The tree crown was shaken wildly, but Luo Binhan finally managed to maintain his balance. He sat on a branch and thought about the past, then lowered his head and asked Lan Que: "Are you taking revenge on me?"
"I'm not kidding!" Lan Que emphasized his tone, "Strong and pure love can break the curse. There has been a successful precedent for this. That happened when... Wait, you just said that I was taking revenge on you? Why should I retaliate against you? Please explain this clearly first!"
Luo Binhan immediately talked about him, and until he succeeded in making Lan Que forget about the topic, he asked calmly: "So, someone really used love to break the curse before?"
"Oh, yes." Lan Que said, "That incident was later made into a very famous story called "Snow Queen". I heard that its true prototype is this: There once was a man from the Ice Tower. A mage, she was sent to recover a magic mirror. The mirror was enchanted by an ancient curse that would make those who looked at it ruthless. The mage found the mirror from several pirates. However, he accidentally broke it during the fight. The mirror fragments were blown into the eyes of a passing boy. The boy's temperament immediately changed and he became a cruel and dangerous person... Oh, wait a minute …”
It suddenly stopped talking and stared at Luo Binhan thoughtfully. The red light in its two eye holes flashed unusually violently.
"What do you think I'm doing?" Luo Binhan said.
"No, it's nothing. I just thought of some chores. You don't need to worry about it." Lan Que replied quickly.
Luo Binhan thought its attitude was a bit strange, but he didn't take it seriously. He continued to listen to the rest of Lan Que's story: the fragment of the magic mirror changed the boy's temperament, and the mage of the Ice Tower could not undo this powerful curse from the ancient law, so he had to take the boy to the Ice Tower for custody. Work with other mages to study treatment methods.
She placed the boy in a prison at the bottom of the tower, gave him a pile of popsicles cast with a confusion spell, and then asked the boy to spell the word "eternity" with these popsicles, and she would let him go free. However, due to the confusion spell she cast, the boy would forget how to write whenever he touched the popsicles, and could never spell the correct word.
So he forgot everything in the past, and didn't want to escape to hurt others. He just tried to spell "eternity" like a puppet in the ice prison day after day. This deadlock lasted for five full years, until one day a girl climbed to the top of the cold clouds and found the Ice Tower. She told the tower keepers that she was the boy's childhood sweetheart, and that she had gone through countless hardships to find out the boy's whereabouts, and begged the mages to let her take the boy away.
People cursed by the magic mirror are dangerous, so the mages refused her request and only allowed them to meet. The girl walked to the hole at the top of the dungeon, called the boy's name down below, and asked him to stay with her forever. She received no response and could only sit outside the prison and cry. Her tears kept flowing for three days and three nights, and the mages were worried that she would die of a broken heart. When the third night passed, the mage who took away the boy finally walked to the prison and wanted to force the girl away.
The girl would rather die than leave. She hugged the icicles beside the hole tightly, and her tears dripped from the hole into the prison, right into the boy's eyes. The fragments of the magic mirror were brought out by the tear, and the curse was immediately broken. The boy suddenly woke up from his cold and cruel mood and wrote "Eternity" under the guidance of the girl. He threw away the popsicle, walked out of the cage, and returned to his hometown with the girl.
They were happy, the mages witnessed the miracle, and everyone was happy. Only the mage responsible for recovering the magic mirror was furious because she finally found out that she had been rumored by several writers to be a cold and cruel "Ice Queen" who went around seducing young men.
"...It caused a little commotion and lawsuits." Lan Que said, "But it was still very sensational. For the first time, the White Tower mages discovered that such a powerful ancient law curse could be broken using non-ritual spells. . They have put forward many theoretical hypotheses for this, such as emotional unconscious spellcasting, loopholes in the curse's logic conditions, or just that the fragment of the mirror happened to reach the limit life of its spell at that time. There is no final conclusion on this matter yet, but there is a The mage told me that it is because true love itself is a powerful and ancient spell to break spells. It existed before the White Tower and the Camarilla, before the mages recognized the structure of ether and elements. That was the ancient law of Lian Gu. It is a spell that cannot be controlled, but it cannot be verified by any means. No matter how carefully you design the test environment, you cannot deliberately surface it - because it must be true love without impurities."
After saying this, it looked into the distance pretending to be casual. The midday sun shines on the treetops and fields, and the chirping of birds and cicadas sing a midsummer song. Luo Binhan looked at the blue magpie's white bones and unconsciously fell into deep meditation.
"A mage told you this story, and you were very young at the time." He said slowly, "Are you really sure she wasn't teasing a child?"
Blue Magpie's bones suddenly became stiff.
"She is just teasing you." Luo Binhan asserted wisely, "Which adult would seriously explain scientific principles to children? They must just tell a fairy tale to get it over with. You actually believe it?"
"This is none of your business!" Lan Que screamed in his mind, "I am a professional magic researcher!"
Luo Binhan shook his head and calmly jumped from the top of the tree to the outside. The soothing medicine given by Lan Que was still in his hand, and he planned to take it and give it to Wine Red Ponytail to try some to see if it could make her mentally normal.
He planned to leave directly, but the blue magpie followed him and floated over, seemingly hesitant to speak.
"What else do you want to say?" Luo Binhan asked.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask casually," Lan Que cracked his knuckles and said, "Do you have a better playmate? The kind who are particularly close, who often get along with each other in the past, and are willing to play for you. Someone who sacrificed something? It feels like childhood sweethearts?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Well, I just think you'd better prepare one in advance." Lan Que said, "If you happen to need it... I mean if you happen to need help, a childhood sweetheart is always more reliable, right? Starting from childhood. A relationship is more emotionally pure - I mean it's more genuine, so of course you should find someone to be your childhood sweetheart! It's definitely a great proposition!"
It laughed several times in an extremely exaggerated manner, and then asked nervously: "So do you have it?"
"That can probably be regarded as yes."
"That's great! Is she about your age? She hasn't gotten married yet? Does she already have a partner?"
"He's a man." Luo Binhan said calmly.
"Oh, oh... a man." Lan Que paused and said, "I guess this works too?"
Luo Binhan's eyes widened and he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he had to regard it as a random convulsion of an academic researcher. He ignored it and jumped into the aircraft, telling Lan Que that he planned to give the soothing medicine made from the mud leaf fruit to the modern people on the other side to try.
"This won't have any side effects, right?" He confirmed to Lan Que.
Lan Que replied absently, as if he didn't understand his question at all. Until Luo Binhan flew out of the valley and checked behind him through the ring camera outside the cabin, he still saw the shadow of the fluttering cloak floating in place, as if he was thinking hard about a certain problem.
