CHAPTER 1506: CHAPTER 1506: BLIZZARD IN THE DESERT

Wearing light summer clothing, a young girl with a translucent veil carried a massive sword box on her back. Her leather shoes stepped onto the white water surface, and she looked up at the blizzard covering the sky.

"Miss Lin, both the compass and satellite positioning are malfunctioning, and there’s no signal for the satellite phone either," a man with darker skin standing beside the girl said in a raspy voice, "We’re trapped here."

Behind the man, several other figures followed, also dark-skinned, all wrapped in simple, thin clothing, carrying bags equipped with large water bottles.

At this moment, the edges of those water bottles had already begun to freeze slightly.

"It’s colder than the North Pole here already. We’re going to freeze to death soon, aren’t we?" he couldn’t help but continue.

"Don’t worry, the Divine Being will guide us forward."

The girl lowered her head, glanced around, and moved towards the area with the least blizzard.

The remaining figures exchanged glances, eventually choosing to follow her.

Crack—

Just then, beneath the ice and snow under their feet, a crisp sound seemed to echo.

A massive shadow rose from the ground behind them.

——

A speeding train entered the void.

Whoosh—

He Ao’s footsteps landed on the soft fine sand.

He lifted his head, gazing at the dense crescent-shaped dunes surrounding him.

The scorching sunlight poured down from the sky, burning his skin.

A slight cold wind blew over the sand and across his cheek.

This was the largest desert in the Main World.

This desert didn’t belong to Central Earth, nor to the Western Lands, situated in an area between the two, in the tropics.

Yet at this moment, in such blazing sunlight and arid surroundings, He Ao could still feel a slight chill.

He stepped forward, looking ahead.

Not far in front of him, at the end of a haze of yellow sand, as if a Divine Being had drawn a stroke on the land, creating a massive circular region.

The world within this circular area was misty, making it hard to discern anything inside, only scattered snowflakes crossed the boundary, falling into the surrounding desert.

He Ao took a step forward, instantly appearing before this circular region.

He lifted his head, glanced around.

Orange-gray hues slowly brightened in his pupils.

The surroundings exhibited an unusually calm demeanor, but at a fundamental level of the world, one could faintly see chaotic, twisted lines entwined together.

This space was ’fragmented’ and ’chaotic’, rendering it impossible for the Velora to reach here directly, nor to enter the circular region directly.

’Great K, please guide us.’

A faint, devout, girlish voice echoed in He Ao’s mind.

It was Lin Chichi’s voice.

She seemed lost in a certain area, ’praying’ in her heart.

This was also the first time He Ao had heard such a clear ’prayer’.

Previously, although many had prayed to ’K’, He Ao could sense these prayers’ existence through the City of Rong Guang and the maid dolls.

However, they mostly appeared like twisted, polluted whispers, overlapping, making it impossible to comprehend specific voices.

Of course, even now, the majority of ’prayers’ still resembled such overlapping whispers to He Ao.

But clearly, some ’prayers’ had ’changed’.

For instance, Lin Chichi.

After receiving K’s Grace multiple times, Lin Chichi seemed to have invisibly developed a strong faith in ’K’.

Moreover, it seemed to be pure faith, regardless of good or evil.

She believed in ’K’, not because of ’K’s’ nature, but solely for ’K’ itself.

Even if ’K’ were an Evil God, she would follow ’K’ unhesitatingly.

And this unwavering faith seemed to have undergone some kind of mutation, allowing her to genuinely convey her voice to ’K’.

This connection also allowed some pollution from the City of Rong Guang to naturally spread towards her through the link.

However, with her experience of multiple Graces, Lin Chichi’s pollution resistance had been tested, and these pollutants didn’t affect her significantly.

Naturally, Lin Chichi’s faith wasn’t so firm just today.

But He Ao previously couldn’t hear her ’prayer’ so clearly.

This was most likely related to He Ao’s own status. After he successfully ascended to become an Angel and stabilized his Reason, he gained the ’ability’ to truly listen to the believers’ voices.

And through Lin Chichi’s voice and faith, He Ao directly located her approximate position through the City of Rong Guang.

Yet, the location He Ao obtained wasn’t entirely ’accurate’.

Because he discovered that Lin Chichi’s location didn’t completely belong to the Main World but was in some crevice at its edge.

He Ao could only pinpoint the region nearest to the crevice where Lin Chichi was located.

And his current location was precisely the region nearest to that crevice.

He Ao turned his head, looking to his side.

Several modified off-road vehicles were parked there.

The vehicles were parked very close to the circular region, almost touching the boundary. One off-road vehicle was even half-immersed in the circular region, directly severed.

On the other off-road vehicles, some snowflakes were more or less covering them.

Numerous food and water supplies remained on the vehicles, with neat arrangements, indicating that the owners left only intending for a short absence, not planning a long-term exploration.

According to He Ao’s understanding of Lin Chichi, she wasn’t someone who acted rashly. Her mind was meticulous and wouldn’t recklessly park vehicles right next to dangerous areas.

The more likely plan she would adopt would be to park the car at a safe distance, keeping enough distance, then explore near the danger area, gather information, and cautiously advance step by step after ensuring safety.

He Ao’s gaze fell on that vehicle, whose front was severed by the circular region’s barrier.

Moreover, nobody would park, leaving half the vehicle plunged into a dangerous area.

He Ao turned his gaze back to the circular region before him. He reached out, catching a snowflake drifting from the circular region, a thought flashing through his mind — will this area expand?

He stretched out his hand, penetrating the border of this circular region.

A certain penetrating coldness transmitted from his fingertips, contrasting sharply with the burning desert sun upon him.

Then he took a step forward, his figure completely immersing into the circular area.

——

The earth trembled, the sky roared, and in the howling blizzard, the massive shadow’s outline slowly revealed a thirty-meter high figure.

"What is that?!"

The dark-skinned man raised his head, looking to the sky, trembling as he shouted.

Beside him, the figures following him also opened their mouths, babbling loudly in their native language.

Lin Chichi didn’t understand their local language, only lifting her head to gaze at the massive shadow within the blizzard.

"Snow Giant?"

She raised her hand, undoing the sword box strapped on her back, tossed it into the air, and opened the sword box’s opening.

A knight sword with intricate patterns instantly flew out from the sword box.

The girl raised her hand and grasped the knight sword in an instant.

The surging heat accompanied the hilt and spread over the girl’s body, melting the scattered ice crystals on her body.

The massive shadow reached out its hand from the blizzard, revealing a gigantic arm made of piled snow and ice crystals, grabbing the slashing knight sword.

Crack——

With a light sound, the surface snow on the palm was easily cut open, revealing the hard ice inside.

The ice hindered the girl’s move, making her sword light pause momentarily.

But this pause lasted only a moment, as the sharp sword light cut through the ice, severing the wrist, slicing off half of the snow giant’s arm.

Boom——

With the huge snow and ice arm crashing to the ground, the girl’s figure also fell back onto the soft snow.

The shadow in the blizzard revealed its complete form at this moment.

Its legs were short and stubby, with a conical torso, the tip of which supported a round head with dark eyes and a deep mouth.

On either side below the head extended two large, long arms capable of touching the ground.

At first glance, it seemed somewhat clumsy and cute, like a snowman made by children in the snow.

If it weren’t a more than thirty-meter-tall snow giant.

At this moment, this snow giant’s right arm had already been cut down by Lin Chichi by a third, with the entire huge palm severed along with it.

But even with such severe injury, the snow giant didn’t show any visible fury.

It merely opened its mouth and raised its left arm, swatting toward Lin Chichi and the group hiding not far behind her.

Lin Chichi stepped forward again, holding the knight sword, she slashed once more.

This time, she avoided the giant’s grasping arm and instead reached the giant’s shoulder, or rather where the arm connected to the body.

She twirled her sword light, completely severing the snow giant’s left arm.

With a thunderous sound, the entire left arm of the snow giant dropped to the ground.

Yet Lin Chichi’s movements didn’t stop; she promptly surged forward, charging toward the snow giant’s neck.

Aimed at stabbing the snow giant’s neck.

But as she thrust her sword, it seemed to land in nothing substantial. The seemingly solid neck was like it was made entirely of soft snowflakes, yielding entirely with a light stab.

Lin Chichi immediately switched from stabbing to slicing, attempting to cut through the snow giant’s neck.

And at that instant, several hard ice spikes suddenly emerged from beneath Lin Chichi’s feet, about to pierce through her body in an instant.

Even though Lin Chichi reacted very quickly, intending to withdraw her sword and leave immediately, she was still a step too late.

The sharp ice spikes sliced through her flesh, piercing her arm in an instant.

At this point, Lin Chichi no longer retreated; instead, she lifted the sword light, suddenly slashing downward.

The massive knight sword burst forth with dazzling brilliance, instantly cutting through the ice spikes and slicing through the immense snow-made body.

Propelling Lin Chichi’s body suddenly forward.

The sword light continually advanced inward, vertically splitting the snow giant’s entire body.

Boom——

The enormous body crashed to the ground, making a thunderous rumble.

Lin Chichi’s body fell backward, once again landing in the snow.

Bright red blood flowed from her arm, dripping onto the snow like blooming roses.

The figures who had just been hiding rushed up immediately, scrambling to help with hemostatic spray and bandages.

Lin Chichi refused their assistance, took the bandages and spray from them, quickly stopped the bleeding, applied simple treatment, and then wrapped her arm.

"How could there be such a large monster here?" The leading man, also the translator and leader of the small team, nervously and awkwardly wiped the sweat from his forehead as he stood by Lin Chichi, looking at the fallen massive snow giant and speaking with a tremble.

He actually had some contact with Extraordinary Power, or he wouldn’t have taken this job, and also knew that this ’Miss Lin’ beside him was a big shot, but he never thought she was so powerful, a monster that big, killed just like that.

"The odd thing would be if there weren’t monsters here," Lin Chichi shook her head slightly, binding her own wound with gauze while watching the snow giant lying on the ground, "But where there are monsters, there might be intelligent life. Finding those intelligent beings may give us hope to leave here."

Once she finished speaking, the man by her side had a sudden light in his eyes. He immediately turned around and conveyed the message to the others in the local language.

If Lin Chichi had said these words earlier, these people might not have believed, but now after Lin Chichi displayed her power, their confidence skyrocketed.

Seeing the excited crowd, Lin Chichi sighed softly, tightened the bandage, and looked at the vast blizzard ahead.

Is there really intelligent life? She didn’t know.

She said those words just to give these people hope.

They’ve been walking for so long and still haven’t found a way out.

These people were originally local guilds helping her find guides into the desert. Initially, she didn’t intend to venture deep into this dangerous area, just a simple investigation to determine some level of danger, then organize people to explore.

But plans never catch up with changes. Even though they kept a safe distance, they still ended up being encompassed by this mysterious area in an instant.

Even those left by the vehicles for rescue during danger and to call for help didn’t escape.

This made it impossible for them to even send out distress information.

If they hadn’t prepared a little food and firewood and the guides hadn’t been physically fit, losses would already have occurred at this point.

But even so, their morale was incredibly low. Without some hope, they may really give up and die here.

May K bless us, guiding our path forward.

After saying a prayer in her heart, Lin Chichi raised her hand, ready to put the knight sword back into the sword box.

"Miss Lin, look over there," at this moment, a shout came from beside her, from the leading translator who was excitedly pointing to the back side of the snow giant’s corpse, "There seems to be someone there."

Upon hearing these words, Lin Chichi’s first reaction was that the translator was hallucinating, but she still turned her head to look in the direction he was pointing.

In the dense blizzard, faint outlines of some figures started showing up.

They seemed to be guiding animals akin to horses, with somewhat bulky bodies, wearing thick clothes and armor-like things.

They were natives of this snowfield, not people who strayed in from the desert outside.

Lin Chichi reacted instantly.

Then, the figures in the blizzard seemed to see them as well.

These figures turned around, mounted their ’horses,’ and rapidly ran toward them.

"We’re here! Over here!" The translator beside Lin Chichi was immediately excited, waving to greet them.

The other guides around the translator also began waving their arms.

Lin Chichi, however, gripped the sword hilt.

The figures seemed to see their movements, riding their horses quickly toward this direction.

Boom——

Just at that instant, with a loud boom.

A massive snow giant emerged from the blizzard, blocking the figures’ front.

The cheers of the crowd around Lin Chichi came to an abrupt halt.

Rumble rumble rumble——

At the same time, more rumbling booms erupted from all directions.

One enormous shadow after another rose from the ground, walking out from the fierce wind and snow, blocking the blizzard and the sky.