Winter in Pheton always comes early, and the short summer is fleeting.

The bitter north winds soon plunged the islands of Featon into a world of snow and ice. At this time, the Fedunians rarely ventured into the open seas, and more often lit warm fires at home to survive the long winters, and occasionally went to the forests of their respective islands to hunt.

Friedlier handed him a small white cape made of a whole Froststained wolf skin, and after Celestia had put it on, Friedlier gave her a small round hat made of gray snow rabbit fur. After that, he put on his thick woollen vest and a black cloak made of frost-stained wolf skin.

Friedlier leaned the Night to his left shoulder, leaving the place behind his right shoulder for the quiver, which was wrapped in brown leather with more than a dozen feathered arrows sticking out from behind him. He picked up the short bow made of dragon-perched wood hanging on the wall, pushed the door open, and the cold wind immediately blew into the room with large snowflakes. Sibriel narrowed her eyes, exhaled a cold breath, and walked out the door after Friedlier.

Sibelis, treading through the snow that didn't reach her calf, followed Friedlier all the way out of the Ice-Whispering Harbor. After crossing a half-frozen stream behind the town, they walked together deeper into the woods.

Although it was daylight, Sibriss found that the ancient woods in the snow were unusually dim and dimly lit. Tall trees obscured more of the already unbright sky, and even some of the distorted trees began to look a little creepy in the sight.

"Has Mikkicharan brought you here?" Friedlier asked Sibris, who was following him closely.

Siberis looked at Friedlier and shook her head, then said in a somewhat jerky Pactonic language, "No." ”

"Did she tell you that there are many raging and hungry bears living in the deep woods here?" Friedreer asked as he walked.

Seeing that Silberis did not answer herself, Friedlier felt as if she had not understood her words.

"Big Bear." Friedlear stopped, picked up a twig, drew a bear's head on the clean snow, and said, "It's a scary big bear." ”

Siberis smiled softly at Friedlier as she saw a cute bear head drawn on the snow.

Friedlier pointed to his masterpiece with a twig, then suddenly stretched out ten fingers and made a frightened expression at Sibelis.

Sibris, apparently taken aback by Friedley's sudden move, couldn't help but take a step back sideways.

Seeing the complicated expression on Sibris's face, Friedlier stroked her head with a smile, then put the little yarella on her head back and said, "I will protect you." ”

Si Baisi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded lightly at him.

As Friedlier continued deeper into the woods, the ground began to become a little rugged. The two walked for a while, and then together they climbed up a steep hill, just as Friedlier reached the top of the hill, and Sibriel looked about to climb up. Sibriss suddenly felt her feet slip, and she fell down the hillside, sliding down the hill.

Slipping down the hill, Sibeliss struggled to catch something, but there was nothing to scratch but snow. She kept sliding until a huge cedar trunk stopped her.

The moment she touched the trunk of the tree, Sibeliss felt as if her back had been broken, and with tears in her eyes, she lay in the snow for a long time and did not dare to stand up. It was only after a while, when she felt that Friedlier would not come to lift her up, that she held on to the trunk, gritted her teeth, and tried to stand up tremblingly.

Through her tear-blurred eyes, she saw that Friedlier had already descended the hill, and that he was crouching not far from her. But he was just looking at himself, waiting for himself to stand up. Siberis suddenly wanted to step forward and hug Friedrear, but she was a little scared, she was afraid that Friedlier would look down on her. So she endured the pain, touched the tears in the corners of her eyes, and whispered to him in Feyton, "I'm fine." ”

Friedlier approached Sibelis, and he looked at her twice. He wanted to pick her up and take her into his arms, but he felt that he was always close to Siberys, as if he was away from thousands of rivers and mountains. He finally reached out to help her wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said, "Since it's okay, let's continue walking." ”

Seeing that Shibris Ninja was struggling to walk in the snow in pain, Friedlier pulled out the "night" and waved a few times at a branch of uniform thickness, which was immediately cut off and fell to the ground, revealing a smooth wooden core cut of white stubble. Friedlier handed the sticky branch to Sibris, and asked her to use it as a cane to carry on.

Friedlier walked casually through the woods, but in fact, with every step he took, his eyes swept over every crevice between the trees. Soon, he spotted a Pheton deer eating the grass under the snow. When he spotted the snow deer, he immediately stopped moving, and he stood still and gestured in sign language to Sibelis, who was behind his side, and observed in the direction he was pointing.

Sibris, as Friedlier pointed, also saw the Pheton deer. She saw that the Phyton Snow Deer was not tall, and the horns on its head were not particularly long, and the only characteristic thing was that its body was covered with white spots in the shape of six-edged snowflakes.

Sibriel endured the pain in her back and approached Friedreel, and walked slowly with him towards the snow deer, and when she reached the best range of the short bow, Friedlier drew the arrow from her back, and he took the feather arrow and quickly aimed at the target.

Just as Friedlier let go of the arrow, Siberys suddenly grabbed her hand on the bow arm. As a result of Sibris's action, Friedlier's arrow was slightly redirected, grazing the deer's body and nailing it straight into the tree, scaring the deer away at the same time.

Friedlier looked at Siberis in amazement, he couldn't understand why she did it.

Sibriss removed the sheepskin glove from the hand where she had grabbed the bow's arm, and Friedlier saw a red mark on the back of her hand, the mark left by the blow of the bowstring.

"What are you doing here?" Friedlier asked.

Sibeliss looked at Friedrell with watery eyes, but did not speak. She silently lowered her head, just gently covering the back of her injured hand with her other hand.

Seeing this, Friedlier didn't say anything more, but turned around and began to walk back. He didn't understand Xi Bailis's behavior, and he thought that maybe she was expressing her displeasure with the fact that she had taken her out to hunt.

Friedlier went down another hill, and he stood at the bottom of the hill and looked back, and saw that Siberis was carefully and clumsily going down from the height, and he was afraid that she would fall again, so he kept watching her below.

Just as Siberys was halfway down, Friedlier suddenly saw a snow-white behemoth rushing down the hillside!

That's what Friedlier called the Big Bear, the Snow Bear!

Friedley suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and his hairs stood on his feet, and he saw that Sibriss had not yet reacted from the hillside, and a giant beast appeared behind her, but by this time the snow bear had quickly begun to approach her.

Friedreel took a sharp breath as he quickly drew his arrow and placed it on his bow, and after an urgent aim, Friedreel released the arrow, which headed towards the snow bear, right into its shoulder blades.

The snow bear was shot by the arrow, but it did not react at all, as if the arrow had only pierced its heavy fur, and it continued to run down and pounce on Siberis. After Friedlier shouted at Siberis, he hurriedly mounted the second arrow, and at this moment, there was a trace of despair in his heart, he felt that Siberis could not avoid the Snow Bear's attack no matter what.

At this moment, Siberis had already noticed the giant beast behind her, she turned her head to look at the snow bear, she saw that it had been hit by Friedley's arrow in the shoulder blade, but it still did not change any direction and rushed towards her.

The snow bear ran down the hill, getting closer and closer to Si Bailis, and at the last moment when the snow bear pounced on Xi Bailis, Xi Baili suddenly fell into the snow and slipped herself out of the snow as she had done when she had fallen down the hill before.

The snow bear flicked its claws into the air, and it was tossed aside by its own great inertia, and before it could get back to its feet, it saw that Friedlier's second arrow had already hit, and the arrow blade was not in the snow bear's waist. This time the arrow pierced into the flesh, and the snow bear howled angrily and rushed down the hillside.

Seeing Sibeliss fall down the hill, Friedlier rushed quickly and grabbed Sibeliss into his arms. Then, due to inertia, it wasn't until the two of them had rolled twice in the snow that Friedlier pressed Sibeliss firmly under him. Friedleer didn't have time to glance at Sibelis, and immediately pulled out the "night". He knew the snow bear would arrive soon.

But before Friedlier could stand up with his sword, the snow bear rushed in front of him.

The snow bear that sprang down the hillside knocked Friedreel out of the way. Friedreer was struck by the snowbear's terrifying force, causing the "Nightfall" sword he had just drawn to fall out of his hands and into the snow.

Friedlier was also knocked and rolled in the snow twice before he stabilized himself. Before Friedlier could fully get up, the Snow Bear's giant palm had already slapped in front of him, and Friedlier was extremely agile and lowered his head to dodge the blow and drill out from under the Snow Bear's arm, he pulled out the only remaining arrow behind him that did not fall out of the quiver, and quickly plunged into the Snow Bear's body with a backhand.

Enraged by Friedley's total rage, the Snow Bear roared and quickly turned around, then swept Friedrell to the ground with another giant palm, after which he immediately pounced and pressed it into Friedley.

Friedlier was knocked to the ground, but he managed to roll around smartly to avoid the snow bear's second attack. At the same time, Friedreer pulled out the skinning knife tied to his calf, and he saw the right time, and when the snow bear's giant palm slapped again, he plunged the knife into the thick pad of the bear's paw.

Snow Bear roared in pain and withdrew the giant palm, but the other paw quickly pressed into Friedlier's leg, and the snow bear did not pause in the slightest, and as it held Friedlier, it quickly opened its bloody jaw at him.

Friedrie's leg was held down by the tremendous force of the bear's paw, and he couldn't move at all, and he saw the snow bear bite at him, so he had to quickly turn his body sideways, and draw the empty quiver on his back to resist. The snow bear also bit off the quiver indiscriminately and crushed it in an instant of rage. Friedlier, who had lost all his weapons, saw the snow bear that had bitten the quiver biting at him again, and he had to instinctively stretch out his arm to block it.

Since he wasn't out fighting, Friedleer didn't wear bulky steel armor, and he knew that using his flesh arm without iron armor to fight against the snow bear's maw would be tantamount to feeding. But for now, there was nothing else he could do.

The snow bear bit Friedrie's arm accurately, and the bear's teeth pierced into the flesh arm like sharp blades, and blood flowed out immediately. The snow bear's massive bite threatened to break its arm in an instant, but before its teeth could touch Friedley's bone, it suddenly let go of the bloody mouth and roared in pain.

It howled and jerked back to its feet, releasing its giant palm that was pressing Friedlier's leg. Friedrell endured the sharp pain in his arm, and he saw that the snow bear was relieved because Sibriss picked up "Nightfall" and inserted it into the bear's belly.

The sharp "night" almost completely submerged the snow bear's body, and blood poured out of its body, soaking its white fur and snow in large swathes. However, despite the heavy blow, the snow bear did not fall down, it turned around and staggered after Xi Bailis, who was fleeing, and stretched out its huge palm to slap her back. Si Baili couldn't dodge, and was hit by the snow bear's palm, and was knocked into the snow.

At this time, Friedlier had already rushed to his feet, he came to the side of the snow bear, and quickly grabbed the hilt of the sword of "Nightfall". He pulled his love sword that pierced into the snow bear's body hard, and the sharp "night" instantly brutally cut a huge wound in the snow bear's abdomen with blood and internal organs. Under the slash of the "night", a large amount of bear blood gushed out and doused the snow on the ground, dyeing it bright red. And the snow bear, before he even had time to whimper, had already closed his eyes and fell to the ground, no longer moving.

Seeing that the snow bear was dead, Friedlier quickly came to Si Bai Lis, who was lying on the snow, and he abandoned the "night", knelt on the ground, and helped Xi Bai Lis, who had fallen into a coma, with one hand. He looked at her, calling her name.

Sibriss opened her eyes slightly, and she saw Friedrie holding herself in her arms and calling her name. She endured the pain and squeezed out a smile at Friedlier.

Friedlear couldn't help but be a little excited when he saw Si Bai Li wake up, and he held her tightly in his arms for a moment before slowly letting go of his hand and asking her, "Xi Bai Lis, are you okay?" ”

Xi Baili endured the pain again, squeezed out a smile and said softly, "I'm fine." ”

"Siberice, I didn't expect a snow bear to appear in this place." Friedlier reproached himself and said to Sibelis.

Cybriss saw his remorse in Friedlier's expression, and she raised her arm with some difficulty, gently caressing Friedley's cheek with her little hand that had been wounded by the bowstring.

Friedlier carried Sibriss back to Iceport. That night, Friedlier did not send her to Mikicharan's house, but laid her on his thick, soft gray wolfskin bed. Friedlier ordered the slave girl to make the stove boil, and when the temperature in the house rose, he simply bandaged his injured arm. Then Friedlier walked briskly to the bed, he looked at Si Bai Li on the bed and said, "Xi Bai Lis, I need to check your injuries. ”

Sibriel lay on the bed, tilted her head slightly to look at Friedley, and did not speak. Friedlier reached for Sibris's shirt, and she didn't resist. Then he gently lifted her up and slowly took off her little jacket. Siberlis's smooth and immature skin was in full view, and Friedlier looked at the front of her body, there were no scars, but her slightly bulging breasts made Friedrie's eyes wander a little for a moment. He gently lifted Siberis to turn her over, and Siberis shivered a few times from the pain.

Friedlier turned Sibeliss around. After turning around Siberis, Friedlier unexpectedly found that Siberis's back that should be smooth and soft was covered with scars!

He saw that the scar on Sibelis's back was now cracking open again, and oozing blood.

Friedlier looked at the wounds on Siberis's back in amazement, these strips, messy scars, it was clear that these were not accidental, but man-made. Friedlier gently reached out and touched one of the scars, which was somewhat red and swollen, and Cybery's body immediately twitched from the intense pain. Friedlier didn't dare to touch it again, he carefully observed the scars on Sibelis's back, the scars were sharp, some new and some old, and they were not done in a day.

It was only then that Friedlier understood why Sciperys seemed so painful when she hit her back against a tree trunk when she first slid down the hill, and why she fainted after being slapped down the snow by a snow bear. Every time she hurt her back today, she was torn apart and bleeding from these horrible scars on her back, and the old injuries recurred, making her doubly suffer greatly.

When Friedlier saw this, he immediately ordered the two slave girls to take good care of Sibelis, while he himself grabbed his cloak and pushed the door open.

Braving the wind and snow, Friedlier found the best healer on Frosttrail Island for Siberis.