After Shaglin was seated, the dining table was cleared. The butler ordered the servants to deliver black tea, coffee and exquisite desserts, and then closed the hall door for everyone. Xia Gelin took a sip of black tea, her movements were elegant and impeccable. After she put down her teacup, she said: "This sudden visit is really unavoidable. I don't know who sent the message about the Twilight Son to the Emperor. I have concealed this matter from the Emperor. When I was in Moon Lake When Zhipan foresees that the emperor has already noticed this matter, he can only leave one step ahead of time."
"Teacher, please explain in detail. You mean, you knew that Alan was the Son of Twilight?" Lucy asked.
"Yes." Shaglin lowered her head, looked at her slightly swollen abdomen, and her voice was as soft as the echo of the valley: "Don't forget that I am the one who made the prophecy of cosmic twilight. I knew him as the Son of the Twilight when I saw Lun."
Lucy said softly: "The universe is at dusk, and everything will end. This is the prophecy you made at the time. If Allen is related to this prophecy, why didn't you tell the father?"
"Because when I gaze into Alan's future, some fragments cannot be seen clearly. You must know, my little Lucy, that the future I see is only one fragment among many. Think of time as a river, and the universe Any one of the factors in this river may cause different branches of this river. What I can see is only a certain tributary. In many cases, the foresight needs to be revised in combination with current information in order to get infinitely close to the truth. The farther the foreseeable time is, the more variables there will be." Xia Gelin shook her head and said: "I saw Alan that day, but I couldn't see through his clear future, only some broken pieces. That is to say, Allen's future is full of too many possibilities, even though he is the son of the twilight, he may not be the one to stage the cosmic twilight."
"Because of these fragments, I chose to hide the emperor. And because of one or two fragments in it, I am willing to make him the only man in my life..."
Lucy coughed dryly and said, "Teacher, don't bring up such a private matter here."
Everyone in the hall turned their heads away, or lowered their heads and smiled, but Xia Gelin was generous and natural. She smiled slightly: "You will know in the future that I did this for your sake, little Lucy."
"Let's get back to the topic. I originally planned to observe secretly and guide Alan at the right time to prevent him from going down the road that I don't like. But fate is like this, and accidents often happen suddenly. The emperor was very nervous when he learned of Alan's identity, because he knew what the Twilight Son was." Xia Gelin's voice gradually became ethereal: "About the Twilight Son, I'm afraid even little Lucy doesn't know. But I, Ada, The ancestors of Huaxing have long found clues about the Twilight Son from certain sufficiently old planets in the universe. Even, before that distant time, multiple races of higher civilizations dispatched their own strongmen to join hands to besiege and kill that twilight of the times
Son, finally succeeded in preventing an end of the universe. "
"Yes, cosmic twilight can be stopped, as long as you kill the son of the twilight. Although the son of the twilight cannot be completely extinct and will appear every once in a while, as long as you kill him, you can delay a long enough period of time." Time. So long that we will not be able to see the coming of the next dusk."
The entire hall became extremely quiet. No one, including Lucy, thought that the Son of Twilight was the messenger who would end the entire universe, let alone that Twilight could be stopped, but the way to stop it was too cruel. Lucy said in a trembling voice: "Then what the father means is that he wants to kill Allen?"
"No, no..." Shaglin shook her head, looked at the girl softly and said, "Lucy, you have to believe that the emperor loves you. Even if he knew that Alan was the Son of Twilight, he would still consider yours." Feeling. The news I got through my own channels shows that the emperor wants the Federation to hand over Alan to him, and he wants to bring Alan back to our home planet for observation. At the end of the day, he will be completely transformed into the Son of Twilight, and the emperor will not It hurt his life. Allen can move freely on the home planet, but he can't leave."
"That is to say, it was the father who asked the federation to recall Alan? But does he know what the federation did to Alan!" Lucy said angrily.
"Even if I didn't foresee this, let alone the emperor, what the Federation did was not what he wanted. You should know, right?"
"Miss Shaglin, I noticed that you mentioned the word transformation just now?" Edward asked, "Can you explain it in detail for us?"
Shaglin nodded: "First of all, you have to understand that the Sons of Twilight are not like human beings or us Idahua Stars. They do not have a fixed race. In the research of the ancestors, among the clues that can be grasped, there are several differences. The twilight children of the era all came from different races. The ancestors believed that the appearance of the twilight children was not determined by race, but by genes."
"Before the genes of the Children of the Twilight appear, they will not even know their identities. Only when the genes of the Children of the Twilight appear, they will be completely transformed. At this time, they will be like their ancestors, with obvious changes in their physical characteristics, and they will break away from their original Restore the appearance of the race, and restore its ancient posture..." Shaglin said in a recitative tone: "He came from the flames, and the fire worshiped him. The lava is his armor, and the swaying black smoke is his banner. Flowing The magma adorns his body, and the shadows that cover the sky under the firelight are his wings; his breath is the aerine that ends all things, and may the light of evening never come."
"This is the description of the Twilight Sons by the ancestors. The elements that appear the most are flames and high temperatures. That should be the characteristic of the Twilight Sons after transformation."
The silver spoon in Adele's hand fell to the table suddenly, and she quickly picked it up. People were all absorbed by Shaglin's description, but no one noticed her little gaffe. The girl lowered her head because many people saw her abnormal expression. She still clearly remembered that Alan had lost control and stormed past in Storm City that day. When the flames covered Alan's figure, Adele saw a majestic and domineering figure. At that time, she thought it was Alan's original ancestral posture, but now hearing Xia Gelin's description, that figure is very close. It turned out that she had glimpsed Alan's true posture early in the morning, but until today, she didn't know what she saw at that time.
"Okay, these are things you didn't know, and now you know. As for what happened to Alan on Earth
You guys know better than me. I also know that your locator has been blown up. This is indeed a good way, but it can delay the federal army, but it can't stop the people from our home planet. I believe Lucy knows this too. said Shaglin with a smile.
Edward asked: "Then Miss Shaglin, do you have any good suggestions?"
"When I came, I brought out some gadgets, such as deflectors that interfere with the positioning coordinates of the mother star. They can delay for a while, but it will never be too long. If there is no farce of the Federation, I may let Ai go. It is not a bad thing for Allen to let the emperor take him away, at least he can know his identity. But it is not working now, the Federation has already sprinkled salt on Allen's wound, and his character is absolutely I will accept the emperor's invitation again. If the emperor's attitude is tough, the whole situation will only get out of control, so now I don't want Alan to go to the home planet. But..." Xia Gelin sighed: "This is not a long-term solution, Alan Unable to stay on this planet for long, he must find another place."
Everyone was silent, the earth would definitely not be able to go back, nor would it be possible for Idahua Star, and now even Paradise Star cannot live for a long time, they don't know where else Allen can go.
Shaglin looked at Lucy at this moment and said, "I have something I want to talk to you alone, do you have time?"
Lucy nodded and left her seat, and left with Shaglin first.
While everyone on Paradise was worried about where Alan would go next, on the other side of the universe, some people on Earth were also very busy with Alan's whereabouts. Alan was definitely one of them. He was returning to the White House in a speeding car. In the past two hours, he had just concluded a not-so-pleasant meeting with the nobles. The three big families all sent their own representatives. The current patriarch of Beth Keld, Roddy, and the old Kate of the Motsen family attended in person. The other families that ranked high in Babylon either had their patriarchs in person or sent representatives to attend. .
In the four hundred years since the federation was established, it was the first time that so many nobles participated in political talks. Such a grand occasion cannot be called unprecedented, but it is absolutely unprecedented.
Everything was just as Alan thought, the nobles came aggressively, and they continued to condemn the Federation. Among these condemnations, most of them have nothing to do with Allen. It can be said that the Allen incident was just a trigger, which completely detonated the conflict between the nobles and the Federation. During the whole meeting, the three giants and Roddy were eerily quiet. It is understandable for the representatives of the three wealthy families to choose to be silent. Alan is understandable. Roddy has always had a bad temper, but apart from his stinky face, there was no harsh words in the meeting, which surprised Alan.
In the end, Alan reached a number of agreements between the Federation and the nobles on behalf of the Federation, and offered to take the responsibility of finding Alan. At the end of this meeting, the two sides did not completely tear their faces apart. The key is that Alan put all the responsibility on Fendi and accused Fendi of imprisoning Alan without his knowledge. Anyway, now that Fendi is gone, Alan has nothing to say about it.
In fact, the nobles who attended the meeting also knew that Alan was bringing disaster to the east, but after all, no family wanted to completely break with the Federation, so Alan's doing so also gave both sides a step down. Only after this incident, the relationship between the nobles and the Federation has dropped to a freezing point. They haven't broken up yet, just considering their respective interests, but it will be a matter of time before they split up.
But these are not what Alan cares about. It is enough for Alan to temporarily appease the nobles and avoid immediate conflicts. He wants to use this buffer time to carry out other actions.
(end of this chapter)