Chapter 1813 — Is She Dying?
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"Reporting to Elder Zhang, we have not seen her return to rest. From what we can judge, apart from eating a little compressed biscuit and drinking a little mineral water each morning, she has not moved her body at all!" said the valley patrol disciple.
Elder Zhang nodded in surprise. This patrol disciple was an Earth-rank expert himself; if a man of his judgment said Tang Zhi had not gone back to rest, then she had not rested. But Tang Zhi's endurance left Elder Zhang astonished.
He was tempted to speak with the elders on the platform once more, but thinking of what the Grand Elder had said earlier, he shook his head again, sighed, and turned to go about his duties...
Every day, the valley patrol disciples reported Tang Zhi's condition to Elder Zhang, and Elder Zhang had gone from initial astonishment to present bewilderment. Was Tang Zhi even a normal person? So many days and she still had not frozen to death? Could she be a Heaven-rank expert?
One had to understand that at the temperatures of Snow Valley, even Earth-rank experts had to take pills to endure it here. Tang Zhi ate only a bit of compressed biscuit and drank some water, and yet nothing happened to her at all? Could she be carrying some rare treasure for warmth?
But at the thought of this possibility, Elder Zhang shook his head again. Tang Zhi knew the rules of Snow Valley as well—rare treasures could not only be bought with money, they could also be exchanged for other rare treasures. If Tang Zhi truly possessed such a treasure, she would surely have brought it out to trade long ago.
In truth, what Elder Zhang did not know was that although Tang Zhi appeared unharmed, her entire body had long since frozen stiff. The biscuit and mineral water she ate each day grew less and less, for her stomach and intestines had been frozen rigid, and her food digested more and more slowly—until this morning, when Tang Zhi had not eaten a single bite, because she was no longer hungry!
A deep worry appeared on Gu Mengyao's face. Tang Zhi's condition seemed to be growing worse and worse. Before, it had seemed Tang Zhi might hold out, but as time passed, it seemed Tang Zhi had reached the end of her road, and might die at any moment!
Yet no matter how she and Shen Yushu tried to persuade her, Tang Zhi insisted on kneeling here, without moving in the slightest!
"Alas, are the people of this Snow Valley all made of stone? Even this will not move them to consent?" Gu Mengyao worried not only about Tang Zhi, but also about Wei Zhao! Wei Zhao's body grew hotter and hotter; now the car did not even need the heater—the entire cabin was warmed by Wei Zhao's body heat...
But Gu Mengyao knew that if this continued, even with Little Shu helping to share the heat, he would likely reach his limit!
By then, she feared even the Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit would be unable to suppress the fire of qi deviation raging within Wei Zhao's body, and by then, it would be too late for anything.
Hold on, hold on, I must hold on! This was the cry in Tang Zhi's heart!
Her legs had lost all feeling, her body had lost most of its feeling, and her hands could do no more than twitch. She even felt that her very thoughts had grown rigid. In the first few days, she could still recall the sweet moments between her and Wei Zhao to spur herself on through the ordeal, but now, even thinking was difficult...
Yet Tang Zhi herself knew that she might be about to die...
Was this what it felt like just before death? Yet Tang Zhi seemed not to feel her own suffering at all. Gradually, her consciousness grew blurred, and her whole body seemed suddenly to grow light. In this moment, it was just like the soul leaving the body described in the books of the ancients—she felt as though her body had floated up...
And in that instant, the scene before her eyes changed from its former blurriness to a clarity in which every detail stood out!