"Smokeless Town still has electric wires and lights, which is great," said Wang Xiaohai.
There were dim lights hanging on the white trees on both sides of the road, illuminating the dark surroundings.
A group of contestants gathered under the lights, discussing their accommodation for tonight. They definitely couldn't go out at night and would have to wait until tomorrow morning. However, apart from the contestants, there seemed to be no indigenous people in this smoke-free town. Although there were dozens of igloos, they were real igloos with no insulation, no doors, and the same temperature inside and outside.
"Why don't we go back to the previous town to stay?" Cheng Yan said.
"No need. I'm not afraid of the cold, so I can just sleep on the ice bed." Wang Xiaohai said, "You can go back to the previous town to stay. There's heating there. I'll call you when I get the holy medal back."
"I think we can spend the night in Smokeless Town." Cheng Yan thought of a way. "Aren't there trees here? We can use them to make fire."
"Can it be lit in such a cold day?" Wang Xiaohai was a little skeptical.
"As long as it's a dry branch, it can burn even if it's cold." Cheng Yan said, walked towards the tree where the street lamp was hung, broke off a few branches, and then returned.
The two walked into an ice house with a thin layer of ice on the floor. Cheng Yan moved stones to build a stove, then lit branches with hand-made firewood and threw them into the stone stove.
"It's done." Cheng Yan threw all the remaining branches in. "The fire is starting. I'll go get some more branches."
A few minutes later, Cheng Yan dragged an entire tree over.
"There was no streetlight hanging on this tree," Cheng Yan explained, "so I broke it off. When others saw me doing this, they also rushed to burn trees."
"They're all a bunch of crazy people," Wang Xiaohai said. "Besides Wuyan Town, are there any other towns on the border that lead to the snowfield?"
"There are two." Cheng Yan looked at the map on his phone, "So if we need to return, we will also return to these three locations."
"The probability of successful robbery has increased a lot." said Wang Xiaohai.
"I hope they don't tear down the power lines on the side of the road, otherwise we won't be able to recharge our mobile phones," said Cheng Yan.
"Your phone is a high-end product with a magic crystal battery. It can last for months on a single charge. What are you worried about?" Wang Xiaohai said. "My brick phone is no good. I have to charge it every three or four days."
"I brought a spare power bank, here you go!" Cheng Yan said, taking out a crystal power bank from his backpack, which was obviously a high-end product.
"Thanks." Wang Xiaohai took it without hesitation. "Did you download any movies on your phone? Send them to me via Bluetooth. I'll watch them on the way."
"No, I only watch real-life combat and never watch those kinds of movies," Cheng Yan replied.
"The small movies I'm talking about are science fiction or urban movies. What are you thinking about?" Wang Xiaohai broke off a large branch and threw it into the stove, and the flames rose a lot.
"There's nothing in science fiction movies either," Cheng Yan said. "You're not afraid of the cold, but you still need a fire?"
"I'm not afraid of the cold because I use my martial energy to resist, which consumes my body's energy. Roasting by the fire can save my martial energy and thus save energy in my body." Wang Xiaohai said, lying on a rock.
Tongues of flame spewed out, reflecting Wang Xiaohai's face, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, and Wang Xiaohai's eyelids gradually closed.
Cheng Yan finally placed the whole tree on the stove and fell asleep leaning against the stone.
The night was silent, with only the crackling sound of burning firewood.
The next day, dawn.
Wang Xiaohai felt his cheek was a little cold in a daze. He reached out and touched it, and it was wet, so he immediately opened his eyes.
"It turns out that the roof has melted, so water is dripping down." Wang Xiaohai said to himself.
There was still a small section of the tree trunk in the house burning, it seemed the tree was quite fire-resistant.
Cheng Yan was still sleeping. Wang Xiaohai didn't plan to say goodbye to him. He let him continue sleeping and set off alone.
Wang Xiaohai looked at the flashing dots on his phone, wondering which way to go.
There are three flashing dots on the Silla Secret Realm in the snowfield and four dots in the Glacier Rift. These two dangerous areas have the most holy cards hidden. Wang Xiaohai thought about it and decided to go to the Glacier Rift because the terrain of the Silla Secret Realm is as complicated as a maze and it would be a waste of time to find it.
In snowy weather, the ground easily collapses, making it difficult to run. If you fly, the cold wind is too strong and the speed is not fast. Wang Xiaohai used the two methods of advancement alternately, and only advanced more than 100 kilometers in an hour. If he was in the city or the plains, he could easily travel tens of thousands of miles an hour, but in the snowy field, things were a hundred times slower!
The glacier rift is about 1,300 kilometers away from Wuyan Town. According to Wang Xiaohai's speed, if he keeps traveling, he is estimated to arrive just before dark.
"Oh no, I can't see the map and my phone has no signal!" Wang Xiaohai was just about to move forward according to the map when he suddenly realized there was no signal. That's right, this damn place has no people, let alone a signal relay station.
Fortunately, Wang Xiaohai was able to move forward in a straight line based on the direction he remembered, flying up the mountains and jumping over the pits.
However, if there is no reference, people will not walk in a straight line, but will be a little lonely, and finally form a circle and return to the original place, commonly known as walking in a ghost wall.
Wang Xiaohai stopped.
"I should have bought a compass earlier," Wang Xiaohai said. He didn't know if he was still heading straight, so the best thing to do was to stop. "There's no signal, and I can't contact Cheng Yan to ask him to bring anything over."
Wang Xiaohai decided not to move forward and wait nearby. If his estimation was correct, he was the fastest person and no one should be faster than him on the road to the glacier rift. He needed to wait and see if there was anyone coming from behind. If no one came for a long time, it meant that his route had deviated.
He thought to himself, if someone comes along, then they can go together to the glacial rift valley. If they are not, then he can take his compass and leave him there. In this icy and snowy place, he will die without anyone noticing! He thought that if others saw his strength and combat prowess, no one would be so unfriendly!
Although the plan was good, there were also unexpected events. Wang Xiaohai waited for five or six hours and didn't see anyone passing through this area!
We must have taken the wrong path!
It's over. Wang Xiaohai is going to be thrown into this snowy field. It's all white all around and he can't tell the direction. No matter where he flies, he will probably be flying in circles!
Wang Xiaohai thought to himself that my martial energy could probably last only half a month. Once my martial energy was exhausted and there was no energy left in my body, I would be invaded by the ice and frozen into a human ice sculpture. After tens of millions or billions of years, the earth's crust would change and the polar ice sheets would melt. Would I be able to wake up?
Tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years was just wishful thinking. This evil spirit continent seemed to have no history even going back ten thousand years. It was as if it had no history at all! Wang Xiaohai suddenly wondered if this continent would experience a cataclysm every ten thousand years. Then why didn't the continent have a history going back ten thousand years? It seemed no one had ever studied this question!
Just as I was daydreaming, the ground in front of me suddenly shook and vibrated, as if something was trying to come out from under the ice!
Several dangerous creatures from the legends of the snowfield emerged in Wang Xiaohai’s mind.
A sharp horn broke through the ice, and a giant dragon with white scales, a head as big as a train and a body nearly 100 meters long emerged from under the ice, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed Wang Xiaohai!
Wang Xiaohai had looked up information about the Ice Country Snowfield online and recognized it as a one-horned ice dragon! A powerful and dangerous creature!
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