"A white dragon lantern?!"
Mo Yan's pupils contracted sharply as she stared intently at the small, glowing white lamp. "How did this thing get here? It shouldn't be here..."
Shen Yunhao was equally incredulous: "I lost it when I fell into the icy abyss! I never expected... it would be here!"
At this moment, Shen Yunhao seemed to understand something, and suddenly raised his head to look upwards.
However, the top of the grotto was pitch black, without a single crack.
"That's impossible... The roof is sealed off, so where did it fall from?"
Mo Yan immediately reminded him, "Don't worry about that now. The most important thing is to confirm whether we can connect to the outside world! There's more than one white lamp in this world!"
Shen Yunhao nodded, stepped forward and carefully picked up the lamp. Looking at the faint blue stripes around the snow-white lamp post, he immediately showed a look of joy.
It really is a white dragon lantern!
He took a deep breath, trying his best to calm his extremely agitated emotions, and then gently tapped his fingertip, slowly injecting a stream of spiritual energy into it.
In an instant, a faint flame ignited on the lamp wick, followed by a slow rise of white mist that condensed into a screen in front of Shen Yunhao.
A few seconds later, when that familiar, slightly anxious, and stunningly beautiful face appeared before the painting, Shen Yunhao could no longer suppress his excitement and jumped up.
"It's a success! You little brat! It's Sister Li'er! This is my White Dragon Lantern!"
Shen Yunhao's voice echoed in the stone cave. The next second, he almost pounced on the white dragon lantern, staring intently at the figure in the picture, as if to confirm it further.
In the white mist above the lamp wick, the ghostly figure of Zhuli swayed slightly, staring intently at Shen Yunhao on this side of the scene. Finally, her pale purple eyes glistened with tears, becoming crystal clear, and the girl's trembling voice softly rang out.
"Yun Hao...it really is...it really is you!"
"It's me! Sister Li'er! It really is me!"
After not seeing each other for several months, a strong sense of longing filled Shen Yunhao's mind almost instantly. He wished he could just jump through the screen and give his little white dragon a big kiss!
However, the next second, his turbulent emotions suddenly froze.
A single, crystal-clear tear slid down Zhu Li's fair cheek. The girl's sobbing was like a sharp, piercing blade, stabbing into Shen Yunhao's soul again and again, causing him excruciating pain!
"Yunhao...Yunhao...Where are you...Why...Why did it take you so long to reply? You really scared me to death...Waaah..."
Yes……
The reunion lasted less than a second, and Zhuli burst into tears...
She cried, her face streaked with tears, like a wild child abandoned by her parents, her voice filled with deep despair...
Shen Yunhao felt a pang of pain in his heart and subconsciously reached out to wipe away her tears, but his hand grasped at empty air.
He withdrew his hand, forcing a smile: "Sister Li'er, don't cry! I'm fine! Look, I'm alright now! We'll be able to see each other again soon! Really..."
The girl ignored her and just kept her head down, wiping away her tears.
Seeing this scene, Mo Yan's expression was somewhat complicated.
If it were in the past, she would have stood up and ridiculed the little white dragon when she saw him crying. However, at this moment, she couldn't muster any desire to laugh. Instead, she felt a little...envious.
I envy this girl who can cry without any inhibitions in front of Shen Yunhao, I envy her ability to vent her emotions without restraint, making this boy feel sorry for her time and time again...
It seems that after experiencing certain things, she is better able to empathize with Zhuli's perspective.
She believed that if she were in that position, no matter how impulsive she was, she would never cry.
Many times... she would rather be a little naive, like that silly girl Qing Teng.
Being sensible isn't necessarily a good thing...
Zhu Li cried for a long time, and Shen Yunhao hurriedly tried to comfort her for a long time.
He was never this flustered when he was trapped in the Ice Crystal Cave...
Only at the very end, seemingly worried that the "battery" of the white dragon lantern would run out, did the girl manage to stop crying, staring at Shen Yunhao with her pitiful big eyes.
She was already stunningly beautiful, and with that expression on her face, it would be hard for any male creature to resist, let alone Shen Yunhao, who was utterly in love with her.
If Mo Yan didn't know the true nature of this silly little white dragon, she would have thought that she was faking it!
"Yun Hao..."
"I'm here! I'm here..."
"I miss you... I miss you so much..."
"I miss her so much!" Shen Yunhao smiled, "And... I've been thinking about Sister Li'er for much longer than she's been thinking about me..."
"Liar..."
"Really! I'd be a dog if I lied!"
"snort……"
Mo Yan: "..."
To be honest, there's really nothing wrong with that!
In that damned ice cave secret realm, time moves much, much slower than in the outside world...
Several months may have passed inside, while only a few days may have passed outside.
But... is now really the time to say these things?
"You two!" Mo Yan suddenly poked her head out from behind, making an exaggerated expression. "Can't you be mindful of the situation? We're running for our lives!"
"Wisteria?"
The moment Zhu Li saw Mo Yan, her aggrieved expression vanished, replaced by a frown. "Where are you now? Where have you been for the past two weeks!"
Finally, they're getting down to business!
Mo Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sister Li'er, are you saying... it's been half a month since I disappeared?"
"yes!"
The girl pouted again, "I've video-called you so many times, but you haven't replied... At first, I could sense your condition through the Vast Ocean Heart, but later, I couldn't even sense it anymore. If it weren't for Ning Yuyao's Heart-to-Heart Mantra which could foretell your safety, I really wouldn't know what to do!"
"Yao'er..."
Shen Yunhao pursed his lips, suppressing the longing in his heart. "Sister Li'er, we should be... underground in the Valley of Polar Stars right now! There seems to be a dragon clan ruin here!"
"Valley of Polaris? Dragon ruins?"
Zhu Li paused for a moment, then said, "I asked my mother to look for you before, but... a very strong gale suddenly swept through the ice abyss of Polar Star Valley, and even my mother's cultivation level couldn't get in. So I had to ask my father for help..."
Upon hearing this, the image of the drunken, pale-faced scholar suddenly flashed into Shen Yunhao's mind. "Uncle came to see me too?"
"Um!"
This time, Zhu Li nodded heavily, "I asked my father to rescue you, but... I haven't heard anything back since he left! Yun Hao... if you are really underground in the Valley of the Polar Star, you can try to release the power of the Vast Ocean Heart to the maximum extent. My father will definitely be able to sense the aura of the Vast Ocean Heart!"
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