"It is indeed difficult to borrow the exhibition book this time, but there must be many of one ethnic group." Luigi winked at Angel: "Do you understand?"
Angel tilted his head and thought for a moment: "You mean...the organizer?"
That is, the Jingmu clan.
Luigi nodded: "That's right."
Although the supporter of this gathering is Piluxiu, and the display book was also transformed by Pika Sage, the nominal organizer is the Crystal Eyes clan. Naturally, all the display books are also sent out from Crystal City.
If any ethnic group really has a surplus of display books, it is only the Akame tribe.
"Gleipnir still has connections with the Jingmu clan?" Angel asked curiously.
Luigi nodded: "Yes. Since the young dragon incident, Gleipnir's reputation has spread further, so he is often invited to go to various places for divination, and he has had several divination encounters with the Jingmu tribe."
Therefore, if Gleipnir really wants to borrow the exhibition book, the Jingmu clan will most likely not refuse.
After Angel heard the news, he was impressed by Graipnir's extensive connections, and also had some expectations for the exhibition book. - After seeing Pippi Castle up close, Angel was quite curious.
What are the connections or differences between Lu Xiu's invention technology, especially in the means of creation, and the wizard's alchemy?
While Angel was thinking about it, Luigi suddenly said: "This platform is quite empty. There is no one except us... This shouldn't be considered a city gate, right?"
Although Luigi can share his mind with other time bodies, the full-scale sharing is rare. He mostly shares some images with Lapras and Gleipnir through mind synchronization, or "group chats".
In the previous "group chat", Luigi only knew that Laplace asked them to come here, but he didn't have time to ask where the pavilion and the passage behind the pavilion led.
Laplace: "This is an entrance and exit, but it is not used as a city gate for this gathering."
To put it simply, this is a private passage, which is most likely used by the Jingmu clan themselves.
As for why Laplace can use this place? You don't need to ask, you know that it's either because of his good connections, or because of the worship of his strength, choose one of the two, or both.
Laplace: "You said there's no one here. That's not true... There are people over there."
Laplace turned his head and glanced at the passage behind the pavilion. Angel and Luigi followed the sound. Deep in the dark passage, at an even darker corner, a little head popped out from nowhere.
Look outside.
And as everyone looked over, he who was secretly observing was also startled and jerked his head back.
Although he moved very quickly, the sudden glance before was enough for Angel to see his face clearly.
The other person has one eye, and his skin is like glass. There is no blood on his face, but an almost colorless light white. In the center of his round head, there is a cluster of erected crystal lines. Maybe this is the other person's hair?
There is no doubt that the other party must be the Jingmu clan.
Judging from the smoothness of his skin, the brightness of his eyes, and the thickness of his face—thickness in a literal sense—he should be a child of the Jingmu tribe, or in other words, at the beginning of his childhood and the age when he is about to become a teenager.
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Because it is really difficult for the Jingmu tribe to determine their true age, they are temporarily classified into the "teenager" group.
"When did he come?" Luigi looked at the deep and narrow passage in confusion: "Why didn't I feel his breath?"
Luigi asked Laplace this question, but an old voice answered him.
"In the Crystal City where there are crystals of holy corpses everywhere, you need more precise perception to detect the aura of the Crystal Eyes clan. In other words, you need to keep outgoing your perception..." A rickety figure on crutches said,
Slowly walked out from the depths of the passage: "But the unscrupulous release of perception here, and the object of perception is still a boy from the Jingmu tribe, this is tantamount to provoking the Jingmu tribe..."
After the old woman who spoke walked out of the passage, while scolding Luigi, she nodded slightly to Angel and Greipnir.
There is no doubt that this old woman is Gleipnir.
Although Luigi was being scolded by Gleipnir, he didn't care at all and didn't focus on Gleipnir, but looked behind her.
Not only Luigi, but also Angel at this time.
Because, Gleipnir did not come out alone, she was also followed by the boy with crystal eyes who had secretly spied on them before.
The other party timidly hid behind Gleipnir, only showing his side and looking out.
It is currently unclear whether this Jingmu boy is a boy or a girl. In other words, Angel has never seen the gender of any Jingmu boy.
He was wearing a linen robe with rough edges, covering his hands and feet, leaving only a small head exposed.
"He is..." Angel looked at Gleipnir and wondered.
Gleipnir: "His name is Lita. When I came here just now, I saw him looking in the passage, so I took him out along the way."
Originally, Angel thought that this boy from the Crystal Eyes tribe came with Gleipnir, but now it seems that this is not the case.
Graipnir continued: "I know his grandmother. His grandmother was once a member of the Jingmu Tribe's Presbyterian Church, named Siluda. However, she seemed to have gone beyond the margins and has not come back until now.
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After a pause, Gleipnir lowered his head and looked at Lita: "As for Lita, I heard from the Jingmu tribe that he comes here every day just to wait for Hilda to come back."
As soon as Gleipnir finished speaking, a young man named Lita retorted in a low voice: "Grandma Siluda did not go to the edge, but went to the ghost... I, I usually have to wait for my grandmother, but today
I have other things to do..."
At the end of the sentence, Lita's voice became lower and lower, and he lowered his head, seemingly lost in his thoughts.
Graipnir patted Lita on the shoulder and turned to look at everyone: "Anyway, he is not spying on you secretly. He comes here every day and must have his own business."
"Let him stay here, I will take you in first."
As Gleipnir spoke, he motioned for everyone to follow him into the Crystal City.
However, at this moment, Lita said in a very soft voice: "Grandma divination... Grandma said that grandma is a trustworthy person. You... can you take me out of here?"
Everyone paused, and Gleipnir also turned his head and looked at Lita in confusion: "You want to leave here? Leave the water..."
Just mid-sentence, Gleipnir seemed to realize something, glanced at the towering Crystal City next to him, and silently summoned a starry dome to cover everyone and the Tower of Power.
Gleipnir heard a rumor: Crystal City is conscious.
This rumor has been spreading, but no one knows if it is true. She also asked Hilda, but Hilda just smiled and never gave a positive answer to this question.
Even though Hilda didn't say anything, her "avoidance of answering" was actually an alternative "answer".
Regardless of whether Crystal City is conscious or not, Gleipnir still decided to treat it as "conscious". If Crystal City is really conscious, then it is very likely that it can monitor the words of all living creatures in the castle.
Especially those of the Jingmu clan.
Therefore, she summoned a starlight dome to cover them to avoid prying eyes and eavesdropping.
"You want to say that you want to leave Crystal City? Why are you leaving? Where are you going after leaving?" Gleipnir looked at Lita, who was less than 1.5 meters tall: "You want to find Xilu
Da? Whether Hilda is outside the margins or has gone to the ghost world, you can't go there now."
Gleipnir threw out a lot of questions at once, and his words seemed to be offensive, but they were not a sign of concern.
It can also be seen from this that the relationship between Gleipnir and Siluda should be pretty good.
Love the house and the bird.
Lita: "Yes, I want to leave Crystal City. I came here today to find an opportunity to leave in the chaos. I didn't leave to find my grandmother, but because... because..."
Rita hesitated for a while, and then in Gleipnir's eyes, he softly revealed the truth: "Mother, I went behind the snow-capped mountains yesterday."
Behind the snowy mountains?
Hearing Rita's words, Gleipnir frowned, as if he had thought of something.
On the other side, Angel looked confused. What happened behind the snow-capped mountains?
He knew about the snow-capped mountains and the endless snow-capped mountains behind the Crystal City. But Angel did not know the profound meaning behind the snow-capped mountains.
Perhaps, behind the snow-capped mountains is a metaphor for being buried in the snow-capped mountains? What Lita meant was that his mother died and was buried in the snow-capped mountains? Angel began to speculate wildly.
But before Angel could make any further guesses, he heard Laplace's voice.
Laplace seemed to see Angel's doubts and briefly explained the meaning of "behind the snowy mountains".
After clearing up the doubts, Angel discovered that his guess just now was completely wrong, in fact, it was the complete opposite.
When the Jingmu people go to the back of the snow-capped mountains, it does not mean death and disappearance; rather, it represents a kind of new life and hope.
The Jingmu tribe does not have gender in the biological sense. Their gender is determined before birth. As for how to determine gender, this has something to do with the snowy mountains behind them.
In the stretch of snow-capped mountains behind Crystal City, there are two lakes that look like eyes and hug each other. Of these two lakes, one shows a deep sky blue and is named Xiong Lake; the other lake is
It is a quiet black lake, and its name is Female Lake.
The existence of male lakes and female lakes determines the gender of the offspring of the Jingmu tribe.
Before the offspring of the Jingmu tribe are born, if the mother bathes in the male lake, the child will be male; conversely, if the mother bathes in the female lake, the child will be female.
But in fact, children of the Jingmu tribe are born without any external sexual characteristics. The so-called male and female, or male and female, are just names.
The only difference is the name: a male Jingmu clan must have "Ta" in his name; while a female Jingmu clan must have "Da" in her name.
Other than that, there are no other differences.
According to Angel's understanding, the Jingmu tribe is a single-sex group. This is just because he has never been able to tell the gender of the Jingmu tribe before, because both men and women are the same.
The way they differentiate between genders is whether the mother bathed in the male lake or the female lake before giving birth to them.
It sounds very careless to determine the gender.
This made Angel quite confused, why do you need to determine gender in this way? Also, you are a single-sex ethnic group, why do you have to be divided into genders? The most important thing is, how do you reproduce as a single-sex person?
Angel didn't quite understand, but he also knew that it was obviously too biased to define alien races and civilizations based on human worldviews and cognitive perspectives. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just respect them, and think of it as gaining knowledge.
After understanding the meaning of "Queen of the Snow Mountains", Angel probably guessed what Lita was thinking.
He probably feels that his mother will no longer love him after having a new child? Is this the so-called "second child syndrome"?
While Angel was guessing silently, Gleipnir and Rita also continued to chat about a lot of things.
Angel gradually understood the situation.
Rita was indeed worried that her mother would neglect him; but this worry was not groundless. In the past, her mother loved Rita very much, and that kind of love was beyond words and could be clearly felt by Rita.
But a year after his grandmother Siluda left, that is, last year, Lita found that his mother was becoming more and more cold towards him, often looking at him and being in a daze for a long time.
It is precisely because he has received "love" that when he loses it, he seems so at a loss, and even feels that the resentment brought about by the "second child".
Rita's mother did not actually tell him that she was about to give birth to a new child. Rita learned the news from a loyal servant of his grandmother Hilda, and it was this servant who told Rita that he would stay here as a disciple.
To add to the sadness, maybe leaving Crystal City is a good choice.
However, children of the Jingmu tribe rarely have the opportunity to leave alone.
The reason why Lita appeared here was because he wanted to find an opportunity to leave through the stall of a regular multi-ethnic gathering.
However, before Lita could find a chance to leave, he met Gleipnir.
Grandmother Hilda once said that Gleipnir was her most trusted friend, which is why today's conversation took place.
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After listening to Lita's story, everyone present actually had doubts in their hearts.
Because there are many strange things in the story Rita tells.
Why did his mother suddenly become cold to him?
Also, why did the loyal servant of his grandmother Hilda suggest that Rita leave the Crystal City? From the perspective of the whole story, the option of "choosing to leave" is a bit too abrupt. It can be overcorrected, but there is no need to overcorrect.
And Lita didn't think deeply about it, he really chose to leave Crystal City, and even planned to leave secretly. This is a bit strange...
Angel expressed his doubts to Laplace using the technique of sound transmission.
Laplace was silent for a moment and said calmly: "Gleipnir told me just now through mind synchronization that there may be some secrets behind this matter."