The inverted waterfall hung between heaven and earth, like a ceaseless silver river forcibly solidified in the air by divine power.
Countless shattered Water droplets floated and rotated around Hawke, who stood beneath the inverted waterfall.
It was as if they were surrendering to Hawke.
Scared, scared.
Perhaps the waterfall felt its voice was too loud just now, causing it to not dare to make a sound at this moment.
All sounds were silent.
Only a single "Hawke" from behind him made Hawke, bare-chested and with his chest slightly rising and falling, tremble.
Hawke subconsciously turned his head to look.
Upon seeing.
He saw Gwen, who had emerged from the nearby forest, wearing a windbreaker. Although her golden hair was disheveled and her face was covered in sweat, her blue eyes, when looking at him, were full of pleasant surprise.
"Gwen?"
Hawke froze instantly.
He found it somewhat unbelievable.
Good heavens.
He never expected that the first person to find him here wouldn't be the Quantico Military, but Gwen.
But…
How could this be?
Hawke was a bit flustered.
And at this moment, the static time seemed to restart.
Rumble!
The originally inverted waterfall also resumed at this moment, but the sound of the waterfall falling was much softer than before.
It seemed that the waterfall at this moment was also afraid of causing an unexpected disaster due to its loud sound.
After all, Hawke could truly make it flow backward.
At the same time.
Upon seeing Hawke standing beneath the waterfall, Gwen had already started running.
Although she didn't understand why she was still running even after seeing Hawke.
But she just wanted to run.
In the blink of an eye, Gwen had already jumped into the waterfall's pool and then waded through the Water to Hawke's front.
The next second.
She embraced Hawke.
Hawke subconsciously pulled Gwen into his embrace, protecting her back from the impact of the waterfall's Water.
Just then.
He also reacted, and with a whoosh, his figure had already disappeared into the pool. When he reappeared, he was already on the bank beside the waterfall's pool, holding Gwen.
White mist billowed like smoke from Hawke and Gwen, who had just been drenched by the waterfall's Water in his arms.
In just a blink of an eye.
Under the surging power of Hawke's strong vital energy, Hawke and Gwen, who were soaking wet a second ago, were now completely dry and refreshed.
After doing this, Hawke looked down at Gwen, who was tightly embracing him in his arms.
He opened his mouth, intending to ask how Gwen had found him when even the Quantico Military couldn't.
But…
Hawke looked at Gwen, who had already closed her eyes in his arms and was even letting out faint snores. He opened his mouth, thought for a moment, and then said nothing. Instead, he sat down on the spot, gently placing Gwen in his arms.
He didn't speak but instead looked down at the sleeping Gwen. He looked at the messy golden hair on Gwen's face, extended his right hand, paused slightly in the air, then resumed and tidied the messy golden hair on Gwen's face.
About half an hour later.
Gwen slowly opened her eyes. Because she had slept so soundly, she thought she had woken up in bed and subconsciously stretched.
The next second.
She saw Hawke looking down at her.
Their eyes met.
Gwen instinctively blinked.
Hawke smiled slightly.
"Hello."
"Holy sh*t!"
With a gasp, Gwen sprang up from Hawke's embrace. Her originally pale face gained a touch of rosy color at a visible speed.
Hawke also stood up from the ground.
As he stood up, his limbs constantly made comfortable stretching sounds, a result of remaining motionless to avoid waking Gwen and now finally being able to move.
Gwen also withdrew her gaze from observing her surroundings and refocused it, locking onto Hawke, who was only wearing a pair of shorts.
Hawke's figure was like an ancient Greek sculpture, and the pair of sword-like eyebrows above his azure blue eyes exuded an unrestrained aura.
The sword-like eyebrows were still those sword-like eyebrows.
The difference was, if before, Hawke's eyebrows were like swords hidden in their scabbards, then now, Hawke's eyebrows were like a sharpened, unrestrained sword drawn from its scabbard.
Gwen was captivated.
The next second.
She reacted, looked at Hawke, and seemed to remember something, a beautiful smile gracing her lips.
"Library, reading, ha."
"…"
Hawke raised an eyebrow, catching the hint of complaint hidden beneath Gwen's teasing tone. He thought for a moment: "I'm sorry."
Gwen smiled.
If Hawke heard the hint of complaint in her teasing, then Gwen also heard something else in Hawke's apology.
For example, the old Hawke had also apologized to her.
But she could feel that Hawke's apologies were just for the sake of apologizing.
But this one now?
Gwen's lips curved slightly upward, and her small hand reached out towards Hawke.
Hawke was slightly startled.
Gwen said, "Give me your phone. Why didn't you answer my calls?"
Hawke reacted, walked to the side, took out his phone that was placed under his folded T-shirt, and handed it to Gwen: "I've been here for over twenty days. It ran out of battery a long time ago."
Gwen was slightly startled upon hearing this and took the phone.
Indeed.
The phone wouldn't turn on.
But…
Gwen blinked, as if remembering something. She held Hawke's phone in one hand and took out her own phone with the other, opening the link from a previous text message.
The link was invalid.
Gwen stared blankly at the screen, at the link that had just been there but was now invalid.
Hawke finally asked the question he had been wanting to ask.
"By the way, Gwen, how did you know I was here?"
"…"
Gwen came back to her senses, subtly put her phone back in her pocket, then handed the phone back to Hawke, a slight smile on her face: "My dad is the sheriff, Hawke. If I want to, no matter where you are, I can find you."
Hawke blinked.
This…
He'd have to be crazy to believe that.
But looking at Gwen, whose pale face was once again a little rosy after saying that, Hawke thought for a moment, then showed a look of sudden understanding and nodded.
Forget it.
If he had been curious about how Gwen found him when he first saw her, he was no longer curious now.
Hmm.
He wasn't curious when Gwen was sleeping in his arms just now.
Perhaps it was just as Gwen said.
She's the sheriff's daughter, and if she wants to, she can find him wherever he is.
Gwen said so.
Hawke chose to believe this premise.
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