twin moon

Chapter 249 No.30 Scene Four Under the Ice and Snow Part [-]
In the first year of Daxin Yaoning, October [-]th.Qi Ziyin and his party finally set foot on the north of Guizhou, a vast world frozen by ice and snow for thousands of years.

Here, it is already a complete piece of land away from the floating ice sea.As far as the eye can see, it is even more flat and boundless than Shuozhou.

The increasingly harsh climate has made people on the move face the threat of low temperature frostbite, food shortage, and ice shell cracking all the time.Walking here, many of them have already collapsed forever due to lack of physical strength, and were quickly wrapped in ice and snow, turning into nearly eternal human-shaped monuments on the ice field.

Fortunately, according to what Mo Zeming said, everyone tried their best to follow the hot springs under the ice along the way, and less than [-]% of the personnel were lost.Now, after two days of continuous trekking, they finally found a warm place again.Dozens of springs, large and small, are distributed here, and the faces of everyone who is resting by the springs are full of endless exhaustion.

The ice and snow beside the spring were melted by the hot air, exposing the deep black soil and rocks below.It is only at these springs that the extremely cold groundwater meets the hot springs, stirring up the sediment accumulated at the bottom of the river, and attracting small fish and shrimps that eat mud algae to gather together.

These fish and shrimps are only the size of a fingernail, even the big ones are no more than an inch, their whole body is transparent, and the tiny red heart that is throbbing inside their bodies can even be seen.From time to time, they will also attract larger schools of fish that come from nowhere in the water, and they have become an important food supply for Qi Ziyin and his party.

Along the way, at such places, people would pick up some hard-won fresh ingredients in the spring water and make a tooth-making sacrifice.However, today, they are more excited than ever before—I don’t know if it is God’s favor, but in a round spring that is more than ten feet wide not far away, there is actually a snow-white belly and a dark back. There is also a whale with a length of Zhang Xu and spiral horns on the top of its head.

The gigantic beast, the horned whale, was long thought to be extinct.Right now, this solitary whale, perhaps following the food in the warm current, unexpectedly went upstream from the floating ice sea all the way, and went deep into the hot spring in the hinterland of the ice sheet without being able to escape.

However, such an extremely rare whale, in the eyes of everyone, is nothing more than a piece of food full of fat and meat.The stranded narwhal could not dive underwater for too long. Under the siege of the crowd, the sharp long horns were quickly caught by the ropes, and the thick flesh on the body was also pierced by sharp weapons.

The fresh blood dyed that spring eye crimson.Finally, the dying giant whale could no longer dive into the water, and the air holes on the top of its head opened and opened rapidly under the gaze of the crowd, but it became increasingly difficult to inhale enough air.

Accompanied by the cheers of the crowd, the horned whale gradually stopped struggling.After exhaling the last mouthful of bloody breath, it was dragged onto the ice surface with all hands and feet, enough to provide enough and even some surplus meat for the people on the ice to continue their journey for the next half month, as well as lighting of grease.

"It's a common thing for the weak to prey on the strong. But now, we who are hunting this giant whale are also the meat of others. Thinking about it, I feel extremely sad—"

Standing far away from the crowd, Qi Ziyin, who witnessed the bloody killing, turned his head away, his golden pupils were full of contradictory doubts and pain.

Ning Yue on the side was also infected by the young man's emotions, and she felt emotional:
"Ziyin, you are right. Everything in this world is trying its best to survive. However, it will inevitably hurt others... If I hadn't sneaked out back then, if I hadn't met you and Little stutterer, at this moment, the three of us may have long regarded each other as aliens and enemies, and we are facing each other with swords."

"Ning Yue, don't think so. Although I know your identity now, I, and those who follow me, will never regard you as a different kind!"

The young Ye Guogong suddenly realized that his words seemed to have touched the most sensitive part of the other party's heart, so he hurriedly explained.But the red-haired girl smiled wryly and shook her head:
"I know, Ziyin, you can't do it. But if you continue to move forward, if you encounter a difficult situation that cannot be manipulated by manpower, or encounter a powerful enemy that is difficult to fight, these people will always be like this Do you treat me like that? At that time - will you really be able to stop it?"

"A powerful enemy that cannot be confronted--is it your own race?"

Qi Ziyin's heart trembled.He also heard a thing or two about the accidents that Ning Yue encountered in Yujing City.And those terrifying murlocs during the capture of Qingwan made him even more afraid of the Cangyu clan, as well as the Kunjie himself whom Ning Yue mentioned many times.

He knew that his companion's worries were not groundless, and he also understood that if what she said really happened, he would be powerless to change it.It's just that right now, all he can do is to try not to think too much about it, and then hope that these worries that hang over his heart like a nightmare will never be fulfilled.

After a moment of silence, the boy continued to ask:

"Ning Yue, do you still remember that there is such a huge trombone made of whale horn on the Jie Pagoda outside Mulu City?"

"Of course I remember. Back then, you and I, together with the three of you, secretly climbed up the tower and blew the trombone, which made the night watchmen on the Bell and Drum Towers in the city busy all night. Now that I think about it, it's really a little strange." I can't help them—but Ziyin, why did you suddenly mention this?"

Ning Yue raised her head in puzzlement, and looked at the other party with a pair of blue eyes.

The young Lord Ye shook his head, as if he wanted to shake off all the messy thoughts in his mind:

"What I want to say is that there is always hope in everything. The whale on the Jieta is said to be made of the horn of the last horned whale in the world. But today, we are in this barren land of ice and snow. , met a live horned whale. Maybe at this moment, somewhere under the Chanying Sea, there are still its kind cruising around. And all our worries are nothing more than mediocre troubles. so--"

"So, I hope we can be as lucky as those surviving horned whales. No matter what we encounter, there will always be a few lucky ones who can escape with their lives..."

Ning Yue seemed to be moved by the other party, she narrowed her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth.However, this is just her disguised appearance because she doesn't want the other party to continue to worry.Immediately, the girl changed the topic:
"Speaking of which, Ziyin, do you know the name of the ice field under our feet?"

"There is still a name here? Hasn't anyone been here before?" The boy in white showed surprise.

The red-haired girl nodded, but shook her head immediately: "Indeed, no one has visited this place since the ancestors died in the world. However, a long time ago, this vast ice field was once a A prosperous land. According to my father's book collection, this place was once called the Blue Ice Field by the ancestors."

"It's full of ice, so where does the prosperity come from?"

As Qi Ziyin said, he kicked hard on the thick ice under his feet.However, even if the toes hurt, he couldn't kick the ice surface out of half of the shallow depression.

"The book says that in the depths of this ice sheet, there used to be a city inhabited by hundreds of millions of people. The city was like spring all year round, and the port was never frozen. You don’t have to worry about not being able to see tomorrow’s sun again like you and me.”

Ning Yue's words made the young Lord Ye dumbfounded:

"You mean, it was the power of the ancestors that created the prosperity in that city? But as I read in the book, the power of the ancestors brought endless suffering and slaughter to the world..."

"Perhaps, there is no such thing as good or bad power." The red-haired girl hesitated and shook her head, "My family can build a city on the seabed of Chanying with a little bit of mana inherited from the ancestors, but it was not People on the land regard it as an ominous witchcraft. It is certain that the power of the ancestors can do things far beyond your imagination. It's just that whether it is a good deed or a bad deed. However, right now, There are countless wicked people who plan to take this powerful divine power for themselves..."

"Among them—there is that lingering Yu Li!"

Qi Ziyin frowned, and turned his head to look at the way they came - on the ice field behind him, there was no longer any aggressive enemy army who wanted to wipe them out.However, at this moment, he suddenly thought of that hideous-looking opponent, and an ominous premonition suddenly rose in his heart.

At the same time, Yu Li, whose flagship was destroyed by Ning Yue's spell, was leading the thousands of surviving Peng Guojun to grit his teeth and followed behind Qi Ziyin and others, but he was struggling and was left behind for a whole day. footsteps.

Although he had led the ship to the north many times, the weather in Guizhou still gave Yu Li and his soldiers a severe blow.They were well-prepared for this trip, but the sophisticated equipment was useless on the ice field.Every time they encounter wind and snow, the severe cold that penetrates the bone marrow fundamentally destroys everyone's will.

Right now, Yu Li is sitting on a carriage in the middle of the crowd.This is the most densely populated place in the entire team, and it is also the warmest place with a radius of tens of miles above the ice sheet.The young general hugged Ziyuan tightly in his arms with several layers of thick leather jackets, but in the wind and snow, it was still hard to resist the biting coolness that came straight to his body from the gaps in the armor.And behind him, the soldiers from the Peng Kingdom who were in charge of escorting Lan Yan had already faltered, without any morale at all.

Although there are quite a few pack horses originally used to pull carts in the team, they are not like Shuobei horses, they are covered with thick fur all over their bodies.Soon, many horses had frostbitten joints and fell to the ground.There are many horses whose hearts and lungs have been frostbitten, and scarlet blood will drip from their noses and mouths every time they move forward.

With the fall of the last three pack horses, the entire team completely stopped their already extremely slow pace.Seeing this, Yu Li immediately jumped out of the carriage, swung the broad-backed saber in his hand, and chopped off the horse's head, which was still breathing weakly.He raised the blood-drenched head above his head, and sipped a big mouthful of still-hot horse blood like a devil:

"I'm eating horse meat again tonight! Come and share the horse blood while it's hot, and let the big guy warm up!"

As he spoke, he reached out from his pocket and took out a small bowl covered with ice and blood, took the bowl of horse blood and handed it to the trembling Ziyuan in the car.Facing the steaming blood, the girl didn't care about the smell, she pinched her nose and drank it in one gulp, as if she had long been accustomed to this way of survival, and smiled at the young general standing under the car.

Yu Li squeezed out an ugly smile on his noseless face, then looked at the three carts full of Lan Yan behind him, pondered for a moment and ordered:

"The weapons on the cart are the key to our victory over the enemy. We must not just throw them away like this! Quickly get some people to replace the pack-horse cart!"

The eight hundred "Orphan Army" fulfilled every order issued by the general with due diligence.They pointed the firebolts in their hands roughly at the cowering Peng soldiers in the team, randomly selected more than ten people to step forward, and continued to pull the carriage forward.

Seeing this situation, nearly half of the Peng Guojun's eyes revealed raging anger.However, no one stood up for the unlucky ghosts who were drawn, and no one dared to resist even a little bit for their own destiny——

After all, all the food and firearms are now controlled by those eight hundred half-grown children who have no distinction between good and evil.And they are pure and loyal to the young general who gave orders.Faced with the dilemma of being slowly frozen to death, or being crushed to death on the spot by a fire-breathing weapon, everyone chose the former unanimously.What makes them grit their teeth and persist is that they want to return to their homeland alive, such a seemingly unattainable but only remaining spark of hope.

However, the sky had just cleared for half a day, and snowflakes were gradually falling, and Yu Li also clearly sensed the flood of dissatisfaction among the crowd.He knew very well in his heart that if he continued to walk aimlessly like this, the people who could not see hope would eventually become the biggest hidden danger around him. He couldn't help but frowned and thought for a moment, thinking:

"Bring out a bucket of blue flame! Soak it in rags from a corner flag and wrap it around a knife to keep everyone warm!"

Being able to light a warm flame in the raging snowstorm is exactly what this team, which is already on the verge of limit, desperately needs.Hearing this, Peng Guojun immediately started to light a fire with all his hands, and temporarily put all the previous dissatisfaction behind.Someone even handed a long knife with blue flames to Yu Li's hand.

The young general and the girl in the car looked at each other, smiled tacitly, and continued to order loudly:

"Our enemy is not far ahead now! Without the help of the red-haired witch, they would never have been able to travel such a long distance in this wind and snow! Think about the Lich who destroyed our ship earlier Let’s think about what it will be like if that witchcraft is used against Peng and your family members in the future! If we don’t want to see such an ending, we have to do whatever it takes to stay here Stop them, we must not let them find the power of the ancestors first!"

The power of fear is immeasurable, and the effect it can bring is beyond even Yu Li himself's expectation.Nowadays, everyone in the army seems to have been blinded by the wind and snow, and their minds have been frozen by the severe cold. They will no longer think carefully about the meaning of the chief general's words, let alone delve into their right and wrong. It was just that under the constant incitement and encouragement, an almost crazy roar broke out.

Now in their eyes, it seems that as long as they kill Qi Ziyin and his party, they can use the power of the ancestors who don't even know what it is, or how to use it, to return to the homeland that they miss day and night, and return home By the side of his wife, children, and children who are waiting for their return.

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