CH 107.1

“Keep an eye on Madam Li, stop her if she makes a move.”

Bai Lixin said the two soldiers before walking to the door of the room.

The soldiers glanced at each other, hurriedly wrapped their thick cotton jackets around them, and walked to the Madam Li’s side.

Madam Li was still haunted by the nightmare, only that she was not as panicked as she had before, and her expression was much calmer.

Bai Lixin looked through the crack in the doorway.

The blizzard outside was getting bigger, and the snowflakes that were the size of small grains of rice had now become as big as goose feathers.

The north wind howled, blowing the dense snow everywhere.

In the middle of the snow-covered courtyard was a brazier, and the black charcoal was already covered with a thin layer of snow.

It quietly lay there, and on this cold winter night, the sight of it was like a hungry man seeing a meal to fill his stomach.

Most people wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation.

A sentence came to Bai Lixin’s mind.

Sending charcoal in the snowy weather.

If everything that was happening now was a scene from the past, then there were many things that could be explained.

The charcoal was damp because the snow fell on it. Even if the snowflakes were swept off in the surface were swept off, the inside would be partially soaked.

Bai Lixin felt that the temperature was already more than -20 degrees. This was unprecedentedly low for a Southern water town where the coldest winter temperature was only -10 degrees.

This temperature was even colder than the snow forest they had seen in the last painting.

He remembered Xiao Xizi’s words.

The winter had been extraordinarily cold, and many people had frozen to death in the city overnight.

In such temperatures, if they didn’t have something in the room to warm themselves, they would surely freeze to death.

Bai Lixin gazed out the door. In the short amount of time he was lost in thought, the charcoal was already covered a thick layer of snow.

“It’s so cold.”

At the voice, he withdrew his eyes and turned to Madam Li.

Madam Li was covered in a thick quilt, and on top of that there were thick cotton clothes the two soldiers had placed on her.

Her body was almost piled up in a thick hill.

One of the soldiers, who was about to freeze into a popsicle, said through chattering teeth, “We’ve covered her with all the fabric we could find in the room, but it doesn’t seem to be working.”

“How is she colder than us?”

Bai Lixin looked at Madam Li’s face, the face that had just been dripping with cold sweat was now replaced with a thick layer of frost.

Her eyelashes were covered with a thin layer of crystals, and her lips had blue.

If her eyelids were not moving and her mouth exhaling hot air, one would think that a cold corpse was lying on the bed.

“It’s cold,” Madam Li called out, “charcoal, I want charcoal.”

“Knock knock knock.”

The sudden knock on the door was particularly abrupt in this silent, snowy night, and a few rattling noises immediately drew the attention of everyone in the room.

After looking through the gap in the door, Dijia said solemnly, “There are two pieces of news.”

“Firstly, the charcoal in the brazier has been lit.”

“Second, the brazier has been placed outside the door.”

“If this was the scene replay of Madam Li’s death, shouldn’t someone open the door to the room and bring the brazier in?”

Dijia’s remark scared the already shivering soldier duo.

Why would the Governor want to die?

You are the wise and resourceful Lord Governor, why would you choose death?!

“Theoretically, that is what should happen.” Bai Lixin returned to Dijia’s side and looked out through the gap in the doorway. Just like Dijia said, the brazier that was in the middle of the courtyard had been lit, it was emotting a white mist that symbolized warmth, and the snowflakes on it were slowly melting away, and dissolving into the brazier.

It was now at the door of the room, and even with a door between them, he could feel the warmth from it.

How many people could resist the temptation?

It didn’t matter who had opened the door and brought the brazier in, the question was not who brought it in, but who had placed it here.

“But even if we open the door, the brazier can’t be brought in under the time-space dislocation.” Bai Lixin Dijia away and unceremoniously opened the door to the room, leaning his body out.

Outside was still the same summer day, there was no snow, or brazier in sight.

He brought his body back in, and there was the blizzard and the brazier. The north wind even blew large snowflakes into the room, and the electric lamps and bed curtains inside were blown about, and the shadows on the walls became ferocious and manic.

Bai Lixin tried to reach out with just one hand.

From the visual point in the room, his hand touched the brazier, but his hand did not feel it.

As people from outside the painting, they didn’t seem to be able to intervene as much.

Bai Lixin closed the door again and locked the latch.

“What’s the situation?” The soldiers asked curiously, having only seen Bai Lixin’s actions and not knowing what he had sensed.

Bai Lixin briefly explained his discoveries.

The two listened and breathed a long sigh of relief, “Okay, so we won’t be made to bring it in, that’s a relief.”

“Between a warm death and a cold life, I choose to the latter.”

Dijia saw Bai Lixin looking around the room suspiciously, and asked, “What’s wrong? Is something wrong?”

“No,” Bai Lixin shook his head. “But I feel like there is something more to it. I’ve looked around and I can’t find anything.”

He walked to Madam Li who had quieted down.

Perhaps it was because she was no longer having nightmares, but the expression on Madam Li’s face was relaxed.

She changed from lying on her back to her side, her hands clutching the small quilt in her arms as she murmured, “Its so warm and cozy.”

So warm?

But the room should have been colder because he had opened the door.

His eyes carefully watched her expression. The frost on her face had melted away and she looked rosy.

Nightmares can cause a cold sweat because of the short period of stimulation in the cerebral cortex, leading to an extreme rise in adrenaline.

To put it bluntly, that was physiology.

He could understand the sweat because of the nightmares, but the frost that melted and the rosy cheeks were genuinely supernatural.

The environment was the same, the location was the same, and theoretically, one would not have changed so much in a short time.

The lights flickered for a moment and the shadows overhead followed suit.

Bai Lixin looked to the side and his eyes suddenly contracted.

He slowly looked overhead. There was a dark shadow on the ceiling, and a circular black shadow on the ground in the middle of the room.

Every now and then, a few irregular wisps of black shadows drifted out of the circle.

Around the circular shadow were some swaying shadows. They looked like four figures that were rubbing their hands together.

Everyone saw Bai Lixin’s eyes fixed on the spot above his head and followed suit.

The two soldiers looked overhead, then down at the ground, up again, and then down at the ground.