There was no rooster crowing, no alarm clock, Lird naturally opened his sleepy eyes, looked at the tent ornament hanging above his head, Lird smiled slightly and then got up, put on a thick windbreaker, Lird picked up the toiletry next to the small table and walked out of his tent.

At that time, the whole world was in winter, and although the location of the Atlantean remnants was a relatively warm and secluded place, due to the influence of several cold snaps today, it also fell two light snowfalls, and the thin snowflakes crossed the entire valley with a layer of pure silver-white.

On his way to the mountain spring for washing, Lird met several Atlanteans who had returned from their journey at the same time, and greeted them cordially, although Lird did not understand the language of Atlantis, but responded politely with the greeting he had learned from Jim, and somewhat lamely.

Perhaps it was Lird's strange tongue curling that caused several girls to chuckle, and Liard's face turned red, and he could only smile awkwardly.

When I came to the side of the stream, I saw that in this winter snowy environment, there was a layer of water vapor on the surface of the stream, which was not thick, and this "smoky" feeling made it quite a bit of a fairyland.

The clear, cold wash on his face lifted Lird's instincts, and an indescribable feeling of comfort swept over his body, the most natural way of washing to bring about a sensation that could not be experienced in any mansion estate.

After washing, Lird stretches out and strolls to Jim's house, where Jim has become Lird's kitchen restaurant, where he eats almost all of his meals a day, and thus becomes familiar with Trista and Jim's mecha neighbors near his home.

It turns out that Lird has been living here for almost a month, and during this time, Lird has begun to get acquainted with life here, or rather, to settle into this state of life.

There is no metropolis with the lights of wine and wine, fishing and singing late, but this most natural tranquility is the most able to soothe a person's heart and make him feel the beauty of the power of nature.

But even in the face of this intoxicating life, Liard's heart could not be calmed down for some time.

Lird could not forget what his father had told him a few days earlier, the truth of his father's purpose in leading him here.

"You're going to use this power to change the world!"

His father's advice still echoed in Lird's ears, and Lird frowned, and after taking a few steps forward to try to get the thought out of his head.

Obviously, the father really has his own purpose and plan, the reason why he helped the Atlantean remnants is not completely in the "humanitarian spirit", the "grand plan" in his heart to accomplish, and now with his spirit and physical strength, he cannot see this accomplished, so he pins his hopes on his son.

Although Hunter did not want to accomplish the purpose of an event that he was unaware of, Lird understood that he was also shaken by his father's proposal.

That [power]... Can it really change the world?

Just when Lird was upset, a familiar voice suddenly sounded: "You've finished washing, you've been getting up early lately, and Trista's breakfast hasn't been made yet." As he spoke, Jim had gone around to Lird from the other direction, looking more like he had gotten up early in the morning and had "conveniently" returned.

Lird laughed: "Somehow, since I got here, my habit of snooze has decreased a lot, maybe because of the quality of sleep, now I don't feel sleepy all day." ”

Jim smiled and patted Lird on the back and said, "It's never a bad thing to go to bed early and get up early, come! ”

The so-called work is the normal work of the Atlantean remnants, and the idle life day after day is naturally what Lird is not used to, so he also did some of the daily life of the Atlantean relics, but with Lird's life experience, he really can't do anything, so Jim took him into the valley to find some mountain berries as food, although this labor belongs to the work of women, but Lird really does not have any talent for labor, but this activity even makes him feel a little anxious, but even so, Lird is still happy to do it, and enjoys the process of this labor and the comfort of the time。

Before breakfast was served, Trista made some coffee for Jim and Lird, using the same beans that Jim had purchased when he was out long ago.

Drinking warm coffee, Jim and Lird sighed a lot of things, and suddenly Jim said, "By the way, tonight is the day when you are going to play chess at the priest's place." ”

Since the last time they met and said goodbye, Lird's impression of the maiden sacrifice has improved, according to the previous requirements of the maiden sacrifice, he went to the maiden sacrifice every few days to play a few games with him, and now Lird's purpose is not entirely to get some news from his mouth, but also to chat and relax, after all, this maiden sacrifice is also the entire Atlantean family except Jim can communicate with him.

Since Jim asked, Lird nodded and said, "That's exactly what the plan is. ”

Jim sneered: "What kind of plans and arrangements are there at this time, life here is so simple, just live step by step every day, although sometimes it feels a little monotonous, but after a long time you will get used to this kind of happiness." ”

Lird nodded in agreement, but in Lird's heart, he vaguely felt that Jim was trying some kind of "peddling" persuasion to himself, but after thinking about it, maybe he was overthinking, what Jim said was the truth, and he did not express some meaning to himself.

What Lird didn't notice, however, was that Jim's eyes were subtly observing Lird's changes, and Lird didn't notice it in the slightest.

...

In the evening, Lird and Jim finished their day's work, and it was difficult to find the berries in the mountains during the season, so they changed their direction and collected a lot of broken wood and pine to pack and carry to use as fuel for their daily use.

Sweating profusely, Lird had dinner at Jim's house, and after a short rest, he was ready to leave for the maiden's house to sacrifice this chess friend, Jim Yue also stood up and said to Lird: "I am on the way with you, although I am not going to see the sacrifice, but I also have some things to do." ”

Leard nodded when he heard this, the tent of the maiden's sacrifice was not where he lived alone, and several other chiefs of the clan also lived there, as did Grandma Chas, whom Lird had seen earlier.

The two of them set out on the night road, and the road looked very bright against the background of the snow and the hazy moonlight.

After the two of them chatted for a while, as they approached the maiden's tent, Jim suddenly asked Lird, "Have you ever been homesick during this time?"

Leard was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Jim was pointing to Wyatt Manor in San Francisco.

After Jim said this, Lird's heart sank up, and he calculated that he had been away from the United States for nearly three months, and during this time Lird had not had any contact with Mr. Wyatt, which was equivalent to no news at all during these three months, and both the Wyatts and Jenny were very anxious about it.

Thinking of this, Lird couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, and then nodded and said, "Yes! I've been away for too long, and I don't know what's going on in the United States." ”

Since entering the area, Lird has completely lost all contact with the outside world, television, newspapers, radio and all other media and communications, and on the other hand, he is in a foreign country, and even if he can have access to some, he cannot understand the Indian language at all.

Seeing Liard's nostalgic appearance, Jim patted Liard's shoulder and said, "Relax, don't think about these troubles, you are busy now, and I think Mr. Wyatt will be considerate of you." ”

Lird also smiled bitterly at Jim's attitude, his own melancholy was all caused by him, and he didn't want to let him pass with just two words now, which was really quite irresponsible.

While speaking, Lird and Jim had already arrived in front of the big tent, and Jim motioned for Lird to enter alone, and Lird was also familiar with the rest of the journey, so he entered the tent alone.

In the antechamber of the outer tent, the girl in white who usually led the way for Liald was already standing in the center, as if waiting for Lird, and after seeing Lird, she turned around and walked towards the inner account without saying a word, and Lird could only follow behind him with a helpless wry smile.

Walking through the passage of the inner tent, which had been "renewed" again, Lird walked into the inner tent of the maiden priest, who was sitting at the back of the table with a book to read, and in front of him was a neatly arranged chessboard.

Lirde went straight to the table and sat down, and the maiden priestess closed the book in her hand.

Lird laughed, "Again?"

The maiden priestess shrugged her shoulders and said, "I rarely read anything like that, and no amount of good stories are of any use to me. ”

Seeing the girl's sacrifice with such a positive demeanor, Lird grinned and said, "That must be a chess game, it seems that this time you are going to be ashamed." ”

The girl's face turned red when she heard this, the last time the two played against each other, Lierde's chess momentum was very fierce, and the whole offensive process was even more overwhelming, the girl's sacrifice was a complete defeat for this, and now Lird mentioned this "unbearable" past, which made him extremely angry, and the girl's sacrifice snorted coldly: "Last time, it was all won by your luck, and this time I will definitely not show mercy to your subordinates." ”

After the two declared war, a fierce battle began, and for these two stinky chess baskets, the game can be described as painful in the eyes of ordinary chess players, but in the eyes of the two opponents, the whole battle is also very difficult to solve.

I don't know how long it took, the first battle between the two ended, and it was still Lird who narrowly won, but after this game, the girl sacrifice was already a lot more confident, and after losing the game, she immediately urged to restart, looking eager to try.

Just as Lird was rearing the chess, the maiden priestess looked at Lird, and then frowned and said, "Hey, why do you look absent-minded tonight, do you have anything on your mind?"

Lird didn't want the other party to be so sensitive, so he was slightly stunned and then smiled lightly: "That's right, I talked to Jim about something tonight, and then I started a little nostalgic." ”

The maiden priest sighed when she heard this, and then said, "Are you talking about the United States or Poland?"

"United States. Lird replied.

The maiden priestess nodded and said, "But if I'm not mistaken, you've lived in Poland for a little longer. ”

Learde sighed when he heard this, "Because there is really nothing left for me to miss there." ”

The old house where he had lived for more than ten years, the small church college, the old-fashioned Father Scar, Grandmother Marg, and her father, including the only surviving father, all of whom had memories of Lird had left him one after another, and I think that perhaps one day in the near future, these things will become fragments of his memory.

Seeing that Lird's expression became more solemn, the maiden priest didn't ask Lird anything more, but just said softly: "Let's play chess." ”

But there was a different nature in Lird's heart.

"As far as I know, the Atlantean civilization has been extinct for more than 10,000 years, and in the following 10,000 years, you have traveled all over the world, but you have played a passerby role everywhere, leaving no trace of your own civilization, what is this for?"

The maiden priestess looked at Lird and said, "Migratory birds have to carry out their established migration state every year, rain or shine, even if some of them are sick, they do not stop, even if they die, they will die on the way to migrate, why do you think this is?"

Lird said: "Nature is to adapt to the natural environment to survive. ”

The maiden priest nodded and said: "In the same way, we remnants are also doing this to survive, the disaster of the past has completely changed our people, we are like migratory birds under the control of the genetic perception in the body, although this life is quite hard, but this is our life, but also our fate." ”

Destiny...

Lird did not believe in this fatalism, and according to his suspicion, the reason why the remnants of Atlantis kept moving was only to avoid the world from knowing about it, and to protect its core secrets.

But obviously, the maiden priest would not tell Lird the secrets of this, and Lird didn't want to ask anything, so as not to be suspicious in the other party's heart, so he sighed lightly and said: "This time it's time for you to make the first move, let's play chess!"

However, the maiden priest did not move, and Lird was a little puzzled, and when he was about to urge him again, the maiden priest suddenly stretched out her hand to stop Liard, and then shouted in a deep voice: "Did you hear any sound?"

"Huh?" Lird looked at the maiden priestess suspiciously, but he didn't hear anything out of the ordinary.

However, the expression on the girl's face became more and more complicated, and soon the complicated expression turned to a pale of despair.

I only heard him murmur, "It's time to come... It's still coming..."