"Nono! Nono! Can you hear me?"
Lang Heng's slightly anxious voice was in his ears, and Xu Nuo was also a little flustered. He seemed to have slept for a long time and felt that he was in darkness.
The sound of Lang Heng calling his name was still ringing intermittently. Xu Nuo wanted to open his eyes and tell him "I'm fine, don't be afraid", but he was still trapped in the darkness and couldn't break free.
Gradually, the void in front of him was no longer there. A faint light was coming through in the distance. Xu Nuo had no choice but to walk towards the light source.
The end of the light source seemed to be another world, a narrow dirt road, people dressed in ancient costumes were busy with their own things, and occasionally a few birds flew overhead.
"Hello, where is this?" Xu Nuo approached a woman sitting under a tree by the roadside and asked.
The woman ignored him and just fiddled with the winnowing basket in her hand, turning over the dried vegetables on it.
Several children ran past Xu Nuo laughing and making noises. Xu Nuo calmed himself down and prepared to stop a child to ask him a question. As soon as he stretched out his hand, the child playfully passed through his hand and ran away.
Xu Nuo looked at himself in surprise and found that he seemed to have become a traveler who had strayed into another parallel world, observing the lives of the indigenous people but unable to participate in them. People could not see or touch him.
"66, are you there?" Xu Nuo was a little anxious. He just wanted to return to his lover.
The familiar mechanical sound did not sound, and Xu Nuo clenched his palms anxiously.
"There's a wolf! The wolf is coming down the mountain!"
Suddenly shouts were heard all around, and the crowd suddenly exploded and scattered. Only a few young men picked up their weapons and ran away.
Xu Nuo heard the wolves and hurried over to follow them. A pregnant female wolf was holding a chicken in its mouth, with uncoagulated blood at the corner of her mouth. The female wolf must have been very hungry, eating voraciously, not paying attention to the approaching people.
When Xu Nuo saw the people who came after hearing the noise raising their hammers and hitting the mother wolf, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of tearing in his heart.
"No! Don't--" Xu Nuo tried to stop him, but it was in vain.
Fortunately, the mother wolf managed to dodge at the last moment, but one of her hind legs was inevitably hit, and she limped towards the distant mountains with her injured leg.
Xu Nuo seemed to fly, following the she-wolf closely. The she-wolf returned to a small cave, and soon after, she showed signs of giving birth.
Xu Nuo could only stand by anxiously as he watched the bleeding mother wolf. In the end, the mother wolf held on until the last moment, licked her three newly born cubs, and then died.
Xu Nuo couldn't explain how he felt, and could only stay where he was, guarding the wolf cubs. The next day, only one of the three wolf cubs was still alive. Xu Nuo knew in his heart that it was the wolf Heng from the past.
Perhaps it was the effect of sharing the demon pill, he received Lang Heng's past, although for some reason it even included things before Lang Heng was born.
Xu Nuo stayed by the wolf cub Lang Heng's side, watching him fortunately be discovered by a passing pack. He was then taken home and raised by a mother wolf, presumably one who had lost her own cub. Then, one day, Lang Heng suddenly awakened to spiritual awareness. After experiencing the constant departures of family and friends, Lang Heng grew increasingly reclusive, yet his cultivation became increasingly fluent. After an unknown amount of time, Lang Heng successfully transformed and became the undisputed leader of his pack.
Xu Nuo watched Lang Heng lead his tribe to migrate and establish new territory. He would gather spiritual fruits and herbs alone to help his tribe members cultivate, and he would eliminate and expel the gray wolves that had become disloyal. Before this, their relationship had been quite close. The wolves in the tribe revered Lang Heng, yet inevitably distanced themselves from him. Aside from a few naive cubs, Lang Heng was mostly alone. He was silent, irritable, and increasingly unable to remember how to interact with others... Countless nights flew by, and Xu Nuo sat beside Lang Heng, stroking his ears to comfort him, even though he couldn't feel it.
Later, Lang Heng survived a tribulation and, after being severely injured, lay powerless in the wasteland not far from the zoo, spying on Xu Nuo and the two capybaras. Later, they lived together, experienced kidnapping and confession...
Xu Nuo discovered that the Lang Heng he saw was the most perfect version of himself that Lang Heng had ever put together. Lang Heng never showed any negativity towards him, even though they had only known each other for a short time. His lover seemed to have an innate understanding of how to love him well.
"Nono——"
"I am here!"
This time, Xu Nuo opened his eyes and threw himself into his lover's arms. The fox beauty beside him, perhaps threatened by Lang Heng, had a grim expression. Lang Xi, on the other side, whimpered and nuzzled him repeatedly with her moist nose. The world unfolded so vividly before Xu Nuo's eyes that he couldn't help but feel a sense of disconnection from the first half of Lang Heng's life, which he had just experienced.
Xu Nuo didn't care about the other people present, and raised his head to eagerly pursue his lover's lips. Lang Heng was taken aback by his sudden initiative, and then immediately responded by kissing the young man in his arms.
"I'm here, baby..."
Bai Zi clicked his tongue twice. "It's really unbelievable that a two thousand year old demon's house is on fire. It makes me want to find something to do."
Xu Nuo realized what he had done and stepped back embarrassedly, his face red. Lang Heng's heart and eyes were filled with his lover. He reached out and picked up Lang Xi and handed him to Bai Zi.
"Well, since you don't have a wife anyway, just raise a child for fun."
Lang Xi struggled in Bai Zi's arms using all four legs, and somehow triggered the evil factor of the fox demon.
Bai Zi patted his head as if he had received a new toy. "Okay, then I won't disturb your world of two. Let's go."
A wisp of green smoke dissipated, and Bai Zi and Lang Xi disappeared on the spot.
"Are you okay? Xiaoxi..."
"It's okay, Bai Zi knows her limits. It's time for Lang Xi to learn some skills so that he doesn't run into your arms all the time."
"Oh...Aheng." Xu Nuo suddenly called him.
"I'm here."
"I just saw your past." Xu Nuo leaned on his chest. In this posture, she could clearly hear Lang Heng's strong heartbeat.
"Well, maybe sharing the demon pill gave us a new connection... I actually saw a little bit of your memory..."
Neither of them spoke again for a while, until Lang Heng broke the silence again.
"Those people, I mean...your former lovers, were they all me?"
Xu Nuo nodded, his voice muffled, "It's always been just you."
Lang Heng understood and kissed his forehead to comfort him, "Will we always be together? In the next life or the life after that...?"
"I will find you, just as you will find me."
Xu Nuo looked up, his eyes covered with a layer of mist, and even tears could not extinguish the fire in his heart. He didn't know when the small fire had taken root in his heart, and the fuel was his endless love for his lover.
The understanding of each other's past has invisibly removed a layer of barriers between the two, and they just want to be close to each other to relieve the burning desire.
The temperature gradually rises, and the room becomes charming.
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