old dream

Chapter 67 Undead
"What are you going to do with the wine still in my house?"

It seemed that he was concerned about what to do with the wine, but he was actually asking Colin about his next plan.

A few hours ago, Colin told her the result of the patriarch meeting.She didn't need to explain anything cumbersome, she naturally knew how this matter would affect Colin.

At this time, Colin suddenly remembered that his uncle had asked a similar question this morning.

Ji Lian and Craigie, it can be said that they are the two people who are closest to Colin and who know his most secrets.

They are all people living on the fringes of the mundane and the transcendent, and although they have their own purposes, their interests can still be harmoniously harmonized and provide each other with the most needed help.

And their relatively closed and simple interpersonal relationships can also add a lot to the security of cooperation.So they are also the only people who know the overall situation of Colin's plan.

Although Jilian and Craigie were completely different in age, appearance and ethnicity, they gave Colin a vaguely similar feeling, perhaps because their experiences were somewhat similar.

The two knew each other's existence, but they never had a conversation.Sometimes Colin would think that if they could meet one day, maybe they would hit it off.

But they may also hate each other because of this similarity.

"Is there no other way to get 80 Ori in half a year without relying on Prohibition?"

Ji Lian asked softly, it sounded a bit like a secret conversation with a deliberately low voice, but it was just her usual habit of speaking.

While knowledgeable in some odd ways, she can sometimes ask questions that lack common sense.If it is a normal person, it is impossible to consider taking in 80 Ori within half a year.

"If you don't think about gambling, I don't think so," Colin said.

The technology that can bring huge profits in this era, in the end, he only thought of the famous story about the light bulb in the previous life, probably the lamp with the tungsten filament as the light source has the longest life.

But what metal is tungsten exactly?It was originally thought to be a familiar and simple story, but in the end the only information that could be extracted from it was the meaningless name of "tungsten" and the atomic number 74.As for where to mine, how to smelt is not known.

There is simply no other way out.

"Those wines can be kept and sold when the time is right," Colin said.

"But who can you sell it to?"

Ji Li asked quietly, and her words began to contain some dissuasion.I am afraid that it may sound to others that Colin is just unwilling to face failure, and is just doing some futile perseverance.

"No one can buy so much at once, and..."

"And it may be hostile to five hands." Colin said while playing with the handle of the knife:

"At the same time, this is illegal business, and at worst, I will lose my foothold on the ground and underground."

"Then, are you still going to keep those wines?"

"Of course I'll keep it," Colin said softly.He looked around slightly sideways, made sure no one was paying attention, leaned forward on the dining table, and made a low-pitched announcement:

"Not only will I keep them, but I will do one thing for Marizio - the thing that should have been done by him."

“It is a sin to leave a fertile soil empty without cultivation.”

The bootleg market is bound to be built out of guns and blood, and the first person to do so will be Stade's bootleg king.

Since those big men were timid and did not dare to reach out, I had to do it myself.

"..." Ji Lian was stunned, and unconsciously slowly opened her beautiful eyes.

Colin saw that it was a similar reaction to Craigie's, the cautious instinct of a learned dweller.Presumably, it was the first time they realized that their collaborators had gone crazy enough to become enemies with the entire city, so it was not difficult to understand that there would be such a reaction at this time.

Colin caught a trace of fear slipping through Ji Li'an's pale golden clear pupils.Although it was expected, it still felt a little boring.

But after all, he just watched calmly and quietly, without worrying about it.

People like Ji Lian understand everything in the universe from the pages of books, but they have never participated in the primitive and ugly struggle in reality.Facing this sudden upheaval, he completely lost his usual agility.

Whether it was Craigie or Ji Lian, they were already tied to their chariots.

Craigie could only get clues about Lentz from himself, and he had already been involved in concealing the eavesdropping of the seminary for himself.

As for Ji Li'an, although she can continue to treat prostitutes to make a living, if she doesn't have the precious information she has provided for her, she can only wait in despair to be swallowed up by the disease a little bit, and the chronic death of tuberculosis will soon suffocate. come.

Even if they are walking into the abyss step by step, they can only follow step by step.Because if they face failure, they will be buried with them without any suspense.

So don't worry about betrayal from them.Colin had never thought to implicate them, and now he can only say sorry in his heart.If you want to blame it, you should blame the excessive conservativeness of the patriarchal meeting.

But to his surprise, the next moment, Ji Lian smiled softly.

"……Ah."

A voice that could not be distinguished from a sigh or a chuckle leaked out from under the mask.

Colin looked at Ji Li'an's face, trying to see the meaning of this laughter.The mask covered most of her expression, only the corners of her eyes were slightly red, but there was a faint smile on her face.Some people laugh when they cry, is Ji Lian this one?Or is this just a mockery of yourself?

"Is transcendence really that important to you?"

She asked again, Ji Li An knew the answer, but asked the question again.

Sometimes Colin would also ask himself, is it worth it if he runs into the abyss regardless of his life or death, even putting everyone around him in danger?
"To be honest, I never care about the extraordinary." Colin looked at the traveler and said:

"From the beginning to the end, I just want to regain those lost memories."

"But is it worth giving up the present ten or twenty years for the sake of five years of ignorance?" Ji Li'an asked.

Being able to easily gamble on everything is not necessarily brave, or it may be that the person doesn't care at all.

"Maybe there was nothing in those five years. Did you choose to lose your memory in order to escape?"

If not.Colin asked in his heart.

Who set the seal?
And people who have the strength to do this will only leave the seal, and naively leave nothing behind and let themselves take back everything?

If memory means some kind of danger, do you choose to avoid it ignorantly, or face it soberly?

"I don't know what happened in those five years, but I can vaguely feel that it is something that should never be forgotten."

Colin thought of the "teacher" who was imprisoned in his consciousness.Although his senses could not detect it, he knew that "it" was still watching him silently.

"Living without knowing is the same as never living..." So Colin said: "I can't accept all this with peace of mind, because I died ten years ago."

"Now I am just an undead trying to resurrect."

(End of this chapter)