Xu Le walked under the tree.
Huai Cao Shi heard the footsteps, did not look back, and stood up from under the tree with the book.
Xu Le was silent for a moment, then said, "Actually, I'm a little surprised, how could you choose this place."
Huai Cao Shi turned around and looked at him calmly, a sincere smile appeared on his usual indifferent face, but this sincere smile appeared on the face of this terrifying Highness, it was a little difficult to adapt to.
"Since I dare to come to the Federation, of course, I not only rely on one dare, but also make some preparations in advance."
The morning mist was slowly flowing against the wetlands, seemingly thin, but the layers were superimposed, but it was enough to obscure military satellite monitoring from outside the atmosphere. This is the core area of the wildlife sanctuary and the weakest area for federal monitoring.
Xu Le looked away from the depths of the morning mist, looked at her and smiled, not knowing what to say.
Feeling his complicated emotions at the moment, Huaicao Shi paused for a while, then continued to smile and said: "However, the monitoring density of the Federation is still far beyond my imagination, if it weren't for the help that your woman gave us, it would have been far beyond me. I really have no confidence in how long I can stay here.”
Knowing that she was referring to Zou Yu and the little blue-light instrument, Xu Le scratched his head and explained, "She is not my woman."
After saying this, the two fell into silence again, and the atmosphere under the tree became a little weird or awkward. Whether it was Xu Le or Huaicao Shi, they were not people with extraordinary emotional intelligence like Shi Qinghai. What to say, what kind of topic entry point should be chosen to make this morning and fog conversation into the right track.
From a certain point of view, Xu Le and Huai Cao Shi are very familiar with each other. They used to get along in the empire for a long time, with fierce debates and those terrifying bets. They even fought side by side during the rebellion, in a sea like an ocean. In the mulberry forest, a myth of machine battles was staged.
But this kind of familiarity is familiarity between enemies. Neither he nor Huaicaoshi has forgotten the electronic explosives installed on him by the intelligence agency at that time, as well as those cruel punishments. The consecutive incidents of Xu Le at that time would kill each other at all costs, and Huai Cao Shi did the same, and in that white courtyard, they had all tried.
Now they want to admit their kinship with each other
Xu Le thought of what Huai Cao Shi said in the snow next to Qingcheng Military Prison, and his eyes couldn't help becoming a little helpless. He lost his family and was lonely for many years since he was a child. There is an extra sister there, and it is likely that there will be many more relatives.
Awakened from the dream and instantly entered another strange dream, a mental shock that not everyone can accept immediately, even he who has the roughest nerves. So after a long silence, he asked a question that seemed extra clumsy during the tense escape of the here and now.
"What book are you reading?"
Huai Cao Shi didn't answer, just turned her wrist and turned the cover over, with the name of the book written on it, Love in the Charter Era.
Xu Le scratched his head and said with emotion: "You are the princess of the empire. There must be countless times more people in the federation who want you to die than those who want me to die. As a result, you are still interested in reading romance novels?"
"This is a literary novel. According to the introduction, the author has won the Nebula Award."
Huaicao Shi calmly corrected: "I still have some difficulties in reading Federal language, but it does not prevent me from seeing many metaphors in this novel. The author puts the fear and resentment of the brilliance of the charter in the love carrier, Very clever and wonderful. You have lived in the Commonwealth for so many years, but I am surprised that you have not read this novel. I think it is necessary for you to strengthen the planning of humanistic literacy in the future."
"Usually the person standing outside the wall can easily find a metaphor for what he's doing in whatever nonsense the person inside the wall does."
Xu Le argued that he didn't notice that he was still subconsciously standing on the Federation's position.
Huaicao Shi smiled incomprehensibly, did not continue the topic, and said, "I don't know how long I will wait for you under this tree, so I have prepared several books. The reading of the federal text is good, that's true. stronger than the empire."
Xu Le looked under the tree and found a thick stack of books stacked there. He could vaguely see the names of several books, including the Charter Chronicle, and a George Carlin Study.
Noticing his puzzled look, Huaicao Shi explained: "Since entering the Federation, especially the Capital Star Circle, many details I have observed are proving the gap between my Baijin Dynasty and the Federation. The Federation is very strong, To defeat such a powerful enemy, you should first understand the enemy, these folk readings that the Intelligence Agency has never paid much attention to are very good research materials in my opinion.”
After a pause, she looked into Xu Le's eyes and said, "Of course, now there is someone in my Baijin Dynasty who knows the federation best, so you will be responsible for these things from now on."
His Highness's tone was calm and ordinary, as if to say, it's your turn to wash the bowls at home tomorrow, but Xu Le could hear what she was trying to convey.
The pair of brothers and sisters in the morning mist under the tree are undoubtedly the two people who believe in the most simple and direct creed in the universe. As long as the communication between them breaks the awkward and awkward atmosphere at the beginning, it will become very simple and direct. , so Xu Le simply shook his head without explaining too much.
Huaicao Shi looked into his eyes quietly, without disappointment or anger, and said: "I know you have no feelings for the Empire, after all, you have lived in the Federation since you were a child, and you have received those sour educations, in your eyes , the system of the empire is primitive and backward, dictatorial and barbaric, so you don’t want to serve the empire, it should be a very real instinctive reaction.”
"It's not a sour education." Xu Le looked back into her eyes and said, "I've been to the empire, I've seen Libanxing undergoing reforms, and I've also seen the life of a pariah in the empire like pigs and dogs, There are thousands of insurgents being crushed to pieces."
"In my opinion, although this Federation is not perfect, and sometimes it is dirty and disgusting, but no matter what, it is better than Zuotian Star Field."
Huai Cao Shi's eyes narrowed, and his eyes gradually became sharper: "The butcher put on a hypocritical mask and changed the method of killing pigs from stabbing to electric shock. Does this prove that he is not a butcher?"
Xu Le whispered: "Even if it's a pig, at least it should be more comfortable to die. This small change is actually a very important difference."
Huai Cao Shi stared into his eyes, slowly put his hands behind his back, turned his head and looked up at the end of the morning mist, where he could not see clearly, calmed down the emotions in his heart, and said in a deep voice, "If you value this kind of change, then you should be more You should come home with me, and only then can you accomplish this change."
Xu Le followed her gaze and looked into the depths of the morning mist, not knowing what was there. After a moment of silence, he replied, "I know myself very well and know that I have absolutely no ability to change that star field."
"There is an electronic fence over the morning mist." Huai Cao Shi said: "When I first came into contact with this information, I found it difficult to understand why the federal people built such a long electronic fence, wanting to turn human beings into Monkeys in the zoo for beasts to watch?"
"I later learned that these electronic fences were designed to protect wild animals from being hunted by humans. I was really surprised. I didn't expect it to be based on such absurd reasons."
She made no secret of the contempt and ridicule on her face: "Life can only move forward in competition. The Federation thinks it is protecting the ecology by doing this, but it is actually fighting against the laws of nature. How arrogant."
"The strong eat the weak, is it supposed to be said in Federal language? These beasts are not as powerful as humans, so they should be eaten. Life is a process of constant elimination and selection. If you forcibly interfere in this process, you can only become the current Federation. After 10,000 years of development, there has not been any qualitative leap, just like the stagnant water in front of you and me, without any waves."
Huai Cao Shi turned her head and looked at Xu Le coldly and said, "Although the empire is at a disadvantage now, as long as it lasts for a while, it will be able to fully surpass the Federation within thirty years at most. That's why."
"We eat meat, they eat compounds, how can they not win."
Her voice was still indifferent and calm, and the Federal language was still a little stiff, but these words, especially every word in the last sentence, were spit out from her thin lips, with an unquestionable sense of hardness, falling on On the surface of the wetlands, killing intent came out, startling a few gulls and herons, white wings hidden in the mist.
A civet cat, who was drinking in the morning by the water pool, glanced vigilantly under the tree, then turned around in horror and ran to his death. A lion group in the long grass in the distance seemed a little restless, and the male lion chirped. The neck of the lioness, but she didn't dare to take a step closer in this direction.
"The strong take the initiative to leave room for the weak, I think it is a kind of progress."
Xu Le looked at her thin but powerful back, and said after a moment of silence, "What's more, the relationship between human social classes cannot be completely equal to the relationship between humans and beasts."
"That's why I said that the education of the Federation is sour and rotten. There has never been absolute equality in human society. There is no empire, no Federation, no past, no present, and no future."
Huai Cao Shi turned around, looked at Xu Le with a blank face, and said, "Don't be too naive, even the natural human rights you often talk about are just a joke in my opinion. The true energy flowing in you and me. , why can't the common people learn? Because this is a gift only given to us by the creator, do you think this is also equal?"
"Don't tell me that the Philadelphia Li family is also an imperial family."
Xu Le subconsciously picked up a sentence, and then fell into silence with Huai Cao Shi at the same time. Because of similar conversations, they appeared in the Red Rose and Song Hai. At that time, Xu Le finally laughed and asked if I am also an imperial royal family
The conversation is still the same conversation it once was, but the answer is completely different.
"We have discussed this issue before." Xu Le said with his eyes lowered slightly: "Maybe we are really born the most powerful people in the universe, but this does not mean that we are born with some kind of privilege."
He pointed to the blue sky above the fog and said, "The Charter Computer is catching me. It is stronger than me. Should I surrender to a computer?"
"If I don't want to be enslaved by it, then why enslave others?"