After a short while, the snow was heavier and the temperature plummeted again.

Xiang En's hands were frozen and painful, and the hands holding the barrel were stiff, and when he saw the door of the village, he just wanted to hurry back to the basement and burn some wood to keep warm.

When he crossed the gate of the village, he suddenly looked at the wooden wall of the village and stood in place, thinking of the threat of the ghoul just now, and wondering whether to add a gate to the entrance of the village.

He talked to Andrea about his thoughts, and all he got was a "casual" reply, which made Xiang Eun angry.

Completely without her own thoughts, I'm afraid that after a while, Andrea will become a tool man who only knows how to listen to orders......

Were the conditions too arbitrary?

Xiang En began to wonder if the terms of cooperation when she found Andrea were still suitable, if she didn't have her own ideas, would she not be able to deal with the problem by herself if she encountered an accident in the future?

Giving up the idea of getting the gate now, Xiang En took Andrea back to the wooden house.

Closing the trapdoor in the basement, Andrea took the bucket and walked down the ladder, followed closely by Xiang En, and closed the trapdoor with his hand, and the ground suddenly fell into darkness, except for an oil lamp embedded in the corridor of the two rooms illuminating a few places.

The original alchemy room was full of wood and planks, most of which were materials that Xiang En had prepared to use to farm for totem skill proficiency.

The two of them did not stop in this room, and entered the resting room down the narrow hallway.

The light in the room was still dim, so Xiang En found a flint and steel and lit an oil lamp embedded in the wall.

Because the room has a chimney that connects to the surface, the indoor temperature is still very low.

In the right corner of the room were several large water tanks with the little water left, and next to them were a few simple wooden shelves with large quantities of dried meat piled up.

In the middle of the room, next to the wall, was a large bed large enough for two people, covered with several layers of animal skins and cloth.

Animal skins are actually very valuable, and the animal skins of this bed alone can make a family of three eat for a month or two in the city, but in this village, the animal skins are very worthless, and they are even sewn together as quilts.

A small cubicle was dug out on the left side of the room, and inside was a toilet, and there was no smell in winter.

Andrea put down the bucket and set up a pot to light a fire, boiling the water that had just been brought back from the river.

Xiang En didn't have the heart to do anything else for the time being, so he simply stared at the iron pot with Andrea.

The air is not circulated, and the indoor temperature rises quickly, and occasionally Xiang Enhui pulls the bellows removed from the furnace of the village chief's house to inhale a little cold air from the outside.

The two of them enjoyed their current life peacefully, leaning together on the fire, as if nothing outside had anything to do with them.

Gollum!

The water in the iron pot boiled, and the steam kept coming out, gradually adding a little warmth to the room.

Xiang En found a wooden spoon and dug out the water in the pot, put it under his nose and sniffed it gently, the sour taste was almost unpleasant, and it may have belonged to the category of drinking.

Swallowing it boldly into his mouth, the warm water made him lose his mind a little, and he resisted the urge to swallow it in his stomach and savored it.

"How?"

Andrea looked at him expectantly.

Xiang En frowned and felt it, then stopped holding it in his mouth, swallowed it, smashed it in his mouth, and said, "It's still a little weird, but I can drink it." ”

The reason why I can drink it is because I see those small fish swimming without any abnormality, the river water was full of dead fish before, and now there are live ones, which proves that these waters are at least less harmful to living things to a certain extent.

However, they still have a lot of clear water, and they don't need to force themselves to drink these strange-smelling river water for the time being, and when the clear water is drunk, the river surface should be cleaner.

Andrea took the wooden spoon and tasted it, and she could indeed drink a little strange taste, a little nausea, which made her feel very disappointed, and she did not expect that drinking water, which never had to be considered, would become a problem.

Seeing that she was a little disappointed, Xiang Enmu said dotingly: "It will take a while to drink, but it is no problem to bathe with this water." ”

"Huh?" Andrea was taken aback when she heard this, glanced at the smiling Xiang En, looked away wryly, and stammered, "Wash... Take a bath! Hey, yes, haha. ”

Andrea's clothes were too thick, Xiang En couldn't see what she was twisting, her face was already red from the cold, and she looked like Xiang En was excited to know that she could take a bath.

Once she was sure that the water could be used for bathing, Andrea let go of her workout and squatted with a log in a limited space.

As the sweat spilled out of her body, Andrea also reduced the clothes on her body again and again, until she returned to the way she used to wear it when she exercised.

Xiang En carved a totem in front of the stove, and the scattered wood chips were thrown directly into the stove to maintain a vigorous charcoal fire and maintain the temperature in the room.

The day went by, during which the two left the basement several times to see if the snow had stopped, and they could go to fetch water.

It's just that the snow in the sky has not stopped, but it is getting heavier and heavier, and finally they simply gave up the idea of going to fetch water today and continued to exercise and sharpen themselves.

The next morning, as the two of them left the basement after breakfast, Andrea pushed open the windows of the hut, only to see a layer of snow that had almost buried them.

"This ......," Andrea looked back at Xiang Eun at a loss.

Xiang En looked at the window and sighed.

Compared with yesterday, today's snow is more than a star and a half, and it is directly silted up to a meter high, and it may be difficult to go to the river in such an environment.

Originally, I wanted to put a gate on the village, but now I obviously can't do it.

However, it was still okay to take a bath, although the snow was dirty, it was much better than the dirt that had accumulated on the two of them for more than ten days.

The two of them pushed open the door and began to shovel the snow, laboriously moving the cauldron in the center of the village, clearing a piece of snow from the ground, and erecting the cauldron with a few stones.

The work of shoveling snow and burning the fire was left to Andrea, and he went to raise the chimney baffle.

The snow was falling so heavily that he was a little worried that the chimney was not high enough and would be buried by the snow.

People here also use nails to build houses, and to increase the height, you only need to nail the planks upwards and reinforce the four sides of the chimney to prevent it from being knocked down.

Xiang En, who was stepping on the stool, struggled to hold on to the wooden plank and beat the nails, and when he was ready, he leaned over and was about to step out of the chair, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a little black beyond the wall.

In the snowy world, a touch of black looked so unusual, Xiang En, relying on his fairly good eyesight, easily found the big face plate of the black figure, and frowned deeply.

Standing up straight in his chair, he looked at the figure a hundred meters beyond the village wall, which he recognized as one of the ghouls running out of the village.

It may have been attracted by the sound of hammering nails.

Thinking of this, Xiang En continued to monitor the ghoul and shouted, "Anli! ”

Andrea, who was absentmindedly shoveling snow in front of the wooden house, heard Xiang Eun's call, trembled like a frightened rabbit, straightened up and responded, "What's the matter?" ”

"Go get a sword and shield, there's a ghoul that seems to be approaching the village."

"Ghouls?"

A trace of confusion flashed in Andrea's eyes, and the next moment she remembered the fact that Xiang Eun had named the villagers who had turned into monsters yesterday, and she suddenly understood the meaning of her words.

With an exclamation of surprise, Andrea immediately threw down her shovel and hurried into the house.

When she came to Xiang En's side, the short knife and wooden shield had already been grasped in her hands, and the thick clothes on her body and the appearance of being ready for battle made her look like a fat puppet holding a knife and shield.