Yes, Lan Che stood outside the door.

She didn't look any different than usual, with short dark brown hair tied in a ponytail and turquoise eyes that looked like cat's eye gems.

She has always been the girl with the least story in the Friends Society at the end of summer, and the status of a nobleman surnamed Lan can't bring her much help, and she seems to like this role too, so she stays there.

Lan Che is also the only child in the Friends Society at the end of the summer who has not joined the three major clubs, she has such a strong talent, it only takes time to grow into a strong person, so most of the things in this world are superfluous things for her.

That's how it is with clubs.

"Thank you." Ye Qing sat inside the door and said, his voice sincere.

Lan Che nodded.

She was wearing a pure black mage robe, wrapping her beautiful girlish body tightly, obviously an incomparable light magician, but for some reason, such a black outfit also looked inexplicably good-looking.

"I think the princess knows what I'm here for." Lan Che spoke, his voice crisp and peaceful, and he didn't know which Lan Che it came from.

"I just want to know when it happened." Ye Qing said, there was no questioning tone, but he was still asking.

"It's something that happened recently." Lan Che tilted his head and thought for a moment, then limited the time: "It didn't even happen when that elf came to visit us. ”

"Is there anything I can do?" Ye Qing said.

"I don't think Her Royal Highness has anything to do, at least not for me." Lan Che replied lightly.

Ye Qing nodded again: "Actually, we can all forgive you, you still have a chance to turn back." ”

Lan Che smiled, his smile was still sweet and clear, like freshly squeezed honey in the moonlight: "Your Royal Highness Princess, do you know that when you say this, I won't have a chance." ”

With that, Lan Che bent down and placed three keys on the dirt outside the door.

"Hopefully, when we meet again, we'll be able to say hello to each other."

The girl said with a smile.

……

……

Lan Che is gone.

Three keys, fine brass, black iron, and silver.

The refined copper key is Ye Qing's dormitory key, and Lan Che, who is a roommate, naturally has the same one.

The black iron key is the key to the wooden house of the Friends Society, and the old lock is actually difficult for anyone in the Friends Club at the end of the summer, but having this key means that you are a member of the room.

As for the third silver key, it comes from Aono Gensokyo, and as a member of the rotating manager, this key can open the door of Aono Shookokyo and the secret box hidden in the staircase, which contains all the keys in this priceless shop.

Ye Qing bent down, picked up the three keys on the ground, and then looked back at the people in the room: "Actually, I have thought about it many times, but I have never thought that the first person to quit at the end of the summer will be her." ”

No one in the room spoke.

Ye Qing took out a wooden box and put the three keys one by one, then covered it with a white silk cloth, covered the lid of the wooden box, and then reached out and put the inconspicuous wooden box in the center of the round table in the room.

"Actually, what I want to say has already been said, and Lan Che, who didn't say it, has already finished talking for me."

"Happy or unhappy, these are things that have happened, and I used to think that I must be sad and my heart will be broken when something like this happens, but when it happens, it feels like nothing more than that."

She pointed to the wooden box on the round table: "I don't know if Lan Che has a chance to open this box and retrieve what she once had, but as long as we put this box here, we still have hope of recovering everything." ”

"Finally."

At the end of the summer, the president of the Friends Club glanced at everyone present: "No matter what, I'm still very happy to meet you." ”

"And the adjournment."

……

……

When everyone left, only Ge Sheng was still in the cabin.

"Now." Ye Qing looked back at the boy who had grown up slowly, just like his own slowly growing up, they grew up with each other until they became themselves that they had never thought of in the distance.

"Actually, I don't know what expression to use to face this increasingly real world."

Ge Sheng shook his head: "You don't want to know, just like we didn't know that Lan Che would leave us today, when we knew, we all knew what expression to use to face it." ”

Ye Qing nodded, and then walked out of the wooden house, it was still early morning outside the wooden house, it was still fresh and beautiful and everything was no different from before, there was a vast lake in the distance, the lake water was rippling and sweet.

Ye Qing suddenly spoke: "Do you know how to find Christie?" ”

Ge Sheng was a little surprised: "You're going to see her?" ”

"If you really want to see someone, she is the most reliable, last night she wanted to talk and stop thinking about it and wanted to beat her, but think about it now just to ask about everything, Qingli Fourth Spring did tell me a lot of things, but more things are hidden outside the water, I need to ask more reliable people." Ye Qing said calmly. "If asking her is tantamount to asking the demon for knowledge, but if there is knowledge to be obtained, this demon is the cheapest to charge."

Ge Sheng nodded: "I'll arrange it." ”

Christie's palace was above the Dark Tower, and the Academy had allowed her to build a nest in her heart, but it had been rarely visited for a long time.

When Ye Qing also stood at the top of the tower, he found Christie standing next to her, waiting for her arrival.

"Where's Ge Sheng?" Ye Qing asked.

"He asked for recusal, and said that whatever we talked about, we would eventually tell him without reservation, and if there was a discrepancy between what the two men told, it would be embarrassing anyway, and he thought we wouldn't want that to happen." Christie said.

She was still dressed in a tight wool shorts and a white shiny coat, which made a rattling in the wind, and this outfit did not look like an eighteen-year-old girl in any way, but also did not look like an empress who ruled a world.

But she was still used to dressing like this, and it seemed that only then was Christie.

Ye Qing wore a skirt honestly, and when the wind blew, half of the flesh and bones were exposed, she liked to wear it like this ten years ago, and it still hasn't changed ten years later, she likes skirts, she likes the feeling of being empty and fluttering, but the girl ten years later and the girl ten years ago are already two completely different people, but she still wants to stay like ten years ago, when she was tired and sleepy, and her mother's arms could lie down and sleep peacefully.

"Sometimes I wonder if my brother is a coward." Ye Qing said lightly, his tone did not have any special meaning, as if he was stating a fact.

"Do you want to tell the truth about this sentence too?" Christie squinted and smiled.

Ye Qing nodded without showing weakness, and then continued: "I really don't know what you like about him? ”

Christie smiled: "I like it most when someone grabs this with me, and the sugar in other people's hands is always sweeter." ”

Ye Qing pursed his lips, and then stretched out his hand to the other party: "Sister-in-law, give me sugar." ”

Christie laughed, took out the candy cube from the pocket of her white coat, and threw it over: "It's okay to give candy, but not to my brother." ”

Ye Qing tore open the candy paper and stuffed the sugar cube into his mouth, then looked under the tower: "Don't you go in and talk?" ”

"It's my lab in there, and it's not good to be stuffy." Christie said lightly.

"The reason why I came to you in person instead of using your Black Iron Ring is that I don't want anyone who might know about the content of your conversation." Ye Qing said: "Actually, I gradually don't understand who else I can absolutely trust. ”

"Your late summer friends used to be your strongest fortress, but now the fortress has been breached from within, and you're not happy, right?" Christie smiled, "That's one of the reasons I've been reluctant to join your Late Summer Friends Club. ”

Ye Qing looked at the other party and pointed to the path in the void again: "Are you really not going in?" ”

Christie shook her head, "I can assure you that it's no more dangerous here than it is inside. ”

Ye Qing stared at the other party: "How can I suspect that you are stealing people outside behind my brother's back?" If I'm not mistaken, you and Qingli are also good friends in the fourth spring, right? ”

Christie laughed and coughed in a low voice, and then helplessly reached out and patted it lightly, at that moment, Ye Qing only felt that something was slowly unfolding in front of her.

In front of her, a glass castle unfolded, like a piece of transparent glass that had no thickness and could be folded countless times, slowly unfolding in front of her, expanding larger and larger until it completely surrounded the hundreds of meters around the top of the tower.

Ye Qing also saw everything in this glass castle, her gaze and divine sense could penetrate every piece of glass, and see the results of any test on every experimental table, and at that moment Ye Qing understood what kind of existence the so-called exquisite heart was.

No matter how many times you hear someone describe it, you can't see it with your own eyes.

"Although you don't fully believe me, my sister-in-law must believe and serve well." Christie stood in the center of the castle and said with a smile: "Although you and I are more rivals. ”

"Let me guess your first question."

"Why did Dark Star choose Lan Che as the next weapon, right?"

(End of chapter)