Rick was now recuperating at a collection site, far away from the extremely low temperatures of the glacier.

When Rick was found, he was covered in bruises, like frozen rice cakes.

He was rescued by the young parents, who were John's parents. At that time, the two were salvaging ice, and when they saw Rick's body, they thought it was a dead man.

John's mother, who had a good heart, stopped John's father's blind behavior and rescued him.

At this time, it was the last chance to make money, so John's family could only take time out of their busy schedules to take care of Rick, a stranger.

From John's words, Rick could feel a faint kindness.

After all, it is far away from the smoky copper plate city, and the folk customs are quite simple.

Moving his body, Rick reluctantly sat up with John's help: "Your parents are still salvage?" ”

John wiped his nose, and his exuberant energy made him seem tireless: "Well, they say this is the last chance to make money, and they have to earn the protection money of the Binghe Gang." "At the mention of the 'Ice River Gang', John twisted his neck, and a touch of unevenness flashed on his immature face.

Rick understands this, most of the ownerless things are occupied by the underworld, especially the rural areas of Copperplate City, where the merchants can't reach them. said that it was a 'gang', but in fact, there were only a dozen scoundrels, relying on the strength of the crowd to encroach on this collection point.

Stretching his body, Rick slowly moved his stiff joints, tilted his head slightly and asked, "Why don't you go to the snowy mountains to collect directly?" Wouldn't that avoid their exploitation? ”

John raised his eyebrows and smiled, clearing his throat like a master who imparts experience: "There are indeed a lot of ice cubes in the snowy mountains, but the mountain roads there are steep, the ground is slippery, and it is easy to kill people" The thick voice echoed in the empty cave, and in the face of a person older than himself, John finally regained a sense of balance.

"John! Here comes the ice! Here comes the ice!! ”

There was a sudden anxious shout in the passage, and an arm wrapped in a thick cotton coat swung at John twice, and then disappeared from the eyes of the two men.

When John heard this, he bounced like a cheetah. With his legs bent and his feet on the ground, he ran after the man.

"I'll talk to you later!"

John's gruff voice echoed through the empty cavern, and Rick smiled and returned to his makeshift bed.

The bed was improvised with a wide solid wooden frame and a hay mat underneath, topped with two layers of thick worn quilts. The body is covered with a sturdy layer of leather stained with animal smells.

I don't know what kind of animal this leather is, it has not been nitrated and tanned, and there are many traces of rough treatment on it.

Soothing his nerves and body, Rick slowly lowered his eyelids and calmed down.

The five bronze mantras in the brain domain are releasing a kind of bronze-colored light filament, slowly repairing the damage caused last time.

The rift in the brain domain is even bigger than before the coma, and the rift that originally took half a month to repair has suddenly become impossible to repair for more than a month.

Looking at the crescent cracks that reflected the arc light, Rick sighed silently.

But when his eyes fell on the two silver glittering silver mantras, he suddenly felt that it was worth it.

The Thick Earth Crest and the Natal Stone Ball are all gone. But they played to their limits, taking out two second-order powerhouses.

Five bronze mantras, most of which are rendered in silver by the earth type, and the fire type is slightly worse, and the hidden one is the darkest.

Staring at the earth and fire mantras, Rick pondered for a moment and withdrew from his mind.

The palm of his hand ran over the stick on the floor beside the bed, and his fingertips were cold and squirming. Through the coarse cloth clothes pressed to the heart, Rick could faintly feel the outline of a slender object in his palm.

After making sure that the mysterious arm and the ice pillar were there, Rick's bad mood gradually improved, and there was a real smile on his face.

Unable to maintain his micro-avatar state for a long time, Rick showed his true face at this time. The smile has lost that kind of warmth, and the voice has become an ordinary male voice, only the dark and restrained eyes have not changed

As soon as a person comes to his senses, the speed of recovery is immediately raised.

The soreness and weakness gradually moved away from Rick, and his body was able to move around at will, except for the sometimes cold in the bones and joints.

The daily sweet potato multigrain cake tests Rick's digestive system.

John, however, clutched his belly and cried out that he was hungry as if he had not eaten enough. How else can most of the adolescent children eat?

It's not every day that ice falls down from the glacier, as long as there are two people staring. In his free time, Rick met John's parents.

His father was tall and strong, and he was not very friendly to Rick, a strange man, who may have felt that he was in tattered clothes and had a mysterious origin, and did not want to have more contact with him.

But it was John's mother's warm-heartedness, and her strong skeleton, which made her look full of the ability and strength of a country woman. Big rough hands always like to pinch Rick's fair face, in fact, Rick is not a few years older than John.

It may be that this kind of behavior is seen by John's father, and the other party's attitude always reveals a faint sense of hostility and distance.

Rick treats his benefactor with a smile on his face. Even if he regained his magical power and became a powerhouse who had slaughtered second-order witchcraft, he would not change his gratitude to John's family.

Whether it was John's youthful rebellion, or John's father's hostility and distance, or even John's mother's excessive enthusiasm for his expression, Rick felt warm in his heart.

Without them, the unconscious Rick would likely freeze to death in the glacier.

Even though there were still some days left before he fully recovered, Rick still managed to stay weak and join the ice fishing team

The eyelashes shake off the cold and hard frost particles, and the muscles around the eye sockets contract instinctively at extremely low temperatures.

The cheeks were a plateau red like sauce, and the jawbones drove the upper and lower rows of teeth, colliding with each other very frequently.

His tongue was against the roof of his mouth, hiding deep in his mouth, and as soon as he squeezed out a cloud of white mist like hot air, he was frozen back by the cold and humid air that swarmed in.

The palm of the palm was hot and painful, and the cold frost and frost mist continued to paralyze the wound. The knuckles, which were white from the exertion, firmly grasped a wet and cold thick hemp rope.

The coarse hemp rope wrapped in glacial water, clutched in his hand like a popsicle, constantly took away the temperature of Rick's hands.

"I don't see it, your kid has a lot of strength!"

Daddy John snorted, shook his head and shook off the frost grains, and a hint of approval flashed in his slightly hostile eyes.

Don't look at Rick's thin body, but after all, he is a "non-human" who has passed the test of the abyss, even if he is weak, even if he loses his magical power, he is still stronger than a normal man.

Pursing his purple frozen lips, Rick took a big breath. poured in a lot of cool air, which made the lungs shrink uncomfortably: "It's okay, it's just a little cold." ”