"Hongye, what kind of person is Auster?"
This question should have been asked clearly before departure, but due to time constraints, Zhou Yucai never mentioned it. At the last moment of the bet, because there was really nothing to do, he thought about it again.
"Osl... I really don't know where to start. In short, he is a casual person. As long as it is for fun, he will do any troublesome things. However, he neither likes power nor violence, he is just pure Enjoyment, so my father usually doesn’t restrict him.”
"Is a person with this kind of personality your father's housekeeper?"
"Yes. He is responsible for managing life, and the person in charge of external affairs is Ender. But Ender is more uneasy than him."
Hearing Hongye mention the second name, Zhou Yu finally couldn't help but ask: "Hongye, are you really some kind of princess?"
"Ah? Ah..."
Hongye paused before replying, "No, that's just like a nickname. People who call me that basically want to make me angry - although I won't be very angry, but this title is mocking me. "
"So, are you a foreigner? Austere and Ender both have foreign names, right?"
"It can be said that from your point of view, I do have some foreign ancestry. But generally speaking, I am still from here. You see, we two look very similar, right?"
Having said this, Hongye actually smiled slightly.
In the night, her eyes glowed like crystals. Compared with the subtle differences in facial features and face shape, this is the most obvious difference in their appearance. Even Zhou Yu, who often looks in the mirror, would be slightly distracted when he suddenly saw her face like this.
"...However, Osl and Ander are indeed foreigners. They were met by my father by chance when he traveled around the country. Not to mention Ander, Osl and my father had no relationship originally. He proposed to my father It's just a request, in return, to serve him. For him, this matter is a simple debt. If the agreement can be ended early, he will probably choose to return to his hometown."
"Then why is he still here? Didn't he even find the other horn?"
Hongye was silent again, and then said: "It's too late. When he got the horn from Ferris, he was already unable to return home. The horn my father gave him was broken by his own hands before I was born, along with his own home. Burned together."
"Where are his other relatives?"
"It is said that he once had a wife and children, but that was a long time ago."
While he was talking aimlessly, the crescent moon had already fallen behind the buildings. Its body can no longer be seen from the top, only a faint silver light leaks from the outside of the building. Under this situation, Zhou Yu couldn't feel anxious at all. He just looked at Hong Ye's lost expression.
"...If Osier is given the choice again, I think he will probably not go to my father. Whether it is the first time or the second time, he is not cautious enough to face the result. If he can reverse time..."
She spoke as if talking to herself. While Zhou Yu was listening silently, Cai Ji suddenly shouted in horror: "Look at your feet! What is that!"
Although the glass steps under the three people's feet are made of transparent material, they are too far away from the ground. When they lower their heads, they can only see countless edges and corners shining with white light, rolling inward layer by layer like the patterns of a conch shell.
However, at this moment, at the center of the silver-white spiral, a red light was emitting strangely.
Zhou Yu stared at this scene for a long time, and finally recognized that it was the bottom of the Sheep's Horn Stairs.
The raging flames were climbing up along the base of the horns.
When he looked up at the sky, the moonlight had completely disappeared behind the steel forest.
"...Is this the punishment for losing the bet?"
Red light spreads along the spiral.
Glass is a material that will not burn. But the strange fire was indeed burning violently in the structure inside the stairs. In less than five minutes, the fire had reached the middle and upper section of the sheep's horn. Just by looking down, you can faintly smell the choking smell of burnt smoke. At the same time, the glass floor beneath my feet seemed to be slowly sinking. It should be that the glass structure at the bottom was burned by the flames. The whole room tilted slowly and inevitably.
"Help! Help! Hey! Hey!! There's a fire!"
Cai Ji banged on the glass wall desperately and shouted with a completely hoarse voice. Facing the fire at the bottom, he seemed to have forgotten that he was at high altitude. Once he broke the glass of the room, he would also fall to pieces.
However, no matter how hard his palms turned red and bleeding, the thin, radiant glass wall did not show any cracks. It seems that they don't even have the option to choose how to die.
"Hongye, do you want to rush down?"
Hongye didn't answer, but stared at his feet in a daze. Zhou Yu patted her shoulder several more times before she raised her face in confusion.
"...Zhou Yu, what do you think the shape of this place looks like?"
Among Cai Ji's ghostly cries and wolf howls, Hongye's voice was faint and faint. After Zhou Yu understood Hongye's words half-guessingly, he had no choice but to grab her shoulders, lean into her ear and shout loudly: "This is the horn! It's the one that Ausier got from your father!" "
At this moment, the unusual fire intensity inside the glass staircase was obviously the most obvious clue. Here is the interior of the ram's horn that was recreated by Osler and burned by himself.
After hearing his answer, Hongye showed a look that was mixed with sadness and relief. Under the bright firelight, her pale eyes sparkled.
"...Zhou Yu, I'm sorry for what happened today."
After saying this, she suddenly grabbed Zhou Yu's wrist, then ran over and grabbed Cai Ji's collar.
"What are you doing! Let me go! Don't kill me!"
Cai Ji kept screaming all the time, which made Zhou Yu, who was already confused, even more upset. Apparently Hongye felt the same way. She hesitated for a few seconds, then let go of Cai Ji's collar and tapped the side of his throat heavily.
The annoying screams stopped abruptly. Cai Ji stretched his neck like a turtle basking in the sun, opening and closing his mouth in vain, but could only make a low "ahhh" sound.
"...Acupuncture?"
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu completely forgot about his current situation for an instant, and looked carefully at the part Hongye had just clicked on. He was familiar with the structure of the human body in a way that he could not explain, so he was sure that the location was not an acupuncture point in the traditional sense. Furthermore, there is no such thing as a "dumb point" in the human body that would render a person unable to speak without being injured.
"It's not acupuncture... I'm using some other means. I have to concentrate next, so please stop arguing."
Hongye held one person with each hand and looked down at his feet intently. In just this time, the fire had invaded to a distance of less than thirty meters. Even though he was wearing leather boots, Zhou Yu could feel the faint heat coming from the soles of his feet.
The collapse of the room became more and more obvious. From the stairs below the spherical room, there was a crisp sound of glass bursting. Before the flames approached the three of them, dense cracks like leaf veins began to spread on the ground.
"Zhou Yu, please hold on to me."
Hongye let go of Zhou Yu's hand, and the scabbard wrapped with black rope appeared in the air. The silk rope of the scabbard has been loosening and slipping since the moment it appeared. When the silk rope fell away, the scabbard itself disintegrated without a trace, revealing the blade made of green light.
Hongye lifted the sword and thrust it down suddenly, inserting the green light deeply into the ground beneath his feet.
Under Zhou Yu's gaze, hexahedral crystal flowers blossomed from the glass that touched the blue light. In an instant, the entire ground shattered and disintegrated.
The three people held together fell towards the sea of fire.
