Chapter 13: A Journey to the Mountains
China, Tibet, Tanggula Mountain.
Perhaps because of the autumn, the road to the mission site was golden everywhere, not to mention how comfortable the high altitude area and the warm sun of early autumn were. It's just that Yanhe has had a series of altitude sickness since he stepped into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and even after a year of hard training, his body is still a little unbearable, which has become Alston's laughing point again, and he has been asking "Yanhe brother, do you want to vomit?" all the way.
"Obviously I'm the greatst?!" Yan He was indignant, but he couldn't argue.
Born on China's Consumer Protection Day, Yan He is a baby in March, a child born with the birth of cherry blossom buds and gradually withering, not to mention the youngest Night Ya, Alston, who entered school in the same year, is the same age as Yan He, but he was born in the autumn that is completely opposite to Yan He, and it is almost his birthday. The age difference of a few months is also an age difference, Yanhe thought in his heart, but his body couldn't get angry, altitude sickness made him dizzy, and he wanted to vomit. I just hate that there are no helpers in the team, and Yaya won't be able to support the spell of the system, so he can only let Yanhe carry it like this.
"Speaking of which, Yaya, you're eighteen this year, aren't you?" asked Yanhe.
Alston is still conscientious, since he has approved Yanhe to become his captain, then everyone is the dearest and beloved person, he saw that Yanhe really couldn't do it, so he helped Yanhe - he didn't want to leave this kind of thing to Yaya to do. Alston was also curious about the question Alston asked, although Ray often mentioned Yaya in his ear, but in terms of his private life, Ray still protected Yaya's privacy, and Ray barely mentioned Yaya's birthday.
"Hmm. ”
Yaya looked at the tablet in his hand, on which was a map marked with the point of this mission, the graphics were not complicated, as long as you followed the path of climbing the mountain, you could always reach the place of the incident. It's just that you can't take the car, so Yanhe is so uncomfortable at this time.
When it comes to birthdays, there is always a warm current flowing through Yaya's heart. She had no memory of what happened before she met Ray, and her life in the orphanage was the same as before, and she didn't remember it until she came to St. Hildo's College. It was Ray Hildo's birthday for her, the day Yaya joined St. Hildo. It was a just autumn day, and Nightya remembered that a few fallen leaves occasionally fell at the main entrance of St. Hildo's College, and even though the archipelago was near the equatorial zone, it was mostly evergreen forest. Ray Hildo and Julidia stood on her left and right, one holding her by the hand and leading her into the school, and into the Black Forest.
The terrain of the Black Forest is complicated, and Julidia wears a needle through a thread and nails a needle to a tree at intervals, thus connecting to the white house in the center of the Black Forest where Yaya now lives. At that time, the walls of the room had not yet climbed all the vines, but the age of the house did not look very young. Ray said this is your home, and your birthday is this day, August 29th. Yaya remembered that she was a newborn born in August, and that the forest shrouded in black fog was her home.
From then on, Yaya often wandered around the Black Forest by leaning on a tree to nail a needle, and did not abandon this practice until he had memorized all the routes. And the Black Forest has also become a training base for Yaya, even if there is not a single cup of soul inside, but there is no one there, and no one will notice when he casts a spell.
Yaya never felt that there was anything wrong with being confined to living in the Black Forest, and to her thought of Ray and Julidia as her reborn parents. Every year on August 29th, no matter how busy Ray and Julidia are, they celebrate her birthday together in the Black Forest, even if there is no party, there is no full house, but there is no shortage of flowers, cakes, and celebratory words, which is enough for Yaya.
This year's birthday was spent in the same way, although there were no surprises, but it was the long persistence that touched the most. Early in the morning, Ray's greetings were transmitted to Yayaya's computer in the form of a video, followed by Julidia who arrived with flowers. Every year, Julidia is responsible for sending different varieties of flowers, using different flower languages to express her blessings to Yaya.
"This year's flower is calendula, which represents a good journey. ”
The so-called smooth sail just refers to the fact that the year is about to expire, and soon Yaya will be on a mission in a team. Now they are on their way to the mission, and the time is simply trance-fast. On his birthday, Ray was the last to arrive, but for the sake of the cake he brought, Yaya forgave him. A birthday party with only three people is so simple and casual, you can arrive whenever you want, and when you are all together, it means the beginning of the party, and the departure of any one person also represents the end of the party.
Yaya was never jealous of how lively other people's birthdays were, and every year she thought her birthday was the best in the world, but she never said it. She's such an awkward guy who is easy to satisfy, but not good at expressing herself.
However, Nightya also noticed that she was such a personal guy, and when facing her own team members, she would have a much higher emotional intelligence. A year ago, when Alston and Yanhe were about to face off when they met, the only conciliator was her, and she was able to reconcile to the point where the current team was formed, no matter how you think about it, it is unbelievable. And after the success of the team, she notices that she loves to laugh a lot, is this the power of friendship? Yaya can't tell if she thinks of Alston as friends or not. After all, she has never had a friend from the time she can remember to the present.
"Why don't we take the car!" After complaining for a long time, Yan He finally couldn't help but roar.
"It's better to save some energy and wait for the next battle when you have time to wail. Yaya pouted.
There is a reason why you can't ride in the car, and the soul of this mission may be related to the car. The husband and wife drove over Tanggula Mountain, but both died in the middle of the road, which shocked passers-by, but the police autopsy did not notice anything unusual. It is obviously not normal for the husband and wife to die at the same time, and there is no trace of suspected homicide at the scene, and the matter is hastily settled by suicide, but the Soul Eater Association notices the abnormality and assigns this task to Yan and their bear team.
In this team, although the strongest analytical ability should be Yanhe, in terms of combat experience, Yanhe is the worst. According to Yaya's analysis, the most experienced part of the story, this incident is about the appearance of a cup soul that can be attached to the car on that section of Tanggula Mountain, and the unlucky person it chooses will "die unexpectedly" in the car, and die quietly without knowing it. But as for the method, you have to see it before you know.
After walking for nearly two hours, Yaya and the others finally arrived at the scene of the incident.
Perhaps because of the inaccessibility of this road, the traces left by the vehicle here are still very clear, and there is really nothing unusual when you look at the wheel tracks on the ground. But if a mortal dies in an accident in the car, once the foot hits the accelerator or brake, the marks of the car on the ground will not be so smooth. Seeing that the traces left on the ground by the long stay of the vehicle were stable and did not have the slightest wave, like the police, the members of the bear team quickly ruled out the possibility of human killing.
And what about the non-human he killed?
Since you can't see one, two, or three with your eyes, you can perceive it with spiritual power. Although the sacrificial eye is the best eye, it does not have the function of automatic analysis, and sometimes Yanhe also hopes that he can analyze a person's experience by sight just like Sherlock, but this is impossible. Yaya just wanted to greet Yanhe and exude spiritual power, but he sensed that Yanhe's spiritual power had already spread all over this area, and he unconsciously sighed in his heart that Yanhe had indeed improved a lot in a year.
The rough-fed Alston didn't understand the dumb riddle between Yan and Yaya, and seeing that the two of them were silent, he unconsciously began to break the silence.
"Do you see anything?"
Alston was self-conscious of being a brave man. Generally speaking, the Brave do not belong to the core of the team, the core of the team always belongs to the Chanter, and the Brave is tasked with protecting the Chanter, nothing more. As for the best bow to go forward and kill the enemy, this is also based on the purpose of protecting the chanter. So Alston didn't feel like he needed analytical skills, nor did he need to use his brain often, he just had to follow the chanter's instructions. The consequence of not using his brain too often is that now he is completely confused about the situation.
The scattered spiritual power not only surrounded the three of them for a week, but also climbed hundreds of meters, and a cup soul that could be attached to the car meant that this cup soul could move at high speed. To be honest, Yan He was very unsure whether he could find it, after all, it was very likely that it would have left this place long ago attached to other cars.