Chapter 175: Rivals
A few months later, the group managed to reach Tibet.
"Childe Lee, can we go?" Andrew asked impatiently. They come here for adventure, hunting, treasure hunting, and so on.
Li Tianhai squinted his eyes and looked at the sky above his head, this day ...... It doesn't look like it's going to snow, you can set off immediately, after all, every day late, this country is in danger for a day.
"Well, let's go!" Li Tianhai waved his hand.
It is now winter, and many green areas on this side of Tibet have turned yellow, even pale. The group first went to find some local natives, and Li Tianhai asked Fu Lai to ask which snow-capped mountain had the name of Tianshan Mountain, and where it was inaccessible.
Fu Lai carried a whole bag of arrows on his back, which Li Tianhai had asked the craftsmen to carefully build before he set out, and they were very sharp! At the same time, he also carried some tools borrowed from other Tibetans on his shoulders.
After getting some reliable news, they drew a brief map, and the group officially began to look for the road of Snow Lotus. Along the way, Andrew and the others were clinging to Fry, but they also learned that Li Tianhai was actually the son of the official who asked them to help find Xuelian that day, so they had to laugh and laugh, "Interesting!"
When it got dark, Andrew and several people set up tents, and Li Tianhai was a little surprised when he saw their simple tent, which was much more convenient than a yurt!
It was cold, and it was not easy to make a fire, but fortunately, Li Tianhai brought some flint with him, he pulled out a dagger from his waist, and slashed the flint, and a lot of sparks were sparked, and there were even flames burning on the flint.
He lit the dry wood, and gradually added the firewood, and the flame gradually brightened, illuminating his slightly immature face, and his deep eyes were as deep as shining obsidian......
"Hey, I didn't expect you guys to start a fire so quickly, I thought you'd need our help!" Andrew walked over.
Li Tianhai looked at them, and there was a raging fire. At this time, Barrett also walked over, with a bag of tobacco in his hand. He rolled the tobacco in paper and lit it with a match. He took a deep breath and after a few breaths, then squirted through his mouth and nose......
At this time, even if there was no Fulai, Li Tianhai could understand what they meant.
Folly walked out of the tent, which was given to Li Tianhai by Andrew, just enough for two people to squeeze in. Fortunately, it was not windy tonight, otherwise several people would have to stay in the tent and shiver.
Barrett took out a bag of water bladders, shook them, apparently they were filled with water, and he asked Li Tianhai, "Do you want water?"
Li Tianhai shook his head, he directly dug out a few ice cubes from the nearby ground and threw them into the thick bamboo tube that burned dry.
Barrett's eyes widened, and then he said, "Well, you win!"
He poured his water into the silver pot and waited for it to boil. At this temperature, the water in their water bladder is almost freezing, and forcing it to drink it is not beneficial to the body.
The days passed like this, but no trace of Snow Lotus was revealed.
"God, if this continues, I'll probably have to give up!" Alexander-old wailed. They had almost eaten all their dry food, and they could no longer find supplies, so they were probably starved to death.
"The compass is for you, go yourself, shameful fellow!" Barrett said in disgust.
"Barrett, don't think I don't know, you still have some dry food hidden!" Arnold said.
"Hmph, who told you not to save some food!"
"And you're going to watch me starve to death?"
"I'm sorry, dude, I think I'll really do it then!"
"Andrew, you're being fair!"
"Huh? I think...... Childe Li, we may not be able to last a few days!" Andrew suddenly turned his words to Li Tianhai.
Folly watched them make noise and asked cautiously, "Childe, they don't seem to want to go with us anymore, what should we do?"
Li Tianhai is also very depressed at the moment, what should I do? I can't do anything!
"Or ...... Let's retreat first, look for the matter of Snow Lotus, and then think about it in the long run?"
Li Tianhai was thinking about agreeing, but a loud noise drowned out his voice.
"Boom!" for a moment, I felt the ground shake a little.
"What is this?" Arnold and Barrett wiped their eyes, then looked at each other in dismay.
Andrew was also almost unsteady on his feet, and he shouted, "God, bless me!"
That's right, they had an avalanche, and their survival was in question under such a natural disaster.
The snow was falling, and the distant horizon had become blurred, and the snow-capped land suddenly became restless. The snow-white tide rushed like a giant beast, swallowing up all obstacles!
"Run!" Andrew didn't wait for a moment, just ran away.
Faure was stunned, those tree trunks that were so bald that there was only one left, they were cut off at the waist, and those small hills were directly bulldozed, and the scene was so powerful that he had never seen it before. At this moment, his head was completely blank, and he stood in place in a daze.
"What are you doing in a daze? Let's go!" Li Tianhai pulled Frey's clothes and roared. Regardless of whether Fry could hear it or not, Li Tianhai pulled Flay and ran up.
Following Andrew's footsteps, the two of them walked smoothly. After running for half an hour, the feeling of shaking the ground gradually disappeared.
A group of five people hid in a cave to calm down.
"Alright, Barrett, give me the compass, before we are completely lost! I haven't married and had children, and the second half of my life hasn't begun!" Arnold said in a flurry.
"Crazy, it was this cave that saved us, and I think it's time for us to go our separate ways!" Andrew rebuked as he prayed. If they hadn't gone early, the direction of the avalanche would have deviated from them, and they might have been buried under the snow now, and they didn't even need to buy a coffin, just use the ice crystal coffin, maybe they could keep it fresh for dozens or hundreds of years!
"Let them go, I'll just go find it myself!" Li Tianhai saw the resentment on the faces of several people, and he no longer had hope for them......
Fry's stepped forward to explain, he had just been frightened, and now he had just calmed down.
"Goodbye!" Barrett took a deep look at Li Tianhai with the burden on his back, and then turned to leave.
Not long after the three of them walked out, expletives rang out from outside the cave.
Li Tianhai frowned, what are these people doing?
The snow outside was so thick that it was knee-deep, making it difficult to walk. That's why they walked for so long, they didn't even get half a mile. Now that he is even rushing back, Li Tianhai is speechless......
Wait a minute, that's it!
He stood outside the cave, and there was a mountain cliff opposite, and there was a lotus flower on the edge of the cliff! Yes, the color of ice and snow, crystal clear, with round and full petals, blooming proudly! That kind of bewitching beauty, like a ghostly workmanship, is natural!
To the right outside the cave is a narrow valley path that leads to the opposite cliff! a natural valley path that must have been eroded by wind and snow over the years. And Andrew: They came down from the woods on the left, and naturally left from that side. Now they have rushed back, why?
"Wolves! It's a snow wolf pack, what should we do?" Fry looked over there with an ugly face, and he secretly complained in his heart, the dangers he had experienced on this trip were comparable to those of others in a lifetime!
"Damn, at least thirty!" Arnold screamed.
"Kill!" Barrett shouted.
Li Tianhai muttered to himself: "Capture the thief and capture the king first, but the Snow Wolf King is very cunning, and he must be hiding somewhere secretly, waiting for the end!"
At the same time, he drew the longbow to the full moon, and Folly also handed the bow and arrow box behind his back to Li Tianhai.
The arrow landed on the bowstring, and with a bang, the arrow was like a meteor flying feather, cutting a brilliant arc through the air.
The wolf's perception is very keen, but Li Tianhai is also a person who wears through the Yang in a hundred steps. The arrows he fired, like those with eyes, pierced the wolf's vital point.
As the saying goes, the wolf has always been a creature with copper skin and iron bones. Shoot the wolf through the waist with a bow, and it will only be killed!
What is even more amazing than Li Tianhai is the muskets of several foreigners.
Ignoring what tofu waist is not tofu waist at all, under the rain of bullets, what is shot in is bullets, and what flows out is gurgling blood!
However, as the saying goes, outnumbered, sitting and eating landslides, these two words have been well fulfilled in the three foreigners.
The snow was several feet deep, and their movement was restricted, and they were soon exhausted. However, the wolf king still did not appear, and the wolves were naturally not afraid of death.
"Be careful!" Barrett shouted.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and Andrew was accidentally pounced on by a snow wolf, with a color hanging around his neck, and he was about to be in a desperate situation. At this time, the rest of the snow wolves all bit Andrew, he closed his eyes tightly, his brows were about to twist, his hands covered the bleeding wound, and his mouth was full of words.
"May God forgive...... God bless ......"
"No!" Barrett wailed.
Arnold was also stunned, and then he and Barrett saw Andrew, who was no longer moving, and they were furious.
"Die!" they threw over a few cardboard packets full of **, and then shot through the paper packets with their guns.
"Peng!" there was a loud bang, leaving only a charred Andrew and some howling, deadly wolves.
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(5)
He ...... Dead ......" The two looked at everything in disbelief. Not so long ago, he was complaining to them about the stumbling of snow like a quagmire......
Li Tianhai pondered for a while, then turned around directly and went to the path on the right. He's going to pick snow lotus, and there's no time to delay!
Snow lotus grows on a steep cliff face, but at the end of the valley road there is a natural stone slab that can barely stand on a person. Li Tianhai was about to go picking, but he didn't know that a guy had already pounced.
"Childe be careful!" Fry's mouth opened wide in fright at the sudden scene, and it took a while for him to react.
Li Tianhai was thrown to the ground by the huge force behind him, "Woo!!"
His face turned a little pale, not good, it's the Snow Wolf King!
Huge wolf claws hung above his head, ready to fall at any moment. His heart was pounding, and his pupils were constricted.
With difficulty, he pulled out his dagger and stabbed it hard at the wolf king's abdomen!
"Flutter!"
What he didn't expect was that the wolf king still dodged, and the dagger only cut through its fur. He was able to get up, he picked up the arrow from the ground and threw it so hard that it hit the right eye of the Snow Wolf King. Immediately afterwards, the wolf king pounced like crazy, and it was very difficult for Li Tianhai to resist with his bare hands. His arm was bitten, his sharp teeth pierced through his flesh, and the pain of tearing filled his body.
With his left hand, he desperately thrust the arrow into the wolf's left eye, and by this time, the Snow Wolf King was completely blind. The smell of blood is its third eye, though!
Li Tianhai could no longer draw his bow and arrow, and he stabbed the dagger into the wolf's abdomen. This time, there was no dodging again. But he lost a hand. The Snow Wolf King pounced on Li Tianhai, its body twisting, and its dying struggle became weak. Looking at the Snow Wolf King who was motionless on top of him, Li Tianhai finally breathed a sigh of relief, and he gasped violently.
"Childe, are you alright?" Fry, despite the weakness of his legs, walked over with a tingling sensation in his scalp.
"Ahem, cough, ahem......" Li Tianhai didn't speak, his face turned pale, as if every time he said one more sentence, he would become stronger. His face was no longer bloody, and the blood all over the ground, except for the wolf king's, was his......
"Get out of here!" Barrett walked over angrily. Regardless of whether Li Tianhai understood it or not, he raised his hand and pointed the muzzle of the gun at Li Tianhai's eyebrows.
Li Tianhai seemed calm, because he was no longer able to resist, and the big deal was death!
"Don't!" said Fry, frightened.
"Bang !!"
Li Tianhai's eyes widened and he looked at the fallen person in front of him.
"Ahem!Fry!" he cried out, but alas, it was too late.
"Arnold, you, are you crazy?" Unexpectedly, Arnold immediately pointed his gun at Barrett.
"Yes, I'm crazy, since Andrew died, I can't resist that thought! Barrett, don't blame me for being ruthless, I've put up with you for a long time all these years! Don't think I don't know why she killed herself!"
"Huh, do you still want to talk about those old things and hurt our feelings?"
"No, no, no, there is a saying in China, 'A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late', I think it's time for you to take a good rest...... Farewell, brother!"
"Bang!
Two gunshots broke the silence.
Arnold's shot was indeed quick and accurate, and Barrett collapsed unsurprisingly. Although Barrett temporarily counterattacked, it was missed, and Arnold rolled sideways and dodged.
"Next, it's your turn......" Barrit's eyes widened as he got up to look at Li Tianhai.
for he is right in front of him, and ...... Holding a dagger, without the slightest hesitation, Li Tianhai cut Arnold's wrist with the dagger, so that he could not use the gun. Then Li Tianhai pierced Arnold's heart in one fell swoop, and he trembled and let go of his hand! Who knew that Arnold forcibly shot before he died, injuring Li Tianhai's only remaining hand.
The pain in his heart made Li Tianhai dizzy, and he thought that he would leave it at that......
(f)
When I woke up, it was already a few days later. Li Tianhai's hair was covered with frost and snow, and it became white. His clothes also stiffened and smelled like blood clotting.
However, when he found that his hands were completely gone, he was devastated. This means that he will not be able to complete the mission given to him by the Queen Mother......
After a long time, he resigned himself to his fate. He knew he couldn't go back, he lost his hands, and he knew exactly what it meant in this alpine terrain......
To his surprise, the surviving snow wolves actually supported him, as if they were worshipping him as king!
"Is it because I killed the original wolf king?" he sighed when he thought of this, "Well, since there is no way back, it is better to be a "mountain king" here, so that you can eat together." ”
In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed......
Li Tianhai has also gradually adapted to today's body and environment......
It's just that because of the raw meat, although his immunity has become better, he has contracted a strange terminal illness. At the age of his early thirties, he was already gray.
For more than ten years, he has been looking at the snow lotus every day, as if it has spirituality. It is like a fairy, far away from the hustle and bustle, does not eat the fireworks of the world, and is clear and jade......
Gradually, he became obsessed with this kind of life and willingly guarded it all the time. This lotus flower is very strange, sometimes it appears, sometimes you don't see it for days, and you don't know where it went...... It seems that after each avalanche, the snow lotus will appear for a certain period of time, and then disappear again at some point, and so on, for many years......
"The holy land of the Tianshan Mountains, the hiding place of the snow lotus, was ordered to set off in danger. After a hundred miles of cold wind, it was covered with snow. Since the death of the first emperor, the dynasty has been overturned, and traitorous ministers are like tigers. The sky is getting dark, the wind is blowing, and the heart is in Kyoto. The posture of the overlord must be shocked when you are in this situation. Pulling mountains and rivers with great strength, covering the world, it is difficult to win the mission. The snow lotus on the edge of the cliff is still there, the wind is swaying, and the city is charming. Thinking of the end of the world, who will you be born for a thousand years?"
I'm sorry, father, the mountains and rivers are full of ups and downs, and the difference may not be a snow lotus, but something new! Seeing Andrew and them, I think that is a sign of the rise of a country...... Maybe if you don't get Snow Lotus, everything will be gone, and the whole world will be in chaos, but I don't care anymore, as long as I can guard Snow Lotus......