Chapter 75: A Visitor from the Snow Mountain
The snow-capped Mount Temurdar, the highest point in Middle-earth, is a mythical sacred place where you can listen to the whispers of the gods. It stands like a white monument in the very center of Middle-earth, witnessing the vicissitudes of the continent from the depths of the clouds.
The area around the Temudar Snow Mountain is surrounded by ice storms all year round, the climate is harsh, and the land is so barren that nothing can grow. I also know with my ass that in this kind of place where it is often more than ten degrees below zero, ghosts can grow something that can be eaten.
The Temudar Snow Mountain is not only a sacred place for listening to the teachings of the gods in various legends, but also a forbidden place for most orcs in reality.
Chang Hao looked at the paintings and colors described in the legendary classics circulating in the market, and he and Chang Ge almost didn't laugh out loud at that time.
Listen to the teachings of the gods at the summit of the snow-capped Mount Temurdar at an altitude of 10,000 meters?
The cold wind at that altitude can freeze ordinary orcs into ice lumps when it blows, and the next second they will return to the arms of the gods.
In a sense, it is indeed possible to listen to the teachings of the gods.
The vast majority of orcs are unable to withstand the cold of the Temudar Mountains, which means that there are a handful of orcs who do not succumb to the harsh environment, but live in the depths of the Tamudar Mountains as conquerors.
In fact, there is a tenacious group living in the snow-capped mountains of Temurdar. A thousand years ago, they stood up in the battle of land and sea, shed their blood for the fate of the orc kingdom, and made great achievements. After the end of the war, they were disarmed and returned to the field and returned to the embrace of the snow-capped mountains of Taimudar.
It is rumored that His Majesty the current king, Resak, once personally went to the snow-capped mountains of Taimudar to ask this heroic group to go out of the mountains to serve the country, but in the end he was unable to do so.
Chang Hao didn't know why His Majesty the King would return in vain, he only knew that he would definitely not return empty-handed today!
It is said that Wangshan ran a dead horse, this is not true at all, Chang Hao and Anna had already been able to see the outline of Taimudar Snow Mountain from a distance a few days ago, but after that, it took another three or four days before they finally came to the foot of the sacred Snow Mountain.
The cold wind swished at the foot of the snow-capped mountain, Chang Hao looked up at the majestic Taimudar Snow Mountain wrapped in a noble coat, and the sun's rays shone on the snow and glaciers, reflecting a dreamlike light blue, as if there was a blue ocean floating in the sky, which was fascinating.
Anna, who was impressed by the beautiful scenery of the snow-capped mountains, couldn't help but fall down on her knees and worship.
The terrain of Taimudar Snow Mountain is steep, hundreds of miles deep, the snow is knee-high, Anna has been following Chang Hao for two days, her stiff knees make it difficult for her to move forward, fortunately, she was the best warrior in the dark part of the temple, and her physical fitness is far stronger than that of ordinary people, otherwise she would not have been able to walk such a long distance.
But Anna knew in her heart that the reason why she had been able to persist until now was entirely because Chang Hao had erected a spiritual barrier outside her body that could block the wind and snow.
Chang Hao is still wrapped in the aristocratic coat before going up the mountain, the coat is more decorative than practical, and basically has no ability to keep out the cold. Since he advanced to the Jindan Realm, low temperature was nothing to him, and he didn't even need to cast a spiritual power barrier.
It's just that as time came to the fourth day, the altitude increased to 3,000 meters, and Chang Hao still couldn't find the shadow of half an orc, but Anna couldn't bear the low temperature and lack of oxygen in the high-altitude environment, and could no longer continue to climb the Taimudar Snow Mountain.
Chang Hao had to find a cave on the snowy mountain for Anna to rest, looking at the cold and biting cold wind outside the cave, he couldn't help but be in a dilemma.
The reason why he brought Anna to Taimudar Snow Mountain was because the sacrifice of the temple was an existence to be admired in any orc race, with a very high status, and it was a golden sign that everyone recognized, and he was at best a viscount of the kingdom who sat on the territory, and the tribe living in the snow mountain might not know him at all.
Anna had a low-grade fever, her cheeks were red, and her forehead was amazingly hot, and the best and fastest way was to take her out of the snowy mountains immediately, but then the search for the snowy mountain tribe would be ruined.
Chang Hao was at war with heaven and man in his heart, and in the end he gritted his teeth and decided to take Anna down the mountain.
He can come back to the snowy mountains, but Anna can't be fine.
Just as he picked up Anna and was about to leave for the mountain, the corners of Chang Hao's eyes jumped wildly.
Because in front of him, several large figures blocked the entrance to the cave.
The bodies of these big men were majestic and burly, their muscles were hard, more rugged than the rocks of the cold wind, their fur was thick and white, and the cold wind mixed with countless ice slags blew on them as if they were nothing.
Chang Hao's eyes suddenly brightened.
This is the Temudar snow leopard clan he has been looking for for days!
"This fawn, she's sick. A snow leopard man stooped into the cave, the small space of the cave becoming more and more crowded against the background of his size, and his eyes were very sharp, and he could tell at a glance that Anna was from the deer clan.
The big man standing at the entrance of the cave pointed at Chang Hao and pointed, obviously they also saw that the fancy coat on Chang Hao's body had no ability to keep out the cold at all, and they seemed to be surprised that there were people other than them who could walk in the snowy mountains in such thin clothes.
The snow leopard clan looked at Chang Hao again, and when he looked directly at the pair of golden pupils that seemed to be burning, the uncontrollable roots of hair on his body stood up, as if sensing a deadly threat, and the sole of one of his raised feet froze in the air for a long time and couldn't fall.
"She is a temple priest in the orc kingdom, and she has a high fever because of the wind and cold, I need you to take us to your tribe, she needs to be treated in time!" Chang Hao lifted the corner of Anna's black robe, revealing the silver badge representing the temple sacrifice status.
"The temple... Sacrifice?" The snow leopard people didn't seem to be cold when they saw the badge engraved with the temple mark, but looked at Chang Hao in confusion.
Chang Hao sighed in his heart, these guys didn't even know about the temple?
What a blasphemy!
Someone seemed to have completely forgotten who had put on the same face as the snow leopard when he heard the word temple a few months ago.
This snow leopard tribe is not bad-hearted, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to take the two people in front of him back to their tribe for treatment.
Chang Hao carried Anna on his back and followed closely behind this group of snow leopard tribesmen, and he found that these snow leopard people not only moved vigorously, but also their route was irregular, east and west, and it was completely impossible to judge where they would go next.
And what surprised him the most was that these snow leopard people seemed to have formed some kind of resonance with the Taimudar Snow Mountain, once they walked into the depths of the wind and snow, Chang Hao couldn't even use his divine sense to capture and locate their location, and he could only barely see it with his golden pupils.
No wonder no matter how carefully he searched before, he couldn't find any trace of this group of guys, if it wasn't for their willingness to take the initiative to show up, I'm afraid he would have really returned in vain.
And the explanations of these snow leopard people also proved Chang Hao's conjecture.
"We've noticed it since the two of you climbed the eagle's beak cliff at a height of 1,000 meters, and we've been watching you from above. The Snow Leopard warrior named Amler kept a safe distance from Chang Hao, and his somewhat rusty orc lingua franca pierced through the wind and snow sounded clearly in Chang Hao's ears: "We didn't smell any hostility from you, and we found that you were in trouble, so we came down to help." ”
"Hostility, can you smell it?" Chang Hao thought to himself, just blow it.
Amler didn't seem to need to look back to know what kind of expression Chang Hao's face would be, and said with a heroic smile: "In Temurdar, any unclean thoughts will be revealed. ”
Chang Hao looked up at the white snow in the sky, and realized.
After continuing to walk deeper into the snow-capped mountains of Taimudar for more than half an hour, they came to a monument-like giant mountain rock, which formed a "hui" with the steep surrounding mountains, where the cold wind converged into a roaring frost vortex, which sounded like the gods were roaring.
Amler and several other snow leopard clansmen nodded at Chang Hao, and actually burrowed into the vortex.
Chang Hao took a deep breath of cold air, the spiritual power in his body was running rapidly, he was relieved to hold up more than a dozen spiritual power shields on Anna's body, his pupils burned with golden flames, and he stepped into the frost vortex.
Chang Hao felt like he had been thrown into a washing machine that could refrigerate.
The roaring frost vortex couldn't shake Chang Hao's footsteps, his face was covered with ice slag, he blocked all the ice and snow for Anna with his broad shoulders, and he walked a few hundred meters along the footprints left by Amler before they had time to be covered.
When his footsteps coincided with the last footprint left by Amler, the whistling sound in his ears disappeared in an instant, and in his place was a huge, warm cave in the belly of the mountain, where the snow leopards of the Temudar Snow Mountains lived!