There was no way out. Since he was already deep in the fog, whether it was to continue searching for the bloody sweetaurum or to find a way out of the fog, Yun Ge had to keep going. The reason why Yun Ge stepped on the footprints in front was that he felt the footprints in front would not appear for no reason.

  Of course, to avoid traps around the footprints in front, Yun Ge walked very cautiously with each step. At the same time, he also kept a high level of vigilance during his progress, always ready to fight a sudden danger to the death.

  Yun Ge has been walking hard in the snow mountain shrouded in fog. Even if he was tired, he could only sit in place for a short rest, but dared not close his eyes for a nap. Because he knew that in such a cold place, once he closed his eyes, he might never wake up from sleep.

  Moreover, even if he would not be taken away by the cold wind in his sleep, he might also let his spirit be destroyed by the fog in a state of mental relaxation.

  Walking in the snow mountain is originally a very physically consuming thing. Coupled with the continuous harassment of Yun Ge's spirit by the fog, as well as Yun Ge's constant high mental concentration to deal with the danger, naturally led to his physical consumption further accelerated.

  As a result, after walking for a while, Yun Ge became more and more difficult to walk due to physical exhaustion, and his breathing also became more and more rapid. But Yun Ge knew he couldn't stop. Because, he could only cure Lily's sequelae by finding the bloody sweetaurum.

  Yun Ge leaned on the long knife in his hand, panting heavily while looking at the snow-covered mountains around him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Compared with this endless mountain range, he was such an insignificant existence. The snow on the mountain range was so thick, how could he find the trace of the bloody sweetaurum in this vast snow field?

  Moreover, does this bloody sweetaurum really exist? Is this a trap set by the sugar master? The purpose is to let himself stay away from the village and stay away from Lily?

  The more difficult the time, the more people tend to doubt the things and people around them. But even so, Yun Ge was still unwilling to give up, because he really liked Lily and really hoped to cure Lily's injury. So, after a short rest, Yun Ge tried to stand up again and prepared to continue stepping on the footprints that seemed to have no end.

  Then, Yun Ge's physical strength had reached its limit, so that he fell to the ground this time because of the weakness of his lower limbs, and had no strength to stand up again.

  Realizing the danger, Yun Ge was terrified in his heart, but still unwilling to give up. So he lie down on the snow and continued to crawl along the direction of the footprints.

  Yun Ge crawled along the footprints in the snow for a while, and then suddenly found that the footprints in front became smaller, and were turning from a pair of footprints into many smaller footprints. These small footprints looked very much like the footprints left by some small birds walking on the snow, like small footprints as thin as a needle.

  In addition, these small footprints were like black snow pits with life, and soon formed a road in front of Yun Ge. Obviously, this road composed of countless small snow pits as thin as a needle seemed to be telling Yun Ge the direction to go next. At least in Yun Ge's view, the purpose of these seemingly living small snow pits was like this.

  Thus, with hope inexplicably reignited, Yun Ge once again mustered up his energy and prepared to continue crawling along this path. But this time, after only a few more difficult crawls forward, he collapsed completely in the snow due to exhaustion.

  At this time, a childish voice said playfully, "Hey! He seems to be really different!"

  " Yeah! Yeah! He actually made it here, which is really unexpected!" Another playful child's voice chimed in.

  Then, another playful child's voice shouted, "Tsk tsk tsk! If you hadn't deliberately tripped him up, he would have gone much further than he did! So, you lost this round!"

  " Pfft pfft pfft! I didn't cheat! I just couldn't help sneezing just now!" The second voice argued. Then, more voices joined this quarrel. For a time, the scene became extremely chaotic.

  "Ugh——," Just as these voices were arguing, Yun Ge groaned and woke up.

  " Oh my! He's awake! He woke up much earlier than you expected! I won! I won!" Seeing Yun Ge wake up, another playful voice shouted.

  Yun Ge used his hands and feet to lean against a snow-covered rock and sat up with difficulty. Then, after finally catching his breath, Yun Ge shouted at the snow-covered and empty forest in front of him, "Who was talking just now?! Where am I?"

  After a moment of silence, the childish voice rang again, "Hmm——, this is our home!"

  Yun Ge frowned upon hearing this, because he could clearly hear that the voice was not far from him, but when he looked in the direction where the voice came from, he didn't see anyone or any creature.

  So, Yun Ge quickly grabbed the snow with his left hand to apply it to his face, trying to stay awake. At the same time, Yun Ge also hurriedly searched for the machete he had been holding in his right hand in the snow, in order to guard against the attack of this invisible voice.

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  " What kind of demon are you? Show your true form quickly! Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Yun Ge shouted angrily at the direction where the voice came from, and at the same time, he raised the machete he had just found in the snow.

  However, just as Yun Ge held the machete in front of him to guard against the enemy's attack, he suddenly let out a scream and immediately dropped the machete in his hand. Because, while Yun Ge was focusing all his attention on the voice that came from nowhere, he didn't realize that he was not holding a machete, but a human tibia that was not completely rotten.

  After dropping the human tibia, Yun Ge, who realized something was wrong, hurriedly turned around to check the situation. Then, he saw a whole frozen human thigh remnant in the snow on his right.

  Seeing this, Yun Ge felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, and immediately subconsciously stepped back a few steps to keep a distance from the not completely rotten human thigh. Then Yun Ge was surprised to find that what he had been leaning on just now was not a stone, but a frozen corpse covered by snow.

  Because this place is covered by heavy snow all year round and the temperature is very low, the frozen corpse rotted extremely slowly. So, Yun Ge could still recognize that this was a frozen corpse of an adult male.

  The frozen corpse was in a kneeling posture like praying, curled up in the snow, which made the corpse look like an inconspicuous stone after being covered by thick snow.

  "Hahahahah! Hahahahah! He's so silly!"

  "Pfft pfft pfft! His look is so funny!"

  "I guess he must have been scared to wet his pants, right? Cough cough cough!"

  Just when Yun Ge was too scared to speak by the frozen corpse, many childlike laughter sounds appeared around him again. Yun Ge hurriedly looked around, although he didn't see anyone, but his brain might be affected by the ice poison, producing hallucinations, making him mistakenly think that there were people around.

  Listening to the laughter surrounding him, Yun Ge was greatly frightened in his heart. So he stood up in horror and fled in a certain direction aimlessly. As a result, after he ran just a few steps, an indescribable strong force rushed up from under his feet, blocking his way.

  Then, this irresistible force pushed up hard, easily flipping Yun Ge over, so that he somersaulted a few times in a row and fell on his head next to the frozen corpse.

  Yun Ge, who thought all this was caused by the frozen corpse in front of him, hurriedly got up, then raised his fists to the frozen corpse in a defensive posture, and shouted loudly, "Who on earth are you?! What do you want to do?"

  As a result, after hearing Yun Ge's loud questioning, those childlike voices laughed even more happily! They kept laughing at Yun Ge's embarrassed look, and Yun Ge just felt a tingling sensation on his scalp. Moreover, because Yun Ge didn't know how to deal with such a weird scene, he was stunned on the spot while his brain crashed.

  Just when Yun Ge thought he was doomed today, suddenly a childlike voice shouted loudly, "Alright! Alright! Everyone, stop scaring Yun Ge! He is one of the few people who can see us alive! So, let's hurry up and proceed to the next test!"

  After this voice sounded, the laughter around immediately stopped. Yun Ge then said to the surrounding air with a puzzled look on his face, "Who are you guys? How do you know my name?"

  "Hey hey hey! Why don't we know your name? Not to mention your name? We know the names of everyone living in this forest! Moreover, we not only know your name, but also know why you intruded here. Hey hey hey!" The childlike voice answered.

  "What... What are you guys exactly?" Yun Ge asked with a trembling voice.

  "We? We are, of course, the legendary forest spirits! Boo hoo hoo! And this area called the Icy Abyssal is the exclusive area we have designated for ourselves." Another childlike voice said.

  "Yeah! Yeah! So you actually dared to intrude into this sacred禁区 (jìn qū, which means forbidden area), you are really bold enough! Hehehe!" Another playful voice said.

  It was obvious that Yun Ge was talking to many people at the same time. So, he immediately became suspicious of these guys who called themselves forest spirits, "Are you really all forest spirits? Shouldn't there be only one forest spirit?"

  "Tsk tsk tsk! Who told you that the forest spirit can only be a single individual? Moreover, although we are numerous, who can say that we are not a single individual?" A childlike voice retorted.

  Upon hearing this response, Yun Ge immediately seized on his words and asked, "Individual? So, you also have physical bodies? If so, why don't you dare to face me in your physical forms? Could it be that you are afraid of me?"

  "Hehehe! What a clever provocation! But the problem is, we have been facing you in our physical forms all along! It's just that you haven't found us!" An unknown playful childlike voice said to Yun Ge.

  Then, another playful childlike voice said, "Look carefully at your feet and the snow around you."

  Upon hearing this, Yun Ge immediately looked down at the snow around him. Then he found that there were many small black holes on the snow around him, like those made by a needle. What surprised Yun Ge even more was that after he found the small black holes on the snow, these small black holes began to move on the snow in a very weird way without leaving any traces, like black dots scattered on the white snow.

  All the small black holes the size of a needle quickly gathered together on the snow, then quickly moved to Yun Ge's feet in a line. They circled around Yun Ge like dancing, and then moved in a line to the frozen corpse kneeling in the snow. Then, an even more weird scene unfolded.

  It was seen that all the small black holes turned into round black dots as they climbed onto the frozen corpse. Then, these black dots drilled into the frozen corpse like bugs. After that, the frozen corpse on its knees began to twitch and move. After the frozen corpse recovered its mobility, it turned sideways to pick up the tibia that Yun Ge had dropped and put it back on its leg.

  Finally, after making sure that its left leg could move, the frozen corpse stood up again with a series of terrifying clicks.

  After the frozen corpse stood still, it stiffly stretched its body, and its hollow eyes, as if torn apart, slowly swept towards Yun Ge.

  Then, the frozen corpse mechanically tugged at the corners of its mouth and gave Yun Ge an extremely twisted and stiff smile, "Cough cough cough! What do you think? Do we look more like a single individual now?"

  Yun Ge, looking at this horrifying scene in front of him, couldn't help but step back and asked, "What on earth do you guys want to do?"

  "Cough cough cough! We don't want to do anything to you! We just think that this way we can communicate with you better!" The frozen corpse explained while making stiff body movements and walking towards Yun Ge.

  Seeing this, Yun Ge naturally wanted to turn back, but he soon found that his feet seemed to be bound by some strong force, and he could no longer move. He could only stand in place and watch the frozen corpse slowly walk towards him.

  Yun Ge hurriedly looked down and found that at some point, there were many small black holes the size of a needle under his feet. This made Yun Ge immediately realize that the culprit who had flipped him over just now and now restricted his movement was these terrifying small black holes.

  Seeing that he could no longer move, the panicked Yun Ge could only wave his fists and try to scare the frozen corpse away, "Don't come over here! If you get any closer to me, don't blame me for being rude!"