Dawn of Another World

"Bringing me here must not be just because it's tall and safe at night, isn't it Basil?"

Ling Xiao's voice was gentle, and his green eyes were like the glowing light grass not far away. He looked at the silver-haired young man who was almost at a loss, and decided to let him take a breath before talking.

"Yani——" Calling the name of the little dragon cub, Ling Xiao was going to bring back the little guy who had gotten carried away with playing, and if he went down, he was afraid that the beautiful bushes in front of him would all be killed by the little guy The poison of the saliva.

"Goo?"

"I--"

Behind Ling Xiao, Basil's voice sounded along with Adonis' bubbling sound, and he couldn't laugh or cry as he walked over. Ling Xiao held the little guy's nice paws, hugged him and turned around. In the twilight, , Basil's unusually deep golden eyes slammed into Ling Xiao's eyes.

"I like it here." The voice sank silently, and Basil quietly stared at Ling Xiao who was standing in the bushes of light with the little dragon in his arms. At this moment, the man seemed to be radiating light all over his body. "I want you to come and take a look..."

Clumsy with words and not good at expressing, this kind of Basil didn't know how to convey the thoughts in his heart to the black-haired young man in front of him directly through the expression language.It's just that there is an impulse in his heart-in his eyes, he wants to share such a beautiful scenery or beautiful things with Ling Xiao, so that Ling Xiao can see it, that's all.

And Ling Xiao, who was watching him at this moment, seemed to be able to understand his unintelligible expressions, with a warm light on his body, showing the same warm smile, and gradually approaching him——

Basil's heart beat uncontrollably again.

"Thank you." Ling Xiao said.Sitting down on the spread out animal skin cushion, he looked at the clump of light plants emitting a faint yellow light. He stopped looking at Basil, and his voice was gentle but extremely clear.

Thank you for everything, Basil.

Lowering his eyelashes, Basil hummed inaudibly, and started working again.

There was silence on the desolate plain, only the sound of the wind passed through my ears.And invisibly, something seems to be quietly changing between Ling Xiao and Luo Le, who are both clumsy at expressing their inner emotions.

This hidden and leeward boulder top carries almost all the memories of Basil from his youth to his youth.No matter happy things or more unhappy things, since he discovered this place when he was young, he would come here to stay quietly for a while almost every day.For Basil, who was full of anger in his youth and was wary and hostile to everything around him, this is a secret place that only belongs to him, and no one else will ever know it.

Basil never thought that there would be such a day, he would decide to bring another person here with urgency, even more so than the day when his teacher, the Prophet Gigi, officially agreed to accept him as a disciple. It made him feel great joy and joy.

Why is that?

This question still lingered in Basil's mind without an answer until the two of them set up the tent, had a simple dinner, and looked up at the brilliant night sky together quietly.

"Basil, do you think there is the earth I used to live in in this vast starry sky?"

As if asking a question and more like asking himself, Ling Xiao actually knew very well in his heart that most of the stars that can be seen at night are bright stars, even if the humble earth is really mixed in the starry sky at night on Terra, only by It is impossible to detect with the naked eye.

Since the turmoil in the Eye of Ice and Snow in Giant Wolf City, Ling Xiao has seldom thought about the past that is getting farther and farther away from him and is gradually becoming untouchable.He was very afraid that once he thought about it deeply, he would collapse again. He could only deeply block and bury the past life that belonged to Lingxiao on Earth.

But tonight's red moon Noah is exceptionally bright, and the three belts of stars are constantly shining and shining. Under such a magnificent sky, not far away, the rushes of grass are gently swaying and shining brightly. The scenery is so beautiful.Deep in Ling Xiao's heart, those thoughts and emotions that were deliberately ignored were out of control like the tide of the sea.

"When I first came here, I kept thinking that there must be some reason..." Under the bright moonlight, Ling Xiao's smile was hazy and unreal, and his long eyelashes cast a shadow on his face, "There must be some reason, Why am I here?"

Although he maintains the appearance of calmly accepting the facts in front of others, in the face of earth-shaking changes overnight, no matter how determined and strong a person is, it is impossible to really deal with them as calmly as they appear on the outside.

Ling Xiao, whose eyes were hidden under the ambiguous shadow, couldn't help but chuckled again when he thought of the scene where Basil brought him back to Giant Wolf City.

When he opened his eyes again in the tent of the giant wolf prophet, and faced the prophet who was looking so close, although he could barely understand the other party's words, he was unable to communicate, and he didn't know that he was in his own body. Where, exactly what happened.The bewilderment at that moment turned out to be when he saw the silver wolf Basil lying prone beside him, Ling Xiao finally calmed down his heart that had already set off a turbulent sea.

After that, the question that could not be answered kept pestering Ling Xiao repeatedly. Until now, if he had to find a reason to find peace of mind, then maybe he had already found the reason why he exists here. it's -

Ling Xiao told himself so.

He looked at Basil beside him, and then thought of the Prophet, Lim, Mia, Sardis, Gale, and the others in Giant Wolf City, as well as the many orcs who expressed their kindness to him, getting along day after day During the journey, those seemingly insignificant little things gradually accumulated, and the restless heart settled down. It was they who gave him the strength to get up again after falling, and gave him the courage to move on after being confused.

Facing Ling Xiao's gaze, Basil didn't make a sound, just picked up one side of the cloak and quietly covered Ling Xiao's shoulders.

"The teacher once said - as long as you are alive, there will always be a way out, and you will always find a way." Basil said in a low voice.He will never forget that at the moment before he almost lost his mind and was about to be swallowed by the evil darkness, the man who almost shaped himself today stared straight at him with pale eyes and told him word by word— —

As long as you live well, people or things that can solve your grievances and doubts, calm your soul, and make your heart peaceful will always appear in front of you at some point in the future.

"Yeah." Ling Xiao didn't say much after listening, just nodded in response.

The little dragon cub, who had already fallen asleep on his lap, turned over at this moment, and saw him sticking out his buttocks, his limbs sliding happily, as if he had dreamed of something good, and he kept gurgling, his naive and completely funny The appearance made Ling Xiao and Basil look at each other, and then burst out laughing.

"The little guy just rolled in the light grass for a long time, it seems that he is full today." Ling Xiao poked Adonis's swollen and undulating belly, the fat belly that was still shaking in his sleep The short tail immediately wrapped his fingers affectionately and wouldn't let go.

Theoretically, the Plains do not need to eat.The abundant and exuberant elemental energy in all things in nature is not only the source of the strength of the adult dragons, but also the food for the growth of their new life.From the dragon scale that Anas left him, Ling Xiao also roughly understood that after the catastrophe, the ecology collapsed, a large number of elements lost their vitality, and their energy dissipated or fell silent. The culprit who entered eternal sleep.

Like today, it is no wonder that Adonis is so happy that he can meet a cluster of vigorous and active rush grass, even in his sleep.

"Baile, let's sleep too." Looking at the sky, Ling Xiao suggested to the silver-haired youth.The night in Xiaofeng Plain was extremely cold. Even though he was wrapped in a thick and warm fur cloak and stayed at the entrance of the tent for a long time, Ling Xiao could still feel the slightest chill seeping into his skin.

Basil naturally listened to him. He got into the tent backwards, bent down and lowered the simple tent curtain and tied it tightly with leather ropes. The two of them plus a Plains cub lay down in this small and cramped space. down.

Ling Xiao hugged the little dragon cub Adonis, and he was held in his arms by Basil's outstretched arms.With a stiff body, Ling Xiao regretted the proposal just now. At this moment, he could only secretly rejoice that no one could see his embarrassment in the darkness.

The two hugged each other in such an intimate posture, which made Ling Xiao feel awkward, but Basil seemed to be very calm, so Ling Xiao had to hypnotize himself over and over again: the tent is too small, Basil can't transform into shape , now this is just his habit when he was in the giant wolf form...

Time passed quietly amid Ling Xiao's repeated entanglements, and in the end even he didn't know when he fell asleep.

Silent all night.

Then the sun rose and the sun set, when Basil and Ling Xiao finally appeared at the first stop of the journey they had planned—Spice Town, with the little dragon cub Yani, it was already noon on the third day.

This is a market town that has long been abandoned.

Located within the territory of the Desolate Snake Clan, the northern entrance of the town is facing an ancient river at the junction of the territories of the Desolate Snake Clan and the Giant Wolf Clan.The ancient river channel, like all the rivers on the plain, has long since cracked and dried up. Ling Xiao and Luo Le just crossed the dried up river valley and came to the entrance of the current market town.

Ling Xiao looked around carefully.

On the outskirts of the town, the high walls that had been severely weathered and corroded collapsed in all directions, and the houses and buildings built with stones behind the walls were all toppled down at this time, which was almost the same as the scene witnessed at the watchman's outpost. The ground was not covered by sand and gravel There are also obvious signs of burning on the ruined walls that were buried and exposed.

"The patriarch of Xivia said before that thousands of years ago, this place was the distribution center for all kinds of spices and ingredients in the entire Saofeng Plain, and the name of Spice Town came from this."

As Ling Xiao said, he stretched out his hand and gently stroked a section of the collapsed stone wall, and the wall had been eroded to such an extent that it could not see its true colors at all.In the once extremely prosperous trading market town, even the air was filled with the smell of various spices, and the laughing crowd once passed by singing and dancing on the street where Ling Xiao and Basil are now standing, and looked back at dusk. , everything has faded with the passage of time.

"Baile, let's go in and have a look." Ling Xiao turned to Basil and asked his opinion softly.

Although he didn't have too much expectation, since more than half a month ago, the leader of the Desolate Snake, Sylvia, mentioned that this town, which is located in the border area between the two clans, has long been desolate and abandoned, and there have been rumors that The Anecdote of the Wanderer and the Foreigner—the legend of a certain unrecognizable figure who has been annihilated in history and has no past and no future, called the Time Forgotten.

With the passage of thousands of years, even if there were any traces left, they probably no longer exist by now.But even if the hope is slim, Ling Xiao still wants to take a look, because besides him, the legendary Forsaken may be the only other human being who traveled through time and space to Terra.

The prophet Jiji once said that Terra, who was in the prosperous period of magic thousands of years ago, may be able to help Ling Xiao find a way to solve the problem.So, if it is the time-forgotten person who came to this land thousands of years ago, has he already obtained the answer and found the way home?

"Ling Xiao—" the words came to his lips, Basil stopped his voice again, "...be careful."

Looking at Ling Xiao's expectant expression, even though this lifeless deserted town gave him a bad feeling, Basil couldn't tell the other party "don't go in" anyway.In the end, he could only follow closely behind Ling Xiao, guarding against possible dangers that might appear around him.Along the road at the entrance of the town, which no longer looks like a street, the two of them gradually walked inward.

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