Vol 6 Chapter 3169: behind the snow mountain

   Chapter 3169 Behind the Snow Mountain
   "The exhibition booklet this time is indeed difficult to borrow, but there must be more than one group." Luigi winked at Angel: "You understand?"
  Angol turned his head and thought for a moment: "You mean... the organizer?"
   is also the crystal eye family.
  Luigi nodded: "That's right."
  Although the supporter of this gathering is Piluxiu, and the exhibition book is also transformed by the Pika sage, but the nominal organizer is the Jingmu family. Naturally, all the exhibition brochures are also sent out from the Crystal City.
   If there is any ethnic group that has a surplus in the exhibition book, it is only the Crystal Eyes.
   "Gleipnir still has something to do with the Crystal Eyes?" 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 has several divinations with the Crystal Eyes."
   Therefore, if Gleipnir really wants to borrow the exhibition book, the Crystal Eyes will most likely not refuse.
   After hearing this news, Angel also had a little expectation for the exhibition book when he was feeling Gleipnir's extensive network. - After seeing Pippi Castle up close, Angel was still curious about the connection or difference between Pirucci's invention technology, especially in the means of creation, and the wizard's alchemy?
  When Angel was thinking about it, Luigi on the side suddenly said: "This platform is quite empty, there is no one except us... This shouldn't be a city gate, right?"
  Although Luigi can share his mind with other time bodies, he rarely does all-round sharing. More often, he does some screen sharing with Laplace and Gleipnir through mind synchronization, or "group chat".
   In the previous "group chat", Luigi only knew that Laplace asked them to come here, but he hadn't had time to ask where the pavilion and the passage behind the pavilion lead.
  Laplace: "This is an entrance and exit, but it is not used as the city gate for this gathering."
   In short, this place belongs to a private passage, and there is a high probability that it is used by the Crystal Eyes.
   As for why Laplace can use this? You don't need to ask to know, either you have access to connections, or you worship your strength, choose one of the two, or both.
  Laplace: "You said that there is no one here, which is not right... There is no one there."
   Laplace turned his head and glanced at the passage behind the pavilion. Angel and Luigi followed the sound. Deep in the dark passage, at an even darker corner, a small head popped out at some point and looked out.
   As everyone looked at him, he, who was observing secretly, was also startled, and slammed his head back.
  Although he moved very quickly, the glimpse of him before was enough for Angel to see his face clearly.
   The other party has one eye, and the skin is like glaze, and his face is bloodless, but almost colorless and pale white. In the center of his round head, there is a cluster of standing crystal lines. Maybe this is the other party's hair?
   There is no doubt that the opponent must be the Crystal Eyes.
   Judging from the smoothness of his skin, the brightness of his eyes, and the thickness of his face—literally, the thickness of his face—this should be a child of the Crystal Eye family, or the age when he grew up in childhood and was about to be a teenager.
  Because it is really difficult for the Crystal Eyes to judge the 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 about this, but an old voice answered him.
"In the Crystal City where the crystals of holy corpses are everywhere, you need more precise perception to perceive the breath of the Crystal Eyes. That is to say, you need to keep your perception outside..." A hunched figure leaning on a cane, from From the depths of the passage, he slowly walked out: "But unscrupulously releasing perception here, and the object of perception is still a teenager from the Jingmu clan, this is equivalent to provoking the Jingmu clan..."
   After the talking old woman walked out of the passage, she nodded lightly to Angel and Gleipnir while scolding Luigi.
   There was no doubt that the old woman was Gleipnir.
   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 Ingres as well.
  Because, Gleipnir didn't come out alone, and behind her was the crystal-eyed boy who spied on them before.
   The other party timidly hid behind Gleipnir, only looking out from the side.
   It is impossible to tell whether this Crystal Eye youth is male or female, or in other words, Angel has never seen the gender of any Crystal Eye.
   He was covered with a burlap robe with a raw edge, covering his hands and feet, only a small head was exposed.
   "He is..." Angel looked at Gleipnir and wondered.
  Gleipnir: "His name is Lita. When I came over just now, I saw him looking around in the passage, so I took him out."
   Originally, Angel thought that the crystal-eye 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 Crystal Eyes Presbyterian Church, called Syluda. However, she seemed to have gone beyond the margins, and she has never come back. ."
   After a pause, Gleipnir looked down at Lita: "As for Lita, I heard from the Crystal Eyes that he comes here every day just to wait for Shiluda to come back."
Gleipnir's voice just fell, and the boy named Lita retorted in a low voice: "Grandmother Shiluda did not go to the edge, but went to the ghost... I, I usually wait for my grandmother, but today I Is there something else..."
   Speaking of the end, Lita's voice became lower and lower, and her head was buried, as if she was caught in a worry.
  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 and should have his own business."
   "Let him stay here, I'll take you in first."
   As Gleipnir spoke, he motioned everyone to follow him into the Crystal City.
   However, at this moment, Lita said in a very soft voice, "Mother-in-law for divination... Grandma said that she is a trustworthy person, you... can you take me out of here?"
  The footsteps of everyone stopped, and Gleipnir also turned his head and looked at Lita suspiciously: "You want to leave here? Leave the water..."
   Halfway through speaking, Gleipnir seemed to realize something, glanced at the towering crystal city next to him, and silently summoned a star-studded dome, covering everyone and the power tower.
  Gleipnir has heard a rumor: Crystal City is conscious.
   This rumor has been making a lot of noise, but no one knows if it is true. She also asked Hilda, and Hilda only smiled and never gave a positive answer to this question.
   Even though Hilda didn't say anything, her "avoiding and not answering" was actually a different kind of "answer".
   Regardless of whether Crystal City is conscious or not, Gleipnir still decided to treat it as "conscious". If the Crystal City is really conscious, then it is very likely to monitor the words of all the creatures in the castle.
  Especially, of the crystal eyes.
  Therefore, she summoned the dome of starlight to cover them and avoid being eavesdropped on by prying eyes.
"You mean, you want to leave Crystal City? Why do you want to leave? Where are you going after leaving?" Gleipnir looked at Lita, who was less than 1.5 meters tall: "You want to find Shilu Da? Whether Hilda is out of the margins or gone to a ghost, you can't go now."
  Gleipnir threw out a lot of inquiries all at once. The words seemed to be a blow, but it was not a concern.
   It can also be seen from this that the relationship between Gleipnir and that Sylda should be pretty good.
   Love House and Wu.
  Lita: "Yes, I want to leave Crystal City, and I came here today to find an opportunity to leave while the chaos. I didn't leave to find my grandmother, but because...because..."
  Lita hesitated for a while, and then in Gleipnir's eyes, she whispered the truth: "Mother, I went to the back of the snowy mountain yesterday."
  Behind the snow mountain?
   Hearing Lita's words, Gleipnir frowned, as if thinking of something.
   On the other side, Angel looked confused, what happened behind the snow mountain?
   He knows the snow-capped mountains, and behind the Crystal City is the endless snow-capped mountains. But what is the profound meaning behind the snow-capped mountains, Angel does not know.
  Perhaps, behind the snow mountain is a metaphor, a metaphor for being buried in the snow mountain? Lita means that his mother died and was buried in the snow mountain? Angel began to speculate wildly.
   But before Angel had any further conjectures, 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 clearing up his doubts, Angel discovered that his guess just now was completely wrong, and even said that it was the exact opposite.
  The fact that the Jingmu people go to the back of the snow mountain does not mean death and disappearance; instead, it represents a kind of new life and expectation.
The   Crystal Eyes do not have a biological gender, their gender is determined before birth. As for how to determine the gender, it has something to do with the snow mountain.
  In the snow-capped mountains behind the Crystal City, there are two lakes that look like eyes and hug each other. Of these two lakes, one is a deep sky blue, and its name is Male Lake; the other lake is a quiet black, its name is Female Lake.
  The existence of male and female lakes determines the of the descendants of the Crystal Eyes.
  When the offspring of the Jingmu tribe are born, if the mother goes to the male lake to bathe, the child born will be male; on the contrary, if the mother goes to the female lake to take a bath, 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, is just a name.
The only difference    is the name: the male Jingmu family must have "ta" in the name; while the female Jingmu family must have "da" in the name.
   Other than that, there is no other difference.
  According to Angel's understanding, the crystal eyes are a single-sex group, and it is nothing more than that he has never been able to distinguish the gender of the crystal eyes, because both men and women are the same.
   And the way they distinguish between genders is whether the mother takes a bath in the male lake or the female lake before giving birth to them.
   It sounds sloppy to assign gender.
   This made Angel quite puzzled, why is it so gendered? Also, you are a single-sex ethnic group, why must there be a gender distinction? Most importantly, how do you reproduce as a single sex?
  Anger doesn’t quite understand it, but he also knows that it is obviously too biased to define aliens and alien civilizations based on human worldview and cognition. Even if you don't understand it, you can just respect it, and it's just an increase of knowledge.
   understood the meaning of "after the snow mountain", and Angel probably guessed Lita's mind.
   He probably felt that the mother no longer loved herself when she had a new child? Is this the so-called "two-child syndrome"?
  While Angel was guessing silently, Gleipnir and Lita continued to chat a lot.
   Angel also slowly understood the situation.
   Lita, she was indeed worried that her mother would ignore her; but this worry was not unfounded. In the past, her mother loved Lita very much, and that love was beyond words, which could clearly be felt by Lita.
   But last year, one year after grandmother Syluda left, Lita found that her mother was getting colder and colder towards him, and she often watched him for a long time and lost her mind for a long time.
   It was because he had received "love" that he seemed so helpless when he lost it, and even felt that it was the resentment brought by the "second child".
  Rita's mother didn't actually tell him that she was about to give birth to a new child. Lita got the news from a loyal servant of her grandmother, Hilda. It was also the servant who told Lita that staying here would only add to her sadness, and perhaps leaving Crystal City would be a good choice.
   However, the children of the Crystal Eyes rarely have the opportunity to leave alone.
The reason why   Lita appeared here is to find an opportunity to leave through the stalls of the multi-ethnic regular gatherings.
   However, before Lita could find a chance to leave, he met Gleipnir.
  Grandmother Syluda once said that Gleipnir was her most trusted friend, and that's why today's dialogue is born.
  …
   After listening to Lita's story, everyone present had doubts in their hearts.
  Because there are many strange places in the story told by Lita.
  Why is his mother suddenly cold to him?
   Also, the loyal servant of grandmother Syluda, why did she advise Lita to leave the Crystal City? From the whole story, the "opt-out" option is a bit too obtrusive and can be overcorrected, but not necessarily overcorrected.
   And Lita didn't think about it, she really chose to leave the Crystal City, and even planned to leave secretly. It's also a little weird...
  Angol told Laplace the doubts in his heart using the technique of sound transmission.
  Laplace was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "Gleipnir told me through his mind just now that there may be some secrets behind this incident."
   (end of this chapter)