. The hot spring in the snow, with a gurgling sound, there could be no fish in the slightly hot water, that is, the air eye was spitting bubbles, Ning Que thought about the teacher Rongyi hot spring, and even did not miss this kind of detail, and then thinking about the vigilance and uneasiness in his heart before, the feelings became more and more complicated, and he was silent for a long time.

Feeling the change in his feelings, Sangsang hugged his arm and rested his head on his shoulder, not speaking as he had done in the past years, but making sure that when he was sad or sad, he was able to confirm his own existence.

After her hair was cut short, it was no longer as yellow and thin as when she was a child, and it became a little blacker, and now it was wet with water and stuck to her cheeks, which added a bit of beauty to her eyes.

Because of the silence and strange feelings in the hot spring, as well as the fear of parting that came out of nowhere, Ning Que felt that his embrace was very empty and wanted to hug, so he hugged Sangsang tightly into his arms.

The two men hugged each other in the hot spring, and then began to kiss and touch.

"You're not married yet, are you?"

At this moment, the Master's voice came from the hot spring next door.

Sang Sang was awakened, hurriedly left his embrace, and lifted the towel that had slipped off at some point to his slightly bulging chest, his face was slightly red, and he didn't know whether it was shy or hot.

Ning Que turned his head to look at the Snow Queen and shouted, "When you were engaged, you approved it. ”

The Master said, "Betrothed and married are two different concepts. ”

Ning Que said: "Isn't it just a procedure to worship heaven and earth? At this time, it is snowy at night, and I will say goodbye to her." ”

The master said, "What heaven and earth do you need to worship with me? And Haotian is above, it doesn't necessarily like to see the two of you really get married." ”

Ning Que laughed. Thinking that Sangsang is the daughter of the Hades King, and he married her, it is indeed a little inappropriate to obtain Haotian's blessing certification.

Then he suddenly thought of the worry he had told Sangsang before, and thought silently, could it be that the teacher had confirmed the uneasy feeling in advance, so he wanted to watch himself get married before leaving?

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The stars in the night dome became brighter. In the bay on the shore of the snow sea, the white mist is steaming, and there are no red candles. There were no strangers, only the Master who stood on the snowdrift and a pair of children kneeling under the snowdrift.

This is the case. It's quite like a fairyland, and it's a little regrettable that the three people in the fairyland are not very well-dressed, and they don't seem to have anything to do with those legendary immortals.

The Master was wrapped in a large towel, and it was freezing cold, but his body was still steaming, like a white boiled fish, and the water dripping from the edge of the towel fell to the ground and froze.

Ning Que and Sang Sang knelt under the snowdrift. kowtowed three times to the master, and it was regarded as worshipping the elders in the world.

They straightened up, their foreheads covered with snow chips, only to find that Master was no longer on the snowdrift, and that there was only a wet towel that was about to freeze into ice.

The Master's voice was mixed with the sound of horses' hooves. From the depths of the sea of snow.

"Take care of the cave room, no one will trouble you, I'll ride out for a while. ”

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There was no word all night.

When Ning Que woke up, it was still dark before dawn, and he thought about it before he understood. Nowadays, Atami is almost eternal night, and it is difficult to see the sun.

Sang Sang was still sleeping, I don't know what he dreamed of, he arched in his arms, grinned, and showed two white front teeth, looking as cute as a little gray rabbit.

There was a very fragrant smell from outside the tent.

Ning Que knew that the teacher was back, so he quickly woke up Sangsang and began to wash and dress.

The master used the peony fish bones left over from last night to boil a pot of fish porridge.

Sang Sang lifted the heavy felt and walked out of the tent, the cold wind hit, she couldn't help shivering, she walked to the pot, took the work from the master's hand, and the slightly shy look on her face gradually turned calm.

Compared with Sangsang's calmness, the smirk on Ning Que's face hung for a long time, until after eating the fish porridge, when Sangsang went to the hot spring to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, he was still smirking.

The master took the tailbone of the peony fish and picked his teeth, looked at him while picking it, and said, "You are only in your early twenties this year, how do you feel like an old house on fire?"

Ning Que coughed twice and said, "After more than ten years together, how can you say so exaggerated?"

The master suddenly lowered his voice and asked curiously, "How do you feel?"

Ning Que looked at the fish tail bone he was holding in his hand, and said helplessly: "Look at you now, where do you look like the dean of the academy?

The master threw the fishbone into the snow and said, "I am not without voyeurism, but you are too rare to know that you and her cave house will inevitably go to the history books in the future, so you must remember the details." ”

Ning Que didn't understand the meaning of the master's words, and he was a little tired, so he went to make up for sleep again.

The big black horse also made up for sleep in the tent, it ran a hundred miles above the sea of snow last night, and it was also very tired, and felt very ashamed, although the master was not an ordinary person, but was ridden by an old man all night, after all, it was still ashamed.

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At noon, it was still dark on the shores of Atami, and it was impossible to find where the sun was, so the group left the settlement abandoned by the deserted tribe and continued northward.

As far as Ning Que knew, the northernmost part of the world that human beings had arrived at was in this extreme northern cold region, that is, the northern edge of Atami, so he was very curious about what the northern world was like, and he didn't understand why so many powerful humans in history hadn't explored the north of Atami.

Until he saw that snowy peak.

Yesterday, when he was on the shore of Atami, he had also looked north, but he didn't see anything, but today, not far from Atami, this snowy peak came into his eyes, as if it had crashed in, and it looked particularly strange.

The snowy peak was steep and towering, shining faintly in the starlight, so high that from the snowfield, it felt as if the peak was about to pierce the night dome.

Ning Que has been to many famous mountains and rivers, among which the most famous and most dangerous is naturally the northern foot of Minshan Mountain, or the Tianqi Mountain Range, but compared with this snow peak. The Heavenly Abandoned Mountain is much shorter.

"If you go north from anywhere in the south, as long as you keep walking, you will come to the bottom of this snowy peak. ”

The master looked up at the snowy peaks under the starlight and said, "When the sun was full on the shores of Atami, this snowy summit was even more spectacular, and no one could climb it with manpower alone. So this is the northernmost point. ”

Ning Que noticed the two important points in this sentence, the first is that wherever you go north, you will go under this snow peak. The second is that no one can climb it with manpower alone.

So can a person who can climb over still be considered a person?

When the black carriage appeared on the other side of the snowy peak. When he appeared in front of a dark sea, Ning Que looked at the tall back of the master in front of him, thinking about such a question in his heart.

It was a vast ocean.

The reason why the color of the ocean is black is because there is no blue sky, there is no sunlight here, and although the stars appear clearer and brighter, they become much less.

Ning Que knew that the picture he saw was a place that had not been recorded in all the human classics, so he was shocked, and what shocked him even more. There is a ship in this Black Sea.

The ship is huge, and the big dark horse can run to its heart's content on the deck.

Ning Que stood beside the side of the boat, looking at the snow peak under the night dome, shocked and speechless.

The Master walked up to him and looked up at the dark night dome. "This is where the night begins and then gradually spreads south. ”

Ning Que looked at him and asked, "Teacher, this ship is ......?"

The master said: "Many years ago, I was worried about being found and eaten by Haotian, and I kept thinking about how to escape. How to hide, I thought to myself that since this is the beginning of the night, it should be the closest to the underworld, the power of the Hades is the strongest, and it is difficult for Haotian's power to extend here, so I built a big ship here, and when Haotian came to eat me, I fled here, took a boat on the Black Sea, and never went out again. ”

Ning Que was stunned, and through Guò's words, he could deduce what kind of anxiety and uneasiness the teacher had been living in Haotian's world for the past thousand years.

"Later, I became stronger, and I no longer worry about being found and eaten by Haotian, this ship is naturally useless, but I suddenly found that the night here is very clean, very suitable for stargazing, so I came here again, and really traveled to the depths of the ocean by boat, but I didn't expect that trip, but I found some very interesting things. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The world is not flat. ”

"Teacher, I don't understand what you mean. ”

"I brought you to this ship to make you understand. ”

"Understand what?"

The master said: "Why do you want to fight with the sky, of course, because Haotian wants to eat me, but the two old ghosts and cowards like the drunkard and the butcher can hide for so many years, and I can hide too, it's a big deal to close my eyes like the Buddha." There are some reasons why I want to fight with the heavens, and there are some reasons that seem to me to be more important. ”

"What is the reason?"

"I used to be in the mountains behind the academy, and I said that I had seen sunsets and sunrises in many places in the world, including this ocean, and there was still sunrise here, and under the sunlight, this ocean was transparent, and it looked like an endless abyss, and the sun set in this ocean. ”

"At that time you said that the moon is a reflection of the sun, and I said that the sun does not really rise and set, and I said that if the world were a ball, it would pass, and now it seems that at least it proves that I said earlier that this sun is fake. ”

"In addition to stargazing, I also gaze at the stars, I am stargazing in the mountains behind the academy, and I am also stargazing on this big ship, because there are relatively few stars here, and they are bright and clear, I told you, no matter how many years ago or how many years later, these stars have always stayed in their original positions and have not changed in any way......"

"You later made a stargazing scope, and when you look in the mirror, the size of the stars still hasn't changed, unlike people and things that can be magnified. This shows that the position of these stars in the night dome is fixed, infinitely far and infinitely close to the ground, and cannot be measured by distance. ”

"Teacher, can you make it simpler?"

"To put it simply, it's a closed world. ”

"Simpler?"

"It's a world without borders. ”

"Didn't you say closed before?"

"Only when there are no boundaries and always intersect is that it is closed. ”

"The night dome where the stars are located is not the border?"

"No one can touch it, it's not the real border, it's just the boundary in your eyes and heart. ”

"Teacher, the more I talk about it, the more confused I become. ”

"Haotian doesn't want to be broken by people, so it refuses to let people see the boundary. ”

"So?"

So, it's proof that it's a closed world. ”

"You're back in circles. ”

"Yes, just like this world. ”

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