Volume 1: The Tide of Dusk Chapter 18: In the Night, Like the Reborn One (1)
The man at the head was dressed in a sophisticated khaki suit, and his hair that was scattered around his ears was unkempt, looking a little messy, with thick bags under his eyes hanging under his eyes, and his pale face looked extremely haggard.
"Do you really want to do that, Lynn. ”
His voice was hoarse, and it looked like he hadn't slept well in days.
"Strategy, you know, what happens if I don't go. ”
The expression of the woman following behind was a little dim, her hair color was exactly the same as Li Ruolin, her indigo hair was spread out on her shoulders, and her plain eyes were full of helplessness and reluctance.
Li Ruolin has only seen this woman in photos, and in her impression, this woman always has a warm smile, only this is different from her always cold self.
Yan Linlin, this woman who looks extremely similar to herself, her mother.
She subconsciously greeted the two of them, but Li Ceyan, who was slowly walking in front, didn't seem to notice Li Ruolin's existence, he just walked forward silently, carrying a brown handbag in his hand.
His figure finally intertwined with Li Ruolin, and in her shocked sight, it passed through her daughter's body.
Li Ruolin looked at her hands in surprise, and then realized that her figure had unconsciously become transparent, as if she was about to dissipate from this world.
She leaned down and felt the wisteria in the flower garden beside her.
Again, without any touch, her hand passed through the wisteria petals.
Not reality?
As an operator who has been dealing with the realm and the illusion for many years, she quickly calmed down after the initial surprise, all this in front of her must not be real, her parents have been missing for many years, how could they suddenly appear in the former mansion.
"After I leave, take care of Xiao Lin and these flowers instead of me. ”
The woman followed Li Ceyan and stopped in the middle of the cobblestone path, she turned sideways to look at the flower garden beside her, and smiled faintly.
Just like in the photo, this woman smiled like ice that could melt for thousands of years, and a breeze blew in along the courtyard wall, rolling up Yan Linlin's plain white dress.
The woman in the wind was quiet and beautiful, Li Ceyan was a little stupid when he saw it, he followed Yan Linlin's gaze and looked at the flower garden, his eyes were filled with small emotional fluctuations.
"Don't worry, although I'm not that kind of delicate person, but if I fight for this life, I will also protect Xiao Lin, and when you come back, everything here will be in full bloom as usual. ”
He squeezed out a reluctant smile, and the sad look on his handsome face was forcibly dispelled for a point.
"Besides, isn't there still Aunt Li, if I can't do it, just let Aunt Li do it!"
"Hmph, when will your lazy personality change?"
Yan Linlin said angrily, she pursed her lips, and the corners of her mouth raised a gentle arc.
"You don't want to waste all the things left by your father, I'm leaving, but there will be no one to help you manage it. ”
"I see. ”
Li Ceyan handed the bag in his hand to the woman and made a trademark grimace.
"Lynn. ”
At the moment when the woman reached out to take the purse, his expression changed suddenly, and a trace of fierceness that even Li Ruolin had never seen spread out at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
"Whether it's for the organization or for the human race, I don't worry about this at all, I just know that my wife will return safely, even if the mission fails, I don't care, even if there will be countless people in this world who will die because of this, she can't be fine. ”
"You. ”
Yan Linlin stretched out her left hand and gently stroked Li Ceyan's face, his angular face showed a resolute look, and the fiery emotion surging in his eyes was something she had never seen before.
"With Xiao Lin, wait for me to come back. ”
She slowly let go of her hand and looked up at the second-floor window.
Aunt Li stood in front of the open window and nodded slowly, the child in her arms was asleep, with her little fingers in her mouth and a satisfied smile on her face.
Seeing all this, Yan Linlin gritted her teeth and turned around suddenly, her petite shoulders trembled slowly, she didn't dare to look at it for even a second, she was afraid that everything in her heart would be shaken by her gaze.
With the fluctuation of her emotions, the temperature around her seemed to drop rapidly in an instant, and even the white mist that shrouded her surroundings seemed to condense in this sudden low temperature, Li Ruolin's vision also dimmed with this sudden change, her feet were weak, and she collapsed to the ground, everything in front of her seemed to be frozen with the extreme low temperature, and gradually shattered into countless small pieces in the air.
She struggled to raise her hand and reached out to the increasingly blurred male and female duo in front of her, and in the slowly dissipating image, she could see her hand fading and disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Before everything in front of her returned to darkness, she could feel the despair in a woman's heart spreading rapidly with the falling temperature.
This is his memory.
At some point, a cold teardrop overflowed from the corner of her eye, but now, she didn't even have the strength to reach out and wipe it.
"Li Ruolin!
There was a hurried call in her ears, and in her consciousness, a familiar voice came, she frowned, and slowly opened her eyes.
As the darkness dissipated, a huge stream of information rushed into her mind, and she felt as if someone had broken a bottle of wind oil essence and poured it on her head.
The silhouette of a man slowly enlarged in front of her, and she could feel herself leaning against the man's lap, the vague figure not really visible in the newly opened eyes.
Her first reaction was to pull out Wanhua from her waist, and instantly turned around and bounced, and the shining blade of the sword was on the neck of the person in front of her.
As his vision became clearer, his sweaty face with a frightened expression appeared in front of him, his eyebrows and nose almost twisted together under his messy short hair, and he raised his hands in the face of her sudden instinctive reaction.
"Don't do it! Don't do it! I'm a good person!"
Wanhua's blade was only a few centimeters away from his neck, and An Yiran hurriedly put on a gesture of surrender, for fear that Li Ruolin would break up if he missed his head.
"Why are you here?"
Looking at An Yiran's face in front of her, she paused and looked around.
The surrounding scenery is very familiar, this is clearly a hillside not far from the rune pit, but there are countless scorched black traces on the land that was good before, and even the pine forest behind it has collapsed, as if it has experienced a fierce battle.
Behind An Yiran was a girl who didn't look very old, she was wearing a strange-looking metallic armor with her arms crossed, and her pink double ponytail hung behind her, dangling in the wind.
She stared at Li Ruolin with a pair of green eyes, obviously because she was suddenly a little confused.
"What happened?"
She slowly withdrew her hand that had been slashed out horizontally, and pulled Wanhua back into her waist.
"Don't scare me!
An Yiran was a little frightened, he didn't expect this girl to be vigilant about this.
"If I were really that reckless, you would have been in a different place a long time ago. ”
Li Ruolin tilted her head slightly, and there was a rare hint of embarrassment in her cold tone, although she was still ruthless, she could still guess some of the situation in front of her.
"Hey, forget it, anyway, you people don't know how to be a little gentle with me. ”
An Yiran made a helpless expression.
"It took us a while to find you. ”
"That's really the case. ”
She muttered, everything just now was indeed a dream that belonged to her father, and it should be the mysterious ability contained in the horn that dragged her into that strange space.
In the space, all of Wanhua's abilities failed, and he lost the ability to break through that space, and it should be the credit of the boy in front of him to be able to come out of that end.
"Who are you. ”
She raised her head and looked in the direction of Cang, she had no impression of the girl in front of her, but she did not feel the slightest hostility from her small body.
"What an arrogant little girl. ”
Cang straightened his body a little, as if to make himself look taller.
"No way, introduce myself again, my name is Cang, the ferryman's front-line reporter. ”
"Ferryman, is that the suspicious magazine you were talking about, how did you get involved with them again? ”
She pressed her temples, and from the information she had just poured in, she could feel a huge amount of energy, which was not bursting, but it was still splitting between her nerve centers, making her feel very uncomfortable.
"It doesn't matter, what you feel is the fat man's edge code ability, which will slowly assimilate the intelligence you didn't understand during your trapped period into your mind, with no malice and no side effects. Cang explained somewhat reluctantly.
"You're really stingy, people just woke up and didn't understand the situation, as for it. An Yiran looked at the twisted Cang, and counted down a little funny.
She also said that she was a mature woman in her twenties, so she couldn't see it at all.
"Okay, okay, I don't care, I said, little girl, don't use your ability easily, I can't guarantee what will happen when two different energies are intertwined. ”
"Cang's appearance is a sequelae of ability, in fact, she is much older than us, and she is a senior. Looking at Li Ruolin, whose brows were slightly condensed when she was called a little girl, An Yiran hurriedly explained with a smile that at this juncture, the relationship between the two parties is a partner, and it is not good if there are some suspicions.
"Well, I know the general situation. Li Ruolin's expression softened slightly, and she looked at the devastated land around her, as well as the two black-clothed figures lying not far away.