Chapter 66: Times Have Changed!
"Shopkeeper, how much is the total cost of three rooms plus this meal." Nie Yun, who was full of wine and food, touched his stomach with satisfaction and said with a smile.
"Seven taels of silver." The old shopkeeper was probably afraid that Nie Yun and the others would think that he was slaughtering them, so he hurriedly explained: "Actually, the accommodation is not expensive, and the three rooms add up to two taels of silver, mainly because this food is really not cheap for this extreme northern city." ”
"Hehe, understand, understand." Nie Yun waved his hand casually, he had done this preparation homework in advance.
With a smile, he took out the money bag that had been dusty for many years from the corner of the storage bag, took out a few broken silver from it and handed it to the old shopkeeper, and then turned to the second daughter and said, "Let's rest first, and wait for tomorrow morning when we are on the road." ”
The two girls naturally had no objections, and after nodding slightly, they planned to return to their respective rooms.
"Are the guests going to continue north?" The old shopkeeper who had collected the money turned around and asked with a smile.
"Exactly." Nie Yun thought for a while, and felt that there was no need to hide it, and continued: "What advice does the shopkeeper have?" ”
"There's a suggestion, I guess you don't want to hear it." The old shopkeeper shook his head and smiled.
“... How do you know if we will listen if the shopkeeper doesn't say it? Nie Yun spread his hands helplessly: "You might as well talk about it." ”
"My advice is not to go." The old shopkeeper sighed while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks left by Nie Yun and the others: "Although I see that you are all practitioners, but after all, it is a no-man's land, and I have seen too many so-called adventurers, and they have never come back after going out." ”
Belch... Well, I really don't listen... Nie Yun shook his head helplessly.
"Hehe, I know you won't listen." The old shopkeeper glanced at Nie Yun's expression and was not annoyed, but still smiled and said, "So the little old man is ready to tell you a little common sense." ”
"You may not have felt it when you first came here, but now the daylight hours are almost twenty hours or more, and the further north you go, the longer the daylight hours become, until... There is no night, we locals call it polar day. ”
"There is a polar day, and naturally there will be a polar night, and the two alternate between each other, and now it is the polar day, and if you calculate the time, there are still two or three months before the polar night." After the old shopkeeper finished putting away the dishes and chopsticks, he added: "So your rest night may be very short, and finally add a little advice from me, bring enough accurate timing equipment." ”
"Thank you, old shopkeeper." Nie Yun smiled and arched his hand, this so-called "common sense" is indeed very important knowledge to them... Although he had already understood it in advance, this did not prevent him from accepting the kindness from the old shopkeeper.
The old shopkeeper didn't answer, just waved his hand casually, and walked to the back kitchen with the cleaned dishes.
Then a faint hoarse voice slowly floated out of the back kitchen:
"You kid go and rest."
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There was only one bed, one table and two chairs in the room, old but not dirty, Nie Yun knew that there was not a lot of time to rest, so he lay down on the bed that was not too soft, and the moment his head was on the pillow, the exhaustion of three days of rushing all poured into his brain, and his consciousness instantly blurred.
Suddenly, Nie Yun dimly felt a slight heat in his arms, and suddenly a spirit, subconsciously took out the jade talisman in his arms, looked at a constantly flickering point of light on the jade talisman and was slightly stunned, then slowly poured a wisp of qi into it, and a girl's voice as crisp as a yellow bird came out: "Senior brother, have you slept?" ”
"Uh... I had already slept. Nie Yun was a little helpless.
"Oh, I just haven't slept yet." The crisp voice of the senior sister came from the jade talisman again: "Since you haven't slept yet, come and chat with me." ”
"Senior sister, why don't you go to Xiao Xue to chat with you." Nie Yun tried to cause trouble, no, anyway, Senior Sister and Xiao Xue were resting well in the carriage, and it is estimated that they are still quite excited, so let them go and talk.
"Hehe, I'm here in Yueyue." Suddenly, two light points on the transmission note lit up at the same time, and an identical sound came from within it.
"Oh my God..."Nie Yun looked up and sighed.
The night in the Far North City at this time was really as the old shopkeeper said, and in just three or four hours, the sky that had just darkened suddenly brightened again.
"Little Yunzi, get up!" Xiao Xue looked at Nie Yun's door with some excitement, and seemed to feel that getting Nie Yun up was a memorable thing.
Han Yue unceremoniously pushed open the door, lifted Nie Yun's quilt and said fiercely: "Get up, get up, the sun is drying your butt!" ”
“???” Nie Yun opened his eyes in horror, hugged the quilt suddenly, and said with a confused expression: "What are you doing, don't come here!" ”
Meet~ It turned out that Nie Yun was so cool to get up. Han Yue secretly said in her heart, it's just that there are not many opportunities like this, and she has actually called Nie Yun a few times in more than ten years...
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A moment later, Nie Yun walked out of the door step by step with a pair of black eye circles that were obviously not formed by some kind of physical blow, looked up at the blue sky outside, and suddenly let out a long sigh.
"Morning, junior brother."
"Morning, little Yunzi."
Nie Yun turned his head, looked at the two beautiful faces with smiling faces, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, forcibly squeezing out a smile and responding, "Hehe, early." ”
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In the white sky, the appearance of three figures added color to the white world out of thin air, the three of them were heavily dressed, but they did not look embarrassed, but they seemed to be walking leisurely in the snowstorm, and a few crisp laughter came out from time to time.
"Can you do it?" Xiao Xue glanced at Nie Yun and let out a complaining voice: "I can't even understand the map." ”
"It's weird, it's here on the map." Nie Yun scratched the back of his head and said aggrievedly: "Obviously said that there should be an iceberg here, don't worry, take a look." ”
Nie Yun's mission on this trip is to collect Xuan Ice, and Xuan Ice can only be generated in the old icebergs that have been formed for more than a hundred years, and according to the map guidance given by the Mission Hall, there should be a relatively huge iceberg here.
This kind of ice is generally randomly generated all over the iceberg, which is useless for demon beasts and other monsters, but it is a good material for refining weapons, so the only danger of collecting this ice comes from this harsh environment and the iceberg itself, but relatively speaking, it is already a simple task among simple tasks.
You must know that Nie Yun came to perform this task with the idea of going on vacation.
After the three of them reluctantly walked for a while, there was still a white and smooth road in front of them, and they couldn't see where there would be an iceberg. Nie Yun grabbed his hair irritably, but only touched a soft velvet hat, and couldn't help but become even more irritable, "Could it be that this map is too old and has not been updated?" ”
Since it was Nie Yun who helped them take on the task together, only Nie Yun got the map crystal, which also caused the map to be in Nie Yun's mind, and no one else could see it except him.
"Hehe, I seriously doubt your ability to read maps." Xiao Xue smiled, and immediately put her hands around her chest and mocked.
"Go aside." Nie Yun pushed aside Xiao Xue who was blocking in front of him, carefully looked at the scenery in front of him and silently closed his eyes, and slowly opened his eyes after gradually matching the scenery in front of him with the map in his mind, but he was even more puzzled: "Except that the angle of view is a little shorter, what else is wrong?" Forget it, no matter, find other icebergs. ”
"Hey, do you understand the map, just go." Xiao Xue said goodbye to Nie Yun and pushed it aside, she was a little angry, and when she heard Nie Yun say that she was looking for other icebergs, she immediately laughed angrily.
"I'm sure and sure, I read the map right." Nie Yun helplessly spread his hands and explained: "As for why this iceberg can't be found, I really don't know. ”
The iceberg can't be found either because the mission hall is recorded incorrectly, but this probability is very small, or the map time is a little old, and the iceberg has disappeared for some other reason, but this is also unlikely, the map of the university hall is still updated very diligently.
"Hehe, the iceberg is said to be an iceberg, and it is not a real ice mountain, can it suddenly melt away?" Xiao Xue pursed her lips and asked rhetorically on the spot.
"Maybe it's not really the problem of the junior brother." Han Yue suddenly interrupted the two of them, and her voice was as crisp as a yellow bird.
"It's better to be a senior sister." Nie Yun was moved and almost looked at it with "teary eyes", and confessed that he took his senior sister and Han Yue around here in this ice and snow for several hours, and he was suspicious of himself, and his senior sister was still willing to believe me... Woooooooo
"Don't be sentimental!" Han Yue rolled her eyes as she looked at Nie Yun's grateful little eyes, but the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, and said, "Look back." ”
Nie Yun looked back, um... Blue sky... Other than that, it's a white expanse of snow and ice.
"Uh... Look at what. After a while, Nie Yun turned her head and said weakly, Xiao Xue also quietly pricked up her white and delicate ears, she also didn't see anything famous.
"Stupid." Han Yue subconsciously wanted to knock Nie Yun's head, but suddenly remembered the thick hat, so her jade finger stiffened slightly in the air, and then stretched out her other hand to pull Nie Yun's face and smiled: "You see if this is a small snow slope." ”
Uh, Nie Yun patted his cheeks that were a little flushed and looked back again to take a closer look, well, the endless white in front of him seemed to be faintly spreading to the sky, and he glanced forward again, it seemed to be a small snow slope.
"Yueyue, you mean this small snow slope is an iceberg?" Xiao Xue asked with a confused expression, he also found that this place was indeed a small snow slope, but this... And the "mountain" is not worse than a hundred million points away.
"Pretty much." Han Yue bowed slightly: "I mean this iceberg may have collapsed for some unknown reason, plus the snow and ice cover here, it doesn't take a few weeks for such a small snow slope to be formed here." ”
"I'll just say it!" Nie Yun suddenly slapped his thigh fiercely and said with a smile: "I just said that the angle of view is a little short, that's right, the iceberg must have collapsed, let me look for it!" ”
"Hush." Xiao Xue snorted lightly: "Hindsight!" ”
Nie Yun didn't bother to argue with Xiao Xue at this time, and excitedly took out a shovel with a faint cold light from the storage bag and dug it down: "The mountain has collapsed, but Xuan Bing won't disappear with it, look at how well prepared I am, I specially bought a high-level efficiency enhanced shovel from Wuzhen Hall, this efficiency is very good!" ”
I saw the shovels reflecting the dark light flying, turning up bursts of snow white, and soon dug a pit several meters deep.
Well, it's a high-efficiency enhanced shovel! Nie Yun glanced at his masterpiece and took a breath with a smile.
But suddenly, Han Yue's slightly trembling voice came from above.
"Little junior brother, come up."
Nie Yun was slightly stunned, thinking that something had happened, and immediately jumped out of the hole a few meters deep, looking at the scene in front of him, his mouth opened slightly.
In front of him, more than a dozen huge puppets each held a semi-automatic snow removal machine, ruthlessly sweeping away the snow on the snow slope, and in Nie Yun's stunned moment, the few meters deep pit he had just dug was covered by the falling snow swept away by the machine man...
Han Yue's voice trembling with a smile came out.
"Little junior brother, times have changed."