Feather-like snowflakes fell from the sky, but the snow fell in a strange way. It seemed to snow only near the Immortal Mountain. Beyond the low-lying areas, not even a single snowflake could be seen.

Rou Yi also noticed this phenomenon, and she said in a very low voice, "terrarium..."

"Huh?"

Rou Yi repeated, "terrarium, which means a glass bottle landscape. Plants are planted in a glass bottle, and then decorated with other elements to create a micro-landscape. I feel like the environment we are in is like being inside such a bottle."

Rou Yi described it very appropriately, and I felt the same way.

"Sigh, you guys are still in the mood to enjoy the scenery..."

As he complained, Fatty looked up at the clouds on the Immortal Mountain and sighed. The word "anxiety" was written between his eyebrows. "Now it's impossible for us to go up the mountain even if we wanted to. It's too dangerous. Who knows how long this snow will fall? Let's quickly build a temporary tent, using whatever is available. We'll find some thick and hard branches in this coniferous forest. I have a tarpaulin here that can be used to waterproof and block the snow. Oh, right, we also need to find some dry firewood to make a fire, otherwise the temperature will drop sharply at night, and we'll freeze to death without a fire!"

The climate in the Kunlun Mountains is around zero degrees Celsius all year round. Places above 3,000 meters above sea level are not short of water, but there is little vegetation. Even if there are green plants, they are Kunlun grass or the coniferous forests of the primeval forest. Broad-leaved plants are rarely seen here.

We finally built a temporary tent before dark. We used broken thick branches as a base and enclosed it, covered the top of the frame with thin, short branches with a little bit of needles, and finally covered it with Fatty's tarpaulin. A simple temporary shelter was built.

Fatty deliberately designed the roof to be inclined at a 30-degree angle so that snow would not easily accumulate.

When we were looking for materials to build the tent and firewood, Fatty wanted to hunt a rabbit or other animal to satisfy his hunger. Fatty searched specifically, but found nothing.

Fatty was puzzled. "This place is really strange. You can't even find an animal hair."

Along the way, we had seen many signs of animal activity on the edge of the primeval forest of Kunlun, but we were in a hurry to get on our way at the time, so we didn't bother to catch animals to improve our meals. Now that we wanted to eat some meat, we couldn't find anything.

Fatty suggested that this place was a little different from other places in the Kunlun Mountains, and told us to be careful.

Fatty's judgment was based on the fact that if a place only had plants and no animals, it meant that the place was not suitable for animals to survive, and perhaps there was some kind of deadly danger hidden.

Fatty's judgment was not unreasonable. After all, this was under the Immortal Mountain, and the "Immortal Mountain" affected by the meteorite must be hiding some kind of dangerous factor. We all became more vigilant and dared not slack off.

...

The five of us squeezed into the temporary tent, and we made a bonfire very close to us outside the tent.

After it snowed, the sky darkened, and the temperature dropped sharply. The dried naan bread was frozen as hard as iron, which made it unappetizing.

So we used the bonfire to bake the naan bread, then broke it into small pieces and chewed it down our throats.

If this had been me a few years ago, spoiled and pampered, I would rather starve to death than gnaw on this lump of iron in this cold weather.

Time and experience have ultimately changed me.

I watched Rou Yi and Jennifer also struggling to eat the rock-hard naan bread, and felt sympathy. I felt a little sorry for making these two girls suffer with us.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier. Fatty was worried that the firewood on the bonfire would be soaked by the heavy snow, so he moved it a short distance inside the tent.

Then, Fatty said to me and Dodge, "Let's clear the snow off the tarpaulin, otherwise this small tent will be crushed by the snow."

So, Dodge and I helped Fatty lift the tarpaulin and shake off the snow on it.

"Ouch..."

Dodge lost his footing and almost slipped.

I quickly helped him up. "Are you okay?"

Dodge slowly steadied himself with my support, saying, "I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm okay."

Just as Dodge breathed a sigh of relief, Fatty cursed, "Damn it!"

I knew that Fatty wasn't cursing at us. Dodge and I turned to look at Fatty, following Fatty's gaze.

"Damn it!" Dodge and I cursed in unison.

Just now, Dodge hadn't been able to stand still and tugged at the tarpaulin. The snow that should have been shaken onto the ground was now being shaken into the bonfire, and some of the snow on the tarpaulin had already fallen into the bonfire.

It was too late to adjust the position of the tarpaulin now. The snow that had fallen on the bonfire was enough to extinguish the flames.

However, a bizarre scene happened.

Not only was the bonfire not extinguished by the snow, but the fire became even stronger. The flames suddenly shot up half a meter high.

The orange-red flames leaped妖冶 (yaoye - bewitchingly).

Rou Yi and Jennifer, who were sitting under the tarpaulin, were frightened by the flames and retreated again and again.

But this was not the end. Just as we were staring blankly at the flames.

In the blink of an eye.

The color of the flames suddenly changed from a bright orange-red to an eerie blue.

And the snowflakes that had fallen into the bonfire just now were now fluttering out of the fire again, and emitting a blue glow as well, which was really frightening.