Patter, patter, patter…

Ash sat on the sofa, listening to the sound of water coming from the bathroom, closed the Gospel, went to open the freezer and took out a can of blue Lalafay. Blue Lalafay is one of the few inedible Lalafays, but the wine produced is very refreshing and delicious, even Ash, who has no interest in alcoholic beverages, likes it very much.

Tick-tick...tick-tick...tick-tick...slurp...

Even though Ash had tried his best to focus his attention, the sound of the water still faithfully described the situation in the bathroom to him in his auditory world. Although he had not deliberately practiced the body in the bitter and weak faction, the power of magic as a "universal energy source" could gradually strengthen the magician himself.

Sword Princess once said a hypothesis: the magician himself is a magic spirit, and the four-winged magician is actually a four-winged magic spirit. But compared with other magic spirits with a single effect, the magician has too many functions: exercise, eating, learning, reproduction... It's just that the magician can complete these functions by himself, and does not need magic power to drive it, so the magician rarely consumes magic power to strengthen himself.

Some magicians have thought about whether they can use magic power to strengthen themselves without magic spirits, to the point where they can smash rocks with one punch. However, magicians can only do what they can "imagine". They need to imagine in detail how magic power can strengthen their fists, such as skin like copper and bones like iron, such as force techniques such as bright force, dark force and inch force, etc. However, when they have perfectly imagined how to use magic power to strengthen their fists, they can basically summon fist and claw magic spirits such as "iron fist" and "inch fist".

Magic power, magic spirit, and magician seem to form a perfect closed loop. However, there are loopholes. For example, the old magician's body functions are not as good as those of his youth, but he has experienced his peak period, which belongs to the category of "imaginable". Therefore, the old magician can consume magic power to restore his body functions to the peak, and even maintain it forever. This is also the key evidence of the "magician magic spirit hypothesis".

Although becoming a magician cannot directly extend one's lifespan, and even death in the virtual realm can result in sudden death, making one's lifespan shorter than that of an average person, the magician's quality of life is very stable because they do not need to sleep and their body is always at its peak.

I have said so much just to make one point: Ash's hearing is indeed not that good. He just used his magic to improve his hearing to the limit because of desire.

"ah!"

Ash stood up immediately: "What happened? Was it an assassination?"

"No, nothing happened. Don't rush in, or I'll yell!"

Originally, Ash was just worried that 'Good News Ash' was coming to kill him, but when Annan said this provocatively and cutely, Ash felt a nameless fire rising in his lower abdomen. He sat down and took a big sip of blue happy water, trying to use iced alcohol to gain inner peace.

For some reason, when An Nan took the initiative to tease and pester him, he was able to defend his inner principles very firmly, with an attitude of "Even if you get my body and unlock all my postures, you can't get my heart." However, now that An Nan declared that nothing can happen tonight and he can only sleep on the sofa, Ash couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.

He patted his face and said to himself: Yaxiu, Yaxiu, An Nan just doesn't want others to see her scared look. Besides, she needs someone to protect her tonight, so she needs you to stay overnight. If you can't control yourself, people will look down on you!

And she doesn't mean that. Not to mention that she can control you directly, and she carries with her the second lady Donna who can spit 9mm bullets. If the two sisters come at you together, can you withstand it?

How about asking Igula to hypnotize myself, for example, temporarily lose all sexual desire... No, I will definitely be laughed at by the male veela.

Forget it, it's not like I haven't seen beautiful girls before. In terms of face, An Nan is only at the same level as Sword Princess Witch, but her eyes are really hard to resist, as if my sight is being sucked in... Then I won't look at her face later, it will be easy to deal with tonight!

Just when Ash made up his mind to calm down, the bathroom door creaked open, and long, beautiful legs stepped barefoot on the carpet, "Ash, are you going to take a shower?"

"I..." Ash turned his head and looked at her, then immediately covered his eyes with his hands, but the gaps between his fingers were wider than his fingers: "Where are your clothes!?"

An Nan was only wearing a bath towel, her long purple hair was steaming, the water stains on her shoulders were sliding down her arms and collarbones, the bath towel barely covered her hips and bunions, her long legs were exposed to the air without any cover, as beautiful as a lotus emerging from the water, and as seductive as a Veela after having sex.

The worst thing was that she didn't even dry herself completely, and there were still several drops of water swaying on her skin... Ash couldn't stand people who were not neat and tidy like this, and he could hardly take his stern gaze away from her!

But now it's not just looking at her face that will result in a critical hit. Ash feels that looking at any part of her body will cause real damage!

"I always change into pajamas after coming out before, and sometimes I don't change at all, so I forgot to bring a change of clothes in tonight, but it feels weird to ask you to bring them." An Nan sat in front of the dressing table and combed her hair: "I don't want you to look through my underwear."

"Then why don't you wear old clothes?"

"Wearing old clothes is no different from not taking a shower." An Nan turned around and rolled her eyes at him. "I can't change clothes if you stay here. Go take a shower."

Ash quickly took his change of clothes into the bathroom. For safety reasons, he locked the bathroom door, then quickly took off his clothes and took a cold shower to calm down quickly.

His first reaction was: Is An Nan attacking me with a psychic miracle?

But then he thought about it again and felt something was wrong. Annan's tone was normal, her reasons were impeccable, her actions were polite and appropriate, her attitude towards him was casual but not intimate, and her sense of distance was just right. Ash's inability to control himself was entirely his personal problem. He couldn't blame Annan for being too beautiful and sexy, right?

Moreover, the reason why An Nan came out with only a bath towel around her was because she accepted him from the bottom of her heart, just like she didn't mind showing her weak side in front of Ya Xiu, so she didn't mind revealing her living habits. However, he only paid attention to her appearance and didn't care about her inner emotional world. Ya Xiu felt deeply disgusted with his superficiality.

He soaked in the bathtub and calmed his mind, thinking that he would read the Gospel to kill time. He would never look at An Nan, so he would not be invaded by evil thoughts.

Wait, why is there a scent of violets? Ash looked down and saw purple petals floating in the bathtub. He hesitated for a moment before remembering that this was An Nan's bath water.

Just a few minutes ago, the young lady was bathing here... Wait, wait, it’s not like I haven’t used other people’s bath water before. Before, after Igula finished taking a bath, I would go straight in and continue bathing. The scent of Igula’s bath water is even stronger than this!

It’s nothing to worry about, don’t think too much!

Ash, be patient!

Although he thought so, Ash always felt that his body temperature was rising very quickly, so he ended the most comfortable bathing session of the day early, dried his body, changed into pajamas and went out.

"Are you done washing?"

An Nan was sitting in the bedroom leaning against the wall, her long purple hair casually tied up and hanging down to her right shoulder, her legs covered by a plush quilt, she was wearing a loose white shirt that was obviously not the right size, and she was reading the Gospel with her glasses on.

"If you want to sit on the sofa, that's fine, but you have to go back to the sofa when you log into the virtual world."

Ash stared at her shirt blankly: "Your clothes..."

"It's yours." An Nan raised his hands and shook his sleeves, his palms completely tucked inside: "My pajamas are all left in the previous room, and it's inconvenient to rest in formal clothes. I happened to see a shirt in your suitcase, so I borrowed it to wear. Do you mind?"

"I don't mind, but your glasses..."

"Blue light blocking glasses are good, the gospel says, except that the light simulates sunlight, which affects the retina. Although it can cause macular degeneration and can be treated, I am used to wearing glasses for prevention, and it can also help to fight fatigue a little."

Yaxiu nodded in sudden realization, then sat down at the dressing table to blow dry his hair. Annan glanced at him but said nothing, continuing to immerse herself in the movie or drama played by the Gospel Book.

The cult leader calmly blew his hair dry, but a tsunami was already rising in his heart, with waves crashing against the shore!

He didn't even dare to glance over there out of the corner of his eye, for fear that he would turn into a lustful monster on Jizhanlibajuegong's level in the next second.

Why, why does An Nan not look charming at all, but he is so excited that his mind is full of indescribable thoughts!

How can you wear my white shirt and even glasses? It's a foul, too foul! This kind of behavior should be explicitly prohibited by law! Rounding it off is simply suspected of murder!

After drying his hair, Yaxiu let out a long sigh and climbed onto the bed carefully. An Nan seemed to be immersed in the movie and didn't pay any attention to him, so he moved closer little by little until he was next to An Nan and asked in a pretentious manner, "What are you watching?"

"From the Old World." An Nan moved the gospel book towards him so that he could also see the movie and drama. "It's a comedy fantasy. It tells the story of a future world where the gospel is freely available. Several 'old people' from other countries enter the gospel kingdom. Because they refuse to listen to the gospel and cling to the backward lifestyle of the old times, a series of ridiculous stories occur."

"The Gospel is free and unlimited"... If it were in the past, it would be a sci-fi setting with unlimited energy, right? So this is a sci-fi work based on the Gospel worldview?

Ash had no interest in science fiction, but when he glanced at the light screen of the gospel, he was slightly dazed.

"Who is this girl who is beating people?"

"Female No. 2." An Nan said, "One of the 'old people', from a very poor village, impulsive and reckless, after coming to the Gospel Kingdom, she felt both inferior and proud. Many conflicts were caused by her getting into trouble... Why, do you like this actress?"

"No, I just thought of someone."

"Resembles this character?"

"Not at all. Not in character, not in appearance. I can't see any similarities at all."

"Then how did you associate it?"

"I don't know," Ash scratched his head, "I remembered it by thinking in a roundabout way."

An Nan glanced at him, and then the two of them watched the film and TV quietly. At the happy ending where the "old people" merged into the Gospel Kingdom, Yaxiu suddenly asked, "How long do we have left before we can take action?"

"Now we are only two lists away from the Knitting Festival. At the current knitting speed, we will have to act the day after tomorrow at the earliest, and no later than five days."

"Five days..." Ash muttered, "Then we don't have much time."

"Yes." An Nan said softly, "If there is anything you want to do, hurry up and finish it while you have the last minute."

"Yeah." Ash nodded: "It's almost time for me to enter the virtual world. Good night."

"Good night." An Nan said, "I'll check the information flow for a while."

Ash sat cross-legged on the sofa, opened "Aurora's Magician's Manual", clicked "Virtual Realm Exploration", and chose to enter the virtual realm with Sword Lady and Witch.

After Ash closed his eyes and his consciousness left his body and arrived at the time continent, Annan closed the Gospel, quietly lifted the quilt, got out of bed and walked to Ash. If Ash could open his eyes now, he would see Annan wearing only a white shirt - only a white shirt.

The purple moth bent over and stared at Ash, her face full of confusion: "Strange, according to the video that Yilin sent me, this should be his preference, and he really could not help it just now, why did he suddenly..."

After thinking for a while, he still couldn't figure it out, but this result obviously made Purple Moth more satisfied - the fact that he couldn't control himself showed his charm, and that he finally held back showed Ash's willpower.

An Nan kissed him gently and said with a smile, "Good night, my knight."