"Well, in short, you know that in this extremely cold place in the north, the fun is not only ice and snow." Qi Ying said with a smile, "A place with water and soil supports a person, and every place has its unique customs. There is an East China Sea and an East China Sea. characteristics, and the Arctic also has Arctic culture. As we continue to walk in, we will always see people here."
The wind was strong and the snow was heavy.
The snow and wind all over the sky came from the severe cold here.
If a casual mortal came over and didn't wear the kind of clothing to keep out the cold, he would soon freeze to death.
The snow on the ground is also extremely thick. If Qi Ying and Qi Lie were not flying in the sky, half of them might be trapped in the snow if they stepped on it.
After flying for a while.
Qi Ying and Qi Lie began to see traces of human activity.
On the snow, there is no longer a smooth blanket of snow, but rows of ruts.
It's not entirely true that it's a rut mark.
It was obviously not rolled out, but slid out, and in the middle of each pair of "rut marks", there were scattered but well-arranged footprints of some kind, not of humans, but of some kind of beast.
"It seems that the way the indigenous people here travel is by sleighs pulled by animals."
Qi Ying guessed.
as expected.
After searching with his mind, he quickly found some people riding sleighs. Each sleigh was half the size of a common standard carriage. Usually there were one or two people in heavy clothes and tightly wrapped bodies sitting on the sleigh. , and at the same time, the sled will also carry the corpses of some beasts and the like.
The sled is pulled by a beast with white and black fur. It looks like a dog, but its running posture and the footprints left behind are very similar to that of a cat. Its movements are extremely light and it steps on the snow. The footprints left behind are not deep. In front of each sled, there were five or six of these beasts running, some a little more, eight or nine, and as few as three or four. They were all running very fast, with white mist coming from their noses. .
Qi Lie also spotted those people: "What are they sitting on? I want to sit there too."
"Go. Go ahead. But don't scare them."
Qi Ying said.
The two men flashed quickly and flew dozens of miles away, landing on the snow.
Qi Ying completely restrained her aura and transformed the black robe on her body into a thick black cotton robe. It was so cold in the Arctic that even low-level cultivators had to put on leather coats to keep out the cold. However, she still wore the single robe from before, which seemed Very abrupt.
Qi Lie followed suit, and his red robe turned into a thick red cotton-padded jacket. The bright red color looked a bit funny in the snow-white world.
The two of them stood in the wind and snow waiting. Not long after, a sleigh that they had observed before appeared in their line of sight.
Qi Ying waved her hand high and greeted twice loudly.
The man driving the sled shook the reins, and the dog-like beasts pulling the sled began to slow down one by one. When the sled slid to Qi Ying and Qi Lie, it stopped just in time.
There were two people on the sled, both wearing extremely thick animal skins. The person driving the sled was a tall middle-aged man who was two heads taller than an average adult in Middle-earth. There was also another man who was taller than that middle-aged man. A handsome young woman sits on a sled.
The six dog-shaped beasts pulling the sled were breathing whitely. They all looked at Qi Ying and Qi Lie. They made grunting sounds from their closed mouths. There was a white dog-shaped beast that was larger than the other dog-shaped beasts and grinned. On the ground, he kept rushing forward and biting Qi Lie, who was dressed in bright red.
The middle-aged man got out of the car and slapped the white dog-shaped beast hard on the head. The latter whined and lowered its head, and rubbed its big head against the man. In an instant, it changed from a ferocious beast to a docile pet. .
Qi Ying hugged his left shoulder with his right hand and his right shoulder with his left hand, and bowed to the middle-aged man - this is the etiquette of the Arctic indigenous people recorded in the classics, symbolizing respect for the local civilization.
Qi Lie followed suit and bowed.
The middle-aged man saw the two of them saluting, and his expression flashed with satisfaction, and then he said in a strange and unfamiliar Chinese dialect: "My name is Akela. Are the two guests from China?" How could it appear in this wasteland?"
Qi Ying had already thought of his words: "Mr. Akela, I am 'Qi Ying', and behind me is my brother 'Qi Lie'. We are all travelers from China by sea. Unexpectedly, after we got off the ship, we were in I lost my sleigh in the snowstorm and got lost. Now I want to find a place to eat and warm myself up."
Akela looked at Qi Ying carefully, then looked at Qi Lie seriously: "Are you two twins?"
"Yes. What?"
Qi Ying asked, and at the same time wondered in his mind, is there some weird legend about twins in the tribe or country of the indigenous people of Accra? Because in the mysterious stories I read when I was in the main world, it was said that in some places, twins are regarded as unlucky people. If a family gives birth to a pair of twins, one of the babies must be thrown into the forest. Let tigers or jackals eat it.
But Akela smiled from ear to ear: "Ah, ah! Our village is missing a pair of twins! Two guests, please get on my sleigh!"
"ah?"
This time it was Qi Ying's turn to be stunned.
Qi Lie became curious: "This little... Oh, this uncle, may I ask why you are missing twins?"
But the woman in the car behind spoke: "Don't be in a hurry to know, this is a great good thing! It won't be too late to find out about this surprise when you get to the village."
"Oh." Qi Lie nodded and added, "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's something we need. Just don't eat us."
Akela was stunned: "Guests, where did you come from? There are no cannibals here."
Qi Ying explained: "We traveled here from the East China Sea. There are tribes that eat people on some islands. Haha, we were shocked at the time!"
Akela smiled and said: "Although we are just country folk, we are a civilized nation and we treat guests very warmly. We will not be disadvantageous to the guests. Don't say more. Stand in the snow, even if you are Those who are practicing can't stand it. Come on, get on the sled, our village is more than a hundred miles away, and with these 'Shaqi' pulling us, we can get there soon."
"It turns out these are 'Shaqi's."
Qi Ying was stunned.
I have seen records of Shaqi in the classics. This is a common domesticated beast in the Arctic. It is one of the animals often used as sled beasts. There are several similar sled beasts, and their appearance is actually similar to Shaqi. , but Shaqi is the most docile among them.