[Infinite Stream] Destiny Rubik's Cube

Probably due to the blessing of the river, the calmness along the way was almost abnormal.

This calm was maintained until the day became more and more westward.

When the first shadow fell from the top of his head, Xu Chi immediately ordered them to find cover and hide their whereabouts.

There are no tall trees on the island, and even low bushes are hard to find. Considering the open geographical conditions in the wild before departure, everyone is expressly forbidden to wear brightly colored clothes that may expose the target, and use dark colors close to the color of the earth At the same time, the outermost layer is covered with wild animal fur in an attempt to confuse the public.

So at this moment, the "foxes" or "snow wolves" that are beyond the normal proportions either lie down behind the stone slabs, or get into the snow with only one tail exposed.

There was an accompanying ewe in Xu Chi's team. Its milk was the baby's precious food reserve. Zhou Qi rushed over, hugging the sheep's neck and not letting go.

Xu Chi growled at him, what are you doing, why don't you hide quickly.

Zhou Qi said that he was playing the role of a wolf attacking a sheep and talking about camouflage. This is the most harmonious scene in nature.

Seeing his spare no efforts in acting, Xu Chi fell silent.

Some people appear to be normal people on the surface, but there is a fool living in the depths of their souls.

Wave after wave of shadows drifted overhead, and the low-altitude wind swirled up the floating snow, which was an unforgettable scene for everyone in this life.

The huge wings are connected into one piece, covering the sky and the sun, and the afterglow of the setting sun pours on the snow from the gap between the wings, and the flickering yellow halo jumps on the trembling retina.The round spots on those wings are like pairs of black eyes, looking straight into the fear in everyone's heart.The powder flakes fell all over the sky, like a different kind of new snow, leaving the unique imprint of this powerful creature wherever it passed—these fluffs were like dog excrement, loudly proclaiming that this island is the territory of their owners .

And their masters, those swarms of alien moths, turned a blind eye to the prey that had painstakingly hidden underneath, and they galloped towards the west with great arrogance.

This thrilling "migration" lasted until the sun completely disappeared on the horizon.

Xu Chi brushed off the floating snow from his body and ordered to continue marching.

"They seem to be in a hurry."

"Coincidentally, I think so too."

"What time is it?"

"Maybe it's getting dark and Mommy calls them home for dinner. Come on, baby, open your mouth and drink grandma to grow taller..."

Xu Chi: "?"

Perhaps choked by the wind, Xu Chi coughed violently twice and turned his head.

Zhou Qi was frowning, coaxing the baby in his arms to open his mouth obediently with a serious expression almost engaged in scientific research, so that he could pour in the hot milk just squeezed out of the sheepskin sac.

The little boy didn't cooperate, his little face was flushed from holding back, and he looked very disgusted, and kept pushing the water bag out with his little hands.

"If you don't drink, you won't be able to. If you don't drink, you'll starve to death. It's useless for Lao Tzu and Xu Jiaojiao to save you." Zhou Qi started a tug-of-war with him, his smile gradually distorted, "Hey, drink this milk, you are my father's good friend." son."

Leng Qiu and Ren Simiao were watching the show.

Ren Simiao shook her head: "A good father-son relationship is always destroyed when the child starts not to eat."

Leng Qiu tsk-tsk: "What if the child doesn't eat? Just hit it twice."

"He knows nothing, beating him is worse than hitting a piece of wood!" Zhou Qi violently defended the son he picked up, with a very worried tone, "It's really not going to go on like this, he hasn't eaten for most of the day."

"Is there something uncomfortable?" Xu Chi came over, stretched out his hand to touch the child's forehead, and murmured, "It seems a little hot."

"Your hands are so cold, you feel hot when you touch everything, I'll do it." Zhou Qi then put his hand on it, panicked after this, "Damn, it's really hot, the brat has a fever!"

The child has poor resistance and a weak body. Although Zhou Qi has tried his best to protect him in his arms, the cold wind is blowing in the ice and snow, and after driving for a long time, a careless and fragile little thing is easy to catch cold.

We couldn't go any further, so we had to find a shelter from the wind and set up camp.

Old Hughes carried a bamboo basket with him, which contained all kinds of homemade herbs, and hurried to light a fire to decoct the medicine, and gave it to the boy.

Zhou Qi hugged the child next to the bonfire to keep warm. The little thing closed his eyes, his lips were bruised, and his face was flushed abnormally. His little hands kept tightly clutching Zhou Qi's collar, sobbing from time to time.Halfway through, Ren Simiao wanted to change hands to let Zhou Qi take a rest, but the child was sleeping soundly, but when he found out that the person holding him had changed, he immediately let go of his voice and burst into tears.Zhou Qi had no choice but to take over again. This time, no matter how kind-hearted anyone wanted to help, he waved his hand and declined.

Forget it, who made me unlucky to be targeted by this brat.He said so.

It's strange to say that this kid was born as an unlucky NPC, it's hard to tell if he's a real person or something, but the little thing can easily touch the softest part of people's hearts, even if it's just a cry, everyone's hearts follow It was very uncomfortable to pick it up.

At night, people take turns to keep watch.

When Xu Chi woke up in the middle of the night, Zhou Qi was still awake.

The little guy slept extremely unsteadily, humming and writhing in Zhou Qi's arms.

Xu Chi moved closer and touched the child's forehead. It was burning, but still a little hot.He struck the firewood, and the flickering light made his black eyes shine in the dark night.

"Old Hughes said that tomorrow we will arrive at the Grand Canyon of the Middle Realm. When we leave the canyon, it will be the site of the upturned surface. He has never been to the upturned surface, and he doesn't know what it is like there. It may be full of poisonous insects and dangerous. "Zhou Qi said in a slow tone, he squeezed the center of his brows, looking very tired, "This river will soon come to an end, from the end of the river to the canyon, there is a large piece of bare land without any grass, no matter what safety measures If there are none, we have to think long-term, so as to save death in vain.”

"Yeah." Xu Chi nodded, "So I want to keep the big troops. The sea level will be submerged here in three days. Before that, let's go explore the way."

"us?"

"Me." Xu Chi pointed to himself, then to him, "and you."

Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows, a little excited for no reason.

Is it because of the word us?

Does this mean that Xu Jiaojiao regards him as her own?

"Why, are you scared?" Seeing that he didn't make a sound, Xu Chi thought he didn't want to take risks.

Zhou Qi snorted: "I'm afraid of farts. I've never been afraid of anything in my life."

"That's good." Xu Chi rolled his lips.

After a while, Xu Chi pointed to the child in Zhou Qi's arms and asked, "Do you like children?"

Zhou Qi's eyes were black and blue, he yawned, and answered honestly: "Getting along with this kind of little devil who can't understand human language is simply a disaster, a disaster that destroys the body and mind!"

A smile flashed across Xu Chi's eyes: "During the day, you still said that he looked like an angel when he smiled."

"Let me correct it now. Strictly speaking, it is a combination of an angel and a demon." Zhou Qi gritted his teeth, waved his fist at the baby in his arms, clicked his tongue, and lowered his hand again, "Cough, no matter what he is, Just don't die."

"Why do you want to protect him so much? He might just be..."

"It's very simple, because he trusts me." Zhou Qi flicked the little guy's face, his deep eyes closed in the shadow cast by the brow bone, "Zhou Qi has only one purpose in life, to protect everyone who trusts him .”

There was a slight crackling sound from the fire, Xu Chi paused in adding firewood, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

——You have to be strong, strong enough to protect everyone who trusts you.

His own voice instantly appeared in his ears.

Once upon a time, he had said the same thing to a child.

It was a summer afternoon, hot and stuffy, with no wind or cloud.The general in uniform and leather shoes walked in a hurry, maybe he just finished reporting the war from the conference hall, maybe he had to be dragged to participate in the boring military parade, in short, his brows were raised.Unfortunately, he happened to run into the little prince who was hiding in the garden and secretly wiping his tears.

He should pretend not to see, he was just passing by in a hurry.

In the world, it is snowing for everyone, and everyone has their own obscurity and brightness.

But out of some sympathy he couldn't even describe, he stopped and walked over.

The sound of pattering footsteps approached, and a hand in white gloves was pressed on the top of the child's head. The little prince raised his tearful face, and his voice was full of grievances: "Admiral."

"What's wrong?"

Xu Chi heard his voice deliberately softened.

"Old Anton is dead." The little prince wept sincerely for the old king's dead dog. "Father doesn't like it."

Xu Chi still remembered his mental activities at that time.He thought, it's not that your father doesn't like old Anton, he just doesn't like anything left by the old king, including dogs and people.

These people also included the Salvation Corps established by the old king.

But he couldn't tell the little prince that.

After all, children don't understand anything.

He took off his gloves and sat in that flashy pavilion, just sitting.Until Yuan Qi stopped sobbing and looked over with tears in his eyes.

Childish, the little prince got angry: "Why don't you comfort me?"

"Your Highness." Xu Chi looked at the field of golden irises extending into the distance, and said in a calm tone, "If you can only cry, there will be many, many old Antons in the future."

The little prince froze, his eyes widening in horror.

"You have to become strong and protect everyone who trusts you, even a dog."

"Xu Jiaojiao? Xu Jiaojiao, what kind of hysteria are you spouting in the middle of the night?" The baby's sonorous cry was heard, mixed with Zhou Qi's worried question, "Hey, I'm back!"

Xu Chi rolled his stiff eyeballs, stared straight at Zhou Qi, and asked vaguely, "How old are you?"

"What?" Zhou Qi hurriedly comforted the baby who suddenly lost his temper, "Is it time to talk about this? Why did you suddenly cry?"

Xu Chi was extremely persistent on this question, and asked with a calm face, "Tell me, how old are you this year?"

"You help me coax the child first." Zhou Qi didn't know why this man suddenly went crazy, he really had no choice but to stuff the little thing into Xu Chi's arms, "I'll tell you when I'm done coaxing!"

Xu Chi was caught off guard, and was forcibly stuffed with a crying child, a look of panic flashed across his face.Judging by the cloudy expression on his face, he probably wanted to throw it away.

Zhou Qi tensed his whole body on guard, making sure that if this heartless kid really dared to throw the child, he would catch it with quick eyesight and hands.

Fortunately, the tragedy of throwing the child did not happen.

Xu Chi, who still retained his rationality, picked up the child who was out of breath from crying, looked at it, hugged him in an awkward position, and moved it closer to the fire.

Then--

He hummed without expression.

It was a tune that Zhou Qi had never heard before. It was deep and sad. Since Xu Chi didn't sing the lyrics, it was hard to guess what the content of the song was. What was certain was that it was definitely not a qualified lullaby.But the tune of this song suits Xu Chi inexplicably, his voice is a little hoarse when he deliberately lowers it.The tone sinks all the way, sinking into the calm but dark sea, sinking into the cold night without a trace of light, until it sinks into the bottom of people's heart, drawing out the softest and most sad mood, and then with a tactful ending, the Its strands are entangled, spun into threads, and woven into a binding net, making people immersed in it and unable to get out.

The baby stopped crying.

In addition to Zhou Qi, there was another lucky guy who was readily accepted by the little guy by showing off his singing voice.

"What are you singing?" Zhou Qi asked.

"Stop fighting." Xu Chi replied, "Many years ago, after the war subsided, the returning soldiers would sing the song."

Zhou Qi was silent, and then asked: "Does it have lyrics?"

"Yes." Xu Chi lowered his eyelashes, "But I forgot."

"People are really forgetful." Zhou Qi lay down on his back, resting his head on his hands, "I also forgot a lot of things, some people and things that must never be forgotten, I forgot, only a few fragments. To some extent Said, quite heartless."

He looked at the starry sky, and at night, there were especially many stars on this island, and they were also very bright, shining light heartlessly in spite of the sufferings of the world.

"Didn't you ask how old I am?" He turned his head to look at Xu Chi, his eyes were full of bright stars, and there were smile lines at the end of his eyes, "I'm 29, I can't remember."

The author has something to say:

Zhou Qi: I heard you think I'm old?Why don't you dislike Xu Chi, a bad old man who is nearly fifty years old?