Without psychological restraints, Al ran fast, gradually catching up with Li Shiyi in front, although the mountain road was steep, but for a sixteen or seventeen-year-old adventurous child, the excitement of excitement was far greater than the nervousness of fear.

"How did you find out I was following you?" said Al as he walked up two steps and spoke to Li Shiyi.

Li Shiyi didn't pay attention to El, and still walked on their own, and occasionally the mountain wind in the dense forest blew their hair and clothes to the corners of their clothes, which was damp and salty.

"Hey, what do you want to do when you run to this mountain alone at night?"

There was still a silence mixed with the sound of the wind, and Al felt as if he was talking to a tree, and he was stupidly excited.

After asking three or four questions in a row without answering, Aier simply stopped asking and followed behind Li Shiyi without saying a word. I thought, I'm going to see what you want to do today.

The two of them walked up the stairs made of rocks one after the other, and after a while, the scenery around them gradually became clearer, the grass and trees began to become sparse, and the exposed rocks continued to stand out. By the sparkling moonlight, Al saw what seemed to be a large flat open area not far ahead, with no jagged rocks or tangled old trees, it turned out to be a green meadow.

Al didn't expect that there was such a place on the mountainside of Arthur's Seat, which seemed to have been cut horizontally by a giant with a stone axe, with its back against the rocky mountain of Arthur's Seat, facing the magnificent sea, and giving birth to the hope of life in the precipitous area.

Li Shiyi skillfully stepped on the stone slab on the grass and walked to an oval boulder next to the inner mountain, leaned his long knife against the side, and sat down facing the direction of the blue sea, the soft grass almost overflowing his thighs.

"Senior brother, what are you doing here?" Al Bai was puzzled, "You don't come all the way here just to see the stars, do you?"

"Can't you?" Li Shiyi bent one leg, and his face was no longer so cold.

"Yes, yes," Al sighed, remembering the kid on the white roof of the old town of Nack overlooking the Green Valley forest, "Senior brother, can you answer my question before enjoying the night view?"

"I've already said that I'm not interested in the cause of that minotaur's death, there's nothing to answer. Li Shiyi's eyes were clear and he looked into the distance.

"Don't you think it's strange? I grew up in the Green Valley Forest, and I know best what kind of tribe the Minotaurs are, and I don't see them in the Imperial Arena at all. Al unbuttoned his coat and felt a little hot after walking all this distance.

"At least it didn't suffer when it died," Li Shiyi paused for a moment, "and it left with a smile." ”

"Don't you think there's some secret behind this? The shackles and chains on it were clearly deliberately imposed. Al raised his voice, "And those two elves, who weren't supposed to be in the human world. ”

"So you're self-righteous and making trouble in the Imperial Arena, recklessly," Li Shiyi's gaze swept over El, "Or is it another you who is making trouble in the Imperial Arena, from your arm?"

Al subconsciously hid his left arm behind him, and looked at Li Shiyi who was sitting on the grass with incredible eyes. When did he find out, or did he know something?

"You don't need to panic," Li Shiyi glanced at the black knife beside him, "This is just my guess, as if your armband is not just for decoration." ”

This man's analytical skills are so powerful, Al thought to himself, just a face-to-face, and almost all the secrets he hid were pointed out by him.

"Your abilities are unlike anything I've ever seen, and I've watched you fight Captain Enzo the whole time. However, it doesn't seem appropriate to say that you have another berserk personality living in your body, because it is impossible for a normal human to have two personalities unless they are parasitic. Li Shiyi crossed his arms on his chest and saw Al's blank expression, "Don't tell me, you don't know about your strange ability yet. ”

"Parasite, probably not?" Al shook his head, "Professor Russell said he hasn't found the sequence of my ability yet, maybe he didn't have enough information. ”

"A new sequence of abilities might explain it. Li Shiyi muttered to himself, his fingers tapping on his thighs, thoughtful.

"Don't ask any more about orcs, I don't know more than you do. Li Shiyi looked at the shadows of the swaying trees on the grass, "All I can tell you is that the orc's metal horn is hollow, and it seems to contain some unknown green liquid in it, and the reason why the minotaur became like that is probably related to that liquid." ”

"Green liquid?" Al exclaimed and walked towards Li Shiyi, Li Shiyi's words gave him some hope to get closer to the truth.

"Stop!" "Stop!" Li Shiyi forcibly interrupted Al's pace as he walked about two meters away from Li Shiyi, "If you also want to stay away from the crowd and enjoy the night view in this mountain, then please keep quiet, if you still want to continue to ask some boring questions, it is best to leave as soon as possible before my knife is unsheathed." ”

Al didn't go any further, nor did he retreat from Li Shiyi's threatening words, he stood where he was, looking deeply at the young man with eagle-sharp eyes. Al's heart could not be calm, just like the turbulent sea under Arthur's throne, Li Shiyi's words just now made him even more convinced that there seemed to be a darker hidden chain behind the minotaur slowly wriggling.

The wind rose from the blue sea and surged inland, and the thick and thick clouds were like Thor wielding his own war hammer, flashing arcs and thunderbolt eyes looking down from the clouds, and the black clouds swept through the sea wailing in the storm towards the coastal city of Xinlan.

The mountain breeze blowing from the forest seemed to be stronger than before, and the clouds above the Imperial Military Academy were slowly growing in size, and gradually, the moon and stars were obscured.

Li Shiyi frowned, he noticed the direction where the wind was blowing, where the silver snake was shuttling between the sky and the sea, and soon Xinlan would usher in the first rainstorm after winter.

Al didn't continue to ask Li Shiyi about the Minotaur, he stood quietly a few steps away from Li Shiyi, feeling the sweet aroma unique to the young grass, and the mottled shadows falling around the green grass were a different scene. Following Li Shiyi's gaze, Al saw several yellow searchlights in the dock of Truve Harbor sweeping across the nearland sea, which was covered with dense ships, and only a few fishing boats in the distance flashed like beans, sailing back to port with full speed in the rolling waves.

A few minutes passed, Li Shiyi still sat without saying a word, and Al stood quietly beside him, the moonlight moving from east to west slowly gathered the shadows of the two teenagers together.

"Senior brother, why are you here alone?" Finally it was Al who broke the silence.

Li Shiyi didn't answer him immediately, but waited for a while before slowly saying, "It's been a year, I'll take a look at it." ”

"Is there anyone else here but the two of us?" Al looked around, and there was silence under the sky except for the sound of birds.

"Not here, in the far east, on the other side of the blue sea. It has been a full year since the big ship on fire sailed away from the bloody scorched earth. Li Shiyi's voice was very soft, and he whispered about the land in his memory, "I don't know if the people there are okay after I leave." ”

"It's my brother's hometown, right? Although I haven't been to the Eastern Continent, the feeling of missing home is probably the same as the feeling of homesickness that I think of growing up in the small town of Nack. A deep sense of homesickness flowed through Al's heart.

"I'm not like you, from the moment I set foot on the Western Continent, I will never be able to return to the other side of the sea. A lone bird flew over them with a scream, Li Shiyi looked up, his eyes a little lonely, "Occasionally recalling that familiar land is just a tribute to my youth. So I often come to this place alone, look at the sea, the blue sky, and tell myself that I'm alive and that's all. ”

Li Shiyi's words surprised Al a little, and he didn't care if he would stain his clothes, so he found a bare stone slab and hurriedly sat down. In Al's eyes, Li Shiyi's gaze was firm and indifferent, crossing the galaxy and sinking into the ocean, he had maturity and wisdom that did not belong to his age, and even had a faint vicissitudes when telling about his hometown, like a swordsman wandering the world, yellow sand and thin horses, and long smoke at sunset.

Al didn't know what this Oriental boy who seemed to be only a year or two older than himself had gone through, always with some youthful loneliness and sadness, but he knew that the feeling of missing his homeland was not pleasant, because in a way, the two of them were both passers-by in the city, but they could only grit their teeth and move forward, because there was no way back behind them.

"Senior brother must have something on his shoulders, right?" Al asked tentatively.

"Mission? You're thinking too much. Li Shiyi chuckled, I don't know if it was self-deprecation or because Al's words were too simple, what he was weaving when he broke a grass stem, "There is no heroic growth story made up by those idealists who 'care about the family and the country' and 'save the people of Li', I am just an ordinary person, just like you, silently endure those strange eyes from others, and then work hard to live." ”

"Senior brother, how do you know? A small wind crept into Al's shirt from the neckline, a little cold, "Those people's words are not good, but I'm used to it, I've been like this since I was a child." Al showed a big smile, maybe he was really relieved, or maybe it was to hide the loss in his heart, or maybe some of both, he didn't know.

"Then why do you have to wrap your left arm around again? Human prejudice is like a mountain, no matter how you move, you can't move," Li Shiyi shook his head gently, "This is also the reason why I helped you suppress that berserk ability in the Imperial Arena that day, watching you fall and get up again and again in the discriminatory abuse of those people, I don't know why I seem to see myself at the beginning." People are all sympathetic, and I am no exception, because of this oriental face, I have endured a lot of gratuitous discrimination. ”

Li Shiyi was telling this junior brother about his past, but he was actually confiding in himself.

"On the first day I came to Xinlan, I went to the restaurant to eat, and after the boss collected the money, he brought me food made with rotten vegetables, and I went to him to theorize, but none of the diners around me came forward to help, and some even blasted me out, shouting that I was the 'sick man of the East'. Even though I know that if I wanted to end the lives of those who discriminated against me on the spur of the moment, they would be cold corpses lying in coffins. Although he was telling about the real events that happened to him, Li Shiyi's face never changed, like still water in a deep pool.

"But I can't do that, because I'm from the East. Li Shiyi still focused on the grass knot in his hand, which seemed to be in the shape of a dragon, "It's just because I'm from the East." ”