Tali fell into the glacier. The moment she fell into the water, her legs automatically formed a fish tail. Her long tail swayed slightly to stabilize her body, and she waved her staff to point at the other three people struggling in the ice water.

The head of the mermaid staff sprayed out a large amount of water bubbles. The water bubbles touched the bodies of the three people and immediately wrapped their bodies, helping them float in the water.

The undercurrent under the ice carried them quickly downstream. The mermaid guardian used magic to connect the bubbles together, and then connected the end of his fish tail to Rogge's bubble to prevent everyone from being washed away in the rapids.

"We are being washed downstream, we have to find a way to get ashore!" Rogge said to Tali using the sound transmission ability of the water bubbles.

The mermaid shook her head gently and said: "This current is too fast. I don't have the ability to control the entire river. We can only go down the river to find the outlet and find a way to land!"

"We will seriously deviate from the route as we go down the river!" Murphy beside Rogge said loudly: "The surface of the river on Ice and Snow Island has been frozen for many years. It is impossible for us to find a natural gap and we must try to break the ice!"

"Catherine, shoot the ice with your musket and see if you can break the river ice above!" Rogge shouted back.

Catherine took out a silver gun from her body, aimed at the ice and pulled the trigger. A silver bullet drew a trail of bubbles in the river water and hit the ice on the water's surface.

The bullet left a crack on the ice, but failed to break it. Rogge took off the silver sword from his waist, asked Catherine for a silver musket, turned back to Tully and said, "Get closer for me. On the ice, I’m going to break the ice!”

Tali immediately controlled the bubbles to float up. Rogge slowly approached the ice, struggled to dig the silver sword in his hand into the ice, grabbed the hilt of the sword to steady his body, and put the muzzle of the silver gun close to the ice with his other hand. The trigger was pulled.

With the continuous shooting of the hand gun, a clear crack gradually cracked in the thick ice. Rogge handed the silver hand gun to Tully, tried to pass Murphy's scimitar, and used the tip of the knife to pierce the crack in the ice layer. After a lot of hard work, the ice above finally collapsed and opened a hole in the ice that was as wide as one person.

"Take us up from here!" Rogge pointed his machete at the hole in the ice and shouted back to Tully.

Tully pointed the mermaid staff at the entrance of the cave, and a strong current swirled around the four people, forming a reverse vortex rising into the sky, pushing the four people up to the entrance of the cave one after another.

Rogge, who was closest to the ice surface, was propelled by the whirlpool and soared straight into the air from the ice hole. Tully followed closely and boarded the wave. She pointed her staff toward the north bank of the river, and the whirlpool rising into the sky turned the wave and rushed towards him. On the north bank, four people washed up on the river bank.

The four people who landed on solid ground, except Tali, were all lying on the ground dripping wet, panting and breathing a sigh of relief.

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After a while, Rogge sat up from the ground and reached into the hood behind his back for a while. When he took the wet little owl out and looked at it, the little guy lay in his hand and spit out some water. Sprayed directly on Rogge's face.

"Ahem, cough, cough, I thought I was dead!" The little owl struggled and shook its head, spit out another mouthful of water, and transformed into a wet little girl in a burst of red light, putting her face against Roger's. She said hugging him tightly to her chest.

Rogge combed her wet hair with his hands, looked up at Murphy and Catherine who were sitting up from the ground and asked: "What happened just now? Why did you fall down suddenly?"

"It's me..." Catherine looked up apologetically at everyone, and said remorsefully: "I don't know what happened at that time. When my feet slipped, I suddenly lost control of my body. I couldn't move my legs at all, and I fell down. On the ice, and then bumped into Mr. Murphy and Miss Tully..."

"Losing control of your body?" After hearing Catherine's words, Roger lowered his head keenly, looked at Lilith who had her face buried in his arms, held up her little face with his hands and asked: "Little girl, you've done it all What?"

"I...I didn't..." The little guy who got into trouble knew that he was in the wrong. He bit his lip and looked at Rogge timidly. He wanted to tell a lie to cover up the past, but when he saw Rogge's scrutinizing eyes, he knew that he had lied. But this guy who knew everything clearly opened his mouth and started crying when he got anxious.

"Looks like we've solved the case!" Rogge looked up at Tully, Murphy and Catherine dumbfounded. The three of them looked at the little girl crying in Rogge's arms, feeling angry and amused. He wanted to blame her but couldn't bear it, so he had no choice but to shake his head.

"Forget it, she's still young. It's normal for children to make mistakes." Tully walked to Rogge and knelt down, stroking Lilith's head with her hand. The little girl cried when she saw someone coming to comfort her. It was even bigger, as if she was the one who had been wronged.

"Okay, stop crying!"

Unexpectedly, Rogge roared, and even Tali was startled. When Lilith heard Rogge's roar, her crying suddenly stopped, she sat up straight and looked at him with a pair of big tearful eyes. His eyes were full of anxiety and panic.

"Little rascal, I'll let you go this time. If you mess around again next time, I'll punish you by depriving you of food for a day!" Rogge pinched the little girl's cheek with his hand. The little guy used his small hands to rub the painful face that Rogge pinched. Chu Chu nodded pitifully.

Rogge handed her over to Tali who was aside. He stood up and walked to the river. He reached out and touched his tobacco bag, only to find that the cigar and matches were soaked in water. He sighed helplessly and raised his head to look at the water. Trance.

At this time, Murphy stood up and walked to him and asked softly: "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking that the incident just now was caused by Lilith's mischief, but the ice under our feet seems to be too fragile. Even if no one falls, it may not be able to bear the weight of four people..."

Rogge looked back at Murphy and asked: "From your adventure experience, will the ice surface of a river that is frozen all year round like Snow Island be so fragile?"

"I was thinking about this just now. Even in the thinnest middle of the river, the ice layer should be more than ten centimeters thick. It is impossible for it to collapse due to the impact of a person falling." Murphy nodded affirmatively, his eyes Full of the same doubts as Rogge.

"You're right. When I was digging through the ice just now, I found that the ice was much thicker than I thought. I fired ten bullets with my blunderbuss, but I still couldn't penetrate the ice. And the four of us The impact of a fall cannot exceed ten bullets."

At this point, the two stared into each other's eyes and said at the same time: "That piece of ice must have been tampered with!"

"Could it be Douglas?" Murphy frowned and asked, "He seems to be more hostile to you than Antonio!"

"I really want to doubt him, but this time I have to say something fair for him." Rogge shrugged and shook his head: "Although he has never said something fair for me."

He looked at Murphy's concerned face and said: "If Douglas wants to go behind Antonio's back and lead people to do tricks to refreeze the ice into a thin ice trap that cannot be seen through, without firearms and magic, his manpower will at least Just dig until dark."

"But Douglas was already with us before dark, so he has a strong alibi."

"Then who do you think is the most suspicious?" Murphy asked suspiciously.

"It's possible for all people with powerful magic power," Rogge glanced at the surrounding mountains and said, "The dark wizard William may be nearby, Goethe and the priesthood are not far from us, and Douglas may just be a spy who betrayed the location of crossing the river. ”

At this point, Rogge whispered meaningfully: "Maybe, there are monitors around us now!"

Murphy looked around vigilantly and said: "But they should know that Miss Tully will protect us, and the glacier water alone cannot drown us!"

"That's right," Rogge nodded slightly and said, "They are just creating obstacles for us. If they can really drown one or two people, that's not bad."

"They are obstructing and delaying our approach to Titan territory, which means we are heading in the right direction," Murphy said.

At this moment, Lilith, who was sitting in Tully's arms, suddenly sat up straight, turned around and shouted softly to Rogge: "Hey, I heard a strange noise, something is coming!"