The glass door of CHUN·COFFEE was pushed open, and a bell hung on the top of the door rang. The clear and melodious bell echoed in the empty store. There was no sweet welcome sound from the female student waiter in the store, only Puccini was playing.
Aria from "Madame Butterfly".
The first thing Chu Zihang saw when he walked into the store was the evergreen tree that ran through the entire store and spread to the second floor. The Christmas decorations on it had not yet been removed, including the entire coffee shop.
In the warm red and white Christmas atmosphere, antlers and decorative garlands can be seen everywhere, and even the Christmas discount signs are still lying in the corners.
"You are on time." A man's voice sounded from the wooden railing on the second floor.
Chu Zihang looked up and saw a blond man sitting on the seat holding a cup of coffee. Because the air conditioner was turned on in the coffee shop, he was only wearing a navy blue shirt. He rolled up his sleeves to reveal his clear lines.
Wearing a complicated diving watch on his arm and wrist, white light fell on his side. His whole person did not have the domineering feeling in the past, but instead seemed particularly easy-going.
Chu Zihang didn't answer him immediately. He walked up the stairs on the left with the paper bag in his hand while the other party was watching him. He passed the other party's table and sat down opposite him. As soon as he sat down, he was already in front of him.
A cup of hot Americano coffee is standing quietly, and a strip of sugar and a strip of creamer are placed on the white tray.
“I don’t know your taste, so I didn’t add anything to you without permission.” Caesar raised his head slightly and adjusted his sitting posture to make himself more comfortable.
“Did you kick out all the clerks? It’s very much your style.” Chu Zihang didn’t touch the coffee in front of him, he sat down and looked at Caesar across from him and said.
"I'm temporarily giving the employees and boss of the coffee shop a day off. When you come in, you should also see the "Closed for Business" sign hanging on the glass door. No one will stray in and disturb us before we leave. Coffee
I made it myself, it's not instant. I'm very confident about the taste. If you don't drink it, it will taste a little bit worse when it cools down." Caesar handed the coffee cup to his mouth and took a sip, watching the coffee playing downstairs by the floor-to-ceiling window.
Light sunlight on the wooden table.
"Sometimes I always thought that your appearance was just fake, but after the last incident, I gradually discovered that you are indeed the same person on the outside." He said, "This should be regarded as our first official private meeting."
“If you don’t count the free day, this is the first time.”
Caesar tapped his fingers lightly on the table, paused for a moment and said with a helpless smile, "You are indeed a person who is exactly the same as you are on the outside... and I have never liked you."
“Is this a declaration of war?” Chu Zihang asked, looking into those sea-blue eyes.
"In the eyes of the people of the Lion Heart Club, all things must be decided through fighting and killing?" Caesar gently lay on the chair and looked at him, "I thought that after the new president took office, the Lion Heart Club would win or lose."
The Club of Hearts will change, but now it seems that it is never the Club of Lions Hearts that changes, but the person who sits on the chair of the Club of Lions Hearts."
Chu Zihang did not respond to this sentence.
“Is that what I want?” Caesar asked suddenly after being quiet for a while.
“Yes.” Chu Zihang glanced at the paper bag at his feet, which contained a stack of carefully wrapped documents.
“Actually, at first I thought you would reject me.” Caesar turned his eyes and looked at Chu Zihang.
“Why? I have no reason to refuse.” Chu Zihang said.
“No reason to refuse?”
Caesar was startled for a moment, and after a moment he found the answer to this sentence in the other party's calm expression... Indeed, Chu Zihang had no reason to refuse. Caesar stood in the position of the president of the student union and borrowed some archives from the Lion Heart Club.
With the information in it, Chu Zihang would need a reason if he refused.
If the reason for not allowing borrowing is that the Lions Heart Club and the Student Union are in a hostile relationship, wouldn’t it be too immature? If it is because they are worried that the borrowed materials will make the Student Union surpass the Lion Heart Club and so refuse, wouldn’t it seem that the Lion Heart Club is too immature?
Cowardly?
Chu Zihang doesn't like Caesar, but this can't be the reason for him to reject Caesar, because he just doesn't like this person, not hate him. Since there is no reason to refuse, he is not so busy that he can't spare the time to see this person.
, then he came and appeared here as promised.
Very simple thinking, especially Chu Zihang’s thinking.
“So this is just a private academic exchange meeting? Doesn’t it mean that the relationship between the Lionheart Club and the Student Union will be better in the future?” Caesar asked thoughtfully.
“The Lion Heart Club has never regarded the student union as an enemy. Cars driving on the highway will not drive violently just because someone tries to overtake. This is a particularly dangerous and childish behavior.” Chu Zihang said calmly.
“But you never slowed down, and those who tried to overtake would always overturn their cars on the road.” Caesar understood Chu Zihang’s metaphor and smiled lightly, “Can you see something?”
Chu Zihang put the paper bag on the table and put it down. After taking the bag, Caesar's expression gradually changed from laziness to seriousness. He gently took out a parchment from it, which was all in ancient English and ancient Greek.
It is handwritten in Arabic and Latin, and the scroll is yellowed and blurry. It is paired with some early tarot card patterns and looks full of mystery.
"In the Middle Ages, a parchment could be exchanged for a manor. The rich were proud of the number of parchments they owned and kept them in the secret rooms deep in the castle. Even gold and famous paintings did not receive the treatment they collected.
The archives and library of the Lionheart Society contain hundreds and thousands of parchments. What is recorded on the parchments are not obscene words, but secrets that are truly buried in history...
Secrets about the Dragon Clan. That’s why you have always been called the true successors of the Secret Party. Sitting on the foundation, you have history and the legacy left by your predecessors.” Caesar gently touched the marks on the parchment, “
Is everything here?"
“It depends on what ‘all’ you mean.” Chu Zihang said.
"You know what I'm talking about." Caesar put down the parchment and looked directly into Chu Zihang's eyes, "I also saw what you saw that night...the black mark that cut through the sky."
Chu Zihang raised his head slightly and looked directly at Caesar, "Have you not told anyone else about this?"
"No," said Caesar, "isn't that why you came here in secret?"
Chu Zihang said nothing, and the coffee cup reflected the golden eyes that had never been extinguished from the beginning, and Caesar stared at these eyes fearlessly... But for a while
Then he shook his head again, "Don't worry, I won't blackmail you with this. My self-esteem will not do such a thing. This matter is beyond the competition between the Lion Heart Club and the Student Union, and I don't
I will want to antagonize him."
“Maybe he never cared about the leak of this matter.” Chu Zihang said.
“It’s enough if someone cares.” Caesar smiled and shook his head.
"If you think this is not an academic exchange, and you have brought me something of value, then on the contrary, I will give you something of equal value." His tone gradually became lighter, "The Gattuso family library
It's very big. For this reason, the old guys in the family built a manor on the Hebrides Islands on the west coast of Scotland to store those things. There will always be things in there that you, the Lionheart Club, don't have and are willing to get. As long as
You open your mouth."
"If there is a chance, I will let you know." Chu Zihang did not refuse Caesar, because when he was studying the parchment, he did find that some important information was missing, not about the core of the technology, but about the history of the birth period of the technology.
Traceability. If these parts could be found in Gattuso's library, he wouldn't mind borrowing them to try to figure out some older historical truths.
The two of them looked at each other. As expected, so-called academic exchanges should not exist between them. Some things are better regarded as transactions, and both of them will be more relaxed.
“What do you call it in the Lionheart Club?” Caesar picked up the coffee and leaned back to look at more parchments in the paper bag.
"Bloodline refining technology." Chu Zihang said, "It was not created by the Lion Heart Society, but restored the information recorded in the parchment scrolls, and finally formed this technology. Due to the lack of information, this technology could not be fully restored.