"How far is it?" Han Juanjuan raised his head as hard as he could and looked at the mountain above his head. The eagerness in his eyes could not be concealed. The other team was using their lives to delay them, and Lu Yu was left alone in the cave. , all made him worried.
Shang Zuo stopped and straightened the loose brim of his hat. The long climb was too much for his body. He gasped and replied: "It's almost... we turned around the mountain pass in front and there was a small road behind us. At that time we were It’s not far away from this road.”
They didn't rest along the way. Zigui asked everyone to throw away all useless things and travel lightly. There was only one tent left, which was currently carried on the fat man's back.
Fatty didn't say much along the way. He remembered Jiang Cheng's words and kept an eye on Shang Zuo. Shang Zuo must be alive before reaching the saint's tomb.
"Don't talk." Zigui reminded: "Continue on your way and seize the time."
This place is not far from the peak. The altitude is high and the oxygen is thin. The effort required for each step is beyond the imagination of those who are used to the plains.
Fortunately, several people had good physical endurance, especially Wang Fugui. A large part of Zigui's attention was on this man along the way.
As a teacher, Zigui believes that he must be responsible for his students and the rest of the team, so he is somewhat wary of Fatty, an outsider.
No one knows what people who act honest are thinking in their hearts.
The unpredictable nature of people's hearts was clearly demonstrated in the mission. Even if Fatty had shown kindness, it was most likely just a disguise.
In the first mission they experienced, they were stabbed in the back by a simple-looking woman. As a result, a student was noticed by a ghost and was grabbed by one hand and one leg, and was violently torn in half, with blood mixed with it. The internal organs were bleeding all over the floor.
Zigui still remembers the bloody scene at that time.
"Teacher Zigui." The fat man adjusted his backpack with one hand, "It's useless for you to be wary of me. Your duty is to find the way. We don't have any extra time to waste." After a pause, he continued: "Maybe I You don’t have to care about your friend’s life or death, but my brother is also with your friend, and I can’t ignore them, so please don’t worry.”
His voice was mixed with the unique cold silence in the snowy mountains, which made the latter frown slightly. She didn't like the preaching tone, but she still understood the reason.
Zigui nodded, without any unnecessary explanation, and the group continued on their journey.
Finally, the peace along the way was broken after turning a sloping ice slope.
Stopping, Han Juanjuan stared at the scene in front of him. He couldn't help but rub his eyes and said in surprise: "What is this...what is going on?"
In front of them dozens of meters away, there were dozens of snowmen piled up in random directions.
The snowman's body was facing in their direction, as if he expected someone to come from this way.
It’s not clear who these snowmen are, or what they were made of, but there must be something wrong when they appear here, and the longer they look at them, the more weird they become.
"Did you see these snowmen last time?" the fat man asked in a low voice.
Shang Zuo seemed to have just come to his senses, and shook his head hurriedly: "No, absolutely not, I can guarantee it!"
"In addition to this road, is there any other way?" Han Juanjuan retracted his gaze and looked at Shang Zuo who was leading the way. After all, he was the only one who had been here.
Zigui observed carefully. The snowman was in an awkward position. He was stuck in the middle of two ice slopes. If he wanted to pass through this road, he had to go here.
"Maybe... maybe there is." Shang Zuo said after hesitation.
"If it's there, it's there. If it's not, it's not. What's wrong with you saying maybe it's there!" Han Juanjuan said angrily.
Fatty could tell that deep down in his heart, besides anxiety, there was also fear. This was also human nature.
"There should be, but I don't know. I only know this road. We can look for it nearby, maybe..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a cold female voice. Zigui stared at the snowmen and said quickly: "It's too late, let's go straight through."
"If these snowmen were left by the locals as a warning, then we will be fine. If they were made by hungry ghosts..." Zigui took a deep breath, and the next second he said firmly: "Then we will find another one. The road is useless, it has already set its sights on us, and it will be the same no matter which way we go.”
Everyone's faces turned ugly. If these snowmen were really made by hungry ghosts, does that mean that they had seen through everyone's plan?
To be more pessimistic, I wonder if the group of people they used as bait have encountered something unexpected.
"They will be fine!" Someone suddenly spoke up, interrupting everyone's thoughts. The fat man said loudly: "My two friends are very powerful. Their level is much better than you think. There is no need to worry. They, please don't be distracted, we two teams each perform their duties." The fat man waved his hand, and his plump face actually had edges and corners, "Follow me!"
The encouragement before the battle had an unexpected effect. As Fatty was the first to walk towards the snowman, like an icebreaker, the oppressive feeling that enveloped everyone was pushed back by Fatty alone.
Immediately afterwards, Zigui opened his legs and followed closely behind the fat man. Shang Zuo gritted his teeth and followed, and finally Han Juanjuan. Before leaving, Teacher Gongsun told him to keep an eye on Shang Zuo, and he did not dare to forget it.
Zigui looked at the fat man's broad back, and suddenly had a very reliable illusion, as if from this moment on, the man in front of him became everyone's support.
But what surprised her was that the other person... was obviously just a stranger.
There was no time for her to think carefully. When they got close to these snowmen, they realized that there were far more snowmen than they imagined. They blocked the road in various directions and they needed to keep avoiding them.
Moreover, the snowmen have different shapes, but without exception, they are all filled with a strange sense of dissonance that they cannot describe.
Due to her ability, Zigui was very keen. She vaguely noticed a malicious sight staring at her. She kept tilting her head to look at the snowmen around her, trying to find the source of the sight.
"It seems... something is wrong." Shang Zuo wrapped his clothes tightly and asked in a trembling tone: "I didn't see so many snowmen before, why are there so many now."
Just when everyone felt strange, Han Juanjuan, who was walking at the end, was very nervous. Suddenly, he caught sight of something from the corner of his eye. The next moment, he immediately turned around and looked at a place behind him, "Who?! "
In a trance, he saw a dark figure, sneaking behind a snowman.
Moreover, the black shadow gave him a strange sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it before.
