At first, they had plenty of food, but drinking water was desperately scarce.
Now drinking water was everywhere, but their food was running out.
How did that saying go? Heaven always left a way out.
Just as their food was about to run out, they encountered a pack of hunting snow wolves.
Facing the snow wolves with their gleaming green eyes, the six of them felt no fear. Instead, they grew excited.
After all, half of their group could use ninjutsu!
Weren't these snow wolves practically delivering food to them?
They killed seven snow wolves, cutting the number of wolves surrounding them in half.
Then, with a long howl from the pack leader, the wolves finally retreated.
They didn't chase the fleeing snow wolves. Instead, their eyes lit up as they began butchering the carcasses on the snow.
Snow wolf meat didn't taste very good, but they hardly had any other options now.
With the snow wolf meat, they could travel farther.
They trudged across the snowfield through the wind and snow, draped in wolf pelts.
They had no idea how long they had been walking.
"The snow has stopped."
They kept walking, then saw something they could hardly believe.
"What... is that?"
After cresting a hill, what they saw ahead...
Was a mountain range stretching for who knew how many miles. Instead of the white snow they had expected, its slopes were covered in neat, vibrant terraces.
Closer at hand, beneath those terraces, lay fields covering an area too vast to judge!
The fields were filled with lush green crops growing beautifully.
"Have we reached heaven?"
They thought they had died and arrived in heaven.
After all, on one side were fields brimming with life, and on the other was lifeless white snow.
Surely this was a miracle.
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