Ling Cheng was buried under the snow.
It's no wonder that since just now, it feels like it's been climbing uphill. It turns out that there's a whole city downhill.
In the original book, after the two of Yunzhan and Zhan crossed the wind and snow belt, the Lingcheng they saw was the only city surrounded by wind and snow that was always sunny all the year round, just like the only calm spot in the center of the hurricane.
And this particularity comes from the geothermal heat emanating from the extinct volcano at the bottom of Lingcheng. It was through the crater of the extinct volcano that Yun Zhan and the others discovered the fissure of magic energy and the ancient underground palace buried deep in Lingcheng—Xun Huang .
But now, Lingcheng has turned into a vast expanse of snow, and the crater and underground palace are impossible to find.
The point is, if such thick snow is normal, how many years will it take to form? But according to the herdsmen of Erji Mountain, they have been to Lingcheng last month, so the snow is not simply caused by the weather.
Xiao Liu also got off his horse and walked behind Bai Fan Road.
"It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, we have to leave here." Bai Fanlu said in a deep voice.
Yun Zhan's blue bird didn't reply to him. In the current situation, he didn't dare to act rashly, especially with Xiao Liu by his side, so he had better go back to Erji Mountain first.
"… good."
Xiao Liu seemed to pause for a moment before agreeing. Just as Bai Fanlu turned his head to look at him in doubt, he saw the other party suddenly raised his eyes, frowning and looking in one direction.
Zhizhi got his head out from under his wolf fur, wrinkled his nose and sniffed, then jumped down suddenly and ran in that direction, leaving a string of small footprints behind him.
Xiao Liu looked at Bai Fanlu, the two looked at each other, followed immediately without saying a word.
Zhizhi ran extremely fast at first, and then gradually slowed down. He stopped and turned around in a snow field, shouting loudly and jumping up and down at the same time, looking extremely anxious.
Bai Fanlu tried to step on the snow, and felt that the sound was different from other places, so he stepped on it lightly again, took off the saber but did not pull out the scabbard, and directly inserted it into the snow slowly. up.
Then, he vaguely heard a soft clanging sound coming from below.
Following these three soft sounds, the snow a few feet away loosened slightly, and a corner collapsed, revealing a bit of blue-gray. Xiao Liu went over to look, and said to Bai Fanlu, "It seems to be a roof."
As if hearing him talking, there was another clanging sound from the ground, and it was louder than before.
"There are people below!"
Bai Fanlu was shocked, Lingcheng was completely covered by snow, and there were still survivors!
The two immediately set out to rescue them. Although the layer of snow was thinner than other places, the digging was still too slow. They used spiritual power to forcefully push it away and were afraid that the roof would collapse and hit the people below.
Melting the snow with the fire spirit technique is obviously the most efficient and safe method. However, the melted water may also put a lot of pressure on the building. Moreover, the temperature here is extremely low. If the snow is not disposed of immediately after melting, it will condense into ice in a blink of an eye.
Bai Fanlu told his plan, Xiaoliu said, "Did you forget? I can also spell now, leave it to me, I will melt the snow, and you just need to deal with the aftermath."
The two cooperated tacitly, and quickly cleaned up all the snow, exposing the entire glazed tile roof.
There is a hole in the roof, which may be the reason why the air can barely get in and out.
Facing the hole, Xiao Liu called out, "Is anyone there?"
This time I finally got a clear response, "Yes, yes... save... save..."
It was the voice of an old woman, speaking intermittently like a gossamer. If you listen carefully, you can still hear the weak crying of a child.
Bai Fanlu's heart twitched when he heard that, he didn't know what was going on below, so he could only break open the tiles little by little with his bare hands, and wanted to make a bigger passage, so he went down to have a look first.
Seeing that he had already started to move without saying a word, Xiao Liu comforted the people below, "Don't be afraid, we are here to save you." Then he also broke the tiles together with Bai Fanlu.
Finally made a hole that can accommodate one person, Xiao Liu stopped Bai Fanlu's impatient movement, "I will go first."
Then he jumped down.
Soon, Xiao Liu was heard shouting, "Brother, come down."
Bai Fanlu jumped down immediately, and Xiao Liu was supporting him below.
This place was originally dark, only a little light was thrown in from the hole just dug, reflecting the bright white snow, reflecting this narrow space.
There are a few figures curled up in the corner, look carefully, three big and four small. Among the adults, two had gray hair and one had all white hair. The youngest child was still in swaddling clothes, and the oldest girl seemed to be only seven or eight years old.
Among the adults, only one old woman was still awake. She held a small shovel in her right hand. She should have sent the distress signal just now. She held the youngest baby in her left hand, and a little boy was clinging to her side. , shivering.
In the dim light, the child's eyes opened a crack, he whimpered a few times, and then fell silent again.
Probably because the old woman had exhausted all her strength to ask for help, and she did not expect that someone could hear and come down. She was so excited that she couldn't speak.
Bai Fanlu and Xiao Liu immediately walked up to her, took out the dry food from the bag, the water bag froze, Bai Fanlu melted it with magic, and set up an enchantment in this small space to resist the invasion of part of the cold air, and then healed it Surgery to heal their wounds.
Gradually the old man and the child who were in a coma woke up, and Xiao Liu hurriedly gave them food and water, except for the youngest baby.
He kept crying and couldn't eat or drink. It was logical that such a small child should be fed milk, or liquid food at worst.
Bai Fanlu thought for a while, then raised his hand.
"...Brother?" Xiao Liu was taking care of the other three older children to eat, telling them to slow down and not choke, and looked puzzled when he saw Bai Fanlu's movements.
The clinker Bai Fanlu nodded, the violet on his wrist flashed, and a drop of blood oozed from the index finger of his left hand, and then he put the index finger into the baby's mouth.
The little baby immediately stopped crying, and sucked Bai Fanlu's fingers.
"Your...Young Master." The old woman's eyes were cloudy and red, her cracked lips trembled, and she didn't know what to say.
"It's okay," Bai Fan said, seeing the baby hugging his hand and desperately trying to rub it this way, with half of his body exposed outside the old woman's ragged cotton jacket, he smiled gently at the old woman, "Let me hug him."
Xiao Liu watched as Bai Fanlu took the baby, held him in his arms, and covered him with wolf fur.
The sound of the baby pursing its mouth, sucking hard was mixed with the sound of people gobbling food, Xiao Liu could hear it very clearly.
Gradually, the baby's cheeks returned to rosiness little by little, and Bai Fanlu's face that was already pale by the cold wind became more transparent.
"Let me come." Xiao Liu sat next to Bai Fanlu, said in a low voice, and reached out to hug the child.
Bai Fanlu raised his eyes and smiled, "My blood has immortal energy, do you have it?"
The good intentions were choked, but Xiao Liu knew that Bai Fanlu said that on purpose, but he couldn't refute it, the dry food was all distributed, and there was nothing wrong for the time being, so Xiao Liu sat down next to Bai Fanlu.
Bai Fanlu was looking at the baby in his arms intently, when he suddenly felt a hand stretch out under his wolf fur, covering the hand holding the baby.
The places that were cut by ice and snow when the tiles were broken just now, although they have healed quickly under the action of Xianli, but the time is still short, and the scars left by those wounds are still there.
Xiao Liu's hand was slightly probing, stroking, and rubbing on his wound, and Bai Fanlu's heartbeat suddenly became a little unstable, and he wanted to withdraw his hand.
But he didn't dare to make big movements while holding the child, so he could only peek around, no one paid attention to the two of them.
Under the wolf's coat, the hand made an inch of it and directly grabbed his hand.
"little six… "
"Um?"
As if nothing happened, Xiao Liu stretched out his other hand to touch the baby's face, his smile was sweeter and more satisfying than when he was breastfeeding in his dream.
Bai Fanlu had nothing to say, so he could only let him play tricks. When he returned the baby to the old woman, Bai Fanlu inadvertently saw his hand, and found that all the wound marks on it were gone.
Is it automatically repaired by Reiki? or...
Bai Fanlu is not sure, could it be that Xiao Liu has really improved a lot recently
The baby had eaten enough, and finally fell asleep peacefully with his mouth open. The group of young and old who survived the catastrophe, who had been buried under the snow for an unknown period of time, regained some physical strength at this moment, and after being shaken from shock, they were finally able to tell what had happened in Lingcheng.
It turned out that since a month ago, Lingcheng, which has always been sunny and clear, encountered a sudden and severe snowstorm for some reason. At that time, a lot of houses were buried and many people died.
The snow kept falling day and night, freezing crops and livestock to death, and people were suffering from hunger and cold, but those who were young, strong and capable began to flee outside the city, leaving only the old, weak, women and children with disabilities who could not survive the snowstorm. Take it, and wait to die in the city.
"Where did they go?" Bai Fanlu asked.
If you go south, you should pass Erji Mountain. There are scattered herdsmen's residences at the southern and northern foot of Erji Mountain. They should have seen people who escaped from Lingcheng. If someone came out, news of Lingcheng would definitely spread.
Sure enough, the old woman replied, "Going west."
"Why don't you choose to go south?"
If Baifan Road in the west is not mistaken, it is a barren land in the Gobi. Obviously, there is traffic and people in the south, so it is more suitable for recuperation.
"The wind and snow in the south was too heavy, and they couldn't walk through. Many people lost their way in the south, and only a few escaped back. They said that there was a ghost hitting the wall and they couldn't get through."
Ghost hitting the wall? Baifan Road pondered for a moment, they had just come from the south, and although the wind and snow were a little bit heavier, it was not so impassable.
This situation is either because they are indeed stronger than ordinary people, or someone deliberately prevents the people inside from sending letters to the south to prevent the news of the fall of Lingcheng from spreading.
Bai Fanlu intuitively felt that the latter was more likely.
"You said the blizzard started suddenly a month ago?" Bai Fanlu confirmed.
"Yes." The old woman replied.
"Do you remember the exact day?"
The old woman frowned and thought for a while, "It was Qingming two days ago... yes, it was the second day of April."
Of course, Bai Fanlu couldn't figure out the date, because he had never paid attention to the date in this world when he came here. He looked at Xiao Liu, wanting to consult him, and found that he was contemplating with his brows frowned, with a serious expression on his face.
"Did you think of something?"
Xiao Liu looked up at Bai Fan Road, "It was the day we first arrived in Yingzhou."
"..."
It was the relationship between these two days that Bai Fanlu wanted to speculate on, but Xiao Liu hit it off right away.
The author has something to say: Yungou Zhan: I also want to eat hands.
Bai Xiaolu: How little did you eat when you were young
Yungou Zhan: That is my own hand, I want to eat yours...
Bai Xiaolu: ... Get lost.
Yungou Zhan: You are better to the little kid than to me!
Bai Xiaolu: Let’s talk about it when you get smaller (? What’s wrong?)