Byron's Blade

"Lin Zhao, why don't you come and see if the old woman is dead? She doesn't seem to be moving." Zooey squatted next to the dilapidated sofa, with a finished lollipop in her mouth, and stretched out her finger to poke her. He poked the cardinal Sasha lying on the sofa, and said vaguely.

Lin Zhao glanced at her, didn't bother to answer, and wiped his throwing knife alone.

"She will wake up when she should wake up, so don't provoke her." Lin Zhao didn't reply, and it was Joan who answered instead of her. At this moment, she looked up from her laptop and gave Zooey a disdainful look.

"Also, this old woman's ear is really miserable, tsk tsk tsk, it's bloody, and no one came to bandage it." Zooey said.

"You are so kind, why don't you come?" Lin Zhao finally spoke, and added by the way, "If you really want to bandage her, you can spend money to buy medicine, and don't waste my wound medicine."

"Hey~! Let me tell you, you are so cute, why are you so stingy?" Zooey turned around and said.

"Does it have anything to do with whether I'm cute or not?" Lin Zhao glared at her.

"The relationship is very important. A beautiful and lovely person is perfect if he has a kind heart. If you are perfect, I will fall in love with you." Zoe said stickily.

"Thank you, don't fall in love with me." Lin Zhao replied sharply.

"I don't even love you if you beg me. There are so many sisters and sisters in Qianshi Street waiting for me. I don't have the time to love a piece of ice. I can't even cover it with heat."

A gust of cold wind blew past her ears, and the flying knife was fixed on a pillar not far behind her, trembling, Lin Zhao stretched his neck, and said:

"My hands are slippery, don't say anything to make my hands slipperier."

"Hey, come on, it's okay if I don't say it." Zooey smiled casually, not paying attention at all, with a playful expression on her pretty face.

Joan Bush, who watched the whole process, shook her head behind the computer screen. She had long been used to such a scene, and continued to bury her head in the computer, not knowing what she was busy with.

After a while, Zooey asked again:

"Where did Aiyang Aixue go? I fell asleep and they were gone."

"They have returned to the General's Mansion to return to their orders, and they will not go with us." Joan replied.

"Oh, what about the boss?"

"It looks like I was talking to Miss Lanny in the study." Joan replied again.

"Miss Lanny! Oh, how beautiful, if only I could..."

"I'm going, Zoe, you've eaten the guts of a bear, Miss Lani, how dare you covet her? What kind of identity is she, are you afraid of being torn to pieces by the teacher? Besides, she is so infatuated with Mu Li." Qiong sneered.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it is said that the taste of the best beauties is not good, I think it is true. Tell me, what is there to like about a piece of wood? It is not romantic at all, and I still think it is hypocritical all day long. See how good I am Ah, infatuation and romance, 365 days of constant love talk, making surprises every day. This is called love~love~love!"

"Go away, as a woman, are you worthy of your gender? Lustful guy." Joan scolded with a smile.

"What is lasciviousness? I call it beauty. Everyone has the heart to love beauty."

"Hey, if the teacher hadn't taught you to read and write, you still don't know a single character, and you still drag the text with me?" Joan despised.

At this point in the chat, Lin Zhao stood up suddenly and walked to the corridor outside the living room.

"Where are you going?" Zoe asked.

"You guys are so noisy, I'm going to prepare dinner." After she finished speaking, she left without looking back.

"Hey, you're talking about this guy. Besides her knife and food, what else is left in her mind?" Zooey shook her head.

"It's better than you, she's full of lust."

"I said Jobs, do you want to fight?"

"I won't fight with you, Guaili girl. Also, don't call me Jobs!" Joan said angrily.

At this time, Qiu Zheng finally came out of the study with Lan Ni. Joan and Zoe immediately stood up, straddled them, and said solemnly:

"Boss, Miss Lanny."

Qiu Zheng glanced at them and said lightly:

"Let's leave here before noon tomorrow at the latest. Before that, you keep an eye on the news. In addition, Joan, you should pay attention to the cameras around here to see if anyone has found us here. Be sure not to make mistakes before retreating. "

"Yes!" The two replied in unison.

Lan Ni smiled and said, "Don't be so rigid, just do whatever you want."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and walked towards the corridor leading to Mu Li's bedroom.

Zooey winked at Joan, as if to say: Look, Miss Lanney is just being nice to me.Joan looked at her with disgust on her face: she was being passionate.

Lanny disappeared into the corridor. Qiu Zheng took out a cigarette case from his pocket, took out one, sat on the sofa, lit it, and smoked slowly. Zooey asked:

"Boss, what does Miss Lanny mean? Do you want to go with us?"

"That's what she meant." Chou Zheng exhaled a puff of smoke and said.

"Huh? Then... General Friesman agrees?" Joan asked with some concern.

Qiu Zheng shook her head, not knowing whether she was saying "don't know" or "disagree".

"Will there be any trouble?" Zooey suddenly became serious and asked.

"It's okay. General Friesman should have a certain degree of control over Miss Lani's movements. Now that she knows that she took us to rob the prison without authorization, he should also be able to imagine what Miss Lani will do next. Since he didn't send anyone to stop him, Maybe it's a default." Qiu Zheng analyzed.

"Really? That's great!" Zooey was serious for only three seconds, and immediately smiled.

However, Qiu Zheng glared at her, and she immediately stopped talking, squatting aside and continuing to poke Cardinal Sasha, as if to say: "I'm a good baby, you didn't hear anything."

"Pfft..." Joan couldn't help laughing, and immediately buried her head in the computer, pretending that she was busy.

There was a moment of silence in the living room.

After a while, Qiu Zheng suddenly said:

"Another task for you is to wake up that cardinal and ask who she is working for. After asking, clean it up, and clean it up before we leave. Don't leave your tail." Chou Zheng stood up, bent over He put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then turned and walked outside:

"I'm going out for a while, and I'll be back before dinner."

"okay!"

With Zoe's cheerful answer, she picked up her baseball cap and put it on, opened the door of the gray building, and walked out.

***

When Lan Ni walked into Mu Li's bedroom, she was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling silently.Seeing Lan Ni coming in, she sat up with support. Lan Ni stepped forward, arranged the pillow for her, and let her lean on the head of the bed.

"How is it, are you feeling better?"

"It's okay, it's not like you don't know about my body." Mu Li squeezed out a smile and said.

Lanny smiled, but didn't say anything directly on this topic, and instead said:

"We'll leave Gaia by noon tomorrow."

Mu Li didn't answer for a while, and after a moment of silence, he replied:

"Where to go?"

"Go to the city of adventurers." Lan Ni replied, she glanced at the dinner plate on the bedside table, and Mu Li had already eaten all the food in it.Then her eyes fell on Rui Qiao's diary again. When she was helping Mu Li change her clothes, she found that this diary had been hidden in the clothes in her abdomen, and the corners of the diary were still stuck. He fired a bullet, which was regarded as blocking a shot for Mu Li.Now that the bullet has been removed and the angle of the diary has changed, it is obvious that Mu Li flipped through it again.

"Is it your father's arrangement?" Mu Li asked suddenly.

"Yes, it was his arrangement. They... are all father's people, but they are not directly under the leadership of father." Lan Ni said truthfully.

Mu Li knew that the "they" in her mouth referred to the group of four outside.She just flipped through the next few diaries, and Rui Qiao mentioned that she went to a western restaurant for dinner that day: [When discussing things with Alita at noon today, due to my negligence, I forgot to lock the door, and Ali almost noticed it .Fortunately, Alita reacted quickly and asked us to pretend to be a couple and mess up our clothes, so we could get away with it.After that, I followed Alita's instructions and guided Ali to the western restaurant.There were four lurkers there, all posing as waiters, but I only saw two of them today.I don't know where they came from, maybe Mary and Dora know better, after all, they have had direct contact with the people there.I heard that it was an armed group sent by a non-staff organization, not directly under Mr. Mo's subordinates, but they were also helping Mr. Mo.They lurk here because of Mu Li's affairs. 】

Mu Li's throat twitched, and he said hesitantly, "Major...I...have something to tell you."

"Tell me, I'll listen." Lan Ni seemed to have noticed what Mu Li hadn't said yet, and she still had a smile on her face.

"Before that, I want to ask, what are your plans for the future?"

"I want to take you away." Lanny said lightly.

"Take me...to the City of Adventurers?"

"Correct."

Mu Li closed his eyes, lowered his head, and said with difficulty:

"Go back."

"Where are you going?" Lanny asked softly as she looked at her with blue eyes and her smile remained unchanged.

Mu Li's voice was a little trembling, and he said, "Go home, you don't have to do this step."

"It's not up to you," Lanny replied.

"Major..." Mu Li spoke again, but was immediately interrupted by Lan Ni.

"I don't have a home, let alone a home. Are you trying to drive me away? Or are you just so eager to throw me away after I've gone to such lengths to get you out of that goddam prison , Mu Li, how cruel do you have to be to me to be satisfied?" Lan Ni's voice gradually trembled.

Mu Li tightly gripped the bed sheet, gritted his teeth and said:

"If you think I'm ungrateful, that's fine. I... don't want to explain too much, City of Adventurers, I won't go, I won't go with them."

"You are still so stupid..." Lan Ni murmured, "Where do you think you can go without me? How much do you think you can find out with your status as nothing now? A Li , There is really not much time, and there is not so much leisure for you to waste, so that you can make a comeback step by step. I don’t know what you want to do. A short compromise will not kill you. No matter how sorry my father is, at least he has provided you with the best resources. If you don’t use it, it’s hard to say when you will achieve your desired goal.”

"It's not that I haven't thought about these things. Of course I know that continuing to follow your father's arrangement is the fastest shortcut. But Major, I don't know if there will be another Rui Qiao who will die in the future, is there another Mary Dora will come to deceive me. It is enough for me to experience this once, and I don’t want to experience it again. Your father is terrible, and I hate what he did. I dare not think what else he will do. "Mu Li frowned and said slowly.

"Are you afraid that I will lie to you? Are you afraid that I will die?" Lanny asked suddenly.

Mu Li smiled wryly, but didn't answer.

"Ali, I can tell you everything I know. Except for one secret, even if I tell you this secret now, it doesn't make any sense. Maybe you will understand it yourself in the future. I, Lanni, never break my promise and say If you pass it, it will be fulfilled. Are you still willing to believe me?"

Mu Li raised his head and looked at Lan Ni with his dark eyes. Lan Ni's beautiful face was very quiet, inexplicably reassuring.Even though she is as cunning as a fox, to Mu Li, perhaps she is the most sincere and trustworthy person in the world.

Lanny suddenly lowered her head and smiled, saying:

"Ali, do you want to hear the story of my childhood? Maybe you will understand what kind of relationship I have with my father. You will understand that all I did was not a sacrifice or betrayal, and there is no Any pain or entanglement, I am just being myself. When I was 12 years old, I made a vow: I will live for myself from now on. This vow is finally fulfilled today.”

Lan Ni leaned against Mu Li, leaning her head on her uninjured right shoulder:

"If you feel a little guilty towards me, please don't push me away. You are for your goal and I am for my oath. We use each other like this and know each other well. Isn't it good? "

With trembling hands, Mu Li slowly stroked Lan Ni's face, bowed his head and said:

"You...don't be so nice to me..."

"Pfft, I've made it clear that I want to use you, yet you still say I'm nice to you? Are you stupid?"

"If I was really stupid, I probably wouldn't be sitting here talking to you now." Mu Li whispered.

"Men Lisao, you know it in your heart, what are you going to do with those words, it hurts my heart, it's just terribly weak."

"Do you think I really want to say it? I can't breathe when I say that. I'm just afraid that you will suffer a lot. I'm afraid that I can't take care of you well."

"You take care of me? It's good if you don't let me bother to take care of you. Dead wood, you are trying to anger me, right?"

"..."

"Don't you have anything to express?" Lanny looked up at her.

Mu Li didn't speak, but lowered his head to bite her lips.Lan Ni's eyes widened at first, then the corners of her eyes and lips curved beautifully, she stretched her arms around Mu Li's neck, deepening the kiss.

Soft, hot emotions flowed between the lips and tongue. At that moment, it seemed that all the flowers that had been suppressed for a cold winter bloomed together, and the hearts of the two were filled to the brim, sore.Mu Li twisted his neck, chasing Lan Ni's lips in an awkward posture, reluctant to let go.Lan Ni couldn't help tightening her arms, rubbing her short hair, while accepting her loving kiss, smiling more and more alluringly, even kneeling on Mu Li's body, holding her face.It wasn't until Mu Li suddenly couldn't stand the painful "hiss..." that she realized that Mu Li's wound was involved.

"Where is the injury, are you okay?" She asked worriedly.

Mu Li smiled and shook his head, endured the pain and stretched out his arms to wrap around her waist, leaning his face against her heart, and sighed slowly.

"I know I'm stupid compared to you, so I'll listen to you from now on, just don't sell me out." Mu Li said softly.

Lan Ni laughed again, touched her bare head and said, "I'm not willing to sell my stupid wood, even if I want to sell it, no one will want it."

Mu Li: "..."

"Seeing that you are still a wounded person, let's put this matter aside later. Do you still want to listen to what happened when I was a child?"

"Speak, I'll listen." After finishing speaking, Mu Li realized that Lan Ni seemed to have said this not long ago.

After all, she can't escape from her palm, this irritating goblin, that's all, she's already stuck in the mud anyway, it's better to have a good relationship, there's nothing to regret.

Yes, there is nothing to regret. After decades, Muli still has the same original intention.