Chapter 81
Chapter 81
He was finally willing to take off the mask in front of Xi Ning. After many days, Xi Ning clearly saw this face again.
Lin An really wanted to avoid Xi Ning's sight, but Xi Ning hadn't answered him yet, so he forced himself to stand still, revealing everything.
"Why not?" Xi Ning said without thinking, "Didn't I say everything, I like you."
Lin An's drooping eyelashes trembled slightly, and the corners of his mouth habitually pulled out a mocking arc. Xi Ning suddenly snatched the mask from his hand, broke it in half, and threw it on the ground.
I don't know what kind of material the mask is made of, it's very hard, Xi Ning couldn't break it off at first, but it took a lot of spiritual energy to succeed, and the palm of his hand was cut by the broken edge of the mask.
Lin An watched Xi Ning's movements helplessly, and when he realized it, he quickly grabbed his hand, frowned and said, "Why...does it hurt?"
He used a healing technique, and after wiping off the blood, Xi Ning's palms recovered as before, and the two of them remained silent for a while.
Xi Ning was the first to break the calm, leaned closer and hugged Lin An's waist, and put his chin in front of him: "Thank you."
Lin An turned his face slightly in response, and Xi Ning followed him and tilted his head: "Look at me."
After a while, Lin An turned to look at Xi Ning. He didn't see the slightest repulsion or disgust in Xi Ning's eyes, he just regarded him as an ordinary person with normal appearance.
Xi Ning made up his mind to enlighten Lin An, and said slowly: "I told you before, I don't dislike you at all, have you forgotten?"
Lin An didn't forget, he remembered every word Xi Ning said, but before that, he didn't think Xi Ning would like him even more. His status outside was the lowest servant, a low-level warrior with no ability to protect himself. Still growing up like this, what is there to like?
Of course, it's not much better now, he is a despicable dark magician who stole an elf and wants to bring him back to his magic tower.
Lin An couldn't figure it out, he hid all his emotions and looked a little indifferent: "What do you like about me?"
Xi Ning asked back: "Then what do you like about me?"
Hearing that Lin An was silent for a long while, many words of praise came to his mind, but when they were applied to Xi Ning, he always felt that they were very superficial. He didn't like Xi Ning because of these outward appearances that everyone could see.
Perhaps when he saw Xi Ning for the first time, he hurried over from the dining table to stop him. After seeing his face clearly, he didn't have the same reaction as others. Instead, he felt distressed. Xi Ning was different from others in his heart. .
"I like you because of you," Xi Ning stretched out a hand to touch Lin An's jawline, and said softly, "Could it be because of your face that I can't like you?"
He hooked Lin An's neck to make him bury his head a little, and kissed him a few times on the right cheek, the gentle touch fell on the skin that he didn't want to show others, like the sunlight at sunrise slowly seeping through. Dark corners, emptiness and damp become warm and full.
Finally, Xi Ning took the initiative to kiss his lips, the tip of her tongue hooked him softly, Lin An quickly responded, hugged Xi Ning tightly and kissed him deeper and more eagerly.
They leaned against the tree, Xi Ning was almost out of breath, pushed Lin An away to take a few breaths of fresh air, and his lips were blocked by him again.
Lin An couldn't tell the bewilderment and excitement in his heart, and he still had a trace of fear. He could only use this method to confirm the existence of Xi Ning. Xi Ning wanted to cry without tears, and tried to coax him: "Well...Okay, There will be time to kiss in the future..."
He tilted his head to reveal his white neck. Lin An hadn't kissed anywhere else yet, and his Adam's apple moved slightly. He leaned over and kissed while sniffing lightly. Feeling the slight trembling of the body in his arms, he snorted a few times.
It would be impossible to continue, Lin An let go of Xi Ning, reluctantly said: "Let's go on our way first, and return to the tower early."
His state seems to have changed a lot compared to before, at least he dared to show his face and kiss himself, Xi Ning heaved a sigh of relief and nodded: "Okay."
Lin An took a step back and picked up the two-section mask that fell on the grass. Xi Ning thought he just wanted to put it away without leaving any traces, but saw that he repaired the mask on the handle with magic, and it looked intact.
"You..." Xi Ning was stunned, but also a little helpless, "There is no one else here, so you plan to bring this with you?"
Lin An really thought so. He had been wearing a mask all year round, and he wasn't used to it for a while. Seeing that Xi Ning seemed a little angry, he stood there and didn't know how to explain it, but he was a little at a loss.
Seeing his appearance, Xi Ning felt a sore nose.
He went over to hug Lin An, buried his face in his neck and said, "It's okay, you can wear it if you want."
Lin An responded, kissed Xi Ning on the forehead, and put on the mask.
After delaying for a while, the two started to move towards the center again.
In order to get to the magic tower before the mercenary group, Lin An took a shortcut, which was a little more difficult than the normal route. Fortunately, there would be no monsters to attack them. Lin An always carried Xi Ning on his back or Hold on, the forward speed is fast.
On the way, Xi Ning asked Lin An if he wanted to contact Fei Luo and the others, and said that he was safe, and told them not to look for them, but to go back quickly.
He didn't know that Fei Luo had left with the flowers, and even if the leader could receive his message, he might not believe it.
Lin An did not agree: "Go back to the tower and talk about it."
Xi Ning didn't mention it. The mercenaries and guards who entered the Shelter Forest were all carefully selected, and there were quite a few of them. Xi Ning only hoped that they would not encounter any danger here.
At night, Lin An stopped to find a place to rest. There was no cave like the night before, and Lin An didn’t have tents or sleeping bags in his storage bag, so he found a clean grassland, laid out mattresses and placed tables and chairs in the open air. He took something for Xi Ning to eat.
"Your Highness has been wronged." Lin An opened the can, took out a new pair of chopsticks and handed them to Xi Ning, "We will reach the center soon."
Xi Ning shook his head: "When I used to live in the Yagu Forest, I also stayed in the woods like this every day."
Compared to being served in a carriage, he prefers to stay with lush vegetation. The longer he stays in the secluded forest, the more he can feel the forest's friendliness and closeness to him. It looks completely different from the outside.
Hearing Xi Ning mention the Yagu Forest, Lin An didn't answer, he also ate something briefly, and put away the tables and chairs after Xi Ning was full.
It was the first time for Xi Ning to sleep on the grass in the open air. The weather was fine tonight. Lying on the bed, you could see a few stars shining in the night sky. Lin An came over and lay down beside him. The mask is off.
Xi Ning's eyes lit up, turned over and leaned on Lin An's body and kissed him like a reward.
Lin An held his waist, wanting to talk to him: "Your Highness..."
Xi Ning frowned: "Don't keep calling me Your Highness."
"Then..." Lin An showed hesitation, he didn't know Xi Ning's real name, he had inquired about Xi Ning before when he was in the motorcade, and others didn't know, "What should I call it?"
Xi Ning propped up his upper body, took Lin An's hand and wrote his name in his palm.
Lin An silently recited the word "Xi Ning" in his heart, and Xi Ning got down on the ground again, with all his hair scattered in Lin An's neck, "If you want to call me Ning Ning, that's what people close to me call me."
"Okay, Ningning."
This intimate title seemed to bring him closer to Xi Ning, Lin An turned sideways and straightened Xi Ning's hair: "How many close people does Ning Ning have?"
Xi Ning originally said it casually, but upon hearing this, she snuggled into Lin An's arms and snuggled up to him: "Of course the closest one is only you..."
Lin An hasn't gotten used to being so intimate with Xi Ning. Although Xi Ning likes him, it's only been two days since he took Xi Ning away and revealed his identity in front of him.
Taking advantage of Xi Ning's lack of sleepiness, he asked, "Before you came here, did you ever hear about me?"
Xi Ning realized that he was talking about the identity of an evil magician. He heard this name from the dwarves. Perhaps because he was not deeply connected with this world, he didn't feel too much fluctuation when he heard the dwarves talk about it.
And he had to confirm who Lin An was before he knew his true identity in this world, and he had no worries. After all, he had even been a villain before, so what a magician was.
Xi Ning replied truthfully, "I've heard a little bit."
"Ning Ning is not afraid of me?" Lin An asked, hiding part of his right face in the pillow, "Aren't you worried that I will be bad for you?"
He was originally a child who grew up in a slum, and he was born with this appearance. Later, by accident, he followed a dark magician. For a while, he did do many evil things.
Later, he killed his "teacher". In order to prevent outsiders from entering, he released all the magical beasts locked under the tower, destroyed the magic circles in the forest, and left here.
Lin An never denied other people's evaluation of him, he was just confused why Xi Ning didn't seem to care about his identity when he said he liked him.
"Then will you harm me?" Xi Ning leaned very close, breathing on Lin An's face, "I don't think you are the kind of person they said."
Lin An's eyes softened, and he subconsciously denied himself: "How long have you known me?"
"How well do other people know you?" Xi Ning asked back, "I don't care, anyway, I have said what I should say, you have to believe it or not."
"Okay, got it." Lin An lowered his head to find Xi Ning's lips and kissed, "Sleep for a while first? Get up early tomorrow and hurry."
Xi Ning nodded, he was already a little sleepy, looked up and saw Lin An's eyes were clear, and he didn't seem to be sleepy at all: "You are sleeping too, you have been walking all day."
"I'm not sleepy and I'm not tired."
Almost no magician of the dark department will participate in the class evaluation. Lin An only knew that he had the strength of a fifth-level magician before. He has been incognito for so many years. You need to sleep and eat, just use your spiritual energy to maintain your physical strength.
He explained it to Xi Ning, and Xi Ning looked at him with admiration and admiration: "I don't even feel sleepy..."
It was the first time Lin An saw someone looking at him like this, and he felt a little uncomfortable: "Well... originally planned to go on the road at night, I was afraid that you would not sleep well."
"I'm fine," Xi Ning sat up awkwardly, "Wouldn't it be better to go back earlier?"
He was also thinking about finding a chance to contact Ferro when he returned to the tower. Lin An was very repulsed by this matter, and only agreed to talk about it after returning to the magic tower.
Lin An showed hesitation, and pressed Xi Ning's shoulders to make him fall asleep again: "Sleep first, we will talk about it after you fall asleep."
He planned to use spells on Xi Ning after he was asleep, so that he could sleep more peacefully without any discomfort.
Xi Ning nodded obediently, leaned against Lin An's arms and closed her eyes, and soon fell asleep with calm breathing.
Lin An also rested for a while, cast a spell on Xi Ning in the middle of the night, put him on his back, packed up his things and headed towards the magic tower.
After walking through this area, they passed through the middle layer and arrived at the inner layer. Although no monsters dared to meet them along the way, he was also observing the traces of various monsters, and found that the inner layer and the middle layer should have The high-level magical beasts are all in the outer layer, and the further you go in, the safer it will be.
And the center of the inner layer is the magic tower. His initial guess should be right, because of that tower, these high-level monsters will abandon their territory and leave.
The monsters were afraid, but Lin An didn't have the slightest fear. The things sealed in the tower were originally part of his body.
Xi Ning on his back slept peacefully. Lin An was not afraid of disturbing him when he used the spell, and moved faster than during the day.
As the night gradually receded and the early morning mist drifted through the forest, Lin An stepped into the area where the inner layer was located.
This place is quieter than other places, it can even be said to be dead silent, the sun is gradually rising, and there is not even a low-level bird in the woods, Lin An took a few steps forward, thinking about waking Xi Ning up after a while , suddenly stopped.
He didn't wear a mask, frowning and looking up towards the tower, a strange feeling came from inside his body.
This feeling is not a fear or rejection of it, but an attraction, something calling him.
Lin An's right face was exposed to the air, and the blue meridians on it were swimming slowly, and returned to their original shape after a while, but Lin An didn't know anything about it.
The strange feeling quickly disappeared again, Lin An's brows were slightly relaxed, and he continued to walk forward.
The time was almost up, Lin An stopped on the way, picked up Xi Ning behind him to recover his spiritual energy, and walked slowly waiting for him to wake up.
Lin An lowered his head and thought about the matter in the magic tower, and there was an inexplicable hostility in his half-down eyes, which he didn't even notice. At this time, Xi Ning in his arms woke up and unconsciously rubbed against Lin An's neck. rub.
As soon as he moved, the hostility in Lin An's eyes dissipated immediately, and he kissed Xi Ning on the cheek: "Are you awake?"
Xi Ning responded with eyes closed, and opened his eyes when he woke up, only to find that he and Lin An were already on the way.
He raised his hand to touch Lin An's face, and asked, "When did you set off...... are you tired, take a rest?"
Although Lin An was not tired, he put Xi Ning down and let him step on the ground to move around.
The two walked together for a while, and Xi Ning also found that it was too quiet here. He asked curiously, "Why is there something different here?"
"This area was originally the territory of a fifth-order monster." Lin An had already put on a mask and could not see his face clearly. "Other beasts dare not come here."
He didn't want to make Xi Ning afraid or worried for the time being, so he didn't tell him too much.
Xi Ning looked around and felt that something was weird, but he and Lin An hadn't encountered any danger along the way, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Because of the different routes, Lin An and Xi Ning moved faster, and the team leader, Qiu Nian and his party fell obliquely behind Lin An.
After they entered the inner layer, they found that they could not see the location of the high tower, so they followed the direction of sunrise and sunset, only to find that they were back to the starting point a day later.
Everyone was forced to stop, discussing what to do.
There should be some kind of formation here that is preventing them from moving forward. There is a high-level magician in Qiu Nian's team who has studied the formation very deeply, but he can't find any way.
If they proceeded by the original method again, the possibility of getting lost was very high, but at least they discovered a good phenomenon, the closer to the inner layer, the lower the level of the monster.
In the outer layer, you can still meet fourth-tier or even fifth-tier monsters, and the further you go in, you can see the second-tier and third-tier monsters. Now, once you enter the inner layer, it is even quieter.
Some people in the team thought it was too weird and it was not a good thing, but they hadn't found any trace of Xi Ning, and Qiu Nian and the others didn't want to return empty-handed.
Just when he couldn't think of a way, the dwarf smiled and took out a glass bottle with a small hole in it from his pocket, which contained a golden worm.
As soon as the bottle was taken out, the worm flew out with the bottle, and the dwarf almost failed to catch it.
The head of the group took a closer look: "What... the golden beetle? When did you catch it?"
On the road two days ago, they encountered a field of golden beetles rampaging in the woods. This kind of insect had almost no attack power, so they didn't care about it, and they didn't know when the dwarf caught one and hid it.
"On that day, its shell is so beautiful, the beetles outside don't have such patterns and colors."
As he spoke, the dwarf took out another rope from his pocket and wrapped it tightly around the bottle. When he put down the bottle and only held the rope, the golden beetle would fly up together with the bottle.
He took the rope and walked around in a big circle, and obviously found that the direction of the bottle's flight had changed.
Qiu Nian's eyes suddenly brightened: "I didn't expect you to be short but not stupid."
The dwarf rolled his eyes: "Is it useful for you to grow tall?"
Qiu Nian didn't care about him, and urged: "Let's go quickly, it's been delayed for a day."
The others were confused, but the head of the group understood the direction the golden beetle was flying out. For the first time, he gave the dwarf an approving look, and explained: "These beasts are afraid of that tower, and they are flying towards the golden beetle. It’s right to go in the opposite direction of the beetle’s flight.”
The dwarves are not tall enough to be seen by the people walking in front and behind, and the leader will hold the bottle to lead the way. This kind of insect looks small, but it has a lot of physical strength, and it can be fed with ordinary leaves.
Guided by the golden beetle, the group headed towards the tower.
They were wasted for a day on the road, and even more Lin An was left behind. When they were still some distance away from the center, Lin An had already arrived at the destination with Xi Ning.
Xi Ning looked at the magic tower in front of him. This tower should have been abandoned for a long time. The surrounding open space was covered with tall and low weeds. The gate was covered with rust from a distance, and the walls outside the tower were dusty. , A lot of withered grass hangs in the lower position.
Lin An was a little silent, and led Xi Ning towards the door, reaching out and grabbing the doorknob.
The doorknob was also rusted and couldn't be twisted at all. With a cold face, Lin An kicked the door open with his foot. behind.
Lin An seemed to have just recovered, he frowned to suppress the irritability in his heart, turned around and hugged Xi Ning, sniffed the fragrance of plants and trees on his body, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, we are here."
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