Twilight War

11

The rain is still falling, overwhelming.

The entire holy white city of Asgard was washed by the heavy rain.

Huangxuan Jin sat on the edge of the narrow and deep windbreak shelter at the top of Jinlunga Palace.

Asgard is very windy in winter, and many buildings have wind shelters on the top.

The faint light of the rainy day fell on the edge of the windproof shelter, and the boy was sitting in the semi-darkness wearing a white shirt.The wind shelter is very long, so the darkness behind the boy seems to have no end in sight.

The scarlet cloud brocade clothes piled up beside him.

A small amount of rain fell on the boy through the hole, soaking his white shirt.

Huangxuanjin was biting a piece of grass root, which he randomly pulled from the side of the road after he broke the locomotive, and it carried a bit of moisture and a not unpleasant earthy smell.

He propped his hands behind his back, half-opening his eyes to watch the heavy rain pouring down outside the windbreak shelter.

The Golden Gallon Palace is so luxurious that it can hold the country's grandest state banquet, but the rough cement particles can be touched here.

Here is just the passage of the wind, the abode of the wind.

Huang Xuanjin thought so.

Through the thick walls, one could hear the panicked maids and guards running in the corridor below, the noisy nobles and officials in the palace hall, and the girl who didn't know what happened.

No one knows what happened today, how someone died at the state banquet of the Arthur Empire.

But Huangxuan Jin just bit the grass root in his mouth, looked at the heavy rain outside the windbreak shelter, and thought about the wind blowing thousands of miles and the wind's residence.

He picked up the scarlet embroidered crane Yun Jinyi beside him, and slowly lit the edge of Yun Jinyi.

A suit of scarlet was slowly burning.

He threw the cloud brocade, which was burnt to nothing but the shadow of a crane, from the entrance of the Golden Gallon Palace.

In the endless rain, the brocade of scarlet embroidered cranes slowly fell...

12

The heavy rain was very cold, Huangxuanjin sneezed from the cold after walking out of the Jinlunjia Palace, rubbed his nose, and complained a bit: "It's so cold..."

And someone is already waiting here.

Gu Renyin, who was waiting in the corner of the door, was wearing a maid's clothes, raised her eyes and looked at him, "Solved?"

Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"Then I will thank you first." Honglian said with a faint smile. She has a kind of Buddha-like beauty. People in the Western Regions call her the reincarnation of Lotus Bhikkhuni.See the opposite sex, sensuality Tathagata.

But Huang Xuanjin didn't speak, as if he was still watching the downpour of rain.

Hong Lian faintly remembered the banquet that year, she looked at the people in the hall.The head of Patriarch Huangxuan who was dressed in white seemed to be cutting through everything.

But she was wondering if this is Patriarch Huangxuan?

At that time, an eminent monk who practiced Nirvana went to Loulan, and that eminent monk once traveled to various temples in Donghuang.

He told King Loulan that he had met the young master Jin of the Huangxuan family.

King Loulan asked what kind of person the head of the Huangxuan family would be in the future.

The eminent monk told King Loulan that the young master Jin of the Huangxuan family is the Asura of the Buddha.

The asura of the Buddha protects and maintains the Buddha's karma with the body of the law.

There is compassion in the heart, and the body is guilty of killing and cutting.

"Lie Jiaomi's original blood-soaked jade ring is with you."

Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"How about it for me? I believe I look better in it than him."

"This is dirty." Huang Xuanjin took out the jade ring and said embarrassedly.

"I want this." Hong Lian Yin looked at Huang Xuan Jin as if she was a bit willful.Sure enough, these beautiful girls shouldn't be kings, each one is more willful than the other, and what's more terrible is that Huang Xuanjin can't resist their willfulness at all.

Huang Xuanjin put the jade ring in his hands helplessly, "The blood oath is..."

"I know." Hong Lian cast a coquettish look at Huang Xuan Jin, she was clearly a woman with a bodhisattva-like appearance and a heart full of snakes and scorpions, but no matter how she looked, she looked like a spoiled little girl.

"I swear that I will return with my soul, and my family and country will live forever."

The blood smudges from the jade, like red cinnabar into the water.Enter the soul with blood, and enter the jade with the soul.

Huang Xuanjin looked down at the jade ring in his hand, but was suddenly patted on the face by Hong Lianyin.

"Hey, be happy!" Loulan's queen pinched Huangxuan Jin's face and said, "After all, I just killed an annoying guy, shouldn't I be happier? Why do you still look so sad?"

"Is there?" Huang Xuanjin asked in a daze.

"Yes, you just wrote on your face that I'm sad, come and comfort me quickly. Whoever it is, no matter what you do, come and comfort me quickly." Hong Lian pinched Huangxuan Jin's face faintly .

Huang Xuanjin raised his head to look at Hong Lianyin, those eyes were like misty rivers.

"Forget it, I won't bully you anymore." Hong Lianyin let go of her hand and said helplessly.

"Is this really the Asura of the Buddha?" She lowered her head and muttered in a low voice.

At the end of that feast, the young man who suddenly appeared covered in blood said that he was the young master of the Jiangnan Huangxuan family.

But that young man was so thin and frail that he reminded her of a wolf cub who was wandering and lonely in the desert and couldn't even eat enough.

Is such a person really Huangxuan Jin?

It seemed to be even more unreliable than the Patriarch Huangxuan who was dressed in white.

"If you want to find me in the future, go to the long yellow sands of the Western Regions. Loulan's door will always be open for you, and you will always be my honorable guest in Loulan."

Hong Lianyin threw a string of camel bells tied with red cloth to Huangxuan Jin behind her, and her back was like an eagle bird free in the Western Regions.

Back then, there were kings sitting on the stage, and all the kings had their own thoughts, but the young man behind the bead curtain watched her dance for nine heavens in the center of the hall seriously.It's a pity that the boy had already died on that feast.

His blood was his wine and his bones were his feast.

12

The rain washes the roads of Asgard, and passers-by hold black umbrellas.

The white buildings are blurred and unreal in the rain.

"Your Highness, Kunmo Liejiaomi of Wusun Kingdom was assassinated in Jinlunjia Palace and died."

Wihipel nodded listening to the report in Chinese and Western on the communicator. He was holding a black umbrella and waiting on the streets of Asgard.

He originally planned to come out to get some air before the state banquet started, and such a rainy day made him feel a little uneasy.

"What about the guards, the guards for the state banquet should be enough."

"There was a large-scale invasion of the treasury today, so some people were transferred, not only from Jinlunjia Palace, but also from other places."

"Delko should be responsible for the guards of the Kinlunga Palace."

"Yes, but Delco refused to disclose the attacker's information, he only said that the attacker had left before he arrived."

"How did Lie Jiaomi die?"

The cold and mechanical voice transmitted through the communication device became more distant and colder in the rain.

"There is only one sword wound."

"Well, is there any whereabouts of the attackers?" Vihipel continued to ask, the twilight of the distant buildings gradually turned gray.

"I haven't found it yet, Your Highness, how many troops should be dispatched to hunt down the intruder?"

Wischpel didn't answer, he saw the black-haired boy across the street.

In the boundless rain, he didn't hold an umbrella, and stood beside the stop sign, leaning against the street lamp as if he had nothing to do.

He was only wearing a white shirt with faint blood stains on it, smudged by the rain.

Huang Xuanjin leaned against the stop sign, looking boredly at the iron-drawn route map on the stop sign.

He wrecked the heavy truck, but he had to go to the vault to rescue some of his idiots, so he had to take the Jingle car.

Jingle cars are the cheapest and most convenient means of transportation in Asgard.

When arriving at a station, the driver will step on the pedal, and the copper bell hanging on the front of the car will jingle.

When he was in Asgard before, he would often sit quietly in a daze on the Jingdong car.

He waited here a little bored, looking at the wet birds under the house number in the heavy rain.

The passing vehicles passed by, and the accumulated water on the road splashed on the trousers of pedestrians. They covered the sky with black umbrellas, coming and going like ants in an ant nest.

Raindrops on the black lacquered street lamps slipped from the blackened glass, and the candle in the center was like a yellow firefly shining in the dim twilight.

"No need." Wihipel said to the communicator.

"Your Highness?" Xi Wen asked a little uncertainly.

"There's no need to track down the assailant."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Also, the people in the treasury should also be removed."

Wihipel put down the communicator and held the umbrella of the black umbrella, water droplets formed in strings from the end of the umbrella ribs.

The boy across the street leaned against the stop sign, and the street lights were as far away as a song.

In the twilight, everything turned into a faint blue-black.Among the speeding steam cars and carriages, the thin figure of the young man appears and disappears from time to time, as if he will disappear at any time.

They are always like this, separated by thousands of troops, separated by bright lights, separated by everything in the world.

He could only look at his boy across the long street like this.

After waiting for a long time, the Dingdang car still hadn't arrived, Huang Xuanjin shook his head, or else he should change the stop sign and wait.

The boy without an umbrella walked away along the street corner like a homeless stray dog. The street lights were on and off, and his back was thin and thin in the twilight.

Wischpel was holding the black umbrella on the opposite corner.

Huang Xuanjin sat on the seat of the Dingdang car, watching the rainwater slide down the glass window.

The white shirt was half wet on his body.

The price of the Jingdong car is very cheap, and the speed is also very slow. Now it is leisurely turning around the corner of the Cathedral of God's Confession.

Someone was leading a child in the car, who looked only four or five years old.

The adults were busy counting the bills, while the little girl kept looking around.

When she looked boredly at the boy in the white shirt sitting in the corner, she found that the boy was also looking down at her.

So she also looked at the boy.

The boy couldn't hold back, and smiled at her, like a clown in a theater, so she smiled at him too.

The two made faces at each other in a corner where no one was paying attention.

The adult who received the receipt turned his head.

Huang Xuanjin quickly put away his grimace, and sat on the seat as if nothing had happened, the little girl still tilted her head to look at him.

The copper bell on the roof of the Jingdong car was swayed by the wind, and outside the car window was the heaviest rain in Asgard this year.

13

Arthurian Empire, Asgard, Vault.

"The road over there is also blocked." The red fire ant touched the sweat on his face with his hand, and it turned out that his face was covered with black stains.

"Damn it, how many people did they think broke in, and they actually sent so many people here, are they trying to force us to death?" Belly Cut Snake said through gritted teeth, lowering his head and nervously looking at the map Huang Xuanjin gave him , It turns out that there are many places that are simply not right.

They had been circling the ventilation ducts of the vault for hours, and all roads had been sealed off since those sirens sounded at the same time.

And there are so many guards that it is completely unreasonable. They are all a little surprised by their own influence.

This is not to catch three thieves, this is simply to start a war!

"Where's the boss? What should I do? I still can't contact the boss." The red fire ant kept fiddling with the communicator, "What should I do, I don't want to die here."

"I think Huangxuan Jin is the one who wants us to die." Hui Weishou said coldly at the corner, his face had a calmness that didn't match his age. "Otherwise why would he stay in the car alone."

"No, what's the benefit of killing us to the boss?" The red fire ant scratched its head and said, "Although the boss sometimes goes too far, it shouldn't be like this."

Huiwei looked at the dark corner and said, "Haven't you guys figured it out yet, we were simply used by Huangxuan Jin!"

"Do you still have any fantasies about him? Hasn't he always been like this? He can even betray Donghuang, so the three of us are missing?"

"It's been five hours since we came here. We were chased and intercepted by people from the Arthur Empire. Did Huangxuan Jin come to rescue us? He might have slipped somewhere."

Hypocrisy, greed, insidiousness, shamelessness, irresponsibility, all the vices in this world, Huangxuanjin has been stained all over.

The red fire ant lowered its head, as if a little aggrieved.Indeed, the boss gave him the wrong wiring, and even the fuse in his hand used up the silver of the abyss inside, and it was useless.

"I trust the boss."

Red Imported Fire Ant bowed his head and thought for a long time and suddenly said, his voice was a little wronged, but it was firm, as if he stubbornly believed in something.

"You!" Gray Tail said a little unreasonably, "Only an idiot like you would believe him."

"……I believe too."

The belly cut snake hiding in the corner suddenly said quietly, he lowered his head and rubbed the map on which he had marked more than a dozen mistakes.

"Someone is coming!" the red fire ant said suddenly.

The gray tail directly climbed up the upper air vent, the belly-cut snake hid on the other side, and the red fire ant was relatively large, so they had to stick to the wall vigilantly.

The sound of heavy footsteps came from the dark and narrow tunnel, echoing in this narrow space, deep and distant.

"Don't tell me that you guys just hid like this for five hours. Now I almost wonder if the soldiers of the Arthur Empire are idiots." Huangxuan Jin put his hands in his pockets and looked at the end of the tunnel with some distaste.

"Boss!" The Red Fire Ant jumped out immediately after seeing Huangxuan Jin, "I told you that you definitely won't leave us alone!"

Huang Xuanjin felt that he was about to be crushed to death by the red fire ants.

"Boss." The belly-cut snake also came out from the corner, looking gloomy like a rattlesnake, "...the map you gave me is wrong, I want more of my share."

Gray Tail jumped down from the air vent calmly, without saying anything.

"Let's go." Huang Xuanjin waved at the three of them, with a faint smile on his lips.

Huang Xuanjin shuttled between those pipes, like a silver fish sailing in its own sea area, it is familiar with every fork, every trap, and every checkpoint.

He always slipped away before the sirens sounded, leading the soldiers where he wanted them to go.

There is no cage that can imprison him, not even the Arthur Empire treasury, which is blocked by layers of guards. Even if there are layers of fine nets, he can always slip through the gaps.

Huiwei followed behind Huangxuan Jin cautiously.Huang Xuanjin is free and unrestrained like a fish in the vast sea, but the aura lingering around him also makes people feel that he is lonely like a fish in the vast sea.

He swims alone, breathing the air in the vast sea.

He is right in front of you, but there is boundless blue water between you and him.You don't know when he will leave you alone and disappear in that vast sea.

You look nowhere for him, he is a fish of the sea.

Huang Xuanjin jumped out of the air vent, and then straightened his messy forehead hair, which was tied back half long.

"Boss... we were chased too closely by the soldiers of the Arthur Empire, and we lost... the gold..." the red fire ant said, scratching its head in embarrassment.

"Look at the car." Huang Xuanjin raised his hand and pointed at the dilapidated truck parked in the corner.

"Wow!" The red fire ant dug out a bag full of gold utensils in the car and buried itself in the gold with excitement on its face. The belly-cutting snake's eyes were straightened when it saw the gold, and it rushed like a fox seeing a rabbit. When he climbed up, he almost swallowed the gold.

Huang Xuanjin leaned against the street lamp, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Where did you go just now?" Gray Tail was still standing beside him, asking him coldly as if he had no interest in gold.

"Children, don't ask so many questions." Huang Xuanjin rubbed Huiwei's hair, "You, it would be great if it could be as soft and easy to touch as your hair."

"Where did you go?" Huiwei still asked Huangxuanjin persistently.

"The sky is big and the earth is big, you don't care where I go?" Huang Xuanjin pouted contemptuously.After a while, he suddenly became quiet, looked at the distant sky, and muttered a word, but his voice was slightly like a sigh, Gray Tail didn't hear anything.

—to help a dead man kill another.

Huiwei turned his head and wanted Huangxuan Jin to say it again, but Huangxuan Jin had already walked to the side of the truck, opened the rear door and walked up, Huiwei had no choice but to follow.

Just as he stepped on the car door, Huang Xuanjin suddenly threw something over.

Huiwei caught it, and it turned out to be a piece of hard fruit candy.

"Take it, a little girl gave it to me in the car just now." Huangxuan Jin said to Huiwei while lying on the back chair.

"Let's go home." Huangxuan Jin smiled with the corners of his mouth raised, and stepped on the back of the Red Fire Ant's seat.

Huang Xuanjin leaned on the back parking space as if tired, watching the bright yellow street lamps that looked like fried eggs passing by one after another outside the car window.The road at night is quiet except for the sound of tires passing by on the ground.

"Boss, should we send you back to the Black Tower or go to the mechanical dump?" RIFA turned back and asked Huangxuan Jin, and the belly-cut snake on the co-pilot kicked RIFA and whispered, "Keep down, boss is asleep gone."

The light from the street lamp shining through the venetian blinds hit Huang Xuanjin's face faintly, and his body swayed with the bumps of the truck like a fish drifting in the sea.

The wind at night was a bit cold, Huang Xuanjin only wore a shirt, curled up on the back seat as if afraid of the cold.

Bellycut Snake pulled a blanket from the side and threw it to Huiwei, who asked Huiwei to cover Huangxuanjin. Huiwei threw the blanket back, and Bellycut Snake threw the blanket back with a smile and raised his eyebrows.Huiwei was a little reluctant to cover Huangxuan Jin with the blanket, and Huang Xuan Jin shrank his chin into the blanket subconsciously, a bit childish and cute.

In fact, Huang Xuanjin himself was a bit puzzled, why he brought the three of them to Asgard, he told himself that it was for the three of them to attract firepower.But what's the use of attracting firepower again?

Maybe...he just didn't want to be alone.

Even if he still had to fight alone with the sword in the end, but thinking that there were three fools with him in this white city, it was as if someone was accompanying him.

He is not alone in his struggle.

They walked through the ventilation duct like three ants in the huge vault, and he went to the palace in another corner of the city to kill a living soul.

They were doing one thing together, but he was responsible for the most dangerous and cruel part.

In fact, under the somewhat bluffing name of Huangxuanjin, he has been hiding from the child named Zichen.

With a little cowardice and loneliness, the child has been sitting quietly in the corner, hiding under his wantonness and arrogance, raising his head to take a look at the world from time to time.

"...Where are you going back?" Red Fire Ant turned around and asked softly, he still didn't understand what Huang Xuanjin said just now.

"Go back to the garbage dump and send this garbage back to where he should go." Gray Tail looked at the twilight outside the window, crossed his arms and said a little indistinctly.

"Good!" the red fire ant turned around.

The belly-cut snake turned its head back and tore a strawberry-flavored lollipop in its mouth, looking at the endlessly extended road in the night.

Gray Tail looked down at the candy wrapper in his hand, and gently stroked the wrinkles on the candy wrapper with his fingertips.

...going home.