CHAPTER XXIII - The Cry of the Far North 04

As a result of his first skydive without a license, Dior suffered a broken leg and multiple abrasions all over his body. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Although Daria originally planned to travel here, it does not include the fact that the members were seriously injured because they could not parachute before they arrived.

In the end, Sixteen Nights and Daria set up a tent for Dio to rest in, and the two dug an ice cave to fish on the side.

"Daria, you're a straight hook... No, it's just a nail?!" Sixteen Nights complained.

"There is a proverb in the Ming Kingdom, those who wish to take the bait, you are also from the Ming Kingdom, won't you remember the point?" Daria looked at Sixteen Nights with disdain.

"I'm really sorry, I was born in England, and I'm a stateless vagabond," Sixteen Nights pouted, "It's you hairy, you speak Chinese quite slippery, to be honest, how long have you been in Ming? Could it be that you are still single? ”

"You shut up for me, Lilily, as if someone wanted to be with you. Daria's face was bruised.

"That's, after all, I'm only 18 this year, maybe I'm still the youngest, right?

Dio, on the other hand, took the book brought out by Sixteen Nights, nested in the tent without saying a word, and then slowly raised his head under the almost murderous gaze of the two of them, and looked at them with mentally retarded eyes.

"I'm twenty-two years old and graduated from college. Less fishing, more reading. ”

After Dior finished speaking, he buried his head in reading again.

"What are you looking at?" Daria looked dissatisfied, walked into the tent and snatched the book in her hand, and looked at it in turn, with the four big characters of "Buddha's Quotations" written on it, and couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

"You should ask what Sixteen Nights bring," Dior yawned, "I'm never picky, I think anything useful can be found in any book except 'some kind of book,' the only difference is how much." ”

"Some kind of book?"

Throwing the "Buddha's Quotations" to Dio, Daria couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Ah, that's right, some kind of satisfying extremely personal desires, not caring about all reasonableness, not learning anything, and doing nothing but killing time... Well, that's probably the case, it doesn't matter what you do for fun, just like you fish, you don't care if you catch it, of course... It's better to catch it. ”

She picked up the book and flipped through the chapter she had just seen.

"Have you learned anything from this Buddhist Bible?" Daria sat back on a small chair beside the ice cave.

"Walking alone in the world, my heart is self-purifying, without desire or desire, like an elephant in the forest. ”

Dio raised his hand to close the book, his blue eyes finally lifting up a little, even though his legs were still bandaged and fastened to the spear-mounted stand.

"That's my goal in life. ”

"Elephants in the forest?" Sixteen Nightmoon turned her head in confusion, "Is it something like that?"

"See what you understand. The elephant in the forest, no animal will hunt this behemoth, and the elephant is not a carnivore, the forest is full of food. Alone in the world, no desire and no desire, that's it. ”

Daria raised her eyebrows, looked at Dio, who picked up her backpack and rummaged through the books, she stretched her waist and said casually:

"Without an understanding of desire, one can never be freed from shackles and fears. If you destroy your desires, probably you also destroy your life. If you twist it, suppress it, you may destroy extraordinary beauty. ”

"People are worried from love, and from sorrow to fear, if they are separated from love, why worry and fear?"

Dio pulled out a copy of Ancient and Modern Philosophy from his backpack and glanced at Daria sarcastically.

"Well, that's all I know. Isn't desirelessness also a kind of desire? The desire to be desireless, to hope that oneself is a desire in itself. ”

As she spoke, Daria's hook seemed to move, and her face showed an incomprehensible shock, and when she confirmed that it was not because she was moving that the rod moved, she suddenly lifted the fishing rod, and the crystal clear water reflected the polar sun, and the big fish took the bait.

"Wow, isn't this an Arctic salmon? How can there be such a fish in the Arctic? What bait do you use?" Sixteen Nights grabbed the colorful fish with some excitement, her nails digging deep into the scales of the fish, like claws.

"What bait... I'm just using a nail, isn't the Arctic salmon an Arctic fish?" Daria looked dazed.

All three of them were staring at the nail that had pierced the fish's mouth, and they saw the incredulous expressions on the faces of the other two. Soon, though, everyone put the matter behind them, and Dio was only momentarily surprised to read the book "Ancient and Modern Philosophy", while Daria and Sixteen Nights began to try a new "straight hook fishing method".

In the end, of course, it ended in failure, and the fat Arctic salmon came out of nowhere became a 'dinner' for the three of them, and although it was noon, the sun did not hang over the heads of several people, only magnificent stars.

While cooking, Daria and Sixteen Nights quarrel again. Daria wanted to make fish jelly, but Sixteen Nights was too troublesome and wanted to fry it, so the two of them finally cut the fish into pieces and divided them into two parts, and each took the pots and pans they brought with them and ran aside. Dior knew right away that the next thing was for her to be the 'judge' or something.

When the finished product was brought to the wounded Dior, she was silent for a long time. The fish jelly that can be made without a refrigerator in the Arctic and the fried fish pieces that I don't know what to use for Sixteen Nights are extremely bad on both sides, and they are only a step away from the military rations in Dior's backpack. She ate so many fingernails with a sad mood, and then held the chopsticks and folded her hands.

I have to say that whether it is Sixteen Nights or Daria, the cooking skills are rotten at home, Dio thought for a long time, how to say it so as not to hurt the self-esteem of the two, and then this girl, who had never considered the thoughts of others, immediately felt that this was too troublesome, so she said simply:

"I don't think you'll ever be able to get married. ”

Completed a double kill.

"You guy, isn't it possible that you are very good at cooking?" Daria angrily grabbed Dior's collar.

"Don't bother you, I have a housekeeper who specializes in cooking. ”

Dior picked up another piece of fried fish and put it in his mouth and chewed it, although it didn't taste good, but it was relatively dry... Tastes like potato chips.

"Evil capitalism is indeed the enemy of our generation!"

The group of mercenaries recruited by the Hunters Department for 50,000 pounds a month was like this when they were on a mission, and Old York probably imagined what it would be like for the three of them to come out together. When Sixteen Nights pulled out a bottle of wine from her backpack again that was exactly the same as the wine Old York had given her, Dior thought so.

That being said, the three of them have actually reached the mission target point. And Sixteen Nights and Daria had already scouted around, but the result was the same as the results of the Su Ming Alliance's search, and they found nothing. With nothing but snow and polar fauna, the Arctic continent is covered with a thick layer of snow and ice that only melts in the northern hemisphere summer.

During the extremely long night, Daria and Sixteen Nights forcibly came out of the tent and threw Dior, who had limited mobility, into the snow, and finally turned into three people lying in the snow under the starry sky of Yangon.

"Don't you think it's like the last activity of the main character in the movie before he dies with his friends?" Dior couldn't help but complain, her body temperature was very low, but she didn't feel anything, maybe thanks to the vampire's physique?

"Ulla! this is life, isn't it? It's much better than not experiencing it before you die. Daria happily pulled the snow, looking more like a little girl than the younger Dior and Sixteen Nights.

"Ah, anyway, the mortality rate of mercenaries is still high, so it's better to experience it as soon as possible, the old man has already sailed around the submarine and traveled around the world. ”

Sixteen Nights also agreed.

"Don't you fall asleep, don't you want me to climb back into the tent?"

"It's okay to fall asleep, maybe this life is just a dream, do you like your life?"

Daria tilted her head to look at the Sixteen Nights, and the silver-haired girl smiled softly.

"Life is like a play and a dream, it is difficult to distinguish between the play and the outside of the dream, when the fake is true, the truth is also false, what is the difference between the real or the illusory?"

"Dream of Red Mansions, okay, carry the next one. Dio rubbed his eyes helplessly.

"Well, the way you want to go is the narrow gate. The wide gate is also big, and there are many people walking, and its imprint is ordinary. Try to enter the narrow gate, for there are not many people on the road, and there are few people who arrive. ”

Daria sat up as if she had thought of something.

"I know, it's the Old Testament. Seeing her sit up, Sixteen Nights said with a little smugness.

It's the New Testament, and Andrew borrowed words from the New Testament as the title and leitmot. Dior was relentless in her self-confidence.

"Criticizing others is just for the sake of self-gratification... Well, it's me who is stupid and doesn't learn. Sixteen Nights yawned and played all day, perhaps she was tired too.

"I'm just using your drinking time to read a book, and besides, you don't plan to enter that door, because the narrow door can't accommodate two people side by side. Ah, my poor Dior, why are you Dior? I am sleepy, please let me stay in this land. ”

"How about sending me back to the tent before that. ”

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime Arctic open-air sleep, so why not enjoy this unparalleled beauty?"

In the starry night, the mercenaries in the far north enjoy life to the fullest.

I don't know when I sleep, I don't know when I wake up, I am drunk and dreaming of death, and I drink and talk happily. In the land of the polar night, there is no light, and the concept of time has been abandoned, and they are already full of energy, and they don't know how many times they have slept for the first time, and Dior's legs can finally move freely. Even so, the girl's poker face as always, without the slightest smile, holding Buddhist scriptures, philosophy and the like.

So, the duo, who thought that Dio was just sullen because of a leg injury, had Dalia press Dio to death, and threw those books into the fire on the sixteenth night.

"You sinners who burn the treasures of humanity will be punished!"

Dio threw herself at the ashes heap in grief, but even if she paused time, she couldn't save the books that had been burned to ashes, and bowed her head in frustration.

"Am I dazzled? I see penguins," Sixteen Nights rubbed his eyes uncomfortably from the smoke.

"No, you read that right, maybe there's work to be done. ”

Daria dragged her suitcase through the suitcase, pulled out the parts from the bottom, and quickly assembled the rifle, and Dio pulled out her gun to observe the surroundings, and soon she saw the penguin of Sixteen Nights, which was staring at them.

“... Be quiet, there is a voice. Sixteen Nights made a silent gesture.

Soon, all three of them heard the voice, but when they were clear, they couldn't help but shudder.

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