I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1197 - 1093: Distracting the Driver Is Very Dangerous

Who did she go to find?

Looking at the Cancer Director in front of him, smiling all the while, the Scorpio Director couldn't help but be slightly taken aback. Then, with a look as if suffering from chronic constipation, he forced a smile and said:

"Could it be Aquarius?"

"That's right."

The Cancer Director scratched his ear and continued with a chuckle:

"From what they said, it seems that Dame Evangelin does not agree with the actions of the Flowing Vortex Ancestor. She has been opposing him frequently, and even had a big argument with him a few days ago.

It's likely that Dame Evangelin was very disappointed with the Flowing Vortex Ancestor's decision, and since Aquarius had been getting along well with her daughter at the previous meeting of The Twelve Kingdoms, she went straight to Aquarius for help."

"Queen Wendy? Aquarius has a thing with her too?"

The Scorpio Director scratched the back of his head and couldn't help but question:

"Isn't that wrong? The two of them barely spoke a few words at the meeting and maintained a purely business-like attitude with each other. It doesn't seem like they have any relationship, does it?"

"Hehe."

Faced with the Scorpio Director's doubts, the Cancer Director chuckled and, while continuing to walk, said:

"That's just because the 'main person' was sitting beside them, so they seemed more restrained. In reality, Aquarius definitely has a deep connection with her... Didn't you see Aquarius's brother sitting right behind her? There's certainly something going on between them!"

"Now that you mention it... it seems true!"

"Right?"

The Cancer Director said with a laugh:

"Don't be fooled by Aquarius's always serious demeanor. In fact, from the first time I saw him, I knew deep down he's quite a playboy!

And it's not just outside, I bet he has a sweetheart inside the Bureau too. I can't be sure about others, but Olivia from the Virgo Division, the way she looks at him is far from innocent... Hmm? Looks like we've arrived."

After harshly discussing their colleague's private life, the water around the two directors suddenly sped up, flinging them out of the slowly rotating giant sea vortex and crashing them heavily against a hard, cold ice wall.

This ice... It feels thicker than before...

After leaving the waterway that was almost frozen into an ice column, and looking at the terrifying ice layer on the seabed nearly fifty meters thick, the remaining smiles on the faces of the two directors quickly vanished as they gravely explored the crystal-clear seabed.

In the weak light of the ocean floor, the boundless thick ice layer appeared both transparent and oppressive, like a crystal sky laid beneath dark clouds, cold and somber stretching into the distance.

Due to the influence of ocean currents, the surface of this ice crystal sky was uneven, full of raised ice ridges and herringbone cracks. In places where the seabed terrain varied greatly, the pressure of the currents had even caused it to fracture, forming clifflike ice walls nearly ten meters high.

Squinting, the Scorpio Director gazed into the mirror-like fractured cliffs, where time seemed frozen. Large schools of fish swam, and clusters of indistinct dark green algae, like a forest carved from ice, were encased inside, exuding a strange yet chilling magnificence.

"It's about two meters thicker."

After carefully observing the surroundings and finding a few markers left during the last visit to examine the ice formation, the Cancer Director took a deep breath, his expression serious as he analyzed:

"If this speed continues, in about two hundred to two hundred fifty days, the ice layer could freeze half of the Central Sea, and within two to three years, it might reach the sea surface."

"It's not just that."

Reaching out to break several layers of ice and finding his previous markers at greater depths, the Scorpio Director grimly added:

"The rate of freezing doesn't increase uniformly; it depends on the 'contact' area. The more water that contacts these ice formations, the more contaminated water, and the thicker the new ice layer becomes.

And the Central Sea is funnel-shaped, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Therefore, the further it progresses, the faster it freezes. It might not even take a year for the entire Central Sea to freeze over!"

This is not an ordinary problem. If something goes wrong, it could mean the end of the current world!

Having fully confirmed the peril of this seabed ice formation incident, the two directors looked each other in the eye. The Scorpio Director was the first to speak:

"Can we contact Joan and have her use the [Sun's Corona] to melt away all this ice at once?"

"Impossible."

The Cancer Director shook his head:

"The Sun's Corona has to shine from above, but this is the seabed. Only after evaporating the seawater could the corona possibly reach this ice."

"Maybe using the Star Gate could work."

The Scorpio Director insisted: 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"We could open one end of the Star Gate horizontally at the seabed, and the other end could be above the Sun's Corona's orbit, potentially bypassing the seawater to directly melt this ice."

"It's unfeasible."

The Cancer Director shook his head again:

"Leaving aside the immense consumption of getting the Sun's Corona through the Star Gate, just looking at the area of this ice makes it impractical... It's not just the Central Sea freezing, but the bottoms of all large sea areas are freezing to varying extents.

If we had noticed at the start, it might have been manageable, but given the current situation, the Sun's Corona's speed at melting the ice can't keep up with the ice layer's expansion rate."

"So we..."

"We can only do as the ancestors of the Sea Three Tribes, forcibly breaking through the ice layer to investigate. If we can locate the source of the freeze, there might be a way to halt this freezing process."