long night fire

"What's wrong, you entered the strange room?"

"Not yet." Shang Jian Yao yawned.

Jiang Baimian said suspiciously:

"Then what song do you sing?"

"It's really fate, I came across room '205'." Shang Jianyao replied truthfully.

"That room that seems to be in the dream of 'Dawn'?" Jiang Baimian suddenly had an unexpected but reasonable feeling.

She said to herself:

"It's only been two days since we heard the name 'Dawn' from the person in room '506'..."

"Sure enough!" Shang Jianyao made a judgment in a firm tone.

Jiang Baimian understood what he meant, nodded his head and said:

"It is indeed related.

"Well, don't rush in, just observe and observe."

Shang Jianyao also had the same idea, first find another room to improve his strength, and then find the door to the "new world".

"Why haven't you slept yet?" He asked curiously.

Jiang Baimian exhaled and said:

"Thinking about my island of fear."

"Any clues?" Shang Jianyao asked with concern.

"No." Jiang Baimian shook his head, "Maybe I have to investigate the real situation of the company, so that I can recognize the reality, let go of the burden, and face it calmly."

She thinks that this kind of awareness is the best way to break through that island of fear.

Seeing that Yao was exhausted, he just opened his mouth and fell asleep before he had time to ask questions. Jiang Baimian was stunned for a while, and then closed his eyes.

The next day, the "Old Tune Team" had breakfast, drove into the jeep, left Cliff Village again, and headed for Shan'ao Town.

But what greeted them was empty squares and streets.

There is a lot of rubbish scattered here, which has not been cleaned up well, and the convoy from the city at the end of the year has disappeared.

After returning, the "Old Tune Group" got the exact news from the village chief:

The people in the city at the end of the year had almost finished their transactions, and received another telegram with unknown content, so they left Shan'ao Town at dawn and went to the ice field.

"Something happened in the city at the end of the year?" Long Yuehong guessed.

Shangjian Yao eagerly proposed:

"Do you want to step on the snow to find traces and follow them?"

"Not for the time being." Jiang Baimian replied succinctly, "The reason has been explained before."

She then looked around:

"We have done everything we need to do here. We also left Cliff Village today to go to the ice field. The destination is the ruins of the city where Shang Jianyao's father last appeared."

No one objected.

Note 1: Quoted from "Crossing Love", the ending song of "Legend of the White Snake", sung by Zuo Hongyuan and Zhang Hui

Chapter 39 雪城

One piece of snow, one piece of snow white, one piece of snow white.

This was the only feeling Long Yuehong felt after the "Old Tune Group" trekked on the ice field for three days.

Here, apart from the light blue and darkness of the sky and the various colors of the "Old Tone Group" itself, he can only see a piece of white.

This season, the few creatures on the ice sheet have not yet entered an active state.

If it weren't for the sunglasses, Long Yuehong would have suspected that she was already blind.

"Where are the robbers? Can't we have some robbers?" Shang Jianyao, who was driving, murmured while staring ahead with his eyes tightly protected by sunglasses.

At this moment, the music seemed unable to make him forget the boring outside.

Jiang Baimian, who was in the passenger seat, pushed his sunglasses and sneered:

"Where did the bandits come from the ice field?

"The only result of being a robber here is to starve to death and freeze yourself to death."

There are very few human settlements in the ice field, and there are not many caravans coming over, so there are not many robbers to support.

In the summer months, when the ice and snow melted and the climate was no longer cold, many relic hunters came to explore the abandoned cities in this area to obtain the corresponding supplies. Only then would it be more lively and bandits would appear.

The current itinerary of the "Old Tune Group" is planned by Gnava. They will not go deep into the ice sheet, but stick to the southern end of the ice sheet and head east, to the area near the "White Knights", looking for the last place where Shang Jianyao's father appeared The ruins of that city.

In this way, they can avoid a lot of extreme weather, and the surrounding temperature will not be too cold to be exaggerated, which is beneficial to the jeep of their group that uses high-performance batteries.

Shang Jianyao deliberately ignored Jiang Baimian's words, looked in the rearview mirror and said:

"Xiaohong, why don't you go pretend to be a robber?"

If it weren't for the boring scenery outside, Long Yuehong wouldn't bother to talk to this guy:

"Why not you?"

The shock brought by the ice and snow has faded from him.

"Okay, okay!" Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation.

This made Long Yuehong didn't know how to pick it up.

Fortunately, at this moment, Bai Chen next to him looked in front of him and said:

"There seem to be ruins over there."

"Yes." Gnava gave affirmative feedback.

Shang Jianyao followed him to look, and found that in the front side area, where the sky and the snow meet, there were black shadows that seemed to be high-rise buildings rising from the ground.

They are all covered with snow, but there is always a part exposed, otherwise Bai Chen would not be so sure that it is a ruin, not a snow mountain.

"Go and have a look?" Shang Jianyao looked at Jiang Baimian and suggested eagerly, "Anyway, let's go along."

Just a little around a small arc.

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"Yes, camping overnight in the ruins of the city is much safer than in the wilderness."

Those high-rise buildings can help the "Old Tune Group" to shelter from the wind and snow, and if they sleep on the ice field in the wilderness, if there is a snowstorm, the jeep may be directly buried. This is a natural force that Jiang Baimian and others cannot resist.

Of course, generally speaking, urban ruins often have other dangers, but for the "Old Tune Group", most of those dangers belong to the type that they can solve themselves.

"Ula!" Shang Jianyao yelled after imitating old world entertainment materials to express his excitement.

Long Yuehong asked Gnava cautiously:

"Are you sure that's not a mirage?"

"Theoretically not, but if I encounter a large-scale illusion created by the awakened, I will not be able to distinguish it for the time being." Gnawa answered very honestly.

"Wouldn't that be better?" Shang Jianyao became more and more enthusiastic.

Towards evening, Jeep finally arrived at the ruins of the city.

The top of each building here is covered with thick white snow, and the ice edges hang down one by one, which not only covers part of the outer wall, but also creates a crystal clear feeling.

In addition, the ground, pools, house protrusions, iron railings, and abandoned vehicles are all covered with snow. At first glance, the city seems to be frozen in time.

This is completely different from the scenery of all the city ruins that the "Old Tune Group" has been to before. It is more shocking and has a sense of desolation.

"It looks the same as the ice and snow forest we passed by before." Shang Jianyao retracted his gaze and expressed his opinion.

Long Yuehong noticed that the abandoned vehicles on the street were crowded together in a chaotic manner, completely blocking the traffic artery in a panic, and there were protrusions of suspected bones everywhere.

Those bones were all buried by Bai Xue, most of them only showed a certain outline, only a few were exposed for various reasons, decayed and dilapidated.

No matter how many times he saw a similar scene, Jiang Baimian couldn't help feeling depressed and sighed spontaneously.

This is not how humans should end up.

Neither natural disasters nor wars are what human beings, or the vast majority of human beings, want to see.

Phew, Jiang Baimian exhaled and said:

"Find a place that can block the wind and snow to park and camp."

She didn't intend to go inside the city's tall buildings to enjoy the protection of the walls from accidents and loss of vehicles.

Being in the ice field, without the vehicles and the materials loaded on it, no matter how powerful the "Old Tuning Team" is, it cannot last for many days.

The same goes for Gnava.

Soon, under the survey and calculation of the intelligent robot, the jeep of the "Old Tuning Team" drove into the back of a tall building and stopped beside the collapsed wall.

The whining sound of the wind was blocked by the buildings, bypassing them from both sides, and no longer attacked them.

"Eat, eat!" Shang Jianyao enthusiastically pushed the door and got off the car.

"Why are you so active?" Long Yuehong who got out of the car asked casually.

After passing through the exciting period when he first arrived at the ice field, he hadn't seen Shang Jianyao in such a state.

Shang Jian Yao replied with bright eyes:

"Eat and drink enough to go on an adventure."

"Take a good rest." Jiang Baimian on the other side of the jeep stopped this guy's delusions.

Just as Bai Chen opened the door, she suddenly saw far away, a white figure jumped from the top of one tall building covered with thick snow to another, and then disappeared from her sight.

"There seems to be some creature over there." Bai Chen pointed in the corresponding direction.

Jiang Baimian stared away, but found nothing, and Gnawa and others did the same.

"What is it?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.

Bai Chen pursed her lips and said:

"White leopards, or other feline creatures."

"Ice creatures with strong cold resistance?" Jiang Baimian nodded slightly.

Shang Jianyao was concerned about another question:

"What does this creature usually eat?"

"Other ice creatures." Long Yuehong felt that there was nothing to ask.

Does it have nothing to eat, will you feed it?

Jiang Baimian clapped his hands and said:

"Okay, everyone knows the existence of ice creatures, we do our own thing."

Except that Shang Jianyao had some opinions, no one else had any objections.

Soon, the "Old Tune Group" was divided into two teams, one team made dinner, and the other team broke down doors and windows nearby and collected a lot of firewood.

The bonfire was lit, and the beating flames made people feel warm.

Long Yuehong hadn't seen the flames for several days, and now she was quite moved.

He exhaled and said:

"I used to think that compared with the company, places such as the Black Marsh Wilderness were not places where humans should live, but now I feel that compared with the ice field, those places in the Black Marsh Wilderness are like heaven."

This time, it was rare for Shang Jianyao not to refute him.

In the middle of the night, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao wrapped up thick clothes and got out of the jeep, replacing Bai Chen and Long Yuehong on duty.

The bonfire swayed gently, bringing light and warmth, as well as darkness and silence.

Both Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao were experienced fighters, and they did not lower their vigilance due to the harsh environment. They walked around the campfire slowly, observing and sensing their surroundings.

After nearly an hour, Jiang Baimian suddenly frowned and tilted his ears:

"Is there a sound?"