The Daystar is a big ship, and the eldest brother, who is greedy for material comfort, has equipped each bedroom with various furniture, refrigerators and bathrooms including shower stalls and bathtubs. Perhaps the intelligence dealer intentionally or unintentionally brought his own figure into the design of the boat (it is 2 meters tall and weighs slightly more than an adult harbor seal). The bathtub has a luxurious spaciousness and depth, allowing everyone to relax while taking a bath. Enjoy your hands and feet in peace.
But when making these designs, the intelligence dealer never expected that there would be a strange situation where two people would use a bathtub, so the bathroom at the moment was surprisingly crowded. No matter what move Gongsun Ce makes, he will inevitably touch Alandia's body. No matter how they switch positions, it has no practical significance. The most terrible thing is that the only parts he can fully control so far are his eyes and mouth. He is as weak as if he had been frozen in the snow for a year and is unable to do anything except speak on his own.
This is truly an unprecedented day. He was so "helped" by the Eternal King that he almost exploded into the most brilliant fireworks in the world. Before he died, he shamelessly grabbed the Dawn Knight and burned her clothes dry. They couldn't move in the water and were honest with each other. When the awkward atmosphere reached its peak, Alandia said that they had been connected to each other for the past four years. All this suddenness caused him to roll his eyes and look at the hazy ceiling, like a dead fish that had suddenly died.
It doesn't matter what new moves, practice progress, or honesty are relative to now. What is the concept of spiritual communication? The rubbish words he said in his dream reached the female knight's ears exactly word by word, and that damn OL outfit was something she had personally worn in her perception. Gongsun Ce was curious before and wanted to ask Alandia if it was because he was too seriously injured when he heard that you were sleeping all those years ago. Now that he thinks about it, that is nonsense. The entire aura of the Dawn Knight was in his heart. She fell asleep because most of her consciousness never had time to return to her body and was still watching him inside!
"I'm so stupid, really." Gongsun Ce said in a dead voice, "I only thought that you gave me your white matter, but I didn't expect that your heart is really with me."
"You should have guessed, but you locked your thoughts." Alandia pointed out, "You resolutely and stubbornly eliminated this possibility, just as you did not send me a letter in the past three years. "
"Ah, yes, I am a huge idiot!" Gongsun Ce looked ferocious and tried to muster his muscles to stand up several times to no avail. "I just don't have the guts to contact you. I don't have the guts to see you. You don't have the guts to say I like you, you idiot kid." La!"
At this time, he has nothing to care about and nothing to worry about. People have already lived in his heart and he is still hiding it! Today they only met sincerely under physical conditions, but in the past four years, every important thought in his spiritual world was probably seen by the other party. The Dawn Knight is not an idiot like him. How could he not even know that little trick after living in his heart for four years? I'm afraid she can even count on her fingers how many shortcomings Gongsun Ce has in his heart!
"Ce, you..." Alandia was surprised.
Gongsun Ce cried sadly: "What's wrong with me? What's the use of those self-deceiving nonsense I say now besides insulting your IQ?"
There are often stories in the imperial novels about a talented man who accidentally broke into a beautiful woman's bathing, so he had no choice but to pat his chest and promise to be responsible, and then he hugged the beautiful woman back. When Gongsun Ce finished reading the book when he was a child, he said that this was the delusion of a poor scholar in his erotic dream. The ancients read it. I was afraid I would burst out laughing, but now that I have experienced it myself, I know that books that can be passed down through the ages have their own reasons. Nowadays, it is not just the talented man who bumps into the beautiful woman. The beautiful woman has already seen the life of the talented man thoroughly. You said it is all a coincidence. We will still be close friends after we forget our past. I am afraid that the old scholar who wrote the book will crawl out of the grave and curse. A word of caution for the cowardless rats to return to the West quickly.
Friend, what the hell, friend! The talented man in the novel felt that he was wronged because of a chance encounter. He, Gongsun Ce, had been secretly in love with Alandia for four years. He had no choice but to be passively responsible or actively responsible!
"... Ce, an excessive sense of responsibility is another form of self-torture."
The voice of the Dawn Knight was very strange, and Gongsun Ce tried his best to convince himself that he had heard it wrong and it was definitely not a shy little girl.
"So you even heard the bad words of those talented men and beautiful women, right?" Gongsun Ce's eyes were blank.
"Generally speaking, I can only understand your feelings when your mood fluctuates extremely." Alandia said, "But now we are too close, and your mood is not calm."
"Please, Alandia. I can't move my hands, please hold my hand."
Alandia silently put her hand on the back of his hand, Gongsun Ce closed his eyes and said, "I——"
"Ce." She squeezed the young man's hand, "Calm down first, okay?"
"I'm calm."
"Now is not the time."
Gongsun Ce was agitated for no reason: "I'm sorry that I didn't prepare flowers and rings..."
"That's not the case." Alandia hugged him tightly, and the elasticity coming from behind drove Gongsun Ce almost crazy, "You understand me. We are still on the journey, and this trip is so important that I have to You made all kinds of concealments.”
"I will always believe you."
Arlandia turned her eyes hesitantly. She was completely unfamiliar with these things and she didn't know what to do at this point. Gongsun Ce tried his best to move his shoulders.
"Come here." He said awkwardly, "I am your follower. I will serve you anytime and anywhere."
"……Thanks."
She put her chin on Gongsun Ce's shoulder, and her wet silver hair rested on his chest. She hugged him as she did when she first rescued him, letting her body heat warm each other.
"For me, the most important thing now is to help you become stronger and complete this trip. Let's talk about... other aspects after this trip is over, okay?"
"Your will, madam." Gongsun Ce moved his fingers hard, "I will always obey your orders."
"Now you're the captain."
"In my mind, the follower has a higher priority than the captain."
They laughed at the same time, the water in the bathtub overflowed a lot due to their actions, and the floor was wet. At this time, the water temperature had gradually dropped. Alandia put some water in, turned on the faucet, and let the new hot water soak their bodies.
They soaked in silence for a while, thinking nothing.
"I think I'm much better, I'm no longer a zombie." Gongsun Ce hesitated, "I'm fine. I think you can... I'm worried that it won't be good if it continues like this..."
"I think I should go out." Alandia let go of his hand, but did not move.
"Policy."
"What's wrong?"
He didn't know that Alandia behind him was blushing, like a girl who was having contact with the opposite sex for the first time.
"Please close your eyes," she whispered. "I would be ashamed."
He has known Alandia for a long time, and this is the first time Gongsun Ce has completely recognized her as a member of the opposite sex rather than as a knight. He felt that his heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was about to jump out of his chest. He wanted to drop everything and touch her. The urge was almost going to turn him into fire again.
"...I promise." Gongsun Ce's voice. He tried his best to control himself and closed his eyes tightly. He suddenly remembered that this was not Alandia's room, and she had no clothes to change into.
"You can wear my clothes first...you know where."
"Um."
Alandia pushed him forward and stood up from the bathtub. He listened to the sound of water rubbing against clothes, and his imagination was as active as crazy at this moment. The images almost burst out of his mind, and the most terrible thing was that he knew that Alandia must know what he was thinking, and she even knew the details of those images clearly.
"Are you ready?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Okay, here are your glasses."
Gongsun Ce was glad that he had taken off his glasses before falling asleep. He reluctantly put them on and regained his normal vision.
Alandia was wearing his blue T-shirt and gray cropped pants. Thanks to the two being the same height, the clothes didn't embarrass her too much. However, there is a fundamental difference in the figure between the two parties. The chest of the blue shirt is pushed up high, and the subtle outline is clearly visible under the thin fabric. The top is lifted up a little because of this, and the white belly is looming at the hem.
Alandia raised her hand to cover her chest, and he stared blankly, without even a single thought forming.
"Ce," she said reproachfully.
Gongsun Ce quickly took off his glasses. He felt that he had taken them out the fastest in his life. In fact, it took thirteen seconds for the glasses to return to his hand. He didn't know that his face was redder than hers across from him.
"Alandia, I think it's useless to apologize." Gongsun Ce said with difficulty, "I don't know what else I can say."
"You can choose to remain silent." The Dawn Knight sighed, "Go to rest early, Ce."
"Same to you, good night."
He sank into the tub like a melancholy child. The Dawn Knight opened the bathroom door and stopped at the door.
"Policy."
"What's wrong?"
“None of us can forget the past, but remember not to be bound by the past.”
"I won't." Gongsun Ce said, "I will keep moving forward."
"Good night."
The Knight of Dawn is gone.
Gongsun Ce soaked for another ten minutes before gradually regaining his usual feeling. He reluctantly climbed out of the bathtub on his own and put on a nightgown. After walking out of the room, he realized that only more than forty minutes had passed since he fell asleep. I am afraid that what really happened to him happened in a very short period of time, so short that the rest of the crew did not notice it.
Gongsun Ce didn't have the strength to think any more, and the feeling of weakness and pain still remained in his heart. He collapsed on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
A dreamless night.
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Noon the next day.
Gongsun Ce climbed up from the bed and stared at his right hand in a daze.
His right arm turned into a cold gray flame from the elbow joint down, and Nirvana was burning quietly on his arm. This discovery made Gongsun Ce break into a cold sweat when he just woke up. He almost thought that he had gone berserk again and was finished, but the Nirvana quickly disappeared as he thought about it, allowing his arm to change back again.
"...?"
Gongsun Ce moved his fingers and had a plan in mind. He recalled the feeling of being turned into thousands of ashes and suffering before, and tried to let "a part" of himself die.
His right arm turned into Nirvana again, and his attempt was successful. Gongsun Ce struck while the iron was hot, strengthening and shaping the rough painful meme from last night, and designing a working principle and a new seal for it. This time, his design was completed in the real world. Nirvana's right arm changed with his influence, took shape, and turned into a steel cannon with a strong sense of technology.
Gongsun Ce stared at the barrel for a long time and said with complicated emotions: "...Please don't help me next time."
He rolled out of bed, spent some time regaining his usual sense of movement, adjusted his facial expression in front of the mirror, and tested his telekinesis and white matter. After doing all this, Gongsun Ce opened the door and walked out. He completely regained his usual feelings.
He found Rei Shigure in front of the refrigerator, and the huntress was sneakily reaching up to the upper floor, trying to get her hands on the last piece of strawberry cake.
"Hey, that's supposed to be for me, right?"
Miss Shigure completed the theft in a flash and ate half of the cake in one bite: "What's yours? If I get it, it's mine!"
"It's a pity that you don't want to be a gangster." Gongsun Ce grabbed the remaining half piece, stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely, "Come and practice with me."
"Any new tricks? Your development speed is amazing."
"I, who everyone agrees is a peerless genius in the art of impermanence, can I still joke with you?" Gongsun Ce said proudly, "I guarantee it will be an eye-opener for you!"
Rei Shigure stretched out his index finger and smeared the cream on his lips. She licked her fingers and said with a bad smile: "You can hit me before you hit me, young man~"
The two people disappeared in the cabin instantly and arrived above the deck of the Morning Star. Shigure Rei didn't give him any chance to use the Duxian Seal. She immediately distanced herself and flashed to the top of the mountain thousands of meters away with her space ability. Gongsun Ce stood on the deck but did not move a step. He extended the index finger and ring finger of his right hand forward, and pulled back the other three fingers, making another brand-new gesture.
"The Seal of Misery and the Demonic Current of Karma."
The seal is formed and the magical power is triggered. Gongsun Ce's right arm melted in the Nirvana and turned into a strange-shaped black barrel. The barrel is as black as night, and its upper and lower sides are of different lengths and separated: the upper side is a three-dimensional acute angle, slightly longer, and the lower end is a straight strip, like the base when taking off. The cannon as a whole is like a cold and sharp "pincer". Light bars like energy storage indicators gradually light up inside the barrel. The light turns into a dark red stream of light and erupts. It only takes a moment for the time to come. In front of Yu Ling!
"It has a silly name, but this time it's an old-fashioned energy release attack?"
No matter how strong the force is, it is meaningless if it cannot hit. Shigurei disappeared in the light again, and she moved to three thousand meters behind Gongsun Ce, which was completely opposite to the bombardment. She was about to taunt her, but the sense of crisis that she felt just a moment ago came over her. Dark red gunfire actually appeared behind her, and the distance was even closer than before.
"It's a bit interesting..."
The airspace around the Morning Star was covered by a sea of flowers, and the chase battles between hunters and artillery were staged one after another in a dreamlike environment. In just one second, Shigurei shifted her position dozens of times, but the distance between her and the strange attack always got closer without getting further away. At the end of this second, the gunfire could almost touch her hair. The hunter immediately teleported behind Gongsun Ce, using the gunman himself as her shield.
"What a beautiful idea." Gongsun Ce smiled mischievously, "Hit!"
The dark red artillery fire came from behind Shigure Rei and hit her back without any bias. Miss Hunter grinned and couldn't stop jumping: "Ah, it hurts! What? It feels like stepping on a building block with bare feet!"
"I'm super merciful, okay? It was originally a physical attack + mental damage, but I only left minimal mental damage." Gongsun Ce made two white chairs and sat down, "Come here and let me rub it for you."
"Stop doing this, what's the use of rubbing it too many times to hurt your spirit." Shigure Rei rolled his eyes at him, "This trick is a pain meme, right? What's the specific principle?"
Gongsun Ce changed his right arm back to its original shape and explained: "You see, pain is the scar left by past experiences. It is not a stream of sadness but an emotion that erupts like a volcano, so I used a cannon as a carrier.
Only a small part of a person's pain comes from himself, and most of it comes from the outside world and others. As a suffering person, is it excusable for me to seek revenge on those who have harmed me? "
"Hey!" Shigurei's eyes were horrified, "Don't tell me..."
Gongsun Ce smiled brightly: "Injury is karma, revenge is consequence. The person who caused pain is hurt by pain, we can say that this is a kind of karma. And evil retribution cannot be escaped~"
Shigurei crossed his arms, with goosebumps on his arms: "That's why this move is sure to hit, right? And the deeper the damage the opponent has inflicted on you, the more powerful this move will be... Oh, you won't be able to do it..." Now you still remember the things that took out your heart back then, why don’t you be so petty!!”
You still have the nerve to tell me, but who is it that held on to the past and didn't let go when I was being confessed, making myself almost cry?
"It hurts to have my heart ripped out. I don't care. My body does."
Shigure Rei shuddered: "The Seal of Solitary Thought is a bond that cannot be left, and the Seal of Suffering is a sure revenge. Do you think you have some mental problems now? You are like Rei Dao, who is bitter and hateful. It’s an emotional black hole, just getting close to it has the same gravity as a quagmire!”
"Don't tell me that I look like some thousand-year-old patriarch, okay?"
Rei Shigure curled his lips: "You are fine, you are! If you continue like this, when I go out to buy a bag of snacks, you will ask me, 'Tell me the truth about what you and the canteen owner said.'"
"I won't. I will tell the canteen owner, 'Look, that girl is pretty, isn't she my wife?'"
"Tch." Shigurei stepped on his foot, then came up to kiss him, and whispered: "I'm sorry..."
Gongsun Ce winked: "It's so insincere in just one blow. It takes two blows to relieve my anger."
"Pervert."
She grasped the young man's shoulders and kissed his lips long and sweetly. After the long kiss ended, Shigurei quickly stood aside and shyly pushed his lover: "Okay, that's it for now, let's get down to business!"
"Do you have any suggestions for improvement, Lord Huanyue?"
"I feel like there's something wrong with your move. Let's try it again."
They distanced themselves, and Gongsun Ce did as he was told. Another Yingye Demon Stream was fired at the female hunter. This time Shigure Rei slowed down time in a small area to near standstill. The dark red cannon was as slow as a snail in the still time.
Rei Shigure put his arm around his shoulders and said proudly, "See, your retribution is a bit slow to come."
"There is no way, the causal system is inherently incapable of taking a long time." Gongsun Ce spread his hands, "Just think about the fact that the King of Destiny has been tossing around Zero Island for so long until the vortex is gone and he still has a headache about the problem of 'retribution for evil is too slow'. If I can solve this problem, I think he would be happy if I went to him and changed seats."
Evil retribution will indeed come, but if it comes too late and too slowly and everything is over, what's the point of this retribution? Therefore, the interference of the causal system is inherently inconsistent with time. This is a fundamental issue of consistency.
The two of them stopped their moves at the same time, and Gongsun Ce's stomach growled with hunger, causing the huntress to laugh loudly. They argued for a while as usual, until a third person's suggestion came from behind.
"The retribution of cause and effect will be delayed indefinitely due to time, but 'escaping retribution' itself is also a new bad karma. Therefore, you can improve it so that the more you dodge the more powerful attacks, put more pressure on the enemy."
Gongsun Ce sighed: "Alandia, I still have no idea about the 'cognition is contact' you suggested last time. These high-end improvements of yours are still too far away for me... Hiss!"
He turned around and gasped. Alandia's performance was as usual, the only difference was that her dress today did not match her original style.
The Dawn Rider is still wearing his T-shirt.
"It's always good to have directions for improvement. It's lunch time, you two."
The Dawn Knight walked back to the cabin. Gongsun Ce swallowed and heard a malicious voice coming from behind him. Rei Shigure's fingers were tapping back and forth on his shoulders, like a pianist playing music.
"Done?"
"how could it be possible!!!!"
Ji Hui Si, who was in a daze, jumped from the deck into the clouds. Today's lunch officially started after the crew salvaged the captain.
(End of chapter)
