Yes, Lan Che was standing outside the door.
She looked no different from usual, with short dark brown hair tied into a ponytail and green eyes like cat-eye green gems.
She has always been the girl with the least story in the Late Summer Friends Club, and her status as a noble named Lan cannot bring her much help. And she seems to like this role very much, so she has stayed.
Lan Che is also the only child in the Friends Club at the end of summer who has not joined the three major clubs. She has such a strong talent and only needs time to grow into a strong person, so most things in this world are for her. Superfluous stuff.
That's what societies are like.
"Thank you." Ye Qing said in a sincere voice while sitting inside the door.
Lan Che nodded.
She was wearing a pure black mage robe, which tightly wrapped her beautiful girl's body. She was obviously an unparalleled light magician, but for some reason, such a black outfit also looked inexplicably beautiful.
"I think the princess knows my purpose of coming." Lan Che said, his voice was clear and calm, and he didn't know which Lan Che it came from.
"I just want to know when it happened." Ye Qing said, without any doubt in his tone, but still asking questions.
"It happened recently." Lan Che tilted his head and thought for a moment, then limited the time: "It didn't even happen when the elf came to visit us."
"Is there anything I can do?" Ye Qing said.
"I don't think Her Royal Highness has anything to do, at least nothing to do for me." Lan Che replied calmly.
Ye Qing nodded again: "Actually, we can all forgive you, and you still have a chance to look back."
Lan Che smiled, his smile still sweet and clear, like newly squeezed honey under the moonlight: "Your Highness, do you know that when you say these words, I will have no chance."
Saying this, Lan Che bent down and put down three keys on the dirt outside the door.
"I hope we can still say hello to each other when we meet again."
The girl said with a smile.
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Lan Che left.
Three keys, fine copper, black iron, and silver.
The fine copper key is Ye Qing's dormitory key, and as his roommate, Lan Che naturally has the same one.
The black iron key is the key to the wooden house of the Friends Club. The old lock cannot actually stop any member of the Friends Club in late summer, but having this key means that you are a member of the room.
As for the third silver key, it comes from Ao no Gensokyo. As a member of the rotating manager, this key can open the door to Ao no Gensokyo and the secret box hidden at the stairs. The secret box contains some kind of room. Literally all the keys to a priceless shop.
Ye Qing bent down, picked up the three keys on the ground, and then looked back at everyone in the room: "Actually, I have thought about it many times, but never once thought that she would be the first person to leave the Friends Club at the end of summer. "
No one in the room spoke.
Ye Qing took out a wooden box and put the three keys in one by one, then covered it with white silk cloth, closed the lid of the wooden box, and then put the inconspicuous wooden box on the round table in the room. table center.
"Actually, I've already said what I wanted to say, and Lan Che has also finished what I didn't say for me."
"Whether you are happy or unhappy, these are things that have happened. I used to think that when something like this happened, I would be so sad that my heart would be broken. But when it actually happened, I felt like it was nothing more than that."
She pointed to the wooden box on the round table: "I don't know if Lan Che will have a chance to open this box and get back what she once had, but as long as this box is placed here, we still have hope to save everything. "
"at last."
The president of the Friends Club at the end of summer glanced at everyone present: "No matter what, I am still very happy to meet you all."
"And adjourn."
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After everyone left, only Ge Sheng was still here in the wooden house.
"Now." Ye Qing looked back at the boy who had grown up slowly. Just like himself growing up slowly, they grew up with each other until they became something they had never imagined before.
"Actually, I don't know what expression to use to face this increasingly real world."
Ge Sheng shook his head: "You don't want to know, just like we didn't know Lan Che would leave us today. When we found out, we all knew what expressions we should use to face it."
Ye Qing nodded, and then walked out of the wooden house. It was still early morning outside the wooden house, and everything was still fresh and beautiful, just like before. There was a vast lake in the distance, and the water was rippling and sweet.
Ye Qing suddenly said: "Do you know how to find Christie?"
Ge Sheng was a little surprised: "You want to see her?"
"If I really want to meet someone, she is the most reliable. Last night she hesitated and hesitated, and I wanted to beat her when I thought about it. But now that I think about it, I have to ask about all that. The spring of the fourth year of Qingli did tell me I have learned a lot of things, but more things are hidden outside the water, so I need to ask more reliable people." Ye Qing said in a calm tone. "Asking her is equivalent to asking a demon for knowledge, but if there is still knowledge that can be obtained, this demon charges the cheapest."
Ge Sheng nodded: "I'll make arrangements."
Christie's palace is above the tower, and the academy allows her to build a nest in her heart, but this nest has been rarely visited for a long time.
When Ye Qing also stood on the top of the quiet tower, he found Christie standing next to him, waiting for her to come.
"Where's Ge Sheng?" Ye Qing asked.
"He applied for recusal and said that no matter what we talked about, we would eventually tell him without reservation, and if there was a discrepancy between what the two people told him, it would be very embarrassing anyway. He thought we definitely didn't want this. Things happen,” Christie said calmly.
She was still wearing a tight-fitting woolen short dress and a white shiny coat, which rustled when the wind blew. This outfit did not look like an eighteen-year-old girl at all, but it also did not look like a queen who was in charge of a world.
But she is still used to dressing like this, and it seems that this is the only way she is Christie.
Ye Qing wears a skirt honestly, and half of her even-bone legs are exposed when the wind blows. She liked to wear it like this ten years ago, and it still hasn't changed ten years later. She likes skirts, and likes the feeling of being empty and light, but ten years later The girl is completely different from the girl ten years ago, but she still wants to stay like she was ten years ago. At that time, she still had her mother's arms where she could lie down and sleep peacefully when she was tired or sleepy.
"Sometimes I also think that my brother is really an out-and-out coward." Ye Qing said lightly, without any special meaning in his tone, as if he was stating a fact.
"Do you have to quote this sentence truthfully?" Christie said with squinted eyes and a crescent moon smile.
Ye Qing nodded without any sign of weakness, and then continued: "I really don't know what you like about him?"
Christie smiled: "I like it best when someone competes with me for this. The candy in other people's hands is always sweeter."
Ye Qing curled his lips, then stretched out his hand towards the other party: "Sister-in-law, give me some candy."
Christie laughed loudly, took out a candy bar from the pocket of her white coat, and threw it over: "It's OK to give candy to me, but not to brother."
Ye Qing tore off the candy wrapper and stuffed the candy into his mouth, then looked under the tower: "Aren't you going to go in and talk?"
"That's my laboratory, and the scenery is boring and not good." Christie said lightly.
"The reason why I came to you in person without using your Black Iron Ring is because I don't want anyone who may know the content of our conversation to know." Ye Qing said: "Actually, I gradually don't understand what I can do. Who else can I trust absolutely?"
"Your Late Summer Friends Club used to be your strongest fortress. Now that the fortress has been breached from the inside, you are very unhappy, right?" Christie said with a smile: "This is why I have always been unwilling to join your Late Summer Friends Club. one of the reasons."
Ye Qing looked at the other party and pointed to the road in the void again: "Are you really not going in?"
Christie shook his head: "I can assure you, it's no more dangerous here than there."
Ye Qing stared at the other party: "Why do I suspect that you are stealing people outside behind my brother's back? If I remember correctly, you and Qingli Four Years Spring have been friends for a long time, right?"
Christie laughed so hard that she coughed in a low voice, and then she reached out helplessly and patted it twice. At that moment, Ye Qing felt something slowly unfolding in front of her.
A glass castle unfolded in front of her, like a piece of transparent glass with no thickness that could be folded countless times. It slowly unfolded in front of her, growing larger and larger until it completely surrounded the several hundred meters square centered on the top of the tower. .
Ye Qing also saw everything in this glass castle. Her eyes and consciousness could penetrate every piece of glass and see clearly the results of any test on every experimental table. Only at that moment did Ye Qing understand what the so-called exquisite heart was. What kind of existence.
No matter how many times you hear others describe it, it is never as good as seeing it with your own eyes.
"Although you don't completely believe me, my sister-in-law must believe me and serve her well." Christie stood in the center of the castle and said with a smile: "Although you and I are more of love rivals."
"Let me guess your first question."
"That's why Dark Star chose Lan Che as his next weapon, right?"
Ye Qing did not speak. Alaya Shi was known as being able to see through people's hearts, and now Christie did say the first question she wanted to ask.
So I'm a little unhappy.
This was one of the last pieces of information given to her as a transaction in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli in the Ste palace.
After the weapon was confirmed to be irreparable, Dark Star's original plan lacked a key link, but it could not be terminated because of this, so choosing the next weapon became a top priority. This cannot be solved by cultivating a new weapon. Let's not talk about whether we can find a flawless sword embryo like Xingxi. The time required to train a weapon is unbearable, so we need to find a weapon that is disposable but can be used. .
In the end, Dark Star chose Lan Che.
And last night, the person who attacked Beiluan was Lan Che.
Only Lan Che, who was also Ye Ye's student, could easily approach Bei Luan, suppress and knock him out.
The reason why Ye Qing thanked Lan Che when they met was that Lan Che finally missed some old feelings and did not kill Bei Luan.
But why Lan Che was chosen, and why Lan Che agreed to them, was something Ye Qing didn't know, and it was something he didn't mention in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli.
"There are not many reasons in this world. Why is it Lan Che? Because it can only be Lan Che." Christie said calmly: "She was trained as a weapon, and now it is perfect to be used as a weapon again. matter."
"I'm not happy." Ye Qing said lightly.
"Because this world does not exist to make princesses happy." Christie laughed.
"Lan Che's father is dead, and the head of the third family named Lan is dead. Does Your Highness the Princess know?" Christie said.
Ye Qing shook his head. It was not until last night that she was told that the head of the third family was seriously ill and was about to die. Before that, she didn't even have the slightest clue.
Now that Christie says he is dead, then he may really be dead.
But that person was the head of the third family named Lan, and in the entire Lanye Empire, he was almost more powerful than one person and more than ten thousand people.
He died like this but quietly, who had such power?
"The Third Lan Family, originally a family of priests, has been slowly declining since the founding of the Lanye Empire. The Fourth Lan Family, a former royal family, has been seeking to unite or annex the Third Lan Family in order to gain greater say. As the head of the third family, Lan Zhan has resisted until now, and even sacrificed his only daughter as a sacrifice to ensure the survival of the family." Christie spoke calmly with a smile: "It's just unfortunate that in the face of a greater power, an individual Your efforts will always be insignificant. Now Lan Zang is dead, and only his body is still barely alive, making this name one year late to be listed on the family altar."
"Does Lan Che know?" Ye Qing asked.
"Do you think the other party is using Lan Che's father's life to threaten her?" Christie smiled: "Princess, please put yourself in her shoes. Your current power has reached the top of the world. Please allow me to act treacherously. Suppose the Emperor of Lan Ye is now terminally ill and someone uses your father to blackmail you into serving them, would you be willing?"
Ye Qing was silent for a while: "I will not accept the threat. I will only kill them and then find my father. If my father is still alive, it will be fine. If he dies, I will spend my whole life avenging him."
"As expected of the Ninth Princess." Christie nodded: "Then do you think Lan Che will give in because of this?"
Ye Qing recalled the girl with eyes as clean and cold as snow, and then shook his head.
"Although it is a bit inappropriate, Lan Che and you are the two most similar people in the Late Summer Friends Club. If it were you, what conditions would make you abandon your former comrades to serve the enemy?" Christie asked road.
Ye Qing shook his head: "I don't know."
"Yes, as you said, no one knows how they will react until that day comes." Christie said, "But what is gratifying is that Lan Che has finally reached such a day, so this answer is very important to her." Clear enough.”
"She needs strength."
Ye Qing looked at the other party: "But we clearly have enough power, no matter who is standing opposite us."
Christie smiled: "I originally thought the princess would not be so naive."
"Lan Che is not you. You can put all your friends into doom because of your little mood..."
Ye Qing looked at the other party with serious eyes: "I don't."
"Because you gave them the right to choose." Christie said with a smile: "Follow me and die, or leave me and live."
"You use your bravery to reflect the cowardice of others, which is a kind of coercion in itself."
"But you should know that not everyone is yours. He keeps saying that he wants to protect everyone, but he pushes everyone he cares about to a point of eternal destruction. Lan Che is not such a person. If it can be avoided, Anyone who relies on herself to solve problems under the premise that she will do so will do so."
"Then now I can tell you the conditions for Lan Che to agree to them. The condition is strength."
"The artificial field, a technology born in the Yeshi clan, was improved by Yue Yi, and finally reappeared in Lan Che, the third family of the Lan family. However, they simply copied the technology, and no one was able to fully realize the potential of this technology. Take it to the extreme.”
"This was originally one of the bargaining chips I wanted to use to win over Lan Che against you, but before I could use it, someone else got there first. I'm very unhappy."
Ye Qing said nothing. She had never seen such a hateful person before.
In other words, she has never been so hateful in front of Ge Sheng.
Every word she spoke hit her weakest point, leaving her with no strength or desire to fight back.
Christie calmly talked about his plan to deal with him in front of him, and the facts before him proved that the other party's methods were incredibly powerful, but he was speechless.
After a long time, Ye Qing said weakly: "I would rather the person who bewitched Ah Che was you."
"You are wrong." Christie smiled, her smile as clear as a blooming cherry blossom: "If that person were me, princess, you would regret it ten thousand times more than you do now. Many people say that I am a kind and good person, but really When it comes to deciding what to do, I'm 10,000 times uglier than the most vicious devil. Why do you think Yi Lanshan gave up such a good situation and quit? The answer is actually very simple."
"If he didn't agree to my conditions at that time, I would sink myself into the Palace of Black and White, kill everyone in the palace at that time, bury all the last blood of the Yeshi clan there, and also bury the highest magic that humans can climb today. Civilization is buried there.”
"And when he left the Palace of Black and White, I was still very weak. How could I keep so many forces at bay from swallowing up the huge Croft family in my hands? That's because if I was still alive, Then they can't do anything, and once I die, the exquisite heart in my body will self-destruct, destroying everything around me and completely burying the Palace of Black and White. No one can take anything from me for free. , this is the principle of my business.”
"I don't have any cards in my hand, but I can destroy all the cards in your hand. The so-called most rogue gambler is someone like me."
"I have understood since I was born that this world is not beautiful at all. However, Your Highness, the Princess, who has experienced so many things, is favored by the world and destiny, and lives in the kindness of others, you still have not understood this. One point is really what makes me sad and jealous the most.”
