The Eden test base was blown up, and the fortress of Angel City, which was very close to it, was deserted.
The Alliance Council made an urgent decision to control all members of the Eden Management Committee, except for the missing Lin Jingshu.
Wang Ailun glanced down at the personal terminal and whispered to Woolf, "The council requests to speak with you."
Woolf was like an old tortoise on the verge of death, as if turning his eyes could tire him, his eyes were fixed in one place, and he remained motionless for a long time as if he was meditating, before saying, "Tell them that my heart is not feeling well, Lie down in the medical cabin and let them wait."
As soon as Wang Ailun bowed his head, he skillfully organized a rhetoric for the old marshal, "Although he is old, frail and sick, he is still worried about the country and the people" and went back to the past.
Woolf turned around and knocked on the wall. A three-dimensional video screen popped up on the wall, and then popped out of the screen. It was the video that reported Lu Xin's "forbidden fruit". A man said in a trembling voice, "Laura Geddon fled I went to see Lu Xin before. General Lin Wei was not asleep at the time. He was behind the window and watched her go. I happened to be on duty that day, and General Lin didn't let me speak up. stuff, Dr. Gurdon doesn't trust him, and now has to give it to someone else"
"This person was born in the fourth galaxy. He has a younger brother who is vacuolated. He used to be a guard in General Lin Wei's personal guard regiment. When Jingheng was taken away by Lu Xin, he was still young. I picked someone to go with him. This guard is also very willing to follow him. After all, there are many opportunities to climb up with Lu Xin. Later, Lu Xin arranged him into his own guard group and regarded him as a person who knew the bottom line. "Wang Ailun said, "There is a special area for empty brain disease in the Baita of the management committee, and a group of patients with empty brain disease are raised. Their daily work is to cooperate with brain wave scanning and get paid as a researcher. You know, in the world of Eden, except for the Baita. There is no place for a 'researcher'. His younger brother was 20 years old at that time and just came of age. With their family background, the only way to come to the eighth galaxy is to live in the eighth galaxy. For the sake of his family, he decided to betray Lu Xin, and The management committee made the deal. But he overheard a few words of 'ghost hunting' at the management committee, and learned that the result of the national jury was a given. At both ends of the first mouse, it didn't end well either."
"Because of this two-faced whistleblower, and because after Lu Xin's death, they couldn't find out where the 'forbidden fruit' was, so the management committee gradually believed that the 'forbidden fruit' might not really be in Lu Xin's hands. of self-destruction and disappeared.”
Wang Ailun nodded: "Yes, the only thing they can't move is Zhan Lu. Zhan Lu's backup authority is in Jingheng, and the child has been monitored for many years because of this. But it is said that his various data are normal, too normal— Appropriate cynicism, appropriate sarcasm, appropriate resistance to Eden and Alliance Central, occasionally extreme, and even crossed the safety line of being on the 'potential' list, but the entire human base is 'safe', if this kind of data is also fake, That would be terrifying, he was in his teens after all."
"For so many years, the Forbidden Fruit system has been running silently on Zhan Lu, conscientiously forging a series of data, it seems that Lu Xin never told Lin Jingheng, the deep operation logic of 'Forbidden Fruit', he may have always thought that Forbidden Fruit was just a shield ." Woolf sighed, "In order to protect the child, Lu Xin said nothing, including all the things between him and the Eden Management Committee, including the fact that he once met me on the 'forbidden fruit' list."
Woolf said, holding on to the table, and slowly walked to his desk. The solid wood table top had a thick luster. He fumbled to open the drawer, revealing an old photo frame inside - unbelievable, the new Ephemeris era , there are still people using this antique.
In the photo frame is a group photo of three teenagers. The special photo craftsmanship has allowed more than two hundred years of time to lose the quality of the picture, as if it was just taken this morning.
"It's me in the middle," Woolf murmured. "Can you tell? I'm out of shape."
Wang Ailun smiled slightly: "Where, the outline and facial features haven't changed much. The other two are Dr. Harden and Marshal Ringle."
"The three of us have been together since we were young, and now they're gone," Woolf said softly, babblingly, "It's gone, the last thing Gerr said to me in his life was to let us replace him Looking at this world and seeing that the vision imagined in the Declaration of Freedom has come true, I will tell him about it later. He said that he could not see the light of the stars sweeping over Votto, nor the birth of Xiao Wei, and he was only one step away from dawn. second."
Wang Ailun knew that the old marshal was not talking to him, so he silently stood aside and dutifully acted as a woodcarver with ears and no words.
"The idea of 'forbidden fruit' was proposed by the management committee. The management committee used the Garden of Eden to monitor everyone, but they didn't want to be monitored. They wanted to make a privileged shielding system for their own people. It was upgraded to a sharp blade that could pierce through the Garden of Eden. At that time, he found me and told me that he planned to use the forbidden fruit to secretly cultivate an 'anti-Urban society' outside the realm so that the Garden of Eden could not be controlled. Angry, I think the Eden Management Committee is too greedy, but how can Dr. Harden hook up with pirates outside the territory, isn't this treason? But that is my brother who died, I can't report him He had to cut off contact with him from now on."
"Haden didn't argue with me at the time, he just said that he would record my thoughts and beliefs at the time and enter the 'forbidden fruit'. Even if one day I changed, I would still be such an upright model in the Garden of Eden. Like—he said he hoped I would never use it." Woolf said softly, "He's mocking me, but he's right, and I wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for him."
His friends, the people he could not let go of his whole life, the children he brought up with his own hands, and the students who had high hopes left him one by one, pushing the huge steam car of the Union to the direction that ran counter to the original.
When he regretted it, he was already old and frail, and he had to rely on the memory stored by artificial intelligence to remember those ideals and beliefs from a long time ago.
For a moment, a picture flashed across Woolf's brain like a resurgence, and he vaguely remembered as if there was a teenager who described: "I, just live to be two hundred years old, almost enough, otherwise if I accidentally live to three years old. Hundred-year-old, deaf, stubborn and narrow-minded, can't remember anything from the past, and his thoughts have changed. Isn't that another person, or me? I don't want it."
Woolf and Wang Ailun sat one by one, and were relatively speechless for a long time. Wang Ailun's eyes swept across the old photos in the drawer, thinking of Lu Xin.
Wang Ailun thought, how did Lu Xin feel when he temporarily decided to flee from Wotto in a hurry
He was loyal to the Alliance, and died for the Alliance, but found that his teachers, friends, and seniors were all trying to shield and protect themselves when they encouraged others to use the Garden of Eden.
He spent his life pursuing liberty and equality for every citizen who decided to convict him on a national jury.
Time was short, he didn't know how to explain these things to Lin Jingheng who was still a child, and even he probably didn't have time to figure it out, so he had to choose encryption Zhanlu and kept silent.
On the night that Lu Xin flew out of Votto, did he really believe in the things he had worked so hard for and shed blood for
"Not yet," Woolf said in a vague voice, "the Glory Corps that entered the vacancy is still in Votto, and the garbage in the Anti-Ukrainian Society has not been cleaned up. I promised Gore and Harden's new world to return. It’s far away. I can’t give up the lingering power of the Alliance for the time being.”
What Wang Ailun understood: "You said Jingheng."
"He still doesn't know what the 'forbidden fruit' is, but with so much uproar, no matter how closed the eighth galaxy is, he will always have a chance to know, there will always be a chance to see that list, and his faith collapses like Lu Xin," Woolf said. " Too bad, I don't want that. I want him to live like a hero and die like a hero, you know what I mean?"
Wang Ailun understood, bowed slightly to Woolf, and asked him, "What about Jingshu?"
Woolf was silent for a while, then sighed: "No matter how the organization is exhausted, it is better to sneak into the Eden Management Committee Gao Ming from a young age. We old people underestimate her. The Management Committee is really poisonous soil, and it can't grow. A normal flower. To find her as soon as possible, and not let her disappear inexplicably - your contact person will send a statement as soon as possible, announcing a comprehensive eradication of 'opium' within the alliance, telling the public that this is a conspiracy of the management committee behind the Garden of Eden, and publishing Lin Jingshu wanted warrant."
Poisonous Flowers - Lin Jingshu stood up in front of Dr. Harden, her hands behind her back, the smile on her face disappeared, she stared at the murderers in the glass laboratory, she stood on tiptoe and leaned forward, rubbing the tip of her nose against the icy cold. on one-way glass.
"If the world treats you badly, hurts you, and every idiot who thinks he is innocent has sucked blood from your heart, you have to forgive, and you have to repay your grievances with virtue, and you have to do what is called 'the right thing'. Then you are also guilty." She said, "Because you made the dead good people wrong, you made the living fools feel at ease with their 'innocence', and you made history fall into the shameful and despicable ants. There are always tragic heroes to save. The cliché. The gritted teeth and blood you swallowed make this story false and ugly."
Dr. Harden, old-fashioned in the shadows, asked softly, "Son, is there no justice and humanity in your heart?"
"I am human nature," Lin Jingshu said. "What is human nature? Human nature is to eat when you are hungry and drink when you are thirsty. If someone treats you well, remember him and repay him. If someone tramples on you, he will take revenge at all costs - this It's natural human nature. The so-called 'righteousness', ha, that's a self-indulgent perversion that won't end well."
She said, kissing the protective glass lightly, leaving a red lip print.
"It's disgusting," she said, then turned away.
The eight major galaxies all bled into rivers in her turn.
Thomas Yang and Poisson Yang plan to integrate the silver third guard on the edge of the second galaxy. There is a large interstellar interstellar transit on the edge of the second galaxy. Private starship trading, civilian commercial starship supply and maintenance are all here. Over time, various supplies and Starship service agencies get together here. The silver third guards are all technicians, and they happen to be in this place. They can set off with a summoning order. Who knows that they will run into a large number of private starship groups and seek refuge in transit.
"We came from the second galaxy, my teacher at the Second Polytechnic University, our school is in an artificial space, far from the natural planets, and the students live on campus," a middle-aged man led a group of confused teenagers , waved his hand and declined the cigarette that Thomas Yang handed over, "Thank you, brother, don't smoke this, there are still a few minors among the students - a group of people suddenly came that day, driving mechas to occupy the space where the school is, forcing us The injection of a biochip is said to be a substitute for the Garden of Eden. The principal said that it is a good thing that there is a substitute for the Garden of Eden, but the internal injection requires strict procedures. Besides, the school cannot give consent without authorization, and the parents of underage students have to be organized to sign them. The principal was shot! My colleagues and I saw the situation and quickly took the students to flee. Most of them were shot down. We were lucky. I wanted to send these children home, but the first The channel of the two galaxies has been blocked, and someone is fighting there, there is really no way, only to hide here first."
His voice fell, and a student suddenly screamed: "Teacher!"
I saw a few students fiddling around with the underground network for some reason, and a video with a violently shaking picture was uploaded. It seemed to be an artificial space. The natural conditions of the second galaxy were average, mainly due to the developed financial and transportation industry. Nearly half of the population was Living in a large man-made space—the next moment, an ominous alarm flashed in the video screen, and a passerby suddenly ran wild, shouting "missile", the voice fell, the white light obliterated the whole picture, and everything came to an abrupt end.
"This is Kenny space near the capital star of the two galaxies."
"The space group near the capital star is now out of contact across the board."
People panicked. Those with relatives and friends who were still near the capital star began to anxiously try to establish contact. After a while, those who could not be contacted began to collapse and cry, and became a mess.
Thomas Yang silently put the cigarette he didn't send out just now into his mouth, and Poisson walked over to him with his arms folded over his chest: "It's not safe here, such a big interstellar transit will soon become a refugee camp. The pirates who buy and sell opium by force will soon be eyeing this place, what do you say, captain of the guard, shall we withdraw?”
At the same time, the Silver First Guard has been stranded in the Third Galaxy for more than a week—because they rescued a group of refugees hunted by pirates along the way.
As the war boils over, there are more and more interstellar refugee groups. People living near the front line are afraid that a missile will fall from the sky and land in their own courtyard every day. Everyone who can afford a starship ticket will run away. It is said that the price of the refugee ferry tickets for Samsung series has risen to sky-high prices. Generally, middle-class families have to go bankrupt and have to choose who to leave and who to stay.
These refugee starships can't withstand an emergency jump, and if the acceleration is too large, people will die, and all the nearby jump points scanned have been surrounded by various armed forces. With such a big burden, the first silver guard is also Trapped in a pirate encirclement.
In the eighth galaxy, Lin Jingheng had just repelled a wave of anti-Ukrainian attacks under Anklu's turn, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Zhanlu suddenly say: "Sir, the request for remote communication is from the third party of silver. David Thomas Young."
Lin Jingheng was taken aback.
The Ten Silver Guards are well-trained. It stands to reason that after they have determined that Lin Jingheng is in the eighth galaxy, they should come to meet as soon as possible. They will work cheaply on the way, and will not try to establish contact with anyone. They will only pass when they are close to the destination. The jump network sends out a long-distance communication request - this will not reveal its coordinates on the road, so as not to cause trouble.
Baiyin San sent a communication at this time. If he had not arrived at the Eighth Galaxy, he had something important to ask for instructions.
Lin Jingheng: "Yes."
From the second galaxy to the eighth galaxy, even if there is a powerful transition network that constantly folds the space, there is still no real-time dialogue. From the establishment of the remote signal two-way connection to the appearance of Thomas Yang on the screen, it takes more than fifty hours.
"General," finally, the picture of Thomas Young appeared. He buckled the hat he was wearing crookedly, put back his slick suit subconsciously, and sat down to salute, "The channel is blocked, we are currently in the 'nebula transit' of the second galaxy, There are at least 6 million refugees gathered here, and the Pirates of Freedom Corps visually observed that more than 50 heavy armors are approaching here, and they will force everyone to inject biochips, the drug opium."
Lin Jingheng's fist tightened suddenly.
With such a long-distance communication, due to the delay, it is impossible for the two sides to have a free dialogue, so Thomas Yang thought about it and said all the words to be reported at one time: "I had contact with Miss Jingshu when Poisson and I were in Angel City, but she refused to talk to her. Let's go, now the news is that Miss Lin is missing - sorry, General, we could just take her away by force."
"The silver third guard has been assembled, and the emergency jump has been carried out in succession. It is not a problem for us to get rid of the pirates. Now whether we should make an emergency jump to the eighth galaxy immediately, or stay to protect the nebula transit, please instruct."
Lu Bixing, several engineers accompanying the army, and Zhan Lu, who had just climbed out of the medical cabin, were all focused on Lin Jingheng.
"The pirates who bought and sold opium by force called themselves 'Freedom Corps'. Who are they trying to mock?" Lin Jingheng paused and said to Thomas Yang more than fifty hours later, "The Ten Silver Guards chose to take the oath back then. What is your allegiance, don't you remember? Please tell me what to do!"
"Sir, a remote communication request from the Silver First Guard"
"Sir, from the Silver Sixth Guardian"
"Sir, Captain Yang Guard sent a letter saying 'Long live the Declaration of Freedom'."
The Seventh Galaxy Central Army, Anklu was listening to the battle reports of various galaxies in the conference room, and the personal terminal suddenly sounded a reminder.
He was stunned for a moment, waved his hand to interrupt the chattering secretary, told everyone to dismiss the meeting, then backed away and locked the office door by himself.
"It's me." Wang Ailun's face appeared on the personal terminal, "Good day, General An in fifty-six hours."
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