Twilight War

06

Eliel was at the front, illuminating the steps with silver candles, and Huangxuan Jin, Vehipel, Tang De, and Weier followed behind.

The side halls were once the residence of Queen Catherine, the mother of Queen Isabel.

Catherine was devout and religious all her life, and firmly opposed all steam machinery entering the side hall where she was.

And Queen Catherine has been imprisoned by her husband Louis XIII in the high tower on the side of the Holy Rosary Palace since she went crazy, and no one has lived here again.

Therefore, there is not even a lighting lamp in the corridor of the side hall, and one can only walk through the scarlet carpeted stairs by relying on silver candles.

The white candlelight lit up the baroque arabesques embroidered with dark gold threads on the red carpet little by little. Huangxuan Jin walked in the corridor with his hands clasped around his chest, panting for breath incessantly.

The nights in Vana were very cold, and the wind in the corridors made people feel uncomfortable.

Huang Xuanjin remembered that someone once saw the dead Queen Catherine running up this long staircase barefoot at night with a dangling lantern, the corner of her white skirt skimming over the scarlet carpet.

Now that I think about it, the members of the royal family of Vana like to run around in the palace alone at night. Fortunately, everyone has a lamp, otherwise it is really easy to bump into each other.

But it is also possible that each person is responsible for an area, Queen Catherine is responsible for the long staircase, and Capet I is responsible for the empty atrium.

"Little Jin, take your highness to the room on the third floor, and I will take General Tang De and General Weier to the second floor." Yilier turned to Huangxuan Jin and said.

Huangxuanjin nodded, and when he walked up the steps, he realized that he didn't bring a candle lamp, only Yilier had one, so he had to walk on the dark stairs with Vichypel. Fortunately, there was a narrow sidewalk in the middle of the second and third floors. The window can let a little light through, so that you can't see clearly at all.

Huangxuanjin gasped coldly while walking on the stairs, and Wihipel followed behind Huangxuanjin, with long silver hair soaked in the color of moonlight.

When they arrived at the room on the third floor, Huangxuanjin originally wanted to let Vehipel in directly, but he was ready to be more serious and responsible after thinking of Yilier's thousand and one thousand instructions.

After all, he was leaning on the railing and gnawing bread just now, and when he turned around, he saw the people who had just finished the meeting. He was so shocked that he still didn't forget to bite out the bacon in the bread and quickly swallowed it.

So Huang Xuanjin went in very seriously and responsibly, lit the candle lamp, pointed to the room and said, "This is the bed, this is the chair, and that is the window. Okay, call me if you need anything." Then he said neatly Close the door and flash back.

The corridor in the king's palace was very gloomy and cold, Huang Xuanjin couldn't help wrapping his clothes tightly.Now he couldn't help but began to suspect that Isabel was using the guards as livestock.

There was a slanted window next to the corridor, and through the slanted window one could see the gradually darkening night. Huangxuan Jin wanted to sleep by leaning against the pillar next to him.

Just when he was a little sleepy, he heard the bell next to him ringing. He obviously didn't tell Vehipel that there was a bell...

Huang Xuanjin frowned, and after thinking about it, he knocked on the door.

Vehipel opened the door, wearing a white silk nightgown, the neckline was embroidered with divine flowers with thin silver threads.Huang Xuanjin didn't control himself, and glanced at the naked|exposed skin of the man's neckline.

"The ice machine isn't working," Wischpel said.

Huang Xuanjin nodded and walked towards the ice machine beside the bed.

Queen Catherine often needed ice cubes to calm her down in the early stages of her illness, but Catherine refused any steam machinery, so her doctor made a casing out of jujube wood outside the ice machine, and painted a pattern of three saints coming to face on it.And told Catherine that it was God's favor, Catherine accepted the ice machine.

Huangxuanjin opened the jujube wood shell of the ice maker, revealing the precise red copper structure inside, and water droplets condensed outside the cold steam pipe.

Wisipel sat back at the desk. There were thick documents on the desk. He lowered his head and quickly browsed through today's documents. He circled the problematic places with a pen. The mithril nib of the pen was engraved with the simple pattern.

Huangxuan Jin sorted out the complicated pipelines inside the ice machine. Maybe because no one used it for too long, the lines inside were tangled together, making it hard to figure out what to do.

Wispel poured a glass of water for Huangxuan Jin, Huangxuan Jin took it because he was really thirsty, drank half of it and returned it to Wispel.

Wischpel took the glass, sat on the edge of the bed, watched Huang Xuanjin fiddling with the thread inside the ice machine, and slowly drank the remaining half glass of water.

After working on it for a while, Huangxuan Jin shrugged, took the burnt thread at the end of his hand and said: "It seems that there is no other way, the thread is burnt. I can only find a few threads tomorrow and repair it."

"Forget it then," said Vehipel.

Huang Xuanjin stood up, ready to go out.

"Would you like to sleep for a while?" Vehipel asked suddenly.

Huangxuan Jin felt a chill down his back, and immediately looked at Vehipel with some vigilance.

"On the sofa." Vehipel pointed to the sofa, seeing that Huangxuan Jin was still a little vigilant, smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you if you're injured or not."

Huang Xuanjin: "..." Think about who the culprit is.

Huang Xuanjin thought about the cold wind outside, and looked at Wisipel.

"I'm going to approve the papers tonight," Wihipel said.

Huang Xuanjin swept Wisipel up and down, then walked over to the sofa, "Call me before Yilier comes tomorrow."

When passing by Vichypel's desk, Huang Xuanjin picked up the document on the desk and frowned, "It's from the Military Intelligence Department? Shouldn't this be Tang De's document?"

Vehipel: "..."

Seeing that Wisper didn't answer, Huangxuanjin didn't bother, he took off his coat and covered his body and went to sleep.

07

In the boundless cold mist, Huangxuanjin dreamed of that place again.

He still remembered the first time he dreamed of this place, as if his soul was trembling, as if being strangled by the throat.

But later he kept dreaming about this place, and he was already familiar with this kind of trembling feeling, and he was used to that kind of oppressive feeling.It's not disappearing, it's just a habit.

Huangxuan Jin held a dim lantern in his hand, and the light diffused in the endless mist, illuminating the huge ice crystals around him that were two or three meters high.

Each ice crystal seems to seal a struggling and tormented soul. Their bodies are like transparent and twisted lines in the ice crystal, and they are also like a wisp of smoke sealed in the crystal.

And Huang Xuanjin recognized their faces by the dim light. He recognized the struggling and painful faces, and then walked forward with the lamp.

The mist and ice crystals seem to have no end, and every night Huangxuan Jin walks from one end to the other with a lamp like this, walking endlessly.

He had never counted how many ice crystals there were, but he knew there were a hundred thousand.

One hundred thousand huge and sharp ice crystals, one hundred thousand struggling souls.

Huang Xuanjin walked down with the lamp, and he even felt that he was numb. Isabel once told him that numbness is actually more terrifying than despair.

Despair is pain, but it can be numb, and it means that you can't even feel the pain.

Huang Xuanjin held the lamp, and suddenly found that there was only mist around him, and there were no longer any ice crystals.This is very strange, because this is the first time in this dream that he is no longer surrounded by those tall ice crystals, those ice crystals have always stood quietly around him, no matter where he goes, it is obviously quiet like a thousand years of silence But the sculpture seemed to swallow him up at any time.

Huangxuanjin continued to walk in the mist, and suddenly saw a huge ice crystal in front of him, which was taller than all the ice crystals just now. Huangxuanjin had no choice but to raise the lamp higher, and identified the faces in the ice crystal with the unclear light .

He saw the face clearly, it was his own face.

With lowered eyes and quiet brows, he looked like a pious son in a temple.

The thrill came back, the overwhelming oppression he'd felt the first time he'd been here.

He seemed to hear the screams of the souls sealed in the hundred thousand ice crystals. That kind of screams were silent and resounded in the depths of the soul, painful and hideous.

Huang Xuanjin saw that he, who was sealed in the ice crystal, was entangled and restrained by countless vines, and the vines tightened more and more.

He felt that those roots seemed to be entwined around himself. He gasped as if he couldn't breathe, and suddenly fell to his knees on the ground, only supporting the cold ground with his hands.

But the self in the ice crystal was entangled by countless vines but still as quiet as a virgin.

Then he seemed to smell the cool fragrance of the god-favored flowers, everything around him disappeared in an instant, and he seemed to have fallen into an endless abyss.

He only knew that he was falling continuously, without end, it was very quiet there, and even time was frozen and unable to flow.

08

Huang Xuanjin woke up on the bed, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Wisipel pinching his face.

Seeing that Huangxuanjin woke up, Wispel didn't feel any guilt at all, and took his hand back very calmly and naturally, then lifted the quilt and got out of bed.

"It's [-]:[-], I have a change of clothes in my suitcase, and I can take it myself if necessary."

Wischpel said as he walked into the bathroom.

Huangxuanjin didn't get enough sleep, after all, he was used to day and night turning upside down on the Black Tower, and usually he would only wake up at noon.

So I lay on the bed and didn't think about it very much, but I was already awake and it was not easy to fall asleep, so I opened my eyes on the bed to see the patterns projected on the wall by the morning light through the curtains.

Huang Xuanjin turned over, raised his hand and tugged at the curtains blown up by the wind in a bored manner.

The sound of water in the bathroom came through the glass window, which was a little unclear.Huang Xuanjin suddenly felt that the current scene seemed quite evocative, but whether he was blessed with this eloquence was another matter.

"Your Highness, may I come in?" Eliel knocked on the door.

Huang Xuanjin quickly rolled off the bed.

Vichypel came out of the bathroom and opened the door.

Yilier bowed to Vesper with tomato sauce and meat sauce, and then walked in. Seeing Huangxuan Jin, he was a little surprised and asked, "Little Jin, why are you here?"

Huang Xuanjin quickly pointed to the ice machine and said, "The ice machine is broken." Then he turned around and pretended to be repairing the ice machine very seriously.

"It shouldn't be, I checked it carefully before." Yilier frowned.

"Maybe...it's been in disrepair for a long time...it's not stable." Huang Xuanjin quickly explained.

"Okay." Yilier nodded without much doubt.

"Your Highness, this is today's breakfast. I hope Your Highness enjoys your meal." Yilier smiled at Vehipel, put the meat sauce noodles on the table, and then bowed and left.

After Yilier left, Huang Xuanjin hurriedly wiped off his sweat and stood up.

"Do you want to eat?" Wisipel brought the noodles to Huangxuan Jin, "I didn't eat last night either."

Huangxuan Jin looked at Wisipel, took the noodles after thinking for a while, then sat on the bed, mixed the meat sauce and noodles with a fork, rolled them and put them in his mouth.

Wischpel opened the suitcase, which contained only a few things.

The man stood in front of the full-length mirror and began to change his clothes. He unbuttoned his shirt one by one with his pretty fingers.

The boy sitting on the bed in the corner of the mirror was just looking down at the noodles, frowned at the green cauliflower on the plate, took a bite and frowned even tighter, and then put the cauliflower back.

Vehipel carefully adjusted his neckline, and then pinned the cufflinks engraved with divine flowers on the cuffs.

After tidying up his cuffs, Wispel walked up to Huangxuan Jin and wiped the corners of Huangxuan Jin's mouth with a tissue. The young man raised his head and looked at Wissipel in surprise.

There was a faint smile on the corner of Wisipel's mouth, he actually liked the feeling of Huangxuan Jin looking at people with wide-eyed eyes and surprised face sometimes.

He seemed to be able to see the clear eyes of the young man who had just entered the West Land from him.

"His Royal Highness, may I come in?" There was another knock on the door.

Huangxuan Jin quickly pushed the noodles into Vichypel's hands, then jumped in front of the ice machine and pretended to be repairing the ice machine again.

"Come in," said Vichypel.

Montor came in, saluted Wisipel, and said, "His Royal Highness Wisipel, I am here to discuss today's itinerary with Her Majesty at the order of Her Majesty the Queen.

"En." Vehipel nodded, slowly eating the noodles with tomato sauce and bolognese.

As soon as Mendun opened the folder, he saw Huangxuanjin squatting in the corner. Just as he was about to ask what was going on, Huangxuanjin jumped up quickly and said, "Your Highness, it seems that it really can't be repaired." .I'll report to the people in the mechanical headquarters." Then he rushed out like the wind. "Go on," said Vichypel, holding a fork to Montuel.

Not long after Montuel left, Tang De rushed in again without even knocking on the door.Wisipel squeezed the space between his brows with his hands, feeling that there were too many people here this morning.

"Your Highness, have you finished processing the documents?" Tang De asked the documents and threw himself on the bed without even looking at the desk. He rummaged through the pillows and found a black hair with satisfaction. He sighed with a smile, "I knew that Huang Xuanjin was still so easy to be deceived."

Then quickly lifted the quilt, took a look and sighed sadly: "Your Highness, what's the matter with you, you let me down so much."

Wischpel ignored Tang De, just ate the noodles on his hand bit by bit, and ate the cauliflower on the plate without being picky, "If you have no serious business, go out."

"Don't worry, of course I'm here for serious business." Tang De rolled over from the bed.