"Sir, how much does it cost for three rooms plus this meal?" Nie Yun, who was full of wine and food, touched his belly with satisfaction and said with a smile.
"A total of seven taels of silver." Perhaps the old shopkeeper was afraid that Nie Yun and others would think that he was robbing them, so he quickly explained: "Actually, the accommodation is not expensive, the three rooms add up to only two taels of silver. The main reason is that the food is not suitable for them.
It’s really not cheap for this extremely northern city.”
"Haha, I understand." Nie Yun waved his hand casually. He had done this preparation in advance.
With a smile, he took out the money bag that had been dusty for many years from the corner of the storage bag, took out a few pieces of silver and handed it to the old shopkeeper, then turned to the two girls and said: "Let's take a rest first and wait for tomorrow morning.
I'll be on my way tomorrow."
Naturally, the two women had no objections. After nodding slightly, they planned to return to their respective rooms.
"Are your guests ready to continue heading north?" The old shopkeeper, who had collected the money, turned around and asked with a smile.
"Exactly." Nie Yun thought for a moment and felt that there was no need to hide anything and continued: "What suggestions does the shopkeeper have?"
"I have a suggestion, but I guess you don't want to listen." The old shopkeeper shook his head and smiled.
"...How can the shopkeeper know if we will listen if he doesn't tell us?" Nie Yun spread his hands helplessly: "You might as well tell us."
"My suggestion is don't go." The old shopkeeper sighed while packing away the dishes and chopsticks left by Nie Yun and others: "Although I think you are all practicing practitioners, it is a no-man's land after all. I have seen
Too many so-called adventurers go out and never come back."
Uh...well, I really don't know how to listen...Nie Yun shook his head helplessly.
"Haha, I knew you wouldn't listen." The old shopkeeper glanced at Nie Yun, his expression was not annoyed, he still smiled and said: "So I am going to tell you some common sense."
"You may not have noticed it when you first came here, but the daytime here now lasts almost more than twenty hours, and as you go further north, the daytime will get longer, until... there is no night. Our local area
People call it JiZhi."
"There is a polar day and a polar night, and the two alternate with each other. Now it is the polar day. If we calculate the time, there are still two or three months before the polar night." After the old shopkeeper put away the dishes, he said
Added: "So your night of rest may be very short. Finally, I would like to add a little personal suggestion of mine. Bring enough accurate timing equipment."
"Thank you, old shopkeeper." Nie Yun smiled and cupped his hands. This so-called "common sense" is indeed very important knowledge for them... Although he had already understood it in advance, it did not prevent him from accepting it.
The kindness of the old shopkeeper.
The old shopkeeper didn't answer, he just waved his hand casually and walked to the kitchen with the dishes he had put away.
Then a faint hoarse voice slowly floated out from the kitchen:
"You kid, go and rest quickly."
...
There was only one bed, one table and two chairs in the room. It was old but not dirty. Nie Yun knew that he didn't have much time to rest, so he lay down on the bed which was not too soft. The moment his head hit the pillow, he felt like he was sleeping for three days.
All the fatigue from the journey flooded into my mind, and my consciousness became blurred in an instant.
Suddenly, Nie Yun vaguely felt a slight heat in his arms. He suddenly stirred and subconsciously took out the jade talisman from his arms. He was stunned for a moment when he saw a flashing light spot on the jade talisman.
A wisp of Qi slowly poured in, and a girl's voice, as clear as an oriole's, came out: "Junior brother, are you asleep?"
"Uh... I've already fallen asleep." Nie Yun said with some helplessness.
"Oh, that means you haven't slept yet." The clear voice of senior sister came from the jade talisman again: "Since you haven't slept yet, come and chat with me."
"Senior sister, why don't you go find Xiao Xue and chat with you." Nie Yun tried to divert the trouble, but no, anyway, senior sister and Xiao
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Xue had a good rest in the carriage and was probably quite excited now. Let them chat.
"Hehe, I'm right here in Yueyue." Suddenly, two light spots on the transmission note lit up at the same time, and an identical voice came from it.
"Oh my god..." Nie Yun raised his head and sighed.
The nights in Jibei City at this time were indeed extremely short as the old shopkeeper said. In just three or four hours, the sky that had just dimmed suddenly lit up again.
"Xiao Yunzi, wake up!" Xiao Xue looked at Nie Yun's door excitedly, seeming to think that asking Nie Yun to wake up was a memorable thing.
Han Yue pushed open the door unceremoniously, lifted Nie Yun's quilt and said fiercely: "Get up, get up, the sun is shining on your butt!"
"???" Nie Yun opened his eyes in horror, hugged the quilt suddenly, and said with a confused look on his face: "What are you doing? Don't come over!"
Meet~ It turns out that it’s so refreshing to wake up Nie Yun. Han Yue secretly thought, but this kind of opportunity is really rare. In more than ten years, she has actually called Nie Yun several times...
...
After a while, Nie Yun walked out of the door step by step with a pair of black eye circles that were obviously not caused by some physical blow. He looked up at the blue sky outside and let out a long sigh.
"Good morning, little junior brother."
"Good morning, Xiaoyunzi."
Nie Yun turned his head, looking at the two beautiful smiling faces, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, forced out a smile and responded: "Haha, morning."
...
In the white sky, three figures suddenly appeared, adding a touch of color to the white world. The three of them were heavily dressed, but they did not look embarrassed. They seemed to be strolling in the wind and snow, and from time to time they could hear a few voices.
A crisp laugh.
"Can you do it?" Xiao Xue glanced sideways at Nie Yun and complained: "I can't even understand the map."
"It's weird, the map shows it is right here." Nie Yun scratched the back of his head and said in frustration: "It's obvious that there should be an iceberg here. Don't worry, let's take a walk and take a look.
.”
Nie Yun's mission for this trip is to collect black ice, and black ice can only be generated in old icebergs that have been formed for more than a hundred years. According to the map guidance given by the mission hall, there should be a relatively huge iceberg here.
Iceberg is right.
This kind of black ice is generally randomly generated all over the iceberg. It is useless to monsters and beasts, but it is a good material for refining weapons. Therefore, the only danger in collecting this black ice comes from the harsh environment and the iceberg itself, but relatively speaking
Already a simple task among simple tasks.
You know, Nie Yun originally came to perform this task with the idea of taking a vacation.
After the three of them had no choice but to walk for a while, the road in front of them was still white and flat, and there was no iceberg anywhere. Nie Yun scratched his hair impatiently, but only touched a soft velvet hat.
He couldn't help but become even more irritated, and asked: "Is it because this map is too old and has not been updated?"
Since Nie Yun helped them take on the mission, only Nie Yun got the map crystal, which resulted in the map being in Nie Yun's mind and no one else could see it except him.
"Haha, I seriously doubt your ability to read a map." Xiao Xue chuckled and immediately crossed her arms to mock her.
"Let's go." Nie Yun pushed aside Xiao Xue who was blocking the way in front of him. After carefully looking at the scenery in front of him, he silently closed his eyes. After gradually matching the scenery in front of him with the map in his mind, he slowly opened his eyes.
, but became even more confused: "Apart from the slightly shorter viewing angle, everything else is correct? Forget it, no matter what, I'm going to find other icebergs."
"Hey, did you read the map clearly? Just leave as soon as you say." Xiao Xuebie brushed aside Nie Yun, who was getting a little angry.
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When Nie Yun said that he was looking for other icebergs, he laughed angrily.
"I'm sure and certain that I read the map correctly." Nie Yun spread his hands helplessly and explained: "As for why the iceberg can't be found, I really don't know."
The iceberg cannot be found either because the records in the Mission Hall are wrong, but this probability is very small, or the map is a bit old and the iceberg has disappeared due to some other reasons, but this is unlikely. The map of the University Hall is still updated.
Very diligent.
"Haha, the iceberg is called an iceberg, but it is not really a mountain made of ice. How can it melt suddenly?" Xiao Xue curled her lips and asked on the spot.
"Maybe it's really not Junior Brother's problem." Han Yue suddenly interrupted the two of them, her voice as clear as an oriole's.
"It's better, senior sister." Nie Yun was so moved that he looked over with tears in his eyes. He said frankly that he had led his senior sister and Han Yue around here in the ice and snow for several hours, and he had doubts about himself.
Senior sister is still willing to believe me... Wuwuwu.
"Don't be so sentimental!" Han Yue looked at Nie Yun's grateful eyes and rolled her eyes, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised and said, "Look back."
Nie Yun looked back, well...the blue sky...other than that it was just a vast expanse of white ice and snow.
"Uh...what are you looking at?" After a moment, Nie Yun turned around and said weakly. Xiao Xue also quietly pricked up her fair and delicate ears. She also didn't see anything interesting.
"Stupid." Han Yue subconsciously wanted to hit Nie Yun on the head, but suddenly remembered that thick hat, so her jade fingers froze slightly in the air, and she stretched out her other hand to grab Nie Yun's face and smiled.
: "Look if this is a small snow slope."
Well, Nie Yun patted his red cheeks and looked back carefully. Well, the endless white in front of him seemed to be faintly spreading to the horizon. He glanced forward again, and it seemed that it was really a small snow slope.
"Yueyue, are you saying that this small snow slope is an iceberg?" Xiao Xue asked with a confused look. He also discovered that this place is indeed a small snow slope, but this...isn't it a little bit different from "mountain"?
Far.
"Absolutely." Han Yue nodded slightly: "What I mean is that this iceberg may have collapsed due to some unknown reason. Coupled with the fact that the sky is covered with ice and snow, it doesn't take only a few weeks for such an iceberg to form here.
It’s a small snow slope.”
"That's what I'm saying!" Nie Yun suddenly slapped his thigh hard and said with a smile: "I'm just saying that the angle of view is a bit short. That's right, the iceberg must have collapsed. Let me come and find out!
Nie Yun was too lazy to argue with Xiao Xue at this time. He excitedly took out a shovel with a faint cold light from his storage bag and dug down: "The mountain collapsed, but Xuan Bing will not disappear with it. Look,
I'm so well prepared, I bought a high-end efficiency enhanced version of the shovel from Wuzhentang, it's very efficient!"
I saw the shovel flying with the dark light reflected, turning up the white snow, and soon dug a pit several meters deep.
Well, it really is an advanced efficiency enhanced version of the shovel! Nie Yun looked at his masterpiece and took a breath with a smile.
But suddenly, Han Yue's slightly trembling voice came from above.
"Junior brother, come up."
Nie Yun was stunned for a moment, thinking something had happened, and immediately jumped out of the pit a few meters deep. Looking at the scene in front of him, his mouth opened slightly.
In front of him, a dozen huge machine puppets each held a semi-automatic snow removal machine, ruthlessly clearing away the snow on the snow slope. Just as Nie Yun was stunned for a moment, he finally dug a few meters deep pit.
It was covered with fallen snow swept away by agency workers...
Han Yue suppressed her laughter and her voice trembled.