Passing the lighthouse, passing the icebergs, and crossing the unfrozen blue glacier, they trekked on a harsh polar road with wind and snow.
Muri ran at his fastest speed for a long time. The severe pain in his body urged him to get somewhere, so he held Mary in his arms and chased the voice on the road almost without stopping for a moment.
They arrived in front of a vast ocean full of floating ice. Only by crossing this place can they truly reach the deep polar region. Muri heard the sound for the first time when he was a child and ran here in pursuit of it. Because he was too young to cross this icy sea, he had to go back.
The last time he lost his mind, he followed the voice and came here. After being sobered up by the cold sea water, he thought of Mary waiting alone at the lighthouse, and resisted the attraction of the other side of the icy sea and turned back.
Now, he came here again.
He jumped into the icy sea water, pushed a nearby ice floe over, let Mary sit on it wrapped in a blanket, and pushed the ice floe carrying people forward.
The floating ice is not very large, but it is often very thick underneath, and there are even inverted cone-shaped icebergs sticking out from the sea. In this sea area, it is undoubtedly difficult to push the floating ice. Even Muri, who has always been very powerful and almost nothing can stump him, showed his effort for the first time.
Mary was shivering in a blanket, keeping an eye on Muri in the water.
Bringing her here had put him in a lot of trouble, but he didn't seem to regret it, and neither did she.
Creatures with emotions always like to make choices that will cause trouble to themselves. Some people call it mistakes, and some people call it happiness.
Tired of pushing, Murray stopped for a moment, resting his chin on the edge of the ice floe and breathing out. Meili came over and touched his nose and head.
Murray suddenly felt that he had strength back and could even ignore the pain in his body.
If he had been traveling alone, it would have been easier for him to get here, but he would have been in more pain. In the icy sea with no visible edge, he would have lost his direction alone, and even lost the motivation to move forward, and became crazy.
Now, seeing Mary sitting on the ice floe that he was pushing forward, he had a firm idea in his mind - to take her through these dangers and reach the other side.
During the long journey on the ice sea, he briefly lost his mind several times like before. Before he discovered this sign, he was worried that he would lose his mind and eat Mary, so he hit his head against a piece of ice next to him, breaking it into pieces and slowly sinking into the deep blue sea.
He was also dizzy from the impact and sank into the sea. But he woke up halfway down, suddenly opened his eyes and swam upwards.
In his daze, he was also thinking about Mary who was up there. If no one took care of her, she would die.
Meili was lying on the floating ice, almost ready to jump off, when she saw him emerge from the water with a strange fish in his mouth. He threw his head on the ice and said to her vaguely, "There are still fish here. Do you want to eat them?"
Mary didn't care about the fish anymore, she thought he would die. She wanted to cry but was amused by the little bear catching fish, so she hugged his head, laughed, and dripped tears on his face.
"If you don't swim up soon after waking up, how can you catch fish?" Mary grabbed his ear hard.
Murray moved his ears and said in defense, "I didn't catch it, it bumped into me on its own."
The fish in the polar regions are all stupid, and they always bump into his mouth. The little bear feels wronged.
He was fine. Mary kissed his nose excitedly several times. Muri didn't fall down this time, after all, he couldn't fall down in the water. He just didn't say a word, and suddenly burst out with great strength, pushing the ice floe forward for a long distance.
Another time, he suddenly lost consciousness, and Mary grabbed his arm tightly, allowing him to lie on the ice floe so that he would not sink into the sea with the other broken ice.
He woke up to Mary's constant cries, licked the back of her red, frozen hand in a daze, and then cheered himself up and continued to push her forward.
There were times when Meili lost consciousness due to the cold. At that time, she lay on the ice floe, motionless, her face was cold and white as if a layer of frost had condensed on it, her eyelashes were frozen, and her body was still cold even when she was wrapped in a blanket.
Murray thought she had frozen to death. He climbed out of the water and hurriedly cleaned off the water on his body, holding her in his arms to warm her up.
The floating ice beneath him lost its direction and moved slowly. He held Mary in his arms and waited for her to wake up, listening carefully to the sound of her heart beating in her soft chest.
During that time, he felt like he was walking in the pitch-black night, holding a tiny flame in his hand, being very careful, fearing that a gust of wind would blow the flame out completely. He had never felt so nervous before, and he didn't even dare to breathe.
Fortunately, the flickering flame finally grew stronger and stronger, and she burned strongly.
When Muri found that she had regained consciousness in his arms, he was overjoyed. He rubbed his head against her chest for a long time and stayed on the ice floe with her for a long time.
"I just had a dream." Mary smiled and said to him after waking up. "I dreamed of the flowers you mentioned blooming in the polar summer."
I also dreamed of a little bear. He was still a cub. Although he was alone, he was rolling on the tundra full of blooming flowers. He was carefree and happy.
Murray was surprised, "You haven't even seen it, how can you dream about it?"
Meili: "Do you have to see it before you can dream about it?"
Murray insisted: "Of course, otherwise how would you know what it looks like."
Mary: "But, I have seen many flowers, and I think all flowers are the same. I used to grow a lot of broom at home. Have you ever seen broom?"
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They had a lot of conversations like this.
Even though they have different physical strengths and abilities, they can clearly feel that they are relying on and supporting each other.
In the middle of the icy sea, there was a piece of floating ice connected into a small piece of land. They stopped there to rest, had a rare cooked meal, and had a good sleep.
Meili slept for too long and didn't fall asleep. She nestled in Murri's arms and looked at the starry sky. This harshest and coldest place has the most magnificent and amazing scenery.
The stars formed a bright band of light, laying a blue-purple background under the dark night sky.
Below me is the sea covered with broken ice, and above me is the sea covered with broken stars.
The vast heaven and earth continue to spread out, boundless in the imagination, and everything in the world becomes pure here.
Being in such a vast world, she should have felt the insignificance and loneliness of human beings, but... Murray was too tired and his snoring was a little loud, so she could not feel such a vast loneliness, and could not help but look for the pattern in his snoring.
The warmth he lent her was so present.
They finally crossed the sea full of broken ice, and the "land" on the other side of the ice sea was beyond their imagination.
The flowing blue sea water gradually turned into solid. When it reached a certain limit, the floating ice could no longer get closer. It collided with the hard and transparent ice, and the sea water formed a complete piece of land there.
Between the deep blue ocean and the ice shore, there is a layer of shallow green thin ice. The ice there is wide enough for Mary to walk on, but if Muri, who is heavier, steps on it, half of his body will sink.
Mary had no choice but to go forward alone and wait in a safe place, while Muri struggled to climb ashore behind her.
The two walked on the ice shore and came to a clean and transparent world.
Here, there is very little snow, which only exists on the protruding icicles. There is no snow on the ground, only thick layers of ice. If you look down, you can see what is under the ice.
The frozen ice layer still retains the shape of the flowing water, revealing a special texture, and the solidified bubbles in the ice layer look like a school of fish.
Mary stepped on the ice, a special transparent ice surface, and she could see ten meters deep below.
Murri held her hand and looked down in curiosity. It was also the first time he saw such a scene.
"There's a frozen fish here." Murray noticed that this strange fish had four small wings on its back. "I've never seen this kind of fish before."
"Really... When did this freeze?" Mary was walking forward, but was suddenly startled and took a step back, bumping into Murray.
In the ice in front of the strange fish, there was a bigger fish frozen. It was at least ten meters long, with a huge mouth opening upwards, as if it would break through the ice at any time and swallow the person above it.
Merry could see every fang in its huge mouth clearly, as well as the wrinkled lines in its scarlet mouth, which were so vivid that they were frightening.
"Let's go around," she said.
Murray was very interested, so he stepped on it while holding her waist, and stood in the middle of the huge mouth looking down. Meili lifted her foot that was originally on the ice, but she refused to put it firmly.
After walking through the frozen mouth, the truly magical place is behind the ice field. Animals of all sizes are frozen in the transparent ice layer here, and you can see them at a distance, not just fish, but other animals as well.
Why were these animals frozen here? How long has this place been formed? What kind of animals are these? Are they all monsters? Meili has many questions, but the eternal and silent ice field here will not answer her questions.
They walked on the ice for a while and saw a living creature for the first time. Muri discovered it earlier than Meili did. He stopped, held Meili in his arms and stood there motionless, looking in a certain direction.
A white snow mountain was moving over there, and behind the big snow mountain there was a small snow mountain.
When they got closer, they saw clearly that it was not a snowy mountain, but two bears, one big and one small.
They looked like Muri, but their fur was more fluffy and white. The smaller bear was slightly bigger than Muri, but he looked like he had lived a much better life than Muri, with clean fur, a round and fat face, and a relaxed posture.
Mary looked at herself again at Muri, who looked a little disheveled and whose hair had lost its luster, and suddenly felt that he had suffered a lot of injustice and was a little pitiful.
Muri didn't have such thoughts as hers. His reaction was just like when he encountered a difficult monster. He entered the battle state with fierce vigilance. Seeing the little bear curiously observing him, he showed a ferocious expression, which frightened the little bear and made it stick close to the big bear in front.
The big bear, who was five times the size of the little bear, turned his head and looked at Muri, but didn't react.
Mary felt that the look was very much like the look of a human, looking at Muri like an adult looking at a child.
The little bear bumped into the big bear's leg again, and the big bear said in an impatient voice, "Hurry up, you've been dawdling all the way, and you're almost late."
The little bear cried out, "I'm not the last one, I can catch up."
When they walked away, Meili grabbed Murray's shoulders and said to him in amazement: "They... can talk!"
Murray didn't know what she was surprised about, "I can speak, too."