When Xia Han and Fiona crossed the last peak, the moonlight fell endlessly before their eyes, and they could see the sparse frost grass standing on the snow-white snowfield.

At this time, it was already night, the cold wind was very strong, and occasionally I could see a few dead trees and bald branches that did not know the age, standing desolate like ghosts.

"It's so cold"

The temperature in the mountains seemed to be colder than in the mountains, and the summer cold couldn't help but shiver.

Fiona stretched out her hand to add some warmth to the barrier, she looked down at Xia Han, and showed a gentle smile: "I have clothes, do you want them?" ”

"No, that's warm enough." Xia Han shook his head and refused.

The two walked forward for another ten minutes, and saw a snow-white fortress blocking the road from a distance-Snow City.

"I can't go any further."

Fiona stopped Xia Han from advancing, she looked at the flat snow in front of her, and sighed: "What a magical technique, even we elves are difficult to make such a trap"

Syracuse, the only way to the Crystal Snow Gate, is surrounded by snow that serves as its courtyard or trap. Decades ago, the First Mage of Humanity built an invincible trap for Syracuse.

This trap is very simple, it takes Snow City as the center and turns all the snow within a radius of 2 kilometers into movable ice. No matter how strong the team entered, they had to allocate the area according to Syracuse - and even more terrifying was that the ice would flip.

So far, no one has cracked the principle of the first mage's trap, but the snow around Syracuse is made up of exactly the same front and back, and it can be flipped to cover the ground in an instant. Decades ago, the Vermilion Bird Continent invaded Jingxue Mountain, and Syracuse lured more than 100,000 people into a trap, and then won the victory with one flip.

Beneath this snowy field are countless corpses.

"It shouldn't matter, right?" Xia Han looked up at the front: "It's just two people, they can't find it." ”

But Fiona shook her head resolutely: "I was stared at by the white tiger over there, and there was no place to hide in the past." ”

Her phoenix was watching Syracuse from high altitudes, and had already spotted several white tigers patrolling.

"What about the snow?" Xia Han was a little uneasy, the distance was too far, and it would be difficult to catch up if there was an accident in the snow.

"She's fine, she's locked up in solitary confinement now." Fiona comforted, "My phoenix will watch her, let's spend the night over there first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

She pointed not far away, where there was a forest. The trees are all that remains of large stumps that have been cut down, and although they do not seem to have much shading, they provide more or less shade from the wind.

Thinking of the need to supplement sleep, Xia Han also agreed. When they approached, they found that the stumps were even larger than they had imagined, and that it took several people to hug them, and they could not imagine how many years the original owner had gone through.

"Is it possible that this is also a trap?"

Xia Han frowned, he was worried that the beast clan deliberately created such a place in order to attract others to enter.

"Possibly." After looking around, Fiona was also a little worried, but she looked at the tree stump, and a bright light flashed in her eyes: "Xia Han, do you remember the child in the bear's skin?" ”

The summer cold was slightly flustered, and then a flash of inspiration appeared.

"That's a good idea!" He smiled, urging Fiona to cast a spell.

The solution of the two was to hollow out the tree stump, create a tree hole in it to avoid the cold wind and monitor the whole thing, which was not much difficult in Fiona's hands, and she quickly found a large tree stump and made the tree hole.

However, the hole is a little smaller.

"It's okay, I have a way." Fiona blinked, and then became smaller than Limo, a five or six-year-old pink jade elf: "Is this okay?" ”

Of course you can—Xia Han nodded, bent down and walked into the tree hole, and Fiona walked in as well.

The cave without moonlight was much darker, and although they couldn't see the snowfield behind them, the two of them got rid of the cold wind and could spend a warm night.

They didn't cast lighting spells.

"Good night."

"Well, hurry up and sleep"

Thinking that they didn't know what they would face tomorrow, the two of them were not in the mood for chatting and leisure, and yawned and fell asleep, and Fiona turned up the temperature in the hollow of the tree, but she was not worried about freezing.

Perhaps wild historians will be full of beautiful speculations about this night, but this is just an ordinary night, if there is anything worth mentioning, it is only Xia Han who hugged the little Fiona as a pillow in his sleep.

This incident made the elf princess sullen for a long time, she clearly wanted to be a mother, why was she being held by Xia Han like a daughter to sleep?

The snow in the hollow of the tree is quietly melting.

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On the same night, in the Cangming Empire, another girl stayed awake all night.

She walked around the forest with bloodshot eyes open, bringing back clouds of blood mist until the cold wee hours came.

The black-haired girl, the swordless Xia Han was looking for, walked into a deep underground cave, and there were torches burning one after another on the cliff wall, so that she could not see the road clearly.

"Lilacs."

Hearing the sound of her walking footsteps, the middle-aged mage who was casting a spell in the depths of the cave turned his head: "Put the last batch of materials in?" ”

Wujian walked up to him, and the surrounding blood mist suddenly made a gurgling sound like flowing water, flowing into a huge pool of blood.

"Well, alright" the mage nodded with satisfaction, he looked at the pool of blood boiling like hot water with a hint of joy: "Those monsters like blood, and if you add a portion of your blood to the blood of the virgin the most, you should be able to revive the monsters underground." ”

He looked at Swordless.

"Yes." Wujian took out the dagger from his body, lightly stabbed between his fingers, and dripped blood into the pool of blood.

Her blood stopped after less than thirty drops, and her head began to dizzy.

"What's wrong?" The mage noticed the abnormality of the swordless, and reached out and touched her forehead: "This disease is here again?" You go and rest first, you don't have to work tomorrow. ”

"However, teacher" Wujian was a little worried: "Can you deal with him alone?" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the ground shook with a bang.

"Blood is the smell of blood!" Immediately after, a hoarse roar with anger came from the ground, and a strange black shadow rose from the ground and flew towards the pool of blood.

"Idiot!" The middle-aged mage was furious, and with a wave of his staff, the black shadow suddenly let out a terrified scream.

"Magic, soul magic, goddamn goblins!!"

It smashed against the cave wall, motionless.

"You go back and rest" The mage turned around and smiled softly at Wujian, "This kind of low-level monster like an ant, even if I feed him, it will be more than enough for me to deal with him alone." ”

Wujian glanced at the dark shadow on the cave wall and sighed: "I know, teacher"

She stepped back.

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