Chapter 52
Chapter 52
The low temperature dissipated and the streams gushed.There are occasional chirping of birds all around.
The wind also softened.
The little shark in his arms didn't resist anymore, he didn't resist with thorns all over his body, he didn't mention another person's name or figure, he seemed very docile.
But this kind of meekness seemed to have something thin and sharp penetrated into his living flesh and blood, freezing the flowing warm blood into ice, and piercing into every part of his defenseless body.
Li Ningyuan didn't make a sound for a long time, he just hugged the other party silently, then slowly let go of his arms, his eyes met the other party's gaze.
"Usually, people who say such things will not come back."
His voice was very calm and restrained, as if those crazy paranoia had come to an end, and those stubborn illnesses that had been buried deep in his bones and squeezed out every drop of painstaking effort, all quieted down along with these indifferent-sounding words.
People who are terminally ill will also have this kind of flashback.Often the moment of despair comes, silently, like a gradually clenched palm enveloping the heart.
He didn't know what his heart was like, but he realized——he was about to break.
Li Ningyuan even had an absurd and embarrassing thought, he really wanted to go back to a moment ago, let him fall into the ice and low temperature in the difficult state of mind - not the only person in the world who can make him bow his head and be intimate with He said goodbye.
Farewell, life and death.
But he didn't say these words.This is his fault, and probably every incarnation, his own fault.They are willing to torture themselves to the point of going crazy, but dare not open their mouths to express their retention. This is like blackmailing the other party with emotional weakness.
For high flyers, retention is a heavy burden.
Jiang Yuanhan looked away first, and said, "...my request is too capricious."
"Wait for you."
Jiang Yuanhan suddenly raised his head.
Li Ningyuan seemed to have said a very simple thing without repeating it too much, but Jiang Yuanhan still felt a special weight from it.His Adam's apple moved slightly, and he wanted to say something, but his words froze for a moment, feeling that nothing was right.
He reached out and rubbed his cheeks, and then pressed his heart... He got the other party's promise, but he still felt something was wrong, and he didn't feel at ease and comfortable at all.
Just like the little uncle's farewell, perhaps there is no choice between life and death between him and the other party. Every time he leaves, it is a farewell.
The fireworks of life are so fragile, and there are too many powerless things in this world.Jiang Yuanhan took a deep breath and changed his tone: "No. I've changed my mind."
Li Ningyuan had just finished treating the blood on his hand, and it was wrapped into a rice dumpling by a snow-white bandage. The few movements he made just now were already the largest movements: "Don't wait for me."
Li Ningyuan looked at him and didn't agree.
"I was wrong in saying that. You have no obligation to wait for me to come back. I don't treat you well at all." Jiang Yuanhan counted the things that happened between the two of them. You are fighting to the death, using knives and guns. Who can survive these days, don't you feel tired, brother?"
Although he asked this question, he didn't expect the other party to answer like he said.He was looking forward to it faintly, but he couldn't help but belittle it, and said to his brother in a joking tone: Look, I'm not good.
Many people in this world, even those born like Jiang Yuanhan who can be regarded as the pride of heaven, will encounter many moments of self-doubt when they grow up.He is conceited and arrogant, and acts omnipotent, but he still feels uneasy from time to time. Even if someone approaches him and treats him well, the first thought that comes to his mind is——Look, I still have so many shortcomings, you still have to like me?
The more eager you are, the more you will present the tit-for-tat and difficult places to get along with.It seems that if there is no acquaintance, there will be no disgust and abandonment.
Learning to be confident all the time is hard.Looking at the vast world and all kinds of mortals, you need to cultivate your mind well.
"...Sorry," Li Ningyuan nodded, "I made you very tired..."
"No," Jiang Yuanhan interrupted him, "Why don't you understand me, I'm emphasizing your feelings. In fact, I...Thinking about it now, it's not too difficult."
He put on the first love filter, and smoothed out the conclusion that the two are the same person in his heart, and the more he can find more common ground without obstacles.Comparing heart to heart and exchanging identities, he thought about it many times, and his feelings towards Li Ningyuan were also gradually changing. This was the result of mature and rational sorting out many times.
Li Ningyuan wanted to say something else, but she also couldn't find words.He has tried his best to resist the demons lurking in his heart, and he is resisting the outburst of his emotions with extreme restraint—he doesn't want to embarrass the other party anymore.
The last time I couldn't say enough words, it was a thousand words that were too late, but in this situation, even a thousand words are overshadowed, and all explanations and statements have lost their power.
The silence and stillness were suffocating.
The lingering wind blows past, mixed with the sweetness of peach blossoms on the other party's clothes.
"I have to explain clearly to you," Jiang Yuanhan said suddenly, "I didn't accept you as a substitute."
"Why is that?" Li Ningyuan wanted to believe it, but his rationality could judge the obvious answer, but he needed an excuse too much.
"You are not a stand-in." Jiang Yuanhan looked at him and said, "I like you."
At the moment when the other party was in a daze, Jiang Yuanhan pulled his sleeve and dragged him into the stream.This creek is surprisingly deep, the water temperature is normal, the sweet flowing water is crystal clear, and the surrounding fish are scattered in all directions.
Jiang Yuanhan held his shoulder, then circled behind his ear, and hooked his neck.The gills behind his ears slowly opened, revealing a faint pink slit under the translucent membrane, trapping the oxygen in the water.
He approached the other party's ear, and his breath was completely entangled with the other party's. There were no complicated sounds underwater, and even his breathing gradually weakened. There was only the blend of emotion and temperature in the infinite silence.
This kind of blending makes people seem to touch the voice of the heart.
Li Ningyuan was wrapped around his neck by him, and was rubbed affectionately by the little shark for a while, hugging messy things and kissing them as he wished.Jiang Yuanhan's movements are a little rusty, but they are more organized than before.
He took the initiative to approach the past meekly and harmlessly for the first time, touched the other party with his soft lips, and conveyed his heart with simple and effective body language.
Li Ningyuan did not respond too strongly as usual, he hugged the other party back, tentatively trying to soften himself.He no longer uses coercion and force to achieve his will, but uses his softness under his taciturn indifference.
He is not such an unreasonable person, nor is he a person who does his own way.He's just... so sad.His jealousy aroused anger, and the word "like" itself was a distorted hatred.
Li Ningyuan realized early on that many of his decisions were wrong, but he couldn't extricate himself—until now, he still strongly complied with his heart and poured out his emotions, but he restrained the sharpness that would hurt the other party .
Jiang Yuanhan noticed this.He wanted to laugh a little, but the water was too quiet, and all the loveliness he noticed were hidden in the cool water.
The fish tail slowly circled around, rubbing against the corner of the opponent's clothes.The two people's hearts are close to each other, they can feel each other's heartbeat speed, and they can also feel everything connected by the heart lock.
I can feel the passage of time even more.
Jiang Yuanhan's nails turned into foam and spread out on the bottom of the water, and the melted water vapor submerged into the water.He saw this, but didn't show it, but stretched out his hand to cover the other person's eyes.
There was no sound, and there was no voice transmission from the divine consciousness.Jiang Yuanhan wrote on the palm of his hand very slowly.
"Brother," he wrote two words, paused, and continued, "Nothing is impossible."
Li Ningyuan's eyelashes moved in the palm of his hand.
"Don't wait for me," he wrote very hesitantly, "If there is still a chance, let's meet at the top."
Li Ningyuan clasped his fingers with his backhand, but the force was very light, afraid of hurting his old injury.
Jiang Yuanhan quietly raised his lips and took the other's hand: "I'm living a good life, and so are you."
As he was writing, his body was already gradually vaporizing, and his scales spread out little by little, and swayed into the slightly cold water.
"You want to go back alone." Jiang Yuanhan couldn't write anymore, but he still had a few words left, "You are not anyone, you are just yourself, just Li Ningyuan. No one's premise, I also will slowly..."
like you.
These words are too late.
Just like the two of them, it was too late every time.It is too late to know the head, too late to understand.The quicksand between the fingers rushed down, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
The writing hand stopped, and the palm covering his eyes disappeared.Li Ningyuan slowly opened his eyes, but there was nothing in front of him.
The water vapor merges into the stream, and the foam rises to the surface of the water. Under the extreme tranquility, the effect of parting is maximized.The other end of the chain was empty.
Li Ningyuan pressed her wrist and left the water.He showed the chain, and put it away bit by bit until it reached the silver ring at the other end.
Empty.
It's as if no one has ever been there.
Those strong loves, those strong hates, those suffocating longings.Those painful but indescribable running-ins that are approaching gradually, seem to have never happened, just like the scene in front of them.
Li Ningyuan clasped her fingers on the empty bracelet.He still remembered how he felt when he used the love lock, the never-before-seen torment and conflict mixed with the sense of stability of forcibly keeping the other party by his side, at that time he already felt that it was not easy to be emotional, and both sides would suffer.
But now, he can't even feel the suffering.His mind was empty again.
The more gentle and lingering the wind, the more straight it can blow into the empty atrium. His thoughts were tense and silent, and under the unbearable silence, he couldn't straighten out a single thought in his mind.
nothing left.
The wilderness is silent, and the setting sun is like blood.
When Yi Mengchou found Li Ningyuan, he was completely frightened by him.
Immortal Chongyi has always been dressed in a white robe, a natural swordsman, and his clothes are spotless.But when she approached the creek behind this crack, she only saw the bodies of alien species returning to their nests all over the place, and the mutilated corpses were piled up like a mountain.And his body was also stained with blood, with scars of varying shades.
But even so, those alien species that continued to return to the nest were still frightened.They cowardly hid in the distance, like hyenas whose spines were aimed at by a blade. The blood on the ground was still hot and smoking, and it almost looked like a stream when it gathered.
Yi Meng looked worried and stopped.She didn't find any trace of Jiang Yuanhan by the other party's side, but she found that the stream was unexpectedly not stained with any filth, it was as pure as ever.
The aura on Li Ningyuan's body was really terrifying. If he wasn't still using the first aura technique, it would almost make people think that he was possessed.
Yi Mengchou waited from the side for a long time, and only when there were no other giant beasts returning to the nest, did she see Li Ningyuan pull out the Chonghe sword from the ground.
Beads of blood trickled down the ends of his hair.
"Get out of here." Yi Mengchou didn't ask further, "When I couldn't get in touch with you, I had already notified other people. Kunyang, Danyang, and Jin Wenshu were all here to help. As long as they drag the outside A quarter of an hour with only a giant beast is enough for us to safely leave the Liuhai Secret Realm. Afterwards, we will completely seal this place with barriers and formations..."
Li Ningyuan raised his head, his eyes were dark, and the chill was condensed and dull.
"That hole is Dzogchen?"
"Yes." Yi Mengchou stared at the heart lock in his hand, the dark red lines on the bracelet were fading.She vaguely guessed something.
"There is no need to completely block it." Li Ningyuan held Chonghe sword, "I will deal with it."
Yi Mengchou realized the meaning of the three words "deal with", and was about to say that the other party was crazy, when she met Li Ningyuan's silent eyes.
She felt... This person seemed to be on the edge of a cliff.
Life and death are unpredictable, precarious, and there is not even a life-saving straw.
"Li Ningyuan..." She grasped the soft whip by her side, "That's the Great Perfection, even if it's you, it's very difficult—"
"I know the leader."
Li Ningyuan wiped off the blood on Chong and the sword.
"The end of the big head." He said, "I want to see him earlier."
At that time, Yi Mengchou didn't fully understand this sentence: "Who did you see? Where is Han Yuan, he..."
She didn't say any more, her keen intuition prevented her from mentioning this person in front of the other party, and she restrained her words in time.She watched the other party stand up, the blood in the punch and the blade on the sword were wiped off and cleaned up, and the blade was as clean as ever.
He stepped over the blood that billowed white smoke all over the ground, and the corroded land was uneven.Li Ningyuan did not step into the stream in front of her, but stopped beside the stream and lowered her body.
His fingertips touched the cool stream water, sparkling waves spread from his fingers to the surroundings.
Yi Mengchou suddenly felt a feeling of extreme alienation, she was vaguely aware of those hidden changes, but she couldn't tell what happened.Until among the shimmering light waves, dots of things that seemed to be shining light floated up.
It is a pearl.
Those small and round pearls, reverberating and circling from the stream, experienced the coercion of the flowing water, but still drifted back slowly, sinking into Li Ningyuan's slender and slender fingers.
The pearls gathered and stayed in his palm.
"That's..." Yi Mengchou was stunned for a moment, and she slowly approached a few steps.
And this scene seemed to be just her illusion, those pearls were held by Li Ningyuan in the palm of her hand, and the reflected lustrous light disappeared.
But he never let go.
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