Children are eager to learn about the unknown. Seeing their focused expressions and sparkling eyes, Qi Yan felt extremely warm in his heart.

No matter what the future will be like, at least they will have a way to survive.

After the class, Qi Yan told the children a bedtime story as usual. The originally slightly gloomy weather outside has turned blue, and along with the stars, the sky is blue-green and purple. The aurora.

"Okay, that's the end of the story today." Qi Yan stood up and waved his hand: "You should go back to bed."

"Hey..." The children were obviously not satisfied.

"Go back and sleep quickly, you live in a new tree house." Qi Yan said with a smile, "Don't you want to experience the feeling of sleeping in a tree house?"

Although the children have lived in a tree house before, the Samud people have just moved in not long ago, and their lives have just settled down. The children are still fresh to everything in the tree house.

Sure enough, after Qi Yan finished speaking, the children stood up and said goodbye to Qi Yan politely. Several little boys even ran to Doniel, rubbed his head with a playful smile, and then left.

After the children dispersed, Qi Yan stared at Mas who was hesitating at the door and didn't want to leave.

"What's wrong?" Qi Yan walked over and asked softly, "Is there something you don't understand just now?"

"...No." Mars lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "I want to ask...that spring water, can you give me some?"

Qi Yan paused, as if he could never have imagined that Mars would want the fountain of youth.

"...Sorry, Mars." Qi Yan shook his head: "I'm still not sure if this is the fountain of youth. If not, giving it to you would hurt you. But if it is, I will tell everyone the results of my research on the fountain of youth."

Mars' eyes flashed with loneliness: "The fountain of youth can bring people back to life, right?"

Qi Yan was stunned, and suddenly thought of Mars' father...

"Okay, Mars!" Doniel's voice suddenly rang out, Qi Yan turned his head and saw Doniel looking at Mars seriously, obviously listening to the conversation between the two just now.

Doniel walked in front of Mars, his eyes fell on him lightly, and after a long time, he grinned, revealing his white teeth.

"We agreed, right? Don't let your father's affairs affect your mood." Doniel put his hand on Mas' head and rubbed it gently, like a father treating his son, giving him courage and warmth.

Mas' eyes gradually turned red. He nodded solemnly and wiped the tears from his face with his hands.

"Then... can I still come to listen to the story tomorrow?" With slightly red eyes, Mas looked at Qi Yan carefully and asked.

"Of course, as long as you want to come." Qi Yan and Doniel looked at each other and laughed out loud.

Mas left happily. The little figure seemed to have put down all the burdens on his body and disappeared quickly from the sight of Qi Yan and Doniel. There were only two of them left in the room. The atmosphere froze for a moment, and it was a little weird.

Suddenly recalling the scene of Doniel slowly approaching him, Qi Yan's cheeks turned pink, and he hurriedly prepared to go back to the attic.

"I'll go back to the attic first..."

"Wait!" Doniel grabbed his hand before he ran away: "Just now... um, I just took a dead leaf off your head, it's nothing. Don't be embarrassed, it makes me feel weird..."

Doniel, who was carefree and unconcerned about details, really didn't know how to deal with such a situation.

Qi Yan's eyes fell on his hand holding his wrist for a long time, and then he hesitated slightly.

"Well... you can let me go, I'm going to study the Fountain of Youth."

"Ah? Uh... Oh!" Doniel let go of Qi Yan, Qi Yan nodded in a gesture, turned and went up the stairs.

Doniel breathed an inaudible sigh of relief, raised his hand, placed it on his chest, and felt the faster frequency of his heartbeat. Doniel thought he was incredible...

- Why did his heartbeat speed up? Why did he have a different feeling when facing Qi Yan?

After standing there for a long time, Doniel turned around and pushed the door open.

He was going to take a bath in the newly discovered spring to cool down... well, just to cool down. As soon as he

walked out of the tree house, Doniel ran into Xia who was about to knock on the door. Xia was also startled when she saw Doniel coming out, and then she showed an undisguised smile.

"Doniel!" Xiya came over quickly: "Where are you going? I'll go with you!"

Doniel shook his head: "No, you don't have to go with me." Whose elders take a woman with them when they take a bath?

Xiya's smile froze, and her expression was a little resentful.

"...Okay then." Xiya whispered: "Doniel, you... are you disgusted with me now? Because I rejected your proposal to keep that Shuta Lord?"

Doniel didn't understand why Xiya suddenly brought up something that happened so long ago. When he saw Xiya's sad expression, Doniel just thought that because they were too busy these days, the friendship between them as "brother and sister" was a little cold, which made Xiya think wildly.

"Xia, don't think too much, it's not because of that incident." Doniel said softly, "I've just been too busy recently."

Doniel was speaking the truth, but to Xia, it sounded perfunctory.

"Doniel, do you really think that the man from the Shuta main star is really helping us? Compared to those of us who live and die with you, you are more willing to believe that man?"

"Xia!" Doniel frowned, "What nonsense are you talking about!" How could he forget the brothers who lived and died with him? How could he forget everything they had experienced? How could he not trust them?

Xia's words touched Doniel's bottom line. He thought Xia was insulting him.

"Doniel..." Xia was yelled at, and shrank his shoulders tremblingly, with bitter water in his eyes.

Doniel realized that he had lost his temper, but what Thea said really hurt him.

Turning around coldly, Doniel's voice was no longer as high and proud as usual, but was indifferent: "We shouldn't meet recently. I need to be quiet, and so do you, Thea."

After saying that, he walked towards the spring without even a glance at Thea.

Doniel's heart was in turmoil. He wanted Samud's life to be better, and he also wanted to live the life of a Shuta Lord...

When establishing the Samoth Pirates, Doniel hoped that he could bring a new life to these people, at least a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and enough food and drink every day.

But...

Doniel's fast pace stopped as his thoughts drifted further and further away.

If what Xiya said was true, then how did he feel about Qi Yan?

——A bystander sees more clearly?