Chapter 249 Scene 34 Under the Ice and Snow Part 1
Chapter 249 Act 34 Under the Ice and Snow Part 1
On October 25th, the first year of Daxin Yaoning, Qi Ziyin and his party finally set foot on the vast world north of Guizhou, which was frozen by thousands of years of ice and snow.
Here is a complete piece of land far away from the sea of floating ice. As far as the eye can see, it is even flatter and boundless than Shuozhou.
The increasingly harsh climate has made the people on the journey constantly faced with the threat of frostbite, food shortages, and ice shell cracking. By the time they reached this point, many of them had already collapsed permanently due to lack of physical strength, and were subsequently killed.
The ice and snow quickly wrapped up and turned into nearly eternal human-shaped monuments on the ice sheet.
Fortunately, according to Mo Zeming, everyone tried their best to follow the hot springs under the ice along the way, and the number of casualties was less than 10%. Now, after trekking for two days, they finally found a hot spring again.
A place of warmth. There are dozens of large and small springs scattered here, and the faces of everyone resting by the springs are filled with endless exhaustion.
The ice and snow beside the springs are melted by the heat, revealing the deep black soil and rocks below. Only at these springs, the extremely cold groundwater and hot springs meet, stirring up the sediment accumulated on the bottom of the river, attracting mud eaters.
The algae, small fish and shrimps gather into a ball.
These fish and shrimp are only about the size of a fingernail, and even the big ones are no more than an inch. They are completely transparent, and you can even see the tiny red heart beating vigorously in the body. Sometimes they will also pick up larger fish that come from nowhere in the water.
The fish attracted by it became an important food supply for Qi Ziyin and his party.
Along the way, whenever there was such a place, everyone would pick up some hard-earned fresh ingredients from the spring water to make a toothpaste. However, today, they were more excited than ever before - and they didn't know if God was blessing them.
Not far away, in a circular spring that was more than ten feet wide, there was trapped a whale with a snow-white belly, a dark back, and a spiral horn about ten feet long on its head.
The giant beast is called the narwhal, and it has long been thought to be extinct. Now this lone whale, perhaps following the food in the warm current, has actually traveled all the way upstream from the floating ice sea, deep into the hot springs in the heart of the ice sheet.
Not allowed to escape.
However, such an extremely rare whale is now nothing more than a fat and fleshy piece of food in the eyes of everyone. The trapped narwhal could not dive underwater for long. Under the siege of the crowd, its sharp long
The horns were quickly tied tightly with ropes, and the thick flesh on his body was pierced by sharp weapons.
The blood dyed the spring eyes crimson. Finally, the dying giant whale could no longer dive into the water. The blowholes on its head opened rapidly under the gaze of the crowd, but it became increasingly difficult to suck in enough air.
Accompanied by the cheers of the crowd, the narwhal gradually stopped struggling. After exhaling its last bloody breath, it was dragged onto the ice with all hands and feet, enough to hold the people on the ice for the next half month.
During the trip, provide sufficient or even surplus meat, as well as oil for lighting.
"It is normal for the weak to prey on the strong. But now, we who are hunting this giant whale are also the meat of others. Thinking about it, I feel extremely sad——"
Standing far away from the crowd, Qi Ziyin, who witnessed this bloody killing, turned his head away, his golden pupils filled with contradictory doubts and pain.
Ning Yue on the side was also infected by the young man's emotions, and she sighed with emotion:
"Zi Yin, you are right. Everything in this world is trying its best to survive. However, it will inevitably hurt others... If I hadn't escaped sneakily back then, if I hadn't met you and Little Stammer, at this moment, the three of us may have already regarded each other as aliens and enemies, and we are facing each other with weapons."
"Ning Yue, please don't think like this. Although I know your identity now, I and these people who follow me will never regard you as an alien!"
The young Duke Ye suddenly realized that what he said seemed to have touched the most sensitive knot in the other person's heart, so he hurriedly explained. But the red-haired girl smiled bitterly and shook her head:
"I know, Ziyin, you can't do it. But if you continue to move forward, if you encounter a dilemma that cannot be controlled by manpower, or encounter a powerful enemy that is difficult to fight against, these people will still be like this. Do you treat me like this? When the time comes - will you really be able to stop me?"
"A powerful enemy that cannot be fought - do you mean your own race?"
Qi Ziyin's heart shivered. He had also heard a little about the accidents that Ning Yue encountered in Yu Capital City. And those terrifying fishmen who had captured Qingwan made him even more suspicious of the Cangyu clan and the Ning Yue. Kunjie himself, who mentioned it many times, was quite afraid.
He knew that his companion's worries were not groundless, and he also understood that if everything she said really happened, he would be powerless to change it. But at the moment, all he could do was try not to think too much about it, and then hope that these things would be shrouded in him like a nightmare. The worries in your heart should never be fulfilled.
After a moment of silence, the young man continued to ask:
"Ning Yue, do you still remember that there is such a huge trombone made of whale horn on the Jie Pagoda outside Mulu City?"
"Of course I remember. Back then, you and I, together with the three of us, secretly climbed up the tower and played the trombone, which made the night watchmen on the bell and drum towers in the city busy all night. Now that I think about it, it's really a bit right. I can’t stop them—but Ziyin, why do you suddenly talk about this?”
Ning Yue raised her head in confusion and looked at him with a pair of blue eyes.
The young Duke Ye shook his head, as if he wanted to get rid of all the messy thoughts in his mind:
"What I want to say is that there is always hope in everything. The whale horn on the tower is said to be made from the horn of the last narwhal in the world. But today, we are in this barren land of ice and snow. , we met a living narwhal. Maybe at this very moment, its kind is still swimming somewhere under the Chanying Sea. And all our worries are just unnecessary disturbances. so--"
"So, I hope we can be as lucky as those surviving narwhals. No matter what we encounter, there will always be a few lucky ones who can escape with their lives..."
Ning Yue seemed to be moved by the other party, she narrowed her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth. However, this was just a disguise she put on because she didn't want the other party to worry anymore. Immediately, the girl changed the subject:
"Speaking of which, Ziyin, do you know the name of the ice field below us?"
"This place actually has a name? Hasn't anyone never been here before?" The boy in white looked surprised.
The red-haired girl nodded, then shook her head: "Indeed, no one has been here since the ancestors disappeared in the world. However, a long time ago, this vast ice field was once A prosperous land. According to records in my father’s collection of books, this place was once called the Blue Ice Field by our ancestors.”
"If everything is covered with ice, how can it be prosperous?"
As Qi Ziyin spoke, he kicked the thick ice under his feet hard. However, even though his toes hurt, he could not get even half of the shallow depression out of the ice.
"The book says that deep in this ice sheet, there once was a city inhabited by hundreds of millions of people. The city was like spring all year round, and the port never froze all year round. Every household had endless delicacies to eat and endless clothes to wear. New clothes, let alone worry like you and me that we will never see the sun tomorrow again."
Ning Yue's words made the young Duke Ye go speechless:
"You mean, it was the power of the ancestors that created the prosperity in that city? But what I saw in the book is that the power of the ancestors brought endless suffering and killing to the world..."
"Perhaps, there is no difference between good and bad in power." The red-haired girl shook her head hesitantly, "Our clan can build a city on the seabed of Chanying with a little bit of magic power inherited from our ancestors, but it was... People on the mainland regard it as an unknown witchcraft. It is certain that the things that the ancestors can do are far beyond our imagination. It is just a question of whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. However, right now, it is There are countless people with evil intentions who plan to take this powerful divine power as their own..."
"Among them - there is the lingering Yuli!"
Qi Ziyin's brows tightened and he turned to look at the way they came - on the ice field behind him, there was no longer any menacing enemy army trying to get rid of them. However, at this moment, he suddenly thought of that ferocious-looking opponent. But an ominous premonition suddenly arose in my heart.
At the same time, Yu Li, whose flagship was destroyed by Ning Yue's spell, was leading thousands of surviving Pengguo troops to grit their teeth and follow Qi Ziyin and others. However, they were struggling to move forward and were left behind for a full day. Footsteps.
Although they had led the ship north several times, the weather in Guizhou still gave Yuli and his soldiers a severe blow. They were well prepared for this trip, but their sophisticated equipment was of little use on the ice sheet. Every time Encountering wind and snow, the severe cold that penetrated the bone marrow fundamentally destroyed everyone's will.
At the moment, Yuli is sitting on a carriage in the middle of the crowd. This is the place with the highest concentration of people and horses in the entire team, and it is also the warmest place for dozens of miles above the ice sheet. The young general is wearing several layers of thick leather jackets. Zi Yuan hugged her tightly, but in the wind and snow, it was still difficult to resist the biting chill coming straight from the gaps in his armor. Behind him, the Pengguo soldier who was responsible for escorting Lan Yan, It has already faltered and has no morale at all.
Although there were many pack horses in the team that were originally used to pull carts, they were not covered with thick fur like the Shuobei horses. Soon, many horses suffered frostbitten joints and fell to the ground. Many more horses His heart and lungs were frostbitten, and every time he moved forward, scarlet blood would drip from his mouth and nose.
As the last three pack horses fell, the entire team completely stopped its already extremely slow pace. Upon seeing this, Yuli immediately jumped out of the car, waved the broad-backed saber in his hand, and chopped off the weak breath The horse's head came. He raised the bloody head high above his head, raised his head like a devil and took a sip of the still hot horse's blood:
"We have horse meat again tonight! Come with a few people and share the horse blood while it's hot so that everyone can warm themselves up!"
As he spoke, he reached into his arms and took out a small bowl stained with ice and blood. He took a bowl of horse blood and handed it to Zi Yuan, who was shivering in the car. Facing the steaming blood, the girl was stunned.
Not paying attention to the fishy smell, he pinched his nose and drank it all in one gulp, as if he had long been accustomed to this way of survival, and then smiled at the young general standing under the car.
Yu Li forced an ugly smile on his nose-less face, then looked at the three carts behind him filled with blue flames, pondered for a moment and then ordered:
"The weapons on the vehicle are the key to our victory over the enemy. We must not throw them away like this! Quickly mobilize some people to replace the packhorses!"
The eight hundred "orphan troops" conscientiously fulfilled every order given by the general. They roughly pointed the firebolts in their hands at the cowering Pengguo soldiers in the team, and randomly selected more than ten people to step forward.
, continue to pull the carriage forward.
Seeing this situation, nearly half of the Pengguo army showed surging anger in their eyes. However, no one stood up for the unlucky ones who were selected, and no one dared to resist even the slightest bit for their own fate -
—
After all, all food and firearms are now controlled by those eight hundred half-grown children who have no distinction between good and evil. And they are simple and loyal to the young general who gives orders. Faced with being slowly
Faced with the dilemma of freezing to death from exhaustion, or having their skulls crushed on the spot by a fire-breathing weapon, everyone chose the former. What made them grit their teeth and persevere was just that they wanted to return to their homeland alive. Such a view
It seems out of reach, but the only spark of hope that still exists.
However, snowflakes gradually started to fall in the sky after it had been clear for half a day, and Yuli was clearly aware of the dissatisfaction that was spreading among the crowd. He knew very well that if he continued to walk aimlessly like this, there would be no hope.
The crowd will eventually become the biggest hidden danger around me. I can't help but frown and think for a moment, and then I think about it:
"Bring out a bucket of blue flames! Soak the corner flag rags, wrap them around the knife, and light them to warm everyone up!"
Being able to light a warm flame in the raging wind and snow was exactly what this team, which was already on the verge of reaching its limit, urgently needed. After hearing this, the Pengguo army immediately started to light a fire with all their hands and feet, and temporarily put the fire on fire.
All the previous dissatisfaction was put behind him. Someone even handed a long knife with blue fire into Yu Li's hand.
The young general and the girl in the car looked at each other, smiled tacitly, and then continued to order loudly:
"Our enemy is not far ahead now! Without the help of the red-haired demon girl, they would never have been able to travel such a long distance in the wind and snow! Think about the witch and Gu demon that destroyed our ship before
Magic, and then think about what it will be like if that magic is used to deal with the Peng Kingdom and your family members in the future! If we don’t want to see such an ending, we must do this at all costs.
Stop them and never let them take the lead in finding the power of our ancestors!"
The power of fear is immeasurable, and even Yuli himself could not have imagined the effects it can bring. Now, everyone in the army seems to have been blinded by the wind and snow, and frozen by the severe cold.
His mind was frozen, and he no longer thought carefully about the meaning of the general's words, let alone whether they were right or wrong. He just burst out into an almost crazy roar under constant incitement and encouragement.
Now in their eyes, it seems that as long as they kill Qi Ziyin and his party, they can use the power of their ancestors that they don't even know what it is or even how to use it to return to their homeland, which they think about day and night, and return home.
Beside his wife, children and children who are waiting for him to return.
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