“Huff—”
The cold wind was howling and biting.
The snowflakes blown up by the strong wind are not soft, and the ice chips are blown all over the place, just like invisible plows scraping the earth wantonly, plowing out thousands of gullies and ravines for the white snow.
Cheng Shi shuddered.
His body had already begun to respond to the stress before he regained consciousness. The unexpectedly low temperature made him tremble all over, his muscles contracting involuntarily, and he woke up after a while.
There was no smell to be smelled, no sound to be heard, only the wind and snow, roaring and calling out to welcome the players.
Cheng Shi opened his eyes, but then closed them again.
No other reason, it’s just too bright.
The sun was clearly still in the sky, but it seemed like the giant phantom of the sun that Hu Xuan had transformed into, with only brightness but no temperature. Cheng Shi was stunned and thought that this harsh environment had forced Hu Xuan to reveal his true form.
But when I think about it carefully, among the five figures that just flashed by, there seemed to be no trace of Hu Xuan.
Not in line?
No, it’s actually impossible to get in!
Cheng Shi frowned, took out a fur coat in the wind and snow, covered his body with it and opened his eyes slightly. As the fur coat blocked his view in front of him, he could only see the two figures beside him.
These two people were obviously not one of the teammates who had just prayed together, but Cheng Shi was not surprised at all. If he could still meet the teammates who had just prayed together in this situation, that would be really weird.
On the left is a man with an arrogant and weird expression. His clothes are very gorgeous, with bright colors and various patterns. He has a high collar, a waist-cinching robe, and a long robe with wide sleeves. With the hem of his skirt blown open by the wind, at first glance he looks like he is cosplaying as a medieval nobleman.
There is also a man on the right, with white curly hair, a high nose bridge, a gentle appearance, and he is dressed very conservatively. The old-fashioned suit makes him look like a pedant, but his behavior is somewhat eccentric.
The reason for saying this is because Cheng Shi saw that he had climbed to the roof of a low-rise building next to him, and broke off a half-human-length lightning rod-like object from the snow-covered height.
Cheng Shi frowned and looked around with a scrutinizing gaze. After seeing the empty snowfield and the surrounding buildings of varying heights, he realized that the place where he had landed was actually a square, a square covered in wind and snow.
So what was that broken lightning rod just now?
Cheng Shi couldn't see the details on the roof, but he instinctively felt that the thing didn't seem to be a lightning rod, but more like a sundial used by many civilizations to tell time in ancient times.
But he was not sure, but soon his teammate on the right came back with a smile, leaning on a "long stick" and choking on the wind and snow.
"Even if the sundial isn't used to tell time... Ugh, it's great as a walking stick... Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, sorry, the wind is too strong...
It seems that we have come to the north of the Island of Hope. I hope this will be a less difficult trial, of course, except for the wind and snow.
What do you call my friend? "
It is indeed a sundial!
So this teammate is...
Cheng Shi looked at this teammate with a rather cheerful personality with a fixed gaze. He instantly took out a pocket watch from under the cover of his windproof fur coat with his left hand and glanced at the time on it. It was just past twelve o'clock, and it was noon.
At noon, when the sun was directly overhead, there was still such a strong snowstorm. The weather was very strange. No wonder this teammate would find a "trekking pole" in advance to protect himself.
This cheerful teammate was still walking towards Cheng Shi. He took two quick steps, stretched out his hand towards Cheng Shi, and smiled brightly.
Cheng Shi responded with a bright smile, but did not shake hands with the man. Instead, he raised the fur coat in his hand to indicate that he was busy.
"Cheng Shi, nice to meet you."
The cheerful teammate was stunned, then blinked and said:
"Your name is the same as that of a friend of mine. What a coincidence. I wonder if you know him. He is a fortune-weaver, a very famous one."
Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Oh? How did you become famous?"
“It seems you don’t know, well, where should I start?
To explain this matter clearly, you first have to know a liar, her name is Zhen Yi.
Oh? Judging from your expression, you must have heard of her. Great, we can continue our conversation.
The Zhen Yi you know has a kind of... relationship with my friend. Yes, your expression is good, it's the kind of relationship you think!
Ha, you're shocked, right? When I first learned about this, my expression was even more exaggerated than yours."
As he spoke, this cheerful teammate was actually moving closer to Cheng Shi. From the look of him, it seemed that he wanted to squeeze together with Cheng Shi under this fur coat that was as big as a person to avoid the wind.
"......"
Cheng Shi looked at this very familiar teammate with a strange look, and was speechless.
How come I didn’t know I had a friend like you?
When did we meet?
Who are you?
Seeing that this teammate was about to get close to him, Cheng Shi suddenly stepped back to make room and then smiled politely and said:
"If nothing unexpected happens, I am the friend you mentioned.
So, what should I call you, my 'old friend'?"
"......" Now it was the cheerful teammate's turn to be silent.
He looked up in astonishment, blinked in confusion, and said in shock: "It's really you?"
Cheng Shi's tone became more teasing: "Why, how long have we not seen each other that you don't recognize me anymore?"
"......"
The cheerful teammate's smile froze on his face. He awkwardly poked the ground with his sundial and mumbled in the sound of the wind and snow: "She looks good, but her character is like Chen Shuo."
Of course Cheng Shi didn't hear what was said. He just saw the other party mutter something and then stood there with a dry laugh.
Seeing that the other party had no ill intentions, Cheng Shi smiled casually and turned the page. He put down his fur coat slightly and looked forward in the wind and snow.
There were three teammates standing upwind in the square. They were not standing close to each other and didn't seem to have any intention of getting close to each other. They just stood in the wind and snow like sculptures. If the three of them were not looking around, someone would have thought that several new human statues were built in the square.
The wind was strong and the snow was heavy, making it very blinding. Cheng Shi could only vaguely see the appearance features of three people in the wind and snow, but he couldn't see their faces at all. However, just by seeing their appearance, he discovered that one of the three people was actually an acquaintance!
And not just one, but two!
An "old acquaintance" and a "new friend"!
The man standing in front of his left, that is, in front of the medieval male noble, was none other than the burly [War] assassin, the Glimmering Light Iron Thorn, Dayi, who had just prayed with Cheng Shi in the Grand Marshal's camp!
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