But whirlwind, his other large hand held her waist.
The warmth of his palm was still warm.
Through her clothes, she was also scalded.
“Swish…”
At the same moment, the man opened his eyes.
Sinai saw his familiar dark green color.
Deep, mysterious, ever elusive.
Even after almost six months of living with Norton, she had no semblance of knowledge of his past.
The two were in an ambiguous position at the moment, just under a centimetre apart.
But when she was a small child of six, she and he had been closer than that.
He would naturally lift her up and make her sit on his shoulders.
Or he would simply take her directly in his arms when she protested.
An antidote went down and she felt him return to the coldness he once had.
Not so much high and mighty, but so distant as to be untouchable.
There was a heavy veil over him, a veil that even Ying and Cesar, who knew him well, could not remove.
Norton looked up lazily and his voice was soft: “Child, why do you walk unsteadily and throw your arms around?”
The difficult familiar accent loosened Sinai’s tense body a little.
She glanced at his snow-covered thighs and reached out to help him brush the snow away a little: “I’m not sitting down here yet.”
She seemed to hear him chuckle very, very softly, through a bit of laziness.
“Neither have I, but I’ve sat down quite a few times.” Norton’s hand then loosened, “Don’t care about this one.”
Sinai didn’t have time to react as the strength stuck to her waist went, this time she was sitting directly on his lap.
“……”
A little flush rose to the tips of her ears and she was about to get up, but was encircled by his arms.
There was no near way or way back.
The snow was cold, but his body was hot.
Norton faded: “Why are you so careless, your fingers are frozen red.”
As he spoke, he took out a jar of hand cream and just pulled her hand over and applied it patiently.
He had applied hand cream to her so many times before.
But children’s bodies are not always as sensitive.
This time, it was as if his fingertips were charged with electricity.
Sinai’s body tensed up again and the flush widened around her ears.
Norton finished applying it and brought out a long-prepared medicine chest, “Take the medicine, there’s permanent sunscreen in there.”
He wondered if anyone had put a hat on her while he was away.
The little girl’s skin had always been delicate and was not to be frostbitten or tanned.
Sinai got up in time and she took each one, “Thank you Lord Chariot.”
At those words, Norton looked up and fixed his eyes on her.
For a moment, she almost drowned in his gaze.
But just then, he let go of his hand.
The searing heat drew away instantly.
Like Su Wen and Lu Yuan, and like so many other elders, he gently stroked her head, and his voice came down in a rare gentleness: “Have a safe journey, child.”
Sinai gripped the long pole of her suitcase tightly: “You too.”
Hearing this, Norton raised an eyebrow instead, “You know where I’m going?”
“Well, Ying just gave me the heads up.” Sinai paused, “You’re going to the alchemical world.”
In the ten years she had spent searching for Ying, she had learnt a lot about the O Continent.
But the alchemy world was indeed the first time she had heard of it.
If it wasn’t for alchemists, no one would be able to find where this place was.
“Hmm.” Norton turned slightly sideways, “It’s also on continent o. When I have time, I’ll come and see you and bring you some clothes.”
He stroked her head again, “Come on, don’t miss your flight.”
This child who had been with him for so long had a life of her own after all.
The world he lived in was murderous and bloody, and he shouldn’t let her, who liked science, get involved.
Ying also had someone to stay with for life.
Cesar has a big heart and has never been bothered by anything.
He is alone in his boat when the world is drifting in the storm.
Alone, it seemed quite good.
Sinai pulled up her suitcase and turned around.
At that moment, Norton spoke up behind her again, lazily: “Child, I suggest you sleep with the covers pinned to your bed so that you don’t kick them off.”
Sinai: “……”
She knew it.
All the foolishness she had done in her life had been done in front of him.
Sinai took a few steps and kept walking until she reached the patio door.
From a distance, she turned back.
The man was still sitting there, as lonely and cold as ever.
Sinai thought.
Perhaps after that, they would never see each other again in this life.
There should never have been any encounter between them in the first place.
Now that she had recovered, it was time to say goodbye.
By the window on the first floor of the courtyard.
Ying Ziji leaned against the wall and watched the two people fading away, wrinkling her brow slightly.
The alchemy world.
She narrowed her eyes slightly.
It was also.
For once, there were no old friends there to meet yet.
**
The flight from China to country g was small but smooth.
By three o’clock in the afternoon, Sinai arrived at the international airport of country g.
She didn’t let anyone pick her up and took a taxi to the Cosmic Carrier Experiment Base according to the coordinates Dean Norman had given her.
But because it was so remote, the taxi stopped two kilometres away from the base.
There was no other transport around either, and Sinai chose to walk there.
As she looked around, she said, “So what, I-”
The words suddenly lurched.
She looked up, and it dawned on her that she was in an adult body.
There was no one else next to her either.
It had been a long six months, not a short one.
But it was long enough to be engraved in her bones.
Sinai had been in poor physical condition, but with Norton’s conditioning over the past few months, it was no big deal to walk this little distance.
When she arrived at the research base of the space carrier, she called Dean Norman.
“I say, apprentice, what brings you here so soon?” Dean Norman griped, “I’m on leave this afternoon, and I’m now downtown shopping with your master mother.”
“You shop.” Sinai was calm, “I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to wait, so I brought you a little dress especially for you?”
Dean Norman: “……”
He had forgotten that ten years ago at the Institute, Sinai was also known as the “Queen of Toxic Words”.
“My son, I was wrong, I’ve got an a*sistant for you.” Dean Norman said, “Just wait, I’ll send her to you.”
Half a minute later the voice came back, “Her name is Charlotte and she has gone to fetch you, did you see?”
Sinai looked up and saw a figure coming out of the door.
“Miss Sinai, hello hello, I’m your a*sistant, Charlotte Bryan.” A young girl with small freckles on her face trotted over, excited, “First time meeting, please enlighten me.”
“Hello.” Sinai held out her hand in return, “Sinai Leingold.”
“Miss Sinai, this way, your office is on the third floor of the basement.” Charlotte’s small face flushed, “I’m a mechanical graduate of Norton University, I’m twenty-two years old and I’ve only just joined the program, I’m happy to be your a*sistant.”
She didn’t know what Sinai was from, but it was something Dean Norman had personally explained, so she naturally had to take it seriously.
The researchers at the base also knew that Helvin had handed over the core content to Dean Norman.
The base was huge, with a total of sixty floors above and below ground combined.
Sinai followed Charlotte to the third basement floor.
“This is a research suit for you.” Charlotte took out a box, “Your living supplies are also configured, and the accommodation is next door.”
Sinai nodded and took the familiar white research uniform.
After putting it on, she looked at the white coat she was wearing and was momentarily lost in thought.
It was true that she had never worn a dress before her exposure to Norton.
It had always been all white.
Sinai pressed her head.
How could she think of him in everything she saw.
It was magic.
“It’s a long-term experimental project, so there are two days off each week.” Charlotte handed over another bottle of water and smiled, “Miss Sinai, this project will be particularly intense once we work on it, so if there’s anything uncomfortable, you must say so in advance.”
“Good.” Sinai nodded slightly, “Send me all the information.”
She was ready to start working today.
By working, she would be able to forget about other things.
That was until there was playful laughter and someone yelled out in English.
“Charlotte, come along out, what are you doing there? It’s a day off, go out and have a good time”
“I’ll pa*s.” Charlotte waved her hand, “I’m here with someone.”
It was then that the group noticed Sinai behind her desk.
She was looking intently at her computer.
Her long platinum blonde hair fell down her cheeks like a scattering of stars.
Her ice-blue eyes were like the swirling of the sea, and her lips were a pale soft pink, like jelly.
The skin is almost transparent and blows out.
Just the side of her face was already stunning.
There were many western faces in the base, but this was the first time they had seen one that was this beautiful.
After all, when you are a researcher, you are a bit bald anyhow.
One young man didn’t have the patience to step forward, “Charlotte, no introductions?”
Charlotte still waved her hand, “Go go go, play your games, won’t you be introduced on Monday?”
The young man also felt the cold aura of rejection emanating from Sinai’s body, so he made a fool of himself and left.
Sinai was receiving the documents and didn’t look up: “Aren’t you going out? I’ll be fine on my own.”
“No, it’s not much fun anyway, it’s a suburb around here, there’s a mall only five kilometres away.” Charlotte said, “This project is actually dominated by young people and they love to have fun, so they meet up to sit at the bar on weekends when they have a break.”
Sinai nodded and went back to work.
**
A few days later.
The Imperial Capital.
The two brothers, Fifth Wind and Fifth Snow, accompanied Fifth Chuan back and learned about the Luo family’s visit.
Fifth Chuan looked sad and sighed heavily, “I knew this day would come.”
Many people in the feng shui and trigonometry world had waited to see the day when the Fifth Family would fall after his death.
The Luo family had been in the ascendancy recently, and when they saw Fifth Moon in a coma, they would naturally choose to cross the river and tear down the bridge.
“The marriage is definitely going to be withdrawn.” Fifth Chuan sneered, “But it will also be my Fifth Family that will withdraw, it is not his Luo Family’s turn to come to the door.”
After saying that, he turned his head, “Xiao Feng, Xiao Xue, follow me to the study to get ready.”
Fifth Snow hurriedly followed.
Half a minute later, Fifth Chuan took a slow step away.
Meanwhile, in the room.
The young girl lying on the bed slowly opened her eyes.
The slightly blinding sunlight made her cover her eyes.
It took a few minutes for the energy to completely slow down.
Fifth Moon blinked, and blinked again.
She covered her head and hissed, “My head hurts.”
She hadn’t gone out the night before and gotten drunk and then gotten beaten up by her grandfather, had she?
“Wake up.” A voice rang out with a western accent and a distinctive charm, “Don’t pretend to be asleep if you’re awake, get up and drink your medicine.”
As soon as Fifth Moon opened her eyes, she saw a piece of gold.
She immediately grabbed it and gushed, “Wow, gold, brother, I know you’re the best, preparing so much gold for me.”
She was happy to hug it straight away, “Eh, why is it so soft, brother, have you been tricked.”
The young girl’s sudden movement caused Cesar to draw a breath backwards and his body to tense up.
He snapped at her wrist, “Third cla*s cripple, let go!”
It was his hair!
Born with it!
“Hmm?” Fifth Moon woke up as if in a dream and looked at Cesar with wide, innocent eyes for three seconds in confusion, “Who are you?”
“……”
“……”
“……”
Silence, or silence.
The corner of Cesar’s forehead twitched, “Third-cla*s cripple, don’t think you can pretend you don’t know me and not pay me back.”
Fifth Moon scratched her head, “I really don’t know you, and also, why should I pay you back.”
“Yue Yue.” At that moment, Fifth Flower pushed the door in, surprised, “Yue Yue, you’re awake?!”
“Third sister!” Fifth Moon immediately hugged her, “Who is this man, why is he in my room, is he trying to pick flowers!”
Xize sniffed and gently swept a glance at Fifth Moon’s chest, “Just you?”
What kind of beauty had he seen when he was in Fei Leng Cui, and would he look at a bean sprout?
“This is Mr. Laurent.” Fifth Flower was instantly alert, “Yue Yue, you don’t know him?”
“Third sister, I swear I really don’t know.” Fifth Moon puffed out her cheeks, “I don’t know a foreigner at all.”
Fifth Flower frowned and took out her phone, pulling up Ying Zigui’s picture, “What about this Miss Ying?”
“Of course I know my kissing master.” Fifth Moon’s eyes lit up, “My master is so good to me, he will even give me gold, I won’t forget my master if I forget.”
“Fine.” Xize nodded slowly and laughed under his breath, “You just don’t know me, do you? I’ve sent you gold too, all forgotten?”
What world?
He saw that she was pretending on purpose.
“You sent me gold?” Fifth Moon was half puzzled and raised her hand, “This little brother, I swear on my little gold coffers, I really da really don’t know you.”
Cesar fell silent.
He swore on his vault, this oath was quite poisonous.
It seemed that the aftermath of this trigram was that Fifth Moon was forgetting about what happened after entering the World City.
But that was fine.
After forgetting, she was still the same quick-witted little girl who stirred up hornets’ nests and caught frogs.
Not knowing about that sage battle, and not thinking about sacrifice anymore.
“I’ll go find a doctor.” Fifth Flower was uneasy, “See if there are any shadows on the brain, and trouble Mr. Laurent to watch her.”
After saying that, she hurriedly left.
The only two people left in the room were Fifth Moon and Cesar.
Fifth Moon looked at him and hesitated for a moment, “This little brother, who the hell are you acutely?”
Xize sat upright, his long legs folded, and smiled faintly, “I am your debtor.”
He had cheated him out of his money, and his life was still in her hands.
It was a big debt, a big debt.
“……”
Ten minutes later, Fifth Moon looked at the long string of bills and just wanted to cry.
Had she really cheated so much money?
It wasn’t right, she had always cheated money depending on the person she was with, and had never been chased to her home.
“Third sister!” Fifth Moon didn’t want to believe it, picking at Fifth Flower who had returned with a deadly grasp, “Tell me quickly, it’s not true.”
Fifth Flower hesitated.
She looked at Cesar who had a straight face.
The young man picked up his cup of tea and blew gently on it, rather like the ancient gentry of China.
And then she remembered that her own little sister did like to cheat.
So the fifth flower finally nodded and rea*sured her again, “It’s alright, Mr. Laurent won’t count on that.”
If Cesar was obsessed with those few gold pieces, he wouldn’t have gone out personally to buy medicine and decoction for Fifth Moon
“No!” Fifth Moon wiped her tears, “Master said that karma is the most important thing, otherwise the involvement will get deeper and deeper in the future and there will be no saving.”
She signed her name on the bill with tears in her eyes.
How long would she have to pay this debt.
Cesar folded the bill without delay and put it in his pocket.
This little girl, she was such a good tease, she believed it when she was tricked.
After signing the bill, Fifth Moon immediately rummaged through her closet and began to pack her small package, carrying it out.
Cesar turned his head: “Third-cla*s cripple, what are you doing?”
“I’m going to see if there are any new a*signments over at the Feng Shui Alliance to earn some money.” Fifth Moon turned back, fierce, “You, keep a distance of three metres from me!”
Cesar raised an eyebrow.
Only after the little girl ran out in a huff did he get up unhurriedly and follow behind.
Fifth Flower suddenly snapped out of it and got anxious: “Yue Yue, you haven’t seen a doctor yet!”
But looking at the way Fifth Moon was jumping up and down, it didn’t look like something was wrong.
**
Feng Shui Alliance.
Fifth Moon stood in front of the electronic noticeboard and started looking for a suitable quest.
She saw a newly opened tomb that needed a feng shui master to accompany her and was about to click to take it.
“Fifth Moon!”
Suddenly a startled voice fell, laced with a bit of disbelief.
Fifth Moon turned her head, saw a few youths and wondered, “Something wrong?”
“Fifth Moon, I advise you to die your heart out.” The youth on the left was stunned at first, then sneered, “Even if you chased after my cousin at the Feng Shui Alliance as soon as you woke up, you wouldn’t want to marry her.”
If Fifth Moon really ran to Elder Luo and complained, what else would happen?
I knew that Fifth Moon would be a dead man clinging to the Luo family.