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The ice shattered into a fine powder.
Bi Fang, clutching the reindeer, sank into the river. Surrounded by the flow, he felt his blood about to freeze, his whole body icy cold. The bone-chilling freeze nearly cracked his mouth open, but the cold water flowing over his throat calmed him.
His blood vessels constricted inch by inch, stiffening gradually.
The reindeer in his arms struggled violently. Bi Fang did not dare to resist and quickly let go to watch the reindeer swim swiftly upstream and clamber onto the ice.
Bi Fang did not hurry to emerge; he stayed underwater, watching as one after another large reindeer, each weighing over a hundred kilograms, leaped over the ice caves and fled.
The thumping sounded like the true depiction of the audience's electrocardiogram.
Thump-thump, thump-thump!
Tense, chaotic, rapid.
As dense as drumbeats.
Minutes later, the noise gradually ceased.
Bi Fang, nearly completely frozen stiff, finally surfaced and took deep breaths.
"Ugh!"