Chapter 610: Exploration and puzzle solving in the land of ice and snow

Ah Fu led the expedition team to a huge iceberg in the snowy land, but was blocked by a mysterious force and could not get close.

"This force is like an invisible shield that blocks us completely." A team member complained, rubbing his red, frozen hands.

Ah Fu carefully examined the strange patterns on the iceberg. Those patterns looked like some kind of ancient runes, but they were different from what they had seen before. "Don't be discouraged, this pattern must be the key. We have to study it carefully."

The team members gathered around and discussed the matter in unison.

"Do you think this looks like an ice bird?" a team member said, pointing to one of the patterns.

"I think this looks more like a snowflake-shaped magic circle." Another team member expressed a different opinion.

Ah Fu did not participate in the discussion, but closed his eyes and tried to use his soul power to feel the energy fluctuations of these patterns. Suddenly, he detected a faint rhythm, like an ancient and low song.

"I seem to feel something. These patterns seem to be transmitting energy in a certain order. We have to find out this order." Ah Fu said, opening his eyes.

So the expedition team split into several groups to conduct a more detailed survey of the patterns on the iceberg. Each group was responsible for an area and recorded the shapes, positions and possible connections between the patterns.

During the investigation, a careful team member discovered that there were some tiny bumps on the lines of some patterns, and these bumps seemed to be regular.

"Afu, look at these small bumps, are they also related to the order?" the team member shouted.

Ah Fu walked over to check it out, and after some thought, he felt that these bumps might represent the priority of the pattern.

"We arranged the patterns from the fewest to the most protrusions and saw what happened," says Afu.

Following Ah Fu's instructions, the team members carefully rearranged the patterns they had recorded according to the number of protrusions. When the last pattern was arranged, a soft blue light suddenly appeared on the iceberg.

"It works!" the team members shouted excitedly.

However, the blue light did not last long and soon disappeared, but the force that blocked them still existed.

"It seems that's not enough. We must have missed something." Ah Fu said with a frown.

Just as everyone was lost in thought, heavy snow suddenly began to fall from the sky. In the heavy snow, Ah Fu noticed that when snowflakes fell on the patterns on the iceberg, some patterns would absorb the snowflakes, while others would make the snowflakes slide off.

"Could this be another clue?" Ah Fu's mind moved.

He began to record the distribution of the patterns that attracted and let the snowflakes slide off. After careful observation, he found that the pattern of absorbing snowflakes seemed to form a new shape, which looked like a key.

"Look everyone, could this shape be the clue to the mysterious key we are looking for?" Ah Fu said, pointing to the shape on the iceberg.

The team members nodded, thinking it was very likely.

"So what should we do now? Look for the key according to this shape?" asked a team member.

Ah Fu thought for a while, then said, "I think this shape may be the key to solving the puzzle of the iceberg. Let's try to follow the trajectory of this shape and use soul power to activate these patterns."

The team members took action again. They concentrated their soul power and activated the patterns on the iceberg one by one according to the key-shaped trajectory. When the last pattern was activated, the iceberg made a huge roar and then slowly opened a door.

"Wow, we did it!" the team members cheered.

Behind the door was a long passage filled with cold fog. The expedition team walked into the passage cautiously. The walls of the passage were covered with icicles, and something seemed to be sealed in the icicles.

"There seems to be something in these icicles, but I wonder what it is." A team member said curiously.

Ah Fu walked closer to an icicle and saw a small box inside through the ice. "This box looks suspicious, maybe it's related to the key."

Just as he was trying to break the ice and take out the box, the icicle suddenly released a powerful cold air, freezing part of Ah Fu.

"Afu!" the team members exclaimed.

The other team members quickly used their soul power to dispel the cold for Ah Fu. After getting rid of the cold, Ah Fu realized that he couldn't touch these icicles easily.

"These icicles should have a defense mechanism. We have to find a way to remove the defense," said Ah Fu.

They began to search for clues in the passage. At the end of the passage, they found a stone tablet engraved with runes. The runes on the stone tablet were similar to the patterns on the iceberg, but more complicated.

"This stone tablet must be the key. We need to decipher these runes to remove the defense of the icicle." Ah Fu said.

The rune expert in the expedition team began to carefully study the runes on the stone tablet. After some hard work, he finally deciphered the meaning of the runes.

"These runes say that in order to remove the defenses of the icicles, you need to find energy sources equal to the number of icicles, and then place these energy sources in front of the icicles in the order in which they are arranged," said the rune expert.

"But where do we find these energy sources?" asked a team member.

Ah Fu thought for a moment, then said, "When we were outside, didn't we find that some patterns would absorb snowflakes? Maybe snowflakes are a source of energy."

The team members thought it made sense, so they walked out of the passage and came to the outside of the iceberg. They collected a sufficient number of snowflakes in a special container and placed them in front of the icicles in the order of the icicles.

When the last snowflake was placed, the icicle's defense mechanism was lifted, and the expedition team successfully removed the small box from the icicle.

Ah Fu opened the small box and found an ice key emitting blue light inside.

"Finally found it!" the team members shouted excitedly.

Just when they were happy about finding the key, the land of ice and snow suddenly shook violently. The surrounding icebergs began to collapse and huge cracks appeared in the glacier.

"Oh no! Our actions may have triggered some mechanism. This place is going to collapse. We have to leave quickly!" Ah Fu shouted.

The expedition team quickly ran towards the exit of the ice and snow land. During the run, they also had to avoid falling ice blocks and collapsing icebergs.

One of the team members was accidentally hit by a piece of ice and fell to the ground. Ah Fu and other team members quickly stopped and helped the injured team member up.

"Everyone be careful and look after each other!" Ah Fu shouted.

They continued to move forward and finally escaped from this dangerous place before the ice and snow land completely collapsed.

Elsewhere, the expedition team to the island that time forgot is also experiencing their own adventure.

The island was shrouded in a mysterious fog, and when the expedition's ship approached the island, it was like entering an isolated world.

"The fog is so thick, it feels like we've entered a huge cave," joked one team member.

When they landed on the island, they found that the time on the island seemed different from that in the outside world. The plants on the island grew abnormally lush, and some trees towered into the sky, looking like they had existed for hundreds or even thousands of years.

"This place looks very old, we have to be careful," warned the expedition leader.

They explored the island and found an ancient temple. The door of the temple was closed and carved with patterns of various marine creatures.

"These patterns look lifelike. I wonder if the method to open the door is related to these marine creatures." said a team member.

The expedition team began to study the patterns on the door and found that the marine creatures seemed to be arranged in the order of a food chain.

"Maybe we have to trigger these patterns in the order of the food chain to open the door," the captain speculated.

They began to try according to their speculation, and when they touched the patterns in the correct order, the door of the temple slowly opened.

Inside the door is a hall full of mystery. In the center of the hall there is a huge pool, and the water in the pool emits a strange light.

"This pool looks mysterious. Maybe the key is inside." said a team member.

Just as they approached the pool, a group of strange creatures suddenly emerged from the pool. These creatures looked like a mixture of fish and snakes, with sharp scales all over their bodies and fierce eyes.

"What are these? They look dangerous!" The team members became alert.

These creatures attacked the expedition team, and the expedition team immediately launched a counterattack. The team members used various skills to try to repel these strange creatures.

However, the creatures are numerous and seem to be able to recharge quickly in the pools.

"This is not a solution. We have to find their weakness," the captain shouted.

After some combat observation, they found that when these creatures attacked, their abdomens would be briefly exposed, and the scales on their abdomens appeared to be relatively weak.

"Attack their belly!" the captain shouted.

The team members changed their attack strategy and concentrated their efforts on attacking the abdomen of these creatures. After a fierce battle, they finally repelled these strange creatures.

The expedition team continued to explore the pool, and they found a hidden compartment at the bottom of the pool, which contained a key emitting green light.

"We found it too!" The team members cheered excitedly.

Meanwhile, the expedition to the borderland between light and darkness is struggling to find their key.

The boundary between light and darkness is a place full of strange energy, where the light flickers and the space seems to be distorted.

The expedition team moved forward cautiously here. They found that the energy fluctuations around them were very chaotic and they could be caught in the energy vortex if they were not careful.

"This place is really weird. It feels like every step we take is dangerous." said a team member nervously.

During their exploration, they discovered a huge energy stone pillar, which was engraved with runes representing light and darkness, and these runes kept flashing on the stone pillar.

"This stone pillar must be related to the key. We need to study it carefully." said the leader of the expedition team.

They began to study the runes on the stone pillars and found that these runes needed to be activated with opposite energies. For example, the runes representing light needed to be activated with dark energy, while the runes representing darkness needed to be activated with light energy.

The soul masters and star creatures in the expedition team began to cooperate. They respectively cast light and dark energy to activate the runes on the stone pillars in a certain order.

When the last rune was activated, the space around the stone pillar distorted, and a key emitting golden light appeared in the middle of the stone pillar.

"We found it too!" the members of the expedition team shouted excitedly.

All three expeditions successfully found the mysterious key, and they returned to the Wuhun World and the Star World with the key. The collection of these three keys means that they are one step closer to completely solving the threat of the mysterious force. But they also know that the next challenge may be more difficult, and they must go to the core of the evil force and find a way to destroy it. The fate of the two worlds is still full of variables, and they will continue to work hard for peace and prosperity.