Chapter 22: The Snowfield
A quarter of an hour later...
"Ahh
It didn't take long for me to regret my promise to break ground. At first, nothing had changed, but within five minutes, the temperature plummeted without warning. Xiuwei, who could still resist the cold, and the heater on the carriage completely lost their effect, and the whole person seemed to have fallen into an ice cave. Despite this, I managed to survive for nearly ten minutes. Of course, in the end, I couldn't hold back and wrapped myself in "zongzi".
Breaking Earth looked at my embarrassed appearance and couldn't stop laughing. Although he didn't laugh out loud, looking at his gloating appearance was really incomparably lacking. I really wanted to go up and fight him, but because I was losing money at this time, I had to wait for the opportunity to come back to the field in the future.
I pressed the fire and asked, "What's going on here, old fellow?"
Breaking the ground obviously saw the change in my mood, and suppressed a smile and said, "The area where we are now is called "Flowing Firefly Snow Field". It is cold all year round, with an average temperature of less than minus 60 degrees, making it the coldest place in Longchuan country. As for why it's called "Flowing Firefly Snow Field", you'll find out until late at night. ”
Although I can resist some cold after exercising, it is at most the level of ordinary winter, not to mention that the training clothes I was wearing were still single, not to mention that it was half an hour, and I couldn't stand it for half a minute!
Knowing that I had been broken again, I muttered a little annoyed: "Why didn't you say it earlier." ”
"Old guy, are you laughing again! You're still laughing! Lao Tzu is fighting with you!"
The cold wind kept blowing outside, and the snow and blue sky were "connected" together, reflecting the original appearance of this world. Fortunately, there are people in the carriage frolicking, which fills this originally "ruthless" world with some warmth.
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The snowfield's ruse finally succeeded, swallowing the sun with its icy peaks. As the sun passed, the already cold snowfield plummeted a few points.
It is dangerous to walk in the snow at night, and the camels are tired. In this way, the night became the only time for the caravan to stop and recuperate.
In the snowfield, the cold is not the most terrible. What was truly terrifying was the pervasive, knife-like cold wind. Although we have come to a relatively sheltered place, there are winds from other places that pour in from time to time.
Fortunately, the caravan had been prepared. The iron compartment is not only made to keep the interior sealed and warm, but also the exterior design of the carriage is ingenious.
The chassis of the carriage was already low, and dozens of black iron boxes were connected to each other, like several iron walls firmly blocking the leaking gap, which left a place for the caravan to stay.
After a simple process, the team built a fire that burned gasoline as fuel.
The blazing firelight, with the stars in the sky, gives people a different kind of warm feeling.
Maybe it's because of the publicity. When we were found out that we had disembarked from the car, the rest of the escort team returned to the carriage one after another. The space, which had been a little crowded, suddenly became empty.
I didn't care much about other people's attitudes, and I leisurely roasted around the campfire. Suddenly, my eyes were covered from behind. I jerked away and looked back, and was taken aback.
"Why are you here?"
Isn't it someone else, isn't it Chu He's wife, a beautiful pregnant woman who kindly gave me money!
The beautiful pregnant woman was not frightened by my sudden action, but just rubbed my face and said, "Hehe!
I laughed dryly twice, and said secretly in my heart, "Why do women like to show their faces when they see cute children!"
Actually, I can accept it by rubbing it normally, but I can't stand it all the time! Gradually, I feel a little uncomfortable. So he pretended to block her "clutches" unintentionally, and then pretended to be cute to divert her attention and asked, "Sister, what is your name?
My plan worked, and the beautiful pregnant woman stopped moving for a while when I asked. I saw that she thought for a moment, and then said in a daze: "Yes, my sister doesn't seem to have told you your sister's name! Sister, my name is Ji Luoli." As for why you left so early..."Speaking of this, Ji Luoli subconsciously glanced at the broken ground beside us, and continued: "Of course, it's because of the Dragon Yuan Festival in half a month!
"I see!" Hearing this, I somewhat understood Chu He's arrangement. "This Dragon Yuan Festival should be the Spring Festival of this world. If we had set off five days later, we might not have been able to get to where we were going before the holidays. I want to come to Chu He to let her wife with a big belly to accompany her, but also to accompany her after arriving at the headquarters of the Chuyuan Chamber of Commerce. ”
Thinking of this, I can't help but be a little more curious about the identity of the groundbreaker.
Just as I was thinking, I suddenly opened my mouth when I broke the ground that outsiders have always "cherished words like gold". I only heard him ask Ji Luoli: "Miss Luoli, there is something unknown below." Since the Chuyuan Chamber of Commerce has an exclusive escort team, why do they have to go to the Mercenary Pavilion to issue a mission?"
Ji Luoli changed his original playful attitude and replied respectfully: "Your Excellency doesn't know anything. My father-in-law, the current president of the Hatsuhara Chamber of Commerce, often took matters into his own hands when he was younger, transporting goods with his subordinates. Once, the caravan encountered a group of powerful bandits. Although the members of the caravan fought to the death, there was a huge disparity in strength, and only the father-in-law was left alive in the caravan. ”
At that time, the bandit's knife was already on the neck of the father-in-law, and the father-in-law was already desperate and ready to die. Fortunately, at this moment, a mercenary who happened to be passing by arrived in time and wiped out the bandits, and the father-in-law picked up a life. ”
At that time, the mercenary happened to have a mission, and left in a hurry before his father-in-law could ask for his name. Over the years, my father-in-law has been asking around about the whereabouts of that father-in-law, but he has never found anything, which has also become a knot in my father-in-law's heart. ”
"I am grateful for the life-saving grace of this mercenary, but whenever there is a caravan traveling from the Chuyuan Chamber of Commerce, my father-in-law will send someone to the Mercenary Pavilion to issue a mission, so as to give some convenience to those mercenaries who are on the way. ”
Knowing that the reason why the caravan issued the mission was not because of the foreknowledge of some powerful enemy on the way, Breaking Earth and I, who were still a little nervous, couldn't help but feel a lot more relieved and smiled at each other.
When the moon shines, the temperature drops a lot. Ji Luo was pregnant, and said goodbye to us early and returned to the carriage.
It was a little cold outside, and I wanted to go back to the carriage, but I was inexplicably called to the roof of the carriage we were in. I was about to complain, but the moment I got on the roof, I choked on what I wanted to say.
At this moment, there is a spectacular scene happening in the snowfield in front of me that I never expected, and on this icy snowfield, several silver-white rivers of light have appeared out of thin air.
The river of light seems to be alive, and you can clearly see the trajectory of its flow, and the spots that make up the river of light are like stars, flickering alternately from time to time.
I rubbed my eyes and looked at the spot.
"It's... This is. ”
Po Tu smiled and said, "It seems you found out." That's right! The river of light is made up of tens of thousands of fireflies. ”
"This firefly is called Ice Firefly, and it is a kind of mysterious beast that haunts groups. Because they appear collectively to form a scene like the Milky Way, people also call them "the Milky Way of Love". Ice fireflies are very special, although they have no attack ability, they can emit powerful low temperatures, and thousands of ice fireflies gathered together have the power to change the environment. That's how this firefly snow field came about. ”
I exclaimed, "What a great star." ”
The river of light in the snowfield is connected to the bright starry sky, giving people a strange feeling of being in a dreamland. I sat on the roof of the car with Broken Earth and admired this "masterpiece" of nature together. But I never thought that there was such a danger behind this beauty. We are getting closer and closer to the trap that has been laid for a long time.