Nine Star Burden

Jiang Xiao and Catherine flew northeast all the way through a mountain forest, along the rolling river, in the direction of the coastline.

The sky is getting late and the sun is going down.

Dark red burning clouds stain the far reaches of the sky, adding a special touch to this beautiful peninsula scenery.

It was at this point that Jiang Xiao and Catherine saw a cabin standing on a cliff.

The cabin faces the sea, and in the backyard of the cabin, it is a sea of flowers.

In the sound of waves slamming the reef, Jiang Xiao's figure of Katherine moving forward slowly stopped in the air and looked down.

In sight, behind that slightly dilapidated cabin, is an ocean of beautiful to ultimate flowers.

In the flower bush, there was a gray-haired, pale wife, standing with her head down and her hands down.

Her clothes were very ordinary and there was some masculinity.

The light plaid shirt, like a men's shirt, should have been worn for many years, and although it looked a little worn, it was washed clean.

Anyone who sees this old man at first sight should have a first impression of her: dry and lean.

It's so skinny, like a bamboo pole, like a gust of wind can blow her down...

The breeze formation, the fragrance of flowers in the air, the waves fluctuate, also brings the salty and wet smell of the sea, mixed with the floral fragrance, form a special smell.

Such a picture is beautiful enough.

What makes this scene even more desolate is that it is a tombstone in front of the wife, who stands with her head down and hands down.

And beside this tombstone, there's a special tomb, which seems to have been dug up very recently, and there's a pile of dirt next to it, and it's empty.

The wife turned around and raised her head slightly, looking at Jiang Xiao and Catherine standing in the sky. After a moment of gazing at them, she locked her eyes on Jiang Xiao, "Here we go. ”

“Well, here we go.” Jiang Xiao nodded softly and slowly landed in the courtyard of the Flower Sea.

The wife turned her head and looked again at the tombstone in front of her. “You're here to claim my life. ”

Jiang Xiao also looked at the tombstone and said: "What about you? Whether Hopkins promises to kill me or not will set you free. ”

The wife shook her head and said, “I don't need that. ”

Jiang Xiaowei frowned slightly. After Troy's fraud earlier, Jiang Xiao certainly knew what the group was after.

"From the way you fly, you look like you're from Sparta and Troy," said the wife. ”

Jiang Xiao couldn't read the words on the tombstone, but made a nose sound: “Hmm. ”

Wife: “Are they all dead? ”

Jiang Xiao: “Hmm. ”

“Hey...” his wife shook her head slightly, with a bitter smile on her face. "It's time to go with him. ”

Saying, his wife turned around, facing Jiang Xiao, that wrinkled old face, engraved with the marks of the years.

She suddenly said, "Can I ask you a favor? ”

Jiang Xiaowei frowned slightly and did not respond.

She pointed to the empty grave beside her and said, "Can you bury me here after you've completed your mission? ”

Jiang Xiao's heart remained vigilant, and he sighed: “What did Hopkins tell you? ”

The wife laughed, and there seemed to be a glimmer between her eyebrows: “He said he found a kind.

The new god, always stepping on the bones of the old god. ”

Jiang Xiaomeo shook his head. “He and I are not the same kind of people. We were not, we are not, nor will we be. ”

“Whatever.” The wife couldn't help but laugh. She walked to the empty grave and closed her eyes silently. "You can do it now. ”

The aftermath of the sunset sprinkled on the wife, applying a layer of orange red to her dry, skinny figure.

Jiang Xiao looked at the tombstone and said: "Who is he? ”

She replied, "My love. ”

Jiang Xiao: “What happened? ”

The wife opened her eyes again and looked at the tombstone beside her. “He's old. It's time. He won't let me renew his life for him.

I spent the rest of my life with him, and I always respected him.

In fact, I've been regretting, maybe, that last time, I should be a little more discreet. ”

Jiang Xiao smiled his lips and said silently: “When I saw Sparta, he said to spill my flesh all over his courtyard.

When I met Troy, he invited me to a poker game to try to control me and trade my life for his freedom.

You, on the other hand, dug yourself a grave. ”

His wife looked at Jiang Xiaona's young face and said softly: “I don't need freedom. In fact, I have nothing to care about in this world.

I just promised him to live. Otherwise, what you see here should be two headstones.

Now that you're here, you've come to me with the victory of the shield and the law system.

Obviously... I can't live, I'm just a medical department. ”

Jiang Xiao smiled. "Coincidentally, so do I. ”

The wife's face was slightly surprised. After half an hour, she shook her head and smiled. “Well, it doesn't matter, let's do it. ”

Jiang Xiao silenced for a few seconds and said, “I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm afraid it's hard to satisfy your wishes. ”

“Oh?” his wife glanced visibly at Jiang Xiao. "Think about the consequences. I don't know about your ability geometry, but against Hopkins' will, he'll make you worse than dead. ”

Jiang Xiao shook his head: “You understand wrong, I am not his follower, nor his disciple, let alone his subordinate. ”

When I heard this, my wife's eyes widened slightly as if she heard something incredible.

It took a while for her to say, "If you're not here to kill me, then please leave now. He likes to be quiet. ”

Jiang Xiao said, “Would you like to talk to me about Hopkins? ”

Jiang Xiao turned to Catherine in the distance and said: "I hear you have hot tea and pastries. ”

“Yes, sir.” Catherine immediately understood what Jiang Xiao meant and hurriedly opened the space door and walked in.

His wife deeply frowned and hesitated, but Jiang Xiao had already reached the grave of his wife's deceased husband. At random, a space door opened.

Jiang Xiao snooped in and seemed to have caught something. When he took it out again, it was a bunch of lily flowers from Huahai Ranch.

Jiang Xiao slightly leaned over and placed the white flower in front of the tombstone. “Excuse me, sir. ”

On one side, his wife looked at the scene in a glance, and also saw Jiang Xiao straightening her body and turning her eyes.

Her eyes were full of respect with a hint of exploration.

The wife was silent and half-hearted, slightly rickety, and turned away from the courtyard.

......

On the cliff, a small table, two wooden chairs.

Catherine brought a delicate plate of pastries and a pot of hot flower tea.

Jiang Xiao looked at Catherine and said: "Go change your clothes. I think you're all upset. ”

“Yes, sir.” Catherine had no hesitation, and in front of the little prophet, she seemed to have left behind all the demands of the old prophet, opened the portal and walked in.

Jiang Xiao looked at his wife and said: "Jiang Xiaopi. ”

She responded, "Axl. ”

Axel?

Looks like an ancient Greek god of medicine?

Jiang Xiao smiled and said: "The codename of your team is very interesting. It seems that you can find traces of the spider in the story book. This Axl... seems to be the name of a goddess? ”

Axel nodded, but changed the subject and asked, “What is your relationship with Hopkins? ”

Jiang Xiao picked up a piece of pastry and threw it into his mouth: “It's a little complicated, but overall, it's not a friend of the enemy. ”

Axel was slightly confused and asked, “If you are enemies, why did you come here at his request? Did he threaten you? ”

"'I'm like you,' said Jiang Xiao. 'I'm supposed to be imprisoned by him.

When I was thrown in, Hopkins gave me a map, and I was idle here, too, and I looked at it one by one.

However, Sparta is unfriendly and Troy is insidious and cunning. They wanted my life, so I killed them. ”

“Huh.” Axo laughed dumbly, "At a very old age, they were blindfolded and thought they could regain their freedom. ”

Jiang Xiaoqi asked: "Why are you... imprisoned here as intimate comrades of Hopkins' Civil War? ”

AXO: “What kind of person is Hopkins in your mind? ”

Jiang Xiao thought about it and said: “The appearance is elegant and casual, but there is no choice but to be harsh and spicy. ”

Axo sighed softly, his cloudy eyes with a hint of memory: “At first, he was a sincere, kind, ambitious young man.

We followed such a leader, the Civil War, who eventually came to the opposite ball.

But over time, he's changed slowly, and he doesn't respect life anymore, and maybe... the blood in his hands is too stained, and he doesn't care anymore.

He stopped listening to people, and there was only one voice in the team, and he became arrogant and arrogant, until in the end he built an empire and ruled the entire continent of Europe... "

Axo looked at Jiang Xiao, "That's the beginning of the nightmare. ”

Jiang Xiao: “Why? ”

AXO: “Perhaps he thinks the world can no longer pose any challenge to him.

His personality grew weirder and more volatile.

Until the third month of the empire, because of a small thing, he lit up a slaughter knife against the Golden Yu clan. ”

Kim Yu clan?

The Golden Feather of Lancey?

Axo: "After we stopped and persuaded him, he did not exterminate the Kim Yu clan, but only a small part of the Kim Yu clan remained, and he threw them into this watershed space as prisoners.

Likewise, those of us who persuaded each other were thrown in here.

Jin Yu pedestrian, but the empire established a group of elderly stars and beasts, Hopkins suddenly became ferocious, killing this race... so that the newly established empire was on the path to disintegration. ”

Speaking of which, Axel laughed, "You know, Sparta, Troy and Poseidon are all members of a team that are determined to follow their leaders.

They were not involved in persuading and stopping, but, like several of our other team members, were thrown in here with the same fate. ”

“50 years? 60 years?” Axo sighed softly, "I don't know, I've been locked up here for a long time, I don't know what it's like out there. ”

Jiang Xiaozuo muttered, "If it wasn't surprising, he would throw you in and destroy the empire himself, but most races are still there, the only thing missing is the Golden Feather pedestrian clan...

Like, some mysterious underwater giant?

The ones that flew up on the altar murals with Hopkins? ”

"Dead sea lord?" said Axel.

You keep moving forward, and you'll see them. After all these years, the Dead Sea clan, which was almost exterminated by the Hopkins, slowly recovered the number of communities of the past. ”

Jiang Xiaomo nodded, "Why is Hopkins so vicious? ”

Axo shook his head and said: "It is said... that the elders of the Golden Feather family want to expand the territory of the Empire and move in the direction of Eastern Europe towards Asia.

I don't know how many requests and representations it was, but Hopkins suddenly burst out and made such an incredible move that he repeated one sentence in his mouth as he slaughtered the Golden Yu clan. ”

Jiang Xiaoxin moved: “What? ”

Axo: “Everything is no longer important. ”

Jiang Xiao: “...”

Behind him, a space door opened and Catherine walked out in a black dress with a long hair cape.

Though it still looks dressed up, it's a reduction in size compared to the previous expensive evening dress.

Axel glanced at Catherine and said, "She is your servant. ”

Jiang Xiao shook his head and said: “She is Hopkins' servant. She was sent to watch over me. ”

Axo frowned slightly and looked at Jiang Xiao's face. He had to shake his head and smile. "You are an interesting person. ”

Catherine picked up the teapot and added tea to Jiang Xiao, but she didn't dispute it. She knew what to say and what to do.

"Follow your current course and you'll have an enemy," said Axel. ”

“Hmm?” Jiang Xiao hooked up with Catherine.

Katherine took out the map and handed it to Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao expanded the map and looked at the six locations. If the Axos are included, Jiang Xiao has visited four “old gods”.

There are two of them left. Why is there only one enemy?

Are there dead people in those two locations?

Axel looked at the map in Jiang Xiao's hand and said: “It looks like it has been some years. According to the location indicated above, my husband and I have not established a relationship and have not moved here to live together. ”

Jiang Xiao:????

This map... is 60 years old?

Axo looked closely, moving along the coastline, pointing at the Red X on the Alps, and said, "You should probably go to the finish line and visit her first. ”

Jiang Xiao: “Who is she? ”

Axo: "She was Hopkins' lover, now Hopkins' prisoner, and an enemy to the enemy.

She knows Hopkins better than any of us.

If Hopkins were your enemy too, she'd be happy to help you, I mean, in any way. ”

Jiang Xiao: “What's her name? ”

Axo: “Gaia. ”

Jiang Xiao couldn't help but grin. "Do you really dare to be famous!? ”

Axo looked seriously at Jiang Xiao. "Believe me, she deserves this code name.

While also a member of this team, the gap between others and her strengths is unimaginable.

How do you define Hopkins' strength? ”

Jiang Xiao thought about it and said: “It's very tricky, even a little too much to do. ”

Axo nodded, nodded the red X on the Alps, and said, “On her you'll find the same feeling. ”

Jiang Xiao nodded, picked up the teacup on the table and drank all the flower tea. "You can survive in my space. One day, when I leave the world of the seamounts, I will let you out. ”

Unexpected by Jiang Xiao, Axo shook his head and refused, and he shook his head very decisively.

“Hmm...” Jiang Xiao thought, standing up, said, “In that case, I won't bother you. ”

“Good luck.” Axl just nodded and didn't say anything.

“Go." Jiang Xiao showed Catherine next to him, one flashing, going straight to the Alps.

And Axel, sitting silently in a chair, listening to the waves beating the reef, as if he were a wandering stone.

Not knowing how long it had passed, she picked up the teacup on the table and drank the already cold flower tea.

She stood up, thin as a bamboo pole, and worried that the sea breeze would blow her down.

She left the cliff and walked back to her cabin yard.

In this sea of flowers, she again stood in front of her husband's grave and whispered, “I promised you that I would continue to live in this world.

And the news he was about to come, made me see hope, saw the dawn.

But I didn't want to... I waited so hard for so many days that I couldn't wait for the end.

I'm sorry, maybe... I'm gonna eat up.

You know, I've been rehearsing in my head for a long time, imagining seeing you again.

But he didn't come to kill me, you can feel my inner disappointment, you can... "

Axo said, walking to the empty grave, turning around and lying down.

“Huh!”

Dusty.

In the empty tomb, a dry palm was detected, a gust of wind blew through it, a pile of dirt on the ground continued to gush into the tomb.

“As I said before, I should let it happen once...”

Soil is constantly pouring into graves, burying, levelling...

After sunset, the sea breeze blows as waves strike the reef.

The sea breeze swept over the cliffs, over the cold tea on the table, and scattered pieces of pastry...

The sea breeze blew through the wooden house into the courtyard, blending the scent of the flowers in the courtyard around the two graves.

Two quiet graves.