Chapter 21: A Frightful Night of Wind and Snow

  When the first loud horn sounded, Hansheng City fell into chaos.

  The second loud whistle exacerbated the chaos, with people and horses toppling over in the streets.

  But when the third horn sounded, the entire Froststar City fell into a dead silence!

  The sky completely darkened, and the breath of death began to spread all over Hanshing City.

  "The three loud horn sounds..." Su Qi Nian's body shook violently, and she almost fainted.

  Su Dong and Su Ning hurriedly supported their father, Su Dong curiously asked: "What does the three loud horn blasts mean?"

  Su Ning gritted his teeth and remained silent, while Su Qiyan spoke in a hoarse voice, choking with sobs: "The blue-eyed devil, riding on twin-headed ferocious wolves bigger than oxen, came from the north..."

  "Snow Demon!" Su Dong was taken aback, exclaiming in surprise: "Impossible! It's already May now, how can the Snow Demon cross over the four northern countries and borders to directly arrive at Hansheng City?!"

  Su Qiannian's face turned pale, and he countered, "Have you ever seen snow in May?"

  One sentence made Su Dong's heart filled with a thorough chill!

  Look up, the night is getting darker.

  The biting north wind blew a large piece of snowflakes on Su Dong's face, not painful, but extremely cold.

  ……

  The three loud horn sounds, the Cold Star City begins from despair, turning towards madness!

  A family is in a state of distress as their infant, less than a month old, wails and cries, causing anxiety to those around.

  The young father walked to the crib and gently stroked the baby's chubby cheeks with his hand, his eyes filled with tears.

  "Son, don't blame your father, if you must blame, then blame the heavens for being blind! Letting you be born at this time."

  After saying that, the young father stretched out his hand to cover the baby's mouth and nose. The mother beside him cried like a tearful person!

  Finally, the baby gradually stopped breathing, and his small face began to turn purple.

  A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is not just this one instance, the entire Froststar City has completely fallen into madness!

  After all, the two words "Snow Demon" are really too shocking!

  For countless years, they have threatened this continent, and innumerable lives have been brutally slaughtered by the Snow Demon time and time again!

  Humans are no match for those blue-eyed devils!

  ……

  Su Dong and Su Ning walked with gloomy faces through the deep snow towards the Wu Guan.

  Su Dong had already changed the four double python arrays in his home to four phantom arrays. Those who entered without knowing the truth would experience hallucinations, feel uncomfortable all over their body, and have a dizzy head.

  Assuming that Xue Mo really broke into Hansheng City, Su Qi Nian could hide in the underground cave and rely on the power of the formation to protect herself.

  But Su Dong was not confident, after all, he had never seen a snow demon before. According to legend, they were called the embodiment of the devil, and Su Dong did not know what kind of creature that was, or whether his formation would be effective against them.

  The streets were empty, littered with discarded items everywhere. The three loud blasts of the air raid siren shattered people's hearts and guts. How could ordinary citizens still have the presence of mind to care about their belongings? They hastily ran back home in a flurry.

  The Heavenly Star Martial Hall was brightly lit, exuding a solemn and murderous atmosphere.

  Before entering the door, Su Dong had already met Zhou Xing's proud disciple, Xuan Yuanfeng. Lowering his voice, Xuan Yuanfeng said: "The Martial Arts Academy has been fully mobilized. I heard that this time, the two great spiritual warriors of Hansheng City have joined forces and are going to make a breakthrough out of the city!"

  Hansheng City has two strong men of the Spiritual Martial level. One is Yang Taishi, the master of the Tianxing Wuguan, a fourth-level Spiritual Martial artist! The other is Tong Yufeng, the city lord, a third-level Spiritual Martial artist!

  Only those who are above the strong spiritual warriors can be considered as spiritual martial artists. Su Dong had seen Yang Taishi take action, his control over spiritual energy was top-notch, and he was also the most powerful existence in the entire Hansheng City!

  "Leave the city?" Su Dong hesitated for a moment and said, "The city wall is also a layer of protection. Why give up the city wall and not defend it, but instead risk going out of the city to kill?"

  Xuan Yuanfeng said, "The two spiritual warriors think that this time is just an accidental event, it's very likely that a small group of snow demons wandered nearby, if they really clashed, they might not necessarily lose."

  "Besides, if it's really the Snow Demon Army, staying in the city will only lead to a more miserable death. As long as we get out of the city, there's the vast wilderness, and maybe, just maybe, we'll have a chance."

  Su Dong nodded, the terror of Xue Mo was well-known to all. If the Snow Demon army were to lay siege to the city, whether they defended it or not made no difference, for their fate would be sealed - death!

  Leading the army out of the city, at least there is still a mobile advantage.

  Three people walked into the martial arts hall, only to see a group of instructors from the martial arts hall urgently mobilizing their troops, distributing weapons and emergency kits to the warriors.

  Su Dong and Su Ning, Xuan Yuan Feng, each took their equipment.

  The Tianxing Martial Hall is the strongest fighting institution in the city, even more powerful than the City Defense Department. The equipment it distributes is not only complete but also includes precious spiritual medicine and dry rations made from Lingguo.

  They assembled quickly, and once they were all gathered, the City Defense Army split into four routes, the Tianxing Martial Arts Academy army also split into four routes, a total of eight troops, who charged out of Hansheng City overnight and rushed into the vast mountains.

  For some reason, Yang Taizhen assigned Su Dong to the South Route, while Su Ning was in charge of the Southwest Route as a scout, not far apart.

  To the north of Hansheng City is Wufeng Mountain, and after passing through Wufeng Mountain, it is the old nest of Bai Qing and Bai Xiaoya, two little foxes, Baitou Mountain! After crossing Baitou Mountain are the four northern countries, and after passing through the four northern countries is the extreme north wilderness area, where the Snow Demon clan lives.

  So Hansheng City is the most dangerous area to the north, Su Dong and Su Ning are both on the southern road, the situation will be much better, at least the probability of encountering Xue Mo is not high.

  Su Dong's team of about fifty people, led by Instructor Ma Jin, headed to the southern highway to guard the retreat route of Hansheng City.

  The city of Hansheng is surrounded by mountains, except for the southern road leading to the imperial capital, all the rest are mountain roads, so defending the retreat may not be difficult, but it's extremely important.

  As for Su Ning's Southwest Road, going to Shuangying Mountain to scout out the situation is a bit worse than Su Dong's team, but it's still far better than directly heading north.

  Starting from the south gate, Su Dong's team rushed all the way and arrived on this main road leading to the imperial capital. They set up camp and guarded it, with mountains on both sides and a man-made sandstone road in between. The heavy snow had already completely covered the road.

  There are always people from Hanshing City fleeing to the imperial capital from the south road, but unfortunately, the snowy weather makes it difficult for vehicles to travel. These people also left in a hurry and were not prepared for the cold weather, so many of them fell into the predicament of being frozen and lost.

  Su Dong began to feel that it was not right to let his father and the Bai family sisters brave the heavy snow on the road. At this time, night had already fallen, and many people were getting lost on their way, waiting for them would be hunger and cold, and if things went wrong, they might even freeze to death!

  A woman with a little girl was both frozen and hungry, enduring the heavy snow and cold, resting for a while by the side of the road.

  "Mother, I'm hungry!" The little girl cried out in the darkness.

  "Don't cry, when we get to someone's home, mom will buy you a pancake to eat."

  "Uh-huh." The little girl nodded obediently.

  Su Dong couldn't help but furrow her brow. Hansheng City was isolated in the northern country, and within 200 miles, there were hardly any households. Where would they go to find food?

  Thinking of this, Su Dong walked over and handed a piece of pastry made by Xinggu to the little girl. The little girl grabbed the pastry and took a bite in a hurry, saying "Thank you, brother!"

  Su Dong said, "It's easy to run into problems if we set out on a snowy day without making proper preparations. Let's head back to the city while we still have energy. It's already midnight and there hasn't been any news from ahead, it might be a false rumor."

  The woman hesitated after hearing Su Dong's words. After all, traveling on a snowy night was really too difficult.

  At this time, only the instructor Ma Jin walked over with big strides, snatched the pancake made by Xing Gu from the little girl's hand, and said fiercely: "This is high-grade military rations provided by the martial arts school! It's not for these commoners to eat!"

  "Do you know how much silver a piece of the star valley's military rations costs? If everyone in the martial arts hall was like you, the hall would have gone bankrupt long ago!"

  The little girl was so scared that she burst into tears, her mother quickly hugged her and hastily retreated. Ma Jin and Su Dong were soldiers, and ordinary people had always had a natural fear of soldiers.

  Su Dong's face suddenly turned cold, and he chased after them, taking out two pieces of spiritual valley-made flatbread and forcibly stuffing them into the woman and little girl.

  "Here you go, this is what I've given you, see who dares to grab it!?!" Su Dong raised an eyebrow and deliberately said loudly: "Bullying a child, is this all the courage you have?"

  It's been two days since the Ya'an earthquake. Of course we should pray for our compatriots, but last night I didn't sleep at all, thinking about some issues.

  Xiao Jiu is a rather serious person and can't understand why every time he encounters disaster, it's always so tragic.

  Another kindergarten collapsed, last time Wenchuan 8 magnitude, collapsed, this time Ya'an 7 magnitude, also collapsed. Is it that with today's technology and productive forces, we can't build houses that can withstand a 7 or 8 magnitude earthquake? Or is it that some people just don't want to build such houses?

  How high have housing prices risen? But even with such expensive houses, they are still as fragile as tofu!

  The road is impassable, the disaster area is surrounded, where is our helicopter?

  Five years ago was a disaster, due to various problems, delayed rescue, countless deaths and injuries. Five years later, it's the same again. What about next time? Will it still be the same?

  We can't change nature, but we must fight back! We must make progress in sorrow!

  Continue to pray for blessings and pay attention to everything in Ya'an.