41. The elves in the brain

"Miss, I'll help you out first."

Outside the giant egg of Nirvana, Hedilyn didn't have time to reminisce and express her gratitude, so she quickly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and prepared to reach out and pull out Valentina, who was curled up in the egg.

Valentina gasped for fresh air, but with each breath there was an extreme cold, like the winter that contained the entire North in her body.

Facing Valentina's breath, Hediline's hands were red from the cold, and she trembled as she touched the cracked eggshell next to her, and then as if she had triggered some switch, the entire eggshell of the giant egg began to shatter with a crisp sound.

"Click, click!"

"Miss!"

Hediline's fragile human body looked so fragile in the face of the extreme cold of the phoenix, she had to take a few steps back, watching Valentina slide out of the broken eggshell, but this also completely revealed her appearance in front of Hedilyn at this moment.

Looking at the huge wings, which were now weak because of some discomfort, her legs were intact and had a little bit of cyan fluff.

"I'm fine, my legs can move."

Valentina is still getting used to this body, not to mention that she seems to have been asleep for a long, long time, and she is always a little unaccustomed to it when she first wakes up.

"Yes, Miss, you are now a real phoenix, the phoenix species that all the races in the north used to admire."

Hedilyn was moved to half-kneel on the ground, and quickly picked up the huge blanket on the side, and wrapped Valentina, who was lying naked on the ground. As her body adjusted a little, the uncontrollable cold no longer spread.

Hediline's voice was sobbing, it was a cry of joy, she hugged Valentina tightly, so that Valentina also smiled and patted her on the back,

"Ah, I'm back, Hedilyn. Wait, your hair."

Just when she was hugged by Hediline, Valentina's afterglow suddenly caught that under the black hair bound by the other party's jade hair crown, there were strands of white silk intertwined in it, which was so conspicuous in the eyes of Valentina, who was no longer an ordinary human and had been promoted in rank.

Hedilyn was slightly stunned when she heard this, then she looked at Valentina, and quickly noticed what her gaze was pointing at. Hedilyn smiled awkwardly, reached out to cover the position of her hair crown, and said,

"That's what happens when people get old, and the weather of the sycamore tree is also cold, and the speed of white is faster."

Valentina keenly noticed the marks left by the years on Hediline's face, and she soon realized a problem, and she immediately asked Hediline,

"Hedilyn, how long have I been asleep?"

"For four and a half years, I'll help you to bed and lie down for a while, you can rest for a while, and then I'll go out and tell them about your awakening, and bring you some food back by the way. You haven't eaten for four and a half years, so you're going to be hungry, right? ”

"Four and a half years?"

Valentina repeated in disbelief, and then let Hediline struggled to help her phoenix up, and slowly walked in the direction of the bed in the room,

"Ah, I didn't expect you to sleep for so long, but fortunately, they have been here all these years, and nothing has happened here, and they are all waiting for you to wake up."

"Them?"

"Yes, the six clans of the Snow Mountains, the slimes, the moon rabbits, the birds, the snow foxes, the trolls, and the cloud cats. Although the Moon Rabbit species is now only Mother Iros, she has also come to the Sycamore Tree. ”

"I'm Hedilyn, can you tell me more about what happened when I was asleep?"

Hedilyn helped Valentina to the bed, covered her with the quilt, and then thought about telling Valentina everything that had happened over the years.

The curse of the Sycamore Tree was removed, and Balzac and Phyllis left the North to go their separate ways. Hedilyn had been anxiously waiting for news from the Snow Fox Colony, until one day the slimes came to her door and took her and the entire Snow Fox Race to the Sema Snow Mountain, where she gathered the remaining bloodlines of the six Snow Mountain Clans while waiting for Valentina to wake up

"In other words, the family affair is also"

"Ah, it's a pity that the six clans have never left Saima Snow Mountain in order to preserve their strength over the years, but have repelled several attempts by the family to go up the mountain and enter the sycamore tree. They also knew that the curse was gone, and after getting rid of the curse, they finally dared to leave the Snowflake Fortress. I heard that over the years, they have been very close to Nari."

The thought that the group of guys were still better off because of the curse that she and Fisher had worked so hard to solve, Valentina's expression was a little unpleasant.

By the way, Fisher, her own husband!

Where did he go?

He had been asleep for four and a half years, and he had been waiting for himself for four and a half years, but Hedilyn had never said anything about him coming to him, and he was still wanted by Nari, and if the Turan family was in cahoots with Nari, then Fisher's whereabouts in the north would be.

"Hedilyn, Nafe."

"Knock Knock"

At this moment, there was a faint knock at the door, as if the person who was knocking on the door was weak.

Hearing this, Hedilyn immediately looked behind her, she first covered the quilt on Valentina's body more tightly, and then stood up and asked outside the door,

"Who? If you're here to ask for news, tell them that Valentina has woken up, but they still need time to rest, so they don't bother for the time being."

"Huh? Mother God willing, has Miss Valentina awakened? ”

A delicate voice came from outside the door, which made Hedilyn slightly stunned, and then asked,

"Sister Iros?"

Hedilyn pushed the door open, revealing the last remaining Moon Rabbit species, Iros, dressed in a nun's robe.

She first glanced at the shattered eggshells on the ground, then looked at Valentina on the bed, smiled and said hello,

"Miss Valentina, it's great to see you again."

"Sister Iloth"

Hedilyn seemed to be on good terms with Iros, and when she saw that it was Iros, she let her in before closing the door again.

Iros made a prayer gesture for Valentina, and then smiled at her current state. Behind her, Hedilyn, who came over, asked her,

"Didn't they send someone to ask?"

"As long as Valentina is brought out of the roots, there is no danger in the birth. Since there is no danger, they are not in a hurry, and they are now discussing things with the iceberg queen."

"That's fine, I thought they were going to be so mad that Valentina just woke up and couldn't wait."

Valentina looked at the two people who were talking a little confused, so she asked softly,

"Roots? What happened before I came out of Nirvana? ”

"Ah, that's it. Miss Valentina's phoenix eggs had previously leaned against the roots of the World Tree at the base of the Sycamore Tree. They hadn't checked before, but they didn't expect that the roots of the tree would grow buds that would entangle the phoenix eggs. It was the Queen of the Iceberg who used all her best to cut off the branches around you and fish you up. ”

"Branches"

Valentina's mind suddenly flashed the figure of the stinky little girl in the skirt, and she always felt that this process had a certain connection with the process of her previous injury

The man who called himself "Peach", no, it should be the elf, where has he gone now?

"By the way, Iros, did you come here just to see the state of the eldest lady?"

"Yes, yes, no, I want to make sure Miss Valentina is awake, and if she does, I have something to say to her."

Elose waved her hand, and a pair of rabbit ears on her golden bangs shook slightly, and after saying this, she added,

"It's about Mr. Fisher."

"Fisher?!"

"Him?"

Valentina hurriedly sat up, and the wings behind her opened slightly uncontrollably, bringing a little feeling of the north wind whistling, which made Iroz purse her lips and hurriedly hold her nun's robe, stopping the skirt that was frantic due to the wind, but she still couldn't stop Valentina from asking,

"Does Iros know where he's gone and where he's now?"

"My Mother is above, I don't know, but more than four years ago, he came to my church of decay. It was some time after the curse had been resolved, and one night he came to visit out of the blue, along with the talking relic."

"And then?"

"Mr. Fisher was in a bad state when I found out that he. He was so scrawny that he fell at the gate of the church of the Decaying Church, and the snow was about to bury him, or the book that called me anyway, as if Mr. Fisher had been fatally wounded in the plane tree, and that something was wrong with him, like an old man who was about to die, and that he was being chased by death, and that he was probably going to die soon."

Eloth pinched the skirt of the nun's robe, met Valentina's incredulous gaze, and then continued,

"Mr. Fisher made a phone call from the church to Nari, as if it were a phone call to explain what was going on. Before the call, he told me that he might go back to his hometown. I asked him if he would come back, but he didn't say anything. Then a strange Kadu came to the church, like an enemy of Mr. Fisher, and they didn't know what to talk about in the church, and it wasn't long before Mr. Fisher left the church."

"And then!? Has there been any news of Fisher over the years? ”

Valentina asked repeatedly.

It was only then that an ominous premonition gradually crept through her heart. She suddenly remembered the last conversation she had with Fisher before she fell asleep, and when she revisited his words, they suddenly seemed profound.

Perhaps at the time, he was already seriously injured, but he just didn't tell himself about it.

So where is he now? What does it mean he's being chased to death? Does that mean he's dying? Did he find a solution?

Iros pursed her lips and looked at Hedilyn beside her, who seemed to know what she was saying, and the expression on her face was a little hesitant.

But in the face of Valentina's extremely excited gaze, she couldn't help but say first,

"Miss, let's take a rest first, eat something and we'll talk about it later."

"Hedilyn I want to know about him"

"I know, Miss, but I've got to make sure of you"

"I'm no longer the eldest lady of the Turan family, and I had a wedding with him in the snowy mountains, which the trolls have witnessed. I'm his wife, and I want to know my husband's whereabouts! ”

Hedilyn couldn't get any more round, so she sighed, closed her eyes and said,

"After Fisher left the Church of Decay, the slime who was supposed to take him to Nari went for his traces. But it was only discovered that he seemed to have a conflict with an organization called the Witch Research Society, and his whereabouts were unknown."

"Missing? What does that mean? ”

He was in a very bad state at the time, very weak, and he had to face dozens or hundreds of people by himself. The slimes had little hope that he might still be alive, and they eventually found a puddle of Fisher's blood and the clothes he had left behind. He'd killed all the members of the Witch Society, but he's badly wounded, and he's not staying in the cold nights of the North, so we're more inclined to think of him."

"Enough! Hedilyn! You guys"

Valentina burst into tears, tears like ice crystals sliding down her face, and the whole room began to frost, startling Elos.

She looked at Valentina, who was very excited, and hurriedly relieved,

"Calm down, Valentina but Slime and they later searched the nearby area, but they didn't find Mr. Fisher's body. It's possible that he's still alive, but I don't know where he is now. ”

Hedilyn looked at Iros, who still wanted to comfort Valentina, and after a moment of silence, she couldn't help but say to herself,

"Miss, while you were asleep, the slimes and trolls were doing their best to find Fisher's tracks. You know, slimes have borders, and there are intelligence networks all over the world, so you can know a certain amount of information. But there was no news of him at all, and even Nari didn't succeed in going back!

After that, Nari also sent people to search for his whereabouts, but found nothing. Where could he go in that state, he relied on a slime to even get to the Church of Healing, there was no way he could survive the night in the North with a serious injury! In the past four and a half years, the whole world, he seems to have disappeared, he."

Hedilyn opened her eyes and told Valentina the whole truth.

She may also want to drag it out, but with the relationship between Valentina and Fisher, she has to ask anyway, and she can't keep telling her that she doesn't know that Fisher is gone, so that she has been looking for so long in the world with hope because of deception, and finally told her that in fact, your husband has long been dead?

Which way is more cruel?

Ilos didn't know, but Hedilyn thought the latter was more cruel, so she told Eloth in advance that Miss Valentina would tell her the truth when she woke up, and let her decide what to do.

But when Iros thought she would be nervous about an even more terrible frost storm after saying all this, the room fell into a deathly silence, except for the gasps of Hedilyn and Iros.

Valentina looked at the two in front of her blankly, watching them stop talking and avoiding her gaze, avoiding the emotions that she might have when she learned the truth.

She looked down at her hands and her legs, which were intact under the futon, and fell silent.

She turned her head, and the long, long white hair that had grown for four and a half years fell down, cutting off all her expressions, and she could only judge her mood by the slightly trembling wings behind her and the low, fluffy ears that were hanging down at the moment.

"Miss Valentina."

"Miss"

But Valentina just lowered her head and whispered,

"You guys go out first, I want to be quiet."

Hedilyn raised her hand, as if trying to get closer to Valentina, but finally hung it down feebly.

She silently glanced at Eloth, who was also sad beside her, and then whispered,

"We're leaving, Miss, I'll come back to bring you food later. Get a good rest. ”

β€œ.”

Valentina hung her head, not responding at all.

"Click."

It wasn't until the sound of the door closing that the breath of Hedilyn and Ilos faded away, and between Valentina's low-hanging white hair, a little ice crystal fell very noticeably.

The ice crystals fell in the same place as she had been staring, landing on the empty ring finger of her right hand.

It turned out that she had been looking there just now.

The light teardrop of ice crystals seemed to have countless powers, and Valentina's entire body seemed to tremble from it ever since it fell.

Her head grew lower and lower, and a trembling voice came faintly,

"Liar."

"I was sure to give me a ring."

"Obviously said yes. You're going to go with me to see the winged whales."

But with this harsh sentence, there is no complaint and anger, just despair and sorrow that comes from nowhere.

Her legs are healed, and she can not only run, but also wings, and she can fly far, far.

All of these things she had dreamed of before, but for some reason now that she got it, her heart was still empty.

Her body trembled faster and faster, and as the number of tears dripped down as she curled up in pain, trying to relieve the pain that had come from her heart.

"Woo. Woo."

The wings behind Valentina seemed to feel her grief, closing little by little until they completely enveloped her.

But that's not enough

Suddenly, it seemed as if she felt that what she had now had no meaning, as if she had escaped the Turan family, banished the curse, and had not recovered enough of her body, nor was she happy enough, nor was she happy enough to be the illusory happiness she had felt that night with the dream magic left behind by her mother.

Could it be that the illusion is so beautiful that it makes people nostalgic?

No, maybe it's just because at the time, the people who accompanied you in the illusion were real. And at this moment, everything she has is real, except for the person who accompanies her and escapes into the illusion of memory, so that she can't catch his traces.

"Woo."

She lay on the bed with tears streaming down her face, her heart aching as if it was about to be chiseled, and the more she recalled, the more painful it became, and the more she thought about it, the more suffocating she became.

She sobbed, regretting that she was going to return everything he had promised,

"I, I don't want rings, I don't want to see the winged whales, Fisher."

She may be naΓ―ve and can deceive herself, if she returns everything she wants, then the price of the claim will be returned to her.

But the empty room was so quiet, and in the face of her repentance and sadness, no sound answered her.

Alone, the fate of her ancestors who had favored her gave her a response.

In the midst of that heart-wrenching cry of despair, Valentina's heart was dark, but her eyes grew brighter and brighter, as if "reality" had produced an additional change in her eyes.

"Buzz!"

As she grew brighter, Valentina seemed to see a thriving city that rose like the sun, with Nari's flag fluttering.

She saw the strange machines that were like blood walking through it, the creature that was pulling some kind of substance from the middle-aged gentleman on the bed with its tail, and the golden sword that broke into several pieces and was held by an extremely powerful being.

Faced by the tsunami that shattered the sky and the earth, countless figures suspended in the sky to change the color of the heavens and the earth, they looked down expressionlessly, but Valentina couldn't see what they looked like, and she didn't know what they were.

"The prophecy of the end of the world is coming, and no one can escape"

Immediately after, she heard a desperate, out of nowhere.

"Mother God bless! Mother Goddess! ”

Then she heard thousands of pious prayers and smelled wisps of good fragrance.

β€œWare s sunawati hi sninsshuj s”

Finally, she seemed to hear a crazy murmur that was extremely chaotic and did not know the exact meaning.

When she tried to trace the direction of the sound, and found it coming from heaven, she looked up to see what it was.

But what caught my eye was the scarlet that struggled, twisted, and stretched in the darkness of the starry sky, as if it was about to swallow everything.

"Ahh

Suddenly, Valentina's brain instantly felt as if it had been pierced by 10,000 silver needles, causing severe pain.

The scarlet power was so powerful that it seemed to follow the illusory lines of fate in an instant, smashing straight into Valentina's body.

She clutched her head in pain, her whole brain repeating the crazy babble as if it was about to burst out of Valentina's head.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding~"

Just when she was about to die in agony, a crisp bell suddenly sounded in her ears.

Her body was instantly full of pink flowers, and when the pink flowers disappeared again, Valentina's state also instantly warmed up, as if she had returned to a minute ago, when she hadn't read those prophecies.

But the content of those prophecies had been deeply engraved in her mind.

"You. . . What the hell did the trash fish see. It can actually cause chaos in the spirit world."

"It is a prophecy, the premonition of the Phoenix. Wait, you"

At this moment, a weak child's voice suddenly appeared in Valentina's mind, this child's voice was extremely familiar to her, as if she had just seen it.

No, she seems to have actually seen it!

"Peach?"

"It's me."

"Why are you waiting, you're in my head? Still talking, is this an illusion? ”

"It's not. It was only as a last resort that I temporarily transferred my consciousness from my mother's roots to you. ”

"So you're a ghost now?"

"Almost, in fact I died a long time ago, and by my mother's attachment and the damn chaos, by accident, my branches grew again on my mother's roots."

"Exactly? You are. How? ”

"Concrete. It has nothing to do with you, why do you ask so much? ”

"My husband, my husband died. I think. Is there a way to bring him back to life? ”

"You want me to resurrect your lover?"

"Hmm!"

Valentina suddenly grasped the hope, sat up from the bed, and didn't even investigate why the peach appeared in her mind, but asked this first, leaving the peach in her mind speechless.

After being silent for a moment, she said helplessly,

"When and how did your husband die, tell me the specific situation."

"My husband's name is Fisher Benavides, and he."

"Wait!"

But before the words were finished, the tone in her mind suddenly became excited, and as if she was in disbelief, she repeated to Valentina in an accentuated tone,

"Miscellaneous fish phoenix, you repeat, what is your husband's name?"

"Fisher Fisher Benavides, what's wrong?"

β€œ.”

In my mind, there was an eerie dead silence.

"Peach?"

After a few seconds, Valentina couldn't help but ask again,

"I continued."

"Hehe, you don't need to say it, trash fish"

In her mind, Peach sneered again, but Valentina keenly noticed that in terms of tone, Momo's tone seemed a little wrong, as if she was gritting her teeth and saying this.

Chased by death. The confusion in the body of the divergent. Teardrops of the World Tree"

"So that's it, that's how it is."

In her mind, Peach's muttering kept coming, and the words that she seemed to have figured out made Valentina, who was very worried about Fisher and thought she had caught hope, itch in her heart, and she couldn't help but ask,

"What do you mean. What have you been saying?"

"I see, trash fish, don't interrupt my thoughts. Now there are two news, one good news and one bad news, and I want to tell you the good news. ”

"Good news?"

"The good news is that your dead ghost husband is still alive and well."

"What do you say?! Fisher is still alive, so where is he? How is he doing now? How are you?"

"Don't worry, there's bad news"

"You say."

"The bad news is that while he may be alive now, he is not far from death"

Momo's words suddenly converged at this moment, and became very serious, she said,

"Chaos, may have been eyeing him."

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