on its back, and its speed instantly increased, catching up with Shao Zifeng in a mont.
It extended its forelimbs.
Caught by the two stubby forelimbs of the toothed dragon, Shao Zifeng felt like a ragdoll being tossed in the wind, lifted off the ground by the running creature, then bumping heavily against its relatively soft belly.
It was an extrely unpleasant feeling and much worse compared to Qiuqiu.
After a while, the avalanche finally stopped.
Shao Zifeng, still being carried by the toothed dragon, kept nagging, “Can’t you use your brain? Last ti it was a rockslide, this ti you go head-first into a mountain.”
“Do you realize how dumb that is?”
“Woo—”
(PS: Thank you to the generous big boss for the one hundred thousand reward; truthfully, this month’s reward feels like a shot of adrenaline to . I’m not ashad to tell you all that my daily manuscript fee is only about ten yuan. I often joke in the group that I run on love. The reason I’ve persisted for so long is not only because this is my first book, but also because I made a promise a long ti ago to finish it, even though I’m not sure if those I promised are still reading. The addition of more content was so sudden, so we’ll postpone it until tomorrow.)
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