Chapter 4

Now, the smiling girl next door has long been lost in the explosion.

Zero, dead.

Buried in the sea of fire, jade perishes to zero.

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At the end of summer, the cool feeling of autumn has disappeared.

On the trees outside the window, the wind blows the leaves and rustles. Cicadas are hidden between the branches and leaves. Before winter comes, they sing the last sad song.

Outside the door, noisy footsteps come and go. Although they are deliberately light, they still disturb zero's shallow sleep.

Black eyelashes trembled a few times. Her eyes slowly opened a seam. The dazzling sunshine immediately made zero frown and show her eyebrows.

Didn't she close the shade when she was asleep? The sun is so big that my pricked eyes are not very comfortable. There is a vague shadow in front of me.

There are people around!!

She suddenly woke up.

"Mother, mother." A timid voice remembered her very close.

Zero didn't even understand what the other party said, so he bounced up quickly, and his palm habitually touched under the pillow, but didn't touch her gun.

My heart was slightly surprised. The feeling of maladjustment came again. Where's her gun? Where did the things that used to stay with the body go?

"The emperor is coming. You must immediately change into a palace skirt, dress up and welcome the holy driving. If you are late, it will be too late." The poor little maid in waiting shouted all noon and her voice was about to smoke. It was not easy to see that the master opened his eyes, and her voice immediately choked. "Empress, you must not have anything else to do, otherwise the emperor will order to kill the slaves in this room."

Zero's mind was running fast, but he couldn't see his inner panic on his face. His eyes slowly swept over the maid standing in front of him, from the roof to the ground, the indoor furnishings, and even the antique bronze mirrors on the dresser.

She remembers the big bang before she fainted.

A grenade thrown in from the window is not powerful, but it happened to hit the place where the "chocolate bomb" was collected.

'chocolate bomb' is zero's proudest masterpiece. She knows better than anyone the consequences of detonating a basket of 'chocolate bombs' with a grenade.

At the moment of bursting, her mind was blank... Not that she didn't want to hide, but that she had no way to hide, and there was no time for her to find a hiding place.

She didn't even have time to feel the taste of death. Fear didn't reach the brain center, and then produced the necessary conditioned reflex. Zero clearly saw the process that her body was torn into dust. There was no pain, and there was no time for fear. She fell into an eternal sleep.

She knew clearly that death was not her dream.