Fighting side by side

Pei Zhi hugged Xu Youling to his side. The wind was blowing so hard that the thin blanket on Xu Youling's body was blown all over the place, making a rustling sound.

He took the initiative to stretch out the hand that Pei Zhi was holding on his waist to hold Pei Zhi's. Pei Zhi felt a small piece of coldness, frowned slightly, and held it tighter.

"Are you cold?" he asked in a low voice.

On the snowy plains, the cold means injury and even mental invasion, which is extremely dangerous. Xu Youling shook his head vigorously and shook his hand back.

"I can really help you." Xu Youling said firmly.

Pei Zhi's hand tightly held Xu Youling's hand between his fingers, weaving them together so tightly that there was no possibility of separation. Xu Youling took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.

Sentinels are gifted with their powerful five senses and combat abilities. They can keenly perceive fluctuations in their mental energy, using them as an aid in combat to unleash greater power. However, high-intensity combat can lead to severe mental overload, plunging their mental realm into chaos.

However, the guide excels at spiritual comfort and emotional perception, including amplifying the range of the sentinel's perception of spiritual power and even expanding it to the entire battlefield.

If the sentinel is the kite hanging high in the sky, the guide is the string on the ground.

Although Xu Youling didn't think he could achieve that level easily.

"Don't be afraid." Pei Zhi whispered.

The two men stood side by side, looking towards the distant horizon. The rising white mist blurred the sun. The soldiers in the carriage remained silent, observing with bated breath the overly quiet silence and the spiritual power surging under the snowfield, which came from nowhere.

Before it began to fluctuate violently, Xu Youling turned to Pei Zhi and asked, "If I weren't here, would you be alone?"

Pei Zhi paused and tightened his grip on his hand. The ground had already begun to shake, and the sentries and guides standing in pairs around him were looking alert.

"Yes." Pei Zhi smiled softly, "I'm glad you're here."

The explosion of unknown mental power happened in an instant.

Something twisted upward, gathering up a large amount of snow and gravel, first in a few thin strands, then gathering together to form a long, high wall. It had a clear goal, heading straight for the train crossing the snowfield.

"Don't separate from me." Pei Zhi whispered.

Xu Youling couldn't tell whether this was a tactical command or something more pressing, but the situation didn't allow him to dwell on it. Pei Zhi held his hand tightly, his expression more serious than ever.

The next second, the world suddenly turned upside down, and the two of them plummeted downwards into the soft, cold snow.

The moment he opened his eyes, Xu Youling realized that this was Pei Zhi's spiritual realm.

Although the snowy plains in the real scene were almost identical to the pure white in Pei Zhi's spiritual realm, Xu Youling still quickly sensed this. He cast his gaze at Pei Zhi beside him, who frowned and seemed a little confused.

"What's wrong?" Xu Youling asked in a low voice.

"Aren't they a little too similar?" Pei Zhi turned his head to listen to his opinion.

"Wasn't it so similar before?" Xu Youling also frowned.

He knew that certain mental confrontations would directly drag both sides into the spiritual realm, but after all, he had never personally participated in such a battle, so he couldn't help but feel sympathetic.

Pei Zhi suddenly pushed him behind him and stretched out his hand. A large mass of snowflakes and gravel, driven by mental power and flying towards him, was blocked in the air.

"What is that--" Xu Youling lost his voice.

Pei Zhi didn't respond, but whispered, "Hold on to me."

The spiritual force seemed to have life, zigzagging back diagonally and confronting the two men for a long time. Xu Youling tightened his grip on Pei Zhi's hand, unexpectedly feeling a subtle tremor.

It's not fear, nor tension, but a kind of anxiety and confusion that naturally emerges when facing an unknown and powerful object.

The German Shepherd broke through the air and lay on the ground in an attacking posture. Xu Youling closed his eyes and transmitted a soothing message into Pei Zhi's mind.

"It's okay, it's okay." He whispered, "Everything will be fine."

Just at this moment, the mental force seemed to have found some flaw and rushed straight towards the two of them!

The German Shepherd roared, leaped into the air, and with its mouth wide open, bit the creature apart. Pei Zhi drew his dagger and hurled it far away.

Thanks to his connection with Xu Youling, Pei Zhi was able to perceive the possible movement of that spiritual force on a larger scale. The dagger, as if piercing something solid, made a metallic clang and then fell to the ground. However, the place where it had just landed was still empty, without a trace.

Pei Zhi pursued Xu Youling, the whistling north wind scraping across their faces like knives. Xu Youling felt Pei Zhi's power flowing into his own body, enabling him to move swiftly with him.

Yet the chase seemed endless, for the whiteness of the snowy plains was endless, blurring his mind and perception. Xu Youling's resistance to this distraction was stronger, so he could only hold Pei Zhi's hand tighter, quieting his raging heart and sharing this calm with him.

"What on earth are you..."

As they passed each other again, Pei Zhi whispered, as if that ball of spiritual power could truly answer his existence. Xu Youling bit the tip of his tongue hard, forcing himself to stay awake.

"Don't be affected by it..." Xu Youling said to Pei Zhi with difficulty.

"I know." Pei Zhi tightened his hand.

The chase finally came to an end.

A huge, steep mountain suddenly rose from the snowy plain ahead, its black rock exposed and covered in snow. The spiritual force suddenly stopped, curled back, and tried to escape.

The German Shepherd knew to block his retreat without any verbal instructions from his owner, and barked wildly to force back his mental power and rolled back to the front of the mountain. Pei Zhi held Xu Youling's hand tightly, maintaining his shaky sanity like a person thirsting for clean water in the desert.

"It will be over soon, very soon..."

He should have attacked swiftly, just like every other mission, to disperse it until the spiritual energy completely dissipated, leaving no chance of a comeback. But with Xu Youling by his side, Pei Zhi wanted to be extra cautious.

Xu Youling's face turned a little pale, but he whispered "OK".

Pei Zhi no longer hesitated, drew his short knife, and strode forward. His mental power was at his mercy, but when the blade passed, it seemed as if it had only cut through the air, leaving no trace.

However, Pei Zhi's enhanced five senses made him keenly aware of how the mass was broken into scattered pieces and how it floated away like a deflated balloon.

Just like any other battle before it, it faded away.

But the spiritual realm is not as chaotic and polluted as before because Xu Youling is by his side.

Pei Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Xu Youling's face. The scenery in the spiritual realm had gradually faded, and they were back to the snowy plains that the train had traversed.

But this time, there was no snow on the snowfield, and it had returned to its former desolate state.

"Youling, we..."

Pei Zhi called his name with a smile, but the guide's face turned pale, and he looked at him blankly. He was startled and almost lost control as he held Xu Youling's face in his hands.

"Look at me, Xu Youling, look at me! What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Look at me!"

The other soldiers around also gradually emerged from the spiritual realm. Some were injured, and some looked extremely tired, but after hearing Pei Zhi's almost collapsed roar, they all looked in this direction in surprise.

The guide in his arms stood there blankly, like a beautiful doll with its soul taken away, and remained silent no matter how he tried to move it.

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Very noisy.

Xu Youling, his ability to perceive emotions dramatically stimulated, had only this one thought. Clearly no one was speaking, yet all the other people's emotions flooded into his mind in the form of concepts and intuitions, plunging him into chaos.

But I can't really tell what the other person is saying.

People's heads opened and closed like mouths, and he listened with difficulty, as if immersed in some solution dense enough to keep him suspended.

A thought suddenly popped up in his swampy mind: these emotions came from the unknown spiritual power that he and Pei Zhi had just dealt with together.

And now he knew where they came from.

Constantly attacking this world, it allows the coordinated combat method of the sentries to operate, making the encounter, separation and reunion of the protagonists possible.

That is the common will of the author and the reader that comes from outside the world that constitutes this world.

"……main character……"

"Yue Fang is so good!"

"When will the villain go offline..."

“…”

"He's finally dead. It's such a relief."

“!”

Xu Youling opened his eyes with difficulty in the heavy solution, and looked towards the source of the sound in panic, but saw nothing. Only more sounds came in an overwhelming and overlapping manner, almost drowning him.

"Little Couple 99!"

"Congratulations on the end..."

“…”

No! No!

Xu Youling took a deep breath and almost roared, but when he opened his mouth, it felt like his throat was strangled, making it difficult to speak. But it shouldn't be like this! He had already changed Pei Zhi's fate, even if it hadn't been completely reversed, even if...

Pei Zhi did not do the evil things that seemed inevitable, and he did not die!

The ending on the other side is another ending, but the ending here is the story of Xu Youling and Pei Zhi!

They will escape to a safe, soft place where they are not bound by a predetermined fate.

Can't be persuaded here!

Xu Youling swam to the end of the solution with two powerful swings of his arms. It was like a giant swimming pool. When he finally touched the wall, he used all his strength and crashed into it headfirst.

!

What I touched was not hard tiles, but a warm embrace.

Xu Youling opened her eyes and felt her whole body was as heavy as if it was filled with cement. The tip of her nose was touching Pei Zhi's chin, and she fell on him with her arms and legs spread out.

The environment he was in didn't seem to be a train, but a clean and tidy small room. Pei Zhi stared at him in a daze.

Xu Youling didn't know how to start. Pei Zhi's direct gaze made his heart beat rapidly. Should he explain what happened? If Pei Zhi had already guessed something, should he share the information with him? Because they definitely needed to work together...

However, all Pei Zhi did was to raise his hands and hug him so tightly that Xu Youling's bones ached.

"Pei Zhi, Pei Zhi..." Xu Youling immediately began to beg for mercy, "What are you doing..."

"You scared me to death, do you know that? You scared me to death!" Pei Zhi buried his head in the side of his neck, his voice muffled, and then quickly held his face to check, "How could you be unconscious for so long... Are you feeling uncomfortable? Let me take a look..."

Are you unconscious?

Xu Youling didn't understand what was going on, so she just raised her hand to touch Pei Zhi's face, which led to an even deeper hug.