In the Tokiwa forest on the outskirts of Tokiwa City, Hana Ling walks through it humming a minor tune. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info seems to wander aimlessly, but as long as you look down from above, you can know that what she is going to is a relatively tall tree in the forest.

After a while, she came to the tree with her backpack on her back, and looked around as if she was looking for something.

"Could it be that I'm misremembering the time, I'm early?" she bit her index finger and leaned against the tree, planning how to spend the rest of the time.

The golden sunlight seeped mischievously through the leaves, and the light and shadow on the grass were dappled and sprinkled on the body of Hua Ling, who was full of sadness.

But the corners of her mouth twitched, and she turned away with her hands behind her back, smiling playfully at the building behind her—the person she was waiting for had already arrived.

Looking at the quaint building that suddenly appeared behind her, Hua Ling didn't feel a trace of strangeness, as if this kind of thing had long been commonplace and she was used to it.

"Is Hua Ling back?"

An old voice came from the building, which had the word "shop" written on it.

When Hua Ling heard this, her eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "Master, I brought you back a big surprise!"

The person she called her master did not continue to talk to Hua Ling, let alone be curious about her words. After only a few seconds, the door opened with the crisp sound of the doorbell.

"Master is really, I haven't been seen for so long, and I am not welcome!

Hua Ling walked into the door angrily, pretending to be angry and glaring at the old man in a wheelchair at the counter. It's just that look, anyone who sees it will want to love her.

The old man pushed the reading glasses on his nose, put the ledger in his hand on the counter casually, and slowly pushed the wheelchair towards the shelf.

"How old are you, why are you still as simple as a child? Be careful that you can't marry in the future!"

"Hmm...... It's this again, you don't have to worry about my business, master!"

Every time she encounters Hua Ling's child's temper, the old man will use this method to block her, and it just so happens that she can't refute it, so she can only be silently angry.

She leaned over the counter, picked up the book, and flipped it around as if she were angry.

There is a lot of information in the ledger, but there is only one record on each page, which means that every month a transaction is made and only one thing is sold. Looking at the dates, they are all the same days, and the amounts are all over five figures or more.

Hua Ling's face became distressed by the data.

"Is that guy here again this time?"

She didn't keep flipping because it wasn't necessary. The man in black would always come to this store on time with a large box of banknotes at the same time to find the old man to get medicine. Hua Ling didn't know much about him, that is, he had accidentally seen the scene of their conversation, but the store manager's expression was obviously extremely painful on those occasions - he was very reluctant to accept such a job.

Although the old man who was counting the goods did not say it explicitly, the silence confirmed Hua Ling's guess.

"Then my sister, is she still working for that person?" holding the ledger, her face as gentle as a clear spring was full of sadness.

The store manager nodded: "This is something that can't be helped...... I wish I could get out of this life soon......"

Hua Ling closed her eyes, obviously reluctant to continue the topic. Just as he was about to close the ledger, the store manager suddenly spoke.

"Again, the record is a little different, and you flip through the back. “

When he said this, Hua Ling opened her eyes with some curiosity and slowly turned to the side pointed out by the old man.

"This ...... What's going on?"

Hua Ling's mouth suddenly opened wide because of the records on the paper, and she even pinched her slender arm to confirm whether she was dreaming.

"Interesting, isn't it?"

The old man pushed the wheelchair to Hua Ling's side, took the thick ledger from her hand, pointed to the second impossible account that appeared strangely and said, "That's a little boy, I don't know why I found this place, but I asked him to help me do some interesting little experiments." “

"Hmph, I guess I gave him the new medicine I made in my free time, right? Master is really idle, what if something goes wrong?" Hua Ling said this, but she was not worried at all, turned around and walked straight to the room inside, and at the same time took off her backpack, covered her mouth and snickered: "Come to the laboratory quickly, I still want you to see the results of my trip, master!"

Hearing this, the old man sighed, pushed his wheelchair to the counter, and carefully put the ledger in the drawer behind the counter before replying: "Alas, you are still so anxious about this kind of thing, when can you be as steady as your sister?"

However, the old man smiled with satisfaction, as if his daughter had suddenly achieved something after not seeing him for many days, and the wrinkles on the old man's face were almost squeezed together.

"And what about the surprise you said you were going to give me?"

"Well...... this"

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The night at sea was remarkably peaceful, and the ship moved smoothly and without shaking. Silver moonlight hung high in the deep night sky. Surrounded by stars, the silent night is dotted. The cool sea breeze rushes in through the cracks in the windows with a little damp and salty smell, accompanied by the sound of the waves, gently lulling people to sleep.

Leolu shuddered, tightened the not-so-heavy quilt on his body, stared at the pure white roof, and finally simply got up, wrapped in the quilt and jumped out of the elf's special bed, and slowly touched the two backpacks placed together in the corner of the wall in the view provided by the silver moonlight.

Without making a sound, he unzipped Ikki's backpack and pulled out the red digital illustrated book from inside with his paws.

"[Electrocardiogram]? This kind of thing feels like a dream......

What you have been trying for a long time and not being able to get comes to you at some point without warning, and after a short period of excitement, it is more of an unreal sense of emptiness, and this emptiness will soon dilute all the previous excitement and make people doubt itself.

The electric light illuminated Leolu's face, and he frowned slightly, his paws tapping rhythmically on the buttons of the Pokédex, and the picture moved to the rhythm.

After a long time, he stopped, sighed to himself, and put the illustrated book back down.

In order not to wake Ikki, Leolu moved a chair as slowly as he could, and as he struggled to climb up the bed some distance, he felt as if he was about to sweat. He shivered again when the sea breeze blew, and once again wrapped himself tightly in the quilt, and he closed his eyes.

"Of course I'd be willing to try if I could get stronger, but is that really possible?"

Leolu felt more and more that the future was uncertain and uncertain.

After that, Ikki suddenly opened his eyes, leaned over to the side of the bed and secretly looked at Leo's sleeping face on the side of the road, and his hands unconsciously forced, pinching the sheets a little out of shape.

"It will happen, I promise you, Leolu!"