Chapter 43

The house was not small and had many rooms, but the two of them tacitly and naturally only cleaned up one bedroom.

It was already afternoon when they arrived at the town. They kept packing until it was almost dark before they remembered about dinner.

"Let's go hunting nearby." Qin Zunyue looked at the mountains in the distance. "There must be a lot of animals here. We have to lock the door at night."

It is really convenient to have spiritual power. You don’t even need to bring a gun when hunting. You can have no worries about food with Liu Huaizhao. Qin Zunyue looked at his lover flying in front of him, and enjoyed the feeling of getting something for nothing with peace of mind.

There was dry firewood stored by the previous owner in the house. Qin Zunyue took a few pieces and sighed at the neatly stacked pile of firewood.

Liu Huaizhao naturally knew why he sighed, and patted his shoulder. "Maybe they have evacuated to a safe city."

"Yeah." Qin Zunyue smiled and sighed, "It's almost over."

After all, the conditions were limited, so they still had barbecue at night. In fact, Liu Huaizhao could have just not eaten, but he still wanted to stay close to Qin Zunyue and slowly enjoy the delicacies of the world.

After all, it looks like they are just like all lovers in the world, living a life full of fireworks.

-

After dinner, Liu Huaizhao cast a cleansing spell on the two of them and prepared to go to bed, but Qin Zunyue stopped him and said, "Let's look at the moon."

So he also sat down with Qin Zunyue and looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

"You know what? The first night we met, when I went to bring you something, you were standing in front of the window looking at the moon. I thought, you look so lonely."

But think about it, Qin Zunyue thought to himself, after all, everything in this world has become unfamiliar to Liu Huaizhao, all the people he is familiar with are gone, only the moon is still the same as it was a thousand years ago.

"I was really scared at the time." Liu Huaizhao held his hand and said slowly: "Even though it was my own choice, I didn't remember anything after waking up. I thought it was a side effect of sealing the turbid demon, so I wanted to kill Gongsun Xuan as soon as possible so that I could go find my master and the others."

Qin Zunyue turned his head to the side, with unspeakable sadness in his eyes.

"I'm glad I met you." Liu Huaizhao stretched out his hand, traced his eyebrows, and gently raised the corners of his lips. "When you first bought me a cupcake, I thought it would be great if I could bring these things to Master. Later, you baked cookies for me as dessert, and I thought again, it would be great if I could take you to see my Master."

At this point, Liu Huaizhao paused, "I was just thinking about it, I wasn't planning on doing anything to you."

Qin Zunyue laughed, lowered his head, and gently kissed his eyes, "I know. Huaizhao, I will go with you to see the master."

Liu Huaizhao naturally thought he was talking about what would happen between them a hundred years later. He felt bitter in his heart, but he didn't show it. He just hugged him gently and said, "Qin Zunyue, I like you so much."

"Me too." So no matter where you go, I will never leave you.

-

When they chose the room, they deliberately found the one with the smallest bed. The narrow bed made the two of them still stick close to each other even if they didn't do anything intimate.

Qin Zunyue's body temperature was high, and Liu Huaizhao felt that his arm, which was touching him, seemed to be burning, so he moved slightly, trying to move away a little.

But Qin Zunyue, who had fallen asleep next to him, grabbed his hand reflexively and opened his eyes to look at him.

Liu Huaizhao was startled by him and turned his head to look at him.

"Where are you going?" Qin Zunyue became a little more sober and relaxed the strength of his hands a little, but not completely.

"I'm not going anywhere." Liu Huaizhao didn't know why he asked this, and explained, "You're too hot."

"Really?" Qin Zun heard it and instead of letting him go, he hugged him even tighter. "Aren't you not affected by temperature?"

"I'm just not affected, not that I can't feel it." Liu Huaizhao complained.

After that, he took Qin Zunyue's pulse again and said to himself: "Your temperature today is higher than before. What's going on? You're not sick..."

Before he could finish his words, Qin Zunyue turned over and pressed on him, "I know a way to cool me down, do you want to try it?"

-

Liu Huaizhao ignored Qin Zunyue all morning.

No matter how Qin Zunyue followed him and tried to please him, he didn't say a word. Sometimes, when he suddenly remembered something, he would stop and kick Qin Zunyue's calf.

Qin Zunyue had a smile on his face the whole time, as if he was not the one being kicked.

Liu Huaizhao actually didn’t know what to do now, but he had decided to break up with Qin Zunyue - Tong Le taught him this word.

Of course, it’s not a permanent breakup. It’s just because Qin Zunyue didn’t perform well last night, so we’re breaking up temporarily for one day.

Thinking of last night, Liu Huaizhao became furious again. He stopped and kicked Qin Zunyue's calf again.

"Hiss--" The kick was indeed not light. Qin Zunyue took a breath, but after seeing Liu Huaizhao's instantly panicked expression, he quickly closed his mouth.

The two stood there staring at each other. Qin Zunyue thought about how bored he had been wandering around the house all morning, so he suggested, "Why don't we go for a walk in the mountains?"

"Oh." Liu Huaizhao finally said his first words of the day and turned to walk out.

Qin Zunyue immediately followed and tried to hold his hand.

Liu Huaizhao didn't struggle to break free. He immediately leaned over to kiss him after interlocking their fingers.

Liu Huaizhao pushed his face away and glared at him, "Why are you still pushing your luck!"

"It's my fault, it's my fault." Qin Zunyue released his hand, rubbed his waist, and whispered, "I will never do this again. I will definitely stop when I see the good."

Liu Huaizhao's face turned red instantly. He glared at Qin Zunyue and quickened his pace.

Qin Zunyue thought he looked very cute when he was angry, so he chased after him with a smile and began to coax him in a low voice.

After he had said all the nice words he could think of, Liu Huaizhao finally calmed down and walked aimlessly on the mountain with him.

The mountains were covered with fallen leaves in late autumn. Liu Huaizhao held Qin Zunyue's hand and stepped on the dry leaves, listening to the crisp sounds they made.

Very boring activity.

But the two didn't think so. Qin Zunyue used his feet to hook the dead leaves around him, and Liu Huaizhao pulled his hand and stepped on them together.

"What is winter like here?" Liu Huaizhao asked.

"It's going to snow a lot." Qin Zunyue looked up and took in the surrounding scenery. "Let's come back and see it in winter."

Liu Huaizhao stood shoulder to shoulder with him and also looked around at the surrounding scenery, but did not speak.

After a long moment, Qin Zunyue turned to look at him and asked, "Will you come with me in winter?"

Liu Huaizhao didn't say anything, and Qin Zunyue was silent with him.

After a while, Liu Huaizhao squeezed Qin Zunyue's hand and said, "Let's go. I want to go back."

Qin Zunyue didn't move, but repeated again, "Come with me."

Liu Huaizhao's lips trembled slightly, and he lowered his eyes. His long eyelashes cast a shadow on his fair face. After a moment, he spoke: "Okay."

-

After the two of them had been sitting in the hut doing nothing for two days, Liu Huaizhao suddenly said, "I can sense Gongsun Xuan's presence."

So the two of them hurriedly packed up their things and went to the house where the others were staying temporarily.

As soon as they appeared, Ji Mingting, who was sitting on the sofa braiding Ajin's hair, immediately stood up and looked Liu Huaizhao carefully from head to toe.

Liu Huaizhao felt uncomfortable being stared at by him, and he gritted his teeth and pretended not to see it.

Qin Zunyue coughed lightly, stood in front of Liu Huaizhao, and then repeated what Liu Huaizhao said today.

"Ah!!!" Tong Le yelled, urging Qiao Lang and Wei Zhirong, who were still slumped on the sofa, to get up. "Hurry up, hurry up, we've finally made it today. I'm almost dying of boredom."

"Xiao Liao." Qin Zunyue called Yan Liao, "Contact your sister."

Yan Liao nodded and turned to go to the room to get the communicator.

"Where is he now?" Zheng Shu asked.

"It's not far from us." Liu Huaizhao took the map Zheng Shu handed him, pointed in a general direction, and said, "It's in this area. Now that he doesn't have the help of the turbid monsters, and the security cities in various places have increased their vigilance under our guidance, his plan to increase his spiritual power by absorbing the flesh and blood of mortals is not feasible. He can only practice in the places with abundant spiritual power near the sacred mountain."

After saying this, he pointed to an inconspicuous spot on the map. "This place, unlike the sacred mountain that connects the gods, is the place where the heavy and turbid energy was born when heaven and earth were first separated. I'm 80% sure he'll be here."

"A Zhao, how do you know all this?" Ji Mingting asked.

"I dreamed about it." Liu Huaizhao put down the map, not knowing how to explain it to them. He could only say, "Believe me."

"We definitely trust you." Tong Le came over to look at the map and planned the route at the same time.

As soon as she stretched out her hand, Yan Liao handed her a pen from the coffee table.

Tong Le circled a few places and said, "There are only three safe cities built nearby, but because they are relatively remote, there are fewer people and weapons."

Yan Liao immediately said, "I just contacted my sister. After we contacted her, she immediately brought people here. The Central Security City also sent a lot of people here. Their weapons are more advanced."

Liu Huaizhao nodded in satisfaction and said, "We don't know how many people Gongsun Xuan has under his command, so we'd better be fully prepared."

Qiao Lang rubbed his hands together, "Can we use the weapons they sent?"

Yan Liao nodded and said, "You can't use it."

Qiao Lang was instantly anxious. "Why? Am I the only one who can't use it? I never failed the weapons handling class when I was in the shelter."

Tong Le was also a little confused and asked, "Did Commander Yan say that? Why?"

After she finished speaking, she saw the corners of Yan Liao's mouth curl up slightly, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. She said in disbelief: "Are you...kidding...him?"

"Yes." Yan Liao nodded and asked seriously, "Isn't it funny?"

Everyone burst into laughter, and the serious and somewhat tense atmosphere was instantly broken.

"Alright." Qin Zunyue clapped his hands with a smile, "They should be here soon, let's go too."

After walking out of the house, Qin Zunyue turned around and closed the door gently, then looked up at the mountain they had climbed two days ago.

Liu Huaizhao seemed to sense something, stopped, turned around and looked at him.

Qin Zunyue withdrew his gaze, took two quick steps, held Liu Huaizhao's hand, and silently said goodbye to the mountain in his heart.

Goodbye winter.