Blood of Mercury

It's been six hours and Dad hasn't come back.

Leaning by the warm fire, Little Lim stared out the window and sighed deeply.

Looking out from the window on the second floor of her house, the small mountain town of Fran Ruo was completely covered in silver. No one was seen walking on the street, and all storefronts were closed.

The snowflakes that started falling in December last year have not stopped until today. With the arrival of the New Year in 917 of the gods calendar, countless people died in the deep snow-covered mountains.

Those who slipped and fell to death, were bitten to death by winter wolves, and those who were trapped outside the city for various reasons were frozen to death alive. Every year when winter comes, more than a dozen families in this small town are in the throes of losing their loved ones.

It was only three or four in the afternoon, and it was already dark outside. Snowflakes fell quietly, and the houses were pitch black, and there was no fire inside.

It feels like the end of the world. Although there are no ruins, at first glance, it seems like a scene ten years after the extinction of mankind. The street was buried in a blanket of white snow reminiscent of the Shroud.

Of course, these people who didn't ignite the fire didn't all die in the snow, so they didn't ignite the fire. The correct answer is to save a modest fire.

According to the experience of previous years, the long snow season lasts for more than half a month. The cold current that has swept across the whole of Flangruo since mid-December will drive the animals in the mountains to hibernate within a few days, and the heavy snowfall at the end of the year will continue for two weeks. In the past two weeks, let alone going out, even if it is daily cleaning the snow piled on the door and window, the time to open the door should not exceed two seconds.

Otherwise, the heat that has finally accumulated will be extinguished in an instant.

It is simply not enough to survive such a cold winter with only one family's fire.

Therefore, the mountain people of Sodom have joined several families together during the winter many years ago. Several families live in a single room, gathering together the living materials—especially firewood—that the families have accumulated. Use this to save the fire and get through this tough month.

The same goes for Lim's family. Because her house is relatively large, people live in her house in winter every year.

The people who live in her house this year are old Peter, the best blacksmith in Sodom, and a family of bakers who can make soft and sweet white bread.

Old Peter was a lame winter dwarf. He likes to drink and brag. His voice is loud and hoarse, and his big scary hands are red and red like a soldering iron, and they are hard to the touch. There are still some hard scars like calluses on the palms. He always liked to get close to little Lim and tell her stories in an unbearable volume that she had never heard before but seemed to be of no use.

Little Lim didn't really like old Uncle Peter very much. Rather, she hated this rude old dwarf.

Better bakers who still make soft, sweet white bread than old Peter. At least his beard is clean, his hair is not greasy, his body smells like Uncle Joel, and he speaks nicely and tells jokes. Even if his wife, the one who was as fat and soft as white bread, spoke too sharply, even if his son cried at night and liked to urinate, little Lim would let the family live here.

If it weren't for her father's respect for old Peter, Lim-sama wouldn't be so kind to let this rude old dwarf live in!

...But when will Dad come back?

Thinking of this, Lim sighed again.

She was lying by the window. He stared blankly at the unchanging snow scene outside the window.

Mom told her that Dad went to do a great thing - in fact, even if Lim is only six years old this year, he still can probably understand what his father did.

A week ago, a dozen warriors of Sodom were inspired by the gods of Lodakhan and went to the White Tower to exterminate those evil wizards. Pushing it all at once, the inheritance of the wizard is also cut off.

This must be said to be a brilliant victory.

But an embarrassing thing happened-because after the victory of the war, the warriors spent too long in the White Tower in order to completely destroy the evil inheritance of the White Tower. Waiting for the return of the warriors who went to the White Tower to defeat the wizards. The continuous heavy snow had blocked their way when they came.

In such a cold winter, even a strong knight would not dare to rush back through the half-meter-high snow. Rather, the tin cans on them can bury them directly—

When the baker said this to Little Lim, Lim almost got a stomachache from laughing.

But in order not to let them be buried. Little Lim's father and several other experienced hunters went to the eastern trail to pick up the Templars who were almost buried.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention the pride of little Lim - her father Contin, the white wolf Kangding of the Kluman family, is a famous old hunter. He once hunted a Yalong monster by himself, so he was favored by Luo Dahan and obtained the power to perform magic.

The battle of White Wolf Kangding's fame was adapted into various legendary stories and circulated in other places. In the winter four years ago, he killed nine winter wolves with six throwing axes, and then a pot of arrows was nowhere to be found. One person in the wild completely repelled the wolf tide at the end of the snow season.

In the end, after all the weapons were used up, he fought with the wolf king with unarmed fighting skills for a day and a night. In the end, the wolf king conceded defeat and led the wolf tide to retreat from the city of Sodom. Since then, the winter has never come again. .

Kangding the white wolf, Kangding the wolf king, Kangding who defeated the wolves with his bare hands - his father's reputation grew and eventually attracted the bards of Caral to climb the mountains to collect Kangtin's stories and make them up Poetry spreads.

The white wolf Contin is the patron saint of Sodom, a legendary hunter who has won the Lodakhan Award, and the pride of little Lim.

She never believed that her father would be hurt in this level of snow. It's only the beginning of January, and the coldest time in mid-January is near the end of the snow season. Father once defeated the wolf king at that time, how could he be injured under this level of heavy snow?

"Huh? That's..."

Just then ~www.wuxiaspot.com~Lim saw something strange.

She widened her eyes, pressed her tiny face to the window, and held her breath.

As little Lim focused her attention, she finally saw the real body of the moving black spot——

It was a man in a black cloak.

In a snowy day that was enough to freeze a person to death, the person trudged through the heavy snow, slowly and alone.

Even though he didn't enter the city and didn't mean to turn towards Sodom, little Lim had an inexplicable feeling that the man was walking towards Sodom.

Looking more closely, there seems to be a person behind him...

Little Lim's eyes and mouth gradually widened, and she let out an incredible cry:

"—Dad?!" (To be continued.)