Chapter 46: Treasure Beneath the Skeleton! Stealing Bones!

The ship sails toward a wide ice river, braving wind and snow.

Both banks are towering snow‑capped mountains, the pristine white scene like two mountain gods standing here.

"Boom!"

The bow cracks the solid floe, emitting a deafening hum.

All players on board drop what they're doing at the sound and gather on the deck.

"What's happening? Why is the hull shaking so much?" Liang Yong, because the Chuancang was too hot, had already taken off his down jacket and thermal underwear and put on his original short‑sleeve.

Stepping outside, he immediately feels a bone‑chilling wind that makes his muscles cramp, his whole body shiver, and he hurriedly turns back to put his clothes on.

"Damn, it's really cold…"

The seven of them stare at the dreamlike scenery and can't help but exclaim in awe.

"So beautiful… I didn't know snow mountains could look like this," Jiang Yao's big eyes were full of amazement.

"It's carved like a work of divine artisans, it's unbelievably beautiful," Tian Yi was equally dazzled.

"What kind of neutral creatures might appear in a place like this?" Wei Liang, after a brief reverie, began to consider safety.

"Don't worry too much; probably just snow hares, penguins, that sort of thing," Qi Ming said with a smile.

"Hope so…" Wei Liang's grim face turned bluish‑purple from the cold, a trace of worry appearing.

Soon the ship broke through the floe and reached the designated spot; Qi Ming shouted, "You can disembark now! Remember to return before sunset!"

As he said so, the ship suddenly slowed to an extremely sluggish pace.

Liu Wei Cheng was the first to move; he descended the Rope Ladder along the side of the Jiaban and stepped steadily onto the ice.

"It won't collapse, right?" Tian Yi felt a little nervous.

"No, these floes are half a meter thick and can hold dozens of people," Wei Liang said.

Hearing him say that, Tian Yi hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and stepped down.

Wei Liang followed closely, holding a Shovel, the priest's starter tool, and walked slowly toward the shore.

Su Yang, with his backpack, also stepped onto the ice; he felt extremely slippery and almost fell with each step.

"Take small steps when you walk, don't run," Wei Liang reminded, watching Su Yang's clumsy movements, and asked curiously, "You're from the south, right?"

"Yeah, it never snows where we're from," Su Yang nodded.

"Come, hold onto me and I'll lead you across," Wei Liang stepped up to his side and extended a hand.

Su Yang was slightly taken aback by the warm gesture and instinctively grabbed his arm.

Wei Liang led ahead, Su Yang followed cautiously, and the hundred‑meter distance was covered in an instant.

When the four of them reached the shore, they all let out long sighs.

"Thank you," Su Yang said.

"I'm just thinking of the team," Wei Liang said expressionlessly.

No one expected that beneath the cold exterior lay a passionate heart.

Seeing this, Tian Yi felt the heavy stone on her heart lighten a bit.

"Make the most of the time; tonight the temperature is expected to be 10–20 °C colder than now," Wei Liang said, pacing with his Shovel.

Su Yang looked toward the left, two hundred meters away, where Jiang Yao, Nan Xue Qing, and Liang Yong had already set out to search for supplies.

"Three on the left, four on the right, one on the ship…" Su Yang pondered, planning to craft ranged weapons first.

Since everyone was armed with melee weapons, acting rashly offered no guarantee of victory.

Therefore, Su Yang intended to collect bones first and start shaping the totem.

If luck allowed him to find a Tendon, then a bow could be made.

According to the map's scale, the distance to the First Place supply point is Five Hundred meters.

"Don't move the coal for now; first secure the supplies," Su Yang thought to himself.

He then set off, and with the Navigator's profession bonus, he felt his speed on the snow was no different from normal.

"Someone's there?" Tian Yi halted, her expression tightening.

Su Yang glanced where Tian Yi was looking and saw a figure clad in beast‑hide Clothing lying on the ground, part of its body already covered by deep snow.

"Let's check it out," Su Yang drew his axe and walked forward.

"It can't be a ghost, right?" Tian Yi's face turned pale.

"A ghost in broad daylight?" Wei Liang frowned.

The three tiptoed forward cautiously, unsure whether it was a neutral creature or a real person.

If it were neutral, wouldn't that mean they'd have to fight humanoid beings in addition to Beast?

When they reached the spot, they were startled to see a bone encrusted with frost!

"It's a corpse," Wei Liang used his Shovel to clear the snow from the body, revealing a backpack underneath.

"Let me see."

Tian Yi opened the backpack and found three pieces of scrap iron, a glass bottle, and transparent Liquid inside.

"Is that an opium tincture?" Su Yang asked.

Wei Liang sniffed it, found the smell pungent, and felt his Brain a little dizzy afterward.

"Most likely, yes. Pack it up first," Wei Liang shoved the items into Tian Yi's bag.

"So it's not just the supply zone; digging corpses can yield items too," Tian Yi swept away her earlier worries and fear, gradually becoming excited.

"Of course, otherwise what would a priest use a corpse for?" Su Yang said.

Tian Yi exhaled a breath of warm air, her cheeks flushed, and forged ahead.

Wei Liang, seeing this, turned and said, "The Cook and I will go first; you watch your own safety."

"Alright," Su Yang nodded.

He was eager to be able to act freely.

When the two went far away, the Silhouette gradually vanished beneath wind and frost, a flash of brilliance sparked in Su Yang's eyes, and he immediately grabbed the axe and struck down with force!

"Snap!"

The corpse's hand bones and leg bones were sliced off by the sharp weapon; Su Yang held the bone still tinged with blood, and an inexplicable yearning surged within his body.

He realized this was the innate instinct of a traitor's identity!

Just as a bald vulture craves to eat corpses.

"Four bones… need twelve wooden planks." Su Yang shoved the bones into his backpack, then threw the remaining half of the corpse along with the backpack into the sea.

He then piled the snow into the pit to fill it level, and continued onward.

Totems are the primary items the traitor must craft, and the material must be human bone.

Su Yang walked several hundred meters against the wind and snow, and along the way discovered many corpse bones and wooden supports.

The things in the backpack had long been taken by Liu Wei Cheng and three others, leaving only an empty corpse.

To avoid suspicion, Su Yang did not take all the bones; instead, he took a hand bone or a leg bone from every other corpse.

As the vessel sailed, these places they passed would never be visited a second time.

As for the wooden supports, he hacked them all apart with the axe and tossed them into the backpack in one go.

After walking further, Su Yang saw a camp tent, surrounded by piles of crates, all of which were already opened.

Undoubtedly, the gunman had taken the resources here.

This is also the Task assigned by Captain Qi Ming.

Su Yang's objective is the supply area ahead, still need to walk Five Hundred meters.

"Vision Perception, there is a seal!" A delicate shout came from the area near the shore.

"This is a spotted seal, don't startle it!" Wei Liang's voice came.

Su Yang cast his gaze and spotted a seal one and a half meters long, its whole body silver‑gray, covered with black spots, basking on the shore.

"Neutral creature?"