The Commonwealth has a proverb: A man cannot fight against time.
This proverb seems so simple and clear, but it is easy to make people feel sad and even tragic when savouring it carefully, whether it is a hero of the world who returns through the colorful clouds on a battleship, or a man who is struggling to find shellfish in the dark mud. The poor are all equal and helpless in the face of time. You can shout to the red morning sun: I am the sun, if it sinks, it will rise again tomorrow! But in fact, one day your sun will sink and you will never be able to get up again.
Therefore, people will always pay extra sincere respect and courtesy to those characters who can temporarily tie with time, even if it is a tie on the surface, and who can carve their own years with a stable sharp knife. , the old man who slowly walked into the courtroom.
For half a century, this old man has been sitting on the high-backed vinyl chair of the chief justice, as comfortable as sitting on his own sofa, watching countless scenes that have caused federal shocks or become citing precedents. important lawsuits began and then ended.
The people in the courtroom, looking at the old judge who closed his eyes and recuperating, subconsciously lowered his voice, and even moved his feet a lot softer, as if they were worried about waking the old man up.
Justice He Ying, the chief justice for life of the Supreme Court of the United States, turned out to be such an old man, an old man with age spots on his face, an old and tired old man who seemed to fall asleep at any time and died.
Looking at that place, Xu Le felt a little strange, his eyes narrowed gradually, thinking of how he felt when he first saw Li Pif, the god of war in Qingcheng Military Prison.
At that time, in his eyes, Li Pifu was an ordinary thin old man when he was not arrogant or angry, but he was an ordinary thin old man, and the chief justice in the court who once embarrassed and embarrassed the old man of war seemed to fall asleep or not. When he woke up, he was an ordinary old man.
Immediately, Xu Le knew that his judgment was completely wrong, a mess.
The lawyers on Zhong Ziqi's side demanded the final confirmation of guardianship.
Justice He Ying slowly opened his turbid eyes with difficulty and looked at the very refreshing and lovely little girl carved in ice and jade under the court. The corners of his drooping lips suddenly twitched nervously. After a while, he was hoarse and gentle to the extreme. "Little girl, who do you like to live with?"
The chief justice's voice was extremely old, yet extremely gentle. It seemed that in the eyes of this old man, Zhong Fireworks was like a newly born lotus with dewdrops condensed from last night. If the voice was a little louder, it would Frightened the rolling dewdrops that fell into the pond and disappeared.
Xu Le was stunned, and Zhong Yanhua was also stunned. After a while, the little girl looked up in disbelief, hugged the old doll tightly and whispered, "I want to live with brother Xu Le."
Justice He Ying reassured himself, Gege Gege laughed hoarsely, moved his arms with difficulty, signed his distorted name on the electronic judgment, and said with a smile: "Little girl, who do you want to live with, then with whom?"
At this moment, Xu Le looked at the old justice in court, and couldn't help thinking that many years ago, the same chief justice might have used the same tone to ask Jian Shui'er, who had just become a young girl below. Said: "Do you like to shoot TV?"
At the same time, he finally understood what Tai Zhiyuan said at the side of the column: The old judge likes little girls.
The distant Zuotian star field, the outer periphery of the Gamma galaxy not far from the X3 galaxy, has now appeared the figure of the federal warship, especially in the near space of the three quasi-mineral stars, from time to time you can see large transport ships going back and forth in the channel.
The imperial army had already withdrawn to the L9 galaxy, and the federal forward troops were also forced to withdraw after the tragic defeat. The Gamma galaxy was not in the gap between the forces of the two sides, so it seemed extraordinarily quiet and peaceful, and the imperial pirate group followed them to loot The object of the slaughter was withdrawn to the depths, and the Federation fleet was busy resting, so no aircraft dared to fight against these large transport ships.
The belly of these large transport ships is printed with a semi-regular physical pattern that looks like a seal or a deformed ancient letter. Only a few people in the federation know that this pattern represents the oldest age in the federation. The most glorious family.
Follow the federal troops to the mainland of the empire, seize all the time to mine the transport ships, and those large-scale engineering mechas that are released to the surface like steel beasts, there is no doubt that they are all crystal mines owned by the Tai family. consortium.
The Crystal Mining Consortium, once the most important giant enterprise in the Federation, finally began to exude a charming splendor with the successive victories of the war.
The crystal ore content of several barren ore stars in the Gamma galaxy is far less than that of the mature ore stars in the X3 galaxy, but for the Federation and the Tai family, which have been short of crystal ore resources for a long time, even these barren ore stars seem to be. It's still so delicious, how can you give up
The hard three-section drilling connecting rods of more than forty self-engineering mechas penetrated deep into the severely weathered surface, and then drove the mining surface to move slowly on the surface, gradually digging a huge pit between the rock peaks and the stone plains. Just like an open pie, in the center of the big pit, the ore spectrum analyzer with sophisticated electronic equipment is working, waiting for the upcoming mining and sorting process.
The crystal mine engineers, who were wearing equipment similar to that of a federal soldier, stood on the engineering corridor nearly 30 meters high and looked down at the work of the engineering mecha below. Because of the low temperature, the half-mirror helmet had already condensed. Flakes of dry ice traces.
Outside the busy and lively mining site, around a rocky peak and through a rugged landscape, there is a metal spaceship that has been burned to black coal, enjoying the loneliness alone.
This is a Charter Bureau triplane that should have been placed in the History Museum, but because of the severe damage, it only stayed like a black stone in a corner forgotten by the federal military.
However, today's tri-wing ship is not lonely. In the chaotic cabin that looks deserted, cluttered electronic noise is faintly sounded. Behind the tri-wing ship, a self-propelled mecha of a crystal-mine complex was disassembled, and the above is somewhat important components have disappeared.
The black stone-like triplane slowly retracted the hydraulic maintenance arm, a light spot appeared on the dusty light curtain, and then turned into a row of white light signs. If Xu Le was here, he must be very fond of these light signs. Familiar, because his eyes can often see.
It was a kind of answer similar to self-examination or self-inquiry. The white light symbol kept flashing, seemingly ignoring the environment of the surrounding barren planet and the passage of time. For that great mechanical intelligence, time seems to be the only enemy he needs to defeat.
After an unspecified period of time, the black stone-like Charter Bureau triplane quietly took off, and then flew into the depths of the universe, not knowing where it was going.
"The verdict is very clear, there should be no problem with the ancient Zhong Company, but the Zhong family still has many hidden properties, and those ownership rights are too troublesome to understand clearly. As for the military... Well, it is a very troublesome thing, according to me Thoughts, these should not be touched at all, but Uncle Tian is unwilling to accept it."
"No one can accept it. If the Zhong family's old mansion has no soldiers, it will really become a little white rabbit who can be slaughtered. However, it is already a very great victory to be able to take back the ancient Zhong Company, such a giant enterprise. , If it really becomes turbulent, it will also be troublesome for the Federation. You must know the metal ball-like advance base in front of the Night Scorpion Nebula, as well as the latest flying feather ships... The ancient Zhong Company has made a lot of efforts."
"The Supreme Court's decision must have surprised many people."
"Unexpectedly, it was the speed at which Justice He Ying pronounced the sentence... Who would have thought that this old man could make a decision in only ten minutes."
"The justice is really an amazing person... Although the way he smiles at the little girl... is indeed a bit wretched."
Xu Le smiled helplessly, took off his cigarette, flicked a third of the place, letting the soot fly freely in the spring breeze, and then slowly landed on a grave.
Shi Qinghai, wearing sunglasses, was silent for a long time towards the tomb in front of him, took out the cigarette from his mouth, shoved it into the wet soil in front of the tombstone, and cursed in a low voice.
"What did you say?" Xu Le asked.
Shi Qinghai shrugged, squinted his eyes and said, "It's really boring for such an amazing guy to burp because of the most vulgar liver cancer."
The two of them were in a common cemetery on the outskirts of S2 Oak State. S1 is late winter, S2 is late spring, the spring breeze is intoxicating, the last time they came to this planet at the same time, it was to assassinate Medellin, and the person who was responsible for providing them with information at that time was already lying in a cement grave. , No matter how beautiful the spring breeze is, it can't blow over his body.
The dead man in the tomb did not know how old he was, did not know his origin, and even the senior leaders of the Qinglong Mountain anti-government army did not know how many faces this mentor and friend had.
"When I heard that he died, the leader of Nanshui cried a lot." Shi Qinghai lit another cigarette and said mockingly, "Bah! When the old dogs in the committee were harassing him, did the leader of Nanshui ever take care of himself? A close comrade-in-arms said a word?"
He looked at the icy grave, his eyes were a little red, and after being silent, he suddenly said, "Old dog, do you regret it?"
All those who fought against time died, all those who fought against windmills died, the most outstanding intelligence leader of the Qinglong Mountain anti-government army, and the most outstanding spy of the Federation's thirty-seven constitutional calendar died quietly like this, he, Codenamed him, he just died like this, and it didn't seem to bring any shock to the world.
The Qinglong Mountain Committee issued an obituary, and the Federal Ministry of Justice revoked seventeen arrest warrants. Two equally outstanding juniors came to his grave and questioned him painfully.
In the tomb, he could no longer answer, only the words engraved on the tombstone, quietly making a promise.
-If one day, I suddenly leave, please bury me in the spring.