Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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Two people and one bird, all the way to the north.

Leaving the woods, walking through the abandoned city, watching the white snow falling from the sky, the barren land is gradually covered by white snow.

After traveling day and night, they arrived at the place indicated by the map on the afternoon of the third day.

A valley forest covered in snow and ice.

Winding mountains, jagged rocks, snow-covered peaks and forests, filled with clouds and mist, tall fir trees are all white, only a few scattered branches and leaves under the branches are still old and dark.The waterfalls in the mountains in the distance were frozen into ice sculptures, and the creeks in the forest were also covered with ice. Everything was silent and there was no sound.

The off-road vehicle cautiously walked through the forest for half an hour, but could no longer go deep. Seth and Xiu could only get out of the vehicle, and the snowy owl also flew out of the vehicle. The top of the person's head skipped and flew into the depths of the forest.

"Unconscionable stuff," Seth smacked his lips and helped Xiu wrap up his clothes. "After all, we've been together for so long, and I didn't feed you too little, but I just flapped my wings and left, scumbag."

Xiu couldn't help laughing at him, and helped Seth fasten his clothes: "Let's go, there's no need to be angry with a bird."

The two packed each other up, found their original clothes from the trunk, put them on together, took the map, and locked the car door.

Seth subconsciously looked back at the direction they came from. There was a dense forest where the wind could not penetrate, and there were no mountain roads or ruts.

"Good guy, if you come here, you don't plan to let us go."

"Anyway, the fuel in the car has almost bottomed out, and we have no way out."

Xiu looked at the direction on the map: "This way."

"kindness."

The two walked through the forest side by side. The temperature in the forest was much lower than they had imagined. The hot breath condensed into frost. Xiu's hands were purple from the cold, and the tips of his teeth were trembling.

Seth took the map in Xiu's hand, took off his gloves and put them on for Xiu: "Let me come, let me see how cold you are."

"These gloves..."

"You gave it to me," Seth smiled, "I will keep it as a token of love."

Xiu also smiled, took off the gloves and helped Seth put them on again, then took his arm and put his hands in his pockets: "This way it won't be cold."

"fool."

Seth pampered Xiu and touched his forehead, and continued to walk deep into the forest.

The sky gradually darkened, and fine snowflakes began to fall.

Seth and Xiu walked in the forest for an unknown amount of time. The map was completely useless. The cold and hungry two supported each other and walked in the snow in the forest. footprint.

"Seth, still, how long do you have to go?"

Xiu couldn't move anymore, the light was fading, but they couldn't even see the edge of the forest.

"I do not know either."

Seth stopped, took a breath of relief, and looked up at the identical tall cedar trees all around.

"No, it's not an option to go on like this, just wait, I'll climb up and have a look."

"Uh~~~Uh~~~"

At this time, two low cries came from the forest.

Looking around, I saw two huge black shadows approaching them.

"An alien beast?" Seth asked Xiu.

"Well," Xiu said, "be careful, it might be a bear depending on its size."

Seth's stomach rumbled cooperatively: "Hey, I've heard people say that bear's paws are delicious."

"Be serious," Xiu bumped him angrily, "Bears hibernate in winter and shouldn't appear in the forest, unless they haven't accumulated enough energy to support them through the winter."

"I'm just hungry," Seth said, "That's right, it's time for dinner at this point."

When Seth said this, Xiu's stomach groaned.

"Look, you're hungry too."

Xiu sniffed and ignored him.

Seth smiled and asked, "Xiu, aren't you Albion people good at hunting? Have you ever hunted bears?"

"No," Xiu said, "bears are also strange beasts that live with us, but there are not many of them. Every winter..."

In the middle of speaking, Xiu suddenly stopped talking.

Seth knew that he must have thought of the dead Nemo, so he turned around and hugged him gently.

"What?" Xiu asked softly.

"It's nothing, it's a little cold."

Xiu also reached out to hug Seth, and the two of them put their chins on each other's shoulders to prevent other beasts from approaching. At the same time, there was a small disagreement on whether to eat bears.

Finally, Seth compromised: "Well, as long as it doesn't eat me, I won't eat it; if it wants to eat me as a meal, I can only make it dinner."

"Hehe, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."

Xiu patted Seth on the shoulder, and two deer came out of the forest.

"Zin, it's a pity," Seth said regretfully, "I still want to taste the taste of bear's paw."

"Forget it," Hugh said, "but the good news is—deer can be eaten."

"Really?"

"kindness."

Seth's eyes lit up when he heard that, and Xiu hurriedly grabbed him, for fear that he would rush up and hug the deer's head and gnaw it raw.

"But these two can't be eaten."

"What?"

Seth's mood seemed to be on a roller coaster, he stared dissatisfiedly at Xiu, and then at the two deer parked not far away.

They were two male deer, with thick grayish-yellow fur, white antlers, and a piece of white hair under their necks. They swaggered and looked very majestic.

The light was too dim, and when he got closer, Seth noticed that the deer had a saddle on its back.

Not only that, the tips of the antlers of both deer were sawed off, and sleeves were put on to prevent accidental injury.

"Damn, I thought I found dinner."

"Okay, let's go."

Xiu turned on the back of the deer, and Seth looked at the deer taller than him with some trepidation.

He has killed countless strange beasts on the battlefield, and Seth has never been afraid, but riding a strange beast is another matter.

"You step on the pedals, push hard and go up."

What Xiu said was simple, but Seth couldn't get up after trying for a long time.

The deer looked back at Seth several times, his eyes seemed to be full of helplessness and contempt, he gasped twice with his nose humming, and bent his legs on the ground.

Seth hurriedly rode on it, and the moment the deer got up, Seth leaned forward and backward on the deer's back, so frightened that he hugged the deer's neck so that he didn't fall off because of the unstable center of gravity.

"hu~hu~"

The deer looked back at Seth on its back, hummed at him twice, as if laughing at him, then walked into the depths of the forest with its head held high.

"Pfft, hehehe..."

"Hey, can you stop laughing?"

Seth stared at Xiu who was walking in front. Xiu rode on the back of the deer and laughed non-stop. Seeing that Seth found out, he simply stopped hiding and laughed out loud.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to be afraid of deer."

"Not afraid."

Seth's mouth was very hard, but his body on the back of the deer was stiff and stiff, and his hands were nowhere to rest. The expression on his face was not to mention how painful it was. Those who knew thought he was being tortured and served.

"It's my first ride, can't you give me some time to get used to it?"

"Didn't you get used to it when you were riding on Barlow's back?" Xiu asked.

"That's different," said Seth, "it's human anyway, and can understand human language."

The deer moved its head, and Seth immediately retracted his hands and tilted his head back, for fear of being stabbed by its antlers.

"And, Barlow's heart is heavy, this thing feels like it's floating when riding, and the soles of the feet feel numb."

"You take it easy, hold on to the pedals, lower your weight a little bit, hold on to the reins, don't pull too hard."

"Is that so?"

Sai especially followed Xiu's instructions, although he was still a little nervous, after getting used to it, the fear just now was indeed much less, and he even felt a little addicted.

It was completely dark, and when the deer carried the two of them out of the forest, the snow had stopped.

The deer's hooves left wide footprints on the snow, and after walking for a long time, the two suddenly saw a fire on the hillside not far away, and an elongated figure under the light of the fire.

The deer carried the two up the hillside, and when the two approached, a light was lit on the sentry post beside them. The watchman glanced at Seth and Xiu, and shouted something loudly towards the firelight on the hillside.

Seth and Xiu couldn't understand what he was shouting, but they could tell that there seemed to be no hostility in the man's anxious words, as if he had been waiting for them for a long time.

After shouting, the man climbed down from the sentry post, chatted to the two of them, with a smile on his face, and a worried expression on his face, and then led the two deer to drive quickly up the hillside.

The closer you get to the fire, the more people you meet.

Men, women, adults, and children, all dressed in thick cotton-padded clothes, wrapped tightly from head to toe, some stood in front of the wooden house, some poked their heads out of the wooden house, speaking words they could not understand, But they all surrounded them enthusiastically, and followed them to the center of the fire.

"Appreciate~~~"

The sentry tightened the reins, and the two deer stopped, their limbs bent and lying on the ground, and the people around them surrounded them.

Facing so many strangers, Seth and Xiu couldn't help feeling a little nervous, but when they were about to get up, those people kept waving at them.

Seth and Xiu didn't know why, but they were still about to get up, but they found that their bodies were unconscious, they couldn't feel their limbs, and they couldn't move at all.

Those people shouted anxiously, and soon someone moved two wicker chairs, the two ladies gently swept the snow off their shoulders, and four men came to support their bodies and their thighs, carefully Putting the rattan chair on, the people around were still chattering and waving to them.

Then, someone brought two quilts and wrapped them around them, and carried them into the wooden house directly opposite the campfire.

The person walking in the front pushed open the wooden door and shouted into the room in a broken language they could understand: "Come... come... they... come!"

"Fix! Seth!"

The two followed the prestige and found that the person in the room was none other than Kafka and his party!

"You, why are you frozen like this?!"

Ismail hurriedly pushed the wheelchair forward, covered Xiu's hands and rubbed them non-stop. Kafka and Israel also surrounded them, both happy and worried when they saw them.

"It's good to come, it's good to come."

"May, Mel... Ka, Kraft..."

"Shh, boy, don't talk."

Kafka helped Xiu wrap up the quilt tightly, and patted his face distressedly: "You are frozen, please warm up first, and we will talk about things later."