This villain, please exercise some restraint.

This is where?

Shi Si slowly sat up and looked around.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, with lavender light spots like fireflies surrounding him, and then suddenly dissipated just before he reached out to touch them.

It was like an elf with a soul, deliberately avoiding his touch.

His thoughts were a little heavy, and what made him feel even more heavy was his body. The heavy feeling was as if his whole body was filled with lead. The moment he managed to stand up, he felt dizzy.

"Be careful!"

Just before he was overwhelmed and fell, a pair of warm hands supported him. Shi Si waited for a while before slowly moving his eyes to the face of the visitor.

He is a young man with glasses who smiles very kindly. Under those silver-white glasses, there is a pair of... pure eyes, but... they seem to be mixed with a little... sadness.

What are you sad about?

Shi Si thought.

It felt very familiar... It seemed like he knew someone, but... why couldn't he call out his name... The words were clearly on his lips, and he felt like he could subconsciously call them out.

The lavender light spots lingering around him slowly dissipated, replaced by a rather short young boy.

It's just that this young man who suddenly appeared has something... calm and steady that doesn't match his face.

Shi Si stared at the boy with glasses in front of him for a moment, and then turned his attention to the boy who suddenly appeared.

Strange... that face also gave him a very familiar feeling, but... why... why couldn't he call it a name?

His mind seemed to be rusty, Shi Si slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, no one could be reflected in those dark eyes.

"I must know you."

He said calmly, making sure.

"It's strange that you don't know us. We teamed up to go to the newly opened southern Xinjiang dungeon to do a mission. As a result, our strength was limited and you were seriously injured. As for your life, it was not easy for us to recover it. "

The short boy smiled brightly, and then started talking seriously.

"Am I seriously injured..."

Shi Si murmured to himself.

"Yes, you are Shi Si, our... friend. Although we are of different races, the three of us have always been good buddies. You... won't forget..."

An Xu stretched out his hand to hold his slipping glasses, lowered his head, and spoke a little unfluently.

I just don’t know why, but the more he spoke, the lower his voice became. At the end, there was almost no sound at all.

"You...seem to be sad...Are you sad about something...?"

The discomfort was slowly fading away. Shi Si took away the hand held by the boy with glasses, frowned slightly, and asked.

"No...no, I just saw that you finally woke up, and I was a little...too happy. After all, it was my hesitation and failure to help you in time that made you so...seriously injured."

An Xu raised his head, but the smile on his lips was a bit ugly.

In a sense, what he said was indeed right, maybe...he thought, this would be the source of his guilt.

"Your breathing... is a little rapid. With all due respect, are you... nervous about something?"

Shi Si composed himself, his eyes almost fixed on the face of the young man with glasses in front of him, so much so that An Xu subconsciously held his breath.

It's like if you push harder, some secret will be disturbed.

"Ah...no, no..."

An Xu's answer was even more stumbling.

This kind of gaze...mixed with seriousness and pure doubt made An Xu lower his head with a complicated mood.

Shi Si took a deep look at the boy with strange glasses, and then turned his gaze to the short man with a smile on his lips.

As if sensing his gaze, the short boy who was looking far away retracted his gaze, looked over, slightly curved his lips, and smiled.

The boy didn't speak first, and neither did Shi Si. He just stared at the short boy with a smile on his lips for a long time.

That inexplicable feeling of familiarity lingered in his heart, seemingly unable to dissipate no matter what, but what confused him was that there always seemed to be a thin layer of unknown matter between him and "clearness".

The existence of this kind of thing gave him a real feeling, but he was unable to accurately recognize the existence in front of him... that gave him a sense of familiarity.

Everything... is it really as they say...

Shi Si was thinking, thinking, but at this moment he... was destined to be unable to recall any useful memories from the chaotic and fuzzy mind.

Shi Si frowned slightly and closed his eyes distractedly.

It shouldn't be like this... It shouldn't be like this... Something's wrong... Something's wrong...

How could he...how could he need others to tell him what happened to him? This feeling of powerlessness of not being able to control anything and not knowing anything made Shi Si inevitably feel a little... upset.

"Do we... know each other?"

Finally, under the gaze of those light maroon eyes that did not contain any offensive power, Shi Si slowly opened his eyes and asked a similar question again.

The short boy was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect to be asked this question again.

But the curve of his lips was still harmless.

"of course."

He replied, "We have always been good friends."

As he spoke, he walked towards the boy with short white hair, walked until he was in front of him, and then stood still.

"Isn't it?"

Curbing the corners of his lips, the short boy raised his head and asked seriously.

Shi Si fell silent, the most direct silence.

The word "friend" made him instinctively feel strange, and he even doubted that these two words had never appeared in his cognition.

"Help each other, encourage each other, support each other, friends who can be relied on at critical moments——"

"That's right, me, An Xu and you, we... are such friends."

"Friend... An Xu——"

Shi Si looked at the boy with silver-white glasses who lowered his head slightly as soon as he caught his gaze.

Then, he withdrew his gaze again.

"So, you are-"

Before he even finished speaking his question, the short boy in front of him had already given him the answer.

"Temperance? Or... Creek? You can call it either."

Shi Si's words came to an abrupt end, "Temperance...and...Xi..."

He murmured to himself, these two words had brought him a fleeting sense of familiarity, especially the former.

He subconsciously stretched out his right hand and covered it with his heart. Under his palm, within his skin, the pulsing organ was... accelerating.

Why is this happening? Why is this happening? He didn't know, and now he... couldn't figure it out either.