Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"boom!"

"boom!"

The sudden collapse of the ice shell made Gloria, who was falling rapidly, panic. Looking at Han Zu who was speeding up to catch up with her from above, Gloria instinctively wanted to get closer to him, so she wanted to learn from Han Zu and use the thrust generated by the flames to get to Han Zu's side.

But because of her fear of falling, Gloria couldn't concentrate. As a result, the explosive thrust caused by several attempts not only made her farther and farther away from Han Zu, but also increased her falling speed several times.

"Don't move! Focus!"

However, the loud noise caused by the explosion made Gloria unable to hear Han Zu's shouts, so the distance between Gloria and Han Zu became farther and farther, and even around Gloria, there appeared air waves that only appeared when moving at high speeds.

At this moment, Gloria saw a huge ball of fire above her in panic, followed by an explosion. Immediately afterwards, there seemed to be a ball of mist of unclear color flying towards her at an abnormally fast speed. This strange sight made Gloria stunned for a moment.

Because of this, Gloria temporarily stopped her attempt at the power of fire, and her descent speed no longer increased rapidly. At the same time, the mist also came in front of Gloria.

“Crack…Crack!”

Then, in Gloria's puzzled eyes, the mist instantly reorganized into a familiar human figure, it was Han Zu. Han Zu stretched out his arm towards Gloria, and several tentacles immediately appeared on it, bound Gloria's limbs, and pulled her over.

After grabbing Gloria and using his tentacles to fix her on his back, Han Zu's body created an energy charge to the side. The explosive thrust generated pushed Han Zu and Gloria on his back quickly to the edge. After repeating this several times, Han Zu saw the rock wall next to him and released energy charge again. This time, Han Zu's fingers penetrated the mineral layer at that position and pierced into the ice shell behind it.

“Ka-la-la…”

But the impact force began to cause the ice shell to shatter. Before the ice shell shattered, dozens of sturdy tentacles immediately emerged from Han Zu's two arms, broke through the ice shell, and pierced into the rocks behind. Only then did he stabilize his body on the rock wall and stopped falling.

“Hu…Hu…Hu…”

Gloria behind him was still in shock and gasping for breath.

"How are you?"

Gloria hadn't come to her senses yet and didn't answer Han Zu's words, so Han Zu used his tentacles to whip Gloria's back. Although the pain made Gloria grimace, she finally came to her senses because of this.

"I'm fine... I almost fell to my death, thank you."

Theoretically speaking, Gloria should not be killed from the fall. Even if she falls from a high height and is smashed into a pulp, it will only take a long time to recover. After all, Han Zu's physique is like this. But Han Zu has many kinds of abilities in his body. He is not sure whether his super strong physique is formed by the superposition of multiple powers. So Han Zu is not sure whether Gloria is the same, so he didn't say anything.

After resting for a while, Gloria's spirit returned to normal. She imitated Han Zu, penetrated the rock layer with her fingers, and fixed herself to the rock wall.

"Are you feeling better? Are you afraid of heights or something? I saw you were really panicking just now."

“Phew… come on! It’s so high, even if you don’t have acrophobia you’ll get scared, okay? Not to mention I’m falling.”

"Okay, how about you take a rest here and I'll go down first?"

After saying that, Han Zu loosened one of his hands, and half of his body dangled in the air, as if looking for a suitable angle. However, Gloria, who saw this scene, suddenly grabbed Han Zu.

"What do you want to do?"

"Just jump down. Climbing step by step is too slow."

"Jump down?! Aren't you afraid of falling to your death?!"

"I can't die from a fall. Theoretically, you should be the same, but there are multiple powers in my body. I'm not sure if this physique is caused by this, so I didn't tell you just now."

However, even though Han Zu explained this to Gloria, Gloria was still not ready to let go. Perhaps it was because she was still in shock from the fall, and Gloria was unwilling to let Han Zu leave no matter what.

"Okay then, I'll have a cigarette."

When he reached for the cigarette box, Han Zu took out another object from his pocket first. It looked like a smart watch display without a strap. There was very little on it. Judging from the text on it, it should be something used to display altitude.

"-25 meters"

This thing is actually a very precise altitude measuring instrument. No matter where it is, as long as there is power, after maintaining the current altitude for a few seconds, this measuring instrument can accurately measure the altitude of its location. Since it does not need to be connected to other devices, except for running out of power, this thing will hardly be affected by any shielding signals. It is also the only device on Han Zu and Gloria that can still work.

Coincidentally, this thing was originally thrown on the shuttle. As for how long it had been thrown there, Han Zu had long forgotten. If Gloria had not mistaken it for a watch and put it in Han Zu's pocket, this thing should still be used as a decoration on the shuttle's control panel.

It was because of this little episode that Han Zu realized that something was wrong. When the two of them fell just now, they did not pay attention to other things. Han Zu was busy rescuing people, and Gloria was still in shock. Only when they saw the height value displayed on the calculator did they start to take it seriously.

"The scanner on the shuttle didn't detect that the mountain was completely empty."

"And we didn't detect that there was such a deep hole underneath."

Gloria glanced down, her head buzzed, and she quickly moved closer to the rock wall. As for why she reacted so strongly, there were two reasons.

First, Gloria was originally the commander of a combat team. Although she had rich experience in battlefield combat and her own strength was acceptable, she had never had such experience as falling from almost the top of the mountain to an altitude of -25.

Secondly, it doesn't mean that this is the bottom. The height below is so damn deep that even Han Zu, with his abnormal vision, can't see the bottom. The instinctive panic and imagination of falling made Gloria react so strongly. But after all, it is human nature. Even Han Zu, who doesn't care much about other people's feelings, can understand it.

"You, you, you... give me a puff!"

"Hey! I'll just get you another one, why are you trying to grab the half I have in my mouth?"

"Cough! Cough! Cough..."

Watching Han Zu hanging on the rock wall with his tentacles and smoking comfortably, Gloria also wanted to take a cigarette to calm her emotions and cool her mind, but Gloria did not know how to smoke, so it was obvious that she was choked by Han Zu's cigarette, which was spicier than ordinary tobacco. She kept coughing, and the half cigarette in her hand fell from her hand.

"You! What a waste!"

Although he said this, Han Zu just ordered another one and didn't actually care.

"Tsk~~"

But at this moment, Gloria heard the sound of a burning cigarette butt being extinguished by water. For some reason, Gloria was sure that what she heard was not an auditory hallucination, but she really heard this sound.

"Did you hear that?"

"What? I didn't hear anything?"

"There seems to be water underneath."

"water?"

Han Zu broke off a piece of rock from the rock wall, let go and let it fall. After waiting for a long time, Han Zu heard nothing.

"Pfft!!"

But Gloria heard the sound of something heavy falling into the water, and could even tell from the reverberation of the sound that the water level below was very high.

"There must be water down here. I heard the rock you just threw down fall into the water."

"Why didn't I hear it?"

"Let's go down and have a look."

According to Gloria, the water surface below should be very far away from the two of them, so in order to save time, Gloria climbed onto Han Zu's back and descended quickly with Han Zu's guidance. However, due to Gloria's repeated attempts to stop him, Han Zu did not choose to jump directly, but instead slid down quickly with the help of the rock wall.

About half an hour later, according to the altitude reading on the calculator, their current altitude was about -1200 meters. According to Gloria's recollection, the sound of a heavy object falling into the water should have occurred at this location.

But the strange thing is that neither Han Zu nor Gloria herself saw the existence of water surface, nor even any other liquid. Fortunately, they could see the bottom of this huge hole, which was still about one or two hundred meters away from where they were now.

"Okay, at this height, we can both jump down without getting hurt. Can we jump this time?"

"Ok."

As soon as Han Zu let go, the two of them fell down, but after only one or two meters, a situation occurred that made them both very confused.

"Pfft!"

There was nothing in front of them, but they seemed to have fallen into the water and were floating in the air. Gloria paddled her hands and floated up from under the "water", feeling very strange.

Han Zu did not use any swimming movements. He was like an indescribable alien creature, wandering in the air with dozens of tentacles of different sizes. No one knew what he was thinking of, but he suddenly grabbed Gloria's ankles above and pulled her down.

However, the panicked Gloria found nothing unusual about herself as soon as she went down. The expected drowning did not occur. Not only was she breathing, but even speaking was without any problem. But the feeling from her body and the situation of floating in the air made her sure that she and Han Zu were definitely in some liquid that felt like water.

"What is...what is going on? What are we inside?"

"I don't know, but it's completely... I can't say transparent, that's too general. Let me put it like a kind of... liquid that can only be sensed by touch?"

No matter what this liquid is, its capacity is very large. A rough estimate is that it occupies at least the size of a small freshwater lake. Although we don't know what these invisible liquids are, it is certain that they are definitely not water, because the resistance encountered when swimming in it is several times greater than that of water.

"Breathing and speaking are all working fine. This kind of thing is harmless to us, but..."

"This looks like the cigarette butt you just threw down."

As Han Zu was wandering around like an indescribable creature, one of his tentacles touched the cigarette butt that had just fallen from above. Han Zu subconsciously took it out of the liquid, threw it into the air, and then spit out a ball of fire, ready to burn it.

"Don't!"

Seeing Han Zu's actions, Gloria stretched out her hand in panic, trying to stop Han Zu, but the fireball was very fast and touched the cigarette butt in the blink of an eye.

However, although the fireball burned the cigarette butt into ashes, it lasted for a very short time afterwards. Unlike the usual practice of continuing to fly for a certain distance after burning, it was almost immediately annihilated after burning. This was very wrong.

"Fortunately, these liquids are not flammable. You are too impulsive, Han Zu!"

"This liquid increases the energy required for the flame to burn many times."

"what?"

As he was talking, Han Zu suddenly floated up and spit out black flames at the surface of the liquid without hesitation. However, after Han Zu stopped spitting out the flames, the black flames immediately went out. Gloria, who saw this scene, immediately became quiet.

Before coming to Antarctica, Gloria had seen Han Zu use this pitch-black flame to deal with some garbage or useless scraps of manufacturing materials in Han Zu's warehouse and his secret base. At that time, once this black flame touched other things, it would continue to burn until the things being burned were completely burned out. The flame would still exist for a while, even on some non-flammable liquids, it would remain for a short period of time.

But with this strange and unique liquid, once Han Zu stops continuously outputting flames, the flames will go out immediately, which is very strange.

"Have you ever felt..."

"No, I didn't sense anything being evaporated."

"So this liquid can't burn?"

Han Zu dived again. This time he took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and tried to light it under the liquid surface. An outrageous scene happened. The cigarette was actually successfully lit. However, Han Zu only left it there for one second, and the cigarette, which had been lit, went out automatically.

"So these liquids are not flammable, but you can ignite other things inside them. What's the principle?"

"Don't look at me. I don't have much education, so I don't know either."

"Roar!!!!!!!"

At this moment, a deafening roar appeared in Gloria's ears. Gloria covered her ears in pain and looked in the direction where the sound came from. No matter what that thing was, it must be alive.

"You will finally be able to hear it this time!!!"

"I heard it. It's very far away from us, about a few hundred meters away."

"A few hundred meters?! It sounded like it was right next to my ear, hiss..."

"Your hearing should have been enhanced. We can study this later, but for now..."

"Om~~~"

A dark red light lit up in the muscle veins of Han Zu's body, which was a sign that Han Zu was ready for a big battle. Gloria did the same thing, and the two glowing people slowly swam in the liquid towards the direction where the sound came from.