Chapter 21 Howling Pass
"So you guys are back like that?" River habitually patted his stomach and said with a smile: "In the end, I didn't figure out how the skeleton appeared?"
On the fifth day of the voyage, the airship threw the barren and arid western wasteland behind. According to the previous flight route, after the first stop, the airship will go west from Senaya to cross the western wasteland, and then cross the Maroganas Mountains, which stretches thousands of kilometers from the steep wind pass, and reach the warm and humid southwest Hainan Line. Then sail along the Hainan Line all the way north, and then sail for one day and one night, you will reach the second stop of the journey, belonging to the city of Thousand Islands, the most beautiful city on the edge of the southern coast. After docking for two days and nights in Thousand Islands, the airship will take off for the third time, this time it will go north and run across the sea country Casa, and arrive at the end of the itinerary, Chongshan City, the southernmost border city of the country of Mountains.
After taking off on the fourth day, the weather was not good, and it was gloomy all the way. The five people from the adventure group did not go to the deck after getting on the boat. After sleeping happily, they soaked in various entertainment rooms in the cabin all day. The ladies had almost no chance to go to such a place that mainly focuses on game entertainment, and only Freya had occasionally come into contact with them several times. This time, she could finally entertain without being disturbed. The girls were immediately fascinated by various interesting activities. If Penis had not dragged them out one by one in the end, they might have been crazy until the next morning.
On the fifth day, I woke up and found another good weather outside the window. The floating boat had already flown out of the clouds and had a wide view. From a distance, the Linfeng Mountains belonging to the Maloganas Mountains were like a huge screen, covering the scenery on the back of the mountain. The Linfeng Mountains, which is an average of 4,000 meters high, have been a natural danger for generations, blocking the communication between the inland and the seashore.
You can see more clearly when climbing the deck. The long mountains cannot see the end of the north and south, and the bottom of the mountain is full of green. But the top of the mountain is covered with snow. The melted snow turns into a river, but due to the terrain, it flows south at the foot of the mountain, causing a rich water flow on one side, but the other is a wonder of barren land.
When I got on the deck, I saw River lying under the parasol as usual, with its position and posture exactly the same as before. Just as he had never moved in the past few days. Maggie and River had a good relationship, and were not so shy and restrained after getting familiar with everyone in the adventure group. They jumped to River and bragged about the third day's itinerary, which naturally included the unexpected events during the hot spring trip.
"After all, time is too tight." Catherine said with her newly bought sunglasses before boarding the boat. She held a glass of iced juice. "In the end, it was confirmed that it was the effect of the Wall of Memories, and other problems were still mystery. When this mission was over, they might go over and take a look when they returned and find a way to solve this puzzle. Otherwise, the skeletons that appeared inexplicably might pose a threat to the city. As a knight, it would be fine if they didn't see it, but they wouldn't ignore it if they saw it."
"Haha, I hope everything goes well for you." River said with a smile: "I can't help. But you four legendary ranks will be dispatched at the same time, and any problem can be solved smoothly."
"Ha, I hope so." Catherine smiled unanimously and said, "I'm almost half gone now. Are there any enemy movements?"
"Enemy?" River was stunned and immediately scratched his head and smiled, "Oh, you mean the idea that someone might be playing a floating craft. I heard from the captain in the morning that he received a notice from the association in Senaya. It is said that it was fake news, so you don't have to care. Just take a vacation with confidence."
"Well, fake news. That's great." Catherine stretched out her body and said comfortably: "I thought it would be a rare holiday. If that happens, I really would doubt whether I was born with a troublesome constitution."
"That might be, I have a bad premonition." Freya lay next to Catherine on two recliners side by side, and took out a biscuit and stuffed it into her mouth: "But it may be because she was rejected by Mr. Panis again this morning. Well, in any case, she was in a bad mood."
"Bang." Catherine slapped Freya's hand that was about to reach into her mouth, grabbed the biscuits at her fingertips and stuffed them into her mouth: "Tell me, how many snacks you have hidden, I will hand them over when you go back."
"Damn it, bad habits kill people." Freya held her head with annoyed look on her face and complained: "Why didn't you control it? It should be when you are not here..."
"Hey, sister, come and see." Lina didn't wear glasses at all today, and waved her hand on the side of the boat, "Looking at the mountains over there, it's so strange."
"Well, I can see it here too." Catherine poked Vivian's face on the other side, and then poked it a few times in a row after seeing it. "Don't you go and see it?"
"Don't disturb me." Vivian reluctantly moved the soft cap on her face away: "I suddenly remembered an important idea that might be helpful for my three potions to improve, and I need to focus."
"It's a rare holiday, let's put those things aside first." Catherine rubbed Vivian's hair and said pity: "No matter how genius you are, your brain needs rest. If you always use your brain like this, you will not be able to hold on one day."
"It doesn't matter. When I can still think, I have to do my best to think." Vivian said calmly: "I don't know if I will even lose the opportunity to think one day. I have to seize all the time."
"Oh, then it's up to you, but don't give up hope." Catherine shook her head helplessly, glanced at Panis, who was standing by Lina's side of the ship, and said softly: "Maybe the miracle in her dream will happen inadvertently."
"Thank you, sister." Vivian covered her soft hat again on her face and said in a muffled voice: "However, scholars never believe in miracles, they only believe in reality."
"Reality and miracles are not contradictory sometimes." Freya closed her eyes and endured the torture of her appetite, but her voice became soft: "Many times, we regard unpredictable happiness as a miracle, but that is also part of reality. Scholars just do not place their hopes on the appearance of miracles, rather than completely denying the existence of miracles. You know that these are also."
"Maybe." After a long silence, Vivian's voice came from under her soft hat.
"Or, do you think you have given up hope." Freya spread her hands to Catherine and said in a gentle voice: "Do you think this will prevent us from being too stressed because we have no choice but to do anything to your body? But you don't understand that we will not give up on you anyway. The more you do this, the more uncomfortable we feel in our hearts, and the more pressure we will be."
There was another silence under the soft hat, and until the end, Vivian did not speak again.
"Huh, the atmosphere over there is a bit heavy." Lina was particularly lively today, pulling Panis around the boat, especially after seeing the Linfeng Mountains. But at this time, when there were no one else around, Lina faced the boat outboard and suddenly whispered quietly: "I heard from my elder sister that I have to thank you no matter whether your method is effective or not. No, I shouldn't thank you. We are already a family. Vivian's business is the business of each of us, and we don't need to thank you, right?"
"Yeah." Panis lay on the side of the boat, held his chin and remained silent for a long time before responding softly: "Let's be a family..."
"Wow, look, look." Lina suddenly pointed to the closer and closer peaks and shouted: "It's not that obvious from afar. When you get close, you look like fingers one by one, and there is no snow on it."
"That's the Linfeng Pass." Panis said to Lina's liveliness and weakly: "It is the lowest section of the entire Linfeng Mountains. It consists of eight stone pillar-shaped peaks, the lowest valley bottom is only 300 meters high, but each stone pillar is as high as 700 to 800 meters. The strangest thing is that although these peaks are like this, they have not fallen in the past thousands of years, which is a miracle."
"Why is this happening?" Lina suddenly approached Panis, her face pressed very close. Her big eyes blinked and stared at Panis, with an expectant light flashing inside: "It's not like a natural formation at all, and it's not reasonable to not fall in love, why?"
"How do I know?" Panis took a step back by Lina, and said with a twitching corner of his mouth: "No one knows why."
"But I really want to know." Lina followed a step closer and posted closer. She could feel the breath that Lina exhaled: "Don't you find it very interesting? I'm very curious."
"It's useless to be curious, hey, it's too close." Panis pushed Lina's smooth forehead and pushed her away, feeling the crescent-shaped scars between her eyebrows rubbing against her palms: "You'd better ask Lord Yara this question, probably only he knows."
"Well, it's so sad." Lina lowered her head in frustration and muttered a few words.
"Bang." The sound of the seat being turned attracted the sight of the two. Panis turned his head and found that Vivian suddenly stood up and overturned the recliner under him.
"I thought of it." Vivian said excitedly: "You guys wait for me first, I'll go back and get some notes."
"Wait." Seeing Vivian quickly turn around and walk towards the cabin, the wind on the deck kept blowing her robe from behind, Panis suddenly called her: "Vivian, wait a moment."
"What?" Vivian was stunned and turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Go together." Panis caught up with Vivian a few steps and pulled her into the cabin. As soon as they left everyone's sight, Panis held Vivian's shoulder and turned her back to her: "Say sorry first, but I want to confirm something."
"Why is it suddenly so mysterious?" Vivian felt that Panis grabbed the robe from behind, letting the robe press against her back, revealing her strange body shape. She originally hated being seen like this, but when facing Panis, she tried her best to cooperate with Panis's movements, making the robe tighter and her figure more obvious: "What do you want to confirm?"
"Huh." Panis let go and sighed: "Let's go, do your business first. I have to think about it carefully. Things are a bit strange."
Chapter completed!