Tokyo underground city

Chapter 224 Hunter’s Lodge

Lin Huaien and Tanya rested one night near the big cave.

Tanya knew of a temporary resting place nearby.

After checking the grotto, which had not been used for almost a month, the two people spent the first day huddled in this cave of about fifty square meters.

However, on his first night in Siberia, Lin Huaien was given a slap in the face.

Even though he was fully equipped and huddled in his sleeping bag, he was still shivering from the cold and couldn't sleep at all.

The heat all over my body was slowly drawn out from the gaps in my clothes. The thick down jacket I bought before was of no use at all. As long as I lay still, I could use it from my knees and wrists where the down quilt was tight. You will feel the biting chill.

As a result, his wrists suffered frostbite on the first night.

Tanya, who had slept peacefully all night, understood immediately when she saw Lin Huaien's face covered with runny nose and bleary-eyed look when she got up.

"Give me your hand."

She took Lin Huaien's right hand, turned it over and looked at it. There were some faint signs of frostbite on the wrist.

"Take off the outermost protective clothing and show it to me."

Tanya issued the order to Lin Huaien without hesitation.

Lin Huaien only hesitated for a moment, but she thought that Lin Huaien didn't understand what she said, so she took the initiative and opened Lin Huaien's zipper.

"...You're not wearing your clothes the right way."

Tanya stared at Lin Huaien's steaming collar for a while, and suddenly let go of her hand: "Let me see what clothes you have brought. Just wait for me."

"What do you want to do?"

Lin Huai'en was shivering with cold and could no longer understand Tanya's thoughts.

"You're not wearing your clothes the right way."

Not sure if she was talking to herself, Tanya left all the clothes Lin Huaien brought with her on the ground - including underwear.

However, her eyes swept over her underwear, she arranged several jackets and trousers, and stuffed them all into Lin Huaien's hands.

"Put them all on," she said concisely.

"But, these are all coats..."

Lin Huai'en looked at the three wear-resistant outdoor jackets in his hands and hesitated.

But Tanya just continued to emphasize: "Put them all on."

Lin Huai'en had no choice but to take off the outermost protective clothing, take off his thick down jacket, shivering, and put on three canvas jackets.

Unlike down jackets, canvas jackets are not warm and are also very heavy.

My body soon felt a chill.

But at the same time, he was also a little surprised. As the temperature of his torso dropped, the temperature of his limbs gradually increased.

"In Siberia, it is more appropriate to wear several layers than a down jacket."

Tanya raised her down jacket to signal, stuffed it into Lin Huaien's backpack, then turned around and walked out of the cave.

Lin Huaien looked at the pants on the ground and knew what she meant.

After changing clothes, Lin Huai'en felt a lot heavier, but the temperature of his limbs also gradually warmed up.

Although the Shangcheng Association's cold-proof suit is not prepared for Siberia, it is also a very wear-resistant cold-proof combat suit. The basic sharpness immunity reaches 1.2, which can ensure that the cold-proof clothing inside will not be destroyed too easily. .

Just like Director Shi of the Department of Corrections said——

"In Siberia, cold and wounds are enough to kill me..."

Lin Huai'en subconsciously picked at the frostbite on his right wrist. It was itchy and it was the only frostbite he had suffered in this accident.

In order to prevent the wound on his right hand from freezing again, he took out the red glove given to him by the Minister of Corrections.

【The Will of the Giant】

[Performance: Muscle strength +1.5]

[Skill: Flame Shield]

[Fire Shield: Consumes 100 magic power to maintain a flame shield with a strength of 350. 】

"Muscle strength increased by 1.5!"

Lin Huai'en was a little surprised when he saw the attributes of the gloves in the Changying Dungeon Association. The muscle strength of 1.5 was enough to make this piece of equipment a second-level treasure. In addition, it also has a flame shield skill. The Punishment Department Minister Shi really gave him a very good thing.

"And it's very warm."

Lin Huai'en put the glove on his right hand, and the slightest heat from the glove penetrated into his body, warming the entire right half of his body.

"I knew it. I took out this equipment last night...but it's been a while, and I forgot about it."

Lin Huaien shook his head. Time passed very quickly. As he and Tanya arrived in Siberia, the three-way meeting was already three weeks ago.

"Where shall we go next?"

After packing his equipment, Lin Huaien walked outside the cave. He saw Tanya standing on the edge of a towering cliff, with her cell phone already picked up in her hand.

However, the Apple phone shut down immediately when it was blown by the cold Siberian wind.

Very rarely, the girl shook the brick in her hand with some annoyance, sighed helplessly, and stuffed it into her clothes, as if preparing to heat it with her body temperature.

Lin Huai'en knew that Leonardo should have bought Tanya's mobile phone.

However, just when he was about to laugh at Leonardo's taste, he looked down at his phone.

RICEXII, which had accompanied him through the entire Kadchan Underground City, had actually turned into a black screen.

"Come on...I thought it was the lack of power, but it turned out that the power was not used up, but the battery was dead..."

Tanya also noticed the black screen mobile phone in Lin Huaien's hand, sighed helplessly, pointed in the direction from a distance, and then walked down the snow-capped mountains.

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By the time Tanya came down, Lin Huai'en was already lying in the snow nest, waiting for a long time——

Because Tanya walked down, and he rolled down.

"Yo!"

He lay in the snow nest and said hello to Tanya, unable to move.

There was soft snow all around him, sinking in whenever he moved.

Seeing him like this, Tanya was not unhappy at all. She slowly took out the sled and tied it to her feet. Then she took out the rope from her backpack and threw it over, letting Lin Huaien grab him and pull him out of the snow nest. Drag it out.

And Lin Huai'en also tied up the sled and snow poles in the same way.

However, this set of tools was too unfamiliar to him. Even if it was equipped with a sled, he could only move slowly like a duck and could not move fast at all.

Not to mention, like Tanya, holding on to the snow poles, she moved forward quickly.

"Siberia... This is Siberia... Damn Siberia!"

Lin Huai'en began to hate that it would not snow in the city where he and Xu Qin lived.

He staggered step by step and followed Tanya forward slowly.

Although Tanya had tried hard to show him the correct way to ski, there was no verbal explanation, and Tanya was not a very good teacher, so Lin Huaien was still stumbling step by step.

Even if I finally took advantage of the opportunity to slip downhill, I would still continue to slip and roll, and even one of my ski poles broke.

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After four consecutive days, when Lin Huaien finally arrived at the hunter's cabin that was Tanya's destination, he was almost dying.

In the last two days of the journey, he almost always let Coco pull him and gallop on the snow, otherwise he would arrive at the hunter's cabin even later.

"From the big hollow in Kadchan to the outskirts of the blockade...did we run at least 150 kilometers in four days..."

Lin Huaien looked at the girl in front of him with some admiration.

Although Lin Huai'en was a little acclimatized for his own reasons, on the ice field where there was almost only ice, snow and coniferous forest, Tanya arrived at the place she wanted to go almost accurately. This ability to identify the direction, It's hard to believe that she is just a girl who has lost her memory.

But Lin Huaien looked at Tanya silently stroking the hunter's cabin, but he was very sure that she had indeed lost her memory.

Half of the hunter's cabin had collapsed. The log wall on the left seemed to have been bombarded by some unusual violence and was scattered on the ground. The ceiling rested on the ground, barely protruding a space.

"There's no other way, let's continue living in the tent."

Lin Huai'en shook his head and took out the white cold-proof tent.

But as soon as he turned his head, the white-haired girl had already grabbed the shovel at hand and stepped on the top of the wooden roof——

She raised the shovel and stabbed it in hard. The nearly one meter thick layer of snow suddenly slid down from the roof of the wooden house.

"Do you still want to live in a log cabin...or do you just want to renovate it?"

Lin Huaien shook his head. He didn't want to affect Tanya, the "expert", with his opinions.

He put down his tent and joined in shoveling the snow.

"Dancing with the snow."

Just as Lin Huaien was desperately cleaning up the snow shoveled by Tanya, the girl suddenly said something coldly.

"What?" He raised his head subconsciously.

"Dancing with the snow." Tanya looked at Lin Huaien's expression and knew what he was talking about. She lowered her head silently and continued shoveling the snow: "It was what my grandfather said, dancing with the snow -"

“Get close to it, adapt to it, and finally master it.”

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Tanya didn't know that Lin Huaien knew what she meant, but she just followed Lin Huaien's example.

But Lin Huai'en seemed to have some realization after listening to her explanation.

"Water-based...or should I say 'snow-based'..."

Lin Huai'en never thought that "snow" could also have "properties".

He has always felt that "snow" is a very common thing, soft and gentle, which makes people subconsciously feel only beauty and romance——

In Siberia, however, this is not the case at all.

"Snow……"

"Heavy snow..."

"The endless goose-feather snow..."

Lin Huai'en walked in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, holding the snow shoveled from the roof behind him.

The flying snow looks light and simple, but it is much scarier than the thunderstorm——

Because thunderstorms will just flow to the ground, while snow will continue to accumulate on the roof, eventually crushing the house.

Lin Huai'en gritted his teeth and pulled hard on the rope behind him. The snow under his feet slipped. The snow behind him was extremely heavy. It felt like it weighed at least a ton.

Every time he went uphill, it was a kind of torture for him.

After shoveling all the snow on the roof, Tanya came over, pushed the snow up the hill, and then pushed it down toward the river valley.

"Phew...so exhausted."

Lin Huai'en looked at the broken sled in his hand, which was covered with linen bags and the ruts had been deeply pressed into the snow.

"Let's go, we still need to build wood."

Tanya glanced at Lin Huaien and continued to walk towards the hut.

The two men worked together to dig out the scattered logs from the snow and put up a wooden roof shed.

Until here, Lin Huaien realized why Tanya wanted to rebuild the wooden house.

"Uh-huh..."

Taking his first sip of hot soup in five days, Lin Huai'en felt his body warm from the depths of his abdomen.

No matter what kind of tent they were in, they couldn't make a fire in such an icy and snowy place.

The fuel of a medium-sized natural gas stove is limited, and it is impossible to use it for such luxurious things as making soup.

And if you want to use wood, you must do it in a safe open space - at least in the snow or in a tent, which is completely unfeasible.

Lin Huai'en looked at the bonfire rising in the wooden house, and heard the cold wind howling outside the house, and his whole body became peaceful.

In this icy and snowy place, there are no mobile phones, no TV, no signal, and no wires.

Except for the burning bonfire in front of them, he and Tanya were isolated from the world and had nothing to think about.

For him, this is the best kind of relaxation.

This is also what he has been vaguely pursuing——

Completely inner self.

In the vast wilderness, alone.

Only when you look at the vastness of the world can you feel that there is nothing else but yourself.

"Hell is other people..."

"But in the wilderness, there are no other people..."

"Thus, we can more clearly realize 'who we are'..."

Thinking of this, Lin Huaien subconsciously raised his eyes and glanced at Tanya.

The girl lowered her head and poked at the bonfire. Her long, snow-white hair seemed to be burned by flames, dyed with orange light.

However, they do not actually burn and turn into charcoal.

This is also a kind of "beauty".

Lin Huai'en drank the wild mushroom soup brought from Changying Downtown, and suddenly felt something in his heart——

It's called "Satisfaction."

"You still don't remember your past?"

Dispelling the confusion in his heart, Lin Huaien lowered his head and glanced at Tanya.

Even though she didn't understand Lin Huai'en's words, the white-haired girl still shook her head.

"You clearly remember the way back...you know how to survive in this icy and snowy wasteland, but you just forgot about yourself..."

Lin Huaien realized that Tanya was completely opposite to him.

If it were said that he came to this boundless ice field in order to seek the wilderness in his heart.

But Tanya only had a piece of ice left in her heart, and she tried to come to this wilderness to find her original self.

"Go to sleep first and go to the village you mentioned tomorrow."

"Yeah." Lin Huaien nodded when he saw Tanya.

After drinking the hot soup and the smoke from the fire, he felt a little sleepy. He looked at the small wooden house, sat on a chair and tightened his clothes.

The wooden house was only about ten square meters in size. There was only a bed made of logs on the back side, and there was no quilt. There was no way he would be so shameless as to snatch Tanya's sleeping place.

Days of running around, coupled with a whole day of heavy physical work, made his eyelids keep drooping.

Slowly, slowly, I lost consciousness.