Chapter 161 Chapter One Hundred Fifty Nine · "Why is it so cold?"
As we traveled along, the sky gradually darkened.
Hui Shuhang placed the 500-man army behind him outside the city - it would have been fine if they were just taking a picnic outside the city, but if they followed the army into the city, anyone who saw them would be trembling with fear.
Su Mingan was thinking about his next move. When he looked up, he heard the city gate guard's voice suddenly become disrespectful when talking to them.
"Hello, the entrance fee is one copper coin."
Perhaps because their clothes were too conspicuous, they did not fit in with the plain and worn-out people who were carrying luggage on their shoulders. When they entered the city, it was as if they were naturally separated by a circle. The crying children stopped at this time when the adults shouted at them, as if they were afraid of disturbing them.
Su Mingan watched Hui Shuhang pay the entrance fee without saying a word, and then took him inside.
He heard the sound of flowing water and turned his head to see a river with floating lanterns.
"Keri is having a Lantern Festival right now." Hui Shuhang said to him softly, "I brought you here because I thought you've never seen one before."
Su Mingan looked at the river.
Under the starry night sky, the boat sailed along both banks. The wind and the lights gradually formed a line, and the lights of the lotus illuminated the whole city.
Even though the sky was still glowing, the river, illuminated by the stars in the air, looked like the Milky Way on earth, giving people the illusion that they were still in a dream.
All around me were the cries of hawkers, the cheerful laughter of children, and various folk conversations mixed together, and the cold wind, permeated with a festive atmosphere, blew on my face.
He tightened his windbreaker around himself and looked at this beautiful scene, but he felt even colder... It was as if he was getting cold unconsciously, and his body temperature was inevitably dropping little by little, gradually approaching the temperature of the environment.
"…What's wrong with you?"
His hand was gently pulled up, and a warm energy was transmitted in. Hui Shuhang looked at him, his eyes full of concern.
"It's so cold." Su Mingan told the truth.
"Yeah." Hui Shuhang didn't mean to say more.
She held his hand, and through a layer of silk gloves, he could feel that her hand was also cold, close to his own temperature. But streams of energy and warmth slowly flowed in from that end, gradually pulling him out of the ice cave.
The comments seemed very happy, and they seemed to like the scene of two people holding hands:
【Get it! 】
[I got it a long time ago. I feel like I got it from the beginning of the dungeon.]
[What route is Brother Ming An going to take? Is it the regular army? 】
[It must be the regular army line. The advantage is too great. I can't see where he is in danger. It's too easy to earn contribution points...]
[This dungeon is so gentle, much better than the previous hell dungeons. If I had known this, I would have ended up like this...]
[No, the first few probably stayed in the top player's live broadcast room. Look at the other players' live broadcast rooms. Those with lower status are now living a life worse than death... They are all living in fear like quails.]
[For details, please refer to the free gift Mizushima Kawaharu. 】
[I am still very concerned about what Mizushima Kawaharu did! This person turned the live broadcast on and off, and didn't say a word. Could it be that he really was...]
【It’s over, Yueyue Prairie. 】
【It’s over, Yu Ruohe Prairie. 】
【It’s over, Soviet-style prairie. 】
[It’s over. I’m also on the prairie. ]
[——Wake up, the one in front! It’s time to get up and forge iron!]
【……】
"Is this better?" Hui Shuhang asked softly.
Her tone was extremely gentle, completely different from her previous commanding attitude towards her subordinates. It seemed as if her gentleness was only revealed at this moment. The ice on the outer shell completely melted, and the energy she brought over was very similar to the warmth in her eyes at this moment.
"...Why is it so cold?" Su Mingan said in a declarative tone, as if he was mumbling to himself.
"Because it's polar night." She said: "It's okay, warmth will come... After your coming-of-age ceremony, there will never be such a cold season again."
She held Su Mingan's hand and walked slowly forward.
Along the way, Su Mingan saw a lot.
Hui Shuhang did not lead him to walk on the avenue, because if they walked on the avenue, their clothes would attract everyone's attention. While walking in the streets and alleys, he heard bursts of laughter and saw many homeless people sleeping on the ground with oil paper rolled up.
Beside the fountain in the square, there were bards carrying bags, children happy about the celebration, and pedestrians dressed in rich clothes. Hui Shuhang bought him a string of something like candied haws, saying it would add to the festive atmosphere.
“Meow…”
As he passed an alley, he was chewing the food in his hand when he heard a sound similar to a cat's meow.
He turned his head and looked inside, and saw a black cat staring at him in this corner where no light came in. The cardboard box was being ravaged under the cat's claws, making a squeaking and groaning sound.
He originally didn't want to pay any more attention to it, but then he saw a layer of frost on the edge of the cardboard box.
In the alley filled with pottery jars and tied cloth bags, an old man leaned against the wall, his skin wrinkled like the bark of an old tree. When he looked closely, he saw a thin layer of frost condensed on the man's body, seeping into every corner of the old man's open clothes.
The old man lowered his head, his expression peaceful and silent.
Like corpses rotting in the shadows, rats dying in the streets.
During the lantern celebration, in the cramped space, the old man froze to death silently.
“Meow…”
The black cat stared at him, slowly moved, and jumped onto the old man. He heard a crisp "crack" sound, and after the frost broke, he saw that under the skinny old man's body, there was a child who had also been frozen to death.
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