Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

A cold snowy night.

Very, very quiet.

There was not a single animal calling or crawling, not even a whisper of wind.

Floating in the air is a silence as hard as ice, just like the season.

heard it.

It sounded like some kind of giant broom sweeping snow, but the broom must have been very big, as big as a house, but it also felt like the claws of a wild animal.

The sound of a claw as big as a house slowly leaving marks in the snow.

The owner of the huge red vertical pupils looked at the two humans without blinking. Slowly, he moved his body in the dim and blurry darkness, and moved his body all over the mountain.

Xia Long just looked at him coldly, with the only red vertical pupil exposed, like a monster in the dark with only one eye.

The red vertical pupil retreated backwards, slowly retreating into the darkness and disappearing.

It started snowing again, and pieces of snow flakes danced in the sky like catkins, blown by the wind. In the snowy night, the presence of the strange monsters gradually disappeared.

Whether it was a dragon or a fox, no one knew, but the monster had indeed gone away.

Xia Long retracted his cold gaze and looked down at Jason.

With the sound of falling snow, the world returned to silence.

"Jason is awake."

In the early morning, Blaise spoke to Xia Long as if reporting.

"He said he didn't know why he was in the church and he really wanted to see you."

"Eggs are delicious, but do we really have to see the hen?"

Xia Long put down the book in his hand and said to Blaise with a slight smile.

"I think this analogy is definitely not appropriate." Blaise muttered, but he also understood what Xia Long meant. He said, "If you don't want to see him, I will reply to him like this, but what happened? I was really scared when I saw you carrying Jason back like that last night."

"Nothing, just a few minor incidents."

Blaise shook his head helplessly, and suddenly his eyes noticed the book in Xia Long's hand, so he turned and asked;

"What are you reading?"

“The Ring of King Solomon, a popular science work about animals.”

"Is it interesting?"

“Not as interesting as Anna Karenina.”

"I'll take that as a compliment." Blaise sighed again, "What's wrong? You don't seem to be in a good mood today."

"Did you know that the author of this book has been to Altenberg before? The priest seems to be familiar with him." Xia Long turned his gaze back to the red-covered book in his hand and turned a page with one hand. "He once wrote about an experience he had here. There were some obscure and puzzling things about that experience, and he wrote it down in a few short sentences. If possible, I want to tell him that I actually found the answer to that matter."

"It was like discovering the truth of a mystery, like digging up a time capsule, but unfortunately he died a long time ago."

“It’s a really complicated puzzle.”

Blaise whispered that he would go back and report Xia Long's attitude.

Xia Long continued to read, concentrating on the type, but when the priest approached, he immediately noticed it, raised his head and gave a sincere and gentle smile.

After more than half a year of getting along, the priest no longer expressed surprise at Xia Long's behavior. He thought that his friendly and lovely behavior was common, and he smiled cheerfully in response to him. But after a while, he asked unexpectedly;

"I heard from Blaise that you found a puzzle in a book."

When the priest heard Blaise asking about this matter, he thought about it for a while. He was asking with a question that he had already guessed, but he got the answer very calmly.

"I found the animals in the back mountain."

"In other words, that gentleman wasn't having an illusion at the time?"

"The animal does not want to be discovered, perhaps artificial hallucinations were created on him."

The priest was silent for a moment, then asked;

"So, how are the animals doing now?" he asked uneasily. "Are they staying underground?"

"gone."

"gone."

the priest repeated.

"It is a very kind animal. It has lived for decades without hurting anyone or appearing in human sight. Now, no one knows where it will go."

"Really?" the priest murmured. In fact, he didn't know how he felt. To be honest, he had never seen the beast before, but based on Xia Long's description, he almost instantly constructed his image in his mind, and even felt a little worried.

Presently he laughed again.

"That's good too. I don't know why, but after hearing you say that, I feel like he can always find a place to live comfortably."

When Xia Long was alone, he closed the book and thought about what happened last night.

The beasts in the snowy night undoubtedly retreated at that time. In fact, Xia Long took the initiative to search in the back mountain because he was worried that there was a dangerous monster.

But after actually discovering and investigating, he had no intention of driving it away or destroying it. He just didn't know if his behavior made the beast a little irritable or what, and he appeared when Bob Jason went up the mountain.

The other party had no intention of killing, nor did he have an appetite. Instead, he used illusions to force Jason to go down the mountain by himself. He sensed the danger, and that was his way of protecting himself.

Xia Long regretted being so mean to him yesterday. Now the beast had gone far away, and even he didn't know where the beast went on that snowy night.

"The earth does not have an ecological environment that can support these huge species to live in groups. It is a miracle for individuals of the same species to meet each other. If they only have basic animal instincts, it is fine. If they are smarter, I wonder if they will feel lonely."

Xia Long murmured, lowered his head quietly, and started reading his book again.

Time passes quickly, and spring, summer, autumn and winter soon change again.

Xia Long has become very familiar with the entire Altenberg. Now everyone here knows him, and everyone knows that he is a mature, calm and lovely young man. They think that he possesses a kind of character virtue that many adults in their thirties and forties do not possess. However, Xia Long always smiles and says nothing when others praise him.

If it weren't for his missing limbs, perhaps many parents would be happy to pair their daughters with him. Even so, some young people chatted with him enthusiastically and were happy to communicate with him.

"I'm leaving."

Suddenly one day, it was also a morning, suddenly, Xia Long seemed to sense something, so he looked up at the sky and talked to Blaise as if he was talking about something unrelated.

"Leave?" Blaise stammered, "But you've only been here for about two years."

"Two years is already a long time. How many more two years can a person have?"

"So, where are you going?"

"The Pacific Ocean."

While saying this, Xia Long was still looking at the sky, as if there was something worthy of his attention behind the blue sky.

"It's so far. Even if we take a car or a plane from now on, it will take a whole day to get there, right?"

"I'll try to get there."

"Really..." Blaise stood shoulder to shoulder with Xia Long in silence. Both of them looked ahead, as if they knew this was a farewell forever, and fell into silence for a moment.

But Blaise realized that this was the last moment, and if he didn't say something, he would never have another chance to say it, so he turned to look at Xia Long and spoke the next moment;

"When I first saw you, I thought I saw God."

"Even if there really is a God in this world, he's probably not what you think."

"You may not be a god, but you are definitely not an ordinary person." Blaise said slowly, "I have been observing you, and I soon realized that you are definitely not an ordinary person. Your eyes have two perspectives. In the secular, ordinary perspective, there is another perspective, like an eagle flying in the sky, looking down at everything that humans depend on for survival and humans themselves."

Blaise saw Xia Long's eyes glance at him quickly, and the expression on his face changed only slightly, but it showed extreme surprise and astonishment. Then the next moment, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, even looking soft and charming.

The momentary brilliance that appeared on his face was dazzling.