In the middle of the day, there was not a single cloud in the sky, and the thorny sun shone on the earth, and the earth was as dry and cracked as expected, without the slightest bit of life.

However, on this blazing land, two figures appeared.

One old, one young.

The young man raised the back of his hand to wipe his sweat, glanced at the thorny sunlight in the sky, and suddenly lowered his head blankly: "Alas, grandpa, when will this go to arrive?"

When the old man in front heard this, he didn't stop and said, "Only when we get to that place can we stop, you see." As he spoke, he pointed to a pile of dry bones not far away.

The weather was so hot that even the bones cracked.

The young man couldn't help but shudder, took the water bag from his waist and took a sip to suppress the shock, which made it better, but when he found that the water bag in his hand was no longer sinking, his face became sad again.

Traveling under the scorching sun is indeed torture enough.

I don't know how long I walked, the round of tomorrow in the sky was finally out of the middle, but the air was still so hot that people couldn't even sweat, and the boy finally couldn't help it, shook the empty water bag in his hand, and sat on the ground with his buttocks.

"Alas, I don't ......" and "gone" before the words "go" could be said, the young man suddenly felt hot under his buttocks, and jumped up in a panic.

You can't even sit and rest.

Only then did the old man stop, turned to look at the young man, and said, "Let's go, it's almost there." ”

"Hmph, grandpa is lying, it's clear that the front is all desert! I'm afraid we will have to walk another month to get there!" said the young man angrily.

Hearing the young man say a month, the old man's face changed slightly, but he didn't expect to be really said by this kid, yes, it will take a month to walk through this blazing desert.

However, it should not be far from the next clear water supply point.

Thinking of this, the old man turned to look ahead, trying to find the banner of the supply point, but the barren and dry land in front of him stretched all the way to the horizon, and he couldn't find the conspicuous flag of the supply point.

The old man was silent for a few seconds, then turned around and took the young man's hand and continued forward.

If there is no water, it will really become those dry bones that you see on the road, so you will die, and you will die on the way to the supply point.

Although the young man was tired and hot, he also knew that he could not just stop, but he still shook off the old man's hand and followed by himself.

The old man shook his head slightly, revealing a wry smile.

After walking for a few more hours, the sun finally set, and the grandfather and grandson still did not find the nearest supply point, although the old man was worried that they had taken the wrong route and missed the supply point, but once the sun set, they could not walk anything, and they had to wait the next day to continue their journey.

Because......

Seeing the sun set, the young man also showed a nervous expression, and hurriedly followed the old man to trot all the way, until he found a pit deep in the ground, and the grandfather and grandson settled down.

It should be able to resist.

While the grandfather and grandson were busy setting up tents in the pit with the materials in their backpacks, they heard a "whirring" sound outside the cave, as if a strong wind was blowing above the cave entrance, and it was getting stronger and stronger.

Don't look at the sun here during the day, at night, it will become extremely cold, and if you don't have a special cold-proof tent and find low-lying areas, you will be 100% frozen into popsicles.

Then, it rotted into a mess under the scorching sun of the next day.

In addition to the cold-proof tent, the grandfather and grandson also lit a bonfire in it, which finally warmed up a lot, and then the boy asked, "Grandpa, why are we going there?"

The old man looked at the crackling bonfire, and there seemed to be two flickering flames in his eyes: "Because, there, there is snow everywhere. ”

"Wow, really!" Hearing this, the boy suddenly became excited.

You know, there is only a few places where they used to live, and if they travel through the blazing earth to the legendary place, they won't have to worry about running out of snow at all.

However, the young man still had a lot of nostalgia for his hometown, and he asked: "Grandpa, we also have snow there, why do we have to travel so far to go there?"

In fact, this question can be answered at the same time as the previous one, but he only said that the destination was full of snow, and did not tell the truth about his hometown.

He thought about it, sighed, and still didn't tell the boy.

At this time, the old man suddenly heard a voice from the tent, and then the tent was uncovered, and when the grandfather and grandson looked up, they saw an ironclad warrior above, who was holding a torch and looking at them: "Let's go, you have deviated from the direction." ”

However, the samurai had iron armor to withstand the cold, but the grandfather and grandson did not, the old man hesitated.

At this time, he saw the ironclad warrior throw down two torches, the old man caught them, and immediately felt that his whole body was hot, and he carefully looked at the wooden handle of the torch, on which there was a string of slightly shiny runes.

It turns out that this is a warm-up torch specially designed to withstand the bitter cold, and there are already mages who have cast spells on it.

So the grandfather and grandson followed the ironclad warrior into the cold wind and began to move towards the real supply point.

However, when the three of them arrived, the old man and the young man both thought that they would have water to drink immediately, but the ironclad samurai was suddenly stunned and then rushed over.

Only then did the grandfather and grandson see that the camp at the supply point was full of people lying on the ground, and they had ......

The ironclad warrior pounced on another ironclad warrior lying on the ground, shouted a few times, and seeing that he didn't react, he hurriedly checked quickly, only to find that a huge wound had appeared in the ironclad armor.

And the ironclad samurai stationed in this place all have the same wounds.

The ironclad warrior was stunned for a moment, and only after a long time did he mutter, "We have been attacked, it's the Snow Demon." ”

"Snow demon?" When the old man heard this, he immediately choked out all the water he was drinking, but the young man didn't know why, after all, he was too thirsty.

"It's the Snow Demon," the ironclad warrior nodded affirmatively, "otherwise it would be impossible to hit the flesh through the armor." ”

Moreover, this wound is caused by the explosion of snow magic in the body.

The old man hurriedly asked, "How about that?" or let's hurry away, while the torches are still effective. ”

The ironclad warrior nodded, then shook his head again, "No, we should stay here and wait for the other warriors to come." ”

Could it be that the magic power of the torch is running out? The old man couldn't help but look at the runes on the torch again, and sure enough, the light on it was much dimmer than when he first got it, and it was about to disappear.

In other words, if you run out now to avoid the snow demons, you will soon be frozen into popsicles because you don't have a torch.

However, if the snow demon kills the horse pistol, look at the ironclad warriors in this place, now only the one who picks up the grandfather and grandson is left, can he resist it?

In fact, this ironclad warrior has no bottom in his heart, after all, the snow demons are too powerful, and only magicians can resist them.

Unfortunately, there are no magicians among the people who have been transferred to the Snow Country this time.

Because the magicians have other things to do, I heard that they must meet with an existence from another world, and all the magicians on this continent must go.

Of course, the ironclad warrior was not interested in this kind of existence, and he could only help his companions collect the corpses and then protect the grandfather and grandson.

Then the young man suddenly asked, "By the way, what about the others? Why didn't you see them?"

Hearing this, the old man and the ironclad warrior both looked miserable, it was obvious that the ironclad warrior had received special training, and his soul was useless to the snow demon, but ordinary people were different, the snow demon would absorb their soul and use it to strengthen themselves, or rather, the soul was their food.

When the young man saw the old man's expression, he pursed his lips and didn't ask more.

After a while, when both the grandfather and grandson had drunk their fill, the ironclad warrior suddenly stood up, and pulled out the long sword at his waist: "Who is it?"

However, what answered him was the sound of ice crystals crackling, and then the ironclad warrior suddenly stopped moving, just standing in place in a daze.

The young man felt strange and was about to step forward to push him, but he was grabbed by the trembling old man, and he ran to the back of the camp like crazy.

It's a snow demon!

Sure enough, the ironclad warrior was stunned in place for a few seconds, and then suddenly fell straight to the ground, already killed by the snow magic!

And after the ironclad warrior fell, the fox that had been white was staring at a pair of green eyes, looking at the young man who ran away, and for a moment, those eyes were full of greed.

Seeing that he couldn't run, the old man pulled the young man behind him and said to him hurriedly, "Run!" and rushed to the white fox with a scream.

The young man was really frightened at this time, he panicked and wanted to run, but when he thought that the old man would go over to find the snow demon like this, his heart suddenly became sour, and his footsteps stopped: "No! Grandpa, I want to be with you!"

"You ......" The old man was almost half out of breath, but before he could scold the young man, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and a long tongue had already licked him!

Immediately afterwards, the old man was turned into a whole iceman by that long tongue in front of the young man, and then, burst!

The boy was stunned and couldn't help but sit down on the ground.

And after the ice crystal fragments that the old man burst open, the greedy white fox had already continued to look at the young man through the ice mist!

"Ah, don't eat me!" the boy shouted, but to no avail, the white fox licked his tongue and narrowed his eyes.

Is this the look in the eyes before the cannibalism? The young man asked himself in his heart, but at this moment he could no longer move, he could only ......

At this moment, the white fox's squinting eyes did not open again, and its licking action actually stopped.

The young man couldn't help but sigh, and saw a person appear next to the white fox.

(End of chapter)