Forces of Temptation

5 minutes ago.

Li Yinhang finally found Nanjixing.

More precisely, it was the one who found Li Yinhang first.

In the vast grassland, Li Yinhang suddenly felt a weight on the top of her feet, and when she lowered her head, she saw Nan Jixing squatting on her feet, with her front paws grabbing her trouser legs, and her tail slapping her shoe uppers, acting coquettishly.

Li Yinhang's heart softened for a moment, and when he was about to bend down to hug him, he suddenly heard a cold criticism from above: "Squeamish."

After finding Nanjixing, she found Shao Mingzhe again.

The tree was not low, and the canopy blocked most of the moonlight. Only his pair of three white eyes looked sharper and shinier in the condescending height, like some kind of spirit living in the forest.

In normal times, Li Yinhang would have laughed, turned around and left.

People say that wine is strong and cowardly, and the little alcohol in this fruit wine barely made her courage rise.

Not only did she not leave, she even called him, "Hey."

Shao Mingzhe ignored her.

Li Yinhang hugged the tree and shook it, trying to attract the attention of the aloof Shao Mingzhe.

Shao Mingzhe, who was already looking elsewhere in a daze, looked down at her in surprise.

She asked Shao Mingzhe: "Aren't you coming to eat barbecue? I'll save some for you."

Shao Mingzhe turned his head away and answered silently.

"Don't answer any questions." Li Yinhang muttered, "You are also very delicate."

Shao Mingzhe: "...???"

Now that they all spoke, Li Yinhang simply asked all the questions he was curious about.

"Do you have any plans in the future, just follow us?"

"But you can't stay with us for a long time. We're all in the team, and we're about to start a dungeon. Where are you going?"

"Where do you come from?"

"Who the hell are you?"

It seemed that Shao Mingzhe didn't intend to answer any of her questions, and turned his face away again.

Li Yinhang asked all the doubts in his heart in one breath, anyway, he didn't expect to be able to pour out any content from this stuffy gourd, and he felt a lot more refreshed after his mouth addiction.

She touched the bark, patted it lightly, and made a concluding statement: "...you are really strange."

After finishing speaking, she grabbed the Nanjixing who was grabbing her pant leg to climb up to her shoulder, and planned to leave.

Speaking of which, Nanjixing has become more and more lazy recently, even skipping the jumping process, and just lay down there, waiting for someone to hug.

When did this situation start?

It seems that it has been so lazy since the dungeon of [Evil Falling].

Li Yinhang still remembers the first time he saw it on the bus, how it was vigorously grabbing apples with Nan Zhou, and comparing it to the soft and floppy mouse cake now, it was unavoidable to find it funny.

She teased its beard with her fingertips, but it didn't respond too much, it just fell asleep and didn't care about anything else.

Shao Mingzhe, who was behind her, touched the tip of Sisi's nose, looked at Li Yinhang's back, and felt a slight wave in his heart.

He whispered: "I..."

Of course Li Yinhang was willing to listen to him, and turned to look at him, waiting for his next words.

Shao Mingzhe tightened his fingers holding the tree trunk.

When the eyes were lowered a little, the fierce light in his three white eyes also faded a lot.

"I don't answer you because I really don't know."

"But it should be, just a little bit, I can remember."

"...just a little bit."

He didn't know why he had to explain these things to Li Yinhang.

It's like he didn't know, obviously he hates lies and deceit the most, but he couldn't help but find the "Cubic Ark" that lied to him the first time they met.

Li Yinhang felt novelty: "You don't remember your past either?"

... Nanzhou is like this, and so is Shao Mingzhe.

Amnesia may really be the standard feature of protagonists throughout the ages. She is a small supporting role, and I am afraid that she will not be able to understand this peculiar trouble in this life.

Just when Shao Mingzhe was about to answer, the clump of branches behind him suddenly shook.

This shaking is very common, and a negligible wind is enough to cause such a sound.

However, just at this moment, Shao Mingzhe suddenly turned around and turned into a squatting position, like a hunting tiger or leopard, and rushed straight to the depths of the forest!

It's just that his speed is slightly inferior after all.

A bullet with a clear purpose pierced through the forest and struck leaves, and came straight to Li Yinhang's heart!

When the bullet was about to sink into Li Yinhang's body, sharp gunshots exploded from tens of meters away.

Shao Mingzhe was stunned.

He just sensed the attacker's existence first, and subconsciously rushed towards the attacker's position.

He never expected that the opponent would have a long-range weapon in his hand.

But he chose the wrong side, and if he wanted to turn around to rescue him, it was already too late!

Fortunately, Li Yinhang spared his life, and "Li Ark" also spared her life.

She carried almost all the active and passive armor of the "Cube Ark".

When she hadn't realized that the danger of death was approaching, an umbrella-shaped wave of light had automatically bloomed from her tail ring, and the light enveloped the lasing bullet, softening its kinetic energy as much as possible. Phagocytosis.

hum-

The bullet that was suddenly intercepted rubbed against the wave shield and made a sharp sound.

In the end, the shield light swallowed the castration of the bullet.

And the ring shield with only one level of durability left disintegrated instantly.

Fang Jie shattered into several pieces of metal, which fell in front of her toes one after another.

After confirming that Li Yinhang was not in danger for the time being, Shao Mingzhe continued to rush towards the forest, like a beast, he threw down viciously the man who was about to shoot him with a gun.

Before the man could react, Shao Mingzhe silently and calmly supported the gun stock with one hand, and smashed his jaw with lightning speed. The gun belt strangled his neck neatly, jumped behind him, wrapped around him, and instantly strangled his larynx and windpipe.

However, before he could catch his breath, another gunshot came from another direction.

Two people were ambushed in different directions in the woods!

Shao Mingzhe's scalp tightened.

They obviously wanted to put Li Yinhang to death!

But she was not stupid, the moment the ring shattered, she jumped under the tree with a stride, made a cover with the thick trunk, and resolutely did not move a bit.

The gun only chipped off a section of bark from the tree where Li Yinhang was hiding.

The flying sawdust hit her in the face and cut a little blood from her neck.

Li Yinhang forced himself to control the rhythm of his breathing, turned his brain, and tried his best to think about his retreat.

She came from an open field, and now she was running towards Nanzhou and the others. The other party had a gun in his hand, and if she ran out by herself, she was like a living target.

Waiting in place, maybe there is still salvation.

However, when she heard the sound of approaching footsteps, her heart seemed to be injected with a large amount of lead, and she fell straight down heavily!

An ambush was carried out in the dense forest, and there were leaves to block the eyes, so they had to shorten the ambush distance as much as possible.

Although this will increase their own risk of being discovered, if the long-distance attack fails, they can still choose to fight in close combat!

When Li Yinhang was still frantically looking for available props in the inventory, a silver light suddenly came to her.

She dodged low, barely dodged the blade, and rolled all over the wet soil.

Although she has a strategy to deal with the enemy and knows that "running" should be the top priority strategy, her physical strength and reaction ability are only at the usual level.

When she regained her footing and was about to run wildly, a ray of cold light fell straight to her head!

Nan Jixing, who was drowsy on her shoulders, only had time to wedge her clothes tightly with thin claws during the extreme bumps, so as not to fall off.

When its vision finally returned to clear and normal, the murderous intent had already come to Li Yinhang's back.

In Nanjixing's eyes, the falling trajectory of the long knife was clearly reflected.

Nanjixing's fighting instinct was immediately awakened, and his head became bigger in an instant like an inflated balloon.

It opened its mouth wide and bit the person who came by fiercely!

Before the sharp blade landed on Li Yinhang's back, it landed on the ground together with the man's arm with a clang.

Li Yinhang's shoulder lightened, and the disappearing sound of pursuit and the sound of painful cries behind her also made her feel a little lucky that the crisis was over.

She stopped her pace and looked back, but saw the scene that made her heart stop beating——

A strange man was clutching his broken arm, rolling all over the floor in pain.

And Nan Jixing, who had returned to normal size, had a small body lying on the fresh mud, with only slight ups and downs as he breathed.

It tried to get up, but fell back into the soil.

Its claws twitched nervously, like a toy about to run out of batteries.

"South……"

"... Pole Star?"

……

When everyone arrived, Li Yinhang was holding a sharp stone in his hand and smashing it at the man with the broken arm.

Her snow-white cheeks and the side of her neck were stained with splattered blood, and her expression was a little dazed, but her hands were not soft at all, and they were extremely sharp.

It wasn't until Yuan Mingqing ran close that he recognized that the man whose head had been smashed into half was one of a group of high-dimensional people.

It seems that these two people were instructed by their superiors to carry out this hunt with the last hope. They wanted to launch a surprise attack on the "Cubic Ark" on the eve of this failure, even if they could take away one person.

Unfortunately, they failed again.

The spirit of Gaowei people is still hiding in this body, trying to make a last-ditch effort.

Helpless, his body was smashed into mud, and it has completely lost its use value.

After suffering several painful blows, he hurriedly escaped from this body and quit the game.

Nanzhou grabbed Li Yinhang's arm: "Yinhang, it's done."

Li Yinhang wiped the blood with his elbow, his hands were a little soft, but he could barely move.

Supporting herself with her arms, she climbed down from the corpse and said softly, "Look at the Antarctic Star."

She didn't know what happened to Nanjixing.

She just instinctively felt that Nanjixing was not good.

It was lying on its side on the ground, its limbs were moving slightly, and it wanted to get up, but it was still unable to move an inch, as if the last bit of energy had been exhausted.

Nanzhou walked up to it,

Nan Jixing panted and glanced at him.

It was a deep, serious look.

Nan Zhou had seen such gazes before.

It was during the chasing battle of thousands of people, Yi Shuige suggested that Nanjixing make their heads bigger and let them hide in Nanjixing's mouth, so that they could be taken away from the "paper gold" and out of the encirclement of the players.

At that time, Nanjixing stared at them with a melancholy look.

But in the end, it agreed to the proposal.

At that time, Nan Zhou didn't understand the meaning of this gaze.

Now, he understands.

What happened to South Pole.

There is a limit to the number of times it can use its own abilities.

Now, that limit has been reached.

Nan Zhou felt that there was a gentle soul lurking in Nan Jixing's body.

It is saying goodbye to itself with its eyes.

Nanzhou didn't understand why such a farewell came.

He called it by its name with some confusion: "Nanji Star."

On the day this little flying squirrel appeared in Neverland, Nan Zhou regarded it as his friend.

It grabs apples with itself, it enlarges its head to play with itself, it loves sweets as much as itself, and it likes to doze off.

Even after Nan Zhou lost his memory, it appeared on the same bus as him.

Nan Zhou believed that it should be by his side for the rest of his life as a matter of course, it was tied to a corner of his soul, and it was one with him.

In front of the wishing pool, Nanjixing got the easter egg [Goddess of Luck's Gold Coin], which is said to have the effect of luck bonus.

Nanzhou used the "bonus" on Nanjixing.

Therefore, at that time, Nanzhou's complete wish was to bring the Antarctic star and become a human together.

But now, his South Pole Star was lying on the ground, his eyes gradually closed into a line.

Nanzhou also called it: "Nanji Star."

At the beginning, he brought Nanjixing to the library in Neverland, and wanted to give him a name.

Nanjixing reluctantly patted the page with its little paw, and it was photographed on South/Pole/Star.

Antarctica is the planet closest to the South Celestial Pole.

It was a star that had fallen to him from heaven.

Nan Zhou reached out and tried to touch Nan Jixing's body.

However, the moment Nanzhou touched it, in the woods of its birthplace, "Homeland Island", the body of the little Antarctic star turned into a floating Xingdian without warning.

The star sand moved with the wind, but all of them entered Shao Mingzhe's body who walked out of the forest.

Shao Mingzhe staggered and knelt down on one knee in front of everyone.

The earhooks of his mask had been torn off during the struggle, and the pure golden slender beard and face lines were changing and flowing under the moonlight.

Nan Zhou was stunned for a while, as if he had a feeling.

He stood up and walked towards Shao Mingzhe who was kneeling on the ground, his shoulders slowly rising and falling with irregular breathing.

He cupped his face, took off his hat, and held his chin, lifted his face.

Shao Mingzhe didn't resist, he was very obedient, and let Nan Zhou move on him.

A head of clear blond hair, because it was hidden under the hat, was pressed out of the curly arc.

The handsome black-skinned boy was squatting like an animal, half of his eyes were full of the afterglow of the moonlight, and half of his eyes were filled with the Nanzhou boat.

He said softly, "Nanzhou, I found you."

Nan Zhou was a little uncertain, and called him softly: "...Nanji Star?"

Shao Mingzhe put his chin on Nan Zhou's palm, nodded shyly, and hummed.

Then he turned his head and looked at Li Yinhang who was in a daze.

He pursed his mouth slightly, as if he remembered what he said about the coquettish Nanjixing's "delicacy" just now.

He shrank back, left Nan Zhou's palm, walked to Li Yinhang's side, and wiped away the blood on her face and the tears that had just condensed on her eyelashes.

"I... am back." His tone was a bit awkward, and he comforted softly, "Li Yinhang, don't cry."

Li Yinhang looked at Shao Mingzhe who was a head taller than him, and opened his mouth.

"Antarctica?"

"Ah."

"...Shao Mingzhe?"

"……Um."

Jiang Fang's expression moved slightly.

He finally understood where the subtle sense of disobedience that always existed when he saw Nanjixing again came from.

In his impression, Nanjixing is a small boss of the instance after all.

It is greedy, sweet, but also awkward, stubborn, bad-tempered, with superior force value, and wants to knock people's heads like melon seeds at every turn.

But when meeting it again, "Nanjixing" only has the coquettish and greedy side of character left.

The Shao Mingzhe they met in "Xie Jiang" completely occupied the other half's personality, with a high degree of alertness, coldness, awkwardness, first-class mobility and force.

To be precise, Shao Mingzhe did not lose his memory.

Because whether it's the "Nanjixing" who met them on the bus, or Shao Mingzhe who met in "Xie Jiang", they are only half of each other.