"I can't get out."

On the first day that Treed and his sister were ready to leave town, the two had just flown out of the fog and the edge of the town.

An inexplicable sense of trance and confusion came, and when Ted opened his eyes, he saw that the two of them had reappeared at the door of the Red Flame Sanctuary in the town.

Once again, a dense mass of corpses poured toward Terred.

His expression changed, he looked around in disbelief, and hurriedly pulled his sister to change directions and flew out of the edge of the town.

An inexplicable sense of trance and confusion invaded his mind, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the two of them had reappeared in front of the gate of the Red Flame Shelter.

Tried then tried several more times, but none of them managed to escape the town.

The fog-shrouded town seemed to have become the mouth of a giant beast in a trance, they were already in the mouth of this giant beast, the mist was the fishy breath in its mouth, perhaps from the moment it entered this thick fog, its huge mouth had actually closed long ago, but it had not yet completely swallowed them.

And they still naively thought that they could escape, like moths locked in glass jars stupidly crashing into the invisible glass wall again and again, and feeling dazed and unbelievable when they were knocked back to the original point by the interaction of forces.

With a tired face, Ted burned all the incoming corpses to ashes and purified them, looking at the lantern in his hand.

"Generally speaking, the fog will only last two to three days from appearance to disappearance, and the red flame lamp in our hands will generally last for two to three days before it goes out, after all, if no survivors can be found on the first and second days, and the third day of the golden hour is missed, it is basically impossible for anyone to survive."

"But that's the general situation."

The situation is clearly not ordinary.

The red flame lamp in their hands can last for two days, and it will probably be extinguished the day after tomorrow, and after two days, this treacherous fog may not dissipate according to the previous law.

"Theresia, we're going to find a way to break the deadlock and break the cycle in two days."

Treed clenched the lantern in his hand, his expression serious and heavy.

"Brother." Theresia looked up at him, "I can ...... if I need to"

"No, don't release your flames." Treed pressed her shoulder.

"Leave it to me, and I'll do it all."

Since every time I want to escape, I return to this Red Flame Sanctuary after an inexplicable trance, then the key to breaking the game may be here.

Tried rested in place for a while, then took his sister and began exploring.

However, they didn't find anything out of the ordinary, but were blocked by a group of ice and snow monsters at the door.

In terms of strength and danger, these Ice and Snow Demon Beasts have undoubtedly reached the level of "Tiger"-level desolate beasts, and such desolate beasts often require fourth-order psionic beings to deal with.

Now, however, Ted is not facing one, not one, but a herd.

Even if he was the best of the fourth-order psionic beings, because he had already consumed a lot of energy, physical strength and psionic energy in the previous continuous battles, he could only resist the encirclement of these desolate beasts at this moment.

Bang!

Theresia threw the lantern in her hand into the herd of beasts, the fragile shell of the lantern was instantly crushed, and the tiny crimson flames suddenly exploded with a huge burst of fire, blasting the beasts out of a huge gap.

The red flame left by the previous Valkyrie did have a powerful restraint effect on the demonic beasts under the influence of the Ice King's power.

Theresia pulled her brother and quickly escaped through the blown gap.

"Anyway, whether you hold a lantern or two in your hand, it has the same effect, and you are in a hurry, I don't think the Valkyrie should blame me for using her power like this, right?" She said with a grin.

Tried nodded and said, "Theresia, your intelligence may also be the reason why Lord Valkyrie favors you. ”

Theresia playfully stuck out her tongue: "It's my brother who is too serious and serious." ”

I have to say that with Theresia's spice, Trede's heavy mood is much better.

My sister is always so lively and elf, and she can bring joy to people.

But she was destined to ......

Treed's eyes were unconsciously clouded.

The two of them ran through the town, avoiding the dangerous ice and snow monsters along the way, looking for clues and clues to break through the deadlock, and Theresia suddenly proposed:

"Brother, do you want to go to Xia Ming to help you try?"

Treed was silent for a moment, not refusing or immediately agreeing, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

Theresia said to herself, "I don't know if you have noticed, brother, that we passed by the house where Xia Ming lived twice before, and there seemed to be no trace of corpse mutants and ice and snow monsters around him. ”

"Either he is the root cause of all the mutations, or he is the most critical game-breaker, the ability to purify evil." Treed added.

He remembered the blank expression on the other party's face when he asked Xia Ming earlier if it had anything to do with the mutation.

"yes, so whether he's friend or foe, we'll have to talk to him." Theresia said excitedly, waving her fists.

Treed fell silent again.

"Brother, what are you hesitating about?"

Tried pursed his lips, and after a while, he said, "Theresia, did you know he came for you?" ”

"What?" Theresia was taken aback.

"That's what he told me personally, and I can't tell if it's a joke or not. But if he is an enemy, then we are undoubtedly in the mouth of a tiger, and if he is not...... But he covets you just as much. ”

The corners of Theresia's mouth curled up slightly, and she looked at Tried teasingly: "So my brother cares about me?" ”

Treed nodded solemnly.

I couldn't see my brother's shy and shy expression, and the smile on Theresia's face disappeared instantly, and she cut off: "It's boring." ”

"Don't worry, brother, your sister and I are not the kind of naïve and stupid stupid fools, and I won't casually fall in love because others are good-looking and say a few words of rhetoric."

She patted Treed on the shoulder, because she was not tall enough, and tried to tiptoe: "It's not that I don't have the strength to protect myself, if he dares to use force on me, I can't directly release my strength." Oops, brother, even if you grow so tall, don't you know how to be empathetic and squat down and let me pat me on the shoulder? ”

Tried crouched down with a little crying and laughing so that his sister could pat him on the shoulder or even his head without tiptoeing, but then his face immediately turned serious.

"Theresia, about the ...... of the Liberation Forces"

Syllable!

Before he finished speaking, his head was slapped on the head by Theresia: "Everyone is going to die, and you have to abide by the rules of the organization and suppress the strength aggrievedly and wait for death?" Why are you so old-fashioned! ”

"Besides, they are just afraid that once I use the spiritual energy above the third order, if I accidentally awaken the ability and am not qualified to draw the sword, I will be careful to maintain restraint and not let the desire and desire become too strong."

"Okay."

Speaking of which, there is no room for Tered to refute.

He shook his head with a wry smile.

Obviously, he is an experienced warrior who has been trained outside for several years, but he was educated by his sister who went on a mission for the first time, as if he had become a younger brother and Theresia was a sister.

The two immediately decided to go to Xia Ming.

At this moment, a "ghost" level ice and snow monster fell from the sky, and a freezing ray shattered the only remaining lantern of the two of them.

This is a monster that can only be dealt with by fifth-order psionic beings, plus they suddenly lost their vision, and the two of them were chased and fled in embarrassment, how could they still find the location of Xia Ming.

This dense fog seemed to be alive and conscious, and at the moment when they decided to go to Xia Ming, a ghost-level ice and snow demonic beast was airdropped out of nowhere!

The brother and sister glanced at each other, and felt an inexplicable chill in their hearts at the same time.

Tried immediately stretched out the psionic shield, expelled the fog, barely had a vision within two or three meters of the surroundings, and began to flee with his sister.

On the first day, the brother and sister fled in embarrassment and stumbled.

The next day, the brother and sister continued to be hunted down, and they were invisibly getting farther and farther away from the house where Xia Ming was.

On the third day, Theresia freed her power and slew the ghost-level ice and snow beast, but she was also seriously injured and infected by the strange power of this dense fog, her body was hypothermic, her red lips turned white, and her soul and consciousness were frozen.

Treed finally found Xia Ming's door with his sister on his back.

"Come, come in."

Natsu was visibly enthusiastic.

The house is as warm as spring, and the charcoal burning in the fireplace conveys the warmth from the head to the warmth of the vests, compared to the three days of hard survival of the brothers and sisters in the cold wind and fog of the ice and snow, Xia Ming here is like a spring vacation in the wind and sunshine.

Xia Ming gently laid the girl's delicate body flat on the sofa, like a sleeping princess finally lying on her lily-like beautiful water lilie.

Her hair was messy and covered her cheeks, Xia Ming reached out and gently tossed them to the sides, revealing the girl's straight nose and delicate lips, her eyes were gently closed, her black eyelashes were thick and long, and her cheeks, which were paler than ice and snow, were stained with some dust and blood, Xia Ming reached out to wipe her.

"Don't touch it!"

The eldest brother was so anxious that he jumped up from his chair.

Xia Ming glanced back at him, and the eldest brother sat down stupidly again.

He got up and brought him a cup of hot tea and smiled, "Mr. Tree, when the doctor treats the patient, please wait quietly by the patient's side and do not disturb him. ”

Ted opened his mouth and wanted to refute a few words, but when he thought of his sister's injury, and then looked at Xia Ming's undoubted eyes, he could only repeat a "Okay...... It's ......", holding up the teacup to cover up the embarrassment.

Xia Ming took a hot towel and helped the girl gently wipe her cheeks, and soon, the dust was gone, and the girl's face showed a touching and poignant look because of the slight wetness of the towel.

He turned his back to Tried, and picked up a strand of the girl's fiery red hair, sandwiched between her two lip flaps, but the red lips lost their color due to the cold, which only made the girl look more sick and lovable.

Xia Ming thought to himself, if he could add some fiery red moistness to his lips, it would be like a little plum blossom red in the crystal snow white, maybe the girl would look a little more sad and seductive.

He stopped playing tricks on the girl's cheeks, but grabbed her palms and wiped her fingers and arms.

The girl's green onion white jade fingers are smooth and delicate, the palm is soft, the back of the hand is smooth, and the arm is as delicate as snow lotus, which makes people feel like playing with a beautiful jade.

He carefully wiped it, not even letting go of a gap, and at the same time he also noticed that the girl's closed eyelids were beating slightly, and her body seemed to have lost its strength at the moment, as if it had no bones, but it had accumulated a terrible power, an explosive power.

Do you want me to be tempted?

He smiled slightly, and his gaze followed the girl's slender willow waist all the way up, skimming over her flat lower abdomen and the plains that made the already stunted hills look even flatter and only slightly undulating because they were lying flat.

Her gaze fell on the girl's shoulder, and then his hand fell as well.

He turned the girl over.

As a result, the inconspicuous but slender wound on the back came into view.

It was as if the flesh had been cut through by a thin and slender ice blade, and the broken ice slag clotted blood at the wound.

Xia Ming picked up a pair of scissors and cut the girl's clothes.

"Xia Ming, what are you doing!"

The eldest brother once again couldn't sit still and jumped up.

"Check the wound."

Xia Ming looked at him calmly and indifferently and replied, "Her wounds are not only covered by her clothes, but some of them are also stuck with flesh and blood, shouldn't I help her cut off the clothes on her back?" Or is it ...... Would you like to see me take her entire blouse off? ”

The eldest brother felt very angry, but he was at a loss for a while at Xia Ming's fallacies and heresies, and he didn't know how to refute them, so he could only point to his nose angrily and say:

"You...... You're not ......."

"Don't substitute your dirty thoughts into my heart, Terred, in the eyes of doctors, patients are not gendered, beautiful or ugly, or ...... You don't want to save your sister anymore? Xia Ming gave him a friendly smile.

This bastard! You're not really a doctor!

Feeling Xia Ming's kindness, Tried sat down again.

Xia Ming picked up the scissors and was about to cut the clothes on the girl's back, when he suddenly stopped his movements again and looked at Terred, who was staring at him.

"Won't you turn your head?"

"What?" Treed stared blankly.

"Although you are brothers and sisters...... Xia Ming took a deep breath and calmly advised him, "But as an adult, you should know that there is a difference between men and women, even between brothers and sisters, sometimes you have to avoid suspicion, right?" ”

"What do you mean!"

Treed glared at Xia Ming, and the hand holding the teacup trembled uncontrollably with anger.

Xia Ming looked at him calmly and asked, "Terred, do you really want to see your sister's back so much?" ”

Bang!

The teacup shattered to the floor, the carpet soaked with hot tea, and Treed broke the teacup with a burst of rage.

He could barely control his emotions and raised his fist towards Xia Ming, but when he saw Xia Ming pointing at his sister who was in a coma.

Under his calm and indifferent gaze, he slowly released his fist and withdrew his arm.

He felt nothing but a burst of absurdity.

When did it become natural for Xia Ming to look at his sister's back, and he just wanted to monitor whether this bastard had any actions in it, and it became dirty and shameful?

"Tree, go to the kitchen and find tools to clean up the teacups and tea on the floor, it's a consequence of your own inability to control your emotions. Also, remember that you weren't allowed to look up or look this way during the whole process, and you didn't want your sister to know that you had such thoughts, right? ”

What did I have such thoughts? I don't have any idea at all!

Damn bastard!

Treed rushed into the kitchen with a look of resentment, found a broom trash can, and poked the shards of the teacup on the ground with the tip of the broom, as if that was Xia Ming's eyes.

On the other side, Xia Ming saw that the girl's pink fist on the sofa had been unconsciously clenched, and he smiled secretly in his heart.

Still patient?

He picked up the scissors, and the cold blade touched the girl's snow-white skin, bringing a penetrating coolness.

Xia Ming deliberately cut it very slowly, allowing the blade to move slowly and coldly across her skin, which would give people a sense of fear that their lives were in danger and that they were being choked by the throat of death.

The clothes on the girl's back were cut off piece by piece, and she was still patient, without revealing a flaw.

Xia Ming's fingers caressed her back as smooth and crystalline as snow, and his fingers lingered gently on the girl's beautiful back, snow shoulders, and Chu waist, carefully examining it, but he didn't touch the girl's wounds, and he didn't use spiritual energy to alleviate the erosion of the cold.

Even his fingers passed by the side of the wound several times, but he just danced mischievously and turned to the other side, but the girl could still bear it, even if Xia Ming even wrapped her beautiful and delicate red hair around her fingertips and danced together on her snowy back.

Xia Ming felt a hint of frustration.

It's the first time he's seen such a tolerable girl, or is he actually wrong, she has long fallen into a coma, and she's not pretending to be asleep at all?

Xia Ming decided to do a big deal.

Seeing that Ted was disposing of the garbage in the kitchen, she picked up the girl's soft body from the sofa, leaned over and whispered to her in her ear, "If you don't wake up, don't blame me for carrying you to my bed." ”

The girl still didn't move.

Xia Ming thought to himself, maybe it was because the girl still had a trace of luck in her heart that he didn't dare to act.

However, he has always been the character of doing what he says, and immediately walked to the bedroom on the second floor with the girl in his arms.

He thought that the girl might pretend to wake up from a coma in the middle of the process, or let out a snort or two to signal that she was about to wake up, to remind him to stop such dangerous behavior.

However, until he opened the bedroom door and put the girl's body on the soft bed, the girl remained motionless as if she were unconscious.

Could it really be that I'm feeling wrong?

Xia Ming frowned and decided to make a final test.

He took the pillow and gently covered the girl's back where there was no wound, and pressed his palm down slightly, giving her the feeling that someone was about to press his whole body against her, and at the same time leaned over her ear and whispered to her:

"If I don't wake up, I'm going to come in......"

The girl still didn't react.

It seems that she really passed out, so what was I just playing tricks on?

Xia Ming had no choice but to take the pillow away in frustration, and gently pressed his finger on the edge of the girl's wound to activate the ability of [Evil Energy Devouring].

Not only did he not go in, but he also used his ability to slowly suck out the strange evil energy in the girl's body.

At this moment, the girl suddenly opened her eyes, turned her head and pointed at him with a grin, and said:

"Hey, Xia Ming, you lost."

"Theresia, you're not unconscious, you've been pretending to be asleep all the time?"

"yes, I didn't expect even you to be deceived, haha." The girl nodded happily and raised her arms.

Xia Ming took the prank he had just played as a game to make the girl wake up from pretending to be asleep, and the girl had the same naïve idea as him, and even won in the end.

He tilted his head and looked at the girl's blinking emerald green eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little good and close to her in his heart.

"Aren't you afraid that I really did this and that to you just now, for a so-called game to win or lose?" He couldn't help but ask.

"Don't be afraid, because I know you won't really hurt me." The girl shook her head and said proudly.

Xia Ming couldn't get used to seeing the girl so proudly and looking through him, and his fingers couldn't help but press her wound slightly.

It doesn't make her injuries expand and worsen, just enough to make her feel a little pain.

"Yikes."

The girl sneered slightly, gave him a blank look, stuck out her tongue at him, and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect you to look like me even if you didn't admit defeat, Xia Ming."

Xia Ming is not happy, who doesn't admit defeat, who is like you?

"Obviously, I was very scared and very hard, and I don't know who was so nervous just now that I couldn't help but clench my fists."

"I'm holding back my laughter, seeing such a serious brother being bullied by you, do you know how hard I endured?"

"Excuses." Xia Ming said mercilessly.

"Really, do you see any signs of impatience with your actions in the future?"

The girl reached out to nod Xia Ming's nose, but because her hand was hard to reach with her back to him, she had to shift her target and poke him in the chest instead.

"It's not a habit for a good boy to mess around and not admit defeat, Xia Ming." She smiled at him and said in an adult tone.

"I'm a kid myself." Xia Ming said.

"yes, I'm still a kid, I don't want to grow up."

Theresia smiled and smiled, looking at the white world outside the window, and her face suddenly showed a hint of sadness.

"It's a pity that this child of mine is destined to grow up and become well-behaved and obedient, mature and sensible."

"Okay, let's not talk about these unhappy ones."

She changed the subject: "Tell you a secret, Xia Ming, I, I am born to feel the kindness and malice of others towards me, so I know that you will not do anything excessive to hurt me no matter what." ”

"Don't you think it's a shame to cheat?"

"Is it a shame to use your own power?" Theresia tilted her head at him and asked.

"Okay, okay, I told you a secret, shouldn't you share one of your secrets with me too?" The girl clapped her hands and looked at him playfully, her eyes flickering with anticipation.

Xia Ming suddenly felt a headache.

In the first two dream trials, whether it was Nanyan or Sheena, there may have been some twists and turns in the process, but when facing him, they were basically well-behaved and obedient, at his mercy.

Unexpectedly, here, there was an uncle who was hostile and wary of him, and Theresia was still so lively and elf, with a clear self-will.

He suddenly had a feeling that this team might be a little difficult to lead in the future......

Just then, Treed's roar came from downstairs:

"Bastard Xia Ming, where did you take my sister!"

Knock knock!

Heavy and hurried footsteps were heard, and Treed slammed open the bedroom door.

(End of chapter)