Recap
Standing face to face, Shen Zhaomu asked, “Can I kiss you?”
Long Shiyu didn’t expect him to suddenly ask such a question. He froze for a moment, and then his ears turned bright red. He stammered, “Y-You… Why are you asking such a question? Aren’t we talking about the movie? The princess… the princess should know how to be reserved.”
“I’m not a reserved person.”
“But didn’t I say… didn’t I say I have a secret? If you know it, you’ll definitely get mad. Very mad, even.”
“Secrets are bound to be discovered eventually. When you asked me what I wanted to do today, didn’t you think about your secret?”
Long Shiyu muttered softly, “I just thought about it…”
Shen Zhaomu took a step closer. “So, are you rejecting me, or agreeing?”
Their faces were very close now. Long Shiyu’s ears were even redder. He said, “I already told you, I still have a secret…”
“No rejection means agreement,” Shen Zhaomu said, pulling Long Shiyu close and kissed him.
Arriving at the station, the air train came from afar, the headlights were bright yellow. There were few passengers in the suburbs so late, and the carriages were empty, and the handrails swayed slightly when entering the station.
Another station passed, and there were only the two of them left in the carriage.
Long Shiyu sat beside Shen Chaomu, wearing that long windbreaker. His ears were still red, he didn’t say a few words to the princess along the way, and he didn’t continue to hold hands with the princess. The lingering guilt was still there, after all, he had been lying to Shen Chaomu.
But an excellent evil dragon must regain its glory.
The train passed between the buildings, the neon lights were shining, the light from outside poured in and then went out. He quietly put his hand over it, and under the wide sleeves of the windbreaker, he grabbed the princess’s hand.
Shen Chaomu held his hand back, and said with a smile: “There will be many more movies in the future, and when we are free, we will watch them again.”
As soon as they returned to their residence in the evening, Shen Chaomu received a message from the association.
An escaped mercenary was found near his residence. The man was notorious for seriously injuring three hunters.
He said to Long Shiyu: “You sleep first, I’ll go and come back.”
Ten minutes later, Shen Chaomu stood silently on the overpass. Countless aircraft passed under his feet, and the tails pulled out slender rays of various colors, forming a special sea of lights.
The bright yellow oil lamp floated beside him, rising and falling slightly. The strong wind blew, and the black coat fluttered.
Not far away is the track of the air train. It is a special track flying over the city, leading to the starship parking lot, much faster than ordinary air trains. It is spacious and dark, with no end in sight.
He was waiting for the arrival of the train.
Ten minutes later, the railroad tracks began to tremble, and a bright light approached rapidly from a distance. Every window of the train was lit, like a dragon flying over the Star City in the middle of the night, with agile and swift movements.
The moment it passed under Shen Chaomu’s feet, he jumped out.
The windbreaker was opened in the air, and the oil lamp that was closely following him lit up a gleam in the night. The next second, he landed silently in the middle of the train, paused for a moment, and then walked slowly towards the rear of the train.
There are quite a few people rushing to the late-night starship flight. Even at two or three o’clock in the middle of the night, there are still a few passengers in each carriage.
Shen Chaomu walked leisurely on the speeding train, and stopped at carriage 8.
The passengers inside were talking and laughing, unaware of what was about to happen.
The mercenary was sitting inside, wearing a dark sweater, with an ordinary face, leaning on the back of the chair and eating melon seeds. The next stop has been blocked by the Star Police, he has nowhere to escape, but Shen Chaomu acted without authorization again, after all, long-term injection of alien animal blood will lead to personality changes, and it is a hidden danger for him to stay in the crowd for an extra second.
The train whistled and entered the tunnel in the high mountains, and the surrounding vision became even darker.
The moment the train entered the tunnel, Shen Chaomu jumped off the car to the right, and his spiritual power smashed the thick bulletproof glass into pieces in mid-air.
Before the passengers could scream, he had already flipped in with one hand on the car window, and the spear turned into a light blade stabbed straight at the middle-aged man in the left seat!
The man didn’t react, but he also possessed extremely high spiritual strength, and subconsciously blocked it with his hand——
The palm was pierced, and the blade pierced deeply into the seat.
The panicked screams had already exploded, Shen Chaomu pressed forward and nailed the man’s palm with a long knife, the oil lamp swayed beside him, and countless streams of light gushed out.
The golden flying snow quickly surrounded the opponent, and the streamer flew.
These are actually huge spiritual powers, constantly putting pressure on the man. The veins on the man’s forehead bulged, the bulging muscles tensed inch by inch, and he exerted so much force that he almost twitched. Scales similar to those of a strange beast appeared on his arms, and his spiritual power was constantly fighting against it, but he couldn’t resist it at all.
This struggle slowed him down.
The golden spiritual power pressed up again, restraining all his struggles. The fight ended quickly, and the surrounding passengers were still panicking, Shen Chaomu showed them: “Hunter Association.”
The man was still trying to twist his body in the seat.
Shen Chaomu didn’t care, squatted down, and opened the man’s carry-on luggage, which contained a terminal, many syringes and a notebook.
He took out the notebook and sat on the seat next to the mercenary to read it.
The mercenary was almost swearing, cursing him with the most vicious language. Shen Chaomu didn’t care, he flipped through the paper bit by bit, there wasn’t much content related to the church on it, but it mentioned light rain.
It also specifically marked when the light rain occurred – they were very scattered, and the interval was about five to six years.
Shen Chaomu had discovered light rain several times in the mercenary’s cargo before, but those light rains never reminded him of too much of the past like the first time.
For some purpose, Shen Di has been collecting this stuff.
Shen Chaomu asked Romeo about this matter again – in Tabu, Shen Di once tried to ask Romeo to treat his chaotic spiritual power with magic, but it failed in the end due to lack of materials. After that, he attacked Romeo and the Mantis alone.
Romeo made a guess: Shen Di’s spiritual power is very chaotic, it contains too many strange beasts, even he himself can hardly control it. In this extreme situation, it is not easy for him to maintain his sanity, let alone memory.
“If,” Romeo said, “the kind of light rain you mentioned can really remind people of forgotten things, then what he wants may be to keep his memory. I saw his spiritual power at the time, and almost no corner was intact.”
Shen Chaomu paused, turned his head and asked, “Are you looking for light rain here?”
The man stared at him bitterly: “It’s none of your business! … Hiss!” He gasped, and the golden light flakes put more pressure on him, and his forehead was sweating from the pain.
“You’d better confess,” Shen Chaomu said, “otherwise the final report will be that you accidentally fell out of the window during the fight with me.”
This threat reminded the mercenary of all kinds of rumors about Shen Chaomu. He almost gave in immediately, restraining his arrogance.
The light flakes relaxed their suppression on him, and he swallowed a little nervously: “Don’t ask me, I really don’t know anything, I just take money to do things.”
“Since when did it start?”
“It’s only been a year or two, and I’ve never met that boss. Don’t arrest me and ask me, I haven’t worked for many years, and this time I’m unlucky to bump into you.”
“There are many records and analyzes of light rain on it,” Shen Chaomu raised the notebook in his hand, “So, you have deduced that there will be light rain in Meistan.”
“It’s just, it’s just a probability.” The mercenary was confused, and he really didn’t know why Shen Chaomu cared so much about this matter. In his opinion, it was just that the boss who paid the money had some special collection hobbies.
The train arrived at the station, Shen Chaomu got up and walked out, and immediately fully armed star police came to take the man away.
Walking down the steps of the platform, the hour hand pointed to four o’clock. He boarded the aircraft and headed back to his residence.
……
“Hurry, hurry!” Augusta directed the mercenaries to carry the boxes up, “Why are you all so slow!”
After finally waiting for the inventory of the alien blood serum in the box to be completed, the group of people rolled away, so as not to hear Augusta say that they were inefficient again.
This is a warehouse in the corner of Meistan. Shen Chaomu and the hunters came suddenly, forcing them to be restricted everywhere in Meistan, and they had to transfer the most valuable goods temporarily.
Augusta casually opened a box and looked. Inside, the blood of an unknown alien beast was shining, extremely pure, still the highest quality product.
Also relying on this technology, Shen Di obtained a large amount of funds to operate all this. I don’t know where the vampire from the church went.
He didn’t know that Lilith had already died when she challenged the throne, and only Shen Di had mastered her blood purification technology.
Today, Shen Di arrived at the warehouse one step earlier than them, and is currently in a small room inside, silent, and I don’t know what he is doing.
Augusta was very sensible and didn’t bother, went to the rest area of the former warehouse manager, and started to boil water.
There was only a dilapidated small bench here, he moved it over and sat down, and started to read the news on the terminal.
There is also a collection of poems in the carry-on luggage.
“Starlight is Like Your Skirt”
But since leaving Bei En, Augusta has never opened it again.
After a while, the water boiled, and Augusta poured the boiling water into the teapot, and a faint fragrance of roses came.
His subordinates were originally surprised that he suddenly fell in love with the art of tea, and he even watched videos of making tea during breaks, which is simply cultivating one’s morality. But they got used to it later, and found that he was not cultivating elegant hobbies, but simply wanted to drink rose tea.
He has always been impatient, so is fighting, and so is drinking tea.
Others drink tea with small teacups, but he drinks directly from the teapot. He took a big gulp and burned himself so much that he couldn’t take care of himself, so he quickly took two sips of ice water.
After finally waiting for the tea to cool down, and drinking it slowly, can the quality of a good tea be tasted.
But it is still different from that time in Bei En.
He finished the rest of the tea.
There was a banging sound from the small room, very dull.
Augusta turned around and shouted, “What’s wrong?”
Shen Di did not answer.
Augusta frowned, stood up and walked over, didn’t knock on the door, just leaned against the door and listened carefully.
After tens of seconds, there was the sound of something falling to the ground and breaking. Augusta knocked on the door violently and asked a few more questions. After there was still no response, he directly turned sideways and slammed the door!
The door of this warehouse has gone through the years, and it was opened by his strong body.
As soon as he entered the door, he smelled blood, so strong that it made him dizzy. Two men fell in a pool of blood, face down and naked, with strange mucus on their bodies – he had seen it on mantises before.
Augusta was stunned for a few seconds, he didn’t know what was going on for a while, he subconsciously wanted to step forward, but saw one of the men propping up his upper body with his arm, it was Shen Di whose face was even paler.
There was some bewilderment in his eyes, and the shadow under him became manic, as if breaking through some kind of restraint, transforming into countless strange beasts.
Getting closer, Augusta noticed that Shen Di and the man’s legs… were connected together.
Shen Di continued to prop up his body, during which the part where the bodies were connected made a terrible tearing sound, as if the flesh was being torn apart. More blood gushed out from the broken skin, and the bones were exposed, like a torture.
Augusta’s hair stood on end, and he took half a step back.
Finally, with the last tearing sound, the bodies of the two were completely separated – there was no wound, but the newly born skin became even paler in an instant, like a dead person.
The shadow has become completely manic.
Shen Di is too weak now, it is the backlash of the strange beasts, one by one scrambling to come over.
But the next second, the confusion in Shen Di’s eyes faded away like a tide.
He was recovering with astonishing perseverance, the corrosive spiritual power swept through the air, and immediately suppressed all the restlessness.
The man in the pool of blood raised his head, revealing Shen Di’s face.
Or rather, they were originally the same person, just twinned like a mantis.
An eerie chill swept across Augusta’s neck.
The mercenary’s intuition made him instinctively dangerous, and his own spiritual power immediately protected him. But Shen Di’s power was far above his, and he was caught off guard for a moment because of the shock.
So the blood in the arteries seemed to be cold.
In the darkness, the eyes of two identical men looking at him were extremely terrifying, as if they were looking at a lifeless object, or some kind of disgusting monster.
However, in the end, nothing happened.
The corrosive spiritual power receded, Shen Di regained his usual expression, and said with a smile: “You shouldn’t have come in.”
The smile was almost chilling behind, and Augusta was absolutely sure that Shen Di had just wanted to kill him.
The two got up with the same movements, and put on their clothes naturally, as if nothing had happened just now.
Shen Di has always been cautious, and will never easily reveal his weaknesses.
In a sense, it’s almost terrifying. After all, the memories of the twins are shared, and Augusta has seen him die in many ways.
After all, he deals with alien beasts, and he can’t get along with them all the time. Some deaths are extremely cruel, just looking at them makes one’s scalp tingle.
When the corpse was broken and swollen, small spiders parasitized by alien beasts emerged from it, or the bones of the whole body were directly bitten by the alien beast. Several times, Augusta couldn’t help vomiting, and he couldn’t eat for several days afterwards.
And Shen Di seemed completely unaffected.
With this perseverance, he moved towards his goal unswervingly.
Therefore, after following Shen Di for so many years, Augusta always knew that he was constantly copying himself with twinning, but this was the first time he saw this scene.
He immediately said: “I’m going out now.”
Back in the warehouse, his heart was still beating fast.
He knew that working for Shen Di was very risky, especially since he already knew a lot of secrets.
But at the very beginning, it was Shen Di who suddenly appeared, so that his seriously ill mother got the best medical resources. His family is not like the Shen family, after so many years, it has long since fallen, which was a life-saving straw for him at that time.
As for staying with Shen Di, it wasn’t out of gratitude.
At first he thought it was a quick way to make money, and the power brought by blood was refreshing, but later he realized that he couldn’t get out
He hasn’t thought about washing his hands.*
*(Coming clean)
Just because of Shen Di’s personality, it is impossible for him to get what he wants.
Shen Di knew him very well, and it would be easy to kill him. Even if he doesn’t do it himself, sorting out the information and selling his whereabouts is enough for him to stay in prison for the rest of his life——
Who the hell wants this kind of life?
A few minutes later, the two Shen Di came out.
One of them looked at his teapot, still smiling: “You’re making tea again, you weren’t like this before.”
“It’s just that I occasionally cultivate my hobbies.” Augusta calmed down.
“Really, I thought it was because of the siren. Your performance has been very bad recently, and you are not so determined towards the strange beast. Or, do you also feel compassion for them?”
For a moment, Augusta was a little dazed, then he licked his chapped lips: “How is this possible, you know, the alien beast will always be the target of our family, only a bastard like Shen Chaomu would betray the principle… The goods have arrived. It’s all piled up over there, I’ve had people count it.”
He began to pack his things with his head down, threw the tea bag back into the pot for boiling water, and was about to throw it back to the distance when he heard Shen Di say behind him: “You like her, don’t you?”
Just this one sentence seemed to tear away the fig leaf in his heart. Augusta’s hand trembled, and he retorted almost as if he had been electrocuted: “How is it possible!”
“No matter how human-like, it’s just an alien. I hope you always remember that.”
The shadows of the two Shen Di intertwined, and countless strange beasts surged inside.
Then almost instantly, Augusta saw a familiar figure——
As petite and cute as ever, not even for half a second, almost like an illusion.
Although he knew that Shen Di had been devouring strange beasts, this feeling still made his teeth chatter.
The two men pinned roses to their collars, went out, walked in different directions, and disappeared into the deep night.
…
Shen Chaomu went back and found that the light in the room was not turned off.
He pushed the door open and went in, and saw Long Shiyu sleeping soundly, one foot hanging on the edge of the bed and about to touch the floor, his hand stretched out from the quilt, still grasping the teacup on the bedside table.
The first time he saw this posture, he was puzzled.
Later, he realized that Long Shiyu fell asleep while going to drink water.
He walked to the bed, and Long Shiyu opened his eyes in a daze.
Shen Chaomu said: “Why don’t you turn off the light when you sleep?”
“I was going to wait for you to come back.” Long Shiyu’s voice was sleepy.
Shen Chaomu turned off the light and went to bed, and there was an extra warm Long Shiyu in his arms.
He said: “It seems that there may be a light rain in Meistan.”
Long Shiyu paused: “Really, who did you hear that from?”
“Those mercenaries, hasn’t Shen Di been collecting light rain? It would be great if we could meet them.”
“Oh.”
“You don’t seem to want me to remember the past,” Shen Chaomu said, “Is it because of that secret?”
“…Hmm.”
“In that case, I want to make a guess.”
“What?”
Shen Chaomu could feel that Long Shiyu’s tail was curled up nervously in the quilt, but his expression still looked normal.
Shen Chaomu said: “I originally wanted to give you some time, but I kissed you, so I can’t wait any longer. Let me just say it straight, what does your relationship with the throne have to do with it?”
Long Shiyu looked sincere: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I saw you in that light rain dream, and then Buck mentioned that someone died because of the Dragon King. It was all in a very close time period, only ten years apart.”
He continued: “Besides, there are many doubts, for example, why did the sensitive dragon whale behave abnormally on the first day you came to the association? Why did I only see one of Wilpan who has been traveling together? Where was the other one at that time? Who defeated him? For example, why don’t you want to explain to me the meaning of the Dragon King’s name?”
“What’s more, the known dragons are basically extinct, especially the first generation of dragons. The only one left is the one on the throne.”
Long Shiyu’s tail was about to curl up into a knot.
He said: “I, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m going to sleep, and I want another goodnight kiss.”
“…” Shen Chaomu kissed his forehead.
The room was dark, and for a while, there was only the sound of each other’s breathing.
It seemed that the princess didn’t want to dwell on this issue anymore, Long Shiyu felt a little relieved, and arched contentedly in his arms.
Today, he also has a fragrant princess.
“Oh, right,” Shen Chaomu said, “I forgot to tell you, I got another light rain later, although I’m not completely sure, but I finally heard most of the names you told me.”
He called softly: “Akasa Mo.”
“This is your name, right? It represents the light rain that was picked up.”
Long Shiyu: “…”
Long Shiyu: “…………”
He changed from ⊙▽⊙ to ⊙△⊙.
The next second, Long Shiyu broke free from the princess’s arms, got out of bed crying, and ran away.
He cried so loudly.
He cried so sadly.
He cried so aggrieved.
Shen Chaomu was dumbfounded.
Isn’t it him who has been cheated on all the time? ! Shouldn’t he be the one to be embarrassed!
The door was wide open, and the cold wind rushed in from the window. He hurriedly chased after him, and heard Long Shiyu ping-pong-pong in his room, not knowing what he was doing – probably jumping around like a ball again.
He hesitated for a while, and did not go in directly, so as not to irritate the ball dragon.
After waiting outside for five or six minutes, the sound of demolition inside finally stopped.
Shen Chaomu tentatively knocked on the door: “Shi Yu?”
There was no sound inside.
“Long Shiyu?”
There was still no sound.
Shen Chaomu felt something was wrong, so he pushed the door open and entered.
The room was in a mess, the windows were wide open, and the curtains were fluttering in the cold wind on the seventeenth floor.
Long Shiyu disappeared.
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