"You counted it, why, rest today?" Dr. Lu opened the door and saw Qi Leren with a sluggish face, and quickly let him in, "You came at the right time, I bought freshly baked small cakes for the afternoon Tea, haha."
"I took half a day off to come here. Didn't you say that the store closes early at night? And I can't find any other time. I'm always with Ning Zhou at night." Qi Leren said. He told Chen Baiqi honestly that he was going to buy an engagement ring for Ning Zhou, and asked her to keep it from Ning Zhou.
"Understood, you don't want to be separated for a minute, so you'd rather ask for leave and skip training, right?" Dr. Lu rubbed his arms, looking like a single dog who was hurt by a couple.
Qi Leren snorted: "Yeah, are you envious?"
Dr. Lu clutched his chest and fell onto the sofa, and said indifferently: "Tuuan dog, don't want to eat my little cake!!!"
"Are you still going?" Qi Leren urged.
"Let's eat first before leaving. There's no rush." Dr. Lu said.
Qi Leren was also a little hungry, and the high-intensity training always exhausted his energy quickly. The content of the training for the past few days is to sneak into the assassination. For some reason, Chen Baiqi invited an illusionist. The illusionist generously used his own skill card. That skill card can easily change the surrounding environment and shape it into a completely different Scenes, simulating different scenarios. Qi Leren is like a mouse being bullied by a cat, dying under the joint training of the two.
He can't think about training any more, he needs to take a break, Qi Leren thought.
Eating cake and drinking tea, Qi Leren sorted out his mood.
"I remember you are a doctor, have you studied psychology?" Qi Leren asked Dr. Lu.
"Ah, I've taken some elective courses, but I'm not very professional. What do you want to ask?" Dr. Lu asked.
"Actually, I am a little worried about Ning Zhou's mental state. He grew up in a very different environment from ours. His religion and education caused him to neglect himself, or he felt that sacrifice and dedication are what he should do, because every He was born with original sin and was born to atone for his sins. Except for falling in love with someone he shouldn't love, he has never done anything against his faith in his life." Qi Leren leaned on the sofa, took a sip of black tea, and slowly said to Lu The doctor said.
He couldn't find anyone to talk to about Ning Zhou's things that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time, and he didn't know how to help Ning Zhou, so he had to ask Dr. Lu for help.
"Original sin theory, I know. But Ning Zhou has been affected much more deeply than ordinary people, so the self-condemnation he has to bear when he chooses to leave the Holy See is very strong." Dr. Lu said.
"Yes, and his leaving the Holy See does not mean that he has abandoned his faith. He still believes in it. He just committed it knowingly after careful consideration. So he believes that he will fall into hell after death and be tortured in the lake of fire forever. It seems to us that this is just an illusory afterlife, but to him, it is a real existence. It is only because of love, he is willing." Qi Leren choked up, took a deep breath before recovering, "He can't It hurts to get rid of this hopelessness. Even if I am with him, this pain will always be with him, but I don’t know how to help him, so it’s sad.”
For Ning Zhou, this is not a love that brings happiness. It can be said that it brings tens of millions of times more suffering than sweetness.
But it has already been born, so it can no longer be parted.
It is already part of the soul.
"Now that I am back from the dead, it is certainly a good thing, but... there are really too many problems. There are many things we dare not talk about on the table, even if we all know that this will almost inevitably happen, yes Now Ning Zhou has his thoughts, and I also have my choice, once I open my mouth, I will never have such a happy and sweet time now." Qi Leren said.
If that day really comes, Ning Zhou, who is out of control, commits an unforgivable crime. Will he choose to kill Ning Zhou in order to maintain the world Ning Zhou loves, or choose to let him go and watch him go beyond recognition and change the world? Destroyed
In the dead of night, every time he thought about this question, he couldn't sleep anymore.
He secretly prayed that this day would not come, or before this day came, they would leave here and go to a place without people, such as in the semi-realm after his solidification, in a garden full of white roses Live the rest of your life.
Dr. Lu looked at him in confusion. He was ignorant of the domain and the original power. This was not a level he could touch, so he didn't know what Qi Leren was struggling with at the moment.
Facing Dr. Lu's suspicious eyes, Qi Leren said: "I'm still a little worried. Ning Zhou values me too much now, so much that I can't accept my injury, let alone death. So now I am very afraid of death. If I die , what should Ning Zhou do?"
This obsession supported him to survive so many difficult tasks, even in the projection of the domain of the Killing Demon King, he survived and even condensed half of the domain. But people's will and faith cannot resist absolute power. If the Killing Demon King at that time was not a small puppet clone, he might have died forever before he could even break through.
"You two...well, you think too much about each other. It's just a warm-hearted male character who always thinks of others without asking for anything in return. Fortunately, it's based on the basics, otherwise it would be like living a lifetime as a second male second." Lu The doctor thought out of his mind and sighed, "If people who are in love are like you who look forward and backward and think about each other, who would dare to fall in love and get married easily. If you talk like this, you will be 'married' for a lifetime if you talk about it. Unless one day 'widowed', it is absolutely impossible to 'divorce'."
"...can you say something auspicious?" Qi Le was speechless.
"Ahhh, I was wrong, I was wrong! It is impossible to be widowed! You two have been together for a hundred years!" Doctor Lu immediately covered his mouth after reacting, "Come on, come on, I will teach you how to fold paper roses, don't hit me!"
"Come to learn next time, let's go buy a ring first." Qi Leren was still anxious about the ring.
"Come on, let's go!" Dr. Lu jumped up from the sofa, and ran out the door in a hurry - he tripped over his shoes and fell to the gate. It seems that his self-training didn't help him get rid of the flat.
As usual, Qi Leren wanted to complain about his little friend, but seeing Dr. Lu's aggrieved expression, he swallowed his words back and helped him up: "Be careful too."
"Hey, there's no other way, it's natural." Dr. Lu touched the back of his head, and said with a little regret, "Maybe it was to balance my IQ, so God weakened my motor nerves when he created me. gone."
"Are you sure it's not to balance your luck?" Qi Leren asked back.
Dr. Lu touched his chin: "It makes sense."
"Don't rely too much on luck, luck is useless before absolute strength." Qi Leren advised.
"I know... I know." Dr. Lu lowered his head and muttered, "I also feel that I'm useless, always holding you back..."
Qi Leren comforted: "Everyone is good at different things. If you can carry, beat, and breastfeed, what do you need a companion for? Everyone is not perfect. Unlucky people like me have a certain level. You are still willing to play the dungeon with me, and I am very grateful to you. Since we are good friends, we must tolerate each other's shortcomings. Now I can see that you are working hard and making continuous progress. I am really happy."
Dr. Lu's eyes were red when he heard it, and he covered his face and quickly changed the subject: "Oh, let's not talk about this. That jewelry store is near the steel bridge, and it is a well-known old store in the town of Dusk. Uh, although it is only It has been open for more than 20 years, and I found out from Xue Yingying that girls like this kind of shop."
"Is it expensive? My budget is limited." Qi Leren became worried.
"It depends on what kind of ring you want."
While talking, the two walked towards the direction of the steel bridge.
After passing through the market and the steel bridge with people coming and going, the two came to the nearby business district and found the jewelry store deep in an alley.
The old shop owner used a small brush to gently brush the fine dust on the jewelry. When he learned of the purpose of the two people's visit, he pulled out a large glass box from the counter, displaying more than a dozen delicate rings inside.
Qi Leren dragged Dr. Lu to help him choose, while chatting with Dr. Lu.
"The custom here seems to be that the bigger the ring, the more representative the intention of marriage proposal, you should choose the biggest one." Dr. Lu said.
"Actually, I already have two rings." Qi Leren said.
"Ah? Really? Show me." Dr. Lu asked curiously.
Qi Leren took out two rings from the inventory, one was an exquisite sapphire ring——Ning Zhou put it in front of his tombstone, and ended this wrong love that could not continue. The other was a straw weaving ring, rough and ordinary—Ning Zhou put it on the dead man's hand, determined to continue this love that was destined to bring him countless sufferings.
"Young man, let me see this sapphire ring." The old shopkeeper said suddenly.
Qi Leren froze for a moment, and handed him the ring.
The old man raised the ring, observed it carefully under the light, and said quietly, "That's right, this one was bought from my shop."
"What a coincidence?" Dr. Lu said "Wow".
"Although I am old and my memory is not good, I will never forget such a beautiful ring." The shopkeeper reluctantly handed the ring back to Qi Leren, "That day, there was a man in the uniform of the Holy See The young man came to my store in a hurry, and I asked him what he needed, and he only said two words, a ring."
Such a scene could not help appearing in Qi Leren's mind.
Ning Zhou, who returned to Twilight after completing the mission of sacrificial witch, was anxious to go to Steel Bridge to meet him, but before going to Steel Bridge, he came here to buy a ring for marriage proposal.
"I showed him a lot of rings, and finally he chose the most expensive one. At that time, I told him that any girl who saw such a beautiful and expensive ring would agree to it without hesitation. Marriage proposal." The shopkeeper looked deeply at Qi Leren and sighed softly.
"A lot of things happened later, and this ring ended up in my hands, but... it wasn't a marriage proposal. He used it to say goodbye to me at that time." Qi Leren said softly.
The shopkeeper smiled, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper because of this smile, just like his cloudy but transparent eyes: "I'm afraid there is another story in that straw ring?"
Qi Leren felt his blood surge, and he couldn't help but look down at this rough ring. It looked so inconspicuous, even pitifully rudimentary, placed next to the sapphire ring.
But he loves this ring deeply, because hidden in its rough appearance is a person's sincere love to analyze the soul, which is so solemn that he dare not let it down.
"Later he used this ring to propose to me, but I failed to answer him. This time, I will take the initiative to ask him if he is willing to make a lifetime promise with me." The corners of Qi Leren's mouth raised A sweet smile.
"Originally I had a very good ring that I could introduce to you, but unfortunately it has already been bought." When he said this, the shopkeeper paused for a while, as if he was thinking about something, and continued after a while, "You don't need to buy anything. It's the ring, take out this sapphire ring, propose to your lover, and make the future that you couldn't realize before come true, this is the best ring."
"That's right, you already have rings, why are you buying rings!" Dr. Lu said in a daze.
"I misunderstood. I originally thought that I should buy a ring for Ning Zhou..." Qi Leren murmured.
But perhaps, this ring is the most suitable.
Originally, this fate was destined to end here, but it seemed that a pair of invisible hands brought them together again in the dark.
Ning Zhou didn't even know that the ring fell into his hands.
Qi Leren snickered, and said to the shopkeeper: "Thank you, I can save a lot of money now."
"You're welcome." The shopkeeper smiled kindly, and watched Qi Leren and Dr. Lu leave.
As soon as I walked out of the jewelry store, there was a meowing sound from the roof.
Qi Leren raised his head in response, and an overweight three-colored cat fiddled with a black card. Qi Leren raised his hand subconsciously, and the card was caught by him. He noticed the silver in the upper right corner of the card at first glance. Spades mark.
[Player Qi Leren, trigger the mission: Gang Empire. Please bring the invitation letter and a teammate, and go to the bar at No. 13 Willow Lane to start the mission after 3 days. Failure to arrive within the time limit is considered a mission failure, and 300 days of survival will be deducted.]