Chapter 149: Snow Country (I)
Li Twelve came to a place farther north than Beiming, and the bone-chilling cold made people feel that their entire face was frozen into ice. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe endless white, more than the endless grassland, makes Li Twelve have a feeling of wandering on the sea. Any repetition and monotony, as long as it lasts for a long time, is an ordeal.
A long time ago, when Li Twelve was still a ranger, he had a deep understanding of this feeling. It was usually at night when you were running for your life, in the winter, when there were layers of fog. The darkness was already hindering his vision, and the thick fog narrowed his horizon even more, and he could only see himself. Even if the night is not absolutely dark, in this case there is no difference from absolute darkness. Straight roads can also become like a maze for him. It wasn't the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing was that he had to walk on such a journey all night.
Now, he's been on this journey for months.
Fortunately, Li Twelve saw people here.
He knew that there would be people here, and the Hun teenagers would be sent here to experience at a very young age, but they were only outsiders, there were aborigines here, and there were countries here. The meaning of their country's name is snow, which blends in with the country's landscape. The inhabitants of the Snow Country generally have light-colored eyes, blue, and even silver, and their hair is also very light golden.
It was an old man, and in front of the old man was an ice cave, and the old man was followed by several teenagers. Each teenager carried a basket behind him, which contained many small fish that had been frozen to death.
Li Twelve had already learned some of the languages of Cangxue before he set off, and their language was extremely complicated, but fortunately, Li Twelve was already a person who could master other languages, and it was not difficult to learn, and now he was able to use this language for a little simple communication.
"Is that your catch?" Li Twelve said, pointing to the basket behind the teenagers.
His dry food was about to run out soon, and how to eat in such a cold and snowy place where no creatures and plants could be seen became the most urgent problem that Li Twelve needed to solve.
The young man glanced at Li Twelve and did not speak.
The old man said in a slow, singing-like tone, "No, that's our bait." If you want to catch a big fish, you have to be willing to use small fish as bait. ”
The old man said and picked up the fishing rod in his hand.
A big fish that Li Twelve had never seen before was caught in this way. The teenagers looked happy, carefully took it, and then threw it aside at will, leaving it to struggle desperately. The struggle was futile, and soon, frost formed on the big fish's body, and then it was motionless.
The old man took a small fish from the boys, put it on the hook, and continued fishing.
Li Twelve stood aside like this and watched for a long time.
You should be able to live this way, but what does it have to do with becoming stronger?
The sun circled overhead.
There is no darkness in the heavens and the earth.
The old man yawned.
"Young man, you're also from the Hun Empire, right?"
Li Twelve nodded.
"No wonder."
"How do you see that?"
"Nothing new under the sun, child. I know everyone in the Snow Country. These little guys behind me are also from the Huns. So, you are also from the Huns. ”
"Then you're going to have a new thing. Actually, my hometown is far away in the East. There is a difference between there and here and the Huns, that is where the summer exists. ”
"Summer, oh, what's that?"
Li Twelve's summer is in the language of the Central Plains.
In fact, halfway through it, Li Twelve knew that it was in vain.
In the language of Cangxue Country, there is no word for summer at all.
Another big fish was caught.
"Alright, that's it for today."
"These two fish don't seem to be enough to eat."
A teenager said.
The old man pouted: "I didn't say I wanted to give it to you." ”
The young man's eyebrows grew a little angry, but it quickly dissipated. Li Twelve knew that he must have said something in his heart: "Anyway, I'm used to it." ”
The old man left, taking two big fish, and took the rod, but not the small fish that the boys were carrying behind them.
The teenagers didn't leave.
The surface of the ice cave has begun to condense into ice.
One teenager smashed the thin layer of ice with his fist, and the other, holding a small fish, reached into the ice hole.
"It's so warm."
He said it in the Huns.
Li Twelve shook his head and left.
Two of the boys, after glancing at each other, followed from a distance.
followed Li Twelve for a long distance.
Li Twelve sighed lightly, turned his head and said, "There is no point in you following me, and I don't have any food on me. ”
The two teenagers did not answer.
Li Twelve ignored them and continued on his way.
Until a little twilight appears on the horizon, and it quickly dissipates. Li XII had already determined that the days here were much longer than elsewhere, and in fact, he hadn't seen night for a long, long time. At first, Li Twelve thought it was just because he was just about to fall asleep and woke up in the middle of the day. Gradually, Li XII realized that he was wrong. There is indeed no night here.
Sleepiness hit, Li Twelve wanted to find a place to sleep, but found that the two teenagers were still following him.
"I said, I don't have any food, go quickly, otherwise, be careful that I'm not welcome."
A teenager finally spoke.
He said, "You are the food." ”
Li Twelve pulled out the long knife in his hand.
The two teenagers were expressionless.
When Li Twelve rushed over, they turned their heads and fled. The martial arts of these two teenagers were not revealed, and they ran really fast, Li Twelve didn't want to catch up, but he really couldn't catch up.
"Forget it." Li Twelve shook his head and said.
He wrapped his head in a blanket and found a random place to lie down, where ordinary people would freeze to death if they slept without a warm curtain.
In the dream, Li Twelve saw Bai Mo's face.
Strange, not a rumor.
Bai Mo's face always has a smile that is not deep or shallow, but it makes people feel very warm. Li Twelve once thought that this was the legendary bookish qi, but after seeing too many officials and bachelors, Li Twelve found that it was not suitable to describe white ink as bookish. The scroll is still too shallow. It wasn't until Li Twelve and Bai Mo reunited that he suddenly realized that the meaning of that smile was much deeper than his intuition, and Li Twelve no longer felt warm, but began to feel terrible.
Therefore, the white ink smile in the dream, the corners of the mouth became longer and longer, until the corners of the mouth seemed to have reached the ear, Li Twelve suddenly woke up. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a cold light, it was a dagger, it didn't look sharp, but it was enough to kill. Li Twelve suddenly kicked out and directly kicked the young man lying on top of him a foot away. The young man was silent, quickly got up, and then ran into the distance, Li Twelve followed, but did not catch up.
Li Twelve returned to the distance and picked up his blanket. He didn't dare to sleep here any longer, and walked far, far away, and found no trace of the two teenagers.
Li Twelve then returned to sleep, but this time he slept more lightly.
Sure enough, footsteps approached.
Li Twelve quickly stood up and saw a figure running into the distance.
Li Twelve pretended to lie down, and saw that the figure also stopped, and then turned around and approached.
"Do you want to kill me?"
It's just that this time, when the boy was about thirty steps away from Li Twelve, he didn't continue to approach. He picked up a grain of ice slag from the ground and threw it at Li Twelve, who was already lying down.
The ice slag landed right on Li Twelve's head.
It didn't hurt very much, it disturbed his sleep, enough was enough.
They really wanted to consume Li Twelve.
Li XII was already able to imagine their strategy.
One person interferes, the other rests.
And then it was the other way around.
Don't eat or don't sleep, which dies first?
In fact, it's the latter.
This is the oldest hunting method of man.
Li XII had once seen a tribe that had no bows and arrows, only stone axes. They hunt by chasing their prey all the time, and when the prey stops and wants to lower its head to eat grass or drink, the hunter throws stones at it and makes a terrible roar to intimidate it. Human endurance is actually stronger than that of many beasts, and the stone axe is actually only a means of defending against fierce beasts. Their prey will be exhausted and killed on the road by their chase.
The young man knew that they must be no match for Li Twelve, so he chose this method that could best play to their advantages.
This kind of technique of harassing the enemy and exhausting the enemy was also seen by Li Twelve when he was in the Central Plains, but those people generally gave up after a few failures. The stamina of these two teenagers is much better than theirs.
In the end, Li Twelve was going crazy when he was tortured by them.
He's sleepy and has a splitting headache right now.
Until a teenager tried to continue throwing ice slag at him, Li Twelve used all his strength to throw the long knife in his hand, directly through the boy's chest, and nailed him to the ice.
Li Twelve was in no hurry to retrieve his knife.
When the blood on the ground congealed into ice, Li Twelve stepped forward.
In fact, he chose the timing too early.
As soon as Li Twelve grasped the hilt of the knife with his hand, the young man suddenly opened his eyes and stabbed Li Twelve in the thigh with a dagger. Li Twelve drew his knife and left, and not far away, burned the wound with fire, this was to stop the bleeding, and sewed it with the needle and thread that he had prepared long ago like sewing clothes, and then began to bandage it.
After finishing, Li Twelve said tiredly: "It's a little difficult......"
He continued walking for a while, then closed his eyes and slammed down on the ice.
The other teenager did not reappear.
When he saw the corpses of his companions, he knew that their actions were not working.
Li Twelve now understands that survival is indeed the best experience.
Fortunately, it wasn't long before Li XII discovered a tribe.
That tribe had about a few hundred people, and it was already a very large tribe.
He went out into the tribe and opened a big tent.
A man and a woman were acting in the tent, and when Li Twelve opened the big tent, the man twitched all over, and then shouted viciously: "Get out!" ”
Li Twelve shook his head and said, "I need some food." ”
The man said, "Impossible. We never give food to strangers. ”
Then Li Twelve drew his long knife.
"And now?"
"Are you going to rob?"
"What do you say?"
What made Li Twelve feel a little uneasy was that the man's face did not show a trace of fear, and neither did the woman.
Suddenly, they shouted, "Someone has robbed!" ”
Li Twelve frowned.
Then it stretched out again.
What if the whole tribe comes over?
If he wanted to kill people, Li Twelve was confident that he would kill them all.
Therefore, the current Li Twelve has a natural plan.
Be their king.
However, the imaginary outpouring did not happen.
Someone did come to stop Li Twelve, but there was only one woman.
The man had already dressed, walked out of the big tent, cautiously swept over Li Twelve's body, and then yelled at the woman: "Da Sizhu, you came just in time, it is this person who wants to rob!" ”
The woman nodded and turned her gaze to Li Twelve.
Said something that the man had already said.
"We never give food to strangers, get out."
Li Twelve said lightly: "What if not?" ”
The woman known as Da Si Zhu walked up to Li Twelve.
Exhaled lightly at him.
Then, Li Twelve lost consciousness.
It's another dream.
The dream was much longer than the previous one.
He returned to the Central Plains, and he believed that there was only one reason why this was the Central Plains, and that was that there was no snow here. He saw the familiar poplars, the gaps between the poplars filled with thick fog.
It's night.
Yes, this is on the way to be hunted down somewhere.
There is a straight labyrinth in the night.
Li Twelve walked through this labyrinth, and fear and uneasiness filled his heart.
Then he saw a temple.
Black temple.
A long chant sounded in Li Twelve's ears, it wasn't any language he had ever heard.
But he saw familiar people, one dressed in white and the other in black, with pale faces and chains in their hands.
The man in white said, "Li Twelve, your longevity is over, why don't you tie up your hands soon?!" ”
"Li has a long knife in his hand, and if he doesn't have it, he will capture the word."
"Phew!"
The black-clothed man shook off the chain, and the chain became longer and longer, and he flew to Li Twelve's side, and then tried to lock Li Twelve. Li Twelve pulled out his long knife and shook it hard: "Cut the scales!" ”
The chains let out a piercing tremor.
"Ahh You are...... Man of Destiny! ”
The white and black clothes let out a roar at the same time.
Li Twelve shook his head and said, "No." ”
The dark hall dissipated.
What Li Twelve didn't know was that in the place he didn't see, there was a woman who wanted to rush over, but after the black clothes and the white clothes screamed, she retreated with a frightened look on her face.
Li Twelve opened his eyes.
He saw the woman who was called Da Si Zhu.
The woman knelt before him and said respectfully, "You are our king!" ”
"Down with all of you, I'm the one."
Da Sizhu smiled: "I will not resist. Neither will anyone else. ”
"Then there is no point in being king. Survival is not my goal, experience is. ”
"I will not resist, King." Dasi Zhu Qing chanted: "The chosen one is in Cangxue, and the country of Cangxue is saved!" (To be continued.) )