I didn't know you were such a vampire

After listening to Qiao Ya's words, Caius' ferocious and sullen expression became a little stiff. He slowly broke away from the state of rage that was visible to the naked eye, and slowly regained his composure.The corners of his lips curled up slightly, with a hint of sarcasm, and then he said: "You risked being caught by the guards as a thief and climbed up to my window late at night just to listen to me finish telling a story? "

Qiao Ya was stunned for a moment, and then laughed dryly: "But you also crawled over me..."

Before the word "window" came out, Caius had already interrupted her: "But I won't be caught by the guards."

Joya: "..."

Brother, once you say that, everyone can't talk anymore.

When she was trying to argue that she was not caught by the guards watching the night, Caius turned his head slightly and said, "This story is very boring, so you will want to know the ending."

She also turned her head sideways, wanting to see Caius' expression at this moment, but the light in the room was too dim, and the man's brow bone and nose bridge were too high, making the eye sockets sunk in the darkness. I don't know the expression in his eyes.

She withdrew her gaze, remained silent for a while, and said, "A story always has a beginning and an end. Once there is a beginning, there must be an end."

"That's unfortunate," said Caius, "there is no end to this story."

He turned his head and took a few steps towards Qiao Ya. The flames flickering outside the window shone on him completely, drawing a long shadow of his slender and graceful figure behind him and casting it on the wall. superior.It was only at this time that Qiao Ya could see his face clearly, and the gloom on his face was swept away. Although his eyes were a daunting red, they were as clear as jewels.

"Aren't you afraid?" He suddenly said without beginning or end.

But Qiaoya knew what he meant. She thought of the way Caius easily tore a vampire into pieces in front of her, and also thought of the hostility and arrogance in his eyes, but it was him who remembered him the most. The cold and hard embrace, and the words whispered in her ear.

"I won't let you die."

At that time, Qiao Ya seemed to be trapped in Limbo Prison, unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, but after hearing this sentence, she was inexplicably depressed. She believed for no reason that the person who made the promise would definitely not break his promise.

Qiao Ya pursed her lips and smiled, then said, "I'm not afraid."

Caius let out a doctor's sneering laugh from his nose, and said, "The ignorant is fearless."

"Can't Mr. Volturi say a few words to praise me?"

"Praise is not in my dictionary."

Qiao Ya laughed out loud: "You are simply the strictest person I have ever met."

"Indulgence will only produce fools." Caius walked to Qiaoya's side. He was standing in front of the window with a tall and handsome figure. The dim flames outside the window seemed to have spent all his life's brilliance plating out his outline. As if remembering something, the focus of the red eyes was a little blurred, and then gathered on Qiao Ya.

Qiao Ya smiled and said, "Can you stop staring at me when you say that?"

Caius didn't answer her, but said: "This sentence is said by the chief of Ares."

Qiao Ya froze for a moment before realizing that Caius had already started telling the unfinished story.

From 492 BC to 490 BC, the two expeditions of the powerful Persian Empire to Greece failed. In 480 BC, the new Persian king Xerxes I once again made an expedition to Greece, and the Greek city-states formed the Es The military alliance led by Bada and Athens jointly resisted the invasion of Greece.This Hippo War also gave birth to a very famous Battle of Thermopylae. King Leonidas of Sparta led [-] Spartan soldiers and [-] soldiers from other city-states. Guan faced dozens of times the Persian army, and then died a heroic death.

Ares' grandfather was a hero who became famous from this Hippo War.

Although my grandfather grew up in Athens, it was probably because he was influenced by Spartan soldiers when he served in the Greek coalition army. He was so strict with his offspring that it affected the family tradition of the whole family and even imitated the Spartan education method. , when the boy was still a baby, his parents would wipe his body with spirits, hoping to hone his body and will.So much so that the boys in their family had a strong reputation in the army after they grew up and joined the army.

Fortunately, when Ares was born, his grandfather had passed away, because the Peloponnesian War had already started, and his father and brother also went to the battlefield one after another. The family only had a mother who was frail after giving birth at an advanced age, and an elderly grandmother. There was nothing a woman in poor health could do to him, so he became the only boy in the family who was not forced to receive a Spartan education.

Athens started from maritime trade. During the Hippo-Persian War, in order to liberate the Greek city-states that had been enslaved by Persia and resist another Persian invasion, Athens joined forces with large and small city-states around the Aegean Sea to form the Delian League. The Peloponnes League headed by Dao formed a tendency of opposition.

Because of the developed maritime trade in Athens, the navy is extremely powerful, and every passionate young man in Athens hopes to achieve his own career at sea.

The Athenian Navy was severely injured in the expedition to Sicily, and then because of the return of Alcibiades, it won a battle in the Battle of Abydos in the Hellespont Strait, and then wiped out it in the Battle of Sessicas Sparta Sparta built a new navy with sixty triremes, killed Commander Mindarus, and regained control of the Hellespont. Sparta immediately sent envoys to seek peace.

Successive news came back to Athens, which inspired the people of Athens. Just when many people felt that the war was coming to an end and began to yearn for a peaceful life, Athens rejected Sparta's peace proposal and chose to continue the war. At that time, Athens was actually out of ammunition and food, left and right, but Alcibiades could only grit his teeth and fight until the second year after he regained the Byzantine area, Sparta appointed Lysander as commander in chief, and won Persia. The aid of Prince Cyrus the Younger increased the employment wages of Spartan sailors, and even poached sailors from the Athens Navy.

At this time, the 16-year-old Ares, despite his mother's objections, signed up, joined the army, and became a member of the Athens Navy.

Because he likes the feeling of being on top of everything while mastering the fears of others.

"Because of his brave nature and daring to fight and rush, he quickly attracted the attention of the officer. Before the Battle of Nottingham started, he had already become Alcibiades' guard." Caius said lightly, "In fact, he His personality is not pleasing and he doesn’t like to communicate with people. Even if he said a few more words, it would not be pleasant. Athens is not Sparta, and the soldiers are not as brave and brutal as Spartan soldiers. Many people set foot on the ship for the sake of military pay. They sat on the deck, talking and laughing loudly, saying that the war will end soon, and those who lost their lives in the last battle are fools, and they persuaded others to avoid it when the war started. Go to the end."

"And Ares is different from them. His family has the shadow of Spartan education everywhere. He can't tolerate these people's passive state in the face of war. He often fights with each other. How can a 16-year-old boy be an adult? The opponent, even if he is defeated, he will not admit defeat, even if he is trampled under his feet, he still has to spit on the opponent's face." Caius glanced at Qiao Ya and said, "So he has nothing to do in the army. Friends, of course, he just doesn't care."

Qiao Ya listened carefully, and then said: "Do you really not care?" She thought carefully about the war epics she had heard, "Look at Achilles and Patroclus. When he refused to fight, Patroclus put on his armor to fight in the name of Achilles in order not to damage the reputation of his friend, and was finally killed by the Trojan prince Hector; After his death, even though he knew that the gods predicted that he would die if he killed the prince of Troy, he still insisted on fighting and killed Hector to avenge his friend. In the end, he was shot at the only weak point of the ankle by an arrow, and then sacrificed. "

She finally concluded: "I think the only way to describe this pair of comrades is 'love'."

Caius stared at her for a long while, and this gaze made her back shiver. She smiled and closed her mouth.

"Ares has no friends," said Caius. "Without Achilles, Patroclus would not have died. Without Patroclus, Achilles would not have died. Ares had no friends." You need weaknesses, so you don't need friends."

Joya: "..."

A breath of Zhong Er came oncoming.

Caius continued: "Before the Battle of Nottingham began, the treasury of Athens was already extremely empty. The entire city-state spent all it had, and only got together a dozen warships, so Athens issued a ticket to the coach Alcibiades. A blank check can be used to raise funds on the spot. Alcibiades led the fleet to Nottingham to observe the Spartan fleet, handed over command of the fleet to his personal helmsman Antioch, and brought part of the fleet and several Guards travels to Thrace to raise funds. Before leaving, he tells Antioch that he must not attack. However, after he leaves, Antioch decides to follow Alcibiades' strategy at the battle of Sethikas and win a naval battle. , and led the fleet to set off to attack. The result..."

Joya nodded.

The result was extremely tragic. Sparta, which was originally unwilling to attack under Alcibiades's baiting strategy, quickly attacked when Antioch was baiting. When the Athens fleet was caught off guard, Antioch was captured Killed, fifteen Athenian warships were captured, and seven sunk.

"Ares went to Thrace with Alcibiades. After hearing about Notium, Alcibiades immediately rushed back to Notium, but the battle was settled and he was powerless. The Athens Citizens Assembly was furious, Regardless of the taboo of changing coaches before the battle, Alcibiades was immediately dismissed and replaced by a new coach. After scolding the citizens of Athens for their stupidity, Alcibiades took Ares and several other guards, He fled to Thrace and became a mercenary," said Caius.

Qiao Ya frowned: "Isn't this going against Ares' original dream?"

There was some irony in Caius' eyes: "The sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, seeing the coach dismissed and taking on responsibilities that should not have been taken by him, was naturally filled with righteous indignation and said that he would live and die with the coach. The country has no concept, only wants to become a person who can control the fear of others, and the life of a mercenary licking blood and exchanging money for his life has brought him one step closer to his goal."

"When he was 20 years old, he followed Alcibiades to Cedus. At that time, the Athenian army and Sparta faced each other on the Goat River. In order to monitor Sparta, the Athenian army established a camp at the mouth of the Goat River. Alcibiades asserted that the terrain was not good for Athens, so he sneaked into the Athenian commander's tent with Ares, saying that he had an army provided by several Thracian kings, if the generals were willing to share the command with him , then he is also willing to help Athens in this way." Caius paused, his eyes even more mocking, "Of course, none of the Athens generals paid attention to him. Some even pointed at him and Ares. , calling them sinners in Athens, who should return to Athens to be judged, and not live like a rat in Thrace."

"So, they went back in despair, but Ares bid farewell to Alcibiades, and stayed quietly by himself."

Qiao Ya frowned: "Why did he stay?"

Caius was silent for a while, and then said: "At this time, Ares has a weak and terrible idea."

"What is it?"

Caius looked sideways at Joya, and said flatly, "He thinks of his mother who stayed in Athens."