A Night on the Cliff

With a sense of doubt, Linsey stepped forward through the snow.

Start checking the product information for these corpses.

Just like the Fire Fox corpse he had examined before, these Devil Beast frozen to death in front of Linsey had the same death information, only differing in the length of time they were frozen from those he had seen before.

"..."

After confirming several bodies, Linsey stood there, his brow furrowed in deep thought.

Like the other Devil Beast, he was also blown by the sudden cold wind.

However, Linsey only felt a bit cold, while the fate of these Devil Beast was to perish instantly in the icy cold wave.

There must be some difference between them.

Just like the judgment Linsey made subconsciously before.

Perhaps his identity as a human was unaffected, or perhaps the reason lies in the fact that these Devil Beast all came from the Black Mountain World.

"It's probably still a problem with Black Mountain..."

Between the two possibilities, Linsey more towards the latter.

The phenomenon of instantaneous freezing is inextricably linked to the Essence. Even though humans and Devil Beast differ in how they utilize the Essence, the essential differences are not that obvious.

If it were the former, one should at least be able to feel the invasion of the Essence.

He analyzed it in his mind.

Linsey walked on the snow and picked out a lighter corpse to put into her [Personal Baggage].

This wasn't meant to be collected as provisions for the journey.

Besides product authentication, Linsey had no better analytical methods at her disposal.

So he planned to take the corpse back to the Border Town and let other awakened individuals handle it, to see if they could further analyze the information contained in the corpse.

After doing all this, to ensure there were no accidents, Linsey checked the other bodies in the vicinity.

After a thorough investigation, it was determined that there were no special cases.

Linsey did not immediately embark on her return journey, but instead returned once again to the Vines- covered cliffs at the World's Edge.

"It's getting dark."

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Linsey gazed into the distance.

After a series of unexpected events, it was now dark.

As far as the eye could see, only the boundless night sky stretched forward, with twinkling stars adorning the curtain of night.

Linsey paused briefly for a moment, then immediately got to work.

He untied his wooden sled and used it as a makeshift shovel. Right at the top of the cliff, he dug a Snow Cave next to the Climbing to Heaven Vine, then crawled inside and waited for the outside world to change.

Before leaving, Linsey needs to figure out one thing.

What is the frequency and number of these Devil Beast climbing up from below? Was Linsey's encounter simply bad luck, or are these Devil Beast a common sight here, and his experience merely a regular occurrence?

In order not to disturb anything with his presence.

Linsey hid in the Snow Cave and didn't light a fire. She just took out her own Meat Biscuit and ate a simple meal.

Chewing on the salty, fishy taste in his mouth, he began to wait overnight on the edge of the cliff.

"..."

In the silent vigil, the whole night passed quickly.

Linsey's adventurous act of spending the night on the edge of a cliff finally helped him glean two pieces of information.

First, there were those eerie, cold gusts of wind.

This icy current, capable of instantly freezing Devil Beast, blows up from below the cliff at almost no fixed interval. Sometimes, it's only a few breaths before two gusts of cold wind arrive, one after the other; but other times, there are absurdly long gaps of up to an hour between them.

Linsey also tried to deduce this pattern of change using mathematical methods.

But unfortunately.

Perhaps the sample size from one night is insufficient to draw conclusions, or perhaps the occurrence of such cold waves is inherently unpredictable.

In short, Linsey cannot deduce any patterns from this in a short period of time; it can only be considered a phenomenon without rules.

Another important piece of news is the Black Mountain Devil Beast below.

Throughout the entire night, Linsey only saw the Devil Beast flee up from below once.

Faced with this unpredictable cold wind, these Devil Beast were helpless and could only play a game of cat and mouse with this uncertain time interval.

Linsey was unsure how many Devil Beast were below or what the situation was like.

But in just one night, only one wave of Devil Beast successfully reached the top.

What awaits them here is not a successful escape, but rather being overtaken by the cold winds from behind in the long Snowy Wasteland, turning into ice sculptures and sinking into the deep snow.

Linsey stood guard at the entrance to the Snow Cave at the top of the cliff.

He saw everything and had his own thoughts on it.

"Let's consider this good news for now."

"Although I was unlucky to run into that group of Devil Beast, it at least proves that there were far more of them than I had imagined."

That is indeed the case.

Even if Devil Beast possess reproductive abilities that human awakened beings do not have.

But if every gust of cold wind brings a corresponding number of Devil Beast fleeing from the Black Mountain World, then the total number of Devil Beast below would be an astronomical figure that is impossible to calculate! This situation has completely exceeded the possibilities of reality! Early the next morning.

The sun rose in the east and shone directly on the entrance to Linsey's Snow Cave.

He stood up and stretched his body, which had been frozen all night. Life Source Material flowed through his body, and he quickly adapted.

"Alright, it's time to go back."

Linsey let out a breath, and after warming up, he climbed out of the Snow Cave, but instead of leaving immediately, he stood on the top of the cave and jumped up and down.

Bang! Bang! Bang! After a few muffled thuds, Linsey successfully compacted a lot of the snow on the top of the Snow Cave, but the cave he had dug below remained firm.

Bang! Bang! Bang! "..."

"It's so hard!"

Linsey tilted her head, her expression quite helpless.

He had no choice but to obediently crawl back inside, pull out his Long Dagger, draw a grid-like pattern of cracks on the wall inside the Snow Cave, and then punch it to destroy it.

Wait until the structure of the Snow Cave is completely destroyed and collapses.

Linsey then climbed out, put on his own wooden sled, and began his real journey home.

They even made a big fuss about this before leaving.

Linsey's goal was also very simple.

Although all the Devil Beast that climbed up from the Black Mountain World were wiped out on the Snowy Wasteland, no one could guarantee that if another Devil Beast came up later, it would happen to cause trouble because of his cave.

These are real Devil Beast that pose a real threat to the town!

Linsey didn't want to make a big mistake on the details, which is why she deliberately erased her own traces, since it concerned the overall safety of the Hidden Borderlands.

On a vast, white Snowy Wasteland, Linsey's figure gradually receded into the distance and eventually disappeared.

He took one last look at the cliff behind him, the place where the two worlds met, and murmured softly, "What a pity."

"Originally, I wanted to collect some more wild crops on the way back. But now it seems the most important thing is to hurry back and tell the people in town about the situation here."

I've had gastritis these past couple of days, so I'm not in a good state to write. Please forgive me.