Xu Ningran drove all the way north to the northern capital. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe whole trip is more than 1,200 kilometers.

Nearly six hours had passed since the car drove out of Xijing Province, and she got off the highway at the northernmost exit of Xijing Province, entered a small town, and looked for a hotel to stop and rest.

The hotels in the small town are also small, the facilities are clean and simple, and the heating is adequate. Xu Ningran stepped into the room from the cold outside, and the warm wind forced out the chill that seeped into the cracks of the bones. The tear-soaked face felt very dry, washed with warm water, and the sadness in my heart that was frozen in the cold and loneliness seeped out in the city of thousands of lights.

Emotional wounds, no matter where you flee to, you can't avoid it, and when you see a person or a landscape, you will feel inexplicably painful.

Ning Ran took a hot bath, held a cup, and stood in front of the window. The street lights downstairs are dim, and the sky is already white, and it will soon be dawn. People here get up, eat breakfast, go to work, and start the day, like any city in the world.

But for her, nothing was the same.

The wind blew in through the cracks in the windows that were not completely closed, stirring Xu Ning's silk-dyed pajamas. She was in a trance, and seemed to be still in the familiar bedroom, and when she turned around, she could see Lu Tao's face, a sleepy, gentle, and handsome face.

But no, never again!

She remembered a recent best-selling book that said that if you miss someone, you will become a breeze and gently sweep by his side.

There used to be some greed, some wishes, knowing that they could not be realized, but as long as this heart is still there, they can't give up, they can't forget, even if they know all the truths and know the final outcome, but there is no way to leave soberly.

In the end, in order to no longer be afraid of losing, in order to no longer want, finally, he could only abandon this heart that loved him.

Like the wind that is everywhere in the world, with the longing for another person, passing by his whole world.

She slept in this small town until the early morning of the next day, and in her dreams, she must have seen familiar faces, many times, and many plot stories, but Xu Ningran forced herself not to think about it when she woke up. The next day, she continued to drive all day, and finally, in the middle of the night on the third day, drove into the boundary of the northern capital.

Su Yan's office, the day before she left, had been successfully handed over to the big-nosed foreigner from Newyang City. Xu Ningran also asked the people on the publisher's side to take care of the trivial matters he left in K City, and the rent of the apartment was paid until the end of the year, and when the time came, someone would terminate the contract.

Everything else can be discarded, since even the person who values it the most is gone, there is nothing that must be nostalgic.

She has been doing these preparations for a long time, as early as the time when Lu Tao's grandmother rushed back to K City from Hujiang City and asked Lu Tao to go back. She knew that her dream was over.

It's good, do your best, no regrets.

On the morning of the next working day, Xu Ningran walked through the door of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Longguo, and soon she met the spirited, silver-haired former minister and current official adviser. As early as the years when Xu Ningran represented Longguo in foreign affairs, the old minister had always been her kind mentor and boss.

"You want to come back to work?" The teacher was a little surprised: "Xiao Ran, I heard that you have developed very well in the past few years, why do you want to come back?" Working abroad, you know, a lot of times is very hard. ”

"I know." Xu Ningran smiled at the old gentleman a little childishly: "I'm just tired of writing, and I want to change the environment and experience the past life." ”

"You know, because you have done a good job in the past and have also made meritorious contributions in Shiraya, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has long said that if you want to come back, we will definitely give you a chance. However, the teacher glanced at Xu Ningran's application form: "What are you applying to go to the border city of Stuart?" With your qualifications, you're more than enough to go to a safe area like the White Eagle Country. It's not that you don't know that the border between Stuart and Odes is in great turmoil because of the problem of refugees......"

"Teacher, I have a friend there who has been having a hard time lately and I want to help her. After all, diplomacy can better protect the people over there. ”

"Alas, you kid ......" Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, the teacher sighed helplessly and nodded: "I accepted the application form, you wait a few days, I'll call you if there is news." Standing up to see off his student, the teacher stretched out his hand and gently patted Xu Ningran's arm, and said as he had instructed her at work before: "Your child is too thin, pay attention to nutrition." ”

Xu Ningran held back her emotions for several days, and because of this greeting, tears almost burst out of her eyes.

In this world, the relatives, lovers, elders, and friends she has are all gone. There are fewer and fewer people who can say such a greeting with pity. She nodded, held back her tears, and heard the old leader sigh behind her.

The day before Christmas, Xu Ningran left the northern capital of Longguo and headed for the border city of Stuart, Valranria.

The night before Su Yan left Longguo, Xu Ningran once said to her: I will help you. She did what she said and went to this small city tens of thousands of kilometers away. Valrilla, which has taken in more than a third of the city's population, is now in disarray. Fortunately, in small cities, there are relatively few resources, so they will not cause large-scale chaotic conflicts.

What's more, the news that Su Yan sent back showed that she had found some traces of the "Apocalypse" in Valrillia and other cities in Stuart, and all kinds of signs of activity indicated that Stuart and the neighboring country of Odes must be the center of the "Apocalypse" activities.

That also means that if Zhao Xie finds the "Apocalypse", or if the "Apocalypse" captures Zhao Xie, this is likely to be a stop he must pass through.

At this time, Su Yan and Xu Ningran didn't know that in the "Black Rainforest" of Manle City, Siam, which was actually very close to the Long Kingdom, Zhao Xie, who was gloomy and silent, made his own plan in his heart, and took the doctor on a speedboat and the subordinates of "Apocalypse" to fly through the Charan River.

Soon, back to the place where the tributary joins the Charan River, Zhao Xie is the fishing boat from which the "Golden Python" transports goods.

The speedboat approached the shore, Zhao Xie stepped ashore, looked left and right, walked a few steps into the forest, and whistled a long way.

In a moment, the grass squirmed, and a large, alert and agile Odyssian military dog emerged from the grass and wagged its tail around its master.

“max！” Zhao Xie called its name and patted it on the head.

Then, Zhao Xie turned around and stepped onto the speedboat, and Max jumped easily, went up and lay down at the feet of his master.

"Sail the boat." Zhao Xie didn't need to explain much to anyone, and directly gave instructions: "Go down the tributary, there is a dedicated apron, from where the helicopter can get down and pick up me and my dog."

As for how the enemy and mines are cleared there, that's your business. ”

As he spoke, he sat down comfortably in the boat and began to close his eyes and recuperate. (To be continued.) )