Weicheng snow

It was already daylight when the two arrived at Xuefeng. There are many people who come to pick lotus on the mountain this season, but because the roads within the Xuefeng area are intricate and maze-like, and the snow is deep, it is all white to the eyes, and it is easy to get lost. There are wild beasts wandering inside, and most people will go back home halfway through.

The mountain that Yi Baixue and Shen Sheng chose was in the deepest part of Xuefeng, and only experienced Lingshan disciples could reach it. For this reason, Shen Sheng made a special trip to Elder Tianming to get a map.The two of them spread the map on the snow, roughly determined the direction of travel, and went one after the other, stepping on the knee-deep snow to find the snow lotus.

Shen Sheng once had the experience of picking lotus, so he has a solid grasp of the methods of avoiding wild beasts and detecting traps under the snow. Several times, Yi Baixue almost stepped into a snow cave, but it was Shen Sheng who pulled him in time. Yi Baixue was terrified, and finally chose light work to move forward, waiting for Shen Sheng on the treetops every time he walked, looking at Shen Sheng with admiration and envy.

At dusk, the two finally arrived at the deepest part of the snow peak, and found the legendary peak with century-old snow lotus that absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, which even the disciples of Lingshan daunted.Only then did the two realize how difficult it is to climb this peak.

Because the peak walls of this mountain are almost vertical, and the surface is covered with amber-like ice crystals, which are smooth and have no grip. In addition, the mountain is so high that it soars into the clouds.

Shen Sheng took out some iron rods for fixing from the bag, and tried to stick them on the ice, but only cut out some ice flakes, and couldn't get them in no matter what.Shen Sheng pondered for a while, and seeing the setting sun, he suggested to Yi Baixue, "It's getting late, and it's even colder at night, why don't you find a cave to avoid the wind and snow first, and then make plans."

Before the snowstorm picked up, the two finally found a cave on the other side of the mountain.Shen Sheng lit the dry wood, took some snow water to drink, washed his face in a hurry, and because he was too tired during the day, he didn't even say a few gossips, so he wrapped himself in a thick blanket and lay down.

Yi Baixue didn't close her eyes all night, she just tossed and turned over how to go up the mountain, and her head hurt a little, so she fell asleep for a while at dawn, but she was awakened by Shen Sheng who woke up early, "Young master, look, The sun is shining outside, so the ice will melt, right?"

Yi Baixue put on her boots and got up, tied up her clothes and walked outside the cave, looked up at the glare of the ice under the sun, and fell into deep thought.

The two shared some dry food, and ate water as breakfast. They dressed in snow and waited for the food in their stomachs to digest for a while, then asked Shen Sheng for a bundle of iron brazing to tie around his waist. Do you have a solution?"

Yi Baixue took out an iron braze, weighed it in his hand, a little uncertain, "Try it."

Because Yi Baixue has very little strength, how to maximize the power of the hidden weapon when it hits the target has become the goal of Yi Baixue's constant attempts over the years.Relying on the feel of his hand, he threw the iron rod a little distance away from the mountain peak, and under Shen Sheng's exclamation, the iron rod penetrated deeply into the ice wall.

And that's just breaking through the first problem.

The heights below the mountainside are not difficult to climb, and even ordinary Lingshan disciples can do it. The real difficulty and danger is the section from the mountainside to the peak. If you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff and die.Regarding this section of the road, Yi Baixue could not be [-]% sure, if she had to say it, it was less than [-]%.

He considered the route for a moment, tied up his sleeves, and started to climb.

Shen Sheng felt something was wrong, so he quickly grabbed Yi Baixue's wrist and asked, "Your iron rod has only been buried for a certain distance, how can you go up?"

Yi Baixue didn't want Shen Sheng to worry, so she said, "I have my own way." Shen Sheng was a little uneasy, "Don't mess around, gift giving is a good thing, if you make senior brother feel sad, you will lose your heart .”

Yi Baixue agreed with a smile on his face, but in his heart he was thinking of taking a gamble.In fact, he thought very clearly that Hua Shenchi was kind to him, and the original intention of bringing him to Lingshan, no matter whether it was just to test the medicine or not, was the fact that he had recuperated the black blood in his body, although until now the treatment of black blood has still not progressed , I only have less than one year of life left, if I can repay Hua Shenchi's kindness before I die, I can die with peace of mind.

With such thoughts in mind, Yi Baixue quickly climbed up to the last iron rod, and the rest of the road was not so easy.

When looking down again, Shen Sheng was only as big as a finger. Yi Baixue took a deep breath, held the special mountain climbing iron pickaxe in her hand, and knocked it into the ice wall. Because the strength of Yi Baixue was indeed inferior to that of a grown woman, the iron pick did not penetrate very deep.

Yi Baixue didn't care, she just repeated the knock several times, so that every time she climbed a certain height, Yi Baixue would spend a cup of tea time digging holes with an iron pick.

When he climbed to the mountainside, the sky gradually turned dark again. He had exhausted too much energy, and his climbing speed became slower and slower. Now he can only stand on the cliff to rest, and every cold wind blows snowflakes , will make the cheeks hurt, and the nasal cavity is cold and painful when breathing, and the hot air exhaled condenses into ice crystals, hanging on the front of the forehead and the tail of the hair, even if you raise your hand to sweep it away, it will reappear soon.

The trace of Shen Sheng at the bottom of the mountain was no longer visible, and Yi Baixue stopped and walked for a while, until the moon climbed to the branches, Yi Baixue finally saw the outline of the mountain top.

A snow-white, but more transparent flower is swaying in the wind and snow.

Against the background of the full moon, the petals exuded a radiant brilliance, and Yi Baixue was startled when she saw it, she just felt that this flower was extremely precious in the world, and it was the perfect gift for Shanghua Shenchi's birthday.

He gave up the idea of ​​resting, and climbed up in one go.Although he did reach the peak in the end, a little accident occurred at the last step because of his eagerness for quick success.

He lost the iron pick in his hand and fell down the cliff, not sure if it would hit Shen Sheng.

Now that we have climbed to the top, we don't have time to take care of so much for the time being.He walked up to the sacred object, put his hands together in front of his chest, and bowed sincerely. Then he squatted down, picked up a cold stone, dug up the frozen soil near the root of the snow lotus, took out a piece of white cloth, and wrapped the root with the Wrap the clods near the rhizome together.

When Shen Sheng was born, he had told him that spiritual things like snow lotus should not come into direct contact with pig iron, skin, etc. The soil would wither soon after leaving the growing soil, so the rhizome must be wrapped with gauze specially made by Lingshan to ensure its humidity. Don't stuff it into your bosom and keep stuffy, otherwise the petals will wither and turn yellow. After thinking about it, Yi Baixue thinks it's best to hold it in your hand.

But, how is he going to get down?

Yi Baixue hesitated on the edge of the cliff for a long time, staring at the only iron rod left in his hand in a daze.

There is a cloud drifting by, and the milky white mist flows between the fingers. This place is extremely cold, but it is also refreshingly clean. After only staying in Baixue for half an hour, he already feels the coldness to the bone, and the body feels it from the inside out. It was cold, and my hands and feet trembled unconsciously.

He knew that he couldn't count on Shen Sheng, only relying on Shen Sheng's lightness kung fu and his fear of heights, it was impossible for him to bring the pickaxe up to him.For now, we can only take one step at a time, let’s go slowly.As long as you get through the section on the top and reach the mountainside supported by iron brazing, the rest of the road will be much easier.

It was already night, and the wind and snow would only get bigger and bigger. The top of the mountain was empty, except for a stone that was less than a person's height where the snow lotus grew.Yi Baixue was torn between whether to wait here until dawn, or to go down the mountain immediately.

He thought for a while, looked at his bruised fingers, and decided to give it a go.

He came to the edge of the cliff again, and the bottom of the cliff was pitch black, so black that one could breathe it in, Yi Baixue looked at the ice wall when he came, thinking about how to use the iron rod.

It is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, not to mention that it is not easy to even go up this mountain.

Yi Baixue carefully tied the snow lotus on her belt, inserted the iron rod into the gap between the stones used by the snow lotus to shelter from the wind, and then pulled the tight rope at the end of the iron rod to make sure that there was nothing wrong with it, before she tightened the rope and slowly descended the mountain .

When the rope was stretched straight, Yi Baixue could only go down a few meters. Relying on his memory, he tried to recall the location of the groove made by the pickaxe when he went up the mountain. Because of the freezing at night, the groove has become very small. He could only use the small hidden weapon he carried with him to make a bigger gap in the groove, and then put his finger in it.

After grasping it firmly, he went to chisel the hollow near his feet. This way, his speed was more than twice as slow as in the daytime. When the moon was in the middle of the sky, the distance he traveled was less than [-]% of the distance in the daytime, but the palm of his hand Bleeding blisters have been dug out.

If it were an ordinary person, right now he would be surrounded by fears such as falling to death, freezing to death, etc., but Yi Baixue only felt empty in his heart, because he was already a dying person, and death was nothing to fear, but the road ahead was long and long , If this procrastination continues, if I am frozen to death here, will my body stick here?

Waiting for the wind and snow to blow thicker and thicker, he was completely sealed in the ice, and Hua Shenchi and the others couldn't take back the body even if they wanted to.After a hundred years, the herb-picking technology has improved, and the descendants of Lingshan will come here to pick lotus, and accidentally find themselves in the ice, how will they feel?Will it be transported back to Lingshan for anatomical research?

Yi Baixue was amused by her mentality of having fun in bitterness. After laughing for a while, the snowflakes choked into her throat, and coughed for a while, then she didn't dare to laugh anymore. She only calmed down for a while and looked at her fingers that had lost the pain. , determined to take a gamble thoroughly, and if you continue to delay like this, you will really be frozen to death.

He is dressed in white snow and has lived until now. Although he only has light functions on the table, his reputation as a genius is by no means in vain.Only the fact that she is also called a "genius" will make Yi Baixue feel a little more balanced when facing Hua Shenchi.

He loosened his hands and feet that were gripping the ice wall, listening to the howling wind and the increasingly obvious sense of weightlessness, let his body fall, and only used his left hand to protect the snow lotus petals around his waist, preventing the fragile petals from falling. Get blown away.

When falling, all the surrounding scenery flashed before his eyes very quickly. Yi Baixue held his breath and concentrated, looking for the right time. When he felt that the height was about the same, he pulled out the last iron rod at his waist, and inserted it very precisely into the body on the way of falling. In a groove, the iron rod was stuck into it, which relieved some of the falling inertia for Yi Baixue, but it was far from enough to stop Yi Baixue from falling.

He tried this several times one after another, and the speed finally became slower and slower, until the sixth time, he finally pierced the iron rod into the groove and stabilized his figure.This time, the groove he chose was on the edge of an iron drill, which means that he successfully controlled the height and reached the mountainside.

Although the tiger's mouth had been torn apart, and even the palms of his hands had been scratched by the ice, dripping with blood, but he didn't feel it.Three or four pillars of blood flowed down the direction of the wrist, into the sleeve, and were soon turned into frost by the wind and snow.

Yi Baixue was thankful that Fengxue had numbed his pain, otherwise he would have been in so much pain that he couldn't hold the iron rod, right?

Carefully observing the snow lotus on his waist, after confirming that there was no damage, he slowly descended along the iron rod to meet Shen Sheng.As Yi Baixue expected, Shen Sheng did not return to the cave to rest even though it was already night, but was wrapped in thick clothes, holding the iron pick in his hand, and looked up with a mournful face, waiting to see Yi Baixue's figure Appeared, just rubbed his eyes in disbelief, ran to the bottom of the cliff and stretched his arms, for fear that Yi Baixue would fall off.

As soon as he ran down the cliff, water dripped onto his face. He thought it was rain, so he stretched out his hand to wipe it, but his hand was bloody red.Shen Sheng's heart tightened, and he looked up at Yi Baixue.

Right now, Yi Baixue is about to fall to the ground, and there are only three iron rods away from his feet to the ground. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly his feet slipped. Screaming, hurry to pick it up.

Because Shen Sheng caught Yi Baixue, his hands were broken for half a month, and Yi Baixue also sprained his ankle because of falling off a cliff. His hands were severely frostbitten, his flesh was cut, and he lost blood. Hua Shenchi was so angry that he ordered him to stay in the room. They are not allowed to go, of course, these are all things for later.

After being caught by Shen Sheng, Yi Baixue fell into a coma for a long time. When he woke up, he only remembered that he handed the snow lotus to Shen Sheng before he passed out, and said, "I got the gift of wood... ..." and then I don't remember anything.

Right now is still the cave used to avoid the wind and snow, Shen Sheng knelt beside the stone bed, saw Yi Baixue wake up, he was moved, "My ancestor! You finally woke up!"

Yi Baixue sat up in a daze, feeling dizzy in the head and tight in the palms of her hands, "What's the situation now..." Shen Sheng held out his two arms that had been wrapped into rice dumplings, and looked at the There was a vast expanse of whiteness outside the cave and said, "The wind and snow have been getting stronger for several days, and there is no tendency to weaken. We are both disabled and injured, and the dry food is almost finished."

Yi Baixue falteringly looked at the wind and snow outside the cave, and could only hope that Shen Yi would find something was wrong and quickly bring someone to rescue them, otherwise he and Shen Sheng would really have to wait to die.

Yi Baixue can't remember exactly how the next three days were spent, because it was really muddled, and there was not much gossip to talk about. She just ate and slept every day, waiting for the rescuers sent by Lingshan.

I only remember one time when Shen Sheng was so hungry that he couldn't take it anymore. He bit the root of the wild grass and stared at the snow lotus miserably, and begged, "Why don't we eat that snow lotus, it's a spirit?" After eating, I may be able to last for a while, otherwise I think I may not see the sun of tomorrow."

But Yi Baixue resolutely rejected him, "Tomorrow will probably still be snowy, and there will be no sun in the first place."

Then I waited for a long time, day and night, until Shen Yi's sharp cry appeared in the wind and snow.At first, Shen Sheng thought it was an illusion born of his missing Lingshan too much, but when a few black figures appeared at the entrance of the cave, Shen Sheng realized that the rescuers had finally arrived.