Red dust kills beauty

The Hermit VIII

Many years later, when Fu Baixue looked back on this journey, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

After they bid farewell to Dr. Wu, they have been wandering around the eighth district. According to Aning's words, it is just some "small investigations".He didn't know what the arrangement was, he just followed the woman obediently, remembering what she told him to remember.

The feeling of rushing to do something came out again, and it was more obvious than last time.Xiaobai even wondered if the woman regretted that time and escaped in this way.

He understands that the other party is unwilling to share their privacy with him, but what about daily contact?There is no need to look at the past again.They could—could have been more intimate.

But women don't.When he stuttered and raised this question, the woman just sat at the dining table, propped her head and said angrily, "Xiaobai, you have to learn to stop losses in time."

He guessed right, Ah Ning did regret it.She felt that she was ashamed and defiled the young Fu Baixue.

She is going to die soon, why can't control her crotch so much, she can bear it so hard before, why is she so presumptuous now?

But then she remembered that it wasn't her who had been patient all this time, but Fu Baixue. She had never been able to concentrate, and she had done a lot of self-recommended pillow mats. Later, it was the same with the witch merchant. She would go to him after the other party seduced her a little embraced.

Gee.

Aning frowned and looked at the pile of bad debts, thinking how much of it was caused by information asymmetry.After thinking and thinking, she pressed her temples: "I really think you should stop making out with me." Before the other party could ask her why excitedly, she said in one go, "I don't live long, Xiaobai .”

"After you finish your studies, I will leave, because there is still one thing that must be done anyway. We are running out of time. It feels different to die a teacher and a partner who has an intimate relationship. I I really don't want you to be hurt by me in the future."

She stretched out her hand, pulled the dumbfounded Xiao Bai's neck, and gave him a lingering kiss: "I want to make out with you. It's like this - I'm obsessed with every part of your body. Didn't you hear Mr. Wu's words? I love you. But, in order not to invest too much emotion, you should say goodbye, after all, I have a bunch of secrets that I cannot tell you, and I can’t even give you my body.”

Xiaobai kept bending over, and after digesting all the words, he asked slowly: "You said...you are going to die? Are you—are you joking?"

He'd always known women were a little bit crazy, but he didn't understand why she could say that so lightly.

The woman smiled at him: "Yes, I planned not to tell you at first, so that you would think that I just left, but after thinking about it, I'd better tell you. After all, I will know sooner or later."

At that time, Xiaobai didn't understand what she meant. When Fu Baixue reviewed this memory many years later, he realized what the other party was referring to.He looked harshly at the self in his memory, and always felt very dissatisfied and too young. If he behaved better, maybe Aning would be able to trust him more, and they wouldn't rub shoulders for so many years.

But Xiaobai is just a boy who treats women as everything and relies on them wholeheartedly.

All he felt was grief and disappointment, and a deep, betrayed sense of shame.He—he was so hurt, he couldn't take it.So he avoided the woman's embrace, took a few short breaths, and said in a trembling voice: "...you are so selfish."

"..." The woman sighed, then smiled at him, "Oh, you found out."

This was not the reaction Xiaobai wanted.He thought the other party would justify himself, or tell him why, convince him to accept it, or tell him it was just a joke.But there is nothing for women, she is as indifferent as a cloud in the sky, she looks soft, but when you reach out to grab it, it is just a cloud of cold water mist.

The last bit of luck was torn apart, he couldn't bear to look at her, and fled out of the room in a gaffe.

In the room, Aning watched him leave, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, then she looked up at the ceiling and sighed again.

Since then, they have returned to their place as companions.That night of confusion and love, and the matter of the woman's imminent death, both of them tacitly never mentioned it again.But in private, Xiaobai almost went crazy over this matter. After looking up many books, he finally asked during a dinner together: "But your body is very healthy and there is no problem."

The woman nodded: "Yes. What's wrong?"

Xiaobai stopped talking.He suspected more and more that the woman was just tired of his silence and boring, and wanted to find an excuse to dump him.He turned back into that silent young man again, he thought this way: since the woman has agreed to teach him to speak, if he keeps silent, maybe the woman will not leave.

The two kept awkwardly maintaining this kind of relationship with each other until Ruan Xian'an appeared. ①

Xiaobai is not a fool, he can tell that the woman is not playing tricks on him, she is really dying and is seriously preparing for her funeral.

When he said to the woman, "Because this is what you need, I don't mind no matter how much you suffer." The woman hugged him into her arms.

Xiaobai's body was stiff, and he didn't know where to put his hands, so he could only clenched into fists and asked softly after a while, "...you——are you crying?"

The woman let go of him, pouted: "I haven't cried in 800 years."

Liar, obviously I cried last time.He wanted to say this, but the words slipped out were: "Are you really going to die? Why?"

"Because of the loss of the soul." The woman stretched out her hand, snapped her fingers again, and then a bunch of flames burst out from her fingertips again. This is the move he used on Ruan Xian'an just now, "You know, I was also very good before, but It's definitely not as strong as it is now."

The strength of ability is related to mental power, and the stronger the mental power, the more unstable the soul, such as the witch merchant, such as her, such as Luo Xiaojie-this is the reason why most of the top capable people are crazy.She has never seen someone as strong and stable as Fu Baixue before.

"You can understand it as the embers of the burning soul. The more my soul is burned, the stronger I will be. When I become stronger to a certain extent, I will die."

Probably because of the long period of psychological preparation, Xiaobai finally improved a bit. He was very calm this time, and only asked, "How long will it take?"

"Hmm..." The woman closed her eyes, "It's still a few months."②

Xiaobai nodded, feeling as if his heart had been hollowed out, it didn't matter how much it hurt, he just felt numb.

Until the woman spoke again: "Speaking of which, there is one more thing."

Xiaobai felt that something was wrong, so she lowered her head and said nothing, hoping to use this negative posture to resist what she was going to say next.

"Xiaobai, I should go."

Xiaobai suddenly raised his head and asked back: "...you want to go?"

He looked so shocked, so unbelievable, as if he had suffered a betrayal.They've only been together for a few months, and now she's saying she's leaving!

The woman looked at him quietly.

"Xiaobai...you have to understand, I always have to go."

He doesn't understand.Now that they had sworn to support each other under the witness of Ruan Xian'an, when she confessed that her time was short, she said she was leaving! ?

He really didn't understand how there could be such a hard-hearted person in this world.

"But I've done what I have to do, I've taught you what I should teach you, and you don't need me anymore," the woman said.Xiaobai even vaguely felt that their wanderings during this period were just to meet Ruan Xian'an, so after this matter was over, she couldn't wait to leave.

He had already tacitly agreed that she would leave, and he no longer expected more, but now—he couldn't even—could even go to the funeral! ?

Xiaobai was short of breath, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and tried his best to hold back the tears.

"It's not like this, it's not like this..." The woman murmured holding him in her arms, sucking away his tears with her lips, "Do you still remember the oath we just made? Have you forgotten? It must last for 15 years I really have to go, but believe me, this is just the future."

She couldn't speak too clearly, but how clever Xiao Bai is, it only takes a little to understand. He looked at her in amazement, with tears still in the corner of his eyes, "You mean..."

"Hush—" the woman smiled mysteriously, pressed her index finger against his lips, and whispered, "Have you heard of the legend of the phoenix?"

"..." Xiaobai opened his eyes wide.

"So, Xiaobai." She wiped away tears for him, "Now is the time for those with abilities to shine, go out and explore. Follow your intuition, maybe we can meet again under the blue sky."

No matter what purpose Aning had for disclosing this news to him at the time, Fu Baixue had to admit that when he parted with the other party at the beginning, he was indeed greatly relieved by this meaningful "reunion".

Because of the woman's departure, he was like a walking corpse. He was in a daze all day long, constantly thinking whether he had been deceived. After all, such a thing as death and resurrection was too bizarre. He couldn't believe it, and the other party was just coaxing him.

But on the other hand, he couldn't help holding faint expectations, after all, that person was almost omnipotent in his heart.

He laughed at his credulity, but still left the eighth district honestly and became a mercenary.It's not easy at first, because "Mad Woman and Her Little Mad Dog" is a well-known ostentatious combination that makes a lot of enemies, and after finding him alone, the troublemakers are almost endless.

Thinking about it later, Fu Baixue even wanted to thank them for their uproar in groups, which saved him from dwelling on the past and made his own reputation.

The woman is right, now is indeed the era of ability users.

As the flames of war continue to spread, the people in each community are struggling to survive, and the large area is also being dragged down to the limit. It has long been impossible to invest tens of millions of armaments in the past, and the form of the battlefield is more focused on the ability. The duel between the two, because the cost is much lower.

Large regions, big warlords, and big chaebols have the ability to cultivate their own ability users, but for small forces that are in turmoil all year round and their families are not rich, hiring ability people is the most cost-effective business.

Fu Baixue just caught up with the time, relying on his extremely powerful force, he quickly gained a great reputation.

Or how to say that the best growth is to throw the little eagle off the cliff. Fu Baixue kills people like hemp now, and he can't remember the self who would rather die than hurt anyone back then.

As time passed, he gradually regarded that woman as his own fantasy, only occasionally in the dead of night, he would secretly laugh because he really believed in "resurrection from the dead".

Until one time he was hired by the patron and participated in missions with several mercenaries.He remembered very clearly that it was a sunny day, he had just rolled twice on the battlefield under constant artillery fire, and was pitching a tent when he came back, when someone excitedly said: "Zero is here!"

His heart trembled slightly, he raised his head suddenly, and bumped into a pair of smiling eyes.

15 years later.

For a long time after Zero's death, the witch merchants couldn't get out.After getting drunk again, he broke into Fu Baixue's house in the pink gown left by Ling.

Fu Baixue had already seen the strangeness, let him fall asleep on her lap, and then made him a cup of hot tea.

The fragrance of tea wafted up, and the two were relatively speechless.

After a while, the witch merchant asked, "Do you hate him?"

Fu Baixue asked back: "Would you hate your body, or even a part of your soul?"

The witch merchant lowered his eyes wearily: "...Yes."

"Lie." Fu Baixue smiled: "I won't, and you won't either."

Next chapter: Hide and Seek ①

I stretched out a hand to the child and said softly, "I am your tutor."

?April [-]st

Sorry for being 2 minutes late! ! !Dogeza!Feel sorry!

So Volume [-] Lao Bai: Isn’t it just rebirth?

①: Ruan Xianan and their affairs are written in the red line of fate③, I don’t want to write it again to cheat money.

②: Ah Ning is lying, she died a few years later.Saying this is just estimating the time when Zero will appear, hoping that the two can meet.