Everyday people covet my beauty

"Freckles" is a captain of the guard who is in charge of guarding Rose Castle, and he leads ten guards to patrol the castle.

Every night from nine o'clock in the evening to two o'clock in the morning, he was always patrolled at this time, and the route was the same from the east tower to the west tower.Every brick, every flower and plant here has been looked at countless times by him. It is no exaggeration to say that "Freckle" is more familiar with this small piece of Rose Castle than his own wife.

"One thousand five hundred and forty-eight steps, one thousand five hundred and forty-nine steps... There are still 540 steps away from the gate of the west tower, and there are still about two thousand to two thousand five hundred steps before the end of today's patrol. Today's patrol speed is relatively fast. The number of steps may be a little more, two thousand five..."

"Freckles" said to himself in his heart.

Chatting is of course not allowed while on patrol. The "freckles" who used to devote themselves to their duties and seize every minute and every second to patrol around, hoping to catch one or two short-sighted assassins to get promoted and get rich, have long since He was ground into an old fritters during his long career as a guard.No matter how beautiful the scenery of Rose Castle was, he had already gotten tired of seeing it after so many years. Now he was completely relying on counting his steps to pass the time.

As for the job of patrolling itself?ha!This is the inner circle of Rose Castle!What assassin could take their turn?Assassination at close range is the job of the personal guards; as for those assassins who sneak in from the outside, how many can enter the castle... The Galactic Empire has been passed down for so many years, and the guards of Rose Castle have changed several generations , there were no assassinations in Freckles patrol range, but none.

"Although you can't get promoted and get rich, at least you won't encounter any danger."

"Freckles" comforted himself habitually, walking past the gray stone wall, and beside the ferocious gargoyle's mouth, emerald green climbing plants snaked around.They have already patrolled to the front of the west tower. Every slab here is filled with the vicissitudes of history. Every time "Freckle" passes by here, he can't help but imagine that he will go back to the past, and return to the Aldington family. The age of overcoming thorns and thorns in the twilight.Then, relying on his foresight, he became the founding father of a generation. Since then, the family's surname has been juxtaposed with Amersfield, Karan Boer, etc., and future generations no longer need to be the guards of others, but become the guarded person...

He crossed the ancient gate dreamily, and led the team behind him into the hall of the west tower, where the walls were covered with portraits.

The people in the portraits are silent and majestic, most of them have Aldington's iconic black eyes, and the ancestors of the Aldington family look down on "Freckles" as if laughing at his overreach.

"Freckles" lowered his eyes silently, the gap between fantasy and reality is always stinging.

"One thousand nine hundred and fifty six steps..."

He moved his lips silently, and the loss in his heart was fleeting.

Suddenly, "Freckles" stopped walking, and he felt something was wrong.After taking a few steps to the side door of the hall, "Freckle" stood still, looking solemnly at the garden full of roses outside.

"There is no one in the garden," he said softly, looking at the garden.Before the other guards understood the meaning of this situation, "Freckle" had already raised his hand, vigilantly holding the weapon at his waist.

As an old fritter that has accumulated for many years, "Freckle" immediately realized that something was wrong almost the moment he saw the situation in the garden: no matter what time it is, it is absolutely impossible for there to be no one in the garden!Ochoa, "Scar", Old Hunter... Normally, there should be at least three to four teams patrolling the Rose Garden, but now, the garden is actually empty.

"Maybe they were called to do something else..."

"Freckles" thought about it with luck, but he knew very well in his heart that this possibility was extremely small.

Something must have happened to the guards patrolling the garden.

Are there assassins?Why did those colleagues outside the castle have no response until now... Just as he was thinking this way, he suddenly noticed a strange figure slowly walking under the moonlight.

"who?"

"Freckles" Ben!Opening his mouth to ask, he didn't realize that his voice was as weak as a gnat, almost inaudible.

The man stopped and looked up through the side door.

With a bang, bright red flames scattered in all directions, and in the glowing flames, "Freckle" saw a pair of the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen in his life.

——Those eyes almost seemed to hold a whole piece of starry sky.

He fell straight into the deep starry sky, obviously he couldn't help himself, but he didn't even have the thought of struggling and resisting.

……

Gu Qingxuan walked past the wall covered with portraits, surrounded by a group of armored guards, they surrounded him cautiously, like a group of crayfish guarding a pearl.

"It's freckles? Aren't you in charge of patrolling the east tower to the west tower?" When passing by another team of guards, the captain of the other team asked a little suspiciously: "What are you doing upstairs now... this is not yours. Let's patrol the range..."

The captain of the guard on this side, "Freckles", is a young man with freckles on his face. He looks no more than 25 or [-] years old, but he already looks like a veteran.At this time, the veteran stood up and said with great momentum: "Of course it is because His Royal Highness personally ordered us to bring the person who will warm the bed tonight!"

His face was full of pride, his chest was puffed out, and when he spoke, the phrase "His Royal Highness personally ordered" was bitten hard by him, as if being ordered to escort the person who warmed the bed was a great cause.

The captain felt hurt when he saw the "freckles" like this, but out of responsibility, he stopped and said, "Let me make sure first..."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to touch his bosom, Gu Qingxuan frowned slightly, a little spark appeared silently on his fingertips.

Just as the captain was about to take out the communicator, hurried footsteps suddenly came from above the stairs.The captain immediately stopped his movements, and both teams looked up to the upstairs, only to see a guard running down from the top of the third floor in a hurry. Looking at his costume and armor, he turned out to be a member of Nicholas' personal guard.

He originally looked anxious, and when he saw the two teams blocking the front, he showed an obviously anxious expression, but when he turned his eyes and saw Gu Qingxuan in the crowd, his eager expression suddenly eased .

"Sir!"

"Freckles" took the lead in saluting with his legs together and said loudly. The other captain was a step behind him, but he quickly put down his hands and said hello to the members of the pro-guard with a higher rank.The member of the pro-guard slowed down, raised his chin slightly, and saluted them reservedly.

"Why are you here to deliver today..."

He looked at "Freckles" and the others escorting Gu Qingxuan, and muttered in a low voice.The guard seemed to remember that it wasn't "Freckles" and the others who were in charge of this matter, but he couldn't tell who was the specific example.Thinking of Nicholas who was waiting in the room at this time, the guards no longer entangled in this matter, but said directly: "Your Highness has been waiting for you for a long time, come upstairs with me. Why did you send someone here today? But Today's one..." He said and glanced at Gu Qingxuan: "...it seems that the quality is not bad."

The sparks on Gu Qingxuan's fingertips dissipated quickly.

"Freckles" laughed, leaned over with a wink, lowered his voice and said to the guard: "In this case, why don't you take us with you..." He winked, implying that the guard could share the benefits with them Take credit.After all, bed warmers of this quality are rare. If they can win the favor of His Royal Highness, although they don’t dare to say that those who send them over will surely ascend to heaven, it is certain that they will benefit.

The personal guard looked at Gu Qingxuan carefully.

At this time, Gu Qingxuan lowered his brows and lowered his eyes, standing quietly in the crowd, surrounded by a whole team of guards, the personal guards couldn't see his specific face at all.But even so, even if he could only see a rough figure, he could still feel that the person was beautiful, that kind of cool and gorgeous from the bottom of his bones, reminding him of a bright red rose covered with frost.

"Okay, okay..." he murmured, and waved his hands hastily at "Freckles": "Come on, let's go together... Don't delay any longer, Your Highness is really anxious."

The personal guard emphasized this point, but he no longer cared about Nicholas' anger.Because at this moment, he can be sure that no matter how strong Nicholas' anger is, it will be easily soothed by the stunning beauty in front of him.

He led the group of "Freckles" up the stairs. "Freckles" kept moving his lips while walking, the guard looked at him strangely, and quietly moved to his side to listen, but heard "Freckles" counting one after another: "Two One thousand 140 eight steps, two thousand 140 nine steps..."

"There must be something wrong with this person?"

This thought flashed through Qin Wei's mind, and then he snuffed it out. They continued to climb up the stairs, but gradually, he realized that something was wrong.

The "freckles" next to him have counted more than 3000 steps.

Three thousand minus two thousand... Have they already walked a thousand steps?Now they are going upstairs, one step represents a step!

The guard stopped abruptly, and cold sweat rolled down the bridge of his nose.As if someone yelled loudly in his ear, the guard seemed to wake up from a dream, and suddenly realized that they seemed to have spent too long going upstairs!

He is the leader of the group, and it stands to reason that the people behind him should walk and stop at his pace, but when the guards turned around, they were horrified to find that the other guards were still walking—they They kept walking, stepping from the lower step to the upper step, but the distance between them and him never widened.

For a moment, the guard felt terrified.

He shook Freckles and shouted, "Don't count! What are you doing now! Wake up! Don't go! We've been spinning in circles!"

His voice came out of his throat, like a snowflake falling into a pool of water, melting silently, without even splashing a single ripple. "Freckles" was still counting his steps, and the rest of the guards followed him up the stairs mechanically. The guard stood there, looking at the situation in front of him in confusion and fear, unable to understand the meaning of the scene in front of him at all. wearing something.

A layer of yellow light suddenly flashed in midair.

The guard's eyes were in a trance for a moment, and the panic and confusion on his face slowly receded.He raised his feet, walked into the group of "Freckles", and slowly "climbed" up the stairs with them.

One step, one step, another step, they kept walking, obviously staying in the same place all the time, but these people didn't seem to care, and the expressions on their faces were almost strangely calm.

A person above the floor took a step back slightly, putting away the flickering yellow object in his hand.He looked down at those puppet-like rigid mechanical people, and his originally satisfied eyes gradually became puzzled: it seemed that there was something wrong... It was like... there was one person missing in the crowd?

Who is missing? !

Thinking of this, he couldn't help being startled.

"A good magic weapon."

Gu Qingxuan said softly.His voice was like a stone breaking the calm lake, shaking the man slightly, panic flashed across his face for a moment, but he quickly calmed down.

"I should have thought something was wrong." The man said without turning his head, obviously realizing who the missing person in the crowd was: "They usually bring at least three to four people for selection. Will only take one..."

After being silent for a while, he clenched the magic weapon in his hand, and said with a sneer: "If you want to kill or cut, come quickly, I can't catch it without a fight! So what if you can recognize this magic weapon? It's just Nicholas and the others. , and expect the temple to take a fancy to you?!"

"You've wronged me—I'm really not Nicholas' dog leg." Gu Qingxuan said lazily, he stepped on the handrail of the stairs, standing as firmly as if he was stepping on a flying sword.

He looked down at the figure in the shadows condescendingly.It's just random mixing into the tower, how could there be such a sudden turning point...

Gu Qingxuan suddenly unfolded his consciousness, and quickly enveloped the entire tower. After seeing the situation of the rest of the guards in the tower, Gu Qingxuan smiled softly.

"It turns out that you are also an assassin."

He said with a half-smile, and then Gu Qingxuan lightly tapped the armrest, flitting across the air like a bird, and landed lightly on the ground in front of the man.