"There is a very high mountain over there, the highest mountain that everyone knows, and the place closest to the stars. I want to go there to take a look. If you are in such a high place, you will definitely see brighter stars, right, uncle."

"Yes." Ulysses knew that mountain, because it was a nearby commanding height, and he had been up in his spare time. Although it was a bit difficult for ordinary people to climb, it was not a problem for him.

"I can't climb that high, can I carry me?" As if I was afraid of the cold, Ayu's body retracted into Ulysses' arms again.

"Yeah." Ulysses roughly calculated the distance between the mountain and here and his current strength, and the result was no problem.

Although holding Ayu would consume half of the energy he had, it was obvious that a child like Ayu would really not be able to climb up with him. That mountain is a mountain that is difficult for even an adult to climb.

In this way, Ulysses picked up Ayu's body by the waist and began to advance towards the distant mountain in the darkness.

It was incredible that after agreeing to Ayu's request, Ulysses could feel a kind of power in his body being unblocked. It was the feeling of the infinite power and the realm of infinite desire from the Astarot side.

The overall strength is still around level 4, but the recovery ability and endurance ability are an extraordinary leap. Without fighting, just holding Ayu forward, this power is enough to allow him to defeat any mountain in this world.

Soon, the two left the town where Ayu lived. The town without a trace of fire had fallen into a completely deep sleep, and there was no sound of dog barking. The forest outside the town seemed a bit weird, accompanied by a few roars of unknown creatures and the hoarse bird songs of night oars, making the night look cold and lonely.

After walking through the woods, what appeared before Ulysses was a steep valley, and the valley was filled with dark mist. These mists quietly surrounded all living things, always sticking up like an evil spirit who was unavailable to find a place to rest.

In the dark night, the sticky and cold mist rises and falls like a wave, chasing each other, like the waves on the dangerous sea. Most people will soon lose their direction when they fall into this mist, and then even the temperature of their bodies is taken away, and eventually die in fear.

This is one of the most common killing weather in the northern land - the deep cold fog. Legend has it that this fog is the embodiment of people who die in resentment. They always appear on the coldest nights and then take away the lives of humans who dare to walk in the mountains on such nights.

In order to prevent this fog with cold and dampness from harming Asu, Ulysses opened a shield of light while using the constant temperature technique. Under the double protection, even the coldest fog could not invade the two of them.

The power of the realm of infinite desire gave Ulysses great support. Even though he only had the strength of the level 4 light magician level, this incredible power could still bring extraordinary power.

After traveling through several valleys covered by deep cold mist, Ulysses finally took Ayu to the bottom of his destination.

To be fair, this mountain is not very high among the mountains seen by Ulysses. He has seen countless majestic peaks that have passed through the magnificent Karal Mountains.

However, for Ayu, this was obviously an inaccessible extreme height. After seeing the peak of thousands of meters high in Ulysses's arms, she opened her mouth directly.

“So… so high…”

Ulysses shrugged, then hugged Ayu and began to move straight towards the top of the unknown mountain.

Ayu, who was shocked, did not make any sound, but just kept looking around with his big eyes, as if he wanted to write down everything around him.

Finally, with Ulysses' efforts, the two reached the top of the mountain together. This was a very narrow platform, about three meters wide and six meters long. There were still some words that could not be seen clearly on the huge rock that was more than one person tall in the center. It seemed to be a commemoration left by people who had come here in the past.

"Cough..." Yayu coughed lightly again, and then his breath became heavy.

"Do you feel uncomfortable?" Ulysses thought she was not used to the air pressure here, after all, this place was indeed a little higher for a child like her.

"It's just a small cold, because I kicked the quilt and was told by my father." Ayu showed a embarrassed expression, then raised his head to look at the stars in the sky.

"Uncle, can you please let me go?"

Ulysses carefully put Ayu's body down and looked at her every move with some nervousness.

It seemed that the stars in the sky gave Ayu strength. She stood up with a shaky feeling, and then leaned on the stone to the other side.

"Is there anything over there?" Ulysses was about to follow him.

"No, there is nothing strange, but I am a little embarrassed now and I don't want my uncle to see it. I am changing clothes now..." Yayu's voice came from the other side of the stone, and there was a faint sound of the clothes being untied.

Ulysses's face suddenly turned red, and he no longer moved his footsteps, but leaned against the stone in the opposite position from Ayu.

Not long after, Ayu walked over in a red coat. The style of the clothes looked a bit like the yellow coat she loved to wear. It was obviously from the same series, and Ulysses also smelled the fragrance from her.

It was a perfume with a slightly soft and sweet taste in the fragrance of flowers, which was a bit too adult for Ayu.

"How is it? Are you much more beautiful?" Ayu turned around and then fell into Ulysses' arms and acted coquettishly at him.

"Really, don't worry me." Ulysses touched Ayu's head and felt relieved.

Yayu sat in Ulysses' arms, and her petite head was just right at Ulysses' chin.

As if to make her hands warmer, she took the initiative to hold his hand, and her two hands were intertwined, and soon Ayu's hands, which had slightly colder because of changing clothes, returned to normal temperature.

"Uncle, look, the stars have really brightened a lot." Yayu, who was sitting in Ulysses' arms, looked up at the night sky.

Due to location, most of the clouds are below the two, so the originally blurry night sky is much clearer than in the town, and many stars that cannot be seen appear in front of the two.

Therefore, the star-observatory platform set up by the magicians always rises at a high place, which is not for the sake of mystery, but for the needs of reality.

"There is the Gemini that Uncle just mentioned, and there is..." As if he was about to repeat all the teachings Ulysses just taught, Ayu stretched out his hand and pointed out the names and meanings of the stars in the sky one by one.

Ulysses has to admit that Ayu is really a good student. Unlike the confusion and clumsiness she showed in the future, Ayu now has a much higher talent in learning than ordinary people.

Without a teacher, Ulysses would not like hardworking and studious students. Seeing Ayu learn everything he taught, Ulysses was very pleased.

Finally, Ayu pointed his finger at the first star she asked about. The star that was located in the northernmost part of the starry sky and could be used as a lost road sign.

"The Beidou represents the home of the deceased, the stars where the dead go, are far away, where the mother is."

"Well, all are correct, Xiao Ya, you..." Ulysses was about to praise Ayu, a good student who was eager to learn, but when he realized what Ayu's last sentence represented, his voice stopped abruptly.

She, did she know? Did she know where her mother went?

As the child grows up, this kind of lie that cannot stand scrutiny will be exposed sooner or later. Ulysses also believes that Ayu, who has studied so seriously, will one day realize the truth.

But that could not be the present. She was so happy yesterday that she put the letter she wrote into the cylinder and placed all her hope on the white messenger, the snow dove.

Today, she should be excitedly waiting for the white dove that represents dream to deliver her letter. Since it is a very far place, it is natural to wait for a while.

How long will you wait before giving up? Maybe it's a month or half a year. This time only depends on her thoughts about her mother. As long as that thought does not disappear and the truth is not revealed, then hope will always be in her heart, and the white dove will continue to fly in the sky of her dreams and fly to that distant place.

"Hehe, was it really shocked, uncle?" Yayu took Ulysses' hand and drew many circles in his hand. This seemingly naughty action could not hide her sadness. Ulysses could already see crystal liquid in the corner of her eyes.

"Actually, it was told to me when my father came back tonight. He told me who was waiting at home that the place where my mother went was heaven, a place that was far away and that no living people could go."

"It's not just my mother, Xiaoyue, Aunt Mary, and Grandpa Duna went to that place. Everyone in the town who had that disease went to that place except me, would never come back."

"So writing letters is useless, and learning to write from uncle is useless. No matter how many letters you write or how many messengers you use, my mother will not receive my letter."

"Mom, I'm dead, I'm gone anywhere." As she said this, Ayu cried sadly, and big tears fell from her eyes, diluting the smell of perfume on her body.

"Dad told me that it is wrong to learn knowledge from people like uncles. Knowledge must be paid a considerable price to obtain. The uncle in black has powerful power, and this kind of power cannot be possessed by ordinary people. It comes from magical power, so uncle is someone I should not get close to."

"Dad also said that he was ready to go to where his mother was. In this way, he could be with his mother again, and he wanted to take me with him, so that everyone could reunite and live the happy days before."

Hearing this, Ulysses' heart trembled suddenly. What would the person who lost his beloved do? No one could predict? Is Ayu's father...

Yayu's statement did not stop. After saying everything, she looked a little more energetic than before, and her face became a little more rosy.

"Dad took out the knife. It was his favorite weapon when he was a soldier. Even his mother was not allowed to touch it. Dad's expression was so terrible. He held me in his arms and then pierced his body with the knife."

"Xiaoya, let's go with dad, go to mom's place, dad tells me like this."

"I was very scared, very scared. I should have listened to my father and wanted to meet my mother again, but I was just scared. So I struggled hard, and then my father let go and I escaped from my father."

"Huh!" Ulysses breathed a sigh of relief. Although the process was thrilling, Yayu finally escaped successfully.

"It hurts so much when I was hugged by my father. The first time my father hugged me so hard, I was so scared that I couldn't move. However, I didn't think it was wrong for me to learn from my uncle, so I resisted my father." Yayu, whose face was a little better, wrapped his fingers around Ulysses's fingers, and his voice became calm.

"Uncle, can that letter be delivered?

"Well, I'm sorry." Ulysses could no longer hide it. In front of the current Ayu, no one could lie.

"Sure enough, uncle also said that the letter could only be sent, not to deceive Xiaoya, so Xiaoya doesn't blame her uncle." Yayu's smile was so soft that Ulysses didn't dare to look directly.

Is what he has done these days really correct? Ulysses doubted himself for the first time.

"Uncle is a great magician. He knows a lot of things and teaches Xiaoya so much knowledge. It is very happy to spend time with his uncle." As if seeing Ulysses' confusion, Xiaoya took the initiative to put Ulysses' hand on his chest.

"Look, even now, my heart beats because I can watch the stars with my uncle. It's really great to be here."

"That's right, that's good. I will teach you more words and more knowledge about stars. The stars you see now are just a map of the sky in winter. In spring, Xiaoya, you can see more new stars." Ulysses took Kayyu's hand and pointed to the more distant starry sky.

"Spring, it's good to come quickly..." Yayu's voice gradually became smaller, as if she was too tired. She lowered her head and slept in Ulysses' arms.

"Well, spring will definitely come. Then we will see the new starry sky world together." Ulysses was looking forward to such time.

In this world where time passes quickly, spring must come soon.

Ulysses did not hear Ayu's answer. He withdrew his hand and knocked Ayu's head who was asleep.

"Xiao Ya..." The sound slipped like a broken string, because Ulysses found a bright color dyed on his hands and began to lose his temperature.

Blood? Where did it come from? Ulysses was sure that he didn't have such a thing in his hands just now.

By the way, just now, when Ayu held his hand and let him listen to her heartbeat, he seemed to have encountered some slippery liquid. At that time, he thought it was Ayu's tears.

It turns out that it was not tears.

Ulysses stopped breathing, and then on the top of this mountain where the cold wind was whistling, there was no other person's breath or heartbeat.

In his arms, Ayu, who was wearing a red coat that would not be found even if dyed red, fell asleep quietly.

There was a trace of a wound tied with a bandage at the bottom of her chest, which was a trace that was pierced by a sharp weapon and then pulled out.

"Dad's expression was so terrible. He held me in his arms and then pierced his body with a knife."

"It hurts so much when I was hugged by my dad."

At that time, Ayu's father pierced not only his own body with a knife. He lost his beloved and gave up all hope for this world, and pierced himself and Ayu's body with a knife.
Chapter completed!