Act 13 Prelude to the End
|Without your past|没有你的过去
There was another child born at the same time as Caesar that year, named Gaius. Gattuso was named after Octavian. The Gattuso family had a habit of naming their heirs after Roman heroes.
There are two heirs in this generation, Caesar? Gattuso and Gaius? Gattuso.
They had just been born, and the Council of Elders had not decided who would eventually inherit the family. Caesar was one and a half hours older than Gaius, and according to tradition, the eldest son would inherit the family, but the Gattuso family determined the heir based on bloodline and strength. It wasn't too late to observe.
The purity of their bloodlines was relatively high, which was unexpected to the Elders. Their mother's surname was so low among mixed-bloods that it could almost be kicked out of the nobility. Naturally, the bloodline of the people in the family was not too high, so they only regarded the twins as having rich bloodlines.
" Later, the secret of my mother's bloodline was exposed…" Parsi stared at him.
" Then we went to that island..." Caesar said slowly. It was only then that he remembered why the room where he was imprisoned after his unsuccessful wedding was so familiar. There was a huge tree on the island in the sea. Before his mother could not see it, he and his mother would sometimes run under the tree in the afternoon. His mother would fold the paper a few times and fold it into a paper plane. She would throw it high and Caesar would chase after it while cheering...
No! A child who looked exactly like him was also running. He accidentally tripped over a stone and cried on the ground. The child quickly ran back to help him up, wiped away his tears, and hugged him in his arms. He said in a heartbroken tone," Don't cry, little brother..."
Who are you? Who are you? Caesar's mind went blank. He gripped the thick flannelette on the sofa tightly. He wanted to ask the child, but he couldn't open his mouth. He saw his mother running over anxiously with another plane in her hand... This one was his, and that one was his brother's.
" Brother..." Caesar finally spoke, his voice hoarse. He looked up at Parsi." Are you Gaius?”
"What do we do now?" Han Gao asked.
"Will you listen to me?" Mr. KFC narrowed his eyes.
"Of course." Henkel smiled." We are now two grasshoppers on the same rope. I've thought about the feasibility of this plan over and over again, and the most important thing is to trust you.”
"Is there enough food and oxygen?"
"We have enough food, the submarine is not big, and the oxygen storage is only enough for all of us to breathe for 22 hours.”
"Before we enter the domain, we can go up and take a breath. After entering that sea area, we can't come out of the water. He had to dive deep enough and wait at the entrance.”Mr. KFC said.
"How long?"
"I've been waiting."
"What if the oxygen is running out?”
"Even if you exhaust yourself, you can't surface. Otherwise," Mr. KFC swirled his wine glass," die.”
"The last time you went in, you only went to the porch, right? There was a map there, and there were a few places that were clearly marked…Two people went there. " They didn't remember what it means to…" Mr. KFC shrugged." Safety first."”
"What should I say? Do you know too much?" Henkel said lightly. He was actually a little surprised, but he knew that it was not surprising for a hacker like Mr. KFC to attack the pentagon a hundred times. On one hand, he was skilled, and on the other hand, he had the help of the mysterious man.
He had always only cooperated with people who were truly capable.
" I obtained all the records and videos from that year. I didn't leave a copy for Cassel, so Cassel didn't release the results of the Ice Sea Project. All the records of that mission came from Professor Schneider's memories.”
"What about you? Didn't you also make it back alive?"
"I lost my memory." Mr. KFC said lightly.
Henkel laughed disapprovingly. It was not easy to pretend to have amnesia in Cassel. He knew that Masashi Tomiyama's voice could even detect a person's subconscious, which showed how good Mr. KFC's acting skills were.
" Haha, I know what you're thinking. That's because you don't understand the impact of losing her," Mr. KFC said softly. "During that period of time, I had a complete mental breakdown. I squatted in front of the computer for a few weeks without eating or drinking water. The school medical department forced me to take glucose and various nutrient fluids.”
There was a moment of silence. "How tragic." Henkel whispered.
The order to breathe had already been issued. The submarine floated to the surface of the water to complete the breathing and slowly descended.
"There's a navigation system, right?" Mr. KFC suddenly yawned." I'm going to sleep for a while... Sleeping consumes less oxygen. Don't get the wrong place. Call me when you get there..."
Mr. KFC pushed the door open and stumbled out. Three seconds later, he heard an " Aiya ". He probably hit the wall. He must be tired after not sleeping for two days, right? Henkel curled up on the sofa and quietly closed his eyes.
"Gaius?" Parsi read it out clearly and smiled." What a familiar name. Everyone has been calling you that for six years.”
"Me?" Caesar suddenly felt fear. The blood-sucking scythe continued to attack Parsi, and everything around it was cut into pieces. The clock on the wall was shaking, and the hour hand had fallen and broken into three pieces. Memories kept waking up, violently trampling on Caesar's nerves. Caesar's crazily functioning brain was on the verge of collapse. The pain that had accumulated for too long erupted like a volcano to drown him and melt him. The broken memory fragments ruthlessly cut his overwhelmed thoughts.
"Me?" He repeated.
"Do you know what we were called in those six years?”Parsi pointed at Caesar." You, Gaius? Gattuso."
"And I am Caesar? Gattuso."
"Is it the tenth day?" The old man slowly walked to Gaius 'door and asked the servant.
"Yes, I am. The master has been accompanying the seriously injured young master inside. I bring food in every day and rarely move when cleaning up.”The servant nodded carefully. Anyone could tell that something was wrong in the family these days.
"Is the blow so serious…How can you be the head of the Gattuso family with this kind of endurance?”The old man suddenly flew into a rage and tried to push the door open without caring about anything. The servant hurriedly stopped him, saying that he would kill whoever entered.
"You?" The door suddenly opened, and Cecil's haggard face peeked out. There were thick dark circles around his eyes. It was obvious that he had not slept much in the past few days.
The old man frowned in anger, and his face seemed to have aged ten years in an instant.
"Is the funeral ready?" Cecil went out and locked the door again. He put on his coat and walked out.
"In the cathedral, the Pope will personally preside over the ceremony. Do you want to participate?" The old man did not move. He just stood there and said indifferently.
Cecil paused." No need.”
He suddenly turned his head and said in an almost pleading tone,"Dad."
The old man was shocked and slowly raised his head. His dark blue eyes stared straight at Pompei as if he had seen a monster.
"Can I give an order that might not be reasonable? Elders Guild, don't object. The next one will be exchanged with my identity as the head of the family.”Pompei said slowly.
The old man stared at him blankly for a long time before he said," Tell me what you want first.”
"Gaius changed his name to Caesar. As for Caesar, you can name him whatever you want…From now on, the young master in the family will only be the young master.”
"What about the real Caesar?" The old man's brows were tightly furrowed. This order that had no beginning and end sounded very unreasonable.
"What did they do to you? "Caesar's voice trembled.
"As you can see, his status in the family plummeted. He became your secretary or sidekick and lived like a dog. Do you know what I thought when I saw you sign Caesar's name in a flamboyant manner at the funeral? Do you know how I lived after the order was given? Everyone started to call me Parsi and no longer treated me as a young master. I clearly remember a maid who came back from the countryside to visit my mother and was very happy to see me. She called me Young Master Caesar…At that time, I was so happy that I was about to go crazy, but soon another maid ran over and whispered a few words to her. Her expression changed and she called me 'Parsi'…During that time, I didn't know who I was.”
"The luckiest thing for you is that you completely forgot about the cause of your mother's death, and I will never forget the scene of her covered in blood. At that time, I was still young and didn't know what was going on. I only felt that the whole world had collapsed. When I was seven years old, I was forced to learn complex financial management, and you, the high and mighty young master Caesar, rode the small Harley motorcycle that the family had specially customized for you and ran all over the mountain.”
Caesar suddenly curled up in pain. He seemed to hear a click, and all his memories were reset.
Caesar fell heavily to the ground. The coldness of the wooden floor spread from his chin to the top of his head. He closed his eyes and asked in a low voice," Do you hate me?”
"You're my brother, of course I love you. But how can I not hate you for taking everything away from me?”
Few people knew the entire process of the conversation in 1996.
" Will such a time really come…?" The old man's eyes widened. "So that's what you're going to do with them-"
"Do your best to nurture him…in the direction of a true family heir. Of course, we can't tell him until then.”Cecil said," And Gaius only needs to release his bloodline with all his strength!”
|Living Spirit|活灵
Wasn't there a math problem? When a family crossed a bridge, the time taken to cross the bridge was always decided by the slow one. When climbing a mountain, an elite would drag a loser, and the loser would decide everything. After climbing for more than ten hours, they were finally not far from the top of the mountain. Lu Mingfei heard that most people could reach the top of the mountain in a few hours from their altitude. He cursed his bad luck in his heart. He was swept away from the main road by the storm, so he could only climb here. He suggested that they take a half circle to go there. Zero shook her head and said that this area was the only blind spot of the storm. Everywhere else would cause a storm. Lu Mingfei looked up at the white snow and cursed the king of the sea and water in his heart again.
Fortunately, there was a rather flat patch of snow not far from the top of the mountain, so Lu Mingfei was able to rest. His entire body was weak, and he lay down on his back. He looked at the white light above his head and cursed the sun to quickly fall. Even though there was the sun, there was no warmth. The sun was like a giant white eye that stared coldly at Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei casually picked up a ball of snow and threw it into the sky. However, he could not overcome the gravity and fell straight down. With a " puchi " sound, it hit Lu Mingfei's mouth.
Lu Mingfei's entire body was numb, and his throat felt like it was burning with ice. He felt dizzy. Without his sunglasses, everything he saw was white. He reckoned that he had already suffered from snow blindness. When he thought about how he would have to lie in the white ward if he sprained his ankle or something, he only drank a little water and ate some compressed biscuits. He thought to himself,'Queen, are you trying to starve me to death or something?' He might as well kick me down and die a quick death!
However, when he saw that Zero One hadn't eaten anything and that there was only half a bag of biscuits left, Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered that he hadn't found any food in his backpack when he was on the helicopter.
Zero didn't even drink water. She squatted down and picked up a handful of snow, quietly waiting for it to melt into crystal clear snow water. Then, she carefully splashed it on her face.
This, this, this…He didn't even want to live to climb up this snowy mountain to wash his face? Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded.
It had always been quiet here. When they climbed, Ling tied Lu Mingfei and her up with a rope that was seven to eight meters long. Ling climbed in front with a multi-purpose pickaxe. Lu Mingfei was so cold that the flesh on his face was stiff. Naturally, he could only move his limbs mechanically with the rope tied to his waist. It was really…tiring.
Lu Mingfei looked at Zero's fourteen-year-old face. She must have eaten some immortal pill that could preserve her youth forever when she was fourteen, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have a single wrinkle on your face after staying in the Mad Scientist Academy for nearly three years. But isn't it too early for you to eat? At least wait until you're 18 years old and your body has developed before eating! Or maybe she was drugged when she was 14 years old…Those men in black really didn't know how to be gentle with women! Lu Mingfei shook his head and mumbled.
The dazzling white light was finally blocked. Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes and saw the face that was as cold as an iceberg." What are you talking about? Get up and continue climbing."
“Ohmygod!”Lu Mingfei wailed.
One day ago.
The helicopter finally couldn't hold on any longer. It fell in a parabola in the wind. Soon, the snow mountain blocked its view. It should have fallen to the other side. It would have been fine if it had hung on the mountain, but if it had fallen to the ground, it would have died. This was an altitude of 2700 meters.
Nono clung to the rock. The storm had not stopped yet. Just as she stuck her head out, the snow slapped her face, so she had no choice but to retract her head. Ambis did not seem to care about the people outside at all. Nono glanced at her.
"Excuse me." she suddenly said.
Nono frowned. She struggled to turn around in the narrow crevice of the rock. Ambis squeezed out and exchanged places with Nono.
Ambis suddenly took out a folding knife and slashed her palm. Nana could clearly see that there were many scratches on her palm. Some of them were old, but some had just healed.
The cut was very deep. Ambis was half-kneeling and swayed for a moment, but her expression did not change. She stretched out her hand with the back of her hand facing the direction of the storm. Blood was squeezed out of her palm and flew into the air, blooming into large, enchanting flowers of blood. Ambis was pulled by the storm and almost fell out. Nana was stunned for a moment before she took out a climbing rope and tied it around Ambis 'waist. The other end was tied to a protruding rock.
In just a few minutes, the storm that had been roaring suddenly stopped, and the surroundings slowly quieted down. Ambis retracted her hand and turned around to look for gauze in her bag. Her lips had turned almost white due to excessive blood loss, but her dark green pupils were strangely sparkling.
"Living spirit?" Nuo Nuo looked at her and said slowly.
" That's right, that's why we need to nourish it with fresh blood." Apis wrapped it with gauze and smiled strangely." The academy didn't find the living spirit. Usually, living spirits would guard the entrance, right?"”
"This entire mountain is the entrance to that palace. It's a living spirit.”
"Not far from here is the tourist passage, but both sides are sealed by iron nets.”Apis rested for a while and pointed to the east. "I've been carrying the tools that the Equipment Department gave me. They probably won't mind if I destroy them for the sake of humanity's future.”Nono poked her head out to take a look.
"How could I mind?" Apis said.
Silence returned to the crevice, dead silence. The two of them sat quietly, waiting to set off.
Nono had never been able to trust this girl. Not only did she have the temperament of a spoiled young lady, but she was more like a dangerous cat many times. Her hidden pupils made people tremble.
Nana wanted to break the silence. "Is your bloodline also very high?"
" Yeah." Apis played with her hair nonchalantly." Grade A, second-year transfer student.”
" He might have been a Beyond Grade A, but we met before the 3E exam…" She suddenly stopped talking.
" Beyond Grade A?" Nono repeated, a little disdainful." Why isn't it S-class?"”
"I'd rather be ranked B than S.”Apis suddenly spoke again. She stared hard at the depths of the crevice as if there was something there. "Being rated as S class is not only because of the purity of the bloodline and the excellence of the genes.”
"What else?" Nono was stunned. As far as she knew, the rating was based on these two things.
"Ask them yourself." Apis smiled.
It felt like asking a question eagerly and the other party would throw out a " guess "…
"Kassel Academy…is looking for an emperor.”Apis hesitated for a moment before saying," But that Emperor won't be worshipped and carried around the streets by them…They want to kill him when he's still the Crown Prince.”
There was a moment of silence. Ambis suddenly realized what she had said and quickly rummaged through her bag." Is there anything to eat?"”
Apis's hands moved slower and slower, and Nono also started searching. She suddenly found a list. Norma would always put a list in her bag every time she was assigned a mission. After the equipment was medicine, and the last row should be food…but it was empty.
"Is Norma not worthy?" Nana slowly raised her head and met Ambis's pale face.
|Palace of Ice Sea|冰海之殿
The rain never stopped. How annoying. Chu Zi Hang stood in the cold rain, waiting for someone to come and pick him up, but in the darkness, he could only see those pale and unchanging faces, wandering around him without saying a word. A bone-deep loneliness. Chu Zihang wanted to shout, but he knew that no one would respond.
The rain suddenly faded, and the damp feeling broke the suffocating darkness.
Chu Zihang opened his eyes. Xia Mi grabbed his collar and panted heavily. Her other hand grabbed the protruding rock beside the cave. The rapid underground river almost washed her over. Chu Zihang was dragged into the water by the shrimp. He tried to reach the bottom with his foot, but he couldn't reach it. He took a deep breath and swam towards the river. He also clung to the rock and held Xia Mi's hand tightly.
Xia Mi finally used less strength. She had just heaved a sigh of relief when she accidentally let go of the hand that was holding the rock. She was instantly swept forward by the current and crashed into Chu Zihang with a thud. Fortunately, Chu Zihang held on firmly, so the two of them did not get washed down.
"Where is this place?" Chu Zihang lowered his head and asked Xia Mi. Xia Mi panted heavily." You dragged me into the lake?!"”
"There's an underground river?" Chu Zihang suddenly understood.
"How strange!" Xia Mi snorted.
"That's not right…if the water in that lake was flowing so fast, wouldn't the water have been drained long ago?”Chu Zihang frowned.
"That's why I said strange things!" Xia Mi gestured. There was a section of air between the water at the bottom of the lake and the surface of the river. The lake water floated above our heads and did not flow down. We were washed away when we fell. I said, why are you dizzy? I saw that you were hit into the water, so I used the Wind King's Eye to temporarily form an air pressure domain. I only stopped for more than ten seconds and dragged you to the riverside. However, I can't keep releasing my voice! My hands are sore!"
"Can't we go up to the shore?" Chu Zihang asked.
"See for yourself! Where is the shore!" Chu Zihang looked around. It was like a natural cave. The top of the cave was quite wide, but when it reached the two sides of the river, it contracted sharply and drew an arc. It was also covered with protruding rocks. The river covered the entire cave, and there was no place to hide from the water. Of course, if you had Qinggong, this cave wouldn't mind if you hung upside down on the top of the cave like a bat...
"Where will we go if we float down?" Chu Zihang tried to look in the direction of the water flow, but it was still green.
"That's why I stopped! What if there's a waterfall at the end of the stream, and the mouth of a dinosaur is below the waterfall…"
Chu Zihang calmly let go of Xia Mi's hand and held her tightly. Xia Mi screamed as she was washed away by the rapid current.
Kacha.
She heard the sound of her blood vessels rupturing and widened her eyes. Before she could hand over the spoils of war to claim credit, she was already used as a sacrifice by her master. Why was it completely different from what she had promised back then?
Fresh blood flowed out quickly and flowed into the predator's mouth, turning into shocking energy. She was not so greedy in the past, but now it was a pity to throw it away after using it. It was better to make the best use of it.
She pushed away the limp body and looked at the delicious prey in front of her that could no longer move. No, it was just bait.
"If we have time, we can play chess.”She shook her head and sighed." There's no time now. I can't wait any longer.”
That delicious power. she whispered.
Very good. Lu Mingfei poured out all the residue in the bag and poured it into his mouth. However, it wasn't enough to fill the gaps between his teeth, and his stomach growled in dissatisfaction. Zero looked at him." There's one more bag, but you can't eat it now." We still have to go down the mountain."
So you're telling me that we're going to use a bag of compressed biscuits to get down the mountain? Lu Mingfei's eyes twitched. He didn't even have the strength to complain now.
"We're here." Zero suddenly said.
Lu Mingfei instantly recovered his health and ran a few steps, crossing the boundary with great difficulty. " This…" Lu Mingfei stuttered.
A smooth snow surface, as if a giant had cut the entire peak of the mountain.
" Such a flat snow surface..." Zero also climbed up, knelt on the snow, and grabbed a handful of fluffy snow." It can't be formed naturally.”
"It's obvious!" Lu Mingfei pointed ahead. Zero looked up and was stunned.
"Is this the palace of the King of Ocean and Water mentioned in the mission?”Zero muttered.
It should be impossible for water to remain liquid at-7 ° C, but it had appeared in front of them and formed a lake on the top of the mountain. The shore was neat like a knife, and the calm water reflected the dazzling but pale sunlight. The water in the middle of the lake was frozen, and a palace made of silver stood on the ice. The flashy and luxurious European decorations looked as sacred as a church.
The palace of the King of Ocean and Water, the Palace of the Frozen Sea.
"Smoke it!" Lu Mingfei was on the verge of collapsing." Do we still have to swim through the icy water? He didn't bring her back to Titanic!”
"There is a picture attached to the mission." Zero said calmly," There should be an ice bridge that we can cross.”
" You're playing Hayao Miyazaki and you're talking about ice bridges…" Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes and walked a few dozen steps to the east. He turned around and shouted with a dark expression," F * ck! There really is!"
"Cross the bridge! There's no problem with this bridge. I'll rest for a while and follow you.”Zero took a deep breath and shouted.
"Oh, oh." Lu Mingfei didn't think too much about it. He carefully stepped on the ice block, and when he realized that there was no danger of it breaking, he boldly ran.
Zero sat on the spot without moving.
"Go down the mountain. You don't have to worry about the rest. There will be someone to pick you up halfway up the mountain.”This was the last sentence in the email.
Zero watched as Lu Mingfei ran over. He didn't seem to notice the clear footprints on the hard ice after he stepped on it. The seemingly stable ice bridge began to melt rapidly. She slowly turned around and began to climb down.
Obeying orders was a soldier's duty, and disobeying them meant that there were more important things to do. Zero suddenly stopped climbing and ran up the ice bridge.
"The oxygen reserves?" Mr. KFC suddenly asked.
Mr. KFC and Henkel stood side by side in the cockpit, watching the sailors control the submarine slowly approaching the sea. In fact, Mr. KFC did not know anything about submarines. He was just putting on an act. It sounded very cool as if he was commanding the entire nuclear submarine. For Henkel, he was as familiar with the Niold as his own skin.
He had been preparing for this plan for so many years, but he had never had the opportunity to start it.
"Eight hours."
"Probably enough." KFC nodded." Then I'll go change into my diving suit."”
He suddenly turned his head and slapped Henkel's shoulder with his big, strong hand." I have no doubt that you will abandon me and run away when he appears.”
Henkel looked up at the mechanical eyes of the Iron Man mask and suddenly felt powerless." I've done that before, but now, I swear on the dawn of Texas.”
"What did you swear? You'll definitely leave me behind? Don't think that I don't know that those two young men fell because you fled in panic when the seal was activated, leaving them in this boundless sea. KFC shook his head." Maybe they're not dead yet. No, there's not enough oxygen. Don't worry, when I see the bodies of those two young men, I'll happily pat their shoulders and say don't blame your grandfather.”
"I might be able to have a little bit of confidence in you.”KFC raised his pinky.
"Tsk." Henkel's expression changed slightly. Mr. KFC went out and closed the cockpit door.
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