sinovels Chapter 468 How to remove a frozen tongue?
Chapter 468 How to remove a frozen tongue?
As the train continued to climb, the temperature inside the carriages began to plummet at an unreasonable rate.
Thick frost flowers formed on the edges of the windows, and the metal bulkheads creaked with a teeth-grinding sound.
Chen You sat in the leather chair, his expression unchanged.
The Nine Revolutions Primordial Chaos Technique automatically activated within his body, and liquid pure yang spiritual energy flowed slowly through his meridians, keeping all the cold air outside his body.
Ize, sitting opposite, wasn't so dignified.
Despite swallowing a Qi-Nourishing Pill, and the immense power of Qi and blood burning wildly within his body, he was still cold.
He was curled up in a ball, wrapped in that tattered fur coat, and the sound of his teeth chattering was particularly crisp in the quiet carriage.
"Da da da da..."
Chen You glanced at him: "If you keep shaking like that, I suspect you'll shake the chassis of this carriage apart."
"M-Master, it's cold." Ize hugged his arms, his nose red from the cold. "The cold currents at the peak of winter...even dragons don't want to come near."
"We are now...at least 8,000 meters above sea level."
"Eight thousand meters?" Chen You raised an eyebrow.
This altitude is comparable to Mount Everest in the real world, no wonder the pack of frost wolves didn't catch up.
Just then, the train's roar suddenly changed, and the sound of its laborious climb turned into a long, drawn-out whistle.
The car body suddenly leveled, and the previously violently bumpy carriage instantly became exceptionally stable.
"arrive!"
Ize sprang up from his seat like he had a spring in his body, tumbling and crawling toward the car window.
He frantically wiped the frost patterns off the glass with his sleeve, his eyes glued to the window.
Chen You also turned his head and looked out the window.
The next second, his breathing slowed down.
The train broke through the thick gray clouds and entered an absolutely pure space.
There was no wind or snow, no clouds or fog.
What unfolds before your eyes is a vast and boundless sea of stars.
The stars here are incredibly low, as if you could reach out and pluck one out of the sky.
Countless meteors, trailing long streaks, streaked across the sky, weaving together a dazzling net.
Deep within the sea of stars, a dazzling aurora, like a giant veil, drifts slowly through the void, shifting and changing into a dreamlike tapestry of purple, green, and blue.
The train is like a lone boat sailing through a galaxy, with bottomless canyons on both sides and the universe within reach overhead.
Chen You had seen the holographic star map of the Qinling base and also witnessed the cross-dimensional light pillar created by the high-dimensional entity "Invincible Beautiful Girl".
But the pure starry sea before him, a natural wonder of the Origin Realm, still gave him a soul-stirring shock.
"It's so beautiful...it's simply a masterpiece of the gods..."
Yize pressed herself against the glass, her voice trembling, tears welling up in her eyes, but they froze into ice beads that clung to her eyelashes as soon as they came out.
He frantically pulled out the worn notebook and a charcoal pencil from his backpack and began frantically taking notes by the starlight.
"I, Ize, have finally witnessed the miracle at the peak of winter."
"That starlight, like the eyes of a young girl..."
"The aurora borealis was like the hem of a goddess's skirt..."
As he muttered to himself, he brought his face even closer, trying to see the patterns deep within the aurora.
Chen You withdrew his gaze, looked at Yi Ze's fanatical appearance, and shook his head.
People who work in the arts are definitely not quite right in the head.
"You'd better stay away from that glass," Chen You kindly reminded him. "The outside temperature is at least minus seventy degrees Celsius, and glass conducts heat very well."
"It's alright! What's a little cold compared to art!" Ize retorted righteously.
To express his excitement, he even opened his mouth and let out a heartfelt exclamation as he gazed at the starry sky outside the window: "Ah—"
Then, tragedy struck.
The train just passed through a very small curve, and the train swayed slightly.
Ize lost his balance and his face slammed forward.
"Smack."
His lips and half of his tongue were firmly pressed against the bulletproof glass, which was tens of degrees below zero.
The air suddenly became quiet.
Ize's eyes widened instantly, and a muffled whimper escaped his throat.
He instinctively tried to back away, but his tongue and lips were frozen to the glass, and even the slightest tug caused excruciating pain.
"Waaaaah! Waaaaah!"
He waved his hands in terror, tears streaming down his face, and this time he didn't even have time to form ice beads.
Chen You remained seated, quietly watching him.
"What did I say again?"
"Waaaaah!" Ize pointed to his mouth, desperately pleading for help.
Chen You sighed, stood up, and walked over.
"If your tongue gets frozen to an iron pillar or glass, you must not try to pull it off, or the flesh will be torn off," Chen You said, while extending his right hand.
A pure purple spiritual energy emanated from his fingertips.
Instead of using lightning magic, he transformed the pure yang spiritual power of the Nine Revolutions Primordial Chaos Technique into the gentlest heat, lightly touching it onto the glass around Ize's lips.
zizi——
A wisp of white steam rose.
The ice melted rapidly.
Ize finally pulled his tongue out, covered his mouth, and sat down on the ground with a thud, gasping for breath in pain.
"Thank you... thank you so much, sir," he stammered. "I almost... almost became mute."
"Alright, put away your artistic flair and get ready to get off the bus."
Chen You looked ahead at the train.
Beneath the starry sky, the outline of a massive, breathtaking city is gradually emerging from the darkness.
The City of Aurora.
It is not built on flat ground, but rather attached to a huge glacier.
The entire city is almost entirely composed of crystal-clear ice and some kind of black metal, reflecting a cold and aloof light under the aurora.
There are no city walls.
Because that vertical glacier, hundreds of meters high, is the best barrier.
The train began to slow down and slowly entered a huge semi-circular domed building.
This is the Star Trail Station in the Aurora City.
"We've finally arrived." Eze excitedly slung the travel bag, which was even bigger than himself, over his shoulder.
"My lord, once we enter the city, I'll treat you to the most famous 'Ice Flame Wine' of Aurora City! Although I don't have any money, I can wash dishes at the tavern in exchange!"
Chen You ignored him, his gaze fixed on the platform outside the window.
The train came to a complete stop, and the airlocks hissed as they slowly slid open to both sides.
There were no noisy crowds, no NPCs soliciting business, and no patrolling guards.
The huge platform was deathly silent.
Chen You stepped out of the carriage first, his boots making a crisp cracking sound as they hit the frost-covered ground.
Ize jumped down right after him, but before he could speak, the words caught in his throat.
On the platform, hundreds of figures stood densely packed together.
They included men and women, merchants in ornate robes, berserkers wielding giant axes, and even a few train maintenance workers in uniform.
But they all remained still.
Each person is covered by a thick layer of transparent ice.
They remained in the postures of their last moments: some were running, some were looking back in terror, and some were trying to draw their weapons.
Their expressions were so lifelike that you could even see the despair frozen in their pupils.
"This...this is the Ice Curse..." Ize was so frightened that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.
"The rumors are true... Aurora City has become a ghost town!"