The next afternoon.
The carriage sent by Oscar arrived as promised, took Richard from the courtyard, walked along the street towards the center of Char, and finally entered an extremely gorgeous building complex, which was the palace of the Alliance Emperor in Char.
In a palace as spacious as a warehouse, Richard met the so-called Emperor of the Alliance.
The Alliance Emperor sat on a special wide chair, nearly one meter wide. Even so, some parts of his plump body still inevitably "spread" out of the chair. There was no mana fluctuation in the opponent's body. He looked like an ordinary person, but his huge body brought inexplicable pressure. He didn't look like a person, but more like a bear wearing human skin.
In fact, one of the other names is brown bear.
The Brown Bear Emperor—Pyotr Romanov!
At this time, the other party had a pair of fan-like hands pressed on the armrest. His gray eyes were staring at the air in front of him. His gaze was deep and his expression was not majestic. He looked more like a thinker than an emperor.
It's just that this thinker is so fat that people can't help but wonder if the other person is thinking about what to eat next.
The waiter who led Richard in looked at this scene and called out softly: "Your Majesty, the person you want to meet has arrived."
Emperor Peter came out of his reverie and responded. While waving the waiter to leave, he glanced at Richard and looked at him with interest.
"Richard Austin, right? I've wanted to meet you for a long time." This was the emperor's first sentence.
Before Richard could respond, the second sentence followed.
"I already know a lot about you from Oscar and admire you very much."
"Well… "
"I believe that you are a very smart person, much better than the worms under my command who only know how to be corrupt. Moreover, you are a very capable person. After all, you won the Oscar, which he has been talking about for a long time.
You know, last year, Oscar almost forced me to transfer a full 10% of the budget as funds for his intelligence agency so that he could get that list at all costs. Fortunately, you got it for him, otherwise I might have to consider going on a diet or not making new clothes for a year to help Oscar squeeze out this 10% of the budget. "
"I..." Richard didn't know how to answer. He could tell that the emperor's words were somewhat joking, but there were too many flaws. Does the other party want to say that because it is so delicious, it will eat up 10% of the budget? Or is it because you are too tall that you can use up 10% of your budget to make clothes
Fortunately, the emperor spoke like a barrage of words and continued talking without giving Richard time to respond.
"In addition, I also believe that you are very powerful, much more powerful than most of the guards in this palace. After all, you can stay in the Society of Truth, and I heard Oscar say that at the last moment when the Society of Truth was lurking, , it seems that something went wrong with you and you were forced to fight.
Afterwards, Oscar sent people to see it, and the people who came back reported that the entire area was destroyed, and no one survived—except you. See, you alone can eradicate a branch of the opponent, which is as good as my army that spends a lot of military expenditures every year. Maybe, I should give you a general position and try to keep you here. This can save a lot of military expenses and prevent me from having to be careful about every meal. "
After talking for a long time, the emperor finally stopped, as if he had thought of something, waved his hand to Richard and said, "By the way, you can sit wherever you want. Don't be nervous. The ones who should be nervous should be me and the one hiding outside the door." All the guards are afraid that you will suddenly kill me."
Richard sat down on a chair in the palace and smiled at the emperor in response. After all, if the other party violates the routine, I really don’t know how to respond appropriately, so I can only let the other party play.
After listening to what the other party said for a while, Richard seized an opportunity, looked at the other party and asked, "Your Majesty, Mr. Oscar said, you called me here because you want to talk to me about something?"
"Um, yes, we need to talk about something."
"Excuse me, what is it?"
"It's nothing, just a casual chat."
"Just talk?" Richard really suspected that he heard wrongly.
"Yes, let's talk casually." The emperor confirmed, "Oscar and others will handle the trivial matters in reality, and they are not worth wasting my time as the emperor. The purpose of inviting you here is to talk casually with you while letting your guard down. Let’s talk and get to know you. After all, you are considered a hero of the alliance, so I have to have some impression of you.”
"But even if we talk casually, there must be a topic, right?"
"That's right." The emperor nodded in agreement, thought for a moment and spoke, "I heard from Oscar that you want to borrow books from the Royal Library? So you are very interested in books, right? You should have read a lot of books. . Why don’t you tell me what your favorite book is? Maybe I’ve read it too and can share my thoughts.”
Do you want to hold a reading exchange meeting
"..." Richard hesitated for a while and then slowly said an answer, ""Bix's Self-Examination"."
This is a widely popular book on the mainland, but it is biased toward a niche audience. It is about philosophy, that is, it is a medieval philosophy book. Because the text inside is obscure, the sentences are long and difficult to understand, and the content is boring, so only a few people have read it, and most people use it as a hypnosis tool.
The reason why he mentioned this book was to end the topic tactfully and allow the emperor, who did not follow routines, to return to a relatively normal conversation.
Unexpectedly, the emperor's eyes lit up at the next moment, and he said in surprise: "You have read this book. It's really good. In fact, I have read it too."
"You know, I prefer the content in the second chapter of the book, which is Bix's discussion of cognition: Is there an inherent deficiency that leads to a series of cognitive errors? I think..." the emperor said fluently. It fully proves that he is not lying, but has really read it and read it deeply.
At this moment, Richard couldn't help but fell silent, looking at the emperor whom he met for the first time with some wonderful eyes.
"In short, I think what Bix said is basically right." After talking for a long time, the emperor concluded, then looked over, "What do you think?"
"I..." Richard took a deep breath, a little regretful that he actually said the answer "Bix's Self-Examination", which led to the topic being led into an extremely abstract philosophical discussion, but he was only a little regretful. He has read this book several times. It is easier to digest and understand when combined with knowledge from some philosophical books on earth, so he is not afraid of talking.
"call-"
After exhaling the breath and looking at the emperor, Richard thought for a while and said: "I basically agree with your majesty's words, but there are some discrepancies in some details, mainly the third and fifth points in the second part of Bikes And the eighth point. Bix said that part of human cognition comes from the inheritance of blood. I am more inclined to think that it is affected by the family environment. I think... "
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