After jumping several times in succession, the Ishtar flagship finally arrived at its destination.
Because of the bad experience during the first jump, after knowing that he would have to jump continuously for the next few days, Mute took the initiative to go to the military doctor and asked for some tranquilizers similar to seasickness. Previously, the dosage was gradually reduced. Going on like this, his body was almost used to it when he made the fifth jump, and when he jumped again, he didn't have as serious side effects as the first time, only a little dizzy.
Because he didn't want to lose face in public like the first time, he hid in the tea room and endured the next few jumps. Major General Troll might have guessed his thoughts and didn't force him to stay outside.
Later, after getting used to the dizziness caused by the jump, Mutter consciously stayed by the major general's side during the jump, but he still had to secretly grab the back of the major general's command seat to stand firm when he was dizzy.
But even so, Mutt didn't make any more embarrassments.
After doing this several times, Via stared closely at this side during the previous few jumps, Robin looked at this side as if watching a good show, and those eyes that always sneaked over to the side, seeing that they never appeared What an accident, knowing that Mutt has adapted, he no longer pays attention.
The cabin of the entire ship darkened again, and the familiar sense of oppression struck again.
Because there were no problems with the previous few transitions, Mutt relaxed his vigilance this time, thinking that it would only take a moment as before. Who knew that this jump was an ultra-long-distance jump, two breaths longer than the previous few jumps.
Although he only took two breaths, the oppressive feeling seemed to last for several hours, so when the cabin lit up, the huge dizziness made him stagger, and fell forward involuntarily.
As he fell forward, instinctively, his right hand stretched forward, trying to catch something in the air.
Even if you know, you can't catch anything at all.
Oops.
The boy was thinking in such a panic, but the hand he stretched out to the air suddenly grabbed something.
A cool thing caught his hand, held it backwards and held it firmly in mid-air.
Because he fell forward, as soon as there was support in his hand, he subconsciously put all the weight of his whole body on his hand, which was also the thing that supported his hand.
With the strong support of this unknown thing, he stood firm and fell to the ground without shame.
The relieved boy raised his head and was stunned for a moment.
His hand was clutching, or perhaps holding his hand, the hand of Major General Troll.
The major general sat quietly on the metal command seat, but his left hand stretched out to the left, just right to catch the hand he stretched out to grab something when he was about to fall just now.
Even though it supported the weight of his whole body, that hand was steady without any sign of shaking.
The major general's left arm was stretched out in the air, motionless, holding his hand with the palm up, with an understatement as if there was no weight in the hand.
Even if someone from the side looked over casually, seeing this appearance, they would only feel that Mutt just gently put his hand in the major general's.
Mute was stunned for a moment, and then saw the major general sitting on the command seat in front turned his head sideways, and glanced at him with slightly raised corners of his slender eyes.
Major General Troll didn't say anything, and the glance at him was also faint, but the boy just felt a sense of embarrassment.
He felt that he had almost become a habit of losing face in front of the major general, no wonder the major general called him an idiot several times.
The major general put his hand back on the armrest of the seat, and he sat upright, his night-like black hair falling before his eyes.
The cabin lit up, and the invisibility function of the bulkhead was activated again.
The top of the bulkhead faded away as if it melted in an instant, and the boundless sea of stars unfolded like waves.
A slowly rotating blue planet appeared in front of everyone.
The boy suddenly opened his eyes.
His breathing stopped for an instant, his mind went blank, and he seemed to be able to hear the sound of his own heart beating.
He looked at the planet and could see nothing else in his eyes.
"no."
A low voice suddenly sounded, pulling him out of his daze.
Mute took a few breaths in a hurry to stabilize his beating heart, and when he looked again, he felt something was wrong.
Although that planet does have some resemblance... but it always feels like something is missing... no, it's missing a lot.
This blue planet seems to only be covered with that layer of shell, but looking at it, there is no throbbing that makes people inexplicably anxious to the extreme at a glance of the real blue planet in memory.
The boy calmed down a little.
He looked around the blue planet and could see four white satellites slowly revolving around it.
…
Mutt took a light breath and let it out.
No.
He closed his eyes, his drooping eyelashes concealing the disappointment in his eyes.
There is no such a small planet that accompanies the blue planet, that small planet with countless beautiful legends.
No... that planet with the huge halo... no that fiery red planet... no that ocean blue planet...
This was not the hometown he had dreamed of.
"Where is this?"
He opened his eyes and asked softly.
After staring at the expression on his face for a while, the major general turned his eyes away and turned to the blue planet ahead.
"Emperor Star."
said the major general.
People who lost their way back to the earth forever chose this planet most similar to the earth to become the capital star of the empire.
Its name is Emperor Star.
The planet where the imperial family lived for generations, and the most prosperous planet among human beings.
Fifty-six percent of the surface of this planet is ocean, and it has the most similar appearance to the parent star of human beings.
Major General Troll came here because of His Majesty's imperial edict.
His Majesty the Emperor will regularly issue edicts to allow nobles or generals from various galaxies to come to Emperor Star to report on their duties.
Just a few days ago, the major general received the order.
The Ishtar ship stayed outside the galaxy as usual, and Major General Troll and his party took the landing ship and headed for the blue planet. Lieutenant Colonel Via, who was still careful, stayed on Ishtar, and Robin and a few people Mutt didn't know accompanied the major general to Emperor Star.
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When Major General Troll stepped into the reception hall, there were already quite a few people in the hall. The wide hall that could accommodate hundreds of people was full at the moment, and there were people everywhere.
Different warlords and different aristocratic forces have their own different acquaintance circles, but at the moment, in the Emperor Star and at the feet of His Majesty the Emperor, no matter what kind of force they are, they dare not unscrupulously get together with the allied forces. Even if they met each other, they just nodded and smiled, and they stopped.
There are many young people in this hall, and Major General Troll's age is not obvious among them.
Because of this kind of debriefing, many forces mostly sent their nephews to perfunctory the emperor. It's not a big deal, they don't come in person at all.
Major General Troll couldn't do that.
Because he didn't have enough second people with authority second only to him to come on his behalf, and no immediate family member could come instead of him.
This is also one of the proofs that he has no background.
Most of the people here are people with rich background and extraordinary family background. In their view, Major General Troll, even if he has become famous and loud in recent decades and is sought after by ignorant civilians as the God of War... But after all, he is just a person who has just risen not long ago. Emerging forces in the background.
To be honest, they have seen a lot of this kind of upstart-style emerging forces that suddenly rise up, each of them is like a meteor flying across the sky, disappearing completely in the universe after surviving for only a hundred years.
They don't take this kind of power seriously.
Several young people are talking together.
"Mir, I heard that you specially brought gifts for Her Royal Highness?"
A young man with short yellow hair smiled and nodded.
"It's rare to come to Emperor Star, so naturally I will bring the gift I carefully prepared for His Highness."
"Ancient relics from the earth? You really know how to choose. Her Royal Highness likes these things the most."
"Haha, it's a fluke, it's a precious treasure passed down from our ancestors, but it's a pity that it's been too long, and it's almost broken. It took a long time to fully restore that thing and make a copy."
The yellow-haired man said proudly, "It took me a long time to figure out how to use it, so I dared to bring it here. Ha, it would be great if it could make Her Royal Highness happy."
As he said this, a look of hope appeared on his face.
The beauty of Her Royal Highness Princess Salome is really yearning for her, especially the domineering aura that makes her beauty so dazzling and scorching to the extreme, seeing her, ordinary beautiful women can no longer catch the eye.
"What is it?"
"Ha, it's not like there are similar things in your family."
"Yes, but it's different."
The yellow-haired man pondered for a moment, then nodded.
"Anyway, it's still early, so let me show you first?"
As he spoke, he cast a mocking glance at the black-haired major general not far from him.
"A family like ours has a lot of similar items that have been passed down. It's not like some people who have no background at all and are still pretending to stand there. Heh, let him open his eyes this time—"
As soon as he said that, someone immediately echoed.
"That's right, some people are so proud of being favored. They were the last ones to arrive when called by His Majesty the Emperor. They really take themselves seriously."
"Ha, it's actually just a new dog raised by the royal family."
The person who said this obviously meant something, and almost everyone in the hall understood who they were talking about. They glanced at each other, but no one stopped them, and they all showed expressions of watching the show.
As I said before, the big forces generally don't pay attention to emerging forces.
However, the newly-emerged major general Troll is indeed a capable person who can fight. He has never lost any wars, and his fighting style has always been clean and neat, with very little loss. The patriarchs of many families admired him very much, and if it weren't for the royal family's love for him, those families would even try to bring him under their command.
Naturally, those elders would often mention this capable young major general when educating their nephews.
Young people, all of them are high-spirited and self-confident, and what they hate the most is the children of other people's families in the mouth of the elders.
The more I listened, the more disgusted I became. Naturally, I didn't like this major general who made the elders full of praise.
And there is another point that makes Major General Troll the public enemy of these young people.
The beauty of Princess Salome is well-known in the universe, especially her status as a princess adds a dazzling aura to her beauty.
The queen is destined to become the empress in the future, and the husband of the empress has innumerable benefits, whether it is beauty or status, it has given these young people great temptation, and there are many young noble successors who have shown love to Salome. endlessly.
However, Princess Salome fell in love with a young man who had no background or even aristocratic background, and even His Majesty the Emperor favored him, jumping several steps to the position of major general in just a few decades .
Why
Isn't that face a little better
Isn't it just relying on that face to deceive Her Royal Highness
That is a nouveau riche, a reckless man who knows nothing but fighting! Butcher!
Mir thought so resentfully, and deliberately gave Major General Troll a provocative look.
The major general sat quietly in the chair, not looking at him at all. Instead, Robin who was standing behind saw this, curled his lips, and turned his eyes to the young man beside him, not bothering with that person.
The child had been extremely quiet from the beginning just now, so quiet that he was a little worried.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
he asked in a low voice.
He thought maybe the ultra-long-distance leap just now made the child uncomfortable.
The boy looked up at Robin and shook his head.
"I'm fine."
He said softly, but his voice was a little listless.
After he finished speaking, he lowered his head again, his dark eyelashes concealing the loneliness in his eyes.
Now that Mutt said he was fine, it was naturally difficult for Robin to ask.
He turned his eyes to the front, and saw a high platform slowly rising in the hall, and a strange thing he had never seen before was placed on the high platform.
That thing looks like a table with a strange shape, the top cover is open and supported by a bracket, and on one side of the 'table', there are many rectangular buttons of the same size, which are white, and these white buttons are still There are smaller black buttons.
Mir winked, and a middle-aged man in a uniform followed him up the steps to the high platform, and sat down beside the strange 'table'.
Under the curious eyes of everyone, the man put his hands on those parallel rectangular buttons.
Ding dong, crisp notes sounded.
As the man's hands quickly jumped on different black and white keys, a cheerful music sounded in the hall.
The timbre was clean and clear, and it was fascinating. Many people squinted their eyes and listened to this timbre that they had never felt before, and whispered to the people around them. All of their words were admiration for this kind of music.
At the end of the song, there was warm applause in the hall.
"Is this the musical instrument passed down from Earth?"
"It sounds really nice."
"It's not easy to restore this instrument."
"No, it's not difficult to restore the musical instrument. What's difficult is to restore the music played on the musical instrument. After all, the intellectual brain can't read the symbols about music passed down from the ancient earth."
"This can only slowly recover over the years—"
As the focal point in the hall, Mir was surrounded by many people at the moment.
"His Royal Highness has always been interested in music and drama, the gift you gave must be very suitable for her."
"Yeah, this is the connotation. It's much better than some people relying on a face to confuse Her Royal Highness."
"What gift can he bring to Her Royal Highness?"
"I don't have anything. I'm a nouveau riche with no background at all. Where can I find ancient relics to please His Highness?"
"Tsk, there's no way, after all... that's the only face I can see."
"Tsk tsk, the little boy who relies on his face to eat soft food."
"No, people can still fight."
"Hahahaha, a nouveau riche, very vulgar, even if he can fight, so what?"
"His Royal Highness is probably just playing with him."
The almost blunt provocation and unscrupulous chatting and laughing of those young nobles made Robin's face show a bit of anger, but he could only bear it.
He resisted, but the boy beside him suddenly moved.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the black-eyed boy walked towards the high platform where the strange musical instrument was placed.
His footsteps were very fast, because no one thought that anyone would approach the musical instrument, so no one stopped him, so he was allowed to walk all the way up and stood beside the musical instrument.
Mutter stood quietly beside the familiar instrument, his fingers brushing lightly over the cold metal shelf.
"Get off."
Mir, who was proud of being in the limelight, accidentally let others approach the musical instrument with a gloomy face,
"Such a precious treasure cannot be touched by a lowly guy like you." He said gloomily, "Get off, you have no right to touch it."
As if he didn't hear Mir's threatening voice at all, Mute sat down on the chair.
His foot stepped on the pedal that the previous player had never used at all, and his fingers were placed on the black and white keys. Then, he pressed down heavily with his fingers, and stepped down heavily with his feet.
The way that person pressed the keys one by one as if manipulating a machine was an insult to the instrument.
he thinks.
Almost instantly, brisk and rich music rang in everyone's ears.
Compared with the almost mechanical playing of the previous player, the music played at this time is more peaceful and moving, richer and fuller, like a stream flowing through the gravel in the grass.
The young man was sitting there, his slender body wrapped in a pitch-black military uniform, but his whole body seemed to be shining.
His pitch-black pupils were astonishingly bright at this moment.
His fingertips seemed to be dancing on the black and white keys, his fingers seemed to smash the calm lake surface, and the splashed water droplets were melodious notes, circling around him.
It is clearly in the hall, but immersed in the music, people can actually see the moonlight pouring down like water, falling on the gurgling stream, and the clear water slowly flowing away.
The flowing water didn't know where it was going, and it was inexplicably somewhat confused and sad.
Pouring all the thoughts into his fingertips, the boy closed his eyes, and the familiar music surrounded him, making him seem to have returned to the past at this moment.
In that small white room, beside the old piano, the gentle mother was beside him, holding the score in her hand, looking at him with a sideways smile.
The music flowed from his fingertips, and the father who seemed to be reading a newspaper in the living room listened quietly, nodded slightly, and showed a satisfied smile.
…
Now, everything is different.
The notes still surround him, and the small white room gradually moves away from him.
The smile of the mother and the figure of the father are also fading away.
In the familiar music, the house goes away, the grass goes away, the hometown goes away, and then the endless sea goes away, leaving only the blue planet rotating quietly in the dark universe.
It's always been there.
It has been waiting there.
my home planet.
my native land.
The home of my soul.
One day, I will return to your arms.
...
The entire hall was silent, only the sad song was slowly flowing in the hall.
No one speaks, no one talks.
At this moment, any strange sound was unbearable.
At this moment, they just want to listen to the beautiful and moving notes, even if a trace of sadness in the music makes them empathize, it makes them feel an indescribable sadness, as if resonating.
The note that infused all the yearning of the player evoked an inexplicable throbbing in the hearts of everyone in the hall at the moment.
A song ends.
The young man opened his eyes, and he tilted his head slightly. There was a faint light of water in his pitch-black pupils, covered with a layer of water mist.
He looked ahead quietly, but his gaze seemed to penetrate everything and look towards the distant shore.
His delicate face was still a little childish, but at this moment when he was staring at the unknown place, the side cheek was inexplicably touching, making people unable to take their eyes off him.
Even if the music stops, the whole hall is still quiet.
That beautiful note seems to be still echoing in everyone's ears.
"Who are you?"
Someone finally broke the silence, and Mir looked at the young man on the high platform in astonishment.
He couldn't believe it, it was obvious that this musical instrument was successfully repaired in secret not long ago, and no one knew about it before that.
Why would this teenager know how to use it? And it looks so proficient
Closing his eyes again, Mutt took a deep breath.
When he stood up and opened his eyes, the watery light in his eyes was no longer there.
The young man stood on the high platform, condescending, as if looking down at everyone, and smiled.
Then, he stepped down and walked past the crowd.
He thought for a while and said, "Well, I am the heir of my family. Our family is very ancient and has existed since the time it came out of the earth."
When he said that, someone nodded.
Everyone agreed with this.
Look, it really is a descendant of a noble family with a long history.
Someone asked, "What is this person's last name?"
Whether a family is ancient or noble is mostly judged by its surname. Generally speaking, families with a long history have longer surnames.
These people are now asking Mutt's surname in order to judge Mutt's family background.
The teenager who was asked his family name blinked, looked at those who were staring at him, and suddenly showed a bright smile.
He smiled and said: "My family was once a witness of the Bourbon Dynasty, a follower of the ancient Alexander Empire, a guardian of the Plantagenet Dynasty, a sword under the command of Queen Elizabeth, and was given a badge of honor by Julius Caesar—we The surname of the family is - Nicholas. Alexander. Myargus. Abel. Augustus. Constantine. Darwin. Washington. Arthur. William. Julius. Louis. Richard... ( omitted)... Caesar Michelangelo Intel Uriel."
Mute, who had said dozens of superimposed names in one breath and couldn't break it anymore, finally stopped and took a breath. He looked at the completely bewildered faces of the crowd with satisfaction, and nodded.
Then, smile brightly again.
"Well, that's the last name."
he said with a grin.
"But the family has come down, so now I can only work as an orderly under a certain nouveau riche."
Mute said so with a smile, and then turned around behind Major General Troll amidst the bewildered faces of the crowd, put on a serious expression again, and stood at attention with his hands behind his back.
...
Well, when I was watching TV and reading novels, I especially wanted to know what it was like to pretend to be aggressive by saying a lot of titles and noble titles in one breath.
Now I finally know.
... It's really exciting!