Although the picture is a bit blurry, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha can still see that the black shadow should have been formed by a large group of bugs.

It would be fine if it was just a bug, but the problem is that if you compare the size of the ice bridge channel, it is not difficult to estimate that the shape of these bugs is very large, so big that they are almost the same as humans.

This is not all. When Leo continued to zoom in on the map and moved, they found that there were some huge spaces inside the ice bridge, and in these spaces it seemed that a large number of creatures that looked like insects were inhabited.

"What is this?" Sylvia couldn't help asking.

"I want to know too." Leo shook his head and said, "But it's certain that when the Reno people passed through the ice bridge, these bugs did not exist yet. Otherwise, they would not have been able to pass through the ice bridge smoothly."

"How do these bugs live in the ice bridge? Logically speaking, there should be no plants in the ice bridge that can survive?" Tessa Mocha frowned and said, "According to the size and number of these bugs, a large forest and various animals are absolutely necessary to maintain their most basic living conditions."

Sylvia suddenly speculated: "If these insects did not live in the ice bridge all the time, they had only recently accidentally entered the ice bridge from the crack on the outer wall of the ice bridge. When they were about to leave, the crack on the ice bridge was blocked again, leaving them trapped inside the ice bridge?"

Leo couldn't help but frown when he heard this, because Sylvia's statement reminded him of the grey fog.

On the north side of the ice bridge is the Endless Ice Field, where no creature can survive. This is a recognized fact in the world of Veeron. In the notes of the High Tower Wizard, the High Tower Wizard's exploration of the Endless Ice Field was also recorded. Although they were still only exploring on the edge of the ice field, it was enough for them to be sure that no creature could survive in such an extremely harsh environment.

Since there is no possibility of creatures breaking into the endless ice field north of the Ice Bridge, it can only be the sea on the south side of the Ice Bridge. However, this kind of insect cannot exist in the sea, so the only answer is gray fog.

Originally, Leo believed that the ice bridge could block the infiltration of gray fog, but now it seems that as long as the exterior wall of the ice bridge is damaged, the gray fog floating on the sea surface may penetrate. Therefore, if they enter the ice bridge tomorrow, they need to be particularly careful, otherwise they will fall into the gray fog. Not to mention encountering monsters in the gray fog, even if they have not encountered monsters, being brought into an unknown time by the gray fog is a headache.

Leo told the two of them that his inferences were. Sylvia knew what the gray fog was and quickly understood Leo's thoughts. Tessa Mocha had no idea what the gray fog was, and it sounded like a little cloudy and mist, but she still understood that Leo was saying that the gray fog was very dangerous and did not have any contact.

Although Tessa Mocha didn't know why Leo said this, she instinctively felt that following Leo's tips was the best way to avoid accidents.

After analyzing the map and deciding the path and route to walk tomorrow, Leo marked the route he had chosen, then sorted out the prepared luggage and other items, and then went to rest.

The next morning, the three of them woke up one after another, washed up, put on their own luggage, and left the villa.

The town was still the same quiet. The residents of the town were still hiding behind the house and observing Leo and the others. However, when they saw Leo and others carrying bags on their bodies, they seemed to realize something, and each of them showed bad smiles.

However, they did not know that the situation in their town had been notified to Lea Vinistein by Sylvia and others using special methods. In the near future, they would need to face Daliat's army and a powerful existence who had just been promoted to a demigod.

After leaving Tanico, the three of them went directly to the entrance of the Ice Bridge. After arriving at the location, they let go of the pack beasts, and the tamed pack beasts would return to Tanico themselves along the route.

At the entrance, Leo called out the map again. Last night, because the automatic analysis program was set, the new data was restored to the map under the operation of the program and added to the back.

As Leo expected last night, after detector exploration, insect-like creatures appeared from time to time in the area behind the ice bridge, and the number increased a lot. Leo even saw objects similar to insect nests in some slightly larger ice caves.

"It seems that there will be a lot of trouble! When I was in the wasteland, I studied the creatures there. Although most people are inferior creatures without wisdom, they do not know that insects are actually wise. But their wisdom is all concentrated on hunting, defense, reproduction, etc.." Tessa Mocha looked at the shadows representing the insects, pointed to the locations where the shadows were, and said: "These insects obviously have great wisdom. Look at the place where they gather, they just guard the suspected nest area in the middle, and the distance between them is almost equal. This should be the best distance for them to convey information. In other words, no matter which insect we encounter, it will alarm all the insects in the ice bridge."

"What are you good solutions?" Leo looked at Tessa Mocha, knowing that the other party suddenly analyzed the bugs. He was definitely not talking casually, and there must be some more details, so he asked according to the other party's thoughts.

Tessa Mocha said confidently: "It'll be enough for me to solve it then. I know a lot of ways to solve these bugs."

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and couldn't help but smile, making Tessa Mocha feel confused.

"What's so funny about this? Is it wrong for me to help?" Tessa Mocha said with some displeasure.

Sylvia directly asked, "You should tell the truth! Why are you interested in catching those bugs?"

Tessa Mocha was stunned for a moment, looked at Leo and the others, couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said, "I am indeed a little selfish, but I should be right if I want to help!"

"Of course not." Sylvia shook her head and said, "But we hope to know the reason so as not to cause any misunderstandings. I think you shouldn't want any misunderstandings, right?"

Tessa Mocha curled his lips, thought for a little while, and said, "When I came here yesterday, I felt that something inside was helpful to my growth. When you showed the map just now, I was sure that the things that helped me were those bugs, so I hope you can let me catch these bugs."

After listening to Tessa Mocha's explanation, Leo and Sylvia both understood that the bugs should have been attracted by the World Tree Seeds inside Tessa Mocha's body.

Although I don’t know how helpful this will be to the growth of World Tree Seeds, this incident does not harm them. It is also a good thing for someone to stand up and take the initiative to clean up the bugs.

So Leo nodded and agreed to Tessa Mocha's request. He then used a universal recorder to record the life characteristics of the three people and then made a corresponding mark on the map, which would move along with their movement to determine their position on the map.

After completing the marking, he climbed to the entrance of the passage he had chosen last night, smashed the snow at the entrance with force, and walked in.

The ice cave is very slippery, and Leo needs to use a special method to not divide his psychic energy under his feet before he can grasp the ground.

Then, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha climbed into the ice caves respectively, and they also used their own methods to allow themselves to walk steadily on the smooth ice surface.

The ice cave passage is very large, with a diameter of about six meters. Compared to the arc at the top, the bottom looks much flat, and there is no problem for four or five people to walk side by side.

According to the instructions of the map, compared with other ice cave passages, the road behind will be relatively flatter and easier to walk.

Because of the permeability of the ice, the ice cave did not appear dim. Leo did not lit the torch, let Sylvia and the others follow, and then walked forward.

The three of them were moving steadily in the passage. The situation in the ice cave was roughly the same as the situation detected by the detector. There were several places marked as weak ice by the detector. Because the ice layer was much thicker in a whole day, the danger was much weaker. On the contrary, in other places, because the ice bridge moved slightly a little over the whole day, some small cracks appeared.

However, these are not big problems. Leo can easily detect these subtle changes with the Spirit Network, but this also made Leo realize that there was something wrong with his method of using the detector.

The distance between you and the detector is too far. If there is any problem in the middle of such a long distance, the data scanned by the detector will be invalidated.

So Leo, who discovered the problem, slowed down the speed of the detector through the general-purpose recorder. After they caught up, they accelerated and tried to keep them within an hour's distance.

Therefore, Leo accelerated his pace on the road. The first batch of insect creatures marked locations that had been reached at noon arrived in two hours after entering the ice bridge. What disappointed Tessa Mocha was that no detected insect creatures were found here, but there were traces of the insect creatures that had stayed before and traces left when they crawled away.

Reducing the disappointment on her face, Tessa Mocha quickly checked the traces on the ground and said, "This kind of insect has seven pairs of insect feet. The three pairs in the front are very sharp and can easily cut the ice surface. It is their main attack weapon. The three pairs in the back are very strong and have claws to hold the ice surface. The last team of insect feet should be very long under the tail and can play a balance." While analyzing, she sucked the air around her hard and said, "This kind of insect is a carnivorous insect, and can spray an acid liquid. These insects are very hungry, but they did not climb out of the ice bridge and hunt outside." As she said, she seemed to think of something, her face was a bit serious, and said, "There should be a female insect here, and the female insect should be in a weak state at the moment, so she needs to control the insect swarm to protect herself. If the female insect is not injured, then she is transforming and promoting."

Leo was also surprised to see Tessa Mocha being able to analyze so many things based on some blurred traces and residual smells on the ground, so he asked seriously: "Is this a good thing or a bad thing for us?"

"It's not a bad thing, but it's not a good thing," Tessa Mocha smiled and said, "Facing with a group of hungry and strongly aggressive bugs, it's not a good thing, but..." As she said, she paused for a moment and said vaguely, "Just leave it to me then."

Seeing Tessa Mocha acted so confident, Leo didn't say anything and continued to move forward. The passage behind began to gradually shrink, but no matter how much it narrowed, it would be much wider for Leo and the others.

After walking for a while, Leo and his team came to a relatively spacious ice cave, which was the intersection of several channels. Compared to the channel chosen by Leo, other channels were a bit difficult to pass through according to the scan of the detector.

And in this freezing, Leo and the others found a corpse, to be precise, a corpse of a bug.

I saw that the insect was about one meter tall and huge in shape. It looked like a common type of insect called the wart newt, but it had seven pairs of limbs, just like Tessa Mocha's previous analysis.

At the moment, the insect was left with only an empty shell and broken limbs, and the meat and internal organs were eaten. Judging from the various traces, it should not be eaten by other insects. Moreover, the insect did not resist when it was eaten, and it felt like it was voluntarily eaten.

Tessa Mocha walked to the wreckage of the bug and placed his hand on it. Then he saw a large number of vine-like tentacles suddenly stretched out from her hand, touching the wreckage of the bug. The wreckage quickly melted and was absorbed by the vines at the moment of touching.

Leo walked to the side and looked at the vine. Although he did not feel any hostility from Tessa Mocha and the vine, he could feel his nightmare power seemed to be shrinking spontaneously, restrained, and hidden in other forces in his body. This feeling was like encountering a natural enemy.

"Is this from the World Tree Seed?" Leo, who noticed the abnormal power of the nightmare, asked curiously.

The power of Nightmare is the most used force Leo and the most practical force in Leo's body. He is also very curious about the origin of things that can restrain the power of Nightmare, and it is also convenient for him to think of some countermeasures in advance.

"Yes." Tessa Mocha did not hide it and nodded to admit Leo's guess, but she had no intention of further explanation.
Chapter completed!