Just as Lian Qiguang walked to the front, his hand about to touch the door, while he was thinking about how to buy a ticket home, he suddenly felt a tightness around his waist. His entire body was restrained by a powerful force.
“Saozi, where do you want to go?”
The low voice sounded beside his ear. The warm breath brushed against the base of his ear, making Lian Qiguang uncomfortably shrink his head.
“You don’t need to see me off. If you feel embarrassed, buy me a ticket home.”
Lian Qiguang rubbed his ear and spoke woodenly.
“Home? Doesn’t your leave still have some time left?”
Xiahou Shao Xuan narrowed his eyes, a fierce glint appearing in them.
“……”
Lian Qiguang.
Seeing that Lian Qiguang remained silent, Xiahou Shao Xuan simply carried him away and turned around, pressing him onto the bed.
“Saozi, we’re a married couple. For a lifetime, on one road, each other.”
Lian Qiguang silently looked at Xiahou Shao Xuan.
The moonlight entered through the window and fell into his eyes. Lian Qiguang suddenly felt that his eyes were uncomfortable, sour and itchy.
This feeling was not unfamiliar.
It was just like the feeling he had back then when he returned to the apocalypse in his dream, sitting inside the car.
“Saozi, you, don’t cry.”
Originally, seeing that Lian Qiguang was not saying anything and was simply staring straight at him, Xiahou Shao Xuan had felt somewhat uneasy.
Could he have made his wife angry again?
Just as he was preparing to coax him, tears suddenly flowed from Lian Qiguang’s eyes.
Xiahou Shao Xuan immediately panicked.
He had seen Lian Qiguang smile.
He had seen Lian Qiguang become annoyed.
He had even seen him lose his temper and go berserk.
But he had truly never seen him cry.
“Saozi, Saozi…”
Xiahou Shao Xuan sat up, helped Lian Qiguang up, and held him in his arms to comfort him, appearing somewhat flustered.
“Saozi, don’t cry. If there’s something, just tell me. Seeing you cry, I, I…”
“Will you lock me in a little black room and raise me as food?”
In the apocalypse, there had been a type of person who, in order to increase their own abilities, would cripple some ability users and lock them inside cages, feeding them low-level zombie crystals and allowing them to become infected.
Their abilities would rapidly increase.
Then, once the crystal in their head matured, they would dig it out and use it themselves.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Xiahou Shao Xuan’s face darkened.
“Then, will you send me into a laboratory and let those people cut me open and dissect me?”
Although tears streamed down his face, his expression remained completely blank.
He looked particularly comical.
But at this moment, Xiahou Shao Xuan felt nothing but heartache.
“Who dares touch you?”
Xiahou Shao Xuan frowned, his imposing aura spreading.
“You don’t even need to do it yourself, Saozi. I’ll directly chop him up for you.”
“……”
Lian Qiguang.
“All right, don’t cry.”
Xiahou Shao Xuan helplessly reached out and wiped away the tears on Lian Qiguang’s face.
“You’re clearly a great hero who saved the world, yet you’re crying like a child.”
“I’m not a hero.”
Lian Qiguang knelt on the bed and tightly hugged Xiahou Shao Xuan, burying his face expressionlessly into Xiahou Shao Xuan’s neck.
“I just wanted to find an opponent who could fight me. None of them could beat me, and none of them dared to fight me.”
“Then why did you die together with him?”
At the thought of this, Xiahou Shao Xuan’s expression became particularly ugly.
“Halfway through the fight, I suddenly felt that living was meaningless.”
“……”
Xiahou Shao Xuan.
“If I hadn’t died, I wouldn’t have met you.”
Lian Qiguang softly muttered.
“From now on, you’re not allowed to treat your life so lightly anymore, understand?”
Looking at Lian Qiguang in his arms, Xiahou Shao Xuan felt as though his chest hurt so much that he could barely breathe.
How had such a child survived in that cannibalistic apocalypse?
When facing countless betrayals, a hell of despair, and the pain of darkness, how had he endured it?
When he had been driven into a dead end and hurt by others, how had he curled himself up so vulnerably in the darkness, silently licking his wounds?
“I won’t.”
Lian Qiguang raised his head and seriously looked at Xiahou Shao Xuan.
“Before, I wanted to die. Now, I don’t.”
Looking at Lian Qiguang’s serious little face as he made that promise, Xiahou Shao Xuan could not help laughing softly.
But after laughing, he once again felt that it was incredible and unbelievable.
Darklight.
Almost the faith in the hearts of all soldiers and all humanity.
When he was young, he had often heard his father and grandfather tell stories about him.
His own father had even hung portraits of Darklight in his combat room and command room, using them to motivate himself.
After hearing so much, it was easy to imagine things.
When he was young, he had often wondered what exactly this great hero of humanity was like.
Later, it was also because of him that he entered Darklight Military Academy and, just like his grandfather and father, became a soldier.
But now, Lord Darklight was right beside him.
And was even his wife.
This really was…
He was nothing like what he had imagined.
Not mighty, strong, domineering, or unstoppable.
But Xiahou Shao Xuan was not disappointed at all.
An object of admiration was an object of admiration.
His wife was his wife.
The two could not be confused with each other.
“Saozi, who is that black-clothed man?”
Suddenly remembering the mysterious black-clothed man, Xiahou Shao Xuan asked.
“He…”
Lian Qiguang’s eyes darkened, and his hands clenched tightly, as if suppressing something.
“I’m not certain, but…”
Lian Qiguang whispered a few words into Xiahou Shao Xuan’s ear.
Xiahou Shao Xuan’s eyes suddenly tightened, and his expression became solemn as well.
“I’ll confirm it.”
Looking at Xiahou Shao Xuan’s serious face, Lian Qiguang spoke.
Although he already had an answer in his heart, still…
“When I fought him, I discovered something strange.”
As if remembering something, Xiahou Shao Xuan’s brows slightly furrowed.
“I clearly injured him. Although it wasn’t fatal, he absolutely shouldn’t have been able to stand there without a problem. But he didn’t have the slightest injury, and he didn’t even bleed a single drop.”
“You mean…”
“He doesn’t seem human.”
“!!!”
Lian Qiguang.
“Saozi, he was the first ruler of New Era Year 1. Within the twenty years after the apocalypse ended, he massively expanded his territory, took in surviving humans, and spent nearly ten years with those humans cultivating food, expanding the bases, and rebuilding their homes.
“He led those humans through the most difficult first ten years after the end of the apocalypse and managed to survive through that difficult period.
“If Darklight…cough! If you ended humanity’s darkness and were the hero who saved the world, then he was the creator who extended the existence of humanity.”
“I understand.”
“Saozi, this matter is a little troublesome.”
“I’ll investigate and confirm it.”
“Stay away from him!”
If it really was that person, then Xiahou Shao Xuan could understand the meaning behind what he had said earlier.
Thinking of this, Xiahou Shao Xuan became displeased.
“……”
Lian Qiguang.
What was wrong with him now?
“Saozi, there’s one more thing. How did you run onto the battlefield?”
Xiahou Shao Xuan deliberately darkened his face and changed the subject.
“The person who delivers the vegetables said something had happened to you and told me to go save you.”
“The vegetable delivery person?”
Xiahou Shao Xuan’s mind turned, and his eyes became cold.
“Li Yu.”
“I think that was the name.”
That woman!
He had already warned her before, yet she still did not know when to stop.
This time, she had actually dared to scheme against his wife.
The entire base did not know this, but Lian Qiguang was his only bottom line!!
“What happened to you?”
Seeing Xiahou Shao Xuan’s unpleasant expression and the temperature around them dropping rapidly, Lian Qiguang tilted his head and looked at Xiahou Shao Xuan’s face.
“Nothing. Do you still want to sleep?”
Xiahou Shao Xuan withdrew the coldness in his expression and reached out, pulling Lian Qiguang into his arms.
Lian Qiguang originally wanted to shake his head, but after seeing the exhaustion between Xiahou Shao Xuan’s brows, he obediently nodded instead.
“Then let’s sleep together.”
“Okay.”
“Shao Xuan.”
Lian Qiguang nestled against Xiahou Shao Xuan as the two lay on the bed. He softly spoke.
“Keep this matter secret from Lian Yucheng.”
“Mm.”
Not only from him.
It had to be kept secret from everyone.
“If he finds out that his younger brother has already died, he should be sad.”
“If he finds out the truth and drives you out, will you be sad?”
“…No.”
“??”
Xiahou Shao Xuan.
“I’ve seen too much of it. I won’t.”
Lian Qiguang explained.
“Sleep. Get up early tomorrow.”
Xiahou Shao Xuan hugged Lian Qiguang tighter.
“Mm.”
“Say good night.”
“Good night, Shao Xuan. I love you.”
“Good night. I love you too.”
Xiahou Shao Xuan could not help laughing softly.
This little rascal still remembered.