Messy short and medium hair, eyebrows like finely trimmed, like two sharp blades, clear lines of eye sockets, deep and soft facial features, but at this moment the eyes reveal twilight and vicissitudes, as well as confusion.

All in all, this can't be said to be a beautiful, but extraordinarily clean teenager.

Facing the big mirror, the young man shook his somewhat lost head, turned on the faucet, and slapped his face twice, splashing all over his face.

Bang bang bang ~ bang ~

The bathroom door was slammed violently, and a faint woman shouted, "It's your turn, come out - you've fallen into the toilet!"

The young man vaguely felt that the woman's voice was very familiar and kind, and a memory came flooding back, he bent over and retched violently, and the overly strong memory conflict produced intense vomiting and dizziness.

After a two-minute delay, the door opened when the woman was about to kick the door outside.

The young man's gaze was a little out of focus, and he met a beautiful woman in her early twenties who was wearing a white shirt and hip skirt suit, and had a sharp temperament.

Lou Juli, the second sister closest to him, served as a front-line military doctor shortly after her marriage seven years later, and died in battle with her troops.

Seeing that the young man was out of the situation, the woman was so anxious that she was sweating, and she raised her fist and was about to hit someone: "Still in a daze!"

"Sister. ”

Hearing this vague sister word, the woman's spicy fist hesitated, and finally slapped the young man's shoulder lightly: "Come with me, the makeup artists are getting angry." ”

The boy was grabbed by the arm and took a few quick steps, passively quickened his pace, and followed.

"Whether you get the chance or not, you have to do your best. The woman looked back as she walked, her eyes shining with silent warning.

"I tried my best. ”

"Hey, why are you so well-behaved all of a sudden?"

"Don't worry, I'll listen to my sister. ”

After tossing and turning in the dressing room for more than ten minutes, the makeup artist pinching the orchid's finger twisted his ass and followed the newly-dressed young man out.

"This teenager is malleable, but he is a little old-fashioned and not active and lively enough. ”

Lou Juli, who was waiting outside, immediately sent a smiling face, secretly attached a red envelope, and expressed her gratitude repeatedly.

"Yes, my brother is a little shy. ”

"Is it my turn?" asked the tall one of the models lining up in the hallway, raising his hand.

"It's none of your business, let's all go back. The makeup artist pinched the red envelope and put it into the butt bag with some disgust, and waved his hand like a fly, "Hurry up early next time!"

"Give me another chance, please. ”

"Don't beg me, you are all accompanying the prince to study, it is the same if you come early or late. ”

The siblings who went to the studio vaguely heard such a passage coming from behind.

"This issue of the young man is the main swordsman style, in a word, it is to make the little girl's legs soft and heartbeat, the few just now are too soft. ”

"That's no problem, these models are all weak chickens, and they look good. ”

"Yes, that's all the money, those bloodline noble young masters in private middle schools can not move. ”

"If you want me to say, just let the lights cool down a little bit, and then fix the film. ”

"I don't think the warm light is stronger, and it is better to burn and roast it. ”

"Don't make a noise!"

The studio was a little rudimentary, and a horse-faced man in a green military uniform was communicating with the film crew.

The siblings walked in and immediately attracted the attention of four or five people, including a gaffer, a photographer, a stylist, and a figure who seemed to be an art director.

"Yo, I'm really afraid you won't come. The horse-faced man who was still cold just now squeezed out a smile and took two steps forward and patted Xia Chan on the shoulder.

"Hello Director Feng, such an opportunity doesn't happen every day, how dare he!" Afraid that Xia Chan would not respond properly, Lou Juli immediately rushed to say.

"Take this sword and take a few steps. Director Feng didn't say much, took the long sword handed by the prop master, his arm sank slightly, weighed the weight, and nodded with satisfaction, not a good thing.

"Iron Armor Academy Sword!" Xia Chan's eyes moved slightly, and he recognized the origin of this sword at a glance, three feet three inches long, three inches and five inches wide, made of forged steel with runes, and such a sword in his memory had followed him for several years.

"Yo, a little vision, it's really borrowed by someone, it's quite heavy. Director Ma was a little surprised, he had already inquired about the details at the end of this young man, and the junior high school students who were rolling at the bottom should not have a relationship with the big money master, and they seemed to have some knowledge.

As soon as the sword was in his hand, Xia Chan seemed to be a different person, the swarthy long sword reflecting gray matte light was as steady as Mount Tai holding in his hand, his face was focused, his eyes were clear, his fingers swept over the cold sword blade like caressing a lover, and then he flicked it, and the clear sound echoed in the shed, and everyone present felt refreshed.

Everyone exchanged glances, and they all understood each other's gazes, there was a play!

"Change your costume and start shooting!" Director Ma ordered with an excited wave of his hand.

The prop master immediately sprang into action.

After filming a few designated actions in a row, Director Ma stopped, grabbed his chin and stared at Xia Chan in a martial arts uniform walking around, the feeling of holding the sword for a moment suddenly disappeared, what was going on? He suddenly slapped his thigh, "I won't give you the designated action, you can play freely." ”

Xia Chan frowned a little embarrassed, and suddenly raised his head and said, "I'll play a trick of swordsmanship." ”

"That's fine. Director Ma nodded, raised his hand and added, "Try to treat us as air!"

Xia Chan nodded, turned his feet, turned his wrist, turned his body with the sword, and improved the sword out of the oblique unfold the starting hand, he had already slowly compared a set of basic swordsmanship in the high school physical arts course.

The instinct of the body for decades is revealed in the demeanor, the human sword is inseparable, the sword blade swims away, and the sword flashes sharply under the light group, the sword is breathtaking, and it seems that there is a sharp edge that has been hidden for a long time and can't wait to break out of the shell.

This is obviously a set of basic swordsmanship that almost everyone knows, but why is it so different in his hands, there is an indescribable charm between the slashing, slashing, and stabbing movements.

Not only was the film crew fascinated, but even Lou Juli, who was standing in the corner watching, was dumbfounded, she never knew that her brother's swordsmanship was so good, is this still her younger brother?

All that was left of the studio was the faint sound of a sword breaking through the air and the continuous shutter click.

Two hours later, after changing into more than a dozen sets of heavy costumes and props, the teenager who was covered in sweat by the high-power incandescent lamp came out of the studio as if he had escaped.

Behind him, the sister with a happy face grabbed a stack of money in her hand and counted it over and over: "Director Feng said, this thousand is just an advance payment, if the magazine "Young Qiang" adopts it, there will be 5,500 yuan of the final payment, Xiao Chan, Xiao Chan, etc., ......"

When passing by the front hall of the building, there were still a few young models who had not been there talking to the front desk lady, and when they saw Lou Juli's sister and brother coming out one after another, they were the tall models before and said in a weird manner: "I heard that no, the cover model of "Young Qiang" in February has already been raised by a big financier. ”

"I'll go, and I'll ask for support. ”

"Let's go to the gold owner. ”

"Go, go, go. ”

A group of models, you and I disappeared under the noses of the two sisters and brothers.

"Brother, don't listen to the nonsense of those jealous and crazy guys. Lou Juli's face was pale, if it weren't for the fact that her arm was firmly grasped, she would have rushed out to theorize.

The young man felt that Lou Juli's anger had subsided a little, so he let go, and said casually: "Sister, what they said is right, don't you have any doubts about this kind of pie in the sky." ”

"Brother, you didn't burn it. Lou Juli had a suspicion in her heart, in the past, this younger brother, who had nothing but a sword in his eyes, was dropped by someone, and he would complain about himself, she couldn't help but reach out and touch Xia Chan's forehead.

"Someone did go to great lengths to give me such an opportunity. Xia Chan said in his heart.

The sister and brother took the bus all the way to the outer ring, what happened in the magazine was somewhat disappointing, but it did not have much impact on Lou Juli, she chattered all the way and talked excitedly, looking forward to the excitement of selling her brother's 'beauty' to make money in the future.

Xia Chan's gaze wandered unfocusedly in the bustling scenery along the way, which was said to be unfamiliar, and the unusually tall and prosperous vegetation made the high-rise buildings with strange styles standing in them seem to be swaying in the green sea.

In the blood and fire of the next few decades, this prosperity will be destroyed again and again, and there are so many stories happening here.

The car soon arrived at a high wall made of rune boulders, and there was a towering iron tower standing at intervals of more than 20 meters around the city, which was covered with rune prohibitions, and outside the wall was a bottomless abyss.

There is only a kilometer-long rune steel cable suspension bridge nearby, and in the event of a war, the bridge will be disconnected and folded and folded, breaking off the connection between the two sides, which also means that the time of life and death has arrived.

"Sister, get out of the car and accompany me down to blow the wind. ”

"Blow, blow, blow your head, wow, go by yourself, remember not to tell your mother the amount of the contract when you go back, otherwise your little coffers will be gone." ”

"Don't worry, I'm three or seven points with my sister. ”

"Thirty-seven points?"

In Lou Juli's daze, Xia Chan had already squeezed down from the door of the car with a long shoulder bag on his shoulder, leaving his sister who was confused.

Stepping on the skateboard, sliding on the steel suspension bridge walking path without hurry, the cold trade breeze blowing in autumn, Xia Chan looked down, the blue and black abyss is like the mouth of a giant beast, and then looking back, the central city inhabited by more than millions of people is the center of the Phoenix Spiritual Land.

Turning straight ahead, across the bridge, is the wider outer ring, where the barren land of forbidden spirits that have not recovered from the wounds of the war automatically divides the mountains, forests, and rivers into large areas that are broken and connected.

The nine blocks under the jurisdiction of the Phoenix Spirit Land are also home to millions of people, and even though they don't have to be crammed into towering elevator buildings or underground cities, the outer ring is only scattered with forward bases as the first line of protection, and it is extremely fragile.

Originally, there was no outer ring, but in the decades after the end of the Twilight War, which began a hundred years ago, the frequency and scale of the invasion of the remnants decreased significantly, and the fear of genocide combined with the welfare encouragement of multiple births led to an explosive increase in the population, so there was an outer ring.

However, every time a war comes, countless lamentations and separations always start in the satellite towns of the outer ring.

A bridge apart is sometimes the distance between life and death.

However, even if everyone wants to squeeze into the central city, the strict social point restrictions, high housing prices and tax system have made countless lower-class citizens have little hope for their children.

According to the alliance decree, there is a special law in Phoenix City, for example, if there are children in the family who have awakened their blood roots and embarked on the cultivation side, they can apply to move into the central city with the protection of the mystery lock if they have enough social points.

Xia Chan's home is also across the bridge, in the 9th arrondissement, a place close to the central city but still on the edge of the outer ring.

Every child is trained at home and school at a very young age, and when they hear the alarm bells, they immediately take refuge in basements or underground shelters.

This generation of young people has not experienced that kind of precarious days, but Xia Chan knows that the short period of tranquility will soon come to an end.