"Thank you Sam Tsai for the monthly pass, don't be sad now, throw me some more ⊙ω⊙"
The sentry kicked the sleeping companion next to him, and the man on the ground sat up immediately, with his hand on the handle of the saber. When he saw clearly that it was his fellow robe, he complained: "Damn it, let no one sleep."
"There is a situation in the cave." The sentinel raised a torch deep into the cave.
The man turned over and held the saber and said, "What's the matter? Don't get nervous at the slightest sign of trouble, brother."
"It's windy!" The sentinel kicked his ass again: "Come and see with me."
"Damn it..." The man cursed, and said, "Isn't it normal to have wind? It's so windy and snowy outside, I'm going to sleep now, and I have to go on my way tomorrow. This is a hellish place."
Seeing him fall asleep again, the sentinel let out a pooh. He drew out his long knife and walked deep into the cave holding the torch. The further you go inside, the narrower the space becomes, as if walking into the mouth of a giant beast, and those upside-down stalagmites are the fangs of the giant beast. Whistle Fang passed through two staggered stalagmites, and found that it could no longer go any further. The space in front of him could only be squatted down and crawled. He inserted the torch into the intersection of the stalagmites, squatted down and looked deep into the cave. It's a pity that the fire can't shine very far, and there is nothing but a dark place.
After watching for a while, there was no movement. The sentinel cursed and wanted to go back, when suddenly a gust of wind blew from the cave, making the torches dance wildly. The cold wind even brought out a few shards of ice. The sentinel touched his body, and there were some rough shards of ice in his palm. They melt quickly, but the chill penetrates the heart. The sentry shuddered, and the sound of claws scratching the stone sounded again from inside the hole. The sentry felt nervous for no reason, as if something was approaching in the depths of the darkness.
The flame on the torch continued to dim, and finally went out, and the surrounding space suddenly fell into darkness. The sentinel panted, and suddenly realized that what he exhaled turned out to be gray-white cold air. Then, deep in the cave, something lit up, a piece of golden yellow. In the golden yellow, a brown vertical pupil suddenly turned up. Turning his pupils, his eyes fell on the sentinel.
The Sentinel opened his mouth wide, and that eyeball was the size of a drum head, so how huge must the thing on the other side of the cave be? Before he had time to think about this question, the eyeball suddenly disappeared. Then a frosty wind that froze the soul roared from the cave, carrying countless azure blue ice flowers in the frosty wind. They constantly collide and combine in the air, enveloping everything that passes in the cave.
"Get up..." The sentinel only had time to turn around and call out, the feet were already freezing quickly. The speed of the frost covering was unusually fast, and they went upstream, freezing the sentinel into an ice sculpture in an instant, and the surface was covered with many irregular ice spikes.
Faintly heard the call of the sentinel, the soldiers on the other side of the cave finally realized that something was wrong. The temperature in the cave was surprisingly low, and the light of the campfire was extremely dim. When it went out, a soldier suddenly yelled, it turned out that the ground had been covered with a layer of ice. He tried to stand up, but found that his legs didn't work. When he looked up, he saw large sheets of frost spreading from his legs along his body.
This was the last sight he saw.
On a snowy night, a large slab of ice suddenly spewed out from the entrance of a certain cave, and the entrance of the cave froze instantly, forming a large cluster of ice edges, completely sealing the entrance of the cave. No one knew that in that cave, there were seven or eight men who could never get out. They became specimens in the ice layer, their expressions were
Freeze at the moment of death.
When Allen woke up, the wind and snow had stopped. After yesterday's blizzard, the sky was gloomy and gloomy. However, the gray clouds in the northern sky began to dissipate, and a few faint beams of light broke through the clouds. Even if he is not familiar with the climate in the Northland, Allen knows that the weather should be good in the next few days. The camp has been moved from the cave to a more spacious place outside. When Allen walked to the camp, the soldiers were lighting a fire and cooking. Edward ordered the soldiers on the other side of the camp. When he saw Allen, he came over and asked, "How do you feel?"
"It's okay." Allen nodded, and asked again: "What's the situation now?"
"Yesterday's landslide seems to be quite large. Regis took some soldiers to accompany Ian to explore the road, and he won't be back until noon."
"Have you sent someone to investigate?"
Knowing that he was referring to yesterday's explosion, Edward nodded and said, "I have asked a copper blade to check, but I don't think there are any clues."
This is not surprising, the blizzard was so heavy yesterday, any clues would have been covered up by the blizzard. Allen didn't say anything, patted Edward on the shoulder, and went to inspect the camp. He greeted Xiao En and several merchants, took a look at the goods of the caravan, and finally saw Father Miro doing something on a big rock. He walked over, and it turned out that the priest was cutting wood, and it could be seen that it was roughly a person.
"What is this doing?" Allen asked, squatting down beside him.
Father Miro shook the half-finished product in his hand: "It's you, Master Allen."
"I?"
The priest nodded and said: "I will record the things you have done along the way with wooden carvings. These things will be placed in the cathedral in the future and tell others how you have come all the way. I think if this is done in a few hundred In a few years, it might become a valuable antique."
Milo's eyes lit up, and he chuckled. Allen said angrily: "Even if it's worth money, you won't see it anymore."
Unless one can break through the thirtieth level and become a ruler, one's life can be greatly extended. Otherwise, the lifespan of an ordinary person would only be tens of years, and Milo was an ordinary person anyway. The priest grinned and said, "It's okay, it's not bad to keep it for my children and grandchildren."
Allen is no stranger to the priest's money-lovers character. Seeing the priest's knife fall, the wood carving has some details. It seems that the priest's carving skills are not bad. Allen asked casually, "Did you make a statue for him?"
"who?"
"Archimedes."
The knife in the priest's hand stopped, looked at Allen with a smile and asked, "Do you want to see what he looks like?"
"I..." Only then did Allen realize that he had unknowingly revealed his thoughts.
Milo continued to carve the wood: "That bastard Archimedes looks like that, he is not as handsome as you, Master Allen. He is like those big drunks in the tavern. He always has messy hair and stains. A wine-beaded beard, and two fluffy arms. I am familiar with his appearance, but if you ask me to completely sculpt his appearance, please forgive me. Now he is in my impression, There is only a general image, and I can't remember the specific appearance. After all, I haven't seen him for many years."
"Is that so? It's okay, I'll just ask casually."
"However." Milo looked towards the northern sky, and those beams of light reflected in his eyes: "I think in the future, the young master will
Met that guy. "
"Are you so sure?"
"Well, maybe that rampant bastard will appear in front of you one morning. Then he will say to you, Hey, son, you have grown up." Milo laughed to himself while talking, but he It was found that Allen didn't smile at all. The expression on his face froze at the moment, he coughed twice, and then asked quietly: "Master Allen. If, I mean if. If that guy Archimedes stood in front of you, would you stab him with a knife?"
Allen was taken aback by his question.
When she said goodbye to her mother back then, Lanny did say that she would kill Archimedes when he saw him, and he did agree. But after so many years, he found that his hatred for that man was not as strong as before, but it was far from forgiving. So he thought about it and said, "Maybe not, but I will ask him why he left me and my mother."
"I'm not making excuses for that bastard..." Father Miro slammed his knife on the wood carving and said, "But I think he must have some reason. That guy is indeed a complete bastard, and he still owes me a lot of money. But , when he told me about your mother, there was a light in his eyes... "
"That should be called tenderness. Although I get goosebumps every time I see it, after all, a bastard and gentleness seem to have nothing to do with each other. But I can't be wrong, Archimedes, it is true love Looking at your mother. If you meet, I think he will give you a satisfactory answer."
"I wish."
The camp was crowded with people, Allen saw Regis, and they came back from exploring. Patting Milo on the shoulder, Allen jumped off the rock, walked towards Regis and asked loudly, "How's the situation?"
Milo glanced at Alan's back, and murmured, "That bastard should be proud of you."
Of course, Alan couldn't hear these words. He walked up to Regis and the others. Father Ian was smoking a cigarette. He glanced at Alan and smiled wryly, "It's very troublesome, my lord."
"The mountain road is completely blocked, not only that, but the other roads are also impassable. The mountain rocks block the road, and we can't go to the spiral staircase. In this case, we can only walk through the land of shadows, and then go through the Abika Long But my lord, this route is the last one I would like to take. It is very dangerous. In the Shadowlands, the sun is hard to shine all year round. The large underground tunnel, although I have lived for so many years and have never seen where the large tunnel is. But our ancestors once said that there are unknown and terrifying cave creatures living in the large tunnel, and they sometimes appear in the Abika corridor, No caravan would go there, only lunatics and adventurers go there."
"But we have no other choice now, don't we?" Allen smiled and said, "Don't worry, Father Ian. My knife will protect you, and my warrior will be your most solid shield. You will come out of the corridor, I promise you that."
Father Ian looked at him, nodded after a while and said, "Okay, let's go to the Shadowlands first in the afternoon. You need to wrap the horses with foot pads. When passing there, it's best not to make too much noise." movement."
Allen nodded, called Fares, and asked him to prepare according to Ian's request.
In the afternoon, the sky began to see sunlight, and the caravan left the camp. Ian rode in front on a skinny horse, leading the team towards the northeast.
(end of this chapter)