Twilight War

05

After dinner, the head of the group played chess with Mr. Habsburg on the table in the hall, and Huang Xuanjin chatted with Yilier and Mrs. Habsburg.

Wischpel looked at a book from the sidelines.

Huangxuanjin has never been very good at this kind of chatting with elders, he can only watch Yilier obediently please Madam Habsburg, as if he came here just to eat and drink .

The cats were fighting with each other again, and Mrs. Habsburg had more than a dozen balls of red yarn at her feet.

A fold-eared cat started running with a red ball of yarn in its mouth, and ran up the stairs directly pulling the wool. Yilier hurriedly chased the cat. Just as he ran to the cat, several other cats also pulled the wool. The yarn ran.

Huang Xuanjin looked at Yilier chasing the cats immorally, and smiled gloatingly. After a while, the cats spread the red wool all over the house, and even tangled up the stairs. .

Eliel managed to catch the cats covered in red wool and put them in front of Mrs. Habsburg.

"Oh, the little rascals are back, haven't you had enough trouble?" Mrs. Habsburg rubbed the heads of those meowing little guys.

"Is there no way to control them?" Eliel asked.

"I have nothing to do, little Jin, do you know how to control these cats?" Mrs. Habsburg suddenly said to Huangxuan Jin.

"Why don't you buy a cat meat stew recipe and put it in front of them, and show them every time they do something wrong." Huang Xuanjin said sincerely.

Mrs. Habsburg, Eliel: "..."

"Really, ma'am, it would be great if you had a dog." Huang Xuanjin said, "Dog meat will taste much better than cat meat."

Mrs. Habsburg, Eliel: "..."

"What? Is my idea wrong?" Huang Xuanjin asked a little weakly, seeing Mrs. Habsburg and Yilier's expressions were not very good.

Mrs. Habsburg and Yilier no longer paid attention to Huangxuanjin.

"You are the son of Albert Flamel." Vihipel suddenly said to Eliel. "If I remember correctly, he should be working in the Alchemy Department now."

"Yes, Your Highness. He is now the deputy director of the Alchemy Department, and I plan to serve in the Alchemy Department in two years." Yilier was a little surprised by Vehipel's sudden question, but he immediately replied respectfully.

"Mr. Habsburg said you would come here every year at this time, so he brought you a present," Wischpel said. He put a box on the table and slowly pushed it over.

Yilier quickly took the box over, and inside were two books - "The Darkness of the Secret Law" and "The Cultivation of Gold".

These are two books about alchemy. "The Darkness of the Secret Law" explores alchemy from the material aspect, while "The Cultivation of Gold" studies alchemy from the spiritual aspect.

These two books are banned in the alchemy world, because they involve a lot of exploration and thinking about Emperor Loki.

But it also solved many problems that the alchemy world could not solve for a long time.

These two books once caused panic in the orthodox alchemy community, and were eventually ordered to be burned. No one should keep this book, and it is difficult to find this book even in the black market of Ninth Street in Paradise Lost.And Flamel has always claimed to be an orthodox alchemy family, and of course it is even more impossible to have these two books.

These two books Eliel has wanted for a long time.

Yilier was completely speechless holding these two books. Yilier had been wanting to go to the Ninth Street Black Market in Lost Paradise just to find these two books. Unexpectedly, he was sent by Vichypel. .

"His... Your Highness, is this for me?"

"Well." Wisipel nodded lightly, "Although there are many studies on secret techniques in this book, most of what is said is correct, and even some problems that cannot be solved by the classics of the alchemy world are here. Introduction. I believe the alchemist of the Flamel family should be able to identify."

"...when... of course!"

Without sitting on the sofa for a while, Huang Xuanjin was suddenly picked up by the group leader, "Little Jin, let's go out for a walk with me."

"You don't let your Yilier accompany you, why do you want me?" Huang Xuanjin was dragged away by the group leader before he could finish speaking.

Huang Xuanjin followed behind the group leader, "If you don't give me an explanation today, don't fucking think I'll spare you. Why did you drag me out?"

"Xiao Jin, let me ask you something." The team leader said shyly.

"Well, let's talk." Huang Xuanjin rolled his eyes impatiently.

"It's about Her Majesty Vichypel."

"Well, then what?"

"You said... the inner one, um, yes." The head of the group said with a painful expression, "Do you think His Highness is... um, yes."

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

"I'm not sure, I'm just a little scared." The head finally gritted his teeth and said vaguely, "Do you think His Highness will take a fancy to my Yilier?"

Huang Xuanjin: "..." What did you say?Can you say that again?

"You don't even know, since His Royal Highness Vihipel came down from upstairs today, he has been looking at Yilier. Although he didn't look at it all the time, I always feel that His Highness is looking at Yilier." With a painful expression on his face, "You said what if His Highness takes a fancy to Yilier, I'm afraid I really can't compete!"

"Also! Iliel just said that His Royal Highness Wisipel also went to the street. Is this reasonable? Why should a Highness follow our three guards to the street to buy ingredients?"

"It's quite unreasonable, but it's very unreasonable for the three guards to go to the street to buy ingredients." Huang Xuanjin looked at the leader and said. "So is everything possible? Maybe His Royal Highness Vichypel just suddenly felt too bored. You can see that he drank with that old man for a long time and wanted to go out to relax, which is understandable!"

"And the two books His Royal Highness Wisipel gave to Eli just now, this is a painstaking effort! I don't believe His Royal Highness Wisipel prepared them casually, they are forbidden | books!" The leader bit He gritted his teeth and said, "It's a big deal, it's a big deal, next time I'll accompany Yilier to the Ninth Street Black Market in Paradise Lost."

"Think about it, it's impossible for everyone to be like me." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Get out!" The leader stretched out his fist and beat Huangxuan Jin violently, and then said bitterly, "What do you think if His Highness really likes Yilier?"

"Why..." Huang Xuanjin waved his hand, and suddenly thought of something in the middle of speaking, so he suddenly looked at the leader and said, "...It's not impossible."

"You think so too!"

"So in the future, we must stay away from His Royal Highness Vichypel, you know? As far as we can go!"

"Yeah!" The team leader nodded seriously, "Although Xiao Jin is usually out of tune, this is still very considerate for me, brother, brother!"

"We'll leave immediately after we get back, you know?" Huang Xuanjin said.

"Yeah!" The team leader nodded, "Well said. Let's go back!"

"Yeah, I'll second it!" Huang Xuanjin said.

As soon as we got back to the living room, the head of the group said to Mrs. Habsburg with an apologetic face that there was snow today, and we were afraid that it would be too late to go back and the road would be slippery, so we went back first, with a righteous smile on our face. Xuan Jin believed it was true.

"Oh, that's it. The three of you should leave some of you to clean up the wool. Anna has to clean up other rooms and has no time to clean up the wool. His Highness can drop you back at that time, so don't worry about it being too late." Mrs. Habsburg With a kind smile on his face.

"Oh, so, Xiao Jin said that he likes to tidy up the wool." The team leader directly pushed Huangxuan Jin out.

"What? I have no feeling for wool."

The group leader looked at Huangxuanjin with the expression that the organization needed you, and said to Huangxuanjin in a low voice, "You will never let Yilier stay here and be sent back in a carriage by His Royal Highness Vichypel."

"You can stay!"

"What do you think?" The leader showed his fist at Huang Xuanjin.

Damn, this is power politics.

When your Eliel is sent back in a carriage by Visipel, it will definitely be a perfect Eliel, and I may not be so fucking!

The vana empire's carriage drove out of Mr. Habsburg's castle quickly. The head of the group looked at Huangxuan Jin with an expression of "I knew you were reliable, brother". Yilier kept waving his hands from the window, " Ma'am, sir, I'll be here often!"

At this moment, Huangxuan Jin was watching the carriage leave quickly with one hand wrapped in wool and the other hand wrapped in wool.My mother is the one who needs to leave the most!

"Little Jin can wrap it slowly, there is no rush." ​​Mrs. Habsburg was still knitting her sweater that would always go wrong.

You are not in a hurry, I am in a hurry...

Huangxuan Jin really admired the fighting power of these cats now. If he had known, he would not have watched Yilier catching cats so gloatingly back then.

He thought it was troublesome, so he wrapped the wool around the four fingers of his left hand.

Red wool, old wooden spiral staircase.

Huangxuanjin carefully untied the woolen thread wrapped around the railing of the stairs, and walked into the study along the thread.

There were only a few wall lamps lit in the study room, and the light was a bit dark. There were really no other lamps, so Huang Xuanjin had no choice but to go in directly, anyway, he would come out after winding the wool.

The dim study room, the swaying light of the wall lamp, the scattered books, the red threads intertwined on the bookshelves, and the figure of a black-haired officer in the gap between the spines of the books.

The cat walked by without warning and slowly shuttled among the bookshelves.

Huang Xuanjin bypassed the cat that broke in suddenly, went around to the back of the bookshelf and continued to collect the wool.When he was halfway through the winding, he suddenly saw the red thread wrapped around his pretty fingers, and Huang Xuanjin slowly raised his head.

Vehipel was pulling the other end of the red thread, and looked at him, his blue eyes were like the sky of Asgard.

"Your Highness, good evening, are you...fishing here?" Huang Xuanjin said with a guilty smile.

"I wanted to go fishing, but it was a cat that took the bait." Wihipel looked at Huangxuan Jin with a chuckle and said.

"Don't bother His Highness fishing anymore." Huangxuan Jin said with a mean smile, then turned and left, but just two steps away, he was tripped by the red thread wrapped around his body and fell to the ground.

Huangxuan Jin struggled to stand up, but was directly pulled by Wisipel by the red wool.

"It seems that I haven't seen you much recently." Wisipel asked while pressing Huangxuan Jin halfway on the desk.

Huangxuanjin still smiled meanly, "I didn't see much...not many."

"But it's not like I haven't seen you at Isabel's place this month."

"It might be that we are destined to each other," Huang Xuanjin said, blinking his eyes sincerely, "It just so happens that my shift date and yours are all staggered!"

"I really don't think I like this kind of fate." Vehipel wrapped the red wool around Huangxuan Jin's wrist as if he was bored. "Or I'll ask the regiment leader for your duty list."

As a result, Huang Xuanjin laughed even more meanly, "He won't give it to you..."

"why?"

"Guess..." Of course, it was impossible for Huangxuanjin to tell Captain Wihipel what was in his heart.

"It's winter, why do you wear so little. Although the winter in Corinth is not as cold as Asgard's, it's also very humid and cold, so you still need to wear more." Wihipel said with his arms around Huangxuan Jin's waist. , and then slowly bit open the button of Huangxuan Jin's shirt.

"You know I don't wear enough, but you still take off my shirt." Huang Xuanjin thought to himself, "If you really want to freeze to death, I'll just say so."

Visipel might really want to freeze Huangxuanjin to death, not only didn't stop, but also directly tore most of Huangxuanjin's shirt, and then pressed his back completely on the desk, Huangxuanjin struggled violently under him said, "You fucking let go."

As a result, Vehipel directly wrapped his wrist with a red thread, with his hands behind his back.

Vehipel's fingers slid from the corners of Huangxuan Jin's eyes to the corners of his lips, with a cold temperature.Wisipel gently bit Huang Xuanjin's lower lip.

The red line is the order, and the circle refers to thousands of turns.

The Bible says, As a deer longs for the streams, my heart longs for you.

Messy pages, ancient books on the ground, flickering silver wall lamps, red thread winding around the shins.

In the dark study room, through the gap between the spines of the books, you can see the black cat walking among the bookshelves, and the shadow of the fire is like a butterfly disturbing.Wisipel sent his shoulders to Huangxuanjin for Huangxuanjin to bite, the boy's arched waist was like a black cat stretching its waist.Wisper's fingertips brushed Huang Xuanjin's wrist wrapped with red thread.

Wisipel kissed Huang Xuanjin lightly, and helped him button up the buttons on his shirt one by one.

"You fucking beast." Huang Xuanjin cursed while pulling the corner of his bitten mouth.

Wisipel sat on his lap holding Huangxuan Jin, "I haven't seen you for a month." He raised his head and looked at Huangxuan Jin from bottom to top, with a somewhat aggrieved expression.

Damn, this expression is simply a foul.

Huang Xuanjin wanted to scold him, but seeing Vichypel's expression, he couldn't say anything, so he could only twitch the corner of his mouth, "I haven't seen you for a month and I won't die, okay?"

"What do you think?" Wisipel gently grabbed Huang Xuanjin's fingers, kissing his fingertips one by one, patiently and meticulously, "I know, it doesn't matter if you don't see me for a long time, but you think about me ."

Huangxuan Jin pulled out his hand somewhat unnaturally, "I'm going down." As soon as he stood up from Wisipel, he was dragged back by the thread.

"You fucking never finish!"

"There is a gift for you."

"En?" Huang Xuanjin felt a little more at ease when he heard that there was a gift.

"I gave it to you a long time ago," Wisipel said with his arms around Huangxuan Jin's waist, "Go back and look for it on your own bed."

"when will you……"

"After that banquet," said Wichpel.

"I've been wanting to tell you that I'm here, but I haven't seen you for a month." Wihipel gently tugged at the red thread on Huang Xuanjin's wrist. The young man's wrist lined with red thread was slender and white. If I change another shift, I won’t do anything.”

"Yeah." Huang Xuanjin nodded, at any rate, he can't be bothered and soft.

"Can I ask for a gift in return?" Wihipel looked up at Huangxuan Jin and asked.

"Ok?"

"Return the gift." Wisipel's blue eyes reflected the young man.

Huangxuan Jin sighed, this is why he and Mrs. Habsburg came to my tricks, can't there be some more simple relationships between people?Do you have to rely on gifts to maintain a weak secular relationship?

Huang Xuanjin thought for a while, and seemed a bit reluctant to pick out a piece of toffee from his arms, "I bought it at that store, and there is still the last piece left."

Wihipel took the toffee, and suddenly looked at Huangxuan Jin and smiled slightly.

Just as Huangxuan Jin was about to turn around and leave, he was suddenly held back by Wisper again, and the taste of toffee spread from the corners of his lips, like the wine he drank suddenly a few months ago.

——My heart longs for you as a deer longs for a brook.

06

Wisipel was going to spend the night in the manor tonight, so only Huang Xuanjin took the carriage back to Corinth.

The wooden wheels of the carriage rolled over the thin snow under the moonlight at night.

Huang Xuanjin leaned his head against the car, the light spots from the car window fell on the teak floor of the carriage, and the dust floated in the moonlight.

There are night thrushes singing in the forest at night.

Huangxuanjin returned to the black tower, and slowly went upstairs along the dusty stairs.

He rummaged around on the bed for a while, and finally found a mithril brooch engraved with the World Tree under the pillow.

He sat on the bed holding the cold mithril brooch, and stroked the patterns on it with his fingers.

This brooch can enter the Hall of Valor and most of the Golden Palace.

He used to have one, but he lost it.

This brooch is like a key, and he knows that this key can open a door, and he also knows what the door leads to.

The whistle of the steam car came from afar. Outside the Black Tower is the St. Swan Bridge. Even at night, there are often pedestrians and vehicles passing by.

Huang Xuanjin was sitting on the messy bed, the lights of the steam car outside the window swayed past him.

When he came out of Isabel's bedroom today, he saw a wooden box placed in front of the statue of the knight.

Very ordinary willow wood, the copper lock on the wooden box is even rusted.

But when he passed the wooden box, he heard... clanking.

It was as if thousands of thunderbolts roared among them.

He had heard that voice before, long ago.

He wanted to open the wooden box, but finally withdrew his hand.

And when he put on his clothes and wanted to leave, he heard the queen say behind him:

"Now you don't even have the courage to pick up a sword?"

Isabel's voice still had the immaturity of a girl, but her tone seemed to be questioning.

He was just looking at the gray mist flowing outside the window, and he asked Isabel: "Can you tell me, what is the so-called courage?"

"Is it hitting the south wall with my head over and over again? I have hit it many times, and my head was bleeding, and I got up and kept hitting it when I fell down." He said: "But I also hurt."

"I once picked up the sword, but now the things I want to protect and the things that made me pick up the sword have all been buried in the loess. Now I have no reason to pick up the sword."

Huang Xuanjin stood in front of the slanted window of the black tower, holding a transparent glass in his hand, there was no wine in the glass, it was just ice water.

A glass of water with three cubes of ice.

In fact, most of the time he doesn't drink.

The vehicles in the distance are like fireflies at night, walking on an already existing line.

He shook the glass in his hand, and the transparent old ice hit the wall of the glass.

"What about what you hate? What you wanted to protect is gone, but those people and things you hated are still alive." The queen said in the huge shadow of the palace.

"Aren't you going to kill them under your sword?"