It's snowing.

Very big.

I exhaled, brushed the snow off my body, and then walked into the tea shop. There was no one around for hundreds of miles, so I finally found a place to stay and take a rest.

Yaoli is back, and he can even travel much faster. He has not returned to Kyoto to meet Axi, but if he wants to find me, he should find the clues I left.

After identifying the direction, I walked all the way north. Originally, I was going to come with Xiao Yuan, but because I had planned to go from Tianyu, I still checked the information in detail. I got the information from the Yin Yang Liao in Kyoto.

Not much, I was called to come this way, it was considered an accident.

In that dream, that mirror, I was being called.

Although the demon power protects me and I don't feel cold, I haven't eaten for several days. The further I go into the deeper snow, the less monsters and animals I see, making it difficult to even find food.

After ordering a pot of hot tea and two rice balls, I looked around. There were many people gathered here, dressed in different costumes.

"Hey, little girl, what are you doing here alone?" the tea shop owner asked, his voice a little loud, which attracted many people's attention to me.

"I came from Kyoto to look for someone. My brother passed by here when he returned home, but there was no news after that. I was anxious, so I came to look for someone."

"Looking for someone? That's really hard work." A young man who came to get tea said and took the hot tea from the boss's hand.

"Is it dangerous?"

Faced with my questioning, the young man glanced at me and said impatiently: "Don't you even know about the Blizzard Forest? If you are trapped in the Blizzard Forest, just wait to be eaten by the blizzard. With a small body like yours, you'd better leave it to your family.

Sir, please come and look for me."

With that said, the young man walked away. At this time, the boss also handed me the hot tea and rice balls. After thanking the boss, I walked towards where the young man was sitting.

Although his tone sounds harsh, he is surprisingly a good person.

Seeing me following him, the young man frowned, but then moved the tea bowl towards him, freeing up the other side of the table.

"Thank you." I said as I took off my hat and put it aside, revealing my face. "I'm really not used to snowy weather like this."

"Dong——"

This sudden sound came from the young man sitting opposite me.

I looked over at him. His hands were trembling and his eyes were wide open. The hot tea that had just been poured flowed on the table because the bowl was knocked over, following the lines and getting wet on his sleeves.

"What's wrong?" I was a little confused, but I had a vague feeling that it might have something to do with Xixia or that god.

However, no one knows about that god in this world. It seems that it can only be related to Xixia... But I don't see any relevant memories in Xixia's memory. She seems to have never been to this far north.

land.

"No...no...it's nothing." He quickly adjusted himself, "By the way, you just said you were here to find someone?"

"Ah... um." Seeing that he was fine, I picked up a rice ball and ate it.

"...I'll take you there."

"No need." I refused without thinking.

"But you will still get lost in the blizzard forest even on a sunny day." The young man explained eagerly, "I have a way to get out of there."

"That's not necessary." I poured myself a cup of tea and said.

"Why?"

"I would like to ask why, why do you want to help me? Aren't you one of those treasure hunters?"

"I am different from them." The young man showed a look of disgust again, "Those people just go to the Holy Land to seek blessings, but I am a person who wholeheartedly serves the gods." goΠboγg

I paused while biting the rice ball: "God? Which god?"

"I can't say this."

I really don't know where his inexplicable pride comes from. Moreover, I was full of rice balls at that time, so I didn't answer.

"Anyway, please let me take you to find someone."

He requested this.

"...It instantly became an honorific." I swallowed the last rice ball along with the tea, then wrapped the other one, threw it into the storage bag and stood up, "Sorry, I'm leaving."

After leaving the tea shop, I walked in the direction I was called.

However, on my smooth road, there would always be screams behind me. The young man chased after me after I left. This blizzard forest is said to be a snow forest, but according to my perception, it is actually a barrier.

In this enchantment, I also found an altar deep in the snow forest, which should be used to break the snow forest enchantment. By breaking the altar with divine power, I can take out the ice cubes wrapped in flames.

Seeing that one piece was useless, I thought there should be a few more pieces, so I found a few more pieces in the snow forest, but they were still missing.

The young man behind me has been following me unwaveringly for several days. Whenever there is a snowstorm, he will yell. At this time, I have to stop and go back to help him get out of the snow.

Since there are fewer clues, I won't be able to use them, so I put back the clues I found in the altar. After walking in the snow forest for so many days, I also roughly sensed the weaknesses of this barrier.

So, before I was about to do that, I stopped where I was and then quickly turned around——

I immediately saw the young man behind me hiding behind a tree.

This poor cover-up...

"Hey." I said, "If you can hear me, stay away from me. If you die by then, I won't care."

After a long pause, the young man came out from behind the tree and asked, "What do you want to do?"

I didn't answer him, I just gathered the demon power in my hand. As if I understood something, the young man's voice came from behind me——

"no--"

But it's too late.

The demon power was already heading towards the barrier, and it made violent vibrations and noises when it collided with the barrier. Before I could react, I was pulled up and running.

"You...what are you doing?" The young man turned around and said while running, "If this barrier is broken, you will be punished by the high priest in the temple!"

"Shrine? High Priest?"

"The matter is complicated, I'd better take you to my mother-in-law's place first." The young man couldn't help but speed up again, and crashed into the snow mist that had been knocked down by the demonic power.

-

"That happened a thousand years ago... no, maybe even longer ago."

Her old voice filled the air in the wind and snow, and seemed to be urging her wrinkled face to show a nostalgic expression.

But she had no intention of continuing. She just turned around with her cane and trembled her lips, which were white from the cold. The gray-haired old man bent his knees and knelt in front of me.

As she knelt down, the people behind her - other people in the village also knelt down towards me.

The village that the young man brought me to is in the heart of the snowfield that is almost isolated from the other side. In this village, we not only have to be wary of blizzards, but also resist the invasion of wolves. In addition, everyone in the village, regardless of gender, must be together.

On the coldest day of the year, I sat alone for a night high in the snowy mountains.

"Why do you do this?"

This is the first time that someone has bowed down in front of me so respectfully and devoutly.

"We are sinners." The old man said, and asked someone to present a mirror to me. "This thousand years of white snow is not enough to wash away our sins. Now it is finally up to you to return this mirror."

It was the young man who brought me to this village in the first place. He walked up to me, lowered his head and raised his hands high——

I can reach it without bending down.

When I saw that mirror, I finally recalled the feeling of coming to this snowy land. I was called, called by my past self. I wanted to recall something, but I was blocked.

"I'm not your god, there's no need for you to do this to me." I didn't take the mirror, "but I am indeed looking for this mirror."

"You just lost your memory as a god, which is why we have been guarding this mirror." The old man said again, "It was made by you yourself, and it has recorded many past things. It has been waiting in the ice cave, and all things

There is a spirit, and this clear stone mirror has also sensed your return."

"...Akashi...Mirror?"

At that moment, the mirror vibrated slightly and suddenly jumped towards me.

"Crack!"

Because of the collision with the sudden demonic force, the mirror fell to the ground.

The young man opened his eyes wide. Everyone who heard the sound looked at me. Only the old man looked calm, as if he had known that I would do this. She turned her head and waved to the people behind her, signaling to the young man.

He left and bowed his head to me again: "We will be here, waiting for you to come back from the mirror."

"The world in the mirror? Really... Let's get up first. I've said it before, I'm not a god." I just felt very tired. "Besides, if I rush into the mirror like this, I can still be sure that I'm still the same person."

Me?"

"You really don't want to become a god again——"

"It's not because of the sins you said, it's just that I simply don't want to be her." I interrupted the old man, "I will take this mirror away because the so-called memory is still useless to me now.

It’s very important. It’s just that I won’t go in right now.”

The old man showed surprise at this time: "After thousands of years, are you still as childish and willful as before?"

"Thousands of years? Sorry, I came to this world and know only a few short years."

The demon wrapped the mirror around and placed it in front of me. The silence in the wind and snow was finally broken. The old man stood up, and the rest of the people dispersed one after another.
To be continued...