Dawn Sleep

Crystal Bone (4)

After the lingering sound of the gunfire subsided, three people stood still.

In these ruins, for a while, only the continuous falling snow remained in motion.

About three or four seconds later, Garcia indifferently tucked the cartridge case in his hand into his breast pocket. He walked towards Jiang Jianming while retracting his crystal bone at the same time.

Jiang Jianming had fallen next to a broken wall. When he stood up, he could already see His Highness’s boots in his vision.

Not far away, Audrey got up. The oppressive feeling of that high-level crystal bones hadn’t dissipated, her ears were buzzing, and she couldn’t make a single move. She could only barely open her eyes and watch the person who had the same appearance as Ryann walk towards Jiang Jianming.

In a daze, she thought that Jiang Jianming was going to be killed. She saw His Royal Highness Ryann leaned over and stretched out a hand towards Jiang Jianming’s neck.

The latter did not dodge, and simply took back the Wings of Venus into the holster.

Audrey almost imagined the sight and sound of her best friend’s neck being twisted.

But the prince’s fingers passed through the neckline of the disabled human, groped down, and finally pulled out a…..a necklace with a red gold ring at the end.

“……” Garcia squeezed the little thing, joy or anger was indistinguishable on his face.

When Jiang Jianming was seriously injured last time, he was the one who stripped the person naked and sent him to the treatment cabin, thus of course he also saw this strange necklace.

At that time, he was not in the mood to think about what it was, but now he understood that it was a ring.

It was the wedding ring when Jiang and Ryann exchanged vows in the past.

Garcia pulled hard, intending to pull apart this thing, however, the chain seemed to be made of a special material. Not only did it not tore, the owner was even pulled forward by force, and his forehead almost hit a sharp corner of a piece of debris.

Jiang Jianming let out a muffled groan, grasped Garcia’s arm forcefully, and said hoarsely, “Don’t touch this.”

This was the first time he had clearly shown his resistance and will today.

Garcia’s eyes darkened. With a crystal bone condensed on his finger, he snapped the thin chain, and then threw it away.

The ring drew a small arc and fell into the rose bushes not far away.

Then he turned around in silence, and left the place without looking back.

Audrey didn’t know how long it took before she came back to her senses.

She got up from the ground, rushed to Jiang Jianming staggeringly, and said in a panic, “Jiang!!”

“How are you, hang in there, I’ll take you to the doctor…”

Before she could finish speaking, Audrey felt a pain on the inside of her arm. It was Jiang Jianming who took out the tranquilizer that he carried with him and gave her an injection skillfully.

Audrey: “……”

“I’m fine.” Jiang Jianming pushed the medicine in, and then pulled out the needle, “It’s you who has suffered by accident because of me.”

“His Royal Highness, he didn’t mean to do it. I provoked him too much. In that situation, even if it was a bird that broke in, it would be coldly pierced by a real crystal.”

…..Not to mention that this person opened her mouth and yelled “Your Royal Highness Ryann”, which was akin to stepping on his reverse scale. “Don’t blame him, the responsibility lies with me.”

Audrey was stunned, “You…..”

Just now, the series of shocks and crises had already dazzled her mind, and only at this point did she regain her composure.

Audrey blinked and looked at him up and down, she realized that there were no blood stains on Jiang Jianming’s body at all, and that it didn’t look like he was severely injured by the crystal particles.

Thinking about it too, with the strength of the crystal bone of His Royal Highness, simply stabbing a real crystal nearby would make her vomit blood. If it was really an intentional harm, how could Jiang Jianming, who was almost covered in a crystal bone, still act as usual?

“Just now, His Royal Highness did not hit…..bully you?”

She was confused, “Then you two…..then he is…”

Jiang Jianming glanced at the mess around him, and chose an appropriate word to describe it, “scratching the floor.” (TL: bad mood. Just like cats (since JJ refer GK/RK as a cat), they scratch the floor when in a bad mood or have resistance to something)

Old Marshal Chen really knows how to choose a place, it’s just that he doesn’t know if he can give him his saved money for demolition fee.

Audrey: “Ah…ah?” The patriarch of the Lance family, who was known as a young and talented man, felt that her mind had become a paste, and said whatever came into her head, “No, the one just now was really His Royal Highness Ryann!?”

Jiang Jianming stood up and patted his crumpled clothes. “It’s a long story, let’s talk about it next time. Help me find the necklace first.”

Audrey: “Necklace?”

Jiang Jianming pondered for two seconds, then changed his words, “Ring.”

Audrey: “Ah?”

A moment later, Audrey was muddle headedly bent over among the golden rose bushes, looking for that small ring with Jiang Jianming.

Why did things become like this? She’s beginning to be unable to understand the world.

“Found it.” Jiang Jianming straightened up, and properly put the ring he picked up into his breast pocket, unfortunately, he still needed to order a customized new chain.

Audrey was even more confused, thinking: since it was found so easily, what was the point of His Royal Highness Ryann throwing it out just now?

She asked blankly, “Should I have not come over?”

Jiang Jianming: “No, in fact, if you hadn’t come to disrupt the situation like this, it would have been very difficult to end the matter.”

After all, for the Little Highness who is attempting to be fierce-looking, stretching out a crystal bone for a long time and lifting him high, won’t it be quite embarrassing.

Audrey: “Ah?”

Jiang Jianming not only recalled the series of farces that had happened just now: 

At that time, after he deliberately provoked a sentence, the momentum around Garcia’s body changed.

The crystal bone swung down with a terrifying momentum, just like the Ninth Heaven thunderbolt that could split mountains and seas…….and blew up the building first.

Then, of course, the beams and columns would collapse, and countless bricks and tiles were falling towards the top of his head. Before he could feel panic or any kinds of emotions, Garcia’s crystal bones had already wrapped him tightly.

 But His Royal Highness, who was burning with anger, of course couldn’t regret wanting to protect him after blowing up the building. Such a shameful thing must not happen.

Therefore, the crystal bone immediately lifted him into the air, and smashed down again—boom!!

The crystal bone smashed the surface to pieces.

However, he wasn’t broken into bits.

Because he was tightly wrapped in crystal bone, he didn’t feel anything except for the uncomfortable impact of that moment.

Jiang Jianming was in a complicated mood that time, and felt like he was playing at the amusement park stimulation facility that only little kids play.

Thus, when he was picked up again and looked at Garcia with a cold face as he said that sentence “What gave you the illusion that I really wouldn’t hurt you?” Jiang Jianming actually wanted to laugh a bit.

But then he found that Garcia seemed to be really furious, and he was really trying his best and racking his brains to intimidate himself……thus he simply couldn’t bear to laugh again.

Only when Audrey rushed in was he really taken aback.

Fortunately, although it looked thrilling, there was no danger.

“Alright, go back and pay attention to your body.” Jiang Jianming rubbed his temples, “I’ll return the clothes to you after I wash them.”

Audrey: “What, take it. In a few days, there’ll be another banquet to attend, you will only have to come and borrow it from me again for that occasion.”

Jiang Jianming suddenly felt that it made sense, and said thank you.

After thinking for a while, he said, “About the whole story of today, if you are interested, I will find time to explain it slowly. Before that, please temporarily…..keep it a secret for me.”