Boudis and Eastelle were still hiding in the cave, but this time they were not hiding from enemies or beasts, but from the wrath of the Misty Mountains. The avalanche caused by the strange wolf howl completely sealed the only exit from the cave, blocking out the light. The infinite darkness reigns supreme in the finite space, stagnating the air, blurring time, and freezing even the human mind.

Such a depressing atmosphere is the best breeding ground for negative emotions. Boudis leaned against the rock wall, fidgeting, her armor now a cage that bound her, each slight movement returning back to an uncomfortable sense of limitation, irritability and anxiety scorching her from the inside out. Bao Daisi heard her own rapid and heavy breathing, as if there was a bellows "whirring" in her body, blowing the fire in her heart more and more vigorously. In the darkness, there was nothing to rely on, and Bao Daisi couldn't help but stand up several times, trying to relieve her inner anxiety by walking, but she pressed herself down forcefully.

For Estelle sat beside her, and hummed softly:

Beautiful girl

I'm going to war

Go and fight the wild wolves in the mountains

Please sing for me

Let me engrave your heavenly voice in my heart

Beautiful girl

I've rushed to the battlefield

Fighting the wild wolves in the mountains

though I can't hear you singing

But I still miss your soft palms

Beautiful girl

I'm going to die on the battlefield

The wild wolves in the mountains fell beside me

Can you sing for me again

Ice and snow will bury me

Beautiful girl

I'm now hunting the hunting ground of the gods

There are no wild wolves deep in the mountains

I can listen to you sing day and night

It's just that it can't bury in your warm chest anymore

It was the oldest ballad in the North, "The Beautiful Girl," with sad lyrics and desolate melodies, and on more than one occasion Boudis had seen the bard in Ravenston's tavern play it drunk, singing it to tears. But there was no sadness in Estelle's voice, much less desolation, only a tender young man who used his short life to admire the girl he loved, and he begged the girl to sing for him, but he was the one who was passionately indulging until he died. Accompanied by the faint variation, Estelle gently tapped her leg armor, and the sound of metal was rare and euphemistic, as if the murmuring water and the faint wind unconsciously soothed the uneasiness in Bao Daisi's heart. She relaxed a little tiredly, and leaned her head naturally to the song.

The humming became more and more cheerful, and "Beautiful Girl" was hummed over and over again by Estelle, so that the young man kept reincarnating between life and death, singing incessantly, and sprinkled the purest affection in the deepest corners.

"Click", a discordant murmur suddenly interjected in the melody, the humming stopped abruptly, and the snow that blocked the entrance to the cave suddenly collapsed, and a light that was not strong shone in from the top of the hole, cutting through the pitch-black curtain and piercing the eyes of the two female knights.

"Finally." Estelle let out a sigh of relief and licked her dry lips.

With a stirring spirit, Boudis lifted her head off Estelle's shoulders and cast her gaze in the direction of the collapse. By the light she was able to get a glimpse of the people who stood in her way: tons of snow and ice silently crowded the entrance to the cave, and although the loose structure caused them to be crushed by their own weight, they still looked like an impassable moat. The oppressive force of nature has always been quiet, but it is also unstoppable.

"This ...... It's not enough. She muttered, "How do you get out?" ”

"That's enough." Estelle walked over to the wall of snow and looked up at the light leaking in, "Let's dig out." ”

"Dig it out?"

"Yes." Estelle drew her saber and stabbed its scabbard into the snow in front of her, shattering the ice crystals that had condensed inside, "Why don't you come and help?" ”

"You've been waiting...... This one? Boudis stood up and asked confusedly, "Why didn't you act sooner?" ”

"Because there is no light." Estelle replied as a matter of course, "The light helps us to determine our position and the thickness of the ice, and the fact that we can see the light shows that the cave is not buried by an avalanche." If you had been digging in the dark, there was a high risk that the fragile internal structure of the snow would have been damaged and a large-scale landslide would have occurred. Believe me, it's never going to be nice to be buried alive in the snow. Besides," she looked at Boldes with a smirk, her pupils shining brightly, "is my singing voice hard to hear?" ”

For a moment she didn't know how to answer, the melody of "Beautiful Girl" was warm in her ears repeatedly, but now Estelle's meaningful gaze cast a veil of ambiguity over the warmth of that moment. Bao Daisy could only avoid her slightly hot face, shoveled her hands into the snow, and slashed hard at both sides. "It's alright......" she whispered.

……

The two of them dug diagonally upwards and soon returned to the surface, where the landscape near the cave was completely changed after being washed away by an avalanche; The dragon's tooth pine was uprooted by the power of the natural disaster, and its thick tree body was half submerged in the snow, like the wreckage of a ship stranded on the tidal flats; Not far from the two of them lay the corpses of several ice wolves, and there was a huge chilling depression in their backs, which should have been smashed by the giant wood wrapped in the avalanche before they had time to hide. The snow was white and swaying, and it hurt to shine on Bao Daisi's eyes, and she could no longer distinguish between east and south, because the sky and the mountains were also blinding white. She had just escaped from the prison of the polar night, and now she had been transferred to the prison of the polar day.

"Don't walk around, the snow isn't solid." Estelle covered her eyes with her hands, "There are bottomless snow nests everywhere, and if you fall, Urvet will only save your soul." ”

"This religious joke is not funny right now." "How are we going to get down now?" After such a long delay, have the large forces already marched into the Vaal Snow Field? ”

"It's possible, we have to find a way to get back to the team." Estelle glanced at the snowfield, and then her eyes lit up slightly, "There you have it!" Stand here waiting for me. She stepped out with ease, made a graceful arc through the snow, and jumped beside a half-broken dragon's tooth pine. The sword flew like a smooth cross-section, cutting a smooth section into the trunk, the tough bark of the tree unhindered the blade, and Estelle moved her wrist smoothly to cut off the excess branches and leaves of the canopy. "That's it." She beckoned to Boudis, "Follow my footprints." ”

"What is this?" Boudis cautiously approached, looking at Icedale's "masterpiece", for some unknown reason, "Dugi...... Boat? ”

"A long time ago, I saw a design drawing at Wang Li College, and it seemed to be called a 'sled', but I forgot the specific name. The design concept is to replace horse-drawn carriages in blizzard weather, and it is said that it can slide in the snow. Estelle shrugged, "I don't know if those scholars are making it up now, I'm just playing like a cat, and I'm just a dead horse—" Her gaze crossed Boudis's shoulder, and her voice froze suddenly.

Bao Daisi turned her head and her expression changed suddenly!

The gray-white wave was surging in the sky, and the wave was full of moving heads, and in an instant, it swallowed most of the snowfield, and slowly approached the two of them.

"It's a raiding tide! Come on! Estelle pushed Boudis onto the sled and kicked it hard at the tail of the sled, causing it to slide slowly down the slope, and Estelle took a few steps and straddled it, "Give me two spears!" ”

"Huh?" Bao Daisy answered, but her hand was already subconsciously stretched behind her, and she pulled out two throwing spears and handed them to Estelle.

"Close your eyes and hold me tight!" Estelle thrust her spear into the snow and thrust it out!

The "sled" got rid of the clamp of inertia, and was gradually pulled by gravity and began to accelerate, and the wind flowed violently around the two people on the "sled", turning into a sharp blade. "Sit tight!" Estelle shouted, her voice quickly crushed into the turbulence of the air.

In the exclamation of Grace, the "sled" jolted and crashed into one snowdrift after another. The "sled" made of the dragon's tooth pine was too heavy, and the two slender female spears could not help Estelle control the direction of its head, so she could only let the out-of-control furious beast gallop forward!

And the gray-white tide is still moving in silence.