burn me

Where is the seal? "

"..." Mu Ran remained silent and didn't answer, but just glanced in Yi'er's direction.

"She didn't go wrong." Yi'er looked at Cecilia, who had an impatient expression, stroked the skirt with his hands hesitantly, stood up suddenly and walked to Mu Ran, and transmitted his remaining power into the up the compass.

"Let's... let's hurry up." Facing Mu Ran's gaze, Yier explained with some stumbles, and couldn't help twisting the red rope on his wrist.

"Well, hurry up." Mu Ran turned her head expressionlessly, and there seemed to be some indistinguishable emotions hidden deep in her pupils.

Let's end it soon.

Chapter 19

Every time the term dusk is mentioned, Cecilia always finds it difficult to avoid being connected with the word 'desolation'.

Even more so in the desert.

Although the distant horizon seems to be ignited by the sun against the raging fire, it can't warm up and can't restore the dark sky that has fallen into the cold without hesitation.

There has been silence in the carriage for a long time.

But it may not be far from the destination.

Cecilia estimated the current mileage in her heart, roughly guessed their current location, and felt an indescribable anxiety in her heart for no reason.

"It's really boring on the road."

Cecilia put down the increasingly pale hair that she kept rubbing in her hands, and turned her head in Mu Ran's direction.

"Maybe I can tell you a story to relieve boredom." Mu Ran rubbed the edge of the compass with her fingertips, and said lightly.

——As if if anyone raised any objection at this moment, she would not continue talking.

There was still silence in the carriage.Cecilia even raised her eyelids lazily to express her curiosity about the so-called 'story' in her mouth.

Mu Ran saw that no one was stopping her—maybe she didn't need other people's support at all, so she continued to tell her story with the same tone.

"Once upon a time there was a little child who was always thought to be carefree--because she was well fed and clothed, and seemed to be very popular."

"But it just seems that the children know exactly who is popular."

"Until one day, the child fell into a trap in the forest. She cried for help for a whole day in it,—a whole day, even coughing up blood from her throat. But still no one came to rescue her. Even those who have always done their duty None of the guards found her."

"So in the early morning of the next day. She was taken back by hunters who came up the mountain to find the trap."

"The child is beautiful. This seems to be a good price. The hunter thought so and sold her to a nobleman who seemed to be rich."

"But the nobleman is not an ignorant bastard. He directly saw the value of this child. In order to please a well-known pharmacist at that time, he packed the child and sent it to the pharmacist's laboratory .”

"Just like human beings have never taken the lives of rats, insects, and flowers and plants in experiments seriously. Children, as experimental subjects of a different race, are of course not regarded as something precious and should be taken seriously. s life."

"No, it's taken seriously. After all, children are very resilient. This is what the pharmacist and his friends of other races are very satisfied with."

A small chuckle came from the front row.Cecilia straightened up involuntarily, and slowly grabbed the skirt at her hand.Her face tensed up, and she felt that even her breathing was a little stagnant.

The atmosphere in the carriage gradually became solemn.

"And so began the child's nightmare."

"But the child can't remember anything, whether it's electric shock, fire, or being locked in a closed water tank, whether it's injecting medicine, cutting open the stomach, or taking out the heart brazenly, anyway, the child's mind is very chaotic. I feel that the long time has made her almost lose her self-awareness, and her soul has been merged into the embrace of the natural god."

"But the kid didn't give up. It's not that she hasn't seen the fate of other experimental subjects. She is eager to get out. Hysterically eager."

"Perhaps opportunities always favor those who are full of longing in their hearts—the children seized the opportunity and escaped from the cold underground cage in the laboratory. It is a pity that the children who planned the escape plan with her seemed to stay behind. In that cold cage."

"The child returned to his hometown full of hope, and ran into his clan land happily, but he only received treatment not far from that of the experimental product."

"——What a perfect tragic story. She was abandoned by her own people and creatures of other races."

"—You never told me these things!" Yi'er spit out such a sentence as if he couldn't bear it, his voice was trembling, mixed with a trace of inexplicable sharpness.She stood up from her seat and eagerly leaned towards Mu Ran, leaving aside the etiquette that she had always valued.

The car was suddenly commanded to brake.The vehicle that was in suspension was released from the extremely fast movement, and instantly stopped in mid-air not far from the ground, shaking Er to the back of the chair in front.

She raised her head, and was facing Xiang Muran's extremely calm and calm eyes.

"Teacher, you can get out of the car."

Cecilia stabilized her body that was leaning forward suddenly, raised her head and looked not far ahead through the car window, a particularly conspicuous golden magic circle suddenly burst into a dazzling light in the dark night.

So familiar.

It was exactly the same as the one that locked her.

Cecilia looked at Mu Ran and Yi'er who were facing each other, and couldn't help but sneered slightly.

Chapter 20

Cecilia swears that the two people in front of her are definitely the worst duo in her life.

Even when she lost her parents due to some force majeure, she was never so sad. — After all, she later smashed the group of bastards who made the final decision.

"That's great." Cecilia gently twisted a bunch of faintly shining gold threads hanging on the wall of the car, interrupting the intense eye contact between the two people in front, "A beautiful teacher-student relationship."

Xier froze in embarrassment, turned his head to look at Cecilia, who had a somewhat sarcastic tone.

"... Xier, please get out of the car." Cecilia rested her elbows on the back of the chair, lowered her eyes and slightly raised her chin, "Now it's a matter between Mu Ran and me."

"Or," she suddenly raised her upper eyelids and looked straight at Yier, "do you want to explain to me the problem of the concentric stone?"

Xier's pupils shrank, and his right hand reflexively wanted to cover his wrist, but in the end he still firmly grasped the skirt at hand, forming a conspicuous fold around the skirt.She felt that her voice was a bit hoarse, and she couldn't utter any words that could change the topic when she opened her mouth, so she finally had to stumble and speak to Cecilia, who looked extremely irritable and indifferent, "You...you know ..."

"I don't care what choice you make, I really hope you don't regret it in the end." Cecilia looked at her for a while with a half-smile, then couldn't help lowering her head and "tsk", "When I was in school, I really didn't see it..."

Xier's face turned pale, she was silent for a long time, and then she said in compromise, "I'll get out of the car."

The car door was gently opened, Cecilia and Mu Ran watched Er leave the car, and then the car fell into silence again.

"I know you, Cecilia."

Cecilia raised her head and looked at the unfamiliar but familiar face with no expression. She didn't intend to continue the conversation after her words.

"I know what you are all thinking, but obviously I am not the Mu Ran that you expected and knew before." Mu Ran looked at the extremely conspicuous formation in the dark night, and gently put his hand on the compass.

"I'm too lazy to care about what you want to do." Cecilia threw the water bottle in her hand towards the gap between the seats, and when she saw Mu Ran who heard the sound, she turned around and reached out to catch the water bottle, so she took the opportunity to meet her Looking at her eyes, "You asked me to do something for you to stay here, just say it."

"It seems that we are all abandoned by the whole world, Cecilia."

Cecilia looked away from her eyes, and silently rested her head on the soft pillow behind her.

"I heard that to unlock the seal of Abyss, the two forces that built the seal need to impact it at the same time."

"...I understand." Cecilia lightly tapped the handrail beside her with her finger, and chuckled as if relieved, "Then you can get off the car too."

"Even though the car has been infused with enough holy light by Mr. Yi'er, I don't think I can get out of the car."

silence.The silence that makes people feel that time has become extraordinarily long.

"...That's great, Mu Ran, it sounds like you like your teacher very much?"

"I won't let her die." Mu Ran paused.

"She... is the best person in the world to me."

Best people ever.Cecilia chewed these four words carefully between her lips and teeth, closed her eyes in frustration, and then threw herself heavily on the back of the chair, completely unwilling to continue talking.

The compass started to work.Mu Ran's drooping face was shaken by the blue light displayed on the screen, showing a wave-like pattern.

"You are not needed here. You can get out." Cecilia looked at Mu Ran who started the car very calmly, stood up and picked up her collar and dragged her to the back seat without hesitation He opened the car door and threw it out.

"Muran... I love you, but I really don't like you at all." Cecilia said silently