Infinite Survival: The winner takes all!

Chapter 477 Dead without a corpse

After listening to Li Ming's analysis, Yunshan and Dongmen Qiansha both looked thoughtful. Obviously, they had thought things too simply before.

The three of them fell into a brief silence, seemingly wandering aimlessly in the icy abyss.

Suddenly, Yunshan noticed that the surroundings looked familiar, and asked quickly, "Li Ming, where are we going?"

"I plan to go back and check the bodies of Bor's group of people." Li Ming replied calmly.

"Eh? What's so good about their bodies?" Yun Shan was puzzled. "Even if they had any precious items hidden on them, they must have been placed in the system backpack, and we can't take them out."

Li Ming did not answer directly, but asked: "Have you found a very strange phenomenon? Under the Ice Abyss, although there are traces of battles everywhere, why can't we find even a single corpse?"

"You know, in this extremely cold environment, even a piece of ordinary pork will not rot after a million years, let alone a supernatural being with a strong physique."

Yunshan and Dongmen Qiansha looked at each other, and there was a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

"This is really strange..." Yun Shan muttered in a low voice, "On the top of the Ice Abyss, we can occasionally find some corpses, but in the lower layer of the Ice Abyss, we can't even find a single corpse."

"Could it have been eaten by something?" Dongmen Qiansha made her own guess.

"I'm not sure. Let's go and check it out first." Li Ming said, slightly increasing his speed.

Ten minutes later, they returned to the place ravaged by the 'ice wind'.

At this moment, the originally chaotic ice element energy has calmed down.

Although the biting cold still permeated the air, silently corroding their bodies, the extreme cold that could freeze a person tightly no longer existed.

Dongmen Qiansha unfolded a tiny fire field, and its scorching flames gently surrounded the three people, trying to use them to protect against the severe cold outside.

Li Ming frowned slightly and said, "Qiansha, you just need to protect yourself. Your body has not fully recovered yet, so you should not consume too much energy."

"Yes." Yunshan agreed, "Li Ming and I can handle it, you don't have to worry about us."

Dongmen Qiansha hesitated for a moment and did not choose to be brave. Instead, she shrunk the fire field to the size of a shield, just enough to protect herself.

If it were in an ordinary environment, the size of the domain would not have much impact, but in this extremely cold place, the energy required for the fire domain to expand outward would increase exponentially with every point.

She was still weak and did feel a little overwhelmed.

Relying on his intuition, Li Ming searched for the possible escape route of Bol and others.

It wasn't long before they noticed something unusual near a pile of collapsed ice crystal pillars.

“Looking at the direction of collapse of these ice crystal pillars, they must have been broken by someone fleeing in a panic.” Dongmen Qiansha deduced.

Yun Shan looked around and suddenly she noticed a pile of broken crystals. A hint of surprise flashed across her face. "Hey, Li Ming, look at those crystal fragments over there. Are they not right?"

Hearing the voice, Li Ming immediately walked over.

Then he squatted down and gently pushed away the debris covering it, and gradually, a pair of clear footprints emerged.

He looked at the footprints carefully, exhaled slowly, and said, "These should be Bor's footprints. He was the first to escape, and only he could have escaped so far away from the statue."

"Then... where did his body go?" Yunshan swallowed and felt a little uneasy.

Dongmen Qiansha originally wondered whether the corpses in the lower layer of the Ice Abyss were swallowed by some monster, but now it seems that this possibility is not very likely.

Firstly, the power of "Ice Wind" is too amazing. Even ice element monsters may not be able to withstand it, let alone other types of monsters.

Secondly, if the corpse was really eaten by a monster, there would be some traces left at the scene, but here there are no other clues except a pair of footprints.

Li Ming slowly stood up and looked at the entire ice cave carefully with his illusory eyes, but still did not notice anything unusual.

Then, he said in a deep voice: "Let's go and see if the bodies of the others are still there."

Yunshan and Dongmen Qiansha looked at each other silently. Neither of them said anything more. They just followed Li Ming's footsteps quietly.

A few minutes later, the three of them discovered the traces left by the other six members of the Bol team one after another, because the piles of broken crystals were too conspicuous.

Whenever Li Ming removed the crystal fragments, he could always find a pair of clear footprints...

Finally, they came to the source of the horrific disaster, a giant ice cave.

At the entrance of the ice cave, the bodies of the four members of the Wulfli team were also nowhere to be found, leaving only a pile of broken crystals as proof of their existence.

However, Li Ming, Yun Shan and Dongmen Qiansha's attention was no longer on this matter.

The three of them stared in amazement at the ice platform in the center of the ice cave. The statue that should have been shattered was now standing intact on the top of the ice platform.

After coming to her senses, Dongmen Qiansha turned to look at Li Ming and murmured in a low voice: "Captain, can this statue repair itself?"

"Let's leave quickly. There's no treasure-hunting crystal butterfly next to it anyway." Yun Shan looked frightened. She suggested, "This thing is too weird. If we stay here for a long time, something bad will definitely happen."

Li Ming remained silent, his unreal eyes staring at the statue on the ice platform, his face as calm as water, as if he was thinking deeply about something.

The ice cave fell into a brief silence again.

After a moment, Yunshan was the first to break the silence.

She gently touched Li Ming's arm, with a tentative tone in her voice: "Li Ming? Aren't we... leaving here?"

"No." Li Ming took a deep breath and said firmly, "Not only will we not leave, we will also absorb three L7 grade ice element crystal cores next to the statue!"

"Huh?" A trace of astonishment flashed across Yunshan's face. "Isn't this... a bit too risky?"

Dongmen Qiansha also seemed a little hesitant: "It will definitely be faster to absorb the crystal core next to the statue, but do we really have to be so anxious?"

Li Ming sighed softly, and then patiently explained: "In the first layer of the Ice Abyss, the number of high-level elemental crystal cores is too small. Here, it is difficult to ensure that there are enough crystal cores to meet Xingmei's needs."

"Therefore, we must enter the second floor of the Ice Abyss to search."