Chapter 307 Beauty
Buzz—!
An invisible magnetic field instantly spread out from outside the city, like a hurricane sweeping through Aurora City!
Chen Ling felt a scorching heat sweep across her cheeks, followed immediately by an even more severe icy cold... The aurora that shrouded the city completely disappeared, and the cold wind from the Forbidden Sea blew into the Aurora City.
"...Is it snowing?" Wen Shilin murmured to himself.
Chen Ling looked up and saw that the sky that was supposed to be filled with auroras was now covered by snowflakes, falling slowly in the cold wind... Different from the sharp-edged snowflakes on weekdays, the surface of these snowflakes seemed to be unpredictable. The shape of the particle cluster changes every minute and every second.
Even stranger, these snowflakes... are black.
Chen Ling raised his hand and caught a black snowflake, from which he felt a familiar aura.
At this moment, Chen Ling seemed to have returned to the Wisteria Cafe again. Frost covered the floor-to-ceiling glass beside him. Opposite him, Jiguang Jun was slowly picking up a cup of steaming coffee and smiled at him. .
"...It's Mr. Aurora." Chen Ling looked up at the sky, "Mr. Aurora's soul turned into heavy snow and covered Aurora City."
As these snowflakes fell from the sky one after another, in the dead cold city, wisps of thin auroras floated from the ground, rising slowly and flutteringly into the sky in the opposite direction to the falling snowflakes.
Black snow is falling and the aurora is rising;
Chen Ling looked at this scene in bewilderment. He knew that what fell was the soul of Lord Aurora, and what rose... was the salvation of the three million residents of Aurora City.
Buzz—! !
A roar came from behind. Chen Ling looked back and saw the boundary train parked on the platform honking its whistle. Steam slowly rose from the dark chimney. A layer of ice had formed on the outer surface of the train. .
As the aurora disappeared, the cold wave of the Forbidden Sea completely poured into the city. At this moment, the temperature dropped sharply again. If the boundary train did not leave, it might not be able to leave again.
"Mr. Wen, you..." Chen Ling turned around and was about to say something to Wen Shilin, when she was suddenly startled.
Wen Shilin's eyelashes were already covered with ice crystals, his face was as pale as paper, and only a touch of heat was still coming out of his nose... Even so, those eyes were still looking at Hei Xue and Hei Xue in a daze. Aurora, as if she didn’t even hear the train whistle behind her.
Chen Ling frowned and pushed Wen Shilin, and fine ice shards fell on the surface of the latter's clothes.
"Mr. Wen, it's time for you to go." Chen Ling said solemnly.
After all, Wen Shilin was an ordinary person. Unlike Chen Ling who had a [Blood Clothes] to protect his body, he couldn't survive such a sudden drop in temperature for long. If he didn't get in the car, he would freeze to death.
Only then did Wen Shilin come back to his senses. He stood up from the steps shakily and looked at the train with a somewhat complicated look.
"It's time for you to go." Wen Shilin's peripheral vision fell on the street.
Chen Ling was stunned for a moment. He looked back and saw three figures holding black umbrellas at the end of the street where black snow was falling silently. They were walking slowly towards here... They were wearing solemn black suits and black leather shoes. The strong wind blew up the corners of their clothes, and on their chests, the black playing cards each revealed a corner of white characters.
【6】,【7】,【Q】;
This is……
Perhaps the battle between Tan Xin and Lord Aurora was so shocking that everyone almost forgot that the Twilight Society existed in this city... They were always dormant quietly in this city, watching everything happen until Only then did something happen.
But Chen Ling didn't understand what the Dusk Society wanted to do when it was dispatched at this time.
Before the three of them came to the steps of the station, Chu Muyun gently raised the eaves of the black umbrella. His face was as cold as an iceberg under the flying snow.
"[6 of Hearts]." He said calmly, "It's time to go."
Hearing the words "6 of Hearts", Wen Shilin seemed to have thought of something. A flash of surprise flashed in his eyes. He turned to look at Chen Ling with a complicated expression...
Chen Ling knew that his time to move freely was over. He looked at Wen Shilin and smiled slightly.
"It's a pleasure working with you, Mr. Wen."
"……Me too."
Wen Shilin waved the notebook in his hand. In the corner of the notebook, a line of crooked characters had been written. It looked like it was written in the cold weather, and every stroke was trembling——
"Investigative Reporter: Wen Shilin, Lin Yan"
"Aurora Daily will always remember your name... You are an outstanding reporter, Lin Yan."
When Chen Ling saw the words, the corners of his mouth raised slightly. He glanced at the train on the platform, "Maybe we will have a chance to meet again in other realms in the future. By then, I hope we can get to know each other again... under my real name." ”
"Um."
Chen Ling waved her hand to Wen Shilin and walked straight towards the three figures in front of the steps... His figure gradually disappeared at the end of the snowy road along with the three figures in black clothes.
Wen Shilin stood alone on the platform. He did not turn around and get on the bus. Instead, he bent down and touched Yan Sheng's body for a while, took out the second ticket and held it in his hand.
He walked down the steps and walked directly to the alley on the opposite side.
In the alleyway where the black snow was falling, a woman was holding her child, huddled in front of a pot of flames that had long been extinguished. She had been secretly watching Wen Shilin. When she saw Wen Shilin walking straight towards this place, she immediately flinched. She shrunk and lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
"I remember you." Wen Shilin said calmly, "You are a family member of a victim of organ trading... I came to interview you a few days ago. Do you still remember me?"
"Remember...remember..." The woman's voice was hoarse and could not be heard clearly in the cold wind.
Wen Shilin's eyes fell on her arms. A seven or eight-year-old child was wrapped tightly, with only a small face exposed, but at this moment, the face was also flushed unnaturally. His breathing became weaker and weaker.
"...He is about to die." Wen Shilin spoke again.
The woman's body shook violently, and her hands holding the child became harder and harder, as if she wanted to integrate him into her body... But even so, her own body was gradually losing consciousness.
At this moment, two tickets were handed to her.
"Take him away." Wen Shilin said,
"Leave here and take him to a warm place... Also, help me deliver this to the official hands of the next realm."
The woman stared blankly at the ticket in Wen Shilin's hand, as if she hadn't reacted yet, but as the whistle sounded again in the station, she staggered to her feet... She looked at Wen Shilin in disbelief.
"My benefactor, won't you leave?"
"I won't leave...I will watch this city from here until the last moment."
The woman wanted to say something else, but Wen Shilin stuffed the notebook and the ticket into his arms, "Let's go quickly. If you don't leave, the train will leave..."
Seeing this, the woman's whole body trembled with emotion. She knelt down on the spot with her child in her arms, kowtowed three times to Wen Shilin, and then hurried towards the station with all kinds of thanks.
As the train's whistle buzzed, the steel wheels slowly crushed the frost on the track, and with a low clang like thunder, they spewed steaming white steam and drove towards the outside of the realm...
Wen Shilin watched this scene in silence, his expression finally relaxed, and he smiled helplessly.
He is not Tan Xin, nor Ji Guangjun, he is just an ordinary person... This is the only thing he can do for the Aurora Realm and the continuation of mankind.
The black snow fell silently from the sky. Wen Shilin walked back to the steps of the station step by step.
He sat down on the highest step. From here, he could see most of Aurora City... He was like a baby about to fall asleep, leaning slowly on the railing that was frozen into ice, staring blankly at the scene in front of him. City.
He saw the aurora flowing silently and returning to the sky. This city that had been bustling for hundreds of years seemed as quiet as sleeping.
Click——
Wen Shilin pressed the shutter for the last time, recording this scene forever.
His hand holding the camera dropped weakly, and in this silence and serenity, his figure was gradually frozen into ice.
"It's so beautiful..."