Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Squeeze! Rub! Let the cold, sticky leather scrape against your teeth, lips, and frozen cheeks! The goal isn't eating, but physical stimulation!

It was a rough touch, stronger than ice water, powerful enough to penetrate numbness! It was the suffocating threat posed by the sticky, dirty blood blocking the edges of his mouth and nose! It made the pain even more intense!

Use all perceptible physical torture to dig out that bit of consciousness from the chaos!

“Ugh…Gulp…Poof!!”

The filthy leather that was forced into the edge of my mouth and nose instantly brought a strong feeling of suffocation and a fishy and nauseating stimulation! Sticky and cold blood and ice chips blocked my mouth and nose!

From deep within Chang Baishan's throat erupted the rasping sound of a blocked bellows! His body convulsed violently between his instinct for survival and the intense feeling of suffocation! More ice water poured back into his body!

Suffocation! Absolute suffocation!

Just at the last moment before he is about to die and his brain falls into darkness due to lack of oxygen!

The hand covering the mouth and nose, due to the violent convulsions of the body and the instinctive struggle of nausea, suddenly closed its five fingers and grasped an unnatural, blood-soaked, but extremely hard, small protrusion on the inner layer of the leather!

This touch!

Like a flash of lightning splitting the thick fog!

An extremely ancient fragment of memory, mixed with deep hatred and instinctive vigilance, erupted like magma from the bottom of an ice-covered volcano!

Instantly, Toru Khan exploded in his chaotic and burning consciousness! The royal court spy! The bone talisman!

Caligon! That skinny figure! The waist hidden by the tattered fur coat, the unnatural lines under the hem every time he made a stealthy move!

The waist area that he had targeted as a weakness countless times in life-and-death battles!

Yes! The Bone Talisman! This secret box, carried by high-ranking Toruhan secret agents, is inscribed with secret codes on special animal bones, sealed with corpse wax and insect poison, and placed in a sturdy bone box to convey the most important secret commands!

That sharp raised outline is definitely the edge of an animal bone carving!

This thought instantly ignited his dying will to live! The hand that had almost escaped his control suddenly turned over! His nails dug deep into the greasy lining and tore it apart with all his might!

He ignored the bleeding from the rough edges of the bones, and using the buoyancy of the water and the swaying of his body, he forcibly tore the lining cloth, along with the small, blood-stained, hard object inside, from the shreds of the fur coat!

Icy! Hard! Bone-piercingly cold!

Chang Baishan didn't hesitate any longer, and used up his last bit of strength to suddenly put it into his mouth!

Not swallowing it! He was holding the cold, sharp, and hard object firmly under his tongue!

Let the sharp edges and biting coldness be like real needles, fiercely piercing and scraping the fragile oral mucosa and the paralyzed tongue root!

Every tiny movement, every accidental contact of the teeth, brings sharp and clear pain!

Pain! Constant! Clear! Physical signal!

Like a drowning man clinging to a floating rope! The cold sensation of a foreign body, the bloody taste of a punctured mouth, the constant chill that eroded his bones and the excruciating pain of the wound, forcibly pulled his chaotic consciousness from the brink of drowning!

He suddenly opened his eyes, nearly bloodshot and icy, wide open! His pupils dilated and trembled in the agony of extreme cold and fever, losing all focus. Only a frenzied, chaotic, yet incredibly ferocious light remained! Like a dying beast!

Looking past the layers of floating ice fog, above... is a cliff!

It was the glow of burning flames! The shadows of the Shadow Guards battling each other! The faint sound of screams and the clash of weapons!

I can't stay here! I'll freeze to death! I'll suffocate! I'll become a specimen for the Shadow Guards to collect!

He saw it! Just above his head, not far away! A cluster of tough vines, frozen black and covered with icicles, stubbornly emerged from the crevice of the collapsed rock! Where the icicles broke, new, unfrozen vines were exposed inside!

A thread! Maybe I can grab it! Maybe I can... climb!

The desire to live overwhelmed everything! The broken body began to twist and kick frantically!

The only arm that could move was like a dying fish fin, flapping and struggling desperately in the water!

Every movement strained the mortal lacerations and arrow wounds on his shoulder and back, causing him to black out in pain! The icy water made every movement feel like dragging a thousand-pound boulder!

It's getting closer! The dark, withered vines are right before my eyes! The cold branches soaked in ice water are within reach!

Chang Baishan bit the tip of his tongue to pieces! The intense pain mixed with the stimulation of the bone ridge under his tongue drained away the last bit of his strength! He thrust his left arm out suddenly! His five fingers fiercely dug into the roots of the vines!

puff!

His finger bones slammed hard against the rough, cold stone wall and vines, instantly tearing his skin and flesh apart! The cold stone wall was like a guillotine! The sharp pain in his fingertips made his whole body twitch! The vines seemed to have decayed over the years, and although they looked thick and strong, they were broken by a fierce grab.

"Crack!"

Tear and break!

The rope of hope broke in an instant!

The overwhelming despair was like a cascade of icy water pouring down his head! Chang Baishan's body suddenly sank downwards due to this hopeless attempt and the exhaustion of his last bit of strength!

"Grumpy"

More ice water rushed into my nasal cavity! The suffocating darkness swallowed me again!

At the last moment when consciousness is about to be submerged!

His arms were scratching wildly on the underwater rock wall because of his desperate sinking and missing movement!

My fingertips brushed over a protruding rock, smoothed by water and unusually cold. Deeper inside, a narrow cave crevice formed by water erosion appeared! It seemed to be filled with jagged rocks!

Instinct! A final struggle in despair! Chang Baishan's sinking body rolled violently with the force of the water! His injured shoulder slammed heavily into the stone wall at the mouth of the crevice!

The severe pain almost made him faint! But his body was stuck in the narrow entrance!

The crevice had only a narrow entrance, and the concave and convex stone walls squeezed it into an extremely small space.

Ice cold!

The change in the terrain caused the water flow to form a small vortex. The suction force was weak, but it was enough to prevent him from sinking. He was fixed here, barely keeping his mouth and nose above the water!

It's like being stuffed into a cold stone coffin!

“Puff! …Puff!”

He coughed out the water he had choked on with difficulty. Every cough caused severe pain in his body. Blood foam splattered on the cold stone wall and was quickly washed away by the water.

Every breath he took carried the sickening smell of rust.

Desperate! But for now...it's not sinking anymore.

He collapsed in this cold cage, his body twitching violently, and every breath he took required all his strength.

Like a broken bellows sawing, the ridge of bone under his tongue and the constant pain from the wound kept him from falling into a coma.

The wound had a tendency to become numb from being soaked in ice water, but the heart-wrenching pain still stubbornly came through the numbness.

The sounds of fighting, wailing, and the crackling of sparks on the cliffs came through the cold curtain of water, seeming distant and vague, like the sounds of another world.

"Sir! Hold on! Hold on!"

The scarred old soldier Zhao Tiezhu's roar was filled with tearing tears and frantic despair! He and the only remaining soldier, who had half of his ear cut off.