Chapter 58
Sanfujue thought he was probably dreaming.
The dream was covered with snow, and the huge birch tree was like a whole planet to it. It ran on the snow, following the path that the villagers and the tree god tribe had made in the mountains, trying to find its first destined person.
It saw a boy, and the boy also saw it. He did not run away in fear like the other people in Linling. Instead, he ran over and asked, "Are you here to ask for a title?"
The voice is crisp, with the innocence unique to children.
Sanfu nodded reflexively, but before he could ask anything, the other party gave him a standard answer, giving him the prize he wanted.
"Oh, what a pity! It would be nice if we could meet again..."
The boy turned around and continued walking towards home.
"It's a pity that they belong to Linling, not the village."
The stoat stood there in a daze. In the snowy forest, the only thing left in its mind was the boy's regretful and lost look, like a small animal that had fallen into the water.
Is it because of the entanglement between the immortal karma and the answer? I am afraid it is more than that.
Forget it, I need to repay the favor anyway.
Sanfu thought in despair that he had never seen anyone forced to be a guardian deity.
But it changed its mind and thought, although there was no one like him among its peers, there were many predecessors in the history of the four major families of Hu, Huang, Chang and Mang who tried to serve as guardian deities for humans but left behind strange stories. So it stopped hesitating and caught up with the boy.
Perhaps this means that its state of mind has reached the level of those predecessors.
After the ferret comforted itself, it happily followed the boy. The boy leaned over, looked at the ferret that had caught up with him, and asked, "Do you want to go home with me?"
Sanfu nodded.
From then on, no matter on the battlefield fighting the mystery, or in the snowy forest that remained the same for hundreds of years, no matter Chu Donghai suddenly changed from a boy to a teenager, from a teenager to a young man, and from a young man to an old man because of the ruthlessness of time, as long as he raised his voice and waved his hand, Sanfu would turn into a white light in the snow and rush towards him regardless of anything.
"Sanfu! Let's go! Let's go home!"
Just like the night they first met, the moon was high, sharp and clear, like the birch bark boat of the tree god tribe.
"Sanfu! Let's go! Let's go home!"
The boy's voice rang in his ears. Despite his instinctive fear, Sanfu jumped out of the night and rushed towards the dark shadow that sneaked into the yard.
Just like when it rushed towards the boy on that moonlit night.
I am the guardian deity of the family.
As it thought this, blood spread on the snow, its body was peeled off by the rotating force, and then exploded along with its soul.
But it continued to fight unstoppably, fighting endlessly until it forced the opponent out of the yard.
The opponent is a very powerful psychic, but Uncle Sanfu is not weak either.
Because it is the guardian deity of the family.
That's its home.
It is the home of Chu Donghai and Siweilina.
What a luxury, as a mystery, it actually has a home.
In the dream, the little ferret spirit curled up the corners of its mouth and revealed a nasty smile.
"It... smiled?"
Siweilina couldn't understand why someone could still laugh even though his body was broken into pieces.
"Maybe it's dreaming?"
Chu Zhongyuan said uncertainly.
"That... must be a very, very good dream."
Gu Qingming looked at everything in front of him with emotion.
Silence is like a thorn, climbing up everyone's spine until someone breaks this balance.
"Well, I'm going to leave now."
Si Weilina wiped away her tears and said, "I am also a mature mystery. When this guy wakes up, I must make him look at me with new eyes... Before I leave, I will give you this thing that Chu Donghai left behind."
After saying that, Siweilina handed Chu Zhongyuan an unknown black metal chain ring with delicate patterns carved on it.
"That esper who sneaked in... wanted to steal this."
Si Weilina frowned: "I don't know what this is, maybe a weapon? But Chu Donghai said that it will definitely be useful to you."
"Thank you..." After Chu Zhongyuan took the chain, a familiar and inexplicable scene seemed to flash before his eyes again. He paused and invited, "Don't you want to stay for the New Year?"
Siweilina gritted her teeth and said, "No, we need to race against time to become stronger. I remember the auras of those people. You humans can't distinguish them. I can - I want to avenge it."
After saying this hatefully, the tentacles tangled together and turned into a black circle, and the girl's silhouette disappeared into the shadow of the night.
"The immortals do not pass through Shanhaiguan."
After Siweilina left, Chu Zhongyuan was silent for a moment, and suddenly sighed without any reason, but Gu Qingming knew what he meant.
At least for a very long time, it would be difficult for them to see each other again.
Chu Zhongyuan did not move, still standing there, looking at the altar.
Gu Qingming sighed and silently accompanied him to digest those heavy emotions.
The moonlight and snow reflected through the window, stretching the shadows of the two people into long, slender ones, side by side.
Deep in the woods, beside a frozen stream, the fox mask was playing with the Five Emperors' Coins in his hand, as if he was talking to someone.
An arm of light extends from the ground, with a translucent texture, but covered with branches.
The fox mask said, "Yuga, Sanfu was facing the boss of Ceope at that time. Logically, it was impossible for him to survive. Did you help? And... the effect of the grass seeds was removed too quickly. Even after the branches fell off, the person would still be unconscious for a while."
Without waiting for Guangwan to speak, Fox Mask strung the Five Emperors' Coins onto his wrist and continued asking in a gentle and calm tone.
"Finally... Siweilina... the mystery of West A District, why did she appear in Linling? And was she picked up by Chu Donghai?"
Although it couldn't be heard from the voice, there were indescribable complex emotions in the eyes of the fox mask.
It was a feeling of...unhappiness and relief at being interfered with.
"It's my book anyway."
His voice was so faint that it was hidden in the night.
The bare branches shook, and a man's voice, like chanting a bard, came out from them.
"Yes, but you have to accept help from others occasionally... Otherwise, what a pity, such a strong friendship, the lives of so many enthusiastic people, and it's just a casual thing for me, why not do it? Don't worry, although they have recovered some actions, they will not have any memories related to the mystery."
The fox mask could almost imagine the other person shrugging his shoulders when speaking.
Yuga is a famous wood-type psychic who is independent of the Three Guardians and is currently working in the Night Watch Foundation. He has always had close cooperation with CPA and has a similar status to Fox Mask. They are both voluntary labor helpers sent by the other two mysterious organizations to CPA because of the underworld and Ceope's spying on PL.
At the same time, he is also... an old acquaintance of Fox Mask. Fox Mask originally thought that this guy should be active abroad to guard against Keobe and continue to be his square bard, but he didn't expect that he secretly hid in Linling at some point.
According to me, it’s because the wine here is strong enough.
However, the truth is that the other party was also alarmed by Ceob's attack on PL.
Fox Mask thought.
Youga paused and continued: "...I stole the cheongsam girl from a dark-skinned man in a black suit in the West District, and then deliberately let Chu Donghai adopt her. Don't worry, I didn't steal her for nothing. If you want to solve the problem of the PL secret realm, you will definitely need her in the future."
Fox Mask was silent for a moment after hearing this. He thought of an evil god from the Cthulhu pantheon. He suddenly laughed, "No... I just wanted to say that you stole it well! This clone is much cuter than the original!"
Yuga (starry eyes): "You think so too, right?! Fun people should be incapable of causing any harm and can only cry!"
Yuga smiled and said, "Maybe the audience in front of the screen thinks the same way."
He changed the subject: "By the way, after you leave, will this book come back?"
Lin Yuan: "Maybe, but whether I can see you off depends on how long you stay here and when I fulfill my promise to Gu Nanfeng."
The night passed in silence. The sun was climbing up the hill obliquely, and the snow reflected the sunlight, making it difficult to open one's eyes.
In the gathering place of the Tree God Tribe deep in the forest, all the members of the tribe who had recovered were gathered in a spacious open space. Gu Qingming and the other three hurried over, and their originally relaxed mood was quickly shattered by a piece of news.
Little Una was in tears, and Am patted her shoulder gently to comfort her.
But she herself was not in much better condition, with tears still hanging on her cheeks, and even Ulig's pale face was filled with sadness.
King Maru is dead.
King Maru, who showed them the way and blocked the wind and snow for them along the way, was found dead in a snow pit not far from the collapsed sacrificial site by CPA's professional rescue team. His blood froze together and did not spill out, turning the entire snow pit into a blood pit.
The temperature was too low, and there was no smell of decay. There was only the quiet whistling of the wind, and one knew that the people of the mountains were buried there.
It was just outside the ice sculpture where the chief and his wife were frozen into. One of them remained lying with his neck straight, staring at the place where the chief and his wife were trapped.
Like a guard standing guard quietly.
King Maru, who was influenced by the Maru faith, had long been a mysterious animal. He understood that his hometown had been invaded by people with dark hearts, and he had tried hard to stop it all. But in the end, on his way to enter the formation to protect the chief and his wife from being buried by the wind and snow, he was killed by an unknown Keobe.
But its soul stands in the woods, riding the wind, always looking at this land from afar, looking at its clansmen who have not yet returned home under the woods.
So, in the wind and snow, the obsessed soul woke up from the night and jumped into the moonlight, like a morning star in the sky, guiding the direction and danger for the four high school students and the returning little Una.
If it weren't for King Maru's sudden disappearance, the four high school students would have found it difficult to react quickly to Monks' approach.
If it weren't for King Maru's guidance, they would never have been able to reach the Tree God Tribe deep in the forest, thus successfully delaying time until the CPA force arrived at the scene.
The sound of sacrificial drums was heard, praising the dedicated death. Little Una, as the messenger of the tree god, prayed quietly for the peace of the dead souls.
"Your sin will be eternal, because you killed the purest and greatest King Maru."
Ulig, who took on the responsibility of the young chief, lowered his head and sighed, as if he was reciting someone's eulogy.
The sky was bright and clear. At the end of King Maru's funeral, the sound of swaying reindeer bells could be heard. It was as if the light white reindeer was looking at its friends and the layers of forests in the distance with a smile in its eyes.
Amid the sound of the deer bells, even Chu Zhongyuan, who usually talked the most, did not speak.
Under the clear sky, the end of the year is approaching on the torn pages of calendars.
Thanks to the timely rescue, no one was killed by the grass seeds in the Linling incident. Only those who were slightly or seriously injured in the collapse were transferred to temporary hospitals and town hospitals.
Nothing can stop the arrival of New Year's Eve. Laoshugou Village becomes busy again and everyone begins to prepare for the end of the year.
At night, there was a knock on the wooden door covered with a quilt-like curtain, and four high school students yawned - they had stayed up late playing games together last night and were catching up on their sleep.
Chu Zhongyuan rubbed his eyes, opened the wooden door, and an unexpectedly familiar face came into his eyes.
"Hurry, put on your clothes and come out to see what good things are outside."
Cao Sheng casually threw large and small bags of things at his feet, but his eyes were looking at the unobstructed night sky not far away, as excited as a child showing off his toys.
Chu Zhongyuan didn't bother to ask carefully, he rushed into the house and pulled up several of his companions. After all, Boss Cao would not call them out without any reason.
What Cao Sheng wanted to share were usually rare scenes that they had never seen before and were magnificent enough.
Several high school students hurriedly put on several layers of coats and rushed out of the house, but before they could even cry out in fear of the cold, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.
Colorful slender lamp posts are lined up in the dark sky in the distance, with the edges outlining blurred boundaries of different colors.
It looks like a rain of lights falling from the sky, or like some mysterious spellcasting scene. They are arranged together, beautiful and amazing.
Similar to the Aurora Borealis, but more colorful.
The light pillars on cold nights are an ice halo phenomenon that can be compared to the beauty of the aurora. They are formed by ice crystals in the atmosphere reflecting light. The reflection of ice crystals transforms all the glow of the city at night within a certain range, including but not limited to street lamps, neon lights, car headlights, etc., into colorful light pillars that rise straight into the sky.
It's like the reflection of a city in the starry sky.
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