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For ordinary adventurers, advancing in the Northland is a very painful thing, with continuous blizzards, waist-deep snow, and biting cold. This does not include the dragons flying around and the demons that may occasionally "refresh" in front of you.

 In fact, if you walk on the road, you are likely to see an adventurer freezing to death somewhere.

But fortunately, Duanmuhuai does not need to be walked.

The biting cold wind was blowing, but Duanmuhuai didn't care and just drove the jetpack to fly forward. His whole body is wrapped in power armor, which can be used at will even in space battles, not to mention the cold wind. As for the real Ji Ling lying on Duanmu Huai, he was also wearing space combat armor from the Star Alliance. There was no cold at all when it was completely enclosed.

The only one who needed shelter from the cold was Ogis - but at this moment, the little girl directly entered a deep sleep state, completely isolating herself from the outside world.

After all, Ogis's body is a doll, so she doesn't care about this trivial matter.

“This **** place is really boring. It snows all the time. Well, it’s a good thing I don’t have to sweep the snow away, otherwise I’d be bored to death.”

While flying in the sky, Duanmuhuai complained in boredom. Just like in my hometown, southerners like snow very much, but for northerners, it is annoying to death when it snows. Not to mention having to clear snow from school the next day, the road was extremely slippery and it was boring to think about it, let alone being as excited about snow as people in the South.

“Ah, big brother, there seems to be a cave ahead.”

At this moment, Zhen Jiling, who was lying on Duanmu Huai's shoulder, stretched out her hand and pointed forward. Looking in the direction of her finger, she could indeed see a cave in the white snow near the cliff below.

It seems like there are still people around?

 “Anyway, let’s go and have a look.”

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai adjusted his direction and flew towards the cave. Then he lowered his height and fell from the sky...

 “Swish swish!”

However, before Duanmu Huai landed, suddenly, several arrows emerged from below and shot towards Duanmu Huai. I saw these arrows hitting Duanmu Huai's helmet, and then quickly bounced away. At the same time, Duanmuhuai also landed in front of the cave like a stone.

　　　…………”

There was deathly silence all around. Duanmu Huai shook his head, then turned to look to the side.

"What's the meaning?"

“It doesn’t look like a demon.”

Hearing Duanmuhuai's voice, soon, a man wearing a white cloak and holding a long bow jumped down from a tree near the entrance of the cave, carefully looking at Duanmuhuai and the Ogis and Ojis on his shoulders. Really clever.

 “You are human beings.”

 “This is not nonsense, do you see we have horns?”

"Too."

 The other party seemed very calm.

“You just flew from the sky and scared us. Is this some kind of magic?”

 “You can fly with this thing.”

Duanmuhuai pointed to the jetpack behind him, and the latter nodded as if he suddenly understood.

"I see."

　　　…………”

　　　…………”

 For a time, both sides fell into silence.

 “So, can I go in?”

 “Of course, you are also an adventurer.”

 The man jumped up and walked on the snow - the snow was obviously thick enough to reach his waist, but he was standing on top of the snow.

Hmm, it’s probably some kind of weird magic.

Along the way, Duanmuhuai has seen many similar magics. Not to mention the human magic system, there are quite a few strange magics of all kinds.

For example, the magic of cleaning dishes, the magic of removing mold, the magic of removing oil stains, the magic of expelling mosquitoes...don't mention it, all these strange little tricks are quite useful.

Grandma’s little tips for staying at home, right?

I guess this is one of them.

"where is this place?"

As he followed the archer towards the cave, Duanmuhuai asked.

“I thought all humans outside the North Land had been killed by demons.”

 “Just like you thought.”

Hearing Duanmuhuai's question, the archer spoke without looking back.

"We are not the residents here. In fact, we are adventurers who came to defeat the Demon King."

At this moment, Duanmu Huai and others also followed the archer into the cave.

The dark cave looked unremarkable, even very dark. However, the archer only took a few steps, then turned around, and then Duanmu Huai saw that there was actually a road on the side of the cave, but this one. The passage is blocked by the mountain wall outside. If you just took a casual look, you would never expect that there is such a road inside.     “Oh, this is really...”

Following the archer into the passage, the next moment, Duanmuhuai couldn't help but want to memorize the text.

 It is the so-called feeling of "being extremely narrow at the beginning, then you can understand people, and after taking dozens of steps, you will suddenly become enlightened".

However, what is inside is not a peach blossom garden, but a huge hollow. In the hollow, there are many buildings, which looks like an underground city. Here at this moment, there are people coming and going everywhere, including men and women, and almost everyone is dressed as an adventurer.

 “How many people are there exactly here?”

 “About three hundred.”

 The archer answered.

"We all came here to defeat the Demon King, but because of the heavy wind and snow, we can only stay here - this should have been the residence of the dwarves before, but the original residents should have been killed by the Demons a long time ago. Fortunately, their buildings are still there and can still be used."

 “How long do you plan to stay here?”

 “At least wait until the storm subsides.”

 The archer shrugged.

 “At least it’s estimated to take a few months.”

“…………How long have you been here?”

"About six months. The Northland is different from other places. The weather is suitable for travel only for two months a year. Going out at other times is equivalent to death. We all take advantage of these two months to enter the Northland. Then we find this place and wait. Wait until these two months next year before we go out and try to enter the Demon King's City within this time. Otherwise, if we are not killed by the Demon King, we will freeze to death outside."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai was completely speechless.

“I thought that the adventurers who conquered the Demon King would not be afraid of hardships and face them head on.”

"It depends on the situation. The Demon King has been around for a thousand years, so he doesn't lack this little time, right? It's okay to die in a battle with the Demons, but if you die in a snowstorm, you won't be able to do anything. arrive."

“So you don’t know about Paretia’s attack on the northern fortress?”

 “Is there such a thing?”

Hearing this, the archer looked at Duanmuhuai in surprise.

 “They succeeded?”

　　"Failed, and now he is sneaking back to the Royal City with his tail between his legs, because something happened, and maybe even the Royal City cannot be saved."

 “That’s it…”

Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, the archer sighed, but he didn't have any special thoughts.

“What a pity. If Paretia succeeds, they might be able to support us, but it seems like we can’t even think about it now.”

“You guys are really... calm.”

Watching the adventurers walking back and forth on the street, Duanmu Huai also felt fresh. At least on the surface, the people here seemed to be enjoying their time here. From time to time, some people were talking and laughing, some were chasing and playing, and they could even see There is an old man setting up a stall nearby...

Setting up a stall?

"The history of this city is about a hundred years old. I don't know which adventurers discovered it in the first place. In short, some adventurers chose to continue to the Demon King's City to defeat the Demon King, and some adventurers stayed to serve those who came after. So now this city has a history of about a hundred years. The city still looks like that.”

While talking, the archer led Duanmu Huai and others to a majestic-looking stone building.

"This is the municipal center of the city. Because the people here are all adventurers, the currency itself has no meaning here. If you want to earn food and material supplies, you need to do it yourself. As long as you can take over the Entrust it and then complete it, you can get corresponding contribution points, and these points can be used to buy supplies or rent a room to rest, then I have to go back and continue working."

 After saying this, the archer greeted the guards outside, then turned and left.

At this time, Zhen Jiling, who was lying on Duanmu Huai's shoulder, also poked his head out curiously.

“Brother, this city is really interesting.”

 “Indeed, this place is really interesting.”

 Duanmu Huai nodded, and then walked into the building in front of him.

As the archer said, this place looks like a city hall. In the spacious hall, there is a circle of stone counters, with the counter lady standing behind it and a group of adventurers in front.

 Since there is no queuing machine here, there should be no need to register.

Duanmu Huai walked straight to one of the empty counters. Seeing Duan Muhuai's arrival, the girl behind the counter immediately said hello with a smile.

“Ah, hello, welcome, adventurer... Have you just come to this city?”

“That’s right, we all just came to this city.”

  Duanmu Huai pointed at himself, then at Zhen Ji Ling and Ogis.

 “Can you see it?”

“Of course, this is not the time for adventurers to enter the Northland. Generally speaking, adventurers enter the Northland several months later before the snow melts..."

Speaking of which, the archer said the same thing before. Wait, according to this statement, it means that the guards at the city gate did not let him go out because it was not yet safe to enter the Northland?

Will you die if you tell me clearly?

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes helplessly, but forget it, he’s here after all, right?

 In this case, let him see what kind of city this is.