Page 225 [Things that must never be lost]
The long stairs in the sky have been halfway through, and the long story has been told.
Chen Senran took a breath and lowered his body a little to prevent his body from losing its center of gravity in the wild wind and snow.
The staircase at your feet, spanning between the two mountains, is not wide, and only five people can walk side by side at most. It is covered with thick ice and snow for years, and there is no railing around it. On such a dark snowy night, if the center of gravity is unstable, it is easy to accidentally slide into the endless abyss under the stairs.
The only good news is that Chen Senran discovered the footprints on the snow on the stairs that were not covered with falling snow, which proved that his speculation was absolutely correct.
Originally, Chen Senran could not have had such self-question, but he was really a little scared.
Fear of losing.
"Actually, I felt a lot of murderous intent just now." After listening to the story about the Frost Queen, Lao Du talked about what seemed to have nothing to do with this story, and what happened before.
"So what?" Chen Senran did not look at Lao Du. He looked at the endless darkness ahead as if he knew Lao Du's answer.
"So if the resentful spirit of the Frost Queen really exists..." Old Du was also looking ahead. He heard the kind of understanding in Chen Senran's tone, but he still gave the answer, "Then this is a very obvious trap."
A trap, about an unknown group of attackers forced the thousand Demacia elites into the palace where the Queen of Frost curses, and then quietly retreated, waiting for the trap of other fish that escaped the net to fall into the trap.
"I know." Chen Senran nodded. That was real knowledge, without hesitation, fear, doubt, and firmness and unstoppable.
I know that this unstoppable thing made Lao Du silent and asked him to take back all the reminders he had originally been ready to say. He glanced at Chen Senran. The face of this thin man was hidden in the darkness. He couldn't see clearly, but he knew that this man's eyes must emit light. The burning light could burn all the flames. Even if there was a real hell ahead, he would leave without hesitation.
Because the girl's smile is something that this thin man can never lose.
Lao Du also had something he could never lose. Many years ago, there was a woman who would always wait quietly for herself to go home, take her bloody armor, wipe her wounds, and make soup for herself, smiling very warmly.
He swore that no one could take her smile from him.
But later she died. The night of her death was like this that was endless. Old Du remembered that there were surging flames burning in his eyes. He carried the knife he had not cast yet and stepped towards the real hell step by step.
Her own knife is called the beauty under the moon. In fact, the real reason is that she likes the ephemeral very much.
"Don't worry, she will be fine." This sentence was what he said to himself many years ago, and now, he told Chen Senran.
Many years ago, he didn't do it, but now, he must help Chen Senran do it.
For the sake of the smile that cannot be lost.
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The ladder to the sky is not too long. Even with heavy wind and snow, Chen Senran only took ten minutes to climb to the top.
At this moment, under his feet was the last glory of the dynasty hundreds of years ago, the peerless palace of the Frost Queen.
City of the Sky.
The night is still endless, and the wind and snow are even heavier.
Chen Senran could not see clearly anything beyond the yard. He snapped his fingers slightly, condensed the flame in his body to his fingertips, shaping an immortal flame, barely illuminating the nearly three yards.
It is very unreasonable that they did not find the figures of the elite Demacia. They did not wait for themselves in place.
According to Chen Senran's reasoning, the thousand elite Demacia should have been because of too many enemies and retreating without knowing the depth of the palace. Then they should be here relying on the nearly natural dangerous terrain of the ladder here and waiting for themselves.
But they disappeared.
This made Chen Senran's heart sink again, because the curse that represents the possible existence of the Frost Queen may have really started.
Chen Senran took a few deep breaths, squatted down, and used the flames in his hand to shine on the deep snow-covered ground inch by inch. Fortunately, although the gorgeous patterns carved by the hundreds of years of masters on the ground have long been buried in the dust of history by the snow, the footprints more than ten minutes ago were still vaguely visible.
They walked in.
"We have to hurry up." Lao Du never felt low in smell, so he naturally thought of what Chen Senran thought of at the first time.
Chen Senran nodded, stood up and began to walk forward along the footprints on the ground under the flames at his fingertips.
The place they came up to was a large square in front of the palace. With the faint light of fire, we could barely see the stone sculptures that were covered with snow on the road, or collapsed pillars that appeared.
They were scattered everywhere, under the faint firelight, like a large group of dormant ancient beasts.
Just from such a side perspective, you can imagine the glory and splendor of this Sky City when the Freljord Empire was at its peak.
Chen Senran was not in any mood to sigh at the glory of the empire in the past. He only felt that this road was so long, and those footprints spread forward infinitely, as if there was no end.
After walking for ten minutes, he had already traveled through the entire square in front of the palace, but the footprints still did not stop. It climbed the snow-covered steps and entered the gate of the tall palace.
Chen Senran took a breath, put his arm too high, increased the firepower, and illuminated the entire palace gate in front of him.
It is a gate that is completely different from the mainstream architectural style of Valorand. Although the surface is covered with ice and snow, its strange style can be seen at a glance.
The surface of the door is completely rough and hideous, so that the ice and snow covered on it appear in an irregular distribution.
The top of the gate is not flat like on the continent. It is composed of sharp rocks that rush up from below.
The entire door did not seem to be built bit by bit by bit by bit by craftsmen, but a hole was cut in the middle of a whole ferocious and sharp rock.
It is full of the ruggedness and sharpness of the snow-capped mountains.
Chen Senran put his hand down and looked at the endless darkness behind the open door.
I felt like I was standing in front of the mouth of a hideous giant beast.
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I stuck this one for six hours.
The whole person was almost collapsed.
Chapter completed!