Not far away, a lit oil lamp gradually floated towards the side of the walk, and the familiar outline seemed particularly dazzling at this moment.

Elena walked over and looked around, as if she realized that this place was not as lively as she imagined, leaving Chen Ran alone sitting there alone. Such an atmosphere immediately made her feel a sense of depression. She walked to Chen Ran with a worried look on her face.

"That... when I thought about what happened here, I couldn't sleep all night, and I didn't wait for the news of your return. I was worried, so I came by myself..."

Chen Ran didn't dare to look directly at Elena's gaze, stood up and replied in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I failed to fulfill my promise..."

Chen Ran's words made Elena's face suddenly turn pale. At this moment, her body seemed to be about to slip as if she was exhausted from her strength. Chen Ran couldn't help but step forward to hold her shoulders, not letting her fall to the ground.

At this time, Elena's eyes flashed with mist, but she did not cry out immediately. With Chen Ran's support, she looked at Chen Ran's evasive eyes.

"You tried your best, didn't you?"

Chen Ran did not answer, but just lowered his head and looked ashamed.

"Can you accompany me to see my father's body?" Elena said with a little sobbing.

Chen Ran nodded, and then accompanied Elena to the place where the mayor's body was.

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New corpses are usually stored alone, not to mention that the mayor is an important figure in the town and enjoys a separate room.

Chen Ran accompanied Elena to the mayor's body.

At first, when Elena saw the mayor's body, she was a little scared, but after seeing the familiar clothes, she could not stop her mood. She walked forward and stroked her father's clothes. The moisture in her eyes could not stop. She sobbed in a low voice, gently shaking the body that could no longer rise.

Chen Ran accompanied Elena for a while before the girl replied a little from the blow of losing her loved ones.

After walking out of the house, Elena suddenly turned around and threw herself into Chen Ran's arms.

"Chen Ran, now my father is gone, I have no other relatives anymore..."

This sentence was extremely desolate. At this time, Elena hugged Chen Ran tightly as if she had grabbed the last trace of support.

"When I was very young, my mother left us first. I have always had only my father and I have a relative. Now my father has left, and I don't know what I should do now..."

A person's loneliness is sometimes scary, and such a girl has no other support.

Chen Ran's heart was touched. Looking at Elena's crying face, he seemed so helpless. He comforted: "Elena, you haven't slept all night, go home and rest first."

At this time, Elena tightened her arms around Chen Ran a little longer, "Chen Ran, now I have no relatives, will you leave me?"

"No," Feeling the faint fragrance in the air and the helplessness of the girl, Chen Ran couldn't help but lift his arm, hugged Elena, patted her back gently, and comforted: "I won't leave you alone, don't worry."

"very nice……"

After getting the answer she seemed to want, Elena's expression finally relaxed a little. She raised her head, and the affection in her eyes was as if she was looking at her most trusted lover. The gentleness in her flashing eyes was enough to melt the ice and snow.

Chen Ran looked towards Elena's eyes and was about to say something, but he saw a familiar blood-colored rune suddenly appeared in those eyes...

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On the way home to Elena's house, Chen Ran didn't know how he accompanied her. Until he sent Elena to her boudoir and walked out of the room, his face gradually became gloomy.

When he walked to his room, his emotions suddenly went wild. Why did this damn Black Knight target Elena?

The most important thing is that he had no idea about the next method to deal with the Black Knight. He could watch Elina get hurt, just like that?

Chen Ran couldn't do it.

He punched hard on the hard wall to release his depressed mood. Chen Ran's mind flashed through his mind, thinking about all the ways to solve the problem, but he didn't think of any reason until he thought of it. He knew that he should be calm at this moment, but he just couldn't calm down. In anger, he swept all the debris on the desk, and all kinds of books and debris fell heavily on the ground, spilling all over the ground.

Chen Ran grabbed his hair and looked a little tired. He didn't know how to tell Elena about this.

A knock on the door came, pulling Chen Ran back to his thoughts. At this time, Chen Ran only thought he was an early nanny, stood up, walked over, opened the door, and was about to tell him not to disturb him, Elena outside the door made him feel a little surprised.

"Aren't you sleeping?"

"I can't sleep..." Elena, wearing a white pajama, obviously just got up from the bed. She had a hint of fatigue on her face and shook her head and said, "I closed my eyes, but my eyes were full of my father's tragic death. When I thought of that scene, I couldn't fall asleep at all."

Elena stepped forward a few steps and snuggled into Chen Ran's arms again.

"I want to sleep with you, okay?"

"This..." Although a little surprised, Chen Ran felt Elena's mood at this moment. At this moment, there was no beautiful thought in his mind.

"What, do you hate me?"

"How could it be..."

In Chen Ran's loss of mind, Elena had already entered Chen Ran's room. However, when she saw the falling objects, Elena turned around and asked, "When you heard the messy sounds in your room before, you seemed to be furious about what?"

"That... I'm just in a bad mood..." Chen Ran didn't know how to explain that to Elena. He instinctively felt that he shouldn't tell her about this, but he didn't know how to hide it. After all, she would know it sooner or later. After hesitating, his eyes flashed a little.

Elena captured Chen Ran's complicated eyes and asked instinctively: "Do you hide anything from me?"

Chen Ran, who was still hesitating, did not answer immediately, but this made Elena awaken even more wrong. She was originally a smart girl and soon realized something.

"When you came back, your eyes were different when you looked at me, and you were a little pity, very much like the eyes when you looked at my father..." Looking at Chen Ran without refuting, it further deepened Elena's suspicion, "It seems that my guess is true. The next target of the Black Knight is me, right?"

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Chapter completed!