The night is like water.

On the roof of the hut, Lin Lexuan sat cross-legged on the stone steps, motionless.

He held a somewhat shabby photograph of a man and a woman holding hands, their smiles on their faces carefree, clean and pure, like a sunny couple.

His gaze lingered on the photograph for a long time. After a while, he looked away and rubbed his somewhat sour eyes, but not a single tear flowed.

The tears that should have been shed are gone.

He took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the boundless pain in his heart. He cherished the photograph back in his chest pocket and quietly clenched his fist, which was covered with intricate scars.

Almost three months have passed since the last mission to Taiwan. And nearly half a year has passed since that bloody rainy night.

During these three months, Lin Lexuan worked hard to train his fire ability according to the method given to him by Wu Lie, but his progress was not as rapid as he imagined.

The fire control method that Wu Lie handed over to Lin Lexuan in front of the airport gate at that time was a fire spell that had been passed down from generation to generation by the life alchemist clan. The Life Alchemists don't have any ability talents themselves, but the blood that flows through their veins is a powerful catalyst for abilities. As long as the alchemists apply blood to their skin with special runes, they can simulate any kind of natural elemental ability. The amount of strength will vary depending on each person's blood. Over time, alchemists can almost claim elemental abilities and use them in a weird way.

And that's what he needs.

Lin Lexuan has four natural attribute abilities, and although his blood is not the special blood of a life alchemist, his four major abilities have already subtly changed his body. In addition, his dantian no longer exists, and the fire energy is scattered in the blood all over his body, if he only uses the blood spell rune to stimulate the fire ability, he can still barely do it.

And this point also fell into Lin Lexuan's arms: in this way, he can not only exercise his fire ability, but also because he has to constantly create wounds on his hands and squeeze out blood, so as to achieve the purpose of improving his physical fitness.

However, after he had been cultivating for three months, he suddenly found that things were not as good as he imagined.

When he first used the Blood Charm, he simply couldn't properly smear the flame-inspiring runes on his fists. His water ability can manipulate blood, but it can be difficult for him to manipulate blood to draw a complex rune. And even if he was lucky enough to get it right, it would take much longer to apply a rune than the flames he would normally emit. And the power is only a little bigger than the normal flames, and the power is not much worse than he expected.

"That's not going to work......"

Lin Lexuan's brows furrowed, he looked at the flames on his fist, and secretly thought: "The speed is not enough, no matter how strong the strength is, it is useless." But what should I do, do I just give up this technique? ”

At this time, Lin Xiangyu, who was full of exhaustion, came to the rooftop. Lin Lexuan looked back at him and said:

"You're back."

"Well, I'm back."

I haven't seen him for three months, and Lin Xiangyu's whole body is more awe-inspiring than usual, and his face has become a little colder than before. He nodded and said, "There are more people in the training ground, and there are a few times when I almost die inside. ”

The corners of Lin Lexuan's mouth twitched, and he said, "Those death row prisoners can still kill you?" ”

"The training ground is plain and there is nothing to cover for. And there is no electricity on the plains. I can only rely on my fists. Lin Xiangyu replied casually sitting in the corner.

"What's the improvement?" Lin Lexuan once again slashed his hand, trying to quickly smear the blood curse on his fist.

"It's nothing special, I haven't used thunder and lightning for nearly three months, and with strength alone, my physical fitness should be much stronger than before. But I found a problem, no matter how good my physical fitness is, Blood Fury will not last more than a minute. Now my body has been trained to withstand the blood rage for more than a minute, but when I was about to continue urging the blood rage, the blood all over my body seemed to riot, as if if my body would completely disintegrate if I continued to do so. ”

"In that case...... One minute should be enough. ”

Lin Lexuan pondered for a moment and asked, "Then have you figured out the energy level of Blood Fury?" ”

"What kind of ...... is this kind of thing?"

Lin Xiangyu rolled his eyes and said, "It's just that the harder I push, the shorter the time." ”

"And how do you calculate how long you can use it?" Lin Lexuan looked at him and said in a deep voice.

"No problem, I can grasp it, you can trust me." Lin Xiangyu closed his eyes and said.

"Alas, it failed again."

At this time, looking at the blood-colored runes that had dimmed in his hands, Lin Lexuan sighed.

"What failed?" Lin Xiangyu opened his eyes and asked.

"Uriel taught me fire control techniques."

Lin Lexuan frowned and said, "It's either that the runes can't be painted accurately, or the speed of the runes is too slow, and then the power is not big enough." This skill feels a bit chicken, and I even kind of think he's cheating on me. ”

"Don't worry, this is the fire control technique that Wu Lie gave you, and we have all seen how powerful his Great Fire Flame Palm is."

Lin Xiangyu said: "And don't forget, he has only cultivated for so many years to reach that level, how long have you been practicing, don't worry." ”

"But I don't have time." Lin Lexuan replied.

Lin Xiangyu glanced at him helplessly and asked, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"I don't know."

Lin Lexuan sighed and said, "I didn't expect this fire control technique I took the risk of being discovered by the six worshippers to be so frivolous. No wonder Ulie was smiling so weirdly before I left. ”

"Maybe only a life refiner can practice this kind of blood spell rune well, and it is not the blood of a life refiner that flows in your body, so this situation will occur." Lin Xiangyu sat back in the corner and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

Lin Lexuan nodded, a flame popped out of his fingers, and said, "However, my flame has still condensed a lot after so many days of blood curse training, at least it is more than twice as strong as half a year ago." But it can't be reflected in the power. Maybe this blood spell can only be regarded as a tool to assist me in cultivating fire ability. ”

"Whatever you want." Lin Xiangyu said with his eyes closed.

Lin Lexuan smiled, he squeezed his hand, and the flame slowly turned into a fist-sized.

But just as the flames grew bigger and bigger, the flames suddenly flickered slightly, and then, as if blown by the wind, it trembled slightly.

Lin Lexuan opened his eyes suddenly, but the trembling of the flames just now had disappeared.

"Maybe it's a delusion."

He pursed his lips and squeezed his fingers to extinguish the flame.

But the moment the flame went out, Lin Lexuan's eyes suddenly narrowed.

At that moment, he distinctly felt a faint tremor coming from the flames, something that had never happened since he had mastered the fire ability.

This feeling...... It's as if something is controlling it.

He looked at the palm of his hand, and his mind raced.

Before the flame is extinguished, or when it shrinks, the flame will have a very subtle process of condensation and compression. After all, the fist-sized flame must go through this stage when it is withdrawn from the body.

"Could it be that the compressed flame is weird?"

Lin Lexuan groaned for a moment, and another flame popped out in his hand. As soon as he grabbed it, the flames gradually compressed to the limit he could compress at this point.

"It's weird."

Looking at the flame in his hand, a cold light flashed in Lin Lexuan's eyes.

I saw that in the palm of his hand, the tip of the flame seemed to be blown by the wind, pointing in one direction.

Lin Xiangyu also discovered Lin Lexuan's abnormality, he looked at the flame in Lin Lexuan's hand, and asked in surprise: "Why is the direction of the flame opposite to the current wind direction?" ”

"I don't know,"

Lin Lexuan stared at the flames and said in a deep voice, "But I feel that something should be attracting it." ”

"What are you going to do?" Lin Xiangyu looked at him, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

"I'd like to see what can affect my ability to fire."

With that, Lin Lexuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he jumped off the rooftop.

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Half an hour later.

Lin Lexuan and Lin Xiangyu dodged various sentry posts all the way, and according to the direction of the flames, they came to the door of a cement house.

The two looked at the sign above the door, and then looked at the flames pointing diagonally at the ground, Lin Xiangyu looked at Lin Lexuan speechlessly, and asked, "Is it really here?" ”

Lin Lexuan carefully observed the direction of the flames, and said helplessly: "It seems that it is really here." ”

The two looked at the sign above the cement house, only to see that the sign had four big yellow characters written on it: Public Toilet.

Looking at this, Lin Lexuan gritted his teeth and said, "Since we're here, let's go and have a look first." ”

The two walked into the toilet and were greeted by a foul smell.

The toilet seems to have not been cleaned in a long time, and the ground is littered with stinking garbage and excrement. Yellow urine stains littered the low walls and the edges of the squat toilets, and dried stool lay haphazardly on the tiled floor, a few listless flies buzzing feebly above them.

"My Mom ......"

Lin Xiangyu covered his nose and rolled his eyes: "If you want to find something, hurry up." It stinks here! ”

Lin Lexuan was okay, the stench was directly burned by the fireball in his hand (note), he carefully looked at the point of the fire in his hand, and finally came to the front of a urinal that looked the most disgusting.

He frowned, looked at the pile of dung in the pit that had been rotting for an unknown amount of time, and said in a difficult voice, "Follow the direction of the flames...... This thing should be under this urinal.

Lin Xiangyu covered his nose and walked up to him and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

"The tip of the flame pointed to that pit, where else do you say there is......" Lin Lexuan said helplessly.

"And what are you going to do?"

Lin Xiangyu looked at him, and his eyes showed a look of "if you want to make a decision, hurry up, Lao Tzu can't stand it".

"I'll burn this first."

Lin Lexuan flicked his hand in disgust, and a ball of flame rushed into the water, evaporating the water inside.

But a few seconds later, Lin Xiangyu's eyes widened, and he said in surprise: "Look, that piece of hasn't been burned yet." ”

"Huh?"

Lin Lexuan looked at it fixedly, and saw that the stool that had rotted for an unknown amount of time was still lying unharmed in the high-temperature flame, spinning quietly in the fire.

"What a hell of a life!"

Lin Lexuan and Lin Xiangyu looked at the suspended in the flames in disbelief, their eyes getting wider and wider.

"I've been practicing fire for so long, and I can't even burn a piece of clean?"

Lin Lexuan pinched his arm, he didn't believe in evil and increased his firepower, but the was still slowly rotating in the high-temperature flames that were already glowing with golden yellow, it was simply the most elegant piece of in the world.

"Holy!!"

Lin Lexuan was not calm at all, he flicked his other hand, and a ball of sparks flew by, directly hitting the piece of dried stool on the ground. The poop vanished in an instant, and was reduced to ashes along with the few poor flies that were hovering powerlessly above it.

Seeing this scene, Lin Lexuan let out a sigh of relief, and then, his gaze became strange.

He stared at the gracefully swirling piece of and muttered, "It seems that it's not my flame that has a problem, but this piece of." ”

"Le Xuan, look at that."

At this time, Lin Xiangyu suddenly pointed at it and said, "It seems to have been burned a little." ”

Lin Lexuan looked at it fixedly, and the piece of seemed to have indeed become a little smaller.

"Then keep burning."

The flames in Lin Lexuan's hands condensed, and he was engrossed in burning towards the lump of that was spinning in the fire. And as the firepower increased, the elegant seemed to be no longer leisurely, and its speed became faster and faster, shrinking in the flames.

Nearly half an hour later, the swirling finally turned into nothingness. At the same time, a stream of pure fire energy was transmitted back to Lin Lexuan's body, making the fire energy in his body a little stronger.

Lin Lexuan shuddered, forcing himself not to think about where this energy came from. Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiangyu, who was beside him, suddenly said:

"Le Xuan, look at this urinal."

Lin Lexuan looked intently, only to see that the urinal in front of him had disappeared for some time, and a dark hole appeared in front of the two.

"Go down?" Lin Xiangyu asked, a faint hint of excitement flashed in his tone.

"We have nothing to lose, it's just a life."

Lin Lexuan replied. The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and at the same time jumped into the dark hole.

And just as the two jumped, the hole slowly closed, and the twisted urinal returned to its original state. Public toilets are still public toilets, and from the outside, it seems that nothing unusual has happened.

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(Note: The smell of feces contains a lot of methane, so it can be burned off with fire.) Therefore, lighting a candle in a public toilet is a common way to prevent the toilet from smelling too bad and causing embarrassment. ）

This chapter is 4,000 words, and I take a little break on Saturdays and Sundays.