After Lopez had helped Yuan Changze, who was crying so hard that his legs were weak and his vision was blurred, to leave, Ryann and Jiang Jianming also bid farewell to Lin Ge and left the hall in the night.
The evening wind after the rain was very cold. Ryann wrapped Jiang Jianming in his crystal bone and sat him in the air vehicle, then turned on the heater.
Jiang Jianming pulled over the seat belt on the co-pilot’s seat and suddenly said, “I thought Your Highness would continue to ask something.”
Ryann didn’t answer. He controlled the air vehicle to leave the ground, his eyes cold and deep.
Jiang Jianming was right. The White Bird Expedition, the Base Body Plan…..As the veils of history were lifted one by one, he could no longer suppress his emotions.
He wanted to ask clearly what he was, what the fake death of that year was all about, what the 000 base body meant, and who was that 001.
And the emperor had been hiding it until now, was there any unspeakable secret in it?
But…The Crown Prince’s gaze paused for a moment, falling on Jiang Jianming beside him.
The young man in black was still straight, his eyes still calm, but his face seemed to be paler than when he had just come out.
Crystal disorder would lead to a comprehensive weakening of the body and spirit. As the disease worsened, any external stimulus could cause an attack, not to mention such sudden and intense mental exhaustion.
–It was already too late tonight. Now he needed to put the weak disabled human back into the warm bed. That was the most important thing.
Under the moonlight, the air vehicle shuttled through the low altitude. Ryann suddenly said, “Now it seems that you were right, you won.”
Jiang Jianming: “What?”
Ryann: “Last winter at the Black Shark Base, you determined that I was a consciousness projection.”
Jiang Jianming was slightly stunned, and Ryann suddenly smiled, looking at him with a very satisfied expression and said, “Now there is no doubt, you really have been mine from the beginning.”
The crystal bone quietly slipped out from the wrist of His Highness, climbed onto Jiang Jianming’s wrist and rubbed him, “Jiang, talk more about the past. Am I better to you now than before? Do you like the previous me or the current one?”
“…Please focus on driving, Your Highness.”
Jiang Jianming said faintly, but he calmly held the little crystal bone, playing with it in his palm.
……
On the way back to the bedroom, after a quick wash, the two changed into their pajamas and climbed into bed.
Jiang Jianming took a pill and relaxed on the pillow. Ryann covered him with a blanket, then lay down on the outside and closed his eyes.
Feeling the warmth and breath of his lover, Jiang Jianming quickly fell asleep.
But by midnight, he became restless again, tossing and turning with his eyes closed, panting lowly. At one point, it was as if he had stepped into thin air from a high building, waking up in shock from his sleep!
“Cough, cough, cough…!”
Jiang Jianming suddenly opened his eyes, his back was all cold sweat, a large patch of black fog in front of his eyes, swaying with the orange-yellow light at the head of the bed.
He couldn’t help but curl up in the blanket, coughing hard, a sweet and fishy breath rising in his throat, and it seemed that something inside his body was hurting… It wasn’t an old injury, it was the pain brought on by chronic crystal disorder.
Jiang Jianming’s breathing became rapid, he instinctively called out to the side with his eyes unfocused and pressing on his violently beating heart, “Ryann…”
There was no answer. Jiang Jianming squinted his eyes and propped himself up while panting, only to see that there was no one in the blanket next to him.
Where did he go in the middle of the night?
Jiang Jianming endured the discomfort and reached out to touch it. The place where Ryann had lain still had warmth, he should have just left not too long ago. The corner of the blanket was carefully tucked into his side, indicating that it was not an emergency.
He calmed down a bit, took out the emergency medicine from the bedside table and swallowed it. He then stumbled to the treatment cabin and threw himself in, closed his eyes and rested for a while, only then did he feel much better.
After recovering, Jiang Jianming wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, his gaze fell on the door of the room, Ryann’s boots were nowhere to be seen.
…Sure enough, because he minded the base body plan and the fake death three years ago, after watching him sleep, did he go back to find the emperor or Old Marshal Chen?
Jiang Jianming pondered for a few seconds, got up from the treatment cabin, picked up the wrist device on the bedside table and knocked, “Dog… cough, no.”
He quickly shook his head hard, it’s over, he was infected, “Seth, where did His Highness Ryann go?”
[Woof, woof, woof!]
Seth appeared happily, this little intelligence didn’t seem to mind being called a dog at all. At Jiang Jianming’s command, it quickly located the wrist device carried by Prince Ryann.
It was the military department…..Jiang Jianming slightly frowned, impulsively picked up the clothes hanging on the hanger, and also grabbed a bottle of medicine and stuffed it into his pocket.
He changed his clothes, took advantage of the night, and quickly pushed the door and went out.
When he arrived at the military department in casual clothes, Jiang Jianming saw from a distance the troubled expressions on the faces of the Golden Sun Wheel soldiers patrolling the gate.
He breathed a sigh of relief and walked up. Immediately, the eyes of the Golden Sun Wheel soldiers lit up, and they saw their savior and surrounded him.
“Colonel Jiang!” “You’re here too?” Jiang Jianming nodded, and asked softly, “Did His Highness just go in?”
The soldiers nodded repeatedly. One of them smiled bitterly, “His Highness Ryann wanted the lock code for the commander’s office, we couldn’t stop him! We’re about to report to the Grand Marshal.”
“……”
The corner of Jiang Jianming’s mouth twitched slightly, and he thought in shock: What a surprise attack, it seems that His Highness is really upset, who could have thought that the dignified Crown Prince would run to someone’s office in the middle of the night!
He quickly calmed down, thought for a moment, and said, “Don’t report it yet, so you guys don’t get scolded.”
Then he gave the Golden Sun Wheel soldiers a “don’t worry” look, and smiled, “I’ll just bring His Highness out.”
In the grateful eyes of the Golden Sun Wheel, Colonel Jiang walked in upright.
Of course, along the way, he also boldly got a copy of the password and authority.
Along the corridor, he slowed down his pace and arrived at the office of Old Marshal Chen Hanke. He saw that the door was half-open, and a little light was coming out from inside.
Jiang Jianming stopped, from this angle he could just see Ryann with his legs crossed, sitting diagonally in the marshal’s chair, his ten fingers tapping on the large virtual computer screen.
Although his posture was unrestrained, the Crown Prince’s expression was very cautious, and he was probably prepared for the soldiers outside to report to the old marshal, his actions were very hurried.
Jiang Jianming didn’t go in immediately, guessing what His Highness wanted to find.
In theory, truly secret documents should not be left in the office without any defense by the old marshal, what could he find?
Speaking of which, he had clearly promised the Golden Sun Wheel outside to bring His Highness out, but not only did he stop them from reporting to the old marshal and cover for His Highness, but now he was hiding outside the door and spying on His Highness stealing military secrets…
Jiang Jianming regretted weakly for a second, then continued to focus his gaze on Ryann.
Soon, with the Crown Prince pressing the last few keys, a projection appeared in the void.
Jiang Jianming’s eyes flickered, he saw General Xie!
It was yesterday’s communication!
Jiang Jianming immediately remembered, at that time, when Old Marshal Chen mentioned the White Bird Plan, he seemed to casually turn off the communication, but that was obviously not the end.
And at that time, the mental state of Xie Yuduo in the communication was very poor, not like a general who had safely led the team back from the Crystal Nest.
–Old Marshal Chen didn’t show them the complete communication!
Jiang Jianming couldn’t help but hold his breath, could it be that Xie Yuduo saw something special in the Crystal Nest?
Before he had time to sort out his thoughts, Ryann inside the room suddenly turned his head, his gaze sharp as a knife!
Suddenly, a flash of red-gold light, a gust of wind came at him. Jiang Jianming was startled, only had time to shout “Your Highness, it’s me”, tilted his head and closed his eyes—
Bang!!
The crystal bone took a turn, grazed past his ear, and smashed the door.
“Jiang!?” Ryann was also taken aback, immediately frowned and said annoyedly, “What are you doing! If I had reacted a little slower just now…”
“Waking up to find the person next to me gone, can’t I come looking?” Jiang Jianming interrupted him, stepped over the pitiful door panel and walked in quickly, whispering, “The soldiers outside want to report, I stopped them, you hurry up.”
Both of them cast their eyes on the projection that reappeared, Ryann adjusted a progress bar, and froze at the last place they saw.
Xie Yuduo, the major general in the Silver Big Dipper uniform, still looked haggard. After he finished his report, he fell silent, but he obviously still had something to say.
Time flowed in silence, the more Xie Yuduo was like this, the more tense the two people waiting for the following text became.
In the silence, Jiang Jianming quietly held Ryann’s hand.
[…Finally,] Finally, Xie Yuduo hoarsely started, [there is one more important report.]
[On this expedition, I took the liberty to go further than the military command. Our starship actually entered the Crystal Nest, and then traveled a distance. Before everyone’s spirits were completely chaotic, we…]
He paused, his Adam’s apple rolling, struggling for a long time to say the following words.
[We recovered…]
[The body of the late Crown Prince, Ryann Kaios.]
