An invincible journey starting from a different race

Although Stank thought his XP was bold and free enough, there were some things that were really...unacceptable no matter what!

And in fact, it wasn't just Stank. Both Ganchu and Bruce expressed their disapproval, and the angel Klim was even more so. He looked at Aesop angrily and said, "Aesop, you've really gone too far! This is molesting the dead!"

Before Aesop could say anything, the farmer on the other side had recovered slightly from the "extreme battle damage" state and coughed lightly twice, attracting everyone's attention.

"You misunderstood." The farmer's voice was hoarse, as if something was blocking his throat. "They are not dead, they are just 'frozen'."

Several people turned to look at the farmer, and then Stank asked, "Isn't that frozen?"

The farmer shook his head and said, "We, descendants of the snowfield, are not so easily frozen. They are 'frozen', but they just act like they are frozen."

"...Why do you say that as if you were talking?" Bruce was a little confused. "What do you mean?"

The farmer pointed to one of the legs and said, "Drag her out and you'll know."

Things had developed to this point, and the few people no longer had the intention to pick the spoils. They quickly worked together to drag out one of the pairs of legs.

Then he discovered that it was a beautiful snow fox girl.

However, no one felt anything for her, because no matter from which angle you looked at her, she was a corpse.

Kelim quickly clasped his hands together, with an expression of "don't look at anything inappropriate" and muttered something in a low voice, as if praying for the snow fox girl.

Only Bruce, who had the sharpest senses, noticed something and said, "She... still has a heartbeat?"

Stank was shocked: "How can it have a heartbeat?"

"You'll know if you listen," Bruce said. "It's very faint, but it's definitely there."

Seeing that this was still a living person, Stank became a little bolder, so he lay down and put his ear to the snow fox girl's chest to listen. He found that it was indeed as Bruce said, he could hear a very faint heartbeat.

"What's going on?" Stank looked at the farmer in surprise. "Didn't you say she was frozen for at least six months? How is she still alive?"

The farmer didn't answer immediately, but rolled his eyes and said, "So, you didn't do any homework and just ran out to the snowy plains?"

Several people looked at each other, feeling that they seemed to have missed some important information.

"Well, it's not entirely your fault," the farmer said. "This has only happened in the past two years. It didn't happen before. Those yak women you hired haven't returned to the snowfields in nearly ten years, so it's understandable that they didn't know about this situation."

"What on earth happened?" Stank asked. "Has the snowfield changed in the past two years?"

"Of course there are," the farmer said. "The biggest change is the sudden appearance of the 'demon wind' two years ago. That's what we call it anyway. It's a wind that blows suddenly."

Lim asked, "But isn't it normal for the wind to blow in the snow?"

The farmer glared at Kelim fiercely, then said in a very hoarse voice: "Can you please stop interrupting me! My throat is already hurting! I'm trying so hard to speak now! Can you please be quiet?"

But Lim's face immediately turned red and he dared not speak.

The farmer was then able to continue his explanation: "This sudden wind is different from the winds of the past, that's why we call it a demonic wind. If you're blown by it for a while without finding shelter... this is what will happen now."

The farmer pointed at the snow fox girl who looked like a corpse.

"He's breathing, he's got a heartbeat, so he can't be considered dead," the farmer said. "But other than being alive, there's nothing else that looks like he's alive. He's been sleeping like this forever, and no matter what, he won't wake up. He's like... well, a living corpse."

The farmers have found a better metaphor.

"This is too weird." Bruce asked, "How long will this situation last?"

"Based on current observations..." the farmer replied, "about a year."

“It recovered after a year?”

"No, they'll be dead in a year."

Bruce: “…”

"Anyway, I haven't seen anyone survive this state yet," Nongjia said, spreading his hands. "Usually, they only last about a year, and then they die completely. So I say, if you want that, do it sooner rather than later. Don't wait until you're really dead. That experience probably wouldn't be very good, though it wouldn't be a good one now either."

After hearing what the farmers said, no one would want to experience it.

"You outsiders are under too much of a psychological burden," the farmer scoffed. "Ever since the evil wind came, those who were blown by it are beyond saving. So if anyone sees them, they will carry them back to their homes and treat them as their own property, doing whatever they want with them."

No wonder the farmers treated these three people as spoils and gambled with them.

However, the values of these few people are still out of sync with the farmers. Although they are all old bodyguards who have been traveling the world for many years, they still have basic moral ethics. No matter what, they can't do things that go against the wishes of others.

"What should we do?" Several people looked at Aesop, "Do you have any ideas?"

The clue mentioned here is of course to ask Aesop if he has any solution.

Aesop thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like the evil wind is a curse, corresponding to the volcano."

Everyone thought about it and it seemed to be true.

"In that case..." Aesop said slowly, "Should I give it a try... Is my curse stronger, or hers?"

Two two four licks out a future!

At first, they didn't react and didn't understand what Aesop meant by "Whose curse is stronger, mine or hers?"

However, when they turned around and looked into Aesop's innocent and sincere eyes, and thought of Aesop's past actions, they suddenly...understood.

"What the hell are you doing? You still want to do something to someone even though they're already like this?!"

"Are you crazy?"

"You can't be too beastly, Aesop... Oh no, you can't be too beastly, Aesop!"

Facing everyone's doubts, Aesop waved his hand and said, "Did you misunderstand something? I just have a bold idea..."

"What bold idea do you have?! I've already guessed your bold idea!"

"Your thoughts are about to hit me in the face!"

Faced with the joint condemnation of several people, only Klim flew out and said weakly, "How about... why don't we listen to what Aesop has to say? After all, there is one... no, three lives at stake here."

Everyone thought about it and felt that it was true. There was not much point in them arguing here. The most important thing right now was to save people.

"Then tell me about your bold idea," said Stank. "But I warn you, don't be too bold."

Aesop nodded, but didn't rush to share his bold idea. Instead, he said, "Both the snowfield and the volcano have legends of mythical creatures, and both have very strange curses... I think this curse must be carried by the mythical creature in the snowfield, the one we're looking for this time."

Several people looked at each other. They had not thought of this. Now that Aesop brought it up, they thought about it and felt that... it seemed possible.

"Do you have any basis for what you said?" Gan Qiu asked, "Or is it just your guess?"

"Both," Aesop said. "Historical books also mention that mythical creatures are called mythical creatures because they all have the ability to change their surroundings and ecosystems."

Kelimu thought for a moment and asked, "For example, Miss Huang's curse?"

"Not only that, but also her own high temperature, which is extremely hot." Aesop said, "The reason why the phoenix can live underground is not because she has adapted to the environment, but because the places where the underground phoenixes have lived for generations have created such an environment."

"Do you have any basis for this statement?"

Aesop said, "Yes, that is, the temperature inside Huang's body is higher than outside her body. It's like there is a core of the earth hidden in her body that can continuously generate heat. That's why she can easily spit out earth flames of thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees."

Stank was puzzled: "How do you know so much about her internal organs?"

Aesop answered honestly: "Because I have been in there."

Stank: "..."

Damn, I almost forgot about this. This guy is actually a practical person.

"What about the Forest Grandmother?" Klim asked again, "She's also a mythical creature, right? But she doesn't seem to have a similar curse."

Before Aesop could answer, Bruce beside him suddenly spoke up: "No... yes, that is... life!"

"Life?" Stank was a little surprised.

"Yes." Aesop nodded, agreeing with Bruce's guess, "It's life."

"Life..." Because Gan Qiu had not been to the Yoel Forest and had not seen the Forest Grandmother, he did not know what had happened, "...what is the life."

Bruce's lips twitched slightly as he spoke, "It's the vibrant vitality of all things. Come to think of it, Wisteria seemed to have mentioned before that in the Yor Forest, any seed planted will take root and sprout, even if it's rotten. I used to think it was because the soil there was fertile, but now it seems it's the power of the Forest Mother."

"Now that you mention it..." Stank recalled for a moment, then said, "I actually remember that the next day after we fought Grandmother on the Thunder, we saw flowers growing on the sword aboard the Thunder."

Flowers grow on the sword...

Ganqiu thought about that scene carefully, and then felt an inexplicable chill.

Damn it, what on earth happened to you guys in the Yor Forest!

"So, you think the so-called 'evil wind' is another kind of curse, and it comes from the mythical creature in the snowfield?" Kelimu concluded. "Thinking about it this way, it's indeed possible. The curse of this mythical creature in the snowfield is ice and... cold?"

Aesop nodded.

"But Miss Penguin just mentioned it," Stank said. "This so-called evil wind has only appeared in the past two years. If it's a curse from that mythical creature, why didn't it appear before? You know, Miss Huang's curse lasted for tens of millions of years."

Aesop shook his head and said, "I don't know. The specific truth can only be known after we find the legend in the snowfield."

The conversation between the few people left the farmers who were listening on the side stunned.

Originally, the farmer thought these outsiders were just a bunch of simple perverts. But the battle with Lim had proven that they were not simple, and now these words seemed to declare... that they were not simple either.

"Who are you?" the farmer couldn't help but ask, "What exactly are you doing in the snowy plains?"

Aesop replied, "We are here to lift the curse."

After hearing Aesop's words, the farmer was suddenly shocked.

There are people who would travel thousands of miles to this extremely cold place just to lift the curse here (she didn't know that Aesop wanted to lift the curse on himself). What kind of dedication is this?

The farmer, whose heart and body were cold, suddenly felt the warmth from the outside world, and suddenly felt ashamed of himself for setting a trap for these guys before.

"I'm sorry, I was too narrow-minded," the farmer said, feeling very guilty. "I only thought of you as prey for sex, but I didn't expect that you were actually..."

Looking at the pitiful appearance of the farmer, Stank and others were distracted again, and kept thinking in their hearts... Otherwise, you should be more narrow-minded.

However, the man's damn pride still prevented them from saying such words.

"It would be great if you could really get rid of that evil wind," the farmer said. "Before the evil wind came, the Snow Plains was still very normal... Although it was a little colder and the environment was a little harsh, because the population was sparse, most of the descendants of the Snow Plains lived in harmony. But after the evil wind arrived, food became increasingly scarce, and it became increasingly difficult to obtain food, because you could easily be injured by the evil wind. At first, everyone would help each other, but now, no one has the energy to spare. Survival is difficult for everyone, so..."

Nongjia didn't finish her words, but everyone understood what she meant.

When the evil wind comes, everyone must become selfish and cruel if they want to survive.

If they had come here two years ago, they might have been greeted with frozen fish without any drugs, and they would not have been treated as hot weapons.

Hmm... the more I think about it, the more I feel that the latter is not bad either.

No, no, this is a very serious topic, get those weird thoughts out of your head!

Stank, Bruce and Ganqiu shook their heads at the same time, which made people feel a little confused.

"That's really weird." Stank scratched his head guiltily and said, "I'm just here to have fun, so how come I ran into such a difficult situation?"

Kelimu asked the farmers, "Now that the evil wind has arrived and the environment has become like this, why don't you leave the snowfield? Are you reluctant to leave here?"

"Of course... not." The farmer shook his head again, and then said, "It's not that we don't want to leave, but anyone who has been blown by the evil wind will have no way to leave the snowfield."

"……what?"

"Those who have been blown by the evil wind cannot leave the snowfield," the farmer repeated, "We have all been blown by the evil wind, but we haven't reached the same level as them."

The farmer pointed at the snow fox girl lying on the ground, and then said.

"But we did experience it, and those who are struck by the evil wind will be marked with a certain mark. Once they leave the snowfield, or even reach the edge of the snowfield where the temperature is not as high, Liu's body will be overwhelmed and will instantly age and die... the kind of death where all the organs in the body wither away."

After hearing the farmer's description, everyone was shocked: "Is there such a thing?!"

"Yeah, that's why you think we didn't leave. It's not that we didn't want to leave, it's that we simply couldn't." The farmer sighed and said, "We tried to leave, but as soon as the temperature dropped a little, we felt something was wrong with our bodies. We couldn't even breathe, so we didn't dare to move. It felt like a fish wanting to jump onto the shore. If we did, we would die, but if we didn't... the water would be poisonous."

Just listening to the farmers' descriptions, they all felt despair.

"This... does sound like a curse," said Stank.

"Then, we shouldn't have been marked by the evil wind yet, right?" Gan Qiu shuddered. "Then is it too late for us to run away now?"

Yes, after hearing the farmer's description, several people wanted to run away, so they didn't dare to look at the farmer, but turned to look at Aesop.

"What do you mean, Aesop?"

Aesop thought for a moment, then took out the magical conch: "Let me ask Miss Huang first."

Indeed, as a mythical creature, the Phoenix should know more than they do.

Several people immediately had great hope for Huang, and then they watched Aesop ring the magic conch.