Chapter 60
Half an hour later, the ups and downs on the white cocoon became weaker and weaker, as if it had exhausted its strength, and finally slowly stopped, returning to its previous calm.
Rong Yuan stared at it for a long time, but didn't see any changes. He didn't show any disappointment, but just let out a long, slow breath, as if to let out all the countless emotions in his chest, then put the white cocoon back into the ring, bandaged the wound, stood up and walked out of the tent.
Outside, the sky was already bright. The midday sun was shining on the snow-covered ground, reflecting on the tiny ice crystals, sparkling with a moving luster.
The special environment of the Imperial Star requires many alien races to wear special goggles before they can move around here, otherwise they will go blind in less than half a day. The Landians, a pure Landian race born on the Imperial Star, have evolved a pair of eyes that can adapt to this environment, but their eyes are several times larger than those of ordinary people. When they go out, they are also used to wearing goggles to prevent wind and snow from entering their eyes.
At this time, Rong Yuan also put on a pair of black goggles, not to protect his eyes, but to make himself look no different from other people.
Although the Ascetic Road is a blank area for ground surveillance on the Imperial Capital Star, it is clearly visible from the satellites above the planet. Rong Yuan specially chose a snowy day to secretly land on the Imperial Capital Star in order to avoid being discovered by the satellites in the sky. At this time, after they successfully implanted the virus into the Intelligent Brain Orchid Grass, Rong Yuan and Alpha could move freely on this planet. Otherwise, if they were locked by the satellites above their heads, they would inevitably face a new wave of attacks. And the next attack would definitely be stronger than Apollo.
Alpha followed behind, and a slender arm stretched out from its body, with a cylindrical device on the top. It aimed the device at the tent on the ground and pressed it. The tent seemed to come alive, and all its parts trembled and shrank inward like an arm. After a while, it shrank into a ball the size of a button, and then two semicircular metal pieces with silver bottom and gold edges stretched out from the side, and closed with a "snap". It was now like a beautiful marble with golden patterns, and a metallic hanging rope was attached to it.
Alpha put away the cylindrical device, then stretched his arm all the way over the tent marble. Three slender claws emerged from the top, grabbed the marble, and put it into his body.
Now, the ground became clean, and there was nothing else except the footprints left by the two of them and the indentation left by the tent that was over a hundred square meters.
“Roar~Ah——”
After the tent was folded up, an unexpected visitor also revealed his figure: it was a giant white bear with shiny fur that almost blended into the snow, about eight or nine meters long. It opened its mouth and growled softly. A pair of small eyes that could not be seen clearly under the cover of fur stared at Rong Yuan, and its sharp fangs flashed a cold light.
The original landscape of the Imperial Capital Star is well preserved, especially on the Ascetic Road, where you can see many ferocious beasts that have survived from ancient times to the present. They are not unfamiliar with the humans who often travel on this road, and they also know that these humans have some strange weapons. They have a lot of experience in fighting with humans, and humans have long become a link in the food chain on the Ascetic Road. This white bear also has rich experience in judging who is edible, who will break their teeth if they bite, and who is best to run away immediately after just one look.
Now, it regards Rong Yuan as a weak target that can be eaten.
Looking at this thin and short human, the polar bear let out a deterrent roar - this is also one of its hunting strategies. If it is a guy that looks weak on the surface but is actually very powerful, it will confront it with a more ferocious attitude; if it is easy-to-eat food, it will often lose the courage to escape after being roared at by it.
Sure enough, the prey in front of it seemed to be frightened by its low roar, and didn't even move. The white bear sensed its fear and calmed down. While locking its eyes on the prey, it walked forward gracefully.
Then it disappeared in a flash.
Suddenly, a bottomless black hole appeared on the ground. The white bear's terrified screams came from it, mixed with continuous collision sounds. After a long time, the sound disappeared.
Apollo's attack yesterday caused large cracks to appear on the ground nearby. Many of the cracks were not too wide on the surface, but they were bottomless. Rong Yuan's tent was placed near one of these cracks. After a whole night of blizzards, most of the cracks were covered tightly by ice and snow. There was nothing unusual on the surface, but it was obviously not enough to support the weight of a polar bear.
As early as when the white bear appeared, Rong Yuan and Alpha knew that its fate would be like this. Neither Rong Yuan nor Alpha took this little episode to heart. Rong Yuan lifted the cloak and shook it. The dark red blood stains on it suddenly separated from the cloak like water mist, turning into fine powder and falling to the ground. Then, a layer of light red appeared on the white snow, which was blown away by the wind and could not be seen.
Putting on the cloak that had become spotless again, Rong Yuan looked forward. His breath turned into thick white mist in the ice and snow, but his expression was colder than the ice and snow.
The usually smooth and solid road surface suddenly became full of traps. Not only the polar bear that wanted to attack Rong Yuan fell into it accidentally, but also an equally dazzlingly white Monka elephant.
Lor was lying on a thick bed made of animal fur, covered with several layers of quilts, but he was still shivering with cold, his face was abnormally flushed, and his breath was frighteningly hot with every breath he took.
He was already in poor health, and when the Monka elephant fell, he was standing next to it and was dragged down by the panicked Monka elephant. Although the pit was not deep and he was lucky not to be hit by the elephant, the fall from high altitude still injured his internal organs, and he was buried in ice and snow for a long time. When everyone rescued him, the boy was already dying.
Ivan knelt beside him, holding a small towel in his big palm. He dipped it in the basin of water, wrung it twice, and placed it on the boy's forehead.
When Lore was rescued, he was already dying, his teeth clenched tightly, and he couldn't even drink the medicine. Finally, Semillian found a way, pried open his mouth, pinched a certain part of his neck, and forced half a bowl of medicine into his mouth.
As for the method of using a cold towel, it was also provided by Semillian, and it was said to be the practice of some natives of primitive planets. No matter how wary and disgusted Ivan was with Semillian before, at this moment, he could only believe what this person said and take any possible effective measures to prevent Lor's condition from getting worse.
Moreover, regardless of whether Loel objects or not (in fact, he couldn't object now), they had decided to leave the pilgrimage and go to a nearby town to find a doctor to treat Loel. However, it would take at least three days to get to the nearest town, and Ivan was worried whether Loel could hold on until then.
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The Monka elephant that fell into the crack was not saved. In fact, it was still alive when it fell, but its legs were broken, and it was too big and the crack was too narrow, so there was no way for everyone to get it out. Several people hesitated around the crack, and Lor's condition was critical. In the end, Semillian jumped in and stabbed the Monka elephant's heart with a sharp blade amid its screams. As for the luggage it was carrying, everyone brought it up and divided it on the backs of the other two Monka elephants.
The Monka elephants are smart and docile animals. While crying for the death of their companions, they walked towards the edge of the Rigg Hills under the guidance of their masters.
The Monka elephants didn't walk very fast to begin with, and Ivan was afraid that staying on their backs would slow him down even further, so after changing Lor's towel and checking on his condition, he got off immediately.
Standing on the ground, he immediately saw Semillian walking in front of him.
Ivan's mood was very complicated.
On the one hand, he knew that he should be grateful for Semillian's decisiveness and help, otherwise if he had just stood by and watched, Lore might have died now;
But on the other hand, he didn't want to be grateful to this person at all, because... if it weren't for the Earl of Venem and some other old thieves who coveted Lore's wealth and title behind him , even if they would embark on the ascetic road, as long as they brought some convenient auxiliary items and treatment devices, they would not have fallen into this situation. Even if they only brought an emergency signal flare, Lore might have been saved at this time.
So Ivan was feeling both grateful and hateful at the same time, and his expression kept changing and became very distorted.
In the evening, Lore's condition suddenly worsened, and even Semillian had no good solution. After all, they were all heavy users of modern technology, accustomed to those fool-operated and effective technological products. Once they lost them, they couldn't even deal with a cold or fever. Semillian had more experience, but his physique and ability were enough to make him ignore the crises that most ordinary people would encounter, so he didn't have a practical way to deal with them.
Ivan climbed up the elephant's back again to change a small towel for Lor, and was about to get down when he suddenly froze and looked into the distance, his eyes suddenly bursting with intense joy. Then he jumped down from the high elephant's back, not bothering to say hello to others, he ran away, raising a string of snow foam behind him.
"Sir! Sir! Please wait a moment. I have something to ask of you! Sir..."
Ivan shouted, chasing after the two lonely figures in front of him. Meeting someone on this vast ice field was as joyful as meeting a long-lost relative. Most importantly, most of the people who appeared here were also here to walk the ascetic path, but they were definitely more prepared than Ivan and the others, and they would definitely bring some things with them - such as treatment devices, special medicines, flares...
Hearing the voice behind him that was so excited that it was almost crying for joy, Rong Yuan stopped and turned around.
