Twilight War

03

Apocalypse calendar 991, Arthur Empire, Uld Spring Hall.

Hundreds of Arthur Empire soldiers in mithril armor lined up in front of the Urd Spring Hall, majestic and murderous.

The young man in white walked up the steps lined with [-]-meter-long guards, with a white feather crown, a moonlight belt, and a folding fan in his hand.

Behind him was only a man dressed as a scholar and two maids, but he didn't show any fear at all, as if he was going to an ordinary banquet, he came to this negotiation with disparity in power.

The Huangxuan family lost most of their troops in the almost massacre of the day, and he had worked hard to reorganize the Huangxuan family after that battle.

And if they want to avenge the Vana Empire, the Huangxuan family can only form an alliance with the Arthur Empire, which is their only way.

Patriarch Huangxuan walked step by step on the marble-paved steps in front of the main hall, holding a white folding fan tightly in his hand, with a red ribbon tied on the fan handle.

Wischpel, Tang De, and Weir are already waiting in the Wuld Spring Hall.

Patriarch Huangxuan folded the folding fan in his hands, and bowed to Visipel in the Donghuang salute, folded his hands in front of him, and slowly raised his eyes to look at the three people sitting on the seat.

Those eyes, like peach blossoms falling from eight hundred miles south of the Yangtze River in an instant.

It's almost breathtakingly beautiful.

"At the lower Jiangnan Huangxuan Patriarch, Huangxuan Jin paid homage to His Royal Highness Wisipel." He said with a chuckle to Wisipel who was sitting on the right side of the hall.

In great contrast to his almost shocked appearance was his hoarse voice like an old woman, which made it unacceptable just to listen to it.

It is said that his voice was muffled by smoke during the siege of Huangxuan's family by the Vana Empire.

He was imprisoned in the secret passage of the Huangxuan family by Huangxuan Zhou, the former head of the Huangxuan family. He could only hear the almost brutal sound of fighting outside, and the entire secret passage was filled with choking smoke.

When he woke up, the entire Huangxuan family was in ruins, and his voice had been broken since then.

Tang De couldn't help feeling sorry for Patriarch Huangxuan's voice, such a good-looking person, but his voice was ruined like this.

"In Xiasi Tianming, a fortune teller from Shu, also pays his respects to your highnesses." The scholar who was following Patriarch Huangxuan also made a pretentious salute, and a string of copper coins around his waist jingled.

Si Tianming smiled and put both hands in his sleeves after saluting.

He wore a wide-sleeved robe made of good ice silk brocade, and he was dressed like an old rice transplanter.

"Patriarch Huangxuan is very polite, please sit down." Wihipel looked up at Patriarch Huangxuan, his gaze was cold and indifferent.

"Then we'd better obey orders than be respectful." Si Tianming rolled up his sleeves and said, and sat directly on the seat on the left, with the string of copper wires around his waist bumping back and forth like bells.

Donghuang people like jade around their waists, but he has a string of copper coins hanging around his waist.

Si Tianming is the younger brother of Si Xuerou, the former mother of Huangxuan's family, and also Huangxuanjin's uncle.

Wearing a long gown of moonlight, if you don't take a closer look, you really have a bit of a fairy-tale feeling.He was weak and sick since he was a child, and was rescued by a Taoist priest when he was about to be seriously ill at the age of eight, so he learned some yin and yang hexagrams from that Taoist priest.

It's a pity that prying into the destiny will damage one's lifespan, so one dare not predict the destiny easily.

Patriarch Huangxuan took off the cloak on his body, and sat in the seat opposite Wisipel, with a distance of about ten meters between the two of them.

"It's a long journey, and Patriarch Huangxuan has worked so hard this time." Wihipel said, "I don't know if I can get used to this place?"

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I appreciate this kindness." Patriarch Huangxuan said, "I have been here a month ago. Your Highness can wait until today to hold the banquet in order to prevent me from being too tired. I would like to thank you for your consideration. I’m really grateful.” At the end, he slowly turned his head to look at Vehipel.

His beauty is the kind of beauty that is almost awe-inspiring and arrogant, but it is not obtrusive, so people can't blame him.

Those peach-blossom eyes should obviously be full of love and sparkle, but they were born on him like a murderous intent.

"It's good that the Patriarch can understand my whole heart." Vehipel said with a smile as if he didn't understand the meaning of Patriarch Huangxuan's words.

The two of them were talking sharply there, Si Tianming didn't listen to a word, and pulled Arthur's maid there to make her pour the wine.

The maid poured gin into the classical glass in front of him.

Si Tianming rolled up his sleeves and looked at the gin poured by the maid, but barely reached the bottom of the glass, and frowned, "Why are you not satisfied?"

"The wine in Xilu is always only half full." Tang De looked at Si Tianming and said with a smile.

"How plausible is this! Si Tianming patted his knee and said.

"Most things in the world are dissatisfied, and if it is too full, you will lose. Isn't this what Donghuang said?" Tang De said.

"I know that." Si Tianming said, "I don't care if other things in this world are full or not. But this wine must be full for me."

He stretched out his hand from his sleeve and tapped the edge of the cup with the iron fan in his hand.

Tang De waved his hand helplessly, signaling the maid to fill up the wine.

Only then did Si Tianming hold up the wine glass in front of him with bulging liquid in satisfaction, his thin and white wrist did not spill a single drop of wine.

Patriarch Huangxuan stepped on Si Tianming's foot under the table, his expression changed, his eyebrows and nose were twisted together, and the wine he was holding dangled in the air three times, but he didn't drink it.

"What's wrong with Master Si?" Tang De asked with concern.

"It's okay, good wine."

"It's really a pity that I can't see your father's appearance in person. However, seeing Patriarch Huangxuan makes me feel less regretful. I believe Patriarch will be the best in the future." Tang De raised his glass to Patriarch Huangxuan road.

"This statement is wrong. How can I compare with my father? If I say, there is no one in this world who can compare with him."

"It's a pity that he was killed by a villain. If it wasn't for this, the Huangxuan family would not have been defeated."

Patriarch Huangxuan stared at Wisipel and said that the coldness in his eyes was like a cold pool, and even that beauty became bitter.

"I'm sorry. However, the head of the Huangxuan family is not something ordinary people can manage to keep the Huangxuan family in order within half a year. He is a young talent, but that's all." Vehipel said.

"Your Highness is overrated."

"Patriarch Huangxuan, do you have any brothers?" Vihipel asked suddenly.

"My Huangxuan family is the only son in my generation. I have no brothers, no sisters, no sisters. If I have brothers, I won't let an incompetent person like me take over the great responsibility. I'm really ashamed."

"It's a pity, if there is a sister who can still marry our Highness Vichypel." Tang De who was next to him suddenly said, with a bit of frivolity, "But the Patriarch really has no brothers?"

"Of course not. If there is a brother who has shared this heavy responsibility for me, why should I hide it?"

"Then I don't know if the Patriarch can get married." Tang De asked without a formality.

"Now I'm all focused on family affairs. I just want to avenge my father, so I don't have the energy to get married." Patriarch Huangxuan said.

"I really admire the ability of the Patriarch. If you are not married yet, why not choose one of Arthur's noble daughters," Tang De said.

"The great revenge has not been reported, and I really have no intention of having an affair with my son and daughter." Patriarch Huangxuan said.

"This is not a personal affair, but for the sake of the Huangxuan family. In this generation, only the son of the patriarch should establish the family business as soon as possible. Otherwise, like the patriarch, he thinks about revenge every day, and suddenly... what should we do?" Tang De He joked frivolously, "Forget it, the poor ladies of the Arthur Empire can't be the mistresses of the Huangxuan family."

"Actually, we, Xiao Jin, are married, but we just haven't mentioned it to him. It's been settled between us adults." The one who had been drinking alone suddenly said with a smile on his face, while saying While shaking his body, he looked very much like three aunts and six wives talking about the marriage of the younger generation.

Patriarch Huangxuan stepped on Si Tianming's house under the table and crushed it hard.

Si Tianming raised his eyebrows in pain, and didn't dare to continue.

"I don't know which family's lady can marry such a good husband." Tang De asked.

Si Tianming didn't dare to say any more, he just wrapped his hands in his sleeves like a farmer, and the old god was swaying on the ground.

In the end, I still didn't hold back, and couldn't help but say, "That girl is pretty."

"I don't know how long His Royal Highness Vichypel will continue to talk about this kind of thing."

Patriarch Huang Xuan chuckled suddenly.

"I know His Highness cares about His Majesty, and I appreciate His Majesty's kindness. His Majesty treats me well, so I naturally have gifts to offer."

"There is nothing to recommend in the south of the Yangtze River, only fine wine is still worth a try. Bring some for Your Highness, and I hope His Highness will not blame you. Su Mang, Du Ruo, serve wine for Your Highness." Huang Xuan pointed a folding fan at the maids around him and asked them to cheer for Wei Xi. I serve wine.

The maid named Su Mang by Patriarch Huangxuan opened the wooden box that she had been holding in her arms, which contained the best Donghuang secret color glazed wine cup.

Winning the emerald color of thousands of peaks is called the secret color glaze.

And the maid named Du Ruo unsealed a jug of wine and poured it into six secret-color glazed wine cups one by one.

Su Mang served the wine one by one in front of everyone.

Vichypel took a sip of the wine.

The aroma of the wine is leisurely, with a cold aroma, the first taste is a soft peach blossom aroma, but after a long time, it feels very cold, as if it carries a bone-chilling coldness...and a touch of blood.

"What do you think of this wine, Your Highness?" Patriarch Huangxuan asked.

"It's good wine, does it have a name?"

"Feixue wine."

"This name is too soft." Weir, who has never expressed his opinion, suddenly said that besides swords, his favorite thing is wine.

Originally, he didn't like the almost weak aroma of this glass of wine very much, but after the almost weak aroma faded, it turned out to be almost cold killing intent and the cruelty of blood.

If blood can go into wine, it must be so.

Hearing that this wine didn't have a name that could match it, Weier couldn't help but frowned.

"Concubine's color is light red. Concubine's snow is a snow that was dyed red by blood and fell eight hundred miles south of the Yangtze River." Patriarch Huangxuan said slowly, those peach blossom eyes seemed to really hold the scene of everything. The heavy snow dyed the color of concubine.

"Back then, on the day when my Huangxuan clan fought to the death in the bloody battle, there was a heavy snowfall, and the blood stained the white snow, making them all look like concubines."

"In March of this year, the peach blossoms on both sides of the Huaihe River, which should have been plain white, turned red." Patriarch Huangxuan said word by word, "I had no choice but to make wine from eight hundred miles of peach blossoms and call it Feixue."

Patriarch Huangxuan walked in front of Vichypel step by step, his white clothes looked like the snow that had just gone down that day.

The peach blossoms are covered with snow, the concubine's color is helpless.

He stood in front of Vichypel, his eyes, which were so beautiful that they were almost shocking, were the bloodbathed Jiangnan that day.

"But today, both Your Highness and the Arthur Empire should know why I am here! Your Highness has avoided talking about this matter, and I don't know why!"

Si Tianming, who was always present behind Patriarch Huangxuan, was leaning on the table, holding the secret-color glazed wine cup in his hand, and there seemed to be a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

All the people looked at Patriarch Huangxuan and Vehipel, but no one paid attention to him.

At the corner, he covered the hands holding the wine glass with his wide sleeves, raised his head and drank the bloody Feixue wine in a sip.

——The peach blossoms in eight hundred miles, the blood in eight hundred miles in the south of the Yangtze River.

Moonlight's wide sleeves fell down, those willow-leaf eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and there was still a very slight smile on the corner of the mouth.

Wihipel looked at the Patriarch Huangxuan in front of him and said: "The Arthur Empire just wants to know whether the Patriarch really wants to avenge the Vana Empire, or just to consolidate his position. Now that he has known the Patriarch's determination, the Arthur Empire I will do my best to help the Huangxuan family take revenge."

He put a stack of documents on the table and pushed them in front of Patriarch Huangxuan, "This is the result of the Arthur Empire's investigations over the past month. The officers who participated in the day's death and their detailed information are here."

The head of the Huangxuan family took the document, and each page contained the information of an officer. He didn't see any obvious discrepancies with the Huangxuan family's investigation, so he handed it to Su Mang beside him.

"I don't know how much your Highness is asking for this thing?"

"Quan should apologize to the Patriarch for the offense just now."

04

After the banquet was over, there were only three people left in the hall, Wisipel and Don Deville.

"The head of Patriarch Huangxuan looks pretty good, but it's a pity he's a man." Tang De said while playing with the secret-color glazed wine cup in his hand.

"That's all you think?" Will said.

"Yeah, you didn't realize that all the maids at this banquet were secretly looking at Patriarch Huangxuan. In the past, they were all looking at me and His Highness." Tang De said rather melancholy.

"Hey! Am I not human?" Weier roared beside him.

"In the eyes of those little girls, the middle-aged uncle is really not a human being." Tang De shook his head and said.

"I don't know which girl this Huangxuanjin will marry in the end. It will be a disaster if that woman is not as beautiful as Huangxuanjin."

"What are you bothering with?" said Wichpel.

"Don't you care about anything?" Tang De looked at Wisipel and asked.

"It's none of my business who Huangxuan Jin marries." Wihipel felt a little amused.

"But don't look at this Huangxuanjin who looks like a girl, she is quite difficult to provoke." Tang De said: "Also, remember, don't hurt Huangxuanjin, this is the best thing for yourself Protect."

"What do you mean?" Will asked.

"Huangxuanjin inherited the mad blood of Chi You from the Huangxuan family. Once Chi You's mad blood starts to burn in his body, he will enter the state of the God of War in Jiuli, bloodthirsty and tyrannical. Gods block and kill gods, and Buddhas block and kill Buddhas." Tang De introduced it seriously.

"And the trigger mechanism of Chi You's mad blood is that it can only be triggered when bleeding, and the more blood shed, the stronger it will be, the more brutal and bloodthirsty, until the blood dries up and dies."

"And if the injury is too serious, even if he doesn't want to, Chi You Kuangxue will force him to enter the state of Jiuli God of War. At this time, he will no longer even know who the person in front of him is."

"It was because of Chi You's mad blood that Huang Xuan Xilian's blood killed Beiling Dao back then. It is said that he killed tens of thousands of enemies in the battle with Beidi, but when all the enemy troops died under his sword, Chi You's mad blood It was still burning. So he rode his horse to the Beiling Road, killing hundreds of innocent people who passed by, and even a few dead soldiers from the Huangxuan family who went to stop him died under his sword. When he returned to Jinling, In less than half a year, he committed suicide with his life-saving sword."

"It sounds like there's nothing good about Chi You's crazy blood." Weier said.

"Yes, it's better not to have this thing. Of course, not every descendant of the Huangxuan family will have it. It is said that it has been gone for several generations, but it happened that Huangxuanjin caught up with it."

"Such a person is destined to be a lunatic." Tang De sighed, "But if Huangxuan Jin hadn't the blood of Chi You's mad blood, Huang Xuanzhou would have thought he was not the heir of the Huangxuan family and would have been kicked out a long time ago."

"kindness?"

"As a descendant of the Huangxuan family, Huangxuan Jin doesn't have his own sword, and he can't call out the ghost soldiers in the jade talisman. This is the first time for a member of the Huangxuan family." Tang De said.

Seeing that Will still didn't understand, Tang De continued to explain:

"When the young master of each generation of Huangxuan family was five years old, he would be taken to the sword mound of Huangxuan family. Tens of thousands of swords were stuck in the sword trial pool in the sword mound, and only one of them was the last one of the young master of each Huangxuan family. It can be pulled |out|out of the pool of swords." Tang De leaned on the chair behind him and said.

"From then on, that sword will follow the Patriarch of the Huangxuan Family for the rest of his life, and even after death, the ghosts around the Patriarch will bring their bones and sword back to the Sword Tomb."

"And Huangxuan Jin walked out of the sword mound empty-handed in the end."

"The Huangxuan family's vow to return with their souls is not just a joke. After death, the souls of the Huangxuan family's dead will return to the Huangxuan family's token, the jade talisman, and the descendants of the Huangxuan family can Use your own blood to summon the ghost soldiers in the jade talisman."

"Although there are probably only a few hundred ghost soldiers summoned, Huangxuan Jiuyin used hundreds of ghost soldiers and Chi You's blood to kill millions of households in Beimang back then."

"But Huangxuanjin can't call out the ghost soldiers in the jade talisman. The whole Huangxuan family knows about it. If Huangxuanjin didn't inherit Chi You's mad blood, no one would recognize him as the head of the Huangxuan family. "

"This Huangxuanjin is so miserable..." Weier, who had never had much sympathy, couldn't help but said.

"Your Highness, do you also feel miserable?" Tang De sighed and looked at Wisipel.

"Everyone has their own way, you and I don't need to worry about the affairs of Huangxuan's family." Wisipel's tone was still as indifferent as before, as if he didn't care at all about what happened to Huangxuan Jin.

Tang De froze for a moment, then lowered his head and chuckled.

Yes, how could he have forgotten, His Royal Highness Wisipel has always been like this.

Could there really be anything or anyone in this world that he would think was worth remembering?

He suddenly remembered the black-haired boy again.

Recalling the trial of the Valkyrie, His Highness Vehipel, who came in a hurry, looked at the black-haired boy in the empty field.

perhaps……

"Let's go, there are other things." Wischpel said.

"Yeah, it's time to leave." Tang De sighed.

When he walked to the table of the head of the Huangxuan family, Tang De looked at the glass of wine that was still full and said, "It's strange, there are obviously five people, but six glasses of wine have been poured."

"Before they came, they didn't know how many people there were, so maybe they just took six of them." Weier said nonchalantly.

"Yes, let's go."

When the three of them left, Wisipel looked up at the top of the Wuld Spring Hall, but he didn't see any problem, so he frowned and left.

05

The door of the Wuld Spring Hall was slowly closed, and the light in the hall became somewhat dim.

Zichen lay on the cross-supported arch columns of the circular dome above the spring hall, looking at the rust and mildew stains on the dome because no one had cleaned it all year round.

Generally, few people care about this place, and even the cleaners will give up cleaning it because it is too difficult to clean.

They were too far away, and Zichen couldn't hear what they were saying, but he still lay here all the time.

Beside him is the list of officers who have participated in Daybreak, which should have been at Su Mang's place.

But the Huangxuan family already had a copy of this thing, so the girl didn't care too much and threw it aside.

He looked at the list page by page, throwing one down after each one.

Lists with black-and-white photos of Vanner officers floated down one by one in the midair of the Wuld Spring Hall.

He remembered every person on every page.

How could it be impossible to remember?

Nothing is more memorable than hatred.

He spread out the last ten sheets in his hand and looked at them one by one, then threw them all down at once.

He still looked at the rust and mildew stains on the dome, and he even took a serious look at the metal patterns.

After an unknown amount of time, the light in the Wuld Spring Hall completely dimmed.

The young man who jumped down from the cross arched pillar stepped on those lists, picked up the only remaining glass of Feixue wine, and drank it all in one gulp.

——I had no choice but to make wine from eight hundred miles of peach blossoms and call it Feixue.

06

Zichen was picking apples in front of the fruit stand in the Hall of Valor with a kraft paper bag in his hand. Before he left, Devon asked him to bring some apples.

Want the kind that is very red and big, and the kind that will be very sweet when you bite it.

After buying apples, Zichen went to a nearby shop to buy some bread. The bread in this shop was actually not very good. There was not enough butter, and it was not soft enough to eat.But if I don't go back, I won't be able to catch up with the evening class.

He picked up the apple in the brown paper bag, rubbed it against his chest, and began to nibble.

He chose a short-cut path with not too many people, and white pigeons flew over the Hall of Valor.

"Come out, you have been with me for a long time." Zichen said without looking back.

Xiang Wang jumped from the white building, and the white cloth covering his eyes fluttered up and down.

"Young Master Jin still doesn't plan to go back?"

Xiang Wang is a retainer of the Huangxuan family. In the past, he and Bi Fang were the ones who looked for Zichen when he was running around on Jinling 36th Street. Home.

And this time he came to him alone.

"The name Huangxuanjin is too heavy, I can't bear it." He continued walking forward.

"If you can't bear it, let others bear it for you!" Xiang Wang shouted behind him.

Zichen stood where he was.

"Don't you want to go back?" Xiang Wang said, "Don't you want to go back to Jiangnan again!"

He yelled behind Zichen, as if he wanted to shout out all his disappointment with Zichen.

"Have you forgotten the 36th street in Jinling!? Have you forgotten the perfect peach blossoms in Jiangnan!?"

"You are the young master Jin of the Huangxuan family, Huangxuan Jin of the Jiangnan Huangxuan family!"

"Eight hundred miles south of the Yangtze River is waiting for you, Jinling is waiting for you,...the Huangxuan family is also waiting for you!"

Xiang Wang walked up to Zichen step by step, and said almost sadly, "Aren't you really planning to go back to Jiangnan?"

Zichen didn't speak.

Xiang Wang smiled as if mocking himself, and finally took out a dark bead from his arms, and put it in Zichen's hand, "This is a mysterious bead, when you want to come back, put blood into the bead , I can know where you are."

He turned away.

Zichen looked at his back and suddenly called out, "Wait a minute."

Xiang Wang was stunned for a moment, then turned around.

Zichen bit the apple in his hand, then took out an apple from the kraft paper bag, and threw it to Xiang Wang, with no expression on his face.

"...Take it, it's very sweet."

After speaking, he turned and left, still biting the half-eaten apple in his mouth.