When the thick fog cleared, an eerie silence settled over the ice valley once more.
Cui Ciyou walked over and watched Alice and Elinalise stack the twenty-odd unconscious adventurers like firewood for winter. He couldn't help chuckling.
Why did he chuckle?
Because among that haphazard pile of bodies lay an "old acquaintance" he had met not long ago.
-the captain in the green cloak, Zoldat, who had acted so arrogantly at the Round Shield Inn, only to be scared witless by his Mental Pressure.
"Small world... especially when it comes to people you'd rather not see."
Cui Ciyou chuckled, his voice full of undisguised mockery.
Just then, Alice seemed to recognize the man as well.
Her crimson eyes instantly lit up, and a mischievous, devilish smile spread across her face.
She strode over and, without hesitation, delivered two resounding slaps to Zoldat's reasonably handsome face. Smack! Smack!
The crisp slaps echoed through the silent ice valley, sounding especially clear.
Young people really do sleep soundly. Even that didn't wake him?
Alice tilted her head and clenched her fist, as though testing the durability of this "punching bag."
Seeing this, Cui Ciyou stepped forward and was just about to speak...
Alice immediately cut him off with an impatient look. "All right, all right, it's not like I cut him down."
"I just hit him a couple of times to let off some steam. You're going to police that too?"
"Who said I was going to stop you?"
Cui Ciyou spoke with a perfectly straight face, then revealed a sly smile of his own.
"I was going to say, if it's this much fun, I want a turn too."
The other three looked utterly resigned.
Cui Ciyou walked around to Zoldat's other side and offered a solemn analysis:
"Look, it's snowing so