On the quiet night of the Nesera festival, a bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the frosty moonlight quietly falls on the streets of Cerro City.
The small balls of light that danced like fireflies on the streets gradually dimmed and disappeared one by one, which also represented the end of the Nesera festival this year.
In the hotel room, the two adults and one cub lying on the same bed are now asleep. In addition to sleeping in the middle, the mermaid cub nestled in the youth's arms occasionally moves its tail fins. There was no other movement.
The darker the night, the more conspicuous the moonstone's serene brilliance will become. The oval gemstone that Xie Luan carried in his clothes pocket is now showing a faint shimmer, which is in harmony with the frosty moon outside the window. Hua seems to form an echo.
In the legend of the mermaid race, the moonstone will play an incredible role when it is given to a lover as a token of love.
Xie Luan heard this rumor, but like everyone else, he just regarded it as a story that gave the gem a beautiful meaning, but now he seems to have actually experienced something unexpected.
After lying in bed and falling asleep, when Xie Luan opened his eyes again, what he saw was not the familiar scene in the original world, but a very dilapidated and barren scene.
There are broken walls and ruins all around, and the damage to the building is so high that it is impossible to see what it originally looked like.
The sky was so gray that there was not a trace of blue, the wind blowing through the city brought bursts of sand and dust, and the barren scene was endless...
The planet is like dead.
In this ruined scene, Xie Luan stood there for a while and didn't move. He hadn't figured out what was going on until he saw a white cub lying alone in the ruins.
Xie Luan recognized this cub.
Although this cub egg was white, it was different from the color he remembered, but Xie Luan could still recognize it.
And it was because of the recognition that Xie Luan had some clues about his current situation.
Approaching the white baby egg, Xie Luan couldn't touch it, he could only stand here as a bystander.
But at the moment of approaching, Xie Luan's heart was suddenly filled with a strange feeling, not belonging to him, but belonging to this cub.
As if sharing the perception of the world, Xie Luan can now indirectly experience all the feelings of this cub, including being alone in this barren ruin...
It's a very indescribable feeling.
This cub, which was born in the eggshell, has not yet broken its shell, and can already perceive things in the outside world. Although it has not broken its shell, this cub is conscious and has a very clear perception of the outside world.
The dozens of layers of defense devices protecting the baby egg had completely failed after the severe impact. Next to the baby egg was a string of silver necklaces of unknown material. Xie Luan lowered his head just to see this The ring on which the necklace is strung is engraved with the words "Yai".
Still in a state of ignorance and ignorance to the outside world, this cub stayed in this ruined ruin, and could only wait very quietly.
Waiting for a broken shell to be born, or for someone who will come to this place and pick it up.
I never knew that this cub had a clear perception of the outside world since then. Xie Luan wanted to pick up this lonely cub and touch it, but he couldn't do it.
This place should be the spiritual domain of this Knox, which is Xie Luan's judgment based on various conditions.
As for why he entered here, Xie Luan thought about it, and now he can only think of the legend about the moonstone in the mermaid race.
This baby egg spent a day or two in this barren ruin...
After waiting quietly for a long time, this planet, which can be said to have become a ruin, welcomed a group of visitors, and at the same time, it was also the Covenant troops who searched for this cub from the ruins.
Being found, this should have been a good thing for this baby egg, but since the baby egg was found, through shared perception, Xie Luan gradually felt more and more negative emotions.
It was heavy, shrouded like a shadow, and weighed heavily on my heart.
The perceived negative emotions of others towards him will gradually turn into something extraordinarily cold. With the accumulation of this negative emotion, Xie Luan saw that the shell of this cub's egg gradually changed from white to black.
The flow of time sped up unknowingly, Xie Luan looked at the later experience of this cub almost like a slideshow, but he couldn't see the end.
Because of watching, the world in front of Xie Luan kept getting darker, and finally fell into the darkness of invisible objects.
This blackness is the darkness that resides in this Knox's heart.
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At the moment when his vision completely fell into darkness, like a long dream, when Xie Luan opened his eyes again, he finally returned to the original world.
Taking a deep breath, Xie Luan sat up from the bed.
Since passively established a spiritual link to communicate the two worlds, Xie Luan has become more and more homeless on the side of the original world.
But anyway, with Xie Luan's current reputation, even if he only accepts one sketch a month, he still has a lot of spare money to spend, freelance work, it can be said that he can live as much as he wants.
The trip every two or three months has also been canceled. Since he doesn't live with his family, the only thing Xie Luan's recent seclusion has caused is to treat him as a brother and pay attention.
In fact, Lu Yuan didn't pay much attention to this at first, but he always remembered that on the winter solstice about two months ago, when he was sent by the second elder of his family to deliver dumplings to the young man, the other party asked him if he could drop by the bookstore next to him. Buy a copy of "Parenting Book" -
If it was to give a gift to a friend who gave birth to a child, Lu Yuan felt that it should not be a "Parenting Collection", and it was even more impossible to give it to relatives, which made Lu Yuan's mood very complicated at the time.
If it wasn't for the calm and natural expression on the young man's face when he took the book, Lu Yuan would have almost blurted out to ask if the other party was hiding something from him.
After getting up and finishing himself, Xie Luan sat in front of the computer desk and opened his Weibo while enabling the drawing board.
In addition to painting business drafts, Xie Luan usually completes some paintings according to his own inspiration or personal preferences, and uploads these paintings to Weibo.
"My wife's recent paintings are all cute things, and I have no resistance to plush. Of course, the little mermaid and crayfish are also very cute. I call my wife every day!!"
"I always feel that L's painting skills have improved again. I don't know how to say it, but I feel that the recent paintings are very lively..."
"Squat for a while, I want to see more cuties."
When Xie Luan saw the word "crayfish", the hand holding the sensor pen couldn't help shaking slightly. He knew that this comment was actually referring to the Muka cub.
This cub looks different from the crayfish, of course, but seeing the name, Xie Luan had to admit that it was partly similar.
Some time ago, when Xie Luan returned to the original world, he often used drawing boards to draw cubs in the branch.
Originally, Xie Luan just habitually uploaded non-commercial drafts to Weibo, and didn't think about doing much, but his Weibo fans unexpectedly bought it.
In addition to depicting the appearance of the cubs, Xie Luan painted many pictures that he considered to be commemorative, such as the three little fat chubby wearing medals standing up on the podium with their hairy little ones. The picture of the chest is another example of the picture of the Kuti cub being carried by its father for parent-child activities.
This time, Xie Luan originally wanted to draw a scene where a little mermaid with an ice blue fish tail and short light blonde hair sings on the reef, but because of the accident he just experienced, Xie Luan finally started to draw on the digital screen. A fluffy, round cub with two small horns on its head.
The vertical pupil is also round, this cub looks very round and easy to touch, the posture of the body rounded makes this cub look very good, and the two small horns on the head also make people feel very cute.
This is not the first time Xie Luan has drawn this Knox cub. After uploading the sketch to Weibo, Xie Luan quickly received a series of new comments.
"It's so good. The last time I saw L's big painting, I really liked it."
The following comments are also similar. Xie Luan looked at the comment area of this Weibo, and his eyebrows were really stretched at this time.
Although separated by a world, these kindnesses probably cannot be passed on to each other, but they do exist.
I still want to convey these kindnesses indirectly. When Xie Luan woke up in the hotel room in Cerro City, he first hugged the mermaid cub who was still in his arms, but was already awake and was looking at him with blue eyes. Put it back in the small pool to restore function, and then Xie Luan walked to the silver-haired Knox who was standing nearby.
Without speaking, Xie Luan just stood still and gently hugged the person in front of him.
Before reacting to the action, Yayi's vertical pupils shrunk slightly and wrapped his silver tail around the youth's waist. This was Knox's most instinctive response.
Emotions appeared on his cold and handsome face. This Knox lowered his eyebrows and carefully hugged the human youth in front of him.