Seal (Part 2)

"Stop... stop!" Kulin's voice stopped Ying Yungui from taking off the ring.

"What?"

"The domain coming in this direction, stop!"

Without caring about Labriel who looked like a stray dog, Ying Yungui hurried to Kulin's side and saw that the white gas mass representing the "domain" energy on the screen was no longer obviously attacking the southeast direction, but slowly spreading to the east and west sides.

Ying Yungui's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He fastened his earrings again and walked step by step towards Labriel, who still had his head down.

"Ugh!" Labriel was pulled up by the collar, and was forced to look into Ying Yungui's cold purple eyes. He heard the other party say in a calm but low voice: "You have twenty minutes to recover. Find a way to clean up this mess you made, otherwise..."

"I'll take you in."

Ying Yungui can definitely do what he says.

Labriel had never doubted this, and now he didn't dare doubt it. Like a fish just pulled from shore, he shivered and nodded, "I know...I know."

If summoning a Hun Tian Lock required nearly 20% of his own energy, moving the point would require nearly 10%, plus the already overdrawn energy... Labriel made an estimate in his mind and found that he needed to recover at least 40%.

"Forty percent... Damn, how is that possible." Not to mention that Ying Yungui only gave him twenty minutes to recover, even if he was given two hours, he might not be able to recover forty percent of his energy.

For the first time, Labriel began to regret not practicing precise energy control, instead only outputting it without thinking. Of course, he only felt a little regret.

He secretly glanced at Ying Yungui and Kulin who were discussing something beside him, and an idea flashed through his mind.

According to the normal process, after the association's psychics use points to exchange for props or equipment, they need to go to the association base to collect them. However, there is another way for psychics to get the exchanged items immediately, but it requires paying more points because it requires the use of psychic equipment for space transfer.

La Bairiel opened the points dialog box and looked at the few points left after he had squandered them, and fell into deep thought.

After some calculations, he exchanged for two bottles of the highest-grade compressed energy liquid and purchased the "immediate delivery" service. After paying the corresponding points, the two bottles of energy liquid appeared before him through space transfer.

He looked at the single-digit score with some pain, gritted his teeth, and drank two bottles of blue liquid in one breath.

The warm current begins to rise from the limbs and abdomen, slowly flows to the shoulders and neck, and finally converges at the back of the head.

La Bairiel let out a long sigh and stood up, brushing off the dirt on his body with some annoyance, and walked towards Ying Yungui.

"I'm almost recovered, let's find a suitable position first."

When he drank the energy liquid just now, Ying Yungui and Kulin both noticed it, and they also knew that it was the most effective and expensive one, so when Labriel said this, neither of them was very surprised.

Kulin's eye sockets were still throbbing with pain, and blood mixed with clear tissue fluid oozed out from time to time. Ying Yungui was worried about his condition, so he gave him a twenty-minute buffer.

For Ying Yungui, even if La Bairiel was a complete loser, as long as Kulin's condition allowed, he would try his best to solve the problem here. So to put it bluntly, the 20 minutes were actually reserved for Kulin to adjust his condition.

"How do you feel?" Ying Yungui asked Kulin in a low voice.

"High-dimensional scanning is not available for the time being, but ordinary coordinate analysis is still no problem." Kulin has been consuming far more energy in the past few days than Ying Yungui imagined. In addition, he did not get enough rest and was also backlashed by the "domain" that was suspected to be generated by the curse. Now his condition is the worst among the three.

While Kulin was searching for the optimal coordinates, Labriel was not nervous at all, as if he was not the one shouldering the next heavy responsibility. He even had the leisure to observe the surrounding scenery.

"Hey, is that a forest?" To the east of where the three of them are now, there is a sparse group of tree trunks that cannot be called a forest. Unlike the lush greenery around them, they seem to have only bare trunks left. From a distance, they look like dead trees and broken branches casually stuck in the ground.

Labriel's words caught Ying Yungui's attention. He looked in the direction and suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

Kulin panted a little and said, "Found it. According to the current dissipation of the energy group, the best third triangle point is about four kilometers to the east."

Four kilometers was a very short distance for them. To be on the safe side, Ying Yungui planned to use his telekinesis to carry the two of them directly through the air.

Just as they were about to set off, Kulin paused and said, "Wait, there seems to be someone over there." He pointed to the bare woods.

Labriel had been looking around but didn't notice anyone there. Even when Kulin said this, he was still not focused and didn't know what he was thinking.

Ying Yungui stared at the direction Kulin pointed and narrowed his eyes.

Then he saw a figure emerging from the woods.

"How could this be?!" Ying Yungui's exclamation drew Labrier's attention back.

A person who shouldn't be here suddenly appeared and even walked straight towards the three people.

Ying Yungui hurriedly went up to him and asked, "Why are you here?"

When Shi Youchen saw the people who appeared here, he was stunned for a moment: "You are here already?"

Labriel and Kulin also approached. Kulin had seen Shi Youchen in District 5 and was also surprised. Labriel's eyes were filled with amusement, especially when he noticed that the usually calm Ying Yungui's face was clearly flustered and nervous.

The situation did not allow them to exchange pleasantries. Ying Yungui frowned slightly and said to Shi Youchen, "It's very dangerous here. You should leave quickly. The farther away the better." After saying that, he realized something - Shi Youchen did not have any tools or methods to travel.

"Tsk." He had no choice but to look at Kulin, then at Labriel.

Kulin understood his concerns and said at the right time: "Labril and I will go to the location, you send people away first." He didn't care whether the remaining person agreed or not. At this moment, Kulin only wanted to finish the sealing work as soon as possible, and he didn't want to meet and cooperate with such an idiot again in his life.

Ying Yungui nodded and glanced at the silent Labairel: "I'll be there soon, don't try to play any tricks."

After watching his two teammates leave to the east, Ying Yungui was about to pull Shi Youchen's hand to see them off when he was grabbed by the wrist.

Shi Youchen hadn't spoken since their first words. Ying Yungui thought he was going to ask why the three of them were there, so he answered first, "It's a special mission, and the situation is urgent. I'm afraid there's no time to explain. I'll get you out of here first. I'll go back and explain it to you slowly after this is over."

Unexpectedly, Shi Youchen grabbed his wrist with even more force. Ying Yungui looked over in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"I know." Shi Youchen was not as calm as usual. At this moment, his eyes showed a strong... reluctance?

"I'll wait for you here."

This one sentence caused Ying Yungui to freeze completely. Perhaps it was because he had never seen Shi Youchen look at him like this before, as if they were a pair of lovers who had reunited after many years of separation.

Shi Youchen relaxed his grip, let go of Ying Yungui, and said, "There's no need for you to go east anymore."

Ying Yungui felt so depressed that he couldn't breathe: "What did you say? Did something happen to you?" His first reaction was that Shi Youchen had encountered something bad on the way here, so he reminded him like this.

So Ying Yungui hurriedly put his arm around Shi Youchen's shoulders, wanting to check if there were any signs of injury on his body.

"I'm fine." Shi Youchen raised his hand and placed it on Ying Yungui's cold fingertips. It wasn't like they had never touched each other before, but this time it was obviously different.

Why do I suddenly feel like... Shi Youchen has become so proactive...

Ying Yungui felt hot.

"Listen to me." Shi Youchen clasped his fingers together and held Ying Yungui's cold hand in his warm palm. "La Bairiel simply doesn't have enough energy to summon the Hun Tian Lock again to seal it. He will escape before reaching the target. If you and Kulin go further east, you will encounter greater trouble."

Ying Yungui's expression changed from surprise to shyness, then to confusion, and finally to suspicion.

"How... did you know that?"

How could Shi Youchen know about La Bairiel, how could he know about the Hun Tian Lock, and how could he know about the seal.

If it weren't for the obvious temperature difference on his hands, Ying Yungui would probably have suspected that he had encountered an illusion.

"Yun Gui, what you need to do next is to collect evidence of his mission failure and then pass the evidence to the decision-making group of the headquarters."

"Remember, don't trust anyone or anything except yourself."

What was this? Why was Shi Youchen's tone filled with worry for me? Why did he act like he was leaving me?

"Where are you going?" Ying Yungui's mind flashed and this question suddenly popped up.

Shi Youchen looked into those bright, bold purple eyes and smiled, a rare moment. His inky pupils seemed to be dotted with starlight, and the slightly curved eyebrows and eyes were mesmerizing.

Ying Yungui was willing to do anything for him as long as he could keep smiling like this.

"There is a beautiful scenery over there. Do you want to go with me to see it?" Shi Youchen invited with a smile.

Ying Yungui couldn't possibly refuse such an invitation.

Soon the two of them arrived at the edge of the cliff. Below them was a thin sea of clouds, with occasional spots of green showing through, like an ink painting.

"Do you like the scenery here?" Shi Youchen looked at the floating sea of clouds and asked the person standing next to him.

"Ah, I like it. With you, anywhere is fine." Ying Yungui's reaction was a little hesitant, and I don't know if it was because he was shy.

Shi Youchen took a step forward: "As long as you like it, I like this place too. It's very free and close to the sky." He turned around and said, "You should always be free like this."

Before Ying Yungui could react to what he meant, a head suddenly approached, blocking his view.

Shi Youchen's lips were cool but very soft, and the tip of his nose felt a little wet when it touched his face. His eyelashes were so long that they made people feel numb.

That mole on the eyebrow is so close...

Only then did Ying Yungui realize that Shi Youchen was actually kissing him.

"?!" Ying Yungui's pupils shrank violently.

Then a distant, hazy voice floated into his ears, and that voice said to him: "Actually, I should have liked you a long time ago. I'm sorry to tell you at this time. I'm sorry."

The voice drifted further away: "Get some sleep, everything will be fine when you wake up, then forget about it."

"Goodbye, Yun Gui."

In the end, Ying Yungui only saw a figure leaping from the edge of the cliff and jumping into the sea of clouds.

Then his world fell into endless darkness.

...

Shi Youchen's original plan did not include kissing, but after looking at Ying Yungui's face for a long time, he couldn't bear it.

So before injecting the anesthesia, he couldn't hold back. That was the most proactive he had ever been in his life.

The feeling of weightlessness was very uncomfortable, and the feeling of my whole body hitting the layers of branches and then falling to the ground was also very uncomfortable.

Shi Youchen felt that his whole body was warm, except for his head which was icy cold, terribly cold.

"My internal organs must be all shattered. My hands and feet hurt so much and feel so heavy." He lay on the ground motionless, unable to see the sky at all because it was completely blocked by huge trees.

But he couldn't lose consciousness yet, he had to hold on until "it" came over.

It was unknown how long it took, but Shi Youchen used his limited and pitifully small amount of energy to repair the most critical parts of his body so that he would not die immediately.

Finally, he felt something rolling over his chest.

"Cough" blood had already flowed all over his neck and soaked the ground beneath him.

Shi Youchen opened his eyes and saw a bit of blue sky revealed between the floating leaves when the wind blew.

"Great, there's still enough energy left." Thinking of this, he mobilized the last remaining energy that he had prepared for this moment.

"Absorb it, and then..."

“…”

Shi Youchen's pupils dimmed, but in the end, he was still beautiful. Even though his face was covered in blood, even though his meridians and bones were broken, even though his body was covered in dead branches and leaves, he was still unforgettable.

The wind got stronger, and the sound of the leaves swaying seemed to be saying goodbye.

The sky was clear, and anyone who saw it would say, "What a beautiful day."