Lanshan Snow

Pine needles collide with pine needles, rustling.

Qiu Bodeng lay on Wizard Tule's back, with one arm around him, and the other pushing aside the low-hanging branches for him.

Wizard Tule carried him on his back, step by step, walking towards the depths of the forest.After sunset, Harvey Balin Sea was cold and dark, filled with cold fog.In fact, it is quite scary, and it is easy to remind people of eerie stories-conspiracies, massacres, and burials.

Occasional animal cries added to the dangerous atmosphere.

Walking in the forest, you will feel like you have strayed into the primitive age, when beasts and birds ruled the earth and the sky.

But Wizard Thule's footsteps were steady, and the darkness couldn't approach him—he was the most dangerous one in the entire forest.Qiu Bodeng always feels that he is an indestructible rock, standing silently in the cold shadow, it is difficult to detect.But once you notice it, you will find that his sense of oppression is overwhelming.

It seems to be the last stone monument at the end of the world, the last line of defense deep in the ice and snow.

"...Alo," Qiu Bodeng asked Tule wizard's ear, "Have you been here many times?"

"Ah."

He answered simply, and pulled down Qiu Bodeng's hand to brush the branches.

Meaning leave them alone.

"Oh."

The young master responded.

Obediently return the hand to the fur collar of the wizard's thick cloak.

Along the way, the low-hanging branches will naturally separate to the left and right when they are about to touch them. Occasionally, one or two branches will only slightly brush Qiu Bodeng or Shi Wuluo's shoulders - just like at home. The old man likes to pat the younger generation gently once or twice.

...He is very familiar with this place.

Under a piece of snow, whether it is a tree root or a rotten leaf, whether it is a flat ground or a depression, the Tule wizard is very clear. After walking for so long, it is as if walking on flat ground.But when Qiu Bodeng just got angry, he walked a short distance by himself, knowing how rough and difficult the forest is.

Qiu Bodeng didn't know how he did it.

Is it by the ability of the wizard?

It should not be.

The intuition was weird, but Qiu Bodeng somehow felt that Wizard Tule was familiar with this forest for another reason.

Is it because of what?

As he thought, his fingers unconsciously entangled with a strand of hair of the Thule wizard, twirling and twirling.

——I don't know when, the young master was brought up by the Thule wizard and started to like to fiddle with his hair.

The young man's breath fell to his ears shallowly, and Wu's fingers in the fur collar of the cloak were calm and restless. All kinds of small movements, as well as the warmth of close contact, reminded him that he was not walking alone in Harvey. Balin Sea... so warm, the wizard thought, looking ahead.

He rarely cares about warmth and coldness.

Before the young master of the Central Plains fell from the sky, the only pot of copper charcoal in the eagle's nest of the Tule wizard was burned for the falcon.

It is difficult for him himself to perceive the cold, heat, and even pain.

he is a……

monster.

powerful monster.

Before becoming the chief witch of Thule, he first became the strongest warrior of Thule.

If the young master has seen his most violent years, he will know that the scars on his body are well deserved - because he was indeed cruel and bloody.In those years, he fought with people and beasts—the awe of Zaximu and Batachihan was built on the broken bones.

In order to get rid of his ferocity, the old patriarch sent him to the sacred forest.

For three years he guarded Harvey Balinhai.

After coming out, it barely looks like a living person.

... Knife, bonfire, scriptures, old places... Images of the past flashed through Shi Wu Luo Yinhui's eyes, as if there was still a young man, a taciturn young man walking coldly in the forest with a knife in his hand, dripping from the tip of the knife. Stained with blood, he looked like a beast, but also like a man.After dark, I sat cross-legged under the tree roots alone.

No need for a bonfire.

he is……

"Ah Luo," the boy's voice fell to his ears, "what's the matter?"

Allo, Allo...

Arlo.

He's not a monster, he's Arlo.

It is Hu Gecuo of Bodeng.

The hand that was tucked into the fur collar of the cloak was pulled out at some point, and it was next to the young man's thin cheek, with a steady stream of warmth in the palm.Wizard Thule shook his head lightly, telling him to retract his hands so as not to suffer from the cold outside.The young master was disobedient and still licked his cheeks.

The emotions of wizards are rarely leaked.

——Qiu Bodeng even doubted before whether he had no such thing as emotions.

It wasn't until they shared their lives that Qiu Bodeng discovered that it was not.Although there were few ups and downs, the Thule wizard was indeed a living person, afraid, worried, and angry.But just now, Qiu Bodeng suddenly found that his heart was cold and heavy.

yourself well.

The problematic one is naturally another person.

"How about I come down?" Qiu Bodeng pressed his cheek and asked, "You can just lead me."

Wizard Thule sent him up a little bit, telling him to lie on his stomach with peace of mind and not allow him to come down.

...it seems to be getting better.

Qiu Bodeng quietly let out a sigh of relief.

After thinking for a while, Qiu Bodeng rested his chin on Tule wizard's shoulder: "Let me tell you about Dongzhou."

Wizard Thule's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Qiu Bodeng didn't seem to notice it. After exhaling a small cloud of hot air, the felines leaned their heads against him as if warming each other, and asked, "Do you want to listen?"

"Hmm." Wizard Thule stepped forward.

White gloom.

... The boy sitting alone under the tree, silently lowered his eyes, staring at the snow without a bonfire.After several years, he suddenly knew that ice is cold and fire is hot... The cold, the pervasive cold, the only warmth is the body that is pressed against the back and the hands that are warm on the face.

"The most famous place in Dongzhou is called Fufeng."

The tone of Qiu Bodeng is very clear. When it is lowered, it is like water flowing over a stone surface, ethereal and far away.If you want to tell a book, you have to use your natural good voice, which can easily take people far, far away at once.

"Fufeng, the wind, is a legendary bird. Therefore, people in Fufeng worship birds and fly. Ordinary people fly kites, monks use their swords to rely on the wind, and there are wooden kites... After the rise of wooden kites, many descendants of aristocratic families They all like this kind of activity where people can enjoy flying even with low cultivation.”

"They each spend a lot of money to transform the wooden kite, and drive it to compete in the sky. Every year when the waking wind blows, countless wooden birds rise from the ground, riding on the strong wind for tens of thousands of miles... At that time, the sky was full of people, big and small. bird, the prettiest and fastest bird, like the chief of all birds."

He touched Wizard Thule and asked, "Do you mean to be ostentatious?"

"……Um."

The sound of stepping on the snow became slow and heavy, and the young man who guarded the forest became colder and colder.

The young master spoke in Thule.

He flipped through the entire "Shuangyuan Jiezi Collection". He just didn't know the unfamiliar pronunciations that required skill, but he memorized how to spell all the words he needed... along the way, the guttural sounds he learned, Nasal voice, how much is he wanting to use?

—he was smarter than anyone imagined.

He has almost no memory.

Qiu Bodeng didn't seem to notice that the person behind his back became more and more silent and stiff, and he only pressed their heads closer together.

"There is a child, he also likes to fly, he flies better than anyone else, no one can catch up with him. But he wants to fly higher and faster. Tianbing Mansion can't make the wooden kite he wants , he built it himself, he wanted to be so tall that he could see the twelve continents at a glance, and he wanted to be so fast that he could fly to the ends of the earth in one day... Do you think he is naive or not?"

Qiu Bodeng's voice became very soft.

Before the Thule wizard could speak, he asked and answered himself.

"How can he be so childish?"

Wizard Thule stopped in his tracks.

He felt the same silence as the young man guarding the forest alone, and that silence directly overwhelmed his panic and worry when he heard "Dongzhou" before.

"He couldn't find suitable wood. The height was too high, and ordinary trees couldn't bear the pressure of the airflow. Until a ten thousand year red maple tree gave him its old branches - it said, it couldn't walk, it couldn't Moving, I can only listen to the birds coming and going, and describe the scenery of other places. It is so envious.”

"It invited the child to come back and tell it how bright the sky is at the end of the world and how deep the sea is at the cape after seeing various places on the Twelve Continents. He said yes."

The young master clings to Wizard Thule's back and buries his cheeks in the fur collar of his cloak, thinking, he just made a mistake, he should let him carry him away... it's warmer to hold him... Arlo's chest is the warmest ...

The forest is so quiet that there are no birds or insects.

"The wooden kite was made. He flew very high, far, far, and very fast. He went to see the sea in Nanming, and found the most beautiful conch on the seashore. Take it back and give it to Old Hongfeng—it can hang the conch on the tree trunk, and when the wind blows, it can hear the sound of the sea.”

Drops of hot liquid fell onto the thick fur collar, and soon formed crystal beads of ice in the severe cold.

Thule wizard standing in the snow.

He lowered his voice, very softly, and asked, "What happened next?"

"Later... the red maple forest disappeared, the conch shattered, and the wooden kite broke."

"He fell."

There are more and more ice beads on the fur collar.

"He can't fly in Dongzhou." After a long pause, the young master sniffed lightly, "but he still has the instructions of Old Maple... It gave him the seeds and everything, called He flew up to show it. He had to go out and find a place where he could fly."

"He didn't know where he could fly."

Wizard Thule turned his head and met the eyes of the young master. His eye circles were red, and he choked up and asked:

"Do you know where he can fly?"