Chapter 23: The First Item: Deserted City Notes (Starting with Inverted V)
Although it wasn't a long time since we met, I wouldn't be in such a bad mood when we met again.
Ye Minglang lowered his eyes slightly, and looked at Chen Li with a complicated look, even revealing a hint of murderous intent.
Shen Li didn't expect that he just thought about it in his mind, and the other party really came to help him out.
He never reads people's expressions. He just knows that he should thank the other person if he has done him a big favor.
"Thank you, but why are you here?"
Ye Minglang remained silent with a cold face. Of course, he didn’t ask to come here!
It was the middle of the night when he was sleeping. The silver snake ring bit him for no apparent reason. When he came to his senses, he found himself rushing out of the glass on the side of the street.
From a warm bed to a deserted city with temperatures several degrees below zero...
But he obviously didn't intend to tell the truth.
It only took him a few seconds to calm down and give Shen Li a fake smile:
"Of course I'll come. I can't bear to see you bleed."
"After all - your blood is really useful."
The fox lay low on the ground, crunching the constantly regenerating monsters.
After chewing it twice, he spat it out and played with it with his two front paws.
Ye Minglang slid down lightly along the fox's fur and landed precisely in front of Chen Li.
He looked like someone had just forcibly pulled him out of bed. His hair was a little messy, and he was wearing thin pajamas and bare feet without even socks.
He looked even more miserable than Shen Li who was running for his life.
It’s easy to imagine that this time travel must be due to the Silver Snake Ring.
The moment Shen Li saw him land, his feet shuddered on the snow.
In order to reduce the contact area between the soles of his feet and the snow, Ye Minglang stepped on his right foot with his left foot and almost fell to the ground.
Shen Li suddenly felt a little guilty.
"Or, you can wear my shoes."
Ye Minglang shuddered, hugged his body with his hands and groaned.
Without being polite to him, he put them directly into Chen Li's shoes.
A pair of plain sneakers, a little tight but warm.
Now the barefoot people have become heavy hats.
Ye Minglang jumped a few times in his shoes to warm up, then he put his hands to his mouth and blew out a breath of hot air. He rubbed his hands but still felt cold, so he pointed at the coat on Shen Li.
Chen Li obediently handed over his coat and watched the other party put it on eagerly.
Ye Minglang's frozen body finally recovered a little.
This damn place is too cold.
He came very reluctantly and had originally intended to leave after saying a few words, but now that he was wearing Chen Li's shoes and coat, it was obviously inappropriate to leave.
Snow fluttered down heavily, and he looked at him through the dim street lights.
Deprived of his coat, Shen Li was only wearing a thin sweatshirt.
Even though his nose was red from the cold, he didn't complain at all, and there wasn't even a hint of dissatisfaction on his face.
The fox was playing with its "prey" nearby, and Shen Li was standing by and watching it.
This fox has many scars on its body, which have almost healed.
The most obvious ones are the scars over his eyes and chest, both of which are hairless.
"It looks familiar."
Ye Minglang continued to rub his hands and stood beside him, "Well, in the last delivery mission, it was the only one that survived among the six foxes on the rooftop."
At that time, it was lying there dying. Ye Minglang used the points that overflowed during the settlement to exchange for a lot of good things before he saved it.
If it wasn't for the life-saving grace, how could such an arrogant ancient monster be allowed to be controlled by him?
"Speaking of which, I owe you a thank you."
Although he was already unconscious at the last moment, the images he saw and the things he heard were intermittent.
But he knew that it was Shen Li who helped him.
"So—you ate the heart?"
Ye Minglang recalled the scene of blood on the corner of his mouth and chose to ask.
"Yes." Shen Li answered honestly, "The seal on the roof has been broken. Your task is to seal the heart in the box."
As he spoke, white mist came out of his mouth, forming a ball that enveloped his soft eyebrows and eyes.
"And I actually have a very powerful seal in my body, which is more powerful than the seal on the roof. So I think that as long as I swallow the heart, I should be able to complete the sealing task."
Looking at such a pure Shen Li, Ye Minglang's previous irritability was swept away.
He suddenly reached out to him, put his cold hand on his chest, and tested his heartbeat there.
Shen Li did not avoid it.
Ye Minglang felt it quietly for a while and asked him:
"So is this heart that's beating now yours, or the sealed one?"
He was just purely curious.
Snowflakes piled up on Shen Li's head, covering his jet-black hair with a layer of silver.
"It should be mine, but I'm not sure."
"Let me make sure."
He loosened his hand and briefly left Shen Li's warm chest, then leaned down again, slightly bent over, and leaned his head against it to seek more warmth.
Any normal person would feel nervous with such an intimate action.
But Shen Li's heartbeat was very steady, just like his indifferent face, rarely causing any waves.
The fox lay on the street and grinded his teeth with his monster, glancing towards Shen Li from time to time.
It also knew that the heart was with Shen Li, but it had tested it once personally, and as Shen Li said, its beastly body could not withstand the power of that heart.
The fox's gaze towards Chen Li was sometimes greedy, sometimes fearful, a bit complicated.
The two of them were chatting idly on the street, and the fox was left to deal with the monster.
Ye Minglang lay on Shen Li's chest and listened to his heartbeat for a while, and felt that his originally warm skin began to turn cold.
The sophisticated egoist felt bad and asked Shen Li to wait for him there.
He jogged along, his back disappeared around the corner, and after a while, he came over with a pile of clothes.
"Maybe it won't fit, just wear it. It's too cold."
Ye Minglang casually threw a sweater, a coat, and a pair of new shoes to Chen Li.
He also covered himself with thicker clothes and took out the only scarf he found and wrapped it around himself.
After putting these on, I looked at Chen Li again. That guy took a long time to put on his shoes.
His ears have a beautiful curvature and are red from the cold.
When I put on my coat, I put it on the wrong way up and down, making a mess of the buttons.
Ye Minglang couldn't bear it anymore.
"You're so clumsy, I'd rather freeze you to death!"
Without saying a single nice word, she consciously leaned over to help him unbutton his shirt and then re-buttoned them one by one.
It seems like it has been done countless times and the body has formed a conditioned reflex.
In the end, she even untied her scarf and wrapped it around his neck as a matter of course.
After completing this series of actions, Ye Minglang stood there in a daze for three seconds.
My neck feels cold.
What on earth was he doing just now!
This is too abnormal!
"So—I'm leaving?"
Ye Minglang felt that there was no need for him to stay here.
Chen Li didn't keep him and said "hmm" calmly.
Ye Minglang turned around and saw Chen Li standing alone in the snow watching him go, and he felt a little guilty.
"What are you going to do next?"
"Find a way to trap the monster, and then reunite with your teammates."
"Do you know the way?"
Facing Ye Minglang's doubts, Shen Li nodded very confidently.
"I know the way. This direction."
When Ye Minglang was helping him put on his clothes, he took a glance at the map on his arm.
He looked at the direction Shen Li pointed at and was speechless, "The other way around..."
Although he really wanted to leave, considering that Chen Li had helped him a lot before, it was neither reasonable nor logical for him to abandon him at this time.
After Ye Minglang convinced himself, he put his hands in his pockets and raised his angular chin towards Chen Li, "Let's go, I'll take you there."
Behind the two of them, a huge fox held the monster in its mouth and followed them obediently.
He controlled the force of his bite so that it would neither kill the animal nor allow it to escape.
Chen Li followed Ye Minglang through several streets as if taking a walk.
Most of the time, Chen Li was very quiet. He wouldn't joke, let alone chat, but he would occasionally say a few words.
"I heard from them that you have been promoted to the Heavenly Rank."
Chen Li had never cared about the rankings, but the opening of the Tianxu [Tian] rankings was big news, and the whole world was discussing it.
Even if he doesn't care, he will hear a few words when his teammates are chatting.
"Well, once you are promoted to the Heavenly rank, you won't have to participate in the delivery. Once I completely eradicate the old forces, Wuliang Express will be mine."
He was ambitious when he said this.
The top secret of the [Tian] position on the Tianxu List was casually revealed by Ye Minglang.
The two people were clearly talking about something that could shock the whole world, but the atmosphere between them was no different from just chatting.
One listened quietly, and the other spoke without hiding anything.
"But we also have to deal with a lot of troublesome things. For example, sometimes the dungeon map will suddenly turn black. We call this the advent of the dark domain. The resentment in the dark domain is strong. The ghosts in it will become very troublesome after absorbing the resentment in the dark domain. Every time the dark domain appears, the couriers in the current dungeon will basically be wiped out."
Ye Minglang also recently sorted out his responsibilities.
"We need to deal with matters related to the Dark Domain and maintain the stability of the copy."
Ye Minglang explained a lot, but he didn't know if Chen Li understood it.
He is obviously not a very patient person, but it's strange that when he is with Chen Li, his whole state unconsciously relaxes.
From the murderous look at the beginning to the kind and amiable look now.
"Next time you're delivering a package, if you find that the map is suddenly pitch black and you can't see anything, remember to avoid that place."
Ye Minglang was still explaining to Chen Li the dangers of the dark zone when Chen Li beside him stopped.
He rolled up the sleeve of his left hand, showing his pale forearm engraved with the map in front of Ye Minglang, and pointed at the black mass on it:
"Is that so?"
The center of the map seemed to be stained by ink, and everyone's positioning light spots were invisible.
And this black shadow is still expanding outward.
Ye Minglang's expression suddenly became serious.
What do you say?
What a probability!
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