The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

Oswald paused when he heard the sound, held back his disgust and swept around with the worm lamp.The path under his feet ended here, and there were no obvious road marks in front of him. Instead, there was a large clump of trees taller than a person. The branches were thick and sharp, straight upwards, and each one was covered with fine thorns. In clusters.

At first glance, it looks like a tall thorn of overnutrition.It's just that these thorns are not single. The winding vines on both sides of the road wind up along the roots of the thorns, almost becoming one with the thorns.The fat leaves hang down in layers, blocking the scene behind the thorn bushes.

"This is—" Kevin heard Oswald speak, "The road ends here? And where is the tomb of Phae?"

Kevin shook his head, took a step forward, bent down and pawed twice on the side of the road.Pulling apart a few vines that were mixed together, he raised his chin and said, "Here - the monument."

Where his chin was pointing, there was a copper obelisk protruding obliquely from the soil.

I don't know how many years ago this obelisk was buried here. It is covered with flower-green rust, mottled and mottled, blocking most of the surface of the stele, revealing a decayed and heavy atmosphere.

Kevin switched the worm lamp in his left hand to his right hand, and hung it directly on the top of the monument. The yellowish light was projected from top to bottom, and some carved traces were faintly revealed from under the rust, but it was too vague to make people feel uncomfortable. Can't tell.

"What did you write?" Oswald frowned and took two steps, squatting down directly in front of the monument.He narrowed his eyes and looked closely at the stele for a moment, then tilted his neck back as if giving up, and simply raised his hand to cover the stele.

When Kevin saw his movements, he "tsk": "You can still touch the words? Did you find anything?"

Oswald glanced at him, didn't bother to answer, just moved his fingers slowly, carefully touching the monuments row by row.

Because of the heavy rust, it felt a little slow to touch, Kevin didn't stop him, and he didn't rush to urge him.He was a little tired holding the lamp with his arms propped up all the time, so he looked around, but couldn't find a suitable place to support it, so he simply sat on the ground leaning against the back of the monument, with his elbows resting on the top of the monument, and the worm lamp just fell down. The long legs are stretched out straight out, which is quite comfortable.

Oswald raised his eyelids and glanced at him angrily, then continued to grope.

After a while, Kevin changed his straight legs, kicked His Majesty's noble ankle, and asked, "Which line did you touch?"

"Can you settle down for a while?" Oswald squinted at his suspect's leg from the corner of his eyes, and reprimanded, "Pull your hooves off and don't rub against me."

Kevin: "..." Let's be reasonable, okay? There's a big difference between kicking and rubbing.

For some reason, Oswald became very impatient after being kicked by him, with a sullen face and frowning, as if he didn't want to care about others.After a few more minutes, he finally patted off the rust on his hands and stood up straight.

"Finished?" Kevin looked up at him.

"Yes." His Majesty's answer almost came out of his nasal cavity, "The monument says that this is the entrance to the tomb of the god Phae, where the dead body of the god is located. No one is allowed to enter, otherwise it will be a blasphemy of the gods." , suffer the worst curse."

He paused, and added with an uneasy expression: "Followed by a long list of curses against eight generations of ancestors, in short, it is to let the intruders die without a burial place, and cut off their children and grandchildren."

Kevin raised his eyebrows and said "Oh", his expression was extremely calm, and he didn't show any surprise at all.

One of them was standing and the other was sitting, so the height difference between their eyes was exaggerated.Oswald stared condescendingly at the expression on his face for a moment with lowered eyelids, and said in a low voice, "You seem to have known the contents of the monument for a long time."

"Really?" Kevin replied casually.

He is actually very strange sometimes, with big and small mysteries on his body, but it gives people a feeling of "he doesn't care too much".He never took the initiative to mention anything. If you don't ask, he won't say anything.If you ask him, he will cover it up, but he will not hide it at all.If you hit the nail on the head, he'll either casually say "Idiots think it's fake" or simply admit it.

It's as if what you think is important or unimportant is not worth mentioning in his eyes.

"You have been here." Oswald omitted even the interrogative sentence, and stated it calmly.He simply crossed his arms, looking like he was going to interrogate on the spot, "You know the location of Baitou Mountain and Yongsheng Waterfall, and you know what kind of monsters live here, and now even the old bronze tablet that is hidden so hidden You can find it all at once... You've obviously been here before."

Kevin held the light of the bug lamp with his fingers, and didn't speak, almost acquiescing.

"Compared with outings and adventures, this kind of place is obviously more suitable for death." Oswald glanced around, and said again: "So, what did you do here before?"

Before Kevin could open his mouth, he remembered something: "Your physique that won't kill you if you don't stab your heart... is it related to this?"

Kevin raised his head upon hearing this, and looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"It seems to be right." Oswald continued in a deep voice: "So when you heard the priest say that 'the holy water in the Temple of Phae can relieve the strange disease of petrification', you easily believed that statement, and even I never thought that the legends are all rumors, why? Because your ability comes from here, and it is even related to the holy water, so you fully understand how miraculous the holy water is?"

Kevin changed his posture lazily, and commented: "The logic is quite smooth."

Oswald: "..."

From what Oswald knew of him, when he didn't deny it positively, it meant he guessed something right.

Many images suddenly flashed through the mind of the young Emperor His Majesty, when he saw Kevin for the first time, and when Kevin was sitting lazily at the table while drinking afternoon tea while walking him around, There are also times when Kevin rarely tells him some rumors and stories he heard from nowhere...

Although he is reluctant to admit it, in fact, when he was still a young master, he was extremely impatient with Kevin on the one hand, and on the other hand he was attracted by a certain special temperament in Kevin.

When I was young, I had a serious rebellious mentality, and I was against myself, and I was not willing to think about the reasons for those emotions. When I was an adult, I rarely calmed down and thought about it, and there was an explanation—the so-called special temperament... Probably a sense of calm beyond age and physiological boundaries.

That kind of temperament is too easy to arouse the instinctive Muqiang psychology of children.Just like when he watched "The Divine Calendar" when he was a child, he had an inexplicable worship of the once invincible God of Light.

When Kevin came to Pach Manor, he was only seventeen or eighteen years old at most.He was supposed to be a new recruit who had just entered the reserve army and had never seen any battles, but there was no trace of embarrassment or youthfulness in his gestures and gestures.

In the past, Oswald only thought that this person was naturally sloppy and thick-skinned, and he didn't think there was anything wrong.Now that I suddenly think of it... nothing is right!

No one is born with a fixed sex from babbling, character is only shaped by experience and experience.How much experience and experience can a seventeen or eighteen-year-old have?

Oswald pondered for a long time and did not speak for a long time.

Kevin looked up and his neck was sore, so he lowered his head and beat the back of his neck.As soon as he punched twice, from the corner of his eye, he saw Oswald suddenly took a step forward and squatted down.

He pressed Kevin's hand resting on the ground of the monument, narrowed his shallow, almost transparent eyes, and approached him, and said in a low voice, "How long have you lived..."

Kevin was taken aback.

The young emperor looked very oppressive at this moment, after he said this, he moved closer and lowered his voice, "I was thinking just now, when I first saw you, you had already entered The reserve legion has spent almost all their time in the barracks since then, and it is almost impossible to sneak into the tomb of God Phae without anyone knowing about it...then when did you come in?"

Kevin wasn't used to being so close to people, so he subconsciously backed away a little, but his back touched the thorn bushes entwined with vines.

Oswald pressed forward and pressed forward again: "When you came to Pach Manor, were you really only 17 years old..."

His voice was so low that it was almost a whisper, and the tip of his nose was almost touching Kevin's.

After Oswald finished speaking the last few words, he realized that his tone was extremely calm, but his brain became more and more excited-he seemed to have never looked at Kevin like this, close-up, and condescending.

This is not simply condescending in the sense of perspective——

On weekdays, the bastard, whose teeth are always itchy, leans his shoulders on the cane, and because of the twisted angle of his waist and hips, a thin silhouette is outlined by the jacket. Because there is no way out, there is no way to avoid it, so he has to be circled Confined in such a small place.

This is a really suppressed gesture.

It would be fine if Kevin is usually docile and easy-going, but this guy looks generous, but in reality he is tough and tough.And when he rarely calmed down and showed no expression, he had an extraordinarily indifferent and invulnerable temperament.

Such a hard-boned person occasionally reveals even a little bit of softening, which is indescribably attractive.

Amidst the inexplicable excitement, Oswald suddenly realized that he had long wanted to cause some trouble for the man in front of him, whether it was provocative sarcasm or harsh sarcasm, just to see such a special side of him.

Because no one else can see it!

The young emperor's eyes moved for a moment, and they fell under the tip of Kevin's nose. Then he lifted it up quickly, and said slowly, "How many things... are you hiding on your body?"

After hearing this, Kevin turned his gaze to the side, not knowing what he was looking at.

Oswald frowned subconsciously, and followed his gaze, except for a bug lamp on the top of the monument and the darkness a little far away, there was nothing special.

And when he turned his eyes back again, he found that the suppressed Kevin had quickly returned to his calm and calm appearance. The bastard actually raised his hand and patted his cheek boldly, and said in a shameless rascal tone Two words: "Guess."

Oswald: "..."

When the two confronted each other, the giant beast man Dan led the little lion class along the path, and just turned the corner, he yelled: "I knew you were groping along the road, and I saw the bug lights in your hands." light—what the hell?”

Before the previous sentence was finished, two people, one big and one small, had already froze in place.

Dan opened his mouth and looked blankly at Oswald who was kneeling, and then at Kevin who was pressed against the cane by his lap.Then he covered Ben's eyes with a slap, turned around with the boy on the spot, and said in a mechanical voice indifferently: "This kid can't see, he's blind."

Oswald: "..."

Kevin: "..."

Oswald stood up straight, and by the way, stretched out his hand to pull up Fassbinder, whose center of gravity was not stable.Just when they were about to explain a few words, the soft mud floor under their feet suddenly shook.