Shrouded in clouds and mist, the secret realm of midnight beyond the world,

I don't know where to go deep into the bluestone ancient steps, the artistic conception is ethereal, which will make people who step on it can't help but wonder, all the way to the end, whether you can get the way and soar...

Just the only visitor in recent decades,

The black-haired young man walking behind on the stone steps of the mountain road was looking confused.

Hearing Li Ze feel strange and say, 'There is no such trial in the middle of the night', Fang Ran shouted in his heart as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Ah, no trial!? No... Isn't there the kind of trial that observes the outsider's character and conduct, and sees if he is qualified or not!? Yes, according to the routine, there should be in general, right? ”

"In a place like Midnight, which is like a hidden world sect, at least there will be that kind of rules to test strength, right!?"

Faced with Fang Ran's anxious questioning, Li Ze explained with a little unclear smile:

"Is it qualified enough... In the end, people who are not qualified and unrecognized can't come here at all, and can only enter the middle of the night, which already explains a lot,"

"As for testing strength, midnight is not an examination room, and it would be too rude if there was such a rule."

Fang Ran: "......"

Damn, you have a point...

"Not to mention that if you can come here, your strength and identity must be extraordinary.... Well? Fang Ran, what's wrong with you? ”

"It's okay, it's just that the psychological shadow area is a bit large, can you help me ask for it..."

Thinking that until now, in the time of five or six hours, I still went to the sky to catch birds, went into the water to catch fish, and picked fruits without refusal.

I thought it was a test for outsiders in the middle of the night, and I was eager to try it in a sense of novelty and never tired of it.

Fang Ran felt that he was so stupid and cute.

(╬╯ΩдΩ)╯(┻━┻Ahhhh

Looking at Fang Ran's suddenly silent face with black lines, Li Ze asked tentatively:

"Is something going on?"

The ancient steps paved with bluestone appear to be soaked and cold in the quiet of the mountains.

The ancient trees on both sides are more rare than those in the forest below the mountain, and the scene in the depths is shrouded in a hazy mist, and only occasionally glimpses can be glimpsed in the corner of the classical and magnificent palace.

The air is so fresh that you want to breathe faster...

Walking in such a scene, after listening to Fang Ran's description, Li Ze asked with some surprise:

"In other words, since the agreed arrival time, have you been completing the 'trial' she said?"

"yes, I thought this was the normal process of coming to midnight..."

Covering his face with one hand, Fang Ran, who felt that he had no face to see people, was embarrassed to say that he had seen too much fantasy,

I'm stupid, really.

“(≧?? ≦*) Meow??"

"You think it's all resentment, who, ah——!"

In the happy cry of the 'culprit' as if echoed, Fang Ran gritted his teeth viciously and rubbed it vigorously,

Then I remembered the figure of a girl with white sleeves and red brocade.

"By the way, who is she?"

"Seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl..... As far as I know, in the middle of the night, there doesn't seem to be anyone who matches Fang Ran's description..."

Listening to Fang Ran's inquiry, Li Ze thought for a moment with some doubts, but then shook his head gently:

"However, it may just be that I don't know each other, after all, I haven't been here for long."

"I don't know... Li Ze, do you have anyone you don't know in the middle of the night?"

'Punishment' a certain meow (although the other party didn't realize that this was punishment at all), and when he heard Li Ze's words, he was curious again,

I was embarrassed to ask more questions in the face of a strange girl before, but after meeting an acquaintance, I suddenly couldn't stop talking and curiosity, and I kept asking questions.

"Aren't you also a night watchman, do you still know each other? So there are a lot of people in the middle of the night? Don't they see each other? What kind of living environment is it here? What kind of person is that immortal? And here..."

"Wait, wait, you're asking too much at once."

Seeing him quickly step over several steps to his side, Li Ze hurriedly stopped, and slowly explained from the beginning in a little helplessness:

"First of all, although I am also a night watchman, I am just a young person who has not been qualified for a few years, to be honest, compared to those powerful elders who are feared by the night war world,"

"I've always felt like I couldn't afford to be called the same as them."

Although he heard him say this, Fang Ran didn't forget the first time he met Li Ze, but in the A-level scene,

And the external core was something that was built for him at the beginning, and the real strength was probably stronger than the adjutants he met in Europe.

But unusually low-key and unnoticed, this kind of place made Fang Ran feel like a night watchman.

"Midnight is not like other forces, there are those formal meeting occasions or other rules and regulations, as you can see,"

"It's more of an out-of-this-world retreat."

Walking up to a platform that was interrupted by the stone steps, Li Ze came to the edge of the side and squatted down, took out two paper cups from the space device, and directly scooped up the flowing spring water.

Handing Fang Ran a cup and motioning for him to taste it.

"So I'm still young, so naturally I don't know all my seniors, and I haven't had a chance to meet that gentleman yet,"

took the paper cup, tasted it, and after tasting it, his eyes widened slightly, and he couldn't believe that the water would be so sweet and refreshing.

Fang Ran also handed it to La Meow in his arms, watching it stuff its tail with a roll of paper cups into his mouth.

"Oh, I see."

"Actually, I've only been here a few times at midnight, and I haven't stayed permanently, and all I've seen is a senior who is like a master, and one or two friends he occasionally visits,"

Continuing to move towards the stone steps on one side, Li Ze continued to tell Fang Ran about the situation in the middle of the night,

"But in addition to this, there are other old-timers in Midnight who have been around since the Night Club period, and some of them have relieved themselves of their duties as night watchmen and chose to live in seclusion here for the rest of their lives,"

"The buildings scattered on or below this mountain are their daily residences."

Listening to these midnight messages told by Li Ze, Fang Ran hugged La Meow with a look of surprise, and then asked with curiosity in a low voice:

"And does that immortal live here too?"

To him as if he was afraid of being 'heard', Li Ze smiled and nodded in affirmation,

"Sir lives on the top of the mountain."

"Eh......"

Fang Ran looked up at the peak that was hidden by the clouds and mist, and couldn't help but lengthen the tone of exclamation.

"By the way, where are we going now?"

retracted his gaze with admiration, and couldn't think of anything else he wanted to ask for a while, so he cared about the problem at hand.

"That's it, I just said,"

On the platform of another stone staircase fault, instead of continuing to turn upward to another flat stone road, Li Ze pointed to the front that felt gradually opening up.

"The dwelling of the predecessor who seems to be my master of the Night's Watch."

Like your master's predecessors... What are we doing here?

Shouldn't we go and see 'Mrs. Isis' who invited me over...

Maintaining such doubts, Fang Ran continued to walk forward with Li Ze, but he gradually discovered that the scenery on both sides of the road was gradually 'special',

Unlike the natural beauty that was just amazing and indulged along the way, mahogany, bronze, and various materials are made.

Something that seemed to be elaborate and unique began to appear.

Before Fang Ran could ask curiously, Li Ze suddenly spoke:

"Speaking of which, there is someone you know who has long expected you to come here."

Someone I know?

Thinking that besides him, what people did he know in the middle of the night, Fang Ran looked at him strangely without an answer for a while,

And then at this moment,

A young man's words of surprise and joy suddenly sounded in front of the two!

"Fang Ran! There you are!? ”

Huh...

At the moment when he heard this voice, he turned his head incredulously,

Seeing the pale and gentle figure of Yingting, all the sadness, powerlessness, and inferiority complex on his body flew away, and his thoughts were pulled back to Europe in an instant.

Let him subconsciously call out the other party's name.

"Krim?"