I'm on the Ark, and I started as a succubus.

The system provides navigation to find the beautiful girl, clearly showing that Lappland is approaching him.

Not only was he lost, but their dear Miss Lappland also seemed to be lost.

The beautiful young lady, Miss Lappland, had been wandering around the outskirts of Lungmen. During the six days of continuous rain there, Miss Lappland had actually encountered him many times. She would stroll below, while he would pretend to be dead and stare blankly above.

Well, this time their dear Miss Lappland is walking towards him again on her own. He doesn't even have to look for her, and it's hard for him to pretend he didn't see her.

Sister, I've tried my best, I've tried my best to let you go and let you run away, why won't you run away!

Bai Chen can't let this opportunity pass him by this time. If he pretends not to see Lappland break again, the system will probably start broadcasting messages at him through a megaphone.

Miss Lappland, I've let you off the hook so many times already, why do you keep bumping into me? Are you really that desperate for my attention?

Bai Chen felt that Lappland really wanted to go to Elysium and enjoy endless happiness, so she kept using these little tricks to entice his attention.

061 Lappland made me believe in love again.

A large umbrella abruptly appeared above, shielding the raindrops that were swaying in the wind.

Lappland's delicate hand instinctively gripped the sword hilt. She didn't notice anyone approaching; on this rare path not obscured by the illegal buildings piled up in Lungmen, there was clearly no one in sight before the umbrella was offered.

Assassin, killer?

Or is it the lingering shadow of Syracuse?

The atmosphere fell silent for a moment, with only the soft patter of raindrops hitting the umbrella.

There seemed to be no hostility, it was just that Longmen couldn't stand bystanders watching a pretty young girl get caught in the rain.

A slight smile curved his lips, and his Lapland accent was calm and polite.

"Thank you. But I really like the feeling of rain hitting my skin."

Lappland's deep blue eyes were beautiful, so beautiful that they almost appeared flawlessly clear, yet so clear that they were almost empty, giving the illusion that her eyes and even her mind and body were a wasteland.

"But that would be very cold."

Bai Chen didn't put away the umbrella; instead, he completely sheltered her under it.

cold?

Heh, that's interesting.

Cold?

Lapland maintained her elegant and polite smile, but her delicate shoulders beneath her leather jacket suddenly trembled slightly.

It does seem a bit cold; the temperature in Longmen during the rain seems even colder than in the wilderness.

That was Froststar, the big white rabbit who had been forcibly captured by Bai Chen to help him seduce beautiful girls. She was hiding in the corner, silently releasing her Originium Arts.

Forget about the cold, you could freeze an entire building solid.

A wisp of white mist rose gracefully from between her lips and teeth as Lappland looked up at Bai Chen.

The vibrant colors in the distance seemed to be distorted by the rain, and what first caught her eye was a distorted color that appeared to be frozen in mid-air.

If you look at Lappland from a different angle, the distortion is like strange colors splashed in the air, and it even instantly stains her clear, almost empty eyes, filling them with colorful and shimmering hues.

Although it's not aesthetically pleasing and even has a strange feel to it, it adds a peculiar vitality compared to the original clear emptiness.

After adjusting her eyes to the neon lights shimmering in the distance, Lappland finally saw the Sarkaz who had suddenly appeared before her, holding an umbrella to shield her from the wind and rain.

It was a different feeling; he was so handsome that even she felt her heart pounding for no apparent reason.

A feeling that came out of nowhere.

My once dormant heart seemed to stir slightly once more, but the sound of that heartbeat was now masked by the pattering rain against the umbrella.

Ah~ she hates rain, and she hates even more holding up an umbrella in this kind of endless, Syracuse-like weather, which reminds her of the black umbrellas her family used to hold up when going out in the rain.

And that lingering scent from Syracuse, that Syracuse atmosphere that lingers no matter how you try to escape it, even as you wander through the wilderness.

Lappland looked up at the umbrella covering her head, and her smile gradually widened.

It wasn't that familiar, repulsive, wide black umbrella, that abhorrent thing that seemed to constantly proclaim to the entire city the presence of gangs and families.

The umbrella was pink, very pretty and alluring, yet unconventional. Actually, it was just something Bai Chen bought casually from a stall on his way here.

However, it made Lappland find him more pleasing to the eye, so much so that he even exuded an interesting cuteness.

Just like the guinea pig she used to keep, so cute that she wanted to rub her nose and lips against its face.

"Really? It is a bit cold."

Lappland smiled and took the umbrella Bai Chen offered, then casually tossed it away, letting the raindrops fall on her.

She tossed her wind-blown hair behind her, and her usually elegant smile turned dangerous. "But I still love the feeling of the rain on my skin. Haha~ People used to hold up umbrellas for me and tell me that it wasn't right, that it didn't look like a young lady from a wealthy family."

With that, Lappland turned and walked away. Her slender fingers tapped the hilt of the Corona sword, a subtle way of indicating that she wasn't just a pretty, naive girl, and a warning to Bai Chen, a guy trying to seduce a young woman, to stop following her.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be the elegant and well-mannered woman she is now.

Bai Chen watched her figure gradually disappear into the distance, showing no intention of chasing after her, let alone trying to tie her up and take her back.

He wished Lappland would run away right now and disappear from his sight like the wind.

He had absolutely no desire to complete the system's tasks.

Pretty girls will only distract him from doing his important work!

He's not a pervert who wants to take every woman he meets home as his wife. On the contrary, he frequently goes to the anti-pervert forum to engage in cross-dressing and stir up trouble. Over time, he even became one of the forum's administrators.

"Lappland, Lappland! Lappland is running away!"

Faced with Bai Chen's malicious leniency, the system immediately issued a serious protest.

"My dear succubus, what are you doing? Tell me what you're doing! She's trying to escape!"

"There's nothing I can do if she wants to leave."

"You have time stop and hypnosis!"

"No."

Bai Chen looked surprised. "Aren't we into pure love stories about dating beautiful girls? You said dating beautiful girls can't be rushed, and you can't succeed in dating on the first try?"

"We're involved in beadwork!"

The system huffed and puffed, "It's because of the abortion!"

"Hey, why don't you just bring me all the beautiful girls in the universe?"

Bai Chen gestured to Froststar, who was hiding on the rooftop, indicating that she could stop using Originium Arts, otherwise it would snow and hail in Lungmen.

"It's impossible."

The system said quietly, "It hasn't been born yet, so it can't be done."

"Not yet born?"

Bai Chen chatted with the system as he walked back, asking, "Then what are you doing here?"

"Since time is neither static nor linear, the past does not refuse information from the future, and the seeds of the future can also blossom in the past. I will exist because I am destined to exist, even if the future is born, I will be omnipresent in history."

Bai Chen felt it was a real shame that the system wasn't going to compete with Kal'tsit in riddles, so he chuckled and teased the easily coaxed and fooled system, "Oh~ that's impressive! When will you be officially born? I want an even more powerful system."

"Thirty-six thousand years from now... Wait, where are you going? Lappland isn't heading this way!"

"Tong-chan, do you believe in love? Yes? If you do, then you have to believe in fate. Fate and love will bring us back to Lappland. We don't even need to look for her; Miss Lappland is destined to be our beautiful wife. Miss Lappland has made me believe in love again!"

062 Love is like a tornado~

The outskirts of Longmen, the area furthest from the city center of Longmen.

As the most dynamic economic city on this land, Lungmen is always filled with cargo ships coming and going day and night, and countless riches are gathered in this mobile city in this way.

So much so that people often joke that there is actually no money in the center of Lungmen, but the port on the outskirts of Lungmen is where mountains of Lungmen currency are scattered, along with countless dazzling diamonds, gems, and countless other rare treasures.

No one can say for sure how much wealth is contained in these landships. Anyone who tries to count the wealth will only become a pitiful creature, their faces twisted with greed by the golden light emanating from the piled-up riches. But no matter how they try to count, at some point the massive amount of wealth will be wrong, as if mountains and seas of gold coins have collapsed. The pitiful creatures can only wail and cry as they try to count this astronomical figure again.

Looting, chaos, and killing arose from this place.

The lowest-ranking members of the Lungmen gang also engage in the bloodiest conflicts with all sorts of people here. This area is not bound by Lungmen's rules, nor can anyone control this area. The Rat King's rules do not apply here, nor do Lungmen's rules.

Wealth here is like a vicious curse of greed; once you're trapped, you can never escape it.

However, Lappland remained unaffected. She cared little about this area, which was still outside the Lungmen slums, nor about the vast interests held there by numerous countries.

She simply stood there in the rain, enjoying the feeling of the raindrops hitting her skin.

The feeling of her heart pounding still lingered in her body.

"call……"

Lappland stopped his almost fleeing pace, looked back, and was surprised to find that there was nothing behind him. The shadow of Syracuse had not followed, nor had the person who had handed him the umbrella.

Yes, many days have passed. How could there still be a handsome and beautiful Sarkaz behind her, so alluring that he could bewitch people?

Lappland stood in the rain in silence for a long time before letting out a long sigh.

She thought that apart from the escape, the destruction of the city, and the pursuit of Texas, from which she had managed to escape, her emotions would not fluctuate. But now, after just one glance and a moment of eye contact, they were facing each other.

She felt something awaken within her, causing all sorts of memories to surface in her mind, some good, some terrible.

It was as if it was telling her that her heart was not a barren wasteland at all, that she had not completely said goodbye to Syracuse, and that she could not even forget that chubby, cute mouse beast.

Her delicate hand quietly gripped the hilt of the sword. Lappland suddenly felt that she had to kill that guy, kill the guy who had caused her emotional turmoil, before her heart could regain its peace and return to silence.

escape?

Is it another attempt to escape?

Lappland laughed.

She had always been very clear about how she appeared in her father's eyes: a rebellious Saluzzo heir who was unwilling to take on the responsibility of inheriting the family business and would return home in a few years.

She was also aware that no matter how crazy she acted, she had never escaped the shadow of Syracuse.

At least, not yet.

Lappland closed her eyes and remained silent in the rain for a while before slowly loosening her grip on the sword hilt.

This time, she... she felt that perhaps she should face some things squarely.

Perhaps I should take the initiative to go and play with that Sarkaz.

Do something interesting, have a drink and chat, or communicate with each other using swords, or even go a little more unrestrained and do something more fun.