Chapter 396: She’s Gone (1) (1/2)

“Where is she?!” The leader of the group hadn’t expected to see his comrades’ corpses upon entering the tent. He kicked the owner of the tents to the ground.

The owner was scared silly. His whole body trembled as he knelt.

Those were people lying dead in that tent! Not just some livestock!

The leader stared at the corpses with a grave expression. He immediately summoned his subordinates, “Ten, Thirteen, chase after her! The rest of you, follow me back to Su City.”

He Changdi was trudging his way back with the supply group. Even with the snowboat, they couldn’t go any faster.

The horses needed to rest and the snows had never stopped. The weather in the north was actively trying to kill them.

Xiao Hongyu jumped into the warm pen of the snowboat. He immediately rubbed his body all over and warmed himself at the brazier for a long time before finally coming back to life.

He covered his reddened and frozen ears with his hands, complaining, “It’s so cold outside. Brother He, how many more days before we reach our camp?”

He Changdi had slid his gloves back on upon seeing Xiao Hongyu enter the pen, “Hongyu, rest here with Brother Zhang. I’ll go take a look outside. If my guess is right, we should be able to reach camp in two days at the most, going at this speed.”

Xiao Hongyu heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing He Changdi’s words. He never wanted to pass his days getting frozen outside anymore.

Zhang Mai was grilling some beef slices over the fire. While cooking the meat, he shook his head with regret. “Although we used the same beef, but how is it that the ones I grilled are so different from Sister-in-Law’s?”

He Changdi had been about to step out of the warm pen. When he heard Zhang Mai’s mumbling, he completely stopped moving for an instant.

Xiao Hongyu shot a disdainful look at the beef slices that Zhang Mai was grilling. When he saw that half of every slice was already completely charred black, he rolled his eyes.

He would rather starve to death than eat Brother Zhang’s cooking. It was too scary.

He Sanlang sat on his horse’s back and stared out into the pure white horizon that stretched as far as the eye could see. There was a black veil attached to his hood to make his vision a little obscured.

When travelling over a snow-covered surface, if the human eye continued looking at the blank white expanse, their eyes would be hurt by ultraviolet rays reflecting off the white snow and they might become snow-blind. This was especially true for the grasslands of the north where everything turned white the moment it snowed. The thin black veil acted as a rather effective protective shield for his eyes so he wouldn’t become snow-blind.

The veil was similar to the modern protective snow goggles.

Ever since he had given each soldier in his group a single piece of black muslin, not a single one of them had suffered from snow blindness.

This simple solution had been something that Chu Lian had mentioned to him offhandedly.

He Changdi gripped the reins in his hands tightly and felt the tension from the leather gloves covering his hands. These gloves were different from the standard gloves issued by the army.

Each finger of the glove was sewn separately and there was an extra tough layer of leather added to the palm. The whole glove was not only waterproof, it was also extra warm inside thanks to a thin layer of fleece. Compared to the simple gloves given by the army, which only had two parts for the thumb and four fingers, it was much more convenient and practical for use. Xiao Hongyu had been drooling over his gloves for a long time.