Since the Battle of Mt. Kagura, another half a year has passed.

"Hey—" Saho shouted as he stood on the edge of the cliff and looked into the valley.

The snow-capped mountains are filled with her echoes.

"Put the cotton hat on." Zhang Su slapped a hat with wool felt and drawstring on top of Saosuike's head.

He couldn't hand it to her, Saho would definitely throw it off and run away on her own, and she would have to be slapped directly on the top of her head before she would put it on.

"It's cold in here." Saho put her hat on and exhaled into frost.

She's grown taller. Zhang Su thought to himself. Short people generally can't tell how tall they are, while tall people look at short people accurately.

In Zhang Su's eyes, Saho already looks like she has a good look, thanks to nutrition, healthy work and rest, and adequate exercise, she has changed from a little fart child to a girl.

"This is the top of Kagura Mountain, and of course it's cold." Zhang Su looked into the distance.

At this distance, it looks like it is only a coin.

"You've really had a tough fight here?" Saho was curious.

"Of course. The snow beneath your feet was barren and dry, for demons to trample on. On the day of the decisive battle, 40,000 people died, and the remaining troops were all incapacitated, and many were discharged due to physical and mental disabilities. On the main peak of Mt. Kagura, the most elite fighters and the most powerful men fought a decisive battle against the Demon Legion Leader Nazmi, and it was so tragic that everyone did their best to win the battle at great cost. Even the mysterious man in black armor has disappeared since then. The Shadow Witch has a lot to do in the process. Zhang Su said.

"Everyone is a hero, I want to be a witch who breaks the throne, so that I can also be famous." Early spike wipes his nose.

Since meeting her mom that day, she's grown a lot. The only problem was that she sometimes substituted a look of contempt for a mocking look that was more offensive than the words she spoke.

"Letting you go up the mountain is not to let you be a hero, but to make you understand that victory is not easy to come by." Zhang Su said.

"The road is so slippery, I'm afraid you'll fall down! I care about you, Dasu. Saho disagreed.

I'm really not as flexible as I used to be. Zhang Su thought to himself. The wounds left on his body that day still hurt faintly, and there are always flaws in the rotation of his breath, and he always feels that he is not as complete and proficient as before.

"Let's walk around the mountain one more time, and then we'll go down, it's Reo's birthday." Zhang Su said.

"Hmm!" Saho smiled.

Her face also grew, and it was originally a small round face, earthy, and a little silly. Now she is a little green and girly, more skinny, doubly delicate and delicate, with some self-righteous spirit and smile on her face, blooming with an unrestrained temperament from the inside out.

Saho strides through the snow, leaving a trail of footprints along the way.

On both sides, many species of trees have been brought from the outskirts of the prefecture to plant trees on the main peak of Mt. Kagura, and the soil is also from other peaks, layered on top of each other, blocking the blackened bedrock below.

"Where is the gate of hell? The same one you showed me the hunting finger on the first day you came. Saho said.

"Right there." Zhang Su pointed to the peak.

"Ahh Saho raised her head, "This is ......"

"That's right, the gates of hell." Zhang Su looked up at the ruins.

It was originally an arched structure up to 100 meters high, but now only towering black building materials remain, completely sealed with mud, and when dried, gray and completely inconspicuous, like the ribs of some prehistoric creature, standing on the ground.

The eerie legacy of demons and hell is properly addressed, and this is the best outcome for everyone. Zhang Su thought to himself. People don't have to worry about demons anymore, and they save a lot of money.

"There seem to be a lot of signs of battle damage on the door, and there is a ditch in the ground." Early ears touch the snow.

"Originally, this door was not very harmful, but the impact was big because the Shadow Witch slashed it open ten years ago, and she went to other worlds to cultivate in order to leave the Dongming Kingdom." Zhang Su said.

Saho was very excited when she heard it, and she planned to learn from her mother.

"Eat me." Saho rushed forward with great interest and kicked the pillar with his right foot, "That's what you call the Gate of Hell, right?" She grabbed her right foot and jumped back on one leg, "Ouch - it bites!" ”

"It's too windy, does it feel cold? You're going to catch a cold, so go down the mountain. Zhang Su stood on the top of the hill and looked down on everything around him.

The mountains rise and fall, far away from the people.

"I can't go down, I'm strong, I won't catch a cold!" Saho walked around, inspecting the ruins of the Gates of Hell with great interest, probably because curiosity overshadowed the cold feeling.

"The air is very clean." Zhang Su breathes the mountain air.

"It's a refreshing mountain breeze, live here and live a hundred years old." Early spike stretches his waist.

"It's hard to imagine that Mt. Kagura was corroded into a wasteland before." Zhang Su said.

"By the way, Dasu, what about later? Where did everyone go after the war? Saho asked.

"Of course the war has a reasonable ending. Chloe and Jangqu have been sent to other parts of the world to protect peace and fight demons, and Dongming is just one of the Angel Sisters' exploits in their careers, dealing with the gates of hell in Finland. Yoshiyo Akasawa goes to Hokkaido to fight the demons, gradually adapting to the rhythm and chasing more results. Katy built a nest in the hill and we will visit there the next time we come. Zhang Su said.

Sister Katie is about to lay a big egg. Saho thought it was very interesting.

She also knew that the Shadow Witch had burrowed back before the gates of hell closed and traveled to endless new worlds to explore. She asserted that her mother was the most adventurous person in the world.

"What about you? Everyone is gone, so Dasu will come back with us, it's really not okay without me. Saho asked again.

"My rank has moved up a step from here." Zhang Su's hand was raised in the air, and then raised it to a high place, "The official mobile superintendent will be replaced immediately." ”

"What about stinky feet and dwarfs?" Saho asked. She still remembers how annoying it was for the two to supervise at the Anxin House last summer.

"Edith has made great contributions in helping to seal the gates of hell in Kagurayama, and has been transferred out of Dongming Province to the South Pacific Theater. The South Pacific Ocean, which is the sea to the south of us, has a lot of small islands. And the dwarf Yoshikai Kazama you are talking about, he is now the director of the Witch Countermeasures Bureau. Zhang Su looked into the distance, and the sky was almost gray.

"Why don't you rush to the governor?" Saho crossed her hands on her hips, "We can take care of ourselves—" Her face suddenly wrinkled.

"Ahh

"If you linger on the top of the mountain for too long, you will be like this, and you should go down." Zhang Su took Saho down the mountain.

"If you become an invincible and powerful witch, you won't be afraid of even the cold, just do them." Saho is talking nonsense.

"You're a big kid now, so you should speak more gently." Zhang Su chose the passage down the mountain to walk. Now that the landscape of Mt. Kagura is becoming more and more restored, Koi has left behind a permanent ceremony to bridge the cracks in the space, giving peace of mind to Anishin Temple and the nearby town of Gozencho. This time, he went up the mountain to test the resilience of the mountain once again.

"Oh? You all speak with virtue, and only when I speak in this way can I show my greatness and uniqueness. Otherwise, they will all become mediocre like you. Saho said.

"What if someone hates you because of it?" Zhang Su asked.

"I don't need others to be nice to me or anything, I'm good enough." Saho's magic is getting more and more advanced, and she can almost reach a mature body at a young age, and she is the first of all children.

"Then I'll go down the mountain first." Zhang Su thought it was funny. He had been holding his pace down, but now he was descending at a normal pace.

"Huh!" Saho was taken aback, and saw Zhang Su appear almost fifty meters away in the blink of an eye, and he could barely see his back after a while, "So fast, Su!" ”

She looked around, the mountains on both sides were tall and the trees were treacherous, because it was a temporary terrain restoration project, the trees that had been rudely transplanted were all neatly arranged, and in the twilight of winter, the trees were bare and leafless, and the trees looked like wood-shaped corpses planted in a straight line, which made her shiver instantly.

Saho couldn't help but sweat when he thought of those legends about demons, as well as the grand battle of Mt. Kagura that Zhang Su said.

"Whoa," she trotted forward, "that's all nonsense, I need someone else!" Help, wow! ”

She ran breathlessly, about a few hundred meters, down the snowy ramp.

The snow was slippery, but fortunately, Zhang Su changed her into bigger boots before leaving.

At first she complained about the bulky shoe, but now she was glad that it was durable enough to run in a puddle of snow.

"I have personally measured every step of the mountain, and at that time, under the influence of demonic power, the mountain has almost doubled in size." Zhang Su leaned against a tree and saw Sahoi panting and walking, "But now that the landscape has returned, I can't recognize everything about this mountain at all, and I don't know which is the real Kagura Mountain." ”

"Leave the mountain alone." Saho pressed his knees with both hands and gasped for breath, "Quick, Dasu, carry me down the mountain." ”

"You've grown up, and no one carries you." Zhang Su walked down the mountain, "I'm sweating now, it shouldn't be cold." ”

"Why can't you carry it when you grow up?" Saho got angry, "Dasu, you and I should always be good brothers, right?" ”

"Where did you learn the words?" Zhang Su measured the distance of each step in his heart, "Mobile phone? You shouldn't have been given a phone. ”

"Why do trees lose their leaves in winter?" Saho was afraid that Zhang Su would confiscate his mobile phone, so he changed the topic again.

"Because the winter is cold and dry, the leaves of the trees will evaporate and lose water at an accelerated rate, so they simply fall off to save the water source." Zhang Su looked at the bare trees around him.

"Dasu, you are too good at bragging, there is snow all over the ground, snow is water, how can it be dry." Saho shook his head.

"Snow is solid water and cannot be absorbed directly. Only wait for some to melt into snow, but it's too little. Moreover, the melting snow water will absorb heat, which is colder for plants and more prone to frost damage. Zhang Su said.

"Some of the leaves are still alive, and they are still green in the winter." Saho said.

"Those are evergreens, they have smaller, narrower leaves, and they are more hardy." Zhang Su explained.

"Why was it so cold on the top of the mountain just now?" Saho sparked a curiosity about the world.

"Every 100 meters of ascent, it drops by 0.6 degrees, and the altitude of Mt. Kagura is 800 meters, and it drops by about 4.8 degrees Celsius, which is 0 degrees at the foot of the mountain, and it is already below zero on the mountain, so of course it is cold." Zhang Su said.

"Why pinch?" Saho felt that the tactics had succeeded, and continued to ask questions.

"Because the sun warms the earth, the earth warms the atmosphere, and the atmosphere returns to the earth. This is the mantra spoken in class. Then the higher the mountain, the weaker the ground heat source received. Zhang Su said.

"Oh! I remember these mantras. There is also the odd change that Mr. Rina said in the math class, and the symbol looks at the quadrant. Saho began to shed tears as she spoke, moved by her own wisdom, "Oh my God, I'm so smart......"

"There are still some to learn." Zhang Su said.

"What you said is amazing, and the textbooks I learned are like talking about another world." Saho couldn't help but say, "It's solar radiation, it's physics, it's mathematics, this and that, it's like the world is very scientific, but it sounds incredible to me." ”

"And what do you think it looks like?" Zhang Sule was happy.

"Why don't we have enough magical spirits? For example, it gets cold at high places because the sun witch doesn't give her strength and doesn't have much sunshine. The falling leaves of the trees are the witch of the plant path, and you can't see the plants still green in winter. Saho was cranky.

"Well, that's one side of the story. The important thing is to accept different perspectives, not to be black and white, not to use science to negate fantasy, and not to use fantasy to negate science, in our world, everything coexists and blends. He took Saho back to Anxin.

On the way back, Zhang Su recalled the battle of Mount Kagura again in his heart. From breaking through the Prison Yan Shuhai to the decisive battle with Nazmi, everyone did their best to win a big victory.

This war has changed the fate of too many people, witches, humans, the spirit world, the human defense plan and the Dongming national government, each side has its own gains. Zhang Su thought silently.

Everyone went their separate ways, and they all became great people who received honors and meritorious deeds for participating in the war. And Nazmi's wreckage has also been recovered, and after a long period of processing, it is likely that it will be able to create the most terrifying treasure of all time. Zhang Su is looking forward to it. A Demon Legionnaire-level material, the Furnace of Creation can craft them into legendary items.

Then, it's time to investigate the new world behind the Gates of Hell, "Flame Bottle Seven", the Red Flame Bodhisattva has begun to dig the tunnel leading to the Flame Bottle Seven, and now it is estimated that it has been dug almost completely, and it is time to talk to the Bodhisattva about it.

(End of chapter)