Jiang Xiao and Catherine flew all the way northeast, through a mountain forest, along the rolling river, and flew in the direction of the coastline.

It's getting late and the sun is setting.

The crimson fiery clouds stain the distant horizon red, adding a special charm to the beautiful peninsula landscape.

It was at such a point in time that Jiang Xiao and Catherine saw a small wooden house standing on a sea cliff.

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

In the sound of waves crashing against the reef, Jiang Xiao's Catherine's forward figure slowly stopped in mid-air and looked down.

As far as the eye can see, behind the slightly dilapidated log cabin, is a sea of flowers that are extremely beautiful.

Among the flowers, there was a gray-haired old woman standing with her head bowed and her hands in her hands.

Her dress is very ordinary and somewhat masculine.

The light-colored plaid shirt, like the men's one, should have been worn for many years, and although it looked a little shabby, it was cleanly washed.

Anyone who sees this old man for the first time, and their first impression of her should be: dry and thin.

It's just too thin, like a bamboo pole, as if a gust of wind can blow her down......

The breeze is gusting, the air is filled with the scent of flowers, and the waves are undulating and the salty smell of the sea, which mixes with the fragrance of flowers to form a special smell.

Such a picture is beautiful enough.

What makes this scene even more bleak is that in front of the old woman standing with her head down and her hands in her hands, there is a tombstone.

And next to this tombstone, there is a special grave, this tomb seems to have just been dug up, and there is a pile of dirt next to it, which is empty.

The old woman turned around, raised her head slightly, looked at Jiang Xiao and Catherine standing in the sky, looked back and forth on the two of them for a moment, then locked her eyes on Jiang Xiao's body, and said, "It's here." ”

"Well, here we are." Jiang Xiao nodded lightly and slowly landed in this courtyard of flowers.

The old woman turned her head, looked at the tombstone in front of her again, and said, "You are here to ask for my life." ”

Jiang Xiao also looked at the tombstone and said, "What about you?" Did Hopkins promise 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, after Troy's fraud just now, of course Jiang Xiao knew what the goal of this group of people was.

The old woman spoke, "Judging from the direction in which you are flying, it looks like you are coming from Sparta and Troy." ”

Jiang Xiao couldn't read the words on the tombstone, but just made a nasal voice: "Hmm." ”

Old woman: "Are they all dead?" ”

Jiang Xiao: "Hmm. ”

"Hey......" The old woman shook her head slightly, a bitter smile on her face, and said, "It's time to accompany him." ”

As she spoke, the old woman turned around and faced Jiang Xiao, her wrinkled old face was engraved with the traces of time.

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 on the side and said, "When you're done with your mission, can you bury me here?" ”

Jiang Xiao's heart was still vigilant, and he said in a deep voice: "What did Hopkins say to you." ”

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

The new gods always have to step on the bones of the old gods to ascend the throne. ”

Jiang Xiao shook his head silently and said, "I am not the same kind of person as him, not before, not now, and not in the future." ”

"Whatever." The old woman was noncommittal, just smiled, walked to the empty grave, silently closed her eyes, and said, "You can do it." ”

The afterglow of the setting sun fell on the old woman's body, smearing her thin figure with a layer of orange.

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

She responded, "My love." ”

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 the time comes, he doesn't want me to renew his life."

I've spent my whole life with him, and I've always respected him.

In fact, I've been regretting that, perhaps, that last time, I should have been a little more wayward. ”

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

When I met Troy, he invited me to a game of cards, trying to control me and trade my life for his freedom.

You, on the other hand, have dug your own grave. ”

The old woman looked at Jiang Xiao's young face and said lightly: "I don't need to be free, in fact, I have nothing to be nostalgic for everything in this world."

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

Now, you're here, and you've come to me with the victories of shield battles and the law system.

Apparently... I can't survive, I'm just a medical department. ”

Jiang Xiao smiled and said, "Coincidentally, so am I." ”

The old woman's face was slightly surprised, but after a while, she shook her head and smiled, and said, "Okay, everything doesn't matter, let's do it." ”

Jiang Xiao was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm afraid it's hard for me to fulfill your wishes. ”

"Oh?" The old woman was obviously stunned for a moment, looked at Jiang Xiao with cloudy eyes, and said, "You have to think about the consequences, I don't know what your ability is, but if you disobey Hopkins' wishes, he will make your life worse than death." ”

Jiang Xiao shook his head and said, "You misunderstood, I am not his disciple, nor his disciple, nor his subordinate." ”

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

After a while, she spoke, "If you're not here to kill me, then please get out of here now, he likes to be quiet." ”

Jiang Xiao said, "Would you like to talk to me about Hopkins?" ”

As he spoke, Jiang Xiao turned his head to look at Catherine in the distance and said, "I heard that you have hot tea and pastries." ”

"Yes, sir." Catherine immediately understood what Jiang Xiao meant, hurriedly opened the door of the space, and stepped in.

The old woman frowned deeply, her face was hesitant, but Jiang Xiao had already walked to the grave of the old woman's deceased husband, and with a move, a space door opened.

Jiang Xiao reached in with one hand, as if he had caught something, and when he took it out again, it was a bouquet of lilies from the Flower Sea Ranch.

Jiang Xiao leaned over slightly, placed the white flowers in front of the tombstone, and said softly, "Sorry, sir, I disturbed you." ”

On the side, the old woman looked at this scene in a daze, and also saw Jiang Xiao's eyes when she straightened up and turned her head to look.

There was a hint of inquiry in that look, which gave her a lot of respect.

The old woman was silent for a long time, leaned slightly, turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

......

On top of the sea cliff, a small table and two wooden chairs.

Catherine brought a plate of delicate pastries and a steaming pot of flower tea.

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

"Yes, sir." Catherine did not hesitate at all, and in front of the little prophet, it seemed that she had left behind all the requirements of the old prophet, opened the portal, and walked in.

Jiang Xiao looked at the old woman and said, "Jiang Xiaopi." ”

She responded, "Akso." ”

Akso?

It seems to be the god of medicine in ancient Greek mythology?

Jiang Xiao said with a smile: "The code names of your team are very interesting, it seems that you can find clues in the storybooks, this Akso... Seems like the name of a goddess? ”

Aksol nodded, but changed the subject and asked, "What is your relationship with Hopkins?" ”

Jiang Xiao casually picked up a piece of pastry and threw it into his mouth: "It's a little complicated, but in general, it's friend or foe." ”

Akso was a little puzzled and asked, "Since you are enemies, why did you come here according to his request?" Was he threatening? ”

Jiang Xiao said: "I'm the same as you, I should also be imprisoned by him."

When I was thrown in, Hopkins gave me a map, and I was idle here, so I took a look at them one by one.

It's just that Sparta was very unfriendly, and Troy was very insidious and cunning. They wanted my life, so I killed them. ”

"Huh." Axel smiled dumbly and said, "They are still blinded by a lot of age, and they still think they can be free. ”

Jiang Xiao asked curiously, "You... As a close comrade-in-arms of Hopkins in the Northern War, why was he imprisoned here? ”

Axel: "What kind of person is Hopkins in your mind?" ”

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and said, "On the surface, he is elegant and easy-going, but in fact, he is unscrupulous and ruthless. ”

Axel sighed softly, with a hint of memory in his cloudy eyes: "At the beginning, he was a sincere, kind, and ambitious young man.

We followed such a leader, fought in the north and south, and finally came to the other ball.

But as time went on, he slowly changed, he no longer respected life, maybe... The blood in his hands is stained a lot, so he doesn't care anymore.

He no longer listened to people, and there was only one voice in his ranks, and he became arrogant and conceited, until finally, he established an empire that ruled over the entire continent of Europe......"

Akso looked at Jiang Xiao and said, "That was the beginning of the nightmare. ”

Jiang Xiao: "What? ”

Akso: "Maybe he thinks the world can't challenge him anymore."

His personality became more and more eccentric and moody.

Until the third month of the establishment of the empire, because of a trivial matter, he lit up the butcher's knife to the Golden Feather clan. ”

The Golden Feather Clan?

The Golden Feather Walker of Lanxi?

Akso: "Under our intervention and persuasion, he did not exterminate the Golden Feather Clan, but only a small part of the Golden Feather Clan remained, and he was also thrown into this sea space as a prisoner.

In the same way, those of us who tried to persuade were thrown here by him.

Golden Feather Walker, but the Empire's established veteran star beast population, Hopkins suddenly became ferocious and killed this race...... In this way, the newly established empire is on the road to disintegration. ”

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

They didn't participate in persuasion and stopping, but they were thrown here with the same fate as the rest of our team members. ”

"50 years? 60 years? Axel sighed softly, "I don't know, I've been imprisoned here for a long time, and I don't know what has become of the outside. ”

Jiang Xiao pursed his lips and said, "If nothing else, after he threw you in, he personally destroyed the empire, but most of the races are still there, and the only thing missing is the Golden Feather Walker clan......

Like, there are some mysterious underwater giants?

On the frescoes of the altar, those star beasts that followed Hopkins to ascend? ”

Akso said: "The minister of the dead sea?

If you continue to walk forward, you will see them, after so many years, the Dead Sea Clan, who were almost wiped out by the Hopkins Dead Race in the past, has slowly recovered its previous population. ”

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

Akso shook his head and said, "It is said... The elders of the Golden Feather Walker clan want to expand the territory of the empire and advance along the direction of Eastern Europe to Asia.

I don't know if it was the first request and negotiation, Hopkins suddenly burst out and made such an incredible move, repeating a sentence in his mouth when he slaughtered the Golden Feather clan. ”

Jiang Xiao's heart moved: "What? ”

Akso: "Nothing is important anymore. ”

Jiang Xiao: "......"

Behind her, a door to the space opened, and Catherine, wearing a shawl with long hair and a black dress, stepped out.

Although it still looks dressed up, it can be regarded as a reduction in specification compared to the expensive evening dress before.

Axel glanced at Catherine and said, "She's your servant." ”

Jiang Xiao shook his head and said, "She is a servant of Hopkins, sent to my side to spy on me. ”

Axo raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Jiang Xiao's calm appearance, couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and said, "You are an interesting person." ”

Catherine picked up the teapot and added tea to Jiang Xiao, but she didn't refute, she knew what she should say and what she should do.

"Follow your current route, and you'll have one more enemy. ”

"Huh?" Jiang Xiao hooked her hand 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 you count the Akso couple, Jiang Xiao has already visited the four "old gods".

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

Could it be that there were also dead people in those two locations?

Akso leaned over and looked at the map in Jiang Xiao's hand, and said, "It looks like it's been around for some years, and according to the location marked on it, my husband and I haven't established a relationship yet, and we haven't moved here to live together." ”

Jiang Xiao: ???

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

Akso looked closely, along the coastline, all the way up, dotted on the red X in the Alps, and said, "You should probably go to the end and visit her first." ”

Jiang Xiao: "Who is she?" ”

Axol: "She was once Hopkins' lover, now Hopkins' prisoner, and an enemy who turns against her."

She knows Hopkins better than any of us.

If, too, Hopkins is your enemy, she'll be more than willing to help you, I mean, in any way. ”

Jiang Xiao: "What's her name?" ”

Axol: "Gaia." ”

Jiang Xiao couldn't help but grin and said, "Do you really dare to name it!?" ”

Akso looked at Jiang Xiao with a serious face and said, "Believe me, she deserves this code name."

Although she is also a member of this team, the difference in strength between others and her is unimaginably large.

How do you define Hopkins' strength? ”

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and said, "It's very tricky, and it even feels a little bit like I don't know where to start." ”

Axel nodded, nodded at the red X in the Alps, and said, "In her, you will find the same feeling." ”

Jiang Xiao nodded, picked up the teacup on the table, drank the flower tea, and said, "You can go to my space to survive, one day, when I leave this Hailing World, I will release you." ”

To Jiang Xiao's surprise, Akso shook his head and refused, and he shook his head very decisively and refused.

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

"Good luck." Akso just nodded and didn't say anything more.

"Let's go." Jiang Xiao gestured to Catherine beside him, flickered, and went directly to the Alps.

And Akso, sitting silently in his chair, listened to the sound of the waves crashing against the reef, as if he had turned into a Wangfu stone.

I don't know how long it took, but she picked up the teacup on the table and drank the cold flower tea.

She stood up, her body as thin as a bamboo pole, and people worried about whether they would be blown down by the sea breeze.

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

In the midst of this sea of flowers, she stood in front of her husband's grave again and said softly, "I promised you to continue to live in this world.

And the news that he is coming has given me hope and a glimpse of the dawn.

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

Sorry, maybe... I'm going to break my promise.

You know, I've been rehearsing in my head for a long time, imagining the picture of being reunited with you again.

But he's not here to kill me, you can feel the disappointment in my heart, you can ......"

As he spoke, Axo walked over to the empty tomb, turned around, and lay down on his back.

"Phew!"

A cloud of dust.

In the empty tomb, a dry palm poked out, and a gust of wind blew, and the mound of soil on the ground kept pouring into the tomb.

"Like I said before, I should be willful for once......"

The soil is constantly pouring into the graves, burying and filling ......

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the sea breeze blows to the sound of waves crashing against the reef.

The sea breeze swept over the sea cliffs, swept the cold tea on the table, and blew away the crumbs of the pastries......

A gust of sea breeze blew through the wooden houses and into the courtyard, mixing with the fragrance of the sea of flowers in the courtyard, surrounding the two tombs.

Two quiet tombs.