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"This..." Blaze scratched his ears. Herbie's meaning was clearly to provide food to these Jinlunga people and help them, but the words sounded too harsh.

Just like a bad guy.

But apart from locking up Luen, Blaze did everything else.

Those Kinlungabei people were really weak and looked like they were about to die.

Many of them were completely unable to resist the temptation of the food and immediately began to wolf it down. Only some of them, who were called elders, closed their eyes, gritted their teeth and persevered.

However, all the Jinlunjiabei people who had eaten had uneasy expressions, and from time to time they cast their glances at Luen in Blaze's hand, just like children who had done something wrong and were afraid to face their mother.

"It hurts...it hurts so much!"

Herbie jumped up and down, swinging his hands, and thrusting them into the snow did not relieve the pain.

She slapped him with all her might, but Luen's face was just like her expression, as cold as ice, and the slap seemed to crack her hand.

"Why is it getting more painful even though the temperature has dropped?!"

"Because..." Blaze hesitated and whispered in Herbie's ear, "I heard a sound of bone cracking in your hand. You may have broken your hand."

"Bones, bones--" Herbie's eyes rolled back and he almost fainted. If Blaise hadn't pulled him back, he would have fallen directly into the snow.

"I am going to die, but before I die I want to see this Jinlungabei eat his meal."

"Broken bones won't kill you, and..." Blaze put Luen down, "You seem particularly obsessed with her. Isn't this usually something I do?"

"Why, I stole your chance, do you think your relationships with women aren't chaotic enough?"

"I am confused!"

Ignoring Blaze's protests, Herbie squatted down and tilted his head to look at Luen who was looking down.

"Once in a very poor corner, a group of lonely children ate wild vegetable soup every day. Their eldest brother, a child of almost the same age as the children, said that wild vegetable soup was the most delicious thing in the world."

"The children who had never left the corner felt happy even if they were skinny and hungry, but that big brother..."

Herbie tapped Luen's forehead with his finger, implying something.

"He told the children not to go out, because as long as they didn't go out, wild vegetable soup would be the most delicious. He had seen the world outside that corner, and felt desperate because he could never leave the corner."

"The look on your face while you were yelling about attacking reminded me of the last pot of wild vegetable soup my eldest brother made."

Chapter 1014: The Land that Absorbs Souls

Blaze has always respected the ancient races, because the ancient races always have missions that cannot be understood by ordinary life, such as watching, sealing, the secrets of the world, etc., so it is understandable that they are incomprehensible and very arrogant.

However, since learning the true face of the elves, Blaze has become somewhat disillusioned with the ancient race, and has also gained resistance.

Even if he encountered an ancient race in the future, no matter what happened, he would remain calm. But taking his own people to die was not something he could understand.

"This is troublesome." Blaze sighed heavily and explained the matter to the Psycho Clown and the Grand Commander GG.

This is much more troublesome than encountering a hostile nation.

The situation of the Jinlungabei people was shrouded in a fog. Except for the elders and leader Luen, the people of Jinlungabei behaved in a very ignorant manner, just like children.

If you give them food, they will not be able to resist eating it, but after eating they will look at the elders and Luen like children who have done something wrong.

The only elders who knew about the situation lowered their heads, while Luen remained silent, with no intention of communicating at all.

If it was just fog, it would be fine, but the two words "Loki" turned the fog into a conspiracy.

"Looks like I still have to pry your mouth open." Hebie, with an ice cube of healing potion in his mouth, circled around Luen vaguely.

In order to prevent Herbie from saying anything that would make them look like bad people with bad intentions, Blaze knelt on one knee in front of Luen and spoke very sincerely.

"No matter what conflicts we have, no matter what secrets you Jinlunjiabei people have, the threat of the At Giant must be greater than this."

Luen's eyelashes trembled and slowly opened.

"This land...will suck away the souls and body temperature of living beings. The unbelievable coldness you feel comes from the trembling of your soul being pulled."

Blazer's eye twitched, and he remembered that there was no soul in the material of the Far North Giant Bear. Those souls would not disappear out of thin air. If there was something that could steal the soul, it would never escape his eyes.

But I didn't expect that it was directly sucked away by the earth, and even the cold itself came from this incident.

Unexpectedly, he had just noticed something strange and before he had time to investigate, it was confirmed.

"So the temperature here is actually not that cold?" Blaze looked at Grand Commander GG. He remembered that the strangers had a tool to measure the ambient temperature.

That was also a magical little prop brought by the stranger, but it was used to measure human body temperature and should be able to be used now.

"Yes, yes~ it's just..." The commander took out the thermometer helplessly, and the temperature displayed on it was -20 degrees.

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20 degrees is just the lower limit of the thermometer, not the actual temperature of the environment.

But even without a thermometer to measure the exact temperature, there is a primitive way to measure it, which is to sprinkle some water.

The cold here can kill people instantly, so water should turn into ice as soon as it hits the ground, and exhaled breath should instantly turn into ice mist. The result of the attempt was that it was a normal level of cold, probably the feeling of being hit head-on by an intermediate level ice magic.

"It looks like this is when the brain feels cold, so the body feels cold."

"It's also possible that something interfered with the brain's judgment, causing it to mistakenly think that the body was about to overheat and frantically dissipate heat."

"Is it because there's something disturbing about the nerves in this snow? Do you want to eat more carrots?"

"It's the trembling of the soul being sucked away by the earth." Luen emphasized, but the foreigners had already explained this phenomenon with [science].

"This is magic exclusive to strangers, so it means the same thing as what you said."

Blaze knew that dwelling on this matter was fruitless, and he actually had a better explanation.

That is, there is Ymir's flesh and blood in this land of ice and snow, or this land of ice and snow simply still has the living flesh and blood of Ymir. The survival instinct of Ymir's flesh and blood without a soul makes it constantly try to absorb the soul flame to give birth to its own soul.

But this was just his speculation based on Kulene's words. With his understanding of Kulene, he could only believe a little bit of what she said, except that going to this icy land could solve the problem of the gem dragon seed.

He also doubted Loki. The title of Hellfire Follower was inseparable from Loki no matter how he looked at it.

"That is to say, this land will absorb souls in the form of coldness and form this thing." Blaze handed the fragments of the At Giant to Luen. It was magical that this piece of ice burning with soul flames had a little warmth.

Luen nodded, then shook her head.

"This land gave birth to living things, and living things, pulled by the land, returned to the land and gave birth to the life of ice."

The players discussed it later and found that the situation was actually very simple. It was a very clever plot design.

Simply put, this land of ice and snow is a huge mother body. After absorbing a certain amount of experience points, or soul flames, an ice giant - the At Giant - will be born.

Players hunting monsters will speed up this process.

Even though the blessed one's special ability can crush the soul flame, in reality the blessed one will not absorb all the souls.

Crushing is not just a special effect. While a large number of soul fragments are being absorbed, a small number of fragments fade and disappear, which is actually returning to the earth.

However, after exchanging information, the players discovered that the experience points gained from hunting monsters in the Giant Snowfield were indeed much less. Previously, they thought that it was because the levels of the monsters here were inflated, so the experience points were low. Now it seems that they were sucked away by the ground beneath their feet.

Even if the player does nothing, the At Giant will be born naturally in the cruel ecology and destroyed by this group of Jinlungabei people.

The players' hunting behavior will accelerate this process, and they will move towards the fourth-level cold area while chasing the Ate Giants, and encounter the Jinlunga people in battle.

However, destroying the At Giant together might help gain the trust of the Jinlunjiabei people, and now the very subtle thing is... the Jinlunjiabei people know that it was their players who did it.

These can also explain why the people of Jinlungabei look pale and thin, and are so taboo about eating. It turns out that it is because it will lead to the birth of the At Giant.

Although we don’t know what harm the At Giant will bring, giants generally represent disasters.

"I don't think the situation of 'the more you hunt, the lower your favorability will be' will happen later!"

“Is it too late for me to reopen now?”

Some players hid their belongings guiltily, and it was obvious that they contributed a lot to the birth of the At Giant.

Chapter 1015 Irreconcilable Conflict

What is happening before our eyes is the irreconcilable conflict between players and NPCs that has existed since the birth of role-playing games.

Not just in games, but in any entertainment work, monsters, disasters and other dangerous things are the main fun of the entire work. There is no entertainment without challenges and difficulties.

Even in farming games, there will be environmental disasters as difficulties.

But for NPCs in entertainment works, that is a real disaster. Farmers hope that there will always be good weather and good harvests, and ordinary people hope that monsters will never appear.

The smarter the NPC is, the bigger the gap between it and the word "entertainment".

In the early days of Godlock, players were sometimes seen as disasters.

Because players will attack groups of monsters at will in order to upgrade and obtain materials, and the intelligence of the monster groups is in a very subtle place.

They will look for strong opponents and take revenge, but they cannot tell who attacked them. They only know it was humans, so they will attack when they see humans.

Sometimes players will be treated as troublemakers and force their way into dangerous areas guarded by the Kingdom Knights.

In this situation, you usually just need to prove your strength, but sometimes, the Kingdom Knights will worry about the player's life safety, and will not let the player in easily even if the player is very strong.

The same is true for the people of Kinlunga North now.

For players, hunting monsters and waiting for the birth of the At Giants is an interesting gaming process, but for the Jinlunga people who have been trying to stop the At Giants on this land, players are nothing but troublemakers.

However, today's players are no longer the rookies they were two years ago. Problems can be solved through friendly communication and exchange. Doesn't the Giant Kingdom Alliance now allow players to enter high-level monster areas at will?

The problem is... they have now entered a kind of [dead zone] state, and they directly wiped out the Jinlunjiabei people.

"Cough cough cough~" The Grand Commander GG coughed twice. Looking at the tall man in front of him but with the eyes of a child, the people of Jinlunjia didn't know what to say.

"Why don't we go somewhere warmer and talk~"

Grand Commander GG pointed to the igloo. They had now built an outpost with ice bricks around it, and a warm bonfire was lit in the igloo.

"What's wrong? Are you made of ice? Will you melt when you are heated?" Herbie said, adding fuel to the fire. "Your fellow tribesmen seem to want to come closer."

In addition to accepting the food, the people of Jinlunga unconsciously approached the fire, with flames dancing in their eyes. Although they looked like they were made of ice, they could feel the cold.

Luen noticed the reactions of the people of Jinlungabei, her lips moved but she said nothing. Instead, she slowly stood up and walked towards the central igloo of the outpost.

She accepted the invitation of the Grand Leader GG, and the other Jinlungabei people immediately followed and sat by the fire. With half of their bodies illuminated by the fire, they showed innocent and happy smiles on their faces.

That feeling is warmth.

The Jinlunjia northern elder subconsciously followed Luen, but after taking just two steps, Luen turned around and glared at him.

"Mom..." the elder called timidly.

"I'm not your mother." Luen leaned over and went into the central igloo, leaving the elder shivering alone in the wind and snow.

"You guy!"

Hebi shouted at Rune through the window of the igloo, but Rune did not respond at all and ignored Hebi's shouts. Hebi had no choice but to push the elder to the other Jinlungabei people angrily.

After everything was settled, Herbie went into the central snow house, where Grand Leader GG and Blaze were already inside.

"Are you a stepmother? How dare you treat your own child like this?" Hebi started to sneer at Luen before he even sat down, and Luen finally stopped being silent.

"Do you know how old I am?"

"100 years old?" Hebi looked at Luen. Appearance was indeed not the criterion for judging the lifespan of ancient races. Elves were one of the examples.

"8 is old."

"8 years old?"

Blaze beside him groaned, then immediately reacted and whispered to Herbie, "According to the calculation method of the Jinlungabei people, it's about 8 years old."

"No, I'm just like you guys who can see the sun rise and set." Luen raised her finger and pointed at Hebi, saying, "I'm about the same age as her."

"I'm 24."

"Really?" Lu En bent her fingers and tilted her head. "You are about the same age as the newborn Jinlungabei child I picked up."

The only sound in the central igloo was the burning firewood. Even Herbie didn't know what to say for a moment. The one in front of him was not a cruel mother, but just the oldest of a group of children.

They can't be too harsh on a child living in an extreme environment.

Herbie scratched his neck for a long time before he reluctantly slowed down his tone.

"We can help you. As long as you tell us your difficulties, we can definitely do something for you, such as the specific harm of the At Giant. If you tell us, we can definitely think of a way..." Hebie paused and looked at the Grand Commander GG, who nodded at her.

"To curb the large-scale hunting of foreigners."

Luen slowly raised her head. She ignored Herbie and looked at Blaze. Her eyes became a little blurry under her thick and long eyelashes.

"It's so beautiful..."