let go of my anne

On the seventh day of his eastward march, Chen Senran finally set foot on the deep snow at the end of the East Freljord.

When his feet felt the softness and transparency of the newly accumulated snow last night, he finally let out a long breath. After seven days of climbing mountains and ridges with heavy snow, it was finally within the planned time. , came here.

According to Sejuani, as long as you find the highest peak of the North Iron Ridge Mountain standing at the end of the East Freljord, then under its silhouette is the gateway to the northeast.

Thinking of this, Chen Senran couldn't help raising his head to look at the sky.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the snow that had fallen all night had stopped. In addition, the terrain was getting higher and higher as he went east, and there were no clouds in the sky. When Chen Senran looked at the sky, the whole sky appeared in front of his eyes. A magnificent sky blue.

Under the sky-blue sky, there is a mountain peak that rises abruptly from the south into the sky, standing sharply in the corner of the sky like a sky-shattering sword.

"That's the highest peak of North Iron Ridge Mountain." Karthus didn't know when he came to him. Sky, although his face was hidden in the hat, Chen Senran always felt that his eyes should be straight at that moment.

"Yes." Chen Senran didn't care about Karthus's abnormality, he moved his eyes to the mountain that pierced the sky.

Although the sun had not risen to the sky at this time, the sunlight shone clearly on the snow-capped mountain, drawing a sharp silhouette of that solitary mountain peak.

"Did you know?" Karthus was still looking at the mountain. He seemed to be out of his mind for a while, and his tone was a little distant, like the beginning of a story.

Chen Senran didn't speak, his eyes moved slowly in one direction along the sharp silhouette.

"It is said that there is an immortal bird in this world. It was born in the coldest ice and snow, and only lived on the highest mountain peak all its life. Its body will perish, but every time its body perishes, its spirit will perish. Mix it again with ice and snow to recombine new life until the next time it dies." Karthus didn't seem to stop because of Chen Senran's silence, but he became more and more interested in talking, and finally told a story that sounded a bit ridiculous.

About immortality.

Chen Senran squinted his eyes, and a divine bird called Phoenix in the previous world appeared in his mind. That kind of bird also cannot die, but it is reborn every time in the flames.

But he still didn't answer, because he couldn't figure out why Karthus suddenly told this somewhat inexplicable story, so he simply ignored Karthus, his eyes continued to follow the silhouette.

"Then why doesn't it go down the mountain?" It was little Annie who was lying on Chen Senran's back. Because the road is not easy these days, Chen Senran and his horse have long since abandoned it. At this time, she was just woken up by a gust of cold wind, and happened to hear Karthus's slightly novel story, so she asked a casual question sleepily.

"Why did it go down the mountain?" Karthus saw that someone was finally interested in his story, seemed to be smiling lowly, and asked with great interest.

"Because..." Little Loli cutely rubbed her eyes, which were still a little bit closed, yawned and said, "It will never die, so how boring it would be to stay in one place all the time, like I used to be locked up by my mother in a small dark room to study magic, and I couldn’t bear it after learning for three days, thinking that it would only live in one place forever, then..."

"How?" Karthus became more and more interested, and seemed to be looking forward to Little Annie's answer. He stroked the dim staff in his hand, walked up to Chen Senran and stood side by side with him, looking at little Annie.

Although little Annie has gotten along with Karthus a lot recently, she is not as afraid of this old monster as she was at first, but she is still a little scared when she sees this old monster approaching her face all of a sudden.

She curled up slightly, leaned her little head next to Chen Senran's, and said timidly, "Then how lonely it must be."

With a timid tone and immature voice, she inadvertently uttered a sentence that seemed to be the most reasonable.

So children sometimes see the simplest and most thorough.

Karthus seemed to be stunned for a moment, or maybe it was that sentence that evoked the innumerable loneliness hidden in his heart for hundreds of years. stiff.

"Hey, the old...sir who has lived for hundreds of years, you haven't told me why it doesn't go down the mountain?" Little Anne must have wanted to call him an old monster, but she probably still had scruples about Karthus, so she finally asked Very polite.

"Because..." Karthus finally came back to his senses, he stopped looking at little Annie, his hand with heavy gloves continued to rub the staff, his eyes turned to the blue sky in the distance, he said, It seemed a little uninterested, "When it goes down the mountain, the whole world will be destroyed."

Little Annie was stunned when she heard that, she murmured a bit foolishly about the destruction of the world, but then laughed again, probably because she thought the story was quite interesting.

"Today's rare good weather, come down for a walk." Chen Senran looked at the smiling face of little loli, shaved the tip of her delicate nose, and put her down from behind.

The little girl's spirit seemed to improve after this sleep, and she didn't continue to lean on Chen Senran's back. After saying yes, she smiled and ran towards the fairly flat snow field ahead, probably to play in the snow.

"Does that kind of bird live on this mountain?" Chen Senran glanced at Karthus, of course he heard that Karthus was not just telling stories.

Karthus was silent. He seemed to be still looking at the clear sky. After a long time, he said, "The silhouette is pointing to that mountain depression."

Seeing that Karthus avoided talking about this issue, Chen Senran was not interested in delving into it further, after all, this old guy has always been mysterious.

Of course, he had already discovered the col that Karthus mentioned. Just as Chen Senran was about to walk towards that mountain, he suddenly heard an exclamation.

It was Little Lolita's voice, and Chen Senran burst into laughter in an instant, but when he raised his foot halfway, he couldn't help laughing.

Because he saw that little Lolita was not attacked by any monster or any other unexpected situation, but was hit all over her head and face by a snowball, and she was looking at him pitifully.

Just when Chen Senran was amused and wanted to go up to comfort her, a slightly immature voice sounded in everyone's ears:

"You outsiders, leave the snowman's territory quickly, and don't annoy the snowman, or you will be finished."

As the sound fell, there was a faint roar of an unknown species floating in the wind.

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This chapter is stuck for four hours.

Sometimes I also thought about not writing, sleeping, you are not this material at all.

But, but.

However, when my hands touched the keyboard, I knew that I should be a person like Ximen Chuuxue.

Except when killing people, Ximen Chuuxue was dead at other times.

And I, except when writing stories, are dead at other times.

My life didn't deserve to die like this.