[Through] Delicious Journey

The heavy snow fell continuously all night, and when it turned slightly smaller in the morning, it had a tendency to gradually stop.

When Ying Cui woke up, Yi Nie had already got up, looked out the window, and saw him chopping firewood on the stake at the door.

With the upper body bare, the skinny but not weak muscles are affected by the movements, and the chopping is very rhythmic. You can faintly feel the strength and skillful control contained in it. Melt down.

Ying Cui stretched her waist, got up and walked to the kitchen.

There was hot tea on the stove, and the hot air was coming out from the mouth of the pot. There were three square breakfasts on the plate on the table. They were milky white. Judging by the texture of the cut surface, they turned out to be steamed cakes.

Ying Cui knew who made it without even thinking about it. He even imagined that when Kenli made breakfast, he definitely looked awkward again.

While eating, the door opened from the outside, and a man walked in with a snowstorm all over his body.

"Have you had breakfast?" Ying Cui sat at the table, chewing on her breakfast and looking at the man.

The steamed cake was very big, and the amount was enough, just one piece was enough for him to be full, but Kenli left three pieces, which should be Yi Nie's amount.

"Of course I didn't eat it." Yi Nie said bitterly, "Ken Li pulled me to work as a coolie early in the morning, and now I'm almost a sugar man. Besides, it's not like you don't know that something happened to my sense of taste, you can sleep too well. "

Ying Cui resolutely ignored the last sentence, but was very interested in the sugar man that Yi Nie said, "Is it because of the cotton candy snow?"

He chewed the steamed cake and walked in front of the other party. From a close distance, it was easy to see that Yi Nie's body was covered with a shallow layer of film, which seemed to be the shallow syrup left after the snow evaporated the water, not much.

"Hey, why don't you show a lewd expression." Yi Nie said with a teasing smile, "It's easy to misunderstand me."

"Misunderstand what?" Ying Cui swallowed the steamed cake and thought angrily, this guy has a good figure, he doesn't look like a chicken for nothing.Stretched out a finger to caress that strong arm, brought it to his mouth and licked it, squinted his eyes, "It's really sweet..."

And in the next moment, he was slammed into the wall by Yi Nie.

"Of course I misunderstood that you were interested in me." Yi Nie's eyes deepened, she stared straight at the astonished Ying Cui, put her hand on the other's ear, and said with a low smile, "Isn't it?"

"..." Ying Cui's body froze for a moment, expressing that she was not used to the other party's inappropriate "seriousness", then she looked back calmly, patted Yi Nie's forehead, and sighed, "Sure enough, it's a bit hot, Cutting firewood outside without clothes in the early morning, who are you showing it to?"

Taking advantage of the other party's stupefaction, Ying Cui quickly withdrew from that ambiguous posture.

"Huh, really?" Yi Nie's expression was broken, and her face was embarrassed, and she realized, "Why don't I feel anything at all?"

Ying Cui rolled her eyes, walked back to the kitchen and continued to boil water, "Go take a shower first, I'll make you some ginger fruit soup, last night I saw something in Kenly's closet..."

"It doesn't matter." Yi Nie smiled lightly, turned around Ying Cui's eyes, and her voice was so soft that she said to herself, "I'm interested in you, and it's the same..."

"What?" Ying Cui turned her head, but only saw the back of the other party entering the bathroom, and wondered in her heart, it's weird, maybe it's because she's burnt out.

……

The itinerary, which was originally scheduled to start in the afternoon, proceeded as usual under the condition of Yi Nie's vigorous physique after a night's sleep.

As Kenley said, the snow stopped within an hour of the afternoon.

The mountain is covered with snow, and since it is usually covered with snow, I haven't seen any changes after a heavy snowfall.

The temperature was exceptionally low, and after layers of dense clouds turned into snowflakes and fell, the sky was exceptionally clear, and it seemed to be a good day for traveling.

Their goal was the Seventh Snow Peak. Due to a divergence, they could only avoid the Sixth Snow Peak and take a detour from Keliku Snow Peak.

Sitting on the sled pulled by the boss and two other snow wolves, the speed of approaching the destination was extremely fast.

There are 32 main snow peaks in the entire North Region Snow Mountain. The lower the number, the farther away from human habitation. Among them, some scattered short peaks are not included. One mountain is connected with another, forming the Northern Region Snow Mountain. Huge snow peak group and food gathering area.

The boundary between the Sixth Snow Peak and Keliku Snow Peak.

"Is there a situation?" Kenli looked into the distance, but there was a vast expanse of white, only a few mountain peaks standing in the distance, and there was no grass and nothing else.

Yi Nie got off the sled and walked around, but didn't notice any abnormalities. She thought to herself, "Boss has his reasons for not leaving, let's wait here."

Kenley nodded too.

The boss is the king of snow wolves. Wild beasts are naturally more sensitive to danger than humans. In the past hunting, relying on this intuition has also avoided many disasters.

For the sake of safety, the group found a rock sheltered from the wind, and were on high alert to wait for the danger in the inexplicable panic.

About 5 minutes later, the body of the boss lying on the ground suddenly trembled.

At this moment, there was a sound of rolling rocks from a distance, like a washed-out dam releasing flood water, and the rumbling sound resounded through the valley, deafeningly deafening.

From a distance, one can see the overwhelming snow tide rolling down on the Sixth Snow Peak.

"This is, an avalanche?" The strong wind came mixed with snow, and it hit people hard to open their eyes, and the rumbling loud noise that kept ringing completely covered up Ying Cui's question.

This monstrous tide lasted for about 10 minutes, and the falling snow blocked the way to the Seventh Snow Peak.

Followed by.

"Click, click." There are more and more stretching and bouncing sounds, like springs passing by in groups. After the avalanche, the silent valley became more and more strange.

Just as Ying Cui wanted to poke her head in to take a look, her head was pressed down by a hand.

Yi Nie shook her head at Ying Cui, her brows were full of solemnity.

Behind the rock, everyone breathed carefully.

"Click, click." The sound finally got farther and farther away until it disappeared.

"Aww." The boss and the two snow wolves jumped up, shaking their bodies again.

"What happened just now?" Ying Cui asked curiously, the sound was like the footsteps of some kind of animal, and there were definitely a lot of them.

"It's the earth bear." Kenli said to Yi Nie with a serious face, "Did you see what they were carrying?"

Yi Nie nodded, "It should be a hunting team, with six people."

"It's those people from yesterday." Kenli said in a slightly annoyed tone, "I told them not to go to the Sixth Snow Peak during this time, so that's all right now, who dares to rescue them in the base camp of the Earth Rabbit and Bear."

"The return season of the red-legged crane?" Yi Nie asked.

What makes the hunting team risk their lives is nothing more than rare ingredients.This season is the ripening season for the sixth Xuefeng bream sardine shell fruit trees, and it is also the only season for catching red-legged cranes.

"The legs of the red-legged crane are delicious, the crown of the crane can be used as medicine or poison, and the wings are an excellent material for making fire fans." Yi Nie touched his chin, "It seems that there is something good to eat."

"Are you going?" Ying Cui waved her hand upon receiving the glance from the other party, "I have no objection."

It's not just that he has no opinion, he also hopes that Enede will find something to do, anyway, the ingredients will still fall into his hands in the end and become a test product for researching recipes, and he is too happy to collect ingredients.

"Earth Rabbit Bear usually hides in the depths of the snow peak, and has never been in and out frequently like this time. Something must have happened inside." Kenly sighed, "You shouldn't be in this muddy water."

As the manager of the Northern Snow Mountain, whether it is to investigate the cause of the riot or rescue those six people, it is incumbent on them.

And the seemingly spur-of-the-moment reason that Yi Nie wanted to find the red-legged bird was nothing more than an excuse to investigate with him.

……

The road to the Sixth Snow Peak and Seventh Snow Peak was blocked by a sudden avalanche, and in order to avoid the wandering Earth Rabbit and Bear Corps, they detoured around Keliku Snow Peak with more caution.

on the sled.

The boss and the two snow wolves are extremely fast. They have been running around the snow for many years. Their survival instinct and nature allow them to stride their limbs well and run faster.

"Snow-tailed martens mostly appear at the junction of forests and snow fields. There should be the octopus garlic you are looking for, but it is the last season for the growth of octopus garlic. I am not sure if there are any edible octopus garlic. It depends on your luck."

Pulling down the brim of his hat, Kenley continued, "The passage to the Sixth Snow Peak was blocked by the Earth Rabbit and Bear a few days ago. We have to go there, only from the steam egg canyon of the Seventh Snow Peak. The other six people died. Unknown, we have to hurry up."

Ye Nirvana remained silent, sitting behind with arms folded, breathing more and more calmly.

"Steamdanggy Canyon..." The corners of Ying Cui's mouth twitched.

He had complained about the name when he saw it on the map on the wall, but he didn't expect to pass through this strange canyon in a blink of an eye, it was really chilling.

……

Seventh Snow Peak.

"This snow mountain." Ying Cui opened her mouth wide, "Why does it grow upside down?"

No wonder he was surprised, this snow peak is indeed quite strange.

About one-half of the height is the border between the snow field and the forest, green and white are clearly separated, but the strange thing is that there is snow from the foot of the mountain to the snow line, but above the snow line to the top of the mountain is a lush green land, which is simply contrary to nature. law.

"This is a dormant volcano." Kenley shrugged, untied the rope that tied the sled to the boss, and said leisurely, "It is documented that it erupts once every 200 years."

"Volcano?" Ying Cui looked up, squinted her eyes, and finally found rock debris at the top of the cliff. It looked like a volcano, and she couldn't help sighing, "I heard that there are many mineral soils on the edge of the volcano. I don't know what kind of plants will grow."

He has become numb to the strangeness and weirdness of this world, so I just hope that this volcanic snow peak will not frighten him too much.

The three took out the snow climbing equipment from the sled, and one of them walked up with a snow wolf beside them. Since Ying Cui was the weakest, in order to complement each other, they gave him the eldest.

With Kenli leading the way, and Snow Wolf assisting, the group set foot on the yellow jungle land above the snow line when the sky was dark.

"A little further up, there is the snow-line salt forest." Kenly pointed to the white-flowered land not far away.

It’s not really a salt forest, it’s more like a field of flowers, with a patch of white crystals scattered above the low bushes, appearing in the surrounding green vegetation, reflected in the red light of the sun, it’s really colorful.

"Go, go over and have a look, find a place to set up tents at night." Yi Nie said.