Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3169 Behind the Snow Mountain
"It's really hard to borrow the brochure this time, but there must be a lot of them in one ethnic group." Luigi winked at Angor: "You understand?"

Angel turned his head and thought for a moment: "You mean... the organizer?"

That is, the Jingmu family.

Luigi nodded, "That's right."

Although the supporter of this gathering is Piluxiu, and the display book is also transformed by the Pika sages, the nominal organizer is still the Jingmu clan.Naturally, all the brochures were sent out from Crystal City.

If there is any ethnic group that has a surplus of display books, it is only the Jingmu clan.

"Gleipnir is still related to the Jingmu clan?" Angel asked curiously.

Luigi nodded: "Yes. Since the young dragon incident, Gleipnir's reputation has spread farther, so he is often invited to go to various places for divination, and he has also had a relationship with the Jingmu clan for divination several times."

Therefore, if Gleipnir really wants to borrow the display book, there is a high probability that the Jingmu clan will not refuse.

After Angor heard the news, while feeling sorry for Gleipnir's extensive contacts, he also had a glimmer of expectation for the display booklet. ——After seeing Pippi Castle at close range, Angel was quite curious about Piluxiu's invention technology, especially in terms of the means of creation, how is it connected or different from the wizard's alchemy?

While Angel was thinking about it, Luigi on the side suddenly said: "This platform is quite empty, there is no one else except us... Shouldn't this be considered a city gate?"

Although Luigi can share his mind with other time beings, it is rare for all-round sharing. It is more about screen sharing or "group chat" with Laplace and Gleipnir through mind synchronization.

In the previous "group chat", Luigi only knew that Laplace sent them here, but he hadn't had time to ask where the pavilion, and the passage behind the pavilion led.

Laplace: "This is an entrance and exit, but it is not used as a city gate for this gathering."

To put it simply, this is a private channel, most likely used by the Jingmu clan themselves.

As for why Laplace can use it here?You don't need to ask, you know, it's either well-connected, or worship of strength, choose one of the two, or both.

Laplace: "You said that there is no one here, that's not true... There are people over there."

Laplace turned his head and glanced at the passage behind the pavilion.Angor and Luigi followed the prestige, deep in the dark passage, at a darker corner, at some point a small head poked out and looked outside.

And following the eyes of the crowd, he, who was observing secretly, was also taken aback, and shrank his head back suddenly.

Although his movements were quick, the glimpse before was enough for Angel to see his face clearly.

The other party has one eye, and the skin is like glass, and the face is colorless, but almost colorless pale white. In the center of the round head, there is a cluster of vertical crystal lines. Maybe this is the other party's hair?
There is no doubt that the other party must be the Jingmu clan.

Judging from the smoothness of his skin, the brightness of his eyes, and the thickness of his face—the thickness in the literal sense—it should be a child of the Jingmu clan, or at the age of early childhood and the arrival of a teenager. .

Because it is really difficult for the Jingmu tribe to judge their real age, they are classified into the "juvenile" group for the time being.

"When did he come?" Luigi looked at the deep and narrow passage suspiciously: "Why didn't I feel his breath."

Luigi asked Laplace for this question, but an old voice answered him.

"In Crystal City, where there are crystals of holy corpses everywhere, if you want to detect the aura of the Jingmu clan, you need more precise perception. Slowly walked out from the depths of the passage: "But here, the unscrupulous release of perception, and the object of perception is still a teenager from the Jingmu clan, which is tantamount to provoking the Jingmu clan..."

After the talking old woman walked out of the passage, she scolded Luigi and nodded slightly to Angel and Gleipnir.

There is no doubt that this old woman is Graipnir.

Although Luigi was being scolded by Gleipnir, he didn't care at all, and he didn't put his eyes on Gleipnir, but looked behind her.

Not only Luigi, but also Angel at this time.

Because, Gleipnir didn't come out alone, and behind her was the Jingmu boy who had been spying on them before.

The other party timidly hid behind Gleipnir, only showing a side to look out.

It is currently impossible to tell whether this Jingmu tribe boy is male or female, or in other words, Angel has never seen the gender of any Jingmu tribe member.

He was covered with a linen robe that had frayed edges, covering his hands and feet, only a small head was exposed.

"He is..." Angel looked at Gleipnir and asked doubtfully.

Gleipnir: "His name is Lita. When I came here just now, I saw him looking around in the passage, so I took him out along the way."

Angor originally thought that the Jingmu boy came with Gleipnir, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Gleipnir continued: "I know his grandmother. His grandmother used to be a member of the Jingmu Clan Presbyterian Church, and her name was Xiluda. However, she seemed to have gone beyond the margins, and she has not come back until now. .”

After a pause, Gleipnir looked down at Lita: "As for Lita, I heard from people from the Jingmu tribe that he comes here every day just to wait for Xiluda to come back."

As soon as Gleipnir finished speaking, the young man named Lita retorted in a low voice: "Grandma Xiluda didn't go to the border, but to the ghost... I, I usually have to wait for grandma, but today I have other things..."

At the end, Lita's voice became lower and lower, and he buried his head, as if he was lost in his mind.

Gleipnir patted Lita on the shoulder and turned to look at the crowd: "Anyway, he's not spying on you in secret. He comes every day, so he should have his own business."

"Let him stay here, I'll take you in first."

As Gleipnir spoke, he motioned for everyone to follow him into Crystal City.

However, at this moment, Lita said in a very soft voice: "Divination Granny... Grandma said that Granny is someone you can trust, you...can you take me out of here?"

Everyone's footsteps stopped, Gleipnir also turned his head, and looked at Lita suspiciously: "You want to leave here? Get out of the water..."

Just halfway through speaking, Gleipnir seemed to realize something, glanced at the majestic Crystal City next to him, and silently summoned a star-studded dome to cover everyone and the Tower of Power.

Gleipnir had heard a rumor that Crystal City was conscious.

This rumor has been rampant, but no one knows if it is true.She also asked Xiluda, and Xiluda just smiled and never gave a positive answer to this question.

Even though Xiluda didn't say anything, her "avoiding and not answering" was actually a different kind of "answering".

Regardless of whether Crystal City is conscious or not, Gleipnir still decided to treat it as "conscious".If Crystal City is really conscious, then it is very likely to listen to the words of all the creatures in the castle.

Especially those of the Jingmu family.

Therefore, she summoned a dome of starlight to cover them and prevent them from being overheard by prying eyes.

"You want to say, you want to leave Crystal City? Why do you want to leave? Where are you going?" Gleipnir looked at Lita, who was less than 1.5 meters tall: "You want to find Xiluda ? Whether Hilda is outside the border or has gone to the ghosts, it is not something you can go now."

Gleipnir threw out a lot of inquiries at once, and the words seemed to have the meaning of shock, but it was not a kind of concern.

It can also be seen from this that the relationship between Gleipnir and that Xiluda should be pretty good.

Aiwusuo and Wu.

Lita: "Yes, I want to leave Crystal City. I came here today to find an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and leave. I didn't leave to find my grandmother, because... because..."

Lita hesitated for a long time, and then whispered the truth under Gleipnir's gaze: "Mother, I went behind the snow mountain yesterday."

Behind the snow mountain?

Hearing Lita's words, Gleipnir frowned, as if thinking of something.

On the other side, Angel was stunned, what happened behind the snow mountain?
He knew snow mountains, and behind Crystal City were endless snow mountains.But what is the profound meaning behind the snow mountain, Angel does not know.

Perhaps, behind the snow mountain is a metaphor, a metaphor for being buried in the snow mountain?Lita meant that his mother died and was buried in the snow mountain?Angel began to speculate wildly.

But before Angor could make any further guesses, he heard Laplace's voice.

Laplace seemed to see Angel's doubts, and briefly explained the meaning of the so-called "behind the snow mountain".

After dispelling his doubts, Angel discovered that his guess just now was completely wrong, or even the exact opposite.

The Jingmu people going behind the snow-capped mountains does not mean death and disappearance; instead, it represents a kind of new life and hope.

The Jingmu people do not have a biological gender, their gender is determined before birth.As for how to determine the gender, this has something to do with the back of the snow mountain.

In the stretch of snow-capped mountains behind the Crystal City, there are two lakes that look like eyes and embrace each other.Of these two lakes, one presents a deep sky blue, its name is Xionghu; the other lake is quiet black, its name is Female Lake.

The existence of male lakes and female lakes determines the sex of the offspring of the Jingmu people.

Before the offspring of the Jingmu tribe are born, if the mother goes to bathe in the male lake, the child born will be male; otherwise, if the mother goes to bathe in the female lake, the child born will be female.

But in fact, the Jingmu children born do not have any external sexual characteristics. The so-called male and female, or male and female, are just names.

The only difference is the name: male Jingmu people must have "ta" in their names, while female Jingmu people must have "Da" in their names.

Other than that, there is no other difference.

According to Angel's understanding, the Jingmu tribe is a single-sex ethnic group, and it's nothing more than that he has been unable to distinguish the gender of the Jingmu tribe before, because both men and women are the same.

And the way they distinguish gender is whether the mother bathed in the male lake or the female lake before giving birth to them.

It sounds sloppy to determine the gender.

This made Angor quite puzzled, why should the gender be determined in this way?Also, you are a single-sex group, why must there be gender distinctions?Most importantly, how do you reproduce as a single sex?

Angel doesn't quite understand it, but he also knows that it is obviously too biased to define alien races and alien civilizations with human worldviews and cognitive views.It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just respect it, and it should be regarded as gaining knowledge.

After understanding the meaning of "After the Snow Mountain", Angel probably also guessed what Lita was thinking.

He probably felt that his mother would no longer love him when she had a new child?This is the so-called "second child syndrome"?
While Angor was guessing silently, Gleipnir and Lita also continued to chat a lot.

Angel also gradually understood the situation.

Lita was indeed worried that his mother would ignore him; but this kind of worry did not come for no reason. In the past, his mother loved Lita very much, and that kind of love was beyond words, and Lita could clearly feel it.

But one year after his grandmother Hilda left, that is, last year, Lita found that his mother became more and more indifferent to him, often staring at him and dazed for a long time.

It is precisely because he has received "love" that he is so at a loss when he loses it, and even feels that this resentment is caused by the "second child".

Lita's mother didn't actually tell him that she was about to give birth to a new child.Lita learned the news from a loyal servant of her grandmother Hilda, and it was this servant who told Lita that staying here would only add to the sadness, and perhaps it would be a good choice to leave Crystal City.

However, Jingmu children rarely have the opportunity to leave alone.

The reason why Lita appeared here was also to find an opportunity to leave by taking advantage of the stall of the multi-ethnic routine gathering.

However, before Lita could find a chance to leave, he met Gleipnir.

Grandmother Hilda once said that Gleipnir was her most trusted friend, and that's why we have today's conversation.

……

After listening to Lita's narration, everyone present actually had doubts in their hearts.

Because there are many strange things in the story told by Lita.

Why is his mother suddenly cold to him?
Also, why did Grandmother Hilda's loyal servant advise Lita to leave Crystal City?Judging from the whole story, the option of "choose to leave" is a bit too abrupt, and it can be corrected, but there is no need to overcorrect.

And Lita didn't think about it, so he really chose to leave Crystal City, and even planned to leave secretly.It's also kind of weird...

Angel expressed the doubts in his heart to Laplace through sound transmission.

Laplace was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Just now Gleipnir told me through mind synchronization that there may be some secrets hidden behind this incident."

(End of this chapter)