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"Hush...huh..."

Ling Dengxian's heart was filled with alarm, and he raised the tip of his sword slightly. Shuangxing also narrowed his eyes slightly, ready to attack at any time.

"Give me a reason..."

"What?" Ling Dengxian and Shuangxing didn't dare to be distracted.

"I'm in a hurry... reconsider. You are no longer important." The emperor's sharp blade did not look directly at the two people, "hiss... huh... let the killer hiding in the dark appear, or come up with some more tricks to give me a reason to let you go."

Frost Star glanced at Bai Ge out of the corner of his eye and found that he did not have a confused expression, so he thought it was his backup plan.

"You are able to control the country. All the Ursus internal guards will remember you in the future."

"You, Carters, are indeed gifted in ice magic, but you are ultimately teased by fate and will have no future... your powerful ice crystals... are far inferior to the sorcerer who brought down an unparalleled ice storm several years ago."

The two Ursus internal guards stopped talking. The killer in the dark cooperated and released his murderous aura, so there was no point in them getting entangled.

As the brush said, no task is as bad as the devil.

"Hiss... Huh... I promise, next time we meet, you will see more than just the two of us." The Internal Guard received the news that an accident happened. Because that group of idiots pressed too hard, the Patriot led his men into the Snow Forest in advance, and he himself arrived first to defend Tallulah.

It was just as well, they didn't have to bother here anymore.

The inner guards disappeared from sight, but the stinging sensation they felt did not fade away until long after they had left.

His muscles were stiff from being on alert all the time, and now he was slowly relaxing. Ling Dengxian let out a long breath, raised his head, and met Shuang Xing's cold eyes.

"Give me an explanation."

Ling Dengxian smiled bitterly. He knew very well that Shuangxing was not asking about his strength.

He thought for a moment, then turned and looked into the snowy forest.

The blue-black-haired Rupert woman responded to his gaze, walked out quietly, and pulled down her hood, revealing her amber eyes.

Frost Star frowned slightly, and Ling Dengxian could only be thankful that she was not looking at him at the moment, otherwise his expression would be exposed.

"Who is she?" Frost Star's question was self-evident.

"Xuan Lang, her sister." Rupert said calmly, without a trace of murderous intent on his body. "He had a conflict with her, but he couldn't leave her alone. He had a personal relationship with her. After confirming Xuan Lang's safety, he chased after her. She arrived shortly afterwards."

"When did you follow them?" Frost Star did not slow down his attitude.

"At the beginning. I still won't show up after that." The girl's words were concise and to the point.

"You--" Frost Star wanted to say something, but the sudden severe pain caused her pupils to shrink and her expression changed drastically.

The two immediately understood what had happened.

The mineral disease infection is getting worse!

Bai Yan flashed at the first moment, but because of the previous consumption and Ling Dengxian's current poor condition, it was much weaker. However, he still decisively reached out and held Frost Star's shoulder.

Ling Denghan didn't care about the pain and forced himself to overdraw his spirit to increase Bai Yan's power, which caused him and Frost Star to fall to the ground together, but he didn't let go and just stared at Yelena's eyes.

"Don't do this! Don't...die again..."

He was more nervous than he thought. In his blurry vision, the white-haired Carters seemed to be trapped in a cold snowy night, and a crazy blizzard was approaching.

"Get lost!" Ling Dengxian's eyes were red with anger, "Stay away from A'ran!"

The white flame burst into light, and the initially expanding Originium crystals were suppressed and wiped out, leaving only the previously deeply rooted lesions.

Frost Star remembered nothing in the pain. The only thing that left a deep impression on him was the look in White Dove's eyes.

The ice and snow stimulated Ling Dengxian's face. Frost Star fell asleep, but he still had a trace of willpower to keep him awake. He cast a vigilant look at Rupert and Zi.

If something was wrong, he could only resort to the last resort.

"Don't look at me like that. I don't have that intention." Zi shook her head. Only now did she dare to squat down and help him up.

The moment his fingertips touched his shoulder, Ling Xian's muscles tensed up, but he did not suffer any possible injury.

"Don't blame me for acting on my own initiative. You are not good at lying." Zi Ru said.

"What happened to your hair and eyes?" Ling Dengxian asked reluctantly.

"The most basic disguise technique."

"…What are you going to do? Wait till we wake up?"

"No, only half of what you said before is true."

"Are you really Texas' sister?"

"...No, she really came." Zi was silenced for a moment.

Ling Dengxian was stunned when he heard this, and looked up to see another girl with blue-black hair standing quietly not far away.

Ling Dengxian fell asleep directly.

On the snow, Rupert, who was half-kneeling beside the two men, and Rupert, who was coming with a sword, looked at each other.

"He and I—"

"It doesn't matter. He survived."

"You and I——"

"It doesn't matter, we survived."

Zi was speechless. Texas looked at her quietly and said softly, "Thank you, but I still don't trust you."

Zi nodded, let go of the two people, raised her hands and slowly backed away.

Texas made sure she left before he turned his gaze to the boy on the ground.

She could not forget his drowning eyes just now. They had kept enough distance from each other these days. She was much better and had a good rest. The only problem was that the harsh environment in Ursus made her catch a cold.

She had never lived in a low temperature environment for such a long time before. She thought she had adapted to it, but it seems she is still in the adaptation period.

"Save her, save me, there are so many infected people, can you... save yourself?" Texas was speechless, her emotions were slowly rebelling. She adjusted her breathing, suppressed her abnormal emotions, and chose to carry Ling Dengxian on her back. The blue-black black wolf stepped out from its lurking place, picked up Frost Star and carried it on its back.

She was stubborn and she chose to fight against that endless force.

No one, no one, can change her will.

Not even God can do that.

His breathing rose and fell with hers. She responded to the pain with silence and fought back against fate with action.

Texas didn't know how to find the main force next, she just followed Zi into the snowy forest.

The wind and snow picked up.

Ling Dengxian thought that he would return to the dream where the territories were clearly divided.

But he was wrong.

He was in a corner of the school, but it was no longer high school.

It's an elementary school.

He forgot a lot of things, but he still remembered that he was in the third grade. It was morning, daybreak, and he was going to class. He took two steps, but found that he was too weak to take big steps.

Ah, he remembered, he had just said goodbye to his mother and obtained permission from the school guard to enter the school early to avoid the pushing and shoving of the crowd.

He had an operation during the holiday for a congenital disease and had a long steel plate inserted into his body. He is now recuperating after the operation.

In other words, he is very weak now, even more fragile than Lin Daiyu.

He climbed the stairs step by step with great effort, holding on to the wall. His mother asked him if he wanted her to accompany him to the classroom, but he shook his head stubbornly to indicate that he could go alone.

He was afraid of being embarrassed as a boy who needed his mother to send him to the classroom to study. Even though there were no classmates around, he didn't want the teacher to see him.

Every step he took was very difficult. The classroom was on the third floor. Before the operation, he could jump and stride into the door in less than two minutes and compete with his classmates for the first place.

The noise gradually became louder and people flowed into the campus, but he had not yet reached the classroom.

Just like he said before, rushing to be the first is not just an unwritten habit of the children in a certain class. The children who were laughing and competing with their friends quickly rushed into the corridor, and after taking a few steps and turning the corner, they saw him still working hard.

Some of them were stunned for a moment, but more children ran past madly, and some almost bumped into him.

He could only move to the other side and climb up the stairs along the outer wall. In order to save speed, many of the children had to rush up along the inner wall. He had to spend more time. Looking at the surging crowd, his face turned pale.

He finally arrived at the classroom before class and spent the first period under the curious gazes of his deskmate and other classmates.

He didn't have to do morning exercises during breaks, but he didn't think that was a good thing. He had been in class for so long, and he didn't know if it was because of the steel plate on his chest, but he felt depressed.

After school, he had to wait until everyone left before he could leave. He was like a fragile item and spent the whole day being looked at curiously by his classmates.

He looked at the door more than once, expecting a familiar or unfamiliar face to come and chat with him or play with him.

It's a pity that there wasn't any. His former playmates also had to give way to him and take care of him because he couldn't run, so they didn't look for him much today.

For the first time in his life, he tasted loneliness, and loneliness among a crowd.

He began to pack his things, and then he discovered a problem: his schoolbag had become heavier and he could no longer carry it.

But in fact, that little increase was insignificant, but it exceeded the upper limit of his ability.

At this time, he heard a quarrel coming from the door. A few careless classmates forgot to get their homework and came back to get it.

"Um...Excuse me, can I——"

"Wow! It's the disabled Ling Dengxian! He hasn't left yet..."

He was stunned. The word "disabled" drove away all other thoughts in his mind. He opened his mouth awkwardly, but finally closed it and watched them leave playing.

The teacher hasn't left yet, and the head teacher will be busy in the office for a while before leaving get off work.

He was alone for a while longer, and no one else appeared.

He finally opened his schoolbag, took out his homework, and then moved away step by step with difficulty.

Although his mother, who met him at the school gate, went upstairs to help him take his schoolbag back home, his personality had changed subtly.

When he woke up, he seemed to hear a sigh with complicated meaning.

Ling opened his eyes and found that his center of gravity was rising and falling. Then he felt warmth and someone was carrying him forward.

Noticing the change in his breathing, Lupo turned his head and glanced at him:

"Can I leave?"

"The injury is not serious—" Texas decisively let go, and Ling Dengxian fell on his back on the snow.

Texas was silent for a long while, finally letting out a breath of white mist, fumbling in his pocket, taking out a pocky and biting it hard, without looking at him.

"How to go?"

Ling Dengxian had some difficulty distinguishing that this was the suppressed roar of Texas. He opened his mouth and finally shook his head:

"I gave the communicator to Daxiong and the others. It's snowing so heavily now and I can't find the way."

Texas coughed a few times, without nodding or shaking his head, and just said, "Let's go then."

The falling snow became heavier, and it felt like there were wild beasts roaring in the distance, the cold stinging the senses.

Frost Star's body temperature was too low and she couldn't wake up for the time being, so Ling Dengxian took off his "Winter Messenger" coat, covered her with it, pressed it tightly, and his teeth chattered.

"Put on yours." Ling Dengxian said simply, trying to prevent his trembling voice from being heard by Rupert.

The girl released her hand that was about to pull the zipper.

The snow was so heavy that the two of them could not see clearly ten meters ahead. The cold wind was howling. Ling Dengxian wanted to be calm and composed like a tough guy, but unfortunately, his physiological reaction did not allow it. His trembling skeletal muscles tried frantically to generate heat to resist the severe cold, but outside his skin was the tireless wind and snow.

The coughing sound continued, but it belonged to Texas. Ling Dengxian did not dare to speak, for he was afraid that opening his mouth would expose his poor condition.

Chi Yu said nothing. She knew that at this moment she could only follow silently and could not do anything else.

The environment in Xuesen is almost the same. Not to mention Ling Dengxian, even Zi can only keep a distance and follow the three people and one wolf. Now she can't find a way out.

They tried to move sideways to see if they could encounter the integration movement on other routes or the main force led by the Patriots, but the hope seemed slim.

Blizzard is the main theme of the Ursus wilderness. Ling Dengxian has not felt such oppression for a long time. He and Texas should be thankful that this is not a natural disaster.

Ling Dengxian walked in front, trying his best to block some of the cold wind for them.

"Ahem...why did you stop?" Texas asked when he noticed that Ling Dengxian was no longer moving forward.

"Something's wrong... Texas, did you feel anything? The tree just now... seemed to have moved?" Ling Dengxian stared at the tree, its black shadow looming in the snow.

No! The snow was so heavy, and the tree was at least 20 meters away from them, how could he see it? !

"Hey, where is the tree? Hey, isn't everything white around?" Sure enough, Texas couldn't see the unusual tree.

"...I was seeing things." Ling Dengxian was still staring at the tree, but he did not insist any longer in order not to affect Texas. He just quietly grasped the Devourer, and then decisively drew his sword when the darkness spread!

See the dragon with one sword!

The wind and snow were cut apart for a moment, and in the blurred vision, the mysterious eyes suddenly opened wide, and let out a sharp whistle with a "hiss", a whistle without sound, but it really pierced into his mind.

Texas groaned, but managed not to faint: "Danger?!"

Ling Dengxian shouted loudly, his voice tearing through the howling wind and snow:

“No way!!”

The thin figure burst into white flames like a sea tide, and the strange tree that had no time to escape was submerged, and the dark traces disappeared completely.

Ling Dengxian was panting, the cold was pervasive, and Texas could not move an inch.

In the vast white snow, two tall black shadows rushing towards them made Ling Dengxian's pupils shrink, but he only had time to pull Texas to avoid them.

"Get out of the way!" The loud roar was both shocking and angry. The owner of the voice would never have thought that Ursus had not yet dispersed everyone.

The next moment, a huge object appeared without warning, along with two heavily armored Wendigos, and appeared in the two people's sight.

"Don't look!!" the heavily armored Wendigo shouted angrily.

Texas subconsciously sensed that this was a well-intentioned warning and followed the roaring command, but there was still a force that drilled into her mind, trying to dig out the deepest fear in her heart.

"Get out!" A cold snort came from somewhere unknown, shattering the offending force.

It was a completely subconscious counterattack, and its owner had no intention of saving Texas.

Texas could no longer hold on due to the overwhelming power and passed out.

Ling Dengxian stared directly at the huge figure. Just as the two heavily armored Wendigos were worried about something going wrong, he turned his head and looked at them:

"What is this?"