When the water is clear, there are no fish.

No matter what dynasty or generation, there will be no shortage of corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

For them, there is no national interest at all, and only those that are in their own purse are interests.

Selling the equipment of their soldiers to the enemy, so that they turn around and slaughter their own compatriots with the equipment they have sold, is simply routine for them.

Among the belligerents, Britain, France, and Germany fared slightly better, while Austria-Hungary, Tsarist Russia, and East China were all on a similar level.

Zhang Huaisheng came to the small courtyard to the east.

In the wee hours of the morning, it seemed to be raining again.

The courtyard looked a little muddy.

Xie Lingyun sat on the steps under the pillars, stunned, her skin was a little crystalline, and she couldn't see any blood, which could only be described as deceptive frost and snow.

For women, on the bridge of the nose, which looks a little heroic, there is a pair of glasses with borders but no lenses.

Rupu's black hair was simply combed into a ponytail and hung down behind him.

The dripping water from the eaves falls in the puddles with a crisp sound.

Zhang Huaisheng stopped in place and did not approach rashly.

In this scene, she is like a person who has come out of the painting.

He sighed silently in his heart: If you give birth to a son, you should be like Sun Zhongmou, and if you marry a daughter-in-law, you should marry Xie Lingyun.

But the thought was fleeting.

He had to admit that he had a good impression of Xie Lingyun, but the possibility of this good impression going further was too small.

Whether it is him or Xie Lingyun, they are both people with their own pursuits.

Feelings are destined to be in second place.

Zhang Huaisheng walked slowly and coughed lightly, causing Xie Lingyun to frown slightly: "You don't think I don't know you're coming, right?" ”

It was indeed stupid to cough, because from the moment he first entered the door, Xie Lingyun should have known that he was coming.

He smiled and didn't answer, but instead said, "This is the first time I came to see you, and you weren't doing your business. ”

"What's the matter?"

Xie Lingyun asked rhetorically: "In my opinion, the things that can make me feel happy are the right things. ”

Her tone was very light, but Zhang Huaisheng could still hear that her mood was not good.

At the very least, it's not like the usual light and breezy appearance.

"Miss Lingyun, do you remember what the two of us said to me when we first met?"

Xie Lingyun said without thinking: "Bloody light disaster? It's only been a few days, how could I forget. ”

"Then you use the Qi Technique to look at me now, is it still covered by dark clouds in the center of your eyebrows?"

Xie Lingyun shook his head and said, "If there is a problem, I will remind you." ”

"Sure enough."

"The situation doesn't seem that critical, but I have to say that the vampire didn't die, and it was probably its doppelganger that we killed in the first place, not its main body."

Zhang Huaisheng felt that this should be the ability of the blood clone of the blood wolf skin.

It's just that he hasn't had time to try yet, because he feels that if he loses more than half of his blood at once, he is afraid that he will immediately be weak to death.

But if he wants to suck the blood of others to maintain the consumption of the blood clone, he can't step this threshold for a while—at the very least, he has to screen a villain with a lot of crimes to suck blood, right?

Moreover, the amount of blood sucked by a person is probably far from enough.

If the blood of ordinary people can be directly converted into the blood reserve of vampires, it is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of energy.

Xie Lingyun suddenly said: "So that's the case, no wonder I thought that this Xiyi demon was much easier to deal with than our Dongtu demon." ”

She didn't seem shocked by that.

In fact, so far, Zhang Huaisheng has not seen her look shocked.

"Yesterday, I ran into it again, and its purple crystal ball was hidden in my storage space along with the corpse of the vampire clone."

Zhang Huaisheng frowned: "I am afraid he wants to get back these two things." ”

"That purple crystal ball should involve a high-order divine aura, and it naturally won't give up easily."

Xie Lingyun's words changed: "However, how did you escape from its hands?" ”

"After two moves with it, I happened to bump into the appraiser of the Transcendent Gathering, the controller of the middle sequence, who scared the vampire away."

"If you can beat it twice... It seems that its body is not much stronger than its body. ”

Zhang Huaisheng said a little helplessly: "Vampires themselves are not known for their lethality, they are powerful because of their changeable ability and tenacious vitality. ”

Zhang Huaisheng looked around and said, "On the way here, I felt the feeling of being spied on. It may be staring at us near the embassy right now. ”

"Then it's good to kill it, there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days."

Xie Lingyun's tone was very flat, and he didn't seem to take a medium-sequence monster to heart.

She stood up, led Zhang Huaisheng into the room, pointed to the two books on the table and said, "I have recently studied vampires, and it is said that they are afraid of sunlight, silver, and garlic, is this true or false?" ”

"This is, of course, a fallacy."

Zhang Huaisheng said categorically: "But it can't be said to be a fallacy, because vampires do hate sunlight and garlic, but they just hate it." ”

"When they come out during the day, they wear dark hooded trench coats to shield them from the sun, but in reality they don't get hurt even when they're in the sun."

"As for garlic, I think it's like excrement to them, and one can make a vampire stop drinking his blood by smearing it with, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop a vampire from killing him."

"It's silverware, because it can restrain werewolves, and it has become a restraint for vampires."

"Actually, where are there so many things in this world that can restrain monsters? The reason why this legend is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is purely because people need to give themselves courage when facing this kind of monster, so that they can know that they are not powerless to fight back. ”

"I see."

Xie Lingyun bowed slightly.

"I'm afraid that vampire won't dare to come to the door as arrogantly as before, so what are you going to do? What if it goes it alone after we're apart? ”

"That's a real problem."

Zhang Huaisheng frowned: "Moreover, it seems that you are about to move to Washington." ”

"Speaking of which, I haven't asked you whether you will return to China with Mr. Pei at that time, or continue to stay in Washington and protect the new ambassador?"

Xie Lingyun thought for a moment and said, "I should be going back to China, and the order I received from the master was only responsible for protecting Master Pei alone." ”

"That's right..."

Zhang Huaisheng's tone was a little lonely.

If Xie Lingyun returns to China, then in the future, the possibility of the two meeting again is very small.

At the very least, Zhang Huaisheng has not planned to return to Donghua in recent years.

"Zhang Huaisheng, are you reluctant to give up on me?"

Xie Lingyun suddenly raised her head and looked into Zhang Huaisheng's eyes, her expression showing a rare hint of nervousness.