Abstinence Pei, don't be too sweet when chasing your wife

When the morning light penetrated the tent, Gu Fanxing was awakened by the sweet scent of whale oil jam lingering on his nose.

Pei Luonan was squatting by the campfire frying eggs. "Olav said he would take us to a place 'only known to Icelandic elves' today."

Before he finished speaking, Olaf's hearty laughter came from outside the camp, and a moss amulet hung on his hiking pole.

The off-road vehicle rolled over the gravel-covered mountain road, and the scenery outside the window gradually became desolate.

Olaf suddenly slammed on the brakes and pointed at a black dome-shaped building on the lava plain in the distance. "We're here! This is the Aurora Observatory, built in a volcanic cave. It was a secret radar base during World War II."

Gu Fanxing pushed open the car door and was instantly shocked by the heat coming from the ground - it turned out that the land under his feet still retained the residual heat of the volcano.

Entering the observatory, the spiral staircase winds down, and the mottled bullet holes on the walls tell the history of the past.

In the observation room on the third floor underground, a giant telescope is pointed at the opening in the dome, and staff are adjusting a special infrared camera. "Ordinary auroras are seen with the naked eye, but this time we're going to see the 'invisible aurora.'"

Olaf mysteriously took out three pairs of special glasses, the lenses of which glowed with a strange purple light.

As dusk fell, an alarm suddenly sounded at the observation station.

"The geomagnetic index has exceeded the critical value!" The staff pointed at the jumping curve on the monitoring screen, "Hurry to the open-air platform!"

Gu Fanxing followed Pei Luonan up the stairs, and the scene before her made her hold her breath - the dark red light band was clearly visible under the infrared glasses, interweaving with the aurora in the normal spectrum, forming a double light curtain.

"This is an ionospheric anomaly caused by the solar storm!" Pei Luonan said excitedly.

Suddenly, he grabbed Gu Fanxing's hand and ran to the back of the observatory. "Olaf said there's an unopened lava tunnel here. Maybe we can see even more shocking sights!"

The entrance to the tunnel was blocked by an iron net, but Pei Luonan found that the lock had already rusted.

He pulled hard and the iron net made a harsh squeak.

"careful!"

Before Gu Fanxing finished speaking, a loose piece of basalt suddenly fell from above her head, and Pei Luonan reflexively threw her to the ground.

The gravel brushed past his shoulder and fell, sending sparks flying on the ground.

The tunnel was filled with a pungent smell, and the solidified magma on the rock wall showed wavy lines.

Gu Fanxing suddenly pointed at the rock wall and exclaimed: "Look!" A faint blue light flickered in the crack.

"It's volcanic fireflies," Olaf said, noting that they had caught up at some point. "Their light frequency is related to geomagnetic activity."

Just as they were marveling at the sight, rubble began to fall from the rock wall above their heads.

Pei Luonan immediately protected Gu Fanxing under his body and used his back to block the flying rocks.

"Don't be afraid!" he shouted in her ear, his warm breath brushing against her red, frozen earlobe.

Olaf waved his trekking pole to explore the way, and when the tip of the pole hit the ground, blue sparks flew - that was static electricity generated by the friction between volcanic gas and rocks.

A strange humming sound came from deep within the tunnel.

Gu Fanxing's special glasses suddenly glowed purple, and she grabbed Pei Luonan's arm in horror: "The light... the light is distorting!"

I saw the solidified magma lines on the rock wall flowing in the purple light.

Olaf suddenly stopped, his headlamp illuminating the ancient runes on the rock wall. “This is the sanctuary where the Vikings worshipped the Aurora Goddess!”

Before he finished speaking, the crack above his head suddenly widened and a dark red waterfall of light poured down.

Gu Fanxing felt her hair being pulled up by an invisible force, and the air was filled with a burning smell.

Pei Luonan quickly took off his coat and covered her with it, but the back of his hand was burned by the flying sparks.

When the first green aurora penetrated the rock wall, the entire tunnel turned into a maze of light and shadow.

The blue-purple volcanic fireflies flicker in sync with the aurora in the sky, and the hot spring water reflects the ever-changing light curtain, forming a four-layer overlapping illusion.

Gu Fanxing suddenly noticed golden fragments floating in the water. "It's lava gold!" Olaf excitedly scooped up a handful. "It only appears when the aurora resonates with the volcano!"

Pei Luonan suddenly pulled her to hide behind a giant basalt, and a hot air wave passed over her head.

Gu Fanxing looked at the bloody marks on his arm caused by the ice spike, and her eyes instantly became moist: "You are injured again..."

Pei Luonan smiled and wiped the mist off her face: "Such a wound is a medal given to us by Iceland."

At this moment, the aurora in the sky suddenly shot towards the ground, and exploded into golden fireworks the moment it touched the lava.

Gu Fanxing felt his fingertips go numb, and when he looked down, he was surprised to see light blue light patterns appearing on his palms - that was the trace of the combined effect of the aurora and the volcanic magnetic field.

"Let's go!" Pei Luonan grabbed Gu Fanxing's hand.

The flames spread across the lava floor but were extinguished by a sudden icy rain.

Olaf threw back his head and laughed. "Such is the temper of Iceland! Fire and ice are always fighting!"

He picked up a burning branch and drew a huge rune on the rock wall. "Legend has it that this will summon the Aurora Goddess."

A miracle really happened.

The light band in the sky swooped down and suddenly split into countless light points a hundred meters above the ground, like flowers scattered by a fairy.

Gu Fanxing opened his arms and let the glowing particles fall into his palms. The cold touch was fleeting.

Pei Luonan took out his waterproof camera and pointed the lens at her - against the backdrop of the aurora and the flames, she was more dazzling than any natural wonder.

On the way back, Olaf took them on a shortcut through a moraine lake.

The lake was covered with thick ice, but it looked a deep blue under the reflection of the aurora.

"Would you like to try something exciting?" the old man pulled out an ice pick from the trunk. "Let's dig a hole in the ice and fish, using the aurora as bait."

Pei Luonan and Gu Fanxing followed Olaf to break the ice, and the cold wind made their cheeks red.

The moment the fishing line was lowered, an incredible scene happened - a school of silvery-white fish swam following the reflection of the aurora, and their scales reflected rainbow colors in the light.

“It’s glacier cod,” Olaf reeled in excitedly. “They mistook the aurora for food!”

That evening, the observatory held a celebration banquet for tourists.

Cod roasted on the bonfire, sprinkled with wild juniper berries, filled the air with fragrance.

Gu Fanxing held up a wine glass carved from volcanic rock, which contained Aurora Blueberry Wine - this wine is only brewed when the aurora erupts and changes color with temperature.

"Cheers to the miracle of Iceland!" Olaf raised his glass first.

The wine tastes sour and sweet with a hint of smokiness, exactly the taste of Iceland.

Gu Fanxing turned to look at Pei Luonan, who was concentrating on recording something.

"Writing in your Aurora diary?" she asked, leaning closer.

Pei Luonan closed the notebook with a gentle look: "I'm remembering you. Remembering your eyes glowing in the hot spring, remembering your hair wet by the icy rain, remembering you..." His voice became lower and lower, but was interrupted by a sudden cheer.

Everyone pointed to the sky—the aurora erupted again, this time forming the shape of a heart.

Gu Fanxing felt her palms warm, and Pei Luonan quietly held her hand.

Witnessed by the aurora, the two people's shadows intertwined on the rock wall, as if they would never be separated.

Olaf secretly pressed the shutter button to freeze this moment into eternity.

Late at night, Gu Fanxing returned to the guest room of the observatory and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window for a long time, unwilling to fall asleep.

Pei Luonan brought a cup of hot cocoa with an aurora pattern drawn with cloudberry jam floating on it.

“Does today’s aurora resemble our adventure?” he whispered. “It’s full of surprises, yet breathtakingly beautiful.”

Gu Fanxing leaned on his shoulder and looked at the light band outside the window: "In fact, the luckiest thing is that every time I look up, I can see you looking at me." Her words made Pei Luonan's heart tremble. He lowered his head and kissed the snow crystals in her hair. The aurora outside the window suddenly became brighter, dyeing the whole room a dreamy purple.

This night, the heartbeat of the volcano, the whisper of the aurora, and two hearts gradually drawing closer together compose Iceland's most moving poem.