Chapter 367: The Tundra
Soon after, on an ice field, the sound of vultures was heard incessantly, and black feathers fluttered up and down in the air.
"Ha~" Yuexing let out a white gas, shivering in the cold wind, "Xinghan ...... W-what kind of place is this...... Coming soon...... Frozen to death...... Ah......h
Hoshihan struggled to regulate his body temperature, and to be honest, the temperature here had exceeded the temperature he could control, and he had to put on other clothes.
"Mr. Xinghan, this is the Muqi tundra, which was supposed to be the domain of the Gurril family, but because no one has set foot here all year round, even if they want to go to the opposite city, they will choose to detour from the other end, so they have not placed any garrison soldiers and fortresses here. Simply put, it's an ice field full of wild animals. Merlo pulled out the map and pointed to the blue-and-white half.
"How long will it take to get out?" Xing Han looked at the others, except for Rose, who were trying to wrap their clothes around as much as they could to keep warm.
"If you look at the distance, it may take more than ten hours to walk, but it's noon, and it will be dark in ten hours, and even if you make a fire here, it will be frozen. Merlo pulled a pocket watch out of her pocket, and ten hours later it was ten o'clock in the evening, and if things got worse, she might spend the night here.
Shulex suddenly became anxious and asked, "What should I do then, I won't spend the night in this kind of place, will I? I will freeze to death at night......
Merlo didn't speak, just rolled up the map and retracted the magic space, and continued on her horse.
In the silence of everyone, the sky gradually became gloomy, time flew by, Xinghan did not dare to stop for lunch, as far as the eye could see, he could only rely on the trees on the side of the road to distinguish whether to stop in place or move forward.
At seven o'clock in the evening, it was completely dark, and there was nothing to see around, not even the moonlight, so he could only rely on the light magic of Shulex to maintain the illumination for the time being.
"Merlo, what's wrong, you haven't spoken all day today, are you sick?" Eloki walked side by side with Merlo, her face was very bad all the time, and her eyes had been staring at the horse's back all day.
Merlo shook her head and said, "The tundra was not like this before the revolution, there are humans living here, and although the environment is very harsh, they can still survive. It was not until the end of the first month of the revolution that it suddenly became inaccessible, and finally became a battlefield where the revolutionary army and the Wang army fought each other. It was here that my father died, but I heard that the monsters here would bury the bodies of the dead in the ice so that they wouldn't rot. ”
Eloki shuddered after hearing this, not because of the temperature, but because they were now walking on an ice paved with countless corpses!
"Sister Daisy tried to separate her father from here, but there were so many people who died in that war that she couldn't find her father's breath, and a week later, when the revolution was over, it was like this. ”
"Wait!" Xiu Lex suddenly stopped Xing Han, who was walking side by side with her, and suddenly retracted the light in her hand.
"What's wrong?" Xing Han asked, turning his head.
Shulex didn't speak, just pointed into the distance. Xing Han looked along her fingers, there was a little light there, very small, I don't know how far away it was.
"Can you see what it is?" Xing Han stared at the point of light for a few seconds, and the distance was about a few kilometers.
"I've just released the scout machine, and images will come soon. Thurex pulled out the computer from the backpack she was hanging in front of her, showing a red line map of where the machine had flown over.
At the end of a plain, there seemed to be two people standing under the point of light, and when Shulex was just about to adjust the image to a physical projection, the connection between the computer and the machine seemed to be disconnected, and she looked up curiously to look ahead, only to find that the point of light had disappeared!
"Do you see what it is?" Xinghan asked, looking at the disconnected screen.
Shulex bit her finger and said indistinctly, "It seems to be two people......"
"People, how can there be people here? Could it be that they are already close to the city?" Xing Han was excited, if there were people, the town must not be far away.
"Mr. Xinghan, we can't stop, or they'll get caught up with us. Merlo whispered.
Xing Han followed behind Mei Luo and asked, "Who are you pestering us?"
"The souls of the dead here, although ** are frozen underneath, most of them are magicians, and their souls have undissipated magic attached to them, so they will not be reincarnated and have been wandering here. Let's not disturb them, let's use magic lighting after we have just passed. Merlo grabbed Sylex's right hand and motioned for her not to use magic.
"By the way, Merlo, do the two revenants you said also use magic?"
"No, they're just spirits, and the magic is imprisoned in the spirits and disappears once it's released. Merlo said slowly.
Xing Han sensed that something was wrong and said, "Then what was the light just now?"
"I'm weird, too, but maybe other mages are hunting here, and those revenants are their best magical vessels. Let's just leave them alone and keep going. Merlo didn't know what she had taken out of the magical space and wiped it on her horse's head.
"Merlo, what is this?" Xing Han asked, looking at the small bottle in Merlo's hand.
"This is a potion that Sister Daisy gave me to temporarily remove the magic power, but only the last bottle is left. Merlot shook the bottle, and it was already empty.
It was dark, but the silhouettes of the others could be faintly seen, and they were all tired from the bumps on their horses all day. It had been about ten minutes or so since Merlo's revenant soul had been gone, and Shulex had lit her magic again, and it was already half past ten in the evening, and although she was not sleepy, she was physically extremely weak.
The nights in the tundra seem to be warmer than during the day, the cold no longer penetrates the body, and I don't know if it's because it's numb or it's close to the edge.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, the frozen ground beneath her feet gradually turned to soft earth, and the trees beside Shulex appeared with green leaves, and it seemed that she had finally left the terrible tundra. It was late at night, and most of the girls had fallen asleep on horseback, not knowing how far ahead, and the sleepiness began to attack the brain after the nerves relaxed, after all, it was two days without sleep.
Before he knew it, it was already dawn, and Xinghan rubbed his neck and got up from the horse, just trying to stretch his waist and almost fell off the horse. Only then did he realize that he had spent the night on horseback, and turned to look at him, and the whole team was still advancing, and it was Rose who led the group.
Rose ...... Do you know the road?" Xinghan drove the horse side by side and walked in front of Rose.
"I don't know, but I didn't hit a fork in the road last night......" Rose said slowly.
"It's hard work, let's take a break here. Xinghan stopped and led the group to the side of the woods.
"Hmm~ It's dawn, ah...... My neck hurts!" Lilicia had just sat up from her horse and fell to the ground, moving her neck to look around, "What is this place?"
"I don't know, we seemed to have walked all night yesterday. By the way, Rose, did you run into a city on the way?" Xing Han turned to look at Rose, who had already fallen asleep against the trunk of a tree, "Forget it, she's tired too, Lilicia, you take care of her here, I'll find out if there's a water source or something." ”
"Oh, come back soon. ”
It was ten minutes before I heard Lilicia's words, and Xinghan had been wandering around the woods for so long, not to mention the water source, and he hadn't even seen a drop of dew. My throat was so dry that I only prepared enough food when I set off, but I forgot to prepare water.
In desperation, Xinghan had no choice but to return, just now I saw a sign on the side of the road, which said Arclucio City, it is better to go there directly after struggling to find a water source here!
After a day of rest in the city of Arclucio, it is strange that I have not heard anything about the Golden Cross Sword these days, since Ariel was taken away, those transcendents and the apostles of the Black King have disappeared inexplicably, and there are even some doubts that they have broken through the third level to the second level.
"Impossible, the second estate, under the control of Sister Camus and several other noble rulers, now that they know about it, they will guard every gate strictly. The power of the transcendents is naturally fearless in a one-on-one situation, but there are so many mages and archmages in the second level, they dare not mess around. Merlo packed her things and prepared to get up and head to the next city, and she was almost at the center of the Third Estate, and to be honest, the managers of this class did not know who it was for the time being.
"But ......" Xing Han hesitated, Murben Hafei's ability was simply the same every day, and he couldn't guess how many tricks she had to use to show off, except for enchantment and chaos in time and space, the witch of the Black King was like a moving magic book, even if she had defeated her once in this life, it was just a hole in her carelessness, and the ability of the precipitator was very clear, if she used it to deal with Merlo and others, she would be helpless.
"We're leaving, hurry up and get ready. Bing Tong suddenly poked her head out of the door, looking at Xing Han, who had not cleaned up anything, she had no choice but to sigh and go downstairs.
"Is a month enough?" Xinghan asked.
Merlo shook her head and said, "I don't know, Sister Camuel will advance her sentence at any time, but Sister Liel's magic source has been completely destroyed, and Sister Camuel shouldn't be in such a hurry to execute." ”
There was a haze in the sky, and it was rare for ElriLanka to experience such weather, and it was not known what was coming......