A polar grizzly bear is irritably shaving ice and snow. In front of it is a low slope that has collapsed. The snow whirlwind whizzed past yesterday, and the strong cyclone caused the low slope with a weak structure to collapse, and even woke up the hibernating grizzly bear hiding inside. At this moment, it saw thousands of miles of ice fields and could not find any prey, so naturally its temper would not be any better.
This bear-shaped dangerous species is different from the bears on the earth. The polar grizzly bear is much thinner and has slender limbs. That is a body shape that evolved to adapt to the environment of the Netherworld. After all, if it is as strong and fat as the bear creatures on Earth, it will become a fatal burden on the Netherworld, where food is hard to find. Polar grizzlies have very short fur and appear to be wind-resistant. In fact, its sebum is extremely thick, and its blood circulation will be one to two times faster than usual in winter, which allows the grizzly to maintain its body temperature even when it is hibernating, so as not to freeze to death.
Now that the end of winter is over, I wake up early. The grizzly was very impatient because there was no food.
Suddenly its big nose buzzed, and the cold wind brought the smell of other creatures. The grizzly turned around in a circle, stood up, and saw a black spot coming towards him from afar. It was very excited, and a pair of blood red eyes shot out a cruel light. The grizzly began to shovel, and soon found a suitable place in a nearby snowdrift. It got in and let the wind and snow cover it naturally.
It has to wait for the prey to come by itself.
"Lucy, did you hear me?"
Every time he walked a certain distance, Alan patted Lucy's little face and asked. At the beginning, Lucy still reacted, and would "hum" through her nostrils from time to time. As for now, he is completely unconscious. Her hands and feet became colder and her forehead had a high fever, which made Allen very worried.
With Xingxingyuan in sight, Allen gritted his teeth and moved faster in the snow. Suddenly a snowdrift exploded and something roared toward them both.
It's a polar grizzly!
Allen was distracted by Lucy's illness, and he didn't feel the abnormality here. It wasn't until the grizzly bear rushed out that he realized that there was such a dangerous species hiding in the snowdrift. It's a pity that the Grizzlies also found the wrong partner, Allen snorted, with murderous intent in his eyes. Qianjun in one hand bounced up immediately, with the sound of wind and thunder, and swung a dark and thick knife shadow in the snow towards the grizzly bear.
The grizzly bear was suddenly overwhelmed by the wind pressure brought by Qianjun, and the beast's intuition made him want to retreat. The grizzly slammed into the ground with its forelegs, stopping the charge. Then he turned around and tried to escape, but was hit by Qian Jun. There was a sound of bone breaking, and the grizzly screamed and fell down. This aroused its ferocity, turned around and opened its mouth to bite. Allen's wrist shook, and Qianjun bounced up, creating a storm of thunder and thunder. The blunt edge of the heavy knife hit his chin painfully, and the source force struck along the knife, and the grizzly bear's entire jaw was instantly shattered.
Qian Jun's blade pointed upwards, and the grizzly fell down, slid to Alan's feet and died.
The blood of the bear corpse flowed to the ground, and the ice and snow melted away with a sizzling sound. Seeing that the bear's blood temperature was extremely high, Allen was overjoyed. He simply dragged the bear carcass forward, and finally came to the knife demon outpost in front of Xingxingyuan, and brought the grizzly bear and Lucy to the only remaining stone castle in the outpost.
Wrap the ground with a coat and put Lucy down first. Then dragged the bear corpse to the wall, Allen picked up Qianjun, and while the blunt edge trembled, he opened the bear corpse with concussion force. As soon as the stomach was opened, it was steaming inside. Alan didn't dare to miss the opportunity, immediately picked up Lucy, took off her outer underwear, leaving only her underwear, and then put her whole body into the bear's corpse.
He opened Lucy's mouth again, poured the hot bear's blood into her mouth, and made her drink it. After that, Allen closed the grizzly bear's belly, only allowing Lucy to show a small face outside, so as not to suffocate.
After finishing all this, Allen unpacked his luggage and set up the camp stove. A fire was lit, raising the temperature in the room little by little.
Lucy woke up before nightfall. When she opened her eyes, she suddenly saw that she was wrapped in a bear carcass. She exclaimed, "What's wrong with me?"
"Are you awake?" Allen said with a smile, "How do you feel?"
"Apart from being sticky and uncomfortable all over, everything is fine. Did I pass out?" Lucy asked.
Allen nodded and said, "But now that you're awake, you'll be fine. I'll get you some water to wipe yourself off."
He used Qianjun to dig a big hole in the ground, and then shoveled some frost and snow outside the stone castle and put it in. Finally, Qian Jun wrapped himself around the flame and plunged into the pit. Immediately, the frost and snow melted into water, and after a while, a misty smoke rose. Allen has blocked the leaky places around the stone castle, and kept the burning high-temperature flame to keep the room temperature at a constant temperature.
Lucy came out of the bear corpse, bloody all over. She picked up the warm water on the ground and washed off the blood on her body little by little. Finally, he took off the blood-stained clothes, put them directly into a clean coat, and said to Allen: "Okay."
Allen turned around and directly evaporated the water in the stone pit. Throw in the branches picked up outside the outpost before, a bonfire is lit, and the blockages of several windows are opened to allow the indoor air to circulate. He let Lucy stay in the corner, and he disassembled the bear carcass with a dagger, took off pieces of meat from the belly and back of the grizzly bear, and put them on the fire to roast.
This is dinner for two.
After eating, Alan touched Lucy's hands and face, and found that her body temperature was normal, so he finally felt relieved. He sat in a corner and threw dead branches into the fire pit from time to time to keep the flames alive. Lucy leaned in his arms, resting her head on his chest and murmured: "So, because of me, you can't go to Willick and the others..."
Allen kissed her forehead lightly, and said, "I will find them. That kind of snowstorm is not enough to kill them."
"Where can I find it?" Lucy raised her head.
Allen scraped her straight nose lightly with his hands, and said with a smile, "Budong Lake."
"You mean, Willick and the others will go to Buwinter Lake?" Lucy's eyes lit up.
"I told you about the approximate location. Since Willick and the others are separated, they should know where to meet up. Don't forget, the lake there will not freeze in winter, and it is the best place to stay in this barren land. No matter the sacrifice If they are in the barren land, they will choose there as a temporary resting place. So you see, is there any better meeting place than Budong Lake?" Alan spread his hands.
Spent the night in the sentry, the next morning. Allen put some dried barbecue in his bag, and set off with Lucy. Today, the weather is calm and the snowfield of thousands of miles is like a white and flawless world presented to the two of them. They determined the direction and walked towards Budong Lake on foot. It was not until around 4 pm that we arrived near Lake Budong.
Budong Lake is actually a hot spring lake, and the temperature of the lake is constant all year round. Especially in winter, it is even more humid. This is simply an oasis in the snow field, once you arrive near Budong Lake
In the area, you can feel that the temperature has risen a lot. However, when they approached Budong Lake, the two of Alan's expressions were solemn.
There were corpses lying on the ground.
Dozens of corpses of sword demons were lying around Budong Lake, and several of them belonged to female sword demons. The blood under the corpse stained the ground red, and Allen and the two turned around, but fortunately no human beings were seen inside.
Allen was standing next to the body of a tall sword demon, which he had seen in Howling Gorge, the leader of the sword demon bandit Bazba. He actually died here too, and the way he died was a bit special. Allen turned over his body lying on the ground with a thousand weights, and found several fist marks on his chest. The muscles at the center of the fist were deeply sunken, and the bones were shattered, obviously injured by the heavy punch.
What was fatal was a huge wound on the side of his waist. The wound that almost cut him in half caused his internal organs to flow to the ground.
Looking at the other corpses, seven or eight of them have different outfits, but most of the corpses have extremely uniform equipment. Apparently, the sword demon bandit broke down here, and there was obviously an armed conflict between them and the sacrificial team, but the truth is unknown. However, the injuries on Bazba's body made Allen very concerned. Those fist marks seemed to be done by Willick, and the huge wound on the waist may be caused by Bloy's violent execution.
Similar injuries like this were also found on other sword demons, many of whom had robbers and sacrificial teams. From this point of view, what is happening here is a three-way melee.
But where did the two of Willik go
"Look what I found." Lucy ran back and handed Ellen something.
It was an unknown animal skin with a map painted on it with brightly colored paint. Judging from the appearance of the map, it is exactly the terrain of the barren land. The map starts from Xingxingyuan and covers this vast snowfield. Although the words and symbols of the sword demon are mostly used on it, with this map as a reference, the two of them will not lose their way on the snowy field.
It is worth noting that there are four circular patterns on the left side of the map, that is, in the northwest direction. They are painted in red paint and next to a column of notes. The knife demon who wrote this line of commentary wrote so heavily that this line of text is darker than the others.
This must be an important place.
There is also a black line on the map, starting from Budong Lake and pointing directly to the four circular objects, which has a clear meaning.
Allen frowned: "Is that where the holy relic is?"
"But there is no scale mark on it, it's just a sketch. We don't know the actual distance at all. Besides, we should go to Willick and the others first, right?" Lucy said.
"You're right. Let's spend the night here at Lake Budong. Tomorrow, we will use this lake as the starting point and spread the search around. If Willick and the others have been here, they will definitely leave traces. Maybe they are only temporarily Hide and join us tomorrow."
Of course, Allen felt that the latter possibility was unlikely.
The two spent the night by the lake.
On the second day, Allen and Lucy acted separately, agreeing to whistle to warn when encountering a situation. It didn't take long for Allen to hear Lucy's whistling from the northwest, and he galloped in her direction. When he arrived at the place where Lucy was, Allen saw several corpses and one thing.
The corpse belonged to the Sword Demon, and as for what Lucy held in her hand, it was Willick's Blazing Gloves!
(end of this chapter)