In the afternoon of the manor, the auditorium garden on the top floor of the villa, the light from the row of narrow round arched windows several meters high on one side covered the crimson carpet, the richly embossed pillars, and the white gauze curtains that swayed high in the wind.

Unlike the tranquility of the evening, the afternoon in the garden

Brilliant and dazzling full of sunshine.

The angle of the light, the flow of air, and the angle at which the shadows move in the afternoon, which is perfect for sitting on the balcony, what many people don't know is that the whole villa was originally built for one person to have the perfect view of the flowers.

Without the obstruction of high-rise buildings, the wind in the manor in the northern suburbs of the capital is more free, and the balcony that happens to be covered by the shade of the courtyard finally looks at the young man who has finally returned safely at this moment, and finally relaxes his heart.

"Welcome back safely, Fang Ran."

And listening to her say such words, in the face of the relief and softness that really belonged to the elders at this moment, it suddenly made Fang Ran feel a little overwhelmed, partly for his reckless behavior this time, and more for when he faced Shui Linlang before

"That"

"It's okay, you don't have to care."

But before he could even speak, Shui Linlang smiled slightly, signaling that he didn't have to feel sorry for the previous meeting, and then looked at the young man in front of him who had just recovered from a serious injury on the hospital bed, like looking at a child who had run away from home and finally returned, his eyes were filled with a touch of distressed tenderness.

"How does it feel to be on a long journey to a foreign country compared to that?"

The moment she heard her ask, she was slightly distracted, starting from forcibly expelling the restless and nervous flight, the voyage of the enemy of unknown origin in Northern Europe, Norway, and Oslo, and the voyage on the icebreaker, trekking in the uninhabited North Pole, made Fang Ran lower his eyes and smiled with a light sigh.

"To be honest, I'm more tired than I thought."

Shui Linlang looked at him, looking at this young man who was extremely attached to his daily life, but forced himself to get on the plane to the North Pole with his own hands, and saw him scratch his head and raise his head with a smile to look at the sea of flowers outside the balcony, but his eyes were not focused, as if he was looking at the ice field in the extreme north of the world.

"When I really trekked alone in that seemingly boundless ice field, I found that I was even more uneasy and hesitant than I imagined, thinking about whether there was enough food, whether the energy of the life support armor needed to be replenished, how far I still needed to go, and how much magic energy I still had."

Retracting his unfocused gaze, Fang Ran looked at Shui Linlang with a slightly wry smile that he didn't know what expression to show:

"I kept imagining in my mind what situation I should use when facing Zero Rider, imagining all kinds of different situations, and in the end I even began to wonder if there was really an action in front of the Nightless Palace, could it be all just my speculation, and when I got there, I found that no one was there."

Recalling the more than ten hours of wandering all the way to the North Pole, maybe only sitting at the courtyard table like this, or maybe only facing Shui Linlang, who knew everything and was an elder, could he pour out all his worries at that time so unreservedly.

"But"

Falling into the sea of ice, tears melting into the sea and feeling the boundless powerlessness and despair, suddenly the world turned upside down, the world changed back to Italy a hundred years ago, recalling the wonderful and incredible time with that young girl,

Fang Ran's eyes lowered and he looked at the reflection of his chuckle in the black tea in front of him, rubbing the pattern on the side of the teacup with both hands.

"It feels pretty good."

"In my divination, in addition to the night angel in the scene a hundred years ago, you also saw the queen of the palace that never sleeps in that era?"

Although he had already predicted a certain picture, he really knew that Fang Ran had entered the scene a hundred years ago, which was still beyond Shui Linlang's expectations.

"Hmm"

Speaking of the figure that seemed to be covered with a layer of light, Fang Ran nodded quietly with a somewhat expression.

"How does it feel?"

"I don't feel like a perfect and selfless saint in religion, but a real human being, who can stand at that height and have that great personality that people aspire to."

Hearing Shui Linlang ask how he felt, Fang Ran let go of the teacup and recalled all the experiences of the figure he had met.

Whether it's the scene or the reality, the meaning of the name 'Van Erlin'.

"It was almost a hundred years ago, when I was a young girl who had just awakened her abilities, and that queen once came to the Night Club to see my teacher for that war."

Teacher?

Could it be midnight?

Listening to Shui Linlang tell the memories she knew, recalling the 'sir' she heard in Le Guien's mouth, and recalling the figure sealed by thousands of light locks in the narrow room, Fang Ran was slightly stunned.

"She made a pretty strong impression on me, and maybe I've been influenced by her since then, and the queen has always had a charm that influences the people around her."

Talking about the memories of his childhood with a gentle smile, Shui Linlang looked at the young man in front of him who was already a little different from before, and smiled slightly:

"Isn't it?"

The memories in the narrow room of the battlefield, the gentleness of the profound wisdom displayed by the queen, and the great power of the will to ask in the bright torrent of the polar night of the ice sea, Fang Ran could only admit with a smile that it was really the glory he had seen that he respected and longed for more than those great people in the textbooks.

"Remember what I told you when you first came here?"

Shui Linlang smiled, and her glass-like eyes looked at Fang Ran, who had changed after returning from the trip.

"What are the words about the primordial and learning to grow?"

Thinking back to the first time he followed Yesheng to this garden, Fang Ran sighed softly, that long night that happened too much was hard for him to forget.

"The Primordial does not have the ability to directly gain the ability from the Awakening Scene, so compared to the normal participants, there is always one less determination to make up one's mind"

Thinking of the young man standing in the shadows of the evening that night, Shui Linlang laughed softly, and then raised her eyes to look at Fang Ran at this moment,

"But now I see that determination in you,"

The voice was gentle, but there was some distressed comfort to this smart child who knew that he had made a choice:

"You've grown, Fang Ran."

Maybe it's a blessing or maybe it's comfort, hearing Shui Linlang's words, Fang Ran was slightly silent,

Then he smiled with a very light helplessness.

He looked at the bright and beautiful sea of flowers outside the balcony with a very calm look in his eyes, let the warm afternoon breeze blow the ends of his hair slightly, and said softly in a quiet voice:

"I just understood that night, just greedy and standing still, I can't protect all the things I value."

That overly happy bonfire night, everything he cherished was complete by his side, and he only understood this truth at the moment when he saw the last light of the power bank go out.

A slight wry smile appeared on his face, and he looked at the water in front of him.

"Maybe from the last time you told me to take on the responsibility of protecting my senior sister, I should have understood this truth, after the first time I pushed the door from here and left, I was still thinking about what danger I would encounter again, so I went to ask Ling to help me, but I didn't think about it at that time,"

Recalling the delicate figure that had been high above her since they met, and people couldn't worry about her, Fang Ran looked at the black tea in the cup and sighed quietly in his eyes.

"What if Rei is in danger?"

I never thought about what to do when the figure that was the origin and salvation for me was in danger

"So"

Speaking of this, as if he had shaken off all the quiet and depressed looks before, Fang Ran sighed loudly, recovered his usual spirit, spread his hands and smiled at Shui Linlang:

"At least I want to move forward a little bit, I don't want to stand still, I don't know anything, I can't keep anything."

Even if I think about it now, the joyful daily life of last month is incomparably peaceful, and there is no burden of stress or things that need to be prepared, and I wake up lazily from the morning sun, and I am incredible.

But perhaps it is to protect this beauty that there is no sadness and everyone is around,

It is necessary to make a decision to move forward.

To grow is to lose what you never lost and to get what you never gained.

In order to get the beauty that can protect this carefree, he is willing to choose to lose the stability and ordinariness that he has never lost.

Has it grown?

I've grown up.

There is no worthiness or not, only willingness.

There is also a little reluctance

After chuckling and saying this, he found that Shui Linlang had been looking at him calmly and gently, and then Fang Ran felt a little embarrassed and ashamed to look away and pick up the black tea, and coughed dryly twice.

"But it's still impossible for me to save the world, I can't do such great things"

Shui Linlang smiled.

He seemed to laugh out loud.

"So that's because of this, it seems that the Night Angel is really a very important existence for you,"

When the words fell, a deliberate teasing appeared in the corner of Shui Linlang's eyes.

"Do you like her?"

"Poof!"

Fang Ran, who had just taken a sip of black tea, squirted out directly when he heard her suddenly say such words, and raised his head in a panic the moment he coughed, and couldn't help but tremble with his lips.

It's said that older people shouldn't be so naughty!!

"Ahem, then again, what's going on with that time inheritance scene, is there still such an incredible type of scene in the night battle?"

wiped the corners of his mouth, looked at the appearance of laughing and gossiping after living for a century, and looked at Shui Linlang and asked silently holding his forehead.

"But I still think my family is a little cuter, alas, although my naïve granddaughter is too innocent and unalert."

"It's not! I'm saying that the timing of that scene is too coincidental, and I've long wanted to ask what is the matter with all the kinds of coincidents I've encountered since my awakening, and if you think about it, it doesn't feel normal. ”

Looking at Shui Linlang, who was still taking care of herself and staying on the topic of younger generation's love, and even began to promote her granddaughter, Fang Ran wanted to pull back the topic and hurriedly asked,

"Why don't I tell you where her room is, you can use your ability to go to her room at night and talk to her, grandmother, I officially guarantee that no one will disturb you."

(╬╯◣д◢)╯(┻━┻Listen to people!!

And do you know what you're talking about as a grandmother, how can you be so cheating on your granddaughter! I'm not a wolf!

Looking at the water that completely ignored his own questions, picked up the enamel teacup and deliberately smiled and said this, Fang Ran wanted to speak and finally couldn't bear to complain about the rolling eyes of the elders, even if he didn't want to answer,

But Grandma Shui, do you dare not to prevaricate me with such a strange method.

Then just when he was still about to say something, the sound of completely shattered lines growing suddenly sounded out of thin air, making Fang Ran's expression stagnate, and then he helplessly took out the silver broken dragon tooth and sighed:

"It seems that this core can't hold on anymore, and it seems to be too consumed when it is in the North Pole."

The joints of the hilt of the slender and graceful silver dragon opened, and a transparent core full of cracks flickered faintly, as if it had reached its limit.

"It looks like it will take a lot of time to repair, and the senior night watchman in charge of repairing it may have another headache."

Reaching out to take the transparent core with a damage degree of more than ninety percent, Shui Linlang looked at the various cracks on it and smiled lightly, and then watched the young man in front of him slowly disappear here because he no longer had the 'infinite' support of the core activation.

Don't you hear me?

The last thought before the two consciousnesses merged into one, then Fang Ran looked at the group that had come in halfway through the battle with the magic envoy and ended the war to send him back, pulled the car door and got into the car, and then continued to ask from his previous conversation:

"Anyway, Brother Su Qun, doesn't it matter if you are injured, Sister Hua Ling is willing to let you out?"

"There is no problem with the penetrating injury on the shoulder, the main thing is that the back injury involves the spinal nerves, but after a full month of rest, there should be no problem, you don't have to worry."

The group in front of him is still calm, reliable and serious, wearing sunglasses and a shirt with a straight collar and a figure sitting in the driver's seat, a cold and handsome male god's aura, Fang Ran can already expect to enter the slow street in the city, and countless women have straight eyes.

"What about you, how do you feel now?"

And hearing Su Qun look at himself and ask, looking at the silhouette of the city on both sides of the speeding car, the city silhouette of the capital getting closer and closer, he smiled softly, making people wonder what he was answering.

"I feel a little bit looking forward to it"

The moment the words fell, the black Audi sped off on the suburban road towards the bustling city

Too comfortably smooth is set in stone.

People only have themselves will not change, always need to move forward, constantly meet the scenery and meet people, their own footsteps intertwined with the fate of others,

will start to change.

Looking at the broken and dim transparent core in his hand, the young man in front of him had disappeared, and he smiled lightly in the car in the water mirror, and made the decision to move forward, becoming more dazzling.

The water mirror changes and turns into a divination astrolabe full of mysterious points of light, and countless stars swaying on the illusory mirror.

Then at the moment when Shui Linlang's fingertips tapped, the scattered traces of Vientiane, countless miscellaneous points of light on the star track of the main position were eliminated, and finally only seven of the most critical ones remained.

People alone do not change.

You always have to go through many places, meet many people, listen to their stories and laughter, taste their lips and emotions, and then you will slowly be influenced and changed.

And the people you meet, those who are intertwined with your fate, are like keys to you,

Open up all the rest of your life.

Thinking of the clear decision that the young man had made in front of him just now, Shui Linlang smiled softly:

"It's finally decided?"

Then she looked at the astrolabe formed by the water mirror in front of her, symbolizing the 'change' of that point of light, this time it was the same as the 'power', and it lit up with a light that did not lose a single bit.

And the remaining 'keys'

The only one that can be compared to the two that have been lit up, led by a falling city, connects the most figures and the largest 'fetters' are still slowly accumulating and growing.

The one that symbolizes the 'past' is as quiet as ever, and the one that symbolizes the 'collapse' appears and sprouts.

And the one that 'woke up' has not yet recovered.

As for the end, it is also Shui Linlang who vaguely feels that there is going to be a change now.

The one that symbolizes 'love' is still mysterious, so she can't predict any trajectory, not even whose shadow it is