Geeky

In the eyes of Xerxes as the protagonist, Mino is probably the kind of passerby who can't survive an episode.

There is courage but no strategy; there is courage, but no skill.

It's the kind of person who can't be the protagonist even in a tragedy.

If he died, let alone sympathy, Xerxes would probably not remember him at all...

The cold blood poured into the throat, dissipating the pain of the body like a spring moistening the dry and cracked earth.

Xerxes looked at the boy in front of him—the big goggles looked like a pair of fly eyes, and the sweat washed the dust off his face, making him look even dirtier.He was panting for hot air, and he looked like a little golden retriever that had shaken out after rolling in a mud puddle in the dog days.

The hero looks stupid, like a hot-headed, ignorant idiot, but you wouldn't think so if you were the one being saved.When you are in danger, the first to rush in to save you will never be the smart people who are watching from afar and weighing the pros and cons.

Nobody wants to be a hero.

Being a hero means sacrificing, giving without expecting anything in return.

It means that you have to treat your relatives and lovers badly, and dedicate your limited life and time to even strangers you have never met.

They are too close to "death" and want to digest "pain" into responsibility.

They are often so pure that they only have souls, so they are measured and ridiculed by the world with the ruler of wealth and power.

Xerxes didn't want to be a hero, a hero is nameless.

Only characters with blood on their hands can be truly famous through the ages.

But Xerxes at least didn't want to be the fly buzzing around the fallen hero trying to bite.

Xerxes thought to himself:

"Whether I really traveled through time, or everything is just Nankey Yimeng, I owe you my life."

Mino ran in the smoke with Xerxes on his back, looking at the target, panting violently, but seemed unaware of his own fatigue.

Xerxes said: "Little guy, what's your name?"

"Report sir, this is number 304001!"

Xerxes almost laughed—at this time he should have told his name, hometown, or other information that would allow Xerxes to remember him in the future, and his credit, rather than a string of numbers that are easily forgotten .

"They're out!"

A blood soldier in the medical trench was the first to find Xerxes and Mino in the dust. Francis gave the order to strengthen the fire cover, and more energy bombs were fired at the aircraft in the air and the falling shells.

Francis picked up "Annihilation" to snipe the opponent's snipers and pilots who were shooting on the battlefield.

"Damn!"

A vampire wiped the blood from his eye mask and cursed.

His energy bullet missed the falling cannonball, and the cannonball deviated and fell near Mino.

"bump--!"

The dust was scattered around like rain, and Mino felt something hit his teeth with a crisp sound, which made the roots of his teeth so sour that they were about to fall off, and then he felt the heat on his face, dripping down. liquid.

He cried with a whoosh, but quickly held back and just whimpered.

"……You are hurt?"

Amid the tangy smell of dry earth and strong gunpowder smoke, Xerxes could barely smell the sweet scent of blood emanating from his body.

... He felt that the smell was a little familiar.

It's like the perfume smell of a woman who once slept, there is a feeling of "I must have smelled it but can't tell who it is".

Of course, he didn't mean that he slept with him.

Mino originally wanted to be a strong man, but when Xerxes's cold and heavy voice showed caring taste, it was as irresistible as his father's rare tenderness. He cried:

"I'm disfigured!"

Fragments from the blast/bomb had pierced his cheek, and he now probably has a dent in his face... no, a hole!

No money, no house, no education, no job, handsome is one of his few advantages.

Thinking of this, Mino silently shed sad tears.

"..."

Xerxes didn't know how to comfort him, and he was blind enough to examine his wound.Xerxes lowered his head, smelled the blood, sucked the blood dripping from his face, and lightly licked his wound with his tongue.

Mino remembered the fear of being bitten on the neck, but Xerxes' movements were very gentle, and there was no sign of losing consciousness. It felt like Francis was stopping the bleeding for him... although Francis did not swallow his blood.

Mino felt that his legs didn't feel like his own anymore, like two noodles that would fly out immediately, he couldn't find the balance of his body at all... He just ran towards the medical trench with the feeling of flying.

The destination is right in front of you, but amidst the intensive bombing and the sound of bullets, it seems very far away.

When he reached the medical trench, Mino couldn't hold back his knees and threw himself to the ground. Xerxes fell off the sandbag and was caught by other vampires.Mino lay motionless on the ground, was dragged by other blood races, and carried into the trench like a puppy.

Mino opened his mouth, and a vampire pulled out the broken pieces for him.

"Are you okay?" Francis asked.

The blood race is not good at caring, his tone is cold, with a serious and indifferent face, it sounds like he is blaming.

Mino got up wiping the blood, stood at attention and said:

"Report sir, I can still carry out the mission!"

The roots of his thighs were shaking, not from fear, but from the overload of movement.

"Listen, soldier, I don't need anyone to be brave," Francis said. "If you have no strength, sending you there is just a waste of rescue time and a waste of a soldier. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

"Tell me, do you think you can run back and forth to carry people back?"

"Yes, sir!"

Mino exclaimed excitedly.

"...I order you to bring Colonel Latour back!"

"..."

Colonel Latour—

Hearing this, Xerxes' heart skipped a beat...

As he said, he owed this human boy his life, and he didn't want him to die.

If he dies, he owes him his life.

The lifetime of a blood race is so long, this is not a good deal.

So he wanted to save the boy's life for selfish reasons. The people and sheep used to disperse the enemy's artillery fire are almost dead. The next rescue will only be more dangerous and difficult. It's not that great to give up such an extremely small chance of success. Loss.

He could call the human boy up to him, "check" his stamina, and knock him out a little, or make his legs so weak he couldn't stand.

But Latour...

If he remembers correctly, Latour had been promoted to major general in 2018.

When he was investigating Mino-Fan, there was a doubt that had been bothering him, that is, Latour Blood Village, Margaux Blood Village and Mouton Blood Village fixedly provided blood food to Mino at a low price that was almost unprofitable.

Before, he suspected that Mino had once been the lover of a blood race, and he got this advantage because of his old relationship...

But if he had saved Colonel Latour, then these questions would naturally have answers.

Xerxes couldn't help but look again at the boy with short blond hair like a kiwi. Although the goggles covered most of his face, there was more baby fat on his face...but the lips still The outline of the jaw is still very similar.

and the sound...

Because of that childish way of speaking, he subconsciously ignored this point.

Latu Blood Village is the property of Major General Latu's family, and several other sources of purchase are also closely related to Odyssey.

That's why he has the funds to open a shop in Scarlet, so he can always get cheap and good goods easily.

The answer lies in 2015, in this unknown battle.

If Xerxes prevents him from going to the rescue, will he lose a chance?

Anyway, if he was really Mino-van, he wouldn't die.

But Xerxes always felt that he had overlooked something...

Mino Fan, this human man, he had only met him once, and the boy in front of him had a very different temperament from the man who had been two years later.

The boy in front of him was like a little thing chasing its tail in the sun.

It was difficult for Xerxes to reconcile him with the quiet, phantom-like man in shallow water.

"...take off your goggles."

Xerxes looked at Mino Road.

Mino had put the medical kit on his back again, and the blush on his face that couldn't be subdued after strenuous exercise was exposed under the stains.

"No, sir, I need it, and I have to save people!"

Panting, he climbed onto the sandbag with the help of the Kindred, and then ran away.

Everything is traceable,

The year that Mino Fan disappeared coincided with the time when the Ministry of War issued a conscription announcement for the campaign.

Xerxes had noticed this—it is impossible for a person like him not to keep an eye on the movements of the seven cities.However, the military department has special military training and military exercises every year, so this level of movement did not attract Xerxes' attention.

And Atossa also said that "Mino said that he went out to find a job and never heard from him." She waited for him in the shared house for three months until she had to leave.She left her address in the mailbox, including the message wall of the dessert shop she frequented, but she never heard from her.

This is because Mino was forced to go to the battlefield, but this still doesn't make sense, why he disappeared for two full years...

Could it be that this battle has been fought for two years?

Impossible, if he hasn't discovered Odyssey's tricks for two years, then he can change his career to eat shit instead of being a duke.

But now is not the time to engage in reasoning. With the help of the blood bag, Xerxes recovered his basic physical fitness, and took turns with Francis to take charge of the sniping of important enemies.

Xerxes knew that reality would tell him the answer, and the answer did appear in front of him soon.

More aircraft flew from the north, and the aircraft tried to outflank, trying to fly around the war zone and bomb the medical trenches.The vampires in the medical area had to spread their firepower to deal with the flanking aircraft.

Xerxes knew that it was time to give up the subsequent rescue and must retreat as soon as possible.

3 minutes.

He looked at the war zone filled with gunpowder, and while covering fire, he dialed the clock in his heart.

Da da da……

He seemed to be able to hear the footsteps of time passing by.

"bump--!"

The aircraft that fell on the ground burned and exploded into wreckage, and black smoke billowed into the air.

2 minutes, 1 minute and 59 seconds...

"Tug-chug--!"

A rain of bullets swept across the hard soil, leaving dense bullet holes that looked like they had been dug out by hermit crabs.Xerxes shot the pilot, and the craft wobbled sideways before crashing into a cliff.

59 seconds, 58 seconds...

Xerxes glanced at the ground in the war zone, pulled the range lever with his mouth, and fired two "Annihilation" guns at the sky. The double recoil made his shoulders tremble.

31 seconds, 30 seconds...

"bump--!"

The dust bloomed like a mushroom, and there was another hole in the ground.

The yellow smoke dispersed, and a little guy who had almost rolled in the soil crawled out of the pit, supported the buttocks of the vampire that was sliding down behind him, and began to run wildly towards this side with his legs swinging.

The ground had been blasted to the point of being pitted, and Mino's running became staggered from time to time, and the sound of bombs whizzed behind him, as if countless gods of death were chasing him.

But he's done it twice, and he believes he can repeat his luck.

Run until you forget you are running,

Work so hard that you forget you are working hard,

Look at nothing but the target,

This will achieve the goal very quickly.

That's it, run!

Getting closer!

The loose soil caused Mino to fall, and Colonel Latour rolled out. Mino crawled a bit, but failed to get up for the first time, because his knees were trembling, and he was already a little bit disobedient to his master's commands.

Enemies are replaced with faster smaller bombs/bombs that are not easy to target.

"Bang bang bang-!"

Successive small bombs/bombs exploded in mid-air, and some exploded on the surrounding ground.

Mino supported the ground with his hands, "Touch—!" He felt a bomb exploded very close, and he flew out together with a lot of dirt, and fell close to Colonel Latu.

He held out his hand, and there were only three inches between him and Colonel Latour.

He tried to get up, but this time he would not get up again.

If he had looked back, he would have seen that the lower half of his body, including the belly below his chest, had been blown away.If he looked up, he would find that the cloud of blood blasted from his body was still floating in the air.

But he only looks forward.

He felt tired and hurt.

He couldn't feel his body anymore, but he felt that his whole body was in pain, so he didn't realize that he had lost his lower body, as if every piece of flesh and blood that was blown away was still hurting...

He crawled forward a few centimeters and pushed Colonel Latour with his fingers, trying to push him towards the trench.

His goggles were smashed, revealing a dirty, funny face with only the eyes clean.

It was a young and lovely face, as fresh as the morning sun.

The eyes are like a newborn baby, full of pure hope in this cruel world.

Covered with dust, and still as delicate as April flowers.

He raised his eyes and saw him.

Her lips trembled like flowers about to wither.

Xerxes understood the broken lips:

"Will we win?"

Blood flowed from his remains, soaking the ground.

He won't really turn 20 until the fall.

Blood races at this age are still digging holes on the lawn to bury balloons that will explode, smearing snot on your trouser legs annoyingly, or pulling you annoyingly to listen to stories...

At such an age, in the blood race, he is still the age of a baby.

Xerxes looked at him and said simply:

"meeting."