Lai An has completely lost her ability to speak.He had never seen Jiang Jianming like this before. The atmosphere around this person was different, and it actually gave him a sense of remoteness that he didn't dare to touch.

But Jiang Jianming took the initiative to walk towards him. The young man in Canjing was wearing a wide and long white hospital gown, and his thin feet stepped on the ground naked, making him feel more vulnerable than usual.

Lai An: "You..."

"Your Highness played well this time." Jiang Jianming raised his hand to the crown prince, his brows and eyes were very gentle, and his fingertips traced the contour of Lai An's cheek.

"But you still have to learn to control your emotions. Losing control of crystal bones is not a trivial matter. There will be no next time."

The tone is loose, but the words are very serious praises and criticisms.

The doctors and nurses in the back didn't dare to look at them, and quickly hid, leaving His Royal Highness Leian stunned in place.

"You..." Lai An stared at Jiang Jianming dryly, "What's wrong with you."

A few seconds later, the sense of absurdity filled my heart belatedly, "Are you teaching me? Jiang Jianming... You almost handed yourself over to the enemy ship, and now my crystal bone is out of control!?"

Jiang Jianming just looked at Lai An with a smile, his eyelashes flickered under the bright sunlight, which perfectly covered the overflowing emotions in his eyes.

This attitude made Lai An even more annoyed, but Jiang Jianming's physical condition made him unable to stand still and watch alone.After a stalemate for a few seconds, His Highness stepped forward and stretched his arms to hug the patient.

His movements were not as tough as usual, with a hint of hesitation.

Jiang Jianming did not resist, but put his arms around his neck, and obediently put him back on the bed in the treatment cabin.

It's rare for a restless disabled human being to be locked up obediently, and Lai An's mood is a little better.He stretched out his thumb to wipe away the remaining tears from the corners of Jiang Jianming's eyes, his eyes darkened again, and asked, "...Why did you cry just now?"

Jiang Jianming lay on the soft pillow, shook his head and did not speak.His chest rose and fell soundlessly, and his bloodless face looked weak.

Even in the treatment cabin, it looks like his life will be endangered at any time.

Lai An stopped talking, and after a while, he reached out and brushed Jiang Jianming's black hair on his forehead, and said hoarsely: "...Why ignore me. Just say what you want."

He squinted his eyes indifferently, and then answered, "Did my crystal bone scare you?"

"...Okay. But this time you made a mistake first. If you didn't scare me first, how could you lose control." Lai An glanced down at the red gold on his wrist, and said expressionlessly, "It used toI hugged you, and everything was normal back then."

"..."

Lai An cleared his throat: "Of course, since this kind of problem has happened, there really can't be a next time. I'll ask the Black Shark Base about the crystal bone. You don't have to worry...don't be afraid."

Jiang Jianming's expression was indescribable.

Without the other party saying a word, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince successfully completed the transition from anger and ridicule to compromise to soft comfort.

Immediately, he asked a question and answered it himself, and repeated the process from being confident to compromising and comforting.

Jiang Jianming: "I'm not afraid, Your Highness."

Lai An: "Really? Forget it, it doesn't matter."

Then start changing the subject.Lai An picked up Jiang Jianming's hand, put it between his palms to warm it up, and said to himself, "I'm going back to Star City. If you really don't want to be hospitalized, you can go to Bai Emerald Palace, but the treatment cabin is still there.to lie down."

"Be good. Now that you are the crown princess and have military achievements, you can say anything you want."

"I will be with you, but you must be obedient, take a good rest and recover as soon as possible... Otherwise, I may go crazy and out of control again. If you hurt innocent people, it is still your responsibility."

Jiang Jianming listened quietly for a long time, the more he listened, the more he couldn't stretch his lips.He finally couldn't listen anymore, and sighed half helplessly and half funny, "Your Highness."

He raised his arm slowly, and the long and wide sleeves of the hospital gown slipped off, revealing the slender joints.

Cool fingertips ran through the curly platinum hair.

Lai An's eyes widened slightly, he was pressed down by the weak patient in front of him, suddenly a shadow fell like a curtain in front of him.

Jiang Jianming propped up his upper body, closed his eyes reverently, and kissed the crown prince lightly on the forehead.

"You can't say that."

In the gap between the interlacing, a slightly hoarse voice said softly, "No one in this world is worth losing yourself for, including me, remember."

"Please keep going, I will... I will always..."

Suddenly, Jiang Jianming's pupils dilated and his fingers drooped loosely.

"ginger!?"

Lai An's face changed suddenly, and he suddenly raised his arms to hug the person who fell backwards into his arms.Things happened without warning, Jiang Jianming closed his eyes again at some point, and fell asleep quietly.

And that unfinished sentence also dissipated like a misty illusion, and it was impossible to hear it again.

The aircraft specially made by the Black Shark base swept through the long wind, and the empress Lin Song leaned on the back seat, with a black fur coat casually draped over her shoulders, with an inexplicably complicated expression on her face.

"So, after reconnecting, what happens to him?"

The leader sat in the driver's seat and said calmly: "The memory of the original body cannot be maintained in the matrix for a long time. After the connection is stable and the commander's consciousness is fixed back to the current matrix, those memories will still be forgotten."

Lin Song narrowed his phoenix eyes, and suddenly lowered his voice: "Really, will I still have time to see him?"

Sylph: "It's too late, that is, His Royal Highness Lai An can see it, you don't have to think about it."

"..."

The corners of Lin Song's eyes twitched, "Oh, what kind of shit luck, it's cheaper than that little bastard."

She scratched her thick black hair casually, "Let me ask you again, if he fainted halfway, will our Crown Prince go crazy again?"

Sylph shook her head helplessly and sighed, "Let me drive faster."

By the time Lin Song and Sylph's aircraft and starship converged, a large number of starships had already landed on the military starship port.

The soldiers stepped out of the starship one after another. Some looked back at the broken and charred mechs, and some were so excited that they knelt down and kissed the land of the empire under their feet. This was the place they desperately guarded.

Some people raised their faces to look at the blue sky in the distance, their eyes were dim, as if they wanted to see a more distant universe... There must still be the ashes of his comrades floating there.

——Although it is difficult to bury the bones in the homeland, the sky and the universe can be buried.I saw the heroic soul flying to the sea of stars, it should be like a white bird returning to its nest.

At the beginning of the 64th year of the new imperial calendar, this sudden defense of the empire, at the cost of the lives of thousands of soldiers, finally came to an end with a tragic victory.

It's just that behind this war, people have vaguely seen that the thick dark color is slowly approaching with stealthy steps.

Inside the Changhai, the generals and soldiers have already left, and only the medical soldiers are still guarding the patients who are of no small status.

The movement of the treatment cabin must be cautious, and all protective measures must be taken before moving, they dare not be sloppy.

When the empress and the head of the base arrived, the crown prince stood outside the door of the intensive care unit, motionless like a sculpture.

He obviously saw the visitor from the corner of his eye, but without looking back, he stared straight at the door of the ward, and said hoarsely, "Lin Song."

The emperor snorted and said flatly, "How do I call your old lady?"

Lai An: "I have something to ask you."

The leader glanced at the two of them, and whispered, "Don't fight, you two," and pushed open the door into the ward to ask about the situation.

"He was seriously injured this time, not an ordinary injury," the crown prince put his finger on the door of the ward, and bent slightly. "He... was tortured by the Crystal Cult on the enemy ship."

"The doctor judged that the other party used the crystal bone to repeatedly smash his flesh and blood, and cooperated with the beam therapy device to heal the wound. Both the tranquilizer and the awakening injection were overdose, and there may be sequelae, which still needs to be observed."

"..." Lin Song opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound, he was stunned, and the comforting words he had planned were smashed back into his stomach.

"When I received him, his body temperature had already reached over forty degrees. The doctor said he should have had a high fever for at least four or five hours. The other party locked him in a dark and cold cabin and did not give him medicine or drinking water..."

The crown prince said hoarsely: "... just woke up once, but the person's state was abnormal, and he fainted again soon. The abnormal brain waves were detected. He was originally a patient with chronic crystal disorder. Now he must be prepared to leave psychological trauma and even sanity.Prepare for damage."

Lin Song's throat rolled, and she rushed over in a hurry, just to say "it's okay" after this, but now she couldn't say a word that should be said.

If it is the coma caused by the projection of spiritual consciousness itself, it is true that people can wake up after a while, but...

Her face gradually turned blue, and she stared at Lai An like a ghost during the day, "He can fall into the enemy's hands if he follows you, are you just a show!?"

"The thing about crystal particles and Crystal Cult," the crown prince slowly turned his cold emerald eyes, and answered the question with a question, "Did the empire know about it a long time ago, why did it hide it?"

"Crystal Cult?" Lin Song said, "It's only been around for a few years, I don't know."

Lai An sternly said: "What about the crystal particle life form!? What about the crystal nest, what happened three years ago!?"

"Why, didn't you tell him at first." Lai An turned around with a sullen expression, the crystal bone on his right wrist quietly sharpened, "Why, the empire ignored him in the three years after my death."

Even if the situation forced Jiang Jianming to take this risky action because he wanted to rescue Xie Yinxing, but the obsession with the truth had been burned in his heart for too long.

If it hadn't been for the empire to ignore it and let him endure the pain alone, suffering in front of the huge mystery cloud; it forced him to have nowhere to go, and he was forced to suffer from crystal chaos...

The hatred in Lai An's heart surged to the sky.

"Lin Song, are you using him?"

"—Damn, you're out of your mind. If I want to use you, I will use you!"

Lin Song folded his arms and smiled, but his eyes were cold and there was no smile at all, "A man-made little monster, what arrogance."

Sooner or later, with a clang, the condensed red gold crystal bone collided with the three-inch-out Slaughter Thief!

The crown prince and the empress were almost touching the tip of their noses, and they were fighting at a very close distance.Of these two people, one is cold and unruly, and the other is unrestrained and wild. They were originally like a pin against an awl, but at this time, there seemed to be flames burning in their respective pupils, and they actually moved for real.

Lai An looked cold: "You know, I was just too lazy to fight with you before."

"Okay little thing, do you want to fight, then my old lady will teach you today."

Lin Song's red lips were half drawn, and his eyes were wild, "You are too capable, too conceited, you have never been pinned to the ground, and you haven't had time to taste what it means to be powerless!"

The blade and the crystal bone clanged and trembled, and they separated abruptly.Coincidentally, the empress withdrew the knife, and the crown prince's crystal bone also dissipated—then punched him empty-handed.

After all, at present in the ward, fighting is fighting, using crystal bone weapons to fight with crystal bones, in case the crystal particles get out of control, no one can afford to hurt the patient inside.

With a bang, the shoulders of the two hit the wall at the same time.Lin Song's eyes were tearing apart, but his voice was low, and he said quickly, "I'm asking you, if I had told him all the truth early in the morning, and told him that the Crown Prince was going to die for the survival of mankind - with his obvious physique, he wouldCan I go to Crystal Nest!?"

"Amorphous people, what is the only way to go deep into the environment with high concentration of crystal particles, huh?"

Lai An's expression changed slightly, and he couldn't help but relieved himself.Lin Song narrowed his eyes, freed a hand to pat Lai An's cheek, and walked away: "It's Crystal Chaos, isn't it?"

"What's the matter, shouldn't I help him suffer from this terminal illness three years ago and take him to the battlefield?... He was only eighteen years old at that time, and he hadn't finished his military school yet. Let him face this?"

"..."

"We wanted to leave a way for him, and this is what you expected before you died," Lin Song said. "If he chooses not to pursue it, even if he is wronged, at least he can live an ordinary and stable life."

Lai An: "But if he chooses this path, he will no longer be him."

"Yeah...so," Lin Song stroked his hair casually, looked towards the door of the ward, with a look of sadness in his eyes, "There is no solution, there is no way to avoid it. He seems to be born to suffer."

Suddenly the wind blew, the emperor was caught by the throat suddenly, Lin Song was thrown against the wall with a muffled grunt, and he opened his mouth to swear a series of obscenities first.

The crown prince restrained her with one hand, his eyes were condescending, "Want to get away with it? Since you know he is in a mess, why don't you say it on New Year's Day."

"You... what else do you want to hide?"

Lin Song took a deep look at him and pursed his lips lightly.So Lai An immediately confirmed his guess - the truth of crystal particles is far from the end of this layer of mystery.

But the next moment, the sudden opening of the door broke the frozen air between the two.

The leader poked his head out and said quietly, "Stop beating."

"Your Excellency woke up and asked what was going on outside."

It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, the crown prince and the empress stopped at the same time, each quickly straightened their clothes and hair as if they were guilty of guilt, then pushed the leader, and rushed into the ward nervously.

leader:"……"

The ward was bright and clean, and Jiang Jianming really woke up, leaning on the bed in the treatment cabin in a daze.

In the corner, the doctors and nurses all showed joy and chattered excitedly.

"The evaluation status is good, and no obvious mental trauma has been found for the time being."

"Able to recognize people, speak clearly, and think clearly."

"I can't believe it... this... this is so good, we're all mentally prepared for the worst..."

"Your Highness!"

Seeing someone coming at the door, Jiang Jianming called out and beckoned to Lai An.

When he just woke up, his memory was in a mess. It seemed that he wanted to remember something important but couldn't remember it. He was lying in the treatment cabin with a terrible headache.

In a daze, he heard the leader say that His Highness had fought with the emperor outside, and he was almost sober from fright.

...and then felt like a fantasy.

Lai An rushed over in three steps at a time, and hugged Jiang Jianming into his arms.

His spine was trembling, his brows were tightly closed and his eyes were closed, and he gasped continuously. He just held the patient's hand tightly, as if he was holding a life-saving straw.enough."

"Okay, okay... am I okay?"

Jiang Jianming rubbed his back helplessly, his voice was still a little weak, but very soft: "My dear Highness, why did you fight with His Majesty the Emperor? ... how is your body, the crystal bone injury has not healed yetBar?"

Lai An kept her head silent and did not move, as if she was afraid that the person in her arms would suddenly fall ill and faint again in the next moment.

"Okay, don't be like this, look up and let me see if it's okay, Your Highness?"

Jiang Jianming was confused by this person and moved his position with difficulty.The bed in the treatment cabin is quite spacious, he lifted the quilt and said, "Why don't you come in first... lie down and hug me?"

Lai An quickly took off her shoes and got in, wrapped the quilt tightly, and closed the cover of the treatment cabin smoothly.

...and Lin Song was still standing at the door, with a look of suffocation that wanted to go forward but couldn't.

The leader calmed down and patted the stiff emperor: "You don't have to think about it, you are His Majesty the Emperor now, and it is impossible for your Excellency to coax you."

"..."

Lin Song's eyes were ashen, he smashed his forehead on the leader's black shoulder armor, and cursed: "Fuck it."

The author has something to say: Sylph: Don't fight.

Sylph: I say this to follow a polite process.

False tsundere/jealous demon——

His Highness Lai An, although arrogant, is actually very pure and honest. He is very obedient when he should be obedient. He will apologize, show love, and say please, and come over to rub you and kiss you after being awkward, and even get under the covers.

The real tsundere/jealous demon——

Lin Song: (Pain mask) Damn it, it was my mother who made it in the previous life!Damn it, why, I also want to be ruaed by him!!