"Brother! It's a hot spring! Hot spring!"

Wait... hot spring?

After Sakakibara Suzu reminded him, Sakakihara Raku suddenly realized... No wonder when he shined the flashlight, he felt that the white mist was rising so quickly. Originally, he had guessed that the mist was so like hot water, and there were really feelings.

Maybe it's hot water.

"But where do these natural hot springs come from in the wilderness?" Raku Sakakihara looked up at the top of the forest, feeling doubtful.

“If it’s not a hot spring, how can it be a ghost?”

"...You girl, weren't you scared to death just now? Are you excited again?"

"That was just now. It's different now. It's completely different... No... No! I can't wait any longer. I want to go over and have a look."

"Don't worry."

"Sooner or later you'll freeze to death if you stay here."

Sakakihara Suzu seemed to see hope, and the fear that she had to hold her hand just now to pee disappeared in an instant.

This made Sakakihara Raku wonder whether the girl in front of him and the girl who just weakly shouted "Brother..." were the same person.

"Let's go, let's go! Brother, let's go there quickly, let's go there quickly!"

"Don't be so anxious. Let's inform Liuli and the others first."

"Oh! No need! They haven't gotten up yet, and the fog is right up there. Brother, aren't you curious?"

...quite curious.

"It's not certain whether it's a hot spring or not. Besides, the fog is on the mountain, so the distance is quite large."

"Brother Mist, how do you explain it?"

"...It might be a hot spring, but it might be the size of a washbasin."

"That's not bad, you can drink hot water!"

"...Some hot spring water is drinkable and some are not. Generally, it is not allowed. There is sulfur in it."

"But what should we do if we really want to have a hot spring? In our current situation, we shouldn't go there? Brother, don't you want to know?"

"..."

This point cannot be refuted.

Raku Sakakihara also wants to know.

You have to know that several people can still feel cold even if they stay together in a tent. It is really not a problem if it continues for such a long time at night. Everyone will catch a cold sooner or later.

In addition, if snowflakes accumulate too much, it is very likely to collapse the tent, making it extremely dangerous to fall asleep in the tent.

In this extremely cold situation, if a hot spring suddenly appears on this snowy day...

"It's time to go and have a look..."

"Yeah, right! So we have to go there and take a look! Let's go now, it's up there anyway!"

...

Braving the wind and snow, Ah Ling was almost forcibly dragged up the hillside.

Even though most of the snowflakes were blocked by the pine trees overhead, the layer of snow in the forest was at least ten centimeters thick.

In addition, this is no man's land, overgrown with weeds and bushes, and it is normal for the cold rocks to be covered with moss.

If you are not careful, you will slip and fall into the snow where branches and rocks coexist.

There are still some dangers on the way up.

But he couldn't hold back Sakakihara Suzu's excitement. Sakakihara himself also wanted to go up to see what the white mist was all about, so he found a random stick in the pine forest, poked it, and climbed up the mountain.

...

Some of the rocks on the road were too cold, but I had to use them as support to climb.

Occasionally, when he encounters some slightly dangerous places, Sakakibara Raku will ask Sakakibara Suzu to stay where he is, and then ask her to use the flashlight for him while he gropes forward.

As the two of them walked onto a gently sloping gravel field, the white mist floating in the sky in front of them became increasingly clear under the illumination of the flashlight.

The pine trees here began to decrease and were replaced by some huge and jagged rocks.

Before they were completely close, Sakakibara was sure... there was definitely a large area of ​​hot water in front of it.

"I just said there would be hot springs."

Sakakihara Suzu became more and more excited and her steps became faster and faster.

She was scrambling to climb up a boulder and move forward first.

"Slow down, girl!"

Sakakihara Raku saw his sister holding a flashlight from behind, and soon disappeared behind a boulder filled with white mist...

After two or three seconds, the light reflected by the flashlight on the surrounding pine trees stopped shaking, as if it had suddenly stopped.

Sakakibara quickened his hands and feet and climbed onto the strange rock that his sister had just stepped on.

He raised his head, and with the still light of the flashlight in front of him, he saw the wind and snow that continued to dance above the rugged boulder, and he also saw the huge air mass caught in the wind and snow, constantly rising into the sky.

The surroundings seemed to be a lot warmer, and the huge air mass in front of him made Sakakihara subconsciously open his mouth and exhale when he raised his head.

"Brother..."

Sakakihara Suzu suddenly stepped back and stepped back. She turned her head stiffly, looked back at Sakakihara Raku who was looking to one side, and yelled blankly.

"What? It's not a hot spring?" Raku Sakakihara felt something was not good.

"...No..." Sakakihara Suzu seemed to be frightened.

"Are there polar bears?"

"It's not a polar bear, come and see..."

Unable to resist her urging or his own curiosity, Sakakibara walked forward quickly and came to the same position as her.

Then I looked in the direction where her flashlight was pointing...

...

The unparalleled shock is like reaching the top of the mountain after going through countless hardships... The clouds and mist are rolling in at the foot of the mountain, and all the mountains and rivers are in view.

No... maybe I feel even more relaxed and happy now than then.

In front of you is a semi-open cave, and in front of the cave is a huge... fluorescent hot spring that looks like a magical lake in a fairyland.

The hot spring water glows with a slight green and blue brilliance. There is a steady stream of heat and snow floating in the sky above the hot spring. The gorgeous algae floating at the bottom of the hot spring are wandering around, emitting a soft and beautiful light green light.

The edge of the hot spring is covered with strange hot spring stones. When illuminated by the bright light of the hot spring, they are as beautiful and coquettish as gems at night...

This scene, this incredible scene...so much so that Raku Sakakihara wondered if he had picked up the wrong script...

The place where I was reincarnated more than ten years ago was not the earth at all, but a parallel world with magical power.

This cave...this warm hot spring...this dreamy scene...

It's really incredible.

...

Snowflakes were still falling in large swathes above our heads, and every snowflake that fell into the fluorescent hot spring disappeared in an instant... fleetingly.

The surrounding heat was rising, and there was a unique, faint smell of rotten eggs floating everywhere.

Sakakihara Raku knew that this was the smell of sulfur.

Sakakihara Suzu was so shocked that she couldn't close her jaw.

"...Here...this is...a hot spring?"

"It looks like it is. The smell of sulfur can't be faked."

"Why is it still... glowing here?"

Sakakibara thought for a moment, but had no idea, "I don't know, but looking at the green hot spring water, maybe a nuclear power plant was built here."

"Brother, don't be kidding me! Who would build something like that in such a remote place with no water?"

"Ha ha."

It is indeed a joke. Nuclear power plants need to be built in places with a lot of water resources. There is not even a river in sight here, and it is on a mountain. The color cannot be caused by radiation leakage.

"Well...that's true, but Aling, have you ever seen a glowing hot spring?"

Sakakihara Suzu hesitated for two seconds, looked at her blankly and replied: "...I saw it in my dream."

"This hot spring doesn't look very dangerous."

...

Neither of them could suppress their excitement and excitement.

After spending a hard night in the icy and snowy wilderness, I was so cold that I faced despair, but now I saw a hot spring that should not have appeared at this time. There is no doubt that this was after experiencing an extremely dangerous situation.
To be continued...