"I can't live."

"One of my toes froze off."

"Can you wake up?"

"Report to your lordship, there is nothing your subordinates can do..."

Shen Zuijian heard the voice, but he couldn't move at all, he couldn't even lift his eyelids, he felt that his world was dark and full of coldness.

"The pulse had completely stopped, his breathing was barely felt, his heartbeat was not there, and the only possible thing was that his brain might still be alive." Inside the dimly lit fortress, the firewood in the fireplace was burning so hard that the medicine man was helpless.

"Go get the Archspeller, we need to know what's going on." Shi Potian, the supreme general of the Northern Fortress in black armor, spoke.

After the old general said this, he said to another general beside him: "Select fifty elites, and I will personally lead the team to check them." ”

"General! When the middle of winter comes, it is too cold outside the northern border, and the dripping water turns into ice, even the giant wolf in the snow field cannot hurry, and there is no food suitable for eating in this state, which is really not suitable for patrolling. The young general said.

Shi Potian, who was already in his eighties, turned to look at Shen Zuijian, who was found three days ago, and said with a sigh: "The road is difficult to walk, and the food is unpalatable, but doesn't he still come back here?" ”

"Originally, he was supposed to stay in a stronghold outside the northern border at this time, and he didn't return until after midwinter, but you see that his whole body is frozen into ice now, and there are injuries on his back, do you think of anything?" Shi Potian's eyes, which had been gradually drying up because he had been in the north for too long, gradually lit up.

"General... Demon Clan... The demon clan has disappeared for a thousand years, and it will not suddenly appear without warning, and your subordinates think you are too worried..."

"Disappeared for a thousand years? The demon clan has never disappeared, since the old man guarded here, there will be patrol teams missing every year, but this time, there is finally a person among them who may let us know something, so this time, we must figure it out! ”

Shi Potian sighed, looked at the small hole in the wall of the cave wall, looked at the snow and the gloomy sky outside, and said: "In the past five years, every time in the middle of winter, we will lose some strongholds, when the old man first arrived here, we had one hundred and three strongholds outside the northern border, fifty years have passed, and now there are only thirty of our strongholds left, and there are as many as 10,000 missing brothers, these are not signs, what is it?" ”

"It is precisely because the demon clan disappeared back then, not extinction, that we have to be extremely careful!"

The young general no longer spoke, what Shi Potian said was not that he didn't know, but he didn't want to face this fact, the number of dead and disabled in the Black Legion in the north every year is extremely high, often because of cold and hunger, and there is infighting, after all, the vast majority of people here are death row prisoners.

No one cares about the lives and deaths of the people here, so the number of hundreds of missing people every year will not attract the attention of Lidu at all.

Although Shi Potian has been trying to find evidence over the years, looking for evidence that the demon clan still exists and is still active, but the climate outside the northern border is too bad to organize a large-scale search at all, and can only be found in the form of stronghold observation and patrol team responsible for liaison reports.

However, every year in the middle of winter, there will always be a complete disappearance of the stronghold, and the disappearance of the patrol team will happen, and there will never be a living mouth.

This time there is finally an exception, or at least I don't know if I can get information from this guy who was sent here from Dali.

There was silence in the room.

The young general before couldn't stop thinking about the things that had disappeared over the years and the disappeared stronghold in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and finally couldn't help but tremble and said: "General! Why do we, who have been abandoned by the whole world, defend the whole world? ”

Shi Potian sighed lightly when he heard this, and looked deeply at this deputy general who had been with him for five years, originally a disciple of a small cultivation sect, who had committed a capital crime and was thrown here, in the past five years, under his own guidance, he had stepped into the realm of the Seven Grades, and his strength and knowledge, as well as his understanding of the outside of the northern realm, had far surpassed other generals under his own cultivation.

He will be his successor, after his death, this idea, Shi Potian has long been decided, but now he suddenly found that this young man who was cultivated by himself as a successor lacked the most important thing.

"Sirius, have you ever thought about leaving here?" Shi Potian suddenly asked.

The young general named Heavenly Wolf first trembled when he heard this, then raised his head to look at Shi Potian, and when he saw the compassionate look in Shi Potian's eyes, he suddenly mustered up all his courage and said, "General! Subordinate... My subordinates don't want to leave here all the time! ”

"Why?" Shi Potian asked.

"Because... The longer you stay here and the more you know, the more you will... The more scared you feel! The wolf knelt down.

Shi Potian sighed, glanced at the wolf deeply, and shook his head, it's a pity...

"You can go." Shi Potian said: "The demon clan is about to reappear, once the northern border is lost, where can you hide?" ”

The wolf knelt there and did not speak.

Shi Potian suddenly felt a wave of disgust, he closed his eyes and sighed and said, "You can go." ”

No one wants to stay in the north, Shi Potian knows it in his heart, and every person who leaves the country knows it, but everyone who comes here has a reason to come here, and everyone who stays here has made an oath.

Is the oath used to be kept or broken? In the North, this is an eternal controversy.

But Shi Potian will never allow such a controversy to arise.

When the Great Spell Master, wearing a black cloak and his entire face covered in darkness, came here under the guidance of the Medicine Master, two small soldiers beside Shi Potian were kneeling on the ground and wiping the blood with a dry cloth.

The Great Spell Master who had been stationed in the Northern Fortress longer than Shi Potian sighed, and then set his eyes on the Drunken Sword lying on the wooden plank.

A burst of black mist permeated from the archman's body and drifted towards the Drunken Sword, gradually burrowing through his mouth and nose.

After a moment, the black-robed Great Spell Master let out a soft sigh, and then the black mist retracted, and he said, "I will take this son away." ”

Shi Potian did not speak.

Before the Great Spell Master turned to leave, he suddenly stopped and said to Shi Potian: "If you don't go out in the middle of winter, you have passed down the precepts for thousands of years, and those who broke the vows have not returned. ”

Shi Potian finally spoke: "Someone has to be the first." He said and glanced at Shen Zuijian: "Just like him, the first patrolman to return to the fortress before the middle of winter comes." ”

The Grand Spellmaster sighed and slowly walked out of the door, leaving a sentence: "He is not dead yet, he is indeed the first person..."

PS: Explain, the last two are because the nails are cut too cleanly, and then the right index finger is broken, water, and it hurts to type, so the typing is very slow, but now it's almost good, so let me tell you, I didn't say it before because I was worried that if I said it, it will make you think that I have a sign of eunuch The ticket is smashed, and it will be restored immediately~! Momoda~!