Chen Xi nodded.

"When I was young," said Yárvis, "it was many eras ago, the time of the Aesir gods. I fell in love with a girl whose name was Slude, and she was the daughter of Thor, the god of thunder, who lived in Assair's Domain. Despite my abilities, crafting artifacts, and giving me the name of wisdom, I'm just an ugly dwarf who lives underground. I confided my heart to her, and a lot of things happened during the process, and it sounded crazy, but we fell in love, a dwarf and a goddess in love. ”

A look of remembrance appeared on the dwarf's face, probably recalling the beautiful memories buried in his heart.

Chen Xi did not say anything to interrupt his memories.

"I made a request to Slude's father, Saul, that he would allow me to marry his daughter. Enraged by this, Lord Thor smashed a large hole in the ground with his hammer, and his lightning set a forest on fire. He couldn't stand the scandal of his daughter falling in love with an ugly dwarf, and he warned me to stay away from his daughter, or else he would smash me flat and burn me to black coals with thunder and lightning. The most ironic thing is that he threatened to smash me into a meatloaf, and the Mjournier hammer was designed by me and given to Sindri to build. ”

Later, Slud pleaded beside her father, and Thor saw that his daughter's heart had relented. He said he would give me a chance, and he told Sluder to leave first, and then said he was going to give me a test to test me, and asked me if I would like to accept it. I agreed, and he asked me all sorts of strange questions under the pretext of testing my intelligence, but I answered them all, but he kept killing time until the sun rose and I was turned into a stone by the sun. ”

"Gnomes can't see the light of daylight, and if they do, they will turn to stone or melt away. The story doesn't end so happily, but I've never regretted pursuing a girl I like. I escaped the end of the gods of that era by turning to stone, and when I was resurrected by the remnants of my people, I opened my eyes and everything that had been gone was gone. I, a dwarf, dare to like the daughter of a god, and it's just a bad excuse that you can't dance. My story is over, and although I have a lot to ask you, now is not the right time, go and tell that girl what you want, and tell that girl that you don't want her to dance with anyone else. ”

After listening to Yárvis's words, Chen Xi plucked up the courage to walk to Lin Xueji's side and said, "Miss Lin, can I ask you to dance?"

He didn't specialize in dancing, so he could only make an inviting gesture to the movements of the people around him.

Lin Xueji didn't speak, her eyes rolled, thinking.

There was laughter from the people around, Lin Xueji had already rejected many boys who came to invite her to dance just now, and Chen Xi, a boy of medium height and mediocre appearance, invited her with a non-standard movement, and it was not surprising that she would be rejected.

The whispers of the people around him sounded in his ears, his mind went blank, his forehead sweated, and the courage he had just mustered dissipated again, and he longed to find a crack in the ground to get into. A little annoyed that he had listened to the dwarf's words and ran impulsively, not thinking about the possible consequences at all.

"Okay," Lin Xueji said, putting her hand on Chen Xi's hand.

Chen Xi looked at the girl in front of him, and felt that her long chestnut hair, flowing eye waves on her big black eyes and fair skin were all shining brightly, and her voice was as warm as the sun, the laughter and noise of the people around her disappeared and those mocking faces turned gray, only she was colorful in his eyes, colorful, and she became the most vivid color in this gray world.

Lin Xueji led Chen Xi onto the dance floor, their bodies dancing to the music. He didn't know how to dance at all, relying on Lin Xueji's soft reminders, guided by her dance steps, just like the marionette in her hand was controlled by her, but he liked this feeling very much.

Although Lin Xueji's level is very high, rookie Chen Xi still makes all kinds of mistakes, and sometimes accidentally steps on her feet. With an elegant smile on her face, she whispered close to Chen Xi's side face, "You're dead, bastard." ”

Chen Xi felt as if he was in a dream, and there was an unreal feeling that the party was gone, and on the way back, he was still in a trance. Lin Xueji kicked him on the calf in a high heel and pulled him back to reality.

"It hurts, what are you doing?"

"I just wanted to ask what you want to do? I don't know how to dance at all, and you have to dance with me, so many people are watching, it's embarrassing, okay? Fortunately, I studied well before. And you've stomped on me a total of seventeen times, bastard. ”

Lin Xueji kicked Chen Xi a few more times, and his anger subsided.

"If you dance with someone else, I'm going to feel bad. Chen Xi looked at Lin Xueji and said seriously.

The girl turned around and didn't speak, Chen Xi saw that her crystal earlobes turned pink, and when she raised her head, there was a bright moon in the sky, and the moonlight was so beautiful tonight.

A Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy transport plane flies over a wasteland in Texas. The hatch in the belly of the huge gray fuselage opened, and a biting cool breeze blew in.

"The predetermined altitude has arrived, and the parachute jump is ready," the instructor shouted loudly.

The hatch in the belly of the huge gray fuselage opened, and a biting cool breeze blew in, making Chen Xi tremble even more. He swallowed, his heart was beating hard, and beads of sweat were breaking out of his head.

Today is the real training for their first skydive training. Although he had already done ground training, understood the theory of skydiving, and completed the process of simulating skydiving on the simulator, he was still a little nervous.

Before he could recover his senses, the Australian guy sitting near the hatch had already jumped down. Chen Xi originally thought that everyone would struggle in front of the cabin door for a long time, but unexpectedly, within a minute, half of the people on the plane had rushed down.

"Hey, you're S-class, do you need to be so scared?" Lin Xueji glanced at Chen Xi defiantly, and jumped down with an umbrella bag on her back.

I am indeed S-level, but I can't fly, although my physical fitness is better than that of ordinary people, but I will still fall to death, okay? Chen Xi complained in his heart, but saw that Lin Xueji, the girl, jumped down in a dashing manner, and everyone else also jumped. In addition to the pilot in front of the cabin, there were only two people left, him and the instructor, and the two looked at each other, a little embarrassed. Before the black instructor was about to speak his mouth to lecture him, he walked to the hatch, took a deep breath, and plucked up the courage to jump out of the plane.

Unlike that time when he jumped off a civil airliner bound for the United States, that time he was hit by a jet of water spewed by the North Sea Monster, thinking that he was dead, and all kinds of thoughts and memories ran through his mind. This time, he jumped out of the plane on his own initiative, and he was able to experience the feeling of falling more clearly.

He saw Lin Xueji smiling and saying something to him below him, but he couldn't hear anything, there was the sound of wind in his ears, and the wind was so strong that it seemed to pierce the eardrums.

He spread his arms and imagined that he was flying, but the altitude was cold. Before the skydive, because the weather was relatively hot and he had been sweating because of nervousness, he took off his training clothes, and now he only wears a T-shirt on his shirt, which is simply cold.

Although it was cold, he kept his mouth open throughout the whole process of falling, because as soon as he closed it, he felt that he couldn't breathe, which was quite uncomfortable. In the so-called free fall, he didn't feel that weightlessness was a very scary thing, because of the resistance of the air, like the buoyancy that forces the body to rise when diving into the water, he feels that the speed of falling is not as fast as some roller coasters.

The descent lasted less than twenty seconds, and he pulled the cable next to the parachute bag and released the parachute. He felt his chest tighten all of a sudden, and for a moment he felt like he was being pulled upward.

After that, the descent became relatively slow, and he began to admire the somewhat desolate expanses of Texas and the cattle and sheep on some farms running like little dots on the grass. He saw mountains and canyons and rivers in the distance, and everything on the ground was getting closer and closer.

During the descent, he recalled the previous class where the instructor showed them how to control the direction and speed by fiddling the parachute so that they could finally land safely in the target area. As he reached the ground, he stretched his legs forward and sat down lightly on the ground. Fold the parachute behind you and walk towards the gathering place.

It's dusk, the sun is shining on the mountains, and the stones are reflecting red, as if they are on fire.