Chapter Forty-Eight: Ice and Snow
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"If it's really what Yorick said, it's really very powerful, when it comes to Freljord, we are mainly picking up leaks, and fighting is supplementary, we must not be strong, otherwise you will be beaten into powder by magic, and it is really impossible to save you"
"Is it really that powerful?" Zhang Qinliang confirmed again.
"If you really don't rush around at that time, the gap between us and those Frost Guardians is as big as the gap between a soldier and a hero" Li Qing frowned and looked at the Chosen One on the other side, and the woman also had a solemn look on her face at this moment.
From the ease of the second task, to the difficulty of this ruin trial, the difficulty has jumped too much.
Li Qing and Zhang Qinliang continued to move north as the team spoke, and after another hour of marching, they only felt that the temperature was getting colder and colder, especially when everyone started from the howling wetland in the evening, and after traveling for several hours, it had entered one or two o'clock in the morning, which was the coldest time for the weather, and it was better when they first entered the tundra at the beginning, and the ground was the frozen grass with frost, but after reaching the real north, there were no traces of plants on the ground, and the snow was getting thicker and thicker. The temperature has dropped to minus 10 degrees Celsius, and it will continue to decline rapidly.
"It's an abnormal drop in temperature." Looking at the snow on the ground, which was already more than ten centimeters thick, Li Qing knew that the team had really stepped into Freljord.
"Boss, it's really cold here, and we don't have any clothes, but fortunately, we have a strong physique and can stand it, if we change to an ordinary person, it is estimated that it will be enough to choke." The horses galloped through the snow, and flakes of snow and sand had been raised.
"It's going to be even colder in the future, I guess the real Freljord has a tribal area, the temperature is minus forty or fifty degrees, and this place is really not suitable for human life." As Li Qing spoke, he took out the communication gem and began to call his only lone companion, "Lao Ding, Lao Ding is not ......"
After more than ten seconds of the heat of the gem passed, Ding Kun's reply came back from the other side, "In." ”
"Well, Ding Kun and I will arrive in your tribe soon, it is estimated that it will be between one or two hours, and there are a thousand high-level undead, have you received the news over there?"
"Yes, yesterday there was a messenger from Noxus here, but Sejuani didn't seem to want to cooperate with them much, but she didn't refuse, let's talk about it when it comes" Ding Kun said a word and said: "I can't say it anymore, now I'm in front of Sejuani's tent, her perception is very high, I'll hang up first."
"Oh, good." Li Qing responded, and on the other side, he heard Zhang Qinliang's ridicule: "Lao Ding, this guy is really like a son-in-law now, and he is still in charge, hahahaha......"
Zhang Qinliang laughed here, patted the horse under his crotch there, and tried to keep up with the team in front.
As Li Qing expected, the more the team advanced, the colder the weather became, after running in the snow for more than 100 miles, the snow on the ground had reached half a meter deep, and the surrounding cold wind blew on the bare skin and already had the feeling of a knife, and the temperature here had dropped to minus forty or fifty degrees.
Moreover, after changing the terrain of the plain just now, after arriving at the real Freljord, Li Qing saw a majestic mountain in the night sky - in the cold night, although the surroundings were dark, Li Qing could see the outline of the mountain far away. Because it is the same as the South Pole of the earth, there is a snow-white everywhere, and the mountains are all ice blocks that are not known to be tens of meters thick, and in the night sky, the frozen peaks reflect the starlight like a mirror, and the night and the starry sky are reflected together, becoming a very beautiful picture.
After the team drilled into the mountains, Li Qing saw that Yorick at the front of the team let those ghost gargoyles fly high into the sky to explore the way, and the team also drilled back and forth in the mountains, turning dozens of bends and bends, and finally entered the narrow road between two huge peaks, and after moving forward for half an hour, they came to a valley in the middle of the ice and snow peaks.
It is surrounded by mountain peaks on all sides, and only a valley mouth a few tens of meters wide can be entered, because it is surrounded by mountains, and there is no cold wind blowing in here, so it can be considered warm. After entering the valley, the team experienced the desolation along the way, and finally saw the humans.
It was a group of tribal guards dressed in animal furs, and they held their hands inside the valley mouth, and when they saw the undead legion coming, they immediately stood guard.
"We're here to find Sejuani" The army of the undead was terrifying in the night, with ghosts and corpses and skeletons running all over the ground, and even if they were notified, it was still scary to see this battle.
And Yorick obviously knew that his people were not good-looking, and when he found the Winterclaw tribe, he took a back seat and let Darius speak.
"We are the messengers of Noxus, and we have come to meet your patriarch," Darius negotiated in front, while Li Qing looked at the tribesmen of Winterclaw in the back.
Due to the perennial survival in this cold winter land, the humans here are not very different from the outside, the extreme and harsh climate has trained their unusual physique, and the unique training method of Winter Fury Sejuani has also made these people stronger than the humans outside.
In order to adapt to the climate of eternal winter, the only advantage that the people of Freljord have passed down from generation to generation is a strong physique. People with weak physiques have frozen to death and starved to death in ancient times, and only strong people can survive, and the genes of the Freljords are very good. And the training method of Winter's Fury can only allow extremely good people to survive.
The Wrath of Winter Sejuani stipulates that every child who reaches the age of ten in the tribe must receive a cruel "rite of passage", which is when the tribesmen reach the age of ten, both men and women, must be naked into the cold wind, and then live outside for three days without any food and warm clothing.
Only those who meet the requirements can survive among the tribes - under the rules of heaven, another cruel human rule.
As a result, the inhabitants of the Winterclaw tribe are very few, but each of them is a warrior of ten, and they are cruel and hard, like the eternal ice of this Freljord.
"Wait a minute, we've sent someone into the valley to inform the chief," the tribal guard replied, but still didn't let his guard down, and Darius didn't say anything more when he saw this, and waited outside the valley with the team members and the undead.
The guard's report was very fast, and everyone had only waited outside the valley for less than 6 minutes before Li Qing heard neat footsteps coming from within the valley. As an army marched, he saw a tall woman leading a group of tribal elites out of it.
The woman was extremely strong, as tall as a man - and beside her, there was an equally tall and burly man - Ding Kun.
Seeing Ding Kun appear beside Se Juani with a stern face, Zhang Qinliang stabbed Li Qing who was leading the horse next to him with his arm, it seems that since he knew that Ding Kun was mixed up with the woman, this guy has never given up any opportunity to laugh at the other party.
Li Qing naturally ignored him, just looked at the changes in Ding Kun on the other side over the past few days - half of the mission is gone, this guy looks stronger than before, obviously he has also got his own benefits here, and the equipment on his body has also changed guns, in addition to the full body armor and shield, Li Qing also saw that this guy was holding a sledgehammer like a silver ice cube in his hand, and it was not an ordinary commodity at a glance.
"It feels good to be a son-in-law." When Zhang Qinliang saw this, he couldn't help but sigh a few more words.
And here he was chattering to himself, and on the other side Darius and Sejuani were also picked up for the first time
"The undead are not allowed to enter the valley, others can come in with me." After Sejuani appeared, she was very concise and to the point, and like most humans, Sejuani was somewhat discriminatory against the undead. Half of this discrimination stems from fear, and the other half is the nature of the opposite.
The undead like to eat the flesh and blood of the living, and their relationship with humans is like the relationship between a wolf and a cow or sheep, which can never be reconciled.
Yorick's hundreds of years of experience obviously knew these things, so after hearing Sejuani's words, he waved his hand and shouted a few strange words at the team, and then the undead in the air flew away, while the skeletons and zombies in the ground left the snow pit on the spot and burrowed into the stiff ground, and the undead army that came forward for a while disappeared almost in three minutes, which made people feel unbelievable.
"This flesh and blood puppet is something I refined myself, and if I don't have a thought, it's okay to put it at the door of the tribe, right?" Yorick shouted at Sejuani in the middle of the group.
"Yes. Come in. Seeing that the undead had finished retreating, Sejuani waved her hand to let the guards go, while Li Qing and Darius and some soldiers made a total of a dozen humans, plus Yorick, who didn't know if it was an undead or some other creature, and entered the tribe through the valley of Guò.
Entering the valley, Li Qing raised his eyes and saw ice cube houses - these houses have square domes, but they are all low, some are on the snow, some are built on the hillside, and they look very much like Eskimo buildings.
And after entering the valley, Li Qing roughly looked at the density of the house and estimated the size of the valley through the reflective mountain walls around Guò, and finally there were really not many people in the Winter's Claw tribe - roughly calculated that adults were estimated to be twenty or thirty thousand, even if everyone was a warrior, there were only four or five legions.
Obviously, compared to the most powerful Noxus Empire on the Big 6, this tribe is indeed a little too weak. If it weren't for the fact that this place was really unsuitable for human habitation and survival, and the mountain roads here were winding like old tree roots, making it as difficult to destroy the inhabitants as the pirates of Bilgewater, it would have been conquered by other empires in the long run.