Denali Mountain was originally located on glaciers and permafrost, covered with snow all year round. Now it is shrouded in the sky, still exuding a chill from the inside out.
The canopy weather adjustment here seems to be slow to respond. There is still warmth during the day, but at night the air is cold and dry, like the nights in late autumn and early winter.
In this temperature, Cain put on his swimsuit and plunged into the outdoor infinity pool.
The linear lights embedded at the bottom of the pool emit blue light, making the entire pool water blue and clear.
Li Liang stood by the pool with his hands in his pockets, watching her swim like a sea fish. She seemed to only be able to swim, holding her breath for a very long time, and only occasionally surfaced to take a breath.
After swimming a few laps, Cain surfaced, stepped on the water and shouted, "Come down."
"I can't swim," Li Liang said helplessly.
Cain smiled and slowly swam to the end of the pool, lying on the edge of the glass pool, overlooking Denali.
"How long can you hold your breath?" Li Liang came to the guardrail of the observation deck and asked casually.
"The longest...twenty minutes?" Cain tilted his head and rested his arm on his arm, "Only once, usually about ten minutes."
"What happened that time?"
"I didn't know how to swim when Chris first took me to the Defiant. I was once thrown into a reservoir and stayed underwater for a long time before Chris came. He said it was at least twenty minutes."
Cain seemed to be recounting a trivial matter, but Li Liang realized that Cain, who was only eight years old at the time, had already begun to face a life-and-death power struggle within the gang.
"and after?"
"Then I learned to swim."
"No, I mean the people who pushed you into the water."
"Oh, he's dead," Cain said casually, "I killed him with my own hands."
"What happened to your arm?"
"I went to Mexico City to discuss arms business, but was betrayed by a middleman. I was interrupted by a stray bullet while escaping for my life," Cain looked annoyed. "Now that I think about it, I should have picked up my arm. Maybe it could still be used after being reattached."
Li Liang remained silent.
"Why do you care about me all of a sudden?" Cain put his hand on his cheek and raised his head, "Are you in love with me?"
"Yes, yes, I'm in love," Li Liang said angrily, "Have you ever been in love before?"
"No, please teach me how to talk about it."
"Let's take a rest."
Cain chuckled and whispered for a moment: "It's hard for those of us who grew up in gangs to really trust others, let alone fall in love..."
Looking at Cain's side face, Li Liang suddenly thought that this woman might be secretly training Mayfly because she was wary of K and Mizuno.
Asking himself, he safely divided the power among Robben, Group, Li Ru, Cain, K, and Mizuno, allowing them to expand their power. In addition to trusting them, there was actually a voice in his subconscious that these people were not close. From time to time, they restrain each other and restrict each other, and they will always reach a balance.
Once emotions are put aside, relationships between people will become boring. He sighed silently and asked: "Then do you believe me?"
"Believe me, I will sleep soundly next to you," Cain said without thinking, "Not just me, everyone believes in you."
"Why?"
"There is only one person in this world who will never be bribed or influenced by interests, and that is you."
Li Liang was stunned for a moment. He really couldn't be bribed, not because of his noble character, but because at least for now, the entire human world controlled by Xi'an based on the Zero System was his private property.
"How does it feel to own the whole world?" Cain quipped.
"Want to hear the truth or lies?"
"The truth."
"It feels like I have a job."
Phew~
"It's so miserable, I don't have time to enjoy it at all," Cain gloated, "You haven't changed your clothes for a long time, haven't you?"
Li Liang looked down and saw that the clothes he was wearing, except for the coat and jacket given by Robben, and the short-sleeved trousers and leather boots, were all legion's standard casual clothes. He had not changed them during the meeting in the past few days.
He smiled self-deprecatingly and asked, "Have you ever thought about what you would do if the world were yours?"
"I really thought about it. I used to shout every day on the Defiant that we were going to overthrow Xi'an. Sometimes I even started to believe it. I just thought that if Mayfly occupied the temple one day, I would give myself the highest authority. Then throw the mess to whoever you want, take a spaceship and go to the place closest to the sun to stay there until you die."
"Why the sun?"
Cain swam to the edge of the pool and climbed up. When the night wind blew, he shivered and crossed his arms and said, "Because the sun is warm, hiss... go back and go back."
Looking at Cain's back trotting with his shoulders hunched, Li Liang found it difficult to understand why "innocent" and "cold-blooded" could appear in the same person at the same time.
Maybe this is the alienation of people by gangs.
He also figured out that the reason why Cain acted too "unrestrained" and always talked about "going to bed" was just because this woman... didn't understand what "ambiguity" was at all.
At this time.
Intensive gunshots suddenly sounded.
Li Liang came to the guardrail and saw flames shooting into the sky in the backyard of the Order Bureau on the next floor.
The "prison robbery" operation began.
Soon, a piercing alarm sounded from the sky, and the unique buzz of Xi'an's drone came from far away and came closer.
He suddenly noticed a group of people on a smaller viewing platform downstairs overlooking the "battle situation". When those people turned on the lights, they turned out to be the crew of "Hans and His Friends".
Yuan Quan is good at seizing the opportunity, but he just doesn't know what kind of plot this "prison robbery" will be compiled into under the pen of those imaginative screenwriters.
As drones swarmed in, the battle immediately turned one-sided.
It was originally a play that Alslen directed and acted in order to gain a higher position. Li Liang was not interested in continuing to suffer from the cold, so he turned around and walked back to the room.
Cain had already taken a hot bath, his hair was wet and stuck to his cheeks, and he was sitting on the sofa reading a book.
"What are you reading?" Li Liang sat down next to her, lifted the cover of the book and took a look at "The Witch's Magic".
Cain looked attentively, turned a page, and said casually: "Magic is very interesting."
"Laplace wakes up?"
Li Liang was a little surprised, but in Ling's vision, Cain was still an "ancient Buddha" with no inspiration.
"No," Cain leaned against him and changed into a comfortable position, "There are many short stories in this book."
"Do you recognize all the words?"
"nonsense."
Li Liang shook his head and reached out to pick up the book "Plenty: The Mysterious Language System" he had brought with him from the coffee table.
After a while, Cain raised the book, pointed at the page and asked, "How do you pronounce these two words?"
"...Mian Miao."
"What's the meaning?"
"It probably means... long time ago."
"oh."
The room became quiet, and the gunshots outside the window gradually faded away.
Li Liang worked very hard to recite those spells silently, but the more he recited, the more sleepy he became. Before he became unconscious, Cain was already pillowing his legs, covering his face with the book, and breathing evenly.
I do not know how long it has been.
The vibration of the bracelet woke Li Liang up. He raised his hand and took a look. A message from K appeared on the bracelet: the secret channel of the Natural Sect has been determined.
So fast?
He licked his dry lips and turned to look at the floor-to-ceiling windows.
It turned out that it was already dawn.
