The sunlight passed through the clouds and fell on the continuous snow-white peaks in the distance, giving it a light golden edge.
Lin Qiye looked at the gray-white fog that was constantly billowing outside the border. He was sitting on the top of the mountain like a sculpture. His crimson cloak was spread on the snow, like a little red ink in the white world.
A rough palm stretched out from behind him, holding a pack of cigarettes in his palm. One of the cigarettes protruded from the box, waiting to be drawn out.
"Would you like one?"
Shen Qingzhu's voice sounded from behind Lin Qiye.
Lin Qiye was slightly startled when he saw the cigarette box in front of him. After hesitating for a moment, he absentmindedly took the whole pack of cigarettes.
Looking at the empty palms, Shen Qingzhu froze on the spot.
"Smoking too much is bad for your health." Shen Qingzhu sat down next to him, took back the pack of cigarettes, took out one and handed it to Lin Qiye, and stuffed the rest back into his pocket.
,
"I'll give you one first. Next time you want it, come and get it from me."
"Um."
Lin Qiye imitated Shen Qingzhu and held the cigarette in his mouth.
Shen Qingzhu put his fingers to the cigarette butt and gently rubbed out a wisp of sparks. The orange fire burned the white cigarette paper, and wisps of smoke drifted out.
"Cough cough cough..." Lin Qiye coughed violently.
Shen Qingzhu patted Lin Qiye's back like a loving father, while showing an expression that was indeed true.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, held the cigarette between his fingertips, and looked at the busy border defense company at his feet, with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Brother La, do you think... I am a qualified night watchman?"
"If Captain Lin, who has two collective Star Sea Medals and one personal Star Sea Medal, is not a qualified Night Watchman, then there will be few qualified Night Watchmen in the entire Great Xia." Shen Qingzhu spoke without any hesitation.
.
"I'm not talking about merit, that's meaningless..."
"Why are merits meaningless?" Shen Qingzhu asked in confusion, "If you can't judge a Night Watchman even by your achievements for Daxia, then what should you use?"
"I'm talking about ideological awareness." Lin Qiye said immediately.
"Ideological awakening?"
"It means selflessness, dedication, self-sacrifice for others... something like this."
"..."
Shen Qingzhu stared at Lin Qiye for a long time with a strange expression, "What are you talking about?"
Lin Qiye froze on the spot.
"We are night watchmen, not saints, let alone thinkers." Shen Qingzhu shook his head, "These things are indeed important, but for us, fulfilling our duties is the most important. To judge a night watchman, we should look at him
What he did, not how dazzling his thoughts were...
Why do you suddenly ask this?"
Lin Qiye was silent for a moment and recounted everything he saw and heard in the silhouette of time.
After listening, Shen Qingzhu looked at him with a complicated expression.
"You think too much." He said, "Being a night watchman, there are so many harsh conditions. All we believe in are the four sentences on the back of the coat of arms."
Shen Qingzhu took out a cigarette from his arms, held it in his mouth and lit it. He naturally exhaled a puff of smoke, with a look of nostalgia in his eyes:
"The oath of the night watchman is magical. When I was in the training camp, I was a bad person who didn't understand anything, but when I jumped down from the cave and swore an oath in front of the infinite flames alone... there was something
, I realized it naturally, and then it was deeply engraved in my mind.”
"Are you taking an oath..."
In Lin Qiye's mind, he once again recalled the scene when he swore an oath to the red flag in the training camp.
His oath was very plain and ordinary. It was not as unforgettable as Shen Qingzhu's, and he didn't understand anything from it... Back then, he was just a fledgling newcomer. The most profound thing in his memory was Zhao Kongcheng's sword.
, a ten-year agreement with myself.
So much so that when he read out the oath, deep down in his heart, he just wanted to inherit Zhao Kongcheng's will and fulfill the agreement, but did not completely surrender himself to those four oaths.
Perhaps this is why, now that he has become a meritorious night watchman, he always feels that something is missing in his heart.
"If you feel that you are not worthy of being a guide for the recruits because of these so-called ideological consciousness, then you are definitely overthinking." Shen Qingzhu patted his shoulder and said firmly,
"In this team, no one is more qualified to guide them than you, Lin Qiye."
"Go back, Instructor Lin." Shen Qingzhu slowly stood up from the ground and extended his palm to Lin Qiye, "The last lesson you gave to the rookies has not been finished yet."
The confusion in Lin Qiye's eyes dissipated a little. He was silent for a moment, reached out and grabbed Shen Qingzhu's palm, and stood up from the ground.
He smiled slightly,
"Thanks, Brother La."
Shen Qingzhu put his hand back in his pocket, held a cigarette in his mouth and glanced at him. A smile appeared on his lips, he shook his head silently, turned around and walked towards the border defense company with Lin Qiye.
…
Egypt.
Outside Suncity.
Endless starlight falls from the sky, sealing the entire Sun City. From a distance, it looks like a giant dark blue sphere, floating silently in the gray-white mist.
The surging divine power and fire light flashed one after another from the starlight sphere. An unprecedented bloody battle in the Kingdom of God has reached a feverish stage.
At this moment, in the mist, a figure wearing a black robe slowly walked out.
Loki raised his head and looked at the completely blocked Sun City in the sky, his narrow eyes slightly narrowed, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Their target is indeed Sun City..."
He stepped forward and moved slowly towards the edge of the starlight array, with a glimmer of light in his eyes as he murmured to himself:
"Sun City is now greatly weakened. It must not be the opponent of the Bactrian God who has just returned from reincarnation and is in its heyday. It is only a matter of time before the Egyptian gods lose... But in this case, the situation will be too boring.
.”
He walked to the edge of the starlight formation, stared at the battlefield inside the starlight, stretched out his hand and grasped it in the void, and an ancient dark golden spear was held in his palm.
In the nothingness around this spear, there are dots of golden light spots, flying around it in an orderly manner like fireflies. The dark golden spear tip is engraved with fine rune characters, which seems to contain some kind of power of order. When it
The moment it was exposed to the air, a mysterious and terrifying aura emitted.
This is Asgard's most powerful artifact and the personal weapon of Odin, the King of Gods.
Gungnir, the Eternal Spear.
Loki held this gun and stood quietly outside the starlight formation, squinting at the battlefield inside, as if waiting for something:
"It's not enough... I have to wait a little longer..."