Night, cold

North wind, very cold

Under the moon, the heart is colder

On the edge of the martial arts arena in Artoria's backyard, Charles sat quietly with his head bowed.

Diana quietly walked up to Charles, shoved a steaming glass of milk into his hand, and sat beside him with her own glass of milk.

Neither of them spoke, and they had become gloomy from the moment they left the mule's island.

If the two of them were just ordinary technologically gifted children with little social experience, they would really be fooled by Alexei's words today.

They found out that something was wrong at the beginning, and if Alexei was just a curse, he didn't need to do a blood test at all, and he needed to draw that much blood.

Charles secretly used the Soul Sight during the conversation, and discovered that Alexei's soul was like a candle in the wind.

According to the information in the gift package that Reimu left for Charles, the situation caused by this was either an attack on the soul, or the sequelae left by burning the soul to forcibly improve his strength.

And Alexei's calmness and calmness at that time made Charles feel clogged.

Charles was not very familiar with Alexei, he had only met once before, and he had not talked about it deeply, and he saw in the dream platform that the whole Rurik Kingdom had a very high opinion of this prince.

Ever since he learned about the plans of these bigwigs from Old Charles, he didn't know how to face Alexei, and he didn't dare to meet Nicholas II in private without Mira and Momiji.

Charles is not the kind of egoist, as long as it is beneficial to him, he can accept it calmly.

He didn't know what the people he had saved in the fire in his previous life thought of him, but when he saw others suffering for him, his feelings were complicated and indescribable.

"Let's drink the milk first. Diana patted Charles lightly on the back, "You haven't eaten anything tonight." ”

Charles nodded slightly, then drained the milk in his hand.

"Ahem...... Vomit...... cough cough cough ......"

Charles, who had finished drinking the milk, coughed and retched, and the bitter taste that he had never felt before lingered in his mouth for a long time, and even his stomach twitched, and his whole body trembled.

But at the same time, he felt that his mind was poured into a cold spring, and his brain, which had become a little chaotic because of excessive worry, suddenly cleared up a lot.

"Have you calmed down?" Diana continued to pat Charles on the back.

Charles, who calmed down after a while, nodded slightly, "What did you add to the milk?"

"I brought seeds called Tranquility Grass, which has the effect of repelling insects and calming the mind, and I planted some in the yard. Diana said as she handed the glass of milk in her hand to Charles, "Drink some more, this cup is uncooked." ”

Charles hurriedly shook his head, he didn't dare to eat what Diana handed over in the short term.

Diana took a sip, then handed the cup to Charles without changing her face, but Charles continued to shake his head effortfully.

"If you don't drink it, forget it. Diana drank the milk from the glass herself.

She set the empty cup aside, then pressed Charles upside down and laid him down on the stone slab on the floor of the jousting arena.

Under the dual effect of the cold stone and the addition of milk, Charles quickly regained his former composure.

Diana sat on the side and stroked his brain, and said softly: "If you find a problem, you have to study and solve it." Lu Xun once said, 'Research is to use reason and be calm'. ”

Charles watched the crescent moon in the night sky disappear among the drifting clouds, and after a long time, asked, "Have you ever heard of cargo worship?"

Diana said "um" and said, "I've traveled to Tanna Island, and I've seen locals learn U.S. military drills with red paint painted on their chests with 'a' on their chests, carrying wooden sticks, and worshipping model airplanes. ”

Then she asked in a low voice, "......What do you mean?"

That's what it means. Charles nodded.

"It's kind of interesting. Diana nodded in the same way.

"If that's the case, I don't mind coming up with something new. Charles, who was lying on the stone slab, squinted at the thickening clouds in the night, and reached out to try to grasp the sky.

Then he said to Diana sincerely, "Help me." ”

"It's interesting. Diana said and shook Charles' hand reaching for the sky, "Who else can I help if I don't help you." ”

"It's better to pay more attention to safety, what you do is much bigger than mine. Charles said to her, "I think that place in Knowledge City is a bit of a cult. ”

"I know that. Diana also lay on the jousting field, watching with Charles as the clouds grew lower and lower in the night sky, and the lights of the night in the Abyss City holiday began to shine on the clouds.

"Alexei's side......" Diana was interrupted by Charles before she could finish speaking.

Charles asked, "Did you say that the mechanical exoskeleton could help Alexei walk?"

"Theoretically, yes, mechanical exoskeletons have a lot of potential in medical treatment. "It's just that we don't have that much of the research right now." ”

Hearing that it was a shortage of manpower, Charles could only shake his head helplessly, and then said: "I'll let Nasreddine pay attention to the preliminary research in this area when he has time." ”

At this time, Diana said to him: "You know that what I want to say is not this, don't say the underlying meaning of what Alexei said today, you didn't hear it. ”

"Alas......" Charles sighed deeply, "you just thought I was young and didn't hear it." ”

At this time, a little cold drizzle fell in the air, and slowly fell on the faces of the two of them.

"It's raining, go back, don't freeze. Charles said as he got up.

However, he was stopped by Diana, only to hear Diana say on the side: "This matter is not that simple, you don't think that letting you take over his class is just his own intention, right?"

Charles took a deep breath and teleported Diana to her room with a teleportation spell, just as Diana was still on the soft bed.

He sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "I can't get Alexei in front of me to help me block the gun, and then I will take everything that belongs to him." ”

"That's inheritance, not taking away. Diana said.

"There is no difference. Charles whispered, "I won't ask for something that shouldn't be mine." ”

"But what about what about them shoehorning you?" Diana continued to pull Charles and said, "Don't forget, in order to help you pave the way, even the law was changed a while ago. ”

Charles was silent for a long time, and then Diana said to him: "You want to make big news, and everyone else has to make big news, I think you'd better talk to your uncle, I think they seem to be planning something." ”

Charles remained silent, and after a long moment he suddenly shouted, "Is it because that 'eagle quenched out of the fire' that the haze was finally swept away?" Relatives from afar guide the way forward. ...... returning home, 'Unfortunately, the prophecy was not fulfilled, and they put the treasure on my head?'

Diana squeezed Charles' hand and said softly, "Don't underestimate prophecy, especially the prophecy that came at great cost. ”

Charles was stunned for a moment, he came from a world where divination and prophecy can be equated with fraud and money, and in his previous life, a fortune teller said that he could get married in his twenties, but he was still a bachelor in his thirties, so he always didn't care about these in his heart.

Now that Diana said this, he couldn't help but start to reflect on whether he had made a dogmatic mistake.

At this moment, there was a sudden thunder and lightning outside the window, and electric snakes swimming around in the clouds illuminated the room without lights.

Before the thunder could stop, the torrential rain immediately poured.

"I'm going to collect my clothes. Charles made a reason, and left Diana's room.

After Charles left, Diana, who had changed into pajamas, let out a long sigh as she lay on the bed.

Everyone has been together for so long, and she knows that Charles is broken down at this time.

She could see that Charles was the kind of person who hid his anger and sorrow deep in his heart and did not show it on the surface. But no matter how deep these feelings are hidden, when quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, these negative emotions may crush him.

Diana lay on the bed for a long time, never hearing Charles's footsteps as he came back from collecting his clothes.

Charles said that it wasn't just an excuse to collect clothes, and that the clothes they changed every day while they lived here would be washed and taken to the balcony on the roof to dry.

Fortunately, there is an awning on the balcony to block the rain, and the clothes that are drying have not been drenched in the rain. It's just that the wind is getting stronger and stronger, and if you don't collect it, your clothes will be wet sooner or later.

The clothes had been placed in separate baskets and placed in the room.

Charles sat on the balcony floor in a daze, looking up at the lightning constantly weaving through the clouds, allowing the wind to rain more and more on him.

Suddenly, a blanket covered Charles's body, and the blanket still exuded a faint fragrance.

A pair of jade hands pressed against his shoulders, and Diana's voice came from above his head.

She read a prose poem.

"There must be such a kind of warrior

"It's not like the African natives who carry a snowy Mauser on their backs, nor are they as tired as the green battalion soldiers who wear box guns. He had no armor to beg for cowhide or scrap iron, but he had only himself, but he had the throwing spear that the barbarians used to throw out of his hand. ”

......

"Thank you. ”

After Diana softly finished reading Lu Xun's "Such a Warrior", Charles patted the hand on his shoulder.

When Lu Xun wrote this poem, it was at a time when the revolutionary masses of the Beiyang warlords also instructed some imperial literati to confront the revolution in terms of ideology, in an attempt to beautify their own ugliness and slander the great achievements of the soldiers. This prose poem shows the perseverance and perseverance of the revolutionary soldiers of the time in the face of a fierce and cunning enemy.