Swallowing hard, Shirayuki felt that even saying "no" was a sin, but "no is no," and a lie can never become the truth: "It's not a cat, it's a human, several men, who are said to be messengers of God."
The story... has progressed.
So Snow White took the initiative to mention the outsider, wanting to tell her about it.
Yin Zhu secretly made a mental note of this, but her face didn't show much of a trace. She continued to actively preach to Bai Xueji: "I just remembered that there are actually many healthy and beautiful cosmetics outside that can make you look better."
This time, Shirayuki was silent for a while, then suddenly walked towards her house.
This act of leaving without any explanation was completely opposite to Bai Xueji's previous polite behavior, but Yin Zhu didn't think there was much of a problem.
In fact, Snow White knew that beauty was a problem for her.
She's just too used to it.
The habit of maintaining beauty to please others is deeply ingrained, and the obsession with beauty is difficult to shake off.
If Shirayuki were truly a beautiful mountain village girl who had never been exposed to the outside world, it's impossible that she wouldn't have any longing for it. However, Yuki-onna is someone who has experienced the wicked intentions of outsiders, and she no longer believes in that glamorous world.
In some ways, Snow White is similar to Hirano Sane; they both experienced the evils of the world.
However, Hirano San was still lucky; at least she was still alive. The era she lived in was much more enlightened than ancient times, while the Yuki-onna died in that cruel experiment and had no second chance.
Only extreme evil and resentment can give birth to all sorts of demons and monsters in this world.
Without saying goodbye to Snow White, Yin Zhu shrugged and left Snow Mountain Village with cheerful steps, beginning the next cycle.
This time, however, the snow reached up to her neck.
Unlike before, Yin Zhu didn't keep reminiscing about the village or trying to get back to it as quickly as possible.
This is the last attempt to go out today. If there is another one, Yin Zhu will probably be buried in the snow, which is not a good thing. So in this last attempt, Yin Zhu must find the thing she has been looking for all along.
The rules of the Snow Woman.
Yin Zhu had searched the village, but found nothing; the endless snowfield was a vast expanse of white, and looking at it for too long could easily cause snow blindness, so naturally there was nothing to look for.
Therefore, only the ice pillar forest remains.
Yin Zhu obtained the rules indirectly through the cat's side—just like the hints from the think tank.
However, when the natives first entered this place, there was no way anyone could have given them any warnings. And in places where there are no explicit rules, it takes a huge number of lives to accumulate. But it is obvious that although there are many monster corpses in the Ice Pillar Forest, they are not quite that many.
Therefore, there must be something wrong with the ice pillar forest.
Returning to the Ice Pillar Forest, Yin Zhu reached out and touched the icy pillars, recalling that it was here that she first met Snow White.
After that, she didn't stay there for very long.
The only time she stayed for a relatively long time was when she was thinking about something and was quickly called away by Snow White.
In other words... Snow White, or rather, the Snow Woman, did not want outsiders to linger in the Ice Pillar Forest for too long. Yin Zhu examined each ice pillar one by one and finally noticed something different.
Several icicles contained perfectly proportioned male humans, who, like the other monsters, were in a terrified fleeing posture, which is why Yin Zhu didn't initially feel anything amiss.
However, this time, upon closer observation, Yin Zhu noticed that they were wearing similar clothes.
These few icicles are scattered throughout the forest of icicles. They are inconspicuous at first glance, but if you look at them all and put them together in your mind, you will clearly notice that something is strange.
They are human, not monsters.
It's not just about their neat attire; these people are also wearing amulets around their waists to ward off evil spirits—obviously, ghosts don't need these things. The ghost realm is full of ghosts, so are they trying to exorcise other ghosts or themselves?
Their clothing was strange, and Yin Zhu suspected it was some kind of exorcism stuff from Japan, but she didn't recognize it.
The appearance of several exorcists in the ghost realm is quite interesting.
Yin Zhu carefully observed the icicles, swept away the snow around them, and soon found the rule that the cat had mentioned at the base of the seven icicles.
These rules were written at the very bottom and covered by snow, making them difficult to find at first glance.
I wonder which ghost was so clever as to be the first to discover it. This thought flashed through Yin Zhu's mind, but she immediately dismissed it: if it were really a ghost, it would probably have noticed this suspicious detail immediately. The reason she only noticed it now is simply because she is human.
Only humans are not sensitive to items used to ward off evil spirits.
"Taketori Doji!"
The voice of Shirayuki came from the wind, and a woman in white, wading through the heavy snow, swept through the snow and came to Yin Zhu's side as if she had a GPS.
"The snow is too heavy. Don't go out anymore. It will be dangerous if you go out."
Snow White took Yin Zhu's icy little hand in hers, warming it and melting the ice crystals left from digging through the snow. Yin Zhu didn't object and obediently followed Snow White back to Snow Mountain Village. After eating and drinking her fill, she lay down on the bed and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, Yin Zhu woke up naturally.
No one woke her up; the whole house was quiet, and there was an eerie atmosphere.
"Pretty lady?"
Yin Zhu called out twice but received no response. Realizing something was wrong, she quickly ran out of the village.
This time, the village finally changed. The villagers on the streets were gone, and the snow that kept piling up outside the village began to cover the ground of Snow Mountain Village. It seemed that some protective shield that had been guarding the village had disappeared, allowing the heavy snow outside to invade smoothly.
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