"Hongchen, what were you and my father doing here back then?"
"Did he make some changes beneath Ice River?" Chen Changan asked with a frown.
"How would I know what he came here for? He was always the type to keep quiet while doing something big."
"I just remember that when we came here, he didn't do anything. He only took a look, stayed for a day, and then left."
"Maybe it wasn't him."
At Hongchen's words, Chen Changan furrowed his brow. If it hadn't been his father, who had been up to something here?
Could it be that his father had discovered someone meddling here back then, and had come to take a look?
"Hongchen, what do you think is different here from before?" Chen Changan asked.
"Hmm... I can't put my finger on it. It just feels different."
A feeling?
That was far too vague!
Chen Changan had already dived several thousand meters beneath Ice River, but he hadn't found anything unusual.
It was just that Ice River covered an enormous area. Even with Chen Changan's current perception, he couldn't encompass all of it.
Hmm?
He couldn't encompass all of it?
Suddenly, Chen Changan realized what the problem was. The Far North Ice River was indeed vast, but when he had been above it, he hadn't felt this way.
Why was it different beneath Ice River?
Had Ice River... expanded?
But what had caused it to expand?
As Chen Changan pondered this, he suddenly spotted a faint glimmer of light below.
His figure flashed, and he headed straight toward it.
"Huh!"
"What a cute little fellow."
"What are you?"
Chen Changan saw a tiny sprite, only about the size of his palm, glowing pale blue and radiating cold. It was in Ice River, blinking as it looked at