"You're a fellow traveler, aren't you? Her voice is so beautiful, pure, delicate, sweet and glutinous, like a string gently plucked in the quiet night, it sounds like a heavenly sound.

"Yes, I'm here specifically to shoot the sunrise...... I showed her EOS60D. "You arrived at this cliff yesterday and set up camp, probably to watch the sunrise, right?" I asked rhetorically.

The girl shook her head and sighed faintly, but did not speak.

At that time, a round of sunrise had just emerged from the horizon, and the girl who was as beautiful as a fairy out of the dust was bathed in the orange morning light, and her eyes were as clear and deep as snow-capped mountains and deep lakes, especially the poignant and beautiful look in her eyes, which simply fascinated me. I was completely instinctive as a photographer, and without even thinking about it, I instantly raised the SLR camera in my hand, and the 50mm large-aperture prime lens was accurately locked on the girl's beautiful face, and my index finger pressed the shutter......

Dr. Shi found that at the bottom of this text, there was a place that showed that the blogger had inserted a picture and annotated it underneath the picture: The Dust Fairy in the Morning Light. But for some reason, this photo can't be displayed, and only a red cross can be displayed on the screen. Dr. Shi was very unwilling to refresh the F5 many times, but he never brushed out this photo. She could only continue reading the blog with some frustration.

The blogger "Soul of the Mountain" later continued:

The sudden sound of the shutter stunned the girl for a few seconds, and then she suddenly became angry and said, "Hey, what are you doing!"

I was puzzled by the girl's strong reaction, so I quickly put away the camera and took two steps back, trying to explain to her. "Girl, don't get excited, I don't have any malicious intentions, I'm just out of the instinct of a photographer, and when I see beautiful things, I can't help but want to take pictures......"

The girl was stunned for a moment when she heard my words, but then the expression on her face became even more annoyed: "What is there to look at a person whose flesh is festering and about to die!

The girl's reaction was far beyond my expectations, I never expected her to be so angry, and I couldn't understand what she was trying to say, I felt very embarrassed at the time, but I was reluctant to delete such a rare and good photo, and I was hesitating, the girl suddenly stood up and approached me quickly.

"Delete ......" her two thin eyebrows furrowed faintly, and her tone was categorical.

I don't know why, as soon as I met her eyes, I felt like my soul was going to be sucked out by her deep pupils, and my whole brain was a mess, and I turned the camera monitor to her and let her see the picture I had just taken.

At first, the girl just glanced at the LED display with disgusted eyes, but when she looked at her, she froze for a moment, reached out and snatched my EOS60D, grabbing the camera with both hands to carefully examine the photos on the screen, with an expression of disbelief on her face.

"How is it possible!" she muttered as she looked at the screen. Suddenly, she raised her head and looked directly at me, her eyes flashing with water: "Is this really the picture you just took?

It was only then that I realized that the camera had been snatched by her, for fear that something was wrong with her, and she threw my EOS60D down the hill at once, so she took her camera back before she was paying attention, but fortunately she didn't hold it very tightly.

"Why am I lying to you, isn't this you, you don't even recognize your own appearance, do you?" I thought her question was a little strange.

As soon as the girl heard my words, her whole person was like being struck by lightning, and her aura collapsed in an instant, and the frustration, despair and sadness in her eyes pierced through my heart like a sharp awl. I stared at her blankly until I saw a large crystal clear tear spilling silently from the corner of her eye, slowly sliding down her pale cheeks.

"Are you alright......" I scrambled to pull a tissue out of my pocket and handed it to the girl, but she didn't take it.

"You give me another look. She said lightly. I turned the camera around again so that the monitor was pointing at her, but this time I held the camera a little harder, for fear that she would snatch it from me and throw it away again.

"Haha, hahaha...... It's really, so spoofed......" The girl's voice was filled with a kind of helplessness and sadness. "Okay, I've seen enough, you can keep the photo if you want......" She turned around silently, and walked back to the position where she had sat at the beginning, holding her legs and putting her chin on her knees, facing the rising sun, which had already risen most of the horizon, not knowing what she was thinking.

I tried to comfort her but didn't know what to do, and the frustration, despair, and sadness in her eyes seemed like a galaxy far away that I would never be able to reach. "Little girl, have you encountered something? Don't you can't think about it, there is no hurdle in life that you can't overcome, a young and beautiful girl like you ......"

"Girl, hehe...... Is that what you see?" and from my point of view, her back was completely shrouded in the newborn morning light, and she looked like a beautiful silhouette with gold trim. "Okay, I'm fine, you can go, let me stay by myself for a while, okay?"

The unceremonious eviction order, as if this cliff was the private territory of this beautiful girl. I stared at her for a moment, and suddenly I felt bored if I stayed any longer. "Okay, I'm just here to shoot the sunrise, and I'll leave as soon as I'm done shooting the sunrise. ”

She didn't respond to me, just sat blankly, kind of acquiescing. I nervously opened my camera bag to change the lens, unhooked the tripod to set up the camera, chose the angle and set the frame, and the time was just right, when the newborn morning sun completely broke through the vast sea of clouds on the horizon, and in an instant the sun plated the whole world with a layer of gold.

The shutter of the EOS60D in my hand kept sounding, and the most beautiful moments of sunrise were ingested into the camera sensor and stored as strings on the SD card.

After the sunrise, I looked at the photos I had just taken, although these photos were very good, but obviously, none of them could compare to the one I took at the beginning, the moment the girl turned her face and the morning sun shone on her face, that photo was too perfect.

I was about to leave, and I don't know why I always felt an inexplicable sense of responsibility for the lonely girl in front of me. "She may need help, I need to talk to her and maybe I can do something for her......" I encouraged myself in my heart.

"That...... Can you tell me your QQ number?" I asked timidly. "What do you want to do?" the girl's cold voice showed intense vigilance.

"I want to ...... You may have misunderstood me......" I tried to keep my voice as calm as I could. "Actually, I just want to send you the photos when I go back...... Even from the perspective of a bystander, that picture is very beautiful, not because it was a picture I took, but you just saw it, it's beautiful, right?"

The girl was silent for a few seconds, probably pondering what I had just said, and for a long time, she suddenly said faintly: "What you see is not real, just like the morning dew that condenses on the petals of a flower before sunrise, it will disappear as soon as you see the sun......" The girl sat there facing the morning sun and said without looking back. "I'm here waiting for an ending, and when the last moment comes, all beautiful illusions will come to naught......"

Her desperate and desolate tone shook my heart deeply. I don't know what happened to this girl that made her so sure that she was going to perish, but what incurable disease had she had?

"If you have something that is difficult to solve, or you have something that is not curable...... I realized how lacking my vocabulary is. "I know some doctor friends who might be able to help you......"

"Thank you for your kindness, where I am now...... It's beyond the realm of medicine...... "The girl said, "You go quickly, I just want to be alone, please, ......"

I still want to say something to her, or to save, or to comfort, but I am speechless, I don't know how to continue the topic, but this girl doesn't look like she wants to commit suicide, she seems to be just stubbornly waiting for something in this place, it seems that she should not be in any danger for the time being, after all, this kind of inaccessible place, ordinary people do not have the courage to come casually.

In the end, I decided not to disturb her, silently carried my gear, and continued my journey of exploration of the ancient path......

The blogger "Soul of the Mountain" wrote this blog here, and there are many comments and posts from netizens below, and sure enough, many netizens expressed strong anger at the picture not being displayed, and many netizens expressed strong indignation at the blogger's undisciplined unfinished work. The blogger innocently said that he didn't know why the picture was lost.

Dr. Shi was not interested in reading these comments carefully, they were all roughly looking at it, and suddenly one of them had a netizen named "Iron Riding Dream" spoke to attract Dr. Shi's attention, this "Iron Riding Dream" was just three simple words "Thank you", and the posting date was not long ago.

"Iron Rider Dream, isn't that the screen name used by the girl who emailed me?" the corners of Doctor Shi's mouth curled slightly, revealing a sly smile. "Great, let me see your true identity~" She skillfully clicked on the name of "Iron Riding Dream" and entered the blog space to which the name belonged, but found that this blog was empty and empty, only some photos of motorcycles and Tibetan scenery were stored in the album, and Dr. Shi rummaged through these photos for a long time, and finally found a photo of the scene as described in "The Spirit of the Mountain".

In the photo, "the girl's face is as white and flawless as jade, under the delicate eyebrows, a pair of eyes are as deep and melancholy as snow-capped mountains and lakes, she is like an angel sitting in the clouds, her whole body is bathed in the orange morning light, and her somewhat loose clothes are fluttering in the wind as if she is about to fly away from the earthly ......" - exactly as described in the blog "Soul of the Mountain".

The girl in the photo does have a clear and dusty beauty, but her face, especially some features between her eyebrows and eyes, make Dr. Shi feel a certain indescribable familiarity. Although Dr. Shi has not been in contact with Cheng Xiaonan for a long time, after a few years, he can still recall the tall and thin boy with messy long hair. There is no doubt that the faces of the girl in the photo and Cheng Xiaonan have a kind of similarity that can only be possessed between blood relatives, if this girl is Xiao Nan's twin sister, I believe that all those who see Cheng Xiao Nan will not doubt it.

Don't...... This girl turned out to be ......

Doctor Shi was shocked by her bold guess, although she was a witch doctor who wandered outside the scope of science, and did some strange and unscientific events all day long, but the kind of result she vaguely guessed in her heart was so shocking that even she couldn't believe it.

However, related to the "ritual" that he did for Cheng Xiaonan that was destroyed when it was almost completed, as well as the incomplete record of the "price" on the remnant silk scroll, plus what happened after the "ritual" recorded in Cheng Xiaonan's diary, and finally there is the blog of the soul of the mountain to corroborate it...... These clues can now form a complete chain of evidence, all the details are interlocking and corroborating each other, and the final result is precisely the one that I secretly thought in my heart but did not dare to admit because of common sense:

After Cheng Xiaonan went through the "ritual", because the ritual was destroyed, he experienced a painful "transformation", and finally gained a new life in a certain sense - from a tall and straight boy to a beautiful girl......

Isn't this scientific? It's really unscientific, but when has the magic of witchcraft ever been scientific? Doctor Shi shook his head with a wry smile and said to himself, "I didn't expect that ritual to have such incredible consequences...... Indeed, this ritual finally succeeded in helping Cheng Xiaonan make up for his mistakes, but it also led him to a path from which there was no turning back, a decision that could not be regretted, so that he turned into a girl, forced to abandon all his past, and began a new life course. Cheng Xiaonan, is this a blessing or a curse for you? I really want to know what kind of life you have experienced in the past three years......

Thinking of this, Dr. Shi no longer hesitated, called up the monitoring software on the computer, glanced at the caller number just recorded, grabbed the antique telephone on the table, and dialed the dial with his fingers......

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Let's rewind the timeline twenty-four hours ago, a day ago, on the Tibetan Plateau, the roof of the world.

On National Highway 318, which is a national natural landscape along the way, in an unknown town built next to both sides of the highway, in a small three-story façade room called "Tieqi Dream Auto and Motorcycle Modification and Repair Shop", a slender and slender girl is standing in front of a wide workbench, her long hair is tied into a high ponytail with a headband, she is wearing a pair of fat cargo pants, a pair of oil-stained sleeves on the sleeves of a light brown turtleneck, and greasy gloves on both hands, concentrating on tinkering with an engine.

Suddenly, the girl's mobile phone rang, and she hurriedly took off her gloves, revealing a pair of small hands with white and silky ten fingertips like jade shoots. "Hey, Iron Rider Dream, who are you looking for?" The crisp and sweet voice, with a slender and pure voice, sounded like a heavenly sound.

"We are a foreign convoy entering Tibet on National Highway 318, and now one of the vehicles may have burst out of the water tank. The caller was standing on National Highway 318 at the moment, a few hundred meters below the fast-flowing Brahmaputra River. He wore a baseball cap, a professional jacket, and one foot on the wheel of the Toyota 4x4 SUV that had its hood lifted and white smoke billowing out. "I saw your advertisements sprayed on the mountain wall, don't you provide emergency repair services, can you come over now?"

"However, our car repair master has just been sent out, I will only repair motorcycles, otherwise, I will go over to your side to see the situation first, and then decide whether to call our master over, or tow the car to the shop, if it is just a small problem, I will fix it~ Do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, that's it, our position is ......"

After the man finished the call, he turned his head to look at the long off-road convoy behind him, and he was anxious. If they had to delay any longer, it would have been difficult for them to get to their intended accommodation before dark today.

The girl ran out of the store, called for a Tibetan child to help her watch the door, stepped onto a modified mini motorcycle that looked like a Honda APE100, pressed the ignition button and turned on the V-twin engine, and rushed to the place where the convoy was......

"I said the soul of the mountain, what are you doing in a daze?" The man who called was slapped on the shoulder by a teammate next to him, and he grinned in pain. "It's nothing, it's just a phone call, and it sounds like the girl who answered the phone sounds very familiar......"

"Didi ......" There was a sound of motorcycle horns, and a delicate and well-behaved mini motorcycle ran from the distant highway at high speed, the girl in the car was wearing an all-inclusive helmet and couldn't see her face clearly, and her long bright hair fluttered behind her......

The prequel "A Decision That Can't Be Regretted" ends