"Xiaoyuan..."
The battle has begun, and Lin Yuan seems to still hear Nicole's anxious call coming from the wind.
I can’t die this time, Lin Yuan thought to himself, otherwise that guy will cry for a long time.
In the past, she would be happy if someone was willing to cry for her, but now it is different, now she is a little afraid to die casually.
I was afraid that Nicole would be sad, and I didn’t know how to face Yunluo, Rachel and the others, as well as Xiaosuo Xunhua at home.
Now I know what concern is.
Ni Ji has already faced the mutant species, and Lin Yuan stepped on the killer whale's back and entered the battlefield.
The monster was huge, with no emotion on its human-like face. Its cold eyes looked down from the high sky, and its giant green abdomen and wings covered most of the sky.
Its emotions are very calm, without any malice or hatred, and its murderous intent towards humans comes entirely from physical instinct.
It sleeps here, and it seems to start like a killing machine only when humans pass by.
The attack was swift, cold and merciless, and when the pair of giant, cold sickles were swung, not even a shadow could be seen.
There were several extremely sharp sounds of breaking through the air.
Even the space seemed to be distorted in an instant. The small black figure of the sentinel flashed a few times and retreated far away, leaving a long scratch in the sea of flowers and splashing countless purple and red petals.
Ni Ji avoided the first wave of attacks, but the Ferris wheel behind him was cut diagonally from top to bottom like tofu at some point.
The fracture was smooth and even. After a moment, half of the huge Ferris wheel slowly slid and fell into the sea of flowers.
Lin Yuan rode on the back of a whale and entered the battlefield.
It's tricky, this mutant doesn't seem to have a biological brain.
It is huge, but its mood swings are minimal, making it extremely difficult to capture. Its attack power is so strong, and its speed is as fast as a ghost.
But the sentinel who cooperated with him was Ni Ji.
Since returning from the Land of No Pupils, Lin Yuan has not cooperated with Ni Ji for a long time.
During this time, she tried to fight with many different types of sentinels. They were all powerful warriors in the empire, each with their own strengths. But no one could give her the unimpeded tacit understanding she had with Ni Ji.
The emperor who sat high on the top of the White Tower once told her that sentinels were ants, tools and playthings. As long as you were good at controlling them, everyone was the same and there was not much difference.
You have to get used to working with soldiers from different arms.
Lin Yuan had tried it himself and felt that what His Majesty said was not the truth, or that His Majesty himself had never obtained a sentinel that truly suited him.
In the most dangerous and urgent battlefield, this difference in coordination can be described as a world of difference.
At this moment, she could fully feel Ni Ji's running, breathing, and excitement.
You can even feel the pulling of his muscles, the contraction of his pores, and every bit of his overflowing emotions.
When Ni Ji was running, she felt that she was running, too. When Ni Ji jumped high, she felt that the earth was far away from her.
Attack! The blade cuts deep into the crust.
Defense. The enemy's blade made my wrist numb.
There seemed to be a bloody mark on his skin caused by the wind blade, and Ni Ji felt pain.
Lin Yuan was clearly far away from the monster, but the huge, pale face was right in front of him, clearly visible in every detail.
It was as if his breathing and his perception were one with him.
This is a sense of tacit understanding that cannot be achieved with any other Sentinel, no matter how powerful the opponent is.
Ni Ji was like an extension of her senses, a part of her body.
It's her hands, her eyes, and her knife.
They raised their eyes at the same time, faced fear at the same time, felt pain together, felt excitement together, and even their hearts beat at the same frequency.
She took over the Sentinel's eyes, emotions, and perceptions.
It can allow Ni Ji to concentrate highly at the most critical moment, shield his pain and fear, and feel the danger and harm on his behalf.
She faced the monster with Ni Ji's eyes, and Ni Ji observed the overall situation with her perspective.
Lin Yuan grasped the enemy's slight emotional fluctuations. Even if the tentacles of her mental power could control the enemy for half a second, her knife - the sentinel - would be unsheathed without hesitation and accurately defeat the enemy.
They almost entrusted their lives to each other. At the most critical moment, they trusted each other's abilities unconditionally.
Such battles are exciting.
The flash of swords and the shadow of sabers, blood and sweat, huge monsters and beautiful flowers.
The edge of a sharp blade, a slight difference, is the difference between life and death.
My heart tightens and my hair stands on end.
For Lin Yuan, this dangerous and deadly excitement was a pleasure.
Maybe only a madman would think like her. Fortunately, there is another person in this world who is exactly like her.
Someone whose body and mind are exactly the same as her feelings, and who is 100% compatible with her.
They are all born warriors and should live on such a battlefield.
This feels so good.
So much so that not even death can drive it away.
The bone-colored long sword drank Ni Ji's blood and turned into a strange red blade. Slender red light flashed densely around the huge body of the deformed species.
The green wings were cut off.
A masked head fell from a height.
Then there was a strong arm whose forelimb transformed into a sickle.
Even so, the monster, which was missing its head, wings and one arm, was still standing in the sea of flowers, feeling no pain, and rushing back and forth.
The rolling knife light cut deep grooves on the ground.
Ni Ji stepped back suddenly, and knife shadows fell from the sky in dense masses, vowing to nail this tiny figure to the ground before his broken body fell to the bottom.
The killer whale swung its tail and charged, knocking the incomplete but still movable strange body away from behind.
After the whale's head charged, it turned in mid-air. Lin Yuan stepped on the whale's back. The strong wind blew up her long hair. Her pupils shone brightly with golden light, and countless tentacles swarmed out from the shadows.
The sentinel stood up and fought again.
Until the huge body finally fell to the ground, crashed into the sea of flowers, and stirred up a cloud of dust.
Ni Ji landed on the ground, supported himself with his knife, raised his face, the purple light in his eyes still lingering.
Lin Yuan jumped off the killer whale's back and looked into the distance.
In the direction where Nicole and her group disappeared, a dazzling light the size of a star appeared on the horizon.
The sun is rising!
Lin Yuan didn’t know whether Nicole and the others had safely arrived at the next shelter bunker.
But she knew that it was too late for her and Ni Ji.
The sky brightened almost instantly.
The twilight line that harvested life swept across everything on the ground and rushed towards them.
Lin Yuan and Ni Ji looked at each other.
The sentry, who had just finished a fierce battle, was panting, with blood mixed with sweat dripping from his forehead.
Their eyes met for only a brief moment.
"There is space underground." Lin Yuan said to him.
This mutant emerged from the crack in the ground. Its body is so huge that even if the ground collapses, there must be a gap underground.
While Ni Ji was concentrating on the battle, the tentacles dived into the ground, following the thought fluctuations of the moles, insects and snakes, and found a space deep underground that was large enough for two people to hide.
As long as Ni Ji still has time to dig the hole.
The sentinel did not hesitate for a moment at this time, and did not even look at Lin Yuan again. Without saying a word, he took his killer whale and dug down to the location pointed by Lin Yuan.
Leaning against the base of the Ferris wheel, the cold seat stone touches my back, bringing a hint of coolness.
She remembered that when she first entered the land of food pandas and saw the sun rise for the first time, the little food panda that didn't have time to run back did this.
He hid at the foot of a tall sculpture, relying on the sculpture's huge projection to delay his death.
But it only bought him a moment of time. The process of dying was even more painful than being burned to death instantly.
The twilight zone that symbolizes death is approaching very quickly.
The grass leaves turned yellow and curled up, and the delicate flowers burned into a ball of fire. Large groups of butterflies and fireflies flew up from the sea of flowers, trying to escape desperately after the fading night.
No one could escape the light. All living things in the world were caught up by the golden line of death, and their souls turned into ashes under the scorching sun.
Lin Yuan leaned against the base of the Ferris wheel and heard the sound of grass and flowers burning behind her. As the scorching wave came, she shrank her body into the shadow.
She knew she shouldn't think about anything else at this time.
But it's so similar to that time.
The surroundings were as blindingly bright as they were then, with flames burning everywhere and the smell of burning filling my nostrils. I was also curled up in the corner, sitting there.
I am no longer the child I was back then, Lin Yuan told himself in a cold voice.
The red flames flickered, and the crackling sound grew louder and louder. The scene in front of me began to shake uncontrollably.
Before my eyes was a sea of flowers, the remains of a huge monster, a wooden floor, a small toy house, and the legs of an adult running towards me.
It's so hot that one feels like melting.
"Xiaoyuan..."
"Yuanyuan... Dad and Mom..."
A voice was heard in the illusion.
After waking up a little, Lin Yuan staggered to stand up, his hands and feet were weak and he couldn't control the strength of his body.
"Do you know what I regret most?" Xunhua's face, half covered with a mask, suddenly appeared. "It's that I didn't tell her what was in my heart."
Yes, we can’t make mistakes at this time.
I haven't said anything yet.
I still have something to tell Ni Ji.
Lin Yuan steadied himself and came to himself. At that moment, the bright white line of dawn and dusk passed by him, and there was a dazzling white light all around.
The Ferris wheel behind her cast a shadow, covering her and buying her a little time to survive.
It was too hot, and sweat soaked her eyes. Through her blurry vision, she saw Ni Ji's figure emerging from the ground and flying towards her.
He made a small arc and rushed into the small shadow just before the sunlight hit him, and hugged Lin Yuan.
The terminator passed by, and the earth was scorching hot.
The huge body of the Ferris wheel blocks the sunlight, and the shadow it casts is the only small isolated island in the white world.
The area of this isolated island is shrinking rapidly.
The two people hugged each other, and there was no way to retreat in the small shadow.
Ni Ji quickly took off his sentry uniform and put it on Lin Yuan's head.
The Empire's sentinel uniforms are made in a uniform manner to adapt to the sentinels' dangerous combat environment. They have excellent stretchability, wear resistance, and high temperature resistance.
Ni Ji turned over and wrapped Lin Yuan's head and face with his coat, then picked Lin Yuan up.
At this time, the shadow area had become extremely small, and the heat wave almost baked the skin.
They were only a few steps away from the cave entrance, but just these few steps led to a hell like lava that was difficult to cross.
The body of the killer whale suddenly appeared in the sky at that moment. Its huge body cast a long shadow on the ground, connecting the escape passage between the Ferris wheel and the cave entrance.
Ni Ji ran in the shadows.
Lin Yuan was in his arms, and a small space formed between the sentinel's chest and clothes, and Lin Yuan was protected in this space.
Leaning against the strong chest, she heard the whale let out a cry of pain and smelled the smell of burning protein in her nose.
It feels like going back to the past, being held in my mother’s arms and running through the fire.
This horrific memory that was deeply rooted in her childhood memory made her tremble all over and her hands and feet became weak.
But she knew this was not the time for her to tremble in fear. If Ni Ji couldn't hold on, she would have to take over Ni Ji's body immediately, just like she did back then.
Erasing his pain, he controlled himself to run into the dark cave.
Never let him fall, never.
Things actually happened very quickly, and thoughts only flashed through my mind in an instant.
Lin Yuan leaned against Ni Ji's chest and heard his thoughts coming to him.
"No thanks," he said.
"No need for you. I can run there myself."
The distance was extremely short, and at Ni Ji's speed it would only take one or two breaths.
But Lin Yuan seemed to feel that the breathing became extremely slow. She was held in those strong arms, passing over the hot ground in the shadow of the killer whale's body, and rushed into the deep cave in one breath.
The two people fell in and rolled all the way to the bottom of the cave. At the bottom of the tunnel opened by Ni Ji, there was a huge empty space.
Lin Yuan's judgment was very accurate. The space here was winding and open, cool and not stuffy, just enough for taking refuge.
The sunlight only cast a tiny bit of foam in front of them and could no longer burn them.
The two men climbed up from the chaos, and Lin Yuan, wearing a sentry's coat, sat in the dim and cool underground.
The fire, the running... it's all over.
More than ten years ago, when everything stopped, a young girl came out from the snow and pushed the man who had been carrying her all the way.
The man was motionless, his charred body curled up in the snow and no matter how hard we pushed him, we couldn't wake him up.
“Mom, wake up…” Little Lin Yuan stood in the snow, but no matter how he shouted, he couldn’t wake his mother up.
At this moment, Lin Yuan blinked.
There was still fire and running.
She sat in the cold cave. The sentry beside her lifted the clothes over her head, and seeing that she was fine, he smiled at her.
It's all over, it's in the past.
There will be no more fire, running, relatives who cannot be woken up, and the young and powerless self.
There is only one sentinel who smiles at him.
He looked so handsome when he smiled, and I didn't know why my heart was pounding.
Ni Ji lifted up his coat and checked Lin Yuan from head to toe to see if he was injured.
Only when he saw that Lin Yuan was covered in mud but unharmed did he smile a little.
He looked very miserable, his gloves were burned into tattered strips, his face and body were covered with burns, and even more serious was the stinging pain caused by the damage to his mental body.
But Lin Yuan is fine.
As long as Lin Yuan is fine, it's okay.
Finally, there was that one time when I protected her.
Ni Ji raised his fingers and touched Lin Yuan's face. He didn't touch her and fell down.
He fell into the cold cave, barely raised his fingers with torn gloves, held Lin Yuan's fingers, squeezed them gently, and comforted her.
"I'm fine. Just take a break..."
(End of this chapter)