"Still haven't you asked?"

"Hmm...."

In an unknown town, on the streets of the early twentieth century brick towns, in front of the church sheltering the refugees, the young man looked at the girl with a quiet face, asked softly, and looked at her and nodded gently.

Then he gently took her hand and smiled warmly:

"It doesn't matter, let's go, go to the next town, and the next place will definitely find out about Ling's parents."

"Hmm."

Walking through the streets and alleys of bluestone bricks, the two figures walked towards the exit of the town, and began to travel towards the next city again in the sun...

...

...

Where have they been?

There is no longer the nightmare of killing that man with his own hands in the narrow room of the capital, and the restlessness and anxiety that rushed out of the campus symbolizing the stability of daily life have also disappeared.

Maybe it's the figure that is being pursued is one step away from him, or maybe it's the young girl who has been held in his arms,

The sound of the wheels of the carriage turning in the dream, the only picture in the dream is the ranch tavern in Il, the laughter of the grass under the windmill, the sunshine in the forest, the fish swimming in the river, and the Milan that we have walked hand in hand...

Where have they been?

I didn't take the steam train again, and I left Milan that night, following the direction of the road along the Il, passing through small towns and villages.

Don't worry about money, don't worry about meeting bad guys, don't worry about time and direction, in an unknown country, you can do whatever you want, go wherever you want,

How, that sounds great, doesn't it?

The beautiful journey of freedom, all the scenery and memories along the way, makes people hope that this journey will not end.

A girl with a gothic skirt travels in a horse-drawn carriage through the pastoral wilderness of the early twentieth century, through the forest, across the stream, and the memories of the journey shining in the sun are uncanny and perfect.

So it's okay,

It doesn't matter where you go now...

The light that penetrated the curtain opened his eyes in a daze, and in the farmland carriage that was exchanged for the aristocratic carriage in the manor, which was not suitable for long travel, the dry wooden planks covered with Simmons's mattress slept unexpectedly well,

Laptops, tablets, game consoles, snack bags, messy data cables and a lot of used power banks, all kinds of things scattered on the mattress,

staggered up his upper body, yawned without any appearance, rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked at the sun that was probably in the morning, and lazily ripped open another blanket beside him.

Revealing a petite girl who was shrunk in it and hadn't woken up, her light blonde hair was unkempt and scattered, her delicate and quiet sleeping face was breathing shallowly, her slightly curled body was like a young wild cat, and her thin nightdress was disheveled, revealing her white thighs and a large area of snow-white girl's skin under her shoulders...

Then Fang Ran sighed helplessly, Ling, who could still sleep lazily compared to herself, didn't know what to say.

As for why he is usually so cowardly in the face of a little intimacy with women, why is he so calm now...

“......”

Please see all the normal young people in their twenties and above answer, please, do you have any strange thoughts when you see a little girl in her early teens?

Okay, okay, I got it (perfunctory face),

Please leave your name and phone number here for someone who answered in the affirmative, so that I can call the police station to report you later.

In a word... For this reason, even if they live together in close proximity every day and take care of Ling's daily life, Fang Ran doesn't know where to look like he usually does when facing Ling, and he can't do it....

Instead, there is a kind of mentality of a mysterious old father...

Let the stupid person who has never been in love at the age of twenty sigh from time to time recently that he is really old.

"Ling, Ling! Don't sleep, sleep in the sun and soak your butt, it's about to be the next town, get up quickly. ”

Activating the skill [Old Father Calling the Bed], Fang Ran urged the little lazy cat who was still lying on the bed to get up quickly.

Forehead... Anyway, the name of this skill is obviously correct, why does it read weird...

Ling, who instinctively opened her eyes when she heard his voice, also got up in a daze, and the shoulder straps of her nightdress completely slipped off her thin and snow-white shoulders this time, and then fell into Fang Ran's arms in a drowsy state.

"Hmm... I'm just... Rise.. Bed..."

Then you're up!

Looking at Ling, who was disheveled and fell into her arms and was about to sleep for a while, Fang Ran sighed helplessly, and decided that she would not go to bed early tonight, and would not let her touch the steering wheel again.

Then he reached out and took out the black stockings from the pile of clothes that the girl took off, and put her body on little by little, although it sounded very perverted, but he was really familiar with helping Ling who was bedridden these days.

Ling leaned into his arms without paying any attention, her unkempt hair languidly rubbing against Fang Ran's shirt and yawning, letting his stocking-holding hand run across his slender calves to the depths of his thighs.

"Alright, alright, hurry up and wash your face and brush your teeth."

After dressing her in the old-fashioned cowhide boots, tidying up the messy nightdress, Fang Ran took a towel and toothbrush and pushed Ling out of the carriage, took out a basin of water, and looked at the girl who had not yet combed the dull hair sleeping on the top of her head brushing her teeth in a daze, and sighed with emotion.

Alas, it's old...

...

....

The outline of the town was already in front of him, Fang Ran, who was slowly driving the carriage, was boredly smoking a cappuccino, and Ling, who had already put on her dress, was sitting in front of him watching the "Variety Sakura Magic Card" playing on the tablet.

Then Fang Ran suddenly felt Ling move in his arms and looked at him, and as soon as he lowered his head, he heard the girl's puzzled voice:

"Fang Ran, why does this person named Momo Ya always look at that person named Snow Rabbit? Aren't they all men? ”

"Poof!!"

Immediately after that, he squirted.

(ー△ー； Can I say I don't know?

Anyway, why is the queen so keen to notice these at such a young age, when I was a child, I didn't notice anything except 'this card is so awesome'...

"Uh... This is probably a good relationship between them...."

In the end, Fang Ran had to answer in a cold sweat, Ling obediently said 'oh' and turned off the tablet in her hand.

It has been almost a week since they came out of Milan, and during this time, the carriage traveled through many small towns and villages, accompanied by the girl who wanted to find her parents, Fang Ran took her hand and knocked on the doors of many houses, and walked through the streets and alleys of many towns.

The expected route was to follow another route that ended in Il, and then return to Il, along the most likely place where people lost in the war would be found.

Then after this period of getting along, Fang Ran discovered that Ling, who was only in her early tens, had an incredible learning ability in the use of things in the future.

Something is even more familiar than yourself (crossed out) ... Ahem, I'm almost catching up with myself.

"Anyway, Ling, don't we really drive away? If you're worried about attracting attention, I can..."

"Fang Ran, you idiot!"

"Huh! No... Why..."

The girl who sat in front of Fang Ran and treated him as a backrest didn't give Fang Ran a chance to finish speaking, and directly threw out a dissatisfied word, making a certain fool confused.

"Fang Ran, it's so boring, how about we answer each other's questions?"

Then after a while, he put down the tablet that had interested him in the past few days, raised his head and looked at Fang Ran blinking his eyes and asked,

Poked Lao Fang Ran's old face with this action, and at the same time, made him subconsciously bite the straw and agree.

"Oh oh oh...."

"Then I'll come first, um...."

Ling leaned against his chest and shook his feet in cowhide boots, thinking about his curious question, and then turned to look at him with a wink:

"Fang Ran, are you married in a hundred years?"

"Poof!!!

Cappuccino: "......"

"Ahem! cough cough cough .... For... Why do you suddenly ask this...? ”

Fang Ran, who was panicked and confused, almost choked to death, asked in a panic, and Liling in his arms blinked at him with wide eyes and looked back thoughtfully and muttered:

"Looks like it hasn't..."

Feed! Listen to people!

? (&`Д′; And I guessed the answer before I even answered!

Guessing the answer from Fang Ran's simple and easy-to-understand reaction, Ling turned her head and looked at him very seriously and said:

"Fang Ran, do you know that a rich man of your size in Europe is almost engaged to a woman."

Fang Ran: "......"

So, Ling I can interpret your words as,

Even a hundred years from now, I'm still an older single dog (tearful smile without love)...

"But it's a few years before we get married..."

However, Ling quickly added, the light golden pupils blinked from side to side, glanced at him evadantly, slowly lowered his head, and repeated in a low voice:

"Hmm... At least a few more years to go...."

"Ahem!"

cleared his throat heavily, and the expression on Fang Ran's face suddenly became a tough guy and said solemnly:

"Ling, you must know that in the era I live in, men must be at least thirty years old before they are allowed to interact with women."

"Huh! Do you have to be 30 years old!? ”

The girl who had no doubt was immediately surprised when she heard him say this, and that day could really melt the hypocritical gaze, so that Fang Ran gritted her teeth and supported her JOJO-like painting style and nodded silently:

"That's right, only men over the age of thirty can find girlfriends, so I don't have to rush at all."

Ling applauded in amazement, and sighed without any malice:

"It feels amazing..."

Then it deeply hurt the heart of a single dog surnamed a certain party.

"Okay, let's not discuss this, it's time for me to ask Ling."

Fang Ran, who always felt that the conversation just now made his heart full of holes, said with a complicated expression, and then Ling sat down obediently and nodded:

"Hmm."

After a slight hesitation, he opened his mouth, and suddenly countless questions popped up in his mind to ask the girl in front of him.

Why did Ling leave by yourself, and why did Ling you be the form of a soul when you met?

Why did Ling, who had obviously become a zero rider, turn against the Nightless Palace and become the song of the wanderer?

And obviously has the name of 'Carol', why was it 'Ling' that told me at that time?

One by one, the questions hidden in the fog of time surfaced in his mind, making Fang Ran feel an impulse to speak to the girl in front of him, but when he met the pair of beautiful pale golden pupils, the questions that opened his mouth disappeared.

Hawkers,Even if you ask Ling at this age, you won't know at all, right...

Why did you come to this point in time?

However, I just need to make Ling happy.

So after thinking about it, Fang Ran changed to another question that he was curious about:

"By the way, when we passed by the town next to Yir, Ling was going to see the white bungalow that you knew someone?"

When passing by Delier, when Ling estimated that she hadn't let go of her trust in Fang Ran, the white bungalow she wanted to see made Fang Ran remember it very well for some reason.

Ling's pale golden pupils moved slightly, and then replied in a crisp voice:

"The one who saved me in the war, and if she hadn't saved me at the time, I would have starved to death."

"Saved Ling your people?!"

Fang Ran was slightly stunned, Ling nodded at him:

"He's a very good-looking person, hmm... Probably the most beautiful and kind person in the world. ”

"Didn't she take you in?"

Fang Ran frowned slightly, leaving a little girl alone in that kind of remote village, what did that person think!?

Hearing this, the girl in her arms shook her head gently:

"I'm going to stay in Il."

Then she looked at Fang Ran, and there was a light golden clear pupil in her big eyes.

"The big sister told me she didn't see my parents, so I'm going to stay, or else... They may not be able to find me, but I have been waiting for a long time...."

The crisp voice slowly lowered, making Fang Ran suddenly open his mouth a little helpless, not knowing what to say.

Silently, then looked at the town that was about to arrive, stretched out his hand and hugged her shoulder, rubbed her head vigorously, and said in a low voice:

"We're going to find them, okay, it's time for you to ask me"

"Fang Ran, are you really from a hundred years later?"

"Hmm."

"Will you go back, then... Back in 100 years...? ”

“......”

"I'm sorry, Rei..."

"I'll always be there for you...."

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....

At the other end of the border town where the carriage was traveling, there was also a road that stretched out of nowhere, and in the sparse crowd, a woman in a long black dress walked on the side of the road with some out of place, behind her...

In the direction of the Isonzo plain, a routed army is slowly approaching ....