In the vision shared by Haiji, there was a strange scene in the entire town that had been completely enveloped by the unknown darkness. All the people seemed to have lost their souls, and suddenly everyone turned into crazy thugs!
It was like a plague, and all the people who were 'infected' by that pitch blackness were all trapped in a strange state of fanaticism and madness.
They screamed, laughed, howled, picked up whatever they could hold, and crazily destroyed everything around them, including people. They ran around without meaning, doing the craziest atrocities they could do.
,
But his eyes were lifeless and unnatural as if he were dead.
Such a scene made Fangran shiver from head to toe, and what made him feel that this was scarier than a horror movie was...
This should be the history of the town at this point in time.
"Fangran..."
And in her arms, Ling grabbed the corner of his clothes and whispered his name, suddenly calling Fang Ran back to his senses, who was looking at the town and feeling frightened.
"It doesn't matter. This distance is almost safe. Let's go down."
The black eyes dispersed, not wanting the girl to feel scared because of the scene just now, Fangran smiled at her as if nothing happened, and floated downwards with Ling in his arms.
"Well... let's stay here tonight. Well... it seems we have to find a place to buy two new horses tomorrow."
Fangran let go of the girl in his arms, looked around at the surroundings, took out their carriage from the black box, scratched his head in embarrassment, and smiled sheepishly at Ling and said:
"I'm sorry, Ling. I wish I had listened to that priest and left earlier after we found someone."
"But forget it..."
Speaking of this, Fangran sighed helplessly, then blinked his eyes and smiled at Ling:
"It's getting late, let's go to bed quickly. Staying up late is not a good habit. Okay, okay, let's go to bed quickly. We have to find a place to go fishing tomorrow."
After saying that, Fangran also opened the curtain and mosquito net, yawned and planned to get into the carriage and renew their relationship with Duke Zhou.
Then a small hand stretched out from his long sleeve and grabbed the corner of his clothes.
"Fangran, aren't you going to save them?"
Fangran, who was about to climb into the carriage, stopped, and some unbelievable and simple questions sounded clearly behind him,
It broke his mask easily.
"Ah haha... What did Ling say all of a sudden? How to save them..."
Although he just pinched the corner of his clothes gently, there was a resistance that he could no longer get into the carriage, so Fangran could only scratch his head, turned around and replied with an embarrassed smile:
"I'm not familiar with them...and..."
"Liar..."
Then he was interrupted by the girl's soft words.
"Fangran, you are a big liar."
Ling, who was wearing a Gothic skirt, took a step back angrily and dissatisfied. She stared at Fangran with her big eyes and expressed that she didn't want to go to bed.
Interrupting his lie, she pursed her lips as if to make a fuss, looked into his eyes with her light golden pupils, and shouted:
"The Fang Ran I know is a kind-hearted, hopeless idiot. He will pay twice as much as the price to buy things sold by old people at street stalls. He will talk about boredom and run to the passing fields to give people to people.
help!"
"I will give food to people I don't know, and I will lend a helping hand to people who have fainted! It is obvious that you don't need the things you buy or the specialties you get, and there is no benefit at all, but you always like them.
Idiots who do unnecessary things!”
She yelled in a low tone of anger. Ling bit her lip as she watched Fangran's voice drop in frustration, her big light golden eyes filled with unhappy moisture.
"It's not... meeting people who will die without saving..."
For some reason that even Ling herself didn't know, she felt that Fang Ran, who just pretended not to be able to see...
Very annoying.
The young man who listened to the girl's words suddenly turned around and saw Ling in front of him, and was stunned for a moment.
Then he gave up slightly and sighed bitterly, smiling bitterly.
He knelt down in front of Ling, who was angry for some reason, and looked straight into her eyes without any more perfunctory and covert words:
"I...actually am not as kind-hearted as you said, Ling. The little money and food are insignificant to me, and those heavy tasks are easy for me. Even the bad guys who push ordinary people to desperation are just things I can deal with easily.
guy,"
"In the final analysis, these are just self-satisfaction that I do when I make sure that I have the margin and ability to do it."
It was no longer clear whether he was explaining to the Ling of this era or the usual Ling. Fangran rubbed his face and said with a bitter smile:
"Maybe I could still be like you said when I was young, but now I am actually just a selfish guy who wants to protect the people around me."
After all, Fangran put away his smile and looked at the girl in front of him seriously, and said calmly:
"An unknown situation happened in that town that even I in this state felt was dangerous. I can't take you with me as easily as I can in Milan,"
Exhaling softly, he gently pressed Ling's delicate shoulders and smiled and explained:
"I can't let the people around me endure the dangers that may happen tonight because of some unrelated people. I'm here to at least guarantee your safety under any circumstances..."
"Fool!"
"Ling..."
"Fangran...you idiot..."
"not me..."
"Fangran, you big idiot!!!"
The throat was stuck, and for some reason the girl shouted angrily. Fangran opened her mouth and was about to explain again, but was completely interrupted by Ling shouting in front of her.
"Why lie, why say such things against your will!"
Some kind of dissatisfaction, some kind of unhappiness, some kind of feeling that it shouldn't be like this,
Rang Ling watched Fang Ran shouting out her inner feelings. She pursed the corners of her upward lips, raised her light golden moist eyes and looked at Fang Ran who was still very stupid and didn't know why she was so awkward:
"Fangran, you obviously can't bear to watch so many innocent people die in front of you! You can save them even if you want to save them! Why do you pretend to not care! Why do you stubbornly stay with me!"
"With the weapons you gave me, Haiji and Mullin, I can obviously protect myself, and you can always keep an eye on my situation. Even if I encounter any danger, you can appear in front of me instantly.
, you clearly told me before!"
The words of explanation suddenly became useless. Subconsciously, Fangran still regarded Ling of this era as a child who needed to be protected by him, forgetting that she was actually very smart, whether it was the use of future weapons that he taught her or accidental
He said in a bragging tone that he could teleport using the [Run Card].
She clearly remembers,
His lies were exposed immediately.
"Because Fangran, you told me that there was someone you wanted to save that put me in danger in the future...?"
Fangran looked completely stunned, looking at the girl in front of him and not knowing what to say.
Ling is much smarter than he thought.
"Fangran, you idiot! Why do you take all the responsibility on yourself? Why do you think it must be your fault?"
Ling's clear eyes stared into Fangran's eyes, and the words she shouted were filled with crying distress. The words she asked made him unable to answer. He was stunned and thought of the ice sea in the North Pole, and the same eyes Ling was looking at him.
eye.
-'Whether I helped you or anyone else that night, I was free to do so. The grudge against Night Palace is my own business. Don't be pretentious and think it's because of you.'-
"Because what happens in the future is not your fault at all. Just let go of what you want to do, force yourself to stay with me, force yourself to pretend that you don't care, and then you are self-satisfied now!"
"That's not the Fangran I know, that kind of Fangran..."
The overflowing emotions finally turned into a shimmering substance in the corner of her eyes. Ling's hands in her long sleeves grabbed the hem of her skirt. She lowered her head and finally explained in words why she suddenly got into trouble.
Biting her lip and feeling sorry for the young man, she held back the cry of grievance and made a weak voice:
"I do not like."
My eyes widened, the moment I heard this sentence,
The mind is blank and lost in thinking.
Then some kind of feeling that finally dawned on me slowly surged into that blank space, because my own incident on that hot night in the city led to Ling's crisis in the Arctic Ice Sea.
It made Fangran blame himself and become anxious. Even if he saw the scene like that just now, he forced himself to harden his heart and turn around and leave, putting Ling's safety first.
‘With the feeling of wanting to protect the important people’
'When you think this way, have you considered the feelings of the person you want to protect?'
I feel sad for him, I feel aggrieved because he pretends not to care, and I feel like I want to protect him while being protected by him.
Looking at the girl holding the hem of her skirt and pursed her lips tightly, even though there were tears in the corners of her wronged eyes, she still stared at herself stubbornly,
Fangran finally understood why Ling didn't tell him when she left...
He slowly closed his eyes. The moment he thought of the answer, he also felt aggrieved and distressed.
In order to protect your daily life.
"Sorry...I'm too stupid..."
"There are many things...I don't understand..."
He opened his eyes again. From the moment he rushed out of the bonfire party at Beijing University to the end of sinking into the ice sea, all the anxiety, restlessness, self-blame, regret, and all the emotions that were weighing on his heart seemed to be heard by the words of the girl in front of him.
At the moment of release, Fangran lowered his eyes and spoke softly with a weak and tired expression.
"But thank you, Ling."
But this time he smiled, not pretending.
That was the smile that disappeared from daily life from the moment I rushed out of the campus gate.
"I learned something very important and almost made a mistake on something."
With such a restless mood, even returning to that ice sea would be impossible.
He couldn't help but stretched out his hand and hugged the girl in front of him tightly. Just like that rainy night in Milan, this time he felt warmth and relief.
His eyes were hot, and he rubbed the girl's hair vigorously,
After a long absence, Fangran felt the usual relaxation again.
With wishful thinking and the determination not to think about why Ling did what he did, he distorted his thoughts and even did things that he could never imagine in the past...
You are not Night Crow, nor are you some ruthless A-level big shot...
Fangran, you... almost don't look like yourself anymore.
Heat continued to gather in the eye sockets, and the sobs that wanted to cry were brewing in the throat. The urge to cry that had been hidden under all the pressure since the night of the bonfire party was finally swept away.
"It doesn't matter, Fangran..."
Ling also stretched out her hands and hugged his back. Tears welled up for some reason. She bit her lips and choked out the words that Fang Ran always comforted her.
"You can definitely take the future me back. If you ignore you... don't tell you... if you are mean to you, then it must be just me making trouble... you hug me... then I will definitely
I will listen carefully to your explanation..."
"Um..."
She laughed out loud for some reason. Fangran let go of Ling and wiped away her tears. Then, Night Patrol, who seemed to have grown much taller, slowly appeared on his body. Looking at the girl, her moist eyes were slowly filled with darkness.
Man, couldn't help but laugh softly.
"I just don't know if I will be so stupid, can't speak, and don't understand the girl's mind very well. Because I have concealed many things and made you so angry, Ling, will you be able to speak properly..."
She raised her long sleeves and grabbed a corner of his night patrol cloak with her slender hands. The girl with reddish eyes raised her head and spoke unhappily and seriously:
"Don't speak ill of my important people."
Wearing a huge dark cloak, the moment her black eyes widened slightly, the girl quickly let go of the hem of his clothes, and then pursed her lips and added:
"Also, Fangran, you have to come back soon."
Fangran's stunned expression was broken by this sentence. A heartfelt sense of relaxation and a long-lost sense of omnipotence surged out of Fangran's heart. When he waved his hand, he summoned Mullin and let him jump on Ling's shoulder.
"What do you need to say? Your Majesty Queen, don't forget,"
A confident and cheerful smile aroused in the young man who bowed his head slightly. It was not an explosion of being pushed to the limit, nor a determination of cold thoughts. It was probably like the unrestrained and high-spirited him in that scene in the capital!
The dark eyes glowed, and the emotions in his heart turned into words of promise. The second before the dark figure took off and turned back, Fangran took a deep breath and chuckled firmly.
Chapter completed!