When the officers of the Intelligence Agency rushed to the corner of the dirt road, they could only catch the vague back in the depths of the secluded mulberry forest, and they knew that they could not catch up with each other.
The emotions of frustration and even despair made everyone's cheeks turn pale in an instant.
Their Einsatzgruppen team, which is well organized by the various divisions of the Agency, has great power in the Empire, but has only one goal, and that is to find the young man and woman who have just disappeared from sight.
For nearly two years, the Intelligence Agency's operational teams have traveled back and forth between the major administrative systems, trying to find each other, but to no avail, and today is the first time in the town of Sangqu that they have been so close to each other, only to see them disappear.
Thinking of the fact that there were fewer and fewer superiors, and thinking of the tragic ending that might be ushered in, these imperial agents suddenly felt that the breeze around them had become so cold, and the contrast between their pale faces and the black uniforms on their bodies was extremely desolate and sympathetic.
The senior intelligence officer stared at the two backs, which were almost out of sight, and a tired fear that came out of the deepest part of his body peeked through the beard of the iron blue jaw.
Suddenly, he smiled nervously, pulled out the sharp knife from his boot, and stabbed it into his thigh, with a muffled thud The tip of the knife pierced deep into the muscles, and when he pulled it out, he brought out a shocking burst of blood, he gasped heavily, and half-knelt on the dirt road in embarrassment, looking at the empty road in the distance, he didn't see any figure turning, and the last trace of hope left in his eyes finally turned into despair, and a look of near crying and laughing appeared on his face.
Anyway, the ending is a death word, even a survival more terrible than death, the senior intelligence officer clenched his teeth, his cheeks were as hard as stones, forced a muffled snort from his chest, and his right hand held a sharp knife tightly, trembling and desperately thrust into his heart Suddenly there was a sharp tearing sound in the air, like a grenade was going over the mountains, and a very small stone, whizzing from afar, accurately hit the wrist of the senior officer of the intelligence agency, directly smashing the wrist bone, and making the knife boring and boring to the ground.
This official was not acting, more than a year of exhaustion and despair made him really want to die, but at this time, he was half-kneeling on the dirt road, holding his wrist in severe pain in astonishment, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the blood gurgling in his thigh, staring at the two figures who were slowly walking in the depths of the mulberry forest, and his heart was full of ecstasy.
"Who taught you this?"
The intelligence agency officer did not dare to look directly at the man who walked in front of him, and knelt down with more than thirty black-clothed agents behind him, spread his palms on the soil, and said in an extremely humble and trembling voice: "If we don't see you again, we will all die." ” The mulberry forest is like a sea, the fertile mulberry leaves are like countless palms, stretching out above the mud road, blocking the blazing sunlight into patches of light and shade, or time, the small-eyed man quietly looked at the people kneeling on the road, I don't know what kind of past he remembered, suddenly his eyes narrowed, looked up at the sky, only to see that the light that was broken into fragments became extremely dim.
A few huge shadows obscured the sky above Huangshi Rock, plunging Songhai into a desolate world, and it was vaguely discernible that they were the three most advanced giant warships of the Empire.
The dilapidated Sangqu Town Public School is in a state of absolute martial law, and the soldiers of the Imperial Royal Guard in full armor are guarding all directions with serious and indifferent expressions, and outside the walls, whether it is the old man Bayi who is still in a coma, the little nobles who are trembling, or the untouchable slaves and their children who can't hide their shocked expressions, they all kneel and maintain absolute silence, for them, the big man in the house in the broken wall is more dazzling than the stars in the sky, and they dare not mention her name, You can only express your awe in the most humble manner.
A well-dressed official withdrew from the room half-bent, walked outside the wall and said a few words to the people in a low voice, the momentum was extremely majestic, 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 as timid as a mouse, even in the face of the cold guns of the royal guards, they were still unwilling to leave, and stood silently outside the public school and waited.
"I don't like it when someone kneels down to me, and I don't like it when your subordinates force me to stay in this way, if this happens next time, maybe I'll run faster."
Xu Le lifted the kettle, flushed the green tea in the cup, skimmed the tea bubble with a slight flick of his fingers, looked back at the other party who was watching silently in front of the bookshelf, and said, "Say while drinking tea." ” Huai Caoshi turned around, unbuttoned the first button around the neck of the military uniform, sat down across the small table, picked up the slightly hot teacup and shook it gently, and said expressionlessly: "Tea is very ordinary." ” "The student gave it, mixed with mulberry, and it tasted good."
Xu Le replied with a smile, picked up the teacup and took a sip first.
Huai Caoshi held the teacup and was silent for a moment, and slowly took a sip, perhaps because the tea soup was really good or because the temperature was enough, the cold expression on her face was slightly relaxed, and she quietly looked at the man opposite, and said: "Back in the wetland, you promised me to come to the empire to see me." ” Xu Le replied softly: "Isn't this just in the empire?"
"But you didn't see me."
Huai Caoshi frowned slightly, the tips of her eyebrows were extremely sharp, stared into his eyes and said: "At that time, you refused to go with me, but I knew that you would come after all, but I didn't expect that you would have to avoid me for so long." ” Xu Le gently turned the teacup, the bottom of the cup rubbed against the not-so-smooth tabletop, making a rustling sound, his eyes fell slightly on the turbid tea, and replied in a low voice: "Even if you see it, what?"
It's a very simple sentence, but when it comes to what happened to him in this life, it has a poignant and helpless taste.
Huai Caoshi quietly looked at his only brother, watching the sunlight penetrate the glass, shine on his slightly dark cheeks, and on his long eyelashes, and found that time has not left too many traces on this face, but compared with the year, whether it was the year when the Federation hero entered the empire alone, or the year when the imperial prince was helpless in the Federation, it seemed much calmer.
Huai Caoshi pursed the corners of her lips slightly, and reluctantly squeezed out a smile that she thought was warm, but in fact was still domineering, and asked as gently as possible: "How have you spent more than these two years?"
As the strongest person in the Zuotian Star Domain, the natural heir to the imperial throne, this princess has no brothers and friends since she was a child, and Her Majesty the Emperor who lives in the Star Picking Hall is her father, but first of all, the emperor of the empire, so she doesn't know what kind of attitude to use to face Xu Le and face a family member, but since she confirmed this fact more than two years ago, she has been working hard, although it is clumsy, it is extremely touching.
"I went back to Donglin, overlooking the mines in the grassland in those gray moon gravel, I went to Bermuda, I went to find the trafficker company that cooperated with the empire back then, I wanted to trouble those people, but it turned out that the building had already been destroyed by Lin Yuanshan, so I came to the empire later."
Huai Caoshi 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 sunlight was warm and direct, Xu Le squinted his eyes, smiled at the ups and downs on the glass, and his mind came up with the magnificent scenery he had seen in various parts of the universe in the past two years after escaping from the Federation.
"The spectacular supernova explosion ruins of the constellation of the Crosses, the salt mine tunnels under the Rimbaud Star, the cyan cathedral on the Gangding Star, and of course, the red tide on the Lihan Star, the fog of the Pine Cone Ridge, and the Songhai Sea around us, these are all things you have taken me to see before, but at that time I was a prisoner, and I wanted to see them as a tourist."
He turned his head to look at Huai Caoshi and said, "Since I am from the empire by blood, I think I need to know more about the historical environment of the empire, by the way, I also went to the ancestral shrine of the Bai Hibiscus Huai clan to take a few photos." ” "After being a tourist for more than two years and going to so many places, then you should already have the answer you are looking for."
Huai Caoshi calmly asked, "What is it?"
Xu Le shrugged his shoulders with a smile and said, "The Bai Hibiscus Ancestral Temple prohibits civilians from approaching, and 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, not close enough to the people." ” "You know what I'm trying to ask."
Huai Caoshi stared at his eyes, very tough.
Under her gaze, Xu Le was silent for a long time, the smile on his face gradually faded, and he replied seriously: "It's not close to the people enough, it's actually my answer." ” "So" "So I don't like it."
Xu Le looked back at her eyes, watching the brilliance in her eyes gradually fade away, the fingers that turned the teacup gradually stopped, and said: "I don't like that commoners can't enter the aristocratic restaurant, I don't like that nobles can execute slaves at will without worrying about punishment, I don't like those patients who keep kowtowing at the gate of the palace to ask for miracle protection, I don't like some people to eat meat, some people eat grass, meat eaters sometimes eat the meat of those who eat grass when they are interested, what I don't like the most is that people kneel everywhere in the empire." ” Huai Caoshi listened carefully to his words, and after a moment of silence, asked, "Is there any essential difference between this and the Federation?"
"On the federal side, at least on the surface, the vast majority of the people do not need to kneel, and you may think that this is just a gorgeous and hypocritical cloak, but the cloak can always protect against the cold, and the oppressed people will not stand in the cold winter wind."
Xu Le continued: "Quantitative changes can always cause qualitative changes, and wearing a few more layers of clothing can sometimes block the reaper's sickle, maybe you think that this difference is not essential, but I think the opposite. ” Huai Caoshi took a cup of cold tea, took a tasteless sip, and suddenly said: "There has never been anything eternal and unchanging in this universe, including the system, but there is a lack of people who change the system. ” To be continued: