[Comprehensive] How to kill a rabid dog gently

It's hard to say who was the first to notice Cheng walking in, Bai Lan or Reborn.

They were talking at that time, and the grand piano beside them not only concealed their figures, but also provided a barrier that was better than nothing for the content of their conversation... However, in such a place where people come and go, if they deliberately avoid, It is indeed difficult to draw attention to what is happening in this corner.

The moment Cheng appeared, the two stopped talking at the same time. Although it was only for a short time, they both found where the other's eyes fell.

"...What about your reply, Bai Lan. Mr. Jesso?"

What can be confirmed is that the one who looks away first is Reborn.He brought the topic back and observed Bai Lan's expression without any trace.

"Very happy."

Bai Lan smiled.

"However, can you really give me this level of trust...Cheng is one of the candidates for the future consultant outside the door, and just handed her over to me with unknown origin..."

"It's not for you." Reborn resolutely said, "It's just using you to divert her attention, please don't get me wrong."

"It's harsh."

Even so, Bai Lan didn't mean to argue with him, but lightly changed the subject.

"In short, from my point of view, this matter is naturally more than welcome..."

Speaking of this, his eyes suddenly fixed on a certain point, and even interrupted the conversation with Reborn, who knew the reason for his change of attitude... Or rather, it was Reborn who facilitated it, and he hooked under the brim of his hat. He hooked the corner of his mouth.

"Mr. Reborn, you did it on purpose."

Bai Lan said in a delicate tone.

"Hold me, let me lose the opportunity and so on."

Reborn didn't answer, he also looked over, at this time the blond boy in the distance had already walked in front of Cheng, although they couldn't hear the two talking, but the nervous and shy expression on his face could be clearly seen.

After Cheng nodded, Dino showed a bright smile, and then he took the girl's hand.

"Ah... what a pity."

Bai Lan sighed.

"In this way, her first dance on the dance floor was performed by someone else-even if it was your student, Mr. Reborn, don't you think it is necessary to show sincerity to your collaborators?"

"I was just ordered by the Nine Generations Chiefs to convey to you a request to provide Cheng with a temporary shelter." Reborn said cunningly, "In the matter of inviting the ladies you like to dance, you must always be as respectful as you are in the world." Vigilance on the battlefield is what it is.”

"Are you justifying yourself, Mr. Killer?"

"It doesn't matter what you think..."

He watched Dino and Cheng walk into the light and smiled.

"If I wasn't Alcobaleno, I wouldn't give up the chance to that kind of immature brat."

"Although I didn't ask until now...but Dino, can you dance?"

There was a hint of teasing in her voice, and the tips of Dino's ears turned red a little bit, but it wasn't just because of the embarrassment of being teased a little.

"I will." He tried to look confident and determined. "I practiced with Romario many times."

And in order not to mess things up, Romario also came to the scene today, there must be no problems!

Dino glanced at Romario, who was hiding in the crowd, quietly showing a cheering gesture to himself, and thought so.

"Then, fortunately, I didn't miss your invitation tonight."

As she spoke, the melody entered a new bar, and here they took their first dance steps.

Cheng put a hand on Dino's shoulder, and she suddenly realized that Dino seemed to be a little taller than she imagined.

She looked up at Dino, and Dino was watching her.

"I'm sorry, Dino, I have to leave here first." She said with a little guilt, "I always feel like I broke the agreement between us..."

Hearing her apology, Dino's eyes flickered slightly.

"Cheng, I really didn't hide it from you. Although I never told you...but I did think so."

he said in a low voice.

"I thought it would be nice if you and I could stay forever in a place where we didn't have to face the dark side of the world—we stayed together so the outside voices didn't have to reach here."

"Dino..."

"This is really a ridiculously naive idea, isn't it?" Dino said softly, "But no matter how reborn laughs at my whims, I still feel... having such a dream represents that I am doing so much for many people. People wait with tenderness."

"My father, Romario, my family, even reborn...and you, Cheng."

"So far, thank you."

His voice is full of attachment, but if you look into his eyes, you can see the sky gradually brightening at dawn, a searing light.

"I won't run away any more."

"Although I still feel regretful and reluctant... because after this dance is over, we will all graduate from here."

But this time, I won't say goodbye to your back.

Dino.Gabrielo thought.

"Dino?" Cheng's eyes sparkled slightly, "Have you decided to inherit the Gabrione family?"

He nodded.

"Yes." Dino said, "If I don't take this step, I think I will regret it."

So, goodbye, Cheng.

Even if we go in different directions, I will run as hard as I can. It must be easier for us to meet by doing so than staying in the same place.

Until then, can I look you in the eyes and tell you...

I did it.

After conveying what he had to say, Reborn left, while Bai Lan, who stayed where she was, glanced at the graceful figure on the dance floor with regret.

Before it's over, do something to pass the time.

So, with such thoughts in mind, Bai Lan sat down in front of the piano.

Bai Lan, who can make full use of the benefits of space travel and maximize its functions, naturally has a learning ability that surpasses everyone else. The knowledge and skills he has mastered are surprisingly rich, and musical instrument performance is only included in it. It's just a small area.

Although he didn't spend too much energy on it, he can also be called an excellent performer in comparison.

Therefore, he didn't pay too much attention to it. When he put his hands on the keys, Bai Lan was even absent-minded.

Prynne.

He suddenly heard someone's voice calling him.

Subconsciously, he thought it was Cheng, but when Bai Lan raised his head, the girl was clearly far away, she hadn't noticed him here yet, and even if she called him, he couldn't hear her voice.

……who is it?

Bai Lan unconsciously pressed his fingers hard, and the moment the first note flowed from his fingertips, the sense of déjà vu hit him like lightning, and the memory flashback once again brought him into the strange and familiar space before the reenactment of the universe.

It was only by chance that they came into this room.

It was the carnival that day, and the floats were surrounded by parades moving forward in the city. When the crowd almost separated the two of them again, Bai Lan half-hugged her with his left arm without hesitation, and left the crowd from the narrow alley. .

Cheng found a small museum there.

Calling it a museum would be an understatement - like many shops or restaurants during Carnival, it's lavishly decked out, with brightly colored feathers and tassels and masks of all kinds adorning the walls. Dazzling, I can't tell the original theme of the museum, let alone a small masquerade ball being held inside.

"It looks like a musical instrument museum."

Bai Lan took down the lute from the wall, and played it skillfully in his bosom a few times, and then the beautiful and unique string sounded.

"lute air?"

Cheng asked.

"Yes, that's the song."

Bai Lan turned her face and nodded.

He hung up the lute and walked away, turning his gaze to the bagpipes beside him.

Bai Lan couldn't help being surprised when the sound of the piano sounded again behind her.

He turned his head, Cheng raised his face and smiled at him, the music continued to the next section naturally in her hands, she stopped after the end of this section, nostalgic and softly stroked the sound hole carved with roses, Just put it down carefully.

"I learned to play the lute in Venice."

Bai Lan's eyes lingered on the wooden lute that had already climbed up with thin cracks, and then he looked at her.

"It's not Venice here, though."

His expression seemed to be a bit lonely, but the gentle and deep affection like Huanyu still shone in his eyes.

"'And where did you learn it?'—Cheng, I really want to ask you that."

Cheng slowly blinked his eyes.

"Do you want to know?"

He thought for a moment, then shrugged helplessly and smiled slightly.

"It's hard for me to say 'no', but whatever the answer, it's too late."

He said.

"I often wonder if you, like me, have walked a similar road and seen similar scenery... But soon, I realized that this is just my wishful thinking."

"Cheng, how vast is time and space."

His voice sounded like a sigh.

"The probability that two travelers will step on the same trajectory is infinitely close to zero, and in the absolute vastness, even a meeting point caused by chance is nothing but a fantasy and extravagant wish..."

Without any intimacy, Bai Lan stretched out his hand and lightly touched her cheek, and the moment his skin touched, he withdrew his hand, as if just to confirm her existence.

"If there is really someone who controls destiny, if it makes us meet like this, then it may indeed be a very generous existence... But what if I still resent its stinginess?"

Bai Lan said.

"Because of this stinginess, I didn't meet you until now."

Cheng has been watching him quietly, and after hearing this sentence, a smile rippled in her eyes.

"Bai Lan, there are some things that we can't realize when we see each other for the first time."

Cheng said, looking at the people dancing beside him.

She looked at the masks one by one, seeing the golden or scarlet patterns, black or dark blue and dark green oil paints, outlining countless faces that were similar but different.

Those colorful lights and shadows were reflected in her eyes, just like being reflected in the waves of the Venice River.

"Can any two people meeting each other be called meeting?" she said, "I don't think so."

"More often, people pass by each other and leave as soon as they are touched. This kind of meeting is like a bubble, and it has quietly passed away before it is realized..."

"Bryn."

Cheng called his name.

"When we meet each other at a certain moment, we still need a lot of time to carefully touch each other's souls. After gradually seeing the outline of each other, we will suddenly realize..."

Cheng said softly.

"It turned out that this is 'encounter'."

she told him.

"The reason why we met was not arranged by anyone, but because I am me...and you are you." Cheng whispered, "So, no one treats us meanly."

Bai Lan looked at her, his eyes flickered slightly, he forgot to cover it with a smile, and he never showed calmness and coldness - he didn't look like the usual him, and probably also different from the self he was used to, he also guessed himself It might look so shaken now that he might as well look away... if it wasn't for him suddenly becoming so difficult to do.

"……It is my fault."

Bai Lan said, turning his back, but when he turned around, he held her hand.

He pulled her through masked people until he came to an old piano that no one cared about.

The piano chair is a little narrow, but if two people are next to each other, it can just accommodate them.

Bai Lan asked her softly.

"What do you want to hear?" He looked at the enthusiastic crowd and couldn't help laughing, "If it wasn't in such an atmosphere, I think I would play a serenade."

Cheng didn't answer until she also put her hands on the keys.

"Why not?"

she says.

Bai Lan's fingertips moved slightly, and he accidentally pressed the wrong key, and a slightly abrupt note woke him up from the past.

He broke away from his memory and found that the piano was still in front of him, but he was the only one in front of the piano.

But it didn't last long, and even before the loneliness set in, another person's voice reached his ears.

"Bryn."

He raised his head, Cheng Zheng looked at him.

"Mr. Reborn told me you were here."

She tilted her head slightly.

"Want to dance?"

Her smile quietly overlapped with the memory, which made Bai Lan briefly fall into an unreal trance.

"Blanc?"

Cheng called out again.

This time, Bai Lan seemed to really wake up.

As if waking up from a dream, he held Cheng Cheng's hand.

"it is good."

The last note has stopped for a long time, and they still haven't opened their mouths to break the silence.

Can this really be described as tranquil?In the room that was used as a dance hall, there were clearly many people laughing.

But if you want to say that this place is noisy...at least between the two people whose shoulders are touching, there is only silence flowing.

"Probably because we mentioned a little bit of the past... I just remembered a lot of things."

Cheng said softly.

"Bai Lan, I am not as free as you—if you are a traveler, then I am just a wanderer who migrates with the wind."

"So, when my will can't decide where the next scenery is, I can only use it to think about other things."

"Fortunately, although I had so much confusion in my heart, as I traveled more and more places, most of them gradually had their own answers."

— "But only one."

Cheng said.

"There is only one problem. The farther I go, the more people and things I see, the more I feel lost..."

"what is that?"

he asks.

"……it's me'."

Cheng laughed lightly.

"I started to lose track of who 'I' was."

"Can you understand, Prynne?"

"A human being is like a seed at the beginning of life. It takes root and sprouts in the soil. While growing upwards, the roots are also continuously going deep into the ground, transporting nutrients to the above-ground parts, flowering, and bearing fruit. The last fruit is the become the person himself."

"My seed can't do such a thing... No matter how hard it grows towards the sun, the roots can't hold the soil, so even if it blooms like everyone else, there will never be any flowers. fruit."

"In that case, who am I?"

She said wistfully.

"The appearance will change, the body will rot, and the bond will fade. I can't really leave anything to others, and I can't really take anything away... Even the name is just the last futile persistence."

She looked at Bai Lan, the hopelessness in her eyes was peaceful, like cherry petals silently withering in the middle of the night.

"How much time is left, can I still be 'Cheng'?"

Bai Lan heard her asking herself this way.

"You don't need to be 'Cheng'."

So he said.

"I will call you 'Cheng' just because you told me it was your name."

"I can't easily judge what kind of self you are looking for, but if you ask me who you are..."

He held her face in his hands and looked at her tenderly.

"When we first met, you invited me to go with you in the rainy night. When you sat by the window in the coffee shop, your side face looked beautiful. Your fingers once handed me candy and touched me as a gift. flower."

"When I think of your name, your image will immediately appear in my mind. At this moment, there will be only you there, and there will never be anyone else."

"What if I leave here?" Her smile didn't fade, only her voice was dyed with imperceptible fragility, "I will always leave. After I leave here, there may never be such a rainy night again. It may become completely different from now, and by that time, can the shadow in your heart still be called 'me'?"

"Cheng..."

When Bai Lan was about to answer, she suddenly felt a strong sense of unease, and Cheng seemed to realize something, she opened her eyes wide, but in a very short time, her astonishment turned into a bitter smile on her face.

"it's a pity."

she says.

Bai Lan's power spread out in an instant in a violent manner, forming a control field centered on himself and Cheng with an astonishing range. He immediately grasped all the information in the field, including the position and movement of the sniper who was aiming at this place. .

After his ability has crossed a certain scale, he has not been troubled by this level of assassination for a long time, but at this moment there is another powerful force that brings him heavy suppression... that is not someone The power of one person will never make him feel so hard to breathe.

Bai Lan immediately understood that this was the repulsive force from the space itself.

It is preventing itself from interfering with what is going to happen.

The time it took to make a decision was almost negligible, and Bai Lan immediately released all the flames. Even in the situation where most of the abilities were suppressed, the blazing glare still brought a sense of terror and oppression like a hurricane, instantly shattering The glass caused the first round of commotion and panic, and half a second later, even the house began to rattle and groan overwhelmed.

None of these things existed in Bai Lan's heart. His chest was filled with turbulent emotions. He resisted overwhelming resistance and tried his best to extend the roaring end of the flame towards the sniper. It can also crush the opponent into dust, but at the same time, he also deeply understands that this is not a battle between him and a tiny human being.

Fighting him is the will of time and space.

—He is making an enemy of the world.

Bai Lan strengthened the output again, Huo Yan began to overdraw his vitality, he tasted the taste of rust from his mouth, his eyes were as bright as the source of flames, this time Bai Lan finally broke through the blockade of space, he The flames of the sky drove straight in, but just before being engulfed by the flames, the sniper pulled the trigger.

The bullet flew out from the muzzle of the gun, and Huoyan immediately twisted into a giant dragon looking back to chase, and opened its jaws to swallow the bullet. The metal bullet that had become the power of cause and effect could not be blocked, it penetrated through the tail of the fire dragon, The target is not Bai Lan, who is its enemy.

What happened afterwards only happened in a split second, but each frame was shown in Bai Lan's eyes, like a slow silent film.

It was her voice that broke the silence.

"Looks like this is the end."

Time begins to flow again.

The bullet passed through her chest, spattering blood.

Bai Lan closed his eyes forcefully, and when he opened them again, the flames dyed his eyes golden, and the light flickered, like deep mourning, and like transparent tears.

What about being an enemy of the world?

"Won't let it end."

As his voice fell, a pair of huge white wings spread out from behind Bailan.

The pure white feathers gently embraced Cheng who had closed his eyes, Bai Lan flapped his wings, and the flames tore apart the space.

The Dakong Mare Ring far away in the main world responded to his call, and the endless power of space was injected into Bailan's soul. Under its guidance, Bailan finally broke away from the shackles of this time and space and returned to the void.

There, the concept of time and space was lost, but even so, he did not stop at all. Bai Lan found his destination in the world line that hung down like countless hanging threads and turned into nothingness at the end. , and then let himself fall down.

Bai Lan opened his eyes in the original world, the sense of chaos in the jumping space pushed his mind, but what he had to do was still very clear.Bai Lan stretched his wings again, and what appeared with his wings was a cocoon made of feathers.

He stretched out his arms, and the woman surrounded by feathers gently fell into his arms.

At this time, Bai Lan's return has already alarmed Liu Diaohua.

Kikyo, who has the highest authority, arrived first, followed by Lily of the Valley.

"Master Bailan...!"

"Linglan, come here."

Bai Lan said that his expression was very calm, but the power was still raging around him.

If she hadn't keenly sensed the command meaning in this sentence, it would be very difficult for Ling Lan to say whether she would dare to approach Bai Lan like this.

She flinched for a moment, summoned up the courage to walk in front of him, and then she saw the person in Bai Lan's arms clearly.

"Who is she?" Ling Lan asked, "Is she going to..."

"Use rain-attribute flames to minimize her life activities." Bai Lan interrupted him calmly, "Kankyo, call the medical department."

Kikyo nodded, and quickly carried out his instructions without asking any more questions. Lily of the Valley seemed to want to ask something, but when Bai Lan turned to leave, she didn't follow at this moment.

When Cheng woke up, it was almost twenty hours later.

Bai Lan watched her open her eyes.

He watched her eyes turn from confusion to surprise, and finally when he saw himself, other complex emotions melted like spring rain, turning into a light smile with traces of being slightly wet.

She raised her hand, as if she wanted to touch his face, Bai Lan held her fingertips and brought it close to her cheek.

"Tell me, when you leave, will you still be a shadow in my heart?"

He said, lowering his voice.

"Cheng...why do you think you can't stay, and you can't take anything away?"

He took her hand and placed it on his chest.

"You left your mark here, and you took a part of me."

"The things you take away will make me chase you all the time, and the things you leave behind... will make me find you in the crowd again and again."

Bai Lan felt a little strength from her fingertips, he looked at Cheng and saw her lips move slightly.

She seemed to be saying something.

Bai Lan leaned closer and finally heard her angry voice.

"What a pity," she said, "we don't seem to have time to dance there yet."

"It's true... there are some regrets."

Bai Lan laughed and lightly kissed the corner of her eyes.

"However, Cheng, from now on..."

"You won't be alone anymore."

Bai Lan stopped suddenly.

Cheng, who noticed this, turned to look at him.

"what happened?"

"Remember when we first met?"

He said.

"The you at that time made me feel very familiar... To say that I am familiar, it is better to say that when I saw you, I seemed to hear the voice of fate."

"Is that so?" Cheng smiled, "So, what did fate say to you at that time?"

Bai Lan stared at her deeply.

Cheng, did the me in the past fulfill my promise?

And have you traveled a long way before arriving here?

Even though there were still many voices in his heart, Bai Lan still raised the corners of her mouth to her in front of her.

"It said, I'll dance with you."

He said briskly.

——"And I thought, what it said must be now."