[Comprehensive] How to kill a rabid dog gently

Cheng in the helicopter looked down, and in his field of vision was a vast stretch of endless mountains.

They came from the north side of the ridge, and they passed countless white peaks shaped like church steeples in the sun.As the snowline recedes, the taupe limestone is exposed, but then the thick, hard skin of the mountains is gradually covered by vegetation, first dark green meadows, then pine forests, and then birch, beech and poplar. Trees... the helicopter slowed as the forest covered the mountain with verdure.

Cheng raised his head and cast a questioning look at Bai Lan.

"It's here."

Noticing her gaze, Bai Lan replied with a smile.

Following his words, the plane no longer moved forward, but began to circle in place.

But Prynne didn't seem to have any intention of instructing the driver where to land.

So Cheng asked hesitantly.

"what do you mean……?"

On the night of the dance, Cheng received Bai Lan.The news that Jesso has reached a cooperation agreement with Pengo Lie, and at the same time, she was designated as the representative of Pengo Lie's side, taking on the responsibility of obtaining box weapon technology from Bailan.

"After all, it is a very precious technology at present, and the place where it is stored should also have corresponding confidentiality."

Facing Cheng's question, Bai Lan replied like this.

"The helicopter can't go any further." Bai Lan nodded politely to the pilot, "Please return to the original route."

"Are we going to parachute down here?"

Cheng was slightly taken aback, but immediately calmed down, looking around the four walls.

"Then, the umbrella bag is in..."

"No need for that kind of thing."

Bai Lan said, wrapping her arms around Cheng's shoulders.

The next second, the cabin door suddenly opened in front of the two of them, and a strong wind hit, and Cheng's long hair was instantly lifted by the wind. When Bai Lan hugged her horizontally, she couldn't even think of a reaction—his fingers were gently piercing through her. She brushed her hair, protected her on her chest, and then spread her wings, occupying most of the space in the cabin in an instant.

Bai Lan took a step into the void, and before Cheng could feel the weightlessness, he fully spread his wings, and even the strong wind became soft as it flowed over Bai Yu.

Cheng seemed to hear Bai Lan's chuckle, she raised her head, but for a moment she couldn't tell whether it was the glass-like blue sky reflecting the clouds, or Bai Lan's transparent purple eyes, "The next step is the private domain."

He said.

"Of course, I'll take you with me."

"Is it okay to just leave like this?"

At that time they were shuttling through the forest, Cheng glanced at Bai Lan who was driving a jeep, and then asked.

"You didn't even tell Mr. Kikyo."

"Cheng, the relationship between me and my subordinates is not what you imagined." He said relaxedly, "Although Kikyo would occasionally advise me..."

He thought about it.

"... Eat less marshmallows before going to bed. But after all, I am Mirufiore's boss." Bai Lan added half-truthfully, "Maybe I'm a kind of scary boss .”

"Really?" Cheng said a little confused, "Speaking of which, you said that Mirufiore is a privately run military enterprise, but why are there such girls among the leading members..."

She thought about it.

"The child's name is, Youni..."

Bai Lan braked the car, a small shaking interrupted Cheng's words.

"Cheng, where did you meet that child?"

He asked calmly, his tone hardly different from the chatter just now.

"According to her activity area, she shouldn't meet you."

"I passed by once in the corridor, and at that time I heard the people around the girl call her 'Master Youni'." Cheng replied, "But that child is really a silent person...it seems There is almost no smile, so I am a little concerned."

"Oh, it doesn't matter, she has always been like this."

Bai Lan opened the car door and stepped out.

"I also told you that Mirufiore merged the mafia organization... The mafia is always very pedantic in inheritance rights-they still strictly abide by the law of blood inheritance in this century, even in family businesses .”

He walked to the right and opened the car door for Cheng in a gentlemanly manner.

"That child is the only heir of a mafia family. If you are interested in her, I can arrange for you to meet... But I think she is really not a good tea party partner."

Bai Lan smiled slightly.

"Also, we've arrived."

Cheng got out of the car, but all he could see in his field of vision was the dense forest, and there were no shadows of buildings among the staggered green branches and leaves.

"...?"

"There is one last step." Bai Lan said, "Because it is a private domain, you must have a pass to enter—"

Following his words, a cluster of flames leaped from Bai Lan's palm and flew forward. It stopped as if it had encountered an invisible barrier in midair, and then the scene in Cheng's eyes glowed faintly. Ripples, after the distorted light returns to its original track, the truth is revealed in front of the two of them.

What they faced was not a forest, but a huge and quiet lake.

In the middle of the lake, there is an island.

The beautiful and exquisite white building originally belonged to Bai Lan alone is located on the island in the middle of the lake.

"Perhaps I should prepare a boat."

Bai Lan frowned slightly, but then relaxed.

"In that case, let's do it as I usually do...Cheng, give me your hand."

Cheng handed him his hand, and Bai Lan's eyes showed a slight smile, and she held Cheng's fingertips.

He started to move, and Cheng also followed him, taking the first step towards the lake.

When they were about to crush the reflection in the lake, scattered white feathers were born from the flames, and the pieces gathered on the soles of their feet, gently supporting their steps.

Bai Lan didn't stop, he pulled Cheng, and walked briskly towards the island in the middle of the lake step by step, and then the feathers gathered and flew away, like petals blown up by the wind, or leaves left behind while walking in winter. A snow rut.

"I've never been here with anyone other than me."

He stared at Cheng's side face, at the cautious, surprised and gentle expression she showed when she lightly stepped on the white feather.

Hearing his words, Cheng also returned to look at him.

"Then I'm the first guest, am I?"

"No, you are not a guest."

Cheng couldn't help laughing.

In that case, am I breaking into a house illegally?

Just as she was about to ask this question, Bai Lan continued.

"I suddenly feel that this place is not good enough." He told Cheng, "If possible, I would like to build my house on the Alps."

"why?"

she asked.

Because it is closer to the sky.

Because it is farther away from the world.

"Because, if it were there, the world would be as peaceful as if it belonged to only two people."

"just you and me."

Sometimes Cheng imagines that the world has an end.

If it had an end, perhaps that end would be like a cliff, where everything would be cut off.

Outside the section, in the ever-expanding nothingness, there is no sound, nor the passing time.

Have we reached the end point now?

Cheng leaned on the edge of the terrace, looking at the dreamlike mountains in the distance, flowing clouds and snow, suddenly came up with such an idea.

Bai Lan walked up to her, and handed her a cube metal box carved with delicate patterns.

Cheng took the box, turned it over slowly and carefully, and found a small hole similar to a keyhole on one side of the box.

"Is this... a box weapon?"

Bai Lan nodded.

"This is why Vengley is interested in me... Yes, it is a box weapon."

He said.

"Before handing over the relevant information to you, please allow me to confirm first—how much do you know about box weapons?"

Cheng paused for a moment, thought for a while, and then spoke.

"Vongele also preserves similar items called box weapons." She said, "It is said that they were created a hundred years ago, but even from today's perspective, they have far surpassed modern science. The manufacturing technology of the concept...Although Vengley's technicians have put a lot of effort into restoring its manufacturing process, it is not yet successful."

Cheng raised his eyes.

"So, when they saw from you the box weapons made in a more proficient and efficient way—in other words, when they confirmed that you might have the technology to mass-produce box weapons, they immediately gave you high-level attention."

Bai Lan corrected lightly.

"It should be vigilance."

"Maybe it is."

Cheng said.

"After all, this might be a weapon capable of overturning the world..."

"No, Cheng." He laughed, "Although box weapons can indeed give the holder a certain armed advantage, conquering the world is not that simple."

Bai Lan rested her chin and looked at the vast rolling hills.

"Although the world has all kinds of weaknesses, it has still developed step by step, creating a stable environment for many people that is regarded as 'natural'... To break its balance, you must face It is an unimaginably huge obstacle."

When he talked about these things, his words were calm and casual, as if they were just casual jokes.

"These difficulties come from all aspects you can imagine, not just military, political and economic complex situations..." Bai Lan suddenly laughed, "There is nothing more difficult, challenging and challenging than this in the world." Something more interesting."

"Bai Lan..." Cheng paused, but still asked seriously, "Do you want to conquer the world?"

"...?" Bai Lan opened her eyes wide, and then laughed loudly, "Cheng, you are indeed similar to me, at least in the way we look at the world, we are equally arrogant."

Cheng was noncommittal, still quietly waiting for his answer.

"How should I put it...Cheng."

Bai Lan put away her smile and looked into the distance.

"When I stood on the top of the mountains for the first time, I felt the excitement as if every cell was burning, as well as unprecedented joy and satisfaction."

"This feeling is imprinted in my heart, so I keep looking for similar mountains, trying my best to overcome and conquer it—but as I become stronger and stronger, the initial feeling is dimming unknowingly... Even in the end, I couldn't find a mountain that I hadn't climbed."

The wind brushed his white hair like white and cold frost and snow.

"After all the worlds have been conquered, what am I facing?" He asked himself in a low voice and answered, "I've gradually come to think of it recently, it's just a cage that I can't break out of."

Bai Lan vaguely guessed the reason for himself who destroyed everything in the previous tour, although some key puzzle pieces seemed to be missing.

——There are still many unsolved mysteries about that "Bryn".

"We seem to have drifted too far off topic."

Bai Lan's voice returned to his former ease, and he took out another box weapon.

It looks so simple and concise, almost giving people the illusion that it is just a small gray box.

"It's something that's been with me since the beginning... well, it's not wrong to say that I was born into this world with it."

Prynne said.

"Presumably you also know that the corresponding key of the box weapon is the flame of a specific attribute... I have the flame of the sky, and this is a box with the attribute of the sky."

He frowned.

"Strangely, I can't open it."

After re-jumping into the world line, why did he leave behind this unopenable box after throwing away even his memory?

he……

--not me".

Brandon thought.

"I", what is the reason for doing this?

Water waves gently push the boat, Cheng is only wearing a simple white dress, looking down at the reflection on the lake.

She was wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat decorated with flowers, and her long hair fell over her shoulders and was pinned behind her ears.

Today's light is not dazzling, so Cheng opened the pages of the book in the sunlight - what she took off from Bailan's bookshelf was a collection of short stories.

Bai Lan looked up at the cover.

"Pirandello," he said, "why did you choose this one, Cheng?"

"Because of some of his descriptions..."

Cheng turned a page, and his gaze stayed on the first line of "Taximetre Bird".

"Pirandello has described death many times... no." She smiled. "He is fond of describing people who want to die."

Cheng lowered his gaze.

"I no longer have doubts and curiosity about death—but, what reasons do people ask for death? From this book, I seem to be able to get some interesting answers..."

"Cheng."

Bai Lan called her in a low voice, hugging her warm and fragile body from behind.

"What does it feel like to die?"

"Death... Death sometimes hurts a lot." She chuckled, "However, it doesn't just endow people with pain and fear."

Cheng closed his eyes, as if recalling carefully.

"It's like sinking in the vast ocean. From the surface to the bottom of the sea, I saw dolphins and sharks, then Styx jellyfish, and then passed through the ribs of the whales, and finally met the terrifying but silent and gentle sea king. Leviathan, its fangs cut off the heavy pressure and surging sound of the sea, and then I also fell asleep there peacefully."

She opened her eyes.

"This is death in my heart."

Cheng closed the book, took off the hat at the same time, and put it on her lap together with the book.

"It's just that every time I wake up very quickly." She smiled, "Then I found myself washed up on a strange shore... with nothing, just like every time before."

"Cheng..."

Prynne let go, caressing the Daikon Mare ring under the knuckles thoughtfully.

"Besides myself, you are the first person I have ever met with a specific time-space physique." He said, "But unlike my 'shared', the time travel you have experienced is more thorough, and at the same time, you have a stronger inability to Controlling — exceptions, however, have emerged."

Bai Lan kissed Cheng's temple hair.

"Cheng, you are here at this moment, which proves that I have broken the shackles imposed on you by time and space once."

"……indeed so."

Cheng turned to look at him in surprise.

"This is also something that I am wondering about. How on earth did you overcome this almost irresistible resistance?"

"The Ring of Mare."

He answered concisely.

"Later, I repeatedly recalled the situation at that time, and finally confirmed that it was Mare's ring that played a role at the critical moment."

He raised his wrist and showed the ring in front of Cheng.

"Mare's ring constitutes one of the dimensions of the cornerstone of the world, and the power it contains is 'expansion', that is, the ability to maintain countless parallel time and space." Bai Lan suddenly asked, "Have you discovered it, Cheng? This is in line with your characteristics Quite the opposite - if you are 'repelling' then the Maury Ring is 'attracting', if you are 'breaking' then the Maury Ring is 'connecting'."

Cheng didn't speak, but from her expression, she could easily detect traces of moving.

"Cheng, this will not be a useless revelation."

Bai Lan's eyes were bright.

He held Cheng, making each other's fingers entangled.

The slightly cold ring touched Cheng's fingertips.

"Huoyan is the spiritual power of a person, and it is also the energy that drives the ring." Bai Lan said softly, "Do you know what attribute you are?"

Cheng shook his head.

"Whether you are the calm rain, the lone cloud, the genial sunshine or the elusive fog, I will not be surprised."

He said.

"But I really still think that you will be Dakong."

Inclusive of all, the vast and gentle sky.

Cheng looked at him, almost bewitched by the twinkle in his eyes.

"Try it, inject fire into Mare's ring."

So when Bai Lan told her so, Cheng Hui hooked his finger.

Following Bai Lan's guidance, she activated the power lurking in the soul. She guided this power to flow to her fingertips and pour it into Mare's ring...

But Cheng didn't continue, the moment he sensed the feedback from Mare's ring, Cheng interrupted the transmission of flames.

In Bai Lan's eyes, the flames only lit up for a very short moment, and before the color and attribute were identified, it shattered like a phantom in an instant.

He cast a puzzled look at Cheng, who smiled regretfully at him.

"Sorry, Bai Lan, I don't seem to have much qualifications to use fire, this level is already at the limit."

Cheng said to him.

"Furthermore, the Dakong Mare ring repels my flames, so my flames don't seem to be the attributes of Dakong..."

Before he could finish speaking, the white-haired man hugged her tightly.

The boat swayed, and the oars were accidentally knocked off. It floated and stayed on the lake for a short time, and then sank slowly. The ripples spread round and round, and gradually returned to calm. The reflections of the two became clear and harmonious again. distinct.

"It's ok."

Bai Lan whispered in her ear.

"Since I can keep you once, there will be a second and countless times."

He said.

"If you can only go with the wind, let me be your anchor."

Cheng looked over his back, looking at the clouds swimming on the water, and finally she wrapped her arms around his shoulders gently, and lowered her eyes.

"Thank you, Bai Lan."

When night falls, the pure sky here is incredibly close. If you look at it for a long time, you will almost feel that the river of stars is flowing to the earth.

At this time, Bai Lan seemed to have other things on his mind... Although he was leaning against the window, what he was looking at was not the twinkling stars, but the gray box in his hand.

Cheng walked up to him and raised his head.

"The sky is clear today," she said. "It's a night suitable for stargazing."

Bai Lan came back to her senses and turned to look at her.

"So, are you going?"

"what?"

"Go to the stars."

Cheng laughed.

"Isn't that what I'm doing now?"

"If you want to see it, you might as well go to a place with a wider view."

When the wind under the wings blew up again, Cheng found that he seemed to have gotten used to Bai Lan's behavior...here refers to the fact that he might fly up at any time.

However, there is nothing difficult to understand.

Cheng, who was led to the roof with his belt in his arms, thought.

If a person has a pair of wings, it may be difficult not to let his heart become more willful and free.

On the unsheltered roof, the sky looked more like a boundless dome. Cheng watched it in a daze until Bai Lan took off his coat and put it lightly on her shoulders.

Cheng turned around and saw Bai Lan still holding the box.

"Do you still care about it?" Cheng asked, "Since you can't open it, could the box itself be damaged?"

"Although it's not like I haven't thought about this possibility, but if so, it's really difficult to verify." He said, "I don't trust others so easily, and I don't intend to let others open this box. Obey the orders of Master Huoyan, if the wrong person has the wrong power because of this..."

"Am I the wrong one?"

"..."

Bai Lan turned her face away.

"No, never."

"Thank you." Cheng smiled, "Can you tell me how to light the flame, Bai Lan?"

"Without auxiliary items, it is very difficult for beginners to do this. Even so, do you want to try, Cheng?"

She blinked, which probably meant yes.

"Then, please imagine it, Cheng." Bai Lan said softly, "If you were going to die right now, would you still have something to do..."

He noticed a slight change in the other party's expression.

"You remember it, don't you? Now, bring this obsession out of your heart and make it tangible, like—"

Like flames.

Before Bai Lan finished speaking, light suddenly visited the night.

The moment the flames leaped into her eyes, Bai Lan subconsciously held her breath.

The flame ignited in Cheng's palm had familiar fluctuations and aura - it was very similar to what Bai Lan had, and once he felt it carefully, he immediately denied this idea.

Cheng's flames are not similar to his own.

It's not like anyone else's.

There will no longer be any human flames with such a warm color.

"Your attribute is Dakong."

Bai Lan murmured.

Immediately, he felt the vibration of the box in his hand. Bai Lan lowered his head and found that it seemed to be being pulled by some kind of force. This pulling force came from the fire in front of him, so he let go of his hand and let the box fly in the direction of Cheng. go.

Without hesitation, it crashed into the flames lit by Cheng, and the dazzling white light occurred together with the sound of the box starting. After everything dispersed, the thing protected by the box finally appeared in front of the two of them.

It was a ring.

Bai Lan recognized it at a glance. Although its power became very weak for some reason, this wave was so familiar—a long time ago, it carried all of Bai Lan's ambitions and desires, and constructed an incomparably great world for him. Realm of illusion.

Ring of Daikon Mare.

This is... Mare's ring belonging to that reset world.

It's my thing.

Bai Lan stretched out her hand subconsciously.

But why, it's here.

The moment his fingertips touched the ring, Bai Lan ushered in the most intense time regression so far. Huge and complicated lights and shadows were formed and shattered before his eyes, and the acceleration time measured by the scale of the planet made everything short and peaceful. Illusion, the only thing that can last forever is darkness.

There is only the cosmic world where the dead souls of the stars reside.

Bai Lan saw the night sky again.

He lowered his head and saw the woman who was snuggling up to him beside him.

She is, his Cheng.

Bai Lan has always been very clear that what he sees in the flashbacks are just the afterglow of the annihilated world, even if they have happened, they can't change the fact that those scenes have been deeply buried in the unknown past.

Therefore, every time she fell into a flashback, Bai Lan never forgot to regard herself as a bystander...but this time was different, Cheng's gaze leaning on his shoulder, as well as her heartbeat, were so real, Bai Lan's soul was here Time resonates with "Bai Lan" from the past, and the scene in front of me is like a personal experience, but also like a deep-rooted memory.

"The stars are so lonely."

He heard Cheng's whisper.

"In the eyes of humans, they are obviously so close, but in fact, there is an incredible distance between them."

She stretched out her hand and looked at the distant light between her fingers.

"But, if it's in such a dark and silent place, can they, at least... see each other?"

Bai Lan didn't know the answer to the question.

He can calculate the trajectories of any two stars, and he can also measure their respective speeds and periods. He can retrace the time since their formation for the first time and predict the time of the next meeting, but he does not know this. The answer.

He just looked at Cheng.

Whether those planets can escape their respective lonely fates, even Bai Lan can't say, all he can know is his throbbing at this moment, and his own trajectory that is silently changing.

"Cheng."

He called her name lightly, as if he was afraid of disturbing someone's heartbeat.

It seems that they are the only ones who have not fallen asleep on the entire surface, and the stars above their heads are quietly listening to their whispers at this time.

"Bryn."

She turned to look at him and said with a smile.

"Each of us is like a star."

"No." Prynne said, "I'm just a dark sky with nothing in it."

At this moment, he was lost in the interlaced time and space, but no matter which Bailan Jesso, what he wanted to tell her would not change.

"But there, there was one star...just one star."

"Cheng, in countless parallel worlds, among countless human beings—"

"Only you are a star."

She smiled quietly.

In Bai Lan's eyes, she slowly approached him. Behind the two, time passed quickly again, the sky alternated light and dark, and the seasons continued to change. Only Cheng's movements were still gentle and slow. She might want to give him a kiss. , but Bai Lan couldn't help thinking about another question.

Why is there sadness in her eyes?

Finally, her lips were close to his ear.

"Sorry, Bai Lan."

She told him.

"Also, farewell."

Perhaps there is no such starry night.

Perhaps it is just the projection and imagination of a certain wish in Bai Lan's heart.

Maybe Cheng didn't say goodbye to him that day.

But after that scene, Prynne never saw anything related to her again.

There was an abrupt blank in his memory. He couldn't see what was written on that page, but he saw how he searched for her in countless worlds after that.

Then, the memory quickly turned to the last page.

Even there, there is no trace of her anymore.

"Everyone was deceived by her."

In this long story, the seeker who at last finally despairs speaks calmly.

"What she longed for has always been to break free from the shackles of fate."

He took off Mare's ring, held it in his palm, and the flames slowly rose from his tightly clenched hands.

"She's never coming back."

"What's the matter, Bai Lan?"

Cheng lightly pushed Bai Lan, who suddenly fell silent after touching the ring.

Her voice seemed to finally bring him back to his senses.

Cheng saw him raise his head and stare at his own face, tears slowly flowed from those purple eyes.

"Blanc?"

Cheng couldn't help panicking a little, but the other party's performance was unusually calm.

"It's nothing, I just learned something suddenly." Bai Lan wiped away her tears and smiled at her, "Cheng, you have something to tell me."

"……Yes."

Cheng returned the ring to Bai Lan, and his tone became firm.

"I have to get out of here, Bai Lan."

The other party didn't seem surprised by her decision.

"To Valya?" he said. "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"because……"

Halfway through, Cheng smiled bitterly.

"When I found that the matter had reached the point of no return, I really thought that it might no longer allow me to judge and intervene. In this case, it may be possible to follow the wishes of both parties and make room for their final decision. To be better..."

"But you still can't let it go, can you?"

Prynne said.

"You're always reluctant to take the easier path."

"Maybe it's like what you said." Cheng said calmly, "But there are always some things that cannot be avoided."

Then it's time for me to make a decision.

Prynne thought.

Cheng, it's not like you don't understand, we don't really belong to a certain world, including this place of course.

If you can't do it, why don't I destroy Valia and Pengo Lie together... No, just destroy this space.

If you do this, will you be able to understand what you should really focus on?

Just when Bai Lan's thoughts were rapidly tilting to one side, her voice suddenly appeared in his mind.

—Bryn, we are all stars.

--farewell.

Will it be so?

Bai Lan said silently.

Only I accompany you in the sky, do you still feel too deserted?

Will this be your reason to abandon me?

Such thinking made Bai Lan suddenly change his mind.

Then, just be patient a little longer.

"it is good."

He looked at Cheng.

"Go back in my private jet, maybe it's still too late."

"Bai Lan, you..."

"I understand what you mean. I won't interfere in Vongola's internal affairs. Arousing more vigilance will make things troublesome."

He said falsely.

"I'm just helping you as a friend. After the incident is resolved..."

Bai Lan smiled.

"I'll meet you again..."

"it is good."

Cheng agreed without hesitation.

"Thank you, Bai Lan, I will always be waiting for you."

"..."

His disguise was removed, and a cold determination appeared in his eyes.

"That's what you said."

he whispered.

"Even if it's for other people, don't keep me waiting."

"Let's go, Cheng."