When the officials of the intelligence agency rushed to the corner of the dirt road, they could only capture the blurred back in the depths of the quiet mulberry forest, and they knew that they would not be able to catch up with each other. Frustration and even despair made everyone's cheeks pale instantly.
Their intelligence agency special operations team, independent of the departments in the agency, has great power in the empire, but has only one action goal, that is to find the pair of young men and women who just disappeared.
In the past two years, the intelligence agency action team went back and forth between the major administrative galaxies, trying to find each other, but always found nothing. Today is the first time in Sangku Town that it has been so close to the other party, only to watch The opponent disappears.
Thinking that their superiors have become less and less patient, and thinking of the tragic ending that may be ushered in, these imperial spies suddenly feel that the breeze around them has become so cold, and their pale faces and the black uniforms on their bodies are contrasted, and they are especially desolate and desolate. Compassionate.
The senior intelligence officer stared at the two backs that were almost out of sight, and a wave of exhaustion and fear emanating from the deepest part of his body emerged from the beard of the livid lower jaw.
Suddenly, he smiled nervously, pulled out the sharp knife in his boot with a squeak, plunged it into his thigh fiercely, and made a muffled sound!
The tip of the knife penetrated deeply into the muscle, and when it was pulled out, it brought out a shocking surge of blood. He gasped heavily, half-kneeling on the dirt road in embarrassment, looking at the empty road in the distance, and saw no figure turn around. The last hope left in his eyes finally turned into despair, and a look of crying and laughing appeared on his face.
Anyway, the ending is a word of death, even a life more terrifying than death. The high-ranking intelligence officer gritted his teeth tightly, his cheeks were as hard as stones, and he forced a groan from his chest. He held a sharp knife tightly in his right hand. Trembling and resolutely inserted into his own heart!
A sharp tearing sound suddenly erupted in the air, as if a grenade was going over a mountain. A very small stone roared from afar and hit the wrist of a senior intelligence officer accurately, smashing the wrist bone directly, letting the knife Boring to the ground.
This official was not acting, and the exhaustion and despair of more than a year made him really want to die, but at this time, he was half-kneeling on the dirt road, clutching his painful wrist in astonishment, ignoring the blood gurgling from his thighs. , staring blankly at the two figures walking slowly from the depths of the mulberry forest, endless ecstasy arose in my heart.
"Who taught you this method?"
The intelligence officer did not dare to look directly at the man who walked in front of him, and knelt down together with the thirty or so black-clothed secret agents behind him, with their palms flat on the soil, and said in a humbly trembling voice, "If I can't find you again, We all have to die."
The mulberry forest stretches like the sea, and the fertile mulberry leaves are like countless palms, stretched over the mud road, blocking the blazing sunlight into patches of light, or time, the small-eyed man quietly looked at the people kneeling between the roads, I don't know what kind of past he remembered, but suddenly his eyes narrowed and he looked up to the sky, only to see that the broken light became extremely dim.
A few huge shadows obscured the sky above Huangshiji, causing Songhai to fall into a cool world. It could be vaguely distinguished that they were the most advanced giant warships of the three empires.
The dilapidated Sangku Township Public School was under absolute martial law. The soldiers of the Imperial Royal Guard were fully armed and guarded in all directions with solemn and indifferent expressions. The nobles, the untouchable slaves and their children who can't hide their shocking expressions, all knelt down on their knees to maintain absolute silence. For them, the big man in the room in the broken wall was more dazzling than the stars in the sky. If you dare to mention their names, you can only express your awe in the most humble manner.
A well-known official in luxurious clothes withdrew from the room with a half squat, walked outside the fence and said something in a low voice to the people, with a very majestic aura. The people kneeling on the ground did not dare to disobey, and stood up one by one, but the strong curiosity in their hearts made them timid as mice on weekdays. Waiting outside the school.
"I don't like someone kneeling down on me, and I don't like your subordinates forcing me to stay in this way. If this happens next time, maybe I will run faster."
Xu Le picked up the kettle, swayed the green tea in the cup, flicked his fingers and swiped the tea bubbles away, looked back at the person who was watching silently in front of the bookshelf with his hands up and his head raised, and said, "Talk while drinking tea."
Huaicao Shi turned around, untied the first button on the neck of the military uniform, sat down across from the small table, held up the slightly hot teacup and shook it gently, and said expressionlessly, "Tea is very ordinary."
"Sent by the students, mixed with mulberry, it tastes good."
Xu Le replied with a smile, and took a sip from the teacup.
Huaicao Shi held the teacup in silence for a moment, then took a slow sip, perhaps because the tea soup was really good or the temperature was sufficient, the cold expression on her face loosened slightly, she quietly looked at the man opposite, and said, "I was there back then. In the wetlands, you promised me to come to the Empire to see me."
Xu Le replied softly, "Am I in the empire?"
"But you didn't see me." Huaicaoshi frowned slightly, her brows were extremely sharp, and she stared into his eyes and said, "You refused to come with me at that time, but I knew you would come eventually, but I didn't expect, You've been here for so long and you've been avoiding me."
Xu Le turned the teacup gently, the bottom of the cup rubbed against the uneven tabletop, making a rustling sound. His eyes fell slightly into the turbid tea, and he replied in a low voice, "What if we meet?"
It's a very simple sentence, but when it comes to the encounters in his life, there is a sad feeling of helplessness.
Huai Cao Shi quietly looked at his only brother, watching the sunlight penetrate the glass, shining on his dark cheeks and long eyelashes, and found that time did not leave too many traces on this face, It's just that compared to that year—whether it was the year when the heroes of the Federation entered the empire alone, or the year when the prince of the empire was helpless in the Federation—it seemed much calmer.
Huaicao Shi pursed the corners of her lips slightly, and managed to squeeze out a smile that she thought was warm, but was actually still domineering, and asked as gently as possible: "How have you been for the past two years?"
As the strongest in the Zuotian Star Region and the natural heir to the throne of the empire, Her Royal Highness the princess has no brothers, friends or playmates since she was a child. The emperor who lives high in the Hall of Picking Stars is her father, but first of all the emperor of the empire , so she didn't know how to face Xu Le and a family member, but since she confirmed this fact more than two years ago, she has been working hard. Although clumsy, it is particularly touching.
"I went back to Donglin and looked down on the mines in the grassland from the gray moon gravel. I have been to Bermuda and went to the trafficker company that cooperated with the empire. I wanted to trouble those people, but I found that That building had already been leveled by Lin Banshan, so I came to the Empire later."
Huai Cao Shi looked at him quietly and asked, "Where have you been?"
"I've been to a lot of places, met a lot of people, and seen a lot of scenery."
The sun was warm and direct. Xu Le squinted and smiled at the floating dust on the glass. After he escaped from the Federation, the magnificent scenery he had seen all over the universe in the past two years or so appeared in his mind.
"The remnants of the spectacular supernova explosion in the constellation Cross, the salt mine tunnels under the star of Rimbaud, the cyan cathedral on the star of Gangding, and of course, the red tide on the star of Lisaka, the fog of Pine Green, and the mulberry around us. Hai, you took me to see these before, but at that time I was a prisoner, and I wanted to see it as a tourist."
He turned his head to look at Huai Cao Shi and said, "Since I am from the Empire in terms of blood, I think I need to know more about the historical environment of the Empire. By the way, I even went to the ancestral hall of Bai Jinhuai to take pictures. A few pictures."
"Have been a tourist for more than two years and have gone to so many places, then the answer you are looking for should already be found." Huaicao Shi asked calmly, "What is it?"
Xu Le smiled and shrugged, and said, "The Baijin Ancestral Temple prohibits civilians from approaching. Even if you want to buy a ticket, you can't enter, so I sneaked in. I don't think this measure is good enough and not close to the people."
"You know what I want to ask." Huai Cao Shi stared into his eyes, very tough.
Under her gaze, Xu Le was silent for a long time, the smile on his face gradually faded, and he answered seriously: "It's not close to the people, it's actually my answer."
"so?"
"So... don't like it."
Xu Le looked back at her eyes, watching the brilliance in her eyes gradually cold, and the fingers turning the teacup gradually stopped, and said, "I don't like that commoners can't enter aristocratic restaurants, and I don't like that nobles can execute slaves at will. Don't worry about punishment. I don't like those patients who keep kowtowing at the gate of the palace to ask for miracles. I don't like some people eating meat, and some people eating grass. People who eat meat sometimes eat grass when they are interested. The meat of the people ate, and what I dislike the most is that people kneel all over the empire."
Huai Cao Shi listened to his words carefully, and asked after a moment of silence, "Is there any essential difference between this and the Federation?"
"On the surface of the Federation, at least on the surface, most people don't need to kneel. Maybe you think this is just a gorgeous and hypocritical coat, but the coat can always keep out the cold, and the oppressed people will not stand naked in the cold. In the winter wind."
Xu Le continued: "Quantitative changes can always lead to qualitative changes. Wearing more layers of clothes can sometimes block the reaper's sickle. Maybe you think this difference is not essential, but I think the opposite."
Huaicao Shi picked up the cold tea, sipped it tastelessly, and suddenly said, "There has never been anything that is permanent in this universe, including the system, but there is a lack of people who can change the system."