Chapter 3169 Behind the Snow Mountain

"It's really hard to borrow the display book this time, but there is a tribe that definitely has extra." Luigi blinked at Angel: "You understand, right?"

Angel turned his head and thought for a moment: "You mean... the organizer?"

That is, the Crystal Eye Tribe.

Luigi nodded: "Yes."

Although the supporter of this gathering is Piruxiu, and the display book was also transformed by Sage Pica, the nominal organizer is still the Crystal Eye Tribe. Naturally, all the display books are also sent out from Crystal City.

If there is really a tribe with surplus display books, it is only the Crystal Eye Tribe.

"Does Gleipnir have connections in the Crystal Eye Tribe?" Angel asked curiously.

Luigi nodded: "Yes. Since the young dragon incident, Gleipnir's reputation has spread further, so he is often invited to various places for divination, and he has also had several divinations with the Crystal Eye Tribe."

So, if Gleipnir really wants to borrow the display book, the Crystal Eye Tribe will most likely not refuse.

After hearing the news, Angell was impressed by Gleipnir's extensive network of contacts and also had a little expectation for the display book. ——After seeing Pipi Castle up close, Angell was quite curious about Piruxiu's invention technology, especially in terms of creation methods. What are the connections or differences with the wizard's alchemy?

When Angell was thinking about it, Luigi beside him suddenly said: "This platform is quite empty. There is no one except us... This should not be considered a city gate, right?"

Although Luigi can share his mind with other time bodies, there are few times of full sharing. More often, he shares some pictures with Laplace 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 had not had time to ask where this pavilion and the passage behind the pavilion led to.

Laplace: "This is an entrance and exit, but it is not used as a city gate for this gathering."

In short, this is a private passage, which is most likely used by the Crystal Eyes themselves.

As for why Laplace can use this place? No need to ask, it is known that it is either because of his connections or because of his strength, one of the two, or both.

Laplace: "You said there is no one here, that's not right... there are people over there."

Laplace turned his head and glanced at the passage behind the pavilion. Angel and Luigi looked in the direction of the voice. In the depths of the dark passage, at an even darker corner, a small head popped out at some point and looked out.

As everyone looked over, he, who was secretly observing, was also startled and suddenly retracted his head.

Although his movements were very fast, the previous glimpse was enough for Angel to see his face clearly.

The other party had one eye, and his skin was like glass, and his face was bloodless, but almost colorless pale white. In the center of his round head, there was a cluster of upright crystal lines. Perhaps this was the other party's hair?

There is no doubt that the other party must be a crystal eye tribe.

Judging from the smoothness of his skin, the brightness of his eyes, and the thickness of his face - literally - this should be a child of the Crystal Eyes, or in other words, a child who has just grown up and is about to become a teenager.

Because it is really difficult to judge the true age of the Crystal Eyes, they are temporarily classified as "juveniles".

"When did he come?" Luigi looked at the deep and narrow passage in confusion: "Why didn't I feel his breath?"

Luigi asked Laplace, but the answer was an old voice.

"In the Crystal City where the holy corpse crystals are everywhere, you need more precise perception to detect the breath of the Crystal Eyes. In other words, you need to release your perception all the time..." A hunched figure with a cane slowly walked out from the depths of the passage: "But releasing your perception unscrupulously here, and the object of your perception is a teenager of the Crystal Eyes, which is equivalent to provoking the Crystal Eyes..."

After the old woman walked out of the passage, she scolded Luigi while nodding to Angel and Gleipnir.

There is no doubt that the old woman is Gleipnir.

Although Luigi was being scolded by Gleipnir, he didn't care at all. He didn't look at Gleipnir, but looked behind her.

Not only Luigi, but Angel was also like this at this time.

Because Gleipnir didn't come out alone. Behind her was the Crystal Eye boy who had secretly spied on them before.

The other party hid behind Gleipnir timidly, only showing his side to look out.

It is currently impossible to tell whether this Crystal Eye boy is a boy or a girl, or in other words, Angel has never seen the gender of any Crystal Eye member.

He was covered with a linen robe with frayed edges, covering his hands and feet, leaving only a small head.

"He is..." Angel looked at Gleipnir and asked in confusion.

Gleipnir: "His name is Lita. When I came here just now, I saw him looking in the passage, so I took him out."

Originally, Angel thought that this Crystal Eye boy came with Gleipnir, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Gleipnir continued, "I know his grandmother. She was once a member of the Crystal Eye Elders Council. Her name was Silda. But later on, she seemed to have gone beyond the edge and has not returned since."

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 his head lowered, as if he was 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 halfway through speaking, Gleipnir seemed to realize something. He 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 widely circulated, but no one knows if it is true. She also asked Hilda. 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 was conscious or not, Gleipnir 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 the creatures in the castle.

Especially those from 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 go to Xilu Da? Whether Xiluda is outside the border or has gone to Guixi, you can't go there now."

Gleipnir threw out a lot of questions at once, and his words seemed to be offensive, but at the same time 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.

Rita: "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 to the back of 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. Behind Crystal City were the endless snow-capped mountains. But Angel didn't know what the profound meaning behind the snow-capped mountains was.

Perhaps, behind the snowy mountains is a metaphor for being buried in the snowy mountains? What Lita means is that his mother died and was buried in the snowy mountains? Angel began to make wild guesses.

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 completely the opposite.

When the Jingmu tribe goes 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 a biological gender. Their gender is determined before birth. As for how to determine gender, this has something to do with the snowy mountains behind.

In the stretch of snow-capped mountains behind Crystal City, there are two lakes that look like eyes and embrace each other. Of these two lakes, one is a deep sky blue and is named Male Lake; the other is a quiet black lake and is named Female Lake.

The existence of male and female lakes determines the gender of the offspring of the Jingmu clan.

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: male Jingmu clan must have "Ta" in their name; while female Jingmu clan must have "Da" in their name.

Other than that, there is no other difference.

From Angel's understanding, the Jingmu Clan is a single-sex group. This is just because he has never been able to tell the gender of the Jingmu Clan 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 should gender be determined in this way? Also, you are a single-sex ethnic group, why do you have to differentiate between genders? Most importantly, how do you reproduce as a single sex?

Angel didn't quite understand, but he also knew that it was obviously too biased to define alien races and civilizations based on human worldview and cognition. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just respect it and take it as a knowledge-enhancing experience.

Understanding the meaning of "After the Snow Mountain", Angel probably guessed what Lita was thinking.

He probably felt that his mother no longer loved him after having a new child? Is this the so-called "second child syndrome"?

While Angel was silently guessing, Gleipnir and Lita continued to talk about a lot of things.

Angel also slowly understood the situation.

Lita was indeed worried that his mother would ignore him; but this worry was not groundless. In the past, his mother loved Lita very much, and that love was beyond words, which Lita could clearly feel.

But a year after his grandmother Hilda left, that is, last year, Lita found that his mother was getting colder and colder towards him, often staring at him and dazed for a long time.

It was because he had received "love" that he seemed so helpless when he lost it, and even felt that it was the "second child" that brought this resentment.

Lita's mother didn't actually tell him that she was about to give birth to a new child. Lita learned the news from a loyal servant of his grandmother Hilda, who also told Lita that staying here would only increase his sadness, and perhaps leaving Crystal City would be a good choice.

However, children of the Crystal Eyes rarely have the opportunity to leave alone.

The reason why Lita appeared here was to find an opportunity to leave during the routine gathering of multiple tribes.

However, before Lita found an opportunity to leave, he met Gleipnir.

Grandmother Hilda once said that Gleipnir was her most trusted friend, so there was a conversation today.

...

After listening to Lita's story, everyone present actually had doubts in their hearts.

Because there are many strange things in Lita's story.

Why did his mother suddenly become cold to him?

Also, why did the loyal servant of Grandmother Hilda suggest Lita to leave Crystal City? From the whole story, the option of "choosing to leave" is a bit too abrupt. It can be corrected, but there is no need to be too extreme.

And Lita didn't think about it and really chose to leave Crystal City, and even planned to leave secretly. This is a bit strange...

Angel told Laplace about his doubts through telepathy.

Laplace was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Just now Gleipnir told me through telepathy that there may be some secrets behind this matter."