The surroundings are endless white, and if you stretch out your hand, you can touch an eggshell-shaped wall.
Hang Shiqi huddled inside, unable to even straighten his body.
"Is there anyone there?" Hang Shiqi hit the wall hard. It was not hard to the touch, but rather wet and sticky.
"Is there anyone here? Let me out!" Hang shouted, shouting as hard as he could, but still no one paid him any attention.
After an unknown amount of time, a gap was opened above the white wall. Liquid poured in. From Hang Shiqi's feet, it reached above his head.
"Whoa, Gulu." He couldn't breathe anymore, the liquid choked into his lungs, and his consciousness gradually became blurred.
"Haahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" Hang woke up from the bed with a gasp.
Had a nightmare.
But it wasn't entirely a dream. He gradually remembered that this was his first memory of this world.
He lives in a white eggshell.
Every time he woke up, someone would pour that liquid in. Every time he thought he would drown, but he survived. He woke up again and again and fell asleep again.
I lived like this for a long time, not considered alive, and unable to die.
No one spoke, and his head was empty. He didn't know who he was or where he was.
Until someone opens that shell, takes them out, teaches them how to survive in this world, and trains them.
During that time, Hang Shiqi's consciousness was always in a trance. Sometimes he was awake, sometimes he was drowsy, and his memory was blurred and intermittent. It wasn't until he left that place and started doing tasks that he felt completely awake.
It was still dark, but Hang Shiqi was no longer sleepy. It was rare to get up early. Wandering around in the palace, when he walked around to a second-story balcony behind the small building, his view was facing the martial arts field behind. He saw Ao Wu
He is training alone inside.
He only wore a short game uniform and did not change his animal shape. He moved quickly and smoothly, and his muscle lines tensed and relaxed with his movements. He was as nimble as a panther and quickly ran through the entire training ground obstacles.
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The obstacles here were bigger and more complicated than those Hang Shiqi had seen in the ice rink. Ao Wu completed a series of extremely difficult moves on them, which dazzled Hang Shiqi.
When he reached the finish line, Ao Wu stopped to calm down his anxious and confused breath. He flipped up a handful of hair and wiped away the sweat on his forehead, revealing a handsome and stern side face and pursed thin lips. He seemed to notice Hang Shi.
With seven eyes, he turned his head and looked towards the balcony. His eyes were alert and sharp.
When Hang Shiqi met such a gaze, he became nervous for no reason, and his heart beat a few minutes faster.
The two looked at each other silently for a few seconds. Finally, Ao Wu broke the silence first and asked casually: "Why did you get up so early today?"
A palace attendant had prepared a wet towel nearby, and Ao Wu casually took it and wiped the sweat from his face.
Hang Shiqi walked down the stairs next to him: "I had a nightmare and couldn't sleep so I woke up."
"Nightmare?" Ao Wu wiped his sweaty hands and felt that the words "nightmare" and "can't sleep" didn't really fit with Hang Shiqi. He should be the kind of heartless person who is twice as happy as he said: "What are you dreaming about?
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"I'm trapped inside a white eggshell and can't get out," Hang Shiqi said.
"It's not true. Don't be afraid." Ao Wu stretched out his hand and rubbed the top of his hair. His fingertips touched Hang Shiqi's pointed ears. The ears flicked sensitively and he lay down to the side.
It's true. Hang Shiqi said in his heart.
However, when it comes to his past background, he feels that it is best not to tell Ao Wu these things. Even if Ao Wu treats him well, it is based on the fact that he is not an enemy. If Ao Wu knows that he is a group of those who assassinate others,
He might bite himself to death first.
It was rare for Ao Wu to see Hang Shiqi's withered head and brain, and for no reason, a feeling similar to pity appeared in his heart.
He didn't know how to coax people, so he could only change the subject bluntly: "The equipment here is what I used for training before. Do you want to learn? I can teach you."
"Is it fun?" Hang Shiqi finally regained his energy.
Ao Wu: "You can try."
For the next hour, Ao Wu just wanted to go back to this point in time and gag himself.
Hang Shiqi is not stupid. In fact, he can understand every equipment after seeing it twice. But he just refuses to follow the method taught to him. He always wants to play tricks with the equipment. He should crawl over him and jump over him, and he should run over and swing over him.
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Some of these equipment are dangerous and you may be injured if you are not careful.
This kind of dangerous setting was used by Ao Wu when he was a child. It is equivalent to a punishment mechanism. If you make a mistake, you will be injured, so you must work harder.
Later, Ao Wu became the Wolf King, so he moved these instruments to the martial arts arena as they were, and went through them every day to remind himself that even if he became the Wolf King, he could not slack off even an inch.
Now it was Hang Shiqi's turn and he was in danger. Because he refused to pass the test according to Ao Wu's teaching methods and had to create some weird methods on his own.
For example, there is a horizontal sling, and you need to quickly climb to the opposite side with the sling. Under the sling is a gill net full of thorns. If you fall, you will be stuck like a hedgehog.
It's not difficult to climb over, the key is to go fast. If you go slowly, the sling will keep sinking, and there is also the risk of being stabbed by the thorns.
Hang Shiqi was stunned and removed a horizontal bar from somewhere on the other side. Holding it with his hands on the left and right, he jumped suddenly and swung towards the opposite side like a swing.
As a result, when he reached the middle of the swing, the crossbar was caught by the rope. It was impossible to let go. After all, he didn't want to be tied up like a hedgehog. But he couldn't get over it. If he let go of one hand now, the crossbar would lose its balance and come from the other side.
slide.
Hang Shiqi tried to summon the power of wind, but failed.
"Ao Wu, save me!" Hang Shiqi could only shout at the top of his lungs.
"Idiot." Ao Wu quickly climbed up behind him, grabbed his clothes at the waist with one hand, and lifted him up: "Hold on, and crawl over by yourself."
"Hey hey hey." Hang Shiqi twisted around and hugged Ao Wu's arms.
"I asked you to grab the rope, not me!" Hang Shiqi was flopping so happily that Ao Wu could hardly hold on to his clothes.
"Oh oh." Hang Shiqi then stretched out his hand and turned around. Because he was too close, he rubbed against Ao Wu when he turned around.
Ao Wu was holding the rope with one hand, and the tip of his nose was facing the back of Hang Shiqi's neck. The sweet smell came in along the tip of his nose, making him a little distraught.
"Saved." After being rescued, Hang Shiqi straightened his clothes and asked Ao Wu, "Why couldn't I fly just now?"
"There is a magic circle in the palace, and it is forbidden to use the power of nature." Ao Wu said.
This is for security reasons.
"All right."
Hang Shiqi was saved, but the next equipment still didn't last long. He had to try it if he wasn't allowed to step on the trap, and he had to touch the mechanism if he couldn't. The posture didn't look like training, but like a fight to the death with the equipment.
Today, one of me and this device must die!
As a result, he couldn't play anymore and started crying and calling Ao Wu for help. The koala clung to Ao Wu and refused to let go.
Hang Shiqi could not die, so in order to save him, Ao Wu dismantled many mechanisms. By breakfast time, half of the training ground equipment had been put on the maintenance list.
Both of them were covered in hot sweat. Ao Wu practiced with Hang Shiqi all morning, but he was much more tired than training by himself.
"I had a lot of fun today, can we play together next time?" Hang Shiqi asked him with bright eyes and wagging his tail during the meal.
"...Okay." Ao Wu stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and thought to himself, it's better to dismantle the traps in those instruments.
After Hang Shiqi had eaten and drank enough, he hummed a little tune and walked towards the outside of the palace, preparing to report to the security team. Unexpectedly, not far away, he heard the voices of Shuang Yu and An Qing coming from the road ahead.
"Brother." Shuang Yu's voice is somewhat similar to An Qing's, but she sounds a little younger.
"Don't shout like that. Your surname is no longer An, and you have nothing to do with us." An Qing's tone of voice was very different from her usual modest and gentle tone. She spoke in a vicious voice, showing a bit of impatience.
Upon hearing the footsteps, Hang Shiqi hesitated to go up and say hello, but couldn't hold back his gossip, so he hid aside and continued to eavesdrop.
"But even if my surname is no longer An, my brother will always be my brother." Shuang Yu said with a bit of attachment in her tone: "I haven't seen you for several months. I miss you, brother."
An Qing didn't speak. There were only a few chirping birds in the air and the sound of cold wind passing through the needles.
"The teacher said that I have made great progress and my inspiration has almost surpassed him. Am I very powerful, brother?" After a while, Shuang Yu's voice sounded again, with a hint of asking for credit.
"Yes, very powerful." An Qing responded perfunctorily at first, and then said with ridicule, disgust, jealousy and other negative emotions: "So are you showing off to me? In the future, everyone will respect you as a high priest, even if
Father, I also want to live my life based on your face. And I am just a lowly, good-for-nothing female frost wolf, only worthy of being used as a tool to marry a male orc who can bring benefits to the family."
Hang Shiqi was a little confused when he heard this. Is this really An Qing? How could An Qing say such a thing? Isn't he living a happy life?
Hang Shiqi remembered what Ao Wu said yesterday about the marriage tool. That person seemed to be An Qing's father, so the person who was used as a tool was An Qing?
But he obviously doesn't usually look so full of resentment and jealousy.
"That's not what I meant." Shuang Yu said aggrievedly: "Brother will not marry if he doesn't want to. I will try my best to protect my brother. Even my father can't force you. If he forces you, I will ask the teacher for help.
"
An Qing didn't appreciate it at all: "Forget it, there's no need. I don't need you to be pretentious here. Just go away and don't hang around in front of me all the time. Even if you do me a big favor."
"Oh." Shuang Yu was a little hurt, so she responded in a low voice and walked towards the palace.
An Qing turned around and came towards Hang Shiqi.
Hang Shiqi thought for a while, but still didn't hide and stood there waiting for him.
An Qing seemed a little surprised when she saw Hang Shiqi, but he quickly calmed down the panic in his eyes and asked, "Did you hear everything?"
"Ah, although I don't understand it very well." Hang Shiqi asked tangledly: "Your brother looks very sad."
"It's none of my business if he's sad." An Qing's tone was cold.
"..." Hang Shiqi didn't know the specific situation and didn't intend to get involved in other people's family affairs. If An Qing didn't want to chat with him, he would just leave. Hang Shiqi himself also felt that since the full moon night, An Qing had
I have been deliberately alienating him.
An Qing couldn't understand people at all. He didn't understand why the other person had two faces, and he couldn't figure out why he was friendly with him at first and then deliberately alienated him. But he didn't intend to understand that the human heart is the most complicated thing.
"Wait." An Qing stopped him.
Hang Shiqi: "What are you doing again?"
"It's you." An Qing said without any clue.
"What is me?" Hang Shiqi was confused.
An Qing: "Stop pretending. I admit that your acting skills are very good. Even I was almost fooled by you, thinking that you were really a fool with no threat."
Hang Shiqi opened his mouth, not knowing whether to retort first and say that he was not pretending, or to say that he was not a fool first.
"What on earth do you want to say?" Hang Shiqi's two slender eyebrows were wrinkled, and the flame lines on his forehead were distorted. He tilted his head, and his round eyes were full of confusion.
"You were sent to assassinate Ao Wu, right?" An Qing asked in a lowered voice.
"! How do you know!" Hang Shiqi was startled. Literally, he really jumped up from the ground.
"Ha, it's just like this that people can't tell whether you are really stupid or pretending to be stupid. Normal people would deny it first. If you ask me this, you are admitting it." An Qing said.
Hang Shiqi curled his lips, he was not stupid. But he felt that what An Qing said seemed to make sense. He should deny it, so why did he admit it so stupidly? But he was so surprised just now. How could An Qing know his identity as a killer?
"I gave you a hint." An Qing said, "You should know the Cocoon Rat Orcs, right? Did they send you to kill Ao Wu?"
What kind of cocoon rat orc... Hang Shiqi remembered that the other party asked him to guess it on the day of the full moon celebration. He had seen this kind of orc in Southern Xia, where did it come from.
The dream flashed back again in the morning.
Hang Shiqi remembered that the white eggshell was not an eggshell at all, but a cocoon!
"Cocoon... cocoon gives birth to a human being..." Hang Shiqi remembered hearing such a saying when he was unconscious.
So those who control others are the cocoon orcs? He was born from the cocoon, and the cocoon is him? No, it's not just him, there are also those monster orcs who have trained with him, who have no feelings and no emotions.
Hang Shiqi felt that his head started to hurt again. He lowered his head and felt that his eyes were going black. It was like he was back in that airtight cocoon and couldn't breathe.
"Why didn't you kill him?" An Qing didn't see anything strange about Hang Shiqi, and continued: "I heard that you had a chance that night. It was you who disobeyed the order from above and deliberately let Ao Wu go. Why didn't you kill him?
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Hang Shiqi was silent for a while, waiting for the suffocation to finally pass, then raised his head and asked An Qing: "Do you know them?"
There was an unexplainable tremor in his voice. It was due to the lingering pain that had not dissipated just now, and it was also due to the previous torture and the fear that was engraved in his bones.
"Yes. I am the person who provides you with information. I thought you knew about it and didn't come to me on purpose. Why, didn't they tell you that there was someone who was your contact? Did they not believe me?"
No, I lost the information.
Hang Shiqi understood.
He is a cocoon-born orc, a tool man made by cocoon rats. The people who controlled him before were cocoon rats. They sent themselves to assassinate Ao Wu because they looked similar to Frost Wolf. In order to avoid exposing their identity, they
He also erased most of his memories of the Cocoon Rat and the Underground Palace.
An Qing should be here to help him. Although he is a frost wolf, he cooperates with the cocoon rat.
An Qing guessed his identity but was not sure, so he got close and tested. Finally, on a full moon night, he confirmed that she was the person he was waiting for. But she didn't expect that not only did she not go to find him, but she also gave up the mission.
Hang Shiqi could understand all these things. The only thing he didn't understand was that An Qing was such a good frost wolf. Why would he betray his tribe and help outsiders? Thinking of the conversation between An Qing and Shuang Yu just now, he vaguely felt that it might have something to do with his family.
The question is, my identity has been exposed, what should I do now?
"You shouldn't go to Ao Wu to report me, right? I won't admit it even if you report me." Hang Shiqi said with a guilty conscience.
"Don't worry, I won't survive if I report you. I just want an answer. Why didn't you come to me and why did you abandon the mission?" An Qing asked. He had been troubled by these two questions for a long time but could not figure it out.
. It was clear that Hang Shiqi was about to succeed. However, he received a message from Cocoon Shu, saying that the mission had failed, Hang Shiqi had betrayed, and that people would be sent to contact him again.
"It's because I gave up the mission that I didn't come to you!" Hang Shiqi didn't say that he had lost the information. That would have seemed too stupid. So he said: "I figured it out, now Ao Wu is also very nice to me.
Well, I live a comfortable life here and have good food and drink, so why do I have to do stupid tasks."
"Is it because of this?" An Qing wondered if she thought Hang Shiqi was too smart. In the other party's eyes, there was no such thing as pretending to test, there was an undercurrent, it was just passiveness and sabotage.
"Just because of this." Hang Shiqi nodded.
An Qing stared at Hang Shiqi for a while, trying to see a trace of lying in his eyes, but the other person's eyes were very clean, just like his annoying brother. By the way, Hang Shiqi also had inspiration, which was also the same as his annoying brother.
Same as younger brother.
Maybe he really thought wrong. People who can use the power of nature are just a bunch of heartless people. Maybe Hang Shiqi is just a fool who is extremely lucky and doesn't listen to greetings.
But it doesn't matter. Hang Shiqi is disobedient, and the group of people behind Hang Shiqi are also worried. And I... are just taking advantage of each other.
"Boring." Before An Qing left, she couldn't help but remind Hang Shiqi: "Ao Wu is not an easy person to get along with. You'd better be careful not to expose your mistakes, otherwise your good life may come to an end."
"I know, I know. Then will you continue to help them deal with Ao Wu?" Hang Shiqi asked.
An Qing did not answer, leaving him only a lonely and thin figure.
At the same time, Shu Jin, the young leader of the caravan, came to the Presbyterian Council with a jade talisman: "Hello, my elders asked me to come here to meet a friend. This is a token. Can you tell him about it for me?":,,