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Chapter 295: Sleeping at Night

"Brother Jiao, are you used to sleeping?"

"It's not bad. I've encountered worse situations before."

"Xinhuo, what about you?"

"……Same."

"Xinhuo, why do you talk so little? It seems that we talked more when we first met."

"...Captain, I think if you keep bothering Miss Startel she'll come out and beat you up again. Can't you sleep?" Wolper was helpless.

Hei Jiao also laughed out loud.

The three of them slept on the floor on the balcony of the living room. Originally, Ling Dengxian slept on the sofa, but Heijiao and Xinhuo also slept on the floor. He thought it would be fun and lively to sleep on the floor together, so the sofa was converted into a luggage storage.

After having dinner, Lorna went to stay at the hotel by herself. She didn't cause any trouble for him and even gave him a small amount of living expenses:

"I can take care of you now."

Ling was moved to tears.

After the rooms were redistributed, Black Horn and Night Blade were separated. Night Blade, Frost Leaf, and Nightingale shared one room, and Texas, Surtel, and Huang shared another. It can only be said that it was hard for the newcomer Xinhuo to sleep on the floor with Mou Ling on his first mission.

"Brother Jiao, are you really not going to sleep inside? It's cold on the balcony."

"No, I'm big and take up space."

"No, I think if you sleep inside I won't have to speak so loudly." Ling Dengxian lay on his side and continued to persuade Heijiao to sleep in the living room.

"Brother Baige...you are acting like a child at this time." Heijiao was helpless. This was the third time Ling Dengxian asked him to go to bed. He decided to fulfill his wish and got up to pack up.

"Xinhuo, why are you looking at me?" At this time Ling Dengxian noticed that there was something wrong with Xinhuo's gaze.

"...Captain, you should go to bed early. Didn't you say at dinner that you have a game to play this weekend? It's not good to get injured." After a moment of silence, Wolper chose his words carefully.

"Didn't I tell you that I don't have to go? It doesn't matter if I lose a few points. We can still earn points in the last melee." Ling Dengxian said disapprovingly, then noticed that his statement was strange, "What do you mean it's not good to be injured?"

Finally, he noticed that Xinhuo, who was talking about something else, was looking at his back. "Bai, if you can't sleep, you can go out to sleep. This room is not soundproofed well, don't you know that?" The Sarkaz girl couldn't stand it anymore and threw a pillow at him the moment he turned his head. "It's already early morning!"

"Woquni is so simple..." Ling Dengxian pulled the pillow away and coughed twice, "Why do you walk as silently as Feilin!"

"You're more concerned about this?!" Surtur was furious, and then he reflected on himself, "I've been with you for so long that my vocabulary has been assimilated..."

"Well, can you just meow for me to hear..." Ling Dengxian suddenly had an idea.

"Fuck you!" S'lter was furious and threw another pillow directly at his face. He then threw the pillow away and went back to his room angrily. "If you make any more noise, I'll make you sleep on the street!"

This was the third time that night. Heijiao and Xinhuo were used to it. After tidying up the mat on the floor, Heijiao also lay down. The three of them did not sleep in a neat row, each choosing a position they liked.

"Brother Baige, it's time to go to bed. You will be busy tomorrow, right?" In order to prevent Ling from getting any more excited, Heijiao still said something.

"Okay." Ling Dengxian pulled the pillow off his face again and hugged it in his arms, "Then I'll ask one last question."

"Speak softly and ask."

"Obviously, you have no secrets under the mask, so why do you always wear it?" Ling Dengxian said softly.

Originally he thought that he and Yato wore masks because they had some unspeakable secrets, but today when they slept together, he found that Heikaku would take off his mask when he slept, and it seemed that there was nothing that needed to be covered, just like the image of the big brother next door.

"Well, there's nothing much to say. It's just that if only one person wears a mask it will be unnatural, but if two people wear it it will look like a style. I will also change the style of the mask according to different festivals."

"I see, Kaku-nii really is a very gentle person."

"…White Dove, sometimes appearances can be deceiving." Hei Jiao suddenly became serious, and his voice became deeper. "Appearances can be disguised. You'd better be mentally prepared. No matter how big the impact of various truths is, you must pay attention to the facts you know."

"...There is a saying in my hometown, 'Don't be fooled by the surface of things.' A person's disguise and actions can be changed in thousands of ways. Everything comes down to the heart... The heart is the most difficult to explore, even if you can read the mind, even if you know the life story."

"Perhaps only death can separate a person from right and wrong." Ling Dengxian whispered softly. He didn't even know how he felt when he said this. Just a moment ago, many scenes emerged in front of his eyes.

Hei Jiao was silent for a while and ended the topic: "In short, you'd better not judge someone easily, otherwise you will get hurt and it will be very sad."

"I understand, Brother Blackhorn, don't worry. I just... never want to regret it like that again."

Xinhuo: “…”

Should he say something, too? Or is it the right thing for him to just pretend to be asleep?

It was obvious that everyone really didn't treat him as an outsider, but he really didn't understand the situation...

Consider the feelings of the newcomer... This feeling of being neither up nor down makes him very uncomfortable.

At least they calmed down and fell asleep. The reason why Ling Dengxian was a little noisy was not only because today's situation was a bit novel as it seemed like a training camp he had never experienced before, but also because he was a little irritated in his heart.

It was three o'clock in the morning, in the southeast of the city area of ​​the Grand Knight Cavalelia.

"What the hell is going on?! *Casimir swears* The road is clearly right here! But *Casimir swears* where is the road!" Looking at another unfamiliar high wall standing in front of him, an employee of a certain company in Casimir, who had just finished overtime, had his shirt soaked with sweat. He was terrified when he encountered a dead end again, especially when he heard the terrible buzzing sound in the distance behind him again. He had to get up and continue to escape.

He saw with his own eyes that his companion was "eaten" by the monster in one bite, without even a button left. And the road he had walked thousands of times before had no exit tonight - he was trapped in an invisible maze!

He ran non-stop, but even though he was a Kuranta with a natural talent for running, he lost control of his legs after being desperate and banging his head against the wall at the corner many times, not to mention that years of office work had made him no longer strong.

A grayish-white shadow appeared in his field of vision with a buzzing sound. Various floating geometric light circles swam around a chaos with an unclear core. Then, around it, the street lights and asphalt twisted to form hideous monsters.

It seemed that the sacrifice of the poor man before did not make them understand what was going on, and they planned to study the process carefully.

"Anomaly detected, clear the area!"

Suddenly, a very absurd scene happened in front of the victim. A heavy axe fell suddenly and smashed the asphalt monster's head into pieces. Then someone emerged from the monster's back, holding the weapon and exerting force to split the monster in half.

One by one, people whose faces could not be seen clearly emerged from the walls and the ground, and immediately launched an attack on the strange monster.

"Team One, don't be stingy with your props and keep the main target contained. Team Two, follow me to eliminate the derivative monsters. The Director will be responsible for breaking the 'Space Void Knot'."

"Roger that!"

After sensing the threat, the material monsters became violent and launched a counterattack by tearing apart the surrounding buildings. Their bodies were cracked by the attacks of those weirdos, and the streets were instantly torn apart in this fierce battle under the thunderous counterattack.

The Casimir people were so frightened that their hands and feet were powerless. They saw those people being entangled by the monster and suddenly sinking into the ground and disappearing. Some people were close to the most bizarre monster and were swallowed by the invisible big mouth.

He felt that everything he saw was absurd and he couldn't believe that this was reality.

Suddenly, the strange monster in the center of the battlefield trembled violently, and everyone's vision fell into darkness, and their consciousness fell. Then, the frightened company employees woke up suddenly in a cold sweat and found that they and their colleagues were sleeping on the side of the road. There were large areas of bricks and asphalt roads around them with spider-web-like cracks.

He was shocked and terrified, and pushed his colleague twice, but his colleague did not wake up, so he stumbled and ran towards home.

On the street corner, Scepter and the officers of the institute were also taking a breath and resting. It seemed as if nothing had happened, but in fact, even with their strong self-protection capabilities using equipment and props, they were still in danger of death.

"Director, if you were any later, would we also be 'eaten'?"

"Didn't you do enough homework? Don't ask if you know the answer. It's very tiring for me to do this all night, okay?" Nightmare, who was leaning on a cane, had a pale face. Suddenly, colors began to emerge from the depths of her pupils, and her red hair began to quickly turn pink and white.

"director?!"

The mist-like substance spread again, and everyone was on high alert again.

The next moment, Mortis raised his hair, which was not at all nightmare-colored, and straightened his back with colorful eyes, and jumped into the area where the scene could not be seen clearly. Not long after, a clear whistling sound of a weapon was heard, and then Mortis reappeared with his hair and eyes back to their original state, and the mist dissipated.

Mortis's purple-red eyes revealed fatigue, but on the bright side, he didn't have to worry about getting sick for quite some time.

She waved her hand to signal to her subordinates who cared about her that everything was fine, and extended her hand to one of them: "Watch."

He glanced at the time and breathed a sigh of relief. Mortis Planst's work was nearing completion.

"I was lucky not to run into the Wu Zhou Alliance today. Fortunately, I handled it in time and did not need to modify the information."

As for the sober witness? It was just the nonsense of a man who worked overtime late at night. The only place that might publish his story was probably the Red Wine Newspaper. Maybe Planster could find an editor to give him a small headline that would attract other people's attention.

"Coordinates: Lane 19, Block 5, Custom No. , Fluctuation parameters are normal."

"Coordinates: Lane 28, Block 4, Custom No. , Fluctuation Parameters are abnormally fluctuating, severity: mild."

"Attention, Neon Team, please provide support."

"Coordinates, custom numbered area 24... Shit! There are abnormal fluctuations in the parameters of the fifth block, but no specific anomalies have been found yet!"

"The team order has been issued. The three nearest teams will go to control it. The other teams will check as usual to ensure the surrounding area is safe. Be careful to hide and don't let anyone find you."

"Area normal."

"Area normal."

In the end, no fighting broke out that night.