Last Totem Novel - Chapter 95
Chapter 95 High Fever
Twenty days later …
In the east of the Ficris Mountains, an adult elephant appeared with steady steps. From the side, there was a three-meter-long motorcycle tied to the elephant’s back. The rope circled around the elephant’s abdomen, firmly securing the motorcycle to its back. Beside the motorcycle lay a black-clothed youth. The youth’s face was somewhat pale. He was half-drilled into his sleeping bag, and his spirits didn’t seem to be very good.
The mountains here were getting lower and lower, and they were already at the end of the mountain range. Sparse cedars and small shrubs grew along the way. Along the way, the giant elephant rolled up the bushes and put them in its mouth, chewing as it walked.
[Dear Tie Zha, your adrenaline levels are getting lower and lower. Do you feel uncomfortable?]
“Nothing, I just feel a little sleepy.” Tie Zha replied in a low voice. These days, although he didn’t have to walk, he still felt his body becoming weaker and weaker. The extreme cold weather corroded his body, but he was helpless. He tried to grow insect shells to resist the cold. However, within a few days, the insect shell was frozen until it peeled off one layer after another. The part that had just recovered not long ago only had a thin layer left.
In order to recover his strength, he had eaten all the canned meat, but his condition still hadn’t improved.
[Little scum, poor little scum] Alice sighed.
‘”I’m going to sleep for a while” Iron Cinder muttered to himself, as if he hadn’t noticed Alice’s words.
[Yes, my captain] Alice opened her solar umbrella and went into standby mode.
After an unknown period of time, perhaps an hour, perhaps a day. In the blur, he seemed to hear Alice’s call.
[Iron slag, look, we’re here, Great Ice Ocean!] ]
He gradually woke up, opened his eyes blankly, and looked around casually. Apart from the snow, there was nothing else. The only thing that could be seen was that this was a mountain peak.
[Look ahead, ahead]
Alice’s voice sounded again. Tie Zha slowly straightened up and looked up. In front of him was a calm sea. The azure sea was as bright and clean as a mirror. There was no wind or waves, as if everything was still.
This was the legendary Great Ice Ocean, located at the northernmost tip of the world, adjacent to the Black Sea, the Nether Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. There were huge pieces of ice floating here all year round, making all the ships feel discouraged. If they sailed here, as long as they were careless, they would crash into an iceberg, causing the ship to be destroyed and people to die.
The giant elephant put down the iron slag and the red comet and let out a low farewell cry. Then, it turned around and left. It must hurry back to the west of the mountains and find its race.
After watching the elephant leave, Tie Zha pulled out his machete and began to search for cedars. He wanted to cut down wood and build rafts to cross the icy ocean! Before coming here, he had already understood that there was no wind in the Great Ice Ocean and the current was very slow. He planned to tie a raft with cedar and rope, then fix the red comet to the raft and use the power of the airbag to sail.
Two days later, the raft was built. The raft was about seven meters long and three meters wide, with a red comet fixed at the back and a small tent set up at the front. When everything was ready, Tie Zha pushed the raft into the water and jumped up.
Rumbling sounds echoed as the red comet’s airbag spewed out a high-pressure airflow, pushing the raft forward slowly …
In this way, the iron slag began its long journey across the ice ocean.
The Great Ice Ocean was as calm and profound as ever, and it didn’t change because of the addition of a small raft. On the third day after departure, Tie Zha sat quietly in front of the tent, staring at the calm sea, dumbfounded for a long time. He felt that his body was getting weaker and weaker, to the point where he was about to collapse. He did not know how far he could go, and gradually began to doubt whether he should come or not.
The cold wind was so small that he could only gently blow the corner of his clothes, but he still felt cold, bone-chilling cold. The seawater was very calm. There were no waves, only ripples. However, the seawater would still splash onto his body from time to time, doubling the bone-piercing force of the cold wind.
At this moment, Tie Zha’s lips had already turned pale, and he could only barely sit. He lacks nutrition, has no hot food, or even dry clothes, and is never wet or dry. Tie Zha had summoned the insect shell to defend himself from the cold. But not long after, the cuticle cracked, and even the skin cracked. However, it was now so cold that he was numb that he could not feel the stinging pain in his skin at all.
If it was a complete blade shell, it wouldn’t be so fragile. However, he had been bitten by a black-backed piranha in the Black Sea. In addition to the harsh living environment, the damaged part had not grown back.
[Dear Tie Zha, Alice … what can Alice do for you? ]
Alice called out in a low voice, but after a long while, the iron slag slowly reacted and replied in a low voice, “I’m fine, I’m just a little sleepy.”
Do you want something to eat? As he spoke, the red comet stretched out its small robotic arm and sent a compressed biscuit to Tie Zha.
The iron slag picked up the compressed biscuit and examined it for a while, then slowly tore open the wrapping paper, pulled away the waterproof aluminum foil, and ate it bit by bit.
Sweet, dry, hard compressed biscuits made his stomach twitch. He felt very uncomfortable and his throat hurt like a fire. Although it was hard to swallow, he still insisted on finishing the whole piece. Then, he took out an iron cup from his small tent, dug up some snow from the shore in the barrels on the side, mixed it with some seawater, and slowly drank it. The snow mixed with seawater tasted bitter and cold, making people feel extremely uncomfortable.
He had run out of fuel and left the kerosene lamp on the shore. He could only eat snow to replenish his moisture.
The afternoon sun shone on the raft, but it still didn’t feel warm. The sunlight here seems to carry no heat, neither drying clothes nor warming the body. After eating, Tie Zha twisted his neck, moved for a while, and then went into the tent to continue sleeping. He is sleeping most of the time now, but he is still sleepy no matter how long he sleeps.
The days of wandering on the ice ocean passed like this …
He had lost the concept of time and was like a walking corpse. He got up every day to eat and then continued to sleep. It was unknown how many days had passed since this day. Every time he woke up blankly, he looked up and saw that it was still the boundless sea.
A desperate thought was quietly corroding him.
Worse, however, followed.
That morning, just as he woke up, he felt his head dizzy, almost unable to stand firmly. According to Alice’s scan, he had a fever. Instead, he had a high fever, and his temperature was over forty degrees Celsius. After taking some cold medicine, he went back to his tent and continued to rest. After a few days, not only did his high fever not recede, it also gradually increased.
That night, the heavens made another cruel joke. The calm Great Ice Ocean suddenly erupted into a violent storm, and huge waves surged into the sky! The small raft was like a single leaf in the stormy waves. Apart from Red Comet and Tie Zha, everything on the raft was taken away by the waves.
He did not know how he managed to survive that night. By the morning of the next day, the Great Ice Ocean had regained its usual calm. He had no tent, no sleeping bag, no snow in the barrel, nothing.
He lay alone on the raft, his entire body cold and powerless. At this moment, Reaper was hovering over his head, waiting to wave his final sickle.
In that hazy moment, he seemed to have returned to Tieshan Town …
It was the day he was eight years old, and he was running through the streets of Tieshan Town at top speed. In front of him was a garbage truck. He desperately chased after it and pounced on it with all his might, grabbing onto the back of the truck. The garbage truck moved forward mercilessly. He repeatedly pedaled the ground and struggled to climb up.
He got into the stinky carriage and finally found Old Man Tie.
At that time, Old Man Tie was covered in blood and half of his body was buried in the stinking garbage. He tried his best to drag Old Man Tie out.
However, Old Man Tie opened his eyes, shook his head, stretched out his trembling hand, and touched his head. He knew that Old Man Tie had persisted until now just to wait for him.
“One day, when you grow up, you will find a goal to follow for your entire life. Perhaps it is something, perhaps it is something, perhaps it is a person …”
“But before that, your goal is to survive. That’s all.”
The scene changed and gradually became the home of the dwarf mountain. It was a night when he was fifteen years old.
That night, at the foot of the dwarf mountain, there were sparks. Hundreds of people held torches and climbed up the dwarf mountain, trying to rob his home.
He was wearing a bulletproof vest filled with explosives. When he was five years old, Old Man Tie took him to see fireworks. Fireworks were set off that day to celebrate the arrival of Tieshan Town’s new sheriff. When the rotten meteor shot straight into the sky, it suddenly blossomed, instantly resplendent the entire sky. Sparks fell from the sky to the ground like a beautiful rain.
“A true man is like this beautiful fireworks. Life can be short, but you can’t live without dignity.”
Today, he was going to become that fireworks, letting everyone in Tieshan Town know that he was Old Man Tie’s son! They were just as hard!
He pulled out a thick straight machete and charged into the crowd. Everyone who peeped into the stronghold of the Dwarf Mountain would die!
However, two fists were difficult to defeat four hands, not to mention fighting against a hundred people alone. In the end, he finally collapsed exhausted. However, this was only the beginning. He grinned and pulled open his bulletproof vest, revealing bars of explosives.
“Come on! Grab it! Why aren’t you here!” He roared angrily, just as he was about to pull the fuse! At this critical moment, a pure white figure flashed over, stopping him from moving.
He looked up.
This glance will be unforgettable for the rest of my life …
It was a tall and beautiful girl, dressed in a pure white dress. Her entire body emitted a gentle glow. The moment she appeared, it was as if everyone had lost their color. It was as if there was only this faint white light left between heaven and earth.
“Hello, my name is Lena Euclid.” She reached out her hand to him.
The hand in front of him was slender and clean, and his fingernails were translucent and translucent. He subconsciously wiped his hands on his body and grasped it.
“From today onwards, you are mine …” She said seriously, not as if she was joking.
He scratched his hair to show that he didn’t understand.
She smiled at him, then her expression sank. She stood up and looked at everyone. She shouted loudly, “From this moment on, the sword that stabbed at him means declaring war on me!”