Volume 7: Iron Horse Chapter 001 So that’s how it is
Yu looked at the vast gray landscape ahead and smiled lightly, "I never do anything I regret."
Ling Jie didn't speak either. The two of them just walked in tandem in the cold snow. In less than half an hour, they encountered several groups of robbers, but Ling Jie fought them off.
These people have lived in such a place for a long time and are severely lacking in nutrition and physical strength. Although there are many people, they are definitely no match for Ling Jie and Yu.
"Ah owe"
Yu shivered. She had been walking in this place with temperatures over ten degrees below zero for several hours. An icy chill spread from her toes throughout her body. Yu now felt as if her entire body was being immersed in a pool of ice.
It was cold everywhere, extremely cold. However, Yu didn't say anything and continued to follow Ling Jie, walking quietly.
"There's no other way to go on like this." Ling Jie also felt a little cold, but he had a master-level body after all, so he could still tolerate such a cold temperature.
"We landed at eleven o'clock. It's already four o'clock in the afternoon. Let's find a place to sit down and have something to eat." Ling Jie found a dead tree, wiped off the thick ice and snow on it, and then sat down.
He went up, opened the backpack, and ate some of the dry food inside. Yu naturally ate some, but not a lot. She seemed to have known that the dry food would take a long time to eat and she couldn't eat too much at one time. She said she was full after a few moments.
"I always get robbed. I'll find someone to rob later. I have to ask him for a place to live. It will get dark around five o'clock. If we haven't found a place to shelter from the wind and snow by then, the temperature will be very high at night."
If we fall, we will definitely be frozen alive into ice cubes."
Ling Jie carried his bag behind his back, "Let's go, I'll go up and rob someone when I see them."
Yu remained silent, obviously agreeing with Ling Jie's idea. The two walked on the road for a while. Finally, Huang Tian paid off and a man came in front.
This man is very tough and big, but he looks a little sallow and thin. It seems that he has not eaten well for many years. Ling Jie estimates that he should not be more than forty years old, but he looks like a hundred years old.
As haggard as an old man.
Ling Jie stopped a hundred meters away and pointed at the man in front of him, "It's him, Yu, you go."
The man seemed to have read what Ling Jie and the two were thinking, and ran away. He was not running too slow, and was about to disappear around the corner in front of him.
"call out!"
With a roar, Yu's body was shot out, his feet touched the snow, and he rushed out like a sharp arrow. The snow on the ground quickly collapsed in all directions, with a violent roaring sound.
Ling Jie blinked his eyes, and when he opened them again, the man had fallen on the snow. Then he was picked up by Yu, with a cold dagger pressed against the man's neck.
This girl is very skilled. Ling Jie was in a good mood, shook his hair, and then walked slowly to the man, "Why are you running?"
There was a look of horror in the man's eyes. The cold dagger cut through the skin on his neck. Blood flowed from the wound, but it was quickly condensed into ice cubes and froze on his neck, turning purple...
The man's whole body was trembling, "I...I, I...I don't have anything to eat or wear. Don't rob me."
Ling Jie and Yu Gu were shocked. Nowadays, when people are robbed, don't they always say - Brother, I beg you to let me go, I don't have any money.
This guy didn't even mention money, but instead said he had no food or clothing... Ling Jie always sounded a little awkward.
Ling Jie stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, "I won't rob you. You will answer whatever I ask you...otherwise your neck will melt, do you understand?"
Facing Ling Jie's fierce threats, the man nodded repeatedly, and the trembling in his body became slightly less, "Yes."
Ling Jie said with satisfaction, "How can anyone live in this land of ice and snow?"
The man murmured, "Live under the tree. Live under the tree."
Ling Jie glanced at the big fir tree next to him. Although this fir tree was big enough, and many fir trees were as big as several people hugging each other, there was still ice and snow under the tree, and even the branches were covered with a thick layer of ice...
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Ling Jie frowned, wasn't this guy obviously playing tricks on me?
At the same moment, Yu's knife stretched into his neck, another stream of blood flowed down, and then condensed into ice on his neck, "Be honest, tell me."
The man's face turned purple with fright, and he trembled and said, "What I said is true. I didn't lie to you... We all live under a tree."
"It's freezing under the tree. It's at least 20 degrees below zero at night. How can anyone live here? Do you think I'm..." Ling Jie wanted to blurt out the word "idiot", but when he thought about it, wasn't he scolding himself?
, so he swallowed these two words again.
"I, I... I'm not telling lies, I... mean, people... people... people..." The man was so frightened that he couldn't speak. Yu loosened his dagger, and then the man began to speak fluently,
"I mean people live in tree trunks."
The man was worried that Yu would come to him again, so he explained, "We hollow out the bottom of the tree trunk and open a small door. Then people can live inside and make a fire and make beds. People living inside will not be cold."
Ling Jie suddenly realized, "So that's what it is... you hollow out the trunks of trees and then live in them. The people here are really good at it, let me tell you... How can you live in such a cold place... So that's how it is."
Ling Jie walked to a large fir tree nearby, circled the tree a few times, and frowned, "It takes six people to hug this fir tree, which is quite small on the island."
.Even if you have to hollow out the tree trunk, it will still take a lot of hard work."
Ling Jie frowned when he thought about how difficult it was to hollow out such a big tree trunk. He came to the man again and asked, "Where is your home? Where do you live?"
"I...I...I, I, I..."
"What am I, tell me quickly, or I will cut your neck." Yu tightened the dagger a little tighter, and blood flowed out. The man was so frightened that he almost died, "My parents won't let me say it."
"Kill him." Ling Jie tilted his head and Yu made a move to stab him through the neck.
The man became anxious, his body went limp, and he immediately collapsed on the ground, "Okay... I said, I said. My family lives under a big fir tree not far away."
"Take us there!"
"No."
"Yu, kill him for me."
"Okay, I'll take you. I'll take you there right now. But you have to promise me not to hurt my parents, otherwise I won't take you there even if I die."
"Okay, I promise you."
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(The seventh volume begins, the most powerful volume in the book. The Dark Prison is a place where Ling Jie’s strength reaches its peak. There are many unexpected things here.)