Reclaiming the Way of the Empire

Chapter 94 Nightmare

Lin Jing's phone call was very timely. Not long after Li Ting and Ren Pingsheng left, a food poisoning incident occurred in the restaurant on the top floor of the market. Li Ting and Ren Pingsheng sat on the spaceship and watched the scrolling news, tacitly: The current propaganda methods are really omnipotent, but the price paid by those childcare is too high.

After finally returning to the base in Kaifeng, Li Ting saw Gu Junchou who was very haggard on the sofa. The strange thing was that Su Xingyun did not appear beside him. Li Ting looked at Lin Jing, who quietly I made a mouth shape and said: "He came alone". Li Ting and Li Ting didn't want to ask questions, so they just walked over and sat opposite Gu Junchou, waiting for Gu Junchou to speak.

"I..." Gu Junchou opened his mouth, his voice was indescribably hoarse, and he himself was stunned in embarrassment, then he cleared his throat, lowered his voice and said softly, "Can you stay here? "

"Doesn't your staying include joining us?"

Gu Jun smiled bitterly, and shook his head: "I don't think I can lead troops in battle in my current state."

"..." Li Ting wanted to say something, but Ren Pingsheng stood between Li Ting and Gu Junchou, and gave Li Ting a look of "Leave it to me".After that, after Xi Honglei, Lin Jing and Li Ting had all left, Ren Pingsheng looked at Gu Junchou——

As long as you stand closer, you can clearly see the bruised and purple hickey marks on Gu Junchou's body from the neckline. His voice is hoarse, and Ren Pingsheng knows why.Gu Junchou was also involved in the establishment of the Beisheng Legion back then. To put it simply: Gu Junchou was also Ren Pingsheng's brother.

"Is it Xingyun?"

Ren Pingsheng cut to the chase and pointed to Gu Junchou's neckline.Gu Junchou was startled, with an embarrassed look on his face, he stretched out his hand to cover it up, but finally gave up dejectedly, after all, Ren Pingsheng had seen it, and he didn't need to show so much arrogance now.

Just like what Su Xingyun said, he was already asleep, so why would he still be begging Su Xingyun to be responsible by crying and making a fuss?That was too ugly, and it made him even more embarrassed.

Gu Junchou nodded, and said softly: "Yes, it's Su Xingyun. Actually, I came to Kaifeng yesterday, but it happened that they said that you were not in the base, so I didn't bother you. Today, it's also because... ...delayed for a while."

He didn't say what was the reason for the delay. After all, it might be too shameful for a man to be alone in a business hotel, with trembling legs, cleaning up the turbid night in his backyard, and then taking medicine. .Especially for a straight man like Gu Junchou, who has always loved a scumbag wholeheartedly, but finally waited for Yiting to betray him without hesitation.

Ren Pingsheng was noncommittal, it is not wise to get entangled in other people's feelings, so he changed the subject: "Have you really decided to leave Xie Junhuai?"

Gu Junchou shook his head, with a painful expression on his face: "I never decided on these things, did I? Including Yiting, including Xie Junhuai, you know me, I... never thought of being a A prince of an empire, leading troops in battle."

Ren Pingsheng frowned, looked at Gu Junchou, and patted Gu Junchou's shoulder helplessly: "Red Tears will help you arrange your room. It's up to you whether you want to be farther or closer to Su Xingyun. I will explain things to Li Ting clearly. You don't have to worry."

"Thank you," Gu Junchou sincerely thanked, "It's been so many years, pedestrian, no, in a flat voice, you are still so caring."

Ren Pingsheng waved his hand, telling Gu Junchou not to worry about it. Instead, Gu Junchou just slumped down on the sofa and raised the back of his hand to cover his forehead. In fact, he has reached his limit now, and his back is burning hot. His whole body became very sensitive, his hands and feet felt colder and worse, his eyes felt dizzy for a while, but his forehead seemed to be burning, and he could only see a blur of red shadows in front of his eyes.

With a forced smile, Gu Junchou closed his eyes and said, "I'm sorry Honglei, I don't have much strength right now, I... I'll get over by myself later..."

"Jun worry?! Gu Jun worry!"

Xi Honglei looked at Gu Junchou just like this, and suddenly passed out in front of her alone. She stretched out her hand to touch Gu Junchou's forehead and realized that he was already burning hot. Xi Honglei hurriedly found someone to carry Gu Junchou into the dormitory Go, for the time being, the construction lions have not been able to build a new dormitory, Xi Honglei thought about it, and arranged Gu Junchou in the room next to Su Xingyun: it was originally Xi Hongyu's room, and Xiaoyu was still young. Small, it's not a problem to squeeze along with yourself.The little girl is also sensible, so she shouldn't be fussy about it.

After making arrangements, Xi Honglei called the hospital and found a doctor who came to check on Gu Junchou. During the examination, Xi Honglei inevitably saw the scars on Gu Junchou's body. The doctor sighed and said nothing. Knowing what to say, he left the wound medicine helplessly, and after explaining a few words about Xi Honglei, he hung up two bottles of water for Gu Junchou and left.

Looking at Gu Junchou who was so haggard, Xi Honglei shrugged helplessly, and after thinking about it, he decided to call Xie Xiangfeng to help with the medicine. Xie Xiangfeng has his own way of coaxing people, not to mention that Xu You is also a man in the entire base The most reasonable of them all.

Xi Honglei also didn't want to get involved in some idiot couple's jealous dispute just because she saved someone.

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The climate simulator on Xiake Island has gradually entered winter, and the temperature has dropped and even light snow has fallen.Yu Louxue stood in the courtyard of Xie's ancestor's house, which is now Xie Junhuai's residence, watching the heavy snow gradually falling outside.

It has been so many years since he became Liu Lixi's only shadow guard, but he has never seen such a beautiful snow scene before.There is snow in his name, but people in the interstellar do not like snow.Climate simulations rarely simulate winter. The climate in winter is too cold, and many people don't like such cold weather.

But the snow is pure white and the snow scene is beautiful. After many years, the Union government will "show mercy" and prepare for a three-day or five-day "winter" so that people can experience the joy of snow and the coldness of winter— ——The euphemistic name is "be prepared for danger in times of peace", and the citizens of the universe should not forget how people destroyed nature in the era of the mother star, destroyed the mother star, and finally froze into a ball, and had to enter the era of development.

Since Li Ting left Xiake Island, few people call him "Xiaoxue".In fact, Li Ting was the third person to call him that, Yu Louxue remembered it clearly in her heart.The other two, who looked at him tenderly and called him Xiaoxue, died many years ago when he became Liu Lixi's shadow guard.

Xie Junhuai would only call Li Ting "Xiaoxue" when Li Ting was present, and the two of them would play tricks every time, it was just a lie.It's a tacit understanding that he and Xie Junhuai have reached over the years of being together.

The snow outside was getting heavier and it wasn't freezing, but Yulouxue still shrank his neck, looked up at the snowflakes falling slowly, he couldn't help reaching out to catch some, the snowflakes fell on his palm, and soon It melted into water.

"Young Master, why are you here? Mister is waiting for you to go over for dinner." People from Xie's family always called him that, as if he was far away from the door and didn't dare to get too close, Yu Louxue turned around and gave that person a With a gentle smile, he walked slowly towards the gate of Xie's house.

In the dining room, as no surprise, I saw Xie Junhuai sitting quietly at the dining table, while Liu Lixi was sitting on the chair next to Xie Junhuai - that stool that only Li Ting was allowed to sit on back then .Many years ago, when Xie Jun and the old man of the Xie family had not passed away, that chair was also vacant.

It is said that although the old man is decisive, cold-blooded and ruthless, he has calculated the happiness and future of his children and grandchildren into the wealth and splendor of Xie's family.But only the feelings for the old lady remain unchanged, and that position has become a symbol of the Xie family: the sacred and inviolable position of the mistress of the Xie family.

Once, when Xie Junhuai brought Li Ting to this gloomy house for the first time, Li Ting sat in that seat when he was eating.

The reason why Yu Louxue remembers so clearly is because he will never forget the way Li Ting stroked his hair and softly called him "Xiaoxue".Even if, in the later intimacy, there was pain, sarcasm and disdain, Yu Louxue also enjoyed it.

Because, after all, this is the only last person in the world who would call him Xiaoxue so affectionately.

"Is it snowing outside?" Liu Lixi seemed very excited. He looked at Yulouxue's clothes covered with snowflakes, and his eyes lit up, "Speaking of which, this is also the second time I saw snow on your knight island." , the last time, it seems that it happened to be when you became my shadow guard?"

Yu Louxue nodded respectfully, sat in his seat, and slowly lowered her head to eat, not looking at Liu Lixi or Xie Junhuai.

Xie Junhuai clapped his hands, and soon the people from the Xie family began to serve the table. The three of them sat at the same table and ate in silence. Liu Lixi always had a strange smile on his face. It's good-looking, but it's a bit like a demon.Everyone in the Xie family is a fine person. Seeing Liu Lixi sitting in this position, they more or less regarded him as the future mistress of the Xie family, and they respected and flattered him more or less in their hearts.

Compared with Liu Lixi, Xie Junhuai is more aware of Yulouxue's thoughts, he looked in Yulouxue's direction: "You don't need to come to my room tonight."

Liu Lixi blinked her eyes when she heard this, smiled playfully at Yulouxue, then continued to eat with her head down.Yu Louxue nodded silently, noncommittal, but gave Xie Junhuai a meaningful look, and then continued to deal with the food on the plate.

On the contrary, the members of Xie's family speculated again, thinking that Li Ting failed to tame his young master back then, and the two of them had a quarrel and broke up because of Yu Louxue.Now that such a monstrous character descended from the sky, Xie Junhuai said such words just now, how many people felt sorry for Yu Louxue——

I was busy in vain, making wedding clothes for others.

Yu Louxue didn't have as much thought about Xie's family, he just knew that Xie Junhuai understood him, and on a snowy night, his feelings had already been left to the two dead people, so of course he wouldn't have the heart to play around with Liu Lixi, let alone Serve others in any mood.

Xie Junhuai asked him not to come, it was for his sake, if he accidentally offended Liu Lixi, I am afraid they would not have a good life.

After Yu Louxue had dinner, she quickly returned to her room by herself. Xie Junhuai should have arranged all his rooms in the Xie family's main house. It seemed that Xie Junhuai spoiled him because Li Ting, Xie Junhuai's fiancé, There is no such treatment, and there is no separate room in the main house of the Xie family.But Yu Louxue knew that the arrangement of this room was just Xie Junhuai's hidden thoughts.

Many things seem to be like that, but they are not.

This room is directly below Xie Junhuai's room, and there is a big balcony. Yulouxue pushed open the door of the balcony and walked out barefoot. The snow outside had stopped, and the world was completely covered in white snow. It's like the classroom where they participated in the training: the walls are white, the floor is white, and the chairs are white.There are no windows, no doors, only the horn above the head will send orders, orders to kill.

Yu Louxue closed her eyes and took a deep breath to let all her thoughts go, and everything seemed to be able to return to the time when he was just an ordinary civilian.Living in the lower three types of streets with mixed traffic, followed the two of them, running around begging for land and living together.

He is an orphan, and an orphan without status.Different from other street children on the street, even if they are orphans, they will have an identity, which street they belong to, and who their parents and family members are.However, Yu Louxue didn't, he had no idea who his parents were.

I heard from him that he picked him out from the trash can on the street on a certain snowy day.At that time, he was helpless, so he had to take it back to find him.Gentle and knowledgeable, he symbolizes a kind of supreme wisdom in the child, so soon, because of the sentence "Yulou flowers are like snow", he has a new name: Yulouxue.

Of the two of them, one is the most powerful among the children and is called the "King of Children" by the children; the other is smart and eloquent, and the children like to listen to him tell stories very much, and they all surround him and call him brother.

This is Yu Louxue's family. Although they are poor, those memories are very happy.

The change of things started from the year when the street was forced to be remodeled. In order to find a place for the children to live, the two of them exhausted all their efforts. However, without money, no one would sympathize with them. Many guards even came and sent the children who were making a fuss to the orphanage.

Orphanages are what street children fear most. Not all orphanages are kind and beautiful.

Later, my brother and he met Liu Lixi's people. Liu Lixi promised them a large sum of money and promised to give these children a good life.But relatively, they need a person, a most loyal person who can risk life and death for their master.

Young children don't know what disregard for life and death and loyalty are. They think this is the so-called "chivalry". On the issue of who will go, the elder brother and him had the most intense quarrel. Yu Louxue now recalls, perhaps, At that time, the smart brother already knew that after this time, he might never come back.

What I didn't expect was that Liu Lixi saw the three of them fighting in the end, and Liu Lixi said for the first time that he wanted all three of them, and took them away together, seeing how close your brothers are.

Yu Louxue remembered that he was very happy at the beginning, but she could never forget the unbearable pain on his face and the melancholy eyes of her brother.

Training is hard work, but being together as a family makes Yu Louxue feel that no matter how hard it is, it is worth it. "Big brother" has good physical strength, and after every training session, he can be praised by the coach, while "brother" is very intelligent. Although he may not be able to win every game, Liu Lixi likes his intelligence very much. .

Only Yu Louxue, who was mediocre both in terms of strength and intelligence, didn't get much attention or criticism.Yu Louxue always thought that they would continue to live like this, even if only one of them could get Liu Lixi's shadow guard job in the end.

Things changed after one day of training, the coach cruelly announced that a group of people had to be eliminated, and those who were eliminated would not be able to participate in the next training session.Everyone had expressions on their faces, and this time, the coach allowed five of them to form a team together.

Therefore, for those who lost, Yu Louxue didn't know why the expressions on their faces were so desperate, but only knew that they were taken away and never came back.

Then, again and again, the group limit was changed from five to three, then to two.The eldest brother chose to form a team with Yu Louxue, while the elder brother found a man who could often reach a tie with the eldest brother in one night.After that, they all managed to stay.

When Yu Louxue stopped his elder brother with his left hand and was holding his elder brother with his right hand to go out to celebrate, he saw Liu Lixi.

The man who was very handsome, but the man who smiled for no reason made people feel a little scared, looked at them with a smile, didn't say anything, just watched the three of them leave quietly, the unexplained light in his eyes made Yu Louxue cry for a long time. I can't let go of it for a long time.

Even today, when Yu Louxue recalls this experience, he is still very afraid of Liu Lixi.

Not only because Liu Lixi became his master in the end, but also because in the end he, Yu Louxue, became Liu Lixi's shadow guard, the only shadow guard.

Three days after that, Yu Louxue found that her elder brother and her elder brother became more and more silent, and the two often quarreled. Blame the elder brother for insisting that everyone come here together, and the elder brother is blaming the elder brother for not coming alone to die.

The elder brother said that if he is smart, he might die in the end, but the elder brother said that being smart can't save you for a lifetime.

After that, no matter what they said, Yu Louxue suddenly realized one thing: those people who were taken away, whom he never saw again, who lost in the competition, and the connection between "death", I am afraid that it is precisely It was the one that worried him the most.

During the daytime of the third day, Liu Lixi brought people over and announced the final "rules of the game" to them.All the remaining people will be assigned to the "Nine Palaces". In those white houses, every two adjacent grids will be raised within the time limit, and the three people who meet inside must be killed. Each other, until there is only one person left in each enlarged room.

Of course, Liu Lixi had expected that they had been together for a long time, and the relationship between people would prevent them from attacking teammates and brothers. If the time came and there were more than one person in the room, Liu Lixi would naturally Release poisonous gas, and eventually die.

The crowd fell into fear, and someone immediately announced that they would withdraw, but they were quickly executed by the people around Liu Lixi.

Looking at the smiling Liu Lixi, Yu Louxue felt for the first time that she saw a living ghost, a heinous monster in the universe.No matter how unwilling everyone was, they were eventually arranged to enter those terrifying grids, while Liu Lixi was behind the scenes, quietly watching them fight, watching them not want to do anything, and finally being poisoned to death.

The corpses were transported out one by one, and there were exactly 9 people left.Yu Louxue was also among them, but he was already injured and could not move easily.The will to survive supported him to move on, and even at this moment, Yu Louxue discovered that he could not only control the western sword in the Wofusuo galaxy, but also occasionally control the knife in the Wobend galaxy next door.After killing two opponents by surprise, the door opened in the next instant.

The person who came out was called Yu Louxue, and his legs softened in an instant.

However, there seemed to be a very relaxed expression on their faces. He smiled and said, "Xiaoxue, that's great, you're alive." He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Look, our child will of course be alive."At such a time, the elder brother even cast an angry glance at the elder brother. It was only at that time that Yu Louxue realized that his elder brother and his elder brother were a loving couple, childhood sweethearts, who grew up together.Then I met him, adopted him, and treated him like a child.Although, they are not much different in age.

As time passed, two of the three of them were going to die.Yu Louxue cried and shook his head, he didn't want to kill anyone, let alone see their swords facing each other.However, it seems that the elder brother started the attack first, the elder brother Yulouxue always respected first attacked her elder brother, probably because she didn't want her lover to be sad, and her elder brother never fought back.

In desperation, Yu Louxue helped to make a move, but she didn't expect that the sword just pierced through the elder brother's chest.

The eldest brother looked at Yulouxue with a smile, without saying anything, just fell down straight.Yulouxue was so surprised that she froze on the spot, and his elder brother, that smart and gentle man, came over, hugged him gently, and said many, many, very gentle words in his ear, but Yulouxue didn't listen to a single word When I went in, there was only red, viscous and terrifying red in my eyes.

In the end, the elder brother took Yulouxue's hand, looked at Yulouxue with a smile, said nothing, and then stabbed his chest with the bloody sword.The two "died" under Yu Louxue's hands just like that.The congratulatory music sounded, but Yu Louxue didn't hear the applause from outsiders. There was only one voice in his ears, his name that his tragic brothers shouted before they died: "Xiaoxue, Xiaoxue..."

Liu Lixi stood behind Yulouxue, the surrounding white walls disappeared, the sky was just falling snow, Liu Lixi touched her chin and looked at Yulouxue: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, I always thought that the one who survived The person will be Luo Li, or Qin He, but unexpectedly, the two of them would choose to be a pair of mandarin ducks with the same fate for you... It's a pity, I quite like Li's character."

"Brother Li!" Yu Louxue screamed and suddenly woke up from the dream, and he realized that he had returned to the bed at some point, the window outside had been closed, and the demon that appeared in the nightmare happened to be next to the bed.

Liu Lixi casually filed her nails, and glanced at Yulouxue: "Have a nightmare? It seems——you dreamed about Luoli again. Your dearest brother Li."

Yu Louxue said in a hoarse voice: "Go out."

Liu Lixi raised her eyebrows, "What did you say?"

"Master, please, go out first." Yu Louxue repeated, looking up at Liu Lixi in silence, Liu Lixi was surprised by Yulouxue's eyes, snorted softly, stood up and left.When he walked to the door, he seemed to think of something, and gave Yu Louxue a nasty look: "However, if I remember correctly, your elder brother Li seems to be similar to Luo Li... in terms of eyebrows and eyes."

With a sound of "呯——", the lamp on the bedside table smashed behind Liu Lixi's closed door, and his body was smashed to pieces.