A few months ago, Mujia coastal wharf.

A merchant ship was about to sail north, Mu Wanqing pulled Cheng Xue through the busy crowd between the ship and the shore, ran to the deck, shook her hand, and begged bitterly: "Good sister, go with Qing'er." ”

Suddenly, a burst of fragrance came to the nose, and the beautiful dream was immediately torn apart by the cruelty of hunger and cold in reality.

Cheng Xue slowly opened her beautiful eyes, and what caught her eyes was the cooked meat roasted on the fire. She had been in a coma for a day and a night, and she was already so hungry that she had no time to think about where the food from the fire came from, so she kept tearing off a small piece of roasted meat and chewing it carefully. Just as he was about to open his mouth to call Wanqing, he suddenly realized that the merchant ship had sunk, and Mu Hongqi's father and daughter had also been buried in the sea.

Just as she was saddened, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a young man with black hair scattered sitting next to her.

Cheng Xue was taken aback at first, and then recognized from her figure that it was the man who she saw coming out of the iceberg before she fell unconscious. However, at this time, the man had already put on a short animal skin coat, and even so, it still made her jade cheeks shy and flustered.

The man felt Cheng Xue's gaze at him and turned his head to look at her.

At this time, the cheeks covered by black hair completely appeared in front of Cheng Xue's eyes. The sword-like silhouette, the sword eyebrows and starry eyes, the straight nose bridge, and the deep eyes shimmer with soul-stirring indifference.

Perhaps his appearance was slightly inferior to those handsome men who pursued Cheng Xue, but he had a resolute spirit that she had never seen among the men she had ever seen.

Under his indifferent gaze, Cheng Xue lowered her head a little unnaturally. Just when she was panicking and wanted to leave, she couldn't stand up because of her weak body.

The man looked away, and then said as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, and said incoherently: "You, you've been in a coma for a long time, icebergs, ocean currents, islands. ”

Cheng Xue wanted to ask you if you wanted to say: I was in a coma for a long time, and the iceberg drifted to this island with the ocean current? But after all, I didn't have the courage to speak, so I just nodded. Then he looked around, and then noticed that the position he was at this time was actually on the top of the island, and below the mountain was a brown mossy plain, and wild goats ran in it from time to time.

Thinking that a person would not come to the top of the mountain from the iceberg, it was probably when she was unconscious, and the man carried her up the mountain on his back or in his arms. Thinking of this, Qiao's face turned even redder.

In order to avoid embarrassment and defensiveness against the strange man, Cheng Xue sat a few steps away from the man and quietly chewed the barbecue meat handed by the man, her mind was full of Mu Wanqing's heart-rending cry for help before she fell into the sea.

During this period, the tall figure of the man would occasionally flash, and whenever this happened, she couldn't help but peek curiously. The man didn't look at her again, but just looked at the fire with a blank face, and from time to time added some dry wood to help the burning, not knowing what he was thinking.

With Kim Ussi, there was no word for the night.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was overcast and stuffy, and the gray sky seemed to be about to smash into the ocean at any moment. Until noon, the clouds had dispersed, and by the afternoon, the sun was shining.

The man set his eyes on the western sky, which was burned red by the golden crow, and after a long time, he walked down the mountain without a sound.

The only thing that could be seen on this island was this strange man, Cheng Xue was afraid of being left alone on the top of the mountain, and he didn't dare to ask to go along, so he could only follow the man silently. And he seemed to acquiesce in this following, and whenever the distance between the two of them was shortened, he would always stop and wait, and only when she approached did he take another step.

It seemed that after walking for a long time, the man finally stopped in front of a stone cave, looked at Cheng Xue, who was already sweating all the way, and said indifferently: "There is snow tonight, here, spend the night." ”

Although Cheng Xue didn't understand why he was so sure, let alone how he knew that there was a cave here, he still nodded, and when he was about to enter the cave, he was violently choked by the man's wrist.

When her panicked gaze met the man, he let go of his hand, motioned for her to stay where she was, and then went into the cave alone.

After a while, the man returned to the cave and led her in.

The cave was not deep, but there were two chambers, the inner and the outside, both of which had been cleaned at this time, but the air was filled with a disgusting smell of rotting flesh.

When Cheng Xue saw a white bear in the corner of the cave that had just died not long ago, she understood the man's intention to hold her. The wrist that had been choked by the man before was still aching, but for some reason, her heart was filled with unprecedented ripples, and she was not surprised that the man could kill a huge white bear with his bare hands.

In the evening, the sky was still clear, but in the evening, the snow quietly came, and the sky was silvery white.

Cheng Xue bent her knees, wrapped her jade hands, sat quietly by the fire and looked at the snow curtain at the entrance of the cave, curious about the man's ability to see the weather, how could he not understand how the clear clear sky could suddenly snow.

The man leaned against the stone wall, staring at the fire, concentrating on roasting the processed white bear meat, ignoring the goose feathers and snow outside.

After a long time, the man broke the silence and asked as if muttering to himself, "What is your name?"

Cheng Xue was distracted for a while, and then turned around and said in surprise: "Talk to me?" Fang Jue lost his temper after speaking, and two red clouds flew on his pretty face.

The man looked at the fire, not noticing her strangeness, but nodded.

Cheng Xue said: "My name is Cheng Xue," after a pause, he asked cautiously: "What about you, what is your name?"

The man picked up a piece of charcoal, flicked his wrist, and quickly wrote three vigorous and powerful characters on the rock wall beside him.

Cheng Xue whispered, "Ba Fenghan?"

The man bowed his jaw and said in a somewhat sluggish voice, "You are the first person to call your name." ”

"Do you want to say that I was the first person to call your name?" asked Cheng Xue with some trepidation.

Ba Fenghan nodded.

Seeing his indifferent smile, Cheng Xue couldn't help but feel cordial, and plucked up the courage to ask, "Hasn't anyone ever called your name before?"

Ba Fenghan looked a little confused: "I don't know how long it has been since the last person called my name, but I feel that it has been a long, long time, so long that the concept of time is blurred." He said with a lonely expression: "Since I was poisoned and calculated, I haven't spoken to anyone for too long, if it weren't for the fact that there is still some value in existence, even if the spread of toxins was slowed down because of the cold ice in the past, sooner or later it would become a dry bone in the cold seabed under the erosion of the cold air day after day." ”

He spoke slowly, but as he spoke more often, he grew more fluent.

Although Cheng Xue had a lot of curiosity about Ba Fenghan, she didn't expect him to take the initiative to listen to her.

She met Bafeng Han Pingshui, and did not study the existence value of Bafeng Han's words. I can't say why, Cheng Xue just felt that he was not as indifferent as he seemed on the surface, and at the same time felt sad and sad about what happened to him. The guard against him in her heart unconsciously let go a lot, and even she herself was not aware of this subtle change in her heart.

Ba Fenghan moved his gaze from Cheng Xueqiao's face to the fire, and after a long silence, he said calmly: "Since God won't let me die, I will definitely double their rewards." ”

The light of the fire flickered and dimmed, reflecting his unruly face.

After listening to Ba Fenghan's words, Cheng Xue suddenly thought of what happened to the caravan this time, and couldn't help asking, "Is it because of you that there are so many icebergs on the sea?"

Although Cheng Xue does not practice martial arts, she has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she knows that some powerful ancient warriors and spirits do have the power to change nature, but if you think about it carefully, Ba Fenghan is only the same age as his brother, so how can he have that kind of supreme ability to change nature.

Seeing that Ba Fenghan ignored his meaning, Cheng Xue only sighed softly.

After that, the two did not speak again, only the faint sound of the sea tide and the occasional crackling of firewood fires could be heard in the distance, as if to soothe the dreary atmosphere.

The night is getting darker.

Cheng Xue stretched her waist and said softly, "I'm going to sleep." "Get up and go into the inner cave.

Ba Fenghan called out to her, threw the bear skin he had handled during the day into her arms, and then leaned down to the stone wall to sleep.

Cheng Xue grew up with a golden spoon in her mouth, but she did not develop a delicate temperament, although the bear skin was simply treated, it still smelled very strong, but Cheng Xue could still bear it. Her delicate hands stroked the warm and soft fluff, and her beautiful eyes rippled.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, the two woke up early in the morning, and after eating some food, Ba Fenghan walked to the entrance of the cave and stopped for a while, then turned to Cheng Xue and said, "The wind direction has changed today, I will go to the beach to see if there are any boats." Then he walked away.

Cheng Xue looked at him with a somewhat complicated gaze and disappeared at the entrance of the cave, and followed after a while.

At this time, Ba Feng, who had walked out of the country, stopped looking at her, and his eyes that seemed to be indifferent to all personnel seemed to say, what are you doing with me again.

Cheng Xue avoided his gaze, lowered her head and said, "I'll go with you." ”

The shore is windy and the tide is receding, exposing large areas of reef. Last night's heavy snowfall failed to leave any traces on the island.

Ba Fenghan looked at the rising red sun on the sea, discerned the direction, turned to point to another sea, and said: "This sea area to the west is the only way for all ships, if you are lucky, you can leave the island today." ”

Cheng Xueqiao stood outside of Ba Fenghan's field of vision, her beautiful eyes moved from his angular side face to the sea, and then stepped forward to stand side by side with him, breathing deeply in the sea breeze, as if she had made a lot of determination and said: "It was so sunny yesterday, I mean yesterday afternoon, how did you know that there would be snow at night?"

She was not a woman of words to come up with such a clumsy subject.

Ba Feng said coldly: "Although the clouds condensed in the early morning yesterday, until the yang energy rose at noon, it began to disappear into invisibility, but in the evening, the yin and yang converged, and the yang energy turned from extremely prosperous to extremely weak, and the dispersed yin clouds re-condensed, and because the yin qi in the evening was more abundant than in the early morning, the clouds were thicker, and a large amount of water vapor rising and condensed in the daytime would turn into ice and snow when the weather became cooler at night. ”

Cheng Xue looked up at the sky and yearned: "It was the first time I heard that snowflakes fell from the sky to the world, and there was such a wonderful process. After a pause, he continued: "Can I learn this skill of watching the weather?"

Ba Fenghan turned his gaze to her, and found that she was also looking at himself.

The eyes are facing each other.

Ba Fenghan looked at her and said indifferently: "It will be difficult, this skill needs to be familiarized with the ears and eyes, and it will accumulate over time, but there is not so much time at the moment." After that, he looked at the wet ground, suddenly remembered something, and said, "You stay where you are, don't go far." ”

Cheng Xue hadn't recovered from the loss of being rejected, and Ba Fenghan had already swept in the direction he came.

Back in the cave, the fire inside had burned out. Bafenghan picked up a few pieces of charcoal and wrapped them in the large amount of moss he had collected when he came.

Moss is ubiquitous on the island and is a good fuel, but now it is semi-wet with snow and is used to create smoke when encountering passing ships.

After he tied the moss wrapped in charcoal into bundles, tied them to his back, and stepped out of the stone cave, he suddenly throbbed inexplicably, and he felt like he was being watched.

Ba Fenghan's eyes were cold, and he looked at the distant mountain with a sense of feeling. From a distance, I saw a tall figure on the top of the mountain hunched over, motionless in front of him.

Ba Fenghan frowned slightly, and while the aura in his body was running wildly, the whole person rushed towards the top of the mountain without the slightest hesitation.

For Ba Fenghan, who has been frozen by thousands of years of ice for three years, there is nothing more terrifying than being powerless and eroded by death. He had already died once, and no unknown would be allowed to threaten his life again.

However, when he reached the top of the mountain, Ba Fenghan froze suddenly. The figure he had seen earlier was a dummy made of dry bones.

A tattered canvas was draped over the dummy, and a piece of wood was placed on the dummy's waist, making it stand on its bow.

Two days ago, he clearly remembered that when he and Cheng Xue went down the mountain, there was no such thing on the top of the mountain, and it was obviously placed by a descendant. At this time, facing the dummy, Ba Fenghan frowned, full of suspicions.

When he first landed on the island, he had already made it clear what was going on on the island, except for some native goats and a few white bears scattered around the island, there were no other creatures, how could there be anyone else?

But who placed the dummy, and what was the purpose?

There's nothing wrong with that previous feeling of being watched.

Ba Fenghan looked thoughtfully, turned his gaze to the ground, and noticed a row of extremely shallow footprints, and walked along the footprints, which was a cliff on the side of the mountaintop. The choppy waters below crashed against the reef and were deafening.

There are quirks!

Ba Feng coldly thought of Cheng Xue on the coast, and felt irritable in his heart, and immediately flew down the mountain, while several wisps of cold air visible to the naked eye wrapped around his body.

Hurry up, he's a step too late after all.

The snow was gone on the shore, and there were only rows of chaotic footprints stretching into the sea on the muddy ground. Ba Fenghan noticed that these footprints were exactly the same as those seen on the top of the mountain, similar to those made by humans stepping on barefoot, but they were several times larger than those of ordinary people.

His gaze swept across the sea, and a touch of pink floated in the water.

Ba Fenghan's eyes lit up, and he jumped into the icy seawater. swam closer, but found that it was just a handkerchief left by Cheng Xue, and his expression was gloomy. Later, when he returned to the island, he still carefully tucked the handkerchief into his arms, and he blamed himself in his heart, and a thin layer of frost had unconsciously spread from the soles of his feet to all sides.

"Boom"

The whole island shook suddenly.

Ba Feng Han came back to his senses, his heart trembled, and the cold power of the ice spirit that was unintentionally released converged.

"It's a seventh-order demon beast, a dragon tortoise. ”

As he was stunned, a weak voice sounded in his head.

Ba Feng was cold and awe-inspiring, and asked in his heart, "But the dragon turtle that caused the beast tide to slaughter the city sixty years ago?!"

The owner of that voice seemed to be tired, and it took a long time for it to sound in his head: "This island is the tip of the iceberg of its body, and we are now on its back, and the cold power of the ice spirit you inadvertently released just now has been stained with my breath, and it has alarmed it." As if talking to himself, he didn't answer his question.

Ba Fenghan didn't care about this, he knew how terrifying the soul that lived in his sea of consciousness was in the past, if it weren't for the poison in his body back then, his life was at stake, he would never risk signing a contract with him in exchange for the rebirth of the present day.

"It hasn't woken up from its slumber, it's fine. ”

As the sound sounded again, it wasn't long before the island stopped shaking and calm returned.

After describing to Xue Zang what happened before and after Cheng Xue's disappearance, Ba Fenghan asked, "Do you know what those footprints left behind?"

"Sea apes. ”

Just when Ba Fenghan thought he couldn't get a response, Xue Zang's voice sounded again.

"Sea ape?" Before he wanted to know more, Xue Zang had already cut off contact with him and fell into a deep sleep again.

After learning that the island was true, Ba Fenghan didn't dare to borrow Xue Zang's ice spirit cold power again, and before skillfully using this power, in order to avoid unintentional release, he could only temporarily imprison it in the sea of knowledge.

For the sea ape, although Xue Zang has no explanation, the demonic beast that opens the spirit is usually not too weak. At this time, Cheng Xue is afraid that he is already more auspicious.

Although he was still frozen in the sleeping iceberg when the caravan was affected by the icebergs, his consciousness had been revived and he had witnessed everything that had happened, and although the appearance of the icebergs was due to the leakage of Xuezang's power, it was also directly related to him. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have full control over the power from Xuezang, the merchant ship wouldn't have suffered as a result.

After Cheng Xue fell into the water and lost consciousness, as the iceberg continued to rise, Cheng Xue was also dragged out of the water by the iceberg. At that time, Cheng Xue was not the only one who was held up, but only Cheng Xue was sheltered by a strange force in his chest and was still alive.

After Ba Fenghan released a soft blue aura to envelop Cheng Xue, that strange power also disappeared.

Thinking of what happened to the two of them in the past few days, Bai Fenghan blamed himself for his negligence. After searching all over the island, there was still no trace of Cheng Xue, and in desperation, he could only find a way to leave this place as soon as possible.

Now back to the coast, hoping for ships passing by.

After waiting for several hours, a huge ship appeared like a mirage on the sea level, sailing slowly north.

Ba Fenghan had been visually measuring the distance between the giant ship and the island, and when it was about three hundred nautical miles, he lit the prepared moss, and for a moment wolf smoke billowed out. Under the sun, the rising smoke is not difficult to see by the people on the giant ship.

However, in the gaze of Ba Fenghan's hope, the course of the giant ship remained unchanged and sailed into the distance, and finally disappeared from sight.

Soon after, another large ship came into his field of vision, calculating the distance as before, and lit the wolf's smoke. Not long after, as the wolf smoke continued to rise, the big ship finally changed course and sailed towards the island.