In the morning light, a team wearing black cloaks marched in a vast and empty frozen soil plain. There were some snowflakes floating in the sky, which gave it a unique mood.
After three full days of arduous trek, the tall outline of the Dengtian Mountains finally revealed its true face, and the location of Qingluan Academy was finally in sight.
The efficacy of the light green ointment from Qingluan Academy is unmatched by any modern ointment. After a deep sleep every night, the swelling and pain in the feet will disappear, and even the scabs on the soles of the feet will scab off and recover as before.
It was with the help of this ointment that smelled of green grass that Lin Xi and all the new students of the Zhige system were able to persevere.
After these three days of arduous trek, the faces of the forty-one Zhige freshmen have become thinner, but they are much more energetic, and everyone has a much bigger appetite.
In the beginning, most freshmen could only eat one piece of steak the size of their palm per meal, but now even the smallest ones with the smallest appetites can eat almost two of these steaks in one meal.
I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but every time the wild but stern-looking black-haired man hunted after that night, he did not hunt any more antelopes, and all he brought back was a much larger elk with long horns.
The fat of this kind of elk is fatter and the roasted aroma is richer, which makes the black cloaks made of North Sea otter fur of the group have a meaty aroma.
"What did that middle-aged uncle leave behind at Qingluan College?"
Lin Xi walked in the middle of the team, looking at the cold and mysterious Dengtian Mountains in the distance. Snowflakes were dancing halfway up the mountain, and clouds and mist were lingering, far away and out of reach.
Although he has already accepted his new identity and is very comfortable with this world, there is an indescribable emotion, perhaps the unresolved loneliness and lack of understanding that he and the old driver talked about.
But that legendary middle-aged uncle became the real reason why he must enter Qingluan Academy.
Moreover, maybe this middle-aged uncle can give him answers to many questions.
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A stone path that only allowed two or three people to walk side by side appeared at the foot of the mountain, winding its way up with light white snow. Less than halfway up the mountain, the white snow turned into hard ice and fine ice edges.
The black-haired man was the first to set foot on this stone path. He was very relaxed and seemed to be no different from his usual walk.
He smiled wildly and glanced at Lin Xi and everyone else like a threat: "Look at your feet. Follow this road and climb over this mountain. I have to climb it before the sun sets today. I can't climb it."
Yes, just spend the night on this road."
However, when everyone stepped on this stone path and looked up, they couldn't see the top of the mountain he mentioned.
This mountain range is really too high. After a hundred steps, each step consumes a lot of physical strength. In the end, except for Xia Yanbing and the black-haired man, every new student in the Zhige department was really using their hands and feet.
, even so, every time you go up a section, you have to stop and take a deep breath.
A large dense cedar forest suddenly appeared at the end of the narrow ice and snow stone path, as if they had passed through another world. All the panting freshmen were speechless after passing through this huge cedar forest that blocked the sky and the sun.
Opposite the flat hillside in front of us stood dozens of hilltops, with towering palaces standing on top of them, with windows shining in the sun.
Especially on the hilltop closest to them, the palaces connected together stretched out from the top of the hill, as if they were towering directly above their heads.
The reflection of the sapphire-like walls and golden glazed tiles made it difficult for these freshmen to open their eyes.
Lin Xi was also speechless. Modern people's imagination is still too lacking compared to the scene in front of them. The towering temples on this mountain top alone exceed those of the city of Gondor in the Lord of the Rings.
scene.
"Why is spring blooming here instead of a frozen world?" someone asked blankly.
"This is also a stupid question." The black-haired man nodded at the end of his gaze, not bothering to explain.
At the end of the sight is a mountain range that stretches across and towers into the clouds, like a huge city wall. Like the Four Seasons Plain, this place is also a basin in the mountains. The cold current blowing from the north is blocked by the mountain range that stretches across the sky.
The huge mountains blocked it, and the turbulence generated caused the cold wind to completely slide over this alpine basin.
The mountains that are hundreds of meters high can only be regarded as protrusions in the basin in this huge mountain range.
"Keep climbing!"
The black-haired man and Xia Yanbing led the Zhige freshmen, who were too tired to move forward, up the nearest and lowest hill to them, and finally arrived in front of a huge black lacquered wooden door.
"No one gets out, right?"
The black-haired man raised his fist and, amid laughter, slammed the huge black-painted wooden door.
"Crazy Qin..."
With a whispered curse, the door suddenly opened, and a tall woman with a horse face, wearing a black professor's robe with silver stars embroidered on the chest and cuffs like the black-haired man, stood in front of the door. She stood in front of the door.
Her face was very stern, and the first impression given to everyone was that this woman was very strict and hard to talk to.
"Professor Li, long time no see, should we have a fight first?" the black-haired man laughed at the tall, horse-faced woman with a stern appearance.
The tall horse-faced woman glared at the black-haired man fiercely and ignored her. She easily opened the door that was half a meter thick. At the same time, she spoke sternly to Lin Xi and others who were already so exhausted that they were about to collapse at any moment.
The Ge Xinsheng said: "Don't waste things, otherwise you will fall into my hands."
All the freshmen didn't understand what the horse-faced woman professor meant when she said don't waste things, but just after passing through this deep hall, everyone was stunned.
There are more than twenty large wooden tables on a small cobblestone square, and each wooden table is filled with food.
Grilled elk steak, grilled pheasant, grilled deer, rice, pastries, various vegetables, and all kinds of tubers and fruits that even the boy with the golden spoon had never seen before.
"You can do whatever you want now, as long as you can eat..." the black-haired man looked at the stunned Zhige freshmen with a profound look and said.
"ah!"
A new student from the Ming Zhi Ge Department suddenly pounced on the tables piled with food like a tiger coming out of the oven.
To be honest, this black-haired man not only forced them to rush for too long on this journey, but also did not make them hungry. However, barbecue without any seasoning for several days could only fill their stomachs.
Especially everything on the wooden table looks very delicious.
Everyone took a bunch of things and started chewing.
"Is this a welcome banquet? Will there be any problems if we don't wait for people from other departments?" Someone asked doubtfully.
"That's right." The black-haired man who was grabbing a roasted whole lamb and munching said casually: "Our Zhige Department is like this every year, do you think there will be any problems? Don't worry about eating yours, anyway, you can
Even if you can’t finish eating, Professor Li will prepare it.”
"Will people from other departments also rush here? Do we live here? Doesn't it mean that there is the most important tradition next, and we have to accept the admonishment left by the dean... When will we accept the admonishment left by dean Zhang?
"Someone couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry, you will live in that area until noon tomorrow." The black-haired man casually followed his hand and all the freshmen involuntarily followed his hand and found that it looked like a turret with at least seven floors.
Judging from the location of the palace, it is already on the edge of the cliff on the top of this mountain.
"Why are there no other senior brothers and sisters?"
"All freshmen will live on this hilltop. The senior brothers and sisters from each department are on other hills. You usually have the opportunity to meet. As for which hilltop you will live in after one year, you will understand next."
"Are we going to wait until everyone from other departments arrives before accepting the dean's reprimand? Then what should we do next?"
"The next step is to eat, sleep, and wait for them to arrive. You have one more day of rest than them." The black-haired man rolled his eyes at all these new students, "Otherwise, how would you understand that the more you pay, the more you will be rewarded?
?”
"Professor Qin...you are so kind!" The freshmen were stunned for a moment, then screamed with joy.
"Really?" Amidst the cheers and praises, the black-haired man lowered his head and concentrated on chewing the roasted lamb in his hand. He smiled at himself: "I just hope that among you, there will be fewer people in the future.
It’s good that I disappoint people.”
"Other lecturers will not come until tomorrow, so you can only rest in this courtyard. When people from other departments arrive tomorrow and accept the dean's admonishment, there will be lecturers to help you arrange your next daily life and courses.
." Xia Yanbing's serious voice also sounded, "No one is allowed to leave this courtyard, otherwise they will be directly kicked out of Qingluan College."
No one cares whether this rule is too harsh. This courtyard filled with food is already a paradise compared to the arduous trek of the past few days, and these new students of the Zhige Department are really too tired.
After eating and drinking, even Lin Xi, who felt a little regretful that she could not see the things left by the middle-aged uncle right away, immediately rolled up her thick and soft cloak and fell asleep, falling asleep unconsciously.
The next day, when the first freshman in the Zhige Department woke up, the sun was already shining brightly.
The madman-like black-haired man, like a javelin, stood at the top of a palace on the edge of a cliff, looking into the distance, not knowing how he got up.
In the ice field at the foot of the Dentian Mountains, a large group of people wearing black cloaks, like a swarm of black ants, had approached the foot of the mountain.