The Blade of Dawn in the middle of the night has a different scene.
The moonlight floats and sinks, and the path is deep. The night blurs the outlines of things, turning everything into a picture scroll like water curtain and cloud smoke. On the secluded stone path, Alan and Adele walked towards the direction of the student apartment. Allen was ahead and Adele was a little behind. No one spoke, and the atmosphere was awkward.
Allen said at the venue that he would leave first, and Adele returned to the academy with him. But after the two got off the car, Allen said nothing, which made Adele very uncomfortable. For the first time, she felt that she was at a disadvantage in getting along with the two, and the key was Alan.
Growing up in the Mossen family, Adele has long been accustomed to the intrigue among nobles. It is perfectly normal to use each other. If the other party is not Allen, Adele will never feel this way. However, Alan is from the surface and lives with snow wolves. He has a deep-rooted concept of the wolf clan's group and companions.
It is unacceptable for Allen to use and betray. This is his bottom line and principle. The fact that Adele used him as a shield made him very uncomfortable, and it also made Adele feel a sense of guilt for the first time.
Seeing that the apartment was about to arrive, Adele finally couldn't help shouting: "Alan, wait a minute."
Allen stopped and turned to look at her. Adele sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose. It's just that I know that if I told you that Leon would propose to me tonight, you wouldn't want to go with me, would you?"
"I don't know. But I can be sure that if you tell the truth, I will seriously consider it." Allen shook his head and said, "It's a pity you chose to hide it, and you can't even try to trust me. Ah Del, I don't know what you think of a friend. But if it were me, I would trust him if I recognized him as my friend."
Allen spread his hands again and said, "Of course, I don't have many friends."
"Then do you consider me your friend?" Adele asked.
"You know the answer yourself, don't you?"
Adele smiled sadly: "Alan, you may not be able to understand that it is not a good thing to be born in a famous family. I am not moaning for nothing, yes, in terms of material things, my family allows me to live comfortably. But from the beginning of self-awareness, I I can’t trust people casually, including my own parents. It’s really tiring, so I want to go to the Outland battlefield. Even facing a sea of corpses and blood, it’s better than constantly calculating others every day, or being calculated by others .”
"I don't know if I will believe it, but I will try...try to trust you. Of course, if I let you take advantage of it one day, it will be... let's even it out." After saying this, Adele seemed to be He returned to his usual romantic appearance. She waved her hand, turned and left, and quickly disappeared into the night.
Allen took a breath and murmured, "Friend, friend..."
Turning around and walking towards the apartment, he had already decided to forget about tonight's unhappiness. Allen can accommodate a world, but how can he not even accommodate an Adele.
The following days returned to the original track, and Alan's time was filled with exploring knowledge and various trainings. After entering the elementary courses, he added several subjects to his curriculum, including cryptography. God knows whether the knowledge of ciphers will be used on the battlefield in Outland, but Allen followed suit, and quickly included Morse codes.
I remember several conventional passwords thoroughly.
Adele appeared from time to time, and the two seemed to have a tacit understanding, never mentioning the unpleasant incident that night, as if it had never happened. But Allen noticed carefully that there were subtle changes in Adele. For example, every time she is in the academy, she no longer always wears men's clothing, but occasionally wears one or two girls' accessories to make her neutral beauty more pleasing to the eye.
But in terms of temperament, he is still full of wildness, and there is no change in this aspect. Allen can probably understand that Adele always wears men's clothes, firstly because of her competitive spirit not wanting to lose to men, and secondly because of her subconscious self-protection, which makes her different from other noble ladies, and also Make her attractive.
Adele went to the college that day, and went straight home after having lunch with Allen. After resting, Allen went to the library alone, but bumped into Vera, a girl with a very different style. I remembered that since I met Vera, I have hardly talked with her. Vera seems to only love black, no matter what time it is, the impression left is only such a touch of ink.
Today is no exception. The black dress and black boots are like a ghost without the slightest sense of existence.
"Vera." Allen called softly, ready to be turned on deaf ears.
But this time Vera responded, she nodded slightly and greeted her. She took out a picture from the picture folder and stuffed it in Alan's hand. Alan unfolded it, and inside was a picture of a man with one face and endless enemies. The man had only one side face, and judging from the outline of his face, it was somewhat similar to himself.
"This is what I saw, about your future..." Vera's unique voice sounded.
Allen nodded, smiled and said, "The painting is beautiful, I accept it."
"Aren't you worried at all?" Vera raised her head, wondering.
"What are you worried about?" Allen flicked the drawing paper with his fingers: "You also said that the future is multi-faceted, and the future you see may not necessarily happen. Besides, even if the future in the painting happens, so what? You Look, at least I'm not dead. As long as I'm not dead, anything is possible!"
Perhaps it was Alan's strong confidence that infected the girl, and Vera's eyes like lead clouds had a gleam or two of light. She said: "I heard from grandpa that you will set up your own hunting group in the future?"
"Of course, I will go on an expedition to Outland and explore the world beyond the world." Allen nodded.
"My grades in cosmic geography are not bad. If you need a pilot at that time, maybe you can consider me." Vera raised her head and said, "If there is a chance, I would like to visit the outer domain where my parents died in battle. …”
Before Alan could answer, Vera got into the library first, blending into the shadows in the library. Alan thought to himself that Vera's wish might be a good medicine to untie her knot. He couldn't think of a reason to refuse this request, not to mention the fact that the pilot is indeed a necessary role in the expedition to the outer domain.
Of course, for the sake of caution, Allen still plans to ask Hughton for his opinion before making a decision. What's more, there is still a long time before he forms a hunting group, so he doesn't have to rush to answer.
Taking a deep breath, Allen also dived into the library.
Soon, the one-month period set by Windsor Bello will be approaching. On the weekend of the fourth week, Dean Andrew called four people including Allen to his office
.
The dean's office is surprisingly simple, but with an area of 20 to 30 square meters, two bookshelves, a few tables and chairs, and a set of sofas are all there is to the office. The only thing that can be called decoration in the office is a row of bonsai placed on the window sill. This only greenery keeps the office from looking too monotonous.
The four of Allen were sitting on the sofa, while Dean Andrew was still reviewing the documents. Everyone saw that he still used an old-fashioned quill pen to dip in the ink lightly, leaving a string of beautiful words on the document. In this era when electronic office has become popular, not to mention retro pen tools such as quill pens, even paper documents are quite rare.
The reviewing work came to an end temporarily. Dean Andrew stood up. Seeing the young man's eyes on his quill, he smiled slightly and said: "People always love nostalgia when they are old, but nostalgia is not a bad thing. It reminds us Today comes from yesterday, and tomorrow is created in the present.”
The dean's words were thought-provoking, and Allen heard them and remembered them in his heart.
"I called you here today because Marshal Windsor Bello has news." Dean Andrew sat across from the teenagers and said, "The Marshal asked me to inform you that the subject of the second round of assessment is actual combat. Monday's In the morning, you must gather at the academy. She will send a car to pick you up at the military port, and then take a special airship to the surface."
"The location of the assessment is a small town occupied by predators in the 7th area of the surface. Your question is to each lead an army, and see who can take down this town faster and more efficiently to clean up the predators." Dean Andrew smiled.
"Actual combat?"
"Predators?"
The teenagers had different expressions, Weber was excited, and Pitts was a little timid. As for Allen, Andrew gave a sign when he saw him. In Allen's eyes, it was hatred roaring like magma!
"Predators. Very good, very good..." Allen repeated these two words gently.
During his studies in Blade of Dawn, Allen also collected information about predators. The college's library itself is a huge information repository. As long as it is not a federal secret, you can almost find the information you need in the library. Predators are certainly not federal secrets, so it is easy for Allen to access this information.
According to the information he found, the predators can be regarded as a "dangerous species" separated from the human group. Of course, their origins are also very sad. After the Battle of Daybreak, a terrible radiation remains on the surface. In the first hundred years, a large part of the people who could not enter Babylon away from the surface died in the strong radiation left on the surface.
However, a small number of people survived tenaciously, but they were affected by the radiation, and their bodies mutated to a large extent. The most obvious change is the necrosis of the nerve endings, making them no longer feel pain. The density of the bones increases, which makes them very strong and difficult to kill.
In that barren era, the living conditions were thousands of times worse than the current surface. Faced with the harsh reality of food shortages, these people began to kill and devour their fellow men. Perhaps, the origin of the predators was created by helpless reality. However, the situation on the surface is gradually improving, and now that the Federation is committed to rebuilding order, they have continued the habit of plundering and cannibalism, and even made cannibalism a tradition of this family!
(end of this chapter)