When he found Mamura, he was in a shop full of insect specimens, some of which were enclosed in glass frames like paintings and hung on the wall in pairs. Some are sealed with glass tubes of different shapes and sizes, and placed on rows and rows of wooden shelves; Others were even wrapped in resin and placed in glass cabinets in front of the store.

These insects come to life, as if they are just sleeping quietly, dreaming that even thousands of years are not enough to wake them up.

I don't know much about specimens, but from a layman's point of view, the specimens in the store are undoubtedly pleasing works of art, and even those who hate insects may be able to stop by and look at their seemingly alive shells and realize that they are part of nature.

Mamura was obsessed with insect specimens and did not notice my arrival. And the owner of the shopkeeper was a man in his forties and fifties, with few wrinkles on his face, and he looked very kind. He smiled at me when he saw me come in, and went on to do his job, hanging all kinds of specimens in their proper places, making the store gradually more and more diverse.

After nodding to him, I quietly walked over to Mamura, patted him on the shoulder, and called out to him, "Mamura." ”

Mamura's shoulders fluttered, clearly startled. However, he quickly reacted, turned around and glared at me lightly, and looked around with his gaze, his face showing doubts: "Fold, why is it only you, Meijia and Sa." ”

"The two of them haven't come back yet, I suspect something has happened, so I want to call you to go find them together."

I explained the reason to him, and he became nervous: "Then let's go find them." ”

Then we left the shop and left the market area under the arch with a white tiger on the west side. The white tiger of the ice sculpture was lazily prostrate on the arch, its long tail wrapped around the arch like a vine, and many ice-cracked lines were deliberately added to the entanglement, highlighting the strength of its power, which made people feel intimidated.

A little further on, you will see a thick wall of ice separating the range of movement, and there is a path on the ice wall that can be walked. We walked around the wall, and in a short time we found an ice slab with an ice wall up and down, from which we could climb to the top of the ice wall and then go down the stairs on the other side. In this way, you can leave the snow festival area without passing through the gates in all four directions.

In general, the ice wall that surrounds the entire area of the festival is like a wall. However, the slight difference is that there are stairs at both ends of the ice wall, and it can be said that the wall has no defensive function.

Mamura and I climbed the five-meter-high ice wall, looked into the distance, and then stopped. Because not far away, Yarn and Mika walked towards this side, Mika lowered her head in despair, looking listless, while Yarn next to her patted her back, as if comforting her. I don't know what happened.

"Fold, Mamura. Why are you here? ”

The two girls only spotted us when they climbed the ice wall, and Mika immediately regained some of her spirits, while Yarn bowed her head apologetically: "Fold, Mamura...... Sorry to keep you waiting. ”

"You've been gone for so long, and you haven't said hello, it's so worrying. Yarn has apologized, as for you...... It looks like you haven't realized your mistake yet. ”

I looked at Mika with my eyes open, and saw that she turned her head weakly and started nonsense: "We are girls, it will definitely take a little longer, how can it be as simple as you boys." What's more, I didn't tell you to wait, you just watched the show first and ....... ”

The way she changed the subject was so clumsy that I unceremoniously interrupted her and stared at her, "What did you do to encourage Sha to do something?" ”

"How ...... you!"

Mika almost screamed, but she quickly reacted and swallowed back the "know" behind her. But that's all for now, what's the use?

"Tell me, what's going on?"

I looked at her with unkind eyes, she knew that she couldn't hide it, so she flattened her mouth and opened her mouth to speak, but it was the yarn on the side who said first: "Actually, I don't blame Meijia, just now after we went to the bathroom, we saw an adult walking towards the village of Maolun with two big rats walking like people, and Meijia said that it was a rat." So we decided to go after us, and when we got to the peri-torii area, we found it, and the adult reprimanded both of us. ”

"Rat ......"

My heart beat a few times faster, and I silently recited the new term, and the uneasiness in my heart grew stronger. Mamura, who was next to him, wanted to say something when he heard the rat, but I tapped him on the shoulder and gave him a "confidential" look, and he fell silent.

"yes, it's a rat. Fold, Mamura, you two haven't seen each other, have you? The face of one of them really looks like that of a mouse, although it has no hair, and it looks ugly. There was also one that didn't look like a mouse, but rather a wolf's face, and was very tall and a big man. ”

After Sasha told the truth, Mika also broke the jar, and she made a show off as if she had seen the rarest diamond.

"Oh? Do they have any more striking features, such as scars or something, and what do they look like when they walk? ”

I looked at Mamura out of the corner of my eye, and quietly pretended to be interested, trying to extract more information from Mika's mouth.

"Scars? How can we see this? They all wore green cloaks, and even their faces were the ones we accidentally saw when we found them. By the way, ...... said."

As she spoke, she suddenly stopped as if she thought of something, tilted her head and thought for a while, and then nodded her head "mmmm": "Don't you say that I haven't noticed, speaking of which, the ugly-looking rat walks very abnormally, swinging and swinging, as if it will fall down at any time." At the time, I thought that the rat walked like that, but the other end next to it seemed quite normal. Now that I think about it, the leg of that short, ugly rat must have been injured, right? ”

Mika's words made Mamura's body tremble, and if it weren't for my hand still on his shoulder, he might have exclaimed. After listening to Meijia's words, my heart was also gloomy, and I heard the name of the rat continuously, and it was associated with all bad things, which made my perception of the rat in my heart extremely bad, and it could even be said that I was disgusted.

A decision had to be made.

I sighed in my heart, the appearance of the rat itself is already a rare thing, coupled with the feature of leg injury, the identity of the rat can already be said to be inseparable. Now there are only two choices I can make, either let things go on like this, and hope that the matter of Zhencun's escape from the Bading Standard will not be exposed; Either erase the relevant memories of the real village in advance and make a plan to deal with it.

(Option 1: Wait and see.) ）

(Option 2: Erase the memory.) ）

I can only erase the memories of the real village in advance.

I made a mental decision, and I grew more and more bored with the rats. If I could, I'd rather make those two rats forget about the memories of the village than I had to erase the memories of the village to keep the two of us safe.

After making my decision, I came back to my senses and glanced at Mamura apologetically, only to find that neither Mamura, Mika, nor Satoshi were looking at me with a look of fear and fear, as if they were looking at something particularly terrifying. Mamura's body even trembled, and a subtle tremor was transmitted through the arm I pressed on his shoulder.

"What's wrong? Everyone looked at me with such strange eyes? ”

I was puzzled and reached out to touch my face, could it be that something terrible had fallen from my face while I was thinking about it?

"Fold ...... You, your expression just now...... It's scary. Wrong...... Just now I felt like your face was on fire, like a monster! ”

Mika covered her mouth, as if trying not to scream or cry out of fear, but her footsteps moved back slightly. Saze closed her eyes, her lips squirmed a few times, she said something silently, and then when she opened her eyes, her face was calm again. She looked up at me, biting her lip lightly, her face full of seriousness and seriousness: "Fold, I didn't like your expression at all just now, it was a very annoying feeling." ”

"My ...... Expression? Wait a minute, you guys let me think about it. ”

Their words made my brain a little confused, could I really have such a terrible expression just now? It stands to reason that it is impossible for a simple expression to cause such a reaction from them, and Mika also said that my face is like a fire? What's going on here?

"Mamura, do you think my expression just now is terrifying?"

After thinking about it for a while, I finally had a clue, and in order to confirm this idea, I looked at Mamura. After a few dozen seconds, his trembling body had calmed down, and he was looking at me with a strange gaze. When he heard my inquiry, he stammered: "Just now...... You...... Your whole body is like it's on fire, and I feel like the shoulder you're on fire is about to catch fire. Expression...... You're laughing, but it's a terrible smile, and there's blood running around you. As soon as I saw it, my mind went blank, I was dizzy, and I couldn't move even if I wanted to. ”

"That's right."

I closed my eyes, and I was finally sure that the scene he described was not the effect of a simple expression of mine, but that when I had a malicious attitude towards the rat in my heart, the anger leaked out meaninglessly, and I used the ability of the mind to interfere as a channel to vent my inner anger and emotions to the surroundings.

This is probably the reason why Mika and Mamurakai both say that I have flames on my body, because the symbol of anger is flames in the first place. In the moment of anger just now, I subconsciously became malicious towards the rat. And the most intuitive malice is nothing more than the idea of killing or maiming those rats, which is related to injury or bloodshed, so Mamura will say that there is blood flowing around me.

Yes, it must be like this, even if I don't deliberately construct a fantasy realm, but when my mood fluctuates greatly, the emotion itself will become a bad imagination, and this imagination, when it does not pass through my designated location, will naturally transmit signals to the body like a signal transmitter. It's like when some people are angry, it doesn't show it on their faces and actions, but others can still feel their anger and anger.

And what I just happened was just going further than ordinary people, turning this emotion into an illusion and spreading it to the surrounding area, causing a greater impact on others.

Damn, I didn't expect that faith would have such a sequelae, and I didn't think of the two-sided nature of anything, which is simply too negligent.

I felt a fear in my heart that if anger could cause fantasies to leak out, then joy, fear, sorrow...... These emotions should also be okay. I can't believe that if it was in a crowded place, I couldn't help but release my fantasies outward, how much impact it would have on the surrounding area. And if my ability is discovered afterwards, I am more likely to face unimaginable consequences.

Something must be done to curb this emotional outlet, otherwise it will cause big trouble. I have this omen in my heart, so I decided to start researching ways to control the leakage of fantasies immediately after today, and until the way is found, any mood swings must be kept to a minimum.

I had to be absolutely rational at any given moment.

"You are now a stone, an oval pebble, pale yellow with subtle light green veins, and a shiny appearance, about the size of an adult's fist. You were part of a huge granite stone tens of millions of years ago......"

I immediately began to implement self-hypnosis, step by step to construct the fantasy that I am a stone, starting from the name of the fantasy object, refining it, filling in its structure, appearance, and source, so as to form a fantasy with a complete origin and high reliability in my imagination, and finally substitute my own thinking into this fantasy, so that I believe that I am the fantasy itself - this is the truth of hypnosis, the power generated by faith.

The process of self-hypnosis is quick and surprisingly smooth, and even skilled fantasies used to have to be tried several times, or even a dozen times, to get into the state, but now it is successful one time. I think this may be the effect of trust.

After the success of self-hypnosis, all the thinking tendencies in the heart have been transformed into the way that "stones" should be, without joy and anger, without joy and sorrow, and there is no likes and dislikes. The pressure and emotions that had accumulated in my heart during this period of time were gone, and my heart became an empty area.

That's when I opened my eyes, and I saw that Sa, Mika, and Mamura were all looking at me worriedly, and when the effect of the fantasy faded, they seemed to react to their own abnormality.

"I'm sorry, fold, my reaction just now...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... I shouldn't have been like that. ”

Mika felt extremely guilty about her reaction just now, and she couldn't stop apologizing, with tears in the corners of her eyes.

If I hadn't performed self-hypnosis, I would have apologized for the fact that I made the other person feel guilty when it was my own reason, but in the self-hypnosis situation, I could only respond to it according to reason and appropriate measures.

I nodded slightly at her, and I didn't know if I had a smile or not: "It's okay, I probably showed an ugly expression just now, it's not your fault, I should be sorry." ”

The tone is also a little incongruous, stiff, and unapologetic. But there is no way to do it, so I can only adjust it as much as possible.

Probably thinking that I still had a bad heart, Meijia nodded depressedly, and she apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry, fold, forgive me, okay?" ”

"Fold, so do I. I said something very rude just now. ”

"I'm sorry, fold."

Sawa Mamura also apologized to me. In order to prevent them from seeing that my expression did not change, I tried to put a smile on my face and tried to calm my voice as much as possible, pretending to be in a happy mood: "It's really okay, don't think about it, I have accepted your apology, and please accept my apology." Speaking of which, we also said we were going to see the show, and now that the show has been going on for so long, let's hurry over. ”

Maybe it's because of the acting, Mika and Mamura's mood is better, but Sasha still looks at me with worried eyes from time to time. These days of getting along day and night, her understanding of me is obviously much deeper than that of Mika and Mamura, and perhaps it is because of this that she perceives the abnormality of my state.

But Sasa didn't say much, and when I gave her a look that even I couldn't explain, she smiled reassuringly and looked at me quietly as usual.

"Fold, I don't want to go to the show anymore. Let's go straight to the practice of carving! ”

After finishing the topic just now, Mika regained her spirits, and she raised her hand in a loud "hi" proposal, as if she had forgotten everything she had just done.

"Well, it's not interesting to go now, what do you think?"

I also didn't think it made sense to go to the show just now, so I asked Sawa Mamura for advice.

"It's okay with me, you can decide."

Sasa waved her hand, and I turned my gaze back to Mamura.

"I'm okay with that."

Mamura nodded in agreement, and I looked at him a few more times, thinking that he actually wanted to go back and continue to look at the insect specimens.

"Then let's go to the river."

With the decision made, the three of us walked from the ice wall in the direction of the river.

Because the thickness of the ice wall is only about 60 centimeters, and there are guardrails at the left and right ends of the top road, the road on the ice wall is almost only about 40 centimeters wide.

This width is too wide for one person to walk, and too wide for two people to walk. So we lined up, Mika in the front, Sasha in the back, I was in the third, and Mamura was at the end, and we just walked along the ice wall.

The ice wall is five meters high, and when you look down from above, you can see the central stage surrounded by igloos, the ice wall opposite, and even the ice flowers floating in the river.

Ice flowers, as the name suggests, are related to ice, but they are not ice carvings carved from ice cubes, but a truly colorless and transparent plant like ice. It has no chlorophyll and never photosynthesizes, but instead takes root in algae-rich ice to absorb nutrients. As the algae in the ice are absorbed, the original location of the large ice cube becomes hollow, and then a small piece of ice where the ice flower grows falls down and drifts downstream.

This ice flower is also a plant that did not exist thousands of years ago, similar to the crystal orchid of the deer hoof family, and the two flowers are equally colorless and transparent. I don't know if the ice flower evolved from the crystal orchid thousands of years ago, but I don't think so, because there is a big difference in appearance between the two.

The buds of the ice flower are relatively large, about the size of two palms of an adult holding together, and its style is more like a lotus flower. Moreover, the petals of the ice flower are thick and hard, and the edges are even a little sharp, which may be scratched if you are not careful. From these points of view, it is more appropriate to call it an ice lotus.

In my memory, the crystal orchid seems to have drooping buds, and the flowers are only a little bigger than eggs, and even when they are in full bloom, they only bloom a little. There is a huge difference between the two, and the same is probably the same dicot class. That's all I can be sure of, and I don't know exactly what order, family, and genus the ice flower belongs to, after all, I don't have much biological knowledge.

Every year during the Snow Festival, the upper reaches of the Tone River are opened, and a large number of ice flowers that have been deliberately cultivated and intercepted by the adults in the town drift downstream in pairs, forming a beautiful river of ice flowers, as if the entire Tone River has become a sea of flowers.

At this time, many people come to the river to enjoy the spectacle, and some people will pick up some ice flowers, write some prayers or mourning for their deceased relatives and stuff them into the ice flowers, and then put them back in the water and let them float into the ocean. This event is also known as the Ice Flower Message.

……

PS: Thank you for the slight delay, but there is a deep foreshadowing buried in these plots, so you must put a lot of ink into it.

Also......@銘蔘书友 aren't you really reading my brain? Even a very deep foreshadowing, as well as the setting that has not yet been written, have predicted for you. In this chapter I wrote, your protagonist's uncontrollable prediction of credibility hits the dart directly...... Well, there's another foreshadowing, I won't reveal it.

There's probably another chapter this week, as for requests for more updates...... All I can say is that I can write as much as I can, and I can't promise and end up not being able to do it, which would be a blow to me and to everyone.

Finally, thank you all for reading and supporting, thank you.