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In the afternoon of the sparkling manor, in the auditorium garden on the top floor of the villa, the light comes from the row of narrow arched windows several meters high on one side, covering the deep red carpet, the pillars with gorgeous reliefs, and the white gauze swaying melodiously in the wind. curtain,

Different from the tranquility and tranquility in the evening, the afternoon in the garden

Bright and dazzling sunshine.

The angle of light, the flow of air, and the angle of shadow movement in the afternoon that is most suitable for sitting on the balcony. What many people don’t know is that the entire villa was actually built just for one person to have the most perfect view of the flowers. Garden by the sea.

Without the obstruction of tall buildings, the wind in the manor in the northern suburbs of the capital was freer. On the balcony, which happened to be covered by the shade of the courtyard, at this moment, the figure in the dark blue dress looked at the young man who had finally returned safely, and finally felt relieved.

"Welcome back safely, Fangran."

And hearing her say such words, facing the comfort and gentleness that really belonged to the elders at this moment, Fangran was a little overwhelmed and felt apologetic. Part of him felt sorry for his reckless behavior this time. It was when he faced Shui Linlang before

"that"

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about it."

But before he could even speak, Shui Linlang smiled slightly, indicating that he didn't need to apologize for the previous meeting, and then looked at the young man in front of him who had just recovered from a serious injury in the hospital bed, as if looking at a child who had run away from home and finally returned. Likewise, there was a touch of distressed tenderness in his eyes.

"Compared to that, how does it feel to be on a long journey alone in a foreign country?"

The moment he heard her ask this question, he was slightly in a trance. Starting from forcibly expelling his uneasiness and nervously boarding the flight, he saw enemies of unknown origin in Northern Europe, Norway, Oslo, and the voyage on icebreakers, trekking in the desolate Arctic, making Fangran lower his eyes. He smiled with a sigh.

"To be honest, it's more tiring than I thought."

Shui Linlang stared at him, at this young man who was extremely attached to his daily life, but who personally forced himself onto the plane to go to the North Pole. When he saw him scratching his head, he raised his head with a smile and looked at the sea of ​​flowers outside the balcony. , but the sight is unfocused, as if looking at the ice sheet in the far north of the world.

"When I was really trekking alone in that seemingly endless ice field, I realized that I was more restless and hesitant than I thought. Every minute and every second I was thinking about whether there was enough food and the energy of the life-support armor. Do I need to replenish it? Thinking about how far I still need to go and how much magic energy I still have."

Withdrawing his unfocused gaze, Fangran looked at Shui Linlang and smiled bitterly, not knowing what expression to show:

"At that time, I kept imagining in my mind what kind of abilities I should use when facing Zero Cavalry, imagining various situations. In the end, I even began to doubt that there really was a Night Palace in front of me. Do you want to take action? Is this all just my conjecture? When I get there, I find that no one is actually there."

Thinking back to those ten hours of wandering in the North Pole, perhaps only by sitting at the courtyard table normally like this, or perhaps only in the face of Shui Linlang, who knew everything and was an elder, could he confide in himself so unreservedly. All the uneasiness at the time.

"but"

Falling into the ice sea, tears melting into the sea water, the moment I felt boundless powerlessness and despair, the world suddenly turned upside down and the world changed, I returned to Italy a hundred years ago, and recalled the beautiful period of getting along with that young girl. Incredible time,

Fangran lowered his eyes to look at his smiling reflection in the black tea in front of him, and rubbed the pattern on the side of the teacup with his hands.

"feel good."

"In my divination, in addition to the Night Angel in the scene a hundred years ago, you also saw the Queen of the Nightless Palace of that era?"

Although he had predicted a certain scene in it, it was still beyond Shui Linlang's expectation to know that Fangran had entered a scene that went back a hundred years.

"Um"

Speaking of the figure that seemed to be covered with a layer of light, Fangran nodded calmly.

"how do you feel?"

“I don’t feel like the perfect and selfless saint in religion.

It's about a real human being who can stand at such a high level and possess such a great and enviable personality. "

Hearing Shui Linlang ask about his feelings, Fangran let go of the tea cup and recalled all the experiences he had with the figure he met.

Whether it is a scene or reality, the meaning of the name 'Varline' represents.

"Almost a hundred years ago, when I was a little girl who had just awakened my abilities, the queen once came to the nightclub to meet my teacher about the war."

teacher?

Could it be midnight?

Listening to Shui Linlang recounting the memories she knew, recalling the 'sir' she heard from Le Guien, and recalling seeing the figure sealed by thousands of light locks in the narrow room, Fangran was slightly startled.

"She left a very strong impression on me. Maybe I have been influenced by her from that time on. That queen always had the charm to influence the people around her."

Smiling softly and talking about her childhood memories, Shui Linlang looked at the young man in front of her who was different from before and smiled slightly:

"Is not it?"

The memories in the narrow space on the battlefield, the tenderness in the profound wisdom displayed by the queen, and the power of questioning the will in the bright torrent of the icy night, made Fangran can only admit with a smile, that is really... He has seen glory that makes him respect and admire more than the great men in the textbooks.

"Do you remember what I told you the first time you came here?"

Shui Linlang smiled and looked at the changed Fangran after returning from the journey with her glassy eyes.

"What are those words about the Prime and learning to grow?"

Recalling the first time he followed Ye Sheng to this garden, Fangran sighed softly, lost in thought. That long night that had so much happened was hard for him to forget.

"Originals do not directly gain abilities through awakening scenes, so compared with normal participants, they always lack the determination to make up their minds."

Thinking of the young man standing in the shadow of the evening that night, Shui Linlang chuckled softly, then raised his eyes and stared at Fang Ran at this moment,

"But now I can see that determination in you,"

Her voice was gentle, but she was also somewhat distressed and pleased with this smart child who knew how to make his own choices:

"You have grown up, Fangran."

Perhaps it was a blessing or perhaps a comfort. After hearing Shui Linlang's words, Fangran was slightly silent.

Then he smiled with a slight sense of helplessness.

He looked at the bright and beautiful sea of ​​flowers outside the balcony with calm eyes, letting the gentle afternoon breeze slightly blow the ends of his hair, and spoke softly in a quiet and lost voice:

"I just understood that night. I can't protect everything I value by just standing there in the pursuit of stability."

On that overly happy bonfire night, everything I cherished was perfect around me. Only when I saw the last light of the power bank extinguished did I understand this truth.

A slight wry smile appeared on his face as he looked at Shui Linlang in front of him.

"Perhaps I should have understood this since the last time you told me to take on the responsibility of protecting my senior sister. After I opened the door and left from here for the first time, I was still thinking about going if I encountered any danger again. I begged Ling to help me, but I didn’t even think about it at that time,”

Recalling the exquisite figure who was aloof from the moment they met, making people unable to worry about her, Fangran looked at the black tea in the cup and sighed quietly in her eyes.

"What should I do if Ling is in danger?"

I have never thought about what I would do if the figure who is my origin and salvation encounters danger.

"so"

Speaking of this, Fangran seemed to have shaken off all the quiet and depressed expressions before. Fangran sighed loudly and regained his usual energy. He spread his hands and smiled at Shui Linlang:

"At least I want to move forward a little bit. I don't want to stand still, knowing nothing and being unable to retain anything."

Even if I think about the joyous daily life of the last month now, I feel it is peaceful and wonderful. I wake up lazily from the morning sunshine without any pressure or anything to prepare for. I am so happy.

But perhaps it is just to protect this beauty that there is no sadness and everyone is around,

Only then do you need to make a decision to move forward.

To grow is to lose something you have never lost to gain something you have never gained.

In order to protect this carefree beauty, he is willing to choose to lose the stability and ordinaryness that he has never lost.

Have you grown up?

He has grown up.

There is no value or not, only willingness or not.

There is still a little bit of reluctance

After saying this with a slight smile, he found that Shui Linlang had been watching him calmly and tenderly. At this moment, Fangran felt a little embarrassed and ashamed, and moved his eyes away to pick up the black tea, coughing twice and saying with a serious face:

"But it's still impossible for me to save the world. I can't do such a great thing yet."

Shui Linlang smiled.

He seemed to be laughing out loud with great joy.

"Is that why? It seems that Night Angel is really important to you."

After the words fell, Shui Linlang's eyes showed a hint of deliberate teasing.

"Do you like her?"

"puff!"

Fangran, who had just taken a sip of black tea, spat it out when she heard her suddenly say such words. He choked and coughed and raised his head in panic. He couldn't help but trembling lips with a twitching brow.

They say older people should not be so naughty! !

"Ahem, by the way, what's going on with that time inheritance scene? Is there such an incredible type of scene in a night battle?"

Wiping the corners of his mouth, looking at Shui Linlang Fangran who was still laughing and gossiping despite having lived for a century, he looked at Shui Linlang and asked silently while holding her forehead.

"But I still think my Lian Xin is cuter, alas, although my innocent granddaughter is too innocent and too alert."

"No! What I'm saying is that the timing of that scene was too coincidental. I've long wanted to ask about all the various encounters I've encountered since my awakening. If I think about it carefully, what's going on with the unusual coincidence?"

Seeing Shui Linlang who was still focusing on the topic of junior love and even started to promote her granddaughter, Fangran wanted to change the topic and asked quickly,

"Why don't I tell you where her room is? You can use your ability to go to her room at night and have a heart-to-heart talk with her. Grandma, I have my official permission to ensure that no one will disturb you."

(╬╯◣д◢)╯︵┻━┻Listen carefully!!

And do you, as a grandmother, know what you are talking about? How could you trick your granddaughter so much! I'm not a wolf!

Looking at Shui Linlang who completely ignored her own questions, picked up the enamel teacup and said this with a smile on purpose, Fangran hesitated to speak and finally resisted the rolling of her eyes without complaining about her elders. Even if she didn't want to answer,

But Grandma Shui, do you dare not to use such a strange method to frustrate me?

Then when he was still about to say something, the sound of completely shattered lines growing suddenly sounded out of thin air. Fangran's expression froze, and then he helplessly took out the Silver Broken Dragon Tooth and sighed:

"It seems like this core can't hold on any longer. It seemed to have been consumed too much in the Arctic."

Yao Jiao opened the joints on the hilt of the slender and graceful silver dragon, and a transparent core full of cracks flickered dimly, as if it had reached its limit.

"It looks like it will take a lot of time to repair. The senior night watchman responsible for the repair may have another headache."

Reaching out to take out the transparent core that was more than 90% damaged, Shui Linlang looked at the various cracks on it and smiled softly, and then looked at the young man in front of him because he no longer had the 'infinite' support of the core activation. Disappear slowly.

Can't you hear it?

The last thought before the two consciousnesses merged into one, then Fangran looked at Su Qun who came in in the middle of the fight with Fang Shu and ended the war to send him back, opened the door and got into the car, and then The previous conversation with him continued by asking:

"Brother Suqun, your injury doesn't matter. Is Sister Hualing willing to let you out?"

"There is no problem with the penetrating injury on the shoulder. The main reason is that the injury on the back involves the spinal nerves. But after a full month of rest, there should be no problem. You don't have to worry."

The Su Qun in front of him was still calm, reliable and serious. He was sitting in the driver's seat wearing sunglasses, a shirt and a straight collar. He had a cold and handsome aura. Fangran could already expect to enter the city and drive slowly. On the street, there are scenes of countless women with straight eyes.

"What about you, how do you feel now?"

When Su Qun looked at him and asked, looking at the silhouette of the capital getting closer and closer on both sides of the speeding car, he smiled softly, making people wonder what he was answering.

“Feeling a little bit hopeful”

The moment he finished speaking, the black Audi was speeding towards the bustling city on the suburban road.

Overly comfortable stability is immutable.

Only one can never change. He always needs to move forward, constantly encountering scenery and people, and his own steps are intertwined with the fate of others.

will start to change.

Looking at the damaged and dim transparent core in his hand, the young man in front of him has disappeared. In the water mirror, he smiled softly in the car and made the decision to move forward, becoming even more dazzling.

The water mirror changes and turns into a divination astrolabe full of mysterious light spots. Countless stars sway on the illusory mirror surface.

Then, at the moment Shui Linlang tapped her fingertips, all the scattered and mysterious traces and countless scattered light spots on the star track of the main position were eliminated, and finally only seven of the most critical ones remained.

A person can only change himself.

You always have to travel to many places, meet many people, hear their stories and laughter, taste their lips and emotions, and then you will slowly be affected and changed.

And those people you meet, those figures whose fate intersects with yours, are like keys to you,

Open up all the rest of your life.

Thinking of the clear decision that the young man had made in front of her just now, Shui Linlang smiled softly:

"Have you finally decided?"

Then she looked at the astrolabe formed by the water mirror in front of her. The light spot that symbolized 'change' had become as bright as 'power' this time.

And the remaining ‘key’

The only one comparable to the two that have already lit up, the 'bond' headed by a beautiful city that connects the largest number of figures is still slowly accumulating and growing.

The one that symbolizes the ‘past’ remains as quiet and unchanged as ever, and the one that symbolizes ‘collapse’ appears and sprouts,

And the 'awakened' one has not yet recovered.

As for the end, it was Shui Linlang who vaguely felt that changes were going to happen soon.

The one that symbolizes 'love' is still mysterious and she can't predict any trajectory. She can't even predict whose shadow it is.