Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

Xu Linglan couldn't sleep.

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When Lin Cheng woke up, Xu Wanyue was no longer by his side. He sat up in a daze and went to the living room but didn't see Xu Wanyue. He saw her in the kitchen. She was boiling water to cook dumplings. Lin Cheng came behind her and hugged her, "Hold me for a while."

Xu Wanyue didn't move obediently. She turned around and gave Lin Cheng a kiss on the face.

"How many do you eat?"

"Fifteen, maybe? Any breakfast milk?"

"There's soy milk in the fridge."

"No soy milk, breakfast milk."

"Then you can only go down and buy it yourself."

“Isn’t it right in front of you?”

Xu Wanyue's hand pinched Lin Cheng's waist without leaving any trace. Lin Cheng grimaced in pain and heard Xu Wanyue ask, "Do you want to drink more?"

"Don't drink anymore."

"Go wake up Lily of the Valley."

"okay."

Lin Cheng turned around and walked to Xu Linglan's room and knocked on the door, but there was no response. However, the door was not locked. Lin Cheng simply opened the door and saw Xu Linglan lying on the bed. The girl was lying on her side on the bed, hugging the quilt, and her sleeping posture was very messy. Lin Cheng was about to call her to get up, but suddenly found that the girl's white panties were placed beside the bed. His eyes subconsciously fell under the hem of her skirt, and the next second his heart was in his throat.

No, if I wake her up now, she will kill herself, right?

Lin Cheng quickly thought of a solution. If he covered her with a quilt, she would not want to kill him when she woke up because she was seen. So he tiptoed and carefully came to Xu Linglan. However, just as he grabbed the edge of the quilt, Xu Linglan suddenly opened her eyes and asked, "Who?"

"Your sister asked me to call you to eat dumplings." Lin Cheng originally wanted to look up at the ceiling, but he seemed to be trying to cover up something, so his gaze stayed on Xu Linglan's face. Xu Linglan sat up and uttered "oh" in a daze, but the next second she saw the panties on the side. She suddenly thought of something, and her fair cheeks suddenly became extremely pink.

Lin Cheng saw her blushing face and hesitated for a second. He was about to turn around and leave, pretending he knew nothing. But just after he took two steps, Xu Linglan suddenly shouted from behind, "You... stop."

Lin Cheng stopped and asked, "Ah? What?"

He didn't even dare to turn his head.

"You...didn't you see anything just now?"

"Ah? What did you see? I don't know."

"Oh, that's good... pink?"

"No, no, no, that's not right." Lin Cheng answered almost subconsciously. The next second, Xu Linglan grabbed the pillow beside the bed and rushed towards him, hitting Lin Cheng on the head. Lin Cheng grabbed the pillow dimly, turned around, and looked at the girl who was wrapping herself tightly in the quilt. "If you don't ask... doesn't that mean you didn't see it?"

"If I saw it, I saw it..." Xu Linglan poked her head out, lowered it slightly, and raised her eyes, "Did you want to do something bad just now?"

"No ah."

"Then why did you pull my blanket...?"

"I want to cover you with a blanket before waking you up. Do you think this would be polite?"

"..." Xu Linglan's cheeks were red as if blood was dripping out. After a while, she turned her face away and said, "Forget it, get out... I don't blame you."

Lin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the room.

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Breakfast time.

Xu Linglan was still wearing her nightgown. She didn't say a word while eating breakfast, and kept her head down. Lin Cheng didn't dare to look at her because he felt guilty. Xu Linglan ate very fast, and Xu Wanyue said softly, "Eat slowly."

Lin Cheng ate dumplings silently, his eyes wandering between the two girls for a moment. Xu Linglan was wearing a white nightgown, while Xu Wanyue was wearing a black nightgown. The two sisters were at least 70% similar.

Today, Lin Cheng also wants to practice swordplay with Lu Xiaoxiao. Lin Cheng told Xu Wanyue about this last night, and Xu Wanyue also wants to go with Lin Cheng. When talking about this, Xu Linglan suddenly looked at Xu Wanyue with expectation, "Can I go too?"

Xu Wanyue looked at Lin Cheng, who smiled helplessly, "Of course you can."

The two sisters went back to the room and changed their clothes, one in black and the other in white, but they were the same style of sweatshirts, but this time Xu Linglan wore the black one and Xu Wanyue wore the white one. Under Xu Wanyue's white sweatshirt was loose jeans, while Xu Linglan's sweatshirt was bigger, and she wore hot pants underneath, which just covered part of her thighs. It looked like she was not wearing anything underneath, and her slender long legs were straight.

Xu Linglan originally wanted to wear ultra-thin black stockings and short boots, but Xu Wanyue slapped her on the head, "Don't go out wearing this, it doesn't look presentable at all."

"My sister bought so many stockings!"

"But I hardly ever wear it out." Xu Wanyue argued.

"My sister went out wearing white silk calf socks yesterday."

"It matches the maid skirt." Xu Wanyue felt a little guilty for a moment, "Hot pants and black stockings don't look good together. If you don't believe me, ask Lin Cheng."

Lin Cheng nodded his head, "It really doesn't look good."

"Actually I think it looks quite good..." Xu Linglan's aesthetic taste was slandered by two people. She pouted her lips faintly. In fact, she had a slender and tall figure, so the dress looked fine on her. It was just that Xu Wanyue felt that her sister was still young and shouldn't dress like that. What did it mean for a little girl to wear black stockings?

The so-called aesthetics is nothing but an illusion created by a bunch of people, especially under the brainwashing of various short videos nowadays.

"Stockings are often only worn to modify the shape of your legs. Your legs are naturally thin, straight and long, so they don't need to be modified. If I must say anything, because your sweatshirt and hot pants are black, your fair skin creates a nice contrast, but wearing black stockings that are transparent will make you look weird... You see people wearing them like this in short videos because of the video filters, and it's a little borderline. Don't be fooled by short videos."

...If it were the strange girl Lin Cheng, she would definitely want her to wear more clothes and like to look at them.

After hearing what Lin Cheng said, Xu Linglan obeyed him obediently. Xu Wanyue was driving, and Xu Linglan tried to grab the passenger seat with Lin Cheng. As a result, the two of them fought for three minutes. Finally, Xu Wanyue had a headache and drove the two guys to the back seat. In the back seat, Xu Linglan folded her arms and looked out the window.

The place for practicing sword skills was at Lu Xiaoxiao's home. Lin Cheng had already told Lu Xiaoxiao that Xu Wanyue and Xu Linglan were also coming. Lu Xiaoxiao, wearing a sports cotton jacket and shorts, practiced sword skills with Lin Cheng in the indoor badminton room at home, while Xu Wanyue and Xu Linglan sat aside and watched attentively.

Lu Xiaoxiao has made great progress in the past half month, but it is not certain that she can beat Ji Quan. Xu Linglan watched them practice for two hours. Lu Xiaoxiao sat aside to drink water and rest. The high-intensity physical exercise made her cotton coat stick tightly to her body. Xu Linglan looked at Lu Xiaoxiao's cotton coat, which seemed slightly transparent at the moment, and felt so astringent.

She stood up and looked at Lin Cheng, "I think I know how to do it. Shall we practice?"

"..."Lin Cheng picked up the wooden sword used for practicing sword skills.

Xu Linglan did not just watch, she used her ability to distort reality to see how all the energy of Lin Cheng was flowing when he swung the knife, as well as all his movements, and then instilled them all into her head. In a way, reality distortion is indeed an extremely powerful ability, and in a way it has the same effect as Lin Cheng's destiny, both of which can imitate the other person's ability by analyzing their energy core.

Lu Xiaoxiao sat on the side, her eyes gradually widening. Xu Linglan had absolutely no basic skills, but she was still evenly matched with Lin Cheng in the first ten minutes. However, ten minutes later, Lin Cheng hit her on the butt with the blade of a wooden sword. The long sword in her hand fell down, and she covered her butt with her hands, looking at Lin Cheng with shame and anger, "You are bullying me again!"

"I told you to use less of your abilities."

"Isn't it just learning the sword technique? Can't I learn it?"

"I'm not talking about swordsmanship." Lin Cheng was staring at her quietly at this moment. Xu Linglan was stunned. The next second she activated her mind-reading skill and read Lin Cheng's thoughts.

[You know clearly what you did with your ability last night.]

Xu Linglan started to transmit her voice to Lin Cheng, [I didn’t.]

[I knew you would peek, so I activated the power of fate and saw you peeking. Hehe, I caught you red-handed, and you still want to quibble? ]

[I just want to see... whether you bully your sister. ]

[Next time you peek, I will tell your sister to punish you. ]

[Then I will tell my sister that you wanted to do something bad to me this morning. ]

[Tell me, does your sister believe me or you? ]

The two of them stared at each other for a few seconds. Finally, Xu Linglan returned to Xu Wanyue and continued to sit down, muttering, "This guy is a bully, sister."

"I think it's good. Don't think about fighting and killing every day. Why learn this kind of thing?"

"I can protect my sister in the future."

"My sister can protect herself and won't provoke others for no reason. Why does she need your protection?" Xu Wanyue pinched Xu Linglan's face.

Lin Cheng came to Lu Xiaoxiao who had just rested. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at his profile and asked, "Do you think I can beat him?"

"Well, you and him should be 40:60, there's a chance." Lin Cheng gave a very objective answer.

"Did you learn swordsmanship from his cousin?"

"Well, how should I put it... this is a more interesting story."

"Is there...a story?" Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes instantly showed a hint of suspicion.

Lin Cheng also instantly noticed three pairs of eyes falling on him at the same time.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, "Don't get me wrong, I was very serious during the two years I was Sima Ming... I never had any interest in women."

"Then how did you and his cousin know each other?"

"This story starts with the eldest daughter of the Qin family..."

226 Qin Wutong

The story begins about five years ago.

Five years ago, Lin Cheng was just sixteen years old and had just joined the alliance for less than a year. Although the title Siming was not yet well-known throughout the world, he could be considered to have made his mark.

At that time, the cracks in the abyss were getting bigger and bigger. It was already a little bit beyond the ability of the alliance and major civil organizations to deal with it alone. So the alliance asked for help from two families in a paradise, namely the Ji family who practiced swords and the Qin family who practiced knives. In the end, the Ji and Qin families each sent a group of people to reinforce the alliance. After all, the reason was simple. The alliance was the last line of defense for mankind, and assisting the alliance was also assisting themselves.

It was at that time that Lin Cheng met Ji Zhezhi and Qin Wutong.

The two of them are the strongest young people sent by the Ji and Qin families.

Because of the similar energy levels, Siming was arranged in the same team with them. At that time, he wore a mask all day long, and his eyes under the mask always looked a little indifferent. The war between humans and the abyss was intense, and they gradually became familiar with each other after spending time together day and night. Lin Cheng was a little surprised and puzzled at first to see two more beautiful girls in the team, but when he saw that they were not afraid at all when facing the abyss, and their swords were cold and sharp, his opinion naturally changed.

Although the two girls' faces are particularly pleasing to the eyes during team training, arranging these two girls in the same team... is actually a headache.

Because they have a weird relationship.

Siming at that time was a taciturn person, just like the guy in the movie who never looks back at the explosion. He had a cold personality, but if he was not cold, he would talk too much and would inevitably show his cowardice, so at the age of sixteen, he usually hid all his thoughts in his eyes and quietly observed the two girls.

The personalities of these two girls soon came to light. Ji Zhezhi was a cool and aloof type. She always wore monochrome clothes. Her eyes were always indifferent and unusually cold. She always wore long sleeves and long pants, trying to expose as little skin as possible.

Qin Wutong is a particularly lively and irritable dog type. She is carefree all day long and always wears cool clothes. After getting familiar with Lin Cheng, she always puts her arm around Lin Cheng's shoulder. She always wants to take off his mask when he is not paying attention to see his face under the mask, but unfortunately Lin Cheng avoids her. She is a bit hyperactive. She can't sit still on weekdays and can't find anything to do, so she wants to have fun with Ji Zhezhi.

The two obviously knew each other since childhood. After all, the two families in Shiwaitaoyuan were not far apart, and they had known each other since childhood. It could even be said that they grew up together. But it was also a fact that they had a bad relationship. Qin Wutong would find reasons to quarrel with Ji Zhezhi whenever he had nothing to do. Ji Zhezhi always had an indifferent expression, but his retorts always made Qin Wutong furious, but he could not refute. So Qin Wutong wanted to get back at them, and this vicious cycle led to the two of them quarreling almost all day long.

But on the battlefield, they are also companions who can completely trust their backs to each other...this relationship is very subtle.

Qin Wutong did tell Lin Cheng some things. The reason why she and Ji Zhezhi had a bad relationship was that they had been quarreling since they were young. The two families both regarded the weapons cultivated by each other as the best in the world. They had been incompatible for many years, and the younger generations had to be ranked according to their superiority. For many years, Qin Wutong had always lost to Ji Zhezhi in the family competition between the two families. She was the strongest of the younger generation of the Qin family. If she lost to Ji Zhezhi, she would have lost the face of the entire Qin family, so she always wanted to get it back by talking... But unfortunately, there were only a few things she could do to provoke Ji Zhezhi: her expressionless face, flat breasts, and men were afraid of her... Ji Zhezhi didn't care about these at all. Every time, he could accurately break Qin Wutong's defense with a few words, and then she would get angry... and the quarrel would continue in an endless cycle next time.

During training, Lin Cheng usually just listened to the two of them bickering... They had been teammates for nearly a year and were considered good friends, but Lin Cheng could guarantee that he did not have a relationship beyond friendship with them. First, Ji Zhezhi had known him for a year and had never smiled at him once, and second, Qin Wutong... That girl seemed to treat him more like a good buddy and never showed the slightest shyness of a girl.

It was Lin Cheng's own request that he learn sword and knife techniques from them.

A month after they met, Lin Cheng witnessed the two people's swordsmanship and knife skills on the battlefield. At that time, he was closer to Qin Wutong. After all, Qin Wutong was carefree and easy to get along with, and she was somewhat outgoing. He felt that Qin Wutong's swordsmanship was very practical in combat, so he curiously asked him if he could learn it. Qin Wutong patted her chest and said that she had practiced swordsmanship for more than ten years, from childhood to adulthood, and it was too late for Lin Cheng to learn it now.

So Lin Cheng thought about it and asked her if he could lend him the sword manual for an hour. Qin Wutong was amused at the time and generously lent him the sword manual, telling him he could read it as long as he wanted. Lin Cheng read it for an hour and then returned the sword manual to Qin Wutong.

He had already successfully analyzed all the energy trajectories of Qin Wutong when she swung the sword through his ability to analyze fate. That night, he locked himself in a fantasy world and practiced all night. The next afternoon, he came to Qin Wutong and carefully asked if he could practice sword with her.

It only took Qin Wutong five minutes to go from being indifferent at first to having a serious look in her eyes, ten minutes to be sweating profusely, the fifteenth minute to be gritting her teeth, and the twentieth minute to be defeated.

In fact, Lin Cheng himself couldn't explain what this talent for practicing sword and knife was, but it only took him one day to master it completely through self-study. Then his sword skills continued to improve through practice with Qin Wutong. Qin Wutong often pestered Lin Cheng to practice sword all night long, and dragged Lin Cheng into the secret realm he constructed to practice all night long. She could stay up all night with Lin Cheng in the secret realm. The time in the secret realm flowed slowly, and the two of them could relax their tense nerves in the outside world and chat about other interesting things.

Qin Wutong was so obsessed with sword practice, naturally it was to defeat Ji Zhezhi who had suppressed her for more than ten years. Lin Cheng not only completely learned the Qin family's Fen Yang Sword Technique, but also improved the Fen Yang Sword Technique that had been passed down for hundreds of years, and taught Qin Wutong everything he had improved without reservation. A month later, Qin Wutong took advantage of her free time to challenge Ji Zhezhi again.

Lin Cheng remembered the scene of that day very clearly, because it was really interesting.

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Brightly lit sports stadium.

Qin Wutong even asked Siming to witness this competition. They were a team of three at the time. It was summer and cicadas were chirping in the trees outside the training venue. Lin Cheng was sitting aside. Although his eyes were indifferent, they were actually moving quietly towards Qin Wutong.

Because she was wearing a small vest and sports shorts, her slender waist and long legs were extremely attractive to him who was only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time. Although his age was falsely reported as eighteen, he was indeed still a young and ignorant child at that time, and occasionally he would have some strange thoughts in his mind. Lin Cheng never denied this.

Compared to Qin Wutong's lively and energetic look, Ji Zhezhi's eyes were too indifferent. She was wearing a white shirt and trousers, with her long black hair tied up behind her head in a simple bun, which revealed a bit of gentleness.

"No matter how many times you compete, you will not win. Instead of wasting your energy, it would be better to sleep and have a good dream."

What Lin Cheng found most interesting was that when Ji Zhezhi said sarcastic words, her expression did not change at all. Sometimes Lin Cheng even doubted whether what Qin Wutong said was true, and whether she was really born with facial paralysis.

"Hehe, do you think you can beat me again this time?"

"Boring." Ji Zhezhi took out the long sword hidden in his body by special spatial imprinting means, and the blade of Zhezhi lit up with golden runes. "Just don't throw a tantrum and refuse to pay after losing by saying that you didn't sleep well last night and didn't eat enough at noon."

"Ji Zhezhi, Ji Zhezhi, do you really think you are going to win again?"

"How's the outcome?"

"If I win this time...how about you wear a transparent gauze and dance for us?" Qin Wutong's eyes were sinister, but Ji Zhezhi's eyes were still calm, "I refuse."

"why?"

"I won't lose, and you will, but you can't dance, so the bet is not fair." Even though she was sure of winning, Ji Zhezhi still didn't want to suffer any loss. This was her character.

"So you're going to put forward your conditions?"

Ji Zhezhi said calmly, "If you lose, then take off all your clothes and let me ride on you for a while on the ground."