winter in greenland

Chapter 45

It was Dan who moved first.

Before the atmosphere became more strange and silent, he leaned slightly towards Nina, held her hand and kissed gently: "Then, good night, little princess, see you next time."

Nina's mother understood the meaning behind his words, and said to Nina, "Say goodbye to uncle."

The little girl waved to Dan reluctantly: "Goodbye, Dan."

After Nina and the others walked out a few steps, August stepped forward eagerly: "Why are you here?"

The expression on Dan's face is still just right and polite, but anyone who has been with him can see the indifference under his smile: "It's nothing, just traveling."

Just as August was about to speak, Heath's voice came from behind him: "Dan?! Is it really you kid? Unexpectedly, I can meet you here!"

The other Sirius team members also came out of the Old Port one after another. Heath squeezed to Dan, grabbed his shoulders, complained, but his face was full of joy: "Although we only stayed with us for half a year, but After all, you are also an official member of our Sirius star, after you left, there was no news at all, it was like disappearing."

Dan's eyes became softer, and he exchanged pleasantries with Heath. Professor Murphy stood not far behind Heath, and Newman and Ian also came over.

"Look, what did I say?" Ian said with a hint of teasing in his tone.

Newman looked at them for a few seconds, then moved his eyes to August, and sighed: "Maybe you are right, I thought I would never see Dan again."

"...It's hard to see each other. We're going back to the base the day after tomorrow. Have a drink tonight?" Heath's voice was cheerful.

Before Dan could speak, Harvey and Joe came up at some point, and Harvey reached out to August first: "Harvey, Dan's friend here. You said you want to have a drink, why don't you go to us?" bar?"

August moved his eyes away from Dan, stretched out his hand and shook him, looked at Harvey and Joe with some inquiry, and didn't answer immediately, but Heath turned his head after hearing it: "Dan's friend? That's our friend, where is the bar? Let's go now?"

Just as Harvey was about to speak, Ian stepped forward and put a hand on Heath's shoulder: "Professor Murphy seems to say that he wants to go back to rest first, won't you see her off?"

Heath glanced in Professor Murphy's direction, and just about to ask, Ian's arm pressed down in warning, and he gave a slight wink in August's direction.

Heath immediately understood what was going on, and patted Ian backhand: "You guys go first, I'll take Professor Murphy back to the hotel."

Ian nodded.

Harvey saw their movements without a trace. He narrowed his eyes and felt that the scene in front of him became more and more interesting.

Five minutes later, Harvey and Joe walked ahead, Dan followed silently, August was half a step behind him, and Ian and Newman walked last.

After turning two blocks, Ian and Newman disappeared at some point.

August looked back, then looked at Dan's back, hesitated for a few seconds, and caught up with him: "Your injury...are you healed?"

Dan seemed to be taken aback by him, and he came back to his senses and replied simply: "It's done."

silence.

August had nothing to say: "You didn't return to the hunter?"

Dan glanced at him and shook his head: "No, I'm retired."

August was a little surprised: "Retired?" He wanted to ask something more, but his voice was interrupted by Harvey in front: "Here we are, everyone."

This time was when Corena's business was full. Harvey asked someone to reserve a place for them at the bar in advance. After taking them to sit down, he turned to the bar and started busy. Joe also went to prepare for the evening performance.The atmosphere became a little awkward for a while.

August looked around: "Is this a bar opened by your friend? It's pretty good."

Dan didn't answer, his eyes swept over him, and he said lightly: "I remember you never had nothing to say before, Major."

August was choked by him, a little helpless: "I just want to talk to you."

Dan smiled: "Reminisce?"

August frowned: "That's not what I meant. At that time, when you left Sirius, it was Heath who signed it. I didn't expect... To be honest, I regret that you left the base."

"If you just want to apologize, you don't have to. As I said before, you never have to say sorry to me. Of course, if you think I will stay in Sirius, it only shows that you don't know me at all."

"But we are comrades-in-arms who can give their lives."

"Indeed." Dan picked up the wine just served in front of him and drank it with his head up. The aroma of strong alcohol and malt filled the air. He put the glass back on the bar and motioned to the bartender for another glass.

August looked at him without speaking.It wasn't until he drank the second glass of wine that he held down his hand: "It's easy to get drunk when you drink like this."

Dan turned to look at him with mockery in his eyes: "I'm not your team member anymore, Major."

August's body shook slightly, and he let go of the hand that was holding him. He didn't say anything, and looked at him with heavy eyes.

Dan turned his head to avoid those gray-blue eyes, but felt an indescribable irritability stuck in his chest, unable to come up or go down.

"It seems that you don't really want to see me." August said after a long silence.

Dan played with the cup in his hand, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "You misunderstood again, Major, I personally don't have any prejudice against you, I just don't want to make myself uncomfortable."

August's face also sank, he paused, took the coat on the back of the chair beside him: "I understand." Then he stood up, without looking at Dan, turned and walked towards the door.

He didn't wear regular clothes or camouflage today. His lower body was a pair of simple dark jeans, and his upper body was a sweater and a woolen coat. However, when his face really sank, his whole demeanor immediately became icy cold.

Dan's eyes still stayed on the glass in his hand, and following the angle of light refraction, he watched the black figure twisting and walking away on the transparent glass surface.

Sitting next to them were a few young men and women with exaggerated punk makeup, obviously drunk at the moment.At first, they were just joking around, but someone who saw August's back whistled frivolously, followed by an unsavory comment, and the group burst into laughter.

Dan narrowed his eyes, glanced in their direction, and slowly clenched the glass in his hand.

The group of people didn't realize it. Another young man with a nose ring followed him and made a vulgar joke in August's name. Before he finished speaking, a beer bottle fell on his head.

"**! Who is it! Who the hell hit me?!" Blood flowed down immediately, and he looked around angrily while clutching his forehead.

The companion next to him was stunned by the sudden change, and no one realized what was going on.

"It's me." A cold voice sounded next to his ear: "This is just a lesson for you. Next time you want to show off in front of these little girls, choose a better way. Not everyone can use it as a comparison. Yes. You deserve it too?"

The young man with the nose ring finally saw the speaker's face clearly through his fingers, and recognized that this was the one sitting next to August.Knowing that he said something wrong, but he didn't want to lose face in front of his companions, so he boldly added: "We are talking about him, what does it have to do with you?"

Dan smiled casually: "You said 'others' really have nothing to do with me, but well, 'he' is with me, and it just so happens that it's not 'others'."

Enraged by his tone, the young man with the nose ring picked up the ice bucket on the table and threw it behind him without thinking.

Dan stood where he was, letting the ice hit him on the face. Some melted ice water dripped down his chin and landed on his clothes. His right hand had already pinched the young man's hand holding the ice bucket. Go down: "Want to fight?"

The young man only felt a sharp pain coming from his elbow, and he didn't care about face at the moment, screaming like a pig.

"Let me hear his name come out of the mouths of you moths again, and you will learn more than that."

At this time, the other companions of the young man were a little sober, and were irritated by the disdain in his words. They rushed towards Dan, the one on the left was holding a beer bottle in his hand, and the one on the right was hugging Dan. Caught Dan's arm twisting the man with the nose ring.

From the corner of Dan's eyes, he caught a glimpse of their movements, without blinking, his head tilted slightly, not dodging, letting the beer bottle hit his shoulder, twisting the arm of the man with the nose ring hard—— With a "click", the man with the nose ring twisted and dislocated his elbow.

Then he turned to the person holding his arm, bent his knees and mercilessly bumped the person's lower abdomen, and the person immediately wailed and squatted down, clutching his abdomen.When he turned his eyes to look at the person who hit himself with a beer bottle, the young man took two steps back in fright.

He didn't even look at the wound on his shoulder, and took a step forward. The young man was frightened by his momentum, and when he stepped back, he tripped over the high chair beside him and fell directly to the ground.

Dan looked down at him and said nothing.

All the changes happened within 3 minutes. Harvey was busy at the bar. When he heard the movement and rushed over, he saw Dan with an indifferent face, and a shivering yellow-haired youth at his feet.

"Dan! What's going on?" He rushed forward and grabbed Dan's arm, with some warning in his voice.

Dan looked back at him, as if he remembered where he was, and relaxed a little. He looked back at the group of young people, said nothing, and went back to the bar to sit down.

Harvey finally calmed down and sent the group of people away. He also figured out the ins and outs of the matter, and sat down next to Dan with a headache on his face: "You don't have to be so ruthless, do you?"

Dan took a sip of his wine: "That can only be blamed for their dirty mouth."

Harvey looked at him for a few seconds, then reached for the wine glass in his hand: "What's the first glass?"

Dan shook his head casually: "I can't remember."

Harvey rubbed his forehead: "I'm really curious about who that is, just showing your face, you're going to smash up my little place, and you want to drink yourself to death."

Dan shook the glass, looking a little far away, as if seeing far away through the amber liquid: "It's nothing, just a person I didn't expect to see again."