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"It's impossible! He's just a child now, how old was he then!" Even though he had already guessed the answer, Angel Neng was still stunned and said in disbelief: "Even if he is also the heir of some big family, how old is he?" It's impossible—"

"He is not the heir of a big family. To be precise, he has always been alone." The emperor shook his head: "As for age...hehe, don't be fooled by his childish appearance. He was already like that when he was in Syracuse."

"..." Angel Neng opened his mouth wide in astonishment, momentarily speechless.

"I'm not a poet, I'm not a writer, I don't know the art of rhetoric, and I'm not an insider who personally experienced the bloody storms in Syracuse in those years, so it's hard for me to describe clearly to you in words, six years ago How did that seemingly juvenile young man push a 15-year-old seventh successor into the top position of the Texas family almost by himself."

The emperor sighed a long time, narrowed his eyes, his eyes were a little dreamy and lost, but also yearning for reminiscence: "With the disintegration of the big families in Syracuse, all glory and evil are united under the hands of that Sicilian lady, Everything in the past has already been buried in the Roman cemetery with the insiders. I don’t know about those, so I can only tell you what kind of legacy he left for the world after his arrival and departure... About Rome sonnets."

He raised the wine glass and shook it, the scarlet wine reflected a cold light under the bright moonlight:

"In 1090, he was in Rome, Syracuse. At that time, the old king was dead and the new king was not established. Black clouds, black crows, and black umbrellas gathered into a sea of ​​black suits, all like black tides. , flocking to the cemetery of Rome, he took off his hat and saw Rome mourning, as if the night was burning."

"He was in Rome, Texas, in 1091, when a thousand 'Texas' corpses were hung from a thousand lampposts, and a thousand suns were not as bright as a maiden's crown A speck of dust, brush off that speck of dust with the hands stained with the flesh and blood of the first to No.13 heirs, and then put that crown on the maiden, so Rome is her Rome."

"In 1092, he was in Lady Sicily's Rome, when old glory was thrown into the old papers of history, and old names were ground into mud mixed with blood, and old families were washed into the long river of Terra's decaying past, He stood at the gates of Rome, looked at all that he had created and destroyed with his own hands, and left without looking back."

"Gone like it never came."

Chapter 20 children

The obscure and difficult language contained simple and profound epic connotations, which made the angel hold his breath for the sense of solemnity that came to his face. After the emperor finished speaking, she softly asked the second question:

"Why, in the end, is the Rome of the Sicilian lady?"

Three years after that young man walked into the Roman city of Syracuse and helped the girl who was the seventh in line to the throne almost by himself, why, the godfather fell from the crown overnight, and the family fell apart overnight , all the power and glory disappeared like a passing cloud, leaving only the new king named Lady Sicily to control the world?

How did the Sicilian lady conquer Syracuse in just a few years?What role did that young man play in this grand war?Since the Texas family can be unified overnight, why can't they defeat or even delay Lady Sicily?

However, it was the same as before, even though he asked this question himself, Angel Neng already vaguely had the answer in his heart.

This answer comes from the previous dialogue between Ashe and Texas.

"—Because he was Lady Sicilian's chess piece from the beginning."

The emperor gave the answer flatly.

And the energy angel is also suffocating at this moment.

At that moment, it seemed as if a chessboard that penetrated the sky and the earth of Syracuse was slowly opened in front of her. The woman with the family emblem of the double-headed eagle sat alone in front of the chess table, falling silently one by one. Bai Zi, there is no chess player on the opposite side of her, because in Syracuse, no one is qualified to play chess with her, even the young man who single-handedly put the godfather on the throne is just the last one she threw into the chessboard from the very beginning. That's all the important sunspot.

"The wisdom of mortals will never be able to figure out how that lady looks down on the world with a god-like gaze."

The emperor sighed: "No one knows her name, no one knows her past, she came from Sicily, she was named after Sicily, it took her three years to destroy Syracuse, and another three years to create Syracuse, before her, Syracuse was a disorganized and sinful capital, and no Terran would treat it as a real country, and up to now, even the Ursus Empire, which is in the extreme north, cannot I am faintly worried about whether I will become the first target of Syracuse after the Great Revolution."

Recalling the news about the crazy expansion of the Syracuse army at a terrifying speed that I had read in the newspaper, Can Angel nodded with sympathy: "Indeed, the huge wealth accumulated by the decadent and decadent families who have spent thousands of years of money. Wealth, transformed into the military expenditure of an absolute dictatorship within a year... I am afraid that the neighboring countries are now regretting why they did not intervene in the revolution?"

"Too fast, too fast, so fast that no one knew it was a revolution."

The emperor shook his head: "Everyone, including myself, even when the crown of the godfather in Texas fell to the ground, thought that this was just the birth of a new godfather, and thought that she would follow thousands of years The old road continues on the sinful land... Who would have thought that she would be a revolutionary?"

Disband the family, rebuild the army, promulgate laws, set up institutions, murder, robbery, gambling, drugs, smuggling, arms... All the big shots who are unwilling to cooperate are hung up on street lights, and all criminals who refuse to repent are shot on the spot. With the death of 30 people, the imprisonment of 30 people, the expulsion of 30 people, under the absolute violence and massacre, she rebuilt the Syracuse state system, and used the flower of evil together with the blood-stained black soil The fire burned out.

In the end, there is only one leader, one will, and one voice left.

"It's not so much the godfather, it's better to say that it's the emperor..." Angel Neng sighed: "She and Texas are completely on two world levels, so it's no wonder that she has fallen to where she is today. God, the opponent's cronies are the gods who put him on the throne, how can we fight this?"

"It sounds like you are quite on the side of Ms. Sicily." The emperor smiled, "I thought you would be filled with righteous indignation to defend your good partner."

"Friendship is friendship, and it has nothing to do with right and wrong." The angel spread his hands, "Even if I'm not interested in politics, I know that Syracuse is definitely better than the past. For the real low-level people, it is probably harder than hell, and although there is a risk of going to the front line to fight at any time, at least they can have enough food-I watched the news some time ago and saw that Ms. Sicily had just built a national An integrated social security and welfare system, I heard that beggars are no longer seen on the streets of Syracuse, even Longmen failed to do this.”

After a pause, she smiled helplessly: "Although I'm sorry for Texas for saying this, maybe it's a good thing for her to lose that godfather hat. Like now, she doesn't say it herself. Well, the past is in the past, and she is very satisfied with Penguin Logistics' life."

"Don't just say forgiveness for the person concerned." The emperor took a sip of red wine: "Although the past is in the past, you have also seen her attitude towards that young man."

"Ah, Ah Xi, this is also..."

Angel Energy's expression suddenly became subtle. Thinking of the sword that Texas stabbed Ashe, he couldn't help but smiled wryly: "Even if I feel relieved about my failure as a whole, facing the fact that I betrayed myself... well, it seems that I can't say it." Betrayal? After all, she was from there in the first place, forget it, let’s use this statement first, in short, she still seems very angry when facing the traitor.”

After a pause, she suddenly became energetic again, her eyes brightened and she said: "That's right, the serious topic is over, and the topic I care about the most is yet to be asked - when it comes to personal relationships, Axi and What is going on in Texas? Forget about the relationship between the monarch and the minister and the traitor, why are they so close? They still keep saying "my love"? Didn't Axi know that he was an undercover agent sent by the lady of Sicily? He Did you fall in love with Texas by accident? This is too romantic!"

"This falls into the category of folk gossip, and I don't know much about it."

However, to the disappointment of the able angel, the emperor shook his head, "I only know the more official and serious parts of the past in Syracuse. After all, in such turbulent times, there will not be many One is seriously concerned about the emotional entanglement between the godfather and her courtiers."

"I'm really concerned..." Angel Neng lowered his head in frustration, "I'm about to make up a romance novel with hundreds of thousands of words in my brain."

"However, although I don't know the specific emotional entanglements, there are many facts on the surface."

The emperor changed the topic, and brought back the bright eyes of the angel: "For example, the godfather of the Texas family, in the sixth month after ascending to the throne, announced and supported his confidant boy, Engaged."

"Oh, oh, did it appear on the surface? That means Ms. Sicily also knows about this? No, no, it should be said that this was the order Ms. Sicily gave Axi—"

Energy Angel's eyes lit up like a big light bulb for a moment, and she couldn't help swallowing as she spoke: "Wow, it's too exciting, this is the so-called 'master's order', no wonder Texas is so resentful, Even the most important life event, such as my fiancé proposing to me, was secretly ordered by another woman who was my old enemy, maybe even a rival in love, this is too tragic—”

"...Your imagination is really rich." Even the great emperor choked on the thought of being able to make angels go crazy: "But in theory, there are no omissions, after all, the relationship between that young man and Miss Sicily is indeed... a little unclear Not sure."

"Hurry up!" Neng Angel's expression became more expectant: "What's not clear? Is it a fact on the surface? It's really the same as what Texas said, Axi is a lady of Sicily." A concubine'? Then why did she go after Axi ruthlessly later, just because Axi was engaged to Texas? Isn't that an order from her own? Or is it that engagement is not important, Axi really fell in love with him? Texas is the point?"

"I don't understand the conjectures you mentioned." The emperor shrugged: "What I know is just the simplest fact."

"What fact?"

"Miss Sicily, there is a child."

The emperor said slowly.

"..."

At this moment, Angel Neng opened his mouth wide open silently with an extremely wonderful facial expression, and waited for the emperor's next sentence with a gesture that almost dropped his jaw.

"I don't know the gender, I don't know the origin, I don't know the name, I don't know the face, I don't know who his or her father is. But every minister and big man in Syracuse knows that as early as the establishment of his own family, Ms. Sicily has already established her own heir, and the reason given is the blood of the direct line."

The emperor said: "This is the only direct relative of Ms. Sicily, in other words, it is also one of the only two members of the 'Sicilian family'. If there is no accident, after he or she becomes an adult, he or she will inherit all the power of the Sicilian family, and even... All of Syracuse."

"Then, the father of this child is—" Energy Angel swallowed hard, and then wanted to say the name.

"Hush." ​​However, the emperor raised a finger to stop the angel's actions: "Don't overstep, this is not a secret that you and I are qualified to discuss."

"But—" Angel Neng hadn't uttered a word before being interrupted by the emperor again.

"Yes, I know what you want to ask. As you can imagine, in Ms. Sicily's life, the only person of the opposite sex who can be called a close relationship with her is that young man."

The emperor said: "That is her most important confidant, who shoulders her most important entrustment and shares her most important secrets. Apart from him, I have never heard of any Syracuse cabinet minister or revolutionary hero." , has received such attention from Ms. Sicily, and only after he escaped alone, made Ms. Sicily issue such a death warrant... But this doesn't explain anything."

"—Angel, if you want to know the truth, you might as well ask that young man yourself."

Chapter 21 The Abyss of Jealousy, is...

Ashe was woken up by Laplande.

However, the short rest, probably because it was too comfortable, made him fall into a drowsy sleep for a while, and he didn't feel dazed until the soft soles of his feet exerted force on his face and stepped on him a few times. opened his eyes.

"Well... what's wrong?"

Laplande didn't answer him, but lifted him by the back of his neck, dragged him up from the bottom of his feet, threw him on the pillow, turned over and pressed him on top of him, staring at him with complicated eyes, for a long while, Then he asked in a low voice:

"What is your plan?"

"Ok?"

Gradually regaining consciousness from the chaotic fatigue, Ashe yawned big, "Plan? What plan?"

"Of course it is a future plan." Laplande said: "We have already seen Texas, and a new assassin has arrived in Syracuse. Do you still want to be a passer-by aimlessly like before, Mantai?" Wander around?"

"Oh, so it's this." Ashe thought for a while, then suddenly laughed: "What if I say the answer is 'yes'? Will you continue to wander with me? Or, do you already miss Syracuse? During those days, do you want to regain the glory of the Lappland family?"

"...The family is meaningless to me. Besides, I am suffering from ore disease and I can't leave your side. Whatever choice you make, I have to follow." Lapland said: "However, The premise is that you make a choice...for example, stay here in Texas?"

"Why do you ask that?" Ashe smiled.

"Why kiss her?" Laplande asked back: "If you are not going to renew the past bond with her, why do you have to take such an intimate gesture over and over again, you know Texas's temper, she can't Reject you, even if she hates you so much that she wants to kill you now, but after all...she once loved you. "

——And the love of the Lupus is, after all, long-lasting.

For some reason, she didn't say this sentence.

After a pause, she looked directly into Ashe's eyes, as if she wanted to see through the deep mystery hidden in those beautiful eyes: "And what about you? You who have been a traitor from the beginning, what kind of feelings do you have for her? You In the past, I approached her for power, but now for what? Is it just for the momentary beauty? Just like...to me?"

A series of questioning contained intense emotions that Lapland seldom expressed, and the power of this emotion made Ashe silent for a while.

It's not that he doesn't understand Laplande. Under the seemingly unrestrained appearance, there is actually half a delicate soul hidden, possessing the unique sensitivity of the Lupus, which is not limited to the senses, but also integrated into emotions... ...But she is not good at expressing this emotion after all, and as time goes by, Ashe is also familiar with her carelessness.

But there are always exceptions, at least for Laplande, who doesn't mind showing her long-buried, "emotional fangs" when it comes to the topic of Texas.

——So, is this an insult to a close friend?Although she never cared about gender differences, so-called love and being taken advantage of, but seeing the same thing happen to Texas, she would feel empathetic and disgusted?Want to protect Texas from his "claws"?

To be honest, as a libertine who has never been in a serious relationship in two lifetimes and has always stayed in physical communication with the opposite sex, Ashe is not a wise man who is good at understanding people's hearts. His intelligence is more limited to practice and people's interests In the field of entanglement, he is often at a loss in the face of feelings that are said to be difficult for gods to pry into. Therefore, at this moment, he can only try to figure out the sudden outburst of Laplande's emotions and find a way to untie this mess.

Again, he cherishes the friendship between himself and Laplande, and doesn't want to be destroyed by anything.

"Sorry, in terms of gender distance, my past behavior was indeed inappropriate. Now that I'm back with Texas, I promise to reduce my physical contact with you in the future."

After thinking for a long time, Ashe decided to start from this angle - in his view, the most direct trigger of Laplande's resentment, and the key to her saying the last sentence "same to me" is nothing more than "you This scumbag who has messed with two different girls successively, the simplest solution is naturally to reduce the object of the mess to one.

As for the multiple-choice questions of Texas and Lapland, how to choose?Ashe didn't go through any struggles, and found out her own answer from the bottom of her heart.

However, at the same time as he found out this answer, he also suddenly had an inexplicable sense of awareness welling up in his heart.

——Ah, so, to Texas, I really still...

However, Laplande's answer interrupted his thoughts.

"... Reduce contact with me?"

It was a subtle way of punctuating sentences and excerpting words, but before Ashe had time to chew on the weird meaning, he noticed that something was wrong with Laplande's expression.

Did I say something wrong?

"So, at least on my part, you really do have pure, lustful thoughts, don't you?"

"Uh, about this point, didn't we explain it after we did the experiment before? Whether it's me to you or you to me, even after kissing, there is no shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, or any feeling of love The presence--"

So, from this point of view, at least you don't have to worry about my being unfaithful to Texas on emotional issues-this is what Ashe wants to say next.

But he couldn't say it.

"Goo-"

At that moment, Ashe's eyes bulged, and her whole thin body bounced up suddenly, but was pressed down heavily again.

On his neck, a white palm with stretched veins tightly clenched his throat, using unprecedented force to completely cut off his breathing.

Rapp...Rand?

The shout stuck in the throat could not escape, Ashe looked at Laplande in front of him with disbelief, not knowing what went wrong, and tried hard to struggle, but the poor physical strength of 15 points made him The subordinates of the strongest warrior in Syracuse could not even move.

"Shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, isn't it..."

What greeted him was the soldier's cold and cruel gaze, and the arc of the corner of his mouth without any trace of emotion:

"Then...try again?"

!!!

At this moment, even Ashe, who didn't understand people's hearts anymore, understood where his mistake was in the shortest time in the face of iron-like shocking words.

So, is it possible that after that joking kissing experiment, Laplande actually——

Thoughts were interrupted again.

Kissed by a beastly long kiss.

Chapter 22 Love Less Than Years

Ashe had never tried such an intense kiss.

No, it was not so much a kiss as a hunt, a prey hunted by a large carnivore.

The larynx was locked, the neck was almost pinched off, all breathing channels were blocked, and even a sliver of fresh air could not enter the lungs from the trachea.

The strong sense of suffocation made Ashe's eyes go black for a while, her heart was beating violently due to lack of oxygen, and her whole body, hands and feet began to feel numb.

humiliation.

But it's more of a pain.

Ashe is not afraid of death in the ordinary sense. Even if his throat is cut, his heart is pulled out, and his brain is smashed, he can regain a new life. This is the power obtained after a "transaction" with a great being, but not Being able to die does not mean not being afraid of the pain that is on the verge of death.

And suffocation is one of the most painful among all the ways of death.

The most important thing is that Ashe believes that Laplande has the will and determination to send him to the gallows, and feel his pain indifferently, watching him die and then reborn.