After taking a dose of medicine, Zou Yun woke up soon.
He just opened his eyes, still looking a little dazed.
"Miss Wei, this is..." Her memory still remained at the moment when she was struggling to move forward during the avalanche.
"You've caught a cold and have a fever." After a brief explanation, Wei Yunlan tucked in the corner of the quilt for Zou Yun and said, "Lie down and rest for a while. Don't worry."
It is late at night now, and even if we get up now, we will not be able to travel quickly.
Hearing the noise inside, Chen Yan opened the curtain and came in. Seeing that Zou Yun had opened his eyes and sat up, he couldn't help but said in surprise: "Great, you finally woke up!"
In the wilderness, the most frightening thing is getting sick.
But given the physical conditions of these people who have practiced martial arts since childhood, as long as they wake up from the coma, the rest of the recovery will only be a matter of time.
Waking up means everything is fine.
"By the way, Miss Wei, the snow outside is much lighter than before," Chen Yan continued.
Wei Yunlan lifted a corner of the curtain and looked out. Sure enough, the snow outside was even lighter.
If this trend continues, the snow may stop early tomorrow morning.
"Now we can finally get going." Zou Yun took the hot water handed to him by Sui He, and after taking a sip, his face turned a little redder. "I'm sorry for making you worry."
"What's there to be sorry about?" Wei Yunlan said softly, "Isn't it enough that you have taken care of me all this time? Please don't be so polite to me."
Hearing this, Zou Yun curled the corners of his mouth, stopped talking, and drank the hot water in the cup bit by bit.
This camp with only one tent in the snow is like a lone boat in the vast ocean.
There was a light snowfall, the sun gradually rose and the snow finally stopped.
The sun shone on the white plain, casting a dazzling light, but the surrounding environment did not become warmer, but became even colder.
Everyone had to wear a cotton coat stuffed with kapok.
Extremely bloated.
Even the slender and skinny Suihe felt like a ball after putting it on. When she stretched out her arms and legs, she found it much more difficult to move.
"If we fight with others at this time, I'm afraid we won't be able to use any of our moves." Wang Lu and Chen Yan joked as they folded up the tent.
Wei Yunlan arranged the bedding and fixed it on the horse's back. She took out some of the remaining fodder and fed it to the horses. This was a task she took on on her own initiative. The two baskets of fodder would only get more and more when they were in her hands.
She also stored some extra fodder in her space. When she walked through the snow and searched for fodder again, she could add some extra stock to the space so that these horses that had followed them through so many hardships could have a few more full meals.
The horse lowered its head to eat grass, and Wei Yunlan stood not far away.
Looking around, I suddenly noticed footprints on the snow not far away. It seemed like something was a little off.
She subconsciously pulled out the dagger from her sleeve, walked a few steps over there, and looked down carefully.
This is where something is wrong!
Several smaller snow pits appeared near the snow pit left by their group.
Wei Yunlan looked closely and found that these small pits looked like footprints left by something.
Are there any animals living on this icy, snowy, barren and desolate plain?
Wei Yunlan did not underestimate the footprints because they were small. Instead, he became alert and turned around to tell the others who were packing up in the camp about his discovery.
Suihe, who had just put out the bonfire, was staring at the pile of burning firewood. When he heard Wei Yunlan's words, a look of realization appeared in his eyes and he let out a soft "ah".
"What's wrong?" Wei Yunlan looked at her.
"Miss, I remember there should be two ears of corn left on the fire." When the campfire was extinguished just now, Suihe did not see the two ears of corn. She thought she had remembered wrongly. Now it seems that it is very likely that they were stolen by the animals that the young lady mentioned, which approached the camp in the middle of the night!
"What kind of footprints?" Zou Yun, Chen Yan and Wang Lu also leaned over to take a look at the footprints Wei Yunlan mentioned.
If compared in size, it seems to be slightly smaller than a horseshoe, and is roughly the same size as a black cloud.
At first, Wei Yunlan also thought that they were traces left by the black cloud. If she hadn't seen the footprints on the other side, which were similar to the black cloud's footprints but deeper, she would have been fooled by this unknown beast.
"Could it be a wild dog or something, like those in Yandu Gorge?" Wang Lu guessed.
He was deeply impressed by those wild dogs. When the wild dogs brought chickens to him, he took the two live chickens with his own hands!
"Maybe there was an avalanche on the mountain and they were swept down with it. They smelled us and came here to look for us?"
It sounded reasonable, but Wei Yunlan shook his head, "Not likely."
Not to mention that the place where they encountered wild dogs before was at least three hundred miles away from here.
It is hard to say whether there is heavy snow on the mountain where they live.
For a wild dog, it is impossible for it to move alone and leave only one set of footprints...
Thinking back to the wild dogs they encountered in Yandu Gorge, they never went out alone, and always went out in large groups of dozens of them.
Even if they are really separated by heavy snow, they will follow the smell to find each other as soon as possible instead of looking for other people.
"What else could such a small footprint be?" Everyone looked at each other, at a loss for a moment.
"Forget it, let's eat first. We can travel a little further today while the weather is fine," said Wei Yunlan.
Breakfast is a plate of freshly baked bread that was made before the fire was extinguished, with some shredded dried meat inside. It is a bit tough on the teeth, but the more you chew, the more delicious it tastes.
All the baked cakes were placed in a bamboo basket and covered with a thick piece of cloth. There were also a few pieces of dried meat, which were baked specifically for Heiyun. While everyone was packing up, it lay aside, pressing the dried meat with its two front paws and biting it.
"Take it and eat while walking." Zou Yun was afraid that his illness would delay the planned trip, so he was the one who was most anxious to set off.
"Okay." Wei Yunlan nodded slightly and quickened the pace of tying things onto the horse's back.
Heiyun, who was biting on some dried meat, raised his head when he heard this.
At this moment, a white figure passed by quickly on the snow, aiming precisely at the dried meat in Heiyun's hand.
Its silhouette is almost the same color as the white snow covering the ground. If it weren't for the light reflecting off the snow, this subtle difference would be completely unnoticeable.
Sensing the approach of a strange breath, Heiyun, who had been standing lazily, suddenly straightened up, raised his claws and pounced forward with a "snap".
The white figure was instantly crushed under the black claws of the black cloud.
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