Twilight War

,yours truly.

04

Asgard was left behind by heavy steam locomotives.

"My brother told me that since you left Donghuang, Huangxuan's family has been transferred to Juyongguan." Devon stopped the steam car.

"I want to go." Zichen got out of the car and walked forward.

Before taking two steps, Devon followed up on a steam locomotive, rang the bell twice, and then leaned on the handlebar of the locomotive, "Are you planning to walk to Donghuang alone?"

"Get in the car..." He handed over a map, "It takes about five days to walk along this road to the desert of the Western Regions. I'll take you there before I go."

Zichen was stunned, and Devon looked at him and sighed, then knocked him on the head, "Our Zichen is a guy who can get lost in the Hall of Valor to death, let him walk such a long way alone, How can I relax."

"Go a little further, stay away from Asgard, so we can find a place to rest." Devon said.

"Aren't you going to ask me what's going on?" Zichen said.

"What are you asking? Please, we are just two bad friends, not a friend of gentlemen." Devon said indifferently: "Bad friends, drink together if you have money, pawn if you don't have money The other party's pants just keep drinking. Even if you scum a group of women, the bad friend will pat you on the shoulder and tell you the next correction, right? After all, only the bad friend knows, you say you scum a group of girls, actually It's just being slapped in the face by a woman."

"It's obvious that you were dumped by a woman..." Zichen said with the corners of his mouth pulled, "You guys don't think about Teacher Sylvia until now, right?"

"Of course, I will remain faithful to Teacher Sylvia until death." Devon said with an innocent boyish expression.

"Hiss..." Zichen had an unbearable expression on his face.

"It's you, who actually escaped the wedding with the princess. Have you forgotten to carry your brain since you were born?" Devon had an incomprehensible expression on his face.

"No, it's just that a giant dragon suddenly appeared at the wedding. Its eyes were not very good. Instead of taking the princess away, it took me away instead." Zichen said with a sigh.

"It's estimated that someone will chase here in half an hour." Devon stopped the car and said, "But I didn't see any pursuers along the way. Did the Arthur Empire find that you were worthless in pursuit and gave up on you? "

"Get out, I'm a majestic young master." Zichen rolled his eyes and took out a pile of things on the side of the motorcycle.

"Hehe, it sounds pretty powerful." Devon said nonchalantly.

Devon built a fire on the wilderness beside the road.

"Do you think we haven't been arrested yet?" Zichen said.

"Anyway, they are arresting you, right, Young Master Huangxuan." Devon shrugged and took out two bottles of wine.

Devon threw the wine to Zichen.

Long, long ago, they also gathered around the dormitory drinking two bottles of cheap wine.

At that time, Devon confessed to Sylvia that he had failed, and he was also angry with Vehipel.

At the beginning, they were teenagers, they had their own admirers, they skipped classes together, and they fought together.

Zichen was drunk and looked a little uncomfortable, so Dai Wen hurried over to help his back.

He grabbed Devon by the collar, "Do you know...my identity?"

"Young Master Huangxuan?" Dai Wen said with a look of disgust.

"No, there is more important...identity?" Zichen said solemnly.

"what?"

"I'm your grandpa!"

"..." Dai Wen directly threw Zichen out, this kind of person might as well let him die directly.

"Devon..." Zichen crawled back by himself again, "The few copies of "The History of Imperial Love" that you couldn't find were actually used by me to burn and roast sweet potatoes."

"I also burned the letter of confession you secretly wrote to Teacher Sylvia. After all, it's useless."

Devon: "..."

This kind of person is simply not worth dying for!

The bonfire gradually went out.

Devon rented a steam locomotive not far away with the money he had on his body, and prepared a lot of silver from the abyss and wine in the trunk, and then tied the steam locomotive to the back of the car.

The two of them moved forward like two homeless vagabonds.

The road is full of yellow sand and the red sun is scorching hot.

This trip to the east was long and desolate. Since then, no one has talked to me about being cheap.

At the junction of the long yellow sands in the Western Regions, Zichen saw a letter bird of the Huangxuan family, and he tied a red rope to the letter bird's leg.

After releasing the letter bird, Zichen said: "People from the Huangxuan family will follow the letter bird to find me."

Devon threw aside the steam car stuck in the yellow sand, "Let's go, I'll accompany you on the last journey."

The wind and sand covered their eyes, and the two people walked in the desert like two grains of rice one behind the other.

"The girlfriend you've been talking about is Your Highness?" Devon asked suddenly.

Zichen nodded.

Devon couldn't help punching Zichen, "It's enough."

Zichen lowered his head and smiled.

"Zichen, if you really can't get along in the future, just come to me." Dai Wen said with a light smile, "Even if you go to rob the bank, I will cover you...as long as you give me half of the money." .”

"En, good." Zichen nodded, "But if I'm good at it, you can treat me as a brother without me."

When you fight against the light, there will still be people who will cheer for you like a bad friend, shouting, brothers, come on!

Good wine and good meat, killing the Quartet.

Much later, Dr. Norton once said that he was so world-weary, as if he didn't care about anything.

Actually not.

He really likes this world quite a bit, you see there are so many beautiful things in this world.

The only thing he hated from beginning to end was himself.

The only one who hates him is himself.

He does not hate the world, he only hates himself.

Isabel asked him if he didn't want to take up the sword and kill everything he hated.

He really didn't want to.

Maybe one day he will draw his sword, but it should only be to kill himself.

He has nothing to hate.

There are good flowers, good moons and good scenery in this world.

There are also several fools who killed the Quartet with him.

Zichen looked up and saw several crinoids flying across the sky.

"People from Huangxuan's family have arrived." He said.

"Then I'll leave, lest your family see me and insist on calling me a benefactor. Trouble." Devon waved his hand and walked back.

The undulating sand line, the boy turned to the west.

Zichen smiled lightly and looked forward, holding the short cloak on his body tightly.

Iron cavalry broke through the yellow sand, as if mountains and rivers were shaking.

The iron cavalry who harvested 800 countries 24 years ago returned again to welcome their young master to regain power.

The war horses neighed, and the cavalry, who were full of murderous aura, all stopped in front of the young man.

"Welcome Young Master!"

Devon turned his back to the returning cavalry, lowered his head and shook his head listening to the shocking shouts.

"It sounds like something."

Farewell, boy from the Hall of Valor.

05

Zichen frowned at Lushen Xinyi, who was wearing black and wearing a bamboo hat, who was following hundreds of cavalry, "Why are you two here?"

"After hearing from the young master, we should come here naturally." Lu Shen said in a cold voice.

"No! Shouldn't you two have been following me?" Zichen said in shock.

...Shouldn't the ghost have been lurking in secret all the time, ready to kill him at any time? !

"We're lost." Xin Yi turned his head and said with an expression that seemed to blame Zichen.

"But you should have followed me all the time, why did you lose track of me?"

"That's only in theory, okay? There will always be some difficulties in actual combat." Xin Yi said with a puffy face.

"Who knew you would run away when you got married. If we had known earlier, we wouldn't have gone to the West Market to buy rouge." Xin Yi muttered softly.

"Buying rouge?" Zichen felt that his life had been impacted.

His mother left him two sharp knives on his neck, and once his Chi You's mad blood broke out, they would end him at any time.And now these two sharp blades... actually went to buy rouge together!

"Okay, but why did you come here with the Autumn Harvest Farmer? Shouldn't you find me first?" Zichen gritted his teeth and said weakly.

"Tracking is very difficult, and we don't know how to do it." Xin Yi said with a face of course.

"Then what will you do?"

"I'm good at embroidering women's reds and grinding and making tea!" Xin Yi said.

"I...can still cook." Lu Shen said softly.

"I can still frame pictures and carve chapters! Do you think it's easy to be a maid in Wutong Qi?"

It's a waste... It's a waste...

"Where are we going next, young master?" Xin Yi continued to ask.

Zichen shook his head, "Stop talking, I'll just pack up and go kneel in the Ming Hall of the Huangxuan Family."

06

The rococo-style curtains were opened layer by layer, and the maids walked by holding luxurious dresses.

Huang Xuanjin, dressed in a military uniform, was lying enchantingly on a chaise longue full of silk and brocade embroidery, with various colored satin high-heeled shoes being kicked away on the side of the chair.

Raspberry sugar gold foil, pearl lupine velvet.

He stretched out his hand and scraped the cakes on the three-layer gilded white porcelain tray with his fingers.

...the sweetness is just right.Life is complete.

"What are you doing here?" Isabel walked over anxiously, looked at Huangxuan Jin and said.

Huang Xuanjin picked up the carved bone fan at the side, and shyly opened it slowly in front of his face, only revealing his peach blossom eyes.

Seeing Huangxuan Jin lying on the chaise longue, Elizabeth sat on the chair beside her to try on shoes.

"It's too boring to be on duty down here, come up and see what you have to eat." Seeing that Isabel ignored him, Huang Xuanjin folded the bone fan and threw it aside in a sense of boredom.

"I'm not a place for you to eat."

"Are you preparing for Arthur's farewell banquet the day after tomorrow?" Huang Xuanjin looked at the surrounding maids holding a bunch of dresses and asked.

"En." Isabel nodded, throwing away the shoes on her feet.

"Go on, this is all." The girl waved her hand.

"What are you going to do with Gregory and Aquinas? Colluding with the gangsters and smuggling the silver from the abyss is a serious crime, not to mention that they have connections with the Ringwraiths."

"Gregory... of course death is waiting for him." Isabel smiled lightly, "As for Aquinas, I plan to make him the next cardinal."

"You are a lunatic." Huang Xuanjin shook his head and said.

"Of course I'm crazy." Isabel shrugged, put her calf on the table in front of her, took out the raspberries from the cup, and licked her fingers, "So I like to play with crazy people."

"Well, you didn't count me in it, did you?" Huang Xuanjin frowned and said.

"No." Isabel smiled, leaned over and squeezed Huang Xuanjin's face, "You are my little white rabbit."

"You don't seem like a girl who can raise little white rabbits." Huang Xuanjin said, "Look at the princesses in those fairy tales are all well-behaved. They like small animals and have a heart."

"So they can only be princesses in fairy tales, and I am the queen of the entire Vana Empire." Isabel said nonchalantly.

"Yes, that's why you are not cute at all." Huang Xuanjin said, "Do you not know how to make wishes when eating birthday cake?"

Isabel didn't answer, and it took a long time before she said, "I promised."

"What wish? A dress? Gorgeous jewels? Well...these don't seem to suit you. You don't want to make a wish to destroy Arthur, ascend the throne alone, and have the power of the world!" Huangxuan Jin poked the side with a fork said tiramisu.

"I hope my father likes my mother." Isabel shook her head and said softly.

"I've been making this wish every year since I was five years old."

07

Huang Xuanjin was carrying a box of desserts and standing on the rickety rail car.

He looked out of the window at the capital surrounded by fog.

In the twilight, everyone is like a shadow walking between the sky and the earth.

He remembered that someone once said to him - we herd cattle and sheep, and the earth herds us.

All of us are but sheep and cattle walking on the earth.

When the heavy fog dissipates, revealing the cruelest and true side of the world.

Can you accept it.

He raised his hand and scratched a name on the dusty car window.

Looking out of the window through the polished traces, all the changes fell into the eyes of the young man.

He walked on the pile of mechanical waste, like a crane shadow.

The sky fell and the earth turned blue.

The old man has not been in good health for the past few days. He sleeps here at night, guarding the crooked old man.

"I got something from the queen, would you like some." He put the dessert on the iron bucket.

"The lace was damaged by you." The old man glanced at it and shook his head.

"Whether you like to eat or not. Also, it's better to eat less sweets when you get old." Huang Xuanjin picked up the wine from the oil barrel and sat by the door, taking a sip.The old man also took a bottle.

Huang Xuanjin turned his head and glared at the old man, "You are not allowed to drink."

The old man had to put down the bottle.

At night, there are birds chirping outside the door, which is a bit disturbing.

"You haven't come here much in summer. There are cicadas and frogs singing here in summer." The old man handed over a few skewers of roasted sparrows and said.

"How long have you lived here?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"It's been a long time, I don't remember clearly." The old man squatted beside him and gnawed on the roast sparrow.

"Don't you feel lonely by yourself?"

"I think it's much better than being outside." The old man said: "When you are outside, you have to learn to deal with many people, but if you are lonely, you only need to get along well with yourself."

Huang Xuanjin glanced at the old man.

"Don't think it's easy to get along with yourself, many people have never learned it in their lifetime." The old man shouted.

The old man looked out the door and said: "After leaving the mechanical headquarters, I found that I talked less and less, and in the end I didn't even say a word for a long time."

"I even thought I had forgotten how to talk, so I started talking to myself."

"One day I suddenly felt that what I said to myself was also an illusion-I never spoke at all, and I didn't actually say anything."

"It's late, go to bed." The old man stood up and walked into the house.

"Put it down." Huang Xuanjin glanced at the wine in the old man's hand and said.

Huang Xuanjin spread a blanket on the ground, who was next to the old man.

At night, he suddenly found that the old man was shaking violently, and he immediately lit the kerosene lamp on the ground.

"What's the matter, are you okay?"

"It's...too cold," said the old man.

Huang Xuanjin glanced out the window and found that it was indeed snowing outside, "I'm going to get the quilt."

Covering the old man with the quilt, the old man was still trembling, and he touched the old man's forehead.

"Why is it so hot? Do you have a fever? Is there any medicine here?" he asked.

The old man pointed to the bottom of the bed.

Huang Xuanjin dug out the box under the bed and searched for a long time before finding a bottle of medicine. The old man stretched out his hand to take it.

He looked down at the medicine, "It's a painkiller, is there any other medicine?"

"Here, I've been eating this..."

Huang Xuanjin stood guard next to the old man for a while, but the temperature on the old man's body still couldn't drop.

"No, you can't do it like this. I'll take you to Queen's Road. There should be a doctor there."

He carried the old man on his back and stuffed the old man into the scarlet outside. He put this car here and asked the old man to repair it. It should be repaired now.

The burning silver of the great abyss slowly warmed the interior of the car, and he felt his palms were sweating.

He didn't dare to leave the old man behind alone, for fear that the old man would fall by himself.

The old man's head rested on his legs, and his black military trousers were soaked with sweat.

The miserable white headlights illuminate the streets leading to Corinth City.

Windshield wipers sweep snow off the windows.

He held the old man's hand in one hand, not knowing whether he was comforting the old man or himself.

Huangxuanjin didn't dare to go too fast, fearing that the old man's current body would not be able to bear it.

"Hold on...it'll be there soon."

"It's okay... just slow down." The old man said hoarsely.

The car broke down as soon as it reached Queen's Road, Huang Xuanjin had no choice but to pick up the old man on his back and ran to the clinic, his military boots breaking through the thin snow.

He knocked on the door desperately, but no one opened the door.

The bobblehead dolls in the clinic windows seem to be smiling as snow falls down Queen's Road.

"No one!"

Huang Xuanjin raised his leg to hold the door of the clinic.

However, there was no response.

The exhalation condensed into a white mist in the cold air.

"I remember there is a clinic on another street." Huang Xuanjin licked his lips and said, then ran to another avenue with the old man on his back.

"Little Jin, put me down." The old man lay on his back and said weakly, "I know my own body well, and I don't want to run around anymore. This is good."

"Let me see the snow." The old man said, "I have lived all my life, but I haven't seen the snow properly yet."

Huang Xuanjin turned his back on the old man, gritted his teeth and nodded.

He put the old man on the bench on Queen's Road and sat beside him.

The two of them watched Xueluo quietly.

"It's good," the old man raised his head and raised his hand to catch the falling snow. The temperature on his body was very high, and the snow melted as soon as it fell on it. "I feel that I am only ten years younger, but I have aged a long time .”

"I used to think that people are very special, and they should be the most favored children of God, and they will become the masters of the earth." The old man said, "But after thinking about it, I feel that people are no different from flowers and plants. Sometimes If you think about it this way, you will understand everything. There is no fate or miracle. We are born, we grow up, we die, everything is just natural."

"Sometimes I seem to be able to hear the voice of my own body. I used to listen to his joints, but now I listen to it aging."

"Little Jin, tell me about the second twilight battle." The old man said suddenly.

"You want to hear?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

The old man nodded.

"You want to hear, but I have nothing to say."

"Let's talk about it. Keep those things in your heart all the time. It's okay to turn a blind eye. Sometimes, what you think is a mess and a knot is actually just a few threads." said the old man.

"Then I said it."

"kindness."

"During that war, the Huangxuan family encountered an unprecedented enemy - alien beasts. The members of the Huangxuan family fought bravely, and accidentally discovered that their blood was actually fuel, so we roasted them into delicious barbecues. And so the war is over."

"Can you be more serious at this time?" the old man muttered.

"Okay, let me be serious. In that war, the emperor sent two generals over. When I got there, they were very displeased with me. So I got them drunk with Hua Diao wine, and made them take off their pants in public. , so I got their handle. They had to listen only to me and not to the emperor, so I led the three armies to kill the Quartet..."

"I've said it all, be more reliable!" the old man said dissatisfied.

"Okay, okay, I'll just say it."

"It was the winter in Mobei that year, and the Huangxuan family was ordered to stay at Juyongguan. When I arrived at Juyongguan with the Huangxuan family's autumn harvest farmers, the vast grassland was deserted. Outside Juyongguan was the red pine. My ancestor Huangxuan once It was there that Chen fought the famous Chisong Battle..."

Huang Xuanjin spoke slowly, as if he wanted to slowly dig out the things he had forcefully stuffed into the box.

Even he himself didn't know that those things were still so clearly visible.

"That year, there were still two generals guarding Juyongguan. They were General Tanlang, who had guarded Juyongguan for decades, and General Lucun, who came for the Northern Festival."

……

……

"I still remember, he told me that I owe him a pot of Huadiao wine..."

"Later, even I didn't dare to think whether I had chosen the right one."

He didn't know whether he was telling the old man or himself.

Those past, those people...

Huang Xuanjin turned to look at the old man beside him.

The old man closed his eyes in the snow.

The snow falling on his hands has not melted...