quicksilver blood

Chapter 304 Sodom

It's been six hours, and Dad hasn't come back yet.

Leaning by the warm fire, Little Lim looked out of the window in a daze, and sighed deeply.

Looking down from the second-floor window of her house, the small mountain town of Farajo is covered in silver.No one can be seen walking on the street, and all stores are closed.

The snowflakes that have been falling since last December have not stopped until today.With the arrival of the new year in 917 in the calendar of the gods, countless people died in the snow-covered mountains.

Those who slipped and fell to death, those who were bitten to death by winter wolves, and those who were trapped outside the city for various reasons and were frozen to death.Every year when winter comes, there are always more than a dozen families in this small city who are in the pain of losing their loved ones.

It was only three or four in the afternoon, and it was already dark outside.The snowflakes fell quietly, and the houses in one piece were dark, with no fire inside.

It feels like the end of the world.Although there are no ruins, at first glance, it seems to be a scene ten years after the extinction of human beings.The streets are buried in a blanket of snow, the whiteness of which is reminiscent of a shroud.

Of course, those families who did not light the fire did not light the fire because their whole family died in the heavy snow.The correct answer is to save the fire that is not too much.

According to the experience of previous years, the long snow season lasts for more than half a month.The cold current that has swept across Farajo since mid-November will drive the animals in the mountains to hibernate within a few days, and the heavy snow that falls one after another at the end of the year will last for two consecutive weeks.In the past two weeks, let alone going out, even if it is daily cleaning the snow piled up on the door and window, the time to open the door should not exceed two seconds.

Otherwise, the heat that has been accumulated with great difficulty will be extinguished in an instant.

It is simply not enough to survive such a cold winter with only one family's fire reserves.

Therefore, the mountain people of Sodom merged several families together during the winter many years ago.Several families lived in one room, and gathered the living materials accumulated by several families—especially firewood—to save the fire and get through this difficult month.

The same goes for Little Lim's.Because her house is relatively large, people live in her house in winter every year.

The people who lived in her house this year were old Peter, the best blacksmith in Sodom, and a family of bakers who could make soft and sweet white bread.

Old Peter is a lame winter dwarf who likes to drink and brag. He speaks in a loud and hoarse voice. He has a pair of big scary hands that are red and red like soldering irons. Hard scars.He always likes to get close to Lim and tell her unbearable volume some stories that she has never heard but seem useless.

Little Lim didn't really like old Uncle Peter very much.Rather, she somewhat hated the rude old dwarf.

Still a much better baker who can make soft, sweet white bread than old Peter.At least his beard is clean, his hair is not greasy, he smells good like Uncle Joel, and he has a nice voice and can tell jokes.Even if his wife—the lady as fat and limp as white bread—has a shrill voice, and even if his son cries at night and likes to pee everywhere, Little Lim is willing to let them live here.

If her father hadn't respected old Peter very much, Mrs. Lim wouldn't have graciously let this rude old dwarf live in him!

...But when will Dad come back?

Thinking of this, Little Lim sighed again.

She was lying by the window, staring blankly at the unchanging snow scene outside the window.

Mom told her that Dad had gone to do a great thing—in fact, even though Lim was only six years old this year, she could probably understand what Dad was doing.

A week ago, a dozen warriors from Sodom were inspired by Lord Khan to go to the White Tower to destroy those evil wizards, and under the protection of Lord Lord Khan, they successfully defeated them and brought the evil White Tower to the fore. All of a sudden, the wizard's inheritance was also cut off.

This cannot but be said to be a brilliant victory.

But an embarrassing thing happened - because after the victory in the war, the warriors spent too long in the White Tower in order to completely destroy the evil inheritance of the White Tower.When the warriors who went to the White Tower to fight against wizards returned, the continuous heavy snow had blocked their way.

In such a cold winter, even a strong knight-lord would not dare to scramble back through the half-meter-high snow field.Rather, the iron cans on their bodies can directly bury them——

When the baker beamed and said this to Lim, Lim almost laughed so hard that her stomach hurt.

However, in order to prevent them from being buried, Little Lim's father and several other experienced hunters went to the east path to pick up those Templars who were almost buried.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the pride of Little Lim - her father Kang Ding, the white wolf Kang Ding of the Kruman family is a well-known old hunter.He once hunted a sub-dragon monster by himself, and thus got the favor of Lorda Khan and gained the power to cast divine spells.

The White Wolf Kangding's famous battle was even adapted into various legends and spread in other places.In the winter four years ago, he killed nine winter wolves with six throwing axes, and even more arrows with a pot of arrows. He completely repelled the wolf tide at the end of the snow season in the wild.

In the end, after all the weapons were used up, he fought with the wolf king with unarmed combat skills for a day and a night. Finally, the wolf king conceded and led the wolf tide to retreat from Sodom. Since then, every winter has never come again. .

Kangding the White Wolf, Kangding the Wolf King, Kangding who defeated the wolves with his bare hands - his father's reputation became more and more popular, and finally attracted the bards of Caral to cross the mountains to collect the stories of Kangding, and compiled them into Poetry spread.

White Wolf Kangding is the patron saint of Sodom, a legendary hunter who was awarded by Radhan, and the pride of Little Lim.

She never believed that her father would be hurt in this level of snow.It is only the beginning of January, and the coldest time is when the snow season is drawing to a close in mid-January.Father had defeated the wolf king at that time, so how could he be injured under this level of heavy snow?

"Huh? That's..."

Just then, Lim saw something strange.

Her eyes widened, she pressed her small face against the window, and held her breath.

As Little Lim focused, she finally saw the real body of the moving black spot——

It was a man in a black cloak.

In the snowy weather that was enough to freeze a person to death, that person just trudged through the heavy snow, moving forward slowly and alone.

Even though he didn't enter the city, and didn't mean to turn towards Sodom, Little Lim felt inexplicably that the man was walking towards Sodom.

If you look closely, there seems to be someone behind him...

Little Lim's eyes and mouth gradually opened wide, and she let out an incredible cry:
"--dad?!"

(End of this chapter)