Chapter 389 The Great Rift Valley

The sky was gray and overcast.

A man wearing a tight winter coat, holding a snow shovel, set up a ladder beside the wooden house and climbed up to the sloping roof.

He put on his long rubber boots and swung the rusty shovel vigorously to shovel the snow on the roof to the ground.

It snowed all night last night. Although a snowflake is as light as a feather, when thousands of snowflakes accumulate, there is a risk of the roof collapsing, so the snow must be shoveled in time.

Angers bought some compressed food with a very long shelf life at the supply station early in the morning, plus four barrels of spare oil.

The remaining space in the storage bin could only hold two barrels of oil, and the remaining two barrels had to be put into the cabin of the hovercraft.

When Lu Mingfei and Eriyi got on the boat, they leaned slightly to make room for the fuel tank.

Although it is uncomfortable to sit like this, there is no way. If we go further, we will enter an unexplored area of ​​​​human beings.

There is no warm supply station where you can drink a bowl of hot soup. Instead, there is only endless white wilderness.

The so-called barren and isolated is used to describe this kind of place.

If ordinary people are not adequately prepared, setting foot on this frozen soil will lead to death.

After Chu Zihang checked the supplies and made sure there was nothing missing, he boarded the ship and sat in the co-pilot's seat.

Angers pulled the ignition valve, and the deflated black air cushion gradually expanded, supporting the hull to float. The two propellers rumbled, and the air flow stirred up the snow on the ground.

He waved with his back and said goodbye to the man on the roof without much nostalgia. The hovercraft sped across the snow and soon moved away from the supply station.

The Russian man wearing a winter hat on the roof stood up with a snow shovel and looked at the direction of the hovercraft. He didn't pick up the snow shovel again until the silver hull completely disappeared from the end of the field of vision.

Life is like this, after meeting by chance, we may never see each other again.

But the next time he drinks with others, he will say that he met an interesting old man who is quite good at drinking.

The hovercraft gallops on the vast snowfield, and the world is desolate and lonely.

They passed through rolling white hills, through huge shaped valleys, and then rolling white hills and shaped valleys again. It seems like this is the end of the world, and everything will cycle, endlessly.

The cold wind gradually picked up, mixed with ice flakes and snow.

Angers would often hit the brakes, use military binoculars, and look at the distant terrain, as if he was trying to figure out the road.

Lu Mingfei knew that they were getting closer to their destination, the Nibelungen hidden in the ice and snow, where his parents were

How many years have you not seen them?

When he was 12 years old, Lu Mingfei was entrusted to his aunt and uncle by his parents. Now he is 19 years old. Including Wei Ming's two years, he is 21 years old. In this way, he and his parents have not seen each other for nine years. After that, almost half of his life.

He felt a little uneasy.

What have become of mom and dad?

Can you still recognize them at a glance?

After elementary school, he could always find his father or mother who came to pick him up at the school gate and rush towards them, but what about now?

Does dad still have short hair and black-rimmed glasses?

Does your mother still have wavy hair, wear the most fashionable clothes, and walk with ease?

As if he was afraid that he had forgotten what those two people looked like, he took out the group photo from his arms and took a look at it.

Eriyi came over, pointed at Lulincheng and called "Dad", pointed at Qiao Weini and called "Mom".

She knew who Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini were, and they were the ones who brought Lu Mingfei into this world.

Angers put away his binoculars and glanced at the fuel gauge.

"We're running low on fuel. We have to stop and refuel." He parked the hovercraft at the foot of a raised hill.

"I'll go." Lu Mingfei got off the boat and helped bring down the oil drum he was stepping on.

This is the last of the spare oil barrels in the cabin, and there are two more barrels in the storage bin, so I don't worry about running out of fuel.

The cold wind like ice blades cut into my face. It was so cold all around. The cold air froze everything. The large fir and larch forests in the distance were frozen into ice sculptures.

Fortunately, the hovercraft behind him was still warm. It did not shut down to avoid preheating when it started again. The water vapor filled the air around Lu Mingfei and formed a warm air shield.

Chu Zihang also got off the boat, preparing to get some food and water.

Lu Mingfei filled the fuel tank, and Chu Zihang opened the storage compartment and filled plastic bags with four bottles of mineral water and a dozen compressed biscuits.

"Lu Mingfei, do you have any impression of your parents?" Chu Zihang asked.

"My mother is different from my senior brother's mother." Lu Mingfei thought for a moment and said, "Her personality is, well, rather tough. When I was in elementary school, she wouldn't let me eat if I didn't finish my homework."

"As for my father, he is the red-faced one among the black-faced and red-faced ones. He is responsible for saying good things to me. But generally speaking, the two of us can't defeat my mother. She still has the final say in the family."

"It sounds like they all love you, although in different ways." Chu Zihang's voice passed through the cold wind.

"I was born to them. If they don't love me, who will they love?" Lu Mingfei smiled: "Senior Brother's mother also loves Senior Brother very much. I see that every time you go out, Aunt Su will come over and kiss your forehead."

"My mother always treats me as a child." Chu Zihang said.

"No matter how old you are, you are still her child. You were born in her tenth month of pregnancy." Lu Mingfei shrugged: "Senior brother, aren't you afraid of doing this line of work? Are you afraid that one day you will never see your child again? Mother?"

"Yes." Chu Zihang's voice was very low: "So every time I go home, I cherish it."

"Have you ever thought about giving up revenge on Odin?" Lu Mingfei raised his head and stared at Chu Zihang's profile. ,

Chu Zihang shook his head: "I escaped once, and I won't escape a second time."

Lu Mingfei sighed lightly.

This man has paid too much for revenge, and his body is on the verge of danger due to the uncontrolled bloodshed.

If Lu Mingfei had known in advance that Angers would call Chu Zihang, he would have asked the principal to find another candidate.

Indeed, having a senior brother around gives people a sense of security. If you leave anything to him, you will feel very reliable, but this kind of reliability is earned by his hard work.

He is taciturn and you will never know how much he has sacrificed to achieve his goals.

Once you know his hard work, you can't help but feel sorry for him.

After filling up the gas, it was time to switch to Chu Zihang to drive, and it was getting dark.

The wind and snow were getting bigger and bigger, blocking the view. The snow scraper worked hard to sweep away the snow blocking the driver's window, but it was filled with snowflakes one after another in the next second.

They could only rely on the compass for positioning. Angers frowned and drew lines with a pen and paper. The hovercraft stopped and started because he wanted to get off the boat and inspect the surrounding terrain to make sure they were not going the wrong way.

Late at night, Eliyi lay on Lu Mingfei's lap and fell asleep, covered with Lu Mingfei's cotton coat.

Lu Mingfei also took a nap against the armrest. Although the boat was a little bumpy, it did not affect his rest.

At least he was in a warm and windproof boat. He had slept in worse conditions than this, so it was no big deal.

It was a long night, and when Lu Mingfei opened his eyes again, the hovercraft stopped in front of a huge ice chasm. The violent wind swept the snowflakes across the ice chasm, making a strange sound like a demon roaring.

There is a gas station built on the edge of the rift valley, but it seems to be abandoned. The cement wall is full of cracks, old red bricks are exposed in the peeling wall skin, and rusty equipment is scattered here and there.

"We're here." Angers, who was wearing windshield goggles, pointed to the gas station. "Let's rest here tonight and find a way to contact the Nibelungs internally tomorrow."

"Is there a place to rest here?" Lu Mingfei shouted in a loud voice to drown out the sound of the wind.

"There is a rest room underground." Angers said, "Let's go in first and we'll talk later."

Chu Zihang nodded, parked the hovercraft under the roof of the gas station, and covered it with a rain-proof cloth, with heavy bricks placed on the four corners of the cloth.

Lu Mingfei carried Cedimaru and Immortal Slash on his back, and helped Eri get off the boat.

Ange took out four shrinking shovels from the storage bin and assigned them to Lu Mingfei, Chu Zihang and Hui Liyi.

"This gas station was built in 1992. It was decommissioned in recent years and is only used as a temporary rest stop."

"The lounge is underground, covered in snow and ice. Dig this place out and we can get a good night's sleep tonight."

Angers poked the ground with his shovel.

"Under the snow and ice?"

Lu Mingfei looked at Eli Yi.

"Principal, maybe you can ask Eriki to come."

"You mean 'trial'?" Angers frowned: "Are you sure she can control the intensity and only dig through the ice instead of blowing up the rest stop?"

"Let me ask." Lu Mingfei translated in Japanese for Eli Yi.

Eriyi patted her chest and said, "Leave it to me."

"Principal, Eriki said she can."

"Then give it a try, but if she fails, we'll be huddled in the hovercraft tonight without a warm bed or a hot shower."

"Don't worry, principal, Hui Liyi is different from before." Lu Mingfei assured her.

Having said this, Angers stopped blocking him.

This girl who was once extremely dangerous in his eyes had undergone a huge change during her wedding to Lu Mingfei.

I don't know what method Lu Mingfei used to suppress her dangerous bloodline.

When Ange saw her at the wedding, he no longer felt the thorny aura from her body.

Angers thought at the time that her bloodline was weakened and she became like an ordinary girl.

But when Hui Liyi's red hair was flying and her eyes glowed with golden light, Ange realized that he was wrong.

Eri Uesugi's bloodline as the "Emperor" has not been weakened, but has become more condensed. Ange's bloodline even has the urge to resonate with it, because if he does not awaken the dragon bloodline, he will even breathe slightly slowly. .

He felt it, and when those golden eyes were exposed in front of his eyes, he felt it deeply.

His bloodline and that of Eriki Uesugi are not on the same level, and his time zero will not have any effect on her.

The bloodline of the "Emperor" has already exceeded the critical blood limit and is at the top of the mixed race, above the "Emperor". What is it? Dragon King?

Ange took a deep look at Lu Mingfei.

He watched in silence as Eriki placed her palms on the snow.

The snowflakes melted gently and turned into water along with the ice.

The basement entrance with a pull tab was exposed to the four.

Lu Mingfei stepped forward and opened the iron door with all his strength. There was silence under the dark entrance. Chu Zihang shined his flashlight and saw that a downward iron ladder was reflecting the light beam.

The four of them got into the basement, the howling wind disappeared from their ears, and the surroundings became quiet. Although it was still very cold here, it was much better than the low temperature of minus 50 degrees outside.

Angers lit the coal lamp, and the fire illuminated the basement space, which was fully equipped and spacious.

More than a dozen beds are arranged in two rows. The sheets and quilts are folded into tofu blocks and covered with transparent plastic sheets to cover the dust. There is a bathroom for bathing in the corner, and a micro kitchen with a fire. Gas tank.

There is also a shelf next to the gas tank. There are barrels of instant noodles and ham sausages, as well as some canned meat and canned fruits. Of course, wine is also indispensable. Dozens of bottles of vodka are placed on the top shelf. .

Lu Mingfei looked at the date. They were all produced last year. They are less than 12 months old and have not reached the shelf life.

"The Nibelungen is deep in the Great Rift Valley. We have to walk for at least two hours to get there." Angers lit the fire in the kitchen, and Chu Zihang climbed up the iron ladder and loaded two large pots. Snow.

The iron pot was placed on the flame, and the cold snow gradually melted and turned into water, then bubbled and boiled.

They had already eaten the compressed biscuits until they felt like vomiting. Although they were full and tasted just fine, they became tasteless after chewing too much.

So hot water was poured into four buckets of instant noodles with intestines, and Lu Mingfei added two intestines.

They sat around the oven burning briquettes, warming themselves by the fire and eating instant noodles.

Except for Eriyi, the three men each opened a bottle of wine.

Eriyi doesn't drink alcohol and only eats canned fruits.

"Lu Mingfei, what method did you use to get Eri Uesugi out of the bloodline crisis?" Anger asked.

Lu Mingfei scratched his head. Naturally, he couldn't say that he found the King of Earth and Mountain with the help of the King of Bronze and Fire, and then made a deal with Jörmungandr to let her brother Fenrir give Eriyi Changed blood.

When he said this, even he felt that he was definitely a dragon spy and had not escaped.

"Principal, I will tell you after this matter is over. The cause and effect relationship is really complicated and I won't be able to explain it for a while."

Lu Mingfei had no choice but to use the dragging technique.

Seeing his embarrassed look, Ange didn't ask any more questions and changed the subject.

"You're going to see your parents soon. How do you feel?"

"I'm thinking, when I see them tomorrow, should I hug them first or say hello first," Lu Mingfei said.

"Hug first. Before replenishing supplies every year, Jovini will write a year's letter, and then I will forward it to you. She will also be very happy when she receives the letter from you. She misses you very much, and she should really want to be with you. You hug.”