Chapter 28

After separating from Ji Dongzang and Xia Changjie at the fork in the road.

The situation of Zhou You, Xia Baiwan, Xia Qianwan and the two giant cats did not improve.

The mutant monsters surrounded them again!

The continuous desperate escape had already drained Zhou You's physical strength.

She □□, the small cannon in her hand became extremely heavy due to the depletion of energy, and she put it away decisively.

Replaced with a lighter but more dangerous dagger.

Crisis comes one after another!

Just as she was trying to dodge the charge of a mutated giant turtle, a shadow suddenly fell above her head.

A strange bird with claws like hooks tore through the wind and grabbed her crown fiercely!

Zhou You's pupils suddenly shrank, and he could almost feel the cold wind from the claws.

"roar--!"

At the critical moment, a dark shadow pounced over.

It's a black cat!

It burst out with astonishing speed, leaped into the air with its huge body, and slammed hard into the diving monster bird.

Bang!

The strange bird was knocked off course and let out a shrill scream.

But Ji Baiwan lost his balance because of this all-out lunge and fell heavily to the ground.

In an instant, he was overwhelmed by the surging herd of beasts below.

"One million!" Zhou You shouted hoarsely, but he was powerless.

The frenzy of the beasts instantly engulfed the black cat, leaving no trace of its struggle.

Can’t even protect myself!

Zhou You gritted his teeth and suppressed his grief and powerlessness, desperately dodging in the gaps between the beasts to survive.

In the chaos, she tried to find Xia Baiwan and Xia Qianwan again, but found the two of them along with the cow cat.

I don't know when it disappeared in the chaotic beast herd and deep in the dense forest, leaving no trace at all!

It’s over…

Zhou You leaned against a giant tree, a dagger across his chest, looking at the fangs and claws approaching from all directions.

She reached for the camera in her backpack—to leave a picture before she died…

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

At this critical moment of life and death, a gust of wind suddenly swept past!

Zhou You only felt a tightening around her waist, and a huge force lifted her into the air.

As the world spun around, she landed steadily on a broad, striped back.

It was a mutated white tiger of unusually large size!

She subconsciously grabbed the hem of the rider in front of her to steady herself.

I looked up in shock, and what caught my eye was a white-haired old lady!

Her graying hair was meticulously combed and tied into a neat low ponytail at her shoulder blades.

A plain silk scarf was tied around her neck, which was rustling in the strong wind caused by the galloping horse.

The end of the scarf kept hitting Zhou You's cheek.

Zhou You suddenly turned around, looked at the frantic beast tide that was rapidly moving away, and shouted:

"My cat..."

The sound was torn apart by the wind.

She knew that turning back to save people at this moment was a pipe dream, and she could only watch the herd of animals moving farther and farther away from her.

Eventually it was completely obscured by the trees.

It’s a headache!

Two precious companions, lost just like that...

She took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and turned her gaze back to the front.

It was at this moment that she discovered with horror that on the side of the neck of this mighty white tiger, there was actually... a human head hanging!

The head's long hair was carefully braided into intricate braids that wrapped around the skull.

Like a dark, eerie hydrangea.

What was even more disgusting was that a faint stench was drifting into her nostrils with the cold wind.

“Where…?”

A strange sound mixed with the growl of a wild beast suddenly came from the mouth of the white tiger under him.

This is definitely not human language, the syllables are distorted and broken, but the strange thing is that Zhou You actually understood its meaning!

Then, the old lady's slow voice sounded in front of us: "Find an open space and repair it first."

Zhou You suppressed the doubts in his mind, quietly reached into his backpack, and his fingertips touched the cold camera casing.

Using her body as a shield, she moved forward at an extremely fast speed and with minimal movement.

Including that disgusting "hydrangea head", the shutter was pressed silently.

Click.

A subtle mechanical sound was heard.

Almost at the moment she put away her camera, the old lady in front of her seemed to notice something and slowly turned her head.

That calm gaze fell on Zhou You's face.

Zhou You's whole body froze, and he forced out an extremely stiff smile that was uglier than crying.

"...Thank you for saving me."

…

Time loses its meaning on the snowfield.

In another pure white desolate area, Ji Dongzang and Xia Changjie had been trekking for an unknown amount of time.

The continuous, boundless white burns the retina like strong light, causing physiological stinging and dizziness.

Even the snow lion's eyes seemed to feel uncomfortable.

In the end, the two chose the most helpless way - closing their eyes, relying only on their feelings, and moving forward mechanically on the vast snowfield.

Walk and stop.

Apart from the whistling of the wind, there is still eternal, hopeless silence.

Ji Dongzang's short hair had unknowingly fallen to his shoulders.

According to her rough perception of her biological clock, nearly a year has passed.

This long "year" is largely due to Ji Dongzang's philosophy of playing badly.

She once advocated staying put and waiting for the world to change.

The result is - the world really hasn't changed!

The two of them lay in the same place for who knows how long, like specimens forgotten in the cracks of time.

It was not until Xia Changjie could no longer bear it that he was forced to embark on this hopeless journey again.

The only changes during walking are:

The snow beneath my feet seemed to be slowly thinning, and the biting cold also weakened a little.

This faint hope became the only motivation that supported them, driving them to keep moving forward without stopping.

I don’t know if it’s the energy consumption or the unique rules of this space.

A faint but persistent feeling of hunger, a deep sense of fatigue, and an irresistible drowsiness surrounded them.

Although it is still bearable, it is constantly wearing down my will.

It was during this confused and half-asleep journey.

Ji Dongzang's feet suddenly slipped!

She subconsciously opened her heavy eyelids.

The sight before her froze her, literally.

She saw that her legs, starting from her ankles, were rapidly covered with a layer of crystal clear, extremely hard ice!

The ice layer was spreading and shaping upwards at a speed visible to the naked eye, solidifying her into an ice sculpture in a posture of stepping forward!

She rolled her eyes stiffly and looked to her side.

The snow lion that Xia Changjie transformed into still had its eyes closed and maintained a walking posture.

But the entire body, including the fluffy snow hair, has been completely frozen into a huge, lifelike ice lion!

"Hello!" Ji Dongzang tried to speak, but only a weak air flow came out of his throat.

Boom! Boom!

She tried hard to control her strength, bent her frozen finger joints with difficulty, and knocked on Xia Changjie's hard and cold lion body beside her.

The ice lion Xia Changjie slowly opened his eyes made of crystal ice.

The ice crystals reflected a faint light, and his eyes were filled with a mixture of surprise and deeper confusion.

"I've also become an ice sculpture." Ji Dongzang's ethereal and echoing voice came from the frozen human-shaped sculpture.

There was even a hint of resigned mockery in his tone, "Will it... snap and break next?"

The Ice Lion did not respond.

He just kept moving forward silently, step by step, using his heavy crampons.

Ji Dongzang also realized the change.

Without any warning, heavy snow began to fall again from the gloomy sky!

Snowfield Hell again? Absolutely not!

She immediately shut her mouth wisely, and even subconsciously controlled her stiff body to move to the side.

He moved away from the silently advancing ice lion and trekked alone on the vast ice field.

One man, one lion, two ice sculptures.

This silent asceticism continues in the dead silent world of ice and snow.

I don’t know how long I walked, but the ice under my feet suddenly shook violently without any warning!

Crack!

Immediately afterwards, the entire ice field suddenly cracked and collapsed!

“It’s broken!”

As soon as the idea of ​​winter storage came to mind, he could clearly feel his body falling apart!

The hard ice body instantly disintegrated and exploded in the weightlessness.

The ice lion next to it was not spared and also shattered.

They were suspended in an absolute, suffocating void.

There was no light, no sound, no direction, only countless melting ice fragments belonging to them.

Pain instantly overwhelmed Ji Dongzang's remaining consciousness.

There was a sharp pain in my stomach.

My head was pounding and aching, and I was mentally and physically exhausted.

What’s even more terrifying is the tearing sensation all over the body.

It felt like the body was being chopped into pieces repeatedly.

In extreme pain and emptiness, consciousness gradually blurred.

The ice water that she and Xia Changjie turned into was pulled by an invisible force and seeped into the cracks in the void.

Flowing silently into the next unknown...

…

warmth.

This was Dongzang’s first feeling after he regained consciousness.

She slowly opened her heavy eyelids and found herself lying in a wooden house covered with soft hay and animal skins.

Not far away, a bonfire crackled, the dancing flames dyed the entire space a warm and reassuring orange-red hue, and the air was filled with the unique aroma of burning wood.

She turned her head with difficulty and happened to meet the gaze of Xia Changjie, who had also just woken up and still had a dazed look in his eyes.

Seven figures were sitting around the campfire, all looking over.

Ji Dongzang's gaze swept over them and paused slightly on one of the members.

It was a smaller Bigfoot, the same as in the Jua world.

They all look like little girls and fools...

The leading Bigfoot's voice broke the silence in the room with a deep and soothing voice:

“Welcome to Bigfoot World.”