Last Totem Novel - Chapter 93

Chapter 93 Snowy Mountain
The Ficris Mountains were situated at the northernmost part of the snowy ice plains. From afar, the mountains were overlapping and winding for hundreds of kilometers. Since ancient times, this was the northern barrier that countless bards spoke of, blocking off the snowy night ice plains from the ocean of ice.

Although the Black Sea was connected to the Great Ice Ocean, there were huge blocks of ice floating in the Great Ice Ocean all year round, making it impossible for ships to sail. Therefore, to reach the end of the world, one had to cross the Ficris Mountains. However, over the past thousand years, the number of people who were truly capable of crossing the mountains was very few.

This place was 8,000 meters above sea level. The mountain peak had been covered in snow for a thousand years, and the temperature had reached-50 degrees below sea level. A slight carelessness could even trigger a large avalanche.

More than a month later …

A lonely figure appeared in the silent world where the birds were extinct.

A black-clothed youth was panting as he dragged a half-man tall, three-meter long motorcycle, crawling on top of the mountain with great difficulty.

[Dear Iron Slag, Alice hopes you can rest for a while] Alice, who has activated the Quasi-Human mode, suggested to her master.

“No … no need, let’s go a bit further.” Tie Zha replied while panting. More than a month ago, he bid farewell to Old Amp and the others and set foot on the northbound path. On a snowy night in the icy plains, he rests during the day, recharges the red comet in the sun, and drives at night with the lights on. After more than twenty days of rain and snow, he finally arrived at the foot of the Ficris Mountains.

At that time, the clothes on his body were already riddled with holes and tattered by the ice dregs. The next morning, he changed into new clothes, ate a can of meat, and began his journey across the Ficris Mountains.

However, as he dragged the red comet up the first mountain with great difficulty, he only felt an indescribable bitterness when he looked at the mountain range that stretched for hundreds of kilometers. Here, the red comet became a burden, and he could only drag it through the thick snow.

Over the next twenty days, he struggled through the mountains, stopping every few hundred steps to rest.

Perhaps it was because this lonely journey was too lonely. Under Alice’s repeated requests, he finally authorized the human-like model. Alice, who had been authorized, was like an innocent girl, chattering incessantly in his ears. Although it was annoying at times, it also added a little color to this lonely world.

[Dear master, can Alice tell you a joke? ]

“Don’t … it’s already cold enough here.” Tie Zha hurriedly stopped her. What Alice said was a cold joke. It was useless except to make people feel cold.

[Dear Captain, what can I do for you, Alice? ]

“Turn off the speaker.”

[Dear Little Tie Zha, Alice has detected that your renin level is too low. It’s recommended that you rest for a while and eat something]

“If I hear that word again …”

[Yes, my captain]

After more than ten minutes, Tie Zha was finally unable to walk. He sat on the ground dejectedly, panting heavily. The altitude is very high, the air pressure is very low, and the air is very thin. As a compound evolver, he rarely felt so miserable.

“We’ll camp here tonight.” The iron slag rested for a while, then regained its breath and said.

[Yes, my captain]

“And then?”

[Then Alice waited for the captain to set up the tent] said Alice, fixed to a sleigh of pine wood and flashing with the headlights.

“So …”

Alice whispered.

“Alice, explain the noun, drag the oil bottle.” Tie Zha ordered.

[Yes, my captain]

[A dialect passed down from ancient times, especially the children of a woman’s ex-husband when she remarries, meaning that it is a burden to hold others back.]

“Look” Tie Zha shrugged his shoulders and said. (Here, I would like to pay my respects to Fire Fire.)

[Dudu … Dudu …]

[Alice is just a small drag bottle. Please don’t abandon me, Captain] Alice said delicately.

“Who did you learn this from?” Tie Zha asked with interest.

[Some big sister’s] human-like Alice didn’t dare to say the whole thing.

However, this topic still caused the iron slag to remain silent for a long time. ‘”Alice, how many cans of meat are there?” He said again, after setting up the small tent and lighting the kerosene lamp.

[17 standard meals]

“I’m too tired today. Have one.” Iron Slag muttered to himself.

[Yes, my captain] As soon as she finished speaking, Alice stretched out her tiny robotic arm and took out a flat aluminium box from the package and handed it over.

Tie Zha took it and examined it for a while before tearing open the seal on the aluminum foil. This was a standard field meal for the Western Continent Garrison. There was lunch meat, cabbage, and rice. When the seal was torn open, a small pull tab was revealed at the bottom. Tie Zha hooked the tab and gently pulled out a ten-centimeter-long wire. With the withdrawal of the small iron wire, a “boom boom boom boom” sound came from the aluminum box, and a stream of heat quickly rushed up from the bottom of the box. Tie Zha hurriedly put the box on top of the kerosene lamp. The first time he fiddled with it, he almost burned his hand.

About ten minutes later, with a “bang” sound, the lid of the aluminum box bounced off itself and a ball of steaming water vapor emerged.

Smelling the delicious fragrance of the rice, Tie Zha took out a compressed biscuit, tore open the oil paper, and began to eat it in large mouthfuls. Keep good food until the end, keep a little anticipation, or else this dry compressed biscuit will be hard to swallow.

After eating two compressed biscuits in half and half, Tie Zha picked up the lunch box and ate slowly. After entering the Phyllis Mountains, his stamina was getting heavier and heavier. He only ate compressed biscuits, and it was already difficult for him to persevere. Every three to four days, he would eat a can of meat to replenish his weakening body.

In this frozen world, even if one could occasionally see creatures, they would not be able to capture them. The creatures here seemed to have a very long lifespan, as if they had gained intelligence. As long as there was a slight movement, he would be able to flee very quickly. Moreover, they all had pure white hair, lying in the snow, almost invisible to the naked eye.

Two days ago, Tie Zha climbed the snow slope with one foot deep and one foot shallow. When they reached a certain place, a white shadow suddenly appeared at their feet. Looking carefully, it turned out to be a ferret. He quickly ejected six limbs and chased after it. Before he could even take two steps, the ferret disappeared without a trace. He had no choice but to return to his original position and drag the red comet up the hill. But not long after, the ferret ran back and looked at Tie Zha from afar, seemingly curious.

Seeing this, Tie Zha took out some compressed biscuits, broke them, threw them near the red comet, and pretended to leave. The plan was to let Alice catch it with her robotic arm when it got close. However, after two hours of waiting in the snow, the ferret was not fooled and watched from afar.

In the end, Tie Zha felt as if he was going to freeze, so he gave up and dragged the red comet forward with a cable. However, not long after he left, the ferret caught up to him, grabbed the crumbs of the compressed biscuits with its forefoot, and began to eat them happily.

Tie Zha looked at the ferret from afar and shook his head helplessly, giving up the idea of having a game.

After eating the hot lunch meat, Tie Zha put some snow into the empty lunch box, then opened the windshield of the kerosene lamp and put the lunch box on. After a while, the snow melted and the water was slightly warm. Tie Zha picked it up and drank it. The altitude here was too high, the water couldn’t be boiled at all, so he could only drink it like this.

After eating and drinking enough, the iron slag drilled into the small tent next to the red comet and quickly went into hibernation. Here, every minute is precious, either moving forward or resting.

[Good night, my captain] Alice whispered, then opened the solar umbrella and went into standby.

In the blink of an eye, time flew by, and it was already late at night. In the moonlight, the thousand-year-old Ficris Mountains were like a goddess lying on her side. The snow covered her with a layer of light veil. At this moment, she lay in the starry sand and fell asleep quietly.

The mountain peaks stretched all the way to the junction of heaven and earth, connecting with the stars that filled the sky.

That night, Tie Zha had a dream and rarely said anything in his dreams …

“Old cow, eat … eat …”

At this time, he dreamt that the old cow was eating the gerbil’s butt, chewing it in large mouthfuls, making it look very delicious. When Old Niu was a child, he liked to eat gerbils’ butts. Every time Tie Zha caught gerbils, he would say, “Don’t throw gerbils’ butts away later. If you throw them away, I’ll be in a hurry with you!”

However, they later occupied a large dump, and the better the days passed, the old cow would no longer eat gerbil butt.

Tie Zha was somewhat dissatisfied with this. Occasionally, he would advise, “Old cow, the taste of gerbil butt is actually quite good. Don’t waste it. Come, eat it …” This was not because he was bullying people, but because he was a qualified gerbil hunter. Of course, he hoped that his hard work would be respected. If other people could eat all his prey to the bone, that would be the greatest compliment to him as a hunter.

When Old Man Tie was still alive, he had told him that the fat content of the gerbil’s butt was very high, so he definitely couldn’t waste it. Although it tasted a little strange, he had to persist in eating it. After eating for a long time, you will feel that the strange smell is actually quite fragrant.

Tie Zha had always believed Old Man Tie’s words. There were only a few sentences that he didn’t quite agree with, and this sentence about gerbils was one of them.

Old Niu would often be persuaded by him, but he would occasionally be stubborn and refuse to eat. In this situation, the iron slag was not good to waste, so he had to eat it hard. Until Lena arrived at Tieshan Town, he met a new friend-Old Di. This heavy burden shifted from the old bull’s shoulders to the old flute’s body. Afterwards, the Water Narcissus Doctor went to the town to open a clinic and beg the old flute to open a business license …

“It’s not healthy to eat animals’ buttocks.” At that time, the immortal doctor’s mouth was full of grease. He chewed on the gerbil’s butt while trying his best to persuade him, but it was usually useless.

Alice’s hurried voice suddenly sounded in her ears as she was half asleep and half awake.

[Captain! Captain! Get up, there’s a situation! ]