After three full hours of perseverance, Gu Haiyun's voice came back to the city, and the gate of the pit finally opened.

For a while, the cheers in the crowd rose one after another.

The exhausted hunters supported each other and held the last line with all their might.

People poured into the underground passages, and the joy of survival floated on their faces.

In the crowd, Tang Jie, who was standing in place, looked out of place.

"Kid, let's go."

"I'll wait a little longer."

Tang Jie held his communication headset and quietly looked at the end of the station.

The flashing red and blue indicators turned solid red, and the connection with Lu Qianfan was completely broken.

"Haven't you come back yet?" Le Ningyue asked.

"Nope." Tang Jie shook his head.

Li Yin helped Bai Zheng, who was seriously injured, to retreat to the entrance of the passage and said, "What are you doing here?" Hurry up and go! ”

Le Ningyue was silent for a moment, and finally gave up. "Tang Jie, let's go......"

"Let's go, I'll wait a little longer." Tang Jie said: "He is my partner. ”

"They're not coming back."

"No, he would." Tang Jie said categorically: "He has done everything that others thought he couldn't do." ”

Uncle Zhong stood aside. He was embarrassed, with some blood marks and bruises on his body. He didn't speak, just stood loyally beside Tang Jie.

Li Yin sighed helplessly. "At sunrise, the detonation program set up on the city's power furnace is activated," he said. You must evacuate before then. ”

"Got it."

Soon, Anjing's survivors all entered the underground passage, leaving only Tang Jie and Uncle Zhong.

Time passed minute by minute, but all that appeared on the streets were still the monsters roaming around.

The cold wind of the middle of the night carried the bloody smell and hit Tang Jie's face. Looking at the time when the hands were getting closer to sunrise, Tang Jie gradually became agitated.

"Lu Qianfan, if you are still alive, come back quickly!" Tang Jie didn't know that the longer the time, the smaller the hope.

Guarding a constant and slim hope, this feeling can only be described as torment.

The night in Anjing City is almost over.

The dawn that countless people have been praying for will finally come.

However, at this moment, Tang Jie desperately hopes that the sunrise can come later.

"Lu Qianfan!"

"Young Master!" Uncle Zhong suddenly shouted.

Tang Jie stared at the end of the street, and suddenly a small point of light appeared. He rubbed his eyes, and the point of light was still there!

"Lu Qianfan!"

Lu Qianfan carried his beloved girl on his back, moved his legs in severe pain, and walked forward tremblingly.

Along the way, Lu Qianfan's arms holding Xiao Ranran had lost consciousness, and the sweat dripping from his forehead obscured his vision, but he didn't dare to stop.

Xiao Ranran's breathing became weaker and weaker.

Lu Qianfan's steps were not fast. The street in front of me is as long as thousands of miles.

He could only grit his teeth and not let himself fall, not let himself stop. "Hold on—"

After I don't know how many steps, Lu Qianfan's body finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell forward.

However, he did not fall to the ground.

"Hold on a little longer."

"Genius...... You're still alive......"

"My life is harder than yours." Tang Jie supported the weak Lu Qianfan with his shoulders, and Uncle Zhong took Xiao Ranran from Lu Qianfan's back.

"Let's go, time is running out." Tang Jie glanced at the whitening skyline.

"Ranran...... Save her first......" Lu Qianfan had some difficulty speaking. Every word must be squeezed out of the air in the lungs.

Tang Jie said: "It's almost dawn, leave Anjing first!" ”

At the entrance and exit of the mineral spring spirit stone pit, Li Yin looked back in the direction of Anjing City. He pinched his watch and said, "The detonation device of the city's power furnace has been activated. ”

Le Ningyue stared at the exit, clenching her fists tightly. Once the countdown is over, the pit passage will collapse under the impact of the explosion, completely blocking the escape route.

"If you're still alive, hurry up." Le Ningyue prayed. "God, if you really look at all this, please bless them."

Xia Zhuoer also walked over, pursing his lips tightly. After Gu Wei saw Gu Haiyun's injuries, he also stood at the exit of the pit and said, "I hope they can come back safely." ”

Time passed.

There was no sound in the pit.

"It's dawn."

Le Ningyue looked at the sky with the white belly of the fish, and was a little stunned.

"It's dawn."

Xia Zhuoer sat on the ground and did not speak for a long time.

"It's dawn."

Li Yin looked down at his watch, then pulled his sleeves and covered the dial.

The survivors looked out of the sky in Anjing City.

A dazzling flash of fire shot into the sky, turning the dawn of dawn pure white. A moment after the mushroom cloud rose, the sound of an explosion reached everyone's ears.

"Hum—" The aftermath of the shock swept past everyone.

"Anjing City, we'll be back sooner or later." Li Yin said, "Let's go, we're going to Huaishi Town." ”

"Mine Road...... It's going to collapse. Le Ningyue looked at the mouth of the mine that began to shake, and said as if giving up.

She turned her head and bit her lip. Xia Zhuoer suddenly stood up and said, "I'll go find them!" ”

Le Ningyue hurriedly grabbed Xia Zhuoer. "Are you crazy?"

"I'm going to find her!" Shadrow shouted. She wanted to break free, but saw that Le Ningyue's eyes were also wet.

Le Ningyue pressed Xia Zhuoer's shoulder and said, "If you go in now, you will be sent to death." ”

"Sister, they're not people who die so easily." Xia Bufan walked over and gently pressed Xia Zhuoer's shoulder.

Tang Jia walked over, she hugged Xia Zhuoer's shoulders and said, "It's okay, there is still time, my brother's life is hard." ”

Zuo Chen stood behind them, put his hands in his sleeves, and said: "The center of the explosion, the speed of impact transmission, the solidity of the rock plate, and the calculation of various factors, the time for the complete collapse of the mine tunnel is three minutes. Provided that they are not buried by rubble......"

"Wait another three minutes." Gu Wei said to Li Yin: "This road was brought to us by him. Just think it's for this, wait for him a little longer. ”

The teachers of Jinglin stand at the entrance of the mine. Cao Song said, "Three minutes, just wait." ”

Li Yin looked at the people guarding the door and sighed softly. He didn't expect that there would be so many people waiting for Lu Qianfan.

"Then just wait."

Everyone watched silently at the entrance of the mine.

"Uncle Zhong, hurry up! It's going to collapse! ”

Suddenly, a scream came from the tunnel.

"It's Tang Jie's voice!"

For a moment, everyone froze in place.

Actually, it's really back?

"Sister! If you're at the door, can you take a little risk to pick us up? Tang Jie dragged Lu Qianfan and shouted: "Don't line up at the door to welcome!" ”

Only then did everyone react. Li Yin hurriedly shouted, "Hurry up!" Go down and save people! ”

"Haah......" Xia Zhuoer finally couldn't hold back anymore, knelt on his knees, and cried loudly.

Before the mine collapsed, Tang Jie, Lu Qianfan, Xiao Ranran and Uncle Zhong were finally rescued.

"Lao Wang! Health care! Cao Song personally carried the stretcher and ran up from the mine.

"Lu Qianfan! Lu Qianfan! Can you hear me? ”

Lu Qianfan raised his left hand with difficulty and said, "Mineral Spring...... Ranran...... Fast...... She ......"

Professor Wang Changjun was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted. He shouted, "Old Yao! Go check on Xiao Ranran's condition! ”

"Thanks." Lu Qianfan stretched out his hand and grabbed at the void. His fingertips suddenly felt a hint of coldness, and then his consciousness fell into the abyss.

"Look at the heavens!"

Tang Jie pounced on Tang Jia and looked up at the sky. Pitch-black metal birds hovered overhead, and the sound of an engine was buzzing.

"We are the Knights Airborne Rescue Team!"

"It's the reinforcements of the Imperial Capital!"

"It's reinforcements!"

Le Ningyue let out a long breath, and her tense nerves finally relaxed.

"It's snowing."

In the crowd, I don't know who said it. Zuo Chen stretched out his hand to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky and let out a long breath. "There's a lot of research after that." He looked at Lu Qianfan and Xiao Ranran, and suddenly smiled. "Professor Yao, Xiao Ranran's power furnace is disintegrating, I'll help you make the core magic energy stabilization, you can deal with the power furnace."

In the falling snowflakes, the sky outside Anjing City was bright.

———— (too few words in a single chapter)————

Lu Qianfan had a long, long dream.

"Do you want to get married?"

Lu Qianfan looked at the fat man who hadn't seen him for a long time and was stunned for a moment. He said, "Fatty, did anyone speak just now?" ”

"Who spoke? Are you debugging and confused? The fat man touched Lu Qianfan's forehead with the back of his hand and said, "This month, don't work hard for those hundreds of yuan." ”

Desperate for a few hundred dollars? Lu Qianfan was stunned. "My reward for hunting demonic beasts is at least five figures, and I'm poor, so I won't work hard for these hundreds of yuan, right?"

The fat man looked at Lu Qianfan as if he was looking at the mentally retarded. He said, "Lu, you're not going out to pick up private work, are you?" Still hunting Warcraft? Which company to test the game to? If you have this good thing, I would like to introduce it to my brother. ”

"Games?" Lu Qianfan recalled for a moment and turned his head to look at his screen.

Familiar code, familiar interface, familiar office. Lu Qianfan was stunned for a long time.

"Where is this?"

The fat man didn't speak, took out his phone from his pocket, and pressed 120.

"Just kidding, kidding." Lu Qianfan hurriedly pressed the fat man and said, "It's rare for you to care about me." ”

"Fatty, Xiao Lu, have you two done your work today? Don't fish there! ”

After being yelled at by the director, Lu Qianfan said impatiently: "Director, I'm not fat!" Can you not put our names together! ”

"I envy people like you. If you don't work with both hands, the whole company has to kneel and call your grandparents. The director doesn't have any momentum when he calls you by name. The fat man whispered.

Lu Qianfan rolled his eyes. "Just call grandma."

There are no dangerous monsters, no crises lurking, no fear of death. An ordinary life, a comfortable and comfortable life, earning wages, counting small money, and living your own small life, may be quite good. The only problem may be that the mid-life crisis has come early, and his handsome face will be tested by the Mediterranean hairstyle early.

It seems that the world is an unreal dream.

Lu Qianfan looked at the lines of code on the screen, it seemed that they were far away, and their impressions were a little vague. He flipped through it for a long time, as if he was recalling his past life.

This memory is very long, from ignorant kindergarten, to young high school, to college, to being a soldier and retiring from the army......

When memory and reality are connected, Lu Qianfan always feels that something is missing.

His gaze stayed on the last line of the unfinished program, and his right hand suddenly trembled. "Fatty, do you know who wrote this line of code?"

The fat man took a look. "Isn't that what you wrote?"

"Uh...... Do you want to get married? Lu Qianfan said: "This is a line of pure English, not a computer language, I have nothing to write this for." ”

The fat man said, "I think about it every day, and I dream about it at night." You didn't say that your father urged you to get married, maybe you just got distracted and mistyped. ”

"Maybe."

"Have you ever wanted to get married for so many years? What type do you like? ”

"Programmers also have girlfriends?" A smile appeared on the corner of Lu Qianfan's mouth, as if he remembered someone. "Like, yes."

"Who?"

"Who......" Lu Qianfan was suddenly stunned. There was a figure in his mind, a figure that was all too familiar. Gentleness, affection, all the beauty of youth is concentrated on this figure. Regret, helplessness, and all the heartaches of growing up are also condensed in one body.

But with this figure, Lu Qianfan couldn't remember her face or call her name.

Lu Qianfan suddenly realized: There is no her in this world.

"No matter how beautiful the world is without her, it is just nothing." Lu Qianfan suddenly said: "What is true? Where I aspire is real. ”

The fat man looked at Lu Qianfan and suddenly smiled.

"Do you want to get married?"

A flash of white light.

The fat man turned his head blankly, as if Lu Qianfan had never existed in this world. "Thankfully, the summoner is still there."

"Ran!" The moment he called out this haunting name, Lu Qianfan's consciousness began to rise rapidly—as if rushing out of the water, Lu Qianfan suddenly opened his eyes and bounced up.

He looked at Tang Jie and the doctor who ran into the room and asked, "Where is Ranran?" ”

"Alive." Tang Jie said: "Professor Yao Kai and Zuo Chen stabilized her power furnace with mineral spirit stones. ”

"I'll go see her."

The doctor hurriedly pressed Lu Qianfan and said, "Don't you feel your physical condition?" ”

Lu Qianfan was stunned for a moment. Only then did I realize that I didn't seem to feel the touch of my legs. He reached out to touch his legs, only to find that his palms were out of control. His wrists were on his knees, and his hands hung limply. However, no touch came back from his palm.

"What's going on?"

Tang Jie said: "The load on your body caused by the wolf is too great, and the nervous system is damaged......

"It's paralyzed." Lu Qianfan seemed to be extremely calm. "There is no male protagonist's life, and the male protagonist is forced. This price is purely deserved. ”

"Lu Qianfan, you ......"

"It's okay to be fine." Lu Qianfan squinted and smiled: "My purpose in this world is to guard her. ”

Tang Jie hesitated for a moment and took back the words from his mouth.

"After dawn, it's snowing......" Lu Qianfan turned his head to look out the window. He looked at the snowflakes flying in the sky during the day, and muttered, "It's okay to be fine." ”

"This snow, since it disappeared from Anjing City, has been falling. It's been three days. ”

"How's everyone else doing?" Lu Qianfan asked.

Tang Jie said: "Jinglin has lost more than half of its teaching resources, and as many as 70 percent of the students have died, and may have to face reorganization. Le Ningyue will also be recalled to the family, and Professor Cao Song will probably take over the position of president to deal with matters related to Xiao Zhibao's lurking. Bai Zhengfei, the president of the Hunters Association, was seriously injured and announced his retirement, and the post of president will be taken over after his grandfather returns. As for the Order Management Committee, Chairman Li Yin has taken all the responsibilities and has resigned to wait for accountability, and the affairs of the Committee have been temporarily replaced by the ancients. Gu Haiyun's arm was lost, and after the reorganization of the Anjing Garrison Knights, he would probably have to be transferred to a civilian position. Well...... A memorial to the victims has been erected in the town of Kaiseki. ”

"It's a monument again." Lu Qianfan suddenly said: "There is no change at all from Ninggu. ”

Tang Jie closed his eyes and said, "The Xia consortium is consolidating assets and preparing to settle the survivors of Anjing. ”

"Where's Sister Zhuoer?"

"She went on a trip, saying she wanted to relax."

"Brother Mu......" Lu Qianfan closed his eyes. They died in battle to protect Ankyung......"

"Everybody is." Tang Jie said: "The battle to recapture Anjing City is already being prepared. ”

"Where's Xiao Ranran?"

Tang Jie was stunned for a moment and said, "She is very ......"

"Tell the truth." Lu Qianfan looked at the white elves flying outside the window.

"Xiao Ranran's power furnace was already on the verge of disintegration at that time, and it could not be stabilized at all. The demonic energy in her body was always out of control. Zuo Chen could only use her Holy Son's bloodline and mineral spirit stones to use her body as a channel for the circulation of demonic energy, barely saving her life. But the cold aura in the magic energy froze Xiao Ranran's body functions......"

Lu Qianfan turned his head to look at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie was frightened by Lu Qianfan's eyes and didn't dare to say anything for a while.

"Go on."

Tang Jie swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "She is now the princess who is frozen in ice." It won't die, and it won't wake up. ”

"Is there a way to save her?"

Tang Jie shook his head. "The current technology is not enough to deal with this situation. We know too little about the bloodline of the Holy Son. ”

"If you're still alive, there must be a way." Lu Qianfan stared at his unconscious legs.

"It's all come to this point, and you still won't give up?"

Lu Qianfan looked up at the man who walked into the ward, and his eyes suddenly became extremely cold. He said, "You're not here to taunt me, are you?" ”

Lu Shenzhou said: "If you were able to use your brains and didn't hand over the original stone of the mineral spirit stone to Xiao Zhibao, we wouldn't be forced to give up Anjing." ”

"That's not his responsibility, is it?" Tang Jie said angrily: "The survivors of Anjing City can survive because of the road that Lu Qianfan found!" ”

"You're the first to protect the power furnace...... is worthy of being a child of the Tang family. Lu Shenzhou glanced at Tang Jie and said unhurriedly: "There are still survivors in Anjing City, because of your efforts, you delayed the time for the vault to collapse. That road exists because of the stupidity of the gray dove. You were able to escape because of the sacrifice of the Knights. Excuse me, what is the role of Lu Qianfan? Even because of your negligence, the inheritor of the bloodline of the Holy Son is now unconscious. ”

Tang Jie said angrily: "Can you say a few words!" Is there a father like you! ”

"Genius, it's okay. For so many years, his old man has been like this. Lu Qianfan said. He looked at Lu Shenzhou and said, "You can't come here to mock me." ”

"Someone's going to make a deal with you." Lu Shenzhou threw a document in front of Lu Qianfan's bed and said, "You sign and join the Knights, and we will be responsible for treating Xiao Ranran." ”

"You want me to be a waster?"

"Whether it's a waste person or not, you have the final say."

"Let me be a soldier again." Lu Qianfan smiled bitterly, feeling that it made no difference in the fate of any world. "Anyway, I never regretted being a soldier." He grabbed the pen in his mouth and said indistinctly, "Deal." ”