Chapter 12: The Storm

The more I heard about the black dragon, the more unsettling it became.

Yin Leiya didn't know what was going on with the others, anyway, she had insomnia that night, and she couldn't sleep when she tossed and turned in bed.

As soon as you close your eyes, you can see the terrifying sight of the black dragon wreaking havoc everywhere in the green fields, spitting flames and burning everything up.

And thanks to Li Yu's action camera, the girl doesn't even need to imagine what that monster looks like now, and her brain can directly process the ready-made material into a horror movie, and then start playing it on a loop.

In the end, Miss Rabbit simply stopped sleeping, so she got up from the bed, put on a casual dress, and walked out of her bedroom.

She didn't know where she was going, so she wandered around the castle.

It was almost the middle of the night, most of the people had fallen asleep, and the hallway was empty.

It was quiet and could only hear the girl's own footsteps.

Yin Leiya remembered that when she was young, every time she got up in the middle of the night, Xiao Xie would be very scared, because her room was at the other end of the corridor, and she had to walk a long way to get to the thatched house.

At that time, her mind was full of ghost stories told to her by her nurse, so she was always terrified of the darkness and shadows, fearing that there would be some monsters hidden inside.

In order not to go out in the middle of the night, she even deliberately held her pee, until she was seven years old, and once she really didn't hold it back and urinated on the bed.

Since then, her father has had several more torches installed in the hallway to illuminate the stretch from her room to the hut.

Yin Leiya didn't know why she remembered this little thing again.

It's been more than four months since she's become the new owner of the castle, but sometimes when she's finished her day's work and goes back to her room to rest, there's still a moment of flickering when she opens the door.

She thought she would see the familiar figure inside, but then the empty bedroom would remind her that the man was gone.

There have been too many changes in her life recently, from the beginning when she wanted to become the new head of Arias's family, first with her stepmother, and then busy with finding a response and preparing for a banquet.

Soon after, the lizardmen ran out of the swamp again, looting everywhere, reaching Teacup Castle at one point, and then facing the threat of dragons......

One thing after another, so much so that she didn't even have time to digest the pain of the man's departure.

Until tonight, perhaps the sense of crisis brought to her by the dragon was too strong, making her involuntarily want to find support, or the bond between the ugly man and the black beauty also brought back some memories for her.

In short, the girl now misses the castle's former owner.

Even if that person is not the most outstanding of the previous heads of the Arias family, especially after Yin Leia has now taken over his mantle and become the new lord of this territory, looking back at some of the things he has done before, he finds that he may not be as wise as the man boasted at the time.

This is probably growing up, the parents who were omnipotent in their eyes when they were children will one day fade all the aura on their bodies and become mortals again.

But Yin Leiya still hoped that the person could be by her side.

A gust of night wind blew, and the girl realized that she had walked out of the stone castle, and the guard in charge of the night in front of the door was a little surprised to see her, but quickly reacted and hurriedly saluted her.

Yin Leiya nodded at the other party, and was about to go to another place to go around, when he heard the guard say, "Miss Yin Leiya, you are also here, are you here to find the old lady?" She had just climbed the city walls. ”

"My great-grandmother Ona, didn't she sleep either?" The girl asked as she retracted her halfway steps.

The guard hesitated, but finally said truthfully, "The old lady has not slept well since Lord Ruth's death, and she often wakes up at this time, and then goes around the city walls, and tells us not to tell anyone else, you need me to inform her that you are coming." ”

"No, I'll go up myself."

After Yin Leia finished speaking, she walked in the direction of the city wall.

She lifted her dressing gown and climbed the steep stone steps up the castle walls, where she soon saw another figure at the top of the city.

It was her great-grandmother, the old man, who stood under the starry sky, looking out at the forest in the distance.

Yin Leia didn't step forward to bother, and she didn't speak until Ona withdrew her gaze, "Ruth, he used to like to do that too. ”

"What?"

"My father, your grandson, he also likes to stand here and look out over his territory."

"Yes, he learned it from his father, and his father learned it from his father." The old man said, "Men of the Arias family, they sometimes seem to be carved out of a mold. ”

Previously, because of the suspicion that someone in the castle was colluding with his stepmother Vanessa, Yin Leia once stopped trusting these blood relatives around her. But later, following Li Yu's advice, the girl took the initiative to release some kindness to her relatives.

And Ona has been very supportive of her great-granddaughter since then, and with her statement, the people in the Arias family soon accepted Yin Leia as the new head of the family.

Both sides took a step back, and they could be regarded as exposing the previous unpleasantness.

But it is impossible to say that there is no mustard in her heart, and when she thinks that someone has tried to manipulate the election and put her half-brother on the throne, it is difficult for Yin Leiya to trust these relatives of hers as before.

Including her great-grandmother, who had taken care of her for a long time, the girl had always kept her distance, consciously or unconsciously, and the two sides rarely had such a private conversation tonight.

When she got closer, Yin Leiya found that Ona was much older than she had remembered, not only was all her hair gray, the wrinkles on her face were deeper, and her holes had become cloudy.

According to the previous guards, since Ruth's death, she has been unable to sleep steadily, and will climb the walls from time to time.

Yin Leia couldn't help but feel a little guilty for her previous intentional estrangement, so she spoke again, "You're right, as to whether you should keep those lizardmen, I remember you said that the storm is coming, and extraordinary times must be done at extraordinary times, and most people, including me, did not agree with your idea at the time.

"But in the end, it turns out that you're the right one, and given the terrifying monsters hidden in that swamp, we really need the power of those lizardmen."

After a pause, the girl continued, "This incident also reminded me that the people around me are generally relatively young, except for Fausto, although I don't want to admit it...... But there are times when we may not have that, uh...... Visionary, so I thought that maybe in the future, I should listen to more advice from people like you who have a lot of experience. ”

However, to her surprise, Ona shook her head, "I'm too old to give you advice like I did for your father, your grandfather, and your great-grandfather, and I didn't mean the dragon when I said storm before. ”

"The Point Guard Is Here"