Chapter 337: Zhi Lan’s Little World (End)

Chi Lan hugged Bai Sanhua's back tightly. He opened his eyelids and looked out. The water droplets on the window were small and dense. It had rained again without him noticing.

This small world, which was revived by draining the energy of the main system, shows the inner heart of Bai Sanhua at all times.

"Bai Sanhua, I want to go out." Zhi Lan lowered his eyelashes, half threatening and half asking, "Will you let me out?"

Bai Sanhua wiped the corners of his eyes.

[…Take me with you?]

Zhi Lan smiled: "No."

Bai Sanhua’s arms stiffened.

[You said before... before... that you would take me with you. ]

"The past is the past, and the present is the present." Zhi Lan let go of his hand, looked at Bai Sanhua's eyes without hesitation, and said, "You never told me before that you are a man."

【I am not.】

"Really?" The smile on Zhi Lan's face faded, "Then what are you?"

【I am a machine...】

The answer was about to come out of his mouth, but as soon as Bai Sanhua opened his mouth, he keenly noticed something unusual.

He changed the tone of the words that were about to come out of his mouth and continued.

[I am a dragon like you.]

As he spoke, he raised the black dragon tail behind him.

【Male, infertile. 】

Zhi Lan: “…”

[It is not a threat and you can carry it with you. 】

"That's right, I don't like homosexuals. If you were a female, there might be a chance for us two." Zhi Lan said calmly, "Now I just want to go out alone."

The white cat's tail fell to the ground, his silver eyes flickered, and after a long while he continued.

【I want to come back.】

Zhi Lan said nothing.

【I want to come back.】

Bai Sanhua repeated it again.

"What will happen if I don't come back?" Zhi Lan asked, "Will you kill me with lightning?"

Bai Sanhua's expression remained unchanged, his thin lips were pressed into a line, his eyes were filled with emotions, and he stared straight at Zhi Lan.

Zhi Lan felt nothing at all and still looked back at Bai Sanhua with a half-smile as before.

【……will not.】

The tone of white three-flowered flower is gentle.

【I respect all your decisions. 】

Zhi Lan raised his eyebrows. Bai Sanhua's words were beyond his expectations. "You said it, don't go back on your word."

【will not.】

Chi Lan narrowed his eyes slightly. The man standing in front of him had a body that was a mixture of dragon and machine, and a fusion of rationality and sensibility... He was no longer a simple silver ball.

Main system...

Zhi Lan stretched out his hand to him: "Let's go, let's go down together."

Bai Sanhua lowered his head, held Zhi Lan's hand, and obediently followed Zhi Lan down the stairs.

Zhi Lan's figure was imprinted in his pupils. Bai Sanhua raised his eyelids and looked at him for a while, then closed his eyelashes again soon after.

＊

Zhi Lan chose a very close time to leave. Not long after talking to Bai Sanhua, he packed his luggage and prepared to leave the castle.

Bai Sanhua sat on the sofa without saying a word.

The weather has been pretty good recently, and the white cattail is pretty trustworthy. Although there are a few dark clouds in the sky from time to time, the white cattail has restrained itself from letting it rain. There are only a few strong winds occasionally, but the sun is still shining.

After Zhi Lan packed his clothes, he dragged his suitcase downstairs. Bai Sanhua sat on the sofa with his knees hugged. The TV was on, and his pupils were fixed on the constantly changing figures on the screen.

"Sanhua, there's food in the refrigerator. If you're hungry, take it yourself." Zhi Lan put on his running shoes for going out. He glanced at Bai Sanhua and said, "I'm leaving."

Bai Sanhua didn't even look at Zhi Lan, and used the remote control to change the TV channel.

【Um.】

Zhi Lan opened the door and stopped at the door without even looking at Bai Sanhua: "Where's the farewell kiss?"

Bai Sanhua kept pressing the remote control with his hand. He paused when he heard the sound of Zhi Lan. He raised his eyelashes and stood up from the sofa.

He walked with big and steady steps, and in a few steps he was beside Zhi Lan. Zhi Lan was waiting for him, and he raised his head slightly, and was about to speak when Bai Sanhua suddenly grabbed his chin and pressed him against the ancient stone door behind him.

"Hello……"

There was a sharp pain around his neck, and Zhi Lan squinted his eyes in pain. He grabbed Bai Sanhua's collar and frowned, saying, "That's not how you do it, Bai Sanhua—"

Bai Sanhua had already bitten four or five wounds on the upper part of Zhi Lan's neck. He marked them and then kissed Zhi Lan's cheek affectionately.

【Goodbye kiss, and have a bon voyage. 】

After he finished speaking, he stepped aside obediently.

Zhi Lan rubbed the wound on his neck vigorously. Bai Sanhua's sharp white teeth actually made him bleed. He breathed more heavily and turned his head to look inside the room.

Bai Sanhua had returned to the sofa and continued to watch TV expressionlessly, as if nothing had happened.

Zhi Lan slowly massaged the wound on his neck with his fingertips. He touched the roof of his mouth with the tip of his tongue, sneered, then turned around and closed the door.

The sound of the door being locked could be clearly heard in the empty house. Bai Sanhua rolled up the white clothes beside her layer by layer with her fingertips and turned down the volume of the TV.

After a while, he heard the sound of the suitcase wheels rolling. The footsteps were very soft and soon disappeared from Bai Sanhua's ears.

Zhi Lan has already left.

Bai Sanhua lowered his eyelashes and took out the monitoring board hidden under the sofa. The small red dot on it moved slowly and was moving towards the sea little by little.

Bai Sanhua watched for a while, then turned off the monitoring panel. He continued to watch the melodramatic romance drama on TV, tapping his fingertips on the sofa, slowly counting the time that had passed.

Now, three minutes and twelve seconds have passed since Zhi Lan left.

＊

Zhi Lan finally did not leave the coast.

This world was reshaped by the main system after exhausting all its energy. Everything in it was copied one-to-one according to the requirements of the previous dragon world, including the dragons living outside the isolated island.

Zhi Lan remembered his final outcome. He was considered unlucky by the group and was eventually shot to death.

He may have longed for the world outside the island, but it was difficult for him to put it into practice due to his deformed body. But now that he has this intact body, he suddenly lost interest in the outside world.

There was nothing left there worth exploring.

There is no human being worth his re-recognition.

Zhi Lan sat on the shore. The biting cold wind blew in from the center of the ocean, blowing on Zhi Lan's face like some long-lost pain.

He never told Silver Ball that he wanted to go to the coast and go to those faraway places, mostly because of Silver Ball.

Tied to such a sickly host, unable to go out, unable to meet new people and creatures, and only able to stay with Chi Lan in such a tiny place as the Dragon Castle every day... Silver Ball might also feel bored.

Zhi Lan covered his face which was frozen stiff and numb. He smelled the scent of the sea in the cold wind and frowned uncomfortably.

Just like after his death, the main system kept his body in that small space. Hundreds, thousands, ten thousand years...

Zhi Lan had heard his sobbing before, and the sound was exactly the same as the silver ball's, which made him happy and sad at the same time.

Zhi Lan felt a sense of revengeful pleasure at that time, but deeper inside, there was even more unspeakable depression and sorrow.

How can he accept the existence of the main system?

He is a silver ball, but not completely a silver ball. He loves Zhi Lan and also kills Zhi Lan.

[Zhi Lan, I will return Su Hui to you... I will return him to you...]

[I won't make you angry again, I'm sorry... I'm sorry...]

Zhi Lan felt sore in his eyes, he closed his eyes and stopped looking at the endless sea.

What a main system. How smart and rational it was, but in the end it was blown to pieces.

The body is gone, the memory is gone, and all that is left is this clueless state.

It made Zhi Lan disgusted and sad.

The wind blowing on my face became soft at some point, losing the chill from afar and gaining a bit of warmth from the sun.

Xi Lan leaned against the stone wall without moving. He narrowed his eyes and asked in an unclear tone, "How did you know I was here?"

The coat covering him was heavy, pressing on Zhi Lan's back. Bai Sanhua said nothing. He sat next to Zhi Lan in his pajamas and pressed his cheek against her neck - to express his longing for her.

Zhi Lan laughed, and as Bai Sanhua approached him, he asked nonchalantly, "You installed surveillance equipment on me, didn't you?"

Bai Sanhua opened her eyes.

【Who are you thinking about? 】

Zhi Lan paused: "What did you say?"

【You are thinking about someone else. 】

Bai Sanhua's palm covered the back of Zhi Lan's hand.

【Backtrack.】

【You are thinking about him.】

He paused between words as he spoke, hostility rising in his eyes.

Zhi Lan didn't expect Bai Sanhua to say that. He had called Suhui's name when he was unconscious before. Bai Sanhua probably remembered Suhui at that time.

"Why do I miss him? I can't miss him?" Zhi Lan found it funny. He emphasized, "Before you came, he was always with me."

Bai Sanhua's face gradually became stiff.

【you……】

"I like him." Zhi Lan said frankly. He laughed at himself and kept a distance from Bai Sanhua. "But he died young. Now... I can only think about him."

Bai Sanhua secretly clenched his fists as Zhi Lan spoke one sentence after another. He pursed his lips, and only felt a huge weight lifted off his heart when he heard the news that Suhui was dead.

...dead?

He is dead?

Bai Sanhua didn't expect such a good thing to happen. Dead things are always better than living things. Otherwise, he would need to divert his extra attention to eliminate Suhui.

[He was with you before, and now I am with you. I am better than him. 】

Bai Sanhua symbolically comforted Zhi Lan with a few words, and then began to recommend herself.

Zhi Lan was silent for a moment: "For example?"

【I can make the sun never set. 】

Zhi Lan: “…”

[I can also make the night never fall. ]

Zhi Lan: “…”

"That's impressive, but how are you going to sleep? It's not normal for you to be like this." Zhi Lan held his hands behind his back and said, "Say something normal."

Bai Sanhua tilted his head slightly, as if he didn't understand what Zhi Lan said.

Controlling the sun, moon and stars so that they never fall seems to be a very romantic thing to him, but Zhi Lan is obviously not interested.

He thought about it before continuing.

[I have planted a lot of irises in the back hills. They are not wild, but planted by me. They will all bloom in a few days.]

【I'll take you to see it.】

Zhi Lan's eyes froze for a moment: "Iris flowers...are all planted by you?"

【Yes.】

“Why do you grow these?”

Bai Sanhua hesitated a little.

[The hill behind is bare, it would be nice to plant some flowers. ]

He vaguely remembered that Zhi Lan liked this variety of flower very much, but Bai Sanhua could not remember the specific reason no matter how hard he tried.

He just remembered that Zhi Lan liked these flowers.

Zhi Lan curled his fingers. In his complicated memories, both Suhui and the main system had sent him iris flowers. And now... Bai Sanhua did the same thing.

Repeat again.

He smiled sweetly, stood up and said, "Then wait until the flowers bloom, then take me to see them."

Bai Sanhua nodded.

【good.】

Such calm words would never come out of the silver ball's mouth. Zhi Lan lowered his eyelashes, and the warmth of his palm covering the back of his hand was no longer the touch and temperature of the ball.

Zhi Lan moved his fingertips but didn't say anything else.

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When Xi Lan returned to the villa, everything inside was still the same as before. The same was true of the food in the refrigerator, which Bai Sanhua had not touched.

Zhi Lan simply looked at the food inside and asked, "What have you eaten these days? Nothing inside has changed."

Bai Sanhua hummed.

【I can't eat without you. 】

“…”

Zhi Lan raised an eyebrow: "Say it again?"

White croaker is very obedient.

【I don’t want to eat when you’re not here. 】

"Oh..." Zhi Lan looked at the TV screen, which was still playing a certain melodramatic triangle drama. He ruffled Bai Sanhua's black hair and said, "Watch less soap operas. It's not good for your brain."

Bai Sanhua: “…”

Bai Sanhua was the one who cooked dinner again. Zhi Lan got the ingredients from outside, and Bai Sanhua made a few dishes according to the cooking tutorial.

Zhi Lan had to admire Bai Sanhua's learning ability. He didn't need to memorize too much. In most cases, he could remember everything after just one look.

This may also have something to do with the silver data box inlaid on his chest.

Zhi Lan didn't investigate further. He knew what was stored in the data box and would not touch it easily.

Bai Sanhua gradually became willing to go to the woods outside the castle. He was away for a very short time. After about ten minutes, he would return to the castle to confirm Zhi Lan's location.

Zhi Lan was already accustomed to these situations. Occasionally, when he saw Bai Sanhua spying on him through the window or door crack, he would just raise his eyelids and pretend not to notice.

Bai Sanhua's body was also changing. The mechanical appearance on his body almost completely disappeared, and was replaced by dragon scales and flesh and blood similar to Zhi Lan.

He is transitioning to the Dragon Clan.

The transition process was not ideal and the transformation was extremely difficult.

Zhi Lan once secretly checked Bai Sanhua's body. The dragon body he depended on was a deformed one. Every transition to the body tore and tortured Bai Sanhua's nerves.

Too long dragon tail... Deformed body...

All the abnormalities in Bai Sanhua's body were vaguely hinting at something - everything that Zhi Lan had suffered in the past was appearing on Bai Sanhua in another similar form.

This is also the punishment he deserves for forcibly changing the rules of the world and reviving the dragon world.

[…Don’t…Don’t…]

Zhi Lan was once again awakened by a noise in the middle of the night. He reached out his hand subconsciously and touched an object that was too hot.

"Sanhua?" Zhi Lan immediately turned on the desk light. He frowned and looked to the side. He saw Bai Sanhua curled up with a frown on his face. He was clutching the quilt tightly and sobbing.

[No... I'm not... not allowed...]

"Sanhua?" Zhi Lan wiped away the dense water drops on Bai Sanhua's forehead with a wet tissue. He called softly, "Sanhua, wake up, what's wrong? Sanhua..."

Bai Sanhua opened his eyes silently, he hunched over and breathed heavily, the edges of his eye sockets were bloodshot.

【Tracing back...】

He whispered.

"What?" Zhi Lan approached Bai Sanhua, covered Bai Sanhua's hot cheek with his palm, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Bai Sanhua's body froze abruptly. He slapped Zhi Lan's arm away and reacted violently by retreating to the corner of the wall.

[Go upstream...you have to go upstream...]

Bai Sanhua covered his mouth and nose, and felt waves of surging in his chest, filled with blame and self-loathing.

[You want to go back... You don't want me...]

Water vapor accumulated in his eye sockets layer by layer, gradually blurring his vision.

[Small system, tracing back, you...you all don’t want me...you all don’t want me...I am an error, the error is eliminated...the error is eliminated...]

Bai Sanhua covered his head and kept talking to himself. His words were incoherent and tears were mixed in with his fragmented voice.

"What are you talking about!" Zhi Lan looked at Bai Sanhua and his tone suddenly rose.

Bai Sanhua pretended not to hear anything. He staggered to his feet, without even putting on his clothes, picked up his trousers beside him and ran out.

"What on earth...that's mine!" Zhi Lan couldn't catch Bai Sanhua's arm. He saw Bai Sanhua preparing to jump down from the window, and suddenly his body turned into a dragon and wrapped around Bai Sanhua's dragon tail that was trailing behind him.

Bai Sanhua had already climbed to the edge of the window. Zhi Lan rolled up his black dragon tail, pulled him down from the window, and threw him directly onto the bed.

There was a loud "bang" and Bai Sanhua's head became dizzy and his whole body was in pain from the fall.

"Are you out of your mind?! Ah? Do you know which floor this is?" Zhi Lan grabbed Bai Sanhua's collarbone and held him down. Bai Sanhua arched his back and tried to struggle, but Zhi Lan simply tied up his entire body with his dragon tail.

Bai Sanhua was breathing heavily, his silver eyes buried under his hair. He looked at Zhi Lan and sneered for no apparent reason, then raised the corners of his lips and said, "Are you disappointed to see me?"

Zhi Lan also looked at him, panting.

"I'm sorry, but I'm the one who survived, not the one you always wanted." Bai Sanhua's voice was hoarse. He laughed twice and continued, "Kill me now and you still have a chance. Otherwise, I'll leave..."

"Leave? Where to? Where can you go in this state?" Zhi Lan tightened the dragon's tail. Seeing Bai Sanhua frowning in pain, he also laughed twice, "In this world, you can't even beat me."

Bai Sanhua narrowed her eyes and said, "Zhi Lan, I have never been your opponent."

"Really?" Zhi Lan lowered his voice, and he moved closer to Bai Sanhua, almost touching his nose, "Who was that? He broke a row of my ribs?"

The smile on Bai Sanhua's lips faded.

"Who forced me to date another strange dragon?" Zhi Lan stared at Bai Sanhua and closed his eyes slightly. "You remember everything, don't you?"

Bai Sanhua's Adam's apple rolled: "My fault."

"Of course it's your fault, it's all your fault." Zhi Lan did not give in. He used his dragon tail to entwine him and Bai Sanhua more tightly. "You should atone for your sins to me."

Bai Sanhua's body was in so much pain that he broke out in cold sweat. He clenched his teeth, ready to be strangled to death by Zhi Lan.

I hate him so much, so it's only right for me to do this now.

This world doesn't need his existence.

Bai Sanhua turned his head away, enduring secretly, and suddenly felt the force on his jaw. He didn't know how Zhi Lan wanted to retaliate against him, so he just obediently opened his lips.

"Why are you so timid?" Zhi Lan lowered his eyes and looked at Bai Sanhua. He rubbed his lips with his fingertips and narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw Bai Sanhua's obviously helpless look.

"Are you scared?" Zhi Lan whispered into Bai Sanhua's ear, "I'm going to pull out all your teeth and then cut your tongue. You might scream, but I'll cut your vocal cords in advance..."

Bai Sanhua's eyelashes trembled slightly. He listened to Zhi Lan's light words and turned his pupils to the side.

At least don't let him look at Zhi Lan's face.

Don't let him see, Zhi Lan did it to him personally.

After Xi Lan finished speaking, he increased the force. Bai Sanhua clenched her fingertips and felt the pain in her mouth.

The soft red tongue wrapped around his, forcefully, entangled, colliding with each other and refusing to stop.

Zhi Lan's warm breath showered on Bai Sanhua's face. He stared at Zhi Lan motionlessly, only to see those bright golden pupils flashing and aggressively invading his territory.

“Hmm…”

It was Bai Sanhua's first time to experience the feeling of kissing. Zhi Lan penetrated so deeply and entangled so tightly that it was almost difficult for him to breathe.

Only when the tip of his tongue became numb did Bai Sanhua move awkwardly to respond to Zhi Lan.

"Zhi Lan, why…"

The white three-flowered dragon tail struggled to break free from the ropes, and he also wrapped his arms around Zhi Lan's waist, reaching his hands into his shirt without showing any weakness.

He carefully stroked Zhi Lan's chest, abdomen, and injured back and bones.

Zhi Lan did not respond. His revenge on Bai Sanhua was just deep kisses over and over again that almost consumed all the oxygen between them.

Bai Sanhua's eyes unconsciously became moist. He opened his mouth in the gap between their breaths and asked softly: "Zhi Lan, I'm not returning, are you willing... willing..."

He didn't dare ask the whole question.

Zhi Lan's lips were red. He pinched Bai Sanhua's chin and lowered his eyes and said, "I know, that's why I don't like you."

After he finished speaking, he blocked Bai Sanhua's lips again and ripped off his clothes without any reason: "I'm just punishing you."

Bai Sanhua's skin was extremely pale. He seemed to have determined something vague, and he reached out to cover Zhi Lan's slightly red earlobe.

"What about the future? Will I have a chance in the future?" Bai Sanhua kissed Zhi Lan's neck and said, "Zhi Lan, give me a chance... I don't want too much. You can like me a little less, a little less than you like Su Hui, but a little more than the main system..."

Zhi Lan just thought he was sick.

He is the owner of both the upstream and the main system, yet he always wants to compare himself with them.

What's the meaning?

Bai Sanhua's biggest problem is that he can't get along with himself.

Zhi Lan didn't want to waste time talking to him anymore. He took off half of his clothes and sat on Bai Sanhua's waist: "Then you can fight for it yourself."

Bai Sanhua understood immediately. He grabbed Zhi Lan's waist and pressed him down.

He doesn't need to compete with the Silver Ball and the Main System.

With this dragon body, he was already far superior to the other two.

Bai Sanhua still thinks so.

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On the day when all the iris flowers on the back mountain were in full bloom, Zhi Lan and Bai Sanhua went there together.

Bai Sanhua went to a farther place to look for water, leaving some time for Zhi Lan to do his own activities.

Zhi Lan came to the center of the Iris Bush, where flowers and plants flourished, and it was also the place where he had died before.

Today it is still full of vitality, life and warmth.

After looking around for a while, Zhi Lan randomly found a big tree to sit under. This ancient tree has existed for more than a thousand years. Zhi Lan sat with his back against its trunk, and soon he felt the warm breeze blowing past his face.

He opened his eyes and said, "Are you here to see me?"

A man with white hair and golden eyes came to Zhi Lan's side at some point. He knelt down and sat beside Zhi Lan, and his golden eyes turned towards Zhi Lan with some curiosity.

"How did you know I was coming?" Yu Zhuo scratched his white hair and said, "I didn't send you a message in advance."

Zhi Lan propped up his chin with one hand, looked at Yu Zhuo, and said slowly: "You and I have telepathy, so I knew you were coming."

"..." Yu Zhuo pulled the corner of his mouth, "Nonsense."

"I'm not talking nonsense, this is true." Zhi Lan narrowed her eyes towards Yu Zhuo, "I can always sense you, even if we are not in the same world. Because..."

Yu Zhuo looked at him, only to hear Zhi Lan say seriously, "Because you are my son."

Yu Zhuo: “…”

Zhi Lan laughed: "Okay, okay, I won't joke with you anymore. But I still want to thank you for meeting you this time."

"Thank me for what?" Yu Zhuo pulled up a weed from the ground. "I didn't create this world for you, and I didn't resurrect you."

"But you saved him." Zhi Lan glanced behind him meaningfully and sighed, "Without you, his core device would have been shattered and he would have died completely."

"thank you."

"..." Yu Zhuo spread his hands and said, "I kept him at that time just to let him go back to work, not to let him spend his days here idle. He is really lucky."

The smile on Zhi Lan's face did not fade. He looked at Yu Zhuo and soon reached out to rub his head: "I know, I know everything."

Zhi Lan could roughly guess what kind of person Yu Zhuo was and what kind of things he would do.

The main system created him but also destroyed him. After Yu Zhuo returned, he forced the main system to self-destruct but saved his life. All these actions were essentially just to repay the main system for nurturing and raising him for thousands of years.

The mermaid has been under the abyss for a thousand years, and the main system's cultivation of Yu Zhuo is no less precious than the life it once gave Yu Zhuo.

Yu Zhuo snorted, looked at Zhi Lan and asked, "How is he now?"

"He's still a little bad." Zhi Lan was a little annoyed. He said, "I have to keep watching him."

Yu Zhuo sighed: "If you have any questions, tell me. You can use the shell I gave you to contact me. The main system... is in your hands."

"I know. I'll be with him."

"Okay, I'll go first." Yu Zhuo and Zhi Lan said a few simple words and stood up.

There was a figure approaching not far away. Yu Zhuo looked at him briefly and turned away.