polar demon

Chapter 211 Mine ([-])

When the cold feeling began to spread on her face, Yu Ling pulled back a strand of blue hair hanging from the fur hat, tightened the deerskin jacket around her body, and raised her head.

It's snowing again.

The pure white snow particles danced all over the sky, like countless beating white bugs in the cold wind.

The carriage was parked firmly, and Yu Ling was sitting on the goods covered with yellow-brown oil paper. The winter in Wushe County was terribly cold, but Guxi County was much warmer and more humid than here.

At this time, Yu Ling would start to resent. She hated the grassland here, the snow here, and the people here.

Not far away came the voice that she disliked extraordinary and extremely vulgar:
"Boss Yu, you have to pay a little more for the wages of the brothers."

The tall warrior warrior draped his father's shoulders unscrupulously, with a playful smile in his eyes.

This is the martial artist Yu Ling fears the most. He is wearing a rough coat made of white sheepskin. The wool is clumped and covered with mud. At first Yu Ling thought it was gray or black sheepskin.

He was unkempt, with curly beards all over his face, only a pair of fierce eyes could be seen, standing with his father, half a head taller than his father, he was the leader of that group of hateful warriors.

The father's smile was unnatural, and his tone was as kind as a sheep:
"Well... the weather is so cold, if any horses pulling the cart are frozen to death, I have to buy horses along the way, I'm afraid I don't have any extra—"

"Boss Yu, don't worry! Look at my feet." The tall warrior patted his father's shoulder fiercely. From the clear and ear-catching voice, Yu Ling knew that he was clapping very hard.

Yu Ling didn't understand why this crude warrior didn't wear shoes, and let his bare feet turn black and purple from the ice and snow, even though the other warriors with him were all wearing leather boots.

The tall warrior pointed to his soles and said:
"In the winter of the previous year, I lost three toes in the biting ice and snow; last year, I lost two; and this year, I didn't lose a single toe. This shows that this year is a rare warm winter. What's more, now It's the coldest time of winter."

On the soles of his muddy feet, not only were there missing toes, but there were also several cracks that had been frozen open. Dark red muscles could be seen in the cracks, and Yu Ling could see goose bumps all over her body.

The tall warrior didn't seem to feel the pain in his feet, he still hooked his arms around his father's shoulders:
"Boss Yu, whether to support or not, give me a happy word."

The father looked at the soles of the warrior's feet, and his voice became weaker:
"This...well, I will pay you...one more month's wages..."

The burly warrior laughed loudly, patted his father's shoulder lightly and said loudly:

"This is called a happy man!"

The rest of the warriors laughed strangely when they heard the words. They rode their horses and cheered continuously around the burly warrior, while at the same time throwing hypocritical compliments to their father with playful smiles.

Father's smile was even more forced, and his head hung lower.

Yu Ling hated it even more, not only hated this group of fighters whose wages were paid until next year, but also hated her father's weakness.

She cast her eyes on the caravan, and next to her was Xiao Wu, the driver of the car. The young man had just grown a circle of fluff around his mouth. At this moment, there was no such thing as the boastful words that he boasted when he first entered the grassland. He pretended to be calm, but But his eyes dodged, and even when a martial artist galloped past him on a horse, he was so scared that he almost dropped the whip in his hand.

So Yu Ling stopped looking at him. She looked at the first carriage. There was Uncle Li Shan who had been following her father all along. Uncle Li Shan was old, but he was always full of energy like a young man, but Yu Ling only realized now Uncle Li Shan was really old, and he was hunched over in his padded jacket, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

Yu Ling sighed in her heart, she looked at the last car, Shi Mao and Fang Ping, the guys on the carriage, the carriage driven by the two fell behind, Yu Ling knew that they wanted to get away from this group of people. The warriors were farther away, and Yu Ling knew from the eyes of the two of them that they were more afraid than herself.

Yu Ling understands that she can't count on anyone, she should have understood, from the first day this group of warriors appeared.

It was also snowing that day, and the vast wilderness was divided into countless fragments by two colors of yellow and white. The yellow fragments were dry lyeceae; the white fragments were accumulated snow particles.

Just like that, seven warriors appeared in the snow. They carried surprisingly large swords on their backs, and the tall horses they rode on their hips were larger than the plow horses in the caravan.

At that time, the guys and guards in the caravan were terrified, and they just thought they had encountered a looting horse bandit.

The group of warriors circled the caravan on horseback and asked their father to join the caravan as a guard.Yu Ling felt that they didn't rob at that time, it must be because there were many people in the caravan and it was relatively close to the town at that time, but Yu Ling didn't expect that her father agreed to the martial artist's request because he was afraid of conflict.

From then on, Yu Ling lived in fear every day.

On the second day after going deep into the wilderness, the only two guards in the caravan asked their father to resign, no matter what his father tried to keep them, it was useless.

One of the guards had a broken leg, and the other had bruises all over his face. They only said that they fell while riding a horse at night, but Yu Ling knew that it must have been done by these warriors.

Without the guards in the caravan, those warriors became even more unscrupulous.On the fourth day, due to a disagreement, the seven warriors beat up fellows Shi Mao and Fang Ping, causing them to still have scars on their bodies.

"Little lady, do you want my brother to sing you a song sung by the men of Jujianmen? Speaking of which, last night, my little lady's kick made my brother's face still hurt."

A yin and yang voice sounded, and Yu Ling followed the prestige, and it was an extremely ugly warrior with a mortar head and deep eyes. His whole face seemed to be an uneven brown stone exposed in the snow. He was riding on a horse, with a half-smile Stare at yourself.

This is the martial artist Yu Ling hates the most. He always looks at himself with lewd eyes on weekdays. The most hateful thing is that last night, he actually wanted to get into his felt tent, if he hadn't kicked him hard in the face and yelled loudly, which attracted my father and other fellows, otherwise I don't know what will happen.

Yu Ling only felt that she wished to kill this ugly warrior, she stared at him fiercely, and said coldly: "Get lost!"

The ugly warrior just laughed wantonly when he heard something funny, which made Yu Ling feel that he was even uglier.

The other warriors gathered on horseback, or yelled full of ridicule, or whistled sharply. In their eyes, all this was just an interesting performance.

His father hurriedly came to him and protected himself behind him. He wanted to make his expression look fierce, but his eyes were full of horror.

Yu Ling only felt that she was so wronged that she wanted to cry. The Acropolis suffered a catastrophe, and her family was also affected. Her father's years of accumulation were destroyed.He was heavily in debt and was forced to have no choice but to take the risk of entering Dan County with this caravan.

But he didn't expect that fate always seemed to torture people non-stop. Not long after entering Dan County, he encountered such a group of vicious warriors.

Father held his hand tightly all the time, and after the warriors calmed down and dispersed, he whispered to himself: "Don't be afraid, Ling'er, we will arrive at Gengjiabao in two days' walk, we have to stay in Wubao , I’ll hire a few more guards, and I won’t be afraid of them by then.”

Yu Ling was somewhat puzzled:
"Father, can't we just drive these warriors away? Or, we can still report to the government! Let the government take care of them!"

Father shook his head and said:

"It's useless, this place has already penetrated into Dan County. Although it is the land of Xue Country, it is a land without officials. What's more, this world is so chaotic... Linger, listen to me, we can't offend these warriors, let alone make it clear Drive them away, they all carry swords! Ling'er, father knows that you feel uncomfortable, bear with it for now, and when father hires a few swordsmen, you won't be afraid."

Yu Ling didn't believe her father in her heart, so she asked:
"What if the guards you hire are also afraid of these warriors? Or, what if the guards are as bad as these warriors?"

Yu Ling has been waiting for her father's answer, but her father did not speak, Yu Ling keenly heard her father sighing inwardly.

This made Yu Ling's heart sink, she turned her head, and the ugly warrior with the forehead and deep eyes was still sweeping her disgusting gaze.

The surrounding light is getting darker and darker, and the night is about to fall.

Father's face was full of anxiety, and his eyes searched for the traces of the road in the snow.

The snow on the ground was very thick, and my father was not familiar with this area, so there was no trace of the road at all at this time.

Failure to get back on the road means not getting to safety before dark.Without the shelter of a safe place, who knows what horrible things will happen in such a night.

The snowflakes stopped after drifting for a while, and as night fell, the temperature dropped even lower.

The surroundings soon became pitch black, and it was impossible to see.Although they did not reach a safe place along the way, the caravan did not move on. Otherwise, in this gloomy night, without the stars and the moon to distinguish the way, it would be easy to go in the wrong direction.

The guys took the felt cloth from the truck, started to set up the felt tent, and then spread out, picked up some dry firewood and hay, and lit a bonfire.

Those warriors gathered around the fire, talking about the Star Demon Sea and revenge.Yu Ling overheard some, but she was not interested in it.

The guys in the caravan were scared out of their wits by those warriors, and got into the tent after their busy work, not daring to vent their breath.

At this time, his father came to Yu Ling's side. He glanced warily at the martial artist who was still drinking and chatting by the fire, then lowered his voice and said to Ling:
"Ling'er, help Dad see if there are any ghosts around here?"

Yu Ling didn't want to watch it, she knew she was different since she was a child. She was extremely disgusted with this kind of difference from others.

But this was her father's request, and she had to agree.So she nodded, then sat firmly on the cargo, her eyes looking towards the wilderness covered in heavy snow.

Her pair of big eyes gradually began to change, the color of the pupils gradually changed from jet black to a shimmering blue, and the round pupils were also gradually deformed, quickly stretched and narrowed, like some kind of nocturnal animal.

(End of this chapter)