Chapter 26

12-15 minutes 28.05.2023

    When Ellie came to Alessio in the morning, with her eyes swollen with tears, and a contract specially prepared by the Conservation Center, she found a coffin board in the middle of the two adjoining doors ……

    There was a coffin board erected.

    Ellie: “……”

    She knocked cautiously on Alessio’s door, and the vampire waited for a moment before opening it. His hair was still a little messy, and it seemed he had just finished washing up.

    “It’s late today. You were still washing up when I sent the message about coming over.” She spoke, while her eyes drifted uncontrollably to that eye-catching coffin board. She wanted to speak but then hesitated.

    “Well, I slept a little late last night.” Alessio yawned; it was almost dawn when he finished chasing Psycho and had forgotten to put the coffin board back. That was when Ellie’s message came, so he simply didn’t sleep and started the day.

    Ellie was about to explain her purpose of coming over when Alessio gestured for her to enter the room and then suddenly spoke coldly.

    “…… put down my 

.”

(T/N: Taiwanese egg pancakes)

    Ellie: “???”

    There was the sound of a dinner plate being put down. Crossing over to Alessio, Ellie saw the Saint, who had been in the room from who knows when. For some reason, the Saint looked energetic with some wounds around his lips and the dark blue at his eyes became symmetrical, combined with dark circles that had surfaced from a lack of sleep for a long time.

    “There are two Danbing.” The Saint said quietly.

    “Both of them are mine!” Alessio glared at him and took a seat at the table, asking Ellie to come and have some. This was the meal they’d picked up from the canteen on their way back.

    Ellie thought she must have been driving too much, that even two people being in the same room could make a mess of her brain. She put aside her dangerous thoughts and handed Alessio the contract requested by the Conservation Center.

    “Would you look at it and see if you have any interest in this respect? If you have other ideas, we’ll do our best to arrange that as well.”

    This was an employment contract, signed and sealed by the Conservation Centre, stating that given all of Alessio’s performance since his recovery, the Centre hoped that Alessio can work at the Centre in the future, with short working hours and excellent pay, and the job would involve looking after some of the Centre’s Dark Creatures for a bit.

    “The matter of Dong Dong and Miss Lucy, Darf and I have respectively reported it to the Centre, and the Centre has responded. If you have nothing special to do at the moment, you can work here.”

    As she spoke, Alessio had skimmed through the contract, which was roughly about paying him a wage to play with them.

    Alessio mused. This was a good opportunity to have access to other Dark Creatures and might be useful in his goal of reviving the Three Pillars of Darkness. He and Psycho still had too little information and can only explore. He could start by taking a good look at these pampered and delicately raised pups at the Center.

    “Mr Ruzius shouldn’t have to worry about that, should he?” Ellie said, “When I went to ask today, it seemed that Mr Ruzius had already signed the relevant agreement?”

    “Hmm.” Ruzius nodded slightly. Noticing Alessio looking at him, he spoke out to explain, “It’s about writing historical books, and it’s in the Center. If there is a need in the future, I will also have to go to the Northern battlefront.”

    Alessio turned his head away. It’s in the same Center. As long as he paid attention, psycho would not lose power.

    Speaking of history books, Ellie remembered, her eyes were still swollen.

    “That period of history was really so …… sad.” She choked up when saying this. She was sure that anyone who had watched Flowers of Heaven would have choked up like that. Previously, there had been people clamouring about the non-holographic film, and when this short film, which was not very advanced for today’s technology and done in a hurry, came out, it instantly slapped those people in the face.

    “I have a proposal ……” Ellie said hesitatingly, “Would you two like to live stream [Flowers of Heaven]?”

    Live-streaming to watch other videos? This format was very new to Alessio. After knowing that there was profit to be made, he and Psycho looked at each other, and the two of them simultaneously chose to compromise for money.

    It can’t be helped, the new house was still lacking things.

    Ruzius had watched the sample copy of the film, Alessio had not, but the ancient mythology, which was the content of the short film, was revised by both him and Psycho. With spoilers, the reaction to watching it must be very calm, but since Ellie said it was okay, Alessio wasn’t going to feel sorry for the money.

Ahhhhhhhhh! Xixi! Xixi!

Great! The history book is also here!

    …… history book?

    “It’s a nickname given to Mr Ruzius by the audience because most of the history was revised by Mr Ruzius, and he seems to be very scholarly. Besides, the behind-the-scenes voice-over for [Flowers of Heaven] is very much like the …… history book.” Ellie explained.

    “Ha, a history book.” Alessio sneered at the psycho’s nickname.

    “You’re not bad either, Xixi.” Ruzius retorted without hesitation.

    Both defeated, both shut up at the same time.

    Ellie turned the screen and [Flowers of Heaven] began to play as Alessio watched the clip intently. His expression did look as bland as he expected. He had expected such a live stream to be rather boring, but to his surprise, he casually glanced at the barrage and saw a group of people with microscopes watching the live stream speaking passionately.

Ai, the history book glanced at Xixi while talking about the three pillars.

While reading the war chronology, Xixi was also looking at the history book.

They must have experienced it more than us, and some of the wars they probably even experienced personally.

Wuwu …… It’s actually super sad when you think about it ……

I’m actually a little curious as to how the Dark Creatures actually fought and killed others …… with cuteness?

I also wonder …… confused world ……

    Seeing these naive statements, Alessio’s originally somewhat heavy heart suddenly stopped being heavy! What do you mean you can’t imagine how Dark Creatures can fight? What do you mean by killing enemies with cuteness? He wanted to beat up psycho on the spot for them to see!

    But to remain undercover, he had to hold back.

    Ruzius glanced at the angry but unable to do anything vampire, a slight smile rising to the corners of his mouth, then fading away. He glanced at the barrage, he knew how to interact with this thing.

    “Dark Creatures are very fierce.” He said slowly, though slowly, his tone not showing much earnestness.

    “Very fierce, very fierce.”

    As he said this, he looked over at Alessio, who looked at him with a dumbfounded expression, a few hairs sticking up from his head, and the barrage went crazy with laughter.

The history book is right hahahaha!

Very fierce! I can see that!

Time to take out my cat and pat on the door.jpg!

    Alessio: …… beat him up very lightly last night!

    Ellie was so close to laughing out loud. She forced herself to hold back and acted as the host to ask the two some questions.

    “I’m sure the audience is curious to ask the two of you how this history will be revised?”

    “He’s in charge of the Light Gods section, I’ll take the Dark Gods section.” Not wanting to let the psycho take control of the conversation any longer, Alessio learned to read the comments to answer the questions and to decide the topic of the conversation he would take next by the reactions of the barrage and be soon able to chat a few words.

    At that moment, Ruzius seemed to have something with his portable optical computer and then tapped a certain spot on the screen that kept flashing. The spot was now being completely occupied by a line of cool flashing font, which Alessio subconsciously read out like a comment.

    “Thanks to Ruzius for the ……” At the crucial moment, he nearly bit his own tongue before stopping his words forcibly and glaring at the psycho next to him!

    Stupid as hell!!!

    “Flash the thank you section.” The Saint remained expressionless and looked at him seemingly innocently, “Every now and then you can read it, thanks for the support.”

    The barrage screen fell silent for a moment.

Aaaaaaahhhh 

! I’ll put my breakfast money down for tomorrow!

(T/N:冲鸭, internet slang for a cute way to cheer up people like good luck, or you can do it)

Excited, excited! 

 explosion!!!

(T/N: online payment)

    An avalanche of gifts came in, and Alessio fell silent.

    He thought Psycho was cheating on Krypton, but he had no proof!

    He interacted with the barrage for a while as Ellie asked them to give their final thoughts on the short film [Flowers of Heaven] as one last question before winding up.

    Images of the rain of fire falling flashed before Alessio’s eyes, those brutal chronologies of war dappled and flowing, eventually becoming something he had experienced with the psycho. He closed his eyes.

    “Hatred never blossoms.”

    He spoke softly the words that the Saint had told him in the past. 

    The Northern Frontier.

    The convoy drove slowly back to its position, with a small escort group of Griffins flying in the sky. Deep into the battlefield for over a month, Commander Xin gave the order to withdraw, taking into account the physical and psychological condition of the Dark Creatures accompanying them. The battle was quite successful, the flood of light was contained and gradually transformed into a haze of light that could be resisted with some protection. Next, they will continue to operate on the battlefield area and fill it with more dark elements.

    This was also due to the fact that the light species that appeared with the light collapse this time did not have a high danger factor, so they could have an easier time, not to mention the Dark Creature that came with them this time, the one with great dark power and a very good personality, Mr Zhen 

.

(T/N: originally in English)

    “Mr. Zhen.” Commander Xin greeted the Dark Creature gently as he got out of the car. Most people would show a softer attitude when faced with a lovely dark creature.

    “I can do it myself, thank you.”

    The dark creature in the car, somewhere between a child and a teenager, jumped down gracefully, a paper talisman fluttering slightly on his forehead, a dozen red threads wrapping around his arms, accompanied by two wide sleeves with peacock prints on a basaltic background dangling down, while his half-length hair below his shoulders was knotted into a braid, draped with pearls and feathered ornaments. He lifted his head slightly to smile at Commander Xin, with black hair and black eyes, and pointed fangs showing a little tip to indicate his racial identity –

    An Oriental, 

, Zhen.

(T/N: Chinese hopping vampire)

    “Has Marshal Olsen gone back already? He still owes me three nights of stories.” Zhen asked briskly, as Commander Xin smiled and indicated to him that he would ask the Old Marshal to honour his promise. Many people also especially come over to say hello to this cutie who came back from the battlefield, and Zhen was even able to remember each of their names and smile throughout.

    Suddenly, something occurred to him and he hastily asked:

    “Before I went to the battlefield, an archaeological excavation was going to be conducted ……”

    “He has been successfully revived.” Commander Xin replied, “He should also be past the adjustment period of staying in the protection centre now. The account has been registered and is called ‘Alessio’, you can look for it.”

    Alessio ……

    Holding his optical computer, Zhen hesitated for a moment whether to check his own updates first, but finally, he couldn’t resist and searched for the name “Alessio” on the “Pupil” first.

    The page expanded…

    This name, like his, was surrounded by the nest of the Divine Kingfisher, but the interface was empty, with no news.

    Little social expert – who can post dozens of posts a day- Zhen: unbelievable ……!

    He tried to privately chat with Alessio.

Zhen: Hello, little friend with sharp teeth!

System prompt: You are not a friend of the other party, the other party has rejected your message.

    Zhen: ????

    Feeling wronged!