Chapter 259 Good night, Yuri
The name of the tenth round copy chosen by Anson Deer is "North Pole Train, Twelve Signal Towers".
The location is at a corner of the Arctic. Looking out, there is an endless snowfield. A railway track that seems to go straight to the end of the world stands in the middle, extending continuously forward. At the white horizon, it meets the deep blue sky that seems to be made up of thousands of ice layers.
The bleak cold wind blew on his face and poured into his ears and nostrils. The oxygen in the air was shockingly low. Anson Deer's nose turned slightly red, and his throat and eardrums ached slightly.
The side quest objectives of the copy are very clear. Anson Lu plays an Arctic scientific researcher who needs to take a train to various corners of the Arctic snowfield and repair the signal towers along the way. He can get certain rewards for each signal tower repaired.
Of course, you can also choose not to repair it and simply take a train to visit the Arctic. After all, this is just an exploratory copy with a very high degree of freedom. Players can do whatever they want as long as they can survive a certain number of days.
Because the climate in the Arctic is too harsh, players not only have no food source, but also have to move close to the railroad tracks. Most importantly, they cannot abandon the train and must resist monsters that attack the train along the way, so this copy is defined as a survival exploration copy.
The number of people allowed in the dungeon was limited to two people, and the first person Anson Lu thought of was Yuri, so he invited her into the dungeon.
She accepted it.
The white-haired girl stood in the snowfield, her figure was so clear, as if she was about to merge into the endless ice and snow like the sea.
"Let's get on the train." Anson Deer said slowly.
"Um."
The surrounding area was covered with snow, so they got on the train without much hesitation. The brightly lit train started with a roar and slowly moved forward on the track. The rolling wheels swept away the snow on the track.
"Just stay on the train?" Yuri tilted his head.
"Well, maybe." Anson Lu rubbed his palms and exhaled a breath of white air: "We can also repair a few more signal towers and get some rewards."
"Signal tower..." Yuri looked out the window. The hazy snowfield seemed to cover the entire world. Apart from the snow and the covered pine forest, she could not see anything else.
“We should be able to see it soon.”
"Are we just going to stay on the train?"
"Yes."
Anson Deer and Yuri walked around the entire train and finally found a carriage to rest.
There are seats on one side of this carriage and the other side is empty. There is a window embedded in the wall every two meters.
Anson Deer sat down in the seat and looked at Yuri who was standing by the car window. Her eyes were fixed on the snowy field. The snow scene outside the window was flying by and constantly changing.
She just stood there silently, looking out the window blankly, her snow-white hair swaying gently as the train swayed.
Time quickly entered dusk, and the afterglow cast into the train, dyeing Yuri's figure light yellow. The snowfield seemed to have turned into a red forest surrounded by thousands of maple leaves. Then, as night fell, a green aurora appeared in the sky, the same color as Yuri's clear eyes.
Anson Deer didn't say a word throughout the day. He lowered his head and his hanging hair covered his brown eyes.
He hasn't had his hair cut for a long time.
Anson Deer slowly turned his head, looked at the car window behind him, and stared out the window quietly.
He could see Yuri's reflection in the window. The white-haired girl's figure reflected in the window overlapped with the aurora that was like dusk, as if she was standing in the center of the aurora, so hazy and beautiful, like a bird flying by.
"It's almost May..." Yuri said suddenly.
"right."
"Countdown, there are only fifteen days left." Yuri's voice was very calm, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.
"Fifteen days is quite a long time." Anson Lu said softly.
"Summer is coming."
“May is summer.”
“I can’t seem to see it anymore.”
"But we are not so rigid when it comes to rock climbing. April can be considered summer. Now that summer is over, is autumn coming soon?"
"Autumn is really far away this year."
"Yeah, it's really far."
"Will you wait for me in the fall?"
"Of course, I will hold your hand and we will go to see the fallen leaves together, and then we will laugh at them harshly, laughing at them for not surviving the autumn."
"...Are you an idiot?" Yuri put his hand on his chin and laughed softly.
"Well, I'm such an idiot," Anson said. "But in fact, we may not even be those leaves. After all, they can at least wither in the autumn, but we may not live to see the autumn."
"But I met you, and that's enough." Yuri said softly.
Anson Deer's heart twitched.
He looked at Yuri with an indifferent expression, opened his mouth slightly, and then lowered his eyes.
"Maybe I'm greedy. I want to be with you forever."
"I'm not greedy," Yuri said softly, "I was thinking... if I hadn't chosen to go with you in the ward at the beginning, would I have died there alone, and no one would remember me."
Anson Lu's eyes flickered as he spoke incoherently:
"You know, I've always wanted to take you to the capital of Iceland, and give a good punch to those people who took advantage of you. I want to knock them down in front of you and tell them... How dare you do this to the person I care about the most? How dare you?
"I really want to kill them all, chop them up and feed them to pigs, destroy all those who hurt you and imprisoned you, and just let the white dragon crush them into pieces..."
"But, you took me away from there." Yuri whispered.
She put her hands behind her back and looked quietly at this violent and fragile man, as if she saw a side of herself she had never seen before.
The brightly lit train was still moving, the rumbling sound accompanied my ears, and the aurora from the night sky covered it with a light green curtain.
"Yes, we have traveled a long way, from Hokkaido to Tokyo, then to the Pacific Ocean and Denmark, and now we are almost at the North Pole."
"I want to walk longer with you. As long as I'm with you, I want to go everywhere."
"Me too." Anson Deer's voice was hoarse.
"I really want to meet your uncle and cousin." Yuri lowered his head, his snow-white hair hanging down, "I want to hear about you from them."
She whispered:
"I want to have known you since I was very young, I want to see you every day when I open my eyes, and I want you to be by my side every time I close my eyes.
"There is something I really want to say to you.
"I have never dared to say this to you...
"Because before, I didn't know what love was. If I said it wrong, then I was deceiving you...
“But I understand now.
"Love means that when you say goodbye to someone, you will feel very sad, as if your heart is burning, and it feels like you have fallen into the sea, and you feel so lonely..."
She spoke softly under the aurora, her figure gently swayed by the turbulent train.
“You know, my father abandoned me and my mother, and my mother said I was an emotionless monster who couldn’t share her pain.
"I studied very hard, and I tried very hard to understand her. I wanted to be an emotional person, and not be cold and icy.
"I tried really, really hard to pretend.
"But my mother hanged herself in front of me."
Anson Lu was stunned for a moment, no sound came out of his lips, only a strong sense of sadness filled his heart.
The train slowly entered the tunnel, and cold darkness enveloped the carriage.
"At that time, I was thinking..." Yuri lowered his eyes slowly, "Because I am an emotionless monster, I failed to understand my mother well, so my mother left me."
"No..." Anson Lu lowered his head and said weakly, "It's not what you think."
"I like Anson Deer." Yuri murmured, "I am no longer a monster without emotions. No one will abandon me... Because I am no longer a monster without emotions, so... I can tell you this, right?"
Her voice was weak, as if she was asking for help from Anson Deer.
"You have always been..." Anson Lu's heart ached: "You should not be abandoned. Your father and your mother should not be abandoned. They should never say that you are a monster. They are wrong."
"Am I not a monster?" she asked seriously.
Anson Deer collapsed. The light in his eyes brightened for a moment, then quickly dimmed.
After a moment, he croaked, "You were never a monster, they were."
"…Then I am qualified to have feelings?"
"Um."
“…I like Anson Deer.”
"I'm listening."
"...I really like Anson Deer."
"I heard that."
"My emotions...are not fake."
"It's true."
"I'm not lying, I'm not pretending, I'm really...really..." She said softly, over and over again:
“I really like Anson Deer.”
"I really like Yuri, too."
He said this with almost all his strength, holding the girl's cold hand tightly, hugging her thin body, and her snow-white hair stuck to her cheek.
In the darkness of the tunnel, the Icelandic girl was like a cat, close yet distant, her head resting lightly on his shoulder, her clear eyes misty.
"Can you say it to me again?" she asked softly.
“I like this girl from Iceland.
“I like her in all the ways she skis, reads, thinks seriously, and pretends to be indifferent while caring deeply.
"I don't want her to leave me, but I know we have to say goodbye for a while. I am in pain, but I can only keep avoiding it.
"I obviously didn't want to escape, and I knew it would make her sad. She's not a robot without emotions. You will get hurt, you will cry, and you will like cute animals.
"But I was such a wimp that I let her speak up. I could only keep it to myself."
After the two were silent for a long time, the train drove out of the tunnel. In the moonlight-filled carriage, Yuri's mouth corners slightly raised, but tears kept sliding down his cheeks.
After a while, she said softly, "She said...she forgave you."
"real?"
"Um."
Time passed quickly, and the three days in the Arctic copy gradually passed. Every minute and every second was so precious to Anson Deer.
They got off the train and walked on the snowfields, stepping across the Arctic ice, where the glaciers reflected the sky filled with auroras.
Occasionally a polar bear would visit, and after Anson Deer had subdued it, he would watch as Yuri gently stroked its fur and whispered something to it.
"We're leaving, Mr. Bear."
Anson Deer didn't know the future, so he could only focus on the present and look at the girl next to him.
She is like snow.
It appeared, fell down, and was about to disappear.
It is always so cold, and seems like it will melt at any time even when held in the palm of your hand.
After leaving the copy, Anson Deer did not stay in Norway. He collected many travel scrolls and ran away with Yuri to a place where no one knew them.
Sitting on a train or a plane, listening to the roar of the engine, seems to be able to take my thoughts to faraway places.
They went to Tokyo, walked through the noisy crowd, and saw the world-famous Sky Tree. It was drizzling that day. They held umbrellas, held hands, and their backs gradually disappeared on the long street, like a long shot in a movie.
They went to London again and danced slowly under the Big Ben. The girl's dance steps were clumsy, but the boy used his extraordinary intuition to gently lead her. They danced well and aroused applause.
Finally they went to Nice, France, and they swore an oath in front of the Mediterranean Sea. The water, as blue as the sky, was listening to their declaration.
The countdown was ticking, and by 5 p.m. on April 30, there were less than seven hours left.
Dusk enveloped the vast Mediterranean Sea and the brightly lit houses that were lined up on the mountains. Every household had a light on. Only the two of them stood on the shore, watching the birds flying over the lonely lighthouse, the ebb and flow of the tide, and the ships coming and going.
The mountains and forests in the distance looked like a red sea. The wind from tens of thousands of hectares of land blew past, causing the red sea to sway and make a rustling sound.
The pale yellow afterglow dyed the girl's hair golden instead of sickly white. Her clear eyes sparkled in the sunset.
They didn't say a word, but just sat hand in hand on the wooden chairs by the sea, quietly watching the sea and the villages scattered on the hillside being shrouded in night.
Everything was completely silent, with only the sound of the ocean tide, the shore breeze, and the ticking sound of the countdown.
The ice flower in the girl's hand swayed gently, and a piece of deep blue petals floated away, drifting away with the waves of the Mediterranean.
"Yuri, are you scared?" Anson Deer looked into the distance.
"You are here," she said.
"I'll come find you. We'll meet in the fall." Anson Lu curled his lips and said confidently, "Before that, you may have to take a long nap."
"I will wait for you for a long time. I hope you will be by my side when I wake up." The girl's snow-white hair fluttered in the wind. "Otherwise... I will be unhappy."
"Of course, I will be the first person in the world to greet you."
"That's good."
"How about we open a bookstore when you come back?"
"OK."
"We'll open it in a place where no one knows us, so you can read every day and don't have to borrow books from others."
"Yeah, I'm so happy."
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“The sea breeze is so strong.”
"Yes, there are some."
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"Kissing, is this what it feels like..."
“How wonderful.”
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"Again."
"good."
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"Speaking of which... Yuri, what should we name our bookstore?"
"What do you think?"
"Ah, how about calling it Anson Deer and Yuri's Bookstore?"
"Um...are you an idiot?"
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"My hands are so cold..."
"I'm holding your hand."
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"Anson Deer, are you there?"
"I am here."
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"Deer, are you still there?"
"I'm still here."
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"Are you here?"
"I'm with you."
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"I can't see anything anymore."
"I'm here."
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"Are you with me?"
"I'm still here."
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"I... like Anson Deer."
"I like Yuri, too."
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"I really like Anson Deer."
"I like Yuri, too."
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"I seem to be... starting to feel a little sleepy."
"Then get some sleep."
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"Goodnight...Anson Deer."
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"Goodnight, Yuri."
Anson Deer lowered his eyes and spoke softly.
The ticking sound of the countdown stopped, and the girl in his arms froze into ice, gradually turning into ice dust and disappearing on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea.
(End of this chapter)
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