Faced with his polite question, Ye Luoxing's words were stuck in her throat. She thought for a few seconds and nodded.
"Okay." She agreed.
Xilan Meng turned and walked out of the wooden house. Ye Luoxing looked at Feng He on the nest and said, "I'm going to go out for a while. You should have a good rest."
"Luo..." Feng He opened his mouth to say something, but in the end nothing came out. After exchanging glances with her, he saw her following the figure and slowly leaving the wooden house. Outside the door, her back disappeared into the distance.
After Ye Luoxing walked out of the wooden house, he found that Li Zhuo was still guarding the campfire, and Po Chen had not left either.
They saw her walk out of the wooden house and their eyes stayed on her. Ye Luoxing did not show her guard on her face, and she did not close the wooden door when she left, so that she could be the first to notice any movement in the wooden house.
She looked away and saw Xilan Meng on her right walking towards the river at a moderate pace.
She followed him in a few steps and said, "I don't want to leave too far. If you want to say something, just say it here."
Xilan Meng smiled and turned back to look at her: "I won't go too far, but I hope we can have a quiet conversation."
After he said this, Ye Luoxing roughly understood what he meant. The orcs all had good hearing. If they walked farther away, they could guarantee that Pochen and Fenghe would not be able to hear their conversation. In addition, there would be strange beasts coming and going in the center of the grassland from time to time.
Ye Luoxing didn't say anything else. Xilan Meng took her to a wooden house on the right and stopped before slowly turning around to look at her.
"Lolo," he began, "Does our alliance last night still stand?"
Ye Luoxing showed no obvious emotion. She just asked, "Why did you bring this up suddenly?"
Seeing that she didn't answer directly, Xilan Meng's heart sank a little. There was tenderness and expectation in his eyes, and his tone was serious: "You are facing some difficulties alone in Yancheng. Now, your friends have come to you, and you are facing even more difficulties. I know you are very tired. I can help you. I can help you unconditionally."
Just like yesterday, Xilan Meng had no conditions. He wanted her to form an alliance with him, so he said these words.
Ye Luoxing didn't respond immediately. She thought for a while, then stared at the beast in front of her and asked, "Xilan Meng, were you involved in what happened last night?"
This fish beast is different from Yue Huang and the others. Ye Luoxing doesn't expect him to tell the truth, he just wants to observe his expression.
Xilan Meng's expression did not change at all. He told her firmly: "No, please believe me."
Ye Luoxing remained silent, not because she didn't want to have another friend, but if Xilan Meng got involved in the plot, her situation would become even more dangerous.
Xilan Meng looked at her with sincere eyes and said again: "Lolo, in the entire Yancheng, I am the only one who can help you. What I said before will not change. I will still protect your friends. They all want to kill him, you know."
"What about you?" Ye Luoxing deliberately asked this question again. Regardless of whether she should ask or not, she must first ensure her own situation.
"If I answer... I don't want to, you probably won't believe it." Xilan Meng lowered his eyes slightly without hiding it.
"Of course I want to kill him." He spoke frankly, "He is a beast from the north, and I am a beast from the west. There is already hatred between us."
"However—from the moment you appear before me, I will always follow your wishes."
"You don't want him to die, so I won't kill him."
In a few consecutive sentences, with frank words and sincere eyes, he revealed his sincerity to her, which changed the expression in her eyes.
Ye Luoxing looked back in the direction of the wooden house. There was no movement in the house. Pochen and Lizhuo were still standing by the campfire on the grass.
In front, Xilan Meng invited her again: "Lolo, our alliance will continue, right?"
Ye Luoxing retracted her gaze and looked at the mermaid orc in front of her. She smiled and said, "Of course, I was the one who came to you first, wasn't I?"
She uttered those two words straightforwardly, which shocked Xilan Meng slightly. When he heard her next words, a smile appeared on his face.
Suddenly, he reached out and hugged her in his arms, then leaned on her shoulder and said, "I will always remember what happened last night. If you need any help, you can come to me. I will always welcome you!"
"Xilan Meng, the orcs who see you for the first time must not know what kind of beast you are..." Ye Luoxing felt his head resting on her shoulder, felt his animal skin cloak rubbing against her neck, and he had a smell that was a combination of herbs and flowers. Ye Luoxing did not dislike the smell of this plant, but liked it very much.
Xilan Meng's embrace felt as gentle and soft as he, an orc, but was he really such an orc?
Ye Luoxing thought maybe it didn't matter, if he could really cooperate with her on something...
"It's enough for you to know." Xilan Meng gently rubbed her neck. She smelled so good...
He hugged her, pride and joy flashing in his eyes, until she pushed him away, and the expression in his eyes quickly returned to normal.
Then, obvious anticipation appeared in his eyes, and he asked her softly, "Lolo, can you give me a kiss? Like last night?"
He asked her for it instead of forcing himself on her, and in front of her, he gently touched his forehead, the place where she had kissed him last night.
Ye Luoxing looked at his behavior of tempting her and couldn't help laughing. She turned and left: "I still need to rest. Come to me in the afternoon to change the medicine."
Seeing her turn around and leave, Xilan Meng did not show any anger, but just glanced at the wooden house again with dissatisfaction in his eyes.
Finally, watching her walk further and further away, Xilan Meng raised his lips and muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear: "Lolo, you have to give some sweet treats when fishing... But it doesn't matter, the well-behaved fish will find the sweet treats themselves."
The smile on Xilan Meng's lips became more wicked. His slender fingers reluctantly slid from his brow to his temple, and then he slowly withdrew his hand.
"Snowy owls...you ugly tribe, sooner or later we will turn you into dried bird meat." Xilan Meng smiled, but his words were cold and cruel, which was completely inconsistent with the expression on his face. If he was not the only orc here, no one would have thought that such a polite and kind orc would say such words.
When Ye Luoxing walked back to the wooden house, Pochen actually brought her a bowl of porridge personally.
"It's ready, eat it." He raised his hand and handed it to her. There was a wooden spoon in the stone bowl.
"I... am full." Ye Luoxing looked at the porridge in the bowl. She was indeed full, and...
"You are as thin as a chicken and can't support such strong strength." Po Chen didn't wait for Ye Luoxing to think too much, nor wait for her to say anything else. He walked past her and entered the wooden house, placing the stone bowl on the moved wooden table.
Then, he turned and left, sweeping a cold warning glance at the wind curtain above the nest...
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