Between life and death [unlimited]

Every nation in the world has its own unique way of participating in a party or having a dinner together.

For example, the ancient Romans, who paid attention to restaurant etiquette and had strict requirements on banquets, whether they were formal banquets or family dinners, adult men would eat in a reclining manner (as shown in many Western oil paintings) - this Because the recumbent posture represented a symbol of loftiness in ancient Rome, and it was also a reflection of the status of citizens in society;

But after entering the modern society, no matter in Western or Eastern countries, this ancient horizontal dining posture originated from Greece has gradually been replaced by various chairs and stools.

When modern people participate in a party, most of them sit around a table, and the most common table shape in western countries is generally a rectangle, with the status of the host and the guests clearly defined. It is made of various stone or is a long table made of wood;

However, for traditional oriental culture, it is still important to pay attention to the round dining table that "family" represents "reunion and roundness", which seems to be more in line with the consistent emotions among family members.And for the pure C country people, there are different opinions and particulars about "what is the banquet and why is the banquet".

First of all, "what is the banquet", according to the literal meaning, it can be interpreted what the theme of the banquet is, and it is generally named corresponding to the seasonal banquet ingredients, such as "crab banquet", "chrysanthemum banquet", "whole lamb Banquet" etc.;

As for "why the banquet", according to the purpose of holding the banquet, it can be roughly divided into: clan banquets between clansmen, wedding banquets or wedding banquets, social or thank-you banquets, birthday banquets for relatives and friends, and birthday banquets for relatives and friends. All kinds of grand festivals, festive banquets and so on.

——Perhaps this can also include a famous allusion in history, "Hongmen Banquet", which is equivalent to the ceremony banquet, but has a different meaning.

This huge white castle located in the center of the City of Survivors, after a day of simple repairs by the remaining elite knights, is still visible from the outside, and will not be as dilapidated as yesterday.

The place where the Blessed Knights usually hold dinners for guests is next to the living room on the first floor that was "bombed" twice.

After trying our best to repair it, the large and spacious restaurant has almost returned to its original appearance—only those calligraphy, paintings and statues that were once placed on the walls or surroundings of the hall for decoration and taste may have disappeared. It will take time to buy some new ones.

Although Jiang Ke hadn't been there a few times before, she clearly remembered that the antique Chinese-style courtyard where Apate lived was full of green bamboos.A breeze came in her mind, and she seemed to be able to hear the slight rustling sound from the bamboo sea in her ears.

So she stood in the banquet hall on the first floor with her hands behind her back against the sun, noticing a place that might make her guests feel uncomfortable, and immediately asked several knights to turn the western aesthetic table in front of her to accommodate 20 people. The long rectangular marble table was withdrawn.

Soon a round table of precious wood with a diameter of about four feet and antique carvings on the corners was carried up again by the knights.

This table is not light, and it took a bit of effort for the knights to move it over.One of the knights who was in charge of moving the table had heard of the name "Apate" before—but he had never seen a real person—and he thought that the Gods Blessed Knights were destroyed by the Alliance of Gods, but now But they still want to treat people in the League of Gods like this, so they don't get angry.

Therefore, he couldn't help complaining to his companions: "...he is obviously an NPC in the living space, and not an oriental player in the real world (the only people in the living space are Romans), and he told us to do such a thing... ..."

But after his companion heard it, although he also felt the same in his heart—feeling that this group of big men is poor and fastidious—but he still looked at the head of the group standing not far from them, and whispered: "Okay, okay ... Let's do the work first, and talk about other things later."

Fortunately, the first floor of the Divine Blessed Knights was “leveled” again, and now there is almost only an empty hall with white walls on all sides, so this round table full of Chinese style does not have any difference from the surrounding decoration style. conflict.

Otherwise, in a room with Western-style decoration, if there is an oriental round table that does not match it, wouldn’t it make the visiting guests laugh?

Sure enough, things developed as Jiang Ke expected. After Apate and his men walked into the hall on the first floor of the Divine Blessed Knights, when he saw the rosewood round table placed in the banquet hall, one of them was in front of him. Liang, said in a tone of surprise.

"I haven't seen you for a long time. Your knight leader's taste has really improved a lot!"

An awkward Chinese translation flowed into Jiang Ke's ears. Even if the original English text was spoken by Apate, Apate was not polite, but Jiang Ke was not moved after hearing it, and there was no anger or anger on his face. Expression—who made her really "inferior to others" in the previous confrontations with Apate?

So Jiang Ke's originally cold and alienated face also showed a shallow smile along with Apate. The two of them shook hands and chatted cordially like old friends who haven't seen each other for a long time: "Just now I suddenly remembered your yard. It was full of Zen, so I asked someone to change a table."

While talking politely to him, Jiang Ke subconsciously looked at the too empty and desolate environment around him—although they all knew that Apate was the "culprit" that caused the terrible situation of God's Blessed Knights, but whose responsibility was it? There was no expression on his face.

She just stared at the young man standing in front of her who couldn't hide his handsome appearance even though he was wearing a mask, and who was almost a head taller than her (but obviously still much shorter than the men behind him), and said: "No Thinking about it, it really made me guess right about your preferences."

"Oh? Made it 'specially' for me?"

When Apate heard Jiang Ke's words, the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't help getting bigger, even the half of his face hidden under the mask could make people feel his joy at this time: "That's really my god It's an honor! To be so 'remembered' by the great knight leader, this is something I never even dared to think about!"

Hearing that Jiang Ke said that he would not continue the polite conversation with him, she turned her body slightly to the back, pointed to one of the seats and said to him: "Let's take a seat first, wait a minute, Serena should be here soon."

Apate was not very surprised when he heard that Serena would come. He might have expected Jiang Ke's "Hongmen Banquet" protagonist this time, and he was definitely not the only one.

Because the first floor of the Blessed Knights has not been properly repaired, the banquet hall has not yet installed doors and windows to block the outside world, and this time it is sitting at a traditional oriental round table, so there is no opposition to the main seat. Guest positions are clearly demarcated.

So under the guidance of Jiang Ke, the two first came to the banquet hall, chose a seat at random, and sat down one by one.But because the invited people have not yet arrived, there is naturally no way to serve the meal.

"Your subordinates have been standing here for a while?" Jiang Ke looked at the tall messenger behind Apate who once let her fall off the cliff, her tone could not hear any hatred, and she just asked like a normal conversation: "What if?" What will we talk about later, will it be inconvenient in front of him?"

Maybe because Apate was worried, Jiang Ke added: "I don't mean anything else, look——" Her eyes scanned the almost empty environment around, "Now God's Blessed Knights are fine. People are here, you don’t have to worry too much about safety when you come to me.”

But Apate just shook his head and said, "It's okay, just let him stand here. He won't care about these things." In short, he politely rejected Jiang Ke's request.

Just when Jiang Ke was about to say something to Apate, the two suddenly heard a burst of laughter like silver bells from outside the door.

"Hehe, did you guys sit down so quickly?"

The visitor said to them in a sweet, almost coquettish tone: "Apate, you don't wait for me! It can be seen that you men are really ruthless!"

Hearing his voice before seeing him, and being able to easily say the words of Apate's girlfriend in the palace, I am afraid that there will be no other people in the entire living space—just happened to be the second person Jiang Ke hosted today The guest is the leader of Sombre, Serena.

Soon, a seductive beauty full of mature femininity appeared in Jiang Ke and Apate's field of vision.

Serena is like a brightly blooming Bulgarian rose, standing alone in the center of the hall on the first floor. The originally empty environment is also full of vitality because of her appearance, but no one else can be seen beside her.

Apate guessed in his heart that Serena might have come here by herself.

Then Serena blinked her jackal-like light green eyes, looked at the space that was just vacant between the two, and couldn't help but let out another coquettish smile.

"So, is the seat between you specially reserved for me?" Without waiting for any answer from the two of them, she walked directly between them and sat down.

At this time, Apate also turned his head and greeted Serena: "I knew you would be indispensable in this occasion." A smile appeared on his delicate lower face: "Serina, we also have a few days Not seen."

"Cut." Serena pretended to be angry, and snorted coldly: "At most, we haven't seen each other for two or three days!"

Then her eyes slowly began to look at the empty interior of the Divine Blessed Knights at this time: "Who knows, you actually 'did' such a big move behind my back... You are really, why don't you call me?" What about me?"

"If you bring me with you..." Just as she was speaking, Serena stretched out her two slender index fingers to make a circle shape in mid-air, and a flash of something similar to that appeared in her huge eyeballs. Firework-like light: "I'm sure I'll blow up this place so there's nothing left~"

Obviously, Serena didn't care about Jiang Ke being there at the moment, and after she finished speaking, she seemed to have imagined the scene, and immediately burst into laughter.

However, after Jiang Ke heard this, she was not angry—she knew that Serena could only think about it anyway—so she responded as if joking: "If you really blow up this place Now, where are we going to eat?"

"From this point of view, it was the right decision for me to 'show mercy' at the time." Apate also joined the topic between the two in a soft tone.

If you just look at the scene where the three big shots are talking happily at this moment, you really can't see their intention to eat each other's flesh and blood in a blink of an eye.

After chatting for a while, Jiang Ke turned his head and told a knight: "Since everyone is almost here now, let them serve the food first."

"Yes." The knight replied respectfully, and quickly stepped back.

"I really never dreamed that one day I would be able to sit with you calmly and eat like ordinary people." Serena turned her body deliberately in that usual exaggerated tone, and said to Jiang Ke Said: "This is really something I can't even imagine in my dreams!"

Apate likes to see Serena's exaggerated M country girl, so she joked: "It seems that you should be chasing the rainbow now."

This is the meaning literally translated by the system in everyone's ears. Just now Apate said a Western proverb - "Chaserainbows", which also means daydreaming.

"But, now you've done it." Jiang Ke also rarely accepted Serena's words and shrugged at her indifferently, and replied simply.

"I hate it!" Serena subconsciously ignored Jiang Ke when she heard Apate's joke, and wanted to stick her body there, and smiled coquettishly at Apate: "Apate! You know how to make fun of me! "

Jiang Ke didn't care much about Serena's deliberate ignorance during her "estrous" period.Moreover, she raised her eyes and saw that the knight whom she called away just now was walking over with a tightly wrapped small box made of rattan.

So Jiang Ke had to call back the attention of her two "guests", and she said to them, "Hey, this is our first dish of the day."

Apate stopped bickering with Serena, looked at the rattan box on the table with a look of interest, and the smile on his mouth seemed to have never fallen since he entered the Divine Bless Knights—he wanted to Let's see what trick Jiang Ke is going to "play" today.

The knight stood upright in front of the table in a standard posture. After receiving the eyes of the captain, he finally stretched out his fully equipped arms—wearing gloves and armguards made of fine steel—moving slowly. On the ground, the cover above the rattan box was lifted like a ritual unveiling.

Then, the eyes of everyone in the audience were firmly attracted by the creature that emerged from the box, like a magnet hooking an iron object.

……

In fact, James called Serena and Feb over according to Jiang Ke's order.

But when the three of them were about to approach the Divine Bless Knights, Serena seemed to suddenly remember something, and she quickly asked Feb to go back to get something—but it felt that this kind of thing was irrelevant to the next banquet, Jen James felt that she was deliberately trying to distract Feb.

So when Si Yufeng finished picking up these things, when he rushed to the Divine Blessing Knights, he happened to meet the first "dish" they were going to taste today, and its original appearance before it was cooked by the chef .

I saw a piebald snake about the thickness of an adult's wrist standing in the center of a thick sandalwood round table, and its black triangular head and the center of its body were regularly dotted with many white spots. It looked like a snake from a distance. It has eyes on its back.

At this moment, this "appetizer" straightened its upper body, stretched its neck muscles, and spit out scarlet snake letters towards those humans who tried to eat it, and kept hissing warnings—if someone hadn't grabbed its tail from behind Si Yufeng reckoned that the Bengal cobra would pounce on the opposite side at an extremely fast speed, and then bite any one of the three with its fangs.

"In the Bible, the snake represents the devil. Am I right, Feb?"

Serena's frivolous voice suddenly attracted everyone's attention. When she found that everyone's eyes were on her, she felt even better, and the smile on the corner of her mouth became even more charming.

Here, Si Yufeng was about to nod his head and answer yes when he heard the words, but he might as well have heard another man present say loudly like "dropping a book bag".

"According to the Bible Genesis 3:1, God has said 'it is the most cunning'; and Revelation 12:9 has described - it is Satan, the devil, the dragon. So Serena, there is nothing you said wrong."

As a result, everyone's attention shifted to the showy man again, and the native speakers of English naturally heard a description from the original Bible.

Like everyone else, Si Yufeng also looked in the direction of the voice, and found that the man wearing a black and gold mask sitting next to Serena seemed familiar - at this time, Apate who just spoke was also like Serena. The same, the expression calmly accepted the baptism of everyone's eyes.

Jiang Ke laughed immediately after hearing it.

Apate didn't understand what he meant, so he looked at Jiang Ke, and the only half of his handsome jaw that was exposed could make people feel his doubts at the moment.He asked, "What are you laughing at? My Captain Jiang?"

"Sorry... But I think you are quite self-aware, Apate." Jiang Ke listened to the English literal translation in her ear, and patiently answered, but her eyes were looking in the direction of Feb: "I think we Maybe we can talk in Chinese."

"Aren't you tired of speaking English all the time?"

"Apate, oh no, maybe I should call you—Shen Yu?"

Obviously, Jiang Ke said these words to Si Yufeng, but he didn't feel much fluctuation after hearing it.

Si Yufeng just calmly looked at the seat where Apate—who was also his former friend Shen Yu—was sitting. He suddenly found that those dark eyes that were just exposed from the mask, full of gloomy colors but in line with oriental characteristics, seemed to be is heading in its own direction.

Shen Yu didn't seem to be alarmed by his identity being exposed.

At this moment, he is like a hunter who is not in a hurry, observing with great interest and eyes the "prey" he is interested in, and at the same time, he has been staring at him for a long time——

Si Yufeng.

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-10-1719:13:45~2020-10-1823:50:01期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: Jun Xie, Serenading 1;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!