Embers of Embers

Chapter 645 Under the Rain
"Ah...it's raining really hard."
Sa Liangxi stood under the eaves, hiding from the heavy rain with Rhodes.
The two of them originally walked along the shadow of the iron whale, but who would have thought that the rain gradually became heavier and even the iron whale could not protect them. Then at a certain moment, the iron whale suddenly rose up, completely exposing the two of them to the heavy rain. , she and Rhodes were both drenched by the heavy rain and were in a state of embarrassment.
"Yeah...the weather is a bit strange. It's obviously the season of heavy snow, but it still rains so much."
Rhodes said softly that he had lived in Old Dunling for a long time. Although he was aware of the abnormal weather in Old Dunling, this was the first time he had seen such strange weather.
"Where is this place?"
Turning his attention away from the rain curtain, Rhodes looked at the unfamiliar environment around him, looking a little distressed.
Rhodes was completely led into a slightly insane channel by Sa Liangxi. He was pulled by her and ran all the way without any destination. He just followed the iron whale, moved forward under its protection, turned, and then continued to move forward.
With the departure of Iron Whale, this journey without a destination also came to an end. The surroundings were foggy and the road signs could not be seen clearly, and Rhodes did not know where he was.
The sky became darker and darker, and rays of light lit up one after another, as if falling into darkness. The street lamps also lit up one after another, and the light was diluted by the rain and fog, turning it into a hazy patch.
Suddenly there was laughter, and Sa Liangxi let out a burst of laughter, and then slowly sat down against the wall. Because her body was covered with rainwater, she also left a deep water stain on the wall.
Like a tired child, she sat at Rod's feet. Sa Liangxi pulled his trousers hard and motioned for him to sit down.
Rhodes had no room for resistance, so he sat down obediently. During the short period of getting along, he had already realized what kind of character Sa Liangxi was.
Perhaps it was because she was anonymous and had no one to mess with. After meeting herself, a lower-status civilian employee, she felt like she had found a new toy, teasing herself endlessly.
Rhodes guessed that her status must be the reason why others did not trust Sa Liangxi.
Several other familiar anonymous names came to mind, and thinking about it, in front of them, Sa Liangxi was extremely well-behaved.
"what……"
Rhodes sighed. He had already begun to regret agreeing to Sa Liang Kei in the morning. Rhodes should have sternly rejected Sa Liang Kei according to the regulations of the purification agency, and then stayed in the safe and warm Perpetual Pump instead of braving the rain. , and ran endlessly with her.
But I always feel that Sa Liangxi will not let him go. After all, he is a "tour guide". Every time he troubles himself, Sa Liangxi doesn't look embarrassed.
Thinking this, Rhodes turned his head and looked at Sa Liangxi. This restless guy suddenly became quiet, which made Rhodes even more uneasy.
I saw Sa Liangxi sitting beside her blankly, looking at the gloomy sky, listening to the sound of rushing water, her eyes were lost in thought.
Looking at the scene before him, Rhode's pupils became slightly distracted. In the silence, Sa Liangxi was like a drowned cat, huddled in the corner waiting for the rain to stop, looking beautiful.
The corner of his eyes fell on Sa Liangxi's body, and he could see that most of her body was soaked. Her clothes fit tightly to her body, outlining a graceful arc, and went up along her throat, stained with water drops. Hair, fair skin...
Rhodes could hear her steady breathing, full of curiosity about the old Dunling, running wildly in the rain like a wild child.
Then more emotions surged up, and Rhodes had a strange feeling, as if he was getting to know Sarakoi again.
It's not an anonymous identity, nor is it a visitor from Jiuxia, it's just a very simple word.
He found that from this point of view, Xie Liangxi was just an ordinary person.
an ordinary person.
Rhodes was thinking more, but then he saw a pair of bright black pupils, which reflected Rhodes' face.
The two looked at each other, and Rhodes' breathing stopped for a moment, but before he could feel the warmth under the rain curtain, he was knocked back by a slap with rain.
"Hello? What are you looking at?"
Sa Liangxi reached out and slapped Rhodes on the face. He didn't use any force, but just pushed Rhodes' face to make him look away.
It was also at this moment that Rhodes suddenly realized his rudeness. He was so panicked that he didn't know where to put his hands for a moment. He could only hold his knees and huddle up.
"Yes...isn't it..."
In panic, Rhodes didn't even know what to say, he was so embarrassed.
Under the rain, Rhodes seemed to have been beaten up and dumped on the roadside, which looked very funny. Then those bright black pupils appeared in front of him again. Sa Liangxi tried to look at Rhodes, but Rhodes Then he tried his best to tilt his head to avoid awkward stares.
Every time Sa Liangxi took a step forward, Rhodes' head turned a little to the side until he was completely facing the corner, as if he was autistic.
After a brief moment of calm, Sa Liangxi couldn't help but laugh loudly, and then patted Rhodes on the back hard.
"Hello? Sorry for what?"
She stood up, with an evil smile, approached Rhodes' ear, and asked softly.
"right……"
The voice was so close, and just when Rhodes was trying to say something, he felt a warm breath, and his words became garbled again.
"What are you doing! You can't even speak?"
Sa Liangxi pretended to be tough and pulled Rhodes hard a few times. As an anonymous person, she looked very unreliable, but she still had real strength. With this pull, Rhodes was easily moved.
But Rhodes didn't say anything as if he was dead. After a few seconds, he stood up and spoke very seriously with no expression on his face.
"sorry."
Xi Liangxi looked at the calm Rhodes, she approached slowly, very close, she provoked a smile, and then watched Rhodes' calm expression began to break and tremble.
"I said, Rhodes, the way you pretend to be calm is really..."
Sa Liangxi winked, and as Rhodes completely collapsed, she let out a victorious laugh.
"So weak?"
Sa Liangxi looked at Rhodes sitting on the ground. He didn't react at all. His mind seemed to have shut down and he had completely given up thinking.
Rhode's heart was broken. The more Sa Liang Xi teased him, the more he regretted going out with Sa Liang Xi.
"Okay, okay, I won't bother you anymore."
Sa Liangxi also sat down and patted Rhodes on the shoulder.
Rhodes waited for a while before slowly raising his head. He felt his cheeks were a little hot, and he didn't know whether it was shame or something else.
He is really not good at dealing with Xi Liangxi, or in other words, dealing with such a situation.
In Rhode's short life, he had almost no close contact with the opposite sex. In order to know the mysterious country of Jiuxia, he stayed with books for a long time. In the words of his classmates, in They think Rhodes is just a nerd.
"Am I that unattractive?"
Sa Liangxi's worries are completely different from those of Rhodes. She likes to play pranks on Rhodes and watch his funny look to satisfy her bad hobbies.
But after spending so many days together, Sa Liangxi only succeeded a little bit. Most of the time, Rhodes didn't seem to care about him at all.
"Attraction?"
Rhodes couldn't figure out what Sa Liangxi was talking about. Anyway, there was no need to think about it, it was just some messy stuff.
"Yes, do you think I'm beautiful?"
This was a proposition. Sa Liangxi looked at Rhodes expectantly.
Rhodes' reaction was a bit slow. To be precise, he had never thought about this at all. He relied entirely on his rich knowledge reserves and low emotional intelligence to answer.
"very good."
Rhodes didn't know what Jiuxia's aesthetics was like, but in his opinion, it was very good.
This answer was obviously not satisfactory to Sa Liangxi. She looked distressed and was about to have an attack, but then Rhode spoke again.
"It's not easy for me to say this kind of thing."
Rhodes lowered his head and did not look at the Sa Liang River. He looked at the water at his feet. The water surface was shattered by the falling raindrops, and his own reflection was shattered together.
"What do you mean?" This time, Xie Liangxi didn't understand.
"How should I put it? Just now, I suddenly realized that you are a human being."
"Huh? A person?"
Hearing this, Sa Liangxi was about to strike down with a hand knife. Rhodes moved faster and raised his hands directly, making a gesture of catching the sword with bare hands. Unfortunately, Rhodes' hands were clamped crookedly, and Sa Liangxi The hand knife swung down and hit him on the head accurately.
This time, Sarangxi hit him really hard, causing Rhodes to feel dizzy.
"No, no, no, I just...how to say?"
Rhodes was still trying to argue, but Sa Liangxi was patient and raised her knife. It seemed that if Rhodes' answer dissatisfied her, she would be ready to try again.
"Just, you are anonymous, right? A group of people who fight against demons, like the knights of the purification mechanism, the demon hunters of the demon hunting order..."
Rhodes' head felt dizzy, and his words were messy and illogical.
"For an ordinary person like me, you guys are a bunch of scary guys. Many times I can't regard you as ordinary people, or 'human beings'."
Sa Liangxi's expression changed slightly, and her eyes became cold.
"so what?"
"Just like Mr. Holmes, although our relationship has been very close these days, you can also feel it, right? He is so powerful that a sword cannot kill him, and fire cannot burn him. Such a guy is more like a monster with human appearance than a human being."
Rhodes was talking nonsense.
"Another example is Kestrel and Eve. These two guys usually smile, but when they fight, one is more cruel than the other... I am like a little sheep in a pack of wolves. You and I Out of place.”
"A lot of the time, I feel like I'm the normal 'person'."
Listening to these words of Rhodes, Sa Liangxi put down her knife. Her face was expressionless, and she lost any joyful interest for a while. She probably understood what Rhodes meant.
In Rhode's view, whether they are Anonymous or Demon Hunters, they are all inhuman monsters, they just retain the appearance of humans. Faced with such existences, as the only ordinary person, Rhodes naturally has difficulty in applying common sense to them.
A helpless smile appeared on Sa Liangxi's face. She reached out and scratched Rhode's head to make the atmosphere less tense.
"You're right, you're an unlucky ghost who strayed into the pack of wolves," Xie Liangxi said, "You really don't fit in with us... You almost died before."
Sa Liangxi still remembers the first encounter with Roger. Without Sa Liangxi's timely action, Rhodes might have died there.
On the battlefield of monsters, the addition of mortals only adds to the wails.
"No, listen to me."
Rhodes completely ignored Sa Liangxi's words. He became hardened and said loudly.
"So... so I felt like I was in a trance just now," Rhodes continued, "It's like I got to know everything again."
This time, his eyes did not dodge, but looked directly at Sa Liangxi.
"I suddenly realized that there are no monsters. In fact, everyone is just ordinary people..."
Rhodes recalled.
"Compared with my short life, everything these days is like a blurry fantasy. The mysterious Jiuxia appears, and then comes the doomsday crisis. I am just an ordinary translator, and I am just involved in this. into such a grand war.
I thought that anyone who could set foot in it could be considered a 'monster', but in reality it was different. "
For some reason, Lorenzo's office appeared in front of Rhodes' eyes, where a group of monsters took a short rest, and these monsters did not look like monsters at all.
Talking bad words and telling strange cold jokes, some people were busy writing reports in the gaps, while others fell aside and could sleep for a while...
"So, I realized that we are all ordinary people, but we just don't realize this at all."
After Rhodes finished speaking, he looked at Sa Liang Xi, but Sa Liang Xi's eyes were full of doubts.
He felt a little bad.
"What...are you talking about?" Sa Liangxi showed a slightly embarrassed expression, "Although...but you can take care of the stranger, okay?"
For a moment, Rhodes felt that he was dead. Death in various senses. After all he had said, Sa Liangxi didn't understand at all.
No...wait a minute, could this guy be messing with himself on purpose?
Rhodes looked at Sa Liang Xi warily. Who knew whether she understood or not. Sa Liang Xi had always done this to him before. He could clearly hear what was beneficial to her and asked her to do some physical work. She acted like she didn't understand Western and then pretended to be dead.
Do you want to ask further?Or is it just revealed?
Just as Rhodes was thinking hard, Sa Liangxi suddenly stood up. She looked towards the end of the rain and fog. In the deep alley, she could see bright and flashing lights.
"Rhode, that is?"
Sa Liangxi pointed forward, and Rhodes also raised his head and looked there. It was raining and foggy, but he still recognized the shining logo.
Immediately after Rhodes was picked up, Sa Liangxi stepped forward and led him into the rain.
"start running!"
Sa Liangxi shouted to him, which was like an order. Rhodes couldn't help but follow her and ran towards the end of the alley, just like he was pulled by her to run under the iron whale.
(End of this chapter)