Twilight War

07

Huang Xuanjin remembered that when he was 14 years old, he lived on the street and had to be with an old beggar.

He said he wanted to eat sesame seed cakes, and the old beggar told him that there would be some.He said he wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes, but the old beggar still told him that there would be some.

At that time, he thought that everything was just as the good beggar said, that there would be something, there would be something.Everything will be there in the end.He thought that as long as he walked on this road, he would have more and more.

But in the end he found that he was wrong, the more you go down this road, the more you will find that you lose.

Because no matter what you want to get, you will pay a big price.

And that price is often very large, so large that it is much greater than the reward.

Just like that rainy day many years ago, the woman leaned against the door, folded her arms with one hand, held a bong in the other, her eyes blurred like fireworks, and said in the heavy rain: "...you haven't asked what the price is yet."

And the newspaper in his hand was soaked in the rain.

"No matter what it is, I can give it to you." The boy said.

"Really?" the woman asked.

The heavy rain wet the boy's half-length black hair, and the boy's eyes were red, like a rabbit that wanted to bite.

"Well, I just learned how to make mushroom soup, but no one eats it. I'll tell you how it goes after you finish eating it." The woman said while looking down at her nails.

The black-haired boy in the heavy rain: "..."

Many years later, Huangxuan Jin sat in front of a plate of steak with caviar, as if gazing at the plate of steak affectionately.After staring at it for a long time, Zichen raised his head and looked at the black widow bitterly, "Sister, please, can I not eat?"

The black widow looked seriously at her newly trimmed nails, "No, you promised me yesterday."

"Sister, you can take this life as long as you want." Huang Xuanjin threw himself on the ground, "Or... I will pay with my flesh!"

After finishing speaking, Huang Xuanjin immediately tore open the front of his shirt, with a heroic expression on his face that he would risk his life for righteousness.

"What do I want your meat for? Make human meat buns?" Black Widow said nonchalantly.

Huang Xuanjin silently re-buttoned his shirt.

"Is it that bad to say it?" The black widow picked up a piece of steak and tasted it, blinking her eyes, "I'll let the tortoise come over and clean up."

The tortoise is a coolie from Paradise Lost, at least in the eyes of Huang Xuanjin, he is no different from a coolie.

Black Widow rang a string of brass bells beside her bed.

After a while, he heard heavy footsteps coming from the stairs outside the door, Huang Xuanjin swallowed, fearing that the old stairs outside the door would be crushed by the tortoise.

Black Widow is accustomed to holding a pipe.

When the tortoise came in after knocking on the door, the whole house seemed to be half occupied.

The elephant tortoise walked in front of Huang Xuan Jin, and the shadow alone covered Huang Xuan Jin completely.

"Take that dish away," said the black widow.

The tortoise looked at the dishes in front of Huang Xuanjin, scratched its head, "But it hasn't moved much."

"I really can't eat any more." Huang Xuanjin said, "You will know once you taste it."

Huang Xuanjin cut off a piece of caviar steak and fed it to the tortoise.

The tortoise chewed it seriously, "I think it's not bad."

This time even the black widow looked back at the tortoise in surprise.

The black widow put down the bong and applauded happily, "Eat them all."

Huang Xuanjin hurriedly got up to make way for the tortoise, so the tortoise sat on the chair that was too short for him and began to eat steak.

Huang Xuanjin slowly moved to the side of the black widow, and snuggled up to the black widow, "Sister, can you give me some money?"

"Recently...it's really tight."

"If I remember correctly, you never repaid the money I lent you." The black widow looked at Huang Xuanjin and said, "Believe it or not, I sold you to Paradise Lost."

Huang Xuanjin blinked, looked at Black Widow, and said as if he had thought about it for a long time: "If you really want to sell, please sell it to the strip dance area."

"Really, I secretly went there to watch it many times, and even learned the movements." Huang Xuanjin said sincerely.

Black Widow: "..."

Huang Xuanjin looked at the expression of the black widow, thinking that the black widow didn't believe it, so he ran to the middle and danced a section very seriously, and accompanied himself while dancing, "Boom, boom, boom."

The tortoise, who was eating the steak, looked up at Huang Xuanjin, "The rhythm is wrong, it should be, boom, boom, boom." The tortoise was beating the drums on the table with its fingers while talking.

Huang Xuanjin: "Really?"

The tortoise nodded seriously, "I've heard it many times, and I can't be wrong."

"Both of you, that's enough." Black Widow took a deep breath, as if she couldn't stand the two of them at last, "It's boom, boom, boom, boom."

Huang Xuanjin: "Is there a difference?"

"Yes, the interval between the first two syllables should be longer." Black Widow said with a pipe in her hand.

Huang Xuanjin seemed to still be unable to understand, frowning and thinking.

"Tell me what's going on between the queen and that Gregory." The black widow asked suddenly.

Huang Xuanjin: "En?"

"It is said that the two of them seem to be fighting each other now. The whole Vanner is standing in line. If one of them makes a mistake, he will die." The black widow said, "But I don't think you seem to care at all."

"Why do you care? Am I holding up a small flag to cheer them on?" Huang Xuanjin shrugged and leaned on the sofa beside him, "They like to fight, anyway, it has nothing to do with me."

"If Isabel loses, you will have to be buried with her." The black widow said, "After all, you are tied to the same rope now."

"Then should I keep an eye on the cemetery first?" Huang Xuanjin picked up the apple from the fruit plate and took a bite.

"Do you know what the people who came to Paradise Lost said about you and the Queen?"

"How to say?" Huang Xuanjin raised his eyebrows.

"Huangxuanjin, the queen's running dog, Her Majesty's secret pawn." Black Widow said.

Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"How's Vichypel?"

"I haven't been to the Palace of the Holy Rose King for a long time, so I don't know." Huang Xuanjin shook his head.

"To be honest, if one day I'm short of money, I'll tie you up and sell you to Wisipel for the price." Black Widow said with a smile.

"It's up to you." Huang Xuanjin stretched his body.

"However, the current Vana is really chaotic. Those old guys in the Privy Council are probably planning secretly."

"When did Vana stop?" Huang Xuanjin looked at the clock in the black widow's room and said, "Okay, I have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

The boy saluted the black widow in a pretentious manner, then threw the military uniform off the sofa on his shoulders, and ran directly downstairs.

The tortoise looked at the back of the young man leaving, "Is he really Huangxuan Jin?"

Black Widow exhaled, "What?"

"It doesn't feel like it at all." The tortoise said: "A traitor who bears the name of a house slave with three surnames. If I were him..."

"What would you do if you were him?" Black Widow smiled.

"At least not like that."

The black widow looked out the window, and the street outside Paradise Lost in the early morning was like a wasteland.

"Some people just put everything in a box," Black Widow said with a soft snort.

"box?"

"Yeah." Black Widow said: "Some people are like that. They put all the sad things into boxes one by one, and then sit on the boxes alone in a daze."

"Others came over and looked at him in a daze, thinking that he was heartless and had nothing to do." Black Widow slowly took a puff of smoke, "But he just put those things in the box, but the box things don’t disappear by themselves.”

"If you accidentally bring the box upside down, all those things will still fall out, not only not less, but also entangled."

The smoke of the slender bong is lingering around the black widow, and the woman's beautiful face is blurred in the smoke.

"I don't think Huang Xuanjin is the one who would sit on those boxes in a daze." The tortoise said suddenly, "He will definitely striptease next to those boxes."

Black Widow: "..."

02

Huang Xuanjin was driving a red steam car on the avenue leading to Corinth.

This car was modified by himself, and Huang Xuanjin called it scarlet.

He likes the name very much, strong and arrogant.

Huangxuanjin drove past a huge abandoned machinery dump, where the discarded mechanical parts returned from Corinth would be thrown here, piled up year after year into hills.

Those old red copper mechanical parts are covered with layers of copper rust, and when it rains here, you can even smell the copper rust in the air.

He suddenly remembered that a long time ago, when the man sent him back to the Hall of Valor, he was sitting in the back of the man's car.

The streets are lined with the white buildings of Asgard, the gray sidewalks are covered with half-melt snow, and Asgard's annual six-month winter is coming to an end.

The black-haired boy withdrew his gaze from the street and looked at Vichypel who was driving. He found that Vichypel's eyelashes were also white, like the first snow falling in the warm winter.

"Can I call you brother in the future?" Zichen suddenly said to Wisipel, "...well, only when there is no one around."

The man's body seemed to tremble slightly.

"why?"

"Well... I don't know." Zichen's voice became smaller and smaller, even he knew how offensive he was.

"It's okay when there are people." The man said suddenly.

"Hey?"

Asgard's ice melts, and the long winter is coming to an end.

……

……

Huang Xuanjin drove the car on the gray road.

Abandoned metal mechanical parts are piled up on both sides of the road, and people who pick up garbage walk on the mountains formed by the piled up scrap metal, like the shadow of a crane walking alone in the water.

He suddenly stopped the car in the middle of the road, and the hand holding the steering wheel turned white from too much force.His back trembled as if he were enduring great grief.

Even the boy's voice trembled a little:

——"Fuck, I still haven't borrowed any money!"