He came from the bell tonight

Chapter 98 Extra Story 2: Spring of the Old Star

It's spring time.

Because of Zhongyi's birthday, Su Ling and Xiao Huaiyan went back to Jiuxing together—with milk tea.Of course, milk tea is returned to the factory for maintenance.It took a bath for itself on a whim two days ago, and when it found out, the water in the bathroom had overflowed the pool.

After returning the milk tea to the factory at No. 128 Jiuzhang Road, they went to Tianwen College in the southern suburbs together.

The atmosphere of the campus that I haven’t touched for a long time is blowing away—different from the overall high-tech feeling of Imperial College, Tianwen College looks more like a comprehensive campus at first glance, with a more primitive architectural style.

This is the top and oldest school in the old star. It has witnessed all the changes in the old star and has a long-standing foundation.

Su Ling curiously passed the architectural schools divided into different areas, and listened to Xiao Huaiyan's explanation.Students passing by occasionally greeted them warmly.

Xiao Huaiyan was invited to participate in a forum. The organizer was very interested in his experience in a certain marginal galaxy three years ago, and asked him to share with the students.

Su Ling avoided the crowd and found a seat behind the auditorium.It's not that he doesn't like the excitement, but that he slept very late last night and was really sleepy.

But not long after, someone next to him called him: "Student, wake up, how can the auditorium sleep."

Su Ling raised his head in a daze, and the other party seemed to be stunned for a few seconds, then "Teng" blushed all of a sudden, and whispered while waving his hands: "You, you sleep, it's okay."

Su Ling thought he was frightened by himself, and moved away silently.

The person next to the boy said: "Look at him for a long time, why don't you dare to say hello, look at how cowardly you are."

The boy hesitated for a moment, and was about to speak again, but was stopped by another voice: "Hey, he looks like... Suling?! My naive is Suling, right?"

Sitting in the same place, Su Ling suddenly felt the eyes of the surroundings turn towards him.He subconsciously became a little vigilant.

The boy who was talking to him just now was still looking at him, hesitating to speak.

... I don't know if I want to fight.

When I was in the actual combat class at Imperial College, other people had similar expressions.Maybe he was afraid that he would refuse, but also afraid that he would agree.After all, the teacher didn't dare to let him do it in class.

The restlessness coming from behind made Xiao Huaiyan on the podium pause.He saw Su Ling at a glance.

Originally, in order not to attract too much attention, he took Su Ling to dye his hair black before coming to Jiuxing.But now it seems that it is useless, but it makes that face more conspicuous.

But he keenly observed the emotion in Su Ling's eyes.

And the few innocent boys not far from Suling were still looking back and forth.

"That classmate, the one in the red dress in the second row from the bottom in District Y," Xiao Huaiyan's calm and deep voice spread throughout the auditorium along the microphone, and stopped in time, "Please answer, what are the three characteristics of ancient civilizations?" ?”

The guy who was called was the boy who had just chatted with Su Ling. He held back for a long time without saying a word. He glanced at Su Ling from the corner of his eye from time to time, feeling a little uneasy amidst the roar of laughter.

Immediately afterwards, they were invited to the stage to play a question-and-answer game with other guests.

When the lecture ended, Su Ling almost woke up.

He walked forward a few steps along the steps, when that person appeared out of nowhere just now.

"Su Ling!" He seemed anxious, "You, are you Su Ling?"

Su Ling nodded slightly, vaguely guessing what he was going to say, so he asked, "Where are you going?"

The other party was taken aback, and his face turned even redder: "I...can I invite you to the coffee shop?"

...a coffee shop doesn't seem like a good place to fight.

Su Ling thought.

Seeing that Su Ling hesitated, the other party said: "Then you can go to other places, I am very familiar with Chaowen City——"

"No."

A voice came from behind and lifted the young student away.

"Why?" The little boy immediately became alert.He seemed to remember something, and looked at Xiao Huaiyan's eyes with more righteous indignation: "It has been 12 years since the "Regulations on the Protection of Humanoid Weapons" have been issued! Contracts are not allowed!!! Why do you make decisions for Suling!"

Xiao Huaiyan was really too lazy to answer, he turned his head and hugged Su Ling, lowered his head and pressed a kiss on his brow, and said softly, "Are you awake?"

Su Ling nodded.

From the perspective of other people present, the two seem to stick together intimately.No matter how slow the little boy's reaction was, he suddenly understood at this moment.

Faintly, he felt Xiao Huaiyan glance at him.I couldn't tell what that look was, it was calm anyway, but it was so deep that it made people tremble subconsciously, and immediately fell silent like a cicada.

After leaving the auditorium, Su Ling's sleepiness gradually dissipated in the gentle sunlight, and he asked, "Didn't that person want to fight?"

Xiao Huaiyan stamped his feet slightly, raised his eyebrows and said, "...fight?"

Su Ling blinked, slightly confused: "Isn't it?"

As if reminding Xiao Huaiyan, he suddenly remembered that incident.

Not long after entering the Imperial College, the teacher asked Su Ling to watch in the actual combat class, and the eyes of those who attended the class together always looked at Su Ling.

At that time, he got angry when he saw it, but he didn't know that his heart was like a hundred lemons boiled into juice, and they were clung together.Later, I found out that everyone would be overthrown by Su Ling, and I couldn't even touch his fingers, so I felt a lot more comfortable.

"Because they all like you." Xiao Huaiyan said.

"……like?"

"I don't want to fight with you, but I think you are cute and want to be with you." Xiao Huaiyan's fingers gently stroked Su Ling's eyebrows.

He looked so pure and beautiful.Worth everything in this world.

Therefore, there will be countless people who like him, respect him, and admire him.

It is simply a matter of course, as it should be.

But Xiao Huaiyan wanted to stand up for himself: "Of course, compared to me——"

Su Ling interrupted him and said seriously: "They can't compare with you."

The words are clear and resolute.

When the four eyes met, Xiao Huaiyan supported his waist with one hand, and kissed him like no one else on the long street with people coming and going.

The sky is bright, and the clouds and shadows pass by occasionally, which is very pleasant.

However, Su Ling suddenly heard the restlessness coming from the surroundings, and when he looked sideways, he saw the two of them appearing on the large open-air holographic screen not far away.

It should be the real-time transmission of which surveillance footage.

Immediately afterwards, many people who saw this scene recognized Su Ling and Xiao Huaiyan, and turned their heads to look for them.

The crowd gathered more and more, spreading out rapidly like a plate of black sand.

Until a sharp-eyed person recognized it—without screaming, he immediately took out the terminal to shoot.

Xiao Huaiyan and Su Ling looked at each other, and grasped his hand tightly.

"run!"

Fortunately, the blizzard was not far away, waiting for them at a hidden corner.The automatic mode was turned on the moment the door was closed, and the smoke flew out of the crowd's field of vision.

The two couldn't help laughing together.

Su Ling's smile floated on his lips, it was clear and shallow, and Xiao Huaiyan's heart moved when he saw it.He turned sideways to ask for a kiss, but was stopped by Su Ling.

Su Ling frowned slightly and looked at him warningly.

Blizzards are always pretty clean, except last night...

Su Ling really didn't like such a narrow space, as if he was put in a cage and could only be slaughtered.

The feeling of being out of control is like losing one's own consciousness, and it is difficult to gather up after it is loose, so it can only be endured.

"Don't you like it?" Xiao Huaiyan asked in his ear.

Those dark eyes are like glamorous stars, and the words spoken are bright and calm: "I remember you like it very much."

Su Ling's expression was unclear in the shadows, he turned his head and looked out the window, turning a deaf ear.

The earlobe that had just been kissed was pink.

The blizzard flew all the way to an ancient cliff town outside Chaowen City.Simple and elegant wooden houses are dotted among the cliffs, green vines and delicate flowers of various colors hover around the rocks, and clusters of flowers are piled up beside the waterfall.

The waterfall leaves a clear stream of water when passing through the private marble dew pool on the side of the house, just in the blind spot of other houses.

The ancient town is famous for this, and besides, there are some ancient ruins.

Su Ling and Xiao Huaiyan walked all the way to the top of the mountain, and saw occasional photos embedded in the rocks on the way back.Some are still black and white.

"Have you been here before?" Seeing Xiao Huaiyan's familiar appearance, Su Ling asked curiously.

Xiao Huaiyan said, "I'll show you something."

In a mural deep in a cave, ancient paints are spread from the ground to the top rock wall.

"This is about the chip that fell 270 years ago and the two ancient towns that clashed over it. Then the chip disappeared, and their disputes suddenly stopped. So the two towns reconciled, gradually merged, and became became what it is now.”

Xiao Huaiyan approached the last scene of the mural, and many people gathered around the bonfire, as if they were praying.On the outside of the crowd, there was a figure whose face could not be seen clearly. The only difference was that person's white hair.

"The later records said that the chip did not belong to the old star, and a person who did not belong to the old star came here. It was he who took away the root of the disaster."

Su Ling's fingertips touched the cold outline.As if passing through a long time, it evokes a picture in memory.But before it takes shape, it dissipates like smoke and dust.

"How did you find it?" His voice was soft.

Xiao Huaiyan suddenly bent his eyes and hugged him from behind.

"...it took me a long time to find the first clue in Toyota Star, and then slowly found others."

He walked through all the places where there were traces of Suling.

It was as if Su Ling was telling him in the dark.

The minutiae that have been sealed in history slowly emerge.Even if it was just for a moment, it was precious to Xiao Huaiyan at that time.

"At least, it can prove that you have indeed appeared in my life."

The understated tone made Su Ling startled.

He looked at Xiao Huaiyan in silence until they returned to the house on the cliff.

The glass inside the room reflected Su Ling's figure.Xiao Huaiyan glanced at it quietly, then walked to the balcony calmly.

The breath in the mountains and forests is fresh and moist, very relaxing, and makes people want... to smoke a cigarette.

He started smoking in the second year after Suling left, and the smell of nicotine has been addicting to humans for thousands of years.

This is not a good habit.

But habits are hard to break.

He had just lit a cigarette, and before he put it in his mouth, he heard Su Ling's footsteps.

When he looked up, those smoky purple eyes turned red, and he remained silent.

Xiao Huaiyan's heart was suddenly tightened, and the pain was severe.

"...What's going on?" He coaxed hastily.

Without saying a word, Su Ling intercepted the cigarette in his hand and threw it away.

"The last one—" Xiao Huaiyan tried to persuade him to stay.

After all, this ancient town doesn't even have a vending machine.

Su Ling just looked at him like that and didn't speak, as if asking, you should choose one.

Xiao Huaiyan couldn't stand this, and immediately raised his hand to surrender, and coaxed him nicely.

"I won't smoke anymore, really, I won't smoke without your consent in the future."

But you have to ask for some sweets like a child.

If you don't smoke anymore, you can still smoke Suling.

In exchange, Suling also witnessed the beautiful night sky of this ancient town in the sparkling pool that night.Thousands of stars are trembling, shattering, falling like fireworks, swallowed by the sound of running water.

Under the spring night, the outline of the distant mountains fades away, and the continuous lights go along the valley to the distance.

Early the next morning, Xiao Huaiyan woke up with an empty quilt in his arms, just as Su Ling pushed open the room and came in.

A small box was thrown to him.

Thinking of last night, Su Ling inevitably regretted it, so he didn't look at him, and said coldly, "One every two days."

Xiao Huaiyan narrowed his eyes pretending to be obedient, and stared at the deep and shallow marks on the side of Su Ling's neck contentedly.

...the appeal of that pack of cigarettes was gone.

The author has something to say:

Happy Tanabata everyone~

Some people are really good, just accept it.

It's another day when I feel sorry for Lingling, woo woo.

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