Lin Yuan's arm was completely disabled, so his training stopped and he was sent to the treatment cabin in the White Tower for treatment.
Although the Queen did not give the ruby as a prize, she gave a special reward to commend Lin Yuan for his contribution in opening the contaminated area of the Land of No Pupils.
It was an honor, an identity card that allowed one to take the direct elevator to the White Tower, submit an application to meet the Queen at any time, and enter and leave the palace freely.
When he came out of the treatment cabin, Lin Yuan received the reward and the exquisite card that allowed him to ride the elevator freely.
At that moment, the way everyone around her looked at her changed completely.
Shocked, envious, jealous, some people even started to fawn over her.
Such things can be considered infinite honor in the empire.
You must know that the Queen holds all power in the empire, including the dismissal of officials, the allocation of troops, and the control of finances.
But her face is rarely seen.
Unless summoned, no one, not even members of the royal family or important officials of the empire, has the right to request an audience.
There were only a few people in the entire empire who were qualified to actively seek an audience with the queen. How could it not be shocking that Lin Yuan received such a reward
Lin Yuan didn't have any special feeling, and she didn't understand why she was given such a reward.
Is it possible that I would take the initiative to enter and leave the palace just to challenge the queen in a battle
The only thing that made her miss here was probably the red gem pendant.
When seeing the shape of the stone, Lin Yuan always felt that it had some connection with the Box of Truth in his hand.
Unfortunately, I didn't get this opportunity.
It may be difficult to get it again in the future. After all, it is the queen's personal belongings.
The guide's recovery ability was not strong, and it took Lin Yuan a long time to repair his arm.
When I came out of the treatment cabin, it was already very dark.
It was raining heavily and it was past dinner time.
Xunhua held an umbrella to meet her at the door. Lin Yuan got out of the car and got under the black umbrella.
The rain was falling in dense drops, hitting the umbrella fabric with crackling sounds, and the whole yard was shrouded in a gray curtain of rain.
Lin Yuan walked forward with his head down on the rain-soaked floor tiles.
Beside him, Xunhua's half silver mask reflected a little metallic light in the dark rainy night.
"There has been some unrest at home these past few days. There have been a few waves of thieves."
Xunhua's low and cold voice sounded beside him, and her fingers in white gloves hooked out the golden pendant from his collar.
"Not ordinary thieves. I think they are after this or something in your house."
Lin Yuan noticed that he used the word "home".
The person who accompanied me walking in the pouring rain at night was not a real human being.
But he is his own family.
Ever since Xunhua moved in, her powerful mental power has been protecting the entire courtyard, and no one can really steal anything from the house anymore.
No matter how sharp their insight or how agile they are, those who sneak in quietly.
As long as they are interfered by Xunhua's mental power, they will not be able to find what they want.
Even if those things were clearly placed among the toys in Linyuan, or hung on the plastic wind chimes by the window.
But this is a signal that the night will be darker and the rain will be heavier.
"It's okay." Lin Yuan walked quickly in the cold rain. "Xunhua, I think you're right. I seem to have become stronger."
“I will become a stronger person.”
Guo Suo prepared a midnight snack for Lin Yuan.
"Ni Ji came here in the evening." Xiaosuo, who was not used to staying up late, yawned while sitting at the dining table. "He waited for you for a long time, but was later called away by a phone call. It seemed that he had to go on some urgent mission."
Lin Yuan hummed and carefully finished the food in front of him to replenish his energy.
Only after she returned to the attic, took off her heavy coat, changed into home clothes and lay on the soft bed did she come to her senses.
Found out after a whole day of tension, danger, fighting and injuries.
I actually felt a little regretful for missing out on such a small thing as having dinner with Ni Ji.
I broke the promise and didn’t have dinner with Xiaoyu.
Unhappy Lin Yuan turned over in bed.
She didn't hate this feeling. Such subtle little emotions made her feel that she was different from the cold Queen.
I feel more alive than she does, more like a real human being.
It was raining heavily outside the window, and the rain was flowing down the window glass like winding streams.
Lin Yuan, lying on the bed, quickly fell asleep to the sound of rain.
She had a dream to the sound of rain.
After returning from the Land of No Pupils, Lin Yuan hasn't had these chaotic and disturbing dreams for a while.
This dream seemed to be something that happened in childhood. Lin Yuan had already forgotten it, but the scene in the dream was particularly clear at this moment.
In the dream, it was also raining heavily outside the window.
When he was young, Lin Yuan was lying in front of the window, holding a paintbrush in his tender little white hands and painting hard on the notebook.
A female hand reached out and held her little hand.
"This is mom's notebook, Yuanyuan. You can't use it to draw." A gentle voice sounded.
Although he said no, his tone was doting and he didn't really mean to blame me.
Humans are smart when they are young. They are born with the ability to tell the true emotions of the people around them, and use this to judge whether they can continue to act like a spoiled brat.
"Just draw. I want to draw. Mom hasn't played with me for a long time because of this notebook." Little Lin Yuan pouted.
The warm hands lifted her up, held her high, and walked around the room.
Lin Yuan saw the toys and picture books that filled the room spinning before his eyes, as well as a smiling face that he could not remember clearly.
That's my mother's face.
Her mother placed her in a chair and handed her a brand new killer whale stuffed animal as a gift.
"Yuanyuan will play with the little fish first. Mommy and Daddy will go to the polluted area again and soon we will be able to spend more time with Yuanyuan."
The killer whale doll is brand new, round and plump, with a pink bow tied around it like a gift wrapper.
Xiao Linyuan was happy. She caught it with both hands, removed the bow, and played with and rubbed the killer whale toy on the table.
On the table, the graffiti-covered notebook was open, with a few lines of words written on the last page.
"Something is wrong. It seems someone is watching us."
"Where will this box be hidden?"
Lin Yuan opened his eyes on the bed. The rain outside the window had stopped at some point and the sky was about to brighten.
Everything in the dream faded, the bright toys on the shelves became old, I grew up, and my mother and father had been gone for many years.
The sky outside the window was gray, raindrops were dripping from the leaves in the courtyard, and there were occasional chirping of insects.
It's so lonely that it's sad.
At this moment, the tentacles captured a subtle and familiar emotional fluctuation, very close to here, just outside the courtyard wall.
Lin Yuan pushed open the window and stuck his head out.
Looking down from the window, Lin Yuan saw the sentry standing outside the courtyard wall.
He seemed to have run a long way, and he was dusty, with dew on his head. The slight breath from his mouth condensed into a light white mist in the air. He was standing on the slope outside the courtyard wall, looking up with his head raised.
The two people's eyes met and collided in the damp and cool air.
Lin Yuan had never seen Ni Ji with this expression before. The moment he saw her, he seemed relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then the black figure nimbly climbed over the wall, slid down the tall sycamore tree beside the wall, and rushed towards him.
The movement was as light as a floating shadow, and did not disturb anyone in the quiet morning.
Even Xunhua was not woken up.
Of course, the gardener might be pretending to be ignorant. Most of the time, he is the one who understands the ways of the world best in the family.
Ni Ji came downstairs and looked at Lin Yuan who lived on the fifth floor from afar.
He raised his arms and climbed up the outer wall.
With his agility and strong arms, he could climb up the smooth outer wall faster than Lin Yuan could walk up the stairs.
Lin Yuan stuck her head out of the window and looked at the sentry climbing up from the corner of the wall. Her soft black hair was blown to her chest by the breeze.
This suddenly reminded her of a picture book she had read when she was a child. It was about a princess in a high tower who let down her long hair and asked her knight to climb up from the bottom of the tower to find her.
The book is still on the shelf beside the bed.
Lin Yuan found it very interesting, and had a secret and special feeling in his heart.
It was as if I had become a character in a fairy tale.
In the dead of night, I met with a knight in secret.
A faint fish belly white appeared on the horizon, and the black knight climbed up to her window. He held the window sill with his black gloves, stood on the windowsill, and looked down.
Perhaps because he was facing away from the light, his eyes looked deeper and more delicate than usual, like thick amber.
There are some emotions hidden deep inside that I can't even find with my tentacles.
Lin Yuan's heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat, and that feeling made Lin Yuan feel very unfamiliar.
She invited Ni Ji into her room.
The sentry who climbed the wall and climbed through the window in one breath seemed to have lost his impulsive courage when he stepped onto the windowsill.
He stood on the windowsill covered in dew, but was unwilling to take another step.
"I just heard that you were injured in the White Tower?"
Ni Ji lowered his voice and whispered in the early morning, as if he was afraid of disturbing others' sweet dreams.
He looked at Lin Yuan carefully.
Ni Ji carried out a secret mission. After completing it, he returned to the White Tower and heard the sentries there talking about a battle that had taken place during the day.
Guide Lin was injured and lay in the treatment cabin for a long time.
Many people say so.
After hearing this, Ni Ji ran all the way, climbing over the wall and climbing through the window. It was not until he saw that Lin Yuan was fine that he finally let the uneasy heart settle down.
Ni Ji's fingers were tightly grasping the window sill, his feet were on the windowsill, and he had no intention of coming down.
It was as if I ran all the way and climbed up such a high window just to ask this question and then turn back.
Lin Yuan showed his hand to the sentry on the windowsill, "It hurts. The whole arm is broken, with several fractures."
Ni Ji subconsciously took her hand and got down from the windowsill.
He took off his gloves, pinched Lin Yuan's wrist with his fingers, squeezed the bones carefully, and turned his wrist, elbow and even finger joints.
For sentinels like them who have suffered countless injuries, they can easily feel whether the bones are injured.
In many polluted areas, they held each other's hands.
It was something I was used to.
The sentry's fingers were long and bony, with a little ice on the tips of his fingers. He pressed them on Lin Yuan's skin, gently rubbing the bones beneath the skin.
Lin Yuan felt his skin inexplicably itchy.
The sentry in front of him had his eyelashes drooped, his expression very focused.
The sky was completely bright at this moment, and the hazy morning light cast a fine hue on Ni Ji's amber eyes.
Lin Yuan had a strange thought, thinking that there was some unknown secret in her heart, which she couldn't even explain.
The Queen in the White Tower made Lin Yuan feel terrified, but also gave her a strange sense of familiarity. She always felt that the Queen was very similar to herself in some ways.
Perhaps they are all those who pretend to be human on the surface, but in fact they are very clear that they are different from most humans.
But at this moment, she felt that she was different from that Majesty. That Majesty seemed gentle and smiling, but in fact his spirit was cold and there seemed to be no life in his chest.
But there is a hot heart hidden in my chest, beating faster and faster, and my heart is pounding.
The two of them sat by the window after the rain, very close to each other, and Ni Ji's slender fingers held Lin Yuan's slender white wrist.
As if he had just realized what had happened, the sentry's ears turned slightly red in the cold air.
Last night, Ni Ji rushed around all night. The mission was secretive and difficult. He fought hard for a long time, and his body is still stained with the smell of gunpowder.
Yesterday morning, Lin Yuan met the queen with strong mental power in the White Tower. He fought fiercely and broke his arm.
The lives of both people are like walking on a razor-edge tightrope, full of dangers and headwinds.
But at this moment, holding hands by the quiet window and sitting together for a while, time seemed to slow down, the wind and rain stopped, and all the fatigue and loneliness were melted away by each other's body temperature.
Ni Ji told Lin Yuan that he had seen Roy in the White Tower.
Tell him what he had seen, the secret records left by Lin Yuan's parents.
"There are very dangerous things inside the White Tower." said Ni Ji.
"In the afternoon, I met Roy from your Special Research Department for the second time. He looked completely different, as if he had completely forgotten what happened in the morning."
Yesterday morning, Roy, who found the secret notebook, was still in a state of dismay.
In the afternoon, when Ni Ji and Ji Xuan met him again, he had returned to his previous nonchalant and carefree self.
Ji Xuan greeted him calmly, "Have you settled everything from this morning, Roy?"
Roy looked confused: "What are you talking about? What happened this morning?"
In just half a day, he had no idea what had happened and he had completely forgotten the secrets he had discovered.
Those notebooks that had troubled him for a long time and that he had held tightly in his arms in the morning, disappeared completely from his mind in the blink of an eye as if they had never existed in the world.
At that time, Ni Ji and Ji Xuan exchanged glances. They were both glad that they took the risk to peek into Roy's memory. Otherwise, even if they wanted to look at it, Roy would not have this memory in his mind.
"You must be careful." Ni Ji said to Lin Yuan.
"If, if there is any dangerous action, please take me with you."
His fingers tightened and clasped Lin Yuan's wrist.
I don't ask for anything else, I just hope that when Lin Yuan is in danger, I can be the one by his side.
On a cold, windy and rainy night, I hope I can be the one holding hands with you.
(End of this chapter)