When the job was robbed...

"who is it?"

The moment Qiao Ting's finger touched the light spot, a cold and deep voice sounded.

Qiao Ting shrank his neck in shock from the sound, and took a step back involuntarily.

As the light spots continued to flicker, the surrounding light spots slowly disappeared, leaving only the black one in front of me, and then the black light spot gradually became larger, like a mist, and finally formed a human figure, wearing a long black cloak and a hood, He couldn't see his face clearly, only his slightly pale chin and blue lips could be seen.

Qiao Ting stared blankly at this person, and for some reason a chill came from the bottom of his heart, and a power invisible to the naked eye unfolded silently. Qiao Ting's knees softened and he collapsed on the ground involuntarily. The expression was firmly fixed on fear and timidity, and at the same time, he tried to open his eyes wide, trying to make them more sour, and trying to brew tears.

Crystal drops of water swirled in his eye sockets, and he murmured, "I'm sorry..."

The man in black seemed to be stunned, he never expected that there would be an elf visiting him.

His spots are so dark that even his acquaintances try not to come to him, let alone an elf.

As if sensing Qiao Ting's fear, the man in black withdrew his outward aura, his voice was slightly stiff, "You...what's the matter?"

Qiao Ting blinked, remembering that Manya had said that the elves were absolutely protected by the mother tree, and he became a little more courageous.

"I found that your spots are different from others, so..."

The elf's soft voice seemed to melt the remaining part of the man in black's heart, and the man in black said flatly, "Child, remember, curiosity is the greatest sin of depravity."

With a flash in Qiao Ting's eyes, he reached out and tentatively grabbed the man in black's cloak, and then found that the black mist in his hand had turned into nothingness, and there was nothing there.

"But curiosity is the driving force behind progress." He said earnestly, "It's like the iris bee can only know whether it can pick the moonlight grass that lasts its life after it has passed through the Pinghai sand."

The man in black was stunned. Iris wasp is a short-lived wasp in Xisha, mainland China. Only moonlight grass can turn a bee into a bird, fly in the sea of ​​sand, and no longer be afraid of any wind and sand.

The man in black was silent. The elf in front of him was not very old, but he was completely different from ordinary elves.

He slowly took off the hood, revealing a face as pale as paper. He has long bright golden hair, but his eyes are as dark as abysses.

"Sorry, I'm being arbitrary." He looked at Qiao Ting seriously, "My name is Qiao Lai."

Qiao Ting was taken aback, this name...

The grandfather who once adopted him was surnamed Qiao and his name was Qiao, who took the form of mugwort, implying that life is like grass, which survives fire.

The old man Qiao Yuan picked up Qiao Ting by a small river, and named him Ting. At this moment, Qiao Ting came to this brand new world and met the first stranger, and then he told him that his name was Qiao Lai.

Although the implication is definitely different, the similar pronunciation still makes him feel close.

"I..." Although the little elf only had an official name at the coming-of-age ceremony, and even Manya and Rika call him baby or child now, but for him, he is still in the place where he lived with the old man. Qiao Ting in the streets and alleys, in the waste bricks of the grass shed.

"Qiao Ting!" He said seriously with firmness and purity shining in his golden eyes, "My name is Qiao Ting."

After a pause, he showed a bright smile, "Nice to meet you! Joe Lai~"

After getting acquainted with Qiao Lai, Qiao Ting's life became richer.

Just like what he had guessed in his mind when he first met Jolay, Jolay was very different from ordinary elves. Elves generally would not leave the endless forest, but Jolay was familiar with everything in the human world. After the thinking ability is not inferior to that of an adult elf, he likes to treat Qiaoting as a mental trash can when he has nothing to do.

Through Qiao Lai, Qiao Ding learned a lot about the mainland.

"I have never understood how human beings exist so that they can have two completely different virtues of light and darkness at the same time." Jolie sat quietly in front of Qiao Ting, expressionless, "but recently I discovered that using It is a great mistake to generalize human beings by the two virtues of light and darkness."

Qiao Ting sat beside Qiao Lai with his knees hugged. He tilted his head and asked curiously, "What happened recently?"

"I met a girl a long time ago. She was betrayed and raped, and she fell to the dust from the top. I sympathized with her very much at that time." Qiao Lai ignored whether Qiao Ting could understand, and said to herself, "Later The girl's personality has undergone a huge change, and before I knew it, she had become a completely different person, and I didn't even recognize her."

"As a result, she suddenly sent someone to look for me the day before yesterday, hoping that I could help her."

Jordin was very qualified as a listener, and he immediately continued, "And then?"

Qiao Lai was silent for a while, her voice was a little dry, "I agree."

"and then?"

Qiao Lai looked at Qiao Ting quietly, wanting to say something, but facing those pure golden eyes, he couldn't open his mouth.

After a while, he said, "I don't want to talk about it."

Qiao Ting keenly noticed the flash of guilt in Qiao Lai's eyes, and suddenly he understood something.

He smiled and said, "Joe Lai, you are such a gentle and kind elf!"

Qiao Lai was taken aback, and he said coldly, "I have killed many people."

Qiao Ting shook his head again and again, his eyes were clear and bright, "But you don't want to tell me, that's why you say you are very gentle!"

Qiao Lai looked deeply at Qiao Ting. He stretched out his hand and touched the elf's soft blond hair tentatively. Feeling the warmth under his palm, his frozen heart slowly began to melt.

He said, "As long as you are not afraid, I will tell you."

Qiao Ting showed a big smile and nodded heavily.

Jolie continued the topic just now, "I helped the girl to assassinate a man yesterday, and that man had raped the girl."

"But I failed."

Qiao Ting frowned, "Are you okay?"

"Well, after I told the girl, she told me that she knew that my chances of success were slim, but her goal had already been achieved." There was a hint of sadness in Qiao Lai's eyes, "Just now, I received a message, girl Made an alliance with that man."

When Qiao Ting heard this, he grabbed Qiao Lai's cold hand, "If possible, stay away from that girl."

Qiao Lai shook her head, "She has saved me three times, and I promised to help her."

Qiao Ting disagreed, "She's dangerous."

"I just don't understand." Qiao Lai looked up, his eyes slightly blank, "The girl obviously hates him very much, but why..."

"So you are an elf, and she is a human!"

Even if an elf falls into hell, his heart still longs for heaven; but even if a human stands in heaven, his heart still hides hell.

"You seem to know humans very well."

Qiao Ting shrugged, he never concealed his abnormality in front of Jo Lai, just as Jo Lai never concealed his own problems, so facing Jo Lai's rhetorical question, he said bluntly, "Well, I think it's very learn."

Jolie was silent.

Day by day, Qiao Ting was either reading a book at home, or sneaked to the mother tree to find Jo Lai. During the period, the elder who came back from the dwarves had discovered Qiao Ting's actions, but after discovering that Qiao Ting was not lost in the mother tree Afterwards, the white-bearded old elf turned a blind eye to Qiao Ting and ignored him.

In the final analysis, elves have a strong tolerance for elves.

Even Qiao Lai once said that if it was a strange adult elf who touched his mark that day, maybe he would greet him with a black thorn.

After getting along for a long time, Qiao Ting knew that Qiao Lai was an expelled elf. The attributes of the white elves were basically light, a small part belonged to nature, and a smaller part belonged to spirit. Qiao Lai's attribute was light, but However, due to his own reasons, he studied the dark system, which caused the two diametrically opposed forces in his body to collide frequently. Even if his strength is not weak, he still faces the crisis of death at any time.

"Then why do you want to study the dark department?"

"...Because I have a goal that I have to achieve." Qiao Lai looked at Qiao Ting quietly, "If the light is powerless, then I would rather turn to the god of death."

Qiao Ting looked at Qiao Lai seriously, "Even if you will have nothing?"

Jolie twitched the corner of her mouth, "I have nothing left."

Qiao Ting smiled, and he took Qiao Lai's hand, "Life is a process of constant loss and gain, you don't have nothing now."

His eyes sparkled, "You have my friendship and trust."

Qiao Lai looked at Qiao Ting fixedly, and sighed, "I'm terrible."

"The smell of blood on your body is very strong." Qiao Ting nodded, "Does it have anything to do with me?"

"Well, it's okay." Jolie said happily, "So you'll be fine."

He will not die because of him, will not reprimand him for what he did, will not block his footsteps, will not deny his thoughts, and will not leak his affairs.

Qiao Lai looked at Qiao Ting, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and although he was a little stiff, he still smiled.

Thinking back seriously, he hadn't laughed for 20 years.