Nine Star Burden

Jiang Xiao and Catherine flew northeast all the way through a mountain forest, along the flowing river, and flew towards the coastline.

It was getting late, and the sun was setting.

The crimson fire-burning clouds stained the distant horizon, adding a special charm to this beautiful peninsula landscape.

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

The wooden house faces the sea, and there is a sea of ​​flowers in the backyard of the wooden house.

In the sound of the waves hitting the reef, Jiang Xiao's figure of Catherine stopped slowly in the air and looked down.

In the sight, behind the slightly worn-out log cabin is a sea of ​​beautiful flowers.

Among the flowers, there is a white-haired old lady standing with her head down and her hands down.

Her clothes are very ordinary and somewhat masculine.

The light-colored plaid shirt, like the men's one, should have been worn for many years. Although it looks a bit worn, it is washed clean.

Anyone who sees the old man for the first time, should have the first impression of her: dryness.

It was too thin, like a bamboo pole, as if a gust of wind could blow her down ...

The breeze, the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers, the waves are ups and downs, and the salty and damp breath of the sea is also sent, mixed with the floral fragrance, forming a special smell.

This picture is beautiful enough.

What makes this scene even more bleak is that in front of the old lady, who is standing with her head down and her shoulders in hand, is a tombstone.

And beside this tombstone, there is a special tomb. This tomb seems to have just been dug out, and there is a pile of mud next to it, which is empty.

The old woman turned around and looked up slightly at Jiang Xiao and Catherine standing in the sky. Her eyes looked back and forth at the two of them for a moment, and she locked her sight on Jiang Xiao and said, "Come. "

"Well, here." Jiang Xiao nodded gently and landed slowly in the Huahai Garden.

The old woman turned her head, looked at the tombstone in front of her again, and said, "You came to claim my life."

Jiang Xiao also looked at the tombstone and said, "What about you? Has Hopkins promised you that if you kill me, you will be free."

The old woman shook her head and said, "I don't need that."

Jiang Xiao frowned slightly, and after the fraudulent acts of Troy just now, Jiang Xiao certainly knew what the group's goal was.

The old woman said: "From the direction of your flight, you seem to be from Sparta or Troy."

Jiang Xiao couldn't understand the words on the tombstone, but just made a nasal sound: "Well."

Granny: "Are they all dead?"

Jiang Xiao: "Well."

"Hey ..." The old lady shook her head slightly, a bitter smile on her face, said, "It's time to go with him."

With that said, the old woman turned around and faced Jiang Xiao in front, her old face full of folds imprinted with traces of years.

She suddenly said, "Can I ask you to do me a favor?"

Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly and did not respond.

She pointed to the empty grave and said, "Can you bury me here after you have completed the task?"

Jiang Xiao was still vigilant in his heart and said in a deep voice: "How did Hopkins tell you."

The old woman smiled, and there seemed to be a trace of disdain between her eyebrows: "He said, he found a kind.

The new **** always steps on the bones of the old **** to ascend the throne. "

Jiang Xiao shook his head silently and said, "I and he are not the same kind of people. They were not before, they are not now, and they will not be in the future."

"Just do it." The old lady said nothing, just smiled, and walked to the empty tomb, silently closed her eyes and said, "You can do it."

The afterglow of the setting sun spattered on the old lady and painted a thin layer of orange on her thin figure.

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

She responded: "My lover."

Jiang Xiao: "What happened?"

The old woman opened her eyes again, looked at the tombstone on the side, and said, "He is old, and when it is time, he does not want me to renew his life for him.

I spent a whole life with him, and I always respect him.

In fact, I have been regretting, maybe, that last time, I should be wayward. "

Jiang Xiao pursed her lips and said silently, "When I saw Sparta, he said that he would sprinkle his courtyard with my flesh and blood.

When I saw Troy, he invited me to participate in a hand game, trying to control me and trade my life for his freedom.

And you have dug yourself a grave. "

The old lady looked at Jiang Xiao's young face and said lightly: "I don't need freedom. In fact, I don't have any good feelings about everything in this world.

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

Now, you have come and came to me with the victory of shield warfare and legal system.

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

Jiang Xiao smiled, and said, "It happened, me too."

The old lady's face was slightly surprised. After a while, she shook her head and smiled, saying, "Well, everything doesn't matter anymore, let's do it."

Jiang Xiao was silent for a few seconds and said, "Sorry, ma'am, I'm afraid it's difficult to satisfy your wish."

"Oh?" The old woman froze for a moment, and looked at Jiang Xiao with her turbid eyes. "You have to think about the consequences. I don't know the geometry of your abilities, but he will make you worse than you would against Hopkins' will." dead."

Jiang Xiao shook his head and said: "You misunderstood, I am not his believer, nor his disciples, nor his subordinates."

Hearing this, the old lady's eyes widened slightly, as if she heard something incredible.

It took a while before she said: "If you are not here to kill me, please leave here now. He likes being quiet."

Jiang Xiao said, "Will you talk to me about Hopkins?"

With that in mind, Jiang Xiao turned to look at Catherine in the distance and said, "I heard that you have hot tea and pastries."

"Yes, sir." Catherine immediately understood Jiang Xiao's meaning, hurriedly opened the door to the space, and stepped into it.

The old woman frowned deeply, and with a hesitant look, Jiang Xiao had already walked to the tomb of the old woman's dead husband. With one move, a space door opened.

Jiang Xiao went in with one hand and seemed to catch something. When he took it out again, it was a bunch of lilies from Huahai Ranch.

Jiang Xiao leaned down slightly, placed the white flowers in front of the tombstone, and said softly: "Sorry, sir, bother."

Aside, the old woman stared at the scene staring blankly, and also saw Jiang Xiao straightening her body and turning her head to look.

There was a trace of search in that eye, which gave her full respect.

The old woman was silent for a while, slightly ricketing, and turned and walked out of the courtyard.

...

Above the sea cliff, a small table and two wooden chairs.

Catherine brought a plate of exquisite pastries and a hot pot of tea.

Jiang Xiao looked at Catherine and said, "Go and change your clothes. I think you are uncomfortable."

"Okay, sir." Catherine didn't hesitate. In front of the little prophet, she seemed to have forgotten all the requirements of the old prophet, opened the portal, and went in.

Jiang Xiao looked at her old lady and said, "Jiang Xiaopi."

She responded: "Axor."

Axor?

Seems like the **** of medicine in ancient Greek mythology?

Jiang Xiao said with a smile: "The codenames of your team are very interesting. It seems that you can find clues in the story book. This Akzo ... seems to be the name of a goddess?"

Axor nodded, but changed the subject and asked, "How 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 in general, it's an enemy and a friend."

Axor was slightly puzzled and asked, "Since you are the enemy, why did you come here as he requested? Was he threatened?"

Jiang Xiaodao said: "I am like you, and I should be considered imprisoned by him.

When throwing me in, Hopkins gave me a map. I was idle here, so I looked at each one.

It's just that Sparta is very unfriendly, and Troy is sinister and cunning. They wanted my life, so I killed them. "

"Oh." Akzo smiled dumbly. "A lot of age, they are still blinded by their eyes, and they still think they can regain their freedom."

Jiang Xiao asked curiously: "Why ... as a close comrade of Hopkins' Southern Expedition, why are you imprisoned here?"

Axor: "What kind of person is Hopkins in your heart?"

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and said: "The surface is elegant and easy-going, but in fact it is unscrupulous and cruel."

Akzo sighed softly, with a trace of memories in his cloudy eyes: "In the beginning, he was a sincere, kind, young man with grand goals.

We followed such a leader, expedition to the south, and finally came to the alien ball.

But with the passage of time, he slowly changed, he no longer respects life, maybe ... the blood in his hands is much more stained, so don't care anymore.

He no longer listened to people ’s opinions, and he could only have one voice in the team. He became arrogant and arrogant. Until the end, he built an empire and ruled the entire European continent ...

Akzo looked at Jiang Xiao and said, "That is the beginning of a nightmare."

Jiang Xiao: "How?"

Axor: "Maybe he thinks this world can't bring him any more challenges.

His character became more erratic and moody.

Until the third month of the establishment of the empire, because of a small matter, he lit the butcher knife to the Jinyu family. "

Jinyu family?

Lanxi's Golden Feather Walker?

Akzo: "Under our efforts to prevent and persuade, he did not exterminate the Jinyu family, but the Jinyu family has only a small part left. He was also thrown into this ridge space as a prisoner.

Similarly, those of us who tried to persuade him were thrown here.

Golden Feather Walker, but the veteran star beast population established by the empire, Hopkins suddenly murderously killed this race ... As a result, this newly established empire is on its way to fall apart . "

Speaking of this, Akzo smiled and said, "You know, Spartan, Troy and Poseidon are all members of the squad that firmly follow the leader.

They did not participate in persuasion and prevention, but they were thrown here like several other members of our team with the same fate. "

"50 years? 60 years?" Akzo sighed softly. "I don't know. I have been imprisoned here for a long time. I don't know what it looks like outside."

Jiang Xiao pursed her lips and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, after he threw you in, he will annihilate the empire, but most of the races are still there, the only thing missing is the Golden Feather Walker ... .

It seems that there are still some mysterious undersea giants?

The star beasts that followed Hopkins on the frescoes of the altar? "

Akzo said: "The Minister of the Dead Sea?

You continue to move forward, and you will see them. After so many years, the dead sea family that was almost extinct by the Hopkins dead race in the past, and at this time, it slowly recovered the number of the previous group. "

Jiang Xiao nodded silently and said, "Why is Hopkins so fierce?"

Akzo shook his head and said, "It is said that ... the elders of the Golden Feather Walker family want to expand the territory of the empire and advance towards Asia in the direction of Eastern Europe.

I don't know it was the first few requests and negotiations. Hopkins suddenly broke up and made such an incredible move. When he slaughtered the Jinyu family, he still repeated a word in his mouth. "

Jiang Xiao moved: "What?"

Axor: "Everything is no longer important."

Jiang Xiao: "..."

Behind him, a space door opened, Catherine long hair shawl, wearing a black dress, stepped out.

Although it still seems to be dressed up, it is a lower specification than the expensive evening dress before.

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

Jiang Xiao shook his head and said, "She is a servant of Hopkins, sent over to me to monitor me."

Akzo raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at Jiang Xiao's calm look, and could not help shaking his head and smiling, saying, "You are an interesting person."

Catherine picked up the teapot and added tea to Jiang Xiao, but she did not refute. She knew what to say and what to do.

Akzo: "Follow your current route and you will have an enemy."

"Huh?" Jiang Xiao hooked at Catherine.

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

Jiang Xiao unfolded the map and looked at the six locations. If the Akos and his wife were counted, Jiang Xiao had already visited four "old gods".

How to count ... There are two left? Why is there only one enemy?

Are there dead people in those two places?

Akzo leaned over and looked at the map in Jiang Xiao's hand and said, "It looks a little bit older. According to the location marked above, my husband and I have not established a relationship and have not moved here to live together."

Jiang Xiao :? ? ?

This map ... turned out to be a map 60 years ago?

Axor looked closely, moved along the coastline, and clicked on the red x on the Alps, saying: "You should probably go to the end, visit her first."

Jiang Xiao: "Who is she?"

Axor: "She used to be Hopkins' lover, and now she is a prisoner of Hopkins, and an enemy who has turned against her.

She knows Hopkins better than anyone of us.

If Hopkins is your enemy, she will be willing to help you, I mean, in any way. "

Jiang Xiao: "What's her name?"

Axor: "Gaia."

Jiang Xiao couldn't help but grinned and said: "Dare you really dare to name it !?"

Akzo looked at Jiang Xiao seriously, and said, "Trust me, she deserves this codename.

Although it is also a member of this team, the strength gap between others and her is so unimaginable.

How do you define the strength of Hopkins? "

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and said, "It's very tricky, and I even feel a little unable to get started."

Akzo nodded, nodded the red x on the Alps, and said: "On her body, you will find the same feeling."

Jiang Xiao nodded, picked up the teacup on the table, and drank the flower tea, saying: "You can go to my space to survive, and one day, when I leave this world of ridge, I will let you out."

Out of Jiang Xiao's expectation, Akzo shook his head and refused, and still shook his head very decisively.

"Hmm ..." Jiang Xiao thought for a while and stood up, saying, "Since that's the case, I won't bother."

"Precise luck." Akzo just nodded and said nothing more.

"Go." Jiang Xiao gestured to Catherine beside him, flashing, and went directly to the Alps.

Axel, sitting silently in his chair, listened to the sound of the waves hitting the reef, as if it had turned into a lookout stone.

Not knowing how long it took, she picked up the teacup on the table and sipped out the already cold flower tea.

She stood up, her body as thin as a bamboo pole, worrying whether she would be blown down by the sea breeze.

She left the cliff and walked back to her log cabin courtyard.

In this sea of ​​flowers, she once again stood in front of her husband's grave and said softly: "I have promised you to continue to survive in this world.

And the news that he was coming made me see hope and dawn.

But I don't want to ... I waited for many days, but I couldn't wait for the desired ending.

Sorry, maybe ... I have to say something.

You know, I have been rehearsing repeatedly in my mind for a long time, imagining the picture of meeting you again.

But he did n’t come to kill me. Can you feel the disappointment in my heart, you can definitely ... "

Akzo said, walking to the empty grave, turned around and lay on his back.

"Boo!"

There was a lot of dust.

In the empty tomb, a dry palm came out, and a gust of wind blew, and the mound on the ground continuously poured into the tomb.

"Like I said before, I should be capricious once ..."

The soil keeps pouring into the grave, burying, filling ...

In the afterglow of the sunset, the sea breeze blew along with the sound of waves hitting the reef.

The sea breeze swept over the sea cliff, over the iced tea on that table, blowing away the crumbs of pastry ...

Sea breezes passed through the wooden house and blew into the courtyard, mixing the fragrance of the flowers in the courtyard, surrounding the two tombs.

Two quiet tombs.