Frosttail put her hand on her abdomen. There was a shocking laceration there three minutes ago, and Luo Binhan even helped him catch a few gray worms from the flesh and blood of the wound. As time went by, the area healed visibly.
"The physical fitness of our clan is usually good." He explained lightly, and then moved his body so that he could be exposed to the fire as evenly as possible.
Next to them was a wall of fire that started burning two meters underground. It surrounds the three people in the middle and melts under the ice to form a wide, roughly circular isolation zone, with the top about half a meter above the ground. Since the shadow network was lurking about ten centimeters under the ice, the protective shield composed of twelve "Fairy Flame" spells temporarily isolated them from the outside.
They were still in shock at first, so they leaned inside the fire ring and observed the shadow outside to confirm whether it really couldn't get off the ground, or if it was coming from deeper places. It turned out that it didn't seem that "smart". After touching the fairy flame, the shadow network did not change its path, but just kept pouring bugs into the fire. Luo Binhan couldn't smell the smell inside the helmet, but judging from Shuangwei's performance, he estimated that the smell of meat in the fire was astounding.
Once he got a breather, Shuangwei's injuries began to improve rapidly, without any need for Blue Magpie's help. But he then explained that this was just a superficial phenomenon. There is no moon on this planet, so he cannot draw on the feminine light to replenish his energy.
Luo Binhan had no time to inquire about his relationship with the moon, but eagerly asked why he and Fina appeared here. If Jing Huang or Yaleriga discovered something unusual after returning to the hut, then they should obviously come and look for them themselves instead of entrusting Shuangwei to an outsider.
"In fact, we haven't found you missing yet." Frosttail said. "A few hours after you left with the boy, Polawati suddenly came back and told us that he just went to the farthest frozen place on a whim. Kunali did a major inspection. He asked me and you why we were here, and then suggested that your people continue to wait in the room for everyone to gather, and he could take me to see his old friends first... I didn't feel suspicious at the time , it’s just a little strange intuitively, but I found that your lizard is very restless and always wants to attack the cage and escape.”
He pointed at Fina. At this moment, the lizard was lying on the blue magpie's skeleton to warm itself over the fire, ignoring Luo Binhan who just threw it away.
"I can basically read the emotions of all animals." Shuangwei looked at Luo Binhan sympathetically and said, "Of course, this does not mean communication or commands, but I could feel that it was eager to go out at that time. I thought it was just bored. It broke, so I asked some of your friends for permission, applied some antifreeze oil to it, and then brought it out with me. I didn't think this would be a problem at first, because I brought a warm one before coming here. Blessings, let it stay in my clothes... The idea was going well until Polavati attacked me."
“That’s not the real Polavati, is it?”
"I don't think so, at least he is not the original one." Shuangwei stared at the exposed part of Luo Binhan's abdomen and asked, "And you also met a fake friend?"
Luo Binhan agreed vaguely. At this time, Lan Que and Fina were angrily turning their backs to them, making it inconvenient for him to explain his experience to Shuangwei in detail, so as not to expose his previous lies. Frosttail, who had no worries, readily told his own experience: He and Fina followed Polavati out of the hut. On the way, Fina became more and more restless and even showed intention to attack Polavati. At this time Shuangwei began to doubt this person.
"When I transform into a human state, my sense of danger will be a little slower. But I think I should still trust your little pet's judgment, so I pretended to be very affectionate with him and talked about the last time we stayed in the house all night together. About the card game. Of course that never happened, so I knew he was a fake. I immediately changed back to my original shape and almost tore him in two, and then he turned into something... I can't do it yet Sure, but it must be some kind of creature of dark nature. He attacked me with his shadow, and I had a slight upper hand at first, until he suddenly tore himself into pieces. I was quite overwhelmed by the process, and I can't tell you what happened. What happened, anyway, the black blood flowing out of his body penetrated into the ice and turned into this thing that surrounds us now."
Frosttail bared his teeth and poked his stomach: "I have to admit that I was a little careless. That shadow... you can't let it run under you, otherwise it will come out of the ground and wrap around your body. , and then cut you open. I tried to summon several elemental powers. Water and wind are suitable for the environment here, but they don't seem to hurt or itch. I managed to make a small flame, and the thing immediately threw me away. ”
"So it has no intelligence." Luo Binhan said, "Otherwise it can cut off your head directly, which should also prevent you from summoning fire."
"You're right." Frosttail agreed.
This incident made Luo Binhan start to feel strange. Shuangwei's description is indeed similar to his own experience, but there are also many differences. The girl pretending to be Jing Huang also used shadow, but her shadow was as fast as lightning, completely different from the shadow network lurking in the ground at the moment. Besides, no matter how clumsy the shadow himself was, at least the girl wasn't an idiot. Even if she just took a quick look at it from a hundred meters away, she would understand that this extremely simple fire wall could be bypassed from the bottom. She could command the shadow to make a hole in Luo Binhan's belly, so it shouldn't be difficult to make this shadow network take a detour.
He thought for a while and then asked: "The fake Polavati you met, what did he become after you found out? Or is he still using the appearance of Polavati?"
"Let's put it this way, he seems to be an empty shell." Frosttail replied, "The outside is a human, and the inside is a shadow. I seem to see something like an embryo in the shadow, but I'm not sure what it is. "
Luo Binhan realized that he and Shuangwei might not have encountered the same thing. If not, Shuangwei might have encountered misfortune long ago, but this also meant that they had more than one enemy. Jing Huang, Yaleriga and Joel Farman have not returned to the cabin for a long time. Is it just because the search is time-consuming, or have they encountered other accidents?
His mood gradually became anxious. A feeling somewhere between pain and concern almost emerged, but before he could clearly distinguish it, the emotion disappeared silently, like freezing into a lake.
"We can't wait forever," he said. "The fairy flames have a limited time, and the ice beneath us will melt, and other enemies may come looking for us."
Frosttail tilted her head and looked at him again with that slightly funny expression. He seemed to be used to this kind of dangerous situation, so he said in a relaxed tone: "I also hope to ask for help, but then you have to have a way to contact your friends-if you really did, you would have done this long ago. So either You didn't, or it was such a big noise that you didn't know what you were inviting."
"We can set off a firework in the sky." Luo Binhan raised his chin at the blue magpie and said, "Or let it fly up and put a fire spell in the air, which should last longer. But I don't recommend letting it fly. Go alone, because there's a good chance this thing will leave us and run away."
Lan Que, who was holding Fina to warm herself up by the fire, turned her head, made a very realistic spitting gesture at him, and kicked his thigh hard with her foot bones. Luo Binhan continued to say to Shuangwei indifferently: "What do you have in mind? Or do you have a more suitable spell?"
"I don't have any suitable spells," Frosttail replied. His head shook slowly, and Luo Binhan seemed to be able to see an invisible tail behind him swaying simultaneously. The two stared at each other for a while, and finally Shuangwei couldn't help but speak.
"Can I ask about your relationship?" Frosttail said, "Why are those two so angry at you?"
