He pointed to the bamboo basket that was left aside by the old man just now:

　　 "Pick medicine."

　　 "Pick medicine?"

　　 "Don't believe it?"

　　 said as he pulled the bamboo basket, opened the lid on it, and grabbed a handful of blue yingying tender grass. They look like weeds in the material world, but the abundant spirit that almost escapes into the air shows that this thing is absolutely unusual:

　　 "Look, I was lucky today. I collected so much in 30 hours of going up the mountain. In this way, the materials exchanged after I go back will be enough for our family to survive the next Blizzard year."

　　 It roughly stuffed the grass back into the bamboo basket, but he hesitated and pulled out another one and handed it to Jenkins:

"Take this as a gift that you saved my life, or as a souvenir. After all, the possibility of you being here again is almost zero. It can be seen that you should be a very good person, and you can stand without any help. Here. I can't. It took too long to go up the mountain, and I didn't notice that the cold spirit invading the body was approaching the threshold."

　　 said, he took out a brass-colored pocket watch with metal surface and even burrs from the bamboo basket, but when opened, the scale inside looked like a water meter:

　　 "I obviously prepared enough cigarettes, but I almost died of freezing. This kind of thing will be laughed at for a long time. But you see, now my cold spirit is below the threshold."

　　 He said, shaking it before Jenkins' eyes and putting it away.

　　 "You people here rely on cigarettes to maintain their body temperature?"

　　 he asked tentatively.

"No, it's not about maintaining body temperature, but lowering body temperature, so that you can assimilate yourself to cold spirits. Not only cigarettes, but also many ways to achieve this goal. For example, the herbs I gather can be equipped with some potions. Unfortunately, I am very poor. Can use this."

　　 spit out a puff of white smoke from the corner of his mouth while holding the cigarette. Talking about his financial situation, the old man did not worry about it, but smiled:

　　 "But it's pretty good too, at least I still have this."

　　 Then he took out the cigarette case and tried to let Jenkins smoke, but Jenkins refused.

　　 Then he explained the situation he encountered and tried to inquire about [Blizzard Ghast]. It's a pity that the old man didn't know such a weird thing, but he gave Jenkins a very important message:

"No matter what it is, don't even think about killing people on this holy snowfield. It is an unforgivable crime to melt the white snow with warm blood. So, no matter what the ghast you are talking about is, as long as it understands Here, it is absolutely impossible to kill people by brutal means."

　　 Jenkins nodded, indicating that he understood the current situation. Then he got up and prepared to continue on his way, and the old man said that he would continue to wait here for the snow stop before setting off. He also wanted to gather some herbs, otherwise it would be too wasteful to leave the kingdom so far and deep here.

　　 "The old man has a problem."

　　 Jenkins muttered to himself as he walked forward along the footprints, twisting the grass with his left hand. Vanilla's little white head popped out again, and his eyes were immediately attracted by the plants in Jenkins's hands.

　　 "Go back, didn't you say not to leave your clothes?"

　　 The little paw protruded forward, but was immediately pressed back by Jenkins. Confirming that his pet cat had retracted his clothes again, Jenkins reached out and held his heart again:

　　 "Ice Soul did not respond, could it be said that the opportunity for Ice Soul's awakening is not here?"

　　 After thinking about it, he stuffed the grass into his mouth. The blue grass looks weird, but it tastes quite good and has an inexplicable aroma. With chewing, the juice of the tender grass flows into the throat, and the spirit in the body increases slightly.

　　 In addition, [Ning Bing]'s ability seemed to flash suddenly, but there was no other change.

　　 "No response, it doesn't seem to be the case."

　　 "Meow~"

　　 The cat in the clothes is already protesting.

　　 continued to follow the footsteps, and the team with only a dozen people left actually separated again. All the way to the diagonally upper left, all the way to the diagonally upper right. So Jenkins once again called out his cat to show the way, but this time it didn't cooperate very well, until Jenkins touched his head a few times before reluctantly looking to the left.

　　 After not taking a few steps, I saw someone in front again. This time it was a middle-aged woman. She was still dressed in summer like the old man just now, with a few patches of coarse cloth on her skirt. Her appearance is not outstanding, just like an ordinary country woman. With a small basket slung in his right hand, he walked towards Jenkins with a somewhat anxious expression.

　　 She hunched over her waist and put her left arm in front of her face. After a heavy snowfall, I finally saw Jenkins, first stepped back in surprise and subconsciously, and then shouted to him with fear:

　　 "You are a human right?"

　　Of course, Jenkins didn’t understand this sentence, so he used Elvish to explain that he didn’t understand. After getting a bad Elvish translation, he said:

　　 "Of course it's a human being, why do you ask?"

"Isn't it obvious...oh, so you are an outsider? In our place, once it snows, a lot of strange things will appear outside the kingdom. Therefore, we generally don't do it in snowy days. Going out. How do you prove that you are human?"

　　 "Why should I prove?"

　　 He shook his head, and then let the road signal the woman to go first:

　　 "I don't want to stop talking to you at all, then lady, goodbye."

　　 said, he pulled out his legs and continued along the difficult snowy mountain road. After he brushed with the woman, she heard the woman ask again:

"Sorry, I know that outsiders are always wary of here. I shouldn't doubt you...Excuse me, did you see a medicinal picker carrying a bamboo basket just now? I'm here to deliver food. ."

　　 she asked with a sad expression.

　　 Jenkins paused, then turned around and said:

　　 "In that direction, smoke behind the stone. You follow my footsteps and continue down the mountain, and the smoke will be there in 15 minutes."

　　 "Okay, thank you, are you looking for the owner of these footprints?"

　　 She pointed to the footprints of only six people.

"Yes it is."

　　 "I saw them twenty minutes ago, the group of people is very strange, I did not dare to approach."

　　 "Are they all alive?"

"At least in my opinion, they are still alive. Although they have no way to withstand the cold, they are lucky to find some old sacrificial equipment, which may make them live for a while, but those sacrificial equipment are all There is a curse."

Then, Jenkins got news about the "sacrifice equipment" from the woman. What she and the old man believed in was not surprisingly the supreme existence known as the Lord of Winter, but as long as there were people. There will be all kinds of magical things happen.

　　 Some people believe in [Lord of Winter] on the surface, but actually worship some strange and terrible existence in the vast snowy field.

　　 Because of the sacrifice, the sacrifice equipment is produced, and these things are contaminated with power, but also attached to the curse. All objects called "old ritual utensils" are inaccessible to people in this world.

　　 But outsiders don't know, so when the woman saw a group of people just now, she didn't get close to them.

　　 In order to thank Jenkins for showing her the way, at the time of parting, the woman took a handful of beans from her basket and gave it to Jenkins. These are just ordinary beans that have been fried, which can be used to relieve the state of hunger, but nothing else.

　　 "This woman also has a problem."

　　 After continuing on the road, Jenkins said, the white cat with his head out of the way looked straight at the beans, and had no time to take into account what Jenkins said.

　　 "So what do you mean by giving me beans?"

　　 He thought for a while, raised his head and swallowed all the beans, there was no one left, and then he immediately felt a slight increase in spirit.

"What does that mean?"

　　 Checking his body did not find curses or toxins, which made him even more puzzled.

　　 Continue to move forward, and the six-person team split again to the left and right. This time the cat directed Jenkins to the left, and Jenkins also continued to the left. He smacked his mouth and recalled the smell of the beans, which made the cat even more dissatisfied, shrinking in front of his chest and sulking.

　　 As the wind and snow continued to rise, the visibility decreased, and at the same time a strange noise came from the direction away from the footprints. Jenkins bent over and walked over the snow nest step by step before he heard a call for help, allowing the cat with a sensitive nose to find its place, and then rescued a young girl from the thick snow close to the cliff.

　　 As soon as she came out, she took a big breath, and then took out a small green apple from the pocket she carried around her waist. The color of that apple made Jenkins teeth sour when she glanced at it. But the girl ate the apple without hesitation, and there was no apple core left:

　　 "Oh, God, I'm alive again."

　　 She is like an old man who has just smoked a cigarette, her ruddy complexion and spirit have returned to normal. Seeing that Jenkins was about to speak, but he didn't expect Jenkins to speak first. He shook his finger at the girl:

　　 "I guess you are looking for a middle-aged woman, or an old man with gray hair, right?"

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Chapter 2002 The first thousand nine hundred and seventy-two temples

　　 "Have you seen them?"

　　 Seeing Jenkins's question, the girl's face first showed a surprised expression, and then her eyes curled like crescents and smiled. When she smiled, the small dimples were also revealed:

"Grandpa has been out to collect medicine for a long time, so my mother was worried about him, so she went out to look for food. I was worried about them, and ran out too. I didn't expect to encounter a blizzard halfway, buried by the falling snow from the cliff, and almost suffocated. Half-elves, did you see them? Where are they now?"

　　 "Over there, I met the middle-aged woman about ten minutes ago, and the old man about 25 minutes ago."

　　 He turned around and pointed the way, then looked suspiciously at the girl, who gave him a puzzled expression:

　　 "What's wrong?"

　　 "I'm wondering if you guys are white bones...when I didn't say. I mean, do you want to give me something too?"

　　 "Huh? Oh yes, then what do you want?"

　　 She revealed the meaning, as if it was Jenkins, a life-saver, who suddenly wanted to get paid. A little shy took out a green apple from his sleeve:

　　 "I only have this, you can save some food."

　　 put it into Jenkins's hand as he said, Jenkins looked down at the green apple:

　　 "No matter what you are, if you are all right, then go, be careful when you go down the mountain, chase my footsteps and you will soon find your family."

　　 He gave way, then watched the girl smile at him, then bent over and lowered his head and drifted away in the wind and snow.

　　 "What do you mean?"

　　 "Meow~"

　　 The white cat showed his head again, his two small ears were shaking, and his eyes looked at the green apple intently.

"do you want to eat?"

　　 He condensed the snow into ice skates casually, dug a small piece of flesh and handed it to his cat. The cat happily ate the small piece of green apple, his expression solidified, and then spit out the chewed pulp, then let out a miserable cry, and retracted into Jenkins' clothes aggrievedly.

　　 "It's obviously a green apple, you still want to eat it, now you know that you can't eat it randomly, right?"

　　 Jenkins touched his cat as comfort through that coat, but looking at the apple in his hand, he couldn't restrain his curiosity and took a bite:

　　 "Oh, my sage~"

　　 Just like the grass and beans that can prevent people from freezing to death in this kind of weather, Apple has similar functions, so it can also provide spirit for Jenkins. But this is indeed a genuinely unripe green apple, and Jenkins knows why the chocolate behaves just now.

　　 Confirming that the girl just now will not come back, Jenkins continues to move forward. His speed is very fast. After ten minutes of walking, he noticed that the traces of the footprints became more and more obvious, which means that he is getting closer and closer to the target.

　　 The remaining three people did not split again. When Jenkins saw them from a distance, the three were holding each other and staggering forward. The person in the middle is actually Sarhi II.

　　 "Oh, as expected of chocolate, the nose is really sensitive."

　　 He couldn't help but exclaimed, and decided to treat his cat with a hearty breakfast after he went back.

　　 After confirming the appearance of the stranger, he greeted him while shouting. Unexpectedly, the three people in front of him would walk faster and faster after hearing the sound, as if Jenkins was a hungry wolf who cannibalize people in the snow.

　　 But no matter how fast the three of them can run faster than Jenkins, Jenkins held his shoulders within a few steps. Realizing that the three of them still wanted to struggle, Jenkins simply threw them onto the snow:

　　 "What do you do when you run so fast?"

He panted and said, with the voice of speaking, white breath came out of his mouth, and with the snow drifting diagonally forward, this is a phenomenon unique to very cold weather. When the cat just stretched out his head, it also followed Breathing out white gas.

　　 But the three people, including Sarhi II, did not. They are all panting now, and there is no heat from their mouths being spit out when they take a big breath. This is probably because of the so-called "old sacrificial equipment".

　　 "What are you running?"

　　 He watched the three of them stand up in the snow supporting each other:

　　 "I am a member of the church, and I am here to save you. Do I look terrible?"

　　 "Who are you, why haven't I met you?"

　　 asked the man on the right, who was wearing a black trench coat, who was thin and seemed to be severely malnourished.

"I am a demigod of the Church of the Sage. I have just been transferred to Nolan by the Church of the Sage. I was stationed in the archipelago off the coast, taking care of some numbered items that I cannot tell you. Okay, what's the matter with you? How did the others separate? I followed the footprints, but I saw you separate many times."

　　 The three of them were still suspicious of Jenkins's identity, but seeing the cat emerging from the clothes, they felt that this person was very credible. Salhi II is a little weak, and two other men are responsible for explaining the current situation to Jenkins.

　　 One of them, the thin, malnourished man, was a gift from the Travelers Church, and the other was a member of the Northern Royal Guard.

　　 As the church knows, the journey from Nolan to Ruen went smoothly, but after entering the fog group from Ruen area, they arrived here inexplicably.

　　 The extreme cold weather made ordinary people unable to move for a few breaths. Even the bestower would just resist it for a while, and he didn't even find a chance to ask for help.

　　 One of the people in this group is a demigod. He is a demigod from the natural church, and with good luck, he is a demigod who specializes in the use of ice elements. In a critical moment, he used a "blue lotus-like barrier" to temporarily protect everyone. Although the barrier only existed for less than five minutes, within these five minutes, everyone found an abandoned temple in the snowy field.

　　 "Huh? I have been flying on the snow field for a long time. If there is a temple, why didn't I see it?"

　　 The two were unable to answer Jenkins’s question, and could only continue to tell.

　　 The purpose of the group entering the temple was to find a wind-shielded building to light a fire, but after entering the dilapidated temple, they unexpectedly found some sacrificial utensils inside.

　　 Touching this kind of thing in an unknown temple is absolutely irrational, and the benefactors regard this kind of behavior as suicide even more. But it was very weird, no one suggested that they should not be touched, so the group got an iron statue, a copper bell, a silver candlestick, and a gold dagger.

　　 After getting these four artifacts, everyone in the team couldn't feel the cold. But just after the group got the four artifacts, some weird things happened.