"Are you alright?" The girl stretched out a chubby little hand to the boy sitting in the mud puddle, "I'll help you up." ”

The boy just glanced at the delicate doll-like girl in front of him, then twisted his head to the side and stood up with his muddy hands.

"My name is Xuanyun, and your name is Alan, right?" The girl withdrew her hand, "My dad used to drink with your grandfather. ”

"He's not my grandfather." Alan said coldly, then turned around and left.

"What are you doing in the mountains? Dad said the mountains were dangerous. "Bao Yun followed Allen, but Allen walked very fast, so Bao Yun could only barely keep up by trotting.

"You're still in danger."

"I'm just picking flowers at the foot of the mountain," Bao Yun stretched out a few wild flowers in his hand and shook them, but Alan didn't look back, and Yu Yun had to take them back stupidly, "I heard a big cat barking, so I came up." ”

"You're so weird."

"Why?"

"Other children will cry and be scared when they hear the roar of the beast."

"But you didn't cry or be afraid, did you?"

"I never cried, and I never got scared."

"It's impossible, you are also a child, and Dad will cry and be scared when he says it is a child." Xuan Yun thought for a moment, "Like me, I'm afraid of pain, and I cry when my fingers bleed, just like last time-"

"I'm not like you." Alan interrupted Xuanyun.

"What's the difference?"

Alan stopped, turned to look at Xuanyun, and he suddenly noticed that Xuanyun's eyes were beautiful, as if there was a starry sky hidden in his eyes.

But Alan hated the starry sky.

"Your hair is black, and I am golden; Your eyes are all black, and I am turquoise. Alan stretched out his right hand, and at the same time, a small blue flame burned gently in his palm, "You don't have a blue flame, but I do." Look, I'm not like you. ”

But Dad said that there are many kinds of people in the world, just like flowers such as roses, lilacs, wisteria, and ...... And Snow Lotus! Twisting his fingers, he said, "Although they are of different types, they are all called flowers." ”

Alan looked at Xuanyun and was silent for a long time before he burst out: "You're so annoying." ”

"What?"

"I said you're so annoying!" Mu Han shouted loudly at Xuanyun, and then ran forward without looking back.

"Wait for me, I can't catch up with you." There was a childish shout from behind him, but Alan ignored it, and the speed of running increased a lot.

Alan ran all the way back to the worst mud house in the village, and saw that old Merlin was still half-lying on the bed, with his eyes closed, his legs crossed, and snoring, and the pipe in his right hand had burned out of tobacco, and the soot was scattered on the side of the bed.

Alan walked to the table and picked up the teapot and gulped down the water from the spout, feeling that his dry throat was much more comfortable before putting down the kettle, and then directly wiped the remaining water stains from the side of his mouth with his right hand, which was still full of dirt, while glancing at the silver-white knight's sword lying quietly on the cabinet next to Old Merlin's bed.

Alan didn't know what a knight's sword was, and in his opinion, it was not as powerful as the machetes in the hands of those hunters in the village. But Old Merlin never let him touch this sword, at least for as long as Alan can remember, but Alan has seen Old Merlin use this sword to kill fierce beasts in the mountains, and there seems to be nothing special except that it is sharper.

Although Alan was not interested in the sword, he was still curious, so he crept close to the cabinet and stood on tiptoe to reach the hilt, but when he was about to touch the hilt, a wrinkled hand like dead tree bark patted the hilt in advance.

"It's not a child's toy," Old Merlin squinted at Alan with one eye, "even if it's a toy, you can't play with it." ”

"Cut, who is rare." Eren withdrew his hand and sat back in his chair pretending not to care.

Old Merlin stretched, glanced at the empty ground beside Allen, and teased with a smile: "I didn't have anything to gain today." ”

"That beast is lucky."

"That's a lot of lucky beasts this week." Old Merlin got out of bed, dusted the cigarette ash on the bedside, looked at the sunset outside the door, sighed and said, "Alas, I can only drink porridge tonight." ”

Alan knew that old Merlin had deliberately told him this, so he pretended not to hear it, but secretly vowed in his heart that he would hunt a big guy tomorrow to gag the old guy's mouth. Thinking like this, Alan couldn't help but glance at the darkening sky outside with his afterglow, and his thoughts couldn't help but drift to the mountain.

"She's supposed to be back, right?"

When the sky was completely dark, Alan and Old Merlin were drinking porridge around the fire, and Bao Hai suddenly hurried in from outside. "Uncle Merlin, Allen, have you seen Xuanyun?" Xuan Hai gasped and asked anxiously.

"No, Xiao Xuanyun is gone?" Old Merlin put down the bowl and said.

"It's gone," Hearing Old Merlin's answer, Bao Hai nodded palely, "I helped the villagers with farm tools this afternoon, Bao Yun told me that I wanted to go to the foot of the mountain to pick flowers, I thought I was in the village, and I let her go if there was nothing to do, but the child didn't come back when dinner was ordered, I searched the whole village and couldn't find it, thinking if I would run up the mountain alone, so I came over and asked Alan if he had seen her on the mountain." ”

Old Merlin turned his head to look at Allen, who was still drinking porridge, and asked sharply with a somewhat unhappy expression: "Don't drink it, what about you, did you see Xiao Yingyun on the mountain today?" ”

Alan raised his head and looked at Xuan Hai, who was full of sadness and might even cry anxiously in the next moment, and then shook his head expressionlessly.

Bao Hai leaned weakly against the door frame and slapped himself twice with self-reproach, "Why did I let her pick flowers alone......"

"Don't worry, there is only one way up the mountain from the village, Alan said that if you don't see it, it shouldn't be on the mountain, it's good, it's dangerous on the mountain." Old Merlin got up to help Bao Hai, "Maybe the child ran out of the village to play naughtyly, let's go, I will call the rest of the village with you and look for it together, don't worry, the child can't lose it." ”

After Old Merlin and Bao Hai left, Alan continued to drink the porridge with his head down, and only after he had put the last grain of rice in his mouth did he get up and walk out of the house, and turned and ran towards the mountain.

Alan quickly found Xuanyun, as she was still in the place where Alan had left her in the afternoon. His small body was curled up at the root of a large tree, his little face buried deep between his arms, and his right hand was still tightly clutching the colorful wildflowers he had picked at the foot of the mountain.

"Why are you still here?" Alan walked up to Xuanyun and asked coldly.

"I can't find the way down the mountain." Xuan Yun raised his head and said with a small face full of grievances.

"If you're here, you'll never find your way down."

"Dad said that if I get lost, I can't run around, so Dad won't be able to find me," Yen looked at Alan stubbornly, "I'm afraid you won't find me when you come back." ”

"How do you know I'll be back?"

"That's it...... It's just a feeling. Yu Yun's eyes were a little flustered, "I don't know either." ”

Alan looked at the clouds curled up at the root of the tree, her white and tender little face was dirty at this time, but her eyes were still as bright as the starry sky. Alan suddenly felt that this starry sky didn't seem to be so annoying.

Alan stretched out his right hand to Xuanyun, "Let's go, I'll take you home." ”

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When Alan woke up, he found himself holding his right hand.

"You're awake." An old man with a white beard came in from outside the house, "You've been asleep for three days since I picked you up in the woods, and I thought you wouldn't wake up." ”

"Where is this?" Alan sat up against the back of the bed and asked blankly.

"It's my old man's home." The old man walked over to a round table and poured Alan a glass of water.

"Thank you." Alan took the water and whispered - he was still not used to saying the word.

"Hey, there's no need to thank me." The old man smiled and waved his hand, "It's still your luck, I'll change you to a place to lie down, I'm a poor old man who can't even afford medicine." ”

After listening to the old man's words, Mu Han noticed that the place where the old man lived was indeed a little dilapidated, and the yellowed walls and wall skins began to fall off in large areas, and the overall look looked very much like the earthen house they lived in together when Old Merlin was still alive.

The old man sat on the chair, and after a long silence, he seemed to be looking for a topic, and said, "You are very badly injured, and there are many old wounds. ”

"I know." Alan handed the empty water glass back to the old man, "But I have to go." ”

"Well, you're going to save a girl, right?"

"How do you know?"

"In the past three days that you have been in a coma, you have often shouted 'Xuanyun' in your dreams, I think it should be a girl's name."

"Yes, but not just to save her." Allen said, "I'm going to save a lot of people. ”

"I don't know who the enemy you are facing, but I do know that with your current body, you will definitely die."

"Perhaps, but—"

"Go ahead," the old man interrupted Allen, and stood up and walked to the door, "There is some food on the table outside the house, but it is a little cold, but it is enough to have the strength to save people." ”

"Thank you!" Alan looked at the old man's thin back and said.

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At eight o'clock in the morning, Long Lin, Qi Yue, Luo Xiaoxue and Mu Han were all ready to go, but Huo Xiqian was the only one missing.

"What are you doing? You can't still sleep, right? Long Lin frowned and said.

"No, Sissi can't lie in bed even if she wants to." Qi Yue said.

"It's unbelievable, but," Luo Xiaoxue opened her eyes, and at the same time retracted her feelings, "she is indeed still sleeping." ”

Hearing Luo Xiaoxue say that, Mu Han's heart suddenly "chuckled", and she was worried that it would be because of the sleeping herb tablets, but after thinking about it, she only took half a pill, even if the medicinal effect of the sleeping herb tablets was very great, she shouldn't sleep until this time, did she only think about it in the middle of the night? Mu Han's heart was beating faster and faster, and he had basically pushed the reason why Huo Xiqian was still sleeping on his sleeping grass tablets.

"I have no choice but to wake her up." After Long Lin finished speaking, he went downstairs to the front desk, and after a while, the staff came upstairs with a spare key and opened the door to Huo Xiqian's room.

When I entered the room, I found that the light in Huo Xiqian's room was still on, and she was curled up in the bed and sleeping soundly.

"Get up Sissi, Bingchen and Xiaoying are still waiting for us to save them," Long Lin said loudly while shaking Huo Xiqian on the bed, but the strange thing was that Huo Xiqian didn't react at all. Long Lin called Huo Xiqian a few more times in confusion, but she still didn't react at all.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to wake her up." Luo Xiaoxue said suddenly, and at the same time threw the white medicine bottle that Huo Xiqian had placed on the bedside table to Long Lin.

"Sleeping grass tablets?" Long Lin took the medicine bottle and looked at the label on the medicine bottle, "When did Sissi start eating this?" ”

"Apparently someone else gave it to her." Luo Xiaoxue said, "Sister Sissi has never taken it before, and no one has bought it for her, because we are afraid that she will rely on this medicine." ”

"Who gave that?" Long Lin thought about it, and suddenly—almost at the same time—Long Lin, Qi Yue, and Luo Xiaoxue all thought of the answer, and turned their heads to look at Mu Han, who was standing at the door and didn't dare to look up.

"I'm sorry......" Mu Han raised his hand tremblingly.

"Hanhan, why are you giving Sissi this?" Qi Yue asked, in fact, he already knew the answer when he asked.

"In order to let Sister Sissi sleep well and ensure that she is full of energy," Mu Han said, "but I only let her take half a pill, and the effect of the medicine should be over." ”

"Did you give her a whole bottle?" Long Lin asked.

"yes." Mu Han nodded, not quite understanding why Long Lin asked.

"Then I understand," Long Lin suddenly realized and covered his forehead a little helplessly, "Sissi didn't eat half a piece, but a whole half bottle!" ”

"What?!" Mu Han's eyes widened in disbelief, and then he trembled with some fear and said, "If you eat half a bottle, you will die!" ”

"Oh, don't worry, the guild hunters of the Fangs of the Night won't die so easily." Long Lin waved his hand to signal Mu Leng to be quiet, "But it is estimated that I will have to sleep for three or five days, there is no way, this mission can only be completed by the four of us." ”

"But if there is no phantom of Sister Sissi, the plan ......" Mu Han's voice was so low that he couldn't hear it, and his bowels were blue now: sure enough, he still brought trouble.

"No problem, even if there is only one hunter left in the Fangs of the Night, they will do their best to complete the task." Long Lin walked up to Mu Han and patted him on the shoulder, "Actually, you don't need to give Sissi Sleeping Grass Tablets at all, because as long as she is in the dark, she will become very excited even if she doesn't sleep for ten days." ”