Chapter 65: Journey to the Ice Fields (1)
Hammer Inn.
Looking at the sign hanging on a small two-story building made of stone, Zhang Zhengfan had a black line on his head!
The hotel is not big, and when he walked into the hotel with the dwarf in his arms, Zhang Zhengfan habitually looked at the environment first.
Simple, sturdy, and utterly utilitarian, if you deliberately ignore the moss on the walls and the cobwebs in the corners, it is a completely dwarven inn.
"Daddy!" the dwarf jumped out of Zhang Zhengfan's arms, and walked to the room under the stairs of the inn with a familiar roar.
It's not because of the overflow of love that he walks with the dwarf, but if he walks with him, Zhang Zhengfan has to bend over all the time, it's too tired, it's better to hold it.
"Daddy, I'm here, I've brought back an elf!" the dwarf pulled a dwarf out of the room under the stairs, showing off proudly as he went.
"Elf?" a dwarf with messy hair and beard muttered as he was pulled out of the house by the dwarf carrying a wine bottle, "Boy......, do you know what an elf is? Ahh
The stout dwarf who had been pulled out of the house saw Zhang Zhengfan's eyes widen and screamed, and then blinked, making sure that he was not drunk and dazzled.
"Hello!" Zhang Zhengfan grinned, thinking to himself what such a fuss about! It's just an elf, not an undead!
"Okay, I'm fine!" the dwarf nodded stunnedly, "Elf, what are you doing here?"
Zhang Zhengfan once again looked at the black line, thinking: I didn't run, I flew here!
"May the sun shine on your forehead forever!" Zhang Zhengfan made a continental salute, raised his hand slightly, and then said with a smile: "Boss, I want to live in a hotel!"
"Oh! May you always be in the ocean of magic. Live...... Staying in a hotel?" The dwarf scratched his brown hair and patted his head vigorously, "By the way, I'm not a blacksmith anymore, I'm going to open an inn instead." Forget, forget, there have been no guests for so many years, and I myself have forgotten that I still have a hotel. ”
Now Zhang Zhengfan firmly believes that the name of the Hammer Hotel must have been chosen by the dwarf in front of him!
"Elf, we don't have fruit wine or juice here, I never thought that one day an elf would come to stay with me, so I didn't prepare this at all! If you want, I can get you some grass juice, those bull-headed women love to drink it, although it is a little astringent, but it tastes good!" The dwarf straightened his wrinkled clothes, looked at Zhang Zhengfan and said.
"No...... Don't bother, I'll have my own drinks, just get me something to eat. "Zhang Zhengfan is in a cold sweat!
"Oh, good!" the dwarf turned and walked to the back of the inn, "Sit down, you're welcome! You're welcome! By the way, do you eat meat? Snow venison, old Cammy called yesterday, it's very fresh. I have been replaced with five jars of ale wine!"
"Okay, please get me some. Zhang Zhengfan nodded. I found a place to sit by the stove. Although he is not afraid of the cold, there is a fire shining here, a little brighter!
"No problem, little bunny, come and help me cut the meat!I'll go make a fire!" the dwarf beckoned to the dwarf. The dwarf agreed and walked towards the back of the inn.
"Huh-" Zhang Zhengfan let out a sigh of relief, took out the map and looked at it, Mortieri's teleportation and his own flying around, actually ran to the edge of the north of the continent to the east, and further north is one of the unexplored areas of the continent, the North Wind Ice Field! Since you are here, it is good to go to the battlefield where the tribe and the Morian people fought the decisive battle to bury the bones in the ice field! I don't know if you can dig up a Morian corpse under the ice field! Look at what it looks like, it is actually called a demon race? I hope it is not a homophonic derivation of "Mo tribe"!
After thinking for a while, the smell of stewed meat came from the kitchen at the back of the inn. Zhang Zhengfan sniffed, it was so fragrant!
Some townspeople at the door were looking around, but Zhang Zhengfan couldn't see it. If you don't think it's weird, it's self-defeating, do you have to explain it to each of them?
Soon, the dwarf arrived with his son with a steaming stew of snow venison.
"Knock!" the dwarf stood on the steps next to the table, put the stewed snow venison in front of Zhang Zhengfan, and stroked his beard proudly: "Taste, my craftsmanship is the best in the town, whether it is cooking rice or striking iron!"
The dwarf put a huge bowl in front of Zhang Zhengfan, and put a knife, a fork, and a soup spoon.
Zhang Zhengfan looked at the stewed snow venison in front of him and was dumbfounded!
It's okay to stew snow venison, it's the portion size that is in question!
A jar, still a big one, at least no smaller than a bathtub! It was full of venison in a thick soup, and some unknown vegetables and spices were placed in the soup. A huge skinned deer head was placed on top, and the two deer eyes stared at Zhang Zhengfan like this!
"Goo-" Zhang Zhengfan swallowed his saliva, looked at the triumphant dwarf and the greedy dwarf, and thought: The dwarf is still true and sincere, a deer is all stewed, I can't eat so much to death!
"Boss......" Zhang Zhengfan pondered the words, stroked the dwarf's head with a smile, and said to the dwarf boss: "Since we meet, it is fate, if you don't mind, I will invite you to this meal, let's eat together! To be honest...... I can't eat this amount alone!"
"Huh?" the dwarf boss slapped his forehead and laughed: "I've never entertained elves, I forgot, the old man once said that elves eat as little as Bibi rabbits, just feed them and you'll be full!" ”
Zhang Zhengfan was speechless for a moment, it seems that when he was in the Western Wasteland, Kur and they also said it...... By the way, what are they doing now? I don't know if I'm doing well in Orry City? I have to go and see them when I have time!
Pulling the dwarf father and son to eat together, these two are also bold people, there is no hypocrisy, they directly made a table with Zhang Zhengfan, shook off their cheeks, opened their back molars, and ate!
A snow deer, most of which went into the stomachs of the dwarven father and son. Rubbing his stomach, Zhang Zhengfan looked at the dwarf father and son, and wondered in his heart: How can he eat it so much?
Located at the northern tip of the mainland, it gets dark very early, and after a meal, it is already dark. The dwarf went and closed the door, letting the north wind howl outside. Then he gathered around his father and the elves to listen to their small talk.
"Elf, what are you doing here?" the dwarf didn't know where to find a wine bottle, and motioned to Zhang Zhengfan if he wanted to drink it.
Zhang Zhengfan smiled and shook his head, then took out a few purple dew fruits, handed a few to the dwarf, and took one and gnawed it slowly: "I want to go to the North Wind Ice Sheet to see, and by the way, see what the Buried Bone Ice Field looks like!"
"The entire Borean Ice Sheet is now a haven for ghosts, especially the Bone Icefield. The dwarf took a sip of the liquor and frowned: "There is the cloister of hell, the paradise of the dead. What are you going to do in this kind of place?"
"Boss, have you been?" Zhang Zhengfan looked at the dwarf in surprise.
Shaking his head, the dwarf sighed with self-deprecation: "When I was young, I wanted to go and see, but then I only walked north for two days, and I saw undead zombies. Six of us went together and only four came back. I don't have that idea anymore!"
"Zombies?" Zhang Zhengfan frowned: "Can the boss tell me about it?"
"It is the undead of the ancient war, without a soul, only a mutilated body, refusing to return to the arms of the Lord God, wandering on the ice field. The dwarf took another sip of wine: "Legend has it that many, many people died on the North Wind Ice Field. This was once the main battlefield of our tribal warriors and evil demons. The final battle was also fought here. Afterward...... It becomes the cloister of hell, the paradise of the dead. ”
"Are those zombies powerful?" Zhang Zhengfan asked.
"All I saw were zombies of the fourth order, no pain, tireless, wandering on the ice field, killing living things when they saw them, completely soulless shells. The dwarf wiped the wine from his beard: "I heard from the previous explorers, the more you go inside, the more powerful it becomes, and there are ghosts without a body that can use magic and are completely immune to physical attacks. According to my old man, there was a rush of exploration here, but few people who entered it could come out, and since more than a thousand years ago, a Saint-Order warrior and a Saint-Order shaman fell into the depths of the ice field, no one has entered the ice field. At most, hunters who want to catch snow wolves and ice bears try their luck on the periphery. Our family used to be a blacksmith in the town, but fewer and fewer people went to the ice field, and the blacksmith business couldn't continue, so in my generation, I simply changed careers. Occasionally, when someone in town needed it, I would take over the iron business. After another big sip, the dwarf patted his chest confidently: "No one in the town is better than me! I shot old Kami's bow and knife, and I also used the weapons used by his cubs!"
"Aren't the undead coming to harass the town?" Zhang Zhengfan asked, ignoring the dwarf's drunken madness, staring at the matter of the ice field.
"No!" the dwarf shook his head and took another sip, "There is a realm there, and the undead will not cross this realm, they will always wander over there." ”
"What kind of boundary?" Zhang Zhengfan asked.
“...... , a very magical realm, I can't tell, as soon as you see it, you will immediately know that this is the realm!" replied the dwarf, scratching his head.
After chatting for a while, the dwarf disagreed with Zhang Zhengfan's idea of entering the ice field alone, thinking that he was looking for death!
But Zhang Zhengfan just smiled and didn't say much.
After listening to the story of the dwarves, Zhang Zhengfan wanted to see what this ice field looked like!
Eventually, the dwarf drank too much and began to lie on the table and snore. The dwarf carried himself into the house, and went to sleep yawning. Tonight's story is just a story for him, too far away.
Zhang Zhengfan put ten gold coins on the table and left the hotel. Plunged into the vast wind and snow, all the way to the north.
Zombies, ghosts, and worlds are such a fun place, of course you have to check it out!
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I haven't done any of the tasks assigned by the leader, and now I have to hurry up! Otherwise, it will be a problem to get off work on time! Haha!