140: Chapter 140 Extreme Cold Poisonous Rain

Lin Ye landed very lightly.

He touched down with his heels first, then shifted his center of gravity down.

Zhao Mengmeng followed two meters behind.

She strained to keep her body tense.

Relying on the secondary lines of her Dark Weaver to absorb the inertia of her descent.

The black water below churned slowly.

The water surface slapped against the stone pillars.

As the tide receded, a ring of sticky, foul-smelling black residue was left on the stone surface.

The acrid stench made Zhao Mengmeng's stomach churn.

"If this water could be uploaded, hostile nations of the Great Xia could apply directly for rodent extermination."

Lin Ye didn't even turn his head.

"Don't worry about uploading yet; don't let it upload you first."

"Understood, living people can't enter the frame."

Lin Ye stopped on top of a hexagonal stone pillar.

Three stone pillars ahead were of similar height.

The one on the far left had a dry top, but the pillar itself was extremely thin.

The middle one was thicker, with water stains on the edges.

The one on the right was the tallest and the furthest away.

Lin Ye bent down and picked up a piece of flaked-off stone from beside his feet.

He pressed his thumb against his index finger and flicked it with force.

The stone flake flew toward the top of the middle pillar.

Click.

The middle stone pillar took the impact and sank half an inch.

The low pillars on both sides suddenly plummeted!

Black water surged violently over the tops of the low pillars.

It emitted an acidic white mist.

Lin Ye abandoned the center line.

"We go right."

"You call this the right side?"

Zhao Mengmeng stared at that dangerous span.

"This is moving house in mid-air."

"The Wind-Chasing Claw can make it."

"There's a difference between making it and making it alive; the difference is a will."

Lin Ye didn't respond.

He raised his right arm.

The Dark Weaver anchor shot out.

It accurately nailed into a crack on the back of the high pillar on the right.

Zhao Mengmeng's Wind-Chasing Claw fired simultaneously.

The three-pronged hook bit firmly into the edge of the pillar top.

The mechanism retracted.

Relying on the tension of the dual lines, the two swung diagonally toward that high pillar.

The moment they landed.

Lin Ye bent his knees slightly and lowered his body.

Zhao Mengmeng slammed down, clinging tightly to his back.

Under the heavy pressure, the high pillar sank two inches.

The secondary lines of their Dark Weavers suddenly tightened.

Forcefully holding back the excess rebound impact.

The pillar stopped sinking.

Zhao Mengmeng exhaled a puff of white breath filled with ice crystals.

"Steady now."

Lin Ye didn't move his combat boots, his gaze fixed below.

"Don't relax; the water level is rising."

Zhao Mengmeng looked down.

The few low stone pillars that had been exposed by half a foot were now completely submerged underwater.

Only a layer of slippery, reflective damp marks remained on the water surface.

In the distance, Martin from the United Kingdom had been forcibly dragged back to a safe pillar by his companion.

The hole pierced through his right leg bled incessantly.

His complexion was ashen.

His companion pulled out animal tendon and wrapped it around his leg with trembling hands.

Martin shoved his companion's hand away.

"Forget the leg, keep your eyes on the Great Xia person's route!"

Enduring the excruciating pain, he kept his eyes fixed on Lin Ye's back ahead.

On the other side, Ivan and Pierre had initiated their unique coordination.

Ivan swung his bone pick, smashing it fiercely into the side wall of a high pillar.

His massive body used the handle of the pick to swing violently toward the next pillar.

Pierre, dragging his injured leg, swung out a rope.

The lasso tightly coiled around the edge of the distant stone pillar.

Blake was not following anyone.

He specifically chose wide, high-positioned stone pillars.

The muscles in his legs bulged as he forced a leap across.

Bang!

Each time he landed, the heavy stone pillar sank sharply.

Blake quickly bent his knees to dissipate the force, his left hand driving a bone spear into the pillar surface to maintain his balance.

Several times he stepped on the edges of wet pillars that triggered linkages, but he forced them down through his monstrous core strength.

The Great Xia Live Stream gold screen went wild.

[He's acting arrogant again; who was the one begging on the gears earlier?]

[Don't rush, the white-skinned bear still owes Brother Eye for an iron rod.]

Lin Ye walked to the middle section of the stone forest.

From the endless darkness above, an extremely fine, chaotic noise emerged.

At first, it was very faint.

A few seconds later, it became dense and rapid.

Zhao Mengmeng looked up abruptly.

"What's that sound?"

Lin Ye paused his steps.

A pale blue light screen popped up before his right eye.

[Disaster: Extreme Cold Poison Ice Rain]

"Take cover from the rain!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

The first batch of black ice pellets smashed down from the dome.

The ice pellets were long, thin, and sharp.

Upon contact with the pillar tops, they directly corroded pitted black spots.

A drop of slanted rain splashed onto Zhao Mengmeng's shoulder.

The bear-skin armor hissed and emitted a wisp of white smoke.

"This damn rain is acidic!"

Zhao Mengmeng's voice changed pitch.

Lin Ye leveled his right arm.

Swish, swish, swish.

Three Dark Weaver anchors fired in succession.

Two nailed into the cracks on the top of the high pillar on the left.

The last one shot diagonally downward, smashing into the side of the thick pillar on the right.

The Nano-wire pulled out an inverted, slanted frame.

Lin Ye reached back and pulled off the spare Violent Bear skin material from outside his backpack.

This was half a piece of dead skin he had cut off in the cave.

He casually tossed the bear skin onto the Nano-wire.

Zhao Mengmeng immediately pounced on it.

She pulled out an animal tendon strap and fastened the two low corners.

The poison ice rain intensified!

Dense acidic ice needles smashed against the outside of the Violent Bear skin, exploding with violent crackling sounds.

Lin Ye controlled the last two secondary lines.

Forcing the bear skin to stretch into a drainage slope.

The extreme cold poison rain slid down the surface of the bear skin.

Carrying the black mist from the corrosion into the black water outside the stone pillars.

Zhao Mengmeng huddled tightly under the slanted shelter.

Her shoulders and back pressed tightly against the stone pillar.

"Brother Lin, if this skin breaks, we'll both be in the pot turning into pickled vegetables."

"Don't move around."

"I'm better behaved now than I was on my blind date."

Lin Ye stared intently at the stress surface of the bear skin.

The corrosiveness of the poison ice rain was extremely strong.

Several points hit repeatedly had already hardened and become brittle.

Lin Ye opened the outer pocket of his backpack with one hand.

He pulled out a few pieces of dried meat with bones.

He pushed hard from the inside against the sunken part of the skin.

Forcing away the accumulated poison water to avoid collapsing the roof.

The structure of the slanted shelter finally stabilized.

The Great Xia Live Stream audience watched with heart-stopping anxiety.

[This reaction time and hand speed, there's absolutely no wasted movement!]

[One second later and Mengmeng's shoulder would have been down to the bone!]

[Even after the Violent Bear is dead, it still has to work for the Great Xia people; Brother Eye never wastes a single resource.]

At the far end of the stone forest, screams rang out one after another.

That Challenger from a small country was a beat too slow.

The poison ice rain pierced directly through his animal-skin shoulder guard.

He retreated in a panic, misstepping as he jumped toward another low pillar.

The wet pillar sinkage linkage triggered.

The black water swallowed his lower leg in one gulp.

In the white mist, he frantically clawed at the stone surface with his hands, trying to climb up.

The poison rain smashed onto his hands and back, mangling them.

The screaming lasted for a few seconds.

His hands slipped, and his whole body sank into the black water.

Two bubbles rose to the surface.

Not even bone fragments remained.

Martin and his companion huddled under a slanted stone pillar.

The companion held up a backpack to shield their heads.

In just a few seconds, the backpack was riddled with holes by the poison rain.

Martin took off his blood-stained coat.

He covered their shoulders, letting the poison rain slowly eat through the fabric.

He bit his bleeding lips, remaining silent.

Ivan swung his bone pick in a full arc, smashing madly at the side wall of the high pillar.

Forcefully gouging out a shallow pit.

He forced half his body into it.

He used thick animal skin to shield his exposed back.

Pierre hid directly below him.

He tied himself to the rain-shadow dead angle of the pillar with a rope.

The poison rain smashed in with the wind.

It landed on Ivan's outer arm.

A patch of charred blood blisters swelled up on the spot.

Ivan cursed a long string of Russian profanities.

Pierre shouted from below: "Don't move! If you move, I'm going straight into the water!"

"Shut up! Let this damn rain die first!"

Blake, standing alone on a high pillar in the distance.

He had neither a shelter nor a companion to help share the burden.

He didn't dare to take a single reckless step.

He stared at the rain shelter Lin Ye had built, gripping his bone spear tightly.

Blake turned around and frantically chiseled the stone wall in front of him with his bone spear.

With every strike, the stone pillar beneath his feet sank by half a point.

He chiseled out a stone niche before the pillar sank into the black water.

Forcing his 200-pound body into it.

The poison rain smashed into the stone niche with the wind.

In the blink of an eye, his neck, cheeks, and arms were covered in black-red, rotting, cauterized wounds.

Blake pressed tightly into the stone crevice.

Suppressing a groan in his throat, he endured it.

The poison ice rain lasted for nearly three minutes.

Lin Ye pulled on the edge of the bear skin.

Moving the corners back and forth to catch the last few drops of rain with the parts of the skin that hadn't been corroded.

When the chaotic noise above disappeared completely.

Lin Ye didn't move.

He waited for a full twenty seconds.

There was no more sound from above.

"Pack it up."

Zhao Mengmeng quickly pulled back the animal tendon strap.

The two rolled up the half-destroyed Violent Bear skin hastily.

Stuffing it back tightly into the outermost layer of the backpack.

The black water had surged by this time.

Seventy percent of the low pillars in the stone forest were completely submerged.

Zhao Mengmeng raised her gaze, looking deep into the darkness.

In the very center of the stone forest.

A bronze lifting platform was exposed to view.

The platform was very wide, surrounded by the eight tallest stone pillars.

That was the path to the third level.

Lin Ye was just about to take the first step.

Below his line of sight.

A long ripple bulged on the black water.

A segment of a flat, eyeless head floated up silently along the edge of the water surface.