Chapter 547: Dog Barking at the Wooden Door, a Man Returns Home on a Snowy Night
The snow scene all over the mountains and plains is like a "cold fairy" out of the world, very beautiful. Google search reading
The snow scene with low temperature, which wants to plunder any biological life exposed in the wilderness, is very deadly.
After running for nearly 80 kilometers, Su Mo came to two seemingly opposite, but actually not conflicting conclusions.
When he left the team, transformed into a swift road lizard, and hurriedly rushed for the first 30 kilometers.
Running in the wind and snow, he still had the mind to look here and there, and from time to time he felt the greatness and magic of nature.
But after more than 30 kilometers, with the rapid drop in body temperature and the "blade" of snowflakes hitting his body when running fast.
Even though Su Mo is now mentally tough, he still has a tingling feeling on his scalp!
In fact, humans are not bad in the biological world in terms of their ability to resist low temperatures.
Although they cannot be compared with some creatures with hair.
But the fat, muscles, adrenaline and other weapons inside the human body will quickly stabilize the body temperature when the body reaches the warning line.
Even through methods such as winter swimming and cold showers, humans can train their ability to resist low temperatures to reach a higher level.
Therefore, most of the time when encountering low temperatures, what needs to be solved more than the physical state is actually the
mental state!
When the body feels the low temperature, the brain will continue to enter the warning state and adjust the internal energy supply environment.
It’s okay if the time is short, but over a long period of time, this kind of mental loss seems silent, but it is actually extremely fatal.
Like boiling a frog in warm water, when you really feel that you are about to fail and can only hold on for 30 minutes at most, you actually have less than 10 minutes left!
And this is exactly the principle of hypothermia, a deadly weapon!
In the face of low temperatures, people’s thinking will also become dull, so that they don’t even realize that they will die soon!
There is no idea of showing off, and you arrive at the corresponding position on the map.
Feeling that his muscles were twitching and his mood was a little low, Su Mo stopped immediately and found a low place to light a fire.
In the cold night, a bonfire may not be very useful, but it can perfectly curb the drop in body temperature in the early stage.
Then, Su Mo took out the small pot that had been prepared behind him and added a few handfuls of snow and two slices of bacon.
In a moment, the water in the pot began to boil.
The bonfire suppressed the drop in body temperature, and the boiling water vapor stimulated the recovery of spirit.
After watching the bacon in the small pot begin to roll up and down with the waves, regardless of the fact that the soup base was still a little hot, Su Mo squatted by the bonfire and happily picked it up and began to drink it in small sips.
After the hot broth entered the throat, the first feeling it brought was hot, but the next second it entered the stomach and quickly converted into rich heat.
With a mouthful of bacon with fat edges, Su Mo's coldness began to dissipate visibly.
From the soles of the feet, to the thighs, and finally to the upper body, after eating just a small pot of salty meat soup, the heat has been revived and a new cycle has begun to fight against the low temperature outside.
"Hoo!"
"It's so refreshing to have such a meal in the ice and snow!"
After arranging two slices of salty meat again, grabbing a few handfuls of snow and putting them into the pot, and cooking the second pot, Su Mo exhaled a long breath of hot air and sat comfortably in the snow.
This time, before the water in the pot boiled again, in Su Mo's sight, the team he had been waiting for appeared on the horizon.
Like the previous caravan to the depression, the team of frogmen coming here now is also other caravans on this "route", and they also have corresponding accompanying services.
Accompanied by the lizard pulling the cart, after quickly moving to the corresponding location, Su Mo stood up and gently patted the snowflakes on his body to meet them.
"Wow, Lord Hal is really fast. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting!"
Suma waved his hand: "It's okay. I just arrived too. Sorry to bother you!"
Unlike the nine carts of the bearman Avar's fleet, the frogman's fleet only had six carts, all of which were filled with people.
The frogman bowed respectfully and left, heading for the carts behind.
After a while, Sumo got the "goods" he wanted.
"Lord Hal, this is the human you are responsible for transporting. This is your receipt. Thank you for trusting our God Frog Fleet"
"Look forward to the opportunity to cooperate in the future!"
The frogman pushed the numb middle-aged man like a gentleman, and handed him a note with words on it. He was smiling and extremely humble.
"Very good, the efficiency of the God Frog Team is really high"
"I have transferred the balance of this transportation, check it!"
With a smile, he pulled the middle-aged man to his side. After a brief inspection, Su Mo opened the seal with satisfaction and transferred 500 contribution points to the frogman.
Money makes the world go round. Contribution points can do anything in Liberty City.
With only 1,000 points, Su Mo got the "result" he wanted.
"Hahaha, Lord Hal's reputation is trustworthy, no need to check it"
"By the way, it's freezing cold now, do you want us to give you a ride?"
Like the bear man Avar, when he got here, the frogman also understood the direction and destination of Lord Hal's trip.
After another round of flattery without leaving any trace, the frogman nodded very tactfully when he heard Su Mo refuse, jumped on the lizard car and left again.
"Let's go, my great marshal, are you still waiting for me to invite you?"
Watching the frogman convoy disappear from sight all the way, Su Mo shrugged his shoulders at the middle-aged man next to him who was dumbfounded and looked incredulous, without any politeness.
In terms of behavior alone, this middle-aged man named Wang Yuanshuai fell into the hands of aliens, and in order to survive, he betrayed the news of his own people, which was not a heinous crime.
After all, he only stayed in the so-called super-large human gathering place for five days. If he said he had any feelings, he was just deceiving himself.
But the reason why Su Mo was so ashamed was that the man was not caught by the people of the Demon Soul Clan because of bad luck.
He was asking for death!
According to the information obtained by Shi Ren's interrogation, the man took the initiative to contact the Demon Soul Clan, and wanted to use the news of the gathering place to exchange for weapons and supplies from the beginning.
But unfortunately, Marshal Wang ignored the difference in strength between the two parties.
As he asked for a sky-high price, the Demon Soul Clan walking outside was naturally not a pushover, and immediately tied him up and sold him to the city as a commodity.
At first, most of the Demon Soul Clan were quite interested in the gathering place, and the price they offered was not low.
But as more and more information was revealed, when these people knew that the gathering place was in Wanli Mountain, for a while, the number of people who came to inquire suddenly decreased by 99%.
If Hao Qiang hadn't bumped into him, according to the tense situation of the Demon Soul Clan in the past two days, this man would definitely not escape death.
Seeing Su Mo walking straight forward, not worrying about running away at all, Marshal Wang bit his cracked lips, and finally suppressed the idea of giving it a try.
Following Su Mo's footsteps step by step, after walking about a hundred meters, the two returned to the place where the bonfire was lit.
Seeing Su Mo sitting down skillfully, picking up the boiling pot, and starting to drink the soup and eat the meat happily, Marshal Wang licked his lips, and a trace of desire flashed in his eyes.
"Hal, can you give me a few bites?"
Before being sent as a gift, Shi Ren had told him a lot of things.
From the Xinhuo Exchange, to Haltner, to Su Shen behind the two, and Hal's idea that he might borrow flowers to offer to Buddha.
In order to obtain Su Mo's greatest goodwill, Shi Ren spent a lot of effort to train him.
Naturally, Marshal Wang knew a lot of things.
For example, before sending him out of the city, he guessed his destination, which was most likely Su Mo's territory.
For this, he was excited for several hours.
For another example, he knew how "important" he was to Hal.
So much so that when he said this now, his tone even had a hint of commanding feeling, and there was no pleading from the lower to the upper.
"Hmm? Dwarf Hal, can you give me a sip?"
"If I die, you will have a hard time explaining to Sumo, the strongest of our human race?"
Seeing Sumo indifferent and continuing to sip the soup with a happy look on his face, Marshal Wang was stunned, a trace of gloom flashed across his face, and his tone became a little tougher.
Facing the three or five groups of demon souls who were about the same size as him, he believed that he was definitely not his opponent. Even if he could replace one, he would have to pay the price of his life, which was definitely a blood loss.
But facing the dwarf who was short, only at his waist, and had no weapons around him.
Unconsciously, he began to grow bolder.
He was confident that even if Hal did not consider his significance, even if he really started fighting, he could subdue the other party in a very short time and then escape!
"Are you sure you are talking to me?"
Seeing Sumo finally put down the soup bowl and turned around, with a puzzled look on his face.
Marshal Wang unconsciously turned from sitting to squatting, arched his body, and made a pounce.
Temperature affects the animal nature in animals!
When the temperature is high, animals will unconsciously feel lazy and their hunting desire will be greatly reduced.
But at low temperatures, the animals' desire to attack will not only not decrease, but will be even higher. Even humans are advanced animals, and they cannot escape this law.
Especially considering that Marshal Wang had just jumped off the warm car and came to the ice and snow and was suddenly stimulated.
It is reasonable for him to do what he did now.
The next second, seeing that the dwarf Hal was still sitting on the ground and indifferent, Marshal Wang immediately became timid and rushed up with a low roar.
He had been bullied by the Demon Soul Clan for so long and was watched as a monkey for half a month.
At this moment, stepping on the snow, his fists had become hard again under the stimulation of anger and blood, and his knuckles were crackling.
He firmly believed that if he could hit the dwarf with a solid punch, even if the dwarf had a strong ability to resist blows, he would not be able to escape the subsequent attacks.
And if he seizes the opportunity, after today, Marshal Wang will become an unrestrained "hero" again!
Peng!
Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and finally, his punch hit him as expected.
"Hit!"
Delighted, and not caring where the punch hit, Marshal Wang immediately wanted to pull back his fist and use his waist strength to continue his next attack.
But the difference was that as he pulled, he didn't pull his fist back.
Wow!
The next second, a huge force came from his fist.
Before he could react, the whole person flew in the air, drew a beautiful arc, and fell headfirst into the snow.
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Instead of drinking the hot broth, he fell on the snow. For a moment, Marshal Wang's head was buzzing.
Even though this was not hard ground, but soft snow, it took him three to five minutes to catch his breath after falling.
When he opened his eyes again, Su Mo, who had been sitting in front of the campfire, just drank the last mouthful of the pot with satisfaction.
"Ah, you bastard!"
With a loud shout, Marshal Wang wanted to bounce up and attack again as a reflex, but as his whole body froze, his feet slipped, and he fell upside down again.
"Hey, I can't tell that you are not a coward? You are actually quite energetic?"
"You have been in the wasteland for so many days, and you have this body. It seems that you have been doing well on Earth. You are also a strange person. Isn't it good to live with hands and feet? You have to seek death!"
Filling the small pot with snow and boiling hot water again, Su Mo rubbed his hands in surprise as he looked at Marshal Wang lying on the ground with a desperate look on his face.
The moment when his fists and palms touched, Su Mo preliminarily judged the physical fitness of Marshal Wang through the opponent's strength.
It is not as low as imagined, or even a little high!
Take the physical fitness of the people in the depression as an example. At present, most people have a physical fitness of more than 70 points when they are full every day!
And Marshal Wang, who can only eat three or four points full every day in Liberty City, has a physical fitness of more than 70 points now, which is enough to show how strong his body was before!
On Earth, it is absolutely impossible to maintain the current value without a few years of exercise and a good work and rest diet.
It is hard to justify that a strong man among ordinary people would sell the news of the human gathering place to other alien races for some resources.
"Earth? You, a dwarf, actually know about the earth?"
Marshal Wang raised his head with an incredible look.
Then, looking at the surprise and reverie on Su Mo's face, he immediately reacted with a look of surprise: "No, you are not a dwarf, no, you are not a member of the Demon Soul Clan at all, who are you!"
"Who am I? Does it matter who I am?"
The four looked at each other, and seeing that Marshal Wang could react so quickly, without the slightest look of a fool, Su Mo's curiosity was even greater.
It's just like mastering a technology in the civilized era and learning it to a very deep level.
In the end times, if you have a body and a brain, you are a "guy" who eats!
As long as it is not the luck of heaven's punishment, in a gathering place of tens of thousands of people, according to Marshal Wang's current performance, it should not be a big problem to have enough food and clothing.
"Tell me, why did you choose to sell the information!"
After a moment of silence, Wang Yuanshuai's eyes dimmed.
After putting the boiled water into the water bag, Su Mo repeated the previous operation and boiled the last pot of water.
"Can you give me some hot water? I'm so cold!"
"Yes, as long as you answer my questions, this pot of hot water is yours!"
In many cases, not denying is affirmation.
Unlike the previous arrogance, after realizing that the dwarf Hal was not a demon soul clan, but could get such a status in the demon soul clan.
Marshal Wang's tone was trembling, and the whole person lowered his head involuntarily.
Then, hearing Su Mo's happy agreement, he licked his lips: "I want them to die!"
"Oh? Why?"
"They are not human beings, they are not worthy of being called human beings. They killed my wife and children, they ate me and wanted them to die, I must let them die!"
Speaking incoherently, there was a trace of undisguised hatred in Wang Yuanshuai's eyes.
Although he did not say the word completely, Su Mo was silent for the first time in connection with the previous and next words.
Four or five minutes later, the water in the small pot began to gurgle, breaking the stalemate in the snowy night.
"Drink it!"
"We have to hurry on after drinking it. Don't blame me if you freeze to death on the road!"
He took the pot off and poured it into another water bag. Seeing Marshal Wang react instantly and drink it, but was scalded and jumped up and down, Su Mo silently cleaned up the fire.
More than four months have passed in the wasteland of the end of the world, and humans have survived for more than a hundred days.
Although he knew that this day would come sooner or later, Su Mo never expected it to come so early.
This time, it was no longer the collapse of order.
It was the real fall of human nature and the release of animal nature!
Ten minutes later, after cleaning up the fire, they took Marshal Wang and began a long journey.
From this place to the border of the depression, it is less than 20 kilometers, but from the border to the foot of Tieshi Mountain, it is nearly 100 kilometers.
Fortunately, as the night gradually faded, the wind and snow in the sky finally stopped, and the temperature began to rise slightly, implying that the seven-day warning period was officially over.
Su Mo changed into the form of a swift road lizard along the way and walked easily.
Marshal Wang on the other side was not stupid. After finding a small tree, he easily made a simple sled for himself.
Rest when tired, drink water when thirsty.
When the clock moved to six o'clock in the morning, when the sky was white, two familiar mountains appeared in the field of vision.
The next moment, watching Oreo running over from the snow, shouting and yelling all the way, and the dozen or so people in dishevel behind him.
Along the way, the depression that weighed on Su Mo's heart was finally relieved a lot!
"Hal, Lord Hal, who are they?"
Seeing his own kind again and the other party's enthusiastic look, Marshal Wang took a half step back a little unconfidently, his face full of loneliness as if he was in another world.
But the next second, as he turned his head to look at "Lord Hal" beside him, his mouth, which had not yet closed, suddenly stopped.
A trace of panic flashed on his face, and a trace of disbelief overflowed from his eyes!
"You who are you"
"Somo!