Chapter 119 Sad Crystal Eyes (2)

A moment later, when Audley finished listening to Kevin's story, his throat went dry in shock, as if a gold star had been blasted out by seven or eight explosive packs in front of him.

"Mrs. Donna Sekter!?"

"How could she?"

Audley pressed his temples blankly. Even though Donna and Xie Yuduo have been at odds with each other for many years, she has quite a grudge against the military, but she doesn't seem like a person who can cooperate with the enemy and betray the country...

Kevin said at a loss: "Your Excellency..."

The silver-haired youth's eyes darkened as he pinched the ruby ​​between his fingers.

As a big noble family owner who has seen strong winds and waves and has been exposed to more undercurrents, he can perceive the situation more profoundly than Kevin.

"...It's okay, you did a good job."

Audley closed his eyes and regained his composure. He held Kevin's shoulder: "Next, you immediately take this diamond and go to the military to explain the situation, and then ask them to check whether the diamond is abnormal."

Audley called back, "Horn!"

The big butler of Lance's house trotted over: "Yes, Your Excellency."

Audley pushed Kevin: "Take this kid to Lieutenant General Luther and take care of him. Find someone to drive me an aircraft and four escorts."

Kevin's heart was beating wildly, and he turned back in a panic: "Lance Your Excellency, you want to..."

"I'm going after Mrs. Donna." Audley patted Kevin, "Don't worry, just to test the situation."

Horn heard some ominous premonitions in his tone, and glanced at his master worriedly.

However, due to his well-trained experience, the old housekeeper did not ask questions, but turned to leave with Kevin, who was still in a daze.

Audley also took two steps in the opposite direction, and suddenly pressed the wrist claw hidden under the white silk glove, "...and, Horn."

The silver-haired young man turned his face coldly and opened his lips: "Don't talk too much in front of the lady, tell her that I will go home later."

White Emerald Palace, Queen's bedroom.

One of the most famous main rooms in this palace has not been used for a long, long time since the Empress Dowager Sylph took the initiative to move out fifty-two years ago.

Even so, the robots and special cleaning staff in the palace will take care of it every day, mopping the floor, wiping the table, opening the window to dry the quilt, and maintaining a state that can be moved in at any time.

Now, there is finally someone in this bedroom.

Crown Prince Le'an sat on the sofa with an indifferent expression, with a straight back, looking straight ahead: "...So, how long are you going to be angry?"

"Angry? Do you think I'm angry with you?"

Jiang Jianming lay sideways on most of the sofa, his head resting on the crown prince's knees, and his eyes were full of lovelessness, "I'm just too tired to speak."

The luxurious thick robe of deep red, bright gold and snow white just now covered him like a blanket. Ryan's palms stroked him through the robe, stroked his spine all the way across the waistline, and down.

After walking down from the top just now, Jiang Jianming really wanted to hold the little Highness to teach him a few words.

Unexpectedly, my mind was relieved, and I was dying first. The brain was hypoxic under extreme tension, and I blamed this trip for being too exciting.

Ryan was too nervous for his body again. Jiang Jianming was dazedly carried by the crown prince into the unoccupied bedroom to inhale oxygen. When his brain regained consciousness, he was pressed to lie down on the sofa and was not allowed to get up.

"It's okay to be angry," and the originator, His Royal Highness, said seriously, "but from today onwards, you will be my crown princess, and of course the future queen."

"...I know." Jiang Jianming said softly.

In fact, his current mood is still complicated, and he is used to worrying a lot and giving up a lot. Thinking about his current situation again, he couldn't bear to drag His Highness too deeply.

But it's amazing, when Ryan held his hand firmly, at the highest point where the crowd and the radiance converge, he really had a feeling... this person could take him all the way to the end of the darkness.

Ryan added, "Lin Ge is not going to marry, so you should live here."

Jiang Jianming was helpless: "Then how can it be done, in case your Majesty's heart is budding someday?"

Ryan: "Lin Ge said she wouldn't."

Jiang Jianming: "..."

"Of course, there are some basic duties of the Crown Princess..." Lean said quietly, his moving palm fell on Jiang Jianming's waist, and stopped, "You have to fulfill it."

His Royal Highness thought about it for a while, and quickly determined the scope of "obligation".

Ryan said in a positive tone: "In front of me, you have to be good and listen to me more."

Jiang Jianming blinked in surprise, then grabbed His Highness's clothes and laughed.

He laughed for a long time before saying, you are so cute.

Ryan didn't understand what he was laughing at, but it was certainly a good thing that Jiang Jianming was no longer depressed or angry.

So His Highness's expression also became joyful, he pulled Jiang Jianming's fingers playing with his dress to his lips, and kissed his fingertips.

At this moment, the door was knocked.

This is the queen's bedroom, and it is impossible for outsiders to approach without permission. Ryan looked at Jiang Jianming with an inquiring look.

The latter immediately sat up: "It's Miss Diana from Lance's family. She said she had something to ask me, and I asked her to come directly."

The door opened, and Diana walked in with the hem of her skirt carefully. She saw that Ryan was startled, and slid to the corner like a little rabbit: "Your Highness, Your Highness..."

Jiang Jianming beckoned Diana to sit: "Don't be afraid, no one wants to eat you, why are you looking for me?"

Diana sat down dawdlingly and whispered, "The information you asked me to pay attention to last time..."

Ryan turned his head sharply: "What?"

Jiang Jianming frowned at first, then suddenly remembered - after checking the materials in the library that day, he asked Diana to help him pay attention to whether there was any strange information about crystal particles or alien creatures during the sacred battle!

He leaned forward suddenly: "What's the matter!"

Diana glanced hesitantly at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince next to her.

Jiang Jianming took Le'an's arm and pulled the man over: "It's okay, Your Highness will also listen."

Diana nodded, her expression a little excited: "Well, I really found something very strange, how could you guess it?"

She said, inserting a chip she brought into the wrist phone, and a light blue virtual screen popped up. Diana swiped and stretched the screen so that Jiang Jianming and Ryan could also see it clearly.

"The strangeness I found is actually related to the crystal chaos."

Speaking of her professional field, Diana was no longer shy and stammered, and said seriously: "First confirm, you should have a basic understanding of Crystal Chaos."

"I know." Ryan replied, frowning and looking at Jiang Jianming, "Why did you start checking this again?"

——The so-called crystal disorder tide, in a broad sense, refers to the disaster of the large-scale outbreak of crystal disorder disease; in a narrow sense, it specifically refers to the era of despair that lasted nearly forty-six years from the seventh year of the old emperor's calendar.

In those days, Jingran disease was like a demon who didn't know when to come, wandering around everyone.

Even if you don't get involved in areas with dense crystal particles, the crystal particles in the human body will spontaneously change from an orderly state to a chaotic state. When this disorder exceeds the threshold that the human body can withstand, it is acute or chronic crystal disorder.

And because crystal chaos is contagious, chaotic crystal particles will affect the rest of the orderly crystal particles, so a vicious cycle, year after year.

...that's true hell.

No one knows whether they can see the sun tomorrow if they close their eyes and sleep tonight.

No one knew whether he had already suffered from a terminal illness that would kill him when he finished the meal in front of him.

Patients with acute crystal disorder will die tragically in severe pain. And patients with chronic crystal disorder suffered more mental torture: they had to face the approaching death.

But the physical torture will be lighter, and they will choose to kill themselves before the disease deteriorates completely to avoid the constant pain in the later stage.

It was not until the fifty-fourth year of the old emperor's calendar that the first generation of crystal particle tranquilizers was developed, which was regarded as a terminator for this crazy era.

"...Crystal Chaos."

Jiang Jianming's heart sank inexplicably: "Is there any problem?"

Diana pulled back her silver hair with a broken drill tiara, her fingers twitching across the screen as rows of new windows and graphs popped up.

"Well... where to start, let's look at this first."

She dragged through one of the windows. It was an overly monotonous line chart, and it didn't even indicate what the horizontal and vertical axes represented. It could only be seen that the data in it showed an upward trend of acceleration.

"—The data of the deceased of Crystal Chaos?"

Jiang Jianming and Lean looked at each other and spoke at the same time.

Clearly, both had seen the chart countless times and even took the image to heart.

"Yes." Diana nodded and poked the screen twice.

The vertical and horizontal axes and scales appear. This is a statistical chart of the number of dead in the crystal chaos from the fifth to the fifty-sixth year of the old imperial calendar, that is, the crystal chaos era and the two years before and after it.

Obviously, the later the year, the more serious the crystal chaos, and the faster the number of dead.

"We're going to look at this next."

Diana dragged out another window and explained in her soft and waxy voice: "His Royal Highness should know that our new empire has always attached great importance to the issue of crystal disorder, and every year there will be statistics on the number of patients with crystal disorder."

"Ordinary people can't see this kind of data. I asked my brother to help me, and I got it with great effort."

"If you chart this data..."

She quickly tapped the screen, "Look, that's it."

A very long line graph appeared, and Diana selected a certain area, from the first year to the twelfth year of the new emperor calendar.

Then cut and drag.

The expressions of Jiang Jianming and Ryan suddenly changed.

Diana pasted this small piece of the line chart to the front of the line chart of the deceased in the crystal chaos of the old empire that she first saw.

That is, the period from before the outbreak of the crystal chaos to the official outbreak.

The directions of the two broken lines are almost completely coincident.

In an instant, Jiang Jianming's ears were buzzing, and he felt that the blood all over his body was frozen into ice.

He pinched the palm of his hand in disbelief, "How is it possible, at least after the second sacred battle, the real crystal ore resources for making tranquilizers are enough... Why is the patient data still rising!?"

Ryan turned his head to look at him and said to himself: "In the books of the empire now, the victory of the second sacred battle in the fifth year of the new emperor's calendar is the turning point for the reduction of crystal chaos. Three years ago, the leader taught me the same way. "

The crown prince pointed to the chart: "But the real turning point is the twelfth year of the new emperor's calendar, not five years."

Jiang Jianming said hoarsely: "When ordinary people are in it, it is difficult to accurately detect when a disease that has lasted for hundreds of years began to disappear, so..."

Ryan narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "So the emperor is lying, she wants to hide something from the people."

Diana raised her face, her eyelashes trembled like butterfly wings, and her delicate face was clearly at a loss.

"I don't know what's going on, but," she said in a trembling voice, "it was very possible...in fact, it was only one step away from the second outbreak of the crystal chaos."

Just one step away?

In the early days of the new empire, it was only one step away from the hell that had been sealed in history?

Jiang Jianming's heart was beating like a drum for a while, and in the midst of the turbulent waves, he suddenly thought: What step is missing?

Judging from the line chart of crystal disorder patients, the number of patients after the seventh year of the new emperor calendar has been significantly suppressed, so the variable is in this year. And that year...

The room was eerily silent, as if even the flow of time had stopped.

until his hand was held. Jiang Jianming turned his face away and saw Ryan's calm emerald eyes.

"At that time, tranquilizers had not been developed to the second generation. Only one major event happened in the 12th year of the new emperor's calendar."

The crown prince said solemnly, "The fifth and last sacred battle."

Jiang Jianming gritted his back teeth——

At first, he just wanted to find out the reason why the Great Emperor and the former Ryan had to go to the crystal nest desperately, so as to prevent Yin Beidou from turning into a shrinking strategy... just.

Unexpectedly, it was revealed that Miyun's more treacherous part of history.

According to what Diana said, in the early days of the establishment of the new empire, the second crystal turbulent tide has already had a precursor to the outbreak, and the gates of hell are slowly opening.

At that time, Emperor Kaios led 200,000 elites of the Empire to the Crystal Nest.

The emperor did not come back, and neither did 200,000 people.

Then, the crystal chaos stopped! ?

"Not only the last sacred battle, but all the expedition fleets that were presumed to have arrived at Crystal Nest," Lean pointedly said, "all annihilated, very tragic."

"What do you think," Jiang Jianming's throat was so dry that it was difficult to speak normally. His dark eyes stared straight at the crown prince, and finally turned to Diana, "what does this mean?"

"I really don't know..." Diana rubbed her arms fiercely, pursing her lips and hugging herself tightly. She looked blank, which was the instinctual unease after pushing open an unknown giant door with her own hands.

"How could this be?" she whispered, "Why has no one mentioned it before, doesn't the empire know? Your Majesty..."

"Drip-drip-"

The sudden bell rang, and Diana was shocked.

Jiang Jianming set his eyes on his wrist phone, he took a deep breath and cleared his throat: "Sorry, get a message."

"ginger!"

On the opposite side, Beiman'er's charming face appeared, and she spoke hastily with thin cold sweat on her forehead.

"I saw that Kevin was taken by several golden suns to find Old Marshal Chen. The atmosphere was very wrong. It seemed that something had happened! Where are you now?"