In the vast sea of sand, the blazing wind constantly sets off waves of sand. A glowing protective glass can be seen in the distance, the border of the wasteland city. A cargo airship stranded in the sand is particularly striking. Apparently because of lack of motivation, paralyzed here. A team of white-armored scouts from the Glass City surveyed the airship. Blackbeard was among them, he looked at the wasteland city not far away, and said to the recorder on his left shoulder: "The airship has turned off two kilometers from the wasteland city, suspecting that the remnants have entered the wasteland city. The rebels may be related to the city of the wasteland. ”

Her parents were martyrs of the Battle of the Glacier, and her aunt Gu Lian was one of the judges in charge of the law in the city of glass. Perhaps because of her profession, Gu Lian's personality is close to strictness, she is meticulous in doing things, and she will hardly make mistakes. This personality also spreads to her daily life, but for Asaarashi, her only niece, she has always loved her. This kind of love is mostly manifested in prohibiting her from going out, Gu Lian is not a person who is good at expressing herself, plus Qian Lan has not been afraid of heaven and earth since she was a child, and she always causes trouble outside, and over time, the relationship between her aunt and nephew has evolved into a vicious circle of restraint and resistance.

After returning from the Star Cafe, Gu Lian locked Qian Lan at home and forbade her to call Xia Yan. Asan Lan rarely contradicts her now, and never argues with her, just stays quietly in her room. The more this was the case, the more uneasy Gu Lian's heart became. Since the Battle of Glacier, the change in Asaarashi's personality has been worrying her. She used to be lively and cheerful, but she woke up from the hospital bed and became quiet, lethargic, always had nightmares, and became a sensitizer who could sense the Burning Clan. This series of changes made Gu Lian exhausted, she was worried about what sequelae the tragedy left on Qianlan, but all the famous medical institutions in various cities were searched, and no one could say what was wrong with her.

Although she was locked up at home now, Gu Lian knew that this was not a long-term solution, she didn't understand why Qian Lan was obsessed with going out of the city and going to the battlefield, they had obviously felt so much unforgettable pain.

The phone in the living room rang, Gu Lian stood up and walked over, pressing the answer button. A virtual image rose from the phone, it was Master Sinan.

"Today is the opening day of Liuli Academy, it's time for Xiaolan to report." Master Sinan said straight to the point.

"Why?" Gu Lian said to him with some annoyance, "Why do you want Xiao Lan to go to Liuli Academy?" My brother and sister-in-law both died on the glacier, and I don't want my niece to repeat the same mistakes. ”

"I understand, Gu Lian." Master Sinan was relieved, "This is an expedient measure, and you also know that blindly restraining her will only be counterproductive." Although the main purpose of Liuli Academy is to train soldiers for the battlefield, not everyone can bear the hardships, maybe staying there for a while, she will change her mind about going to the battlefield. ”

"But, what if she finishes and enters the Liuli Guild?" Gu Lian asked uneasily.

"Now the situation is not the same as before, we are already in an advantage on the front line." Master Sinan said, "Even if she really goes to the battlefield and there is a small martyr, she will be fine." ”

"Are you so sure?"

"yes, don't underestimate these kids." Master Sinan smiled and said, "Moreover, this is their own choice, and it is much wiser to respect them than to deny them." ”

Gu Lian bit her lip and didn't say anything.

"Can you help me call Xiaolan? I have a few words to say to her. Master Sinan said to her.

Gu Lian looked at Qian Lan's room and nodded. She walked slowly over and knocked on the door. There was no response from inside, Gu Lian knocked again, and then she had a premonition that something was wrong and pushed the door open. There was no one in the room, the window was open, and there was a pink message starfish on the table. Gu Lian hurriedly ran over and looked down. A rope hangs from the windowsill to the balcony on the floor below. Gu Lian looked at the empty street downstairs with a drop of nearly 100 meters, and angrily pulled back the rope. Turning back to the table, he pressed the button in the middle of the starfish, and Asaarashi's image was projected from it.

"Auntie, I'm going to Liuli Academy. I'll take good care of myself, don't worry. I'll come back and apologize to you in person when the school holidays are over, and please don't be angry, sorry! ”

Gu Lian looked at Qianlan's appearance in the image in a daze, and after a while, she remembered that Master Sinan was still waiting.

"I guess she should go on her own, right?" Master Sinan saw Gu Lian coming out of the room alone, and he had already guessed eight points.

Gu Lian nodded, and she said to Master Sinan, "I want to ask you for one thing. ”

"Please."

"Please make it more difficult for her and Xiao Yan to graduate." Gu Lian said helplessly.

"I don't count what I said, Liuli Academy is now under the control of Mr. Bai." Master Sinan smiled at her and said, "But," he added, "you know, it's not easy to graduate from Mr. Bai. ”

Gu Lian breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to the priest with a little worry: "Then he shouldn't be embarrassed, right?" She didn't have a good impression of Mr. Bai, because that person always gave people a sense of cunning that he couldn't see through.

"We have no right to interfere in this," Master Sinan stroked his beard and said, "Although Mr. Bai has a perverse personality, he has always been very measured in his work, and he will not do anything to hurt Xiao Yan, at most it will only increase the difficulty of his training." ”

14th Street of Glass City.

14th Street is not the largest in the City of Glass, but it is the most densely populated street. The streets are 11 kilometers long, and are lined up with sturdy and old houses that form the basis of the upper towers. With walls covered in moss and twisted pipes, and garbage and scrap piled up on the roadside, it's home to some of the most downtrodden and dangerous people in the Glass City, with one or two remnants born from 14th Street almost every month.

During the day, 14th Street is slightly empty, as residents have gone to work in various factories in the city to earn their own living capital. In a small square clearing, a group of 7 or 8-year-old children are chasing each other with a golden fluorescent football while there is no one on the street. The children were covered in dust and mud on their bodies and faces, but they didn't care because it was their happiest moment.

A little boy who is stronger than the other children knocks down a small man who is in front of him and then stomps the ball under his feet. "Xiaoyou, dare you pick up my Super Whirlwind Ball!" The little fat man provoked a little girl in red clothes with two pigtails not far away. The little fat man was obviously the child king among them, and the little man who was knocked down by him looked at him dissatisfiedly, but did not dare to say anything. "If you catch it, I'll take care of the hygiene in the house this week!"

The other children stopped making noise and stopped to look at them. Xiao You is the only one of these children who dares to argue with the child king, although she looks very cute, big dark brown glasses, looks a little weak, but the friends who are familiar with her know that this little girl who laughs sweetly can make children who are a few years older than her afraid. Usually when the fat man bullies other children, she is the only one who dares to stand up to fight against them, so in the hearts of these children, Xiao You's status is quite high, even surpassing the fat man who can only beat people by force. The fat man has always been very dissatisfied with this, and he challenged Xiaoyou at every opportunity.

"That's what you said," Xiao You said with a smile as he straightened up and looked at the menacing child Wang, "Let the horses come, Fat Ke." ”

"My name is Luke!" Luke gritted his teeth and said word by word, looking depressed. With a hard slash of his feet, the football flew out in a golden arc with a "swish". Although Luke is only 9 years old, due to his large size, the strength of this foot is really not small.

Xiao You's eyes looked at the fast-shooting football without blinking, and he just wanted to reach out to catch it, but found that the trajectory of the football changed in the middle and flew to his right. She couldn't help but feel anxious, and without thinking about it, she lunged towards the right.

"Be careful!" The children on the other end all exclaimed, and Xiao You heard the shouts of his friends, and turned his head to see a large pile of broken marble pillars in the open space on the right, and the fractures of the stone pillars were as sharp as knife blades, and they were facing him with a brush. If you collide, even if you don't die, you will inevitably have a few more holes in your body. But Xiao You couldn't stop the toppling figure at this time, so he had to grit his teeth and close his eyes. Several of the timid children covered their faces and cried in fright, and Luke obviously didn't expect this to happen, and froze in place.

"Bang!" With a bang, all the children quickly closed their eyes, afraid to see the bloody scene. However, they didn't hear Xiao You's screams, but a very gentle voice said, "Are you okay?" ”

Xiao You felt that the speed of his fall was carried up by a gust of wind, which gently wrapped himself. When she opened her eyes, the main source of light in the alley came from the orange-yellow street lamps floating overhead, and she was greeted by a backlit face, with a warm glow outlined in her hair and the outline of her face.

"Brother Xia Yan!" Xiao You recognized him and exclaimed in surprise. only to realize that he was being held in Xia Yan's arms, and he couldn't help but blush.

"What is the first rule of going out?" Xia Yan put down Xiao You, whose face was flushed, and asked her with a smile.

"Make sure your surroundings are safe." Xiao You was still holding the football and whispered with a red face. "I'm sorry, Brother Xia Yan. Because it's close to home, I didn't pay attention. She smiled embarrassedly at Xia Yan, looked back at the stone pillars that had fallen on the clearing, and was surprised to find that the jagged fractures had been cut as smooth as a mirror, and there was still a slight white smoke.

"Remember next time." Xia Yan rubbed Xiaoyou's head and smiled.

"Brother Xia Yan!" Before Xiao You could answer, the other children rushed over and jumped up and down around Xia Yan.

"Are you alright, Xiaoyu?" Luke ran over and said to Xiao You with a feeling of relief.

Xiao Yu shook her head, she handed the ball to Luke, and gathered around Xia Yan with the other children.

"Don't you have to go to class today?" Xia Yan looked at a room not far away that was slightly more spacious than the surrounding houses and said, the white and gray door of the house was ajar, and the sign on the right side of the door read the words "Aoki House". Aoki House is an orphanage that adopts children who have no father, no mother, and no one to adopt in the city of glass. The old dean's name was Aoki, and he was the owner of the house, who lost all his relatives during the invasion of the Burning Clan, so he used his house and savings to build the orphanage. The first time Natsuki met him was a year before the Battle of Glacier, when Dean Aoki got lost in the criss-crossed alleys next to Knights' Square, and it was Natsuki who brought him back. The children in the orphanage are very warm and friendly, and they are quite compatible with Xia Yan. So Xia Yan has become a frequent visitor to the orphanage since then, and comes here whenever he has the opportunity, brings food to the children in the orphanage, and plays and works with them. For many years, even though Mr. Aoki had died, Xia Yan still maintained this habit.

"Dean of Heavenly Dao has gone to get this week's food." Xiao You replied scramblingly, her face still flushed. Although Xia Yan came a lot of times, every time he saw him, Xiao You would unconsciously restrain his usual tomboy personality and become as well-behaved as a bird. "Teacher Molly just gave us a math class, and we were supposed to rest in the house, and we wanted to sneak out and play football for a while......" She lowered her head in shame as she remembered the danger she had just experienced.

"Teacher Molly?" Xia Yan asked a little surprised, since Dean Aoki died, the academy has been managed by his adopted son, who is also Xia Yan's good friend Aoki Tiandao. Aoki House is still taking in 15 orphans, and the savings left by the old dean Aoki are only enough to maintain a basic life, and there is no extra money to hire a teacher. Usually it is the Heavenly Dao who teaches the children knowledge and takes care of their daily life, of course, he and Qianlan will also come to help from time to time, so at this time, hearing Xiaoyou say that there is a Molly teacher, Xia Yan can't help but be a little surprised.

"Teacher Molly only came here half a month ago, and Brother Xia Yan shouldn't have seen her yet." Xiao You said with a smile.

"It's the beautiful sister that the dean picked up from the upper floor!" Luke said to Xia Yan in a small way.

"Pick it up?" Xia Yan looked at him with some amusement, "This is said by Heavenly Dao, right?" Luke grimaced and nodded.

"By the way, didn't Sister Xiaolan come with you today?" Xiao You looked in the direction of the alley and asked. Usually Xia Yan comes with Qianlan every time, so these children are used to it. Seeing Xia Yan come alone this time, Xiao You was a little happy, although she was only 8 years old, but she had unconsciously begun to resist the sister who always walked with Xia Yan.

"Hmm." Xia Yan said to her, "But I have already left her a message, and she should come here if she receives it." ”

"Did Brother Xia Yan bring us something delicious today?" Luke asked with a hippie smile and shaking Xia Yan's arm. Xia Yan and Qianlan would bring gifts, snacks or clothes to the children every time they came, which was one of the reasons why these children were so happy to see him. Of course, there are exceptions.

"Fat Ke, it's enough for Brother Xia Yan to come and see us, how can you just think about eating!" Xiao You glared at Luke dissatisfiedly and said that she didn't like Xia Yan because of the gift he brought them.

"My name is Luke." Luke reiterated that he knew that he was mainly responsible for the football he had just played, and although Xiao Yu was unharmed now, he still couldn't argue with her.

"Of course," Xia Yan looked at their noisy appearance, a trace of warmth in his heart, and took out a bag of candy from his pocket and said to the children, "Limited edition flavored candy, who wants to eat it?" ”

Except for Xiao You, the other children all excitedly raised their hands to reach the candy in Xia Yan's hand, they rarely get snacks, and a bag of candy is no less tempting for them than a big meal.

"Yes, Luke, you give everyone the candy." Xia Yan said with a smile to the excited children.

Although Luke is usually domineering, he is extremely obedient to the words of the dean and Xia Yan. He took the candy bag in Xia Yan's hand and distributed candy to the children one by one, with the style of a team leader.

"Luke! Xiao Yu! Didn't you tell you to take everyone to rest in the house? Who let you run out! A stern voice came over, and Luke and Xiaoyu were startled, and looked back to see Teacher Molly poking her head out of the door to look at them.

Molly, with short blond hair and a smart brown overalls, frowned slightly, trying to show a sense of majesty, but her delicate face was not frightening. After seeing Xia Yan, the expression on his face instantly became solemn. She quickly came out of the door, ran between the children in three steps and two steps, pulled the children behind her, stared at Xia Yan calmly and said, "This gentleman, what do you want to do with these children?" Tell you, we live here, and the fathers of the children are at home, if you ......."

"Teacher Molly, this is Brother Xia Yan, not a bad person." Xiao You bypassed Teacher Molly and took Xia Yan's arm and explained to Molly.

"Teacher Molly, my name is Xia Yan, and I am a friend of Tiandao." Xia Yan said to the pretentious beautiful girl in front of her with a little crying and laughing.

"Huh? Xia Di? Teacher Molly was stunned for a moment, and then shouted, "Xia Yan! "It scared Xia Yan and the children.

"Ah, it's my ......" Xia Yan glanced at Xiao You and Luke a little hesitantly, and the two little ones stuck out their tongues mischievously, indicating that they were used to this babbling teacher.

"You're the little martyr that Heavenly Dao often mentions, right?" Molly grabbed Xia Yan's arm and said, then realized that she had lost her temper, and quickly let go of him, two blushes rose on her face, "I'm sorry...... I saw you feeding the kids and thought ...... You know, it's chaotic in this area......"

"Well, I understand." Xia Yan smiled and nodded, "I'm glad to see that Teacher Molly cares so much about these children. ”

Teacher Molly smiled embarrassedly and said to him, "Let's go into the house, Tiandao has gone to the upper floor to get supplies, and it should be back in a while." ”

"Okay." Xia Yan agreed, and led Xiaoyu to follow Molly and the children towards the Aoki Mansion.