Did the tavern owner cook Chinese food today?

The brilliance of the bright moon sprinkled the rock city, and there were sporadic fires flickering beside the city wall.

"Hey, come out!"

A voice was hidden in the corner of the wall, shaking the candle flame in the corner.

"Did you swallow a lion? Keep your voice down!" Another, softer whine rang out, only to turn into a cry of pain the next moment.

"You stay up so late, do you think you don't have enough training?"

The guard walked around behind him at some point, holding one ear in one hand, and the screams changed from a solo to a duet.

The guard carried the two of them under the light source. In the distance, a person who was going downstairs was attracted and walked towards this side.

"Boss, help!" One of the short teenagers with slits on both sides of his mouth slammed his voice, and was kicked by the guard.

"..." The approaching figure froze for a moment, apparently hesitating whether to move forward.

"It's you, Bone Chain." The guard's fingers didn't show any strength at all, but his tone towards the person coming was much gentler.

Wilmer nodded and saluted: "Mr. Matthew." He glanced at two pairs of enthusiastic eyes and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Wait...wait for you." Half of the other boy's face was skinless, revealing flesh that seemed to be woven with countless red threads and white leather.But he doesn't seem to be very good at lying, and his eyes can't hide his guilt.

Wilmer's skull didn't show any expression. He was only silent for a while, and said to the guard with earnest eyes: "Mr. Matthew, I'm sorry. I failed to manage my subordinates well, please forgive me."

"Military discipline stipulates that there is a corresponding punishment for running around during the curfew." The guard let go, and the two teenagers hissed desperately, rubbing their ears, their faces full of depression.

"I understand, sir. I'll discipline them when I get back."

"Let's go, let's go. A group of little bastards, go to bed quickly." The guards drove them, and the three walked quickly to a house.

On the way, the cracked boy couldn't help asking: "Boss, how did the deputy commander answer?"

Wilmer didn't say anything immediately, and there was a faint low air pressure all over his body.The half-faced boy noticed the abnormality, and bent the opponent with his elbow: "Tsk! Almost shut your mouth, gap, you even called the guards just now."

The gap was a little aggrieved, but he quickly understood what Banpi meant, so he only looked at Wilmer cautiously with his eyes.

All the way in silence, they entered the house.The inside smelled of sweat, and even on a cold winter day, the room was still as hot as a stove.

Compared with when I first came here three years ago, after eliminating a group of people, the conditions of the sleeping place are much better now.

Single bedroom, with a rotten wood cabinet standing beside the bed.However, the Commander-in-Chief's frequent scolding for them is true in a sense—this is their "doghouse", because the gap between the two beds is not as wide as a person's body when standing.

The beds are like puppies suckling side by side, clinging tightly together.And this small room needs to accommodate more than a dozen people to rest.

"Look who's back." At the end of the room, a person leaned against the head of the bed, with a mocking arc on his lips.

Another person next to him was reading a book by the dim light in the room.He slightly raised his eyes as if giving alms, and then said calmly: "I thought it was someone, it turned out to be the one who was crying and wanted to go to the ground to find his mother."

There was a lot of snickering in the room, and I don't know how many people were still asleep.

The three of them ignored it, as if they had long been used to it.This invigorated the group of people more and more, and there was another conversation from the end direction.

"Staying against the prototype every day, he was opportunistic during the training. Compared with **, how can a knife stab a bone? I don't know what the deputy commander thought, but he was chosen as an assistant."

"I'm afraid she's too ugly to see people."

"Haven't you heard? Someone from Team Nine once "saw the real face" and said that the skeleton was more beautiful than any woman."

"No wonder! It's just a sissy."

The laughter echoed through the roof again, almost drowning out the snoring.

Suddenly, a gust of fist wind blew in front of the person who spoke first.

"One more fucking word about the bone chain, I'll pull your tongue out!"

The person who was grabbed by the collar was slightly panicked, and then he hid it and said sarcastically: "Bone chain, don't you care about your dog? I really can't say that the owner is not good at all. Such a loyal dog is really hard to find." .”

Wilmer's bone head turned towards the other person, and the empty eye holes fell straight to the top of the man's head.He didn't move his eyes at all, approached slowly, and patted Gap on the shoulder.

Gap didn't say a word, and glared at the yelling person for a few seconds, then withdrew his fist and got into his bed without looking back.

He was so angry that he closed his eyes, and he breathed for a while, and then he didn't hear any more movement.

He is angry!Ever since Da Da and Ban Pi followed the bone chain to the captain's dormitory, he finally realized that the boss had to suffer from such anger every day.

Gap really didn't understand, and later explained to him that it was because the boss was so good that they were jealous.Especially when he was recently promoted by the deputy commander to work beside him, which caused red eyes among these slobbery bastards.

After listening to it, to be honest, the gap was even more incomprehensible.

Bone Chain—his boss, was a standout from the first day of boot training.He adores the other party, even though he looks a bit cold and not easy to get close to, in fact, he knows that the other party is a very good person only after getting in touch with him.

Banpi and he followed the boss for three full years.Day after day, the two of them discovered that the boss had been hiding his clumsiness, which made them admire even more.

Good cooking skills, coupled with excellent abilities in swordsmanship and magic, dragged him back several times on the verge of life and death... He desperately wanted to follow the boss, but he couldn't listen to the other party being said to be bad.

He turned over and wrapped the quilt that was not cold-proof at all tightly.

It's strange to say - Gulian seems to really not be able to hear these gossips, he heard that Tian Linggai was going to be angry, but the boss still remained motionless.

The quality of the heart is terrible!

Banpi's brain is better than his - "Boss's situation, either he is born with such a personality, or he has suffered more before... so now he can eat sarcasm."

Gap seemed to understand, but he did hear that the bone chain was brought back from the ground, so the boss, who is not used to rowing, is likely to be the latter.

But, the boss valued the necklace tied around his neck extremely, even surpassing his own life.

Once they went out for actual combat training, and the snow that day was comparable to a summer rainstorm.Recalling the bad weather at that time, Rift couldn't help shivering.

After they finished fighting the alienated monsters, when they cleaned up the scene, the boss directly started digging the snow through a layer of frayed thin gloves with his head covered in frozen blood.

They couldn't stop them even half a block, and in the end, in order not to delay the trip, the two of them planed together.

—The necklace fell into the snow.The snow at that time was so loose and dry that you could almost drown your knees when you stepped in it.

At last the necklace was found, and the boss tied the chain in a knot himself.

"The necklace must never come off unless the head is beheaded," he said.

Of course, the boss's hands were also rotten, and he was reprimanded by the instructors: If he said that he would stay in the snow for half a candle, then his hands would really be completely useless.

Many people knew about it, so it naturally attracted the attention of the people at the end of the room.Thinking of this, Gap's teeth itch with hatred, but he couldn't help but laugh.

Grinding teeth for a while, laughing for a while, the half skin next to the bed mercilessly kicked the cracked buttocks, making the cracked butt flesh that has been tortured many times today worse.

He bared his teeth, but the boss on the left had already fallen asleep.He didn't dare to disturb people's rest, and had to "fight to the death" with Banpi, so he could only swallow his aggrieved breath.

Originally, the gap thought that Gu Lian was a person who liked to be bored.After getting along for a long time, he finally understood that the boss is actually just too lazy to care about those trash.

Wait, I have to add a premise: when the necklace is not involved.

This is his second strange place.Not referring to the boss, but the one who couldn't understand the previous provocation, who was obviously beaten to death by the boss after hitting the necklace to pay attention... The rare dark magic was used to deal with them!He still likes to talk nonsense.

"Don't think about it if you can't figure it out." Banpi once told him.Therefore, the gap concluded that those people were beaten stupid.

The room smelled bad, but it was warm enough.If you stay for a long time, all kinds of odors will naturally disappear.

The cold air dissipated from the body little by little, and tiredness took the opportunity to creep in, gradually filling the gaps in the gaping thoughts.

The moment before he was completely unconscious, saliva dripped from his mouth unconsciously.

It would be great if I could eat the mutton hot pot made by the boss tomorrow... It's so warm, I can't taste any smell of mutton, and it's so fragrant that it makes people's tongue drop.

The next day, in the not-so-spacious area of ​​the barracks, scattered people were busy with their own affairs, and occasionally walked through the center of the site.

The cracks and half-skins were clearing the snow. On one side, yesterday's provocateurs walked by in a group, picking up the spot where the two of them cleaned, throwing nut shell shavings.

When it was over, he smiled at them mischievously.Just as the gap was about to push those skin flakes to their feet, a suppressed roar came from the deputy commander's room in the middle of the second floor.

"I've told you many times, Bone Chain. On this blood moon day, non-officers are not allowed to come in or out."

"Besides, it's a sensitive period for the faction. I don't believe you don't understand this. Why are you so persistent? Don't forget, your roots are in the dark cave, not the ground!"

"Now, immediately, go to the library and help Bachelor Cronin! Since you want to sacrifice your rest day, then stay in the library for me all day, and you are not allowed to come back except during meal times and curfew."

It's a pity that the walls of Yanjiao City are prone to "leakage". The voice of the deputy commander's rebuttal at this time is low, but everyone present can hear clearly.

In the middle of the square, even the sound of snow sweeping disappeared.

There was a lot of fine snow, and the air was filled with icy coldness. After a while, the door of the deputy commander's room opened and closed, and a skeleton walked out of it, wearing a thick robe.The tail of the robe dragged snow and walked down the stairs.

He walked like flying, carrying a cold air all over his body, without stopping at all.

The presumptuous sneer was also left behind by him.

"Boss—" Banpi and Gap spoke one after another, and the gray figure slowed down slightly.

"Boss, you..." Banpi wanted to ask, but couldn't ask anything.Their worried eyes chased Wilmer.

"It's okay." Wilmer held his stubble in his mouth, and his tone was cold.

It's over, the boss is very angry - the two looked at each other and immediately realized that this is Wilmer's real anger.

"Or we'll follow along..."

"No need."

Wilmer flatly refused, and then walked away.

Scratching his head, Banpi sighed heavily.They held the brooms and looked at each other on the ground.

"Banpi, tell me, why is the boss so persistent in wanting to go to the ground?"

Ban Pi looked around, saw that the excitement had almost dissipated, lowered his throat and said, "Think about it with your single-minded mind, what is the boss most concerned about?"

"Necklace."

"Yes, when we first met the boss, he often mumbled a name in his dreams. We asked him afterwards, and he didn't evade or deny that he was against that person."

"I remember this... Is there any relationship between the two?"

Banpi was very tired, he looked at the gap and racked his brains to think, but in the end he looked like he was useless, and sighed even more heavily.

"The necklace is probably given by that person. The boss was discovered by the knights on the ground and brought back to the dark cave. Therefore, the boss wanted to go to the ground on the blood moon day, probably to meet him."

"Sigh...it's just such a pity. After all, there was a blood moon day in three years, but because of the situation, the bone chain couldn't pass."

The snow petals flew more and more, falling more and more intensely, and a gust of wind that penetrated into the bones swept over.The figure in the gray robe stopped at the door of the library.

Wilmer didn't knock on the door immediately.The cold wind pierced his eyes, burning his eye sockets with heat.

He took out the necklace around his neck and stared at it for a long time, thin snowflakes piled up on the top of his hat and shoulders.

Wilmer's lips parted slightly, and he murmured silently to the necklace.

"I miss you so much……"

The only breathless whisper melted into the bleak wind.