The Witch's Taste

If you don't consider the beauty changes, there is indeed an obvious difference between the two pictures - the skin on the arm after soaking in the hot spring is rosy and rosy, which is obviously more beautiful.

Looking at the comments again, most of the replies said that Lingyi Town is too far away, so I can only save it as a friend.After all, there is no direct railway to Lingyi Town, and it takes at least 15 hours to go there by bus.

But judging from the number of people in the car today, there are still many people who are free and not afraid of trouble.

After casually sending this blog to Rio Hokaze in the back row, Chen Ziang saw the scenery outside the window start to move.

The bus leaves.

【Knowledge】: Lingyi Town does have records of hot springs.In fact, you will find that most of the towns outside Jibei City have hot springs, because hot springs are natural heat sources that can be used. You only need to introduce hot water into every household through pipes to ensure the daily heating of the townspeople. So early imperial mining teams tended to build colonies near hot springs.

[Is there any urban legend]: But can this kind of hot spring really beautify the skin?

[Pursuing knowledge]: If the groundwater from the source of the hot spring passes through the mineral deposit, the water will indeed be rich in minerals. I can only say that I do not rule out this possibility.

[Is there any urban legend]: I have a subtle premonition that the person who posted the blog and the person who contributed to Naoya Yasui are behind it to attract more people to Lingyi Town.By the way, what was the séance ceremony that once took place in the underground mine of Lingyi Town?

[Knowledge-seeking heart]: According to the records in the intelligence database, the person who reported the case was a local townsman in Lingyi Town, but the communication was cut off after the other party only had time to say "they are depriving death".The review was carried out through divination, and the conclusion was that Lingyi Town was indeed holding a séance ceremony.But when the operators arrived there, they encountered a major earthquake, the ceremony was confirmed to be interrupted, and the reporter mysteriously disappeared.

[Is there any urban legend]: "They are depriving death", what does it mean?

[Knowledge-seeking heart]: Maybe it is a god related to death.

Suddenly a gust of fragrant wind hit, Yuegong Suzuna had finished chatting with the two girls in the front row, she leaned her head over to look at Chen Ziang's phone, and asked in a low voice:

"What did you discuss?"

"It's nothing." Chen Ziang handed over the phone, "Look for yourself."

Yuegong Suzuna did not answer the phone, but stared out of the window in a daze, and said:

"Senior, look, it's snowing outside!"

Chen Ziang followed her gaze and looked out the window.

It wasn't that the sky suddenly snowed, but that the car had already driven out of the extreme north city and plunged into the cold world of ice and snow.

Chapter 34

Gaotianyuan planet, because it is far away from the sun, is a planet with a very cold climate.

Human beings survive on high-altitude protoplanets, relying on the shallow geothermal heat here.Or to put it more simply, where there are hot springs of sufficient scale, they are suitable for human habitation.

Geothermal resources are most abundant and concentrated at the South Pole and North Pole of the planet, so there are two largest metropolitan areas in Gaotianyuan - Zhongnan City and Extreme North City.

Among them, the geothermal supply of Jibei City mainly depends on the "Atami" in Jinchuan District, which is a large scenic hot spring lake.

The closer you are to Atami, the more abundant the heat source will be, and the more pleasant the climate will be.For example, the Guanting Street where the Yuegong family lived was located on the edge of the narrow bay of the Rehu Lake, and it was the location with the most pleasant climate and the most expensive housing prices in the entire Jibei City.

Outside of Jibei City, where there are no hot springs, the temperature is mostly maintained at minus 20 degrees Celsius, and only polar species such as wolves, snow rabbits, snow rats, and lichen moss can survive here.

The bus was driving on the ice field, and most of the curtains had been pulled down by the passengers, because when you look outside, there is only white, and it almost blinds your eyes if you look at it for a long time.

Because Chen Ziang had done his homework beforehand, he put on sunglasses early on, so he didn't have any symptoms of snow blindness. He just opened the curtains a little and looked carefully out of the silver-covered window.

This is indeed the first time he has set foot on the world outside of Jibei City.

It is said that in the early years when it was not developed, once a vehicle broke down on the road, it could only wait for the vehicles passing behind to rescue it.

The engine must be started 24 hours a day, because it is a cold world of minus [-] degrees outside.If the gas runs out or the air conditioner fails, when the car behind arrives, it will only find a car full of frozen passengers covered in ice and snow.

Of course, now that there are search and rescue satellites and professional field search and rescue teams, the possibility of accidents is very small, but those terrible accidents still linger in the hearts of the citizens of Jibei City, so that everyone subconsciously rejects and fears the ice and snow outside Jibei City .

Chen Ziang's eyes froze suddenly.

He saw a wolf.

A dozen wolves, to be exact.

The size and coat color of these wolves are very similar to husky, Alaskan and other sled dog breeds, but their demeanor and temperament are completely different.Their mouths were tightly closed, their tails were clamped between the two strands, and they quickly outflanked the two sides of the tail of the bus, as if they regarded the bus as a prey that could be chased.

Chen Ziang watched silently as a wolf approached under the window, then jumped up suddenly, and slapped heavily on the car body, making a muffled sound.

"What's wrong?" Suzuna Tsukimiya, who was playing with her mobile phone next to her, asked curiously when she heard the voice.

"Nothing." Chen Ziang replied, "Wild wolves."

"Is there a wolf?" The two girls in the front row were also alarmed. They quickly opened the curtains, took out their mobile phones and started shooting in surprise, "Really!"

"Don't open the window!" The driver in front shouted, "It's minus [-] degrees outside!"

The driver's reminder worked. Everyone didn't rush to open the window to shoot or feed, but just happily took pictures through the window.

This suddenly gave Chen Ziang a strange thought: What if there was no protection from the bus?

If they encountered wolves in the unprotected wilderness in rural towns, would these passengers still be able to smile so happily?

Such a ridiculous thought just passed away in a flash, and was soon suppressed by him.

Realizing that there was no food, the wolves pursued in vain for a while, then stopped in place and stopped running.

This disappointed the passengers in the car, and the atmosphere returned to quiet and boring.

It takes a full 15 hours and 20 minutes from Jibei City to Lingyi Town, so everyone basically prepared downloaded movies, music, eye masks and headphones to pass the long boring time.

Chen Ziang is still searching for relevant information about Lingyi Town.It's just that there is no doubt that the previous incident of the seance ceremony in the ossuary, as a typical serious mutation that must be concealed from the public, did not have any news on the Internet.

There was no response to the message sent to Hokaze Hokaze, Chen Ziang couldn't help turning his head to look, and found that Hokaze Hokaze in the back row had already put on a blindfold and fell asleep.

In that case, I'll sleep for a while too.

Chen Ziang was about to sleep when his right shoulder suddenly sank.

Tsukimiya Suzuna was already in a daze, resting her head on his shoulder.

"Moon Palace?" Chen Ziang called out cautiously.

The girl didn't respond and seemed to have fallen asleep.

"Yuegong!" He raised his voice a little, but the two girls in the front row turned their heads, took a look, and then turned their heads as if they were secretly delighted, and whispered gossip.

Being speculated and gossiped by others is much more lethal to a straight man of steel than being slept on by a girl on his shoulder.

In order not to attract the attention of more passengers around, Chen Ziang also gave up his plan to wake her up, and just put the sweater covering his legs lightly on Yuegong Lingna's body.

Probably because she was sleeping too comfortably, Yuegong Lingna suddenly stretched out her hand again and hugged Chen Ziang's right arm.

Chen Ziang: ...

I suspect she is faking sleep, but I have no proof.

His arms seemed to be immersed in warm cotton. In order to get rid of the charming emotions in his mind, Chen Ziang also slowly closed his eyes and tried hard to sleep.

Consciousness gradually plunged into darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, he vaguely heard someone calling his name.

Is it the voice of Tsukimiya Suzuna?

Tsukimiya Suzuna appeared in front of her eyes with tears streaming down her cheeks, she held her hand tightly, and said something weakly, with a look of fear and despair.

Chen Ziang suddenly woke up from the dream.

The car was still quiet, and everyone seemed to have fallen asleep, but outside the window was full of wind and snow, and it was impossible to see the distant scene clearly.

Tsukimiya Suzuna still had her eyes closed, but she didn't rest her head on her shoulder, her head was already turned to the other side.

It seems that I was just dreaming just now...

Chen Ziang looked to the side again. When this girl was sleeping, even if she didn't have the strong affinity of "smiling without words", her beauty and charm did not attenuate in the slightest.

The hair on both sides of the cheeks was a little messy, but it added a bit of soft and delicate beauty to her.There was a slight sheen on the delicate lips of what should appear to be a crack-proof lipstick, and there was some seductive, cherry-like aroma.

It is so beautiful that it feels unreal and unreal.

Chen Ziang suddenly felt that the car was extremely stable, and the bumpy feeling caused by the original driving was gone.

"Master?" He quickly got up and asked, "The car stopped?"

"It's too snowy to drive." The driver in front said without looking back, "It's very close to Lingyi Town, and I've asked the townspeople to pick it up."

The sound of the conversation between the two woke up the sleeping passengers in the car. Tsukimiya Suzuna also woke up and asked in a daze:

"What's the matter, senior?"

"We stopped." Chen Ziang replied.

The driver was still explaining to the inquiring passengers that the snow ahead was too thick to see the road clearly, and it would be very troublesome to turn off to other places, and Lingyi Town had already sent a snowplow to pick it up.

But Chen Ziang still felt that something was wrong, so he opened his phone to find the weather software, and located the current location.

Sure enough, the weather forecast showed that there was no snow here at all, and it should be a sunny day.

The so-called weather forecast is the predictive result obtained based on the observation and estimation of cloud layer movement by meteorological satellites.

But what if the wind and snow do not come from natural climate, but some unknown mysterious force?

Chapter 35 Lingyi Town

Not long after, the vehicles in Lingyi Town finally arrived at the location of the bus through the wind and snow.

The passengers on the bus were all rejoicing. After all, they came all the way to travel, and the townspeople came to pick them up in person. They felt flattered and honored.

The driver went down to communicate with the townspeople. Chen Ziang tried his best to look from the back row, trying to see the faces of the townspeople clearly, but he only saw a few thick figures wrapped from head to toe in cold-proof clothing.

The two sides probably exchanged a few words, and those cold-proof clothes went back to the snowplow truck, and began to shovel snow in front and lead the way for the bus.

The atmosphere in the car became more lively. Many passengers even ran from the back row to the front of the car and took photos of the snowplow's buttocks with their mobile phones. Seeing snow once, not to mention a special vehicle like a snowplow.

Chen Ziang was thinking about it when he heard Yuegong Lingnai suddenly say:

"Those townspeople... have a weird posture."

"How do you say?" Chen Ziang asked hastily.

"They're all hunchbacks," said Tsukimiya Suzuna, "and their bodies are obviously leaning forward."

"Is it because of bending over and working for a long time?" Chen Ziang pondered, "Mining?"

The bus followed the snowplow and continued until the outline of houses in Lingyi Town appeared on the horizon ahead, and the wind and snow gradually subsided.

"It's very interesting." Rio Hokaze looked at the phone and said suddenly, "Looking from the surrounding weather, Lingyi Town seems to be in the center of the snowstorm, and it hardly suffered any damage."

"And the surrounding area has been completely blocked by the snowstorm. Without snow plows, positioning equipment and guides who are familiar with the road, ordinary people have no way to leave here."

"It doesn't matter, right?" The girl in the front row heard it, and turned around and said, "The townspeople here seem to be very kind, and they should send us out of town by then."

"That's right." The girl next to him also added, "And maybe the snowstorm will stop tomorrow."

They exchanged friends with Yue Gong Suzuna before, so Chen Ziang knew that the girl with black hair and single ponytail on the left was a girl from the Lu ethnic group, named Tian Xiaoyun; And friendship.

Chen Ziang really wanted to tell them that this trip was not safe. Under the local mine in Lingyi Town, there was a ritual relic called "Zanghushou"... But if he told this to two ordinary people, he would only get a "I don't understand" .

Therefore, he could only tactfully persuade:

"If it's a horror movie, this kind of blizzard is already an obvious reminder, and our group just turned a blind eye to the plot reminder and still chose to die to enter the town. The typical protagonist group."

"Hahahaha." Ayaka Sawada laughed wildly, and said to Suzuna Tsukimiya, "Suzuna-chan, your boyfriend's words are so interesting."

"I really can't do anything about him." Tsukimiya Suzuna sighed pretendingly, "But what he said is also reasonable, and if you are trapped in Lingyi Town, it will be bad if you can't go back to work smoothly, our boss is not very talkative .”

These words touched the two girls. After all, if the snowstorm continues for a few days, whether they can return will only depend on whether the townspeople can help.

But if you go back with this bus...

"At least it took me 15 hours in the car." Tian Xiaoyun said with a sigh, "It's always not reconciled not to soak in the hot spring."

"I can only hope that the return journey will go smoothly by then." Sawada Ayaka echoed.

Persuading the two failed, and the result was as expected. Chen Ziang stopped talking and just focused on communicating with Tsukimiya Suzuna and Hokaze Rio on their mobile phones.

As the intelligence officer said, the closer to Lingyi Town, the less severe the blizzard would be.

Until the bus officially drove into the town, the wind and snow had completely stopped, and there was not even a single snowflake in the town.

Soon they drove into the bus station, the driver parked the bus and let everyone get off, while he went to rest in the rest room.

Chen Ziang followed the two out of the car and felt that the temperature was around freezing. It seemed a bit exaggerated to wear winter clothes, but it was a bit cold without them.

He looked around carefully, and found that Lingyi Town was similar to most towns, with clean or old spacious roads, mixed-style houses of Lu and Island ethnic groups, and a desolate atmosphere that was almost dead.

Perhaps it was because it was too cold outside, neither the local townspeople nor the tourists showed up on the street... Where did those who drove the snowplow just now go?

"Go to the hotel and settle down first." Chen Ziang suggested.