old dream

Chapter 321 Mortal King, Forget
"Because I can smell the same breath on your body."

Hearing Rui's words, Colin was slightly surprised.He himself didn't realize it, but now he already has a bit of air of ease.

Obviously a month ago, he still looked as if he had exhausted all his plans and would not stop dying if he failed to achieve his goal.

"It is generally believed that only those who are strong enough can maintain calmness." Rui said while cutting the meat on the plate:
"But on the other hand, I was thinking: Could it be that after becoming calm, that person can really become strong."

"...perhaps," Colin said.

He hadn't thought about it carefully before, but he had unknowingly become a practitioner of Rui's idea.

If you want to win, you can't want to win too much.On this contradictory issue, he has already suffered a big loss.

As Rui said, from Senales to Stade, although he is still young, he has experienced more than ordinary people in his life.

So now, Ke Lin is no longer as obsessed with a certain result as before, and his style of acting has become more flexible.

After getting rid of the mentality of worrying about gains and losses in the past, it became easier for Colin to get things done.Compared with the self who was always in pain in the past, he is actually stronger.

"The commander-in-chief is going back to Baidu recently. Can you guess the purpose behind it?" Rui changed the subject.

"Yes." Colin thought for a moment and said:

"It's only January now, and it's not time to report to work. The person in charge of the intelligence station made an exception and was recalled to Building No. [-]... There should be only one thing that is worth the 'commander''s long journey back, and that is Baidu's temporary adjustments. All deployments to the Principality."

"Yes."

Ruy's eyes showed some approval.If Amo really grew up in the remote southern continent, he shouldn't have such a keen sense of smell.But for his performance at this time, Rui seems to take it for granted:

"Who would have guessed that." He said:
"The small investigation department is just an idle move by the Central Intelligence Agency, but now it may become an opportunity for Baidu to fully intervene in the situation in the Principality."

Because of the predictable unrest in Danaro, and the key evidence they just presented.

"So wait until the day when the commander returns." Colin said, "It's probably when the war starts."

It will be a war completely hidden in darkness, without gunpowder smoke or sound, but extremely bloody and cruel.

"It may also be time for peace talks." Rui said with a smile:
"After all, 'Baidu is Hoxlet's Baidu'. This is not a trivial matter, and they already need their stance."

For nearly two centuries, the white capital has been in the hands of the Hezlet family.And because the six consecutive mortal kings were held by people with this surname, they are also called the "Family of Mortal Kings" of the alliance.

If the annexation and unification of the princes and princes within the alliance is a historical necessity, then this family is the force most likely to realize the necessity.

"Heslet..." Colin murmured the surname.

This behemoth may no longer be able to hide, or need to hide itself.Probably everyone in the alliance hears this word at least once a day, and sees their family crests and portraits somewhere.

After a long time, many people even have an illusion of intimacy.

But the reason for the intimacy is precisely because there is no connection between you.An ignorant child can keep this surname on his lips, but a border prince may be terrified by a few similar syllables.

Because, as long as there is any substantial intersection, you must have experienced the energy it possesses, and how strange and distant the things represented by the title "Mortal King" are to ordinary people.

"However, the commander-in-chief is still thinking about one thing before leaving." Rui retracted the topic and said:
"The materials of those woodland quadrants, you have read them and destroyed them."

"That's right." Colin said truthfully.

"Some woodlanders died in Danaro... Judging from the new developments, the situation of this matter is not simple." Ruy said:

"Recently, in the name of the Ninth Bureau, people from the theater sent us an invitation for a joint investigation."

"Joint investigation?"

"After all, it involves the countries of Sluz Forest. This kind of thing is originally within our scope of functions. As for why we are deliberately invited this time."

"Are you in a hurry to prove your innocence..." Colin said with a smile.

Rui shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he also guessed the same.

"The commander-in-chief's whereabouts have always been kept secret, and the theater probably didn't know that he went to Baidu." He said:
"But before he comes back with Baidu's attitude, we'd better cooperate with the theater. But Emil and Ellie... Their current state is not suitable for direct contact with the Grand Duke."

In fact, when Rui mentioned this matter, Colin had already guessed what he was going to say:
"So this time." He said:
"It's up to you and me to come forward."

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Talking to Ruy is always very efficient, because sometimes they can guess the next sentence from each other.And this process is quite pleasant.

Ke Lin found that his way of thinking was very synchronized with him, which was different from other people he came into contact with in this world.For a moment, he even wondered if the other party might also be a time traveler - of course, this is impossible.

Or it was because Rui and himself had also experienced the battlefield of Senal.Although Rui has been serving the alliance, he should be in the opposite camp at the time.But people who have also been tempered by the same battle, even enemies, will inevitably have some similarities.

But then he thought again, if he added up the time he had experienced in the two lives, he should be about the same age as Rui.

Could it be that unconsciously, I have transformed into the thinking of a middle-aged person?

It is always easier for people of the same age to have a common language. Colin twitched the corners of his lips, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the real answer.

Nale's memories of those years were originally excluded from consciousness.As long as you don't actively recall them, they don't exist.

But after the walks and healing in the Red River Valley, some scenes from the past began to resurface in Colin's dreams.This seems to imply that Colin's divided self is reintegrating.

He could recall the past more and more clearly, and even remembered the first time he met Nancy.The memory may not be very accurate, but at that time she seemed to be very young, even a little childish.

I don't know why, but Colin felt a little inconsistent with that scene.Because I always felt unreasonably that Nancy should be an immortal.

In addition, there are three "playmates" who are more and more remembered.Because I have the thinking of an adult, I played the role of a brother or even a half-parent among them.One of them was a girl who hadn't been heard from since leaving the sulfurous village.Another man died in battle as a boy soldier, when the stones thrown by the heavy artillery cracked his skull.When cleaning the battlefield, he and another person dragged him out of the burial pit and buried him alone on the inconspicuous slope.

"Colin, Colin..."

Thinking back on all this, Colin seemed to hear the child's voice on the dirt slope, and his tear-filled but unusually determined eyes.

What is that person's name?

(End of this chapter)