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Chapter 24 Snowfield

The snowfields that have never been seen before will never be imagined by people. When the vast plain is completely covered with snow, there is only a vast white area around. The blue sky is as clear as water. Under the blue sky, there is no marginal whiteness, making the world appear extremely pure and pure without any sin. From a distance, in the intouchable horizon, mountains also covered with snow stand on the earth, and the white earth and white mountains are connected into one, extending to the haze outside the field of view. The afterglow of the sunset falls between the mountains in the distance, making the white mountaintop a layer of light red veil, and the faint afterglow makes the mountains look full of fairy tale mystery.

On the white snow field, it is flat like a mirror. Occasionally, a few lonely dead trees stick out from the snow, and strange-shaped dead branches extend to the sky as much as possible. Some brown barks are exposed from the snow covered on it, adding a bit of color to the vast snow field. Further away, several evergreen coniferous plants remain green, and the branches and leaves are covered with snow, bent and drooped by the heavy snow. They nodded frequently in the air. Every time they droop, snow will sprinkle, making it seem like a tiny little snow fall under the tree.

A few white beasts pushed open the thick snow above their heads, poked their heads out of the warm nest, shook off the snow stained on the smooth fur, and looked curiously at the outside world. These young creatures were guarded by their parents, lined up to climb out of the snow, drilled around the soft snow, happily looking for food treasures buried under the snow. Just on the branches not far away, a small bird of prey squatted on the branches, the white feathers and snow maintained the same color, and it was impossible to tell which snow was there. The bird of prey was like a stone. If it weren't for the slightly turning eyes as the beast ran, it would be hard to imagine that this was an animal that was still alive.

Although the blizzard has passed, the shrill cold wind will occasionally blow on the snowfield. The biting cold wind will roll up sleet and ice beads, whistling through the sky. The sunlight begins to fade gradually. The brightness on the snowfield slowly decreases, but you try your best to look far away. Several black dots are flying rapidly from a distance on the snowfield. The black dots are very fast and have no lag. They are running along a straight line, just in a blink of an eye. They are already close to seeing the outline clearly.

The seven black shadows were obviously guessed that they were six people in the adventure group, plus the burly McVillin, but from the appearance, it was difficult to see what they were originally. The six adventurers once again wrapped in thick coats, making their figure particularly bloated and their eyes protected under sunglasses. However, their faces were not wrapped in warm velvet cloth, but they just wrapped the lower half with a thick scarf. As for McVillin, it was impossible to tell that he was in the snow field. Due to the gift of faith, the Dragon Benedict was not afraid of the cold at all.

Running in the snow, his forearms and calves were even exposed in the wind, just like he was still living in the warm summer. Everyone was walking on two narrow skis under his feet, sliding quickly on the flat snow surface, and two long tracks were dragged out behind him. Seven people were lined up in an arrow shape, with McVillin in the center. He led the way at the front, and the rest were lined up behind him. The most skilled skiing Panis and Catherine dragged at the end, guarding against someone to make mistakes and fall and fall behind. However, after a day of running-in, everyone was more skilled, and there was no accident during the slippery journey.

"Swish", in an open area, McVillin's speed suddenly decreased and he stopped horizontally on the snow field. Although the others responded in time, they rushed through him for a distance before stopping smoothly. Then they turned around and slowly slid back.

"It's almost time." McVillin's voice was still slow and heavy, giving people the feeling of an echo in a cave: "If it's too late, you will not be able to see what's around you clearly, and you will probably get lost at that time. Losing on the snow field is said to be as terrible as getting lost in the desert, especially in this area. Once you leave this road, it's difficult to find a reference for a certain location in the snow field around you, and you will eventually get lost in the snow field and freeze to death. So let's rest here tonight, and continue to rush after dawn tomorrow. Anyway, it's brighter on the snow field, and it's not wasteful of ten hours in total."

"Okay, then camp here." Catherine looked around. The venue was very empty, but it was a good place to build a camp on the snow field: "I don't know how your Dragon Bhakka usually spends the night in the snow field. Is it the same as our habit?"

"Ko~da~." McVillin did not answer directly, but chose a direction without anyone, took a deep breath into the ground, and spit out two syllables loudly. The two syllables seemed to have strange magic. After shouting, on the ground facing the ground, an explosion suddenly occurred inside the snow, and a large amount of snow exploded outward, leaving a one-meter-deep snow pit on the snow. McVillin jumped into the snow pit and slapped the snow pit around it. Then he said: "We just spend the night here, just put animal skins on the ground. If it still snows, build a shed with branches on the pit to block the snow, which is very convenient."

"You are really not afraid of the cold." Catherine pressed her forehead and sighed: "If we spend the night like this, even if we get into the sleeping bag and light a bonfire, we will probably be frozen to death. Forget it, we'll better use our own methods."

The so-called method of Catherine is actually not difficult. Simply put, it is to use snow and magic to build a house. Catherine and Pannis quickly sweep out a spacious open space with a shovel, then pile up the snow around the open space to form a twenty-centimeter-thick ring-shaped wall base, and then add snow layer by layer up along the base, allowing the wall to extend upward in an inner arc. Finally, the circular snow wall is integrated into an integrated seal directly above, and a dome snow house is built. After the main body of the snow house is built, a door with a half meter high can be opened on the wall for people to climb in and out, and then a small ventilated window is opened on the wall opposite the door, and finally a deep cave is dug in the center of the house as a fire pit for heating and cooking later.

After completing all this, Catherine and Panis took over the follow-up work. The mage girl who had been tired for a day was too lazy to cast spells on a large scale. She took out two bottles of blue potions and threw them up at the top of the snow house, causing the crystal bottle to break on the roof, and at the same time made several magical marks in her hand. The blue liquid was guided by magic and flowed down the arc wall of the snow house, slowly seeping into the solid snow wall. When the liquid had almost spread, Vivian slapped the wall casually. The snow-made wall instantly freezes with the increase of the alchemy potion, turning the snow house into an ice house in a blink of an eye.

"Wait." Catherine suddenly stretched out her hand, touched Vivian's ankle and wrist through her clothes, and frowned, "It's said that you should try the temperature of your hands and feet from time to time, but you just don't listen. Look, the effect of the crystal fragments is almost over again. We will change it ourselves if we feel cold, but you can't feel cold, and you may get frostbite in your hands and feet at any time."

"Ahhh, I know." Vivian turned around and ran away with her head in her arms: "Sister, please spare me, I'll change the pieces now, stop talking about me, Lina, Panis, Freya, come and save me."

"You deserve it." Lina even stood on the sled, but she didn't forget to hold the book when she stopped, and snorted coldly: "Sister, you shouldn't remind her that she will cry after being frostbite. Then I don't care about her treatment anyway."

"Woo, I forgot that you are this person now, and I will settle the score with you in the future." Vivian glared at Lina fiercely, took off her gloves angrily, took out a few crystal fragments and stuffed them into the gloves and boots, and got into the newly built igloo and refused to come out. Catherine smiled bitterly and shook her head, and chased her into it.

"The room is big enough," Penis said to McVilling. "Come in together, it's safer for everyone to get together."

"Thank you then." McVillin didn't know how to refuse, so he nodded to Pannis and then got into the igloo. The igloo was very big. Several girls who came in first spread the animal skin on the ice and placed the crystal energy furnace in the center of the fire pit on the ground. Then they sat down around the edge of the fire pit, took off their thick coats and gloves, lit the crystal energy furnace, and let the flames warm their cold hands and feet.

"The weather is so cold." After all, Freya has grown up in a good environment since she was a child. Although she has been working hard to adapt to various harsh environments in adventures over the years, she still has some hard work in such extreme weather. However, only when she can relax can she see her discomfort. She will endure all kinds of discomforts in every activity. This is why the other girls in the adventure group like this real noble girl very much. At this time, she took off her gloves, put her hands close to the crystal energy stove, and repeatedly roasted them, moaning comfortably, "If you can drink a bowl of thick broth around such a fire in this weather, it will not be more comfortable, right, dear Mr. Pannis."

"Oh." Panis sighed: "I'm not willing to speak directly when I force me to start cooking."

"Of course I can't say it straight." Freya held her hands in front of her chest, her eyes flashing with longing, and said affectionately: "In the cold snow field, there is only you and me who depend on each other. Whenever the sun sets and returns home, you will serve me a bowl of warm hot soup, and then we snuggle together...Oh."

"Did you think of us as dead?" Vivian said contemptuously when he knocked on his head and attacked: "Wake up from his dream quickly, stupid."
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