55. Strange people
It's a completely unfamiliar environment.
I had been walking here for half a day, and now it was getting dark, and the night was already coming. I only felt my legs stiff and my whole body trembling, even though I was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, the cold air still invaded my body.
There is no sunshine here, only foggy skies, no abysses, only solid ice and snow, no thick clouds under my feet, no giant ice crystal crabs around, and more importantly, I am the only one here.
And I didn't understand at all how I suddenly came from the top of a snowy peak to a 10,000-mile ice field, and even everyone who was traveling with me was missing, and I even had a strange thought in my mind: "I can't accidentally fall off a cliff and go to the underworld in the process of avoiding the attack of the giant crab, right?" ”
I shuddered at the thought of this.
It's a very strange place, and while I can't figure out what it is, I'm sure it has something to do with the giant crab I just encountered.
After walking for half a day, I was hungry and tired, but I kept paying attention to the changes in my surroundings, and I found that there were many species in this strange place that were both familiar and unfamiliar to me.
Familiarly, these creatures were ants, spiders, crabs, lobsters, frogs, etc., and they were the same as the giant crab I had encountered before, all of them were made of ice crystals, and they were extremely large, even the smallest ant was the size of the spider that barbecued in the country of flowers.
They were all crystal clear, like an elaborate ice sculpture, but like the giant crab, they moved.
I was terrified along the way, I was afraid that these strange ice crystal creatures would suddenly discover my existence and pounce on me, in addition to the threat of these strange creatures, I was even more afraid that I would not be frozen to death on this rolling ice field.
Walking aimlessly in the worst conditions, walking through half a day without being inhabited, in the extremely cold environment, I feel that even my brain is sluggish by the ice, there is no food, no calorie supply, which is a hundred times more dangerous than walking through the desert.
While I was thinking wildly, I looked up into the distance, and suddenly I noticed that on top of the snow hill in front of me, there seemed to be a figure standing.
I rubbed my eyes and looked back ahead, but it was too far away, and there was ice and snow blocking my vision, so I couldn't see it very clearly.
If it was a person, then I would be saved, even if I was a lost person in the ice field like me, and the two of them would not die of loneliness together. With this expectation in mind, I struggled to drag my stiff body over the snow hill in front of me.
As the distance got closer, I became more and more sure that it was a person, although it was still a dark shadow, but the body was well-defined, and my heart was happy, I couldn't help but speed up my pace, and I called out loudly as I ran, and it didn't take long for this person to come close.
Although it was dark and I couldn't see clearly, it was indeed a person.
"Hello ......"
“……”
"May I ask ...... you?"
“……”
"What kind of place is this?"
“……”
I was a little depressed in my heart, this man was so wicked, no matter how much I called, he never said a word, like a walking corpse, walking slowly and aimlessly on this ice field.
I continued to shout without giving up: "Do you dare to speak? ”
“……”
"Shall I go and say something? Are you a human or a ghost? ”
I grabbed his arm and yelled, "Hey? Even if you're a ghost, you can't be so faceless, right? ”
At this moment, I felt that the person in front of me seemed to be startled by me, and my whole body trembled, and I was so frightened by his movement that I hurriedly let go of my hand.
A coquettish voice rang in his ears: "Ah! I...... What's wrong with me? ”
I exclaimed, "Are you a human or a ghost?" ”
The man immediately continued: "The old lady is a human!" ”
"Then why did you ignore me when I asked you just now?"
"How did the old lady know that you were asking me?"
"Nonsense, in this wilderness, we are lonely men and widows, bah, there are only two of us, I don't ask who you ask?"
The man was silent for a moment, then panicked, "Huh? Where is this? ”
I said helplessly: "I still want to ask you, what the hell is this place?" ”
She didn't answer, I just felt a snapping of my fingers suddenly in my ears, and the next moment, a head-sized fireball appeared on her fingertips.
I was standing close to her, and the sudden burst of fireball almost ruffled my hair, and I hurriedly took two steps back, shouting, "Smaller, smaller." ”
The man snorted coldly, she waved her hand, only to see that the fireball on her fingertips was thrown onto the snow by her, and it fused with the ice and snow to make a burst of snorts, but the miracle was that the fire of this fireball did not decrease at all, and it fell to the ground to form a bonfire without firewood.
After doing this, she sat cross-legged on the floor.
In the light of the fire, I looked her up and down, but this look almost scared my eyes out, only to see that she was wearing a very thin beige dress, half of her arms and calves were exposed, she didn't even wear shoes on her feet, and her smooth little feet were just clinging to the cold snow.
"Tsk, aren't you too cold?"
She gave me a blank look and snorted coldly, "You don't have a backache when you stand and talk?" Sit down for a moment, and I'll think about what the hell this is. ”
Seeing that she didn't say a word, and then attracted by the warm breath of the bonfire, I simply sat down cross-legged on the spot and started the fire.
"By the way, I haven't asked the girl's name yet......"
She is like a ranger walking the rivers and lakes, and she clenched her fist at me proudly:
"Jack Ma."
I was so shocked by the name that I didn't even bother to complain about why she made this fist clenching motion, and I almost jumped in fright.
"Wait, what's your name?"
The girl who called herself Ma Yun stared at me suspiciously: "Ma Yun? Ten thousand horses galloping, that horse, that Yun next to the grass, what's wrong? Weird, isn't it? ”
Ma Yun ...... Jack Ma ......"
I smiled dryly and waved my hand: "Ah, what, it's okay, it's okay, I mean you still know about the horse galloping ten thousand horses, I thought you only knew ants." ”
As soon as I finished speaking, Ma Yun suddenly jumped up, lay on the ground and stared at me excitedly: "Have you ever seen a horse?" It's not an ant, it's a horse, a war horse? ”
I was so surprised by her, and subconsciously replied: "Yes, I've seen it, there is no horse next to the bug, why, have you seen it too?" ”
Ma Yun stared at me stunned for a while, and then replied, "I haven't seen it." ”
"And what are you excited about?"
"My father has seen it, he told me, he told me that there is a Ming Dynasty in the far east, and people there don't have to eat ants, eh, is that where you came from?"
I was stunned for a while, and then I was surprised: "Wait a minute, what are you talking about?" Da Ming? The sun and the moon? ”
Ma Yun nodded violently.
"Ahem...... If I have to say it, I'm really from there, but, Daming...... Dead. ”
Ma Yun stared at me with wide eyes: "What? Da Ming is dead? ”
Although I still couldn't figure out what was going on, I nodded my head to help her confirm the fact, and said casually, "Even the Qing Dynasty is dead." ”