Also a weirdo.
With the same expressionless faces and naked bodies, most of these weirdos have familiar body shapes and looks—either they are people who disappeared from the hunting team for the first time, or they are people from the second rescue team.
They also appeared suddenly.
Silently and without warning.
Xia Yibing was originally protecting Hitzfeld and following behind Heidi. She was still gasping for breath in the previous second, and when she looked up in the next second, a naked person rushed out from the flashlight beam.
Then the second and the third.
These "people" had no interest in them at all, as if they didn't see them, they walked around and disappeared into the darkness.
Xia Yibing didn't react at first. After a second of being stunned, she immediately threw the ice pick in her hand and used the rope connected to it to trip the strange man who was running towards her.
The fallen monsters still wanted to struggle - strictly speaking, it couldn't be called a struggle... They didn't make any move towards the culprit, their eyes were still looking straight ahead, they stood up and wanted to run again.
“Run…run!”
Xia Yibing stepped on the snow and chased after them, chopping off the legs and hands of these ghosts one by one.
It won’t work otherwise.
If you only cut their legs, they will continue to use their hands to push forward as if they have no sense of pain.
This kind of calmness.
This kind of persistence.
Not to mention that Esther was extremely frightened, she was also feeling uneasy in her heart.
What the hell…what the hell are these?
Aisuen seems to have guessed it. Should I force her to say it now?
"almost."
Lily was so scared that she kept barking. Hitzfeld quietly appeared behind the woman and pointed at a strange torso that was still trembling at her feet.
"Cut it open."
"You'll know what they are."
"?"
Although she had huge doubts in her heart, Xia Yibing still chose to do it.
The blade cut through the monster like butter. The next moment, everyone's face changed drastically.
"how come……"
"How could this be???"
They had every reason to be surprised, because in the cut-open torso, only most of the liver organs were in normal shape, and the other small half was transparent ice crystals!
Isn’t this exactly the same as the original human brain?
How could this be?
What exactly are they?
"We've dissected 'Robo' before."
Hitzfeld said softly.
She stood upwind, and her voice drifted over with the cold wind.
"Yes." Xia Yibing nodded.
"Its interior is not like this."
That weirdo who looks like Robo at least has a normal torso.
The bones and internal organs are all there, except that they look like they have been frozen hard, but at least the ingredients are normal.
But what are these now?
Not only the brain, but even the liver is made of ice?
"Could it be... the Iceman?"
Her face changed slightly, and Xia Yibing quickly realized why Hitzfeld had only reminded them at this moment.
Because there was no previous reference, the girl herself might not be sure.
But it's different now.
The two groups of people have different proportions of crystals in their bodies, and the contrast is too obvious. Because of the contrast, a terrifying and bold guess surfaces.
"Yes, they are ice men."
Hitzfeld nodded slightly.
"They are the incarnation of ice crystals. All their organs, blood and flesh are transformed from ice crystals."
“This transformation takes time.”
"Robo ran longer, and it took longer to transform on the road, so when it met us, only its brain had not been fully transformed, and its body temperature was still extremely low."
"As for these people, since we are closer to the ice lake and their birthplace, they have to travel a shorter distance to get here. The time consumed is not enough for their organs to transform completely, so they look like this when they are cut open."
"So……"
Heidi, who had been silent till now, hesitated before speaking after hearing all this.
"What if... we give them enough time?"
It sounds like, over time, the ice crystals in these ice men's bodies will gradually transform into normal flesh and blood.
For example, if Robo is given more time, can even that small piece of ice crystal brain be completely transformed?
"I am not sure."
Everyone stared at the gray-haired girl, and saw her raise her hands to hold her hair, then turn around and look in the direction the ice men were running.
That's the South.
Ice Lake Town - where even the civilized world exists.
"But I doubt..."
"These are the things I signed the contract with Torredo."
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There will be another chapter coming soon.
I sort of gave myself a stress test last night... I wanted to see if I could wake up at 3am after sleeping for 4-4 hours.
The result is - I can only say that my health is not as good as it used to be. It is no longer the body I had in 2015 when I only slept 2 hours a day and could get up on time to go to school in the cold mornings in Korea in the winter.
That’s good. Now that I understand the result, I will adjust my work and rest schedule appropriately in the future.
It is getting colder and colder every year, and the climate is getting weirder every year.
Everyone should also pay attention to their health.
Chapter 38 Robo's Research (Two in One)
Are these things Ice Lake Warriors?
It sounds incredible at first, but it makes sense if you think about it carefully.
Yes...if they continue to run southward, if their body structure is completely transformed, their body temperature will begin to rise to the normal range as they leave the glacial wasteland, their hearts will start beating, their minds will start to function, and they will implement those copied memories in their minds.
Then who can tell them apart?
When something looks like a human, behaves like a human, speaks and acts like a human, why do you ask other people not to treat it as a human?
And most importantly, according to legend, the most notable characteristics of the Ice Lake Warriors are their resistance to cold and insomnia.
After the love story of "Depp" and "Valtina", because Depp triggered the curse of the ice lake, terrible cold began to sweep across the glacier wasteland, lowering the temperature here by another 20 to 30 degrees. Under the terrible extreme cold, the native species froze to death and became extinct, and only a few species survived, including the Ice Lake Warriors who moved from the vicinity of the ice lake.
They gained special abilities. The Ice Lake Warriors could see through the pale ice and snow, could maintain their strength to fight in the most violent blizzards, and could go without sleep for three days and three nights - these were original words excerpted from various classics.
Regardless of whether there is any exaggeration in this, their cold resistance, physical fitness, and combat effectiveness are obviously stronger than ordinary people. This advantage is so great that it has broken through the subtle differences brought by race. It doesn't even seem like a curse, but so strong that it makes people feel it is a blessing.
Isn't this a perfect match?
The cold-resistant and endurable Ice Lake Warriors... If these guys were all transformed in this way, then all their abilities would be explained.
The Iceman is certainly not afraid of the cold.
Perhaps their body structure is very different from that of normal humans in the microscopic field, which leads to them having a series of special abilities different from ordinary people.
They can integrate into civilized society, and they are not even dangerous - they firmly believe that they are the person they should be in the transmitted memories, and they will return to society as that person, get married, have children... and then give rise to today's Ice Lake Tribe.
At the same time, Xia Yibing, Heidi... and even the Blood Crystal Crow standing on the dog's head, all cast their eyes on Esther Murphy.
Esther had been trying to figure out what they were talking about, and this made her even more confused.
"Did I...did I do something wrong?"
"Esther." Heidi understood very well. She gestured to the others to mind their own business and leave the child to me.
"Well... I heard them say that there are some abnormalities in you, for example, you are afraid of heat but not cold... Have you ever suspected that this symptom is actually quite uncommon?"
"This——" Esther was stunned.
Of course I doubted it.
From childhood to adulthood, she was the only one who had experienced such a strange situation. No one else had ever experienced it, or even heard of it. That was why she didn't dare to tell anyone about it, for she was afraid that others would exclude her.
She has already lost her father, and she doesn't want to be treated as a monster anymore!
"Didn't your mother tell you about these things?" Hitzfeld came closer. She also heard what was said just now. "Did your mother tell you how this disease came about?"
Esther frowned. Although most of her face was covered by the mask, it was still obvious that she was not happy.
"Esther." Hitzfeld put his hand on her shoulder. "This matter is very important. It is related to whether we can find Rob."
"You have the right not to tell us, but I just want you to understand that we won't do anything to you just because we know your secret."
"You are a human being, and you always have the rights of a human being."
"I can tell you!" Esther took a deep breath and said, "I..."
"Don't be impatient." Hitzfeld interrupted her.
"We've been walking for so long, aren't you tired of talking like this?"
"Let's set up camp first and talk later."
After patting the girl to comfort her, Hitzfeld asked Heidi to take her to find a place to set up a tent, while he met up with Xia Yibing and began to help deal with the body.
Regardless of whether her guess is correct, that is, regardless of whether the Ice Lake Warriors and the Ice Lake People really came here that way, these things curled up and squirming in the snow now definitely have no human rights.
The human organs have not been fully transformed, they cannot speak, have no emotions, and their memories are incomplete. They are just an empty shell.
How can such a thing be considered a human being? Then they would not have any psychological burden in dealing with it.
There was an unexpected gain though - inside the body of one of the icemen, yes, inside, an incision was made in its stomach, and the outside was sutured shut with cotton thread, the method was very crude, and a square bulge could be seen under the skin.
It was too cold outside, so the two of them quickly cut open the corpse's stomach and took out a bloody notebook. They then carefully checked other corpses to see if there were similar cuts. After making sure there were none, they quickly went into the tent at the back.
A stove had been lit in the tent, and a few animal skins were spread on the ground. Heidi was boiling water in a pot, intending to get some hot water for everyone to keep out the cold.
After drinking the water, Xia Yibing put some biscuits and other dry food into the mixture to make a paste and shared it. She raised her eyebrows and looked at Esther.
"how?"
"Have you thought about it now?"
The temperature has risen a lot, and after drinking hot water and eating hot food, everyone felt much more comfortable.
Esther nodded: "I'm willing to say it."
She was not stupid. She had just received too much information and did not understand some things. After entering the tent, she sat and thought about it. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Count Xiyang suspected that she was not a human.
This is a bit... a bit too scary, isn't it?
Esther absolutely cannot accept this kind of thing, she must make this matter clear... How can she not be a human being?
"As far as I can remember, my mother never told me what this disease was," she said. "She just told me not to let anyone know the secret."
"What about herself?" Hitzfeld asked.
