Lord of Nine Stars

"321!"

"Yohoo~ It's Chinese New Year!"

"2012! Year of the Dragon! Year of the Dragon!"

With the sound of the countdown shared by thousands of people and the ringing of the bell, the central square of Songbai Town boiled and became a sea of ​​joy.

Rong Taotao sat on the bed, recalling the scene in his mind, with a smile on his face.

Yes, at this time, he and his family have returned to the residential building in the community. At this time, he is on the sixth floor, having just finished washing and getting ready to go to bed.

Gao Lingwei lived with her parents on the first floor, while her brother and sister-in-law brought Rong Taotao to the house on the sixth floor.

Of course, the brother and sister-in-law lived in the master bedroom, while Rong Taotao came to Gao Lingwei's former boudoir.

In Dawei's boudoir, the walls are covered with inspiring and passionate battlefield poems.

On weekdays, Rong Taotao might have been greatly affected and easily led into the frontier battlefield by Gao Lingwei's words like iron paintings and silver hooks, but today it didn't matter. After all, the atmosphere of the New Year's Eve fireworks celebration just now was too beautiful.

In the living room, Rong Yang, who had just finished washing, walked to the door, put one hand on the door handle, and pretended to close the door for Rong Taotao. He said at the same time: "Break through, Taotao, your sister-in-law and I will guard you."

"Ah." Rong Taotao got under the quilt, looked at his brother at the door, and said, "No need to guard, you two can sleep when you need to. I'm not inexperienced, so I'll have no problem breaking through!"

"Haha." Rongyang smiled and helped his brother close the door, "Good night."

Not long after Rongyang returned to the master bedroom, he felt violent fluctuations in soul power coming from the small bedroom in the distance.

It won't take long to advance from the primary level of Soul Captain to the intermediate level of Soul Captain. It won't take long for such a small level to break through. However, Rong Taotao gathered his soul power, but he faintly felt that something was wrong?

It seems that not only the soul power level is about to break through the shackles, but as the ice and snow attribute soul power in the world pours into his body from all directions, along with it, his four-star elementary soul method also feels like it is about to break through the shackles. ?

Rong Taotao was overjoyed!

What is double happiness? ?

His soul level has always been a big step beyond the level of soul power!

However, as Rong Taotao walked out of the Snow Realm and competed in various competitions, he could only practice soul power level, and the speed of practicing the Soul Method: Heart of the Snow Realm also dropped a lot.

However, this situation improved somewhat after absorbing the nine-petal lotus Hui Lian. With the help of the lotus petals, his soul level increased again.

Tonight, the early stage soul captain will be promoted to the middle stage soul captain, and the four-star elementary soul master will be promoted to the intermediate four-star stage.

A double shot!

Tell me, what! Yelled! New Year!

If possible, Rong Taotao hopes that he can live on New Year's Eve every day, well, it is best to live in the moment when there is only one hawthorn left in the candied haws in his hands.

Rong Taotao here has broken through the realm and cannot sleep. At this moment, Gao Lingwei in the guest room on the first floor has not fallen asleep either.

It's already early in the morning, the lights at home have been turned off, and this house in the northern suburbs is also far away from the central downtown street. Logically speaking, the atmosphere for sleeping at this time is very good, but...

However, Gao Lingwei opened his eyes and looked at the lamp on the ceiling, his eyes slightly distracted, secretly lost in thought.

"Meow~" On the lower abdomen, the snow-white body of the velvet cat was curled up. It had gradually fallen asleep, but its tail was slightly pinched by Gao Lingwei's unconscious palms.

The velvet cat whimpered, opened its big sapphire-like eyes, stood up, and looked at its owner with aggrieved eyes.

"Ha." Gao Lingwei smiled apologetically and smoothed its hair.

The edelweiss cat stood up, walked a few steps on her body, and came to her face. He tilted his head curiously and looked at his master who was not sleeping.

The velvet cat is really looking more and more like this dog.

It looked at it for a while, then lowered its head and licked Gao Lingwei's cheek with its pink tongue. It seemed that it might have mistaken its intention, thinking that its master had something on its mind, and was trying to comfort him.

Gao Lingwei was indeed worried, but she wasn't serious.

Finally, she stopped trying to fall asleep. Instead, she sat up directly, rubbed her long black hair lazily, took the pillow in her hand, put it upright at the head of the bed, and sat on it.

"Open the curtains." Gao Lingwei said softly, tilting her head and motioning to the window not far away.

The edelweiss cat blinked its beautiful big eyes, jumped over.

The edelweiss cat got behind the curtain, held the curtain in its mouth, took cat steps on the window sill, and slowly opened it.

Suddenly, a little bit of light came into the slightly dark room.

Through the window, Gao Lingwei could see the building opposite in the distance. Red lanterns were hung on the balconies of every house and would be lit up all night.

Gao Lingwei reached out to catch the elvet cat that jumped back and put it in her arms. She picked up its small paws with one hand, gently pinched its soft flesh pads with her fingers, and fell into deep thought again.

However, at some point, there was a wind and snow blowing outside.

And the wind and snow are getting bigger and bigger.

I don't know how long it took, but Gao Lingwei woke up from deep thought. Looking at the falling snow outside the window and the sound of the howling cold wind, Gao Lingwei frowned slightly.

She got up and got out of bed and closed the curtains again. She hugged the velvet cat and got into the warm quilt. She finally closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep.

"Dong~dong~dong~"

A gentle knock on the door woke up Gao Lingwei, who was sleeping. She opened her eyes suddenly, but suddenly recalled that she was at home in Songbai Town.

A few seconds later, her sharp eyes softened slightly, and her mother's soft call came from outside the door: "Xiaowei?"

But this time, her mother opened the door without waiting for her to respond.

"Pa~" Cheng Yuan groped the wall next to the door and turned on the light switch with one hand.

The white light came on. Gao Lingwei's slightly narrowed eyes adjusted to the bright light and looked at her mother at the door: "Mom, what?"

Before she finished speaking, Gao Lingwei saw her mother's eyes turning red.

Gao Lingwei hurriedly sat up, and Cheng Yuan also walked in, sat sideways on the bed, her eyes red, and took Gao Lingwei into her arms.

"Mom, what's going on?" Gao Lingwei rubbed her mother's back with one hand and said softly, "What happened, tell me."

In her arms, the mother's body was shaking a little, as if she was sobbing.

Gao Lingwei couldn't help it, so she broke away from her mother's arms with a little force. She held her mother's cheek with both hands, but she really saw her mother crying.

Gao Lingwei felt extremely distressed. She held her mother's face with both hands, wiped the tears on her cheeks with her thumbs, and said with concern: "Don't cry, Mom, tell me, what's wrong?"

Cheng Yuan lowered her eyes and said softly: "You are leaving again, to the battlefield and to perform your mission."

Gao Lingwei was confused and said hurriedly: "I am still on vacation. I will stay with you at home and not go anywhere."

Cheng Yuan: "Look out the window."

Gao Lingwei was confused. She took the elvet cat next to the bed in one hand and threw it to the window sill.

The edelweiss cat is very smart and sensible. It landed lightly on the window sill, holding the curtain in its mouth, and pulled the curtain to the window frame on one side as before.

It was so dark outside the window that I couldn't even see the red lantern hanging on the balcony of the residential building opposite.

Gao Lingwei knew that it was not that the lantern went out, but that layers of wind and snow blocked her vision.

The sound of the howling cold wind was like the howling of ghosts and wolves, which seemed so terrifying in the dark night.

Gao Lingwei patted her mother's back gently with one hand and raised her eyes to look above the door. There was a small clock hanging there, with the hands clearly showing: 9:15.

Nine fifteen?

Gao Lingwei was shocked. Did I sleep all day and night?

No, it's impossible!

Even if I fell asleep early this morning, I wouldn't have slept all day and night.

So...it's nine fifteen in the morning?

Since it's morning, why isn't it bright yet?

Gao Lingwei's eyes widened and she turned to look out the window again, but she could only see darkness.

Cheng Yuan hugged Gao Lingwei tightly with her arms, and her voice was still trembling: "It's that wind and snow again, and it's the same polar night as before. There will be another army of soul beasts invading the snow realm. There will definitely be."

Gao Lingwei came back to her senses and comforted her mother's anxious mind: "No, it won't happen. Such large-scale invasion wars will not happen so frequently."

"You are the Xue Ran Army. You will go to the northern city wall." Cheng Yuan said.

Gao Lingwei's words were a little hesitant: "I"

In my ears, my mother's whisper came: "Why do you want me to return to the snowland and Pine Town?"

Gao Lingwei opened her mouth slightly, and suddenly she didn't know how to speak.

Cheng Yuan took the initiative to let go of her arms. This time, it was she who held her daughter's cheeks with both hands. Cheng Yuan leaned her forehead forward, their eyebrows touched each other, and looked into Gao Lingwei's astonished eyes: "Why, you are always like that A troublemaker?"

Gao Lingwei was completely confused. She didn't understand how such words could come from her mother's mouth. This was not in line with her mother's character at all.

The eyes of the two looked at each other, with their foreheads touching each other. In Gao Lingwei's world, only her mother's eyes remained.

"You implicated me and were hunted by those poachers."

"Because of you, I was forced to move back to the Snow Realm, back to Pine Town, back to the ice and snow, far away from the ordinary world of comfort."

"Now, it's still because of you. You are leaving again, going to the Three Walls to perform a mission, leaving me in this dark and snowy night."

Gao Lingwei suddenly tilted her head back, and her sight changed from only being able to see the other person's eyes to being able to see the other person's entire face.

However, the eyes are still the same and have not changed, but the other facial features of the person in front of him have changed.

Gao Lingwei saw a mature version of herself.

A demon that she can never forget in her life

A smile appeared on the woman's face, and every word was like a dagger, stabbing into Gao Lingwei's heart: "Why do you always bring her trouble?"

"Ha" Gao Lingwei took a breath and lit up, suddenly opened his eyes, and sat up from the bed!

"Meow!!!" The velvet cat sleeping soundly on the pillow was startled, and its body subconsciously bounced back, causing its fur to explode.

"Haha." A layer of cold sweat appeared on Gao Lingwei's forehead, her chest was heaving violently, and she was breathing heavily.

The room was dark. Where was the light turned on? Where is the figure of the mother, where is the figure of the devil?

Is it a nightmare?

Gao Lingwei hurriedly raised her head and looked at the clock above the door. In the dark room, the hands of the clock glowed with faint fluorescence, and the hands above clearly showed: 2:40.

Two forty in the morning?

Gao Lingwei pursed her lips. From the time she closed her eyes and fell asleep until now, only a few minutes had passed since she had such a nightmare.

Why?

Is my recent life too wonderful? Why did the shadow buried deep in my heart emerge again?

"Dong~dong~dong~" The next moment, there was a soft knock on the door.

Gao Lingwei:! ! !

She looked at the closed door stupidly, but she didn't know how to respond.

"Xiaowei." Father's voice came from the door.

For some reason, her father's calm voice calmed Gao Lingwei's trembling heart.

"What's going on?" Gao Qingchen asked softly outside the door.

Gao Lingwei calmed down the turbulent emotions in her heart and said softly: "Sorry, Dad, I woke you up. I just had a nightmare. Was my mother also woken up?"

"She is not as sharp as us. She is still sleeping and was not woken up." Gao Qingchen put a hand on the door handle, hesitated for a moment, but still did not turn it open. After all, his daughter had grown up and it was not allowed for him to enter her room.

Gao Qingchen thought for a while and comforted: "Don't be afraid, it's okay. Dad is here. If you want to talk."

"No, no need." Before her father could finish speaking, Gao Lingwei refused.

"Well, you're not young anymore. You're just a warrior, just a nightmare." Gao Qingchen said with a smile, "Go to bed early and don't think too much."

"Okay, Dad, you can go to sleep too." Gao Lingwei said apologetically. Outside the door, the sound of crutches gently touching the ground was heard, getting farther and farther.

Gao Lingwei held her forehead with one hand, took a deep breath, and sighed slowly

The edelweiss cat crawled over cautiously, brushing away Gao Lingwei's long hair with its little head, and looked curiously at its owner who closed his eyes to relax.

Seeing the frightened look of its owner, it squatted on her lap, couldn't help but raise its face, and gently licked Gao Lingwei's cheek.

After a long time, Gao Lingwei lifted the quilt and got out of bed, gently opened the curtains, held the velvet cat in her arms, and looked at the night outside the window.

There was still snow outside the window, but it was nowhere near as heavy as in the nightmare.

The second hand of the clock in the room ticked by. For Gao Lingwei, every second was torture.

She stood like this at the window all night. She didn't know how long it had passed, until she looked through several residential buildings and saw the sky in the distance turning white.

At this moment, her tense heart finally relaxed.

Even though the wind and snow are still blowing, the sun still rises.

Apparently, daybreak is coming.

Gao Lingwei pursed her lips. She didn't know why she had such a nightmare. Was it because of the words "dark night is coming"?

Is it because I know that this sentence was said by Gao Ling?

Or is it the hurdle in my heart that I have never been able to overcome, and I have always felt guilty for my parents leaving the comfortable ordinary world and returning to Pine Town?

Worrying things are like a nightmare. Factors are connected one by one, brewing and fermenting in the subconscious, and actually weave such a nightmare.

Finally, Gao Lingwei pressed the velvet cat into her body. She supported the window sill with both hands and slowly lowered her head.

There was a soft "click" sound.

The knuckles of her hands pressed against the window sill were slightly white, and the marble window sill also had a few cracks.