Welcome to Nightmare Game III

On Christmas Day, the temperature was a terrifying minus 45 degrees.

People in Qi Le are not afraid of the cold, so they deliberately put on a thick cloak so as not to attract too much attention.At the site of his winter baptism, he watched the disciples of the Priory digging the glaciers.

The glacial swimming lane is hundreds of meters long. Standing at the starting point and looking forward, there is a huge ice cross standing at the end, standing majestically under the aurora in the polar night, like a lighthouse at the end of the world.

From the perspective of a designer, Qi Le people think that this design is very religious. He can fully imagine a believer who has worked so hard to complete the winter baptism. What a shock it will be.

Piety +100, full directly.

Lance also came to watch the ceremony and reported the good news to the Qi Le people: "Ning Zhou passed the last round of the secret test."

Qi Leren smiled gratifiedly: "That's great."

"Let's go, the field is going to be cleared near the starting point, let's wait for him at the cross at the end point." Lance said.

The Qi Le people looked back, and saw monks from the Priory order cleaning the field from a distance, and the contestants who participated in the winter baptism were coming here.

He saw Ning Zhou in the crowd at a glance, and couldn't help smiling and waving at him.

Ning Zhou must have seen him too, but the customs of the Holy See prevented him from waving in response, but nodded to Qi Leren from a distance.

Qi Leren walked away in peace.At the end of the cross, he and Lance chatted about being baptized in winter.

"I heard that when the Holy See was still in the holy city, winter baptism was a public event?" he asked.

"Yeah, the climate in the holy city is warm, so winter swimming is nothing. Look at the temperature today. If you take off your pants and jump into the glacier, it will really kill you." Lance said with a grim look on his face. He rubbed his arms together, as if he would not take it off.

This can't help but make Qi Le people worried. He originally thought that being baptized in winter was just a piece of cake for Ning Zhou, but now he saw the players who were picked up by the monks one after another in the glacier because of cramps and drowning. He started to worry again.

"My body can't take it," Lance said in a low voice.

"It's not just the body, but what's more important is faith and will. If there is no obsession in the heart, people can't go beyond their own limits." Qi Leren looked at the distant starting point, and Ning Zhou took off the clothes wrapped around his body. The blanket reveals the young man's slender and flexible body, which looks like a sculpture in the ice and snow.

The cold wind was bitter, and he walked along the ice-carved steps into the long river of ice and snow.

Qi Leren held his breath and nervously searched for his figure in the water, but he didn't know that the same was true for Ning Zhou in the water.

It was too cold, and after being extremely cold, the water felt warm, because every time I surfaced to take a breath, it was like being tortured in an extremely cold hell.Every breath of air was as cold and sharp as a knife blade. He felt himself freezing again and again as he took a breath, and shaking the frost and snow off his skin again and again in the water.

One by one, his companions lost the desire to struggle in the extreme cold, allowing the cold to sink them.

But he still longed for the moment when he surfaced, his eyes looked through the frosted eyelashes to the expectant figure under the cross at the end.

At that moment, the gentle love melted in his heart like a surging hot spring, and it seemed that there was some hidden power in the depths of his heart that was awakening little by little.

He must go to him.

With this belief, he endured the pain of his flesh and blood being frozen and paralyzed by the cold, and swam towards the finish line with all his strength.

Every time he takes a breath, he sees that the person he loves is getting closer to him, and he can gradually see his appearance and the worry in his eyes, so he has to go to his side more desperately, as if kneeling As if piously repenting under the Lord's cross, he held the hem of his clothes with his frozen hands.

Taking his last breath, he had come to the finish line, surfacing exhausted.

The extreme cold covered his naked skin with a thin layer of frost and snow, and his hair and eyelashes were covered with white frost, making this blue-eyed boy look like an elf in the snow, holy and beautiful.

He raised his head and looked at Qi Le people devoutly, with supreme joy in his heart.

He completed his winter baptism. In this test of piety, he didn't think about the Lord he should believe in. What he thought about was the one he loved.

He smiled, and tears of joy fell from the corners of his eyes, freezing into ice with the glaciers and sweat.

At this moment he made a decision - he would carry this sinful love on his back forever.

………………

Qi Leren quickly took off his cloak and wrapped it around Ning Zhou: "Is it cold?"

"It's okay." 16-year-old Ning Zhou's voice was hoarse.He lowered his eyes, and between the eyelashes covered with frost and snow, he could vaguely see his pair of deep blue eyes, filled with countless emotions.

Qi Leren felt that something was wrong with Ning Zhou, but he couldn't tell.Not far away, monks from the Priory came towards them, congratulating Ning Zhou on becoming a member of them.

"Go to the tent over there to change clothes, and drink some hot tea to drive away the cold, otherwise you will easily get sick. After being baptized every winter, a large number of players get seriously ill." The monk reminded.

"En." Ning Zhou responded, and turned to look at Qi Leren, "Wait for me here, we will go home together later."

Qi Leren was taken aback, and asked strangely: "Can you go home today?"

Ning Zhou nodded: "Today is my birthday, I want to go home."

Qi Leren smiled: "That's great, so I don't need to bring a birthday gift to the monastery to find you." He was mentally prepared to climb the tower and sneak in to find Ning Zhou—by the way, he went to the top of the tower to find you. A meeting that was not agreed but destined.

Ning Zhou left.

Qi Le's cloak wrapped around him, only reaching his calves.He walked barefoot on the snow, his powerful ankles were as white as frost and snow, but what he left was the unwavering footprints of an ascetic.

In the dark sky, the aurora is like the tide of the sea, and the green light shines on the vast white ice field, which is both desolate and beautiful.

Ning Zhou under the aurora is getting farther and farther away. His back, which is between the boy and the youth, already has the outline of the future, which is enough to bear the heavy choice.

He spent a painful and confused adolescence, only this time, he was no longer alone.

………………

Qi Leren never expected that Ning Zhou would be sick.

At first he braced himself and pretended he was fine, but when he was blowing out the birthday candles he couldn't stop coughing and his face was unnaturally red.

Qi Leren felt that something was wrong, and touched his forehead: Good guy, he is almost ready to fry penguin eggs!

He immediately drove Ning Zhou to the bed, and the moment he almost touched the pillow, Ning Zhou fell asleep exhausted.

Qi Leren tried to use the source of rebirth to help him recover, but unexpectedly found that the source of rebirth was completely swallowed when it passed through Ning Zhou's heart, and the source of destruction was about to move, trying to break free from the seal.The power of the demon is eroding his body, making him feverish.

Qi Leren's expression was dignified. He knew that Ning Zhou at this age had a third of the crystallization of the Demon King of Destruction sealed in his heart, but the seal should be very strong now. Why would the source of destruction overflow?Is it the injury from fighting the devil in the tavern not long ago?

Is it necessary to condense half of the domain as soon as possible so that Ning Zhou can suppress the seal in his heart?

But Qi Le people really don't want to see Ning Zhou wasted on the wrong path.

"Hey..." Qi Leren sighed, put an ice cube on Ning Zhou's forehead, and asked softly, "Should I tell you the truth? If you had to choose, how would you choose?"

On the table not far away, the candles on the birthday cake were almost burned out, and Qi Le people blew out the candles.

Snowflakes were flying outside the window, and in the falling snow, the people of Qi Le saw the signal - a bubble that flew by lightly, it was ups and downs in the wind, fluttering without a trace, and finally landed gently on the window of the dormitory forward.

The tower of the Priory called him secretly, and it was time to meet that secret.

Qi Leren took out the birthday gift he had prepared and put it under Ning Zhou's pillow.

"Although the painting is not as good as yours, it's still passable." Qi Leren defended himself in a low voice.

He has the basics of sketching, but he didn't put his heart into it before.In order to draw this painting, he secretly "cheated" and took out the photo taken with Ning Zhou in Twilight Township, and drew it against each other, and only then did he draw a decent painting.I also named the painting "To Us in the Future" to explain why they in the painting look more mature than they are now.

"Finally spent a birthday with you, but unfortunately you are sick, what a disaster." Qi Leren bent down and kissed Ning Zhou on the cheek.

"But no matter what... happy 16th birthday, my dear Ning Zhou. I hope that every day in the future, you will be happier than before."

Qi Leren was about to pull away to leave, but when he turned around, he was caught by the corner of his clothes.

He shuddered and turned around abruptly.

Ning Zhou closed his eyes, his cheeks were flushed, and he said in a daze, "Don't go...don't leave me."

Even when he was burning faintly, his soul had a premonition of the pain of parting, and tried to keep him.

Qi Leren couldn't move forward, his heart was throbbing slightly, and he also wanted to be by Ning Zhou's side, never to be separated for a moment.

In the next second, he was shocked by Ning Zhou's dreamlike words.

Ning Zhou, who was dizzy and unconscious from the fever, murmured the words that he shouldn't and would never say——

"I like you."

Qi Leren held his breath, unable to believe what he heard.

"So you know it yourself." He murmured, "But this time, we didn't have a gender misunderstanding, and I didn't chase after you to confess my love. So why, you still 'knowingly commit crimes'?"

He returned to the memory of Ning Zhou when he was a teenager, and he took the friendship route, but he still triggered the emotional line.They will always meet, always attract each other, and finally achieve each other.

Ning Zhou, who was ill, couldn't give him an answer.

In the depths of his chaotic consciousness, only whispers from the soul echoed:

"I love you."

The author has something to say:

The battle of the third part will be over soon, and the second half will start, rubbing hands

Next chapter Intermission, there is a big surprise~

The plot of the third week will be different from the first two weeks. It will not be called [Noah’s Ark] (this dungeon is so damn long) but it will be called [Prime Ancient Mystery]. Just by looking at the name, it’s time to start talking about the world view.

And your PTSD is coming!

Believe in Le Mei, he is already a person who can match wits with Su He.