After losing five games in a row, Zoe lost interest in Reversi and took Lester to play other board and card games for a while before leaving again.
Glancing at the scratches carved by stone knives on the ice wall that symbolized the years, Lester, who was alone again, gathered his long hair and lay back on the cold stone bed. The biting cold coming from his back did not stop him.
Even though he still had weak recovery power after being injured, he was no different from a mortal at this moment.
Under the special care of the protoss, he lost all his strength. It was as if he had returned to the day when he first came to Runeterra. He could only be tied up by the Noxians and taken to an unknown place. He was captured and slaughtered for a long time.
The daze of time even made him forget that the world in front of him was the real world mapped by a certain game. He even thought about the evil little mage Veigar, and wondered whether Veigar was the same as him when he was imprisoned by Mordekaiser in the Immortal Fortress.
I would rather go crazy than be trapped and die alone in a place, unable to do anything.
The memory ends at the day when I fought against the Void Spirit Evil Lord and released the unknown Icacia enhanced spell. As if in the blink of an eye, everything in front of me became unfamiliar. When I opened my eyes, I had already arrived in this place.
A prison from which there is no escape.
The only concept of time is the scratches on the ice wall.
He didn't know when he woke up, and he didn't know how much time had passed outside. During the 4283 days he was imprisoned by Zoe, he was the loneliest prisoner in the closed ice cave, with only one person accompanying him.
his shadow,
With Zoe's level of playfulness, it is not common in these more than four thousand days. It would be better to say that being able to accumulate a wall of foreign objects in the ice cave is already Zoe's over-indulgence of herself.
Being able to visit him often without leaving him is enough to prove that Zoe really has special feelings for him. As for whether it is the love Zoe talks about, Lester has no way of telling. After all, although Zoe is said to be 'afraid of pain'
Although I refused to have deeper and more intuitive contact with myself for some reasons, I did not refuse skin-to-skin contact. On the contrary, I was very involved in every contact.
At present, it is still very difficult for Lester to deepen his relationship with Zoe in some improper way. He is not prepared to do anything to Zoe forcibly, which is meaningless except destroying the relationship.
.
Thinking of the Twilight Stars that were the same as those in the game, Lester smiled helplessly and closed his eyes.
He had more or less understood some of the unique personalities of the Twilight Stars.
Zoe is always curious about everything, but it is difficult to devote energy to one thing for a long time. She is extremely playful and likes to observe and explore things in the physical realm from different angles and spaces. It is precisely because of this
, Zoe didn’t come to see her very often.
He was not used to it at first, but later it made Lester relax a lot. After getting used to being alone for a long time, the noisy Zoe would only make Lester more painful. Fortunately, after the pain, Lester has learned to accept it.
everything.
Be it loneliness, pain, victory or failure.
He was patient enough to accept it all and smiled calmly.
Perhaps this is the most meaningful gain during this period of imprisonment.
"Zoe has promised to give me my freedom, but she will never take the initiative to help me escape from here. I have tried it a long time ago. The rock wall of this ice cave with nothing is extremely hard. Without suitable tools, it can be carved by manpower.
It is simply impossible to open a road to the outside world, so I have the power of 'freedom'. As for whether I am really free is another matter. It is like me entering
I won money in the casino, and the money is in my hands, but whether I can leave the casino depends on my ability."
Jumping off the stone bed, Lester picked up the stone knife used to make ice sculptures and observed it. He came to a thick ice wall. The ice wall was shaped by magic and was much harder than ordinary ice.
The ice cave has about a hundred square meters of space, with an egg-shaped cavity structure inside, surrounded by rocks on five sides, and one side is blocked by ice. The ice-blocked side is the blocked exit.
Above the cavity, there is a narrow air hole channel deliberately opened up with magic. The ventilation channel connects to the outside world, constantly exchanging air between the ice cave and the outside world.
Under the special power in the body, Lester can go without eating or drinking, but without oxygen, Lester will only be in an infinite cycle of suffocation and death. This is the only reason why there are ventilation holes in the ice room. As for why it happens
There is an ice pool where you can take a bath. This is the "love crystallization" of Lester and Zoe - as to whether it was Zoe who sprayed it out, it is a matter of opinion.
It is simply impossible to cut through the stone wall. The only way to leave the ice cave is to melt the several meters thick ice wall in the direction of the egg tip.
"The water in the pool has been specially treated. Trying to melt the ice wall with water will only make the ice wall thicker and thicker. And there is no conditions for making fire in the ice cave. The only thing that can generate temperature is myself."
He bit the wooden sign that he had prepared a long time ago in his mouth,
A not-so-sharp stone knife slashed across the lower part of the left arm. After the cut, only the skin was pulled apart. Only a shallow blood mark appeared, but no blood dripped out.
Lester continued to use the stone knife to cut the flesh, just like a blunt saw blade. The stone knife cut through the dermis with repeated friction, and cut into the subcutaneous tissue with difficulty. The artery ruptured, and blood finally began to gush out, pouring on the ice wall.
There are wisps of white air coming out of it,
Lester pressed the wound on his left arm against the ice wall, letting the blood splash as much as possible on the ice wall. In just ten seconds, Lester's face became as pale as paper, and his body began to unconsciously
Trembling, Lester soon fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss and was breathless.
I don't know how long it took, but Lester opened his eyes, spit out the chewed wooden sign, and the man got up from the ground.
The axillary artery wound on the left arm has completely healed, and the vertical ice wall has also melted into a concave surface of about five centimeters due to the temperature of the blood. There are blood-colored ice crystals on the ground. It has lost its human warmth, and the blood has turned into the most ruthless ice slag.
"We have to continue."
Picking up the stone knife that fell on the ground, Lester resharpened it and went to the ice wall, biting another wooden sign in his mouth.
The friction sound of a blunt knife cutting flesh sounded again, and the hot blood poured on the ice wall, melting the solid ice.
Once, twice, five times, ten times...
From the moment he made up his mind, Lester did not allow himself to have any flinching emotions. The blood-colored ice wall became thinner and thinner. After finally getting up from the ground again, the melted ice wall was enough for Lester to crawl on.
Passed.
After sorting out the property he currently owned, Lester finally took away only stone knives, fluorite blocks for lighting, animal skin skirts and a few animal skin scrolls, and smashed all the ice sculptures to pieces on the ground.
