[Grave Raiders Notes bg] Lost Notes 2: Heavy Fate

Nan Xing was sitting in the water pavilion at the moment, shivering tirelessly in front of the only heat source on the stone table.

After the unicorn blood failed, she was even more chilly than before, and she had clearly felt a rapid decline in her physical condition.

She needs to take the Qilin bloodstone as soon as possible, but before that, she still needs to solve the problem of moving out of Tinglan Garden, so she has to let the Zhang family know the fact that her Qilin blood has failed before taking the Qilin bloodstone.

Just as he was thinking, he heard familiar footsteps.

Zhang Qiling came back, still holding a set of robes in his hand.

"You should be able to wear it." Zhang Qiling handed the robe to Nan Xing.

Nan Xing took it and put it on, and it was just right, the buttons were all buttoned up easily.

"Brother, were you waiting for me here before? How long have you been waiting?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head, "I just arrived."

"Should I sigh that it's too coincidental at this time?"

"I know you're here." Zhang Qiling looked at Nan Xing, who had a puzzled look on his face, so he added: "The mechanisms at the entrances on both sides are linked. After yours is opened, mine can be opened."

Nan Xing understood, indeed, such a design has a relatively high safety factor.If this secret passage is to be guaranteed not to be discovered by other members of the Zhang family, then the opening mechanism should be arranged in Tinglan Garden where only candidates for the patriarch's wife can live.Tingtao Garden's entrance can only be hidden enough if there is no trigger method left.

"Are the closing mechanisms of the two entrances also linked?" Nan Xing asked.

Zhang Qiling nodded.

Nan Xing was thoughtful, "I'll wait for you to go back then and then go back."

Zhang Qiling didn't answer. After a brief silence, he calmly said, "The candidate for the next patriarch has been announced."

Nan Xing was shocked by this news, opened his eyes wide and looked at Zhang Qiling, and after a long while, he slowly said "ah?"

"Zhang Haicheng." Zhang Qiling seemed to have anticipated Nan Xing's reaction, and continued to tell the ghost story.

Nan Xing said "Huh?" louder.

Sure enough, she saved her grandparents, changed the future, and the candidate for the next patriarch associated with it also changed.

It's not my brother this time.

Does it mean that in the years to come, he will not have to bear that responsibility?

"Do you still want to move out of Tinglan Garden?" Zhang Qiling then asked.

Hearing this, Nan Xing looked up at him, and looked into those extremely familiar quiet eyes.

Zhang Qiling has been meticulous about everything he should do since he was a child, and he is impeccable.But for those irrelevant things around me, I am not curious, let alone ask.

Even with regard to Nan Xing's matter, he grasped the boundaries just right.

Like today, it is very rare to take the initiative to ask her about her personal plans.

So Nan Xing was stunned for a while before replying: "I want to, of course I want to."

The patriarch is not you anymore, I would be a fool if I lived in Tinglanyuan again.

"This is the medicine I told you about last time." Zhang Qiling said, taking out a medicine bottle and putting it on the stone table, "After Zhang Haicheng returns from the wild, he will succeed the patriarch. Before that, the Zhang family will conduct another blood test on your unicorn blood." A purity test."

Of course Nan Xing remembered this medicine. Zhang Qiling improved the poison she had taken before, so that she would not be poisoned after taking it, but a more serious poisoning reaction would appear, causing the illusion that the purity of Qilin blood was reduced.

However, there was no need to reduce the purity of her unicorn blood, it had already expired, and the medicine was no longer needed.

Nan Xing still put away the medicine and said, "Then I'll take it when I go back."

"Based on Zhang's behavior, if you come out of Tinglan Garden, you may be assigned to your natal family. Have you thought about it?"

Nanxing nodded.

After a while, he asked Zhang Qiling tentatively: "If I go out, will you come to me?"

"As long as there is a chance." Zhang Qiling replied.

The Zhang family's family rules are very strict, especially the main family. If they are not adults, there is very little chance of being able to go out independently.Zhang Qiling's answer like this was already a solemn promise to Nan Xing.

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you."

The candle on the stone table was almost burnt out, Nan Xing picked up a new candle next to it and connected it, while telling Zhang Qiling what he found this time when he went to Mengding Mountain.

What we can know so far is that the Mengdingshan tomb is inextricably linked to the Zhang family, and more information should be revealed only after going deep into the main tomb.

This can only be explored in the future when the two of them find an opportunity to go out and go to the ground.

After talking about everything, it was already night when he came out of the waterside pavilion.

The reason why it was determined to be night was because a transparent area made of crystal was left on the dome of this underground space, and through the ripples of the lake, the full moon hanging in the sky could be seen.

The moonlight was refracted by the lake water into sparkling waves, softly sprinkled on this underground space, and also illuminated the two handsome faces with their own characteristics.

"Fortunately, the full moon is still with you this time." Nan Xing looked at the full moon and said slowly.

"No. 11 times." Zhang Qiling replied in a very soft voice.

Nan Xing turned to look at Zhang Qiling.

He has become more and more like Zhilan Yushu in his previous life, and the bright moonlight pouring on him makes his aura more clear and meaningful, as if he has stepped out of a bland ink painting.

She really couldn't bear to go back like this.

"Brother, this time we parted, the next time we meet may be months or even years later. So, before I leave, I want to hug you, is that okay?"

Zhang Qiling was slightly taken aback, then turned to look back at Nan Xing, as if he was a little surprised by Nan Xing's request.

He hadn't been this intimate with anyone since he could remember.

However, lack of experience does not mean that he does not understand the meaning of hugs.

There was silence between the two.

A few minutes passed, and the entire underground space was so silent that only breathing could be heard. The undercurrent of the lake above the head, suddenly near and far away, came through the crystal dome with vague sounds.

Nan Xing waited in place and did not move for a long time.The sparkling light reflects her clear and three-dimensional eyebrows after shedding childishness, with the unique beauty of a girl, under the gentle ripples in her eyes, Zhang Qiling's figure is reflected.

"If you don't speak, I'll take it as your promise."

She hugged herself to him, closed her eyes, and whispered softly in his ear: "Remember to come to me."

"En." Zhang Qiling's voice came close to his ears, as if it was very close and yet far away, like an autumn breeze blowing past his ears.

Just this one word, but it seems to have some kind of magic power, which makes every second of embracing each other very, very long.

It would be great if time could stop at this moment.

No need to pay attention to the crisis of the Zhang family's collapse, no need to face the danger of Qilin blood failure, no need to take the Qilin blood stone, no soul-loss disease, no need to forget him.

There was a violent throbbing pain in the heart, and Nan Xing's arms hugging Zhang Qiling's back subconsciously tightened.

This is the body's ultimatum to her, the time has come.

Nan Xing took a deep breath, loosened his arms, looked at Zhang Qiling, and smiled, "I'm going back to take the medicine, you go first, I'll close the entrance after you go back."

Vision began to blur, Nan Xing couldn't see Zhang Qiling's expression at the moment, and couldn't see if he was also reluctant.

She could only see his figure staying in front of her for a long time before walking back towards the secret passage.

After that, Nan Xing almost relied on the instinct of the body to complete it mechanically.

After closing the entrance to the secret passage, Nan Xing found the unicorn blood stone medicine from her bag and hid it in her clothes so that she could take it immediately after the Zhang family finished testing her unicorn blood concentration.

Her body has almost reached its limit.

I had no choice but to lie down on the bed, reducing body consumption as much as possible.

The Zhang family came faster than she imagined.

There was another person who surprised her.

Zhang Haicheng.

His whole body was wrapped in gauze, and he seemed to have suffered a serious injury.

"Zhang Nanxing, you have seriously violated the family rules by hiding the failure of your unicorn blood. Move out of Tinglan Garden immediately." After the Zhang family next to him pronounced the verdict in a cold voice, they took Nan Xing, who had no power to resist, away from Tinglan Garden .

It was only later that Nan Xing found out that Zhang Haicheng was seriously injured after being released from the wild, and could no longer serve as the next patriarch.When he came back, he was alone, covered in blood, with a blood-clotted package in his hand.When the package fell to the ground, half of an arm fell out of it—it was Zhang Haiqing.

He believed that Nan Xing knew the situation in the tomb of Mengding Mountain in advance, and deliberately took medicine to pretend that his unicorn blood was invalid, prompting him and Zhang Haiqing to give up her and enter the black giant gate.

As far as he knew, the effect of the medicine that caused the false qilin blood to fail could last as long as a month, so the first thing he did when he came back was to report that Nanxing's qilin blood had failed, and he couldn't turn Nanxing over if he wanted to.

The Zhang family discovered that the selected candidate for the patriarch's wife suddenly failed in Qilin's blood. Regardless of whether it is true or not, it is a scandal that should not be publicized for the Zhang family.So Nan Xing was secretly sent to Medog, Tibet overnight, claiming that Nan Xing was injured in the wild and died of ineffective treatment.

In the Zhang family, no matter how impressive a character is, it only takes more than a month to be forgotten.

No one in my family remembers Zhang Nanxing anymore.

Except my brother.

He secretly searched for Nan Xing's whereabouts by using every opportunity he could get out of his family.

In this way, a winter passed.

In the spring of the second year, the Zhang family announced that the younger brother would be the next patriarch.

The trajectory of fate returned to its original position after being off track for a short time.