"I think this is great." Alice said calmly.
Her eyes stayed on Su Mingan: "I want to become stronger, I want to protect the detective, this is my wish. It's hard to have both. If you want to be strong, you have to give up your dreams. I am not ashamed of being good at martial arts."
After hearing this, Yisi could only respect her idea.
The birthday party didn't end until nearly two in the morning, when Su Ming'an and Alice returned home.
Alice lay on the bed, covered with a blanket. At her request, Su Mingan read her a bedtime story for the first and last time.
Because - when she opens her eyes again, the detective will disappear, and then she will have to go through a long and lonely six months, living alone, going to school alone, going home alone, cooking alone, until he appears again. By then, she will be fifteen years old, no longer a child, and can no longer ask for bedtime stories.
——Time is just a short moment for him.
——But it was a long six months for her.
Su Mingan sat by her bed and read her a fairy tale under the crackling of the fireplace:
"A long time ago, there was a beautiful princess with long hair. Suddenly, a tsunami hit her kingdom, and her kingdom and her friends were submerged by the tsunami."
"As a survivor, she boarded a lighthouse and waited, hoping to see her friends. She used the lighthouse to guide the passing ships and asked the sailors to look for her friends along the way."
"She waited and waited for a long, long time, but her kingdom was still submerged and there was no news from her friends."
"Year after year, Rapunzel looked up at the sky and said to herself, 'Please, don't leave me alone. Please take me with you, or come to me alive.'"
"Until one day, a white dove flew over from afar and told her - 'Princess, there is no need to wait any longer. Winter has come, and the snow has buried everything. Your kingdom has become a frozen kingdom, and all the corpses are sleeping under the ice. No one will ever come back.'"
"Such desperate news hit Rapunzel's heart. In the end, Rapunzel chose..."
When Su Mingan read this, he looked up and found that Alice had fallen asleep.
"Good night, Alice." Su Mingan closed the book. He was about to quit the game when he suddenly saw someone standing in front of the door.
It was a young man wearing a mask, a minstrel-style robe, and a bagpipe at his waist.
"Are you Xiao Hei?" Su Ming'an remembered that Alice once met a bard named Xiao Hei.
"Detective, take Alice away as soon as possible." Xiao Hei said, "Keep her away from everything related to the gods. Otherwise, you will be in great trouble."
"Why do you say that?" Su Mingan asked.
Xiao Hei just repeated: "Please take Alice away from here as soon as possible, the farther the better."
Su Mingan suddenly heard a "ding dong" sound. At this moment, he finally received the long-awaited main quest of this game -
Su Mingan knew very early on that this was not just a development game.
As a child named by the Eyes of the Old Ones, Alice will face the impending disaster head-on.
…
[Main Quest: Together with Alice, investigate the truth about the frequent occurrence of alien species in this world and kill the alien king. ]
[Task Reward: Clear the game.]
…
"Is a disaster about to happen?" Su Mingan asked in a low voice.
At this moment, the only feeling in his mind was "It's finally here".
"Probably." Xiao Hei said.
Su Mingan nodded.
The warm days here are over.
The heavy darkness was about to sweep towards the real world and the game at the same time, and he had no choice but to hold the lamp in his hand and not retreat a single step until he could see the bottom of the abyss.
"Thank you for your reminder, but it's not just me. She won't choose to escape either." Su Ming'an said, "We are all people who cannot let tragedy happen."
Xiao Hei didn't say anything, just turned around and left silently.
Su Mingan held a white morning glory in his arms, stood under the street light, and looked up at the heavy snow. The snowflakes fell down and brushed against his black hair.
“Ding-ding-ding—”
As the bell rang, he sighed:
“It’s snowing heavily.”
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