Chapter 806 - The Impending Winter, Regaining "Freedom!” Part 3
Chapter 806: The Impending Winter, Regaining “Freedom!” Part 3
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
They traveled from midnight to dawn and continued until the sun rose high in the sky.
Su Mo had passed by countless snow-capped mountains.
With a clear destination, he traveled at the speed of light and returned to the vicinity of the second sword mountain in about ten hours.
This distance took the whole team of soldiers six full days to overcome the obstacles and arrive at the Origin Territory.
Oreo, who had transformed into a giant wolf, slowed down and stopped in front of the raised bumpy ground seeing that the towering sword mountain had enlarged and appeared in front of them.
“Good job!”
“Ow-woo!”
“Alright, after we overcome this obstacle and return to the territory to settle down, I’ll bring you on great adventures every day to see the wonders of the wasteland!”
Su Mo hopped off Oreo’s back. Although he was shivering from the cold and his entire face was covered with snow, he still smiled satisfied.
With only twelve hours left until the disaster, the temperature outside had gradually dropped to the lowest freezing point.
The temperature had dropped to about -35 degrees.
Under such low temperatures, even the invisible air seemed frozen, and it was terrifyingly gloomy.
Even Su Mo, with a strong physique, felt uncomfortably chilly from the low temperatures, and his heart seemed to be half a beat slower.
Ordinary humans without a good cold-resistance cotton-padded jacket would be unable to hold out for half an hour and would be frozen to death in the chilly winds.
‘There are two huge stones as guides. One is square, and the other is triangular. They should be very obvious…’
Following Feng Mengyue’s previous directions, Su Mo slowed down and began wandering around the mountain’s foot, trying to find the ruin entrance.
Feng Mengyue did not arrange for people to guard the place to block others’ chances of getting a reward from the ruin because it was only accessible by territory lords and had opened up before the disaster.
After searching for a bit, Su Mo successfully spotted the so-called “landmarks” without much effort.
“Oreo, do you sense any danger over there?”
Out of vigilance, Su Mo asked doubtfully before entering the cave entrance.
Oreo sniffed around for a while and nodded. Su Mo was finally reassured and began cleaning up the gravel blocking the cave entrance.
Su Mo shoveled out a hole big enough for one person to pass through. Then, he slowly lowered his body and passed through the hole.
Whoosh…
In an instant, the light and darkness alternated. At the same time, there was a drastic temperature change.
‘It’s slightly warmer!’
With the mountain blocking out the cave, the temperature inside was slightly higher, making Su Mo shiver comfortably.
The atmosphere temperature rose, and the coldness disappeared, finally giving Su Mo the chance to dust off the snow on his body.
‘That wasn’t easy. Not easy at all.’
Su Mo sighed and sat down. Then, he took a flashlight from the tool bag and shone it on the surrounding.
According to Feng Menyue, the ruins would open about six hours before the disaster struck.
That meant the passage into the ruins would appear in the cave at six in the evening.
The current time was eleven forty in the morning, and there was still plenty of time left. After looking around, Su Mo did not find anything unusual about the cave.
Therefore, he stood up and walked deep into the cave. After thirty meters or so, he reached the end of the cave.
Anyone who accidentally stumbled upon the cave would surely think of it as a deserted cave.
‘I still have plenty of time. I should cook myself a hot meal and take a good rest for a while. I’ll deal with the rest later!’
It was already past eight in the morning, and the Stealing the Day, Changing the Light’s uses had been refreshed.
After quickly switching forms and taking out a series of things he prepared for the winter from his storage space, Su Mo nodded with satisfaction and started to get busy.
He immediately started a fire to drive away the coldness and warm himself up.
Afterward, he took out a large iron pot that was a person’s height and went outside the cave to fill the pot with clean white snow. Next, he put it on the fire to melt to boil.
When the water began to boil, he put twelve bags of beef dumplings prepared in advance.
While the dumplings were cooking, he prepared a sour dipping sauce.
Su Mo ate about three kilograms of the meal while Oreo gobbled down the remainder of approximately six kilograms.
After the meal, the two lay comfortably on the ground, not wanting to move an inch.
‘This feels great. It’s a long-lost feeling of freedom!’
Su Mo lazily lay down on the ground, not caring about his image.
Even the cold wind blowing into the cave made him feel extremely comfortable.
Oreo stepped forward to bury the hole and left only a tiny window for ventilation. Gradually, Su Mo’s snoring resonated within the cave.
After a few days of hard work and traveling the whole night, he could finally put down the burdens and relax. Even though he was lying on hard and dry stone grounds, he could sleep very soundly.
While he was asleep, time slowly passed.
From twelve to two and from two to four.
The temperature outside gradually decreased and was accompanied by the howling winds. The coldest temperatures of the disaster were about to arrive soon.
Suddenly, Su Mo’s alarm clock rang at five fifty in the evening.
Su Mo got up abruptly from his peaceful sleep. The confusion in his eyes lasted for a short moment, and he immediately recollected himself.
There were only ten minutes more. Su Mo glanced around and observed his surroundings.
Sure enough, a strange suction force came from the cave’s deepest parts, seemingly trying to attract the outside creatures to enter.
At the end of his line of sight, a light could be seen flickering up and down like a mischievous firefly that attracted one’s attention, making it hard to look away.
Various signs proved that this place was precisely the mysterious ruins mentioned by Feng Menyue!
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