Chapter 68: 67. Dark Gold Eye

67. Dark Gold Eye

In the middle of Dorothy's swan-like elegant and long neck, there was a circle of bruised scars caused by being tightly strangled.

"Don't worry, I did this myself." The girl's plain hand brushed over the bruises.

She raised her wrist, on which there were dense cuts: "The same as this, it was all today, you just happened to run into it."

"Have you been hurting yourself like this all day?"

"Don't want to go to the ceremony to welcome Winders, don't want to go to the dance party invited by some people, don't want to go to the City Hall's networking, Hof is nagging in my ear again, saw you but didn't dare to speak, couldn't explain clearly to Leona..."

Dorothy counted her troubles one by one. She didn't say it clearly, but Li Ang already knew that they all turned into those scars.

"I am most afraid of talking to others. Obviously everyone is not familiar, but they want to be very close. So I will hide myself and do these things. The next day, the scars will disappear completely as if they don't exist."

"Why be like this?" Li Ang said.

"After mother left, once father taught my brother and me to ride a horse. I couldn't master it. He said that I might have a long memory if I was stepped on by a horse and broke my leg. Anyway, I wouldn't die. After returning to my room, I suddenly thought, can I do things well by hurting myself as punishment?

"I am actually still a bit afraid of pain. At first, cutting a small wound was quite useful.

"But later, I slowly got used to it, and the effect was not very strong. Later, I recalled it. It actually started after the adventure at sixteen."

"After graduation, I came to Spark Island. One day when I woke up, I saw the same furnishings in the bedroom every day and the same street scene outside the window, thinking about the same complicated work, the same troublesome social interaction, I suddenly lost the feeling of being alive."

Dorothy's brown pupils gradually became confused, looking at the void darkness in the secret passage.

"Since that day, I have become less and less clear about what it is like to be alive."

"In order to figure out why this is, I bought a lot of books. Some books have situations similar to mine, and there are also analysis and answers. The more convincing answer is because I have no love."

The girl looked at Li Ang: "You say, what is love?"

Li Ang said: "This question, everyone has their own answer, no one dares to say they can summarize it. Love is also divided into many kinds."

"Really good, it means that most people know at least one kind of love."

Dorothy tidied up her ginger-yellow hair that lacked luster: "I feel less and less the freshness of the world, so I started looking for some... stronger sensory stimulation."

Her slender fingers made a claw shape, holding her neck falsely.

"Suffocation restraints that only untie at the time, bleeding to the verge of death, and even using intense pleasure to stimulate.

"Only when the body approaches the critical point, it seems that I have realized a little bit of the reality of being alive."

"When I was eating the dumpling just now, I said that I understood my cowardice better than at sixteen. Actually, it is because I found that no matter how I hurt my body, I couldn't cheer myself up again.

"I just keep repeating it like this, but I can only grasp a little bit of feeling, as if sinking deeper into the world."

Li Ang shook his head: "Actually, this is avoidance."

"Well, now that you are here, I can stop doing this."

Dorothy smiled faintly: "Just now your words made me have a very strange feeling, like mother at that time, and a little different. Is this the feeling of being alive?

"Do you know what I am thinking now? That is, I must take your ship, I can give up everything else.

"So, as long as you are happy and willing, you can do anything you like to me, and you can push me forward by the way. How good this is... Ah!"

Li Ang sighed and withdrew his hand that flicked her forehead.

"Don't say it." Li Ang shook his head and said: "I have to clearly refuse you, this is not okay."

"You are still avoiding, just shifting the responsibility to me."

Li Ang didn't expect Dorothy's past to be like this, but he understood a lot about why she was the way she was now.

Sometimes, people will temporarily lose their intuitive perception of life.

Li Ang remembered the decadent time he had for a while before crossing over. It really felt like falling into the cracks of the world. Society and all interpersonal relationships had nothing to do with him. Time passed quickly, and he was startled to find that he had missed a lot.

Dorothy had tried to struggle, but no one had ever correctly pointed out the direction for her. She didn't get the method, but instead became more and more indulged.

"Move forward."

Li Ang pushed the lady's back. She obediently leaned against his palm and took steps in the direction of his power.

"Let's go to the last room first, and then come back to fight that guard dog."

He now felt that facing Dorothy, he couldn't preach, and scolding wouldn't work. Because of the immortality given by the Demon Life Flower and her tossing herself for so many years, she was already a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.

Before thinking of a specific method, do what should be done first.

Wait, why did I start thinking of ways for her? Where is my calm, steady, and high-execution teammate?

Demon Life Flower, Legendary Realm... sigh, it's not easy to meet someone who has no problems and high potential.

Arriving at the third secret passage exit, Li Ang found that there was no dust or spider webs along the way.

The entire secret passage was built very early. Most places had mold and moss. Dust was common, indicating that those sections had been abandoned for a long time.

And from the room where the Pale Dog was to this last entrance and exit, it was relatively clean, indicating that this place was often used.

Sure enough, the last room was very heavy. The two walked out from behind a movable mechanism bookshelf.

Judging from the expensive high-end desktop supplies and furniture, this was the room where Count Finat handled affairs.

The books on the bookshelf were not important. What Li Ang focused on was the stacks of booklets on the desk.

As soon as he picked them up, Dorothy said: "These are various records of Spark Port."

"Clerk, you are familiar with looking at these, right?"

"I just happen to do this."

No matter how boring the work was, after becoming skilled, it settled into a skill. Dorothy immediately organized these records clearly.

Spark Port's debts and profits, capital flow, trade reports... almost all were complete.

"It's not strange to have these here," Dorothy said: "City Hall just handles things, decisions must be seen by the lord. Do you want to see if he is corrupt?"

"Private territory, this has no meaning. I'm thinking, can you analyze strange information from these data?"

"For example?" The girl didn't understand Li Ang's meaning.

"Can you see if there is any difference now by comparing the trade and capital flow of the past few years? Maybe you can infer what the Empire intends to do in the Ignis Airspace from that."

Dorothy's eyes turned, and she nodded slowly: "Should be possible."

She scanned the room, grabbed a few record books, and pulled out some documents from the Count's file rack.

"Having these should be enough."

"Then let's go first."

In the long run, the harvest in this room might be the biggest.

As soon as the two returned to the secret passage entrance, there was a sound from outside the room door.

They hurriedly closed the secret passage door, but Li Ang left a gap to peek at the situation in the room.

Those who could come here were either the Count or other key figures. Maybe they could hear a lot of key information.

The footsteps were very mixed, and there was more than one person coming.

After the room door opened, the red-bearded Count Finat appeared behind the door, followed by Winders. The two didn't enter the room immediately, but made a gesture of invitation to the room.

A total of two people were invited to enter.

One of them had long light golden hair, a handsome face, and pointed ears. He was a half-elf young man.

He fell half a body behind, following behind a person covered in a wide black robe. The wide hood worn by this person hung down, covering half of his face.

And on the part that covered the face, some kind of dark golden substance like metal branded a huge eye there.

The Sky Blue Ring on Li Ang's hand began to heat up.