Everyone longs to be a creature that soars in the sky, even if freedom can no longer coax children, the sky already has limits.
Break the invisible glass.
From beginning to end, the desire to soar in the sky is just a disguise for this obsession.
What we yearn for has never been "freedom."
——Huiying
The shaking "bed" woke Lan Ruxin from her two hours of light sleep. The morning breeze blew over the old injury on her neck, bringing back the long-lost pain.
Lan Ruxin blinked and used her fingers to part her hanging hair. Under the morning light, her slightly trembling eyelashes were shining with crystal starlight.
Silently raising her hand, the fingers protruding from the glove caressed the unforgettable knife wound. Lan Ruxin glanced at the two beds with water hanging in the carriage, which looked like cages protecting them.
Lan Ruxin was stunned for a moment, and a woman's roar, accompanied by the word "cage", broke into her mind without warning.
("We are all caged birds!!!")
"Bird in a cage."
That voice came from one of the turning points in her life, the words of a traitor.
Lan Ruxin leaned against the carriage wall and looked out at the newly awakening mountains and forests outside the carriage. The morning light scattered, awakening the sleeping bluebirds, singing softly in the stream, seducing the memories of the past.
The traitor's code name is "Morning Eagle", and her ability is micro gas explosion. As long as she can touch an object, she can directly detonate the air in the gap between it and achieve the purpose of physical destruction.
She died in a one-on-one confrontation a year before Yun Luoyan joined.
Lan Ruxin took out the folding knife she had always carried with her from her black leather jacket. The knife that reflected her face was once stained with the blood of "Morning Orioles".
Before "Morning Eagle" was exposed, Lan Ruxin had always had a known characteristic and would not kill traitors.
At that time, she had just celebrated her 20th birthday. For Lan Ruxin at that time, she valued her companions who had been together through life and death for many years. Even if they were ordinary soldiers under Wutong, she would choose to give them as "gifts"
The method is left to her sister to handle. For her, this is her kindness to them.
This benevolence and righteousness even became the cage she gave herself. The "deaths" of her former teammates were only caused by her sending them out of the iron bars. She would ensure the safety and lives of those inside the cage.
Whether they are moles, traitors, or spies, as long as he has not left this "cage", he will never let their lives be threatened.
Until that day, the former captain of the "Flame" unit and one of her most beloved sisters, "Morning Eagle", was killed by her own hands inside the cage.
("I am already your enemy! I can only live in the identity of "spy"! Like a nightingale singing in a cage!")
"I wonder how Nana is doing now..."
"Morning Eagle" once raised a nightingale, and she often looked at that nightingale in trance. The relationship between them was so good that they didn't need a cage to separate each other.
But "Morning Orioles" often emphasized to Lan Ruxin, who praised them:
("Nana (the nightingale's name) is still in the cage.")
("That cage is me.")
After people have done something wrong, they will always leave messages to others inadvertently or even subconsciously. They are afraid, but they also hope that others will discover them and even punish them.
Self-explosion is a disgrace to faith, that is another prison.
Finally, when countless evidence pointed to her, she invited Lan Ruxin out and fought her with a ferocious traitorous face. However, even if she held the folding knife against her chest
However, Lan Ruxin chose to control her instead of inserting the knife into her heart.
("Death is our release from each other!!!")
The dagger still tilted its blade downwards and got stuck in the bones of Lan Ruxin's neck. At the same time, Lan Ruxin's instinctive desire to survive also caused Lan Ruxin to stab the blade at the same time.
("Peace of mind...just go ahead with your plan...I didn't, didn't tell...")
When she was dying, "Morning Eagle" rested on Lan Ruxin's arm and used all her strength to get into her arms.
("Sister... break the cage of all of us...")
"I will, a cage for all of us..."
Since then, Lan Ruxin has had the habit of touching the scar when killing. She is still the caged bird who will not kill the traitor, but in an unknown place, the ten people who once belonged to Wutong have gradually become...
Six people today.
Lan Ruxin played with the folding knife, looked at the falling sky outside the carriage, and took a deep breath.
In the opposite direction of her route, Ye Lanxin was wearing a windbreaker that he had taken from Lin Shuwen, planning a route under the strange gazes of his subordinates.
Because of being transferred to the magic pit, Ye Lanxin had to avoid the powerful Lan Ruxin while seizing the time to go to other destroyed communication base stations to join her subordinates. If it weren't for the communication from her father, she wouldn't have done it for that so-called
Insurance specially went to the entrance of the canyon.
However, judging from the results, after several days of encounters with serious generals and serious injuries, Lan Ruxin would most likely choose to return to her base camp to rest and recuperate, while Ye Lanxin would be disappointed because of the material reserves prepared in advance.
She didn't need to rest at the same time as her. Taking advantage of this time, she chose to join her second unit, the aftermath unit not far from the northwest of the canyon entrance, the "Christmas Rose" (Flower Language: Love in Memory).
Originally, this unit was arranged here by her to annihilate the scattered enemies fleeing from the entrance. In order to ensure smooth communication throughout the canyon, Ye Lanxin established the communication base station in a circle centered on the base camp at the Qianjia Ruins in the center of the canyon.
Above, the communication base station where "Christmas Rose" is located is also the smallest among all communication base stations because it is close to the entrance of the canyon.
The "Christmas Rose" aftermath team is also mainly composed of individual soldiers and single-group operations. It is a special operations force created by Ye Lanxin based on the "Shadow Kill" action model. Each group of members can reach the "Garden"
Captain-level combat effectiveness.
""Tiramisu" stays here to heal and take command. "Bianan" and I are going to meet the "Haizhi" team. You keep going to the No. 6 communication base station as quickly as possible."
Previously, Ye Lanxin, Yun Moyin and others went to the entrance of the canyon as scouts. At that time, the large army was resting and waiting in the mountains and forests several kilometers away from the entrance of the canyon.
Now, after more than twenty hours, they have returned to this familiar place again.
"Yes! Second Miss!"
"Um."
After handing the organized details of the operation to Yun Moyin who was in the medical sleeping bag, Ye Lanxin took off Lin Shuwen's windbreaker and asked the other side to keep it in the shadow. Then, Ye Lanxin put on the long white coat again.
Lanxin walked out of the medical car.
Unlike Lan Ruxin who could march swaggering on the mountain road, Ye Lanxin's team could only walk in the narrow mountains and forests with complex landforms. If Ye Lanxin hadn't explored this valley a few months ago, Ye Lanxin wouldn't have even been able to march in a day. I can't even walk a kilometer.
Beside the mountain road at the entrance, Ye Lanxin looked back at the team that was cautiously moving to the northwest not far away, and walked alone to the scenic spot office outside the entrance.
After nearly a day of thought transfer, Ye Lanxin has returned to the identity of the "Garden" commander. Just like the nightingale in the cage can only retain its beautiful feathers and singing voice, the "lady" who is bound by responsibilities and missions has only gender and personality. Ordinary woman.
She is also another kind of caged bird.
A "home-loving" bird that actively binds itself in an invisible cage.
In front of her, the scenic spot that had been busy during the day had gradually become quiet as the night fell. Except for the office, which was still brightly lit, other buildings and carriages had been illuminated with peaceful night lights.
At this time, the office was still filled with the noise of endless arguments during the day, not only the arguments and whispers between reluctant businessmen, but also the night owls of the Academy of Sciences discussing research plans and schedules.
Qi Dong was sitting on his desk with his head propped up, silently playing the trading card game on his mobile phone, occasionally yawning deeply.
Outside the office, "Dagger" sat quietly against the ancient tree, curled up his right leg, sandwiched his right arm between his abdominal muscles and thighs, holding the blood-scale sword filled with red mist in one hand, his eyes solemn.
After Damon walked away in style, "Dagger", who had regained the feeling in his legs, began training for his legs. From ordinary whip kicks to complicated aerial movements, he practiced from early morning to ten o'clock in the morning, using his willpower Squeezing the legs that had lost consciousness in another way, forcing them to move as they repeatedly jumped sideways on the edge of consciousness.
Finally, under "Yan"'s scolding, "Dagger", whose legs could not move at all, was helped by his master to the foot of the ancient tree. With a sense of peace of mind, he relaxed his body and fell asleep holding the Blood Scale Sword.
"Dagger" slept until five o'clock in the afternoon. He regained consciousness but had no strength in his legs, so he was forced to "act cool" under the tree for an hour. It was not until "Mo" brought food and water that he was allowed to leave. You won’t starve to death, thirst to death, or hold in your urine to death.
"Dagger" tried to alienate his legs to stand up in this powerless state. However, although he could successfully alienate dragon scales and legs, he could not control them. In other words, he could not transmit when his nerves were exhausted. At the moment of consciousness, "Dagger" can only use willpower to forcibly control the human body, but the alienated body cannot be controlled at all.
Regarding the reason, although "Dagger" can already partially transform into a dragon while maintaining consciousness, this does not mean that he will not lose consciousness due to alienation. The current scale attachment on the body and the alienation of limbs are already the limit of "Dagger". Once he goes further into dragon transformation, he will be forcibly interrupted due to coma or burning pain in his internal organs.
This is a protective mechanism. "Dagger" can feel an invisible barrier marking his limit. It is not impossible for him to cross that limit, but once he crosses that limit, as far as he is currently concerned, he will fall into another trap. That "vegetable dragon" state.
Regarding this power, "Dagger"'s practice and understanding have not reached the stage beyond that limit. Its essence is the understanding and deduction of the "dark element", that is, darkness, which can only rely on his epiphany or awakening.
"Dagger" looked up at the sky. The starry sky in the mountain forest was clear and ethereal. He subconsciously stretched out his hand, but he could only reach the height that his body could reach.
It was like this body bound him in a cage of "human beings", "alien", or "creatures", preventing him from returning to his original identity and hometown.
Thousands of kilometers away, the ocean is rolling endlessly. On the bridge of a cruise ship departing from Greenland, a blond nun in black nun uniform is holding a silver key-shaped cross in her hand and staring at the distant starry sky.