18. Familiar figure (minor repair)
Celia wiped away her tears and looked up at the uninvited Asian man. The man's eyes were upturned, his black eyes were so soft that he seemed to squeeze out water, and his words seemed to have a bewildering power, so that β‘β‘Celie couldn't help but hand him the only remaining game currency.
"Don't worry, I'm good at this." Cong Yi hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, reaching out to touch Celia's hair, but when he met Celia's green eyes, his hand stopped in mid-air.
Finally, he withdrew his hand and said with a smile, "Can you give me the place?" β
Celia immediately got down from the rotating seat and stood beside Shen Ling.
Because of the invisible oppression of soul power, Shen Ling looked at the fox-eyed man's gaze a little nervously. The kitten fox spirit body kept circling around the man's legs, but Celia didn't seem to see it, only staring intently at the man's hands operating the gambling machine.
Cong Yi won a grand slam, and the game currency continued to roll down from the game console to the coin slot, and after a while, the entire coin slot was filled.
"That's amazing!" Celia exclaimed.
"It's not just about luck, it's about skill." Cong Yi took out the coin trough and handed it to Celia. "To you."
"Can you really give it to us?" After all, someone else won it, and Celia felt a little embarrassed.
"You invested in it, didn't you say it before? Take it, these things are useless to me. β
"Thank you!" Celia was no longer polite and happily took the trough full of coins.
Cong Yi's gaze moved down slightly, landing on the jade pendant that Celia was wearing around her neck. The pure green color was reflected in his inky black eyes, Cong Yi was stunned, and said, "It's best not to wear the jade jade pendant around your neck so conspicuously." Although this kind of glass jade pendant is not visible to ordinary people, if it is seen by someone with a heart, it may cause you trouble. β
"Do you know this jadeite?" Celia was a little surprised. Along the way, almost no one could recognize how precious the jade pendant she wore around her neck was, at best, someone praised the carving of this jade pendant as very good, and almost no one cared about the quality of the jade pendant itself.
"A friend once gave me a ring, and the gem on it was also this kind of jadeite." Cong Yi pulled out the pendant hidden in his clothes, and the silver-white ring was inlaid with an exaggerated turquoise jadeite stone. "Later, a jewelry appraiser I met told me about the value of this jadeite, and I was really shocked at the time."
"My grandfather said that this kind of jade has the effect of calming the nerves and souls, because I was not in good health when I was a child, and he gave it to me. Your friend must have given it to you because he wanted it to bless you with good health. Because she has a good impression of the fox man, Celia can't help but talk a little more.
Cong Yi looked down at the jade stone ring on his hand, and in a trance, he remembered what that person said when he put the ring on his hand domineeringly thirteen years ago - "Cong Yi, I sue you, you are my person when you wear my ring, and I warn you not to take it off!" β
At that time, the entanglement between him and that person was not so deep, because of that person's cynical personality and outcast's dress, he thought that the gem on this ring was just an ordinary glass stone, and he didn't pay attention to it at all.
"Big brother, are you thinking about that friend of yours?" Seeing that Cong Yi was stunned, Celia asked.
Cong Yi came back to his senses, shook his head with a smile, and put the ring back into his clothes.
"Celia, let's go." Shen Ling whispered to Celia.
Shen Ling spoke up, only then did Cong Yi notice Shen Ling, who had been standing quietly on the side like a transparent person. He didn't care when he first looked at Shen Ling, but when his eyes fell on Shen Ling again, as if he had been touched by electricity, he grabbed Shen Ling's shoulder and asked, "How old are you this year?" β
"You let me go." Cong Yi looked thin and weak, but the strength of his hands holding Shen Ling's shoulders was surprisingly strong, and it hurt Shen Ling.
"Big brother, don't bully Xiao Hei!" Celia put down the coin trough, and with great strength, she snatched Shen Ling back from Cong Yi's hands and protected her behind her.
Protected by a little girl, Shen Ling was ashamed of himself. I secretly vowed in my heart that I must make myself strong and become the person who can really be by Celia's side and protect her.
"I'm sorry to scare you." Cong Yi calmed down, but his eyes were always locked on Shen Ling. "I just want to know how old your friend is this year, what is his name, he ......" stared at Shen Ling for a long time, and when he originally looked at the little similarity, he suddenly felt that it was just his own illusion, in fact, the child in front of him was not like Teacher Lin at all except for the Asian descent with black hair and black eyes.
Cong Yi was a little disappointed.
A tall white man in a black suit in an ironing suit passed by the door of the game hall, he turned his head to look inside the game hall, and when he saw the person he was looking for, he breathed a sigh of relief without a trace, and then pushed open the glass door and walked in.
"Cong Yi." When there was still ten meters away, the man in the suit called Cong Yi.
Cong Yi saw the man in the suit, and impatient feelings flashed in his eyes. Immediately, he changed his smile and said jokingly, "Ronan, you can find you here." β
"Wherever you go, I can find you." Ronan also responded to Cong Yi in a witty, slightly affectionate tone.
The smile on Cong Yi's face was a little stiff, in the past few years, Ronan has become more and more ambiguous about him, and he doesn't know what he wants, but he doesn't feel Ronan at all, and this kind of thing is the most reluctant.
"You've met two new friends?" Ronan noticed Celia and Shen Ling, but when his gaze met Celia's green eyes, a nameless anger immediately rushed to his heart. He kept smiling and reminded Cong Yidao in a warm voice, "The time has come, it's time for us to go back." β
"I know." Cong Yi bowed his head and said goodbye to Celia and Shen Ling, "I'll go first, and I'll see you later." He finally glanced at Shen Ling deeply, his heart was full of suspicions, but he felt that it was just an illusion.
"Big brother goodbye!" Celia waved goodbye to Cong Yi.
Shen Ling, who pursed his lips, kept staring at the white/cat and fox soul body walking at Cong Yi's feet.
In the game hall, which was not low in traffic, no one except him noticed the translucent little thing.
Following Ronan out of the game hall, Cong Yi found that his little cat and fox didn't know when he ran out without permission, so he moved his mind and took the cat and fox's soul body back into his body.
"I didn't expect you to like children, that little girl looks very cute, especially those eyes." Ronan said meaningfully.
Cong Yi didn't want to quarrel with Ronan about the previous matter, so he diverted the topic: "Don't you think that dark-skinned kid looks a bit like Teacher Lin?" β
"Except for black hair and black eyes, I don't think he has any place like Teacher Lin, if only with black hair and black eyes, the entire empire doesn't know how many children look like Teacher Lin." Ronan shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly.
"But he's the same age as the kid I lost, and I'm ......."
"Cong Yi, after so many years, can't you still let go?"
"Relieved? How to let go? Teacher Yelena's child was lost by me! It was I who caused Teacher and Teacher Lin to be missing......" As soon as he talked about Teacher Yelena, who was kind to him, Cong Yi felt so guilty that he felt uncomfortable. "If it's not ...... me"
"You can't be blamed for what happened back then, but you can only blame the spy who deserves to die." Unceremoniously interrupted Cong Yi's words of self-reproach, Ronan's blue eyes were as cold as ice in the far north.
Cong Yi subconsciously grabbed the ring that was clinging to his chest through his clothes, shook his head and said, "No... Don't mention him again. β
"Why are you still obsessed with it to this day? That person is a spy of the Empire, and he came to D14 to spy on the secrets of our base! It was he who betrayed you, and he didn't deserve you to do this to him at all! β
"Ronan, don't say any more, I don't want to mention this again."
"Cong Yi, I don't want to say it, but you ......"
"Ronan, let's go back." Cong Yi interrupted him softly.
The voice that used soul power made Ronan's eyes blur. Still aggressive a moment ago, he replied obediently, "Okay." β
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The Red Dragon III spacecraft had already arrived at Pandora, and Prince Xiu and the two assistants he brought this time, the shrewd and capable Emily, and the taciturn Xiao Li arrived at the Magic Box Paradise in a hovercar.
For Celia, who looks like a little sister but is actually a little brother, Xiu can't know anything better. This kid is playful, and since he came to the planet Pandora, he will definitely not let go of the magic box paradise, a place that has a fatal attraction for children.
The most convenient way to find someone is to check the monitoring, the monitoring room of the magic box park is located in the park, and the park is not allowed to drive the hovering car, in fact, there is no hovering car driving conditions in the park. After getting off the hovercar, Xiu refused Emily and Xiao Li's support, and did not allow them to disturb the tourists, and walked into the crowd alone with his own kitten and fox on crutches.
Emily and Xiao Li kept a certain distance, and followed behind Xiu step by step.
Emily has been with Xiu for the longest time among the three assistants, and in the face of Prince Xiu's strange temper now, she often misses His Royal Highness Xiu, who was the dream lover of all women in the empire and had a free and uninhibited personality.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that a person's personality would change so much after a broken leg, especially since this person still had the red dragon bloodline and was once the chief graduate of the Kamelia Emperor's ** Academy.
How could His Highness Xiu, who had undergone special training, be depressed just because of his physical disability?
When she was younger, she thought that His Royal Highness Xiu would become the second Arthur the Great and bring a new glorious future to the empire.
But now......
Emily sighed.
Xiu, who had already purchased a ticket and was about to enter the playground, heard the "meow" of the cat and fox behind him, and he turned around, holding a cane in one hand and lifting the kitten fox with difficulty with the other.
"Meow meow~" The kitten fox stuck out his tongue and licked his arm twice, and he smiled softly. As he looked up and was about to enter the playground, a familiar figure suddenly appeared not far in front of him.
He knew that figure even if it turned to ashes.
Xiuzhu staggered towards the man with his cane, and he didn't walk fast. After losing his right leg, he refused to be offered a biomechanical leg by the doctor, and stayed in the Red Fort all day and rarely went out. Who would have believed that he would be reduced to the point where he couldn't even walk today.
There was too much traffic at the entrance of the playground, and I don't know who hit him, and he fell to the ground, and the metal crutches fell to the side.
Xiu looked painfully in the direction of the familiar figure leaving, and in the crowd, he could no longer see the person.
Cong ...... Easy. The name was so familiar that it had penetrated into the bone marrow and spat out of his parched lips.
Everyone thought that he had abandoned himself because he was crippled, but no one knew that he had been ruthlessly betrayed by the people he loved the most.
He hated him, hated him so much that he swore for countless sleepless nights that if he saw him again, he would definitely kill him.
Xiu's green eyes were filled with a layer of red mist.
Cong Yi, since we meet again, don't think about just leaving.
I'm going to get you back to the ends of the earth.
It's all you owe me, you owe me, and I want you to pay it back with your whole life!