Chapter 264 Suffering and Expectation

"Sister Bai... I'm so cold... How long will we have to go?"

In the snow, 500,000 people in Kangcheng lined up in a long queue and migrated to the south.

In the "Bai Yutang", a civilian force led by the two sisters of the Bai family, a young girl tried to move her short legs and shivered.

Hearing this, Bai Jin shook her head and put her hand into the little girl's cotton sleeve, using her body temperature to drive away the coldness of the other party.

She didn't know how long this migration would take.

As an evolver with non-combat abilities, Bai Jin was in the middle of the team with the elderly and children and was protected.

And Bai Jue, who could transform and had one of the best combat abilities in Kangcheng, led the way at the front of the team.

Snow tens of centimeters thick was not an exaggeration for the Northeast Snow Ridge.

But in the past, Kangcheng could use various engineering equipment to flatten and remove snow.

But now, Kangcheng has few vehicles available, lacks fuel, and needs to transport important supplies.

Therefore, the burden of opening the way fell on the shoulders of the evolvers.

With the evolvers opening the way, the little girl who was only a few years old in the large group behind could barely keep up with the pace of the team with her weak physical fitness.

Otherwise, the thick snow layer that reached the knee depth of an adult would exhaust the physical strength of such a child after walking at most one kilometer.

According to Professor Liu's prediction, it would take at least hundreds of kilometers to migrate south to avoid the severe cold.

Therefore, if there were no evolvers to open the way, many people would definitely die on the migration route.

But even though the Cannes officials headed by Qin Changyi had done their best to consider most of the people in Cannes, this migration was extremely difficult for many people.

The uneven mountain road, the cold air, and the whistling wind scraped their faces like a knife.

Especially for children, although moving would make their bodies warm, the great consumption of physical strength would also make them unable to hold on for long.

In order to take care of them, the large group would stop every two and a half hours.

The strong adult men collected dry firewood and branches nearby, and the women put the newly fallen snow in bottles and jars, melted it and boiled it over the campfire, and everyone kept warm around the campfire.

When everyone was warm, they saved the hot water and set off again.

When it was too cold on the road, it was a great happiness to drink a sip of hot water that was so hot that it blistered the tongue.

Moreover, holding it in your arms on the road can also drive away the cold for a while.

"Everyone! Camp on the spot! Stay here tonight! Those on duty, pay attention to alert!"

At this time, the voice came from the front of the large group, repeated over and over again, and passed to the tail of the team.

At the end of the team, there was a group of powerful evolvers who were behind the team.

In fact, there were also many evolvers in the middle of the team to ensure that any area encountered an emergency and could resist it in the first time.

If it weren't for the heavy snow, the team could actually be more compact.

However, opening a snowy road is also a very laborious task for evolvers.

The wider the road, the more physical and spiritual energy the evolvers will consume.

Therefore, they can only march southward in a long snake formation several meters wide.

"Great!"

Many people breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the order to camp on the spot from the front.

The walk this day was a full 50 kilometers.

If there were no severe cold weather, it would not be too difficult for ordinary people whose physical fitness has improved a lot.

But in severe cold weather, every half an hour of walking is torture.

In order to maintain body temperature, the water in the boiled kettle was finished when they temporarily camped last time.

If they don't stop, many people are in danger of freezing to death.

After a while, everyone divided the work and cooperated to light the bonfire, and surrounded it in circles to dispel the cold that had accumulated before.

Because they knew they would camp here tonight, everyone relaxed a lot.

Many people took out the food they brought and put it in a small pot to boil.

On Bai Jin's side, many women propped up a big pot and prepared to boil a pot of meat soup.

Because there are too many children in Bai Yutang, most of them can't cook for themselves, so they cook in a big pot.

The children are also very sensible. They thank the uncles who gave them firewood and added firewood to the campfire.

"Xiao Su, what are you doing?"

At this time, Bai Jue's voice sounded beside the campfire.

Tonight, they camped here to rest. As a pioneer, Bai Jue didn't have to stay at the head of the team and returned to her side to rest.

"Sister Xiaobai, I'm burning incense for the big tiger!"

Hearing Bai Jue's question, the little girl said seriously.

On the ground in front of her, there was a thumb-sized, somewhat abstract wooden tiger.

It can be seen that she carved it herself.

In her hand, there was a grass stem pulled off the roadside.

While the rice was not yet cooked, she was bringing the grass stem to the campfire, lighting one end, and then inserting it into the snow pile in front of the wooden tiger.

"Burning incense for the big tiger? Who taught you?"

Seeing this, Bai Jue said with a somewhat unnatural expression.

Originally, during the discussion before the migration, Yichen proposed to ask for help from Cangnian's family.

But after a discussion, everyone gave up the idea.

It's not that they don't believe in the friendliness of Cangnian's family, but they are afraid that Cangnian's family will hurt the people of Kangcheng.

But Kangcheng really has nothing that can be used to ask Cangnian's family.

Whether it was killing the Queen Insect or dealing with the monks in Chanlan Temple, these were all actions of Cang Nian's family to protect themselves or to help Kang Cheng for the sake of profit.

Now, asking Cang Nian's family to help Kang Cheng migrate would not benefit Cang Nian's family at all, but would only cause trouble.

Why would Kang Cheng do that?

So, after some discussion, the final decision was not to disturb Cang Nian's family.

Otherwise, such an aggressive behavior would definitely ruin Cang Nian's family's good impression of Kang Cheng.

This is not the point.

The point is that after ruining the good impression, Cang Nian's family would most likely not agree to Kang Cheng's unreasonable request.

After Bai Jue understood, she felt that if she put herself in Cang Nian's position, there was no reason to help Kang Cheng.

Therefore, she had long lost hope for this.

As a result, the child she was familiar with was burning incense for Cang Nian, and she didn't know what to think.

"I heard from uncles and aunts that big tigers are pure yang and are not afraid of cold!

So, I hope I am like a big tiger and not afraid of cold!"

However, the little girl said very seriously to Bai Jue's question.

Hearing this, Bai Jue couldn't help but look around.

In front of the bonfires, there were no busy people. Many of them were lighting grass stems, sticking them in the ground, closing their eyes, and muttering something.

Even though some of them had small tiger statues, some had nothing, just lit incense and closed their eyes to pray.

The suffering that cannot be avoided makes people yearn for beauty.

And the yearning for beauty often has a place to rely on.

Now, people who are suffering in the great migration subconsciously pray to the most powerful existence in their impression.

Boom boom boom...

But at this time, the ground began to tremble, and something was rushing from the north to the south!