Twilight War

Chapter 24 Battle of Silver City

Their swords dug into the earth, their heads turned to the sky.

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Zichen looked at Dai Wen who had been lying on the bed and crying non-stop since he came back from the confession.

Well, don't even ask about the result, it's a 100% failure, otherwise this guy would be screaming all the way back.

"Hey, men don't cry easily. Even if you fail, you don't have to cry like this." Zichen climbed onto Devon's bed and dug out the unknown object nestled in the quilt and said.

"Besides, your failure to confess is a predictable result. Why are you crying? If you confess successfully, I will be really frightened."

"Get out!" Devon hid in the quilt and continued to cry and choke, "A man doesn't cry easily, even if I don't have a girlfriend, am I still a fucking man?"

"You failed to confess, and it's not that you were eunuched." Zichen looked at Dai Wen with disgust, "Even if it's gone, brother, I won't abandon you! Don't cry, you won't have to worry about staying in Qingshan No firewood! As long as you are here, you will still have a tomorrow!"

Devon was still crying on the bed, and Zichen was so frightened that he lifted his quilt, "You won't be caught by Will, and then you will be eunuched by him."

"Get out!" Devon wrapped himself in the quilt, "I'm fine down here! Teacher Sylvia is the only green hill in my heart!"

"Then you can't have a green mountain without you, you will stop the stove from now on, burn firewood and cook!"

After persuading him for a long time, Zichen felt that it would be useless to spend any more time, so he slid off the bed by himself.

Remembering that he hadn't eaten yet, he set up a pot and cooked some noodles.

Halfway through eating, Devon suddenly popped his head out of the bed with red walnut eyes, "What are you eating?"

"Noodles." Zichen ignored Dai Wen and continued eating instant noodles.

"You wait, save me two!" Devon slid off the bed with two walnut eyes.He sat down at the table in shorts.

He got two bottles of wine from under the table and threw them on the table, "I have some wine here, would you like some?"

"You're well prepared!" Zichen exclaimed in shock.

"Well. I planned to celebrate my successful confession." Devon said with a sigh.

"Then you bought too much wine." Zichen said as he picked up a bottle of wine and blew on it, then frowned, "This wine is not good."

"Then do you want to drink it?" Devon ignored him and drank half a bottle for himself. "Two copper coins for a bottle, what more do you want!"

"Drink!" Zichen yelled, "Of course I have to drink. I don't have any girlfriends, so I must have wine!"

"Yes! It's done, it's done!" Devon said, waving his hand.

Zichen twitched his lips and smiled, "Why did you tell Teacher Sevia?"

"What else can I say, I asked her if she could be my dance partner, and she started saying 'sorry'." Devon smiled, "You know what a girl means when she says sorry, 'I don't like you , get the hell out of here!'”

He was still smiling, but the tears were starting to come out, and he buried his face in his hands.

"and then?"

"She keeps saying she's sorry." Devon took a sip of his drink and raised his head to force back his tears.

"What did you say?"

"I told her, don't say sorry, it's not her fault, it's mine." After speaking, the original tears were not suppressed, and the other two lines of tears flowed from Devon's swollen eyes down.

"Then what are you going to do?" Zichen asked, "Should I hurry up and find another one before the dance?"

Devon shook his head, "There are very few people who love each other in the world, and even fewer are able to be together. Most people, like me, just like one person. Don't look for it anymore."

Zichen smiled and poured Dai Wen a glass of wine.The words Dai Wen said were too artistic, and Zichen suspected that he thought about it in bed for a long time.

"By the way, where's your girlfriend? Will you be able to watch your girlfriend then?" Devon asked with a mean smile.

"Divided." Zichen shook his head and said.

"What!"

"separated."

"Did your girlfriend heal your eyes?" Devon asked in surprise.

"Fuck you! You're fucking blind!"

"I just said that normal girls can't fall in love with you. Sure enough, you won't be wanted after your eyes are cured." Devon shook his wine glass as if it contained expensive red wine, "Tell me how that girl dumped you , Let the brothers be happy."

"Just dump it like that, how else can you dump it. Breaking up is not a confession, just like those fancy confessions downstairs, you have to play tricks."

"Why did you dump it?"

"...His eyes have healed." Zichen said.

"Forget it, brother, you can be content, why is it better than brother me, I haven't even held my little hand before." Devon said while lying back on the chair.

"At that time, the two of us will only be able to watch those couples dancing under the stage." Devon sighed.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, even if it doesn't matter, he can't dance with me, and he still has to watch from the audience."

"Why?" Devon asked a little drunk, and then suddenly hiccupped.

"No reason." Zichen shook his head.

After drinking for a while, Dai Wen seemed to be a little drunk, crying and fussing, and threw himself on Zichen, "Why don't you agree! You don't want me to be such a nice man! You just wait to regret it."

"Well, yes, I don't agree." Zichen supported Dai Wen with a helpless expression.

"You won't let me cry even if you don't promise me!"

"Well, cry and cry. I don't care about you."

"If you don't promise me, I don't care about you! I'll find someone else!"

"Well, let's find it!"

"If you don't promise me, I... Me, don't even try to find someone else!"

"Ha ha."

"I, I fucking like you!" Devon threw himself into Zichen's arms, wiping all his tears on Zichen's vest.

"Well, it's okay, I don't like you."

Devon whimpered beside him for a while and finally calmed down.

Zichen poured himself some wine.

He looked out of the window, and the Asgard dusk was laid out on top of countless white buildings, magnificent as the residence of a god.

"Daiwen, as a ruler, do you have to learn to give up a lot?" Zichen asked softly.

Dai Wen hadn't fully woke up from the drunkenness, and he listened to Zichen's words drunkenly, "It's not just the rulers, everyone has to give up a lot."

"I know, but as a ruler, do you have to give up more? In the eyes of the ruler, the lives of the people are more like numbers than individual living people."

"Yes, but this is the only way to become a better ruler. If too much personal emotion is involved, it will only make things worse." Devon swung his glass drunkenly and said, "In the eyes of the ruler, The whole country is one gigantic machine in motion."

"It's actually very difficult to peel off one's emotions. No one can truly be indifferent to life and death. And as a ruler, one must completely strip one's emotions. Everything is just weighing the pros and cons," Devon continued. .

"My mother is a doctor at the National Academy of Medicine. She said that doctors must treat patients as machines when performing operations, and she is just a mechanical repairman. Only in this way can emotions not affect their operations. "

"Then what about those who were abandoned? Are they just abandoned like that?" Zichen asked.

"So what if you are abandoned? Anyone can be abandoned." Devon said: "And those who are abandoned by those in power are doing it for profit, for something else. But those who are abandoned by God are Really pitiful."

"Abandoned by God?" Zichen asked.

"Yeah, being abandoned by God is like throwing a small stone when God is bored, and then it hits you right on the head. And God doesn't do it for any benefit, not even for fun. He just abandons you like that. .”

"I said that my mother was a doctor. I followed my mother before I was seven years old. I have seen too many people who died inexplicably."

"And those who are more pitiful than those who died are those who are alive. There are too many diseases that cannot be cured, but they still have to bear all the pain while they are alive. What did they do wrong? The stone in your hand hit it."

"At that time, I thought, they are really pitiful. When I was seven years old, I suddenly got a serious illness. I stayed in bed for two years, and every day was painful. I didn't even know if I could live. Go on. My mother's a doctor, and even she doesn't know what's wrong with me."

"That's when I realized that the stone in God's hand may hit anyone. Anyone may be abandoned. At that time, I felt pity for others, and in the end I knew which one I could also be abandoned."

"Why did God do this?" Zichen looked at the wine in his hand and said, "When I was listening to books in Jinling, it seemed that bad people would always end badly, but later I found out that this is not the case. God shouldn't be A judge? But I don’t seem to understand God’s rules for judging everything.”

"The judge? God is not the judge. God is more like the one who controls everything." Devon shook his head and said, "Do you know the meaning of the God's Covenant Machinery Research Institute? 'God's covenant' is the agreement between man and God .”

"The bard found the "Book of Promise" in the hot Muspelheim, and dedicated it to the Arthur Empire. So a large number of steam machines were put into research and development, and those steam machines brought mankind to conquer The power of this world is something that humans have been unable to grasp for dozens of centuries!"

"In the past, humans fought against wild beasts and nature in this world, but with steam technology, humans can surpass everything."

"And the rulers of the Arthur Empire claim that this book is God's promise to mankind, but no one knows how far this promise can last, and no one knows how long this promise of God to mankind will last."

"My father is a mechanic from the Shenyue Machinery Research Institute. In fact, the Shenyue Machinery Research Institute has developed many very powerful machines. However, these machines have been banned from production. Some people have even developed a machine that can save a lot of metal materials and Nixie tubes for space. My father said this thing would change the world once it was put into use."

"But this kind of thing is forbidden to be used. Those blue-blooded nobles call it the flame of the devil. There are only a small number of nixie tubes shining in the underground waste room of the Mechanical Research Institute, and no one cares about it."

"Why? Haven't Arthur and Vaner been engaged in an arms race? If something powerful is developed, shouldn't it be put into use immediately?"

"Yes, the two countries have indeed been conducting research and development experiments, but everyone only dares to tinker with the existing steam technology on the basis of the "Book of Promise", and no one dares to take the next step."

"Those blue-blooded nobles believe that steam technology is an agreement between gods and humans. Under this agreement, people can obtain the power of gods through steam technology. But God has drawn a line that no one knows, an insurmountable line, Once humans cross this line, all promises end," said Devin.

"It's like a shepherd can watch the flock quarreling in the fence, but he will never sit back and watch the sheep go over the fence. And no one knows where the fence is, so no one dares to move forward. Fighting inside the fence."

"But shouldn't steam technology belong to humans? Shouldn't steam technology be a weapon for humans to get rid of God's shadow?" Zichen asked.

"Yes, it's ridiculous. My father said that steam technology should be the creation and glory of human beings themselves, but they have to use God's name and promise."

"And my father said that although those steam machines are just the assembly of metals and the burning of fuel, he can see tremendous power from them, and that kind of power should only be possessed by gods." Devon said: "This kind of It feels like... like humans created gods themselves."

"It's strange. It should be the gods who created humans, but now humans have created gods themselves. Metal is the skeleton, the silver of the great abyss is the blood, and burning is the soul."

Zichen was startled by Dai Wen's words.

It felt like the clouds broke, and he saw the image of a god in the sky.

"So? What kind of existence is a god?" Zichen asked Dai Wen in a daze.

Devon shook his head: "Who knows? Have you ever heard of the mechanical universe?"

Zi Chen shook his head.

"This was created by those lunatics at the Imperial Research Institute. They have been trying to find the relationship between machinery, the universe and God." Devon said, "They say that the world is like a huge machine. When the mechanic completes the assembly, it will Wind up the machine, and the machine will work by itself, without the mechanic. In this world, after the creation of all things, God has retired to the background and only attends to the affairs of the world."

"So, to them, the god is a mechanic, just like us?" Zichen frowned and asked: "The god is too irresponsible, he should always take care of the maintenance of this machine, look at the world. How bad is the operation?"

"This theory was once published in "Empire's Erotic History". As you know, "Empire's Erotic History" will also have some discussions about technology and philosophy. It is said that the response of this theory is not very good." Devon shrugged and said. .

"How could it be good? Describe the god as a mechanic like us." Zichen poured himself a glass of wine.

Devon pushed the wine glass in front of him, motioning for Zichen to pour him some.

Zichen shook his head, "If it's gone, drink less."

"So, what is a god? A judge? A power? A boring person who sits high above the clouds and throws stones, or a mechanic like us?" Devon said as he fell on the table and raised his wine glass.

"By the way, why are we drinking?" Devon asked Zichen blankly.

"Because we are both broken in love." Zichen said while drinking wine.

"Why are two broken-hearted people talking about this kind of topic!" Devon roared, "Why should we both care about gods and the universe after falling in love! What does the operation of the universe have to do with me!"

"Who knows." Zichen said, "Otherwise we will continue to talk about your failed confession."

Devon blinked, "Forget it, let's continue talking about gods and the universe."

Just as Zichen wanted to continue to say something, Dai Wen continued to lie on the table and started crying.

"Why! Teacher Sevia! Why did you reject me!"

"Teacher Sevia!"

Zichen patted Devon and looked out of the window. All the buildings in the holy white city of Asgard were laid out in front of his eyes, and they seemed to be burning and falling in the setting sun.

However, suddenly, a piece of jade hanging from the end of the string of Buddhist beads on his wrist began to heat up violently, as if something was about to rush out, carrying the killing intent and conquest that had been dormant for thousands of years!

The wine glass fell to the ground and shattered into countless pieces.

"Zichen, what's wrong with you?" Dai Wen looked at the roommate beside him who suddenly went crazy and rushed over, "Zichen! Zichen! Don't scare me! What's wrong with you!"

Zichen panted violently, and blood slowly seeped into the jade.