Long Xun looked down at the boy.
He rubbed against Long Xun like a big dog that only saw its master, and his scarlet blood smeared onto Long Xun's body.
The swelling on the boy's body disappeared rapidly the moment he woke up, and soon his face was clearly visible. As expected, it was Yin Chen.
Long Xun hesitated for a moment before slowly placing his hand on the boy's head and gently rubbing it.
The soft touch of his hair was like that of a fluffy pet, gently brushing against his palm. The boy stared at him blankly, as if he didn't understand what Long Xun was doing.
There are some special people in the world. Like Long Xun, they are reincarnated in certain worlds again and again. They include humans, immortals, demons, and even gods.
These beings each have their own goals in the cycle of reincarnation, whether it's to find something lost, to break through a certain realm, or to gain some enlightenment. But without exception, they are all essentially the same person.
Long Xun originally thought that meeting Yin Chen in his first life was an accident, so when he met him again in his second life, he thought that the two had no connection and therefore ignored an unrelated person.
As the emperor, Yin Chen, burdened with responsibilities, could not abandon everything and follow Long Xun without a sense of responsibility. By the time he finally found his chance to be free, Long Xun had already reached the day of his departure.
When he left in his previous life, he couldn't bear to let Yin Chen, who had followed him through countless mountains and rivers without ever complaining, go. The young man, smiling contentedly and happily, simply winked playfully and said seriously, "We were just traveling together."
So he said, "I want to go back to heaven."
Everything was like slow motion; Long Xun can still recall every detail of the changes in Yin Chen's facial expressions.
He froze for a moment, and after a long while, his eyelashes trembled slowly. He blinked, deliberately forcing himself to laugh out loud, his voice hoarse and trembling, dry like a file scraping wood chips.
Long Xun simply looked at him calmly, and the young man who had once been an emperor could no longer laugh.
Will you come back?
Oh, so you're not coming back...
Why leave so soon? The human world is so much fun... The guards said Lu Xiaofeng is in trouble again. Shall we go and see?
But the Gu woman just got married. Isn't she your friend? Shouldn't we wait until after she has her child?
...
Can't we stay a little longer...?
Well... wait until I've gone a little further away before you go, okay?
Long Xun didn't understand why Yin Chen, who wasn't injured, had such a pained and desperate expression, as if he were about to die. Even with that pained expression, he still tried to force a smile.
So Long Xun agreed.
Only after Yin Chen walked away with his back to him did he transform into a dragon and soar into the sky.
The last thing I saw before leaving was Yin Chen running towards me, her hair disheveled, tripping over a stone and falling to the ground.
He cried out in despair, his howl almost like that of a wild beast, which inexplicably stirred a pang of pity in Long Xun's heart, though only for a brief moment.
Perhaps it was because that despair had shaken his heart that he felt a little heartache when he learned that Yin Chen was the same person in both his past and present lives.
Actually... Yin Chen never asked him for anything, neither in the first life nor the second life.
This child has been trying his best to keep up with him. Even when they wanted to keep him, they gave up after seeing his unwillingness.
After a brief moment of distraction, he returned to reality. The boy clinging to his arm gradually revealed his true form after the terrible swelling. He looked even more immature than in his previous two lives, perhaps only eleven or twelve years old, with bones protruding from his thin body.
Even though he was actually very handsome, when he became so thin that he was skin and bones, he only looked terrifying. His big eyes were dark and empty, with only a glimmer of light occasionally flashing in them, making him look extremely eerie.
They looked like ghosts crawling out of hell.
Long Xun slightly twitched his arm, and the boy immediately tightened his limbs even more, as if he were about to be abandoned.
Frowning slightly, Long Xun's voice turned colder: "Get down."
As if realizing he had truly displeased him, the boy panicked and quickly let go, landing on the ground in a very strange posture. He only touched the ground with his toes, while the soles and heels of his feet were raised. He bent his knees, supported himself on the ground with his hands, and crawled to the side using both hands and feet, like a wild beast.
Seeing him like this, Long Xun thought of Yin Chen, who had lived a life of luxury in his previous two lives, and a faint sense of pity inexplicably swept through his heart.
He paused for a moment before softening his voice and saying slowly, "I can't move when you're on top of me."
The boy looked at him blankly. Although he couldn't understand what he was saying, he could tell that he wasn't angry. So he slowly moved over and carefully reached out to grab the hem of Long Xun's white coat. When he realized that his hand hadn't been brushed away, he immediately gripped it tightly.
The way he traveled through time using the Jianwang 3 system was different from how he broke through space on his own. He was wearing the clothes from the original novel, Long Xun's white lab coat, which belonged to researchers, and black pants. When he opened the system, he could also see that he was wearing a complete set of modern clothing, such as a white lab coat and trousers.
The attributes of the equipment are fixed; only the appearance can be changed.
Long Xun searched through the interface and found the image of Milk Tea's hamster in the system's pet section. After he clicked to summon, a hamster suddenly appeared on the ground.
Milk Tea sniffed around, her nose twitching. When she saw Long Xun, her eyes lit up, and she darted over like lightning. But halfway there, she suddenly changed direction and landed on Yin Chen, a boy in a hospital gown. She climbed all over him with inexplicable excitement.
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