"Aren't you sleeping yet?" Qi Leren whispered to Ning Zhou who was lying beside him.
The lantern has been extinguished, but Ning Zhou still has his eyes open in this small space surrounded by the barrier.
"Can't sleep." Ning Zhou said.
"Me too." Qi Leren sighed softly.
The constantly beating system number has dropped from 1109 to 912. Every second, someone is dying. This anxious sense of urgency prevents the two from falling asleep peacefully.
"Let's sleep for a while, or tomorrow's spirit will be very bad." Qi Leren said.
"Yeah." Ning Zhou turned over and changed from lying on his back to lying on his side. The two looked at each other face to face. The light was too dim, and Qi Le could only see Ning Zhou's eyes, which was a kind of deep blue.
"I kind of miss the Twilight Land." Qi Leren whispered, "Although I haven't been away for a long time, I always feel... as if I left home for the first time. It's so strange, it's obviously not such a beautiful place."
But even if it is not a beautiful place, it is still a pure land on earth in this nightmare world. Someone tried their best to create a place for them to live in and call it "home".
Ning Zhou listened to him quietly, and sometimes responded.
"Actually, at that time, I also saw the letter you wrote to Chen Baiqi, and I wrote you a reply, but you didn't receive it..."
"The letter must still be at the letter exchange. I'll get it when I get back." The underground ant city still accepts and sends letters in a very old-fashioned way, and you need to go to the "post office" to pick them up. Ning Zhou hasn't been there since he sent the letter. After reading the reply, I naturally didn't know that I still had a letter that I hadn't received.
"Don't, don't, don't! Everyone has seen it, why are you reading the letter!" Qi Leren almost sat up nervously, his face was flushed, but he wrote in the letter, "I like that very much." A straw woven ring, I also want to give it back to you" Ah!
Although the two have connected with each other now, he is still embarrassed to let Ning Zhou see the letter. He would rather go back to the village of dusk and secretly buy a ring, and then on a beautiful day, on the beach under the sunset, propose to her. Ning Zhou's ring.
Before Ning Zhou could speak, Qi Leren asked again: "When is your birthday?"
"The day of establishment, the day of establishment of Twilight Township." Ning Zhou said.
"..." Qi Leren, an outsider, looked confused.
"December, the 22nd." Ning Zhou realized that Qi Le people didn't even know what day it was, and added another sentence.
"That's not far away." Qi Leren was overjoyed, it's been just a few months.
"Yes, how about you?"
"It's already passed." Qi Leren said his birthday, and said with a smile, "Let's celebrate it together next year."
"Um."
It was already late at night, and the two of them were talking without knowing each other, but they had already held hands together at some point. The temperature transmitted from the other person suddenly gave this cold and terrifying underground world a new lease of life. A gentle warmth.
Qi Leren fell asleep, but Ning Zhou did not. He looked at Qi Leren quietly for a long time, and then quietly let go of his hand.
Qi Leren, who had lost the warmth of his palm, grunted, trying to catch the lost warmth, but couldn't catch anything. Ning Zhou stood up cautiously, picked up the coat that was put aside, bypassed the sleeping Qi Leren, beckoned the Yu Ying who was parked in the corner, and quietly walked out of the barrier.
In the silent night, in the silent world, in this lightless underground ant city, the mist has not dissipated, and countless monsters appear from all directions, staring at this sudden person.
Ning Zhou didn't go too far, he stood on the roof, looking at an endless fog, like a giant dragon on a cliff overlooking the world. The language eagle was hovering in the sky, feeling the more and more demon pressure on its master, it quickly flew a little farther.
The continuous sense of oppression made the monsters start to be restless like low-level demons, but these ordinary monsters are not the objects that Ning Zhou cares about. From the moment he stepped into this land, he faintly felt the monster hiding here. It's a monster, but it's weird. In the middle of the night, its presence is stronger than in the daytime.
Yu Ying uttered a cry in the air, Ning Zhou understood the direction, jumped from the roof under his feet, landed on another eaves a few meters away, and ran towards the direction of Yu Ying.
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Qi Leren turned over half asleep, half awake, feeling dazedly that he was sleeping on a piece of warm grass, with lazy sunlight shining on his face, he was moved by this pleasant feeling, and didn't want to wake up at all.
But he still vaguely remembered that he was holding someone's hand, but now, in his hand...
"Ning Zhou?" Qi Leren woke up, sat up from the blanket, and looked nervously at his side.
It was empty, and Ning Zhou was no longer there.
There was a chill in Qi Leren's heart, and countless terrifying thoughts flashed through his mind, but when he saw the place where Ning Zhou had folded his coat before going to bed, he calmed down again.
Ning Zhou left by himself, and also took Yuying away. As for where he went and what he did...
Qi Leren also put on his coat, walked to the boundary of the barrier and wanted to go out, but when his hands touched the barrier, it was like touching a piece of cold glass—Ning Zhou set up a two-way barrier.
Qi Leren stood there blankly for a long time, his mind was in a mess, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
He knew that it was impossible for Ning Zhou to leave without saying goodbye, especially when they were still on the same mission, but a strong sense of loss still dominated his heart.
Wait, wait for Ning Zhou to come back and ask him.
But I asked... so what
Qi Le returned to the paved floor, took off his coat, and got back into the blanket.
In such a small enchantment, he couldn't hear the sounds from outside, and didn't know what happened outside, but he could imagine.
Perhaps in this vast, foggy catacomb, a black dragon flies through the air, spraying its breath of destruction along the way...
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The black dragon landed on the edge of the roof when it came, and the destructive power gushing out of its body was burning its soul. It endured this inhuman torture, prostrated itself on the ground, and waited for the terrifying power to subside gradually.
As he expected, there is indeed a terrible monster hidden in the mist. It is like a black swirl swamp, constantly engulfing this chaotic world. As it encroaches on the world, the surrounding fog becomes thicker and thicker. And a steady stream of monsters gushed out from its body. It is like a huge monster factory, producing these strange monsters.
This is not the weirdest thing, the weirdest thing is that there is a woman wearing a court dress in the middle of the swamp, she seems to be born in this swamp, but she has no feet, but is suspended above the whirlpool, with a pair of flowing dirt Bloody eyes stared at the dragon in the sky.
There are almost no monsters in human form, so what is that woman
The magic dragon didn't think about it, but sprayed the dragon's breath of destruction towards the monster's lair. Fortunately, the power of destruction can also destroy it. Although the continuous demons brought some troubles to the dragon, it finally destroyed the lair, together with the woman.
With the collapse of the monster's lair, the surrounding fog began to gradually dissipate. The monsters who survived by chance did not know fear, but their intuition made them flee one after another, escaping into the thin fog without a trace.
The magic dragon flew back to its habitat, and the remaining will prevented it from breaking into the enchantment it had set up to wake up its sleeping lover, but curled up next to that enchantment, suppressing its own instincts, time and time again. Tell yourself carefully: You are not a devil, don't do unforgivable things.
Don't hurt your lover.
But there was a voice in the depths of the soul, snickering mockingly, it didn't speak, but Ning Zhou knew what it wanted to say. He silently resisted this instinct, endured the pain of his soul being dug out, and slowly waited for himself to suppress this irresistible temptation and turn back into a human being.
The cold scales were fading away quickly, and he returned to his human form. Ning Zhou leaned against the wall, looked at the mist in the distance like the tide receding, and looked down at his hands.
It was still a human hand, but the nails that hadn't changed from sharp to round were telling him what he really looked like not long ago.
No matter how many times, he would never like himself like that. He deeply hated the giant dragon that symbolized destruction. It was ridiculous, but he couldn't resist its power.
The more you want to save, the more you will fall into the abyss of destruction.
He knew very well that unless one day he could put aside everything, close his eyes, not see the destruction of the world by the devil, escape into the valley of the hidden world, and stop listening to this devastated world, the hypocrisy of the years Jinghao will soothe the anger and sadness in his heart, make him no longer need power, and naturally he will not be attracted by his own original power.
But can he do it
He can't do it.
Ning Zhou turned his head and looked at the hut where he came out. In the enchantment under the low eaves, his lover was sleeping.
He is nostalgic for this world, just like he is nostalgic for his lost and found lover.
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Ning Zhou walked lightly into the barrier with Yu Ying. It was pitch black inside, but he could see Qi Leren curled up in the blanket with his back facing him, breathing slowly, and seemed to be still asleep.
Ning Zhou carefully took off his coat, got back into the blanket, and suddenly heard Qi Leren's voice: "Where did you go?"
At this moment, Ning Zhou was even more nervous than when he was facing the monster's lair. This tense state could not be concealed from Qi Leren. Waiting for his answer.
After a while, Ning Zhou's voice came from behind him: "Can't sleep, go out for a walk."
Qi Leren didn't come up in one breath, almost turned around and lifted Ning Zhou up to give a lecture: Who the hell would wander around in such a dangerous place in the middle of the night? And come back with a murderous look
But after all, he didn't shout out, instead he asked himself: What can he do with Ning Zhou
Wake him up, take him with him, and let him watch himself transform into a dragon under the domination of destructive forces? This is cruelty to him, and it is even more cruel to Ning Zhou. No one wants to let the person he loves see himself in a mess and out of control.
In the final analysis, he couldn't do anything for Ning Zhou. Instead, he wanted Ning Zhou to do everything possible to hide it from him and not let him worry.
A sense of powerlessness surged into Qi Leren's heart, making him feel extremely tired. He knew that Ning Zhou would only suffer more and be more tired than him. So he endured the inexplicable grievances and sorrows in his heart, silently wiped away the wet traces from the corners of his eyes, turned around, and carefully held Ning Zhou's cold hand, but did not open his eyes, and did not look at the guilty forbearance on his face.
"Go to sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow."
They know it well, but quietly hide all their worries and worries. They are cautious, but do their best to maintain this hard-won peace and warmth, more than anyone else, they cherish it more than anyone else.
The two people clasped their hands and prayed in the bottom of their hearts at the same time, may there be no time limit for such a happy time, and may the people who love each other never be separated.