Chapter 81 Undercurrent (4)

In the next ten minutes, under Zheng Yue's dazed gaze, Jiang Jianming quickly explained what he knew, and by the way also reported the situation of the Brandon family's bullying a few days ago.

The old marshal on the opposite side of the projection was always calm, while Jiang Jianming was wearing a headset, which made Zheng Yue unable to hear what they exchanged.

After a series of short answers such as "yes", "no", "yes", "I understand", the lieutenant Yin Beidou could only be heard salute the projection and say goodbye, hang up the communication and turn around.

Jiang Jianming: "Old Marshal Chen said he would send someone to investigate this matter thoroughly, don't worry."

Zheng Yuegan smiled, the muscles on his face were obviously cramping. The man waved his hands again and again: "Don't, little brother, let's be honest. You won't be my best friend. Seeing that I'm too depressed these days, the chief magician of Aslan please—"

Jiang Jianming: "No."

Zheng Yue's face was colorful, and he collapsed: "Or my wife's resentment towards me is hard to dispel, and I hired a hacker to punish me!? Your projection is fake, ah, fake, right?"

"...Sir, your imagination is too rich."

Jiang Jianming walked to the window and opened the hanging curtains: "Let's see where this is."

Zheng Yue dazed and looked around, and saw a delicate and scattered white building.

"Where is this?"

"look carefully."

Zheng Yue said blankly, "Why does this look like the White Jade Palace?"

Jiang Jianming said calmly, "It's the White Jade Palace."

"..."

Zheng Yue froze for a few seconds and rolled his eyes.

Jiang Jianming said quickly: "Don't faint! I can't move you if you faint."

Poor Zheng Yue could only turn his eyes back again. He sat on the floor, his face was pale, and he wanted to cry without tears: "Your Excellency! Who are you..."

Jiang Jianming couldn't help but hooked his lips. He didn't say that this was still the room used by the old crown prince. He only said that he would take Zheng Yue to live in another place and let him go out with him.

In fact, he deliberately communicated with Marshal Chen in front of Zheng Yue, and he had other thoughts.

Although Jiang Jianming was already 80% convinced that what this person said was true from the perspective of the situation, it was necessary to keep an eye on it.

He deliberately called the old marshal in indignation in front of this uncle, just to see his reaction. The headset was hung during the communication to prevent Zheng Yue from directly hearing the decisions made by the old marshal.

But, looking at this Uncle Zheng's reaction now...

Jiang Jianming couldn't help laughing, and thought to himself: If he really came to play him, his acting skills would be exaggerated to the point of otherworldly.

Soon, the two walked out of the palace building. Jiang Jianming took Zheng Yue to walk along the beautifully carved corridor. Under the corridor was unmelted snow, the fragrance of roses was as far away as possible, and occasionally there would be intelligence with two wings. Robots float past them.

For Zheng Yue, he would never have the opportunity to step into the depths of the White Jade Palace in his entire life, at most he would just patrol the periphery.

So in a dream, he stared blankly for a long time before saying, "Why is this palace... why is there no one?"

Jiang Jianming patted the little robot that passed by, and said warmly: "The White Jade Palace is classically decorated, but it is almost fully intelligent inside. Because the fewer living people, the less likely gangsters are lurking in."

Speaking of this, he thought of a person, "Otherwise, why do you say that no one has seen the Empress Dowager Sylph in the deep palace, because there is almost no need for people in the palace."

Zheng Yue was placed in the guest room of the side hall. It was getting late at this time, Jiang Jianming said: "You live here first, and we will act with me tomorrow, and we will check the problem you said."

Zheng Yue was frightened and touched his nose embarrassedly: "Your Excellency, do you really want me to live in the White Jade Palace? Even if you have a distinguished status, it's not... not appropriate."

"There's nothing wrong with it, a room is built to be lived in, and no matter where it's built, it doesn't change that essence."

Jiang Jianming said lightly, and used his authority to open the door of the room and the nearby surveillance, "The palace occupies such a large area, but more than half of it is empty for 300 days a year, which is unreasonable."

He turned his head and gave Zheng Yue a gentle smile: "But there are many secrets in the deep palace. If you see anything unscientific in the future... I mean, for example, who you think shouldn't be here... "

"Remember to tell yourself it's not a big problem, don't panic."

...

After hiding Uncle Zheng Yue, Jiang Jianming didn't have time to take a breath and eat something, and turned around in the White Jade Palace against the cold wind.

Halfway through, the teenager Kevin from the military academy sent him a message and asked him why he was not in the dormitory.

Jiang Jianming said that he had something to do, so he couldn't give them a lecture for the time being, and sent a few packages of documents as a gift for them to write and play as homework.

Putting the wrist phone away, he closed his coat and coughed lightly, his eyes vacant.

The afterglow in the west was sinking towards the other side of the horizon. It's getting dark, time never waits, unsolved problems one after another, but it's going to be night again today.

More than an hour later, Jiang Jianming saw Garcia standing at the end of the corridor. There was a tall fountain column, the water gurgling at the top, and the back was leaning on the white column.

Jiang Jianming walked over and stood a few steps away.

At this time, the winter sky was completely dark, and the intelligent induction lights of the White Emerald Palace lit up in turn from far away.

Garcia didn't look back or look at him. The voice was cold: "It's very late, what are you doing here?"

"Too many things were interrupted, and it was delayed so late." Jiang Jianming narrowed his eyes. From him, the lights in the distance looked like a hazy patch of fireflies.

"There is nothing to say between you and me."

Garcia was silent for a few seconds, during which the sound of water from the fountain column overwhelmed the breathing of the two. Until he said again: "Let go of your obsession, this is my last advice."

Jiang Jianming said: "Is the obsession that can be easily put down, still called obsession?"

"Then I can tell you one thing." Garcia's tone became even lower. "In fact, your authority in the White Jade Palace was forcibly shut down by the empire. I restarted it for you."

"..."

Jiang Jianming was silent for two seconds and said, "Really?"

Then he said, "Then... thank you."

Garcia turned around, and Jiang Jianming saw that he was playing with a hovering robot in his hand. As soon as he let go, the little thing flew away.

"Don't thank me, I just pity you."

Garcia's eyes had a dazzling and cold sarcasm: "It doesn't matter whether the old man named Chen is immortal, whether it is a front-line general like Xie Yuduo, or the leader of the Black Shark Base, including nobles in high positions, Minister... on the bright side, I respectfully called you little lord, but in fact, who gave you the treatment of the real widow of the crown prince?"

"Even this obvious respect and love was earned by you for three years of forbearance and knowledge. If you don't fight or rob, they can leave you with a little pity. When the empire finds out about your arrogance, who can protect you? ?nobody."

When the robot flew past, Jiang Jianming saw a red dot of tracking displayed on the screen.

He immediately realized that it was his position. In this magnificent intelligent palace, his every move would be easily monitored by the owner with higher authority.

Jiang Jianming closed his eyes, as if something heavy pressed his spine, he panted and said hoarsely, "...I know, I know."

"..."

Garcia pursed his lips irritably, and suddenly said, "You..."

Jiang Jianming: "What?"

Garcia's Adam's apple moved, he frowned gloomily, and seemed to swallow something back into his throat.

"You give up, go back to the house tonight to sleep, and leave the White Jade Palace tomorrow... Leave me. Don't go back to Yin Beidou."

"The existence of Ryan has indeed disappeared from the world. I can't back down from my position for you. The so-called truth is not something that a disabled human like you deserves to touch."

Jiang Jianming: "...Am I not worthy?"

Garcia looked at Jiang Jianming's pale face, and he understood how hurtful he was going to say. He had seen with his own eyes how Jiang Jianming went all the way with painstaking effort in order to transcend the constraints of the natural race. It's all for Prince Ryan.

And now, he was going to hold this Ryan's face, and drop this scarred and fiery heart from the palm of his hand, and then step on the ground.

The sky in the distance seemed darker, and the clouds gave no moonlight. Garcia turned his head and stopped looking at Jiang Jianming, his long hair curled in the wind.

"You should know one thing in your heart."

When he opened his lips, his words were slow, cruel Ling Chi, "When you were able to leave the adaptation period as an officer early, as an official Yin Beidou lieutenant, it was because I wanted to leave you."

Garcia stroked the Comet Slash on his wrist. This action was a hint to the other party that you even threw your only remaining A-grade mecha, Xuejiu, at the bottom of the river.

If he can't find it back, Jiang Jianming will only have the most basic M-IP 18 available for the Yin Beidou in the future.

"Later, the reason why you were able to decipher Yu Thief's conspiracy and save hundreds of people was because I had the ability to bring a crippled human to the battlefield. Apart from me, there will be no other person in the fortress who has this confidence. "

The gurgling sound of the fountain's water column seemed to be far away, Jiang Jianming sighed: "...Yes."

"So you see, you're not as capable as you think. I won't take care of you anymore, and there's no place for you in the Yin Beidou."

Garcia said, "What can you do about being abandoned by everyone."

Jiang Jianming said, "I have no choice."

"Then it doesn't make any sense to stick to it. Even if you return to the army, you will only consume yourself to death."

Garcia lowered his eyelashes, and with this action, the cold and cruel aggression around him was mostly restrained: "Enough, my warning ends here, you should go."

After he finished speaking, he closed his mouth tightly. Although he let Jiang Jianming go, he turned around and started walking first.

Jiang Jianming saw Garcia walking towards him, the two of them quickly passed by, and there was a very fine friction between the fabrics. The prince did not stop.

"original."

Jiang Jianming suddenly spoke.

"Even if my military merit is not recognized by the fortress, I can continue to stay in Yinbeidou for at least one year as an officer in the adaptation period."

Jiang Jianming took a deep breath, his cold voice was a little astringent, "You said that night, would you like to come with me, then I went with you."

Garcia's pupils narrowed slightly.

... These light words seemed to have a special strength, like a sharp knife cutting through flesh and blood, easily surpassing the ridicule and insult that he had been brewing for Jiang Jianming for a long time.

Garcia's chest heaved violently.

He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.

"If you leave me now, frankly, there's really nothing I can do."

Jiang Jianming continued, and the bit of astringency in his tone gradually turned into a vibrato, "Just like three years ago, I can only accept the ridicule from fate again, and taste the knife that was stabbed into me by the same person."

Garcia turned back suddenly: "What are you talking about!?"

"—I want to tell you that three years ago, Ryan Kaios said goodbye to me in person before he died. He admitted that he had destroyed my life. He wanted to sacrifice me for a certain purpose. ."

An unbelievable look appeared on Garcia's face. He didn't even have time to refute Jiang Jianming's "same person" and blurted out, "This is impossible."

Jiang Jianming: "What's impossible."

"Because you love him." Garcia said coldly, "It's impossible for your character to fall in love with someone who would treat you like that."

"Then what do you think I'm doing standing here now?"

This determined tone made Jiang Jianming so angry that his temples throbbed and hurt, and even his eyes were blackened. He coughed twice and sneered angrily:

"I'm here, Your Highness Garcia. You choke me by the neck and pull my ring, release the crystal bone to threaten me, use your words to belittle me and insult me, and say you want to abandon me, but I'm still standing here, tearing you apart from the beginning. These, why?"

"You are... Enough, I don't want to listen to you tonight." Garcia suddenly became irritable, "Go back to the house for me."

Jiang Jianming was also annoyed by him, and said coldly: "Kaios, you have no position to control me now. You can leave, but you can't stop me from talking."

He went on like this, in declarative language without emotion, from his acquaintance and love with Ryan, to the sudden separation and death.

The former was carried in a few sentences, while the latter was detailed to the point of depression.

Garcia's face became more and more ugly, and he tried to interrupt several times, but Jiang Jianming turned a deaf ear. He turned around and wanted to leave, but Jiang Jianming stubbornly followed him, keeping three steps behind him.

The prince was forced to listen to this suffocating story, and finally Jiang Jianming actually used a hoarse voice to mock:

"In the end, why are you so resistant? After all, you're not Ryan, and you don't love me anymore."

Garcia's fingers were pinched softly by his knuckles. He stopped and said angrily without warning: "Shut up! Stop arguing."

Jiang Jianming: "It's you who keeps arguing, what a bad temper."

"I told you to shut up..." Garcia turned around and took two steps, and the spatial distance between the two was erased.

His expression was violent and terrifying, he grabbed Jiang Jianming's arm, and his voice was frighteningly hoarse: "You have a fever."

"..."

Jiang Jianming was stunned, "...what?"

It took him a long while to frown slowly, and then he realized that Garcia's hand was cold.

"I said, you have a fever, didn't you realize it yourself? Jiang Jianming, are you a creature who can't live on your own!?"

Garcia seemed to be completely ignited. His eyes were red and he roared in dismay: "Or, are you using this method to force me? Are you so embarrassed that there is only such a despicable method left!?"

"..." Jiang Jianming's brain was buzzing, and he couldn't think of what to say for a while.

He was a little dizzy and breathless, but he kept being pulled by Garcia and heard the latter say in a trembling voice, "Listen, Jiang Jianming, that's it for now."

No, Jiang Jianming shook his head, thinking that it would never end there. I heard Garcia say again: "Let's make a deal, I'll make you satisfied."

"I will go to Crystal Nest, I will bite the empire, I will find Ryan's whereabouts and the truth you want. This person is life or death, what exactly is he and I, I will give you within three years An explanation."

"In exchange, you have to promise me." Garcia's wrists tightened, looking at Jiang Jianming fixedly, he suddenly took off his coat and wrapped him tightly.

This is like a gentle hug - even though the prince's eyes are as cold as iron.

"You stay here and don't go to the front again."

Jiang Jianming raised his face in shock.

"Don't take risks, don't go crazy, stop everything you are tossing. Let life return to the normal trajectory before you met Ryan Kaios."

Garcia paused, and suddenly wiped the cold sweat on Jiang Jianming's forehead with his fingertips, "That's it, a very simple request."

Jiang Jianming didn't give an answer, his figure became thinner in His Highness's arms, and it seemed that he was about to dissolve in this night.

He just stared at Garcia's eyebrows in a daze, and suddenly began to cough rapidly again, trembling and leaning quietly towards the opponent's chest, his eyes filled with indescribable sadness.

Garcia didn't push him away this time, but patted him on the back and asked in a low voice, "Why are you so sad."

Jiang Jianming closed his eyes and shook his head, and said hoarsely, "I don't, Your Highness."

Garcia said: "Don't call me Your Highness, I already said it."

Jiang Jianming stopped talking, but the trembling of his body became more and more severe, and the suppressed cough became more and more severe, as if he was suffering a kind of collapse.

Garcia was silent for two seconds and said, "Forget it, you can do whatever you want."

Anyway, when he goes to Yin Beidou, they won't meet again.

Jiang Jianming didn't call that "His Royal Highness" again, but just lay quietly in Garcia's arms. After a long while, he reached out and smoothed the man's long messy hair and put it behind his ear.

He said he was not sad, but he knew it was a lie.

The fact is that he was suddenly struck by a great sadness, even when he first discovered that Garcia no longer recognized him, even when Garcia spoke coldly to him, he had never felt such sadness.

Sudden and irresistible sadness.

late. Jiang Jianming closed his eyes and thought sourly.

He has set his life on fire for this.

Now, he can't stop no matter what.

The author has something to say: Garcia: One last time to save you.

Garcia: advise you one last time.

Garcia: The last few days let you call Your Highness.

Garcia: ...don't be sad, come and hug (at the same time be rua hair