Chapter 624: The Boy in the Ice and Snow

In this world, there are many regions unknown to Muggles. They are scattered all over the world, silently maintaining various scenery for thousands of years. X23US. COM updates the fastest

Of course, the reason why these areas are unknown to Muggles is mostly because of the various natural or man-made dangers that exist in them.

Such as the fire dragon farm in Romania, the ghost swamp deep in the Manchak Swamp in the United States, and the world's largest fire crab reserve in the Danakil Desert in Ethiopia, etc., are some of the more famous places in these areas.

The father and son of Tavon, who had met Maca next to Fisher's house before, are now slowly marching against the violent snowstorm in a no-man's land completely isolated from the Muggle world.

This is Iceland, an island land that approaches the north of the world.

"Sit down and rest."

Walking in the continuous snowstorm is quite exhausting. Even ordinary wizards will be afraid of this strange glacier area that is swept by snowstorms all year round, not to mention the strange combination of this pair of squibs and children.

Under his father's instructions, Ens pouted secretly, and sat down in the lee behind a huge ice block. Although his whole body was about to freeze, the stubbornness in his heart still made him unwilling to show any cowardice.

Old Ta Weng naturally saw his son's expression, but this time he didn't say anything harsh, but took off the backpack on his back and took out a package.

It was nearly impossible to start a fire in a storm like this, but he wasn't really a Muggle after all. Soon, after he unwrapped the package and placed a crucible inside in the snow in front of him, he saw that he then took out a small kraft paper package.

When his son Ensi saw it, he glanced this way curiously. It's just because he hated his father since he was a child, so he just looked at it and didn't ask a word.

Old Ta Weng naturally ignored his son, he just opened the kraft paper bag on his own, carefully squeezed a handful of red powder with three fingers, and sprinkled it under the crucible against the wind.

As soon as the powder touched the thick bottom of the crucible, a large amount of flame burst out with a "bang", burning blazingly in the ice and snow.

Until now, the old Ta Weng poured all the dry food and water in the package into the crucible, and started to cook silently.

In fact,

Since early this morning, the father and son have set off for this snowy and violent no-man's land. By now, Erns' stomach was already hungry.

But in this strong wind, the aroma of cooking food must not be smelled. Therefore, Ens, who had not yet been aroused by eating, just stared at the orange-red flame under the crucible, as if he wanted to see through it.

In his eyes, who had never been in contact with the magic world since he was a child, this magical and strange scene has deeply attracted him. Reminiscent of Maca's ability to appear and disappear at home before, this will inevitably make him have a lot of expectations for wizards and magic.

Of course, he would never ask about his father, not even a little bit! Regarding this point, perhaps it is the similarity between father and son!

Ever since the old Ta Weng made a threat earlier, the senior and junior have not said any unnecessary nonsense, and it is still the same now. After filling themselves half full in a hurry, they rested for a while, and then embarked on the journey to nowhere again regardless of the wind and snow that filled the sky.

No, the old Ta Weng probably knew it, but he didn't mean to explain it at all from the beginning to the end.

The environment was still harsh, and the violent snowstorm seemed to never stop, blowing desperately. The warm food that he ate just now didn't warm his body for long. In just a few minutes, little Insie felt the coldness at the beginning was continuously extending to his torso.

As for the limbs? Hey, I've been so cold that I don't feel much!

The legs are moving forward mechanically, and the unstoppable panting represents the gradual exhaustion of physical strength, but it also means the loss of heat. It was a long time later, when Ensi realized that the already drowsy sky was getting darker, a thought flashed in his young but shrewd heart, is it almost night?

However, at the moment when his little guess was fleeting, the surrounding wind and snow suddenly became much smaller. Without the dense snowflakes blocking his vision, he realized that he had come to the inside of an astonishingly large snow cave.

Right in front of it, the entire field of vision is getting darker and darker with the blue and white deep cave, and behind it is the violent snowflakes outside the snow cave. The front and the back are like a world of difference.

"rest."

After continuing to walk in for a short distance, probably because he had already walked a lot, but maybe because the deeper depths were too dark, the old Ta Weng always chose to rest in place at this moment.

After he lit the fire as before, he followed him but did not take out the cauldron, but took out an unlit torch from his backpack and put it beside him.

"Sit down, little bastard!" He pulled the scarf that covered half of his face, and casually shook off the snowflakes on his body, and then sat down against the ice wall of the cave.

Little Ins twitched his lips again, and then sat down by the fire with reluctance. Of course, he was exhausted, but he was unwilling to obey his father's words in his heart, so that even sitting was very awkward. .

In the final analysis, he is just a child who has just entered the rebellious period after all.

"Boy," after a short pause, the old Ta Weng continued, "Didn't you always want to know about your mother? I will tell you today that what you are walking now is the road leading to your mother's ancestral land." road."

"Ancestral land?"

Xiao Ensi also subconsciously tore off the thick scarf, and repeated this slightly unfamiliar vocabulary. As for the quarrels between him and his father, the word "mother" has long been washed away without a trace.

"It's the place where our ancestors lived," Old Ta Weng explained with rare patience, "Actually, this trip was originally a custom of your mother's family... Before your mother died, I promised her: If you follow her If your blood has embarked on the path of a wizard, I will bring you here, and let you go to the end of this snow cave according to her family's rules."

"The end? What's that place?" Ensi asked with some doubts.

However, the old Ta Weng shook his head immediately.

"I've never gone in before." He seemed to be caught in a memory, and he was silent for a while before continuing, "At that time, I followed your mother, and the farthest I went was almost here, and I didn't go any further. "

"Uh..." Xiao En was surprised for a while, "So, it's the first time for us to walk the next road?"

"It's not 'us'." Old Ta Weng glanced at his son indifferently. "The rest of the way, you will go alone. I won't go in with you."

Hearing this, little Ensi couldn't help but glanced at the torch that was thrown on the ground at random. It wasn't until this moment that he realized that this torch was just for himself! In this way, even though he was bold since he was a child, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart that was colder than the surrounding temperature.

He has no way of knowing how deep this snow cave is and whether there is any unknown danger in it.

"Old man, are you serious?"

Calling his father "Old Man" is actually not too much, because when the old Ta Weng gave birth to this son, he seemed to be quite old. Of course, since he was sensible, Ensi has hardly called "Dad" a few times. This "old man" is certainly appropriate, but there is also some disgust and rejection in it.

But at this moment, there was nothing but astonishment and a trace of uncontrollable fear in his heart.

"Hey, are you scared?" Old Ta Weng sneered disdainfully, "If you're afraid of death, just say that I can take you home anytime, and then you can grow up to be an adult who doesn't know magic. Normal people. How? Let me know if you decide."

After that, he shrank his neck, turned his head to look at the fire, and ignored his son again.

Although now in the snow cave, the blizzard outside has almost no effect, but the cold still exists. In this world of ice and snow, the numb hands and feet and the sore cheeks were constantly warning Ensi, and also continued to aggravate his inner fear.

Looking at the seemingly bottomless darkness in the depths of the snow cave, the little Ens huddled his body and sat beside the warm fire with his knees hugged. He just felt that everything around him was shouting to him to give up! go home! What's wrong with being a normal person?

Yes! Although this father, who was always fierce and rude, and even punched him, was not qualified at all, but at least he raised himself to such an extent. Except for the brutal treatment that often made him unbearable, he had never been ill-treated in food and drink.

Compared with the fear of the unknown, what could be unbearable about this humiliation? When I have enough skills and move out to live alone, won't all the bad things be over?

A single-parent child like Ensi, coupled with his father always beating and scolding him, tends to mature much earlier than his peers. Even though there are still many things he doesn't understand in his short life, the minimum independent thinking has been secretly erected.

It's just that under his not-so-complicated thinking, the word "mother" kept circling in his mind, lingering for a long time.

"I'll go," he finally said abruptly, "Damn old man!"