With Il as the end point, this week's trip has already brought Fang Ran and Ling to a considerable border place, and the border town in front of them is probably the last foothold in Italy.

Starting from the bustling Milan, it is getting farther and farther away from civilization and prosperity, and the towns and villages that I pass by seem to go back in time, but perhaps because of the node on the edge, at least in Fang Ran's opinion, this town is quite large.

Lira, who had paid a few copper coins, placed the two horses that pulled the cart, and put the carriage containing too many future creations into the black box, Fang Ran pulled the girl who was a little silent for some reason, and said with a smile:

"Don't be in a daze, let's go, let's go find your parents Ling."

"Hmm."

The girl looked at him quietly and nodded, I don't know how many times, the figures of the two walked into a strange town.

About a year ago, war broke out on the originally quiet and peaceful Italian border, and although the war did not spread to the territory, some war was inevitable.

Then it was at that time that the village was overwhelmed by the battlefield, and Rei was separated from her parents near Il while fleeing on a winter night.

According to the girl's description, Fang Ran knew that Ling's mother was Chinese, and Ling's father was purely Italian, and he was also a declining little nobleman.

Even among Europeans, light blonde hair color and pupils are quite rare, and these characteristics of Ling are obviously inherited from her father, and the contour of her face is in the style of her mother's Chinese, with a delicate appearance that belongs to a half-breed.

Therefore, in Fang Ran's thoughts, it should be quite easy to find Ling's parents, because Italy, which is not as big as some provinces in China, does not have much population in this era, locking in a general direction,

Light blonde men and Chinese females should be fairly easy to spot presence.

But...

For a week or so, I didn't find any clues about such a person.

What he didn't tell Ling was that not only after each question, he would send Haiji and Mulin to patrol again to prevent passing by, but every night after she fell asleep, Fang Ran would also search for nearby towns and villages that she hadn't been to.

In other words, he had searched all the places around Italy that ended in Il,

There is no trace of Ling's parents.

Including this town...

Haiji and Mu Lin's figures flashed into his shadow, and in an instant, the dark eyes dissipated, and Fang Ran blinked and smiled at Ling:

"Let's go, let's go to church and ask first."

...

....

"I'm sorry, little girl, but I haven't seen a couple like you've said, and I've never heard of anyone like that in town."

The priest in the small church in front of him shook his head, looked at the young man and the girl in front of him apologetically, and replied.

"Yes, thank you."

There was a kind of silent disappointment, and the young girl whispered, but politely bent down to thank the priest.

Even if he couldn't understand the dialogue of this scene, Fang Ran still knew the result, he touched Ling's head, ready to smile and cheer her up,

Then the priest looked at the well-dressed young man and girl in front of him, and he was a little speechless, but at last he sighed softly and said:

"This town is not suitable for travel, and the troops have been coming more and more frequently lately, so leave as soon as you are done, may the Lord bless you."

With that, his old body closed the small wooden door, and it seemed that he was not going to open it again today.

"Fang Ran..."

The girl with her head down suddenly called Fang Ran's name, and Fang Ran held her soft little hand and said softly and calmly:

"What's wrong?"

"Why can't I find it.... Mom and Dad aren't they already...."

"Ling."

Without waiting for the girl to finish speaking, Fang Ran interrupted her words calmly calling her name.

Then he pulled her body, squatted in front of her, looked at the girl's sad face that bit her lip, and said calmly and seriously:

"Why do you think your parents are still alive before you go?"

"Because.... The big sister who saved me told me that she didn't see my parents, and that they must be still..."

"Then they must still be alive."

Fang Ran whispered into her eyes.

"Really...?"

"Of course it's true, we've only found a few places... Italy is so big, maybe your parents are somewhere else. ”

Ling Qianjin's big eyes swelled with brilliance again, and he looked at Fang Ran tentatively and asked in a low voice, and then got the answer that Fang Ran deserved in his tone.

Fang Ran smiled, then glanced at the church and asked curiously:

"Anyway, did that old man say anything just now?"

Hearing him ask about this, Ling held Fang Ran's hand tightly, approached him a little uneasily, and said:

"The priest said... The people of the army are coming... Let's get out of here..."

"Ha, that's it, it's okay, Ling, I'm in the army, this kind of thing is more or less a gift, uh... Anyway, since I taught Ling how to shoot last time, you should be able to deal with them yourself. ”

Fang Ran winked at her and smiled, and then halfway through speaking, he remembered that one afternoon, he took out a handful of dark blue roses and said shamefully,

So taking the girl's hand, he strode towards the rest of the town to inquire about the news, and his exaggerated voice was like a captain shouting slogans in a stage play:

"Good! It's two o'clock in the afternoon! Squad Leader Fang Ran, attack! ”

"Flutter..."

"Vice Captain Ling, why are you laughing at this time..."

"Fang Ran, you looked so stupid just now."

"It hurts my heart to say that, okay..."

...

Contrary to the figure of the young man pulling the girl, at the other end of the town,

A group of men in military uniforms walked in in a procession with weapons in hand, their uniforms dusty and their feet weak and sluggish, and the eyes of each one exuded cloudy and obscure weariness.

Sadly, they failed again.

Even if the number of troops was twice that of Austria-Hungary for a long time, after such a long time, they did not break through the opponent's defense line at all, and at such a cost, they only advanced dozens of kilometers.

How long will these days last?

The commander of this team sat on a motor trolley with a gloomy face, the body of the tire was obviously bent up and down, and he held the saber and looked ahead with a cold face.

In the streets, people avoided each other, and both men and women retreated to their houses, not daring to face the soldiers.

And this made the Commander even more annoyed!

I and others fought the battlefield, but these stupid people didn't even want to greet them!

Thinking about such thoughts, the suppressed annoyance turned into a desire to vent, and then...

He saw a woman left on the side of the road.

His eyes suddenly straightened, and even his lower body reacted directly.

It was a woman in a long black dress, the style of the skirt was very classical but also very revealing, the slender pale shoulders were directly exposed to the air, and the angle of the side could even see the faint curvature of her chest,

Completely different from the yellowed skin of the peasant women around her, some sickly pale skin and smooth black dress formed a strong contrast, so that people could not intuitively doubt what kind of slippery and soft it should be, and in an instant was dominated by her bewitching and thrilling beauty.

It's just that at this moment, she is walking on the side of the street with a staggering figure, looking a little out of her mind.

But the Commander didn't care about any of this, he just wanted to rudely rip off her black dress now, and then vent his desires on that pale and seductive body!

With a wave of his hand, he called his adjutant, his eyes shining and pointing to the figure that had already taken away his soul, and lowered his voice...

...

...

It should be a great time.

A hundred years ago, in the world, he took a young girl on a journey in a carriage on his own.

Along the way, from waking up in the morning to falling asleep at night,

Every minute is happy.

At night on the border, in the hotel where the kerosene lamp was extinguished, the young man fell asleep again with the girl who had been running for a day.

But in fact, behind the happy time, there are often some things that are deeply covered, covered with a thick layer of time cocoon, like a fog, undetectable, unknowable...

The unawakened card hooked the scene again, and when he looked into it, he saw that he was standing in a 'familiar' world without color, and his eyes were wide open.

In the darkness of the night, he saw the wreckage of the battlefield wilderness.

Why did you come to this era?

During the journey in the carriage, Fang Ran occasionally thought about this question.

On the hills near the plain of Isonzo, the figure that symbolizes light, she has not yet become the queen of the palace that never sleeps, and she looks at the plain of the battlefield with sad eyes.

The guns were set up, the troops were arranged, and the solemn atmosphere in the deep night represented that the war was about to start tonight, and it was about to break out.

This is probably the worst of times,

The afterburns of war can shatter what was originally happy and beautiful at the slightest touch...

I've never seen such a cruel picture, I've never smelled heavy blood, standing on a battlefield with only ashes, Fang Ran looked at the corpses, blood-stained weapons, and the fear of dead people everywhere made his pupils tremble!

There was a glorious phantom in front of him, and a violent existence was felt behind him,

The [Fog Card] suddenly appeared in his hand, flickering like a rush of light, and Fang Ran looked down at it in amazement.

[Determine the state of affairs and decide the direction of the situation]

Out of some kind of intuition, or out of the reminder of the card that hasn't awakened yet, Fang Ran feels as if he has collected some 'clues'....

It's come to the end of this journey.

In fact, he subconsciously didn't want to do that, he wanted to spend every day carefree, wanted to drive the carriage lazily with the girl in his arms, wanted to stop in the forest or where there was water, fishing, playing in the water, basking in the sun, and wanted to try again He made a generator, but he didn't succeed in connecting to the bankrupt hot pot plan...

I think there is no end to this journey.

But he knew no.

He still had things to do, waiting for him to go back.

Holding back his curiosity to look back at what it was, Fang Ran walked forward with some intuition, and the [Fog Card] dissipated in his hand this time,

On the ground were soldiers who wanted to escape, panicked farmers, men and women hugging each other, and the disgust of a corpse stimulated Fang Ran's nerves, making him feel the horror and cruelty of war in the most intuitive and inescapable way.

In the house occupied by the army commander, the women who were simply led here by the deputy in a few sentences were still looking around with distracted eyes, not knowing what they were thinking.

Then at the moment when he saw the commander's male push the door in and smile lustfully at herself, her violet-colored eyes finally focused, and her obviously bewitching face showed a smile that could make people feel fear and palpitations!

The abnormal tone hides an unknown number of morbidly crazy, eerie chuckles sounding in the night:

"You... Is it my puppet? ”

Darkness and ominousness erupted like a flood at night at this moment!!

The dream broke off in the passing wreckage of the corpse... The moment you see the back of a white light and shadow woman in front of a log cabin!

Fang Ran woke up from his dream suddenly, and Huo Ran turned his head to see that the young girl was still asleep.

What I just saw was... Wrong...

Frowning and struggling in the inexplicable 'nightmare' he saw just now, Fang Ran told himself that now was not the time to think about that, he got up and looked out of the window incredulously,

The energy fluctuation that suddenly woke him up was indeed not an illusion, and in the night without street lights, with the vision of the participants, he could see that a terrifying wave of darkness suddenly began to spread from the other end of the town!