"Xiao Yuan..."

The battle has begun, and Lin Yuan seems to be able to hear Nicole's anxious calls coming from the wind.

I can’t die this time, Lin Yuan thought to himself, otherwise that guy will cry for a long time.

In the past, she would be happy if someone was willing to cry for her. But now it is different. Now she is a little afraid to die easily.

I was afraid that Nicole would be sad, and I didn’t know how to face Yunluo, Rachel and the others, and also my little Suo Xunhua at home.

Now I know what it means to be concerned.

Ni Ji has already faced the mutant, and Lin Yuan stepped on the back of the killer whale and entered the battlefield.

The monster was huge, with a human-like face that showed no emotion. Its cold eyes looked down from the high sky, and its giant green abdomen and wings covered most of the sky.

Its emotions are very calm, without any malice or hatred, and its killing intent towards humans comes entirely from physical instinct.

It sleeps here, and seems to only start like a killing machine when humans pass by.

The attack was swift, cold and merciless, and when the pair of giant, cold sickles were swung, there was hardly any trace of them.

There were several sounds in the air? Extremely sharp sounds of breaking through the air?

Even the space seemed to be distorted in an instant. The small black figure of the sentry flashed several times and retreated far away, leaving a long scratch in the sea of ​​flowers and splashing countless purple and red petals.

Ni Ji avoided the first wave of attacks, but the Ferris wheel behind him was cut diagonally from top to bottom like tofu.

The cut was smooth and clean. After a moment, half of the huge Ferris wheel slid slowly and fell into the sea of ​​flowers.

Lin Yuan rode on the back of a whale and entered the battlefield.

It's tricky, this mutant doesn't seem to have a biological brain.

It is huge, but its emotions are very small, making it extremely difficult to catch. Its attack power is so strong, and its speed is as fast as a ghost.

But the sentinel cooperating with him was Ni Ji.

After returning from the Land of No Pupils, Lin Yuan hasn't cooperated with Ni Ji for a long time.

During this time, she tried to fight with many different types of Sentinels. They were all powerful warriors in the Empire, each with their own strengths. But there was no one person who gave her the same unimpeded tacit understanding that she had with Ni Ji.

The emperor who sat high on the top of the White Tower once told her that sentinels were ants, tools and playthings. As long as you were good at controlling them, they were all the same and there was not much difference.

You need to get yourself used to working with soldiers of different arms.

Lin Yuan tried it himself. He felt that what the emperor said was not the truth, or that the emperor himself had never obtained a sentinel that truly suited him.

In the most dangerous and urgent battlefield, this difference in coordination can be described as a world of difference.

At this moment, she could fully feel Ni Ji's running, breathing, and excitement.

You can even feel the traction of his muscles, the contraction of his pores, and every bit of his emotions leaking out.

Ni Ji was running, and she felt that she was running. Ni Ji jumped high, and she felt that the earth was far away from her.

Attack! The blade cuts deep into the hard shell.

Defense. The enemy's blade made my wrist numb.

There seemed to be a bloody mark on Ni Ji's skin left by the wind blade, and he felt pain.

Lin Yuan was clearly far away from the monster, but that huge, pale face was right in front of him, clearly visible.

It was as if his breathing and his senses were one with him.

This is a tacit understanding that cannot be achieved with any other Sentinel, no matter how powerful the opponent is.

Ni Ji was like an extension of her senses and a part of her body.

Just her hands, her eyes, and her knife.

They raised their eyes at the same time, faced fear at the same time, felt pain together, felt excitement together, and even their hearts beat at the same pace.

She took over the Sentinel's eyes, emotions and perceptions.

It can allow Ni Ji to concentrate highly at the most critical moment, shielding him from pain and fear, and feeling the danger and harm on his behalf.

She faced the monster with Ni Ji's eyes, and Ni Ji observed the overall situation with her perspective.

Lin Yuan grasped the enemy's slightest emotional fluctuation. Even if the tentacles of her mental power could control the enemy for half a second, her knife - the sentinel - would be unsheathed without hesitation and accurately strike the enemy.

They almost entrusted their lives to each other. At the most critical moment, they trusted each other's abilities unconditionally.

Such battles are exciting.

Flashes of swords and shadows of sabers, blood and sweat, giant monsters and beautiful flowers.

The edge of a sharp blade, a slight difference, is the difference between life and death.

My heart is tightening and my hair is standing on end.

For Lin Yuan, this dangerous and deadly excitement was a kind of enjoyment.

Only a madman would think like her. Fortunately, there is someone in this world who is exactly like me.

Someone who feels the same way as she does both physically and mentally, and is 100% compatible with her.

They are all born warriors and are destined to live on such a battlefield.

This feeling is so good.

So much so that even death cannot drive it away.

The bone-colored long knife drank Ni Ji's blood and turned into a demonic red blade. Thin red lights flashed densely around the huge body of the deformed species.

The green wings were cut off.

A masked head fell from a great height.

Then there was a powerful arm whose forelimb had transformed into a sickle.

Even so, the monster, which was missing its head, wings and one arm, still stood in the sea of ​​flowers, feeling no pain and sprinting back and forth.

The rolling knife light carved deep grooves on the ground.

Ni Ji stepped back suddenly, and knife shadows swarmed down from the sky, vowing to nail this tiny figure to the ground before his broken body fell.

The killer whale swung its tail and charged, knocking the incomplete but still movable strange body away from behind.

The whale head hit and turned in mid-air. Lin Yuan stepped on the whale's back. The strong wind blew up her long hair. Her pupils shone brightly with golden light, and countless tentacles swarmed out from the shadows.

The sentry stood up and fought again.

Until that huge body finally fell to the ground, fell into the sea of ​​flowers, and stirred up dust all over the sky.

Ni Ji landed on the ground, supported himself with his knife, raised his face, the purple light in his eyes still lingering.

Lin Yuan jumped off the killer whale's back and looked into the distance.

In the direction where Nicole and her group disappeared, a dazzling light the size of a star appeared on the horizon.

The sun is rising!

Lin Yuan didn't know whether Nicole and the others had safely arrived at the next shelter bunker.

But she knew that it was definitely too late for her and Ni Ji.

The sky brightened almost instantly.

The twilight rays that harvested lives swept across everything on the ground and rushed towards them.

Lin Yuan and Ni Ji looked at each other.

The sentry, who had just finished a fierce battle, was panting, with blood mixed with sweat dripping from his forehead.

Their eyes met for only a brief moment.

"There is space underground." Lin Yuan said to him.

This mutant emerged from a crack in the ground. Its size is so huge that even if the ground collapses, there must be a gap underground.

While Ni Ji was concentrating on the battle, the tentacles dived underground, following the thought fluctuations of those moles, insects and snakes, and found a space deep underground that was big enough for two people to hide.

As long as Ni Ji is still there, there will be time to dig the hole.

The sentry did not hesitate for a moment at this time, nor did he even look at Lin Yuan again. Without saying a word, he took his killer whale and dug down to the location pointed by Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan couldn't help at this time, so he sat down under the Ferris wheel next to him that had been cut off in half by the mutant.

Leaning against the base of the Ferris wheel, the cold seat stone touches my back, bringing a hint of coolness.

She remembered that when she first entered the land of the zombi, she saw the sun rise for the first time, and that was what the little zombi did when it didn't have time to run back.

He hid at the foot of a tall sculpture, relying on the sculpture's huge projection to delay his death.

But it only bought him a moment. The process of death was even more painful than being burned to death instantly.

The twilight line that symbolizes death is approaching very quickly.

The grass leaves turned yellow and curled up, and the tender flowers burned into a ball of fire. Large groups of butterflies and insects flew up from the sea of ​​flowers, trying to chase the fading night and flee.

No one could escape the light. All living beings were caught up by the golden line of death, and their souls turned into ashes under the scorching sun.

Lin Yuan leaned against the base of the Ferris wheel and heard the sound of grass and flowers burning behind her. As the scorching waves came, she shrank her body into the shadows.

She knew that she shouldn't think about anything else at this time.

But it is so similar to that time.

The surroundings were as blindingly bright as they were then, with flames burning everywhere and the smell of burning filling my nostrils. I was also curled up in the corner.

I am no longer the child I was back then, Lin Yuan told himself in a cold voice.

The red flames flickered, and the crackling sound grew louder. The scene in front of me shook uncontrollably.

Before my eyes was a sea of ​​flowers and the remains of a giant monster. It seemed to be a wooden floor, a small toy house, and the legs of an adult running towards me.

It's so hot that I feel like melting.

"Xiao Yuan..."

"Yuanyuan... Dad and Mom..."

A voice was heard in the illusion?

After waking up a little, Lin Yuan staggered to stand up, but his hands and feet were weak and he couldn't control the strength of his body.

"Do you know what I regret most?" Xunhua's face, half covered with a mask, suddenly appeared. "It's that I didn't tell her what was in my heart."

Yes, we can’t commit crimes at this time.

I still have something to say.

I still have something to tell Ni Ji.

Lin Yuan steadied himself from staggering and came to his senses. The bright white terminator passed by him at that moment, and there was a dazzling white light all around.

The Ferris wheel behind her cast a shadow, covering her, buying her a little time to survive.

It was too hot, and sweat soaked her eyelids. Through her blurry vision, she saw Ni Ji's figure emerging from the ground and flying towards her.

He made a small arc and rushed into the small shadow just before the sunlight reached him, and hugged Lin Yuan.

The terminator passed by, and the earth was scorching hot.

The huge body of the Ferris wheel blocks the sunlight, and the shadow it casts is the only small isolated island in the white world.

The area of ​​this isolated island is shrinking rapidly.

The two people hugged each other, with no way to retreat in the small shadow.

Ni Ji quickly took off his sentry uniform and put it on Lin Yuan's head.

The Empire's sentinel uniforms are made in a uniform manner to adapt to the dangerous combat environment of the sentinels. They have excellent ductility, wear resistance, and high temperature resistance.

Ni Ji wrapped Lin Yuan's head and face with his coat and picked Lin Yuan up.

By this time the shadow had become very small and the heat wave was almost baking my skin.

They were only a few steps away from the cave entrance, but these few steps were a hell that was as difficult to cross as lava.

The body of the killer whale suddenly appeared in the sky in an instant. Its huge body cast a long shadow on the ground, connecting the escape passage between the Ferris wheel and the cave entrance.

Ni Ji ran in the shadows.

Lin Yuan was in his arms. There was a small space between the sentry's chest and clothes, and Lin Yuan was protected in this space.

Leaning against that strong chest, she heard the whale's painful cry and smelled the smell of burnt protein.

It feels like going back to the past, being held in my mother's arms and running through a fire.

The horrific memory that was deeply rooted in her childhood memory made her tremble all over and her hands and feet became weak.

But she knew that this was not the time for her to tremble in fear. If Ni Ji couldn't hold on any longer, she would have to take over Ni Ji's body immediately, just like she did back then.

Erase his pain and control him to run into the dark cave.

We must not let him fall, never.

Things actually happened so fast that thoughts flashed through my mind in just a split second.

Lin Yuan leaned against Ni Ji's chest and heard his thoughts coming to him.

"No need," he said.

"No need for you. I can run there by myself."

The distance was extremely short, and at Ni Ji's speed it only took one or two breaths.

But Lin Yuan seemed to feel that the breathing became extremely slow. She was held in those strong arms, and she flew across the hot ground in the shadow of the killer whale's body and rushed into the deep cave in one breath.

The two fell in and rolled all the way to the bottom of the cave. At the bottom of the tunnel opened by Ni Ji, there was a huge hole.

Lin Yuan's judgment was very accurate. The space here was winding and spacious, cool but not stuffy, and perfect for taking refuge.

The sunlight only cast a tiny speck of light in front of them, which could no longer burn them.

The two men climbed up from the chaos. Lin Yuan, wearing a sentry's coat, sat in the dark and cool underground.

The fire, the running...it's all over.

More than ten years ago, when everything stopped, a young girl emerged from the snow and pushed the man who had been carrying her all the way.

The man was motionless, his charred body curled up in the snow and no matter how hard we pushed him, we couldn't wake him up.

"Mom, wake up..." Little Lin Yuan stood in the snow, but no matter how he shouted, he couldn't wake up his mother.

At this moment, Lin Yuan blinked.

Still fire and running.

She sat in the cool cave. The sentry beside her lifted the clothes on her head, saw that she was fine, and smiled at her.

…

It's all over. It's already a thing of the past.

There is no more fire, running, relatives who cannot be woken up, and the young and powerless self.

There is only one sentinel who smiles at him.

He looked so handsome when he smiled. I didn't know why my heart was pounding.

Ni Ji lifted up his coat and checked Lin Yuan from head to toe to see if he was injured.

Only when he saw that Lin Yuan was covered in mud but unharmed did he reveal a little smile.

He looked very shabby, his gloves were burned into tattered strips, his face and body were covered with burns, and even more serious was the stinging pain caused by the damage to his mental body.

But Lin Yuan was fine.

It's okay as long as Lin Yuan is fine.

Finally, there was that one time when I protected her.

Ni Ji raised his fingers and lightly stroked Lin Yuan's face. He didn't touch her and she fell down.

He fell into the cold cave, and with great effort he raised his fingers with torn gloves, held Lin Yuan's fingers, and squeezed them gently to comfort her.

"I'm fine. Just take a break..."