The short day faded quickly in a few words, and a long, cold night followed. It is said that in the deepest part of the Polar Ridge, the sun is only visible for two months of the year, and the rest of the year is an endless night.

There is not a splendid dusk like Chang'an, and the night is quickly covered with a canopy, as if it is just a blink of an eye, and the sky and the earth have been replaced.

The team stopped its progress, and everyone dug pits and set up camp in the same place, and soon piles of bonfires were burning. The experienced veteran hunters divided the nearly 100 people into groups of ten, and each group was stationed in a position where they could see the blind spots of the other people's eyes, ensuring everyone's vigilance and sight.

In this deep forest, many times, the roles of hunters and prey change over time. People go into the mountains to hunt for the winter, and hungry beasts will take risks to attack humans in order to survive the winter.

And in this dense forest, the most important thing for people to protect is the wolves. Therefore, while everyone was camping and resting, they were also always on the lookout for raids in the dark jungle.

The warm flames dispelled the cold long night, although with the current cultivation of the Qingya people, they were no longer afraid of the general cold, but the innate instinct of human beings still drove them closer to the light and warmth.

The firewood crackled in the firelight, splashing sparks falling on the snow, the firelight reflected the faces of several people, and Qingya stretched out his hands to approach the fire, although he didn't feel cold.

"I don't know what's going on this year, I didn't see any prey after walking all day, but in previous years, I could catch a lot of roe deer on the first day. Go to bed at night, I'll keep a vigil here, and I'll wake you up at once if there's any movement. ”

After Tana Shushu reheated the jerky in the package by the fire, he took out a few pots of hot water and handed them to the three of Qingya, while he was just nibbling on the hard naan.

"Miss Tana, I am waiting for people from the mountains and wilderness, not so expensive, the cold night is heavy, how can I let you keep vigil alone, let's take turns."

As she spoke, Qingya broke half of the jerky in her hand and put it in her hand, but she didn't want to, she stuffed the jerky back into Qingya's hand.

"No, no, no, you are guests, the great elder told me to take care of you, if you don't eat and sleep well, I will be scolded when I go back."

Qingya looked up and glanced around, and found that most of the young hunters were munching on white-floured naan with clear water, and only a few leaders who seemed to have a higher status were given the jerky. Seeing this, he put the half of the jerky in Tanashushu's palm again, and whispered in her ear:

"Shhh, my shopkeeper has recently disliked that his waist is a little thicker, and he is shouting vigorously to lose weight. No, even my fellow's dinner has been reduced to the standard. So, Miss Tana, help me eat some, or I'll be scolded by the shopkeeper." ”

While speaking, Qingya also quietly glanced at Qiu Chiyu.

"In this way, you are so pitiful, your shopkeeper is really domineering, but she is obviously not fat at all." Tana Shushu looked at Qiuchi Yu's slender figure and expressed deep sympathy for Qingya's pitiful experience.

Even such whispers still can't hide from Qiu Chiyu's ears, hearing that she was described as a domineering bad shopkeeper, she just took a piece of dried meat in her mouth and glanced at Qingya speechlessly, and didn't debunk his lies, okay, in front of outsiders, just save some face for him.

Cold nights are always good for telling strange things, and as a few people chatted, they got to the weird folk tales.

According to Tanashushu, one of the hunters in their tribe once encountered a weasel on the side of the road when he was returning late. The weasel was oily and slippery, standing up half a man's height, with a hat on his head. He had never seen such a big weasel, and in a moment of surprise, he almost stumbled.

But what is even more strange is that at this time, the weasel actually spoke, first let out a shrill laugh like the old man's smoke, and then asked the man: "Fellow, do you look at me, do you look like a fairy or a demon?" ”

Where had the man seen such a battle, he got up and pulled his legs and was about to leave, but he was grabbed by the weasel leg of his trousers, and the weasel was so powerful that no matter how much he pulled, he could not escape. And it kept repeating that sentence, asking him if he was like a fairy or a demon.

In a hurry, the man hurriedly said, "Like a fairy, like a fairy, this Huang Daxian, you can let me go......", and after hearing this sentence "like a fairy", the weasel in front of him immediately shone with a pale yellow halo all over his body, was shrouded in a heavenly light, flew to the sky, and left a word for the man before leaving.

"You help me become an immortal, and I will repay you."

Strange as it may seem, from that day on, he returned from every hunting trip, and one day he dug up a lot of gold in the ground of his house, and he lived a rich life ever since.

Decades later, when his children and grandchildren were full, one day he saw several weasels walking past his door, and he suddenly fell to the ground and died, and not only that, but at the moment when he died, all the children of the family died at the same time. When people came to check, they saw a large group of weasels carrying a dozen coffins into the depths of the forest......

Later, the news spread, and those people knew that it was Wong Tai Sin who was asking for a seal from humans, if you say that it is like an immortal, then it will be able to attain Taoism, and it will make you rich, but it will only bless you alone, and when you run out of oil, it will send its children and grandchildren to take the lives of the whole family. And if you say that it looks like a demon, it will fall into the demon path on the spot and take eternal revenge on you.

Tana Shushu deliberately lowered her voice, telling the story mysteriously, Hua Qing'er was a little afraid of these gods and ghosts, her hands pulled her cuffs, and her body leaned back slightly, but she wanted to know the next development of the story, so she tilted her head slightly forward with her ears sideways, in Qingya's opinion, this incongruous appearance was a little funny.

"Miss Tana, is what you said true?"

Maybe she was too nervous, Hua Qing'er's voice trembled slightly.

"I also heard from the old people in the clan, at least I haven't encountered anything like this for so many years."

"Then if we really encounter such a Wong Tai Sin, what should we say?"

At this time, Qiu Chiyu interjected a question, but stumped all of them.

"This ......"

For a while, a few people, you look at me, I look at you, and I can't think of how to answer such a question.

"Yes, I know how to answer."

Qingya raised his hands and mysteriously said his answer to the three of them:

"If it were me, I would say, you are not like a fairy or a demon, but like my sister Qing'er, in this way, it will become your appearance, and I will have two Sister Qing'er."

With a snort, Qiu Chiyu couldn't help laughing, such a strange idea, but only he could think of it.

"Oh, what nonsense are you talking about, like you, if any goblin becomes like me in the future, you still have to be sold and help others count the money? Stupid boy! ”

Hua Qing'er slapped Qingya's shoulder in disgust, and Qiu Chiyu caught the slight sound of snow being trampled at this moment.

It was not like the sound of human footsteps on the snow, but the sound of paws with meat pads on the snow, and as everyone had expected, the wolves came on this cold night.

The old hunters also seemed to notice the noise and immediately notified everyone. In the face of the wolves, everyone did not behave as if they were facing a great enemy, because for them with a cultivated body, it was easy to deal with ordinary wild wolves.

In the darkness, several gray figures struck like lightning, targeting the slightly emaciated huntress.

But faster than the gray wolf's figure, it was the steel knife in her hand, only a few knife lights were seen, and before the huntress could get up, the necks of several gray wolves exploded into a cloud of blood mist, and the tall gray wolves died before they could let out a wail, and fell to the snow, the wolf blood slowly soaked through the snow, and then was coagulated into a lumpy blood ice.

"What a quick knife."

Qingya couldn't help but admire, from beginning to end, the hunter did not change his sitting position, but just solved the battle with a one-handed swing of his sword. And Qingya also saw that the knife in her hand was just ordinary steel, if she could change a weapon, even if it was just a ground-level weapon, such a knife technique could be brought into full play.

Immediately afterward, several more gray wolves launched attacks on several people, but they were quickly resolved, and seeing this scene, the wolves hiding in the darkness quickly retreated.

This surprise attack came and went quickly, if it weren't for the corpses of a few gray wolves left on the snow and the blood-stained snow, Qingya would not have realized that a beast was attacking humans at this time.

"Are they gone?" Qingya asked Tanashushu.

"No, the attack just now was just an advance force sent by the Wolf King, just to test our strength. If we were just ordinary people, they would just rush up and bite us. And now, they're only temporarily evacuated.

Next, they followed us, looking for an opportunity for us to weaken, and attacked again, only to weaken us, until they thought they could launch a full-scale attack, and the wolf king would appear. This is the way the wolves hunt in the polar ridges.

But alas, they are met by us, and no matter how many attacks they make, we will not lose anything, unless ......"

"Unless what?" Qingya then asked.

"Unless we encounter those demon wolves living in the central region of the forest sea, we will be in trouble, but as long as we don't cross the boundary of five hundred kilometers, we won't encounter any demon beasts, thank you Lord Dragon God for your favor."

Even so, Qingya was a little flustered in his heart, with his physique that would cause accidents wherever he went, he shouldn't have happened to encounter this unless, I hope that the legendary dragon god restraint really exists.