Noxus City Gate.

"Stop, let's check our supplies before we enter the city."

A peddler was stopped by two soldiers armed with spears.

There was still a long queue in the back.

Because of the recent events in Noxus, Noxus is now under martial law throughout the city.

Anyone who wants to enter or leave the city gates needs to be checked.

The vendor's entourage was rummaged through.

No dangerous items were detected, and the soldiers put them in, and then the next one.

In the line at the gates, a man in a brown robe pulled his hat.

On one side of the brim, a few strands of silver-white hair can occasionally be seen.

She carried a strange weapon wrapped in a white cloth strip on her back, which looked like a sword, but it was much shorter than a normal sword.

"Stop."

The soldiers stopped her.

"Where are you from?"

"Oh." The man in the brown robe said calmly, "I am an adventurer from Shurima. ”

"Need to check your belongings?"

The soldier glanced sideways at one of the female guards beside him.

The female guard nodded, stepped forward to search the other party's body, and did not find any black pair of short knives mentioned above.

And the adventurer's hair seems to be silver, which does not match the rumored black.

The female soldier shook her head at the soldier.

"Let's go over." The soldier moved out of the way and waved his hand.

"Thank you." The brown-robed man nodded and walked through the gates.

The incident of the Tricky Blade in Noxus has become known to everyone in the mainland because of the newspaper.

Most people watched Noxus' jokes with the mentality of watching a play.

But there are still a few people who care about the seemingly crazy murderer.

Look at the streets with people coming and going.

The brown-robed man tilted his head.

"It's been a long time since I've been back."

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"Tread, step, step."

The shoes creaked on the old wooden staircase.

There was a lot of dust on the handrails, and it was obvious that it had been uninhabited for a long time. The black figure dragged his cloak and stood at the top of the stairs, in front of a door.

This is Riven's apartment in Noxus, and speaking of which, I haven't been back to see it for a long time.

An Chen squatted down and groped under the wooden board next to the door, and took out a key, which Rui Wen was afraid that she would forget to bring the key at that time, so she put it here.

I didn't use it a few times······

Holding the yellowed copper key in his palm, Anchen smiled, inserted the key into the door, pushed the door and walked in.

Everything was still the same, Rui Wen's old red and black sword was still leaning against the wall, the closet was open, and there were still those men's dresses and daily outfits inside.

The bed in the bedroom was still messy with sheets, and I didn't have time to clean it up when I went out.

Sunlight peeks in through the cracks in the closed shutters, and the dust wafts through the air.

Walked to the window and opened the window, the dazzling sunlight made Anchen squint.

Outside are the streets of Noxus.

Start where it all started and end it all.

War is such a thing...

A drop of moisture left in the corner of Anchen's eye, which slid down her cheek and dripped onto the ground.

She blankly touched the wetness on her cheek.

This was supposed to be the first time she cried.

When you are wandering, you grab food with dogs, rummage through garbage cans, and eat junk food in the real sense; Decades of loneliness in adulthood are lonely and precarious.

First time on the continent of Valoran, death in the forest; Survive in the army.

In the face of biochemical shells, the execution of Demacia, the bombardment of the magic crystal cannon, the army of thousands of people.

She looked like she didn't care.

Even the slaughter village in the Storm Plains, she only faced it numbly.

Only this time, she was really scared.

I'm really sorry to do such a thing.

She gently covered her face with her hands and sat limply on the edge of the bed.

In the room, the sound of the ground was muffled.

Tears couldn't stop slipping down her fingertips.

She didn't know if she could do it.

This burden was too heavy for her.

Empty rooms, dull air.

She was really powerless.

She was really afraid that she wouldn't be able to do it at all.

The dead, the rotting corpses that had been buried in the earth, the swords that were broken in the rainy night, the torrents of iron-clad crashes against each other, the civilians who fell in pools of blood, the requests of the orphanage children.

She's really afraid she won't be able to do it·····

"If there is no one, why will there never be one..."

"It's really tiring to be alone..."

She cried, not the senseless thief, nor the trickery of the gods, but more like a child.

Complaining about unfairness.

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A hand suddenly rested lightly on her shoulder from behind.

"It's not like there's no one."

An Chen's body froze and froze in place.

Slowly turning around, he found that a white-haired woman was standing behind him, smiling at him and pulling down his hat.

Her body was covered with such a green rune sword wrapped in strips of cloth, and her silver hair was unusually dazzling in the sunlight.

"You still like to mess around as much as you used to, and you've been making so much trouble lately." Rui Wen showed a rare shallow smile of teasing: "So I had to come and see." ”

"I didn't expect to see a guy hiding here."

An Chen's eyes were slightly red.

Rui Wen smiled and straightened the hair on An Chen's forehead.

"Just tell me what you're going to do."

In Anchen's dull eyes, he said, "I want to help you bear a part." ”

(This sentence is combined with Chapter 17, Anchen's words to Ruiwen.) ）