March lifted her head, looking at the snowflakes fluttering all across the sky. Her little face was slightly red as she sighed at the extreme environment on Jarilo-VI, "... It really is an ice-covered world!"
Stelle nodded, copying March's movement and using the same tone to say the same sigh, "It really is an ice-covered world!"
"You're a repeater, you know!" March turned her head and scolded lightly.
Nero shivered once in the snowfield and lifted his hands to rub his arms.
Even after putting on Dan Heng's clothes, the environment of Jarilo was still too cold for him.
Although after getting stronger his tolerance for extreme environments had increased a lot, something that should feel cold would still feel cold.
Nero raised one hand in front of him, cupping his palm over his mouth and breathing a few puffs of warm air into it.
Jarilo's environment made him not want to speak.
"Ugh, this whole white stretch… which direction are we supposed to go?" March turned her head toward Dan Heng and asked.
At times like this, you really could only rely on the reliable Teacher Dan Heng.
Dan Heng's voice was still calm, not rushed or slow, "According to the coordinate tracking, the target is not far ahead."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get moving~" March put her hands on her hips, her tone full of anticipation.
Nero said through chattering teeth, "Hurry, hurry, I can't stay here for another second!"
"So… we actually have to walk farther…" Stelle started complaining.
March folded her arms and nodded, looking all righteous, "Exactly, not even a spare snow-vehicle. Our train is really too stingy! Look at what state Nero has frozen into!"
Dan Heng paused, then said, "Do you still remember what you turned the previous snow-vehicle into?"
March froze for a moment, as if recalling something. Then she quietly turned her head away, her momentum shrinking in an instant.
"Let's… change the topic…"
March mumbled, shifting her gaze everywhere else.
Just from her awkward posture and the wandering of her eyes, it wasn't hard to guess, the fate of the previous snow-vehicle in this reckless beauty's hands must have been disastrous.
Not necessarily destroyed beyond recognition, but at least missing pieces, an arm here, a leg there, definitely.
Finally, March's gaze landed on Nero, and she walked over to place both hands on his face.
"Nero, you're frozen, right? I didn't think you were this afraid of the cold. Lemme warm you up."
But March's hands had long since become ice-cold in this environment, and the moment they touched him, Nero nearly jumped out of his skin.
The boy quickly grabbed her hands and moved them away.
"I'm just afraid of cold, but I can still handle freezing temperatures. And besides, your hands are freezing, how is that supposed to warm me up?" Nero looked at March with a completely serious face.
"Ahahaha…" March laughed awkwardly.
Behind them, Stelle and Dan Heng exchanged a look, then both sighed helplessly.
Immediately after, Dan Heng had no choice but to emphasize once more to two rookies and one chaos-maker, "Remember, every step we take must be cautious. We still know far too little about this world."
"Relax!" March said with a smile.
"The four of us cooperate so well. Any problem that comes up, we can swish swish solve in two moves!"
"Stelle has a Stellaron in her body, I have the one-and-only Six-phased Ice, Nero is strong enough to beat a Doomsday Beast until its head breaks and bleeds, and Dan Heng has… uh, some kind of mysterious past that we don't know.
"Anyone who dares mess with us, serves them right if they get unlucky!"
A smile gradually appeared on Stelle's face, she was already imagining the day the name "Galactic Baseballer" would echo across the universe.
The tall, grey-haired beauty folded her arms and lifted her chin proudly, "Serves them right!"
"…How long has your repeating condition been going on?" March complained again.
Stelle narrowed her eyes without saying a word.
But whether it was her golden eyes squinting into a slit or the smile curling up at her lips, both seemed to say something.
A wave of "brat energy" came right at them.
"Ugh…"
Dan Heng's gaze shifted from complicated to simply helpless. Not to mention how his introduction always seemed to fall flat, March and Stelle had absolutely no sense of danger.
He looked again at the hometown boy whose face was sagging from the cold.
Even though Nero wasn't much better than the other two, at least he was a bit more sensible.
"Enough talking. Hurry up, hurry up!"
Nero stomped his feet on the spot, anxiety rising in his voice, "If you don't move, I'm going ahead myself!"
The three finally looked at Nero together and decided to proceed.
March, still full of energy, shouted out a slogan, "Let's go! Bravely explore the unknown, this is the spirit of Trailblazing!"
The four began walking against the cold wind, letting large flakes of snow blow into their faces. They watched the ice crystals drift behind them as their struggle across the snowfield left deep and shallow footprints, footprints soon buried by falling snow.
After walking a few hundred meters, besides the disappearance of the mountains and dark rocks on both sides, nothing much changed in the scenery ahead, white snow, ice sculptures of the Antimatter Legion and humans, and some collapsed construction debris shaken down by the blizzard.
They continued forward.
After several more minutes, something new finally entered their field of view.
A blue creature that looked somewhat like a bird was wandering aimlessly across the snowfield.
It definitely wasn't lost in the blizzard; its movements were agile, its body flexible and strong. Its aimless wandering wasn't because it couldn't find the way, more likely, it simply lacked purpose. Its actions had no direction, and even its ability to think seemed extremely weak.
When Dan Heng saw the blue creature, he frowned slightly, lightly held the group back, and slowed his steps.
Reliable Teacher Dan Heng explained, "This area hasn't been eroded yet, but monsters born from the Rift are already running loose. The Stellaron's influence on this world is probably unusual."
"As for the one ahead, it's called a Frostspawn, one of the simplest crystal elements in the Rift."
"So what? Are we going around it?"
March decided to hand decision-making to the experienced Dan Heng, but right after she finished speaking, she heard Nero yell, "Huh? Detour? Then how long do we have to stay in this frozen wasteland!"
The boy clearly didn't want to walk the long way around, or rather, he didn't want to stay in this terrible cold environment a second longer than necessary.
March turned toward Nero, about to say something, when she noticed the white-haired boy's eyes were locked tightly onto the Frostspawn.
She didn't know if she was imagining it, but March felt that in those grey eyes, she could see rage solidifying like something real, burning and flickering like fire.
"Look at the way it's spreading that cold air everywhere, because it exists, this place feels even colder!"
Nero spoke with an annoyed face, "Damn it! I'll show you 'cooling'!"
Muttering a curse, Nero casually grabbed a nearby Ice-Sculpted Voidranger and used it like a weapon. With a leap and a downward strike, he charged straight at the creature.
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