Just when Ran Tianyou decided to give up resistance, the vague outline of the royal city finally appeared in his sight. The lights were lit one after another to form a holy white lotus, which also ignited the hope in his heart. The winged demons that had been chasing him seemed to have received the order, and suddenly gave up on his goal and flew away in the opposite direction.
This happened to be a God-given opportunity, but Tianyou used his last strength to order the Winged Demon to rush towards the Sparrow Hotel. At this moment, his consciousness had already stagnated. The sealing crocodile's skin was already thick, and the battle exhaustion had left his body severely dehydrated. He felt that his whole body The person seemed to have been drained.
His withered body seemed to be suddenly released, and the layer of skin that had been binding his movements and even expressions was suddenly removed by someone. He was put into the warm liquid, and the fragrant milk tea slipped into his mouth drop by drop. The milk tea relaxed his tense nerves when he was escaping. He was immersed in the fragrance of the milk tea, unable to extricate himself, and fell into a deep sleep. .
Under the huge cherry blossom tree in the courtyard of his hometown in Japan, his sister Ran Susu stood there wearing a white kimono with pink flowers, and an exquisite hair accessory on her head. He remembered that he bought it for her. She still looked sixteen or seventeen years old, and her delicate face was even more beautiful than the cherry blossoms in full bloom.
Hearing his footsteps, she turned around slightly and gave him a bright smile, saying, "Brother, why are you still at home? Didn't you make an appointment with Keiko to enjoy the cherry blossoms?"
"Oh, I'm going out right now!" Ran Tianyou said, touching his hair.
"Don't keep Keiko waiting for too long. Although she doesn't say it, she cares in her heart." Ran Susu came over and straightened the collar that was not turned down for her brother.
"Hey, are you dressed and ready to go out?"
"No, I just want to take a photo with this tree."
"Has the date to return to China been set?"
"Yeah, brother, I'm not here, you have to take care of yourself!"
Ran Tianyou really wanted to talk to Ran Susu more and express his deep longing for his sister over the years. But this dream was just a memory of the past. After he remembered it, he left home and went to enjoy the flowers with his future wife, Yamaguchi Keiko.
But his sister's voice sounded behind him. Her voice sounded relaxed and happy.
"Brother, you have done enough for me! Live your life well! Take good care of Keiko and Mingzhu!"
He knew that these words did not come from past memories. Did his sister entrust them to him in a dream? She seemed to want to give him freedom, but she didn't know that the heavy shackles on him were exactly what he had imposed on himself.
"Dad! Dad!"
The girl's voice overlapped with that of her sister Ran Susu, and they sounded very similar, which also brought him back from his dream. He slowly opened his eyes, and for a moment he thought he had seen his sister again, but when he took a closer look, he found that the one calling him was actually his daughter Ran Mingzhu.
"Pearl?" He heard his own voice coming out of his throat, dry and hoarse.
Ran Mingzhu's face was full of tears, and she dove into Ran Tianyou's arms. She always thought that she had been separated from her father since she was a baby, but there was no sense of alienation between her and him. This is the father-daughter relationship. The love between flesh and blood.
However, Tianyou stretched out his hand to touch his daughter's hair, but he was worried that he was still wearing the skin of the sealing crocodile, and the monster's sharp claws would easily cut off his daughter's soft hair. But he soon discovered that what was stretched out was his own hand. When he was unconscious, they had taken off the sealing crocodile's skin for him.
"God bless you, brother, you're finally awake!" A short middle-aged man wearing a yellow robe appeared in his sight and said with a smile.
"Qingji!" However, Tianyou recognized it as the hotel owner at a glance.
"Let's not ask what happened to you. It's good that you can come back safely. You don't have any serious injuries. It's just that you consumed too much mana in a short period of time, which led to physical exhaustion." The tone of the hotel owner and his expression Equally relaxed, looking at his smile and listening to his words, Lingran Tianyou seemed to be able to forget what kind of life and death test he had just experienced.
"Where is the Winged Demon who escorted me?" Ran Tianyou suddenly thought of his men and asked.
"I placed that monster in the old warehouse. I was afraid that the guests would be frightened when it came to the room. I only asked the Xiaohua sisters to do simple treatment for its injuries. After all, I don't know how to treat such a monster. ah."
"Thank you, brother!"
"That pair of cat demon siblings came to help your daughter. Since then, your daughter has become good friends with the cat demon sister and brother who work here."
At this time, Ran Mingzhu had calmed down a little. She raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face so that her vision could be clearer and she could take a clear look at her father. Compared with the photo, he didn't change much. It seemed that time had stopped on his body. She didn't know that this was the effect of the magic.
"I knew it was you who I bumped into in the secret passage that day!" Ran Mingzhu said as she turned her gaze to the ugly skin of Feng Crocodile and the clown mask still in the corner of the room, "You are unconscious When you were there, the hotel owner told me what you have been through over the years..."
"Alas, years of hard work and careful planning have all come to nothing. Alas..." Ran Tianyou sighed, but quickly cheered up again and said, "But I finally escaped alive. For I can meet you and your mother."
"She's been waiting for you."
"I know Keiko's character."
"I have informed Xiao Leng. He came to see you once when you were in a coma, and he should come back later." Ran Mingzhu reached out and held her father's cold hands, letting them gradually warm up in her own hands.
"You two siblings already know each other?" Ran Tianyou was a little excited and tried to get up from the bed, but his body couldn't find the strength.
"Well, we have experienced some things together."
Hearing this news made Ran Tianyou feel particularly gratified. What he had always hoped for was that his daughter could fight side by side with his nephew and become each other's strength, just like the continuation of him and his sister Ran Mingzhu, but the difference is that they will finally win.
"That's good. I have a lot to tell you two, but dad is really tired right now. Let me take a rest! Go check on the Winged Demon for me and see if there are any other Winged Demons following. Find here." Ran Tianyou said as he stretched out his hand and drew a charm on his daughter's palm.
The spell seemed to pass through Ran Mingzhu's palm instantly, seep into her body, and blend into her blood.
"It's a magic talisman." She shouted.
"Yes, with this magic talisman, you will be able to communicate with the Winged Demon smoothly. Of course, only if I obey the orders of my Winged Demon." Ran Tianyou reluctantly smiled at his daughter and closed his eyes.
"Okay, you go and do your work first. I'll ask the kitchen to make some good soup for your father to drink later. He will regain his strength immediately after taking care of it!" The hotel owner patted the reluctant Ran Mingzhu. advised.
"Well, that's up to you!" Ran Mingzhu said gratefully.
"Leave it to me!" The hotel owner nodded.
Ran Mingzhu came out of the room arranged by the hotel owner for her father and ran all the way to the old warehouse in the backyard. The cat demon siblings were still guarding the winged demon who was recovering from his injuries in the warehouse.
Seeing her appear, Yu Xiaohua sighed and said, "You're here now. This guy is getting more and more restless. I don't know if it's because of his injuries or because he's thinking about your father."
"Look!" The cat demon boy stretched out his arm. There were a few red blood marks on it. At a glance, it was clear that it was scratched by the winged demon's sharp claws.
"Let me see!" Ran Mingzhu grabbed the outstretched arm of the cat demon boy and bit her lip out of distress. Some black liquid overflowed from the wound scratched by the monster, which seemed to be some kind of poisonous substance. "Is your wound poisoned? Do you feel anything?!"
"I just feel numb, and I don't seem to have any strength." The cat demon boy blinked his eyes and replied. He couldn't even pick up his hand, but he was still secretly happy in his heart, because besides his parents and sister, he couldn't even lift his hand. Few people care about him so much.
"I'm going to ask my father if the poison is okay." However, Mingzhu was just about to turn back to the hotel when she heard a shrill scream coming from the old warehouse. The sound was so harsh that the three of them couldn't bear it. She covered her ears, then thought about it and said, "I might as well go and ask the monster directly!"
After she finished speaking, she plucked up the courage to walk into the old warehouse. When the monster saw her coming, he raised his head and shouted unfriendly at her, and tried to attack her. However, she did not dodge, but stretched out the hand that her father had inserted into the magic talisman just now, and directed her palm towards the Winged Demon.
"Quiet!" she ordered in her mind.
The winged demon really no longer showed a fighting state, but slowly calmed down, and its voice appeared in Ran Mingzhu's mind.
"Owner."
"Is the wound you caused on that boy's arm poisonous?" Ran Mingzhu thought this feeling was very strange, and there seemed to be telepathy between her and the Winged Demon.
"Yes!" The Winged Demon answered immediately.
"How to resolve this poison?!"
"You need my saliva, please reach out your hand."
Ran Mingzhu frowned. The thought of using her hands to catch the saliva of this ugly monster made her skin crawl. However, thinking of the poison the cat demon boy had been poisoned, she still did it.
The Winged Demon opened its flat mouth, stretched out its long and thin tongue, and dripped transparent saliva from the tip of its tongue. Its saliva was not disgusting as Mingzhu imagined, but closer to a gel-like substance with no taste. But very cold.
After getting the saliva of the Winged Demon, Ran Mingzhu shouted outside the warehouse: "Who is that, come here quickly, I will detoxify it for you!"
"I don't call you that person, my name is Yu Xiaoli!" The cat demon boy walked in with a pout.
"Give me your arm!" Ran Mingzhu ordered.
The cat demon boy stopped talking and obediently handed his arm to her, allowing her to apply the transparent gel-like substance that she got from nowhere on her arm.
He originally thought that when the thing came into contact with the wound, it would be very hot and painful, and he gritted his teeth. Unexpectedly, the reality was not what he imagined. The gel was applied coolly on several wounds on his arm, instantly resolving the original pain, and the gel itself seemed to be alive, swimming in the wounds, and then began to appear. Smoke came out of the wound, and the smoke smelled exactly like the poison he had just been poisoned with.