gentle and affectionate

Chapter 56.

The young man came from the melting crowd, he lowered his head, and walked with heavy and resolute steps, like an invulnerable god, but his steps were a little hurried, as if he was afraid that if he slowed down a little, he would not be able to bear to walk again .

Turning our backs on the town of death, the little wolf walked in front of us in the blink of an eye. When I regained my senses, I quickly caught up with him, stretched out my hand, and gently clasped his clenched fist.

"It will hurt."

The young man staggered, and then stopped, and finally a crack appeared in his pretended indifference.

I sighed in my heart, he didn't care about it, he was clearly pretending to be calm and wanted to keep us from worrying.The ninja also caught up, exchanged glances with me, and couldn't help sighing.

"To live without advancing time is as good as to die, and... if you are guilty, so am I."

Ninja has always played straight balls, and his level of coaxing people is not high, but at this time of crisis, his clumsy comfort is reassuring. I also echoed with a smile:

"me too."

"Mocona too!"

Heigang's words are also from my heart.I thought of the past, the me who wanted to bear everything alone, naively thought that sacrificing myself would make the one I love happy, but I failed to understand that it is true to blame myself for everything and want to bear everything alone. It is a childish and unrealistic fantasy, and I have lived so lonely in my life for more than a hundred years that even my eyes were blinded, and I failed so many people's kindness to me, even the king's strange appearance could not be detected in time.

If I hadn't imagined that one person would bear everything alone, if I had seen the love I had at that time, even if I was still separated from the king in the end, I might not have left so many regrets.

Although life is a person's life, remember that someone will always walk with you.

You are not alone, little wolf.

The ninja and I stood beside the young man, the way forward and the way back were buried in the yellow sand all over the sky, and only the setting sun sprinkled gold on the ground to guide the way; even though there will be a day when we will be separated, please let us be here at the last moment In difficult times, I walk with you.

"thank you all……"

The boy's voice was full of tears, and the ninja stretched out his iron hand and rubbed the boy's hairy head, which made him burst into laughter, but also caused the little guy on his shoulder to yell and say black steel He also bullied little wolf and the like, Hei Gang purposely retorted with a straight face, and bickered again.

The young man watched quietly, and after a while, he also smiled, and it was rare for me not to join the melee, just smiling and looking at this group of my beloved people... This is the story that has brought us countless laughs during the long journey Especially today, amidst the sky full of yellow sand and death, this scene is especially warm and precious.

I don't know where the road ahead is. Hei Gang and I accompanied the boy through the dusk to the night, and the appearance of the ruins gradually became clearer before our eyes.

The desert is cold at night, the temperature of the warm land without sunlight drops sharply, and the cold wind invades wantonly, blowing away the little popularity at dusk, and everything returns to silence.I look at the distant horizon, the sunrise and sunset seem to separate heaven and hell, and we who step into the darkness step by step, what will be the result of what is waiting for us in front of us?

Jiulou Country, the hometown where Sakura and Xiaolang grew up, where everything started.

It’s not that I’m afraid of danger, but that I understand the little wolf’s state of mind very well at this time——When I returned to Thrace not long ago, I saw the old scene of my hometown, and found memories everywhere, even a small dust All calling my name.So the past is like a rushing tide. At that time, I was more afraid of the long-lost past that was about to be revealed than the fear of being close to my hometown and the unknown future.

Painful memories come to mind again, like old scars being torn apart, bloody with a light touch.

I don't know what happened to Little Wolf's past, but I think that Fei Wang will use any means to achieve his goals, which is the same for me and Hei Gang. The princess who treats the core of his plan, and the teenagers around him, will definitely not follow him show mercy.Memories scattered, love forgotten, seven years of captivity... and the pair of lives that were replicated all show that the four of them must have experienced much more suffering than we know.

In this way, the current state of mind of the little wolf can be imagined, but I can't bear it for him.

The cold is coming, and I don't know if it's because the wind is really too cold, or if the worry in my heart has suppressed the remaining warmth in my body. Walking on this pitch-black desert, even the Thrace cotton coat doesn't feel hot anymore.

I quickly took two steps to catch up with the boy, and got closer, trying to shield him from the cold of the night, but before I could move, the man in black on the other side took half a step towards the little wolf. The tall figure blocked the wind and moonlight, and the outline of the side face was firm, looking extremely reliable.

——In case the boy can't hold on, there are us.

I suddenly thought of what Heigan had said to me before I set off, and I couldn’t help but look straight at him. Of course the ninja noticed it. He glanced at me as a warning. I think his reaction is very cute, and the depression and worries in my heart are instantly swept away. .

The three of us are all together, and the target is known. If it is really a last resort, maybe there is Miss Witch as the backing, how could we lose.

What are you still worried about now, I stuck out my tongue secretly, this old problem of cranky thinking really needs to be corrected.

The mood flew from the trough to the sky in an instant, and I played with my heart, so I imitated Hei Gang, pretending to be sneaky, and got closer to the little wolf, and Hei Gang found that I was imitating him, and felt guilty When I woke up, it seemed like I had done something bad, and I couldn't help laughing.

"...What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing." I blinked.

"Humph."

"Master Hei is also smiling, don't be so nervous."

"Who is nervous!"

He denied it with his mouth, but he didn't leave the boy at all. He still played the role of a good father who protected him from the wind and rain, but he denied it with 300 taels of silver.I squinted at him, and he looked away immediately, this dishonest fellow.

While laughing and cursing, he seemed to hear the boy's laughter and sighs, as if he had finally figured out something, and the eyebrows that had been frowning were finally relaxed.

I smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and the three of us continued to move forward. After a while, the ruins appeared in front of our eyes. The little wolf reached out to touch the stone door of the ruins, but the stone door opened automatically when he just touched it. The ancient and mysterious atmosphere blows towards us, as if welcoming travelers from other worlds like us.

I raised my eyebrows. Sure enough, the man knew our whereabouts like the palm of his hand. He opened the door to greet us, as if inviting distinguished guests, so we also pretended to be guests at a banquet and walked in like a leisurely courtyard.The long stone steps spiraled downward, and the footsteps of the three echoed. The moisture of the water slowly floated up from the bottom, but there was no sound of water.

The candlesticks on the walls are still well lit, just like they were back then.

"Me and her have been together, from the first time we met seven days before my seventh birthday, until I grew up to the age I am now...we have always been together."

He said that they met here. On that day, Sakura fasted here for her birthday ceremony seven days later; and he was ordered by his parents to come across the dimension from the distant city of Hong Kong and spend the future here. of seven years.

"But you haven't been imprisoned since you were seven..."

The boy is only 14 years old, but his heart is much, much older.

"I pay the price and let time go backwards..."

He took off his hood and let the still water mirror his sorrow.

"To get it back, Sakura from that day."

Occasionally but also inevitably, the first stop of the boy's long journey is also the mysterious shop.

"is it here?"

When the boy who left his parents came to the store, he was greeted by two soulless girls.

"welcome!"

"Here... there is someone called the 'Dimensional Witch'..."

"A guest is coming to see the master!"

"It's the master's guest!"

Before he could finish speaking, the two little girls covered their mouths and giggled, and ran around leading him to a Japanese room in the main hall.Standing in front of the Japanese room door, he saw a woman in a kimono with long hair saying in a mature and elegant voice:

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, because it is inevitable for you to come here."

The boy thought, this is probably the "witch of the dimension" in his father's mouth.

But this witch seems a little unreliable.His clothes are half uncovered, he is lying, lying or reclining on a sofa chair, holding a pipe in one hand, his knee-length hair is loose, fair skin and red pupils, and he is asked his name as soon as he comes up.

"What's your name?"

"...Li Xiaolang."

"It's the same name as your father." The witch turned over with a smile, lying on the chair with her hands on her chin, and said naughty, "and didn't say 'real name'."

"Also, the little wolf seems to have taught you...a lot of things."

In this way, he still commented on his name in front of him like this.Little Wolf was a little surprised by the amount of information she had, and felt that this person's behavior was a bit out of the education he had received since he was a child. But then again, although she was so unrestrained, she had a special style, so it wasn't too annoying to watch.

"You know my dad?"

"Your mother... I also know Sakura, but we haven't met before."

"Let's get down to business," she returned to the reclining chair posture, which was a little more formal, and she took another puff from her pipe and said, "This is a wish-fulfilling store. Entering this store means...you have a wish."

"So, what is your wish?"

Unexpectedly, the boy directly denied it.

"I have no wish," said the boy firmly. "Besides, if I had a wish, I would make it myself."

"But, you are here."

Faced with such a fact, the boy couldn't tell why, and the things his father entrusted to him were too vague, and he didn't know what his father's wishes were.

So, I have to be honest.

"It's my dad..."

"He asked you to come to this store." The witch seemed to know something, "Have you asked why?"

"It's... because my mother had a dream, and she said...someone is waiting for me."

"So, did you come here without knowing anything, Jiulou Kingdom?" the ninja couldn't help asking.

"Hmm...it's silly. At that time," the young man smiled wryly, "I thought that as long as I worked hard, I could achieve anything."

"Isn't that the case now?"

"Pfft," the young man was amused, "...that's true."

In the huge clean field, there are layers of rock platforms on the left and right, and there are long and short water columns hanging on the silver thread, which have not moved a bit, and even the small water splashes playfully splashed when entering the water are the same as in those days, only the boys grow into teenagers , The smile reflected in the pool also lost a little bit of childhood innocence, and added a lot of fateful sighs and compromises.

Accidentally, the young man recalled, and the spiritual spring flowed again.

He said that when he saw her for the first time, she was standing in the middle of the pool.

Standing in front of the pool praying and fasting, the little princess was wearing a cloak, and her green eyes looked at him as an unexpected visitor. A few drops of water hung from her light brown hair, which made her eyes more translucent like emeralds soaked in water. nice.

"who are you?"

The girl asked him timidly, but she didn't feel flustered. It would be more appropriate to say she was curious.

"I'm……"

Before he could finish speaking, the girl standing in the pool staggered and rushed forward. He hurried over to help her up, but she refused aloud.

"I'm sorry," the girl looked up from the pool, "but you can't touch me."

The seven-day fasting period is neither long nor short, and it may sound a little rigid, but a teenager who grew up in a traditional Hong Kong family and followed his father to practice martial arts since childhood is quite familiar with fasting and bathing, so it is not surprising.The two little people hit it off right away, and they simply sat side by side by the fasting pool and whispered to each other.

"Aren't you wearing the clothes of Jiulou Kingdom? Are you from another country?"

"I'm from another world."

The boy hesitated, he was telling the truth, but he didn't know if she could believe it.

"Other...world..."

"That's right," he replied, "it's a different world from here. I came here from a country called 'Japan'."

"Japan……"

The girl tilted her head to digest the excessive information, but she believed the boy's words in an instant.

"You are not surprised."

"Because I've heard it, from the priest, that is, from my mother..."

The girl's reaction was unexpected. When she mentioned her mother, she clasped her hands in front of her chest, and her expression became more gentle.

"Mother said that there is more than one world."

"...my mother told me that too."

Hearing the same words from people of the same age, the boy was very surprised, and the girl also sighed:

"It's unbelievable. Japan and Jiulou Kingdom are obviously different worlds, but we can talk like this."

"That kind of thing happened by chance..."

When the word came out by chance, he suddenly thought of a sentence his parents often said, which somehow seemed to correspond to the scene in front of him.

——There is no chance in this world, only necessity.

He told her so.

"It must be..."

the girl smiled,

"Then the reason why I know you is also inevitable?"

"It must be..."

This sentence that Miss Witch often talks about was actually uttered from the mouth of a seven-year-old child at that time. After everything they have experienced, and thinking about the sufferings that do not belong to their age, these words inexplicably carry a bit of fate-like sadness, which is extremely embarrassing.

Furthermore, we originally only knew that Xiaolang Xiaoying was a childhood sweetheart and grew up together, but who would have thought that Xiaolang would cross the dimension from the very beginning to come to Jiulou Kingdom, and the reason for this is just a dream of his mother ?

The dream does have the ability to predict the future, but it is not so much inevitable to follow the instructions in the dream... We looked at the little wolf, and he probably saw our doubts, and explained in a low voice:

"When I was young, I didn't understand the meaning of that sentence, but I often heard it from my parents, so I blurted it out at that time; but in fact, even the world I live in is different. If it wasn't for my mother's dream, if it wasn't for my parents' insistence on me Go, how could we meet..."

He smiled wryly,

"However, if it is not inevitable, then it is too coincidental."

"what?"

"Her name, appearance, and even habits..." The boy showed nostalgia, "It's all exactly the same as the mother in memory."

By the huge clean pool, there are two little people sitting side by side.

The moment he heard the girl's name, Xiaolang was stunned for a moment, and then an inexplicable sense of familiarity surged along with the name.

"You have the same name as my mother..."

"what?"

The boy didn't answer.

He came here following his mother's prophetic dream, and saw a girl who resembled his mother; in a foreign country, but he could hear the same language as his own... Suddenly, a strange feeling of fate arose in the boy's heart, and he didn't know what to do. How to describe this feeling, I just feel that I and the girl in front of me have only just met, but it seems that we have known each other for a long time.

The fate-like familiarity made the boy happy and surprised. He didn't know what it meant, but he thought that the person waiting for him in his mother's mouth might be her in front of him.

"Isn't it fasting now?"

A female voice interrupted his thoughts, and he stood up quickly, but he didn't expect the girl next to him to be more panicked than him.

"Mother!"

Empress?The boy who grew up in modern Hong Kong couldn't react. He turned his head curiously, and what he saw was an elegant and dignified woman in Chinese clothes.She was wearing a robe and cloak similar to that of a girl, holding a long staff in her hand, and her long dark gray curly hair poured down like a waterfall. No matter how you looked at it, she was extremely beautiful.

But that wasn't what froze the boy.

——That face was clearly exactly the same as that of his grandmother whom he had never met.

The woman known as the queen mother didn't care about the boy's gaze. After paying tribute to him, she turned her head and teased her daughter:

"Princess Sakura seems very happy."

She could barely pretend to be a lady in front of outsiders, but in front of her mother, Princess Ying still couldn't escape the danger of breaking the law, and she became incoherent in a moment of embarrassment.

"No, no, I'm sorry... But, but I kept my non-contact agreement... It's true! Although, I fell in the water... But... But..."

At this time, Xiaolang is not deeply involved in the world. Faced with such a huge change before and after this Princess Sakura, he suddenly felt that he was a little out of step; on the other hand, the queen who beat her daughter back to her original form with a single sentence, still laughed. Overwhelm the country and the city.

"I know, it's okay."

She comforted her daughter, and Princess Sakura realized that she had just lost her composure in front of outsiders, blushing so much that she almost wanted to jump into the pool without saying a word.

The queen finally didn't expose her anymore, and finally turned around to face the boy, her eyes were as bright as autumn water.

"Welcome to Nine Towers, a guest from another world."

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