The name of the tenth quest chosen by Anson Deer is "Arctic Train, Twelve Signal Towers".

Located at the corner of the North Pole, as far as the eye can see, a snow-capped field stretches in the middle of a railroad track that looks like it leads to the end of the world, rising in the middle of the horizon, and at the white horizon, this track meets the deep blue sky that seems to be embedded in thousands of layers of ice.

The cold wind blew in his face, pouring into his ears and nostrils, and the oxygen in the air was frighteningly low, and Anson Deer's nose was slightly red, and his throat and eardrums ached faintly.

The quest's side quest has a very clear goal, Anson Deer plays the role of an Arctic researcher, who needs to take a train to all corners of the Arctic snowfield, repair the signal towers in his path, and get a certain reward for each signal tower repaired.

Of course, you can also not fix it, just take a train to visit the North Pole, after all, this is just an exploratory copy, the degree of freedom is very high, the player can do whatever he wants, as long as he survives a certain number of days and does not die.

Due to the harsh climate in the Arctic, players not only have no food source, but also have to move close to the railroad tracks, and most importantly they can't leave the train behind and must defend themselves against monsters attacking the train along the way, so this quest is defined as a survival exploration dungeon.

The number of people in the dungeon is limited to two, and Anson Lu's first thought was Yuri, so he invited her into the dungeon.

She accepted.

The white-haired girl stood in the snowfield, her figure so clear that it seemed to be about to merge into the vast ice and snow like the sea.

"Let's get on the train." Anson Lu said slowly.

"Okay."

There was snow all over the place, and they didn't hesitate to get on the train, and the brightly lit train started with a roar, slowly moving towards the front of the tracks, the rolling wheels swinging the snow off the tracks.

"Just stay on the train?" Yuri tilted his head.

"Well, maybe." Anson Lu rubbed his palms and exhaled a white breath: "You can also repair a few more signal towers and get some rewards."

"Signal Tower......" Yuri looked out the window, and the hazy snowfield seemed to cover the whole world, and she couldn't see anything but snow and the hidden pine forest.

"I think I'll see it soon."

"Are we just on the train all the time?"

"That's right."

Anson Deer and Yuri walked around the train before finally finding a car to rest.

The carriage has seats on one side and empty on the other, with windows embedded in the wall every two meters.

Anson Deer sat down in her seat and looked at Yuri standing by the window, her eyes fixed on the snowfield, the snow outside the window flying by, constantly changing.

She just stood silently, staring out the window, strands of snow-white hair swaying gently as the train swayed.

The time quickly entered the twilight, and the afterglow spilled into the train, dyeing Yuri's figure a pale yellow, and the snow field seemed to turn into a red forest surrounded by thousands of maple leaves, and then into the night, the sky was glowing with a green aurora, the same color as Yuri's clear eyes.

At the end of the day, Anson Lu didn't say a word, he hung his head down, and the strands of his hair that hung down covered his brown eyes.

He hadn't cut his hair in a long time.

Anson Lu slowly turned his head, looked at the window behind him, and quietly stared out the window.

He could see Yuri's reflection in the window, the white-haired girl's reflection in the window, overlapping with the twilight aurora, as if she was standing in the center of the aurora, so trance, so beautiful, like a bird flying by.

"It's almost May......" Yuri said suddenly.

"Yes."

"Countdown, fifteen days to go." Yuri's voice was very calm, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him.

"Fifteen days, that's a long time." Anson Deer whispered.

"Summer is coming."

"Well, May is summer."

"I don't seem to see it anymore."

"But we're not so rigid on the stone, April can also be considered summer, oh, summer has survived, isn't autumn coming?"

"This autumn is so far away."

"yes, it's far away."

"Will you wait for me in the fall?"

"Of course, then I will hold your hand, and we will go to see the fallen leaves together, and then laugh at them fiercely, laughing at them for not living in autumn."

「…… Are you an idiot?" Yuri put his hand to his chin and let out a soft laugh.

"Well, I'm such an idiot." Anson deer laughed at himself, "But really, we may not even count those leaves, after all, they will at least wither in the fall, and we may not live to the fall."

"But I've met you, and that's enough." Yuri whispered.

Anson deer's heart twitches.

He looked at Yuri, who looked indifferent, opened his mouth slightly, and lowered his eyes.

"Maybe I'm greedy, I want to be with you for the rest of my life."

"I'm not greedy," Yuri whispered, "I'm thinking...... If I hadn't chosen to go with you in the ward at first, I'd have died there alone, and no one would have remembered me."

Anson Lu was silent for a while, and said incoherently:

"You know, I've always wanted to take you to the capital of Iceland and punch the people who are using you, and I want to knock them in front of you and tell them...... How dare you do this to the person I care about the most, how dare you?

"I want to slaughter them all, slaughter them, chop them up and feed them to the pigs, destroy all the things that hurt you, exploit you, detain you, and let the white dragon crush them to pieces."

"But, you escaped from there with me." Yuri whispered.

She put her hands behind her back and quietly looked at this violent and fragile man, as if she had seen a side she had never seen before.

The brightly lit train is still moving, accompanied by the rumbling sound of the ear, and the aurora borealis from the night sky casts a pale green curtain over it.

"Yes, we've come a long way, from Hokkaido, to Tokyo, then to the Pacific and Denmark, and now we're almost to the North Pole."

"I still want to go longer with you, as long as I am with you, I want to go everywhere."

"Me too." Anson Deer had a hoarse voice.

"I want to see your uncle and cousin." Yuri lowered his head, strands of snow-white hair hanging down, "I want to hear about you from their mouths."

She whispered:

"I want to know you from a very young age, I want to see you every day when I open my eyes, I want to have you by my side every day when I close my eyes."

"There's a word I want to say to you."

"I've always dared not say this to you......

"Because before, I didn't know what I liked, and if I was wrong, then I was lying to you......

"But I understand it now."

"I like it, but when I leave someone, I feel very sad, my heart seems to be burning, and I feel like I fell into the sea, so I feel lonely......

She whispered in the aurora as the turbulent train gently swayed her figure.

"You know, my father abandoned me and my mother, and my mother said I was an emotionless monster who couldn't share her pain."

"I'm going to study hard, I'm working hard, I'm trying hard to understand her, I want to be emotional, I don't want to be cold."

"I'm really, really...... I'm really trying to pretend."

"But, Mother, she hanged herself in front of me."

Anson Lu's pupils contracted suddenly, and his lips couldn't make a sound, just a strong sadness filled his heart.

The train slowly drove into the tunnel, and the icy darkness enveloped the car

Compartment.

"At that time, I was thinking......" Yuri slowly lowered his eyes, "because I am an emotionless monster, I can't understand my mother well, that's why my mother left me."

"No...... Anson Deer lowered his head and said weakly, "It's not what you think."

"I like Anson Deer." Yuri muttered, "I'm not an emotionless monster anymore, so no one will abandon me...... Because I'm not an emotionless monster anymore, I can say that to you, right?"

Her voice was faint, as if she was asking for help from Anson Deer.

"You've always been ......" Anson Lu's heart hurts, "You shouldn't be abandoned, so is your father, so is your mother, they should never say you're a monster, they're wrong."

"Am I not a monster?" She asked seriously.

Anson Lu collapsed in an instant, his every nerve was entangled to the extreme, and his pupils flashed with a violent light for a moment, but it quickly dimmed.

After a few moments, he said hoarsely, "You've never been a monster, they are."

「…… So I'm qualified and have feelings?"

"Hmm."

「…… I like Anson deer."

"I'm listening."

「…… I like Anson deer so much."

"I hear you."

"My emotions...... It's not fake."

"It's true."

"I'm not lying, I'm not pretending, I'm real...... Really......" she said softly, over and over again:

"I really like Anson Deer."

"I really, really like Yuri, too."

He spoke almost with all his might, squeezing the girl's cold hand and wrapping his arms around her thin body, his snow-white hair sticking to his cheeks.

In the darkness of the tunnel, the Icelandic girl looked like a cat on the verge of leaving, her head resting gently on his shoulder, her clear eyes covered with mist.

"Can you ...... me Say it again?" She asked softly.

"I like this girl from Iceland."

"I like the way she skis, the way she reads, the way she thinks about problems, and the way she pretends to be cold and cares."

"I don't want her to leave me, but I know we'll have to say goodbye for a while, and I'm miserable, but I'm just going to keep running away."

"I obviously don't want to run away, I know it will make her heartache, she is not an emotionless robot, you will be hurt, you will cry, you will like cute little animals."

"But I'm really so that I let her take the initiative to speak, and I'll just be alone in my heart."

After the two were silent for a long time, the train left the tunnel, and in the moonlit carriage, the corners of Yuri's mouth rose slightly, but tears continued to slide down his cheeks.

After a while, she said in a soft voice, "She said...... I forgive you."

"Really?"

"Hmm."

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Time flies, the three days of the Arctic dungeon gradually passed, and every minute and every second is so precious to Anson Deer.

They got off the train and walked on snowy fields, stepping over the ice of the North Pole, where the glaciers reflected the sky full of auroras.

Occasionally, a polar bear visits, and after subduing it, Anson Deer watched as Yuri gently touched its fur and whispered something to it.

"We're leaving, Mr. Bear."

Anson Lu didn't know the future, so he could only focus on the present and look at the girl beside him.

She's like snow.

It appeared, it fell, and it was about to disappear again.

It's always so cold, even if you hold it in the palm of your hand, it seems to melt at any time.

After leaving the dungeon, Anson Deer did not stay in Norway, he collected a lot of travel scrolls and ran with Yuri to a place where no one knew them.

Sitting on a train or plane, listening to the roaring engine, it seems to be able to take your thoughts into the distance.

They went to Tokyo, walked through the noisy crowd, saw the world-famous Sky Tree, it was raining lightly, they held umbrellas, held hands, and their backs faded away on the long street, like a long shot in a movie.

I went to London again, and danced slowly under Big Ben, the girl's dance steps were clumsy, but the boy, with his supernatural intuition, gently dragged her, and they danced well, which caused applause.

Finally they went to Nice, France, where they swore before the Mediterranean, and the waters were as blue as the sky listening to their declaration.

The countdown was ticking and ticking, and by 5 p.m. on April 30, it was less than seven hours left.

Dusk enveloped the vast Mediterranean, the rows of brightly lit houses in the mountains, and every house was lit up, except for the two of them who stood on the shore, watching the birds fly past the lonely lighthouses, the tides ebb and flow, and the boats coming and going.

The mountains and forests in the distance are like a red sea, and the wind of tens of thousands of hectares caresses by, and the red sea swayes and makes a rustling sound.

The pale yellow afterglow dyed the girl's hair a golden yellow, no longer sickly white, and her clear eyes glittered in the setting sun.

They didn't say a word, just sat hand in hand on wooden chairs by the sea, quietly watching the sea and the villages scattered on the mountainside as night shrouded in darkness.

There was silence, only the tide, the shore breeze, and the "ticking" sound of the countdown.

The flower of the ice field in the girl's hand swayed slowly, and a dark blue flower drifted away, and it went away with the Mediterranean.

"Yuri, are you scared?" Anson deer looks into the distance.

"You're here."

"When I come to you, we'll meet in the fall." Anson Lu hooked the corners of his mouth and said confidently, "You may have to sleep for a long time before this."

"I'll be waiting for you for a long time, and I hope you'll be by my side when I wake up." The girl's snow-white hair fluttered in the wind, and she whispered, "No...... I'll be unhappy."

"Of course, I'll be the first person in the world to greet you."

"That's good."

"When you get back, how about we go open a bookstore?"

"Okay."

"Run to a place where no one knows us, so you can read every day and you don't have to borrow books from others."

"Well, I'm so happy."

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"The sea breeze is so strong."

"There are some."

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"Kissing, is that how it feels......

"It's amazing."

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"One more time."

"Okay."

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"Speaking of which...... Yuri, what's the name for our bookstore?"

"What do you say?"

"Ah, why don't you call it Anson Deer and Yuri's bookstore?"

"Hmm...... Are you an idiot?"

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"Hands, it's so cold......

"I'm holding your hand."

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"Anson Deer, are you there?"

"I'm here."

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"Deer, are you still there?"

"I'm still here."

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"Are you here?"

"I'm by your side."

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"I can't see anything anymore."

"I'm here."

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"Are you with me?"

"I'm still here."

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"I...... Love Anson deer."

"I like Yuri too."

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"I like Anson Deer so much."

"I like Yuri so much, too."

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"I seem...... I'm starting to get a little sleepy."

"Then let's get some sleep."

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"Good night...... Anson Deer."

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"Good night, Yuri."

Anson lowered his eyes and said softly.

The ticking of the countdown stopped, and the girl in his arms condensed into ice, which gradually dissipated into ice dust and disappeared on the other side of the Mediterranean.

(End of chapter)