[Dragon Race][Kai Chu]Until the Day

Can it, the gray-blue eyes looked at him silently, and nodded after a while.

Caesar, his ice-fishing kit in one hand, and Renata in the other, carefully crossed the river bank.The river was frozen over, smooth as a wide stage.The world seemed to stand still.

Renata suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed to the distance to show Caesar: "There."

Across the black woods, a faint light suddenly lit up. Caesar estimated that it was about five or six kilometers away.

"There is?"

"I... had friends... there...before," Renata stammered.She could only speak a few simple words.The long-term solitary environment made her language skills extremely degraded, and she could only fully express her meaning through sign language gestures.

Caesar understood and nodded, probably the light from the shelter.The distance is not far, so it seems that Chu Zihang will be back soon.He picked up some dead branches on the edge of the river beach, gathered them into a small pile, poured some gasoline on them, lit them with a kerosene lighter, lit a fire, and then sat down with Retana, "You just stay Here, don't run around."

"I can..." The girl took out a tin box from her pocket and carefully opened it. Inside was a plant that was about to wither, and the flowers shriveled into a ball. "Can I let it keep warm?"

Caesar was a little surprised. It was a small arctic poppy, the same color as the yellow butterfly on the girl's hair. "Of course." Caesar helped move the little flower closer to the fire.

In winter, fish schools have entered a semi-hibernating state, with low vigilance and slow response, and they will swarm in if there is some light and fresh air.Caesar tried the thickness of the ice, which was enough to support his walking weight.He walked carefully to the middle of the river, listened quietly for a while, selected a few points, and started to lower the ice.A few minutes later, several fishing holes about ten centimeters in diameter appeared on the ice.The sentry opened the folding stool and sat down, then threw the hooked bait line into the river along the fishing hole.

Renata stared at Caesar eagerly, turning her head from time to time to look at the light in the distance.Caesar thought that she was also exhausted and hungry. The effect of the previous cup of hot chocolate had been exhausted. He wondered how she, a little girl, walked through the dark forest stretching for several kilometers alone.

The sky above the head has completely ended, and the temperature has plummeted.There were a few long howls of animals in the woods not far away, and Caesar raised his head vigilantly.Probably a wolf in the woods wandering around.On the shore, Renata stood up suddenly, revealing a pair of frightened gray-blue eyes from the thick scarf.She hesitated for a moment, then stepped on the ice in a panic, wanting to come to Caesar's side.

"Be careful," Caesar called to her.

Renata approached here step by step with slippery soles, Caesar dropped the fishing rod and stood up.

"Boom—" There was a sudden explosion on the ice, and Renata was frightened, and suddenly stopped, standing on the ice and staring blankly at Caesar.

"It's okay, don't be afraid." Caesar stretched out his hands to the girl.This is a common fried ice, especially in the morning and evening when the temperature changes sharply. The ice layer suddenly thins or thickens with the temperature, and the huge ice cubes squeeze each other, making a sound, sometimes even comparable to thunder.

Renata was in shock.There was another explosion, she stared at Caesar in a panic, and suddenly started to run with her legs open.The red scarf loosened and fell on the ice behind him.

"careful!"

The next second, the girl fell on the ice not far from Caesar, and her body slid forward due to inertia.In the woods, the howling of animals came one after another, accompanied by rustling sounds, it seemed to be much closer.Renata propped up her hands and wanted to stand up, but in panic, she could only keep spinning on the ice, and the strength of falling and struggling hit the ice.

Caesar lay down on the ice and grabbed the girl's waving arm.

There was a sudden crackling sound from the ice layer below him, piercing the Sentinel's auditory nerve like a cold thorn.He realized that the fishing holes he had made before were right at the seam of two huge ice blocks. The sudden drop in temperature caused a sharp change in the stress between the ice layers, and Renata's running and falling made the structure of the ice surface worse. Even more vulnerable, they were just above the cracks formed by those fishing holes... The ice layer under them began to break in a chain, the ice surface sloped slowly, and the two of them were about to fall into the bone-piercing river water.

At the critical moment, Caesar pushed the girl beside him up with all his strength. "Go ashore," Caesar yelled at her, but his body slid down the sloping ice.

The icy river water swallowed him suddenly, and the huge ice layer above his head slowly swayed and returned to its original position, like a door from a nightmare, which was accidentally knocked open and then closed again.

Caesar held his breath tightly.It's too cold... Sentinel's sensitive perception made the pain in his body twice as strong as that of ordinary people, like a cold knife piercing through the top of his head, and the chill exploded in the cells of his whole body.He braced his consciousness and tried his best to think about the countermeasures.Suddenly falling into ice water can easily cause cold shock.The great shock of cold, water in the lungs, and violent constriction of blood vessels will cause the body to protectively cut off the blood supply to "non-essential" muscles, and the limbs will become stiff after a few minutes.

The moment the cold-proof suit entered the water, it was full of icy river water, which locked all of Caesar's movements and dragged him down.Caesar closed his eyes and groped to peel off the water-soaked jacket and trousers on his body, which exhausted most of his strength.He groped upwards with all his strength and touched a fishing hole he had made before.The temperature dropped extremely quickly, and the crushed ice in the fishing hole began to recondense little by little.He tried to grasp the edge of the ice floe with his frozen fingers, and there was a strong tingling sensation at his fingertips, but he couldn't tell whether it was cold or a cut.To make matters worse, the previous line got tangled up in him.He endured the pain and grasped the edge of the thick ice layer, trying to use force, but the body suspended in the water had no way to use it, and the resistance of the water made all his movements more difficult.

It was completely dark.There was endless darkness under the water, and Caesar choked on a few mouthfuls of water, feeling a burning pain in his chest.

His consciousness began to slowly blur and disperse, and he heard the endless sound of water flowing and the soft sound of ice growing and colliding with each other.To make matters worse, his left leg began to cramp, and the muscles began to spasm violently under the stimulation of the cold water.

Caesar thought this was actually not bad, at least not ugly.When Chu Zihang discovers and picks him up, his handsome appearance should be the same as usual... The mental state of a person when he is dying is very strange. Some people say that the weight of the soul is 21g, so what about your own 21g? Maybe she will be frozen in the icy river in Alaska forever... I don't know if Renata has reached the shore safely. She saw the light of the shelter, so she can probably go back by herself.Caesar used up his last bit of strength to think...the only regret is that he hasn't waited for Chu Zihang's answer...

The moment he completely lost consciousness, it seemed that someone jumped into the icy water and hugged him from behind.

very warm.thought Caesar.

***

Chu Zihang walked through the dark pine forest.

He walked quickly, knowing that he must find the place of shelter when it was completely dark.The footprints left by the girl are somewhat blurred, but fortunately, the marks she made are still clear.There was a rustling sound in the forest, followed by the cry of several animals.He was blocked by trees and couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly. Chu Zihang had to stop and listen intently.Probably the wolf in the snowy forest, it seemed to be far away from him.

He crossed a collapsed forest, turned a slight corner, and there was a faint orange light in front of him.

The lights of human activity, he was sure.It should be the shelter that Renata mentioned.Chu Zihang breathed a sigh of relief, took note of the direction with the compass, and started to walk back.

The return journey was easier than the outbound journey. He pulled out Caesar's hunting knife and split the branches blocking the way. A thin layer of sweat appeared on his body after strenuous exercise.He thought about having to change out of his sweat-soaked underwear as soon as he got back in the car.Otherwise, once the physical activity returns to normal and the body temperature drops, the wet underwear will absorb a lot of heat.

I don't know what's going on with Caesar, Chu Zihang thought.

To be honest, Chu Zihang himself hadn't figured out how he felt about Caesar.He doesn't hate Caesar, and even cares about Caesar's feelings very much, otherwise he would not hesitate at all when he left Gattuso's house, nor would he seek advice from Schneider, let alone choose to go to Caesar.From the eyes of the 14-year-old boy in the dream, he understood the deep and never-shown sadness about his mother in Caesar's heart.In a sense they're even very, very similar...

But he couldn't tell if the relationship was liking, and how much their respective roles as sentinels and guides played a part in it.

Chu Zihang raised his head, and there was a little smoke and flames faintly rising from the place where he came, probably the fire pile raised by Caesar.He couldn't help quickening his pace.

There was a sudden tremor in my mind.It was an almost silent, long-lasting bass.Like the inconspicuous tremor of an avalanche.

Something is broken.

Chu Zihang froze in place, he had never experienced such a strange and subtle feeling, and could not understand and describe the feeling at this moment.

What followed was a decisive and complete collapse.Quietly, deafeningly loud.

He suddenly reacted, instinctively——

"Caesar!"

##Chapter11 Temperature

Chu Zihang ran and slipped down the slope, his mind went blank due to the huge shock.He couldn't hear anything anymore, and the world was suddenly silent, just like the sudden night.He passed a dying fire, its flickering light illuminating the broken ice floes and ice