My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the entire border of the Black Realm will be covered in snow year-round from now on. This is due to an extraordinary phenomenon."

"It's definitely not winter now, I'm not lying to you..."

Upon hearing Aunt Bai's words, Weiss turned his head and glanced at Elune lying on the bed.

Her long, silvery-white hair was scattered on the side of the pillow, just like when she was sleeping, still looking as peaceful as a person in a vegetative state.

Okay, it does look real.

Weiss felt a little relieved.

Immediately afterwards, Aunt Bai gestured to Mona with her eyes, indicating that she should move to another carriage first, as she had something she wanted to say to Weiss alone.

Mona, being quite sensible, nimbly climbed out of the carriage and left without a word.

The carriage fell silent, with only the soft rustling of wheels rolling over the snow.

Weiss first cautiously clenched his fists, then moved his limbs and joints.

There seemed to be nothing unusual.

There was no physical pain.

It seems that there were no serious aftereffects.

He was somewhat surprised by this.

After all, in theory, he had previously used such an exaggerated amount of supernatural power to teleport dozens of times in a row by colliding the rules of the Paradise and the Reverse People.

Both his abilities and his physical body were on the verge of collapse.

Physically, it should take at least a month or two for him to feel completely paralyzed.

Unexpectedly, after only being unconscious for four days, he not only escaped injury but also regained his strength and stamina.

After checking himself over, Weiss regained his composure and leaned back against the car wall.

"So, the people in the camp are still alive?"

Aunt Bai nodded.

"Yes, contrary to our expectations, the camp was not destroyed and remained unscathed from beginning to end."

"It seems that it's because you suddenly developed a new trick to run away like crazy that even the caged bird is getting anxious. It's too lazy to even take half a second to casually wipe out the camp, and it's chasing after us in a panic."

"Luckily you didn't..."

"You did stop, did you know that when Bai Xue arrived, the caged bird was only a dozen kilometers away from us...?"

"I can vaguely see the outline of its feathers..."

Upon hearing this, Weiss's heart skipped a beat.

More than ten kilometers!?

Considering the terrifying speed of caged birds, which can travel at hundreds of kilometers per second, a distance of ten kilometers or so is basically considered a close-quarters situation with negative distance, right?

It seems that the sharp edge and the tingling, tearing sensation I felt behind me when I was fleeing were indeed not my imagination!

That was the caged bird, following closely behind!

Are caged birds really that vengeful? Just because I hit the Black Realm once, it immediately targeted me and chased me for thousands of miles.

No wonder the World Book gives it an inevitable death ending...

Suddenly, Weiss paused slightly, belatedly realizing what Aunt Bai had just said.

"Huh? Wait a minute..."

"Snow White!?"

"Isn't that one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?"

This gave Weiss a slight recollection.

Is that the last thing you saw before you lost consciousness?

He vaguely remembered seeing a snow-white silhouette walking from the end of the darkness before his consciousness completely dissipated.

It has no facial features or details, only a dreamlike humanoid silhouette formed by countless snowflakes.

It turned out to be the case.

No wonder this place has turned into a frozen wasteland, a bizarre scene of extreme cold; it seems the snow has put its power to the rescue.

That's probably why I was able to survive...

Seeing the silver-haired boy suddenly realize what was happening, Aunt Bai pulled out a folded piece of paper from a hidden compartment next to the carriage and handed it to him.

That was a newly released official report from the Night Patrol organization.

Weiss took it and glanced at it.

In June of the 731st year of the White Snow Calendar, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Wedding Dress, landed on the southern border and captured 23 cities in succession.

In July of the 731st year of the White Snow Calendar, one of the Seven Wonders occurred: the Caged Bird awakened in the Dark Realm of the North, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries.

April of the same year —

As one of the Seven Wonders, the Night Patrol's first founder—the World King, Snow White—was mobilized, using the Wedding Dress in the south and the Caged Bird in the north to quell the unrest within just half a month.

The most important page of this official report contains only these three sentences, which can be considered a unilateral declaration of victory by Night Patrol.

He rattled off three of the Seven Wonders of the World in one go.

After a long silence, Weiss quietly uttered two words.

"Awesome..."

No wonder the Night Patrol hasn't sent troops to support the Black Realm's northern border yet.

The wedding dress and the bird in the cage from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are simultaneously performing a mixed doubles against the Night Watch.

Weiss had heard that the towns in the South were more prosperous and wealthy, with a much more luxurious lifestyle than in the North, and some cities didn't even have communal areas.

Unexpectedly, the wedding dress broke through 23 cities in a row. The extent of the damage should be even more severe than that on the black world side.

However, the strongest one is still Shirayuki.

Is the King of the World officially appointed by Night Patrol?

Oh wait, I almost forgot, even the Night Patrol was created by Snow White...

"So, the caged bird and the wedding dress are both dead?" Weiss asked belatedly.

Aunt Bai shook her head, then explained:

"No, the wedding dress was only pushed back a short distance by the snow, and it is still wreaking havoc on the more distant southern islands, but those areas are not within the Night Patrol's territory."

"With the speed of the Caged Bird, no one can catch it if it wants to run away. I heard some of the Night Patrol members who came to help mention that the Caged Bird should have retreated back into the Black World."

"Oh......"

This report is so exaggerated and epic that Weiss thought Snow White had destroyed two of the Seven Wonders of the World in one fell swoop.

Aunt Bai continued:

"Adele seems to be alright too."

"When Sebastian drove Mona here, he entrusted her with his latest message, saying that we should take Elune to the Lunette family to recuperate for a while. She will accompany the night patrol to clear out the remaining Winged Ones on the border, and will come to the royal city after the mission is over."

"Nephil and Vera's caravan is also heading towards the capital, but it's still three or four days' journey from where we are now, so we won't wait for them."

Hearing this, Weiss's mood calmed down a bit.

Now we're finally out of danger.

It seems that there won't be any more battles for a long time to come.

Although the escape was thrilling, everyone survived, so it can be considered a happy ending.

However, he had only just breathed a sigh of relief—

Suddenly, I remembered the people who went against the tide and the amusement park, which had suffered severe damage before.

So he immediately started checking, looking flustered and pale.

Just one glance.

They immediately discovered incredibly strange signs.

The pocket watch worn on his chest by the person going against the flow had turned from gold to snow white!

The once gleaming gold metal case now presents a cold, snow-white hue, with the dial and hands covered in fine, icy cracks.

Weiss frowned and continued to pull out his money pouch from his pocket.

The gift of greed even changed from its original brown color to snow white.

It's not that cheap, dirty color that's been washed out; it's a complete transformation.

The entire purse also exhibited frozen cracks, like a fossil frozen in permafrost. Holding it in your hand gave you a chilling feeling, like a block of dry ice.

I must say, at least in terms of appearance, it has become much more aesthetically pleasing, like it has been transformed from a tattered purse into an ice and snow craft.

Even Wei Xiao's ring was stained pure white.

However, the special effects haven't changed much.

With a solemn expression, Weiss inspected the items one by one. If nothing unexpected happened, the Wind Robe and Paradise should have been affected in the same way to varying degrees.

What's happening here?

It was as if all his taboos had been eroded and stained by the snow.

Subsequently, Weiss conducted an in-depth inspection of the people who went against the flow and the activity status of the park.

The situation is not optimistic.

Both are in a damaged state and cannot be activated.

This should be a consequence of my previous violent manipulation, causing the rules of the two forbidden items to collide and forcibly break through the limits of operation.

However, the other three forbidden items—Greed's Gift, Cloak of Wind, and Dangerous Laughter—are still usable and their rankings have not dropped.

This proves that the phenomenon of being polluted by snow has not yet caused any negative impact.

At least for now.

Thinking of this, Weiss looked up and asked:

"Aunt Bai, is there any way to remedy damage to a forbidden item?"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Bai glanced at Weiss thoughtfully.

She had a pretty good idea of ​​how Weiss had forcibly twisted the rules of the park.

After all, he had taken both himself and Elune, two extraordinary beings, into the Paradise, which in itself violated the Paradise's underlying logic.

After pondering for a moment:

"If it breaks, it will be a big problem."

"But if it's just a temporary suspension, it can be repaired at a normal forbidden item shop. The Lunette family should own quite a few forbidden item shops. Let's take a look when we get to the royal city."

"All right"

Weiss nodded, feeling slightly relieved.

Both the Reverse Path Man and the Paradise are his core defenses. If these two forbidden items cannot be used for a long time, he probably won't dare to close his eyes when he sleeps at night.

Although I have just woken up and left the dangerous area on the border of the Black Realm, just in case, I still need to continue to activate the wind field to detect and guard the surroundings.

Weiss realized that his body was not seriously damaged.

So the wind field was summoned once again, allowing the invisible airflow to extend from itself, forming a perceptual spider web covering the surrounding environment.

But it can slowly extend outwards as the wind field expands—

Weiss's expression immediately turned somewhat incredulous.

Although the wind field is always colorless and formless, in his perception, he has always regarded it as silvery lines of radio waves. These lines are woven into the air as finely as spider silk, forming the basic framework for his perception of space and vibrations.

But at this moment.

The radio wave not only turned into an extremely pure, snow-white color.

A large amount of condensed snowflakes were still drifting around.