Chapter 244: Say Goodbye Softly (4)

The young emperor stood there.

His face was pale, the corners of his lips were tight, and the messy platinum curls were tied behind his head, from his arms, fingertips to his shoulders and neck, all the way around blood-stained bandages.

... It seems that the claws of fate have ripped apart this once invincible powerhouse.

When he fell into the deep bottom of those emerald eyes, Jiang Jianming's heart throbbed uncontrollably.

They haven't faced each other like this for a long time since the last crash.

"You go down."

Jiang Jianming said to the young guard in a warm voice. The guard hesitated for a moment and looked at Ryan.

The emperor looked at the commander, motionless, as if he had become a statue.

The commander repeated: "It's okay, let's go."

Until the young man left, Ryan's eyes were still looking at Jiang Jianming without blinking.

"His Majesty."

Jiang Jianming stretched out his hands, "Come."

——His eyebrows and eyes were soft and clear, as always. It's like there's never been any friction or pain between them, like they've always been fine and will be fine in the future.

The emperor took a step back with a pale face, as if to hide. Jiang Jianming took two steps as expected, and stretched his arms to hug Lean into his arms.

"...!"

Ryan trembled violently, his lips suddenly lost the color, and all the light in his eyes went out.

What broke him was not the painful trauma, nor the suffocating defeat, but the embrace of his lover.

Jiang Jianming stroked his hair, rested his chin on Ryan's shoulder, and ran his palms down the emperor's back, smoothing the blood-stained shirt.

He coaxed softly: "Shh, don't be sad, don't be sad... we're fine, we're all fine..."

He felt teardrops fall on the back of his neck. Ryan buried his back and wrapped his arms around his waist tightly, shaking even more.

"...From the time of the attack, I knew you would come."

Two lines of tears of despair fell, and the emperor closed his eyes and said hoarsely, "I wanted to save you, but I killed you."

Jiang Jianming shook his head and did not speak, he knew that it was useless to say anything now.

The high-concentration crystal particle environment in the far interstellar space is definitely not something that he can bear. The reason why I can still be like nothing now is because of the effect of drugs.

Since he chose to come here, it is only a few days before he returns to the empire to deal with the funeral, and it is time to say goodbye.

He knew it, and His Majesty certainly knew it.

Ryan tried so desperately to give him a chance at life, but ultimately failed.

And he appeared in the starship in the far interstellar space, wearing a tall and straight imperial military uniform, and the golden commander's epaulette glowed with light.

The emperor was no longer angry as before, but kept holding him in tears. It seems that as soon as you let go, the person in your arms will melt away like the snow in the spring.

Jiang Jianming sighed secretly, and he thought to himself: I am still somewhat cruel.

"Your Majesty, let's go home."

He lowered his eyes and rubbed Lean's messy hair with his cheek, "It should be spring now at the White Jade Palace, and I would like to see it with you... Next, can you take some time to accompany me?"

A few days later, the expedition returned to the capital of Aslan.

The failure of the expedition and the deaths of countless soldiers made it difficult for the people to accept it for a while. After the emperor returned to the country, he was in a daze, almost all day long without saying a word or seeing no one.

Jiang Jianming drove Ryan to face the public like a sheep, to take responsibility for the defeat. He personally paid tribute to the heroic soul and came forward to appease the military, but he still didn't have time to see what spring.

The effect of the drug is almost over.

After finally stabilizing the situation in the empire, Jiang Jianming couldn't find Ryan again.

He also wanted to enjoy at least the last few days in His Majesty's arms, but as a result, people didn't know where to hide, not even the Council Hall, and no one who asked them said they didn't know.

"Don't worry about that little bastard."

In the palace garden, he and Lin Ge were drinking tea and chatting. The latter reluctantly made a mental appearance, "Think about it, is there anything else you want? After all, we are the ones in charge of the entire empire now. How about extravagant luxury in the last few days?"

Jiang Jianming couldn't help laughing bitterly when he heard the words.

He lost his sense of taste and smell, and he had long since said goodbye to his appetite; he was sick every day, and his clothes were even more boring; as for traveling in the mountains and water, his physical energy was no longer allowed—

The most important thing is that the expeditionary army returned home after a fiasco, and so many deceased people could not even return to the country for burial.

If he still has the heart to think about how to be extravagant, then he is not him anymore.

So in the end, Jiang Jianming had no choice but to say: "Don't, I will be thankful that I can be quiet for a few days."

Lin Ge sniffed, turned his head and looked into the distance, "Speaking of which, there is something..."

"Silver, let me ask you, do you want to consider freezing dormancy?"

Jiang Jianming replied in seconds: "—I don't think about it."

In fact, Sylph had mentioned to him before, that advanced medical technology can be used to preserve the human body, and then wake up when there is a treatment method in the future.

But Jiang Jianming has no interest in this. He knows that even if a drug for chronic crystal disorder can be developed in the future, his body is already riddled with holes, and there is basically no hope that he can be saved.

Then now it has become a freeze-dried half-dead, other than wasting money and resources, and adding pressure to the living, what's the use?

Lin Ge was also familiar with his temper, so he wasn't surprised, he just said, "Okay, we'll listen to you anyway, you can do whatever you want."

"By the way, what about Sylph?"

"She seems to be doing an experiment. The little girl has been working hard these past two days, so she might still be looking for opportunities. If you have something to say, I'll ask her to come over?"

Jiang Jianming said no, and didn't ask any more.

That night, he specially set an alarm clock for the early morning to wake him up, and quietly went to Sylph's laboratory in his clothes.

He stood silently in front of the automatic door for a while, then suddenly raised his hand and knocked hard.

There was a scream from Sylph.

When the little girl opened the door, her face turned blue and her lips trembled, "...Commander? Why did you come here in the middle of the night, scaring me to death."

Jiang Jianming looked at her with deep eyes: "You are the one in the middle of the night, why are you still busy?"

Saying that, he naturally raised his legs and went in.

"Commander!"

Sylph moved to the side, blocked the road with her body, and held the door frame tightly with both hands: "Go back and rest quickly, there are many germs in me, you can't enter..."

Jiang Jianming: "Your Majesty talked to me about your laboratory only yesterday, and said that it is very clean. He said that he grew up in the laboratory when he was a child, and I just thought of coming to see it."

Sylph was both angry and funny: "Commander! Don't lie to me, you haven't seen His Majesty in the past few days, have you?"

Jiang Jianming: "Indeed, but how do you know?"

Sylph's face stiffened. She realized that she was being deceived, but she still blocked the door: "What do you want to do, if there is anything we can do tomorrow..."

Jiang Jianming's expression sank, and he said sternly, "Get out of the way!!"

The next second, he suddenly pulled out a gun. The distance between the two was too close, and when Sylph returned to her senses, the muzzle of the gun was already on her chest.

Jiang Jianming said coldly: "Ms. Sylph Pine, human experimentation is illegal. Do you know that you, as a queen from the Glorious Dominion, do this kind of thing. Once it is exposed, what will be the consequences?"

"There are sedatives in the gun. Do you want to get out of the way and I'll go in; or faint on the floor and I'll go in?

Sylph raised her face sharply. In the darkness, she bit her lip, and big tears fell.

"Do you think I want to, if there is still a way, do you think I don't want to easily develop a cure for you!?"

She pinched her neck and cried in a high voice: "One or two are like this, either point the crystal bone at me and force me to do it, or point the gun at me and don't let me do it!"

Sylph stopped blocking the door, but instead grabbed Jiang Jianming's arm and dragged him inside, bursting into tears:

"Then you can go in. Anyway, I told His Majesty that I couldn't hide it. Go and see what he's going to be like—"

The depths of the laboratory were silent.

Jiang Jianming turned on all the lights, and they were so bright that people couldn't open their eyes for a while.

The innermost is a closed laboratory. Metal door, you can't see what's inside, only countless instruments and data are ticking.

There is a seat in the middle, and think Sylph was sitting here just now.

Before Jiang Jianming could say anything, Sylph stepped forward with red eyes and sobbing, and slapped the switch as if venting her anger.

After the iris recognition passed, the metal door opened.

Behind the door is a short passage. There is a very wide glass door at the end of the passage, and it is a specially separated room.

The emperor of the empire, who was supposed to be above ten thousand people, was sitting inside wearing white clothes with his head down and motionless.

The red gold crystal penetrated his right eye and heart, extending to his cheek. His body was bloody, and many parts had been semi-crystallized, making people feel cold all over.

In that room, the walls on the four sides and the various experimental equipment were splattered with blood everywhere.

Ryan just leaned back against the wall, sleeping faintly in a pool of blood.

Until the footsteps woke him up, he slowly opened his eyes, and the bottom of his eyes was like a sea of ​​fog.

"Aslan...?"

He looked up and saw the person standing in front of him, a sad smile in his confusion.

Jiang Jianming was silent for a long time, then sat down slowly, and put the blood-covered emperor on his lap.

"That's how you saved me back then?"

Ryan rubbed his arms in his arms, his voice was low and hoarse, and he asked nonchalantly, "Jiang, listen to me... Just now, I had a dream..."

Under the devastation of continuous experiments for several days, his cognition was confused, as if he had just returned to the time when he had just gained self-consciousness and was just born in the gray owl laboratory of the old empire.

In the confusion of consciousness, he didn't know he was in a dream, but felt that all the pain on his body was worthy of joy, and he was so happy that he almost cried.

"In a dream..."

"I haven't met you yet."

Because in the dream, they are about to meet, not close to parting.

If possible, how much he would like to go through these twenty years again. This time, he must be able to find him earlier and protect him better and better.

But the dream woke up. Jiang Jianming stroked his hair with a sigh and said, "Enough, stop."

"Do not."

"Your Majesty, listen to me."

"Do not……"

Ryan lowered his eyes wearily, shook his head slowly, and kissed Jiang Jianming's cold fingertips, "You...don't go...there is still a way...you don't know, I saved you last time..."

"Let go, Your Majesty."

Ryan's eyes gradually turned red: "I won't let you go."

Jiang Jianming: "I'm sorry, but..."

Ryan panicked, he grabbed Jiang Jianming's hand: "No, no, I know you're tired, can you wait any longer, you don't have to work hard for anything, can you—"

He paused and said in a tone that was almost begging: "Go to sleep, Aslan, Jiang, please."

"..." Jiang Jianming looked away sadly.

"Don't you want to see the military academy built, and the library? Don't you want to see the situation of the disabled get better? Soon, soon..."

"Would you like to go to the Glory Collar, um, you talk? You haven't been there yet. I heard that they are going to build a memorial statue of Helga, which will be completed by the end of this year."

"I hurt you last time, and you haven't taught me a lesson. I lost the battle, and you haven't told me why..."

Jiang Jianming, who had always been indifferent, finally sighed helplessly, "Isn't that because you avoided me, eh?"

"Lean?"

With such a soft cry, His Majesty suddenly burst into tears. Lean shivered into a ball, like a frozen little animal, desperately rubbing against Jiang Jianming's arms, grabbing Jiang Jianming's fingers and refusing to let go.

He kept weeping and sobbing in a hoarse voice, "You stay, I will not make mistakes in the future, I will always listen to you..."

Jiang Jianming: "Your Majesty, you can't be tamed by anyone forever. When I leave, be a real person."

"No, you let me try again, and try again, maybe there will be results...!"

"Please, please... Jiang, I beg you!!"

- Can't communicate at all.Jiang Jianming sighed with a headache, the one in his arms was crying so much that he could barely speak, how could he still look like a great emperor.

The original clean clothes were covered with blood by Lean. Jiang Jianming coaxed him for a long time, but the coaxing was not good. He felt that the emperor was about to cry.

Jiang Jianming looked at Sylph with a look of help, and the latter gave him a sweet smile as if the old god was there.

Jiang Jianming: "..."

For a moment, he suspected that he had been tricked.

...

The next day, Jiang Jianming sat opposite Lin Ge, pressed his fist to his lips, and cleared his throat: "Cough, um... Let's discuss about the frozen dormancy..."

Lin Ge stared at him blankly: "Didn't you say yesterday that you wouldn't consider it?"

Jiang Jianming supported his forehead: "Your Majesty, he cried so pitifully, I couldn't stand it."

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