Qingchen treks between the snow-capped mountains and according to the established goals, he is looking for the place that is most suitable for him to complete the life and death barrier.
Before challenging, plan the challenge route, which is a homework that every knight must do.
Hida is a very suitable place for skiing. Even in May, the main peak of Ohoe Takatsuki is covered with snow all year round.
Aoqiu (3190 meters above sea level), Dried Lake Mountain (3103 meters above sea level), North Mountain (3106 meters), Front Mountain (3090 meters), West Mountain (2909 meters).
Although the height is not as high as Mount Fuji, because there are too many extremely steep cliffs, the climbing difficulty is far higher than Mount Fuji.
Some peaks look like a kitchen knife standing up in the mountains, walking on the ridge, like dancing on the blade.
In Inoue Yasushi's novel "Ice Wall", Yuzu and Kosaka fell to death here...
Ice wall seems to be a very vivid name.
Qingchen was in the snow, and walked up the mountain path that skiers often walked.
Life and death lock cannot be completed in the ski resort. Ice consolidates this life and death lock, and the speed requirement is extremely strict. What it wants to challenge is the limit of skiing speed!
So Qingchen set out from the mountainside and continued to climb up the mountain.
Not long after, a staff member of the ski resort shouted to him on the mountainside: "Hey, you can't go up any longer. You will die when you go to the peak in this weather!"
Qingchen turned his head and suddenly stepped on the air in the snow.
But he saw him shaking his body a few times before he continued to trek up with difficulty.
However, Qingchen suddenly discovered a problem. The mountain where he was located was full of "pink snow", and no one could speed up in the powder snow.
If you want to challenge the skiing speed, the snow layer must be pressed to be extra tight.
Just like running on concrete will definitely be faster than running in mud and sand.
Qingchen frowned and continued to climb up firmly.
At this time, many skiers suddenly stood halfway up the mountain and looked up and saw the small black shadows on the mountain. They slowly walked between the peaks, and were all stunned.
What is the difference between climbing the top of this season and seeking death?
But Qingchen not only did not stop, but instead went higher and higher until he disappeared into the wind and snow.
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7:50 pm.
It was already dark in Shirakawago. Shinguji Shinji Maki glanced at the quartz clock in the room, then returned to the window, lying on the window and waiting.
At this time, in the paradise, the dim and warm lights in front of the hot spring hotel were lit up.
In order to save electricity, the little girl turned off the lights at home, but left the lights at the door.
She was worried that Qingchen would be late to come back. If the lights at the entrance of the hotel were also turned off, the other party might not be able to find the hotel.
The skiers have returned to Shirakawago, and hot springs have prepared a sumptuous dinner for them early, and clean hot springs can wash away their fatigue.
This is the most pleasant moment for all skiers.
But before Qingchen came back, Shinji Temple Maki began to worry.
At this time, another group of skiers walked past the door.
The little girl opened the window and let the wind and snow pour it into the window. She waved to the skiers in the distance and shouted: "Sir, are there anyone else in the ski resort?"
The skiers said: "No more, we are the last batch, and the ski resort will be closed when we come out."
"Oh, thank you..." Shinji Shinji shrunk her head. She was even more worried at this time. The brother didn't bring a snowboard. There should be no one on the mountain at this time. Where will the other party go?
Never have to worry about it.
The little girl looked at the clocks on the wall from time to time, and then looked outside the window.
At 7:59, Shinguji Temple Maki saw a thin figure slowly walking from the darkness behind the wind and snow in a windbreaker.
Shinguji Temple Maki's eyes lit up. She hurriedly left the windowsill and ran to the door like a wind, took out her slippers from the shoe cabinet, and then opened the door of the hot spring hotel to wave to Qingchen: "Oni-chan!"
The crisp sound was stirred into the wind and snow, and it drifted far and far away.
Qingchen looked up at her, then looked down at her and walked towards the wind and snow.
Shinguji Maki Miyaki did not respond to her and was not discouraged.
The little girl happily put her slippers on the ground, then ran into the kitchen again, brought the prepared food to the table, and happily ate the rice balls on the side.
The meal was still rice, fried fish, thick egg roast, and miso soup.
It seems that Shinguji Temple Maki only knows how to do these things, but it is not good.
Qingchen took off his windbreaker and sat down, and ate all the food carefully, without even a mouthful of soup.
The little girl asked expectantly: "Is the meal today delicious?"
Qingchen shook his head: "It's not delicious."
Little girl: “…O.”
Qingchen looked at her: "Why are you still eating a meal ball? Haven't I already paid the rent advance?"
Shinguji Temple Maki thought about it and said, "Grandma needs medicine... the rice ball is delicious. I added pickled cucumbers to it today."
Qingchen was silent for a few seconds: "Where is your parents?"
Shinguji Temple Maki said: "When my father was working as a tour guide for the tourists, the tourists accidentally slipped and fell off the cliff. In order to save the other party, he was dragged down together. My mother remarried to Hokkaido, and my grandmother told me not to blame her, she also wanted to have her own life."
"Aren't you sad?" Qingchen knew that this sentence would hurt the little girl, but he still asked.
Shinguji Temple Maki was silent for a while, then smiled: "Actually, living with grandma is very happy, everything will be fine. I will be as strong as grandma. She was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago. While returning to the hotel to work and earn money, she would treat herself. She would always say to me, Maki, everything will be fine!"
Qingchen knew that the little girl's life would not be better.
Lung cancer is currently one of the most difficult cancers to survive. Even the targeted drugs in the world only extend the patient's life for several years, and it cannot save the advanced stage of lung cancer.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! At this time, the grandmother has been in a coma for 95% of the time, and the number of times and portions of food are very small, and she has obviously reached the end of her life.
If grandma passes away, how can the eight-year-old girl survive?
Shinguji Temple Maki said to Qingchen: "Brother, don't discuss these things. I spent money today to invite the uncle next door to clean up the hot spring pond. Now the temperature of the hot spring is the most suitable. You can go and soak for a while."
"Yeah," Qingchen nodded, leaving the little girl alone in the living room.
She walked back to the window, lay on the windowsill, blinked her big eyes and looked outside, where there were many children playing snowball fights wildly, and strange-shaped snowmen were piled up at the entrances of a hot spring hotel.
At this time, Qingchen walked out again to see this scene. Shinguji Temple Maki turned around and looked at him: "What's wrong?"
Qingchen looked at the figures of the snowmen outside the window, and then said to Shinguji Temple Maki, "Make the bed."
"Oo, sorry, sorry, I forgot it, I'm so embarrassed," Shinki Shinji took out the bedding from the compartment.
The bedding in the hot spring hotel is kept in the cabinet every day, and is only taken out at night and spread on the wooden floor.
While the temple was paving, he suddenly noticed Qingchen's hand, which was covered with frostbite.
She felt a little strange.
This brother seems to be different from others everywhere.
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early morning.
Today, Shinguji Temple Maki woke up early, thinking that she could not sleep in anymore and wanted to make breakfast for her brother.
But at 7:10 in the morning, there was no one in Qingchen's house.
Just like yesterday, the bedding was neatly stacked and arranged.
There is also a note: I will come back before 8 o'clock and leave me a meal.
The only difference is that the skis were taken away this time.
Shinguji Temple Maki felt a little lost. She always felt that no matter how hard she tried, she could not melt the coldness of this brother.
She lowered her head a little discouraged.
The next moment, she put on a shabby cotton jacket and opened the door of the hot spring hotel to buy some fresh ingredients in Shirakawa Township.
But when I saw a tall snowman had been piled up at the door.
The snowman's face was also covered with seaweed and her nose, eyes, and mouth.
Others' snowmen in hot spring hotels all face out, as if they are welcoming guests.
The snowman in this hot spring hotel is facing inward, as if it belongs only to Shinguji Temple Maki, leaving his back to everyone passing by.
Shinguji Maki entangled the red scarf that grandma had knitted for her before, and jumped out.
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Qingchen carried a veneer on his back and took a sightseeing bus to the mountains again. He still did not go to the ski resort, but climbed up again.
The skiers looked up and saw the familiar figure. Last night, someone was worried that he would die in the snowy mountain, but he was already numb.
Qingchen came to the top with a calm expression, stuck his own board, and jumped down.
Then it got stuck in the thick pink snow...
The fluffy powder snow was not enough to support his weight, and he couldn't slide at all!
Qingchen lay silently in the snow, looking at the mountains in the distance.
Leave the island country?
Compared with the life and death barrier, assassination of the gods is a trivial matter. After all, he has to complete his promotion and return to the A02 secret military base to face a more cruel reality.
So, if this place is not suitable, Qingchen must leave, and nothing is more important than this.
etc.
Qingchen looked at the staggered ridges on the distant mountain like a blade, and suddenly thought of another life and death barrier!