"Pfft hahahahaha!"
Princess Snow White held her stomach and laughed so hard that she almost got a stitch in the side. She finally managed to hold it back, but when she saw the two girls' smiles gradually disappearing, she couldn't help but pounding the board and laughing wildly again.
The atmosphere was a little weird. Although he didn't know the reason, Rin's intuition told him that he had most likely accidentally touched upon a minefield again. He smiled awkwardly.
"Ahem, you guys chat, I'm going to go out and get some fresh air."
He ran away so quickly that Princess Snow White stopped laughing and pouted in dissatisfaction.
When Tongzi came back to his senses from the Big Bang, he felt that his future would be more difficult. Fortunately, the mistress was not much better.
Thinking back to Asuna's identity, a well-behaved lady who seemed to have little contact with the Internet, Kiriko came up with a plan.
"Asuna, we've known each other for such a long time, but I haven't given you any gifts yet. This... I'll give it to you. It has pretty good properties."
As she spoke, Kiriko took out the green broccoli hat from the storage compartment and solemnly handed it to Asuna.
Princess Snow White was stunned. She looked at the smiling Tongzi from head to toe, her whole body was covered with goosebumps and she felt a little pitiful.
Asuna stared at the green hat in front of her, her head full of speculation about what conspiracy Kiriko was up to. The shape of the hat was okay, and the attributes were good, but the color always felt weird.
After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't figure out why she was given a hat as a gift. It was difficult to refuse her teammates, so Asuna had to put the hat away, stuffed it into her own storage compartment, and secretly warned herself not to use it.
Then, Tongzi smiled with a look of success, feeling as happy as if he had drunk iced sour plum soup in the hot summer.
"This hat suits you very well, Asuna."
“Uh? Really… Actually, I think it would look pretty good on Kiriko.”
"..."
Princess Snow White felt dizzy for a while, shook her head, and quietly hid in a corner. "Why do I feel like I've seen this scene before? It seems to have appeared in the game I'm playing..."
Chapter 76: Ice and Snow Kingdom
The sky and the earth were white and silent.
The snow fell like goose feathers, covering the snowy ground layer by layer with a white goose down blanket.
The snow fell slowly, and before it landed on the carriage, it was blocked outside the carriage by invisible wind magic, leaving long wheel marks on the ground.
Lin sat in the carriage and yawned, the white breath he exhaled condensed into frost.
This is the Third Ring Road, also known as the Ice and Snow Kingdom. In the entire area, it snows for 365 days out of 300 days, and there are blizzards for 65 days.
The oracle showed that their strategy progress had reached 48 percent, witnessing the bizarre stories along the way.
With their help, the girl successfully grew bigger and married the woodcutter she loved; she rescued Hansel and Gretel from the pedophile and the ogre, and sent them to the Hunter's Guild to learn how to grow into excellent hunters; she cleaned Rapunzel's long hair full of mud and parasites and trimmed it into the most fashionable hairstyle; she eliminated the water monster that raped the whole village; she killed Bluebeard who tortured and killed girls just to sacrifice them for witchcraft...
Well, an online multiplayer game was forcibly turned into a LAN game.
After a month of getting along, Ariel gradually integrated into the team. Sometimes she would feel a little sad, but most of the time, she was still the innocent and lovely little princess.
What really makes people feel confused is that Kiriko and Asuna, who should be a model couple, have been at loggerheads with each other for the past month, setting traps for each other and waving a report in front of his eyes every day. They don't look like a lesbian couple at all.
If these two people are confusing, then Princess Snow White is the one that makes people upset.
Ever since she entered the kingdom of ice and snow, she seemed to have a split personality. Sometimes she turned into a dirty and heartless old driver, and sometimes she turned into the sentimental Lin Daiyu. She often sat outside the carriage and sighed at the white snow.
"Ugh."
The Snow White Princess sitting next to him sighed again, looked up at the falling snow that was blocked from view, her black eyes filled with deep sorrow and sadness.
"So, what happened?"
Princess Snow White turned her head and looked at Rin, who looked a little worried. She wrapped her cloak tightly around her body and said, "Snow is my favorite. I like it even more than erotic novels. The Lily Kingdom has four seasons like spring. It may not snow for decades. The most recent time was the day I was born..."
As she spoke, her eyes gazed into the distance at the endless whiteness: “Sorry, I seem to have gone off topic. I just wanted to say that when I saw the snow, I thought of the palace and my mother.
In fact, my stepmother, now the queen, has always been very kind to me. No matter if it was food, clothing, or entertainment, as long as I asked for it, I would get it.
After that, my father passed away and she took over the management of the kingdom. Everything changed. She made me learn various etiquette, fencing and magic. I didn't like them and didn't have any talent for them. I protested, but she locked me up and forced me to study.
Later, when I started to like writing novels, she became even angrier and would often lock me up in a small dark room. We quarreled almost every day because of this.
Until one day, she tore up my manuscript. I was so angry that I fainted. I think I said I hated her the most, and then I ran away. I regretted it afterwards and dared not think about her expression at that time. "
Rin listened silently, and suddenly thought of his older sister, Jingu Kanade. He was once like Princess Snow White, fearing and rejecting his relatives who disciplined him strictly.
"Now that I have seen this world, I feel that my mother... must have been so strict with me in order to allow me to protect myself and to allow me to inherit the kingdom."
As she spoke, she choked up and finally burst into tears, with tears and snot frozen on her face, like a naughty child.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Mother, I missed you so much! Woohoo..."
Lin was shocked all over, listening to the crying beside him, he buried his head in his knees, his eyes a little red.
The eldest sister is strict with him, doesn't she also want him to succeed?
He was the one who let his family down, and he wishfully believed that everyone rejected him, not realizing that it was his awkwardness and self-righteousness that alienated him from his family.
Even though the gaming fanatic woke him up last time, he never said sorry and took closeness for granted.
"I am really an idiot..."
"What's wrong with you, Rin? Did you make the princess cry?"
Tongzi poked her head out and just as she finished speaking, she noticed something was wrong with the two of them, so she returned to the carriage in silence.
"Maybe they're homesick...including me."
Snow White cried for a long time, and finally sobbed and wiped the frozen snot and tears from her face with a towel.
Lin was originally still feeling sad, but when he saw her silly look, he couldn't help laughing and his mood eased a little.
"Okay, stop crying. When we get to town, write a letter to your mother. I can send you back after Ariel's business is done."
As they talked, the outline of the city in the distance gradually became clear, and the dark blue buildings were particularly conspicuous against the ice and snow.
The map shows that this is the capital of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, White Bear City.
After entering White Bear City, we followed the usual practice and found an inn to stay in. Even if we stayed in the carriage all the time, we were tired after the long journey, so we fell into a deep sleep in our rooms.
Finally, Rin was pushed awake by Ariel. Coming from the mermaid tribe, she had no concept of gender and developed the bad habit of "breaking into empty houses".
"There's singing outside, do you hear it?"
Looking at the words Ariel wrote on the paper, Rin listened carefully and indeed could faintly hear the girl's singing.
After putting on his coat, Lin opened the back window and looked down. It was late at night, and on the quiet and deserted street, there was only a little girl walking with a basket.
"Want some matches... warm matches?"
Her voice was trembling because of the cold, but she was still singing a ballad. Her small voice sounded particularly lonely in the snow.
"So... this is the story. It hasn't been changed? It's a bit weird..."
Rin nodded thoughtfully and put on his coat: "Come on, Ariel, let's go down and help the child."
The snowy night was bitterly cold, and the chilly wind felt like a knife cutting my face. There was no one on the entire street except for that small figure in the distance, and there wasn't even a light.
"Want some matches... warm matches?"
The little girl sang another line, then hugged her arms tightly, shivering with cold, and leaned against the wall. She blew into her palms and lit a match to keep warm.
Rin and Ariel came up to the little girl and felt sorry for her when they saw her clothes full of patches that were not warm enough, and her toes with holes showing frostbite.
Feeling someone approaching, the little girl raised her head, revealing her blue face from the cold. Her eyes were full of hope, and she asked in a soft childish voice, "Sir... do you want some matches?"
Chapter 77 I also want to write a work that heals people’s hearts…
The little girl was only eight or nine years old, with a pale face and thin body, and her lips were black and purple from being frozen.
Lin took out a coat from the storage compartment, put it on the little girl in the look of fear, and rubbed her hooded head.
Eyes are the windows to the soul. He could only see innocence and hope in this little girl's eyes. If this could be turned into a magical fairy tale, then he had nothing to say.
The little girl touched the coat she was wearing, calmed down from her panic, and felt the warmth she hadn't felt for a long time. She blinked and looked at Lin with gratitude and confusion in her eyes.
"First... Big Brother, do you want to buy matches?"
“Well, buy them all.”
The girl curled her lips and smiled sweetly: "Thank you, big brother, a total of 16 silver coins, I can finally drink hot soup! Mom will definitely be very happy!"
"These are for you."
Fearing that it would be unsafe for a child to carry too many gold coins, Rin stuffed a dozen gold coins into her basket.
"Wow! Big brother, it doesn't cost that much! Only 16 silver coins."
"It's okay. Your matches are worth that much. Just take them. Your mother will be happier. By the way... where is your home? I'll take you back."
The little girl looked at him with admiration, as if she saw the morning star, and then shook her head hesitantly: "Thank you, big brother! I can go back by myself. Mom doesn't like to see outsiders."
Lin did not try to persuade her, thinking that he could just send it back secretly later, and said calmly: "I'll give you this coat as well, be careful on your way."
It was the first time the little girl saw so many gold coins. She was so happy that her eyes turned into crescents and a blush of excitement appeared on her frozen face.
She stood up and bowed vigorously to Lin, speaking incoherently, then hopped a few steps with the basket in her hand. Suddenly she remembered something, turned around, and looked at Lin with eyes as bright as stars: "Big brother is so nice, can I marry you in the future?"
"Uh... ok."
The little girl was even happier. She nodded her head vigorously, waved her hands, looked back every few steps, and looked at Lin reluctantly. It took her a long time to finally turn the corner.
"Come on, Ariel, let's follow."
"no need……"
A faint, sad voice floated from the sky. Lin looked up and saw the light spots on the roof gathered like fireflies, gradually showing human nature. A familiar dwarf with fluorescent body slowly fell from the sky, flapped its wings and flew to his side. He looked towards the corner where the little match girl disappeared.
"Katie?"
Katie at this moment was no longer as smug and innocent as she had been when they first met. She was only tired and worried. There was no smile on her face as she murmured, "Because it's useless... It was a ghost, and the child... had died a long time ago."
When the mermaid princess saw the fairy, the joy on her face froze and her eyes became dull.
"..."
Rin found it hard to accept for a moment that the little girl who had just asked him if she could marry him when she grew up, the little girl who had finally escaped her destined tragic fate... was dead.
Having been fooled by the plot once again, he felt lost and sad. The help that had been a piece of cake now seemed like a joke and wasted.
Katie took a deep breath. "She must have frozen to death. It's been seven days in a row. I've been watching her here. She walks from the east side of the street to the west side at this time every day, repeating what she did every day before she died. She repeats this cycle over and over again. Her memory is reset every day... She is a cursed ghost."
"How could this be?"
Katie turned around and faced Rin, looking at his tightly clenched fists: "I don't know if you have noticed that the hearts of people in the entire Ice Kingdom are cold."
Lin thought back to what he had seen and heard since entering the Third Ring, and nodded: "I've noticed this before. Compared to other kingdoms, they are too cold. They won't even look back when they walk down the street. So far, except for that little girl, I haven't even seen a smile from them. It's a true 'ice' kingdom."
"In fact, it wasn't originally like this. The Ice Kingdom had two queens, Elsa and Anna. Elsa was a very powerful magician. The two sisters loved each other, and the people of the kingdom were also very happy, warm and hospitable.
Just a month ago, the evil wizard captured Anna and forced Elsa to share her powerful magic with the wizard, releasing a curse. The people of the entire Ice Kingdom, including Queen Elsa, all lost their normal emotions. Fortunately, I was able to rescue Anna from the brink of death. She also told me this... Another thing to be thankful for is that Queen Anna's injuries have improved and she is recovering well now."
"So, the main reason why the little girl froze to death was because the people in this country were too indifferent. No one... no one helped her?"
Lin asked back, and when he saw Katie nod, he felt unprecedented anger, and he wished he could tear the wizard who was always making trouble behind the scenes and playing with people's hearts into pieces.
There is no one more disgusting than those who always like to put themselves in a high and mighty God's perspective and play with the hearts and destinies of others!
Lin tried to calm down his anger, his expression gloomy: "Is there any way? As long as I can help."
Katie paused in the air, her eyes full of disbelief. She looked him up and down carefully, as if she was recognizing him for the first time. Ever since Lin blackmailed her of a lot of magic props, this boy who looked like a pretty boy had been labeled a robber and greedy in her mind. Now this robber actually offered to help. It was incredible!
"Yes, but it's too difficult." Katie flew around him and continued, "Legend has it that the beautiful and moving singing of mermaids can break all curses. However, firstly, the mermaids disappeared, and even I can't find the great Katie. Secondly, about two hundred years ago, I don't know what happened to the mermaids, and all the tribesmen were forbidden to sing..."
Huh? This human MP3 is so amazing? I just thought the song was nice.
Rin quickly pulled Ariel over and introduced the mermaid princess to Katie. She also explained the cause and effect of how this stupid fish became mute. Finally, she asked about the materials needed to restore her voice.
Knowing that Lin had hooked up with a fish, Katie was much more excited, and finally had a smile on her face: "It just so happens that the great Katie knows this curse, and the method to remove it is not difficult. You need to prepare... and finally ask Katie to make a potion. I have XX herbs, and you mainly need to look for the other ones."
As she spoke, Ariel carefully wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Finally, the nagging little fairy gave Hunter Lin instructions again and again, and after confirming the meeting place, she flapped her wings and left.
As a result, Rin went through the list of materials recorded by Ariel in detail. He already had half of the materials in his storage compartment, some were more common and available for purchase, and a small number of the materials he had never even heard of.
"Forget it, let's go back and slowly look it up in the encyclopedia."
After walking a few steps towards the hotel with Ariel, Rin turned his head and looked at the street corner where the little girl, who had turned into a ghost, disappeared with a puzzled expression.
The endless cycle of reincarnation can be considered a curse. Perhaps the singing of the stupid fish can bring her to reincarnation.
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