In the afternoon, the auditorium garden on the top floor of the villa, the light from the row of long and narrow round arched windows on one side is covered with deep red carpets, pillars with gorgeous reliefs, and white gauze swaying in the wind. curtain,
Different from the tranquility of the evening, the afternoon in the garden...
Brilliant and full of sunshine.
The angle of light, the flow of airflow, and the angle of shadow movement in the afternoon that is most suitable for sitting on the balcony. What many people don’t know is that the whole villa was originally built for one person to have the most perfect view of flowers. Garden of the sea.
Without the obstruction of tall buildings, the wind in the manor on the northern outskirts of the capital is more free. The balcony that happens to be covered by the shade of the garden, at this moment, the figure in the dark blue dress looks at the young man who has finally returned safely, and finally feels relieved.
"Welcome back safely, Fangran."
But hearing her say such words, facing the comfort and gentleness that really belonged to the elders at this moment, Fangran suddenly felt a little overwhelmed and felt apologetic. Part of her reckless behavior this time, more It was when he faced Shui Linlang before...
"that... "
"It's okay, you don't have to worry about it."
But before he even opened his mouth, Shui Linlang smiled slightly, indicating that he didn't have to feel sorry for the previous meeting, and then looked at the young man in front of him who had just recovered from a serious injury on the hospital bed, as if looking at a child who had run away from home and finally returned The same, with a touch of distressed tenderness in his eyes.
"Compared to that, how does it feel to travel alone in a foreign country?"
The moment she heard her question, she was slightly distracted. From the time when she forcibly expelled the uneasiness and got on the flight nervously, Northern Europe, Norway, Oslo... Enemies of unknown origin and the voyage on the icebreaker, trekking in the North Pole where no one is inhabited, let Fang Ran He lowered his eyes and smiled slightly.
"To be honest, it's more tiring than I imagined."
Shui Linlang stared at him, at this young man who was so attached to his daily life, but forced himself to board the plane to the North Pole with his own hands, saw him scratching his head with a bit of a smile and raised his head to look at the sea of flowers outside the balcony , but the line of sight has no focal length, as if looking at the ice sheet in the extreme north of the world.
"When I was trekking alone on that seemingly limitless ice sheet, I realized that I was more uneasy than I imagined. I was thinking about whether there was enough food and the energy of the life-support armor every minute and every second. Do I need to supplement, thinking about how far I still need to go, how much magic power I still have..."
Withdrawing his out-of-focus gaze, Fangran looked at Shui Linlang with a slightly wry smile, not knowing what expression to show:
"At that time, I kept imagining in my mind what kind of situation I should use when facing Zero Knight, and imagining various situations. In the end, I even began to suspect that there was really an Evernight Palace in front of me. Do you want to act, maybe all this is just my speculation, and when I get there, I find that no one is actually there."
Recalling the ten hours of wandering in the North Pole, maybe only sitting at the courtyard table like this, maybe only facing Shui Linlang, who knows everything and is an elder, can Fangran confide in himself so unreservedly All the unease at the time.
"but... ."
Falling into the icy sea, the moment when tears melted into the sea and felt boundless powerlessness and despair, the world suddenly turned upside down and the world changed. Back to Italy a hundred years ago, I recalled the beautiful time with that young girl. incredible time,
Fangran lowered his eyelids to look at the reflection of himself chuckling in the black tea in front of him, and stroked the pattern on the side of the teacup with his hands.
"feel good."
"In my divination, in the scene a hundred years ago, besides You Ye Angel, you also saw the Queen of the Nightless Palace of that era?"
Although one of the scenes had been foreseen for a long time, it was beyond Shui Linlang's expectation to really know that Fangran had entered a scene that went back a hundred years.
"Um... "
Speaking of the figure that seemed to be covered with a layer of light, Fangran nodded calmly.
"how do you feel?"
"I feel... not the perfect and selfless saint in religion, but a real human being who can stand at that height and possess... that kind of great personality that makes people look forward to."
Hearing Shui Linlang asking how he felt, Fangran let go of the teacup and recalled all the experiences of the figure he met,
Whether it is the scene or the reality, the meaning of the name 'Fanerlinyin' represents.
"It was almost a hundred years ago. At that time, I was a little girl who had just awakened my abilities. The queen once came to the night club once to meet my teacher for the war."
teacher...
Is it midnight...
Listening to Shui Linlang talking about the memories she knew, recalling the "sir" she heard from Le Guin, recalling the figure sealed by thousands of light locks in the narrow room, Fangran was slightly taken aback.
"She left a pretty strong impression on me, maybe I have been influenced by her since then, the queen always has the charm to influence the people around her..."
Smiling softly and talking about childhood memories, Shui Linlang looked at the young man who was a little different from before, and smiled slightly:
"Is not it?"
The memory in the narrow space of the battlefield, the gentleness of the profound wisdom displayed by the queen, and the mighty power of questioning the will in the bright torrent of the icy sea and polar night, Fangran can only admit with a smile, that is really true. What he has seen is even more glorious than those great men in the textbooks.
"Remember what I told you the first time you came here?"
Shui Linlang smiled, looking at the changed Fangran with glazed eyes.
"Those words about the primordial and learning to grow..."
Recalling the first time he came to this garden with Ye Sheng, Fangran sighed softly in a trance. That long night that happened so much made him hard to forget.
"The primordials don't have the awakening scene to directly acquire abilities, so compared with normal participants, they always have less determination..."
Thinking of the young man standing in the shadow of the evening that night, Shui Linlang smiled softly, then raised her eyes to look at Fangran at this moment,
"But now I have seen that determination in you,"
The voice is gentle but softly comforted by this smart child who knows that he has made a choice:
"You've grown up, Fangran."
Maybe it was a blessing or maybe a comfort, Fangran was slightly silent when he heard Shui Linlang's words,
Then he smiled with a slight sense of helplessness.
He looked at the bright and beautiful sea of flowers outside the balcony calmly in his eyes, let the gentle breeze in the afternoon blow the ends of his hair slightly, and said softly in a quiet trance:
"I just realized that night that just standing in the same place greedily and securely can't protect all the things I value."
On that overly happy bonfire night, everything he cherished was fulfilled by his side. Fangran only understood this truth at the moment when he saw the last light of the charging treasure go out.
With a slight wry smile on his face, he looked at Shui Linlang in front of him.
"Perhaps when you told me last time that I should take on the responsibility of protecting my senior sister, I should have understood this truth. After the first time I opened the door and left here, I was still thinking that if I encountered any danger again, I would go to I begged Ling to help me, but I never thought about it at that time, "
Recalling the delicate figure that was so high above her that people couldn't worry about her from the moment they met, Fangran looked at the black tea in the cup and sighed quietly in his eyes.
"What if Ling is in danger..."
I have never thought about what to do when the figure that is the origin and salvation for me is in danger...
"so... ."
Speaking of this, as if throwing away all the quiet and depressed expressions before, Fangran sighed heavily, regained his usual spirit, and smiled at Shui Linlang with his hands spread out:
"At least I want to move forward a little bit. I don't want to stand still. I don't know anything, and I can't keep anything."
Even if I think about the happy daily life of last month, it is peaceful and beautiful. I wake up lazily from the morning sun without any pressure or preparations, and I am incredibly happy.
But maybe it's just to protect the beauty of not having any sadness and everyone being by my side,
Only then do you need to make a decision to move forward.
To grow is to lose what you never lost, to gain what you never got.
In order to get the beauty that can protect this carefree, he is willing to choose to lose the stability and ordinaryness that he has never lost.
Have you grown up
I have grown up.
There is no value or not, only willing or not.
And a little regret...
After saying this with a chuckle, he realized that Shui Linlang had been watching him peacefully and gently. At this moment, Fangran felt a little embarrassed and ashamed, looked away, picked up the black tea, coughed twice, and cleared his face with serious shame:
"But... But it's still impossible for me to save the world, I can't do such a great thing..."
Shui Linlang smiled.
It seemed that he laughed happily.
"Is it because of this? It seems that Angel You Ye is really important to you,"
As soon as the words fell, Shui Linlang's eyes showed a deliberate tease.
"Do you like her?"
"puff!"
Fangran, who had just taken a sip of black tea, spit out when she heard her suddenly say such words, raised his head in a panic at the moment of coughing, and couldn't help trembling his brows and lips.
They all said that older people should not be so naughty! !
"Ahem, speaking of which, what happened to the time inheritance scene? Is there such an incredible type of scene in the night battle?"
Wiping the corners of his mouth, he looked at Shui Linlang who had lived for a century and was still teasing and gossiping, and looked at Shui Linlang and asked while holding his forehead in silence.
"But I still think my Lianxin is cuter, alas... although my naive granddaughter is too innocent and unaware."
"No! I'm saying that the timing of that scene was too coincidental. I've long wanted to ask about the various things I've encountered since my awakening. When I think about it carefully, what's going on with the excessive coincidence that feels abnormal?"
Seeing Shui Linlang who was still focusing on the topic of the younger generation's love, and even started to promote her granddaughter, Fangran hurriedly asked, wanting to bring the topic back,
"Why don't I tell you where her room is. You can use your ability to go to her room to have a heart-to-heart talk with her at night. Grandma, I have official permission to guarantee that no one will disturb you."
(╬╯◣д◢)╯︵┻━┻Listen to people!!
And if you are a grandmother, do you know what you are talking about? How can you be so tricky to seduce your granddaughter... Bah! I am not a wolf!
Seeing Shui Linlang who completely ignored her own question, picked up the enamel teacup and said these things with a smile on purpose, Fangran hesitated to speak, and finally resisted rolling her eyes from complaining about her elders, even if she didn't want to answer,
But Grandma Shui, do you dare not use such a strange method to prevaricate me.
Then when he was still about to say something, the sound of completely shattered lines growing out of thin air suddenly sounded, making Fangran's expression froze, and he took out the silver broken dragon tooth helplessly and sighed:
"It seems that this core can't hold on anymore. It seems to have been consumed too much in the North Pole."
Yaojiao opened the joints at the hilt of the slender and graceful silver dragon, and a transparent core full of cracks flickered dimly, as if it had reached its limit.
"It looks like it will take a lot of time to repair, and the senior night watchman who is in charge of the repair may have another headache."
Reaching out to take the transparent core with a damage degree of more than 90%, Shui Linlang looked at the various cracks on it and smiled lightly, then looked at the young man in front of him, because he no longer had the 'infinite' support of core activation, he was here. slowly disappear.
Can't you hear me...
The last thought before the two consciousnesses merged into one, and then Fangran looked at Su Qun who came in during the deadly battle between him and the alchemist to end the war and sent him back, opened the door and got in the car, and then The previous conversation with him went on to ask:
"Brother Su Qun, is your injury okay? Sister Hua Ling is willing to let you out?"
"There is no problem with the penetrating injury on the shoulder. The main reason is that the injury in the back involved the spinal nerves. But after resting for a whole month, there should be no problem. You don't have to worry."
Su Qun in front of him was still calm, reliable and serious. He was sitting in the driver's seat wearing sunglasses and a shirt with a straight collar. He had a cold and handsome male god aura. Fangran could already expect to enter the city and drive slowly In the streets, there are countless scenes of women with straight eyes.
"And you, how do you feel now?"
Hearing Su Qun looking at him and asking, looking at the silhouette of the capital getting closer and closer to the two sides of the speeding car, he smiled softly, making people wonder what he was answering.
"I feel a little bit of anticipation..."
The moment the voice fell, the black Audi was speeding towards the bustling city on the suburban road...
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An overly comfortable level of stability is invariable.
People only have themselves and will not change. They always need to move forward, constantly meet scenery and people, and their own steps are intertwined with the fate of others.
will start to change.
Looking at the broken and dim transparent core in his hand, the young man in front of him has disappeared. In the water mirror, he smiled softly in the car, made the decision to move forward, and became even more dazzling.
The water mirror changes into a divination astrolabe full of mysterious light spots, countless stars flicker on the illusory mirror surface,
Then, at the moment when Shui Linlang tapped with her fingertips, the dotted all-encompassing mysteries disappeared, and the countless stray light spots above the main star track were eliminated, and finally only the seven most critical ones remained on the top.
People only themselves will not change.
You always have to visit many places, meet many people, hear their stories and laughter, taste their lips and emotions, and then you will be slowly influenced and changed.
And those people you meet, those figures intertwined with your fate, are like keys to you,
Open up the rest of your life.
Thinking of the clear decision the young man had made in front of her just now, Shui Linlang smiled softly:
"Have you finally decided..."
Then she looked at the astrolabe formed by the water mirror in front of her, and the spot of light that symbolized 'change' was the same as 'strength' this time, and it lit up with no loss of light.
And the remaining 'keys'... .
The only one that can be compared with the two that have already been lit up, with a Qingcheng as the leader, the most massive 'bond' that connects the most figures is still slowly accumulating and growing,
The one that symbolizes the "past" is as quiet and unchanged as ever, and the one that symbolizes "collapse" is sprouting,
And the 'awakened' one hasn't recovered yet.
As for the end, it was Shui Linlang who vaguely felt that the closest thing was going to change.
The one that symbolizes 'love' is still so mysterious that she can't predict any trajectory, even whose shadow it is...