Halfway through the elevator, another huge earthquake shook again, this time so strong that it was almost on the scale of an eight-magnitude earthquake, approaching the limit of the campus's earthquake resistance.

Half of the elevator floor collapsed and fell straight down, Patcy and Fingal leaped to their feet, grasping the ceiling of the elevator with both hands, and Mai stood in the corner of the elevator with only two fingers.

The three of them looked at the pitch-black elevator shaft below, and a few seconds later, the flames filled the deep and slender black space, and the inescapable high heat rose with the flames, like an angry fire dragon, slicing the face like a hot air knife.

Patsy reached out and grabbed the shoulders of Mr. KFC and Mai Liquor De, highlighting a series of eerie syllables, and his field swelled, enveloping the trio.

"Spirits of Speech: A Dustless Land".

Anything that is not allowed into this realm is repelled, whether it is solids, fluids, or even temperatures.

The flames rose through the elevator shaft, and everything that could be burned was incinerated except for the blackened metal frame, carrying them on their asscent.

The expansive, high-temperature air stream finally broke through the concrete structure at the top, turning into a dragon shape in the night sky, and disappeared in a flash.

They could see the stars when they looked up, and Mr. KFC turned to look at Patsy, "I didn't think you really valued our short-lived alliance so much." ”

"If it weren't for those things," said Patsy coldly, "I wouldn't save you, but their existence is another matter." ”

"Forces that are completely beyond the scope of our understanding emerge, the pattern of power distribution is not what we previously estimated, and in the face of overwhelming forces, relatively weak people should join hands."

"I'm so impressed with you, I don't know which side you're on, but at least, not the monsters. We still have opportunities to work together. ”

"You're such a politician." Mr. KFC sighed, "But you're right, the pattern of power...... Once again, it completely changed. We have to be glad that this elevator is the oldest-fashioned mechanical hammer structure, otherwise we can't get out. ”

"Handsome guy, don't you want to let go?" Mai stared at Patsy playfully.

"I'm sorry." Patsy immediately let go of his hand.

"Damn, I want to grab Mai-sama's shoulder, too!" Mr. KFC gritted his teeth with hatred.

……

……

Chu Zihang woke up from his dream, looking out of the dark window, the flames erupted from the wellhead in front of the "Valhalla", the well claimed to be the well of the academy's classics, in the era when there was no running water, teachers and students drew water from the well, and now it has dried up.

He put on his clothes and rushed out of the door of his dormitory, red lights swirled everywhere, alarm bells shrill like a flock of flamingos wailing in their dying, the earth shook, the buried water pipes exploded, high-pressure water jets gushed like springs, the granite wrapped around the building peeled off, and the rooster statue on the top of Valhalla collapsed.

Everything is like the end of the day written in the book of prophecy, and everyone is as small as dust in front of the end of the day.

There was no one to be seen everywhere, maybe the students hadn't woken up from their slumber, maybe they had taken refuge, maybe they were dead......

The empty corridor, the air on the balcony was cold, he suddenly turned around and blurted out, "Xia Mi......"

The wind blew from the terrace, as if to answer his cries.

……

……

"Why the hell are you helping us like this?" The dark shadow turned her head, her eyes reflecting the firelight around her, and the man standing in front of her became the center of the world. "That's not enough, you...... Is it really still you? ”

"And what kind of reason do you think is enough?" Shinji Ikari stared at her.

"For example...... Want to take advantage of me? ”

"I'm sorry, but I do have a little bit of an idea to take advantage of you." Shinji Ikari shrugged, "But it's also for the good of Senior Brother." ”

“…… How can it be good for him? ”

"The last step on the path to godhood."

"You mean......" Dark Shadow's flawless eyes widened slightly, "Is that legend true?" ”

"It's true." Shinji Ikari shrugged, "Why else would I bother with it." ”

"Of course, if you are willing, I won't force you if you don't want to, it's useless to force this thing."

He still held out his hand to the shadow, "How's it going?" Come with me...... An unprecedented gamble. ”

The dark shadow stared at him in a daze.

suddenly remembered the dream that Chu Zihang had told her that day.

He wished he had jumped on his boat.

"Okay, I promise you." She shook hands tightly with Shinji Ikari, who pulled her up from the ground.

"If you figure it out, let's go up quickly." Shinji Ikari let out a sigh, "He must be looking for you everywhere." ”

"Then I'm leaving." With a tentative tone, the black shadow walked towards the exit step by step, with his back to Shinji Ikari, and suddenly turned around, "Senior Brother Lu is not afraid that I will regret it?" ”

He smiled and just said, "Love is the catalyst of the highest specification." ”

"What...... "Shadow taps his toes on the ground, "but I haven't seen him tempted before......"

"I don't even know if he really loves me now......"

"Travel is just going from a place you know to a place that someone else is familiar with." Shinji Ikari came up with such a sentence.

"What?" The dark shadow asked, puzzled.

"But I still like to travel, and every time I go to a city, I walk in the streets and alleys, looking left and right, putting my hands in my trouser pockets, and smelling the smell of that city." Shinji Ikari said to himself, "When I was a child, I wanted my aunt to take me to those big cities, but I couldn't do it. ”

"It's definitely not going to happen." He smiled again, with a bit of self-deprecation, "Actually, more often than not, I don't want to go to any special place, I just want to travel far away." ”

"Senior sister, if you were given a choice, where would you choose?" Shinji Ikari asked earnestly.

"......," the shadow tilted his head, "probably the one we went to last time, an unknown town in Northern Ireland." ”

"I wanted to go back to the beach, and when the idea popped into my head, there was no surprise, like I knew a long time ago that I would eventually come back to the beach, and I would just sit on the rooftop where I used to like to sit and overlook the traffic coming and going."

"Then it rained, and I silently listened to the rain hitting the plastic shed of the Internet café at the bottom of my house, and the events of my life passed by in my mind like a horse, with a surging smile on the corner of my mouth."

"The ending is predestined early, isn't it?" He scratched his hair, "But when I was younger, I still wanted to travel far away to see places I didn't know." ”

"It's always unacceptable not to go to the other side of the desert to see it, and before I get there, I'll guess that there is an endless amount of lavender, red or purple like the ocean."

"Do what you want, junior sister."

"So when you're old, when this bullshit is over, you'll have those moments that flow through your mind, and you won't regret it."

"You've traveled all over the world, you're going to a place, you've never been there, you don't know where, but you believe it's beautiful."

"The ...... sitting next to you while living in seclusion in that unknown town in Northern Ireland"

"It's going to be him." Shinji Ikari said word by word.

The black shadow smiled, covering his mouth and laughing, a sneering look flashed in the dragon boy, but tears kept flowing.

It's actually quite fart to think about all this, the dragon king is in love with a human? What's the joke?

Every time she appeared next to him, she used a different identity, the girl who accompanied him to the aquarium, the cheerleader who cheered him on, and the classmates who did his homework with him after school......

Chu Zihang just intercepted their fragments and pieced together Xia Mi, which was just a phantom that Chu Zihang used to comfort himself, so that he would not run all the time without rest until he drowned in the lonely lake.

He is the first creator of Xia Mi, and she is just playing Xia Mi.

She wanted to say that it was all fake, that she was the dragon king Jörmungad, and that she wouldn't let these things bother her.

But...... The little house with simple furnishings was lonely and old, and she had always kept it tidy, but now that I think about it, it was probably too boring at the time.

Because she had nothing to do after school, she waited and waited, and when the night came, she lay down on the little bed, neatly dressed, and the quilt of broken flowers was spread out half over her.

On the opposite side is the sloping, huge floor-to-ceiling window, the afterglow of the setting sun passes through the plane tree, casting the shadow of the tree on her, and the sound of parents calling for their children and the sound of pots and pans can be faintly heard next door......

It sounds joyful, but all she has is this little house.

It's so lonely, it's crazy.

If the initial observation can be used as an excuse for Odin's branding, then ...... And after that?

She could have avoided touching him, she could have not invited him to aquariums and cinemas, she could have not used clumsy seduction to show the blind man......

"It's lonely......" she sighed.

Shinji Ikari shrugged noncommittally.

It doesn't matter what, as long as she is willing to admit her feelings for him, no matter what reason she uses, it doesn't matter, isn't the feeling the moment she says it?

……

……

"Answer the phone, answer the phone." Chu Zihang kept reading, looking around the panicked campus, and he didn't even have time to put on his coat.

The phone still shows that no one is connected.

But she clearly said that as long as he sent a message, he would definitely reply within five minutes.

Chu Zihang stopped in confusion, he was ...... What's wrong? Usually I am not like this, and no matter how thrilling the situation is, it will not be like this.

What are you panicking about, and what are you fearing about?

Maybe I should calm down now, Xia Mi should sleep obediently in the dormitory at this time, and she didn't answer the phone just because she put her phone on silent when she slept, besides, the place where the accident happened was far away from the girl's dormitory, so there was no need to be so restless.

But no, the junior brother said that the relationship needs both parties to take the initiative, if she is really in danger, and he didn't go to her, then in the end she is still giving in one direction, and he didn't even have the idea of going to her when he was in danger.

Chu Zihang wondered if he always lacked the initiative to chase something in his life, just like the dream he once had, he looked forward to the girl jumping off the bridge but never said it, and he didn't think about climbing up the bridge himself.

He always seemed like this, reacting half a beat slower than anyone else, and even if a girl thought about jumping into his boat, he would miss it because he didn't react and didn't click the oar to stop the boat and wait for her......

Don't go on like this, don't.

"Natsumi......" He started running again.

It turned out that the girl had unconsciously had such an important position in his heart.

It began to rain in the sky again, and in the blink of an eye, the rain was so heavy that even the flames at the mouth of the well in front of Valhalla were extinguished.

Chu Zihang ran aimlessly, and before he knew it, he ran near the girls' dormitory, he wiped the rain from his face, and just wanted to call Xia Mi again.

"Senior brother!" Someone shouted.

He looked at the source of the sound like an electric shock, and the girl was wearing a small suspender, and her hands had made a small pergola above her head, and she was running towards him with slippers on her feet.

Chu Zihang shook his head slightly, and also pulled his legs and ran towards her.

The two hugged each other in the pouring rain, and he bowed his head, "Where have you been?" ”

The girl didn't speak, but looked up at him with those watery eyes.

Chu Zihang shook his mind again, and the scene of him sending Xia Mi home on a rainy evening uncontrollably appeared in his mind, the two were still in Shilan Middle School, he and Xia Mi walked side by side, she suddenly turned around and smiled at him, jumped on the road, spread her hands and staggered to maintain her balance, and tiptoed along the narrow edge.

He naturally took the girl's hand to prevent her from falling......

Do they walk in the rain with the same umbrella on a summer night, or do they not have an umbrella? But it didn't matter, none of that mattered, he just remembered that Natsumi was stepping in the water in her sandals, the crystal droplets jumping at her feet, and the girl's slender figure being exposed in the rain......

What to do at this time? The girl you like tilts her head and looks at you in your arms, her eyes are like a stream of autumn water, and like the raindrops that are pouring down beside the two of you at this time.

The junior brother said that this is the girl asking for a kiss.

In fact, Xia Mi didn't need Chu Zihang to come over at all, Chu Zihang just showed his eyes that he was ready to come up, and Xia Mi kissed him lightly on the lips.

The girl's lips were slightly cold, as if a cold wind was blowing on the way back, and her breath carried a fluttering body fragrance, covering him overwhelmingly.

When the kiss ended, the rain somehow stopped, leaving only small droplets of water, and they looked at each other soaking wet.

"I'm sleeping in my dorm." The girl stuck out her tongue and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, senior brother, for making you anxious." ”

"I slept so deeply......," Chu Zihang muttered to himself.

"That'...... I'll go back if there's nothing to do? Natsumi took a few steps back.

"Hmm." Chu Zihang still had a pulp lake in his mind, and he couldn't think at all, what the girl said at this time was what it was.

Xia Mi suddenly remembered something, walked forward quickly, stood on tiptoe and kissed him lightly on the face, "Good night, senior brother." ”

After doing all this, she ran away as fast as she could.

Chu Zihang stood in place, watching Xia Mi disappear into the dormitory building, and then touching the place where she had just been kissed.

"Good night."

He went back to his room, sat down on the bed and lay down slowly, he began to reminisce, to recall all the moments he could not forget, it was his daily homework, but today there were a little more, the figure of the girl was frozen in his mind, and was collected into the deepest part of his memory, along with the never-ending rainstorm, the endless viaduct, and the battered Maybach.

He closed his eyes and waited for the dawn to rise.