There was no snowfall or strong wind on the four hills. There was only silence and coldness like death.

The cave where the Ice Fox lives is winding and complex, but the surface of the corridor is smooth and flat. It is nearly two meters wide and high, enough to accommodate several people in and out at the same time.

As Liu Wuxin said, foxes cannot make such things. It’s not that they can’t do it, but that there is no need. Based on their petite figure, the hole has reached the upper limit of demand as it has reached the hole’s upper limit.

Following the active little fox, Su Zhou entered it along the corridor.

Then he realized that there were actually stairs in this corridor... and the size was exactly the same as the human body shape.

Foxes will not make such things.

"really……"

In this cold alien star, which does not even have wind, there are still traces of human action. Su Zhou had already heard the exclamation of Liu Wuxin and Tang Yuan behind him. They were surprised why there were ladders suitable for humans to walk in the corridor where the fox lived, but the young man who had long guessed in his heart was unmoved.

"Incredible, are there humans here?!"

Liu Wuxin used his feet to sense the hardness of the steps, and then had to admit that in the cold ice of more than 100 degrees below zero, the corridor built on the ice cap was incredible, and even he needed some effort to break it. This was something that the little foxes could not have done before. They had to have humans and had to be practiced to process this kind of ice.

"strangeness……"

Tang Yuan looked around with some confusion, and murmured: "There are traces of human soul dissipation here recently..."

With doubt, the two people following Su Zhou saw the back of the young man who had stopped moving at the corner of the cave corridor.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Wuxin asked, and he walked over Su Zhou and looked forward: "It happened..."

Immediately afterwards, he opened his mouth and stopped vocalizing.

Because what appeared in front of the three of them were large and exquisite reliefs and murals.

The slew of cloud patterns, freehand carvings, and various classical murals that can be called works of art fill the entire corridor.

Although the light here is dim and ordinary people cannot see the contents of these murals and reliefs, who can't even care about the sight of the people present? Su Zhou's eyes swept across the entire corridor. These ancient human creatures with history of at least over a thousand years are still full of their own charm. Whether it is the magical and magnificent scenery of the Heavenly Palace above or the fairy fox running between the clouds and mountains, it is impossible to take their eyes off.

In addition, there are a lot of words on it, but they are too distorted and abstract. It seems to be derived from some ancient hieroglyphics and is the ancestor of the current Chinese characters.

"This is at least something that only creatures with thumbs can do..."

In the corridor, Liu Wuxin's eyes lit up and watched. He looked around and couldn't help but murmured: "There is indeed human beings here..."

The little fox leading the way was still waiting at the end of the corridor. Su Zhou let out a breath. Instead of continuing to watch the murals, he walked forward. Liu Wuxin and Tang Yuan took pictures of all this with their own agent terminal while following Su Zhou.

Finally, Su Zhou came to the end of this corridor.

And here, he saw a human corpse that had completely turned into a mummy and rocky.

The corpse leaned against the end of the mural and relief, blending with the entire wall. He was wearing some ancient costume, and all the colors retreated over a long period of time. If he did not observe carefully, some people might regard it as part of the mural, or the abnormal bulge of the wall and ignore it.

But Su Zhou did not. He saw this skeleton and the carving knife that had been rotten and broken for many years by the skeleton.

"...I have been dead for at least a thousand years..."

Because of his talent for spiritualization, Tang Yuan studied in the Underworld course, and he could easily judge the year of death of a corpse, even as accurate as minutes.

But facing this ancient corpse located in the alien star, he hesitated: "The strength before death may be the most extraordinary level... He is a person whose spiritual energy is gradually cutting off his age. He died after carving the last relief."

"But why..."

No one answered this question.

At the same time, waves of spiritual power fluctuations came from the end of the corridor, which immediately made the three of them raise their eyes from the corpse and look at the other end.

...

The elder is leading the foxes to perform a sacrifice dance in front of the holy lake.

Although it is a dance, it is actually a special step that can mobilize all the ice foxes to resist the cold and control the power of ice. Under the guidance of an elder, this power can be gathered into one and sacrificed.

The foxes danced very smoothly. Even the little foxes who participated in the sacrificial first time at a young age learned it quickly under the guidance of their elders, as if they had inherited memories in their bloodlines. They shook their tails and stepped on the right steps to form a regular circle, and then sang and danced against the corpses of several ice foxes in this circle.

Death, death, death means rebirth. Only when an old fox is dead can a new fox be allowed to be born.

The number of seaweed and swimming fish in the holy lake is limited. They can only provide the diet of eighty foxes at most. This is because everyone eats as low as possible. Only when an old fox dies can the new little fox provide more food.

What's more, this is also a contract...a contract with the Holy Lake.

Because there is a evil ghost suppressing the holy lake.

Only by holding this ceremony from time to time and offering sacrifices to the holy lake can the ice fox live peacefully in the cave.

There was once a generation of foxes that were not ready to continue sacrificing, which seemed meaningless to them. The result was that the inexplicable voice of the evil ghost killed most of the foxes. It was the elders of that generation who tried their best to suppress the evil ghosts back to the holy lake, and that also caused the ice foxes to lose a lot of fox mouths and wisdom.

The ceremony was approaching its end, accompanied by a large number of ice-blue light spots flying out of each fox, and then condensed on the corpses of ice foxes in the center of the circle, condensed into a light ball that was almost like a cocoon, and the elder's eyes lit up with a faint blue light.

Then, an invisible force lifted the corpses and sent them into the holy lake emitting light golden light.

For a moment, we could see that the ice-blue luster began to spread in the lake water, and a large number of strange-shaped white fish came forward to bite and swallow these fox corpses, and the fragments of flesh and blood sank into the seaweed and became their nutrients.

But what is strange is that both fish and seaweed are very regular in their actions and arrangements... The light cocoon on the fox corpse is broken, and then it is connected with all the seaweed and fish in the holy lake, vaguely turning into an unknown but unexpectedly huge formation.

It seems to be suppressing something, and foxes, seaweeds and fish are part of this seal. The cycle of life and death prey between them forms a conceptual circle. If this ingenious design is allowed to be seen by Raphae, it will inevitably shout "Excellent".

But the foxes don't know this.

They do not know that their daily sacrifices are actually part of a huge seal.

They also don’t know what their mission is, and why they need to maintain this seal.

They just feel very tired and very tired - this is true for every sacrifice. The stronger the fox is, the more tired the more after the sacrifice is over.

And the old fox and the elder are especially.

——That day is coming soon.

It thought so.

Moving stars have appeared in the sky, confirming the prophecies of the ancestors, so the next beautiful things should be fulfilled one by one.

Warm residence, a place where you can run happily, eat special fish... and more predictions will come true.

The elder was a little tired. This time, the sacrifice consumed too much of what was called "spiritual power" by the soul of the ancestors. It was no longer a simple force, but also a pillar that supported the life of the old fox. Every sacrifice meant that all foxes needed to contribute almost all their spiritual power, so the stronger the spiritual power, the more harm they suffered.

The eyes were almost impossible to open... The old fox really wanted to sleep for a long time. Too many elders couldn't wake up like this. It seemed that he was no exception. However, the elder's skills had already been handed over to his fourth grandson, and it seemed that he could not accept it when he fell asleep like this...

But just when the old fox's tired eyelids could not lift up, the heavy footsteps of the ice fox came.

The elder raised his head in a wary manner and looked at the entrance of the cavity, and all the foxes looked over there.

Then they saw the three foxes, with three tall and upright creatures with sparse fur, strange and strange creatures, entered the cave.

Originally, we should be alert, this is **'s instinct. They should be afraid of such creatures and then launch an attack.

But for some reason, there was only a strange tranquility in the elder's heart.

strangeness.

Is that look really strange?

Why…feel so familiar?

...

When Su Zhou and the other two entered the huge semicircular underground cavity, the first thing they wanted was dozens of ice foxes who were turning their heads and staring at them.

More than a hundred sapphire-like eyes were staring at them with curiosity, alertness, doubt and confusion.

Then, immediately afterwards, there were sounds of tail slapping on the ground, as if cheering.

Click, immediately, all the foxes rushed towards Su Zhou and others. Liu Wuxin even subconsciously prepared for the battle, but soon, he realized that he had overreacted.

Because these foxes not only had no malice, but were all heading for Su Zhou.

For a moment, Su Zhou, who had not reacted, was surrounded by large buns of furry. Ice foxes were either rubbing against Su Zhou's trousers, biting his shoelaces, and even jumping on him, biting the button and shaking them.

"Okay, be good, don't rush over..."

Su Zhou wanted to extend his hand to comfort the obviously excited foxes, but unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, at least seven or eight heads moved closer to his palms, rubbing enthusiastically, making the situation even more chaotic.

"...I'm so popular, right?"

For a moment, he had no way of figuring out what was going on, and could only deal with the many enthusiastic furry with laughter and cry: "I know I'm very handsome, but I didn't expect it to be the same in the eyes of the fox."

Of course, not all foxes are close to Su Zhou. In the noise, several obviously older foxes came to Tang Yuan. They sat quietly next to the young man's feet, as if they were enjoying a certain feeling on each other.

Only by centering on Liu Wu's heart can you see a blank circle without a fox - over-exercise, it seems that not only the opposite sex, but even the fox will not like it.

This immediately made the spiritual martial practitioners a little angry: "Why, why are the foxes like this?!"

"Is this the sign of life I discovered before..."

Tang Yuan looked around and couldn't help but feel confused: "But let's not talk about why it is a fox, how do these foxes survive?"

At this time, Su Zhou raised his head from the fox's encirclement, and he looked at the other side of the cavity, an underground lake with light golden light released.

"There is a strong psychic radiation there, and there are a large number of special spiritual fish and algae living inside."

Saying this, Su Zhou's face was serious: "It was the radiation that melted the ice, which brought warmth to this underground cave, and raised the fish and algae to provide these foxes with survival."

"And aren't you familiar with the fluctuations of the psychic energy radiation? Isn't that the fluctuations of the spiritual power engine - just a very old model."

Liu Wuxin also looked towards the underground lake. He closed his eyes, sensed it with his spiritual power, then opened his eyes, and nodded slowly: "Indeed, no wonder you guessed that there was a flying shuttle buried here. The energy core of that magic weapon is very similar to the energy fluctuations at the bottom of the lake."
To be continued...