It's strange to say that Xiang En never saw snow until he was nearly thirty years old in his previous life. Whenever he wanted to go to the north to see snow, he always encountered various things, which always made his idea come to nothing.
If you give up your efforts later, there will be no need to go see the snow.
Now that I saw the snow-white sky and earth, I couldn't help myself. I couldn't control my curiosity at all.
Andrea expressed her understanding and gave her a kind look as if she were looking at a child.
ten minutes later…
The two added two more clothes, put on thick gloves, and walked out of the village with swords.
"What are we going to do today?" Andrea shook the snow off her body, wondering why she went into the woods when it was snowing outside.
There is no difference between snow in winter and rain in summer. If you accidentally encounter a blizzard, people may be buried in the snow, which is worse than rain.
Xiang En held a wooden spear in his right hand and a wooden barrel in his left hand. He walked on the muddy ground with only a little fallen snow. He stared into the depths of the forest and did not dare to be careless. He replied: "I just went to the river to have a look."
Looking at the wooden barrel held by Xiang En in her left hand, Andrea raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Are you going to catch fish? But the river should not have frozen yet..."
"No, I want to see if the water can be used now."
"oh."
"If I can catch fish, I will drink fish soup today." Xiang En added.
Andrea's eyes lit up. They had conserved water to a very high degree. In the past seven days, they had eaten baked dried meat and bread, and every portion of the food was accurately calculated.
Although those salty dried meats are delicious, you will still feel tired after eating too much.
It would be a wonderful thing to have a bowl of fish soup on such a cold day!
Andrea couldn't help but get excited when she thought about the possibility of drinking fish soup, and hurriedly opened the way, hoping to catch one or two fish later and fulfill her dream.
The two of them walked through the snow and rushed to the small river not far from the village. Compared with the inky black water before, the river water was now much cleaner, and a thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the river.
With a light poke from a wooden spear, the ice shattered and floated away along the current.
Andrea stared at the bottom of the river, hoping that a fish would poke its head out of this small hole, just like what she had seen on her glacial lake.
It's a pity that the scattered small fish at the bottom of the river didn't bother her at all. They twitched their tails a few times and stayed far away from them, and they didn't come over at all.
Xiang En looked at the scattered small fish and gave up the ridiculous idea of catching fish.
When the river water was black before, almost all the fish were dead. They finally recovered a little, but they couldn't just fish all the water, even though they might not stay in the village for long.
After taking some thin ice and filling the barrel, Xiang En was about to turn around and go back with a disappointed Andrea.
At this moment, the grass on the other side of the river moved, and a huge head emerged.
The head was narrow and covered with scales. The inverted triangular shape and golden vertical pupils revealed the same coldness as the temperature. The body slowly left the grass, gradually revealing the tough body like a dinosaur, as if it had an inverted triangular head. A cross between a Komodo dragon and a tiger.
Xiang En and Andrea couldn't help but stop their movements and looked at the monster on the other side of the river. One had a solemn expression, and the other had an unclear expression.
One thing is certain, the fangs of that monster are quite intimidating.
Xiang En recognized it. It was a scale-toothed monster that was close to the gold level in adulthood. It was a monster with both defensive and offensive abilities.
It should have come to drink water. Looking at its calm appearance, the river water may be drinkable!
Xiang En's eyes kept flashing when he looked at the scale-toothed beast. He and Andrea's strength growth had been slowing down for a while. If he happened to meet this monster, he should give it a try.
Seeing Andrea who was eager to try, he suddenly shook his head and said: "Let's go back..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the scale-toothed beast on the other side of the river suddenly turned around and looked behind him, then turned around and ran quickly downstream along the river bank, attracting Xiang En's eyes again.
A low roar came from the forest, and three human-shaped black shadows alternately rushed out of the woods on the other side of the river, surprising both Xiang En and Andrea.
Three humanoid monsters in ragged clothes, their heads covered with black patches and tumors on their hands, hurriedly chased in the direction in which the scaly-toothed beast escaped, seemingly unaware that they were separated by a river.
Xiang En stared at the three monsters going away with wide eyes and his mouth wide open. Although he couldn't believe it, he was already sure that the three were among the corpses that ran out of the village entrance.
The bodies of the three monsters that could no longer be called human were stooped, their faces seemed to be swollen, their mouths drooped like wild beasts, and their deep white sharp teeth were as terrifying as wild beasts.
Under the gazes of the two men, the rough long tongue flicked in the air, dripping a few drops of mucus, which was extremely disgusting.
Maintaining most of their human postures put a lot of psychological pressure on them. Just imagining those black tumors growing on their bodies would give them goosebumps.
"Xiang...Xiang En, are those villagers?" Andrea on one side was frightened and her face turned pale. She looked at the monster going away with disbelief in her eyes.
"Obviously..." Xiang En also wanted to say no, but the tattered clothes couldn't help him escape from the reality, that is, the dead villagers turned into monsters.
Several villagers disappeared in the forest for so long that they were not seen when they were hunting or cutting down trees. In the end, they ran back after wandering around.
The big mouth that no longer looks like a human means that they have completely turned into an inhuman monster, a brand new kind of monster that is not as rigid as undead creatures.
Although their movements are very agile and flexible, in the winter, they are a little stiff when running, and their speed is obviously not fast. They should not be able to catch up with the scale-toothed beasts.
"What should we do if those monsters come to attack us?" Andrea asked worriedly as she watched the three monsters go away.
Hearing this, Xiang En thought for a while and answered the question: "Let's give them a name."
Andrea looked at him in surprise, looking puzzled, "Huh? Why do you want to name them?"
"We give them names because we attach great importance to them. With pronouns, we can understand them systematically."
"Really...really?" Andrea, who had only half understanding of the words, tilted her head and did not object.
Xiang En started to think of names for the monsters. The first thing that came to mind was "zombie", but he rejected it himself.
Zombies are not very magical. This is a magical world, so we need to choose a more magical name.
After racking his brains for ten seconds, he came up with it.
"Just call them 'ghouls'."
In this world, there is no word for ghoul. The words used by people here are also phonetic characters. The three words of greed, corpse, and undead are split and combined to form a word that has never appeared in this world. new word.
The word Xiang En was automatically translated as "ghoul", and then he explained it to Andrea.
After Andrea understood this new vocabulary, she was shocked and also felt a little bit shuddering. The ominous words can also make people feel frightened in different environments.
They turned around and looked around the woods behind them cautiously, fearing that a ghoul might suddenly run out from behind them.
"Let's go back first. It seems that today is not a good time to go out."
"okay."
Regaining their energy, Xiang En and Andrea returned to the village.
(End of chapter)