On the bank of the Tiber River, in a hotel built facing the river, Chu Zihang opened his eyes and quietly looked at the dark ceiling. Outside the window, the unstoppable chirping of insects on a summer night came through the open and breathable windows, making it difficult for anyone in the room, whether it was him or Susie, to sleep.

Both of them were lying on the double bed in the room, their deliberately slow breathing was clearly audible, and they could see each other just by turning their heads. After all, they were just playing a couple, and Chu Zihang originally planned to deal with it on the sofa or on the floor, but Susie obviously had the same plan, so under the stalemate between the two parties, it became the way it is now.

The two of them each covered a blanket, and in order to prevent a sudden situation, they lay down in their regular clothes, which prevented a lot of embarrassment. There was also some distance between them, and a pillow that seemed to divide the territory was placed between them. But it didn't work, the two of them lay on the edge of the bed with great tacit understanding, making people worry about whether they would fall down if they turned over.

Originally, Chu Zihang wanted to put Mura Yu in the middle, but on Susie's face, "Are you serious?" He silently retracted it. As the person who spent the most time in school, Susie obviously knew that his true side was not the cold-faced killer and basketball prince who was widely circulated among students.

To be honest, he can understand that the latter of the two titles is not suitable for Kassel students with excellent physical fitness, and the teachers and students of the Kassel Academy generally prefer to compete in skill or brain, which causes the basketball court in the academy gymnasium to be extremely cold, and it is not until he arrives that it gradually becomes lively.

It's just that he can't figure out the embryo killing of the former in these titles, and he thinks back to the several missions he has experienced since entering the school, and finds that his performance is mediocre, just cutting down some tough alchemy puppets and Deadpool, and there is nothing worth noting.

However, what happened underground in Yanjing cannot be told to others, which may be a bit shocking. The academy was also suppressed by the headmaster, and it was his secret team that defeated the dragon king hidden in the underground of Yanjing. As for what his secret team was, the school council, which was already too busy to take care of itself, was naturally unable to ask anymore.

The sound of turning over in his ears interrupted Chu Zihang's thoughts, he turned his head sideways, and found that Susie on the other side of the double bed was also looking at the ceiling with her eyes open like him. The room was dark, but a glimmer of light from the window shone on her eyes, reflecting a starlight that made the eyelashes on her eyes visible.

Finding Chu Zihang's gaze, she turned her head sideways and whispered a little embarrassedly, "Sorry for waking you up." ”

"No, I can't sleep either." Chu Zihang replied, his voice still as calm as usual...... But if it was really like that, he would have fallen asleep by this time.

Susie smiled embarrassedly again, turned over to look at him, and said, "But I'm still sorry that you didn't fall asleep at this time." ”

"Are you still worried about her?" Chu Zihang asked suddenly, perhaps to prevent the embarrassment of both of them being awake, Susie usually fell asleep before him.

"How......" Susie stared blankly at the roof of the room, and the crystal lamp on it was also reflecting the light outside the window.

She continued: "Although Nono gives people the feeling of being crazy and can fight with anyone, she is actually very lonely. Sometimes, even I don't know if she really treats me as a friend. ”

Chu Zihang listened silently, Chen Motong is actually a popular figure in the Lionheart Club, of course, most of them are negative. stealing the Bugatti Veyron out of the garage and successfully destroying the Rector's favorite Bermuda turf, as well as knocking out the Roman lamppost beloved by Professor Manstein, the chairman of the Discipline Committee; In the middle of the night, he was drunk and howled in the dormitory, so loud that he could hear it even from the boys' dormitory where he was......

The professors of the college were saddened by her various bad deeds, but the students did not dislike it too much, so much so that it was better to applaud more. The students who can enter Kassel are naturally not fuel-efficient lamps, and the day of freedom is only a temporary release of their nature, and other than that, they don't think about how safe they can be in the usual time.

Such a person can stay in a serious and solemn atmosphere, in other people's tones, it is a miracle that the Lionheart of the ascetic camp is in itself, and she and Susie, who is excellent in character and learning, and is a good student representative no matter how you look at it, is even more surprising to many people, in the eyes of outsiders, these two do not want to be able to play together.

"When school started in Chicago, she suddenly jumped in front of me, and she was wearing sunglasses and taking a ticket in front of me, and she said, 'It's you, chick, you're my person from now on.'" Susie said silently, "To be honest, I was quite disgusted at that time, I used to be the kind of traditional good student model, and I naturally didn't like her talking like a hooligan." ”

“…… At this point, we are actually about the same. In order not to let her be embarrassed to say it alone, Chu Zihang felt that she should say something.

Susie in the dark smiled softly: "But after that, I really envy her, that kind of free and easy, and a little nervous character, honestly it won't be too annoying." ”

She looked at the ceiling silently, and then apologized inexplicably: "I'm sorry, I digressed while I was talking." ”

"It's okay...... Chu Zihang said silently, "But I don't think I need to worry too much about safety." ”

"I'm not worried about that, she'll mingle with people wherever she goes." Susie replied, "I'm just worried that she's going to do something stupid......"

Susie was silent for a while, and her voice couldn't help but lower: "...... She gave me the feeling that she was going to use a limited amount of time to experience all the things that I had not experienced, and then after doing all this, I silently hid in a corner that no one knew, slowly waiting for the end of my life, or the arrival of something else. ”

"Did you ask her?" Chu Zihang asked simply and straightforwardly.

Susie was stunned for a moment, as if she was frightened by his straightforwardness, and she subconsciously replied: "No, and this kind of thing, no matter how you look at it, it's not suitable to ask in person, right?" ”

"That's right, since you didn't ask, then why are you so convinced?" Chu Zihang looked at her sideways as if he was raising a bar, "You also said it, it's just your feelings, isn't it?" ”

Susie in the dark looked at him stunned, and then suddenly laughed in a low voice: "Are you comforting me?" ”

Chu Zihang turned his head, silently looked at the ceiling and stopped talking. The way he looks is no different from the tacit one.

However, Susie's laughter grew louder and louder, and she buried her face in the pillow and pulled up the blanket so that she would not look so out of shape.

Under the sensational blanket, her voice was a little indistinct and couldn't stop laughing: "Haha, are you comforting?" There are comforting people like you. ”

"Thank you though...... she pulled down the blanket and showed bright eyes with a smile on her face, "Indeed, I may just be thinking about it." A person like Nono, maybe even if he dies, will jump up and bite off a few pieces of the other party's flesh. ”

“…… You're welcome. Chu Zihang's voice was still flat, and then he turned his head sideways, as if he was looking at something.

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Sneaking a glance at him who turned his head to the side, Susie still covered her face with a blanket, as if she was hiding something, she was silent, and she moved very lightly and gently approached the opposite side.

Then the bedside lamp suddenly turned on, and Chu Zihang sat up straight, looking at the mobile phone that lit up in his hand. Susie shrank back like a rabbit, and when she glanced at Chu Zihang's mobile phone just now, she seemed to see the words of the kittens.

"It's time to get up." Chu Zihang stood up, took the black windbreaker that was on the side and put it on. He touched the back of the headboard and pulled out two identical knives.

Buckling the two handfuls of village rain on a special belt, he looked out of the lively door: "As for what she thinks, you can ask her yourself." ”

……

Standing in the ancient passage of a medieval prison, Caesar and the conductor looked at each other, and then looked together at the door that opened to them as if to welcome them.

They were still in the realm of the conductor's ghosts, almost completely invisible in the somewhat dim light of the fire. Caesar could hear that there was no sound behind the door except for the sound of the breeze and the creaking of the wooden door, and it was eerily quiet. What's even more strange is that the door, which had been closed just a moment ago, suddenly opened as they passed by, as if inviting them in.

"I say, who else did your family provoke?" The conductor asked very quietly, but he felt that his voice was already very quiet, and it was so obvious in the silence of the somewhat frightening corridor.

He looked around with some unease, and there were old and very old buildings around him, as if they had not been repaired, and the walls were stained with an unknown black and brown liquid, and the dilapidated ones might not even be used in the countryside. This is completely the same as the gorgeous castle next door, which is completely heaven and earth, and there is no trace of what the forbidden land of the old half-blood family should be.

This hallway is lit not with light bulbs, but with very old torches. These torches flickered on and off, although this gave the spirits and ghosts a lot of room to play, and greatly strengthened their ability to infiltrate, but anyway, it was still a bit weird and too weird.

The wind that didn't come from nowhere blew gently, the torches on the walls shook, and the light of the illumination began to become extremely unstable, as if something invisible had jumped on it, preventing the fire from spreading. The sound of flames exploding was palpable in the hallway, like someone whispering in the wind.

"I think there's something wrong here." With a solemn face, the conductor glanced at the empty hallway, as if something was there watching them.

"Don't scare yourself." Caesar also glanced at the empty hallway, and he pointed to his ear, "If there's something there, I'll know before you." ”

"Compared to that ......," he said, looking back at the open door in front of him, as if hesitating whether to go in or not.

He used to explore the underground of the Pantheon as a labyrinth, but of course, he was eventually captured. And this ancient building, which is said to have buried all the deceased members of the Gattuso family for nearly a thousand years, is not as unbearable as it seems at the moment. There is a huge alchemy matrix under the entire Pantheon, and every wall and room here is a component of this matrix, and it is also protected by the matrix, and it is impossible for conventional power to break through.

These walls were like this a thousand years ago, when the alchemy was built, or maybe even earlier, it was like this. The descendants of the Gattuso family have not thought of beautifying it, but the walls and rooms here are solidified by alchemy, and it is impossible to change them.

Therefore, this door, which looks very ancient and can be kicked open by even ordinary people, is actually protected by alchemy, and it is impossible for ordinary thieves to enter it...... Even if it's not ordinary, to be honest, to be able to walk here without being discovered, Caesar is already very surprised, the conductor's ghost realm is certainly easy to use, but it is a little reluctant to invade this thousand-year-old castle, and some alchemy early warning equipment for words and spirits is not put on the surface.

If he hadn't been convinced that his spirit could detect all the turmoil, he would have become as suspicious as the conductor. Because it's like there's something that's clearing the way in their path.

The field was as wide as it could be, and making sure there were no traps in the room in front of him, Caesar lowered himself and rolled in the crystal ball he had brought with him before leaving the room. The crystal ball that crashed into the interior of the room grunted to a halt, and after waiting for a moment without responding, Caesar stepped into the room.

Although the walls of the interior of the room are in the same antique style as the outside, the interior of the room is decorated with modern products such as bookcases and safes. After all, it's only the walls that are solidified, not the space used.

It seemed to be a file room, with bookcases large and small filled with all kinds of papers. Retrieving the previous crystal ball, Caesar walked to the reading table in the middle of the room, where several papers were neatly laid out on the table, as if waiting for him to open them.

He looked around the room, and even with the protection of this alchemy, the cabinets in it were locked. Naturally, the administrator did not deliberately leave a few documents before leaving, and at the same time forgot to lock the door.

He glanced back at the bright hallway, and for the first time doubted himself, as if someone was really luring them here.

……

In the corridor, two imperceptible figures watched them silently.

"Menek, why help him? You won't forget, we're here to trouble his house this time. The tiger asked puzzledly, "If the news from below is not wrong, then he will be the key to the Gattuso family's plan." ”

“…… He was different from the nasty elders in his family. Menek withdrew his gaze and walked deeper into the hallway, "I just don't want to see a young man endowed with a righteous heart end up in an end that shouldn't belong to him." ”