Doomsday Totem

Chapter 93 Snow Mountain
The Phoenix Mountains are located on the northernmost part of the Snowy Night Ice Field. From a distance, the mountains are stacked and winding for hundreds of miles.Since ancient times, this place has been the northern barrier mentioned by countless bards, blocking the Snowy Night Ice Field and the Great Ice Ocean.

Although the Black Sea is connected to the Great Ice Ocean, there are huge ice blocks floating in the Great Ice Ocean all year round, making it impossible for ships to navigate.Therefore, if you want to go to the end of the world, you must cross the Phikris Mountains.However, for thousands of years, there have been very few people who can really climb over the mountains.

The altitude here is 8000 meters, the top of the mountain is covered with snow for thousands of years, and the temperature reaches minus 50 degrees. If you are not careful, it will cause a big avalanche.

More than a month later...

In this world of extinct birds and boundless silence, a lonely figure appeared.

A boy in black, panting, dragged a locomotive that was half a person tall and more than three meters long, crawling hard on the top of the mountain.

[Dear Iron Slag, Alice hopes you can rest for a while] Alice, who turned on the simulated human mode, suggested to her master.

"No...no need, let's go a little further." Tie Slag answered while panting.More than a month ago, he bid farewell to old An Pu and others, and embarked on the road to the north.In the snowy night ice field, he rested during the day, let the red comet charge in the sunlight, and drove at night with the headlights on.After more than 20 days of wind, frost, rain and snow, he finally arrived at the foot of the Phoenix Mountains.

At that time, the clothes on his body had been scratched by ice slag and were in tatters.In the early morning of the next day, he changed into new clothes, ate a meal of canned meat, and began his journey across the Phiklis Mountains.

However, when he dragged the red comet and climbed up the first mountain after all the hardships, looking at the mountains that stretched for hundreds of miles, he only felt unspeakable bitterness.Here, the red comet became a burden, and he could only drag it through the thick snow.

In the next 20 days, he walked hard in the mountains with overlapping peaks, stopping every few hundred steps to rest for a while.

Perhaps, because this lonely journey was too lonely, under Alice's repeated requests, he finally authorized the simulated human model.The authorized Alice, like an innocent girl, kept chattering in his ear.Although it is annoying at times, it also adds a little color to this lonely and boundless world.

[Dear master, can Alice tell you a joke? ]
"Don't...it's already cold enough here." Tie Slag hurriedly stopped, and what Alice said were all cold jokes, which had no other purpose except to make people chill.

[Dear Captain, can Alice do something for you? ]
"Turn off the speakers."

[Dear little iron slag, Alice has detected that your adrenaline level is too low, it is recommended to take a break and eat something]
"If I hear that word again..."

[Yes, my captain]
After more than ten minutes, Tie Slag finally couldn't walk anymore, and sat slumped on the ground, panting heavily.The altitude here is very high, the air pressure is very low, and the air is very thin.As a compound evolutionary, he is rarely in such a mess.

"We'll be camping here tonight." Tie Slag rested for a while, regained his breath, and said.

[Yes, my captain]
"and then?"

[Then Alice waited for the captain to set up the tent] Alice was fixed on the pine sled and said with flashing headlights.

"then……"

[So Alice waited like this...] Alice whispered.

"Alice, explain the terms, drag the oil bottle." Iron Slag ordered.

[Yes, my captain]
[Explanation of nouns, drag oil bottle, beep...a ​​dialect handed down from ancient times, specifically referring to the children of ex-husbands brought by women when they remarry, which means that it is not easy to drag others, it is a burden]
"Look..." Tie Slag shrugged and said. (I would like to use this here to pay tribute to Huohuo.)
[beep...beep...]
[Alice is just a little oil bottle, please captain don't abandon me] Alice said coquettishly.

"Who are you learning from?" Tie Slag asked with great interest.

[A certain big sister's] virtual human Alice dare not say everything.

However, this topic still kept Tie Slag silent for a while.It wasn't until the small tent was set up and the kerosene lamp was lit that he spoke again, "Alice, how many canned meats are there?"

[17 standard meals]
"I'm too tired today, let's eat one." Tie Slag said to himself.

[Obey, my captain] As soon as the words fell, Alice stretched out her thin mechanical arm, took out a flat aluminum box from the package, and handed it over.

Iron Slag took it and looked at it for a while before tearing off the aluminum foil seal.This is the standard field meal for the Western Continental Garrison, which contains luncheon meat, Chinese cabbage and rice.After tearing off the seal, a small pull tab was revealed at the bottom.The iron slag hooked the pull ring and pulled gently, pulling out a small ten-centimeter long wire.As the small wire was pulled away, there was a crisp sound of "boombobo" in the aluminum box, and a stream of heat rushed up from the bottom of the box.Iron Slag hastily placed the box on top of the kerosene lamp, and the first time he played with this thing, he almost burned his hand.

About 10 minutes later, with a soft "bang", the aluminum box lid bounced off by itself, and a ball of hot water vapor came out.

Smelling the delicious aroma of rice, Iron Slag took out a piece of compressed biscuit, tore off the greased paper, and ate it in big mouthfuls.Good things should be saved until the end, so keep a little expectation, otherwise this dry compressed biscuit is really hard to swallow.

After eating two pieces of compressed biscuits in threes and fives, Tie Slag picked up the lunch box and began to eat slowly.After entering the Phyllis Mountains, his physical exertion became more and more serious, and it was already difficult for him to persist on eating only compressed biscuits.Every three to four days, he would eat a can of meat to supplement his weakening body.

In this frozen world, even if creatures could be seen occasionally, they could not be captured.The creatures here seem to have a long lifespan, as if they have wisdom.As long as there is a little movement, it will run fast.Moreover, they all have pure white hair, lying in the snow, they are almost invisible to the naked eye.

Two days ago, Tie Slag climbed the snow slope with one foot deep and one foot shallow.When he walked somewhere, a white shadow suddenly appeared at his feet.Taking a closer look, it turned out to be a ferret, and he quickly sprang out six limbs and chased after it.As a result, the ferret disappeared without a trace before taking two steps.He had no choice but to return to the original place, dragging the red comet to continue climbing.But not long after, the ferret ran back and looked at the iron slag from a distance, seeming very curious.

Seeing this, Iron Slag took some compressed biscuits out, broke them into pieces and threw them near the red comet, and pretended to leave.The plan is to wait for it to get close and let Alice catch it with the robotic arm.However, Iron Slag waited in the snow for two hours, but the ferret was not fooled and just kept watching from afar.

In the end, Iron Slag felt that he was about to freeze, so he gave up and dragged the red comet with a cable to move on.However, not long after he left, the ferret caught up, grabbed the crumbs of the compressed biscuit with its forefoot, and ate it happily.

Tie Slag looked at the ferret from a distance, shook his head helplessly, and gave up the idea of ​​eating wild game.

After eating the hot luncheon meat, Iron Slag packed some snow into the empty lunch box, then opened the windshield of the kerosene lamp, and put the lunch box on it.After a while, the snow melted and the water was slightly warm, so Iron Slag picked it up and drank it.The altitude here is too high, the water cannot be boiled at all, so it can only be drunk like this.

After eating and drinking enough, Iron Slag got into the small tent close to the red comet, and soon fell into a dormant state.Here, every minute counts, either going forward or resting.

[Good night, my captain] Alice whispered, then opened the solar energy collection umbrella and entered the standby state.

In a blink of an eye, time flies, stars move, and it is late at night.In the moonlight, the thousand-year-old Phikris Mountains are like a goddess lying on her side, covered with a veil of white snow.At this moment, she was lying in the star sand all over the sky, and fell asleep peacefully.

The mountains with overlapping peaks and ridges extend to the junction of the sky and the earth, connecting with the stars all over the sky.

That night, Tie Slag had a dream, and rarely talked in his sleep...

"Lao Niu, eat... eat..."

At this time, he dreamed that the old cow was eating the gerbil's butt, chewing it with big mouthfuls, and it looked very delicious.Lao Niu liked to eat gerbil butts very much when he was a child. Whenever Tie Slag caught a gerbil, he would say seriously, "Don't throw away the gerbil butt later, I'm in a hurry to throw it away!"

But then they took over a large piece of garbage, and the days got better, and the old cow stopped eating gerbil butts.

Tie Slag was a little dissatisfied with this, and would occasionally persuade him, "Old cow, the taste of gerbil butts is actually quite good, don't waste it, come, have a taste..." This is not because he is bullying, but As a qualified gerbil hunter, he certainly hopes that the fruits of his hard work will be respected.If others can eat his prey until there are no bones left, that is the greatest compliment to him as a hunter.

When Old Man Tie was alive, he once told him that gerbils have a lot of fat in their buttocks, so they must not be wasted.Although the taste is a bit strange, but insist on eating.After eating for a long time, you will feel that the strange smell is actually quite fragrant.

For a long time, Tie Slag has always believed in what Old Man Tie said.There are only a few sentences that I disagree with, and this sentence about gerbils is one of them.

Lao Niu is often persuaded by him, but occasionally his temper comes up, so he refuses to eat.In this case, iron slag is not easy to waste, so I have to work hard to eat it myself.Until Lina arrived in Tieshan Town, he met a new friend—Lao Di.This burden was transferred from Lao Niu's shoulders to Lao Di.Later, Dr. Narcissus went to the town to open a clinic and asked Lao Di for a business license...

"It's not healthy to eat animal buttocks." At that time, Dr. Narcissus, with a greasy mouth, tried to persuade him while chewing on the gerbil buttocks, but usually it didn't work.

Between half-dream and half-awake, Alice's hurried voice suddenly came from my ear.

[team leader!team leader!Get up, there is a situation! ]
(End of this chapter)