Chapter 105 The Frozen Planet

The detonation plan developed by the data terminal successfully destroyed the portal, and the deep-sea vortex dissipated quickly after the bomb exploded. However, the incident did not end so simply—the situation in this water area began to go wrong.

Waves of chaotic torrents gathered from all directions, completely unlike normal water activity. The temperature of the entire water area was rapidly dropping, and this abnormal loss of temperature was obviously not a natural phenomenon. The siren queen vigilantly raised her upper body, and the tiny scales under her cheeks flickered with a faint blue light, as if sensing the information conveyed by the water flow: "Something...it seems something has been awakened...a huge consciousness is paying attention here!"

Hao Ren quickly connected to the communication: "Terminal! Something's not right here. What can you see?!"

The data terminal's voice came, accompanied by bursts of interference noise: "The sea level is deforming...two huge low-temperature storms are simultaneously forming from the north and south poles, and the way the seawater is moving is deviating from the norm...get out of there quickly! Something is heading towards you!"

Even without the data terminal's reminder, Hao Ren saw "that thing." It was a strange frozen water flow, spreading from an unknown place, and the seawater along the way was almost instantly frozen into ice pillars. Now, this menacing white ice tide was only a few hundred meters away from Hao Ren and his group!

"Retreat!" Hao Ren roared, not caring about the engineering machine, grabbing Sha Qi La closest to him and rushing upwards. "Terminal, teleport us out!"

The terminal's voice was still mixed with strong interference noise: "...Failure, coordinate misalignment! The Wall of Reality has not fully recovered, and the teleportation is being interfered with!"

"What the—" Hao Ren looked back. "Give me a solution! There's an ice storm of minus one or two hundred degrees Celsius chasing us, and the water pressure here is starting to mess with my shield!"

"Continue ascending, get out of the deep sea. As long as you leave the collapse point of the Wall of Reality, this unit can teleport you out," the data terminal said quickly. "Hurry, hurry, the sea surface is also starting to freeze. This damn place is not right!"

"Damn it, everyone knows this place is not right!" Hao Ren roared, and rushed towards the surface with Izhaks and the three sirens as fast as they could. Behind them was a strange ice belt half a kilometer wide, which was essentially a mass of invisible cold water. Wherever it passed, it left only ultra-low-temperature ice shards that could instantly freeze steel into powder. And soon Hao Ren realized that this frozen force was not the worst thing: because the entire water area was beginning to freeze in sync!

Clear ice crystals constantly appeared in the water, and countless sharp ice crystals crashed into the group's shields and barriers like a hail of bullets. At the same time, the powerful water pressure intensified. The group was clearly ascending, but the water pressure around them felt as if they were constantly falling into the deep sea. A strong sense of crisis, a feeling of about to drown, came out of nowhere, and Hao Ren finally understood what deep-sea phobia was.

"We can't control the water here!" Sha Qi La shouted. A thin layer of ice crystals hung on her tail, and she was trying her best to maintain the water barrier around everyone. Hao Ren and Izhaks were able to rise quickly in the water almost entirely due to the power of the three sirens, but now their speed was obviously slowing down. "The water here is controlled by a more powerful force...they don't listen to me!"

Izhaks roared, and a burst of red light suddenly erupted from his body. Scorching magma and molten iron burst out of him, instantly melting a large area of ice crystals around him. The next moment, he transformed into a huge lava demon, and a dark green evil energy shield covered the water barrier that the three sirens had barely built, which greatly reduced their pressure.

Izhaks turned his head and said to the siren queen with a rumbling voice: "You take us up, I'll take care of the water pressure and cold."

The great demon's power only dispelled the ice in a certain area, but the entire sea area was already inevitably freezing into a whole. Huge blocks of ice were crushing in from all directions, also blocking the group's way to the surface. Hao Ren looked up, and in the reflection of Izhaks's demon flames, he saw layers of glaciers rapidly forming in the deep water. Combining this with the situation the data terminal had just mentioned, he suddenly realized an incredible fact:

The entire Aio planet was rapidly freezing!

Although it was unbelievable, Hao Ren believed that this planet (or perhaps some ancient consciousness sleeping within the planet) had awakened, and it was trying to freeze the intruders who had disturbed it within its body. Those glaciers contained powerful forces, they were not natural products at all—and this force obviously would not allow the invaders to leave!

Hao Ren took out his gun from his personal space, but he quickly realized that the radiation from this thing would pollute the entire water area and accidentally injure the sirens and demons around him, so he switched to graviton bombs. While throwing grenades to blast open those glaciers, he desperately called out in the communication channel: "Can't you teleport yet?!"

"Almost there!" The data terminal's voice was also very anxious. "Some kind of force is slowing down the recovery of the Wall of Reality. Now the noise generated by the friction between the two worlds is preventing this unit from locating your position—this is the power of the great universe, and it's two universes! Give this unit a few minutes to crack it!"

A huge ice cone crashed into the shield around the group, and Soma and Sha Qi La exclaimed at the same time: they had lost control of the water flow.

The scales on the siren queen's body emitted a burst of brilliance, and she used her powerful magic to forcibly wrest control of the water from the entire sea, finally preventing the group from stopping: in this place, once they stopped, even for a few seconds, they would be instantly frozen.

"Hurry up!" Hao Ren shouted into the communicator while trying to open a path in the ice. "I suspect that in a few minutes, I'll be frozen with three fish! Now only Izhaks's body isn't frozen!"

More powerful low-temperature torrents and water flow impacts began to destroy the structure of the evil energy shield. This was the power of the entire Aio Sea, although it was just water flow, every impact was enough to flatten any mountain on the surface. Izhaks used his demon power to fight against the natural power of the planet itself. No matter how strong he was, he could not gain the upper hand in this duel, so the evil energy shield began to gradually darken at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The great demon's rumbling voice came from behind Hao Ren: "I feel the ocean is full of anger, and resentment and regret...I am very familiar with this kind of negative power, but it shouldn't appear here!"

Hao Ren blasted open an underwater glacier, revealing a passage that the group could barely pass through: "What did you say?"

"I said I'm familiar with these negative forces!" Izhaks shouted loudly. "This is a resentful spirit! This ocean is full of the howls of resentful spirits—I've heard this sound countless times in the Soul Forge of Theradon!"

Hao Ren instinctively froze for a moment, then exclaimed in shock: "Are there such awesome resentful spirits in the world?!"

"That's why I said it shouldn't appear here!" Izhaks replied loudly.

Hao Ren wanted to ask something more, but a deafening roar from directly above interrupted everyone's movements.

"Boom—"

The huge roar sounded again, like a resounding bell, shaking the entire sea area that was about to completely freeze. It was like violently hammering a solid ice ball with an iron hammer, and the position where Hao Ren and the others were now was the narrow gap inside the ice ball. The roar almost gave people the illusion that the world was collapsing.

The surrounding seawater was almost completely frozen, and there was no longer any gap to move forward. Even the power of the sirens could not produce much effect in this environment, but after the roar continued to sound, cracks appeared in the thick ice layer above everyone.

"Boom—"

Another roar came, and Hao Ren finally noticed faint flashes of light above the thick dark ice layer, it was an explosion.

Whatever the explosion was, the road ahead had now been opened.

Hao Ren threw two graviton bombs to expand the gaps between the underwater glaciers, and then led everyone forward before the crack closed again: "Everyone follow!"

Finally, after crossing this glacier, the interference caused by the collapse point of the Wall of Reality weakened, and a flash of white light appeared in everyone's vision, and they finally left this planet that had turned into a frozen hell.