Chapter 204
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Afterward, Lou Yan and Li Sanxin found some blood on the cliff next to the withered tree. They followed the bloodstains forward, but the vast expanse of white snow almost buried them.
After walking for a while, even the last trace was covered by the snow.
“Yanzi, should we keep going?” Li Sanxin asked.
Lou Yan gritted his teeth, “Let’s go.”
They continued forward along the direction, carefully searching for any traces left by Fu Xuezhou with the light of the snow candle. They walked and walked, and time began to blur. The nearly identical scenery around them made them feel like they would never reach the end.
Humans were too small in the face of nature, so small that Lou Yan began to doubt whether Fu Xuezhou was still alive, and whether they could successfully find him.
They dared not go too fast, afraid of missing any traces. But they also dared not go too slow, because the snow candle couldn’t withstand too much consumption.
After searching for who knows how long, the snow candle was already one-third used up.
Lou Yan’s brows furrowed with impatience. “This won’t work. Sanxin, I’ll put out the snow candle, you get ready. When we can’t stand it anymore, we’ll light it again. Otherwise, if we continue like this, by the time the candle is used up, we won’t be able to find Fu Xuezhou.”
Li Sanxin nodded solemnly and tightened his clothes, “Put it out.”
Lou Yan tied a rope around his and Li Sanxin’s waist to prevent them from getting lost in the wind and snow, then extinguished the snow candle. The moment the snow candle was extinguished, a violent snowstorm almost knocked them down, causing them to retreat a few steps.
Lou Yan braced his arms forward, gritting his teeth as he walked, each step particularly difficult. The wind roared in his ears, and the snow mercilessly attempted to bury him. The visible heat on Lou Yan’s body disappeared, and he finally understood what kind of environment Fu Xuezhou had endured for ten days.
No wonder the extreme cold h*ll could kill Fu Xuezhou…
Could Fu Xuezhou, who was already injured, really survive here until now?
Lou Yan was unsure.
They endured the wind and snow for nearly twenty minutes. Li Sanxin couldn’t bear it anymore, and Lou Yan lit the snow candle again for warmth. Li Sanxin rubbed his pale face vigorously, removing the icicles from his hat, shivering as he said, “We’ve walked quite far, but we haven’t seen any sign of Fu Xuezhou. I feel like our chances of finding him with this method are not great.”
“Although we’ve walked for a long time, we might have only walked a few hundred meters,” Lou Yan frowned, “This place is too vast…”
No, they couldn’t continue walking aimlessly like this.
Lou Yan tapped his thigh with his fingers, deep in thought.
Before he pushed Fu Xuezhou into the extreme cold h*ll, Fu Xuezhou was still heavily injured. That guy would fall into a semi-comatose state even in normal low temperatures in the North Pole, so how could he stay awake and walk such a long way in the extreme cold of the extreme cold h*ll?
He and Li Sanxin only managed to get here in good health and unaffected by the cold due to their abilities. Logically speaking, Fu Xuezhou definitely couldn’t have gone as far as they did.
Lou Yan clenched his fingers tightly, a heavy expression in his eyes.
There was a great possibility that Fu Xuezhou might have fallen unconscious and then been buried under the snow.
The extreme cold h*ll was wide, with snow as thick as half a person’s height. If Fu Xuezhou was really buried under the vast snow, how could he and Li Sanxin find him? They couldn’t possibly dig through the snow bit by bit to find him.
Lou Yan turned his head to look at the snow-covered ground where Fu Xuezhou might be buried.
Somewhere here was Fu Xuezhou’s body gradually losing its vitality, and he might not be able to find Fu Xuezhou within the limited time.
He had to come up with a solution, a fast and efficient one…
Lou Yan closed his eyes, his brows furrowing deeper.
Duan Zege’s tarot cards were useless because Duan Zege’s talent ability was not divination; Li Sanxin’s Surgical Threads and Ghost Baby were also useless, and neither were his True Sight, Crisis Perception, Time Reversal, and Bone Spikes…
Lou Yan suppressed his inner anxiety. Was there really no way?
No!
Lou Yan suddenly remembered that there were countless anomalies inside his body that hadn’t been revived by him yet. Among these many oddities, there must be some that could work in this environment.
Lou Yan took a deep breath, mobilizing all his mental strength to focus on reviving the anomaly powers within his body that could help him.
Li Sanxin rubbed his hands vigorously, feeling somewhat recovered. “Yanzi, I’m okay now, let’s continue… Yanzi?”
Lou Yan tightly closed his eyes, seemingly not hearing Li Sanxin’s call. Puzzled, Li Sanxin was about to reach out and pat Lou Yan when he saw a faint circle of wind swirling around Lou Yan.
How could there be wind inside the candlelight covered by the snow candle?
Just as Li Sanxin was filled with doubts, the wind grew stronger and began to surround Lou Yan completely. Startled, he shouted, “Lou Yan!”
Lou Yan opened his eyes, and Li Sanxin then noticed that Lou Yan’s eyes had turned into silver-grey vertical pupils, filled with a cold and fierce aura.
Li Sanxin stared blankly, “Yanzi?”
Lou Yan responded, looking down at his own hands. Suddenly, two mouths, tightly closed, protruded three centimeters from the palms of both hands. When these two mouths opened, they would blow out a huge gale.
And these two mouths would continue to grow larger with usage, and when they grew to a certain extent, they would revive and devour Lou Yan himself.
Lou Yan handed the snow candle to Li Sanxin, instructing him not to approach him, then walked out of the snow candle’s light range.
The snowstorm instantly rushed towards him, but Lou Yan felt less cold than before. Taking a deep breath, he lifted his hands with a serious expression. The two mouths in the palms opened simultaneously, and a violent gale fiercely blew out from them, confronting the snowstorm in the air.
Standing behind Lou Yan, Li Sanxin felt no wind attack due to the protection of the snow candle. He widened his eyes in shock, feeling like he was watching a blockbuster movie.
Seeing Lou Yan’s hands getting increasingly fierce, not only did it blow away the snowflakes in the air, but it also blew all the accumulated snow on the ground up into the sky! The heavy snow flew down, creating a whiteout, and the counter-flowing wind blew more and more snowflakes on the ground, rolling up and down in the air. The spectacle was so grand and vast that Li Sanxin was speechless, unable to utter a word.
Lou Yan’s hair and clothes danced wildly in the strong wind, but he stood firmly in the midst of the hurricane, lifting his head to watch the snow flying in the air, unhesitatingly increasing the strength of the wind in his palms once again.
The howling wind tore through the air, and the small Lou Yan stood in the midst of the raging snowstorm like a small boat in the ocean. All the snow on the ground was blown up, and finally, within a hundred meters, the ground covered with snow was revealed in its original state!
The barren and desolate black soil was covered with a thick layer of ice. With no cover of wind and snow, Lou Yan and Li Sanxin could finally see the surroundings clearly.
Then, the expressions of the two men changed simultaneously—they saw a black backpack on the ground in the distance.
Lou Yan immediately recognized it as the backpack he kicked off and threw to Fu Xuezhou. He quickly stopped the strong wind in his palms and ran over, with Li Sanxin following closely behind.
Without the wind blowing against them, snowflakes fell gently from the sky, as if it were a pleasant snowfall.
In the wind and snow, Lou Yan ran to the backpack in less than two seconds. He was breathing heavily, wanting to pull the backpack to check if its contents had been used, but he couldn’t pull it. Lou Yan looked down and froze.
One side of the backpack’s strap was tightly held by a pale, ice-covered hand. Lou Yan followed this hand down and saw Fu Xuezhou buried in the icy ground.
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