Lin Yuan's arm was completely disabled, so his training was stopped and he was sent to the treatment cabin in the White Tower for treatment.

Although the queen did not give the ruby ​​as a prize, she gave him a special reward to commend Lin Yuan for his contribution in opening the contaminated area of ​​the Land of No Pupils.

It was a special honor, an identity card that allowed one to take the direct elevator to the White Tower, submit an application to meet the Queen at any time, and enter and leave the palace freely.

It was only when he came out of the treatment cabin that Lin Yuan received the reward and the exquisite card that allowed him to ride the elevator freely.

At that time, the way everyone around her looked at her changed completely.

Shocked, envious, jealous, some people even started to fawn over her.

Such an event could be considered an infinite honor in the empire.

You should know that the queen holds all power in the empire, including the dismissal of officials, the deployment of troops, and the control of finances.

But her face is hard to see.

Unless summoned, no one, not even members of the royal family or important officials of the empire, had the right to request an audience.

There were only a few people in the entire empire who were qualified to take the initiative to ask for an audience with the queen. How could Lin Yuan not be shocked to receive such a reward?

Lin Yuan didn't have any special feeling, and she didn't understand why she was given such a reward.

Is it possible that I would take the initiative to enter and leave the palace just to challenge the queen to a battle?

The only thing that made her miss here was probably the red gem pendant.

When he saw the shape of the stone, Lin Yuan always felt that it had some connection with the Box of Truth in his hand.

Unfortunately, I didn't get this opportunity.

It may be difficult to get it again in the future. After all, it is the queen's personal belongings.

The guide's recovery ability is not strong, and it took Lin Yuan a long time to repair his arm.

When we came out of the treatment chamber, it was already very dark.

It was raining heavily and it was already past dinner time.

Xunhua picked her up at the door with an umbrella. Lin Yuan got out of the car and hid under the black umbrella.

The rain was falling heavily, hitting the umbrella with a crackling sound. The whole yard was shrouded in a gray curtain of rain.

Lin Yuan walked forward with his head down, stepping on the rain-soaked floor tiles.

On the side, Xunhua's half-silver mask reflected a hint of metallic brilliance in the dark rainy night.

"It's been a bit uneasy at home these days. A few thieves have come here."

Xunhua's low and cold voice sounded beside him, and her fingers in white gloves hooked out the golden pendant from his collar.

"No? Just ordinary thieves. I think they came for this, or something in your house."

Lin Yuan noticed that he used the word "home".

The person who accompanies me walking in the pouring rain at night is not a real human being.

But he is his own family.

Ever since Xunhua moved in, her powerful mental power has protected the entire courtyard, and no one can really steal anything from the house anymore.

No matter how sharp the insight or how agile and nimble those people who sneak in quietly are.

As long as they are disturbed by Xunhua's mental power, they will not be able to find what they want.

Even if those things were clearly placed among the toy piles in Linyuan, or hung on the plastic wind chimes by the window.

But this is a signal, meaning that the night will be darker and the rain will be heavier.

"It's okay." Lin Yuan walked quickly in the cold rain. "Xunhua, I think you are right. I seem to have become stronger."

“I will become a stronger person.”

Guo Suo prepared a midnight snack for Lin Yuan.

"Ni Ji came here in the evening." Sitting at the dining table, Xiao Suo, who was not used to staying up late, yawned, "He waited for you for a long time, and then he was called away by a phone call. It seemed that he had to carry out some urgent task."

Lin Yuan hummed and carefully finished the food in front of him to replenish his energy.

Only after she returned to the attic, took off her heavy coat, changed into home clothes and lay on the soft bed did she come to her senses.

Discover after a whole day of tension, danger, fighting and injuries.

I actually felt a little regretful for missing out on something as trivial as having dinner with Ni Ji.

Missed the appointment? Didn’t have dinner with Xiaoyu.

Lin Yuan, not very happy, turned over in bed.

She didn't hate this feeling. Such subtle little emotions made her feel that she was different from the cold Queen.

I feel that I am more alive than she is, and more like a real human being.

It was raining heavily outside the window. The rain was pouring down the window glass like winding streams.

Lin Yuan, lying on the bed, quickly fell asleep to the sound of rain.

She had a dream in the sound of rain.

After returning from the Land of No Pupils, Lin Yuan hasn't had these chaotic and uneasy dreams for some time.

This dream seemed to have happened when he was a child. Lin Yuan had originally forgotten it, but the scene in the dream was particularly clear at this moment.

In the dream, outside the window, it was still raining heavily.

When he was young, Lin Yuan lay in front of the window, holding a paintbrush in his tender little hands and drawing hard on the notebook.

A female hand reached out and held her little hand.

"This is mom's notebook, Yuanyuan. It can't be used for drawing." A gentle voice sounded.

Although he said "no", his tone was doting and he didn't really mean to blame me.

Humans are smart when they are young. They are born with the ability to tell the true feelings of the people around them towards them, and use this to judge whether they can continue to act coquettishly.

"Just draw. I want to draw. Mom hasn't played with me for a long time because of this notebook." Little Lin Yuan pouted.

Those warm hands lifted her up, held her high, and walked around the room.

Lin Yuan saw the toys and picture books piled up in the room spinning before his eyes, as well as a smiling face that he could not remember very clearly.

That?s my mother's face.

Her mother placed her in a chair and handed her a brand new orca whale stuffed animal as a gift.

"Yuanyuan plays with the little fish first. Mommy and Daddy will go to the polluted area again. Soon we can spend more time with Yuanyuan."

The killer whale doll is brand new, plump and round, with a pink gift-wrapped bow tied around its body.

Xiaolinyuan was happy. He caught it with both hands, untied the bow, and played with and rubbed the killer whale toy on the table.

On the table, the graffiti-covered notebook was spread out, with a few lines of words written on the last page.

"The situation is not good. It seems that someone is watching us."

"Where should this box be hidden?"

…

Lin Yuan, lying on the bed, opened his eyes. The rain outside the window had stopped at some point and the sky was almost bright.

Everything in the dream faded, the bright toys on the shelves became old, I grew up, and my mother and father had been gone for many years.

The sky outside the window was gray, raindrops were dripping from the leaves in the courtyard, and there were occasional insect sounds.

It's so lonely and sad.

At this moment, the tentacles captured a subtle and familiar emotional fluctuation, very close to here, just outside the courtyard wall.

Lin Yuan opened the window and stuck his head out.

The air was humid, soaked with the damp chill of rain.

Looking down from the window, Lin Yuan saw the sentry standing outside the courtyard wall.

He seemed to have run a very long way. He was covered in dust, with dew on his head. His slight breathing condensed into a light white mist in the air. He was standing on the slope outside the courtyard wall, looking up.

The two people's eyes met in the moist and cool air and collided at one point.

Lin Yuan had never seen Ni Ji with this expression before. The moment he saw her, he seemed relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the black figure nimbly climbed over the wall, slid down along the tall sycamore tree beside the wall, and rushed towards him.

The movement was as light as a floating shadow, and did not disturb anyone in the quiet morning.

Even Xunhua was not woken up.

Of course, the gardener might be pretending to be ignorant. Most of the time, he is the one who understands the ways of the world best in the family.

Ni Ji came downstairs and looked at Lin Yuan who was living on the fifth floor from afar.

He raised his arms and climbed up the outer wall.

With his nimble body and strong arms, he could climb up the smooth outer wall faster than Lin Yuan could walk up the stairs.

Lin Yuan stuck her head out of the window and looked at the sentry climbing up from the corner of the wall, her soft black hair blown to her chest by the breeze.

This suddenly reminded her of a picture book she had read when she was a child. It was about a princess in a high tower who let down her long hair and asked her knight to climb up from the bottom of the tower to find her.

That book is still on the shelf beside the bed.

Lin Yuan found it very interesting, and had a secret and special feeling in his heart.

It's like I've become a character in a fairy tale.

In the dead of night, I met a knight in private.

A faint fish belly white appeared on the horizon, and a knight in black climbed up to her window. He held the window sill with his black gloves, stood on the windowsill, and looked down.

Perhaps because he was facing the light from behind, his eyes looked deeper and more delicate than usual, like thick amber.

There is a certain emotion hidden deep inside that I cannot find even with my tentacles.

Lin Yuan's heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat, and that feeling made Lin Yuan feel very unfamiliar.

She invited Ni Ji into her room.

The sentry climbed up the wall and climbed through the window in one breath, and it seemed that his impulsive courage was gone when he stepped onto the windowsill.

He stood on the windowsill covered in dew, but was unwilling to take another step forward.

"I just heard that you were injured in the White Tower?"

Ni Ji's voice was very low, whispering in the early morning, as if he was afraid of disturbing others' sweet dreams.

He looked at Lin Yuan carefully.

Ni Ji carried out a secret mission and returned to the White Tower after completing it. Only then did he hear the sentries there talking about a battle that had taken place during the day.

Director Lin was injured and lay in the treatment cabin for a long time.

Many people say so.

After hearing about this, Ni Ji ran all the way, climbed over the wall and climbed through the window. It was not until he saw that Lin Yuan was not seriously injured that he finally let the uneasy heart settle down in his chest.

Ni Ji's fingers were tightly grasping the window sill, with his feet on the windowsill, and he had no intention of coming down.

It seemed as if I had run all this way and climbed up such a high window, just for this? After asking this question, I was about to turn around and go back.

Lin Yuan showed his hand to the sentry on the windowsill, "It hurts. The whole arm is broken, with several fractures."

Ni Ji subconsciously took her hand and got down from the windowsill.

He took off his gloves, pinched Lin Yuan's wrist with his fingers, pinched the bones carefully, and rotated the wrist, elbow and even finger joints.

For sentinels like them who have suffered countless injuries, they can easily feel whether the bones are injured.

In many contaminated areas, they held each other's hands.

It was a habit.

The sentry's fingers were long and bony, and his fingertips were a little cold. He pressed them on Lin Yuan's skin, gently stroking the bones beneath the skin.

Lin Yuan felt his skin inexplicably itchy.

The sentry in front of him had his eyelashes lowered, a look of concentration.

The sky was completely bright at this moment, and the hazy morning light cast a subtle hue on Ni Ji's amber eyes.

Lin Yuan had a strange thought, thinking that there was some unknown secret in his heart. Even he couldn't explain it clearly.

The Queen in the White Tower made Lin Yuan feel terrified, but also a little strangely familiar. She always felt that the Queen was very similar to herself in some ways.

Perhaps they are all those people who pretend to be human on the surface, but in fact they are very clear that they are different from most humans.

But at this moment, she felt that she was not quite the same as that emperor. That emperor appeared gentle and smiling, but in fact his spirit was icy cold, as if there was no life in his chest.

But? There is a hot heart hidden in my chest, beating faster and faster, and my heart is pounding.

The two of them sat by the window after the rain, very close to each other, Ni Ji's slender fingers holding Lin Yuan's slender white wrist.

As if the sentry had just realized what had happened, his ears turned slightly red in the cold air.

Last night, Ni Ji rushed around all night. The mission was secretive and difficult. After a long battle, the smell of gunpowder is still on his body.

Yesterday morning, Lin Yuan met the powerful female queen in the White Tower. After a fierce battle, he broke his arm.

The lives of both people are like walking on a tightrope, full of dangers and adverse winds and rough waves.

But at this moment, holding hands by the quiet window and sitting together for a while, time seems to slow down, the wind and rain stop, and all the fatigue and loneliness are melted away by each other's body temperature.

Ni Ji told Lin Yuan that he had met Roy in the White Tower.

Tell him what he saw, those secret records left by Lin Yuan's parents.

"There are very dangerous things inside the White Tower." said Ni Ji.

"In the afternoon, I met Roy from your Special Research Department for the second time. He looked completely different, as if he had completely forgotten what happened in the morning."

Yesterday morning, Roy, who found the secret notes, was still in a state of dismay.

In the afternoon, when Ni Ji and Ji Xuan met him again, he had returned to his previous nonchalant and carefree look.

Ji Xuan greeted him calmly, "Have you resolved everything that happened this morning, Roy?"

Roy looked confused: "What are you talking about? What happened this morning?"

But after half a day, and not knowing what had happened, he had completely forgotten the secrets he had discovered.

Those notebooks that had troubled him for a long time and were held tightly in his arms in the morning disappeared completely from his mind in the blink of an eye, as if they had never existed in the world.

At that time, Ni Ji and Ji Xuan exchanged glances. They were both glad that they took the risk to peek into Roy's memory. Otherwise, by now, even if Roy wanted to look, he would not have this memory in his mind.

"You must be careful." Ni Ji said to Lin Yuan.

"If?, if? there is any dangerous action, please take me with you."

His fingers tightened and clasped Lin Yuan's wrist.

I don't ask for anything else, I just hope that when Lin Yuan encounters danger, the person by his side can be me.

On this cold and stormy night, I hope that the person who holds your hand can be me.