The snow stopped and the clouds dispersed, the moon was already at its peak, and night shrouded the Golden Sun Wheel military dormitory.
In the room, Garcia pushed Jiang Jianming, who was in a low state of mind, to sleep. He sat at his desk, crystal bones coagulated on his nails, and he carefully disassembled and checked the bracelet.
From the chain, to each bead, and to that pendant. In the end, they were all placed on the table one by one. There was no monitor, and there was no bomb either…
With a light click, Garcia removed the gemstone from the pendant.
“……..”
He took it under the lamp and squinted his eyes to look, then decisively pried open the edge.
The ruby shell had only a thin layer, and what was exposed after peeling off was a colorless and transparent spar.
What…..is this?
There was a trace of emptiness in Garcia’s eyes, and he once again felt the aggrieved feeling caused by the lack of general knowledge.
Real crystal ore?
Somewhat like, but not quite like.
He couldn’t recognize it, and he didn’t dare to leave something suspiciously dangerous in Jiang Jianming’s room, thus he had to pinch the little thing and go to the bedroom.
The bedside lamp in the bedroom hadn’t been turned off, but Jiang Jianming had already tucked into the quilt and fell asleep. His face was still pale, and a faint weariness could be seen between his brows.
Garcia stood at the bedside for a few seconds, but still couldn’t make up his mind to wake him up.
He looked down at the fingernail-sized gemstone in his palm, turned around and went out quietly, turned off the light and closed the bedroom door.
However, only a few minutes later, a crisp sound came just outside the door!
And the sound directly woke up Jiang Jianming who was on the bed.
“Your Highness…!?”
He hastily rolled over to the ground, and quickly pushed open the door in the dark.
The sight that rushed into his eyes made his pupils shrink slightly. Jiang Jianming’s whole body went stiff, and he saw blood at first glance.
Beside the right corner of a desk, Garcia half-kneeled on the floor panting, his entire back was bent deeply, and was struggling to endure something.
His left hand was pressing down on his right hand, and on his right hand were several inch-long crystal bones protruding out…..It was these crystal bones that pierced his own left hand, and a small stream of blood was gurgling out, and dripping onto the ground forming a cluster.
Jiang Jianming’s face turned pale instantly. “Your Highness!!”
“—Don’t get close to me!”
Garcia let out a hoarse groan, and a pair of emerald green pupils stared tightly at Jiang Jianming between the scattered platinum hair.
The five fingers of his right hand loosened, and the transparent “gem” that was originally held in his palm lost its crystal luster, turned into a blood-stained piece and fell to the floor.
“The pendant of this bracelet…” Garcia gritted his teeth and said, “It contains frenzied crystal particles, and I used the crystal bone to extract it out. You go get a tranquilizer first and then come back and I’ll tell you.”
Jiang Jianming’s eyes fell on that small piece, his breathing suddenly became disordered, and his expression became even uglier. He immediately went back to the room and opened a box of tranquilizers, but he didn’t give himself a shot and instead brought a needle and a medical kit out first.
Even new humans were also at risk of crystal chaos, and Garcia’s uncontrolled state of crystal bones was one of the precursors.
“Get a shot.” Jiang Jianming’s face was extremely cold, and he walked over without any explanation, and reached out to hold Garcia’s arm.
However, Garcia twisted Jiang Jianming’s wrist holding the injection with his left hand, and while hiding his right hand behind his back, he quickly said impatiently. “I don’t need it. It’s you who should get a shot…..the crystal bone can’t be retracted yet at the moment, stay away from me.”
He was still wounded on his left hand, and the warm blood soaked his skin, making Jiang Jianming’s lips twitch suddenly, “Your Highness!”
Garcia: “Don’t make me tell you to get lost, one last time, stay away from me…”
In terms of strength in hands alone, Jiang Jianming couldn’t break free at all. He frowned and groaned in pain. Suddenly, his face sunk and a bright and sharp look flashed across the dark bottom of his eyes——
Pa!
Strong wind passed through his ears, and Garcia, who was still talking, was forced to turn his face to the side. He felt a burning pain in his cheek, and he was completely stunned.
Jiang Jianming withdrew his hand expressionlessly. “Your Highness, you are too conceited.”
“…….?” Garcia rested his elbows on the ground in a daze, his long hair fell loose, and he stared at the disabled human being in front of him in shock and anger.
What happened, was he just…
Was it a slap, or was it a punch?
Before Garcia could react, his scalp ached. Jiang Jianming stretched out his left palm and grabbed his long hair, pulling the soft and fluffy curly hair hard.
“…ugh!”
By the time the prince came back to his senses, he had already been dragged down on Jiang Jianming’s lap with a dazed expression. Then a cool sensation came on the side of his neck, as a shot of tranquilizer had been pushed in.
Jiang Jianming said coldly, “I’ve offended you.”
Garcia couldn’t speak, he thought in a daze: Why…
Since he walked out of the Black Shark Base, in the past three years, Garcia admitted that he had not been unharmed. But those were all crystal bone injuries, or internal injuries to the lungs and viscera.
He had an innate aptitude for using crystal bones, combined with a beast-like combat sense and the offensive and defensive instincts of a top level crystal bones, there had never been any kind of creature that could directly attack his flesh.
Not to mention getting close and subduing him, never.
But, why….why….
Garcia thought to himself angrily: Why was he captured so easily by a disabled human now?
After the injection was finished, Jiang Jianming opened the medical kit, picked up Garcia’s injured hand, washed it, irradiated it with a therapeutic device, and finally wrapped it with a bandage.
“You…” Garcia seemed to have turned into a doll resting on Jiang Jianming’s lap, looked at him with a wooden expression, and murmured, “How dare you hit me?”
“Has the crystal bone stabilized now?”
Jiang Jianming seemed as if he did not hear him, grabbed Garcia’s right hand to check the situation, and with the other hand picked up the small piece scattered on the floor, which was the culprit of tonight.
“You……how dare you.”
Garcia’s voice trembled, and he stared at Jiang Jianming with unreasonable eyes, “Do you know… If I hadn’t restrained the instinctive defense of the crystal bone just now, your arm would have…”
Jiang Jianming didn’t respond to his words at all, but weighed the fragment with his palm, and said in a low voice, “This, this is a new crystal weapon made of real crystal ore.”
“But it’s not a weapon against alien creatures, and it’s hardly even used against space bandits. It’s generally used for……assassination of high-position political struggles. It can be said that it’s not something that can be placed in the open, so it’s normal if you haven’t seen it before.”
“Jiang Jianming!” Garcia couldn’t bear it anymore.
Jiang Jianming also lowered his voice coldly and said, “What are you shouting for? If I had the Wings of Venus in my hand, I would have beat you with the butt of a gun. You’re aware that the item removed from the bracelet was likely to be dangerous…Since you don’t have any knowledge of it, why didn’t you call me?”
As he spoke, he blatantly slapped His Royal Highness on the waist. “You need a beating.”
Garcia: “You!”
This extremely evil, cunning, and arrogant for being favored too much disabled human being!
Garcia turned his face away hatefully. Is it because he has been overly pampered in the past few days? How dare he rely on himself not to dare do anything to him… (TL: How dare he (G) rely on himself(J) not to dare do anything to him(G) I’m guessing G trusts that J can’t or won’t do anything to him)
Jiang Jianming stood up, holding the fragment with a sullen face and moved aside.
Garcia held back the depression in his heart. “Stop, since it’s an assassination weapon…you’re still willing to hold it?”
Jiang Jianming said, “Thanks to you, its lethality is gone.”
Garcia pressed his right hand in silence for a few seconds but still asked, “What is it?”
“…There is no scientific name yet, and it is a prohibited weapon.” Jiang Jianming paused for a moment.
His eyelashes drooped, and he seemed to be stuck in his own thoughts. It was not until Garcia urged him with his eyes that he continued, “But in the black market, some people call it…death crystal.”
“Death crystals look very similar to low-purity real crystal ores, but they are actually made of multiple pieces of high-purity real crystal ores that have been synthesized and specially treated so that the internal crystal particles are at a special disturbance frequency.”
“Its effect is that it can cause the wearer to suffer from crystal chaos without knowing it. The acute crystal chaos that kills on the spot, and the chronic crystal chaos that slowly erodes life, it can all be done.”
“This is why it was banned. The empire is very strict about all elements that may induce crystal chaos.”
Jiang Jianming looked at it fixedly, and sighed, “So to say, you actually using the crystal bone to directly stimulate the crystal particles inside, it was too reckless…”
“If it were a more dangerous death crystal, the consequences will not be as simple as cutting your fingers. Even if it’s not crystal chaos, once the crystal bone loses control, you will really be seriously injured.”
Garcia: “But this ‘death crystal’ was removed from the bracelet that girl gave you.”
“…Yes. This should be the kind of death crystal that can cause acute crystal chaos.”
Jiang Jianming sighed and closed his eyes, then firmly said, “It can’t be Xie Yinxing…This is not something that children can get.”
—Someone wants to kill him.
Using such an extremely vicious and insidious means.
The stimulated “death crystal” will always volatilize crystal particles of special frequency. Xie Yinxing is a new human being, and she will not die if she wears it for a short time, but…
If it was an ordinary disabled human being wearing this kind of thing, he might not even be able to make it home, and on the way, crystal chaos will break out, ending in a tragic death.
Jiang Jianming’s lips turned pale, and he looked back at the dismantled bracelet on the table. Coldness and fear intertwined, and rushed from the spine all the way to the top of the head.
Garcia held the bracelet for him for a long time, but it didn’t affect him, probably because the crystal bone level of this person was unreasonably strong, and the overflowing crystal particles could not cause him harm at all.
It wasn’t until this person actually used crystal bone to stimulate all the crystal particles contained in it that he suffered a slight injury.
And as a disabled human being, he had been wearing it for quite a while, but he was also not affected, it’s because…
“——Then, you also wore this thing just now, why were there no symptoms?”
Garcia suddenly clenched Jiang Jianming’s shoulders, ignoring his left hand that oozed blood under the bandage again.
His eyes unknowingly became tense, and at the same time became sharp. “Last time when the enemy laid ambush in the Far Interstellar Space, you also didn’t suffer from crystal chaos. Is it because you took medicine? Was the body modified? You…”
Beepbeepbeep——
Jiang Jianming was in a trance when the sudden sound of his wrist device made his fingers tremble, and the small piece of death crystal remains fell to the floor.
Garcia looked back, he turned around and fished out the wrist device for him, then looked down, and read the displayed caller name, “Audrey.”
“Sorry…thank you.” Jiang Jianming pursed his lips and stretched out his hand to take it. The moment he pressed the connect button, he looked out of the window at the dim light of the night before dawn and had an ominous premonition in his heart.
