Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Why are you here?

The snow had stopped by dawn the next day.

Chen Luan was wearing a red cotton jacket and rolling around in the fluffy snow in the yard.

Like a happy cat.

Seeing Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling coming out, Chen Luan grabbed a handful of snow and threw it at their faces.

Jiang Xun dodged quickly and the snowball only hit his clothes on the shoulder. Jiang Ling was caught off guard and the snowball just happened to slide into the collar, causing her to shiver with cold on the spot.

Seeing Jiang Ling shaking off the snow like a puppy, Chen Luan lay in the snow and laughed out loud, and then was pressed into the snow by Jiang Ling who pounced on him.

The young man in red was thrown onto his back, with snow particles on his hair, face and even eyelashes. His face was flushed, perhaps from smiling or the cold weather, and his beautiful eyes were half-closed as he looked at people lazily.

Jiang Ling sat astride Chen Luan's legs, pressed Chen Luan's shoulders, grabbed a handful of snow and was about to stuff it into Chen Luan's collar, wanting to take revenge.

Chen Luan laughed and struggled, and the two of them rolled into a ball in the snow.

Jiang Xun looked at the two childish guys from a distance. Just as he was about to sigh, a snowball was thrown and hit Jiang Xun on the head.

Not far away came the wild laughter of two childish people fooling around.

Jiang Xun: “…”

Jiang Xun: "It's fun, right?"

The boy who usually looks aloof and aloof brushed away the snowflakes on his hair and shoulders, raised the corners of his lips, and quickly joined the snow battle.

When the three of them were tired from playing and lay in a row on the snow to catch their breath, they all felt unprecedented relaxation and comfort.

"Let's go, let's go now, brother will take you to the amusement park!"

Chen Luan sneezed, rubbed his itchy nose, got up nonchalantly, and stretched out his hand to his younger brothers.

Pulling one by one, the three of them arrived at the door of Jiang's house and the driver was already waiting.

The Red Maple Area is not far from the Aurora Area, and when the car arrived at the amusement park parking lot, the park had just opened.

It was winter vacation, so there were many people entering the park.

As soon as Chen Luan got out of the car, he felt a warm hand holding his wrist.

When Chen Luan looked up, he saw Jiang Ling pinching his wrist and turned his head away: "Why are you looking at me? There are so many people here, I'm afraid you'll get lost."

Jiang Xun then quickly took over Chen Luan's other wrist: "I'm afraid you'll lose me."

Chen Luan: “…”

It seems that it’s not a good thing for my brother, who I used to hate, to become clingy.

But after looking at the crowded crowd, Chen Luan finally nodded: "Alright."

So, wearing two large arm pendants, Chen Luan walked into the normally functioning paradise for the first time.

Chen Luan first entered the park when he was 13 years old.

At that time, he followed the adults in the base to collect supplies and passed by a long-abandoned paradise.

Although the roller coaster track had long since broken and collapsed, the carousel that no longer ran was rusted and covered with moss, and the tall Ferris wheel in the center of the park was silent, it was the first time Chen Luan saw the happiest place for children described in the textbooks.

At the age of 13, he could almost imagine how beautiful and prosperous this place must have been before the invasion of wild beasts.

The roller coaster will be filled with people screaming and laughing, the carousel will play music and hang beautiful colored lights, and the Ferris wheel will be spinning, with perhaps young men and women on board who are just beginning to fall in love, waiting to kiss when the car reaches the top.

Unfortunately, not long after, the ruins were also destroyed by a tide of beasts.

Chen Luan originally wanted to find an opportunity to go to the top of the Ferris wheel to take a look.

"Hello, hello. Chen Luan."

Someone's hand waved in front of his eyes, and Chen Luan came back to his senses as if waking from a dream.

The bizarre childhood fantasies gradually overlapped with the scene before my eyes, and they were exactly the same.

Jiang Ling approached Chen Luan and looked at him in confusion: "What's wrong with you? Why are you showing such a face to the carousel..."

Jiang Ling paused, as if searching for a suitable adjective: "An expression of nostalgia, as if this amusement park will collapse tomorrow."

Chen Luan: “…”

After a moment of silence, Chen Luan quickly adjusted his mood, raised his eyelids and looked at Jiang Ling with a hint of ridicule:

"That's not the case. I was just imagining how cute you and Jiang Xun must have been when you were little, sitting on that sparkly pink Pegasus and laughing together."

Jiang Ling immediately showed a disgusted expression when he heard this: "Impossible, I would never ride on something like this. Not even when I was a kid!"

Jiang Xun didn't say anything.

But Chen Luan found it inexplicably difficult to imagine little Jiang Xun sitting on a Pegasus and laughing happily.

If he had to think hard, he could only think of Jiang Xun's cold expression, which did not match the cute Pegasus with colorful lights at all.

So three minutes later.

Jiang Ling sat on a blue Pegasus, holding the horse's head with a sullen look on his face, almost hiding his head in his clothes.

The blue color was the result of his hard work. The pink Pegasus given to him at the beginning was now being ridden by Jiang Xun.

Chen Luan sat on the orange pony in front of the two of them, holding up his cell phone with a naughty smile on his face, asking them to make a "yeah" sign and take a photo with him.

With a "click" sound of the shutter, the picture is frozen.

Chen Luan's face was squeezed in the front of the camera, with his eyes curved and smiling like a bad cat whose conspiracy had succeeded. Jiang Ling sat in the back, with a sour face, giving the camera an arrogant middle finger. Next to him was Jiang Xun, with a cold expression but holding up his two rabbit hands obediently, his eyes not on the camera, but on Chen Luan.

After getting off the carousel, Chen Luan dragged Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling to ride a series of projects including the roller coaster, bungee jumping machine, pendulum, pirate ship, etc., almost going around the entire park.

Jiang Ling, who was disdainful at first, gradually became infected by Chen Luan's laughter and immersed in it.

She would laugh and shout along with Chen Luan the moment her body lost weight, subconsciously hold Chen Luan's fingers when they dived rapidly, and her eyes would shine brightly when she climbed high into the sky to overlook the entire park.

Even Jiang Xun's eyes, as clear as an icy spring, were tinged with a hint of subtle warmth, like the spring sun melting snow and sprouting new green branches.

Chen Luan used to think that they always seemed to have some worries hidden in their eyes like little adults, but now, at these times, they look like normal, lively and happy teenage boys.

He hopes his brothers can be happier.

Chen Luan also bought tickets for the haunted house.

Jiang Ling felt that these were all artificially arranged scenes, and there were either mechanically controlled traps or artificially disguised ghosts in them. What was there to be afraid of? He also complained about the cowardice of the omega who had just come out of the haunted house and nestled in the arms of the alpha.

It was not until they were in the dimly lit tunnel that Jiang Xun quietly grasped Chen Luan's sleeve.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Chen Luan turned his head and saw Jiang Xun's lips tightly pursed into a line and his face slightly pale.

Chen Luan laughed. He didn't expect Jiang Xun to be afraid of this.

So he generously reached out and took Jiang Xun in his arms, holding Jiang Xun's head and rubbing it soothingly: "What are you afraid of? It's all fake. I'll be out right away."

Jiang Ling laughed at Jiang Xun loudly from the side: "Hahahaha, why didn't I realize before that you are afraid of the dark and ghosts! Hahaha! Ha..."

wrong.

Jiang Ling looked at Jiang Xun, who was snuggling in Chen Luan's arms and hugging Chen Luan's waist. The smile on his face gradually shifted to the corners of Jiang Xun's lips that were secretly raised towards him.

He narrowed his eyes and clenched his back teeth, and for the first time he felt the urge to strangle his twin brother to death.

Jiang Xun, how dare you play tricks on me!

Will it still work if I start pretending to be scared now?

The answer is no.

Because when Jiang Ling was hesitating and hadn't decided whether to swallow her pride and pretend to be scared, they had already seen the bright sky outside the haunted house again.

As they were about to leave the park, Chen Luan took Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling to the last stop of their trip to the park, the Ferris wheel.

In the carriage next to them was a young couple. The handsome male omega was holding the hand of the tall male alpha, and the two of them were leaning against each other tightly.

Although such scenes had a great impact on Chen Luan, who had not experienced the era of great differentiation and was a completely straight man before, he could only express respect and follow the local customs.

In the quiet carriage, the three people looked at each other.

A little embarrassing.

Chen Luan was the first to look away and out the window. As he gradually rose in altitude, he could gradually overlook the entire paradise.

Can it be considered as fulfilling a small dream of my 13-year-old self?

When it was about to reach the climax, the car next to it arrived first, and the two people inside kissed each other passionately.

Chen Luan lamented that after more than two hundred years, he had never expected this ancient ritual to still be popular. He quickly reached out and covered Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling's eyes with his hands. "Don't look at anything inappropriate. Don't look at anything inappropriate. Children, don't look at it. It's impolite."

Jiang Xun: “…”

Jiang Ling: "If you don't let us watch, then why do you want to watch it!?"

Chen Luan snorted and laughed righteously: "Because I'm impolite."

No one knew what kind of ripples went through Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling's hearts when Chen Luan's warm hands covered their eyes and his eyelashes brushed across his palms like butterfly wings.

On the way back to Jiang's house, Chen Luan asked the driver to stop the car, went down to a photo studio to develop a photo of the three of them sitting on the carousel, and then returned to the car and sent one to Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling.

"Here, this is a souvenir of our first team-building activity for the three of us brothers."

Jiang Ling pinched the photo and frowned in disdain: "Can't you pick a more normal one, Chen Luan?"

While putting the photo into the transparent compartment of the card holder.

——By the way, he secretly folded half a banknote to cover his brother's face, so that it looked like there were only Jiang Ling and Chen Luan in the picture.

Jiang Xun noticed it, and with a sneer, he whispered to Jiang Ling, "Childish."

Jiang Ling rolled her eyes and mouthed "sinister" in response, giving a hidden middle finger.

The next morning, Chen Luan got up late again. When he woke up, Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling had already left to catch the plane to his grandfather's house.

My head was throbbing with pain, I felt a little dizzy, and my throat was burning so much that I could hardly make a sound.

Chen Luan touched his forehead and made a "tsk" sound.

I think I had too much fun yesterday and caught a cold due to the wind. Now I have a fever.

But he had no time to take care of it.

Because he also bought a plane ticket this morning, with his destination being Yuminglik Island.

Moreover, because the economy class was sold out when he bought the ticket, Chen Luan gritted his teeth and bought the business class ticket. Now it is too late to change or refund the ticket.

He grabbed a ticket to the ruins museum at base S17 and planned to go and take a look.

Chen Luan packed his bag in a hurry, not even bothering to look for medicine. He carried the chocolate for Jiang Mingming and the pineapple soda for Wang Xiaodou, and finally successfully entered the station one minute before the plane stopped checking tickets.

But when Chen Luan finally found his seat, he and the person next to him were both stunned.

"Chen Luan!?"

"...Jiang Ling Jiang Xun?"

There was an eerie silence for a few seconds.

Chen Luan covered his mouth and coughed a few times in a suppressed manner. In order to rush through the ticket check, he ran all the way from the airport. The wind blew on the way, and he even felt that the floor and ceiling were twisting and spinning.

It felt like falling into a kaleidoscope.

After shaking his head, Chen Luan asked in a low, obviously hoarse voice, "Are you going to Yuminglik Island too?"

But after asking, he laughed.

"What if we both parachuted down to the battlefield?" Jiang Ling frowned as he saw the abnormal red flush on Chen Luan's face. "Chen Luan, what's wrong with your throat?"

"It's okay... cough." Chen Luan sat down in his seat, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and waved his hand weakly: "It's just a cold, a minor problem."

The next second, a hand landed on his burning forehead.

The cool touch made Chen Luan, who was feeling hot and burning all over, rub the hand unconsciously.

This action caused the hand to freeze for a moment, and only then did Chen Luan hear Jiang Xun's calm voice: "Brother, you have a fever."

After several hours of flight, Chen Luan was dizzy with fever. He was drowsy and only felt that there were two warm and cool heat sources around him. The ice pack on his forehead was constantly being replaced, and his cracked lips were moisturized with warm water from time to time.

It was not until Chen Luan, who had fallen asleep on the way, got off the plane and checked into the hotel that he regained consciousness.

His throat was so dry that it felt like it was on fire. Chen Luan mumbled inaudibly, "Water... cough, is there any water..."

Almost in the next second, Chen Luan felt someone carefully helping him up. A pair of slightly cool fingers gently pinched his chin, and then warm water slowly flowed into his thirsty lips and tongue.

Chen Luan opened his eyes as he gradually regained consciousness, only to find himself lying on the soft big bed in the hotel, his head resting on Jiang Ling's shoulder behind him. Jiang Xun was sitting on the edge of the bed in front of him, holding a disposable paper cup half filled with warm water in his hand.

Chen Luan blinked slowly, raised his hand and pinched his still aching forehead: "Aren't you... going to grandpa's place?"

"How can we leave you alone in the hotel like this? Let's not go today. There's no rush for one night."

"You're so feverish you're talking nonsense. I'm afraid I'll come back tomorrow and find you burned like an idiot in the hotel."

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