Chapter 2: The Ice Blue Heart
Two days later, Su Xi solemnly put in his pocket a shining gold coin that he had collected from the sale of his mother's half-life savings and the Hextech left by his father, carefully sealed the pocket with a needle and thread, and carried a bag full of vitality sandwich biscuits on his back, with five water belts filled with edible water hanging around his waist, and under the gaze of his mother Su Yun, he turned back in three steps and reluctantly left the home where he had lived for eighteen years.
The place where Su Xi is located is an unknown town in a small empire called Reser Garrison, and it is still hundreds of kilometers away from the city where the War College is located, even if Su Xi is constantly rushing day and night, it will take more than half a month, and if he is in a hurry during the day and rests at night, it will take more than a month.
However, fortunately, there are still two months before the enrollment deadline of the War College, as long as Su Xi arrives in the city where the War College is located within two months with the report written by the inspectors, and then pays a gold coin as tuition, he can become a student of the War College.
Originally, Su Xi planned to set off with Chen Shuyu, after all, the two of them could take care of each other on the way, but Chen Shuyu seemed to have other things to do, so he didn't set off immediately and refused Su Xi's invitation.
Chen Shuyu's father is doing business in a small town and is also a well-off family, so Chen Shuyu is destined not to be like Su Xi, walking alone through the wilderness and mountains to the War College, trekking through mountains and rivers to the War College, but following the caravan passing by the War College, along the way only need to sit in the carriage to rest, to eat and drink, but it is much more comfortable than Su Xi to go alone.
No way, who let Chen Shuyu's family have a little money, a poor child like Su Xi who has no money, can only set off a month or two in advance, rush in a deserted place during the day, and find a place to rest for a night at night, if you are lucky, you can also find a cave, and you can take shelter from the rain when it rains, if you are unlucky, you can only find a tree to lean on, and you will be settled, and you can only consider yourself unlucky when it rains.
At night in the Valoran continent, there is a lot of danger, and those wild monsters that lurk during the day will appear at night, if you encounter an innocent passerby, the wild monsters with a good personality may avoid them, but if you encounter a wild monster with a bad character, you will attack the passers-by.
Therefore, Su Xi's task now is to observe his surroundings while hurrying, and see if there are any small caves or anything like that, which can be used as a shelter at night.
Finally, the emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, and when the sun sprinkled orange-red sunlight all over the Valoran continent, Su Xi finally found a shelter at dusk, just at the foot of the mountain in front of Su Xi's left, where there was a small cave entrance.
Looking at the cave from the outside, it was pitch black and bottomless, although he didn't know if there was any danger inside, Su Xi seemed to have only one way to hide in the cave at this time.
After all, it is safer to be in a cave than in the wilderness, even if there is danger, Su Xi can run out of the cave as soon as possible.
Soon, Su Xi entered the cave, but because the innermost part of the cave didn't know if there was any danger, Su Xi could only sit down close to the entrance of the cave, looked at the gradually darkening sky outside the cave, and slowly closed his eyes.
The day's trip made Su Xi very tired, but it was only physical, in his heart, Su Xi was still looking forward to the War College, I heard that the students in the War College were all geniuses who could become heroes in the Valoran Continent, and any student could be beaten ten by one.
Tick! Tick! Tick!
There was a sound of water dropping from the depths of the cave, and Su Xi, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, was suddenly startled, but then, he calmed down again, and it turned out to be just the sound of water droplets.
Su Xi didn't care, and then closed his eyes to recuperate, as if he had fallen asleep.
That night, Su Xi had a dream, dreaming that in the depths of the cave, a blue light was emitted, Su Xi slowly moved in the direction of the blue light, and finally, came to the depths of the cave.
"This is? What is it? ”
In the dream, Su Xi found a very strange thing on the ground in the depths of the cave, covered in ice blue, emitting blue light, and the shape was the same as a human heart, and Su Xi also found that the ticking sound he heard just now was not the sound of water droplets at all, but the ice blue heart beating slightly.
Out of vigilance, Su Xi didn't pick it up immediately, for fear that the ice-blue heart would bring him any danger after picking it up, so he kept walking slowly around the ice-blue heart and observing it carefully.
After observing for a long time, Su Xi found that the ice-blue heart was not abnormal except for the slight beating, and it seemed that there should be no danger.
Su Xi bent down to pick up the ice-blue heart to see what the ice-blue heart was, but just after Su Xi's fingertips touched the ice-blue heart, suddenly, the blue light emitted by the ice-blue became more and more intense, and the strong blue light made Su Xi have to stop and close his eyes.
About a minute later, Su Xi, who had his eyes closed, seemed to feel that the dazzling blue light had disappeared, so he opened one eye slightly, looked up and down, left and right, and found that the ice-blue heart that was still there just now suddenly disappeared.
Just as Su Xi was looking at the dark space around him, a drop of water fell on Su Xi's head, which made Su Xi wake up.
"Ouch."
Su Xi opened his eyes slightly and touched the top of his head, where the hair seemed to be a little wet with water droplets.
Su Xi looked up at the top of his head and found that it was a vine growing on the stone wall dripping water.
"Forget it, it's dawn, and I should be on my way."
Su Xi muttered to himself, looked at the outside of the cave and saw that it was already dawn, then got up and patted the dust behind his buttocks.
"Wait a minute, that dream last night, it's a little strange, take a look deeper."
Su Xi turned his head to look at the depths of the cave, it was still dark, and there was a faint sound of ticking water droplets, but there was no blue light.
Su Xi remembered the dream he had last night, and was curious, so he cautiously went deep into the cave, wanting to see if there was an ice-blue heart in the depths of the cave.
It's a pity that when Su Xi has walked to the deepest part of the cave, there is no way to walk, and he still hasn't found the ice-blue heart, and the sound of ticking water droplets is also the sound of the spring water on this mountain flowing into the cracks and finally falling from the top of the cave to a stone.
"Sure enough, it's just a dream, forget it, let's hurry."
Su Xi was slightly disappointed, thinking that the dream was hinting at something, but he didn't expect it to be just a simple dream.
Immediately, Su Xi left the cave, took out a piece of vitality sandwich biscuit from the bag he was carrying behind him, and hurried while eating, occasionally picking up the water bladder on his waist and taking a sip of water.