It was a tall and straight building several thousand meters high into the sky, in the shape of a sharp spearhead triangle. There is only a huge and spacious single-story office on the highest top floor. The four sides and the roof of the office are made of special transparent alloy glass, which can change color at any time.
At this moment, the glass is all transparent. Standing in the office, through the gray air, you can see the gray-black land. Everything on the earth, including the busy human beings, is so insignificant. Looking up, you can see the dome of the sky made of the same alloy glass. On the current Earth, every city is covered by such a semicircular dome. Because only in this way can the air in the city be purified so that ordinary people can breathe.
Ordinary people without any breathing purification equipment can't breathe outside the city, and forced breathing is likely to lead to oxygen deficiency or gas poisoning death.
The not tall man stood at the edge of the room, looking down at the endless black land thousands of meters above the sky. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes show that he has begun to step into the ranks of aging, and some gray hairs are beginning to show at the temples. His complexion is very fair, which makes the fine spots on his skin more obvious. His hair mixed with white hair was neatly combed to one side, the collar around his neck was tightly buttoned, and his clothes were straight without any wrinkles.
"Is this your decision?"
The man spoke, his voice was a little hoarse, but there was a strange charm that made people involuntarily obey.
The person he was talking to was also standing in the room, right behind him. It was a man whose face looked very young, with a face so handsome that it could almost be called a work of art, which was completely different from him. Amazing work of art.
"Um."
Michael hummed, his expression didn't seem to show respect for his superiors, but was extremely cold.
The only thin lip on his face that resembled the man in front of him didn't even move, as if he didn't have the slightest desire to talk to the man.
The old man turned around. His face was square and square, which gave people a sense of majesty and solemnity. It was almost the opposite of the handsome Michael. The aquiline nose on his face is slightly eye-catching, and when he narrows his eyes slightly, it gives people an indescribable sense of fear... It's as if the man in front of him can easily control everything about him .
He stands on the top of the tall building of the Confederate Government, and he is the commander who controls the entire human society.
The Supreme Executive Chairman of the Confederate Government, the object of allegiance of the Confederate Army, no one can violate his will.
Except for the handsome man in front of him, he is the only designated heir he recognizes, the commander of the alliance army, and the only marshal of the alliance.
"Indeed, we have been preparing to go to the universe all along. Now the conditions are ripe, and we can set off at any time." Chairman Gehman of the Confederate States said, with a calm tone and a calm expression, and there was no sign of him in his face or eyes. inner emotions.
"There is no future for human beings trapped on the earth. Only by going to the universe and controlling the universe is the beginning of human beings' true glory."
He said that his eyes looked at the Union Marshal in front of him. Although there were wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, the light in his astonishingly bright eyes never faded in the slightest.
"Alexander."
He called Michael's real name, the one he had given.
"You are the leader of mankind I have chosen, the one who will lead mankind to the peak."
Although he heard Geman's words, Michael looked indifferent and didn't even move his eyebrows, as if the person being said was not himself.
Geman was also used to it. In this place, in front of him, it was almost impossible to see Alexander's expression other than indifference.
"That is to say, I will agree to whatever you want to do, as long as it is not out of the ordinary."
He said that he walked to the desk and tapped on the now extremely rare pure wooden desktop, with a calm expression on his face.
"If you think that human beings can already go to the universe, then do it according to your ideas. I will not help you, but I will not hinder you either."
He paused here for a while. Geman's eyes are also slender, but they are not Michael's slightly raised phoenix eyes, but slender. A sense of awe. When he paused, he glanced out the window, as if he was looking at the densely packed people on the ground.
"However, I don't need to remind you, I think you should also understand. Gabe is stronger than humans. From all aspects, except for the shortcoming of temporary small numbers, humans have no aspect that can compare with it. If you don't add If they restrict them and allow them to grow up, then in the future, when Jia also leaves the earth and develops into the universe, human beings will probably be defeated by them and become prisoners."
Michael raised his eyes and looked at this man who could be called his father in blood, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his eyes were drawn into sharp arcs. He always looked at this man with a cold gaze, no different from looking at strangers. the difference.
"The loser is the bandit."
He said, in a nonchalant tone and understatement.
"Waste has no right to life."
Survival of the fittest. If human beings are defeated by Ga in the future, it means that human beings are weak people who don't need to exist.
Even if human beings are really extinct, it is just the law of natural elimination of the existence of the universe.
The Marshal, who was selected by the current human leader as the next leader, uttered extremely cruel words to human beings, but Geman didn't seem to be angry, he just glanced at Michael, that was the same as Michael Er's very similar thin lips, which symbolized infidelity, raised up, as if smiling.
Then, he nodded.
"If that's your answer, I understand." He said, "I'll say the same thing, I won't interfere, and you can do whatever you want."
He raised his head slightly.
"you can go now."
Michael turned around and left quickly, not even bothering to say hello.
The door behind him closed automatically, and his dark boots stepped on the metal floor. The special material floor made almost no sound. The corridor was very wide and long, and at the end was the special suspended ladder for the highest floor.
He was still some distance away from the suspended ladder. The light at the door of the suspended ladder was turned on, and the silver-white metal plate was suspended in mid-air. Someone stood firmly on it, and then stepped out. It was a middle-aged man with brown and black short hair, and he looked a little thicker than Michael.
He walked this way, there was only one long corridor, and naturally, the two collided face to face. Michael didn't look sideways, as if he didn't see his existence, but the man deliberately stopped in front of Michael.
"Long time no see, our Marshal."
There was an obvious teasing tone in the man's words.
"What? You don't care to talk to such a small person like me? Ah, after all, you are the Marshal that His Excellency the Chairman likes."
He said, "Among us, the only one whose identity has been recognized is you."
Michael stood expressionlessly, and he didn't seem to want to talk to the man, but in the next second, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked up at the man.
Because the man raised his hand in front of him, and the special bracelet on his wrist projected a three-dimensional image in the air, which was the figure of a teenager.
"I heard that our marshal has recently been bewitched by a brat?"
He laughed and said, and he met Michael's eyes while laughing.
"Tsk tsk, your eyes are so scary. It seems that the rumors are true. I always thought you were not good at that. After all, I haven't seen you use it for so many years. I didn't expect it to be so good, tsk."
"However, Alexander, I don't care what you say, but if you want to find a little devil from Jia, then let it go." The man stared at Michael with a look of prey, "You are in a high position, a little If something happens, it will cause irreparable losses to human beings. How do you know, is this a trap set by Jia for you?"
"You were stunned by such a brat, haven't you thought about it, how could it be such a coincidence? The person who disappeared for so long, appeared just when Jia was about to be unable to resist us, just before you went to the earth It appeared at the right time, and it happened to be caught by your subordinates, and it happened to be seen by you in the end."
"Moreover, within a few hours after that little ghost of Jia appeared in front of you, you were attacked by Jia—I don't believe that you are really stupid enough to believe that all this is a coincidence!"
Michael didn't answer, he just looked sideways at the man.
A cold light flashed across the phoenix eyes for no reason, it was extremely frightening.
From that glance, the eloquent man's voice stopped immediately, and when he realized that he was surprised by the other's look, he became even more annoyed.
"Ah, anyway, the current Marshal doesn't listen to other people's honest advice, right?"
the man said angrily.
Because he didn't resent that person's importance to Michael, he did a lot of things to provoke Michael, but every time he provoked, Michael avoided it lightly. For some reason, he thought that even if Michael felt unhappy with him, he would not really attack him. After all, he and Michael were...
Therefore, the man who was frightened by Michael's eyes for the first time was furious at the moment, and his words became more and more unbearable.
"That's right, that little guy is very comfortable serving you, isn't he? He can seduce a man who doesn't know how to behave like you, and that guy who looks like a little devil is not bad at the gamma bed. Heh, he looks very innocent, Doesn't it make you swoon when you spread your legs and twist your waist on the bed? How about it? Doesn't that taste ecstasy-"
The man's voice stopped abruptly, and the sneer on his face that was originally mocking suddenly froze.
The black muzzle of the gun was pressed between his eyebrows, making his face turn livid in an instant.
Yes, it was just livid, not pale, and the man didn't show any expression of fear.
"Alexander!"
In this kind of place, their father was right across the wall, and he couldn't believe that this man really dared to do anything to him.
"How dare you threaten your brother with a gun—"
Chi sound.
There was a gunshot that was so slight that it was almost speechless, and the man's pupils suddenly dilated to the point that it was impossible for a living person, and his face was full of disbelief.
A hole was pierced between his eyebrows, and blood spurted out from it. The man kept this unbelievable expression and fell to the ground, twitched a few times on the thick black carpet, and did not move.
Michael put the gun back into his waist, turned around, and saw a middle-aged man in a black dress standing not far away. The middle-aged man glanced over the corpse on the ground with a calm expression, then raised his eyes to look at him, and bowed slightly to him.
"Master Alexander, I'll take care of it next."
Although his master had many children by blood, there was only one person who was recognized by the master, given a surname, and designated as the heir, and he only needed to call this person the young master.
As for the others, they are all irrelevant outsiders.
...
After disposing of the corpse outside, Wen Er Canette walked into the room. He saw his master sitting on the soft white sofa, casually pressing a half-smoked cigar, shaking off some ash.
"That idiot finally died on his mouth."
Geman, who was the biological father of the dead middle-aged man, spoke in a very casual tone.
"I remember I asked you to remind him to be careful not long ago."
"Yes, my lord." Wen Er bowed slightly, and replied respectfully, "I reminded you."
"Really, no one can stop me from looking for death."
Gehman spoke with the look of a stranger. For him, even if there is a so-called blood relationship, except for the only heir he recognizes, the others are just subordinates.
Wen Er hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
"Master German."
"Um?"
"Is this really good?"
"what do you mean?"
"Master Alexander is the heir you have placed high hopes on. He should choose a noble daughter from a famous family, and then give birth to descendants who inherit the family name of Frederick, but now he..."
Wen Er said what he was worried about, but Geman, the current owner of the Frederick surname, laughed out loud.
"Wen Er, you are the same as that kid, do you think Alexander likes that Jia's child?"
"... isn't it?"
He had never seen Young Master Alexander care so much about a person, even to protect a person at the expense of his own safety.
"Yes and no."
Gehman didn't bother to exhale a puff of smoke ring at will.
"He likes it, but it's not the kind of liking you think." He thought for a while and continued, "Wen Er, did you like anything when you were young?"
"what do you mean?"
"I mean, when you were a child, was there anything you loved or cherished?"
"..."
Wen Er frowned and didn't answer. He didn't understand why the master suddenly brought up such an irrelevant matter.
"Some children have it. It is obviously a very common thing that adults can't understand at all, but it is an irreplaceable treasure in the eyes of you when you are young. Children's feelings are very simple. The most beloved is the most beloved. There is only one in the whole world, nothing can compare to it.”
Gehman said quietly.
"If you suddenly lose that thing when you love it, it's like losing the whole world to a child."
"And it is precisely because of the loss that I remember it with all my heart, so as I grow older, year after year, I will remember it more deeply, and then that beloved thing will be imprinted on the tip of my heart, becoming a piece of heart. It's like a seed has sprouted and taken root, firmly entrenched on the apex of the heart, and it hurts unbearably when touched, and the more painful it is, the deeper the root grows."
"So, once that beloved thing suddenly appears in front of you again one day, and you find it again, you will hold it carefully in your hand, for fear of losing it again."
Wen Er was silent for a while, and then said: "You mean, that young man from Jia is such an existence to Master Alexander?"
It has nothing to do with love, nothing else, just want to take care of the beloved treasure in the palm of your hand.
That boy has become the only clean place in his heart, the only sanctuary.
"But, that's the case... If that young man from Jia has too much influence on Master Alexander..."
"Don't worry, Wen Er, I chose Alexander because I know that he is truly heartless." Geman said, "A leader doesn't need a heart, it's just a hindrance and a burden."
No matter when and where, being a leader does not need any emotion, he must always make judgments and choices with the most rational attitude like a machine.
A leader without a heart is the most ideal leader in Geman's mind to lead mankind to future glory.
The highest authority in the current Confederate States said so, with a calm expression and a calm posture. He tapped the table lightly, the ground in the middle of the room cracked, and an instrument with a three-dimensional image emerged from the ground.
A huge three-dimensional projection of the earth was displayed in front of the two people in the room. The sphere slowly rotated. As it rotated, a dozen black marks could be seen on different places on the earth. Geman's eyes slowly swept over those black marks, and the corners of his lips raised a shallow arc.
Nothing is out of his control, it was, it is, and it will be.
The so-called favorite is just an illusion of a child who is not yet sensible.
The most beloved treasure in my memory is beautiful, but when the real thing is returned to the hands, the grown-up child will realize that it is actually just a faded and deformed defective product that should be thrown away. Not as good as I remembered.
...
……………
[It's too much of a coincidence.]
[Just when you came to Earth, he woke up.]
[It happened that I didn't catch those two people, but I caught him, and I just let you see it.]
[Just shortly after he met you, Jia attacked your spaceship.]
[Alexander, do you really believe that all this is a coincidence!]
...
"Brother Michael."
Waking up from the memory, the long and narrow phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, and Mier looked at Mute who came over to call him.
Since Mutt came to see him, he has stayed quietly on his ship, never mentioned the matter of going back to his parents, and never urged him to do anything, or asked him anything.
The boy never interfered with any of his actions, he trusted him, and had no doubts about him.
Looking at the pair of dark eyes that were as clear as a fawn, Michel's eyes softened, and he raised his hand to rub Mute's hair. The boy squinted his eyes for him to touch, and tilted his head slightly to look at him. The hair touched by his fingers was soft, like a small animal, which made people unable to stop.
"Things are being arranged." He said, "Your father will have to come over after a while. Since peace talks are to be made, an alliance between the leaders of the two parties is a must."
The leader of mankind is Geman, who is the chairman of the Alliance, and the spiritual leader of Gannar is Mutt's father, Professor Seema.
He paused, stared at Mute and said, "Eight months later, humans will leave the earth, and you will follow me."
"it is good."
"..."
I thought Mutt would show a look of astonishment or displeasure, but I didn't expect the young man to agree without hesitation, and Michael's voice stopped in astonishment.
"Sacrifice myself as a hostage for peace." Sitting cross-legged on the sofa with his hands on his calves, the teenager tilted his head and looked at him with a smile. "How about it, am I great?"
"..."
Seeing how Michael was choked up by his own words, the boy couldn't stop laughing, and he didn't continue until he had laughed enough.
"Actually, it's not a big deal. I knew it would happen a long time ago. There must be many people on your side who are worried that Jia will attack you from behind when you leave, right? So I think your side will definitely ask for a hostage. I think, instead of It’s better for others to come than me. How can I say that I’m also the son of Jia’s leader, so I can be regarded as… quite high status?”
He rubbed his cheeks, raised his eyes and smiled at Michael.
"Besides, if I were to be the hostage, no one would dare to bully me with Brother Michael. Although I would miss my parents, but if I want to go back to the earth to take a look, you will definitely send me Brother Michael." I'm back, haven't I? So I'll just take it as if I'm out on a long-term tour of space."
Michael rubbed the boy's hair.
"idiot."
He said this, as if he was scolding the young man for being stupid, but the corners of his lips were raised, and he looked at Mutt with soft eyes like ripples of water.
"Well~~Speaking of which, brother Michael, where are we going after we leave the earth?"
Mutt asked with interest.
A long light curtain unfolded in the room, showing a huge starry sky map, and countless galaxies flashed in the starry sky map.
Michael stretched out his hand, picked up Mutt and let him sit on his lap, as if holding a child. He put one arm around his waist, and held Mutt's hand in the other, and stretched out that hand to the starry sky map in front of him.
"Look, here, this is the Milky Way."
He hugged the boy in his arms and whispered in the boy's ear.
The star map is flashing and zooming in, and the Milky Way is also zooming in.
He continued: "The solar system, the galaxy we are leaving soon."
"No..."
"Um?"
"This is different from what I learned before, and the coordinates of the galaxy map I saw from my father not long ago."
"The previous galaxy map used the earth as the center to develop coordinates, but during the war, more than a hundred years ago, our side made all-round revisions to the galaxy map, and all coordinates were reset with a new cosmic orientation."
The coordinates of the new version of the galaxy map are the highest level of military secrets, and they are never allowed to be leaked. Therefore, although Jia knows that humans have set new coordinates of the galaxy, he does not know the specific coordinate settings at all. However, what Jia is using now is still the galaxy map centered on the earth.
"Is that so..."
"Here, this place."
Embracing the warm body of the boy in his arms, Michael held Mutt's finger and pointed to the gradually enlarged planet in the galaxy diagram, making the fingertips point at one place.
"The earth is here."
He said, "Its galactic coordinates are..."
Casually and carelessly, he whispered in Mutt's ear the coordinates of a galaxy that was nothing ordinary to him.