Angel on earth

"The black tea in Fuxue County is the best, remember to thank you." Arnold didn't seem to hear the bloody smell in his words, "It smells bad outside, I think we can talk about it in the room. Uh, sorry if I was too presumptuous, just now I didn't think about you for a while—"

"It's okay." Dubois said coldly, "I'm already over 200 years old, so I don't have to worry so much."

"Well, you're a lovely lady after all," laughed Arnold, "if I hadn't met—"

"Don't talk about that first." Tristan looked around and interrupted, "Although the storm can cover many things, it is indeed safer to enter the door - we live on the bottom three floors, after all, this is not a passenger ship, and the environment is not so good So, Mr. Hunter, don't hold it against you."

Arnold followed him and creaked the trembling stair planks, while shrugging: "I pulled the rope and poured the water at the bottom, so there's nothing to dislike."

"You look good now." Dubois walked down steadily, showing the same cold and beautiful smile as they did, and said softly, "Dress like a real Hunter. You can't still pull the rope, right?" ? On this ship..."

"That's what I want to say." As a guest, Arnold walked into the room first, exhaled, turned around seriously, and looked at Tristan who gently closed the door, "You'd better not go out. Miha Il Kupala is on this ship."

The ship shook, and two pairs of red eyes stared at him.

"really?"

Hardy's voice trembled, but Arnold felt that it was not fear, but a kind of joy or excitement.His old friend once formed a sailing team, and after inheriting the title, he rapidly expanded physically at the social party, but at the critical moment, he was still able to wield his ancestral long sword to break through the siege, and even showed his gentlemanly spirit on the way to escape, saving the young man from the past. Only 11-year-old Ashley de Dubois.

But in any case, he should not have the strength or confidence to hunt Mikhail Kupala.

Perhaps Arnold's expression was too serious, Tristan Hardy suddenly laughed, and patted him on the shoulder:

"Don't worry, I'm not a fool. Besides, I'm going to take the risk of not leaving Ashley behind."

"Of course." Arnold breathed a sigh of relief, sat down happily, and lit a candle.

The room was pitch black, with no windows, only a small bed, two chairs, a coffee table, a coal stove and a clothes hanger, all fixed to the floor; two suitcases, one large and one small, stood beside the bed, Clamped by a baffle.Ashley waved a fireball to light the coal stove and sat on the bed waiting for the water to boil.

Tristan took off his long trench coat and hung it up, and sat down opposite Arnold. The three of them packed the small room to the brim. The dim red light of the coal stove and the flickering light of the candles just filled the remaining stale air, making the room become turbid. Brighten up.

The candlelight shone on the pale cheeks of the three vampires.Tristan's cheeks were slightly plump, with a hint of arrogance and flattery that little nobles often have.He moved his buttocks on the creaking chair, crossed his legs quite gracefully, and asked:

"Have you seen him?"

"Yes." Arnold quickly replied, "I... Actually, you shouldn't have found me. If he finds out, you--"

Tristan laughed: "Look at you now, even if you were caught by him, you didn't receive any vicious treatment, did you? Mikhail is indeed different from other saints, we just need to be careful. Don't you Worried about what Ashley and I can do to deserve the wrath of Mikhail Kupala?"

Arnold shrugged: "In the past, you coward would definitely not dare. Not necessarily after you killed a guard team - you were still a person at that time!"

"What's so good about being a human?" Tristan lightly punched him on the shoulder, "I think you've grown a lot taller."

Arnold's eyes flickered, and he said, "Why do you come on this kind of boat? Let's not talk about accommodation, I can smell the stench of this boat even outside the city..."

Tristan rolled his eyes vividly: "Who would have thought that the dignified chief saint and high priest of Lieyang City would come to take a merchant ship? Why, you are also running for your life? That is really a happy event. When we landed, Ah and I Shley has to get a drink somewhere."

"Don't make random transformations." Arnold said seriously, "The church came before I could tell you, and I haven't heard from you since then. But after so many years, if you have tried, you should know this."

"Come on, you haven't been transformed for long, have you? What do you know. What's more, those weak guys are not qualified to bear it."

"...Don't say that." Arnold paused, and asked carefully, "For the Federation, you...don't...have you?"

Tristan looked at him seriously with slightly bright red eyes, and then laughed angrily: "What the hell are you talking about? I would have saved Ashley in that situation, why would you kill innocent people indiscriminately now? Church You don’t know the means! Why, after staying with Mikhail Kupala for a long time, you are suspicious of your companion?”

Arnold said happily: "Of course not! I'm sorry, Tristan, I have indeed been somewhat affected recently."

Ashley sneered: "If the world knows the truth, there may be many people begging us to make vampires."

"Okay." Tristan touched his lips with a smile, "At that time, you will be the queen of the new world, Princess Ashley."

"Bah! Get out!"

The two were smiling and the other was angry. At this time, the water was boiling. Ashley opened the suitcase and took out a set of exquisite gold-encrusted ceramic tea sets. Tristan turned back and said to Arnold: "There is a steam engine on board."

"Steam machine?" Arnold was very puzzled.He stayed in the Siegfried Federation for too long, so he couldn't recognize the word. He could only accept the black tea from Ashley, looked up and smiled, "Thank you."

"A power that shouldn't be spread." Tristan repeated "steam engine" in Federal language, "at least not now. You know, it's peaceful on the surface, and everyone is suppressed by the church's conquest, but the church is also It has reached the point where we need to use war to alleviate the contradictions. In any case, we cannot let this power spread now, otherwise we will have no chance of turning around."

"Such a powerful thing is shipped on a cargo ship?—To be honest, I haven't heard about it for more than 100 years." Arnold sighed, rubbing his gray hair, "Sorry, I There is no way to make you not afraid of Mithril."

"It's not your fault." Tristan shrugged, "Besides, our main purpose is to prevent the Federation from mass-producing thermal weapons, at least not now. The technology blockade of the Federation by the Four Kingdoms has not stopped for a day, but the weapon support is also It's not going to stop, you know, and it's best for the church to play smart with them."

Arnold grunted, but Tristan didn't catch it.Ashley said in a crisp voice: "Many compatriots have been driven to the Federation for their safety."

Arnold frowned: "Is someone managing them?"

For some reason, he found that the faces of the two people on the opposite side were a bit ugly.But it was only for a moment, Tristan said with a smile: "What is this, 'Fred'. Even you have a deep prejudice against your family? Candy Kane thinks that we need management just like the Templars, Do you think so too, our First Father?"

"No, it's not, it's just that losing control is inevitable... I'm not with her." Arnold stared at the trembling reflection in the teacup, trying to see clearly every ripple caused by the turbulence of the ship, and then raised his head Come on, and said with a smile, "Forget it, let you go. I, to be honest, am also tired. I have killed enough bishops, and I will go to Lieyang City next."

Tristan clinked a teacup with him very casually, and said, "Then we're in the same group. Candy Kane says 'catch the thief first' all the time, nonsense, go to the Kingdom of Aiden , look, this is dead, right?"

Arnold narrowed his left eye and said softly, "Is he really dead?"

"Well, what you say...forget it, never mind her." Tristan put down his teacup and looked at him with a half-smile, "Don't talk about that. Does NIIT know where this ship came from?"

"The Red Moon Empire."

Ashley came over at some point, his eyes slightly bent, and his smile was innocently cruel: "Then do you know what the most valuable goods in the Red Moon Empire are?"

"Uh, ivory, ebony, and malachite, mainly these three types. I heard that there is also 'rubber'." Arnold swallowed for some reason, which caused the two to laugh lowly, "The emerald over there is very good. , I bought a lot of them when the Emerald City was being rebuilt."

The middle-aged man and the petite girl exchanged glances, and the latter even shook her head maturely, her short brown hair dangling under the black lace headband.Tristan laughed in a low voice, somewhat similar to Arnold's voice in the humming of ships and ocean:

"This answer is really impressive. Mr. Edwards, as the ancestor of vampires, you should be better than us in the application of various abilities."

Arnold slapped habitually: "I'm still short-sighted. Without my glasses, I can't even see your faces clearly. I still smell—"

At the word, he was suddenly aware of Tristan's intentions.

"What you smell, that's what it is," Tristan replied.

Even though he stopped breathing a long time ago, at this moment, Arnold still had the illusion of suffocation.

A quarter of an hour later, Arnold Edwards walked through the thin and warm rain curtain on the deck, and pushed open the copper-clad wooden door of the captain's bedroom.

Mikhail was lying flat in the middle of the bed, his fingers crossed in front of his chest, his slender legs were close together, and his feet formed a perfect 45-degree angle.He was breathing peacefully, and on his slightly immature handsome face, there appeared a younger innocence and ease than his age.

The room was lit with two scented candles, bought by Arnold in Port Glorious.He also lit up the original candles in the house, held one of the candlesticks and walked to the bed, struggling to identify the two golden eyelashes that were as thin and soft as the night rain outside:

"...you are sleeping?!"