In the snowstorm, the family was slowly abandoned by the large group. Not only was Li Ke unprepared for this sudden event, but they might not be fully prepared as well.
But things were always like this in the world, and not everyone could be fully prepared every time.
And the result of this was that Li Ke wanted to leave this place even more. And he was getting more and more impatient. But the snowstorm was getting stronger, so he could only stop thinking about leaving today. Instead, he sent the group off and led them to Sejuani's tribe.
Along the way, Li Ke could only hear the whistling of the cold wind and the stifled cries of the children. In fact, they didn't know how they would be treated because in the past, Sejuani had never forgiven her enemies.
But they had no choice because they could live a little longer this way.
"In such an environment, even if there is no oppressor, the strong will become the oppressor. This is not something that can be determined by a person's ideals and character. It is a 'right' caused by the lack of resources."
After coming to this conclusion, Li Ke tightened his cloak. Due to the increasingly heavy snowstorm, even he felt a little cold. Although he felt that this had a lot to do with his unhappiness, the cold here still made him shiver uncontrollably.
"This year's winter is a little colder."
Oudir also tightened his cloak. Li Ke saw that there were crystal shards of ice on his nose. Seeing this funny scene, Li Ke quickly touched his nose and touched a piece of ice. He also discovered that the beards that he had grown during this period of time were all standing upright or had frozen into spikes.
"Even the hot air exhaled from the mouth and nose can freeze on my face …"
He sighed and rubbed his face hard to remove all the ice crystals from his face. But he found that after doing so, his face felt even colder in the cold wind.
"The cold here is really uncomfortable."
He had only heard of this kind of cold before, but now it had become a fact that he experienced it personally. And the most uncomfortable thing was that the temperature here was dropping too fast. A few hours ago, he could still fight bare-chested, but now it had reached the point where he felt uncomfortable, or even uncomfortable.
"This is not the coldest time, so if we didn't have enough harvest this year, I wouldn't have let them join us."
Oudir sighed again after speaking. He sighed in front of Li Ke a lot these days, but even Li Ke couldn't help but sigh at this time, so he didn't care too much about Oudir's sigh. Instead, he took off his cloak and put it on a little girl who was shivering. She was now walking unsteadily and nodding her head from time to time... Her mother was also in a daze in the snowstorm. She was struggling on the verge of fainting. She couldn't even see her child.
"Wake up, we're almost at our camp."
Rubbing the girl's little face, Li Ke passed some of the life force that he had just plundered to her, allowing the girl to regain her spirit. Her mother also woke up at this moment. She looked at Li Ke in horror and didn't dare to speak, but she still mustered up the courage to hug her daughter's clothes tightly. There was an abnormal blush on her face, and her words were a little incoherent. Her other hand, however, was tightly clenched.
"Sir Immortal … This child has only lived for nine summers, she … I …"
Looking at her frightened face and the silent attitude of the people around, Li Ke knew that she was overthinking, so he just shook his head.
"You can return this cloak to me when the time comes. I don't need your repayment."
The cold wind blew snow on his body, and he couldn't help but shiver. But he just turned around, returned to Oudir's side, and continued their depressing walk in the snow. As a result, he found that the bearskin cloak on Oudir's body was gone, and the wine on his body was also gone. This made Li Ke couldn't help but smile, and he looked at Oudir who was shivering in the snow with him.
"I thought I was the only idiot."
"They are now the people of the Winter Claw Tribe, and I'm just concerned about the members of the tribe."
Oudir was a little stubborn, but his sigh exposed his heart.
"… I'm just letting the people of the tribe live on."
He showed a melancholy face, but soon showed a smile because he saw Li Ke couldn't help but rub his arms.
"It's all the same to me."
Shaking his head, Li Ke, who saw something happy, the surrounding cold was not a problem. So even without a cloak, he didn't feel depressed and cold for the rest of the journey. The reason for this situation was also very simple. When he felt that he couldn't do anything, seeing someone who had the same thoughts as him would indeed make him feel better.
The team walked for nearly an hour before they saw the camp in the distance, which became blurry in the snow. The people who followed Li Ke and Oudir also began to stir, but because the snow was too heavy, Li Ke couldn't hear their voices very clearly. He could only vaguely hear "What if she doesn't accept us?" "Will we die?" This kind of words made him think about what if Sejuani doesn't accept them. If she chased them away, would he just stand by and watch?
However, his worries were unnecessary because not long after they saw the campsite, the War Matriarch rode a huge wild boar and led a group of knights over. She stopped in front of the panicked group of people.
"Where's your Matriarch of War? Where's Cherna? Get her to come out and see me! "
Sejuani rode on her battle boar majestically and swept a glance at the people who were about to collapse from the snow and revealed a cruel smile.
"The great Matriarch of War, Sejuani! Our Matriarch of War has left us. She thinks that she's no longer worthy of being called the Matriarch of War, so she and her blood alliance willingly stayed in the Melting Ice Tribe's hunting ground. "
A tall man stood out from the crowd. He trembled as he knelt in front of Sejuani. Then, he removed the tribal symbol from his neck and threw it into the snow in front of him. This action seemed to make him feel great pain and humiliation. Tears flowed out of his eyes, and before they fell, they were frozen and turned into ice crystals. His voice also became like his body, full of trembling.
"We … are no longer her people, the great Matriarch of War, the powerful Sejuani! We thirst for your leadership and protection until the last drop of our blood is shed! "
Upon hearing the man's heart-wrenching screams, Sejuani chuckled. She laughed heartily.
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