Chapter 906: Northern Ice City

For ordinary adventurers, advancing in the north is a very painful thing, with continuous blizzards, waist-deep snow, and biting cold. This does not include the flying dragons and the demons that may occasionally "refresh" in front of you.

In fact, if you walk on the road, you may see adventurers who have been frozen to death somewhere.

Fortunately, Duanmu Huai does not need to walk.

"Huh---"

The biting cold wind blew, but Duanmu Huai did not care, just drove the jet pack forward. He was wrapped in power armor from head to toe, which can be used at will even in space battles, not to mention this cold wind. As for Zhen Ji Ling, who was lying on Duanmu Huai, he was also wearing space combat armor from the Star Alliance. There was no such thing as cold under complete closure.

The only one who needed to avoid the cold was Ogis---but at this moment, the little girl went into a deep sleep state, completely isolating herself from the outside world.

After all, Ogis's body was a puppet, and she didn't care about this little thing.

"This damn place is so boring, it's snowing all the time. Luckily I don't have to sweep the snow, or I'd be so annoyed."

While flying in the sky, Duanmu Huai complained boredly. Just like in his hometown, southerners like snow very much, but northerners are annoyed when it snows. Not only do I have to go to school to sweep snow the next day, but the roads are also very slippery. I feel bored just thinking about it, and I'm not as excited about snow as southerners.

"Ah, big brother, there seems to be a cave ahead."

Just then, Zhen Jiling, who was lying on Duanmu Huai's shoulder, stretched out her hand and pointed forward. Looking in the direction of her finger, you can see a cave in the snow near the cliff below.

It seems there are still people?

"Anyway, let's go and take a look."

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai adjusted his direction and flew towards the cave. Then he lowered his altitude and fell from the sky...

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!!"

However, before Duanmu Huai landed, suddenly, several arrows emerged from below and shot towards Duanmu Huai. These arrows hit Duanmu Huai's helmet and then bounced off quickly. At the same time, Duanmu Huai also fell in front of the cave like a stone.

"……………"

There was a dead silence all around. Duanmu Huai shook his head and then turned to look to the side.

"What do you mean?"

"It seems not the demon clan."

After hearing Duanmu Huai's voice, a man wearing a white cloak and holding a longbow jumped down from a tree at the entrance of the cave, and carefully looked at Duanmu Huai and Ogis and Zhen Jiling on his shoulders.

"You are human beings, right?"

"That's nonsense. Do you see that we have horns?"

"That's right."

The other party seemed very calm.

"It's just that you flew from the sky, so we got scared. Is this some kind of magic?"

"You fly with this thing."

Duanmu Huai pointed to the jetpack behind him, and the latter nodded as if he suddenly realized something.

"I understand."

"……………………"

"……………………"

For a moment, both sides fell into silence.

"So, can I go in?"

"Of course, you are also an adventurer."

The man jumped up and walked on the snow surface—the snow was thick enough to reach his waist, but he stood on the snow.

Well, it's probably some strange magic.

During this journey, Duanmu Huai has seen a lot of similar magic. Let alone the human magic system, there are many kinds of strange magic.

For example, magic for washing dishes, magic for removing mold, magic for removing oil stains, magic for repelling mosquitoes...Don't say, these strange little tricks are quite useful.

Grandma's little tricks for home, right?

I guess this is also a kind of.

"Where is this place?"

As he followed the archer into the cave, Duanmu Huai asked.

"I thought all humans outside the North were killed by the demons."

"Just as you thought."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, the archer said without turning his head.

"We are not residents here. In fact, we are adventurers who come to fight the demon king."

At this moment, Duanmu Huai and others followed the archer into the cave.

The dark cave looked ordinary, even very dark, but the archer only took a few steps, then turned around, and Duanmu Huai saw that there was actually a road on the side of the cave, but this passage was blocked by the mountain wall outside. If you just take a casual look, you probably wouldn't have thought that there was such a road inside.

"Oh, this is really..."

Following the archer into the passage, the next moment, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but want to recite the text.

It was the so-called "very narrow at first, only people can pass through, and after walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly became clear."

However, what is inside is not a paradise, but a huge hole. In the hole, there are many buildings, which looks like an underground city. At this moment, there are people coming and going everywhere, both men and women, and almost everyone is dressed as an adventurer.

"How many people are there here?"

"About three hundred."

The archer answered.

"We all came here to defeat the Demon King, but because of the heavy wind and snow, we can only stay here - this should have been the residence of the dwarves before, but the original residents should have been killed by the Demons a long time ago. Fortunately, their buildings are still there and can still be used.”

"How long do you plan to stay here?"

"At least wait until the storm subsides."

The archer shrugged.

"It's estimated to take at least a few months."

"………………How long have you been here?"

"About six months. The Northland is different from other places. The weather is suitable for travel only for two months a year. Going out at other times is equivalent to death. We all take advantage of these two months to enter the Northland. Then find this place and wait until the next two months before we go out and try to enter the Demon King's City within this time. Otherwise, if we are not killed by the Demon King, we will freeze to death outside."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai was completely speechless.

"I thought that the adventurers who conquered the Demon King would not be afraid of hardships and rise to the challenge."

"It depends on the situation. The Demon King has been around for a thousand years, so he doesn't lack this little time, right? It's okay to die in a battle with the Demons, but if you die in a snowstorm, you won't be able to do anything. arrive."

"So you don't know about Paretia's attack on the Northland Fortress?"

"Is there such a thing?"

Hearing this, the archer looked at Duanmuhuai in surprise.

"They succeeded?"

"It failed. Now I'm sneaking back to the Royal City with my tail between my legs. Because something happened, I might not even be able to save the Royal City."

"That's it..."

Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, the archer sighed, but he didn't have any special feelings.

"It's such a pity. If Paretia succeeds, he might be able to support us, but it seems like he can't even think about it now."

"You guys are really... calm."

Watching the adventurers walking back and forth on the street, Duanmu Huai also felt fresh. At least on the surface, the people here seemed to be enjoying their time here. From time to time, some people were talking and laughing, some were chasing and playing, and they could even see There is an old man setting up a stall next to him......

Setting up a stall?

"The history of this city is about a hundred years old. I don't know which adventurers discovered it in the first place. In short, some adventurers chose to continue to the Demon King's City to defeat the Demon King, and some adventurers stayed to serve those who came after. So now this city The city still looks like that.”

While talking, the archer led Duanmu Huai and others to a majestic-looking stone building.

"This is the municipal center of the city. Because the people here are all adventurers, the currency itself has no meaning here. If you want to earn food and material supplies, you need to do it yourself. As long as you can take over the After entrusting it, you can get corresponding contribution points, and these points can be used to buy supplies or rent a room to rest. Then, I have to go back to work. "

After saying this, the archer greeted the guards outside, then turned and left.

At this time, Zhen Jiling, who was lying on Duanmu Huai's shoulder, poked his head out curiously.

"Brother, this city is really interesting."

"Indeed, this place is really interesting."

Duanmuhuai nodded, and then walked into the building in front of him.

As the archer said, this place looks like a city hall. In the spacious hall, there is a circle of stone counters, with the counter lady standing behind it and a group of adventurers in front.

Since there is no queuing machine here, there should be no need to register.

Duanmu Huai walked straight to one of the empty counters. Seeing Duan Muhuai's arrival, the girl behind the counter immediately said hello with a smile.

"Ah, hello, welcome, adventurers... Have you just come to this city?"

"Yes, we all just came to this city."

Duanmuhuai pointed at himself, then at Zhen Jiling and Ojisi.

"Can you tell?"

"Of course, this is not the time for adventurers to enter the Northland. Generally speaking, adventurers entering the Northland will wait several months until the snow melts..."

Speaking of which, the archer said the same thing before. Wait, according to this statement, it means that the guards at the city gate did not let him go out because it was not yet safe to enter the Northland?

Will you die if you tell me clearly?

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes helplessly, but forget it, he's here after all, right?

In this case, let him see what kind of city this is.