Quadruple split

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Tianzhu Mountain, southern edge of the Seventh Outer Mountain

A tall and thin figure was trudging through the wind and snow. Since this is a rare place in the Seventh Outer Mountain that is not protected by a barrier, the environment is very harsh. The endless storm almost never stops, and the visibility is frighteningly low, so that the old man Both eyes with a visual acuity level of 5.3 could only see less than ten meters around him, but despite this, he was still looking for something unremittingly.

Chasing the faint breath, Jadeka Diesel walked forward step by step, her large robes flying in the strong wind, and her solid steps were firm and powerful.

Finally, after trekking for about ten minutes, a slender silhouette appeared in the old man's field of vision.

A pretty and cute girl with short silver-gray shoulder-length hair and a pair of pointed animal ears is curled up beside the mountain wall in a daze. Her light-blooded eyes are slightly lowered, and her expression looks a little dull.

"Tooth!"

Lao Jia immediately roared, and then skillfully opened the stopper of the bottle of [Spicy Burnt Powder] hanging under the wristband with one finger. At the moment when the rich fire element aura rose, he danced the self-destructing walking stick, gently He shook out two [Flower Fireworks Rings] to disperse the wind, snow and cold around Yaya, and then rushed forward with great strides, shouting as he ran: "Are you crazy, you don't have the protection of the barrier?" Don’t you know how dangerous this place is! Master Lu Wei has said it many times before, doesn’t he recommend that we set foot in the cooling zone that is not covered by the barrier? The edge of the seventh outer mountain was specially set aside by him to dissipate heat for those large engineering creations. use!"

Ya Ya, who seemed to be distracted, was slightly startled when he saw the fire beside him, then showed a cute smile, turned to the old mage who was running towards him, like his second grandfather, and smiled: "Jadeka~"

"Why are you still smiling so playfully?"

Jadeka rushed to Yaya with a serious face, then squatted down and began to pat the snowflakes on the girl's body, and said angrily: "Why do you always like to run around in no one's place these two days? The day before yesterday was in the basement, and yesterday It's the storage room of the third workshop. I just ran outside the barrier today. Mo has been there a lot lately. Don't you usually like to stick to him? If he knew you were like this..."

He arched Jadeka with his teeth, interrupting the old man's babble: "I was wrong~"

Jadeka was also soft-hearted. When he heard this, he immediately showed a kind smile and patted the girl's little head gently: "It's okay to know that you were wrong, but you can't do it again in the future..."

"Can I not change it?"

Yaya innocently interrupted Jadeka and gently tugged on his cuffs.

The old mage choked at that time. After a while, he sighed silently, placed a resistance fire ring with himself and Yaya as the center, sat down slowly next to the latter, and remained silent for a while before asking. Said: "I noticed that you have been avoiding everyone recently."

"Well."

Ya Ya shrank his neck, then nodded slightly.

"Oh, you young people."

Jadeka shook his head and sighed, then raised his hand to brush away a snowflake on the top of Yaya's head, and asked tentatively: "Good boy, tell Lao Jia, is it because you feel that you are not from the same world as Mo and Little Pigeon? , that’s why…”

As a result, Yaya interrupted the old man again, shaking his head like a rattle: "No, no, it's Yaya... Well, it's my own problem, there's something on my mind."

Jadeka blinked and asked curiously: "What's the matter?"

"Hard to say."

Ya Ya looked down at her white little hands and muttered: "I don't know myself, I just... feel like a lot of things have changed."

Jadeka frowned in confusion. After thinking to no avail, he decided to make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, so he smiled and said, "That's true. For example, you girl can speak much more fluently now than before."

"Well, this is also a change."

As a result, Yaya not only didn't smile, but even buried her little face in the knees she held, and whispered: "There are many changes, I don't like it very much."

Jadeka stroked his gray beard, and did not rush to talk to me with chicken soup or reason. He just said in a reassuring voice: "If you don't mind, you can talk to me."

It's not because of the estrangement after knowing that Mo Tan and Ji Xiaoge are from other worlds. The reason why Lao Jia said this is because he can barely be regarded as an 'elder'. In other words, he is a grandfather-like existence, and he is not like Mo Tan. Tan and others are considered equals, but after all, age is here, and they are not old monsters like Lu Wei and Hao, who can't tell their age on the surface, but they have lived for who knows how many years, so There is still a feeling of sharing a grandpa.

Although Mo Tan and Ya Ya are natives of the alien world and the innocent world respectively, they have no relatives. Ji Xiaoge does have grandparents, but no grandparents, so Lao Jia still acts like a grandfather occasionally.

Such as heart-to-heart talk.

To give an inappropriate example, everyone knows the saying "kissing the other generation". Its general meaning is that the older generation is often easier to deal with than the previous generation. The main reason is that they are doting and not meddling.

Although Lao Jia is not related by blood to any of these people, and is not even from the same world as Mo Tan, Ji Xiaoge, and Dabus, he is still satisfied with "not meddling in other people's business", "older generation" and 'Pampering' and other three elements.

On this basis, Yaya, who is naive and simple most of the time, is closer to Lao Jia than Mo Tan and Ji Xiaoge, who are more mature in thinking.

Therefore, even if Yaya would not mention some words to Mo Tan and others, he would say them to Jadeka.

For example, when she was in Academy City before, she told Jadeka about her inexplicable ability to use Common Language proficiently, and when Yaya himself asked for confidentiality, Jadeka did not mention anything to others.

To sum up, the old mage believes that Yaya should be willing to open up to himself, and we all know that many things will make people feel better if they are spoken out rather than kept in their hearts, because it will make people feel a sense of It is not an illusion that I am solely responsible for.

"that is……"

Yaya flattened his mouth, scratched his hair twice feebly, and after a while said, "I've been feeling confused lately, and I don't know why, it's just... very uncomfortable."

Jadka suddenly looked hard and asked in a deep voice: "Do you feel uncomfortable? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"

"I don't know, but it shouldn't be that I feel unwell."

Yaya shook his tail listlessly and muttered in a low voice: "I'm not feeling well."

Jadeka was stunned again and said in astonishment: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Well, I feel uncomfortable."

Yaya nodded vigorously, and his two furry animal ears lay softly on his hair. Not only did his little face not turn red due to the blizzard around him, it even turned a little white: "I often think of some things recently... It’s scary, it’s scary.”

The old mage's expression became completely serious at this moment. He put his wrinkled but generous and strong hands on Yaya's shoulders and asked seriously: "Tell me carefully, Yaya, this is not a small matter. !”

Yaya trembled for a moment, and then he shook his head vigorously, and there was even a hint of crying in his tone: "I can't think about it properly, I'm so scared, I... I only know that it happened when I was a child... a lot of people... So many… ugh!”

The girl did not succeed in finishing her words. Instead, she turned to Jadeka with red eyes at the moment of subconscious recollection. Not only did her eyes not have any innocence at all, there was not even the restlessness and madness in the violent state. There was only a sense of awe. Jadka felt a chilling silence.

To put it more vividly, Yaya's eyes lost their brightness at this moment.

Even Jadeka, who has experienced many storms and waves, couldn't help but feel horrified when he saw Yaya's expression at this moment, and immediately shouted in a low voice: "Ya..."

"ah!"

As a result, the girl in front of her returned to normal in the next second. She blinked her eyes in confusion, then shook her head vigorously, and said in a low voice with a cry in her voice: "I can't think clearly, I'm so good Afraid, I..."

"Stop!"

Jadeka stopped Yaya's words with the fastest reaction speed in his life, interrupted the girl's thoughts before the scene just appeared again, and then asked with a solemn expression: "Yaya, do you still remember what happened just now?" What?"

"just?"

Yaya was stunned for a moment, and then muttered subconsciously: "Jadeka found me just now, and then we talked about my... changes. Jadka said we could chat if you don't mind, and then I talked about the recent... There are some uncomfortable things, Jadeka asked me to talk about it carefully, I..."

Jadeka stared into the girl's eyes: "What's wrong with you?"

"I was thinking about what to say, but you interrupted me."

Yaya showed an innocent smile to Jadeka, and his ears twitched reluctantly: "But I am in a much better mood now, hehe~"

But Jadekar could not laugh.

Because just a few words ago, Yaya in front of him was looking at him with that indescribable look. It was a look that was so hollow that it was dizzying. There was... nothing in those red eyes.

At this moment, looking at the girl who had returned to normal, Jadeka still couldn't convince herself that it was just an illusion or illusion. On the one hand, it was because of the 'ins and outs' that Ya Ya told him personally, and on the other hand -

The old man just realized that Yaya's beautiful eyes were not her original color.

In Jadeka's memory, Yaya's eyes should be the kind of aqua between blue and green. In short, it can be blue or green, but it is definitely not the light red at this moment.

In fact, what scared Jadeka the most was that because Yaya's eyes would turn red for a long time after being in a violent state, neither he nor Mo Tan and others seemed to notice this problem, so that he I simply can't recall when Yaya's eye color settled at light red.

Before today, Jadeka thought that the reason why Yaya's eyes turned red was because her violent state was similar to [Madness], and it was because of the surge of blood in her body.

But he only realized now that these were probably completely different things, and the problem that happened to Yaya was highly likely not a good problem.

"We can't go on like this!"

With a gloomy expression, Jadeka pulled Yaya to stand up, and said sternly to Yaya, who was trying hard to appear as lively as usual: "There is something wrong with your body, child. Although I don't know the reason, it is definitely not something that we can remain indifferent to." problem! Let’s go back, let’s discuss it with Mo and the others, and then..."

"Woof!"

However, Yaya did not let Jadeka finish what she said. She suddenly shook off the other party's hand, bared her teeth subconsciously, and her raw voice was like a beast growling: "No, Jadeka, you can't give in." If others know, I...oh...can't...let others know!"

At the end of the sentence, a stream of blood even spilled from the corner of the girl's mouth.

Jadeka was shocked when he saw this, but before he could speak, Yaya interrupted him loudly again——

"Don't let others know... hide it... you must hide it... Yaya is a good boy... Yaya won't be found... no one can know..."

Let the blood dripping from the corner of her mouth burn several small holes on the bloody face, Yaya staggered back, her eyes were as cloudy and hazy as if she was drunk, and less than ten meters behind her was outside the Seventh Outer Mountain. That terrifying abyss.

Only then did he realize that he might have inadvertently irritated the opponent. Jadka immediately regretted it. However, he was unable to make any remedial measures. Although the old mage at this moment would never be stingy with his 'epic level' strength, Facing Yaya, whose momentum had quietly climbed to a semi-epic level, he really had no confidence that he could defeat the latter in one move.

Although it was just intuition, the old man was 99% sure that as long as he made the slightest move, the girl in front of him would definitely jump down without hesitation.

It would be okay if this was just an ordinary mountain, but Jadeka could clearly feel that the closer to the cliff, the higher the unknown binding component in the air would be. Under his instinctive calculation, when he and Yaya rushed out of the cliff At that moment, his physical fitness had been forcibly suppressed to the level of an ordinary person.

If nothing else, this should be some kind of defense mechanism of Tianzhu Mountain, a strange mechanism that at least based on the level of an epic knight, he is completely unable to resist, and he doesn't even know how to resist.

The scene just froze...

Jadeka didn't dare to move, let alone speak. He could only use his expressions and eyes to convey his harmlessness, while Yaya kept talking to himself on the spot, talking as illogically as if he was dreaming. , while trembling violently as if facing something approaching horror.

"Help... Yaya..."

In the end, when Jadeka finally managed to hear a sentence clearly, the girl used all her strength to step on the ground, rushed out of the cliff of the seventh outer mountain, and then——

Start falling.

Chapter 1554: End