I studied beheading in a mental institution

The sun passed through the clouds and fell on the snow-white mountain peaks in the distance, dyed with a layer of pale golden light.

Lin Qiye looked at the gray and white mist that was constantly churning outside the border, sitting on the top of the mountain like a statue, with a crimson cloak spread on the snow, like a little red ink in a white world.

A rough hand protruded from behind him, holding a pack of cigarettes in the palm, one of the cigarettes protruding from the pack, waiting to be drawn out.

"Want one?"

Shen Qingzhu's voice sounded from behind Lin Qiye.

Seeing the cigarette case in front of him, Lin Qiye was slightly taken aback. After hesitating for a moment, he absentmindedly took the whole pack of cigarettes.

Looking at the empty palm, Shen Qingzhu froze in place.

"Smoking too much is bad for your health." Shen Qingzhu sat down beside him, took back the pack of cigarettes, took one out of it and handed it to Lin Qiye, and stuffed the rest back into his pocket ,

"I'll give you one first, and next time you want it, come and get it from me."

"Ah."

Lin Qiye imitated Shen Qingzhu a little jerky, holding the cigarette in his mouth.

Shen Qingzhu put her finger next to the cigarette butt, and gently rubbed out a spark. The orange flame burned the white cigarette paper, and wisps of smoke drifted out.

"Cough cough cough..." Lin Qiye coughed violently.

Shen Qingzhu patted Lin Qiye's back like a loving father, while showing an expression that really did.

Lin Qiye took a deep breath, held the cigarette between his fingertips, and looked at the busy frontier defense company under his feet, with a complicated look in his eyes,

"Brother Yan, do you think... I am a qualified night watchman?"

"If even Captain Lin, who has two group Xinghai Medals and one personal Xinghai Medal, is not a qualified night watchman, then there are not many qualified night watchmen in the entire Great Xia." Shen Qingzhu said without hesitation .

"I'm not talking about meritorious service, that's meaningless..."

"Why meritorious deeds are meaningless?" Shen Qingzhu asked puzzledly, "If you can't even judge a night watchman with your deeds for Da Xia, then what should you use?"

"I'm talking about ideological awareness." Lin Qiye said immediately.

"Ideological consciousness?"

"It's selflessness, devotion, self-sacrifice...things like that."

"..."

Shen Qingzhu stared at Lin Qiye with a strange expression for a long time, "What are you talking about?"

Lin Qiye froze in place.

"We are night watchmen, not saints, let alone thinkers." Shen Qingzhu shook his head, "These things are indeed important, but for us, performing our duties is the most important thing. To judge a night watchman, we should look at him What did he do, not how brilliant his mind was...

Why are you asking this all of a sudden? "

Lin Qiye was silent for a moment, and said everything he saw and heard in the silhouette of time.

After listening, Shen Qingzhu looked at him with a complicated expression.

"You think too much." He said, "Being a night watchman, there are so many harsh conditions. What we believe in are only the four sentences on the back of the coat of arms."

Shen Qingzhu took out a cigarette from his bosom, lit it in his mouth, and exhaled the smoke naturally, with nostalgia in his eyes:

"The night watchman's oath has magical powers. When I was in the training camp, I was also a rotten person who didn't understand anything, but when I jumped out of the cave and swore to the infinite flame alone... something , I realized it naturally, and then engraved it deeply in my mind."

"Swear..."

In Lin Qiye's mind, he once again recalled the scene of swearing an oath to the red flag when he was in the training camp.

His oath is very plain and ordinary, not as deep-rooted as Shen Qingzhu, and he didn't understand anything from it... Back then, he was just a fledgling rookie, and the deepest thing in his memory was Zhao Kongcheng's knife , a ten-year agreement with myself.

So much so that when he read the oath, deep down in his heart, he just wanted to inherit Zhao Kongcheng's will and complete the agreement, and he didn't completely hand over himself to those four oaths.

Perhaps this is also the reason why, now that he has become a meritorious night watchman, he always feels that something is missing in his heart.

"If you feel that you are not worthy to be a guide for recruits because of these so-called ideological awakenings, then you are definitely thinking too much." Shen Qingzhu patted him on the shoulder and said firmly,

"In this team, no one is more suitable to guide them than you, Lin Qiye."

"Go back, Instructor Lin." Shen Qingzhu slowly stood up from the ground, and stretched out his palm to Lin Qiye, "You haven't finished your last lesson for the rookies."

The confusion in Lin Qiye's eyes dissipated a little, he was silent for a moment, reached out to grab Shen Qingzhu's palm, and stood up from the ground.

He smiled slightly,

"Thank you, Brother Yan."

Shen Qingzhu put his hand back into his pocket, glanced at him with a cigarette in his mouth, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, shook his head silently, turned around and walked towards the border guard company with Lin Qiye.

……

Egypt.

Outside Sun City.

Endless starlight poured down from the sky, sealing off the entire Sun City. From a distance, it looked like a giant dark blue sphere, suspended soundlessly in the gray-white mist.

Raging divine power and flames flickered from within the starlight sphere one after another. An unprecedented bloody battle in the Kingdom of God had reached a fever pitch.

At this moment, in the mist, a figure in a black robe slowly walked out.

Loki raised his head and looked at the completely blocked Sun City in the sky, his long and narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Their goal is indeed Sun City..."

He took a step forward, moving towards the edge of the starlight array unhurriedly, with a glimmer of light in his eyes, muttering to himself:

"Sun City's current strength is greatly weakened. It must not be the opponent of the Great Xia God who has just returned from reincarnation and is in its heyday. It is only a matter of time before the Egyptian gods lose... But in this way, the situation will be too boring .”

He walked to the edge of the starlight array, staring at the battlefield inside the starlight with his eyes, stretched out his hand in the void, and held an ancient dark golden spear in his palm.

In the nothingness around this long spear, dots of golden light linger around it like fireflies flying around it in disorder. The moment it was exposed in the air, a mysterious and terrifying aura emanated.

This is the strongest artifact of Asgard, and also the personal weapon of Odin, the king of the gods.

Gun of Eternity, Gungnir.

Loki held the gun and stood quietly outside the starlight formation, squinting at the battlefield inside, as if waiting for something:

"It's not enough... we have to wait a little longer..."