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Among the three, the youngest Balbohan is more than 140 years old, Gowawa is two hundred years old, and the age of Noli Fen is unknown, but it must be much older than the other two—she can be regarded as watching Gowawa grew up from a young age.

The three "old people" reunited, and the longest thing they talked about was the past. They talked about the glaciers of the Infinity Mountains from the deck on the west coast, and finally nested in this igloo, and they were still talking about those things. Old people and old things, it seems that the good things in the past can never be finished.

"The igloo in Ai Qiao Xiduo is much more beautiful than yours. Do you still remember the time when you went to the 'New World'?" Nuo Lifen said.

"It doesn't matter if the igloo is beautifully built, it won't die early." Gowawa sat on a blanket of animal skin with his hands spread out, as if he didn't feel that he was exaggerating.

"This thing requires talent, and Ai Qiao Siduo obviously lacks comprehension." Balbohan said.

"You don't have to say it so implicitly, he's just stupid—even if he's not here, I'll say the same," Gowawa said.

"That can't be helped. Human life is inherently short, and comprehension is indeed a bit difficult for them." Nuolifen said.

"Then how does Harvein explain it? And Wenzina—although these two guys are still young, their comprehension is definitely not low." Balbohan said.

"Yeah, and that Egraine." Nolivin added, "I always feel that this person is a little unfathomable."

"Egran may not be human, she has a strange smell." Balbohan said, "To be honest, the smell both scares me and makes me salivate."

"You haven't told us about this before. In fact, I have a similar feeling. I always feel that she is a little scary... But Lord is so obsessed with her, so I can't say anything." Gowawa took out a small jar of wine from his storage container, and took out three more glasses.

"Gowawa, I may need today..." Balbohan looked at him, hesitating to speak.

"Oh?" Gowawa glanced at him, then at Nuolifen, and then slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot, it's been so long, you really should get some blood. You should have said it earlier, why are you polite?" Gowawa was about to untie the bandage on his sleeve.

"That...no need." Balbohan stretched out his hand to stop him, "I discussed it with Nuolifen yesterday..."

"Oh, oh." Gowawa nodded clearly, and leaned back against the wall again, "Then you have to take it easy, as for Nuolifen's small body—"

"What's wrong with your small body? That's stronger than your smell." Nuolifen replied.

"Look at your complacency, it makes you proud to be someone else's dinner, doesn't it?"

"Really? I don't know who was so aggressive just now—"

"Okay, okay, I won't argue with you about this." Gowawa waved his hand, "You'd better relieve yourself first, then don't..."

Noli Fen snorted and ignored what he said.

The most primitive Aswan lived by sucking blood, while long-lived species like Balbohan would have much less need for blood—but it was still necessary.Drinking blood is more of a way to keep them alive.

Noli Fen moved closer to Balbohan and leaned into his arms.After sitting firmly, she untied her shawl, revealing her snow-white neck.

Gowawa curled his lips, lowered his head and opened the wine jar in his hand, and began to drink by himself.The big dwarf was a little jealous: it's just a bloodletting, it shouldn't be so ambiguous, this old woman really hasn't changed at all, really.

I don't know whether he is envious of Noli Fen or Balbohan, after all, both of them are very attractive.

"Nuolifen, it's time to start." Balbohan put his mouth behind her ear, his voice was like a whisper.

"Well, come on." Noli Fen closed her eyes.

Balbohan opened his mouth halfway, and two needle-like long teeth protruded from his upper lip, as if a table knife cut into fine butter and pierced into the blood vessels under Nolifin's neck.

Nuolifen let out a deep breath, her whole body relaxed, and her curled up legs fell to the side.Balbohan still maintained his hunting posture, wrapping his hands around Nolifin's soft waist, and hugged the prey in his arms tighter again.

Before eating, Aswan's first thing to do is to empty the venom from the teeth.Their venom is not fatal to humans, but it has effects such as anesthesia, anticoagulant and muscle relaxation, and for some races of Aswan, their venom may contain something similar to oxytocin The ingredients can make the prey quickly eliminate the fear, and even immerse the target in an inexplicable sense of happiness.

Pale Aswan's toxin is very useful for (pan) human females, perhaps this is also an evolutionary choice-when they take human form, their attractive appearance is easy to win the favor of females, and hunting those petite and weak women is obviously much easier than men.Over time, Pale Aswan not only specialized in hunting methods for women, but also tried to sneak into some human societies and coexist harmoniously with prey.

Balbohan's fangs left Nolifin's neck.He narrowed his eyes contentedly, murmured a healing spell softly, and stopped the bleeding wound.

"Is that all right?" Noli Fen was still leaning in his arms, her tone was as if she had just woken up, "You're welcome, you can inhale some more...I feel good now..." She tried to open her eyes and giggled towards Gowawa on the other side.

"Here it comes again." Gowawa was a little dumbfounded, "It's time for the lake elves to be silly."

This reminded the sober two of them of the past.They used to go on adventures together, and they gave the team a name called "Harmonious Coexistence"-because there are really all races in the team.Many people in the team had donated blood to Balbohan, but Nolifin had the strongest reaction to Pale Aswan's toxin. At this time, the team members would take turns asking her questions, asking her some strange but insignificant questions, and she would answer stupidly and answer every question.

"It's been a long time since I felt this way, I really miss it." Noli Fen seemed to be talking nonsense.

"I also miss seeing you being stupid again." Gowawa said while drinking.

"I'm not stupid." Nolifin said, "Gowawa is not stupid, and Balbohan is not stupid either."

Gowawa and Balbohan looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled.

"I miss Lamy so much—and Ozwan, Lord, Kemalan, Yashaya, and Aijoshido..." Nolifin said the names of several people in succession. At this time, her ears seemed to be There was a familiar singing voice, which came from her early memories of camping.At that time, the ten or so people in the Harmony Squad get together, sometimes like this, cuddling with each other, singing and talking.

"I remember the time we went to the archipelago. We couldn't find the exit, so we just dug a tunnel and ran out. A group of people made their heads look ashamed." Nuolifen kept patting Balbohan's knee, "When we came out It's still late at night, and there are two green stars in the sky - wow, so bright! We built a campfire nearby, and Lord and Aijo Sido also shot a pterosaur in the dark, and it turned out to be undercooked and unpalatable... ..."

Noli Fen seemed to have really returned to those days, and she kept talking, but Balbohan and Gowawa, who were sitting by the side, remained silent, both a little depressed.

"Where's sister Avenia? Where did she go?" Noli Fen raised her head with difficulty and looked around.

"Evinia? That girl died a long time ago, have you forgotten?" Gowawa's tone was not good, "She was eaten by a few strange wolves. When we buried her, we were still discussing whether to Take the part out of the wolf's stomach - it was too disgusting to do. Did you really forget?"

For some reason, Gowawa felt unbalanced when he saw the joyful expression on Nuolifen's face.

"She's dead? Avenia?" Noli Fen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into tears.

Gowawa had a triumphant smirk on his face, completely indifferent to the complaining expression Balbohan threw at him.

The night wind was still howling, and in this boundless mountain range, only a small snow house was shining.

"We must find Lord. Lord Harveyn." Nolifin said in a word, "I have to ask him to make me a new pair of boots, using the skin from Gowawa's stomach..."

"This bastard." Gowawa shook his head helplessly.

When she said this, Noli Fen had already taken off her boots, and both feet were stuck in Gowawa's clothes.

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Note?: The prototype is the Philippine Banshee (Aswang).

Note?: In the following text, "he" (represents male), "she" (represents female), and "it" (represents animal or body), three different references will be used to indicate Balbohan's current appearance (only if there is no special explanation).

[114] Enthalpy of phase transition (Part [-])

Businessmen are one of the most sensitive types of people to change.

Whether it is the official continuous flat purchase trend in recent years, or the change in market demand for cotton wool and fuel, or the rise in the water level of the canal channel in winter, the increase in fish populations in the migratory area...everything you see and hear affects their interests.And through this series of clues, people have probably found an imperceptible fact-the world is heating up year by year.

This change is almost insignificant, but its cumulative impact on the world cannot be ignored.

Take Klicking as an example. In fact, successive years of bumper harvests have not had much positive impact on the crumbling manor operations in the north: although the continuously low grain price can reduce the cost of animal husbandry to a certain extent, the reduction in the price of livestock meat and the increase in transportation costs But then offset the profit.The increasingly saturated agricultural and animal husbandry market, on the one hand, has intensified the merger of emerging capital for farmers' land, public land, and even those poorly managed manors; on the other hand, the proportion of food and clothing expenditures has decreased and some related factors have changed. It has also supported the rapid growth of the agricultural population; in addition to these two points, cotton plantations and sheep pastures are also expanding due to demand, and transportation and processing production lines are constantly expanding. From this point of view, in the near future, the number of agricultural areas Idle labor will be largely transferred to cities and towns.The young and strong in the countryside will enter labor-intensive factories such as the textile industry, garment industry, and assembly industry-and eventually, labor will become cheap, and the modern capital model will develop rapidly.

In addition to the social impact of global warming on some countries, Lomingo and Kiran have suffered from frequent floods in recent years.The glaciers in the north are melting, and the rapid currents will roll large pieces of ice and snow along the way into the river.The two countries are in the downstream position. Mokoto and the river in the northwest of Lomingo meet and form two branches in the middle: one flows to the end of the Mien Mountains and merges into the starting sea on the west side of the Haneji Continent;The flood created a large number of homeless refugees. These refugees fled around and flocked to countries such as Mokoto, Klikin, and Kyle respectively, causing serious public security problems and even the spread of epidemics in some areas. On the border between Mokoto and Kiran, the transit of refugees meant the intrusion of ideology.Due to the strict defense of the border, some Kiran refugees chose to go northward from the east of Klikin and enter Mokoto through the unguarded marching channel. As a result, Mokoto was a little dissatisfied with Klikin who let the refugees enter, but Klikin had no choice.

Compared with the turmoil in the north of Yudi, the emerging power in the south-central region of Jijisen is taking advantage of the small tricks - secretly supporting the independence and liberation movements of the colonies in the south with a large amount of funds, and selectively promoting economic nationalism and vigorously developing charitable geopolitics.Ji Kesen uses this to achieve economic strategic redeployment, so as to lay a strong foundation for a new round of capital division of the world.

Apart from disputes, there is also cooperation.As the world is heating up, the upper echelons of all countries have set their sights on the Infinity Mountains, and seem to have a tendency to cooperate in expeditions - countries patrol here in the name of expeditions to ensure that this pure land will not suddenly become the territory of a certain country.

The Boundless Mountains are melting. Judging from the floods in Lomingo and Kiran, this is clearly an indisputable fact. But the question is, is the melting of the Boundless Mountains causing the world to heat up, or is it the widespread warming that caused the Boundless Mountains to start melting? ?

The boundless mountain range covers a vast area. Its west side covers the upper edge of Yudi (Black Feather), the middle part bypasses the New World (Tianyi), and it faces the northern coast of Donglu (Qiyang).The outer ring of the Infinity Mountains is composed of low hills north of Mokoto, foothill glaciers west of Lomingo, and tundra tundra at the northern end of the east coast of Kiran. The interior is a radial mountain range composed of several huge mountains, which are quite high and spectacular.Mountains, glaciers, and ice fields block all the areas north of the three continents, as if this is the end of the world—someone has estimated that, counting the area of ​​the frozen ocean, the volume of the boundless mountains is more than ten times larger than the combined area of ​​the three continents.

Is the Infinity Mountains warming cyclical?People have carried out preliminary excavations and researches on the survival traces of certain cold-resistant plants, such as dryas.They found that the seeds or pollen of certain plants, or fragments of rhizomes, were still detected within hundreds of kilometers of the Infinity Mountains, which indicated that the Infinity Mountains had been warm before.And judging from the types of plants found, people or other humanoid creatures may even have lived here.

If——this frozen mountain range can become a warm and fertile land in the foreseeable future, who should she own?When the major forces noticed this sooner or later, Yuji, who had just recovered from the war, began to become nervous again, and this time, the forces in the Eastern Continent were also ready to move.

The first human expedition team to go deep into the Boundless Mountains is struggling on the periphery, but in the depths of the Boundless Mountains, where the mountains meet, Balbohan, Gowawa, and Noli Fen are moving in the direction pointed by Ji Xian.

The coldness here was beyond imagination, the white mist exhaled by the three of them fell towards the ground like flour, it seemed that some gas had also condensed due to the cold.Everything is silent, there is no wind or cloud, and although it is noon, the sky is a bit dark.When you get here, you can't see any traces of living things. The elemental fluctuations that you can feel in the air are extremely quiet and thin, and even the magic used will be slightly suppressed.Due to the weakening of the magic effect, even though the three of them were highly skilled, they still felt a bit overwhelmed.

"Hey, Ji Xian, wake up!" Balbohan stretched out his hand and tapped its long beak lightly.The bird stayed on Gowawa's shoulder all the time, with its eyes closed and motionless.

"Is this little broken bird frozen?" Gowawa shook his shoulder, only to find that Ji Xian remained motionless as if glued to his shoulder. "It won't really freeze to death, right?" Gowawa stretched out his other hand, trying to grab its wings, but was pressed down by its raised bird claws.

"I was thinking about something just now." Ji Xian opened his eyes, "What's the matter with you?"

"We seem to have arrived," said Balbohan.

"Lord will really be here?" Noli Fen looked at the towering rock walls all around, "I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in such a cold place for a week."

The altitude here is very high, and there is a sunken flat land under the three people's feet, and there are high mountains all around. They just squeezed in through a narrow gap between the mountains.

"Lord! Are you there—Lord!" Gowawa yelled.

"It's so noisy, don't shout!" Nuolifen covered her ears with her hands and kicked him. After being yelled at by the big dwarf, she now felt like a needle prick in her head.

"Lord isn't here, but something is here." Ji Xian flew up from Gowawa's shoulder and landed on a protruding stone in the center of the flat ground.The fiery red figure was like a burning ocher in the dim lowlands.

The three hurriedly followed.

The bird lifted its head, its stalked crest shining brightly.It opened its mouth and let out a soft moan.

Balbohan felt a warm current suddenly spread out from where Ji Xian was, and the ground under his feet began to tremble continuously. A muffled rumbling sound came from the depths of the ground, and the sound was getting closer—it was the ice layer coming from the ground. The sound of internal collapse.

"Be careful—" Balbohan called to his two companions.A cloud of dark red smoke spread out from his lower back, and finally turned into a pair of huge fleshy wings covered with white fluff, fluttering and flying him away from the ground.Balbohan held Noli Finn's waist with one hand, and Gowawa's back collar with the other, trying to bring the two of them into the air.However, Gowawa was too heavy, and it would be difficult for Balbohan to lift him from the ground without using some magic.

He was about to recite the mantra, but suddenly a huge force came from his hand, and the ground collapsed.

Gowawan's fleshy body jumped up from the shattered ground, and brought Balbohan and Nolifin down together.Balbohan still did not let go, his wings cushioned Gowawa's fall to a certain extent.Due to the cracks in the ground, the falling speed of each part was not uniform, which gave the big dwarf room to maneuver.In the billowing snow and mist, Gowawa hung two companions on his body, moving non-stop on the tumbling rocks and ice, advancing steadily towards the underground pothole.Behind them, Balbohan and Nuolifen uttered strange screams of panic, while Gowawa laughed like a madman.

Smoke billows.

Deep in the pothole, there were several thumping sounds on the snowdrift one after another—there was no doubt that all three people fell down.

Half of Gowawa's body was buried in the snow, his swollen belly was still exposed, and his laughter still didn't stop, but it was much softer.

"It's so exciting." He said, "Look, after so many years, we still have such a tacit understanding."

It was very quiet in the pit, and no one responded to his words.

"Nolifin? Balbohan?" Gowawa called softly, "Are you two still alive?"

Still no response.

"Nolifin?" He struggled to sit up, "Balbohan?" It was pitch black all around.

"Shut up, you bastard." A female voice came from the corner of the pothole, "You almost killed us all."

Nuolifen was very angry, she didn't want to talk to Ligowawa, but if she didn't respond, the dwarf would keep barking.

"Ha! It's been a long time since I heard you say that, thank you for the compliment." Gowawa stroked the snow on his beard, and then shouted to the surroundings: "Balbohan, just call back if you're alive!"

Then, an arm stretched out from the snowdrift beside him.

"Oh, it's quite close." Gowawa laughed twice, and then lay back on the snow again, he was finally relieved.

Compared with the position just now, they were about a few hundred meters deeper at this time.Nolifin released a faint lighting technique, which gave a glimmer of light to the bottom of the wide cave.The other two also got up from the snow and explored around.

This place is even bigger than imagined, and Gowawa and others are at the bottom of the cone-shaped cave.They found that there was a huge white ice in the center of the cave, nearly ten meters high, like a small iceberg.

When they got closer, they realized that Ji Xian was parked in the open space in front of Ning Bing.

"Hey, what happened just now, aren't you afraid that all of us will fall to our death?" Gowawa bent down and pointed at it, and finally added, "You little broken bird..."

"I'm very relieved of you." Ji Xian flew up and jumped onto the hat on top of his head, "Just remember, if you miss, I won't just sit idly by."

"What now?" asked Balbohan. "This is where you said it was?"

"There are two formation cores here, you need to take them out." Ji Xian said.

"What formation seal?" Balbohan asked, "Why is there a formation seal here? What are the consequences after it is removed?"

"Didn't we come to find Lord? Why did you let us do this kind of thing again?" Noli Fen asked.After this experience, the elves were also a little dissatisfied.

"And you have been hiding it from us, and you have never mentioned that there are any seals here." Gowawa said again.

"I didn't hide it from you, because I came back this time to confirm my speculation." Ji Xian's tone was calm, "The temperature in the Infinity Mountains is rising, and I have always suspected that this has something to do with Egran's relics. "

Speaking of Egran, the three of them fell silent, waiting for Ji Xian to continue.

"Among Egraine's relics, some belong to her, while others belong to the mountain range itself. They are the 'key objects' that make up the huge formation, that is, the core. There are a total of twelve cores, and most of them were picked up by Lord, but because he didn't realize at the time that the 'key objects' were actually placed where there were traces, he never found the last two. Although Egraine didn't say it clearly, I think what she meant—let's remove all the cores. Lord and I didn't understand it earlier I didn't figure out what she meant until recently. So, before looking for Lord, we have to settle the matter here."

"How can we believe what you say?" Balbohan asked it.

If Lord was not present, Balbohan and others would not have fully believed what Ji Xian said, because this bird is not Lord's property, and someone has been fooled by it before—Lord can be regarded as its guarantor.

These three people often attack each other with words, but when they are outside, they are extremely united.They watched the bird, waiting for an answer.

［115］ Enthalpy of Phase Change (Part [-])

"If I want to harm you, I don't need to spend a lot of time to lure people here." Ji Xian said, "I brought you here only because I couldn't get these cores out. After all, Lord is not here--you can just treat it as a kindness and destroy this thing along the way, gentlemen?"

"What would happen if this thing were taken down?" Balbohan asked again.

"The northern part of the three continents will become warmer and the southern part will become colder. In 100 to [-] years, the climate may become harsh until the temperature in the north and the south tends to be the same." Ji Xian said, "But I advise you to do your best. Don't think about the consequences, because no one knows what will happen in the future-not only the problems within the three continents, but also a pack of wolves in the north of the Infinity Mountains."

"What wolf?" Gowawa asked.

"The wolf who is eyeing you. Don't worry, you will know soon." Ji Xian said.

"Are we really going to do this? What is the purpose of doing this?" Balbohan hesitated, and beside him, Nuolifen also had the same concerns.