Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Getting Heat from the Outside

The water of the mouth water gorge runs through many underground caves, passing through Many bumps and obstacles, and this is where I encountered a very wide and flat ground. The water flow slows down here, and the ice cubes have to slow down. Especially those lucky chunks of ice that escaped the previous turbulence and retained their volume, so they had to be stranded on the beach, helplessly waiting for the day to melt.

Luck is rare, and you must catch it when you encounter it. Dagon knew that he could not stay in the glacier for long, so after standing up, he first dragged the headhunting axe close to the stranded ice, grabbed it as a support, and then dared to take the headhunting axe down. He is very aware that his physical condition is not good, and actions that he usually thinks are okay may now go wrong at any time, so it is better to be cautious.

"Which side is the shore?" Dagon's vision was affected by the immersion in the icy water, and his vision was blurry. He raised his palms and rubbed them gently to make the temperature slightly higher, also to activate the paralyzed muscles. "Well, I see the shore, dry, good."

He used the head-hunting axe as a crutch, leaning diagonally under his armpits, dripping water toward the shore. The flow of the river here is very slow, so it is not difficult to walk, but a lot of dangers are avoided. But before he took two steps, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something on the upstream side of the ice cube.

"Lead Balder?!" Dagon rubbed his eyes, unable to believe it. Team leader Balder actually survived on the same ice block as him, but he was on the other side of the ice block, which Dagon could have seen before. The team leader's face was blue and purple, and he was lying on the ice, his fingers digging into the ice. The river kept pushing his back and buttocks, and he didn't slip into the water.

Dagon turned immediately and came to the leader's side. "Wake up, can you still wake up?" He shook Balder. "I can still see signs of breathing, but I can't wake up. I..."

Looking at the shore, Dagon knew he couldn't be reckless. His current physical condition was barely able to protect himself, so it was impossible to carry Balder to shore - that would only result in a fall and the two being washed away again by the water.

“What?” Dagon thought hard. The low temperature made his mind less clear than usual, but it didn't make him a fool. Balder was fully armed and fell into the river, luckily his bag was still on his back. So Dagon took off the backpack, took out the rope tremblingly, fastened dead buttons on Balder's shoulders and armpits, and walked towards the shore with the other end of the rope.

The water is sinking. Dagon didn't quite understand the principle of buoyancy, and he felt like his body was rapidly getting heavier. Fortunately, he did not choose to carry Balder before, and in the current situation, it was absolutely impossible for the two of them to go ashore together.

After staggering through the last section of the road, Dagon was already unable to stand, and the best he could do was to sit down slowly on the ground. His chest rose and fell sharply, his mouth was so large that he couldn't breathe, his eyes seemed to be bubbling out of gold stars, and his ears were tormented by itching and muffled noises.

"Why are you still sweating?" Dagon had just climbed out of the glacier and almost died of freezing, how could he sweat. He immediately became alert, knowing that he had to take care of himself at this time, otherwise he would have no chance to take care of others.

Opening the already soaked backpack with trembling hands, Balder's things in it were all messed up, but they were not lost. This is the miracle of the good habit of carefully tidying up before. . Dagon finds the peat and finds its tarp torn and partially soaked, impossible to use for a fire. However, there is still a small bottle of lamp oil in the backpack, and there may be a chance to light it.

The ground by the river was covered with moss and lichens, which were too wet to use. Dagon searched carefully and saw a few colorful mushroom umbrellas that were stubbornly growing. "There's no time to find anything else." Dagon grabbed the mushroom and opened the canopy, revealing a structure full of folds and cavities. Then he dipped the mushroom umbrella in lamp oil to make it less sticky.

After passing water, only flint and iron can make fire star. Dagon cautiously and with all his strength, smack the kerosene mushrooms on fire. This requires both skill and luck, and Dagon has suffered a lot today, and he was finally compensated for by a little luck.

A clump of fire stars scatters onto the kerosene-soaked mushroom fibers, and the flames burst into flames. This flame is hope, and this flame is the blessing of Oli God. While chanting prayers of thanks to the god of Ori, Dagon dug a small Fire Pit with his hands and threw the burning mushroom fire into it.

Add some kerosene to the pit, put in relatively dry moss and lichen, control it's burning, then roll the peat into strips and support each other over the small Fire Pit to form a spired stand . When the kerosene fire dries the peat, they can be ignited and become the fuel for the next stage. At this time, Dagon continued to rummage in Balder's backpack and found a piece of dry food wrapped in leather.

Although it was soaked in water, most of it became sticky, Dagon didn't care, he squeezed the goo and stuffed it into his mouth, and then ate the rest. After taking this big mouthful, he found a leather pot underneath, and after opening the stopper, a rich and stimulating aroma of wine wafted out of it. Dagon had only had a strong beer before, which was more of a porridge than a drink. Now that the body is cold, it is time to take a sip.

The liquor scorched his throat, and a fire ignited inside his chest. "It's so refreshing!" Dagon only felt that his eyes could be opened, his ears warmed up, and his fingers and toes regained a lot of strength. The fire beside him was in good shape, so he put away the jug, adjusted his breathing, and started pulling on the rope with both hands.

Balder fell into the ice water with a thud, then sank quickly, and Dagon tugged desperately. A pile of bubbles rose from the bottom of the water, and they were quickly shattered by layers of ripples from the rope. Dagon dragged Balder to the shore with all his strength, and when he pressed him on his chest, he heard the leader of the dwarves coughing and spewing water.

The ice cube that once carried the two of them was also broken at this time, and more than a dozen irregular small ice cubes drifted downstream in groups. Dagon dragged Balder to the fire and patted him on the face, making sure he was alive, but still in a coma.

"I guess I hit my head," Dagon searched in Balder's backpack, but didn't see anything similar to medicine, so he could only rely on his own physical fitness.

The more you are in trouble, the more you have to take good care of yourself. Dagon took a look at the peat, which would probably hold a fire to burn for hours on end, and the rest was much easier. He slanted the first hunting axe beside the fire, concentrated the mana to his fingertips, and activated the "hard" character rune of the first hunting axe. In this way, the first hunting axe is fixed, forming a 60-degree angle with the ground, just enough to hang things.

He took off his clothes, and then he did the same to Balder, both of them had their clothes spread out on the head axe and baked by the fire. Two naked dwarves, one lying down and the other sitting, also heated their bodies with the help of a bonfire.

"Flip it over." Dagon adjusted Balder's direction so that one side was cooked and the other side was still cold. In addition to roasting the fire, Dagon carefully inspected the injury and relieved. His body was mainly bruises and blunt bruises. One or two ribs may have been broken. Some muscles in the right arm wrapped around the belt were strained. No way, he can't do anything about all the injuries, he can only wait for the body to recover by itself.

After eating one meal in three portions and roasting a piece of surviving frost snake meat, Dagon felt much better, at least warmed up. He put on the dried clothes. Although it was broken into a pile of rags, as if a mop was wrapped around his waist, he had a feeling of being a new person.

All around, this cave is very primordial and apparently undeveloped. In one corner of the cave, there is a cone-shaped pile of gravel on the ground, indicating that there has been a recent landslide. The result of the collapse was a hole seven or eight meters above the ground, about the width of Dagon's butt, and what seemed to be a tunnel behind it.

"There's no other choice. You can't re-launch. Try to go upstream or downstream, right?" Dagon shook his head and immediately abandoned the crazy idea. "Too terrifying in the river, lucky to be alive. I seem to have bumped into something when I fell, and then fell into the water. Now it seems that the bear lizard saved my life."

"Um..." Balder let out a moan, then opened his eyes, rolled over on his side and started to vomit. He vomited so much sour gastric juice, red, green and green, that Dagon could only hold his nose. After vomiting, he gradually woke up and lifted the head to look left and right.

"Hi, Mr. Balder." Dagon waved his hand and said, "How are you feeling?"

"Are you still alive?" Balder frowned, then rubbed Eye. "Ah, I mean you're still alive, very good. How did you survive?"

Bald's tone and question made Dagon feel uncomfortable, but thinking about his just waking up, his brain It may not be clear, but it can be forgiven. "I don't know how I survived, but I can only be sure that God Oli blesses me."

It must be the reason for Spiritual God's enlightenment, this kind of person can't stay - Balder bit the back slot. Tooth, start thinking about new plans. Originally, he wanted to fall to death while helping Dagon cross the canyon with the ropes after sending the last student, but he noticed that Dagon seemed to be jumping over with his own strength. So he improvised, let go of the students to distract Dagon, and smashed it down with the bear lizard. He secretly untied the saddle straps before falling, ready to jump on the metal pole at the last minute.

Balder overestimated his flexibility, not if Dagon could go up, he could go up, so he also fell. In fact, the bear lizard was still struggling on the stalactite for a while, and it was Balder who fell first.

What happened after falling into the water, Balder didn't know, he only remembered that he was hit by something.

"Sir, have a drink from the bar. I got it from your backpack. I'm too cold to drink it first."

Wine? Balder was a little dazed, he remembered that he didn't bring alcohol! Squinting and trying to focus, he saw the jug in Dagon's hand, and shook his head vigorously. That's not alcohol at all, but a flame-throwing potion, which is held in the mouth in an emergency, then activated with mana and sprayed out, which can form a flaming fireball. This spell medicine cannot be drunk into the stomach, otherwise it will burn through the stomach when encountering mana.

"You drink, I have mana, and I'm not cold anymore, thanks to your care." Balder sat down cross-legged and smiled. "You drink more, we need to adjust to the best condition, and then travel light. You are a scout, and you can run and jump, so you need more physical strength."

"Okay, then I'm welcome." Dagon picked up the jug and gulped down a gulp. He burped comfortably, and a fingertip-sized flame was generated in the breath filled with the smell of alcohol, which burned for a second and then quickly annihilated. Dagon's two eyes converged in the middle, looking at the flames, said silly with a smile: "Oh, this is really interesting. What kind of wine is this? I have money to buy some for my father to taste."

"I made a random transaction, how can I have a name." Balder sat and slapped all over his body, making sure there was no internal injury, and stood up. Now he only has Dagon in his eyes, and he only thinks about how to kill Dagon.

(end of this chapter)