The afternoon sky was a little brighter, with a few gaps between the thick clouds, allowing the sunlight to shine enough brightly through the clouds to feel warm. We also took advantage of this rare light to read the entire event area and take in everything in the venue.

The entire snow festival activity area is an irregular circle, with a diameter of about five or six hundred meters, and the overall area is about twenty or thirty hectares. Except for the Ice Palace, which had been erected in the center, and the market area, which was located in the upper left corner of the activity area, the rest of the area was still empty, except for the icy ground that had been paved with the magic of the Kazuki clan that shimmered with a silvery white sheen.

These areas will later be assigned to the players who will use their mana to build buildings, or shrines, towers, or bridges.

"Don't keep staring down, now that the sun is out of the sky, the sunlight can easily hurt your eyes after being refracted by the ice and snow. However, if you have sunglasses, you can take them out and wear them so that they don't hurt your eyes. ”

A young-looking woman next to us admonished us, and Mika and Sasa smiled at each other, and each took out the red goggles that had been distributed by the river from the inside pockets of their clothes and put them on their faces. Mamura and I could only look at each other, and I left with the goggles he had received in the tool stack, and didn't bring them with them when we returned.

"Yarn, don't you still have two goggles there? Take it out and give it to me. ”

As I pondered whether I should run back to get my goggles, Mika suddenly said something that both Mamura and I could hear, a sly smile on her face, and a meaningful look at the yarn beside her.

Sasha blinked, as if she understood something, so the corners of her lips curled up inadvertently, and she took out two identical goggles from the inner pocket of her fur coat and handed them to Mika: "Well, there are two." ...... you"

"Ah...... Isn't that the goggles that I folded? How can it be in your hands? ”

Mamura's eyes widened and he shouted in surprise. Mika took the two goggles, held them in her hands and threw them up and down, she stared at Mamura and pouted: "What about the evidence?" Where is the evidence? Don't talk nonsense without evidence. Mamura, you are too naïve, as a big sister, it seems that I have to teach you some principles of being a human being. ”

"The evidence is on the left lens of the goggles, which has a scratch on it."

Mamura presented the evidence, and he fought back against Mika for a rare time. Mika looked at the two goggles in her hand, and indeed one of them had a conspicuous scratch on the left lens, so she became unhappy: "Mamura, this is not necessarily yours, it is very common for goggles to have scratches." ”

"But the scratch was the length of two knuckles of my index finger, and the ends were a little curled. It's not going to be common, is it? ”

I secretly nodded at Mamura's cleverness, Mika was so choked that she couldn't speak, she simply threw the goggles back to Mamura, and turned her head to look at me stupidly: "Fold, yours also have markers?" ”

"Nope."

I shook my head honestly, and although I wanted to name the obvious features like Mamura, I didn't pay close attention to the goggles at all.

"Do you want these goggles, then?"

Mika became happy again, looking like she was going to transfer the blackmail she had had done to me.

"Can I say I don't want it?"

"No, if you don't have goggles, you'll hurt your eyes when you wait to watch the game."

This is what Yarn said, and she looked serious, but I noticed a smile in her eyes. I knew that I couldn't escape this blackmail, so I nodded: "Then let's do it, what conditions do you want to give it to me?" ”

"Share, I and Yarn want your share of souvenirs. If what we want is exceeded, you give us a share. ”

Mika smiled like a little fox who had stolen a chicken, and the corners of her slender eyes turned up because of the smile, looking at a different kind of charm.

"Then I'll give it to you."

I shrugged my shoulders indifferently, and the share she was referring to was a limited number of souvenirs that each person could get in a handmade art shop, so that some people would not be too greedy and take away a lot of things, so there was a limit on what each person could get in each store.

"Here you go. Thanks, fold. ”

After agreeing to Mika's conditions, she happily handed over the goggles. Mamura, who had already put on his goggles and was leaning against the ice wall and looking out, looked at me with sympathetic eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything for fear that he would lose his share.

"Fold, you can give it to Meijia, she asked me to get the goggles for you."

After seeing that I was blackmailed by Meijia, she didn't care about the share of souvenirs, it seems that she was only interested in the process of me being blackmailed by Meijia. But if you think about it, you can understand that Miss Liuzhi's craftsmanship is much better than those shopkeepers, and there must never be a shortage of good things in the hands of the yarn, and souvenirs are only commemorative for her.

"Well, but if you have something you want, you can also tell me, and I will give it to you."

I put on the goggles that I had exchanged for a souvenir share from Mika, and my vision was covered with a layer of red, and I no longer felt dazzling when I looked at the ice and snow, but at the same time, it was a little less frosty, like the beauty of a silver world.

Yarn listened to my words, and her eyes sparkled.

Soon, the loudspeaker on the ice palace sounded again, announcing the news of the clearance. Looking down from the high ice wall, you can see several officials of the town office starting to patrol the grounds, jumping into the air from time to time, floating like feathers in the air, taking advantage of the time to examine the ground to make sure that no one is staying in the ground.

They spent five minutes searching every corner of the venue, and after making sure that no one stayed in the venue, they returned to the Ice Palace. At this time, dozens of contestants had already gathered in front of the ice palace, and since there was no juvenile group for the construction of large-scale architectural ice sculptures, there was no child in sight.

After that, several officials of the town office were assigned areas by drawing lots, and the contestants separated and headed for their own areas. Roughly speaking, the team competition area is on the left side of the Ice Palace, while the individual competition area is on the right side of the Ice Palace. Each team and individual participant is responsible for a small area and does not interfere with each other.

With good eyesight, I was able to easily see what was happening more than 300 meters away and counted the number of participants. There are only five teams in the team competition, wearing five different colors of red, yellow, blue, green and white, of which the most blue team is seven people, and the least white team is only four people. When dividing the area of responsibility of the team, the area of responsibility of the team with more people increases proportionally, and the area of responsibility of the team with fewer people decreases accordingly.

There are about 35 participants in the individual competition, and there is nothing special about it, except for the different positions in charge of each person, the size of the area is the same.

After a few more minutes, the contestants were in their places, and the people who were scattered on the ice wall to watch the race were all in their spirits, no longer talking to each other, waiting for the race to begin.

"The competition has officially begun, so please show the image in your heart."

Finally, the sound of the game began over the loudspeaker. As soon as the sound fell, one member of each team in the team competition rose into the air and flew like a bird towards the nearest river outside the activity area. They were so fast that in the blink of an eye, five contestants were whistling past an uninhabited ice wall and floating over the nearest river.

"Oh! Come on, Blue Dolphins! ”

"The White Bears! Invincible! ”

……

The people on the ice wall on the left cheered and began to cheer for their respective teams. Although the four of us were also on the ice wall on the left, we didn't know any of the five participating teams, so we didn't say anything, just watched the game seriously.

The five contestants who arrived above the river silently recited the mantra, and one after another huge water columns suddenly rushed out of the water, like a living water dragon, rushing towards the ice wall, bringing a huge air flow to sweep in, and the snow on the ground outside the ice wall was lifted up by the turbulent air current, flying in all directions.

At this time, the adults on the ice wall also recited the mantra silently, and the air suddenly seemed to be an invisible wall, and no wind or snow could blow into the three meters of the ice wall.

Hundreds of columns of water of different thicknesses and thicknesses were rolled up by the magic power of the five contestants, like an arched bridge made of hundreds of waters, making the bottom dark. When these water columns passed through the ice wall and arrived at their respective competition areas, the other team members on the ground also recited the mantra, instantly turning the water pillars into crystal icicles, and in the blink of an eye, the icicles were cut into pieces of ice of different sizes, which were controlled by the other team members and fell towards the ground.

This series of scenes is so grand that neither me, nor Sa, nor Mika and Mamura, can speak. As if stepping into an incredible dream in an instant, those users of mana power are like omnipotent gods, wantonly wielding their own power that is enough to destroy the world, turning the impossible into a possibility, condensing miracles into reality, and turning the world into a heavenly kingdom!

Even in a state of self-hypnosis, I couldn't help but sway and inhale deeply, so that I would not be stunned or frightened by this majestic miraculous scene.

"It's amazing......"

Mika murmured unconsciously, and I looked at her and Mamura, and found that both she and Mamura were staring at the sky, their expressions changing, first fear, then surprise, and finally confusion and envy.

This is a very normal performance, if it weren't for the state of self-hypnosis, I would be the same picture as them now. I took the moment to look at the yarn again, only to see that she was frowning, looking a little confused, and did not look like any surprise.

I withdrew my gaze, a little puzzled, but not going to speculate on why.

"Now, will we really have such a powerful spell in a few years? I want to have mana now. ”

After a long while, Mika came back to her senses, her eyes following the contestants, and there was an indescribable fascination in her voice.

"Absolutely."

Mamura clenched his fists.

The race continues, and the individual competition on the right has begun, and the participants in the individual competition do not need to make their own ice like the participants in the team competition, they can take the ice directly from the frozen river in the eastern suburbs, so it is faster than the team competition.

The individual contestants each occupy a section of the ice wall from which the frozen river can be seen, and after reciting the mantra, the ready-made ice blocks fly into the door in droves, are shaped into the right shape by the mana, and then land on the ice created by the Kazuki clan.

"Ah...... The ground is crushed! ”

Meijia suddenly exclaimed in a small voice, only to see that when the ice fell on the ice in many places, because it could not withstand the gravity, it made a "click" cracking sound, and then the upper ice surface shattered, and the water sandwiched in the middle burst out, flowing everywhere.

"What is going to be done? The ground can't withstand gravity, and the ice surface made by Mr. Kazuki is so bad. ”

Mamura looked puzzled, and he muttered in a low voice, "Didn't they all say that Mr. Kadoki is a very powerful user of mana, why is the ice surface created so much worse than the last time?" ”

"This is what Dyspromia did on purpose."

Saki answered Mamura's question in front of me, and her thoughts coincided with mine. Her expression was slightly cold, and her tone was a little different from usual: "When he made the ground, he deliberately created this three-layer structure of the ground, which not only showed the strength of his mana, but also showed extremely delicate imagery, and through this fragile three-story structure, it made it more difficult for the contestants who built large architectural ice sculptures. ”

"Now there are three ways for contestants; One is to abandon the plan to build a building on the ice of the Kazuki clan, break the ice surface, and cover it with solid ice ground. This is the lowest option, there is nothing to say, it belongs to the mediocrity. ”

"The second is to increase the number of central support columns by reinforcing the ground so that the ice can withstand the weight of the building. This is the usual option, and the igloos in the market area were built in this way. Most of these contestants will choose this method. ”

"The third is to reduce the weight of the ice that makes up the building as much as possible, and hollow out the inside of the ice to reduce the weight of the building to the extent that the ice surface can withstand it. It's a superior choice, but only a few of them can reach the mark, but only a few of them. ”

"In order to avoid collapse or fragmentation after the construction is completed, the structure of the building must be carefully designed and the ice material must be finely plasticized. In the end, there are probably not a single person who can build a large, stable and perfect building, and at most they can only build small and delicate buildings. ”

"Of course, there are other ways besides these three methods, but the third method is the limit that these people can reach, and they can't do it if they say anything else."

"Yarn...... Did you come up with all of this yourself? That's amazing. ”

Meijia stared at Sa, her expression was both surprised and puzzled: "But the tone of your voice just now is exactly the same as Aunt Liuzhi, and even the appearance is a bit similar." ”

"I think so too."

Mamura shrank his head, and his voice became much quieter. Because of the fear of Miss Liuzhi, he almost never went to Yarn's house, and even if he went to Yarn's house a few times, he finally ran away as if he was running for his life.

"Is that so? My mother seemed to have said these things in my ear, and then I repeated them. ”

Sharu woke up from a dream, and her expression returned to her usual appearance. She tiptoed lightly in a circle on the ground, tilted her head to look at me, and her dark eyes revealed a nervous color: "Fold, did I really look like my mother just now?" ”

"You are mother and daughter, and it's normal to have similarities. As for what you just said, it should just be something you heard from Miss Liuzhi before, so you have some impressions. ”

I vaguely felt something unusual, but I couldn't figure it out, so I tried to pick and choose the words and make the words vague. After hearing this, Sata exhaled softly, and seemed to be relieved, and a soft smile appeared on her face again, which made people feel relieved together.

"But it really looked like it just now."

Mika muttered quietly in a voice that only she could hear, but it was captured by my increasingly sensitive hearing, and the strange feeling in my heart became thicker and thicker.

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PS: I was going to end this chapter directly on the first day of the Snow Festival, but I couldn't put it down, and it was almost 5,000 words after only half of it, so I had to put it in the next chapter. After the first day of the plot, you can speed up the pace later.