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"He went up the mountain from the south slope, but that was five hours ago." Beidou said, "We have been on the mountain and haven't seen each other since then."
"I see, you did go up the mountain. Anyway, thank you very much! You two should hurry down the mountain. Team TAC can deal with the super beasts, but they can't deal with this horrible weather."
"Mr. Policeman, are you still going up?"
"There's no other way. I have to go and have a look."
The old policeman took out a cigarette and used his lighter to avoid the mountain wind. He finally lit it up and took a deep breath.
If possible, he didn't want to run to the mountains at this time, but someone in the village was missing, and if he, who made a living from this, didn't come to look for him, he would be criticized by the villagers.
Beidou and Yamanaka looked at each other, and Beidou was about to speak when their communicators rang at the same time.
It's a monster evacuation order.
The headquarters informed the two that it had confirmed that there was indeed a monster in Lake Nojiri and required the evacuation of tourists in the surrounding area.
"You said there was a monster?!" The old policeman opened his mouth wide and didn't even notice that his cigarette had fallen.
How could there be a monster here? They have lived in this mountain for their entire lives and have never encountered anything like this.
"The conclusion of the TAC team is not wrong. What's important now is to evacuate everyone around. Once the monster comes, no one can escape."
"But, the two men on the mountain..." The old policeman still didn't want to give up. They were all young men from the town. How could he explain to his family if they just went back like this?
"Don't worry, we will leave the people on the mountain to us. You just need to be in charge of the evacuation."
Before the policeman could speak, Beidou and Yamanaka had already walked up the mountain.
Snowy mountains at night are different from those during the day. When the mountain wind blows up the snow, it is difficult to see the road. Beidou put on the TAC uniform. Although this uniform is not as warm as a cotton coat, it is suitable for combat.
Walking up the mountain road they had walked during the day, the huge footprints were covered by a layer of snow that occasionally fell during the day, but they could still be distinguished if they looked closely. Beidou and Shanzhong returned to the place where the footprints disappeared before.
"Look! There's someone there!"
As the sound from the mountain fell, Beidou also hurried over. There were indeed two people, falling to the ground without breathing.
"It's them two! Dead?"
"No, it's frozen."
There was no breathing or heartbeat, just like death. But Beidou might have inherited Ace's keen senses, he could feel that the two of them still had life.
"If a person is frozen in an extremely low temperature for a moment, he or she will not die immediately."
This low temperature is not minus ten or twenty degrees, but minus two hundred degrees. It is definitely not the lowest temperature that the natural environment on Earth can reach.
From a physiological point of view, theoretically they are not dead yet. However, from a medical point of view, up to now, humans have not been able to thaw and revive such frozen people.
"No matter what, take them back first."
"No, wait, Shanzhong, don't be impulsive! After being frozen, their bodies are very fragile, like ice cubes. If you carry them like this, they will break."
If it breaks, there will be no complete body.
“It’s better to leave it to a professional medical team and have them carry it down the mountain on a stretcher.”
After hearing what Beidou said, Shanzhong did not insist anymore.
"Can they still be saved?"
"With current human medical technology, it's difficult." Beidou said truthfully.
"What about the technology of the Kingdom of Light?"
"what?"
"Sorry, I was just talking to myself." Yamanaka closed his mouth and ended the topic. "By the way, Beidou, didn't Lingye contact you before? I think you should call her back. Maybe there's something important."
Beidou nodded, he probably really needed to make a call.
However, when the two were going down the mountain, they learned even worse news.
"The whole village is frozen?"
"Yes!" The old policeman was very anxious, and even cried when he spoke, "After letting the people at the ski resort take shelter, I went down the mountain to evacuate the villagers, but everyone died! One village, more than 70 households, everyone died!"
"No, don't worry. You won't die if you freeze."
"He will die, no one can save him, the Snow Man is coming!" The old policeman started to speak incoherently, he must have been very frightened.
"Who? Snowman?"
They have all heard of the Snow Girl, but what is a Snow Boy?
Snow Man is indeed a ghost, a ghost that is the subject of legends in the surrounding villages.
Chapter 280 Yukio
The Snow Woman is a demon in the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and is widely known in the island nation. There are even multiple versions of the legend.
The Snow Man is not that famous.
There is a legend that the Snow Man is a furry monster living in the Snow Country. After accepting rice balls from travelers, he will take the initiative to help people carry their luggage and lead the way in the snow.
This is a positive and cute image similar to an elf.
But in the area around Lake Nojiri, the image of the legendary snowman is not so positive.
"The Snow Man is a terrible monster, the vengeful spirit of people who died in the snow and ice. It brings storms and avalanches, and freezes everyone it encounters into ice."
"In the past, the village would offer sacrifices to the Snow Man every year in order to keep him away from the village and prevent him from bringing disaster."
"But this tradition was broken in my grandfather's generation. No one went to worship the Snow Man anymore. Everyone forgot about the Snow Man. Now the Snow Man has come to bring disaster!"
The old policeman's teeth were chattering as he spoke, not only from the cold, but also from fear.
Everyone in the entire village was frozen into ice, no longer alive. The village became a dead place. When you stepped into the village, there was only dead silence except for the whistling of the wind.
The most terrifying devil in mythology is no more than this, it's like the end of the world.
"Do you know anything else about the snow man?" Yamanaka asked.
The TAC team shouldn't have believed in myths, but after what happened before, not believing them would be like covering one's ears and stealing the bell.
Existence is reasonable. As long as it really happens and exists objectively, it is science. Humans cannot understand it only because they have not done enough scientific research, and we should not blame the world for being like this.
"That's all I know. The old people in the village may know more, but--"
Needless to say, everyone in the village turned into ice.
The ambulance arrived half an hour later, and more than 30 ambulances from hospitals around Nagano Prefecture came. But when they arrived at the scene, the doctors were also in a dilemma.
This is not 'patient' at all.
According to cutting-edge scientific theory, it is indeed possible for something to survive being rapidly frozen at minus 200 degrees Celsius. But that is just a theory, and even whether the theory itself is true needs to be confirmed.
Some wealthy people in the United States are suffering from terminal illnesses. They want to pin their hopes on the future, thinking that future scientists may be able to save them, so they pay high storage fees and put their bodies in laboratory freezers.
So far, there has been no record of true resuscitation after being frozen. Because they put their hopes on the "future", an uncertain future.
To most people, it is just a psychological comfort, a more expensive form of euthanasia.
One party was desperate to find a cure, and the other party wanted to give hope and earn a high fee from the rich man, so the two parties hit it off.
But it is a joke to expect ordinary hospitals to treat such cases. If the body starts to thaw on the way to the hospital, it will die immediately. It is better to take it directly to the crematorium.
So even if the ambulance came, they dared not and could not take the person away.
In the end, they had no choice but to decide to take the victims to a temporary camp a little further away, or at least not to keep them in this village that had been confirmed to have been attacked by the monster.
The two people on the top of the mountain were also carried down on stretchers.
Captain Long and the TAC team came. Such a terrible monster must be eliminated as soon as possible. The Eagle and the Airo went to the snowy mountains to search for traces of the monster, but the TAC team had no way to deal with those who were frozen.
Beidou thought about what Yamanaka said before.
He said he didn't know if the Kingdom of Light had any good solution.
The Kingdom of Light has a way. If the Silver Crusaders are dispatched, they will definitely be able to save these people. At worst, there is Mother of Ultra, who truly has the ability to bring the dead back to life.
Even in the entire Kingdom of Light, Mother of Ultra represents miracles.
But Ace himself can't do it, he doesn't have the ability to heal.
The one who has this ability is Gaia. When his heart was pierced by the flaming sword and Gaia saved him, he really thought he saw Mother of Ultra.
When Ling received Beidou's call, she was writing furiously at her desk.
She wrote about the plot of Inuyasha from memory. Although she had decided to hand it over to professionals, she still had to draft a rough outline.
In fact, if you ask Gaia, He probably knows.
After all, Lingye was on Earth in her previous life, and Gaia is the will of the Earth, including all human creations and historical processes, which are part of it.
Whether it is literature or thought, the impurities shed by these pure souls are all deposited in the sand of the soul sea, which is easily accessible to Gaia. However, in Gaia's eyes, it is just an ordinary scenery.
Ling didn't want to ask Gaia either.
She doesn't take these photos for money or fame, she doesn't need them. She just thinks it's fun and fulfills some of her dreams.
Since it is just "extracurricular homework" for your own entertainment, don't think about copying the answers.
She couldn't remember much of the plot, except for the names of the main characters' team members. The general plot, what she could remember was that the Four Souls Jade was broken, and then she collected them while traveling. The villain was called Naraku, who was a spider demon in his previous life.
Other than that, she really didn't remember much.
Occasionally, some scattered memories pop up. The initial enemy was a centipede monster, then there was a wooden comb wrapped with dead people's hair, and then, what happened next?
By the way, Kagome was captured, and a figurine maker made a figurine of Kikyo.
After that, Lingye's thoughts got stuck. He couldn't remember.
She wrote a few more names on the draft paper: Seshomaru, Jaken, the Seven, Kouga, and Kagura.
I thought about it for a while, and after a few more names popped up, my memory stopped there. It was drained out, nothing left.
A few minutes after she dropped the pen, she received a call from Beidou.
"Snowman? Okay, I get it."
Frozen into a block of ice by the absolute low temperature, but not completely dead. She can save it.
To be precise, it was Mother of Ultra's medal that could save her. Ling was not willing to break the boundary between life and death even though she had the skill of resurrection.
Fortunately, the person is not dead yet.
Being on the verge of death with no one to save you and actually being dead are probably no different in some ways.