Volume 1: Looking at the Stars Chapter 12: The Shadow Under the Moon (2)
After Han Dong broke into the mist, the biggest feeling was the cold aura that intensified in a straight line.
The frost mist that swam above the pool of cold water emitted a chill that was several times heavier than it felt around the pool.
And as Han Dong continued to approach the center of the cold pool, the frost gradually became viscous, which would not only hinder the body, but also weaken the perception of the people inside it.
Han Dong had already gone deep into the frost at this time, and when he looked around, he was completely surrounded by the frost qi, as if he was in the clouds of cotton.
The cobblestone outside Zhang Xu was completely unseeable at this time, and Han Dong could only grope his way forward with a vague feeling, but at this time, the speed of travel was naturally as slow as a turtle crawling. Every time he jumps forward, he needs to carefully identify the right direction, otherwise he may fall into the lake by mistake.
What Han Dong didn't notice was that in the thick frost not far from the cobblestone, there was a girl in a Taoist skirt who was watching him clumsily jump and move towards the center of the cold pool. There were two or three times when Han Dong jumped on the next rough stone and had an unstable footing, and she staggered and almost fell into the pool, she would subconsciously reach out and start, wanting to grab him and grab him.
After more than ten cobblestone piles jumped forward, Han Dong stabilized his figure and stopped. Going any further, it's going to be hard.
One is that at this time, he is completely unable to see, and there is only a white expanse in front of him. He carried the black rattan basket in one hand, and waved it slowly twice in front of him with one free hand, and he could only faintly detect a thin and blurry image. He even suspected that he didn't see in his line of sight, but only an illusion of vision caused by his body's perceptual feedback on the gesture of waving his hand.
The second is that coming here is close to the limit of his physique's ability to withstand the cold. Although he has had Gu Yuan Dan to stabilize his body since he was a child, compared to mortals, the toughness and cold resistance of his body are much higher, but if he insists on moving forward here, he has already felt that his limbs are beginning to stiffen. Every time I jump forward, whether it is the feeling of the cold invasion of the body or the movements, it has become much slower and stiffer than at the beginning, and if I go further, I am afraid it will really cause physical damage.
Han Dong simply sat cross-legged on the ground, temporarily placed the black rattan basket between his legs, and pondered intently.
Something must have gone wrong.
In the final analysis, he rashly entered the cold water pool a little too rashly and taken for granted, and the preparation was not adequate at all.
First of all, he was not familiar with this place, and he did not know what was going on inside the cold pool, and secondly, he did not expect that after entering, the frost would interfere with the view so badly. What he didn't understand was that this level was too difficult for beginner cultivators like them, who had just started their cultivation.
In this ghost place where you can't see your five fingers, and the cold is so dignified, and the five senses of the human body are blocked so badly, how can you pick the frost grass that you can't see?
Thinking like this, I couldn't help but pat the muto basket in front of me with hatred, this Aoki Sect is too much, isn't it? Everything is explained clearly, which makes people half-understood, and often scratches their heads.
Han Dong didn't notice that when he sat down and stood still, the girl in the skirt that was originally hidden in the frost began to quietly tiptoe towards the round stone where he was, and there was no sound between the walking and jumping, only slightly disturbing the frost mist that was already wandering. In this way, Han Dong, whose five senses had been severely covered by frost, was naturally even more unlikely to notice that someone was approaching.
A moment later, the girl in the skirt lightly stopped on another cobblestone beside Han Dong, and the cold, sticky frost mist and slippery cobblestone around her didn't seem to have any effect on her. I saw her creeping down slowly, blinking her sparkling eyes and looking curiously for a while, without speaking or moving.
It was easy for her to go into the small waterhole to pick small blue flowers, and if she wanted to pick flowers, she went to the middle of the small waterhole, where there were many small blue flowers. If you want to come to the small waterhole tonight, you can come and play. Now she just wanted to see what the man who had bumped her in the morning was thinking when he sat down, so she came over to take a look. Of course, you can't let him find out just yet.
Usually at this time of night, no one will come but her. It's rare for someone to come over at this time, and it seems to be stupid, a little stupid. So, she just wanted to see it.
Just like this stupid boy bumped into him in the morning, she reached out to block him.
Her idea was simple, as simple as that.
She saw that he didn't move for a long time, but just patted the little flower basket just now and stopped moving, frowning and staring in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
After looking at it for a while, the girl in the skirt came to a conclusion that this kid was really a bit stupid.
Would you like to help him?
If you want to help him, let's help him.
So she stood up, took a slight step, and then stretched out a finger as white as a green onion, and quietly stretched it out in front of Han Dong's eyes. With a movement of his mind, the blue light flashed on his fingertips, and suddenly disappeared into Han Dong's eyes.
Han Dong, who was contemplating the intentions of the Aoki Sect's various arrangements, didn't have time to react, only to feel something fly into his eyes, and a cool moisturizing sensation grew from the bottom of his eyes. Originally, his eyes had begun to dry slightly due to the frost, and the feeling of bitterness dissipated in an instant.
He blinked subconsciously, only to realize that he was already able to see, a slender green onion white jade finger was across his eyes, his dull gaze followed this finger to the right, and suddenly turned his head, startled.
It turned out that the skirt girl's arms were not long enough, so she could only jump over and stand on a cobblestone with Han Dong, Han Dong turned her head, and it happened that she was bending down to give Han Dong some inspiration.
There was a person standing close at hand, and he appeared without warning and quietly, which naturally startled Han Dong, who had just regained his vision.
The girl in the skirt saw that he could already see, her toes were a little lighter, and before she could exert her strength, a light fragrant breeze fluttered, and she jumped backwards lightly, and landed on the cobblestone behind her to stand.
Han Dong was naturally able to see clearly at this time that the girl in this skirt was the cold girl who was bumped into by him in the morning. It's just that at this moment, I don't know if it's an illusion or because the girl helped him see. Compared with the morning, the girl gave him a little more smart and fresh feeling, and he was no longer as cold as in the morning.
He quickly stood up from the cobblestone with the black rattan basket and thanked her earnestly: "Thank you for helping me see clearly." When did you come?"
The cold girl let out a soft "um", which was considered a response, and then shook her head.
She didn't want to answer his question, because he would have other questions to explain...... It's troublesome.
Han Dong was a little confused, he actually wanted to ask why she wanted to help him, and he also wanted to find out what means she had just used to make him able to see things in the frost and fog in the cold pool? However, the girl didn't seem to have any intention of talking to him, so he didn't want to continue to ask.
The cold girl looked at him calmly, thought for a moment, took out a small piece of scarlet diamond-shaped spar from her sleeve, and then gently threw it at him. Han Dong stretched out his hand to take the help of the diamond-shaped spar, only to feel that his hand was warm, but there was a faint sense of familiarity, and there was nothing else special.
Then, before he could say anything more, the cold girl turned around like this, and floated away with a light figure by another cobblestone path. In a few moments, the light and joyful figure of the Dao skirt was completely submerged in the frost and was never seen again.
Han Dong was a little confused for a while. Why did she help herself? And it didn't seem like the frost was in her way. Except for this morning, he can be sure that he has never met her, and it is his own fault that he bumped into her in the morning.
Moreover, this girl's behavior is also very strange, it seems to be a mute, and after two brief contacts, she can only speak without words.
She is very good-looking, like a little fairy, but it's a pity. I don't know if I can see her again in the morning, today is the time for the children's lecture, and she should be there. When the time comes, should I thank her again? Will it seem that I am a little too formal? And she seems to be speechless, and it may make her embarrassed and embarrassed in public, and it will be her own sin.
No, no, no, or ......
After a while, Han Dong swept away the strange thoughts that popped up in his mind, now was not the time to dwell on these. The most important thing for him at the moment is to practice hard. The grace of helping each other, write it down at this moment, and have the opportunity to return it to her later.
Han Dong rubbed the scarlet diamond-shaped spar in his palm, he hadn't looked at it carefully, but now he started to feel it carefully, and there was a stream of warmth from the place where his palm touched his body, making his entire arm warm.
He was overjoyed, he didn't know what kind of spar this was, it could actually drive away the chill of the frost invading his body, it was really a treasure that could not be applied to him. He held the scarlet spar in front of his eyes, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it!
Suddenly, he looked around with some weakness, and after making sure that there was no one around, he slowly brought the small crystal spar to the tip of his nose, sniffed it gently, and a faint unique fragrance like a flower and a body fragrance drilled down his nose, which suddenly made Han Dong's heart groan.
It smells so good!
He had heard the cold girl when he was beside him, and she seemed to have this strange and pleasant fragrance lingering all the time, which made people involuntarily intoxicated.
He caressed it twice, then cautiously approached the hedron and sniffed it gently, and then contentedly stuffed the hedron that kept emitting warm breath into the center of his bosom, so that he could better resist the cold of the invading body.
After doing this, he could not take care of the surrounding situation, and thanks to the help of the cold girl, he was already able to see the situation in a radius of about ten zhang. This should be close to the central area, because from here, there is no longer a separate cobblestone pile path, but adjacent to each other, and there will be corresponding cobblestone piles on the left and right, like chess pieces paved with a chessboard, arranged in a row.
And in the middle of these round stones, there are a lot of light blue duckweed floating on the water, mostly two-leaved, and then to the center of the cold water pool, there are also occasional three-leaf grass blades. It seems that these should be his goals this time - Frost Grass.
Speaking of the black rattan basket in his hand, since the dilemma of seeing the cold has been temporarily solved, he naturally can't miss the great opportunity.
So he didn't hesitate any longer, and the little figure jumped and jumped, gradually sinking deeper into the cobblestone formation, and as the frost and mist surged, his body was soon submerged in the vast white frost.
At this time, the moon frost is setting in the west, and the world is silent. Only the swaying silver frost was quietly spread around the little boy, following his footsteps, quietly drenching all over the mountains and forests.