The next morning, the highest level of the Cold Steel Colosseum.
A long table with 7 chairs. The seven people participating in the negotiation sat down on both sides of the long table, and their distinct sitting methods clearly separated each other. The five crew members of the Morning Star were sitting on the backlit side, their faces as indifferent as five wooden sculptures; on the other side, Gaius Optimis was facing Gongsun Ce, with a straight suit and a cold face, and the short beard on his chin was neatly trimmed. It's like a texture on a game model.
The cold steel war beast came over with a tea tray and gave everyone a cup of ice-cold tea. A layer of frost on the water brought the already awkward atmosphere to the bottom.
Gaius picked up the tea cup without changing his expression: "I'm glad to have an opportunity to communicate with you face to face."
"It's such an honor to talk to your robot face to face." Gongsun Ce smiled.
Gaius across the table is just a machine that preached yesterday, and his true body is still in the distant Meteor City. The champion next to Gaius used a stool leg to support the chair and sat like an acrobatic. Hearing this, he shook his head repeatedly: "I told you to come here in person."
"I also told you I couldn't afford that risk."
"How about at least bringing a few people to build a strong momentum?" The champion sighed, "The sword holder opposite brought four beautiful girls and here we only have two old men smelling of smoke and alcohol. This kind of negotiation is very lackluster. It makes people frown just looking at it. If you ask me, why don't you ask a few pretty girls from the family to dress nicely and stand behind us? After you finished speaking, the girls shouted in unison, "Master, the master is great, come on, master". In this way, unless the other party is too embarrassed to change clothes and boo, you will definitely be full of momentum in the negotiation."
Gongsun Ce almost stopped holding back. He knew that Qiluo on the other side was having a hard time holding back his laughter. Gaius sighed deeply: "You don't need the cheerleaders on the opposite side to take action. You have almost destroyed my momentum by yourself. Now please quietly do your security work and don't do any harm."
"OK, OK!"
The champion stepped off the table and retreated to the wall. As expected, he was silent. Gaius took a sip of tea and put down the cup, clasping his hands in a virtual gesture: "The world will be destroyed in 90 years at the latest."
When Gaius said this, his expression seemed to be reporting tomorrow's weather conditions. This bombshell was quietly dropped into the lake in Gongsun Ce's heart, and it did not officially explode until half a second later, causing surprise and confusion like a sea tide. surge up. He suppressed the surprise and confusion in his heart and raised his eyebrows: "I would like to hear the details."
"I'm not surprised that the official didn't tell you the whole story, but this is the main premise of this peace negotiation, so let's start from your hometown, the Eternal Light Empire." Gaius looked at the Dawn Knight, and continued after seeing the other party's unimpeded statement. He continued, "So far you have seen a variety of dragon landforms. You should know that the foundation of each country is the assets left by the dragon phenomenon. The power of the Yongguang Empire comes from the Brahma Ding Boundary left by the Dragon of Time and Space, which is unique The foresight of the empire gives the empire the ability to respond to future crises. As recorded in folk rumors and unofficial history, the emperor of the Yongguang Empire can see the future, and the longest period of this future is 'one hundred years'. Crisis in the next century It will be observed, detected, and analyzed by the emperor, so that the huge machine of the empire can respond to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the Southern Continent.
But this prediction of the future that lasted for two thousand years was broken at the beginning of this century. Since January 1, 2000, Emperor Zhongxiao of the empire can no longer see the future within a hundred years. There is no crisis, no warning, no preparation plan. There is only one answer to explain this bizarre phenomenon: the Yongguang Empire will be destroyed before 2100. The power of this crisis was beyond the capabilities of even the most powerful nation in the world, so much so that the emperor saw no future for his survival. "
Gaius paused for a moment, leaving time for the young people to think and accept the reality. Gongsun Ce immediately looked at Airandia beside him, and the Dawn Knight nodded: "Emperor Zhongxiao made this clear at the United Nations meeting ten years ago. This was the decisive factor that promoted the establishment of Sky City and the end of the secret war. factor."
What Gongsun Ce felt for a moment wasn't even shock, he felt it was ridiculous. That is an empire, the most powerful country in the world! There is a mysterious emperor and the strongest Heavenly Pole. It is the origin of the law of impermanence and the art of returning to heaven. It is the beginning of modern human civilization. Its territory is connected with the Hokuriku and goes down to the depths of the Southern Ocean. Its flag once went to the earth. Every inch of soil.
Will this empire be destroyed? Even the disintegration of Unova sounds more like a possibility than this fantasy. Thinking of this, Gongsun Ce immediately understood why the countries were able to cooperate ten years ago. Even the biggest strategic goal set by various countries during the Secret War was only heavy damage rather than destruction, because anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is impossible. If the empire is destroyed, what will happen to other countries? This is not the time for civil war at all. If we don't find a way to coexist together, I'm afraid the world will end.
"What about the disaster in the sky?!" Qiluo couldn't help but ask, "If the emperor could see the future -"
"That's exactly the problem. The emperor failed to see the disaster in the sky in time." Gaius said, "When Emperor Chongxiao was alert, the dragon disaster was about to happen. That was the last time the Yongguang Empire saw it." The future'. This sudden disaster has the largest impact in history, and it directly led to the birth of superpowers, that is, the birth of dragon species!"
Gaius's eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and he glanced at the three superpowers across the table in turn: "You all know the nickname of dragon species, a superpower user. Your unstable state will lead to the arrival of the dragon. But you Have you ever wondered why superpowers are linked to dragons?”
His fingertips touched the conference table, and a large projection appeared in the middle of the long table. The image presented in poor quality was breathtakingly majestic. The giant blue dragon floats in the clouds like a mountain range, and its shadow envelopes the buildings on the ground in the dark night. Hundreds of bone spurs sprouted from the dragon's back and stood toward the sky. The tips of the pure white bone spurs burst out with countless colorful brilliance.
Those lights disappeared as soon as they appeared, but Gongsun Ce couldn't help but start to imagine, imagining that the lights scattered like raindrops, flying to the land under the sky dragon, and flying to the entire blue planet.
"Thorn..." Shigure Rei whispered like a curse.
In a daze, Gongsun Ce remembered the day he and Shigurei met. They followed the passage in the thorns straight to the ground. That day they were still talking about the fact that the thorns were hollow and seemed to exist for transportation. It now appears that that conjecture was correct, and that the spines exist to transport seeds.
The seeds of the Sky Dragon.
"The true form of the superpower is the seed of the Sky Dragon. We still don't know why it contains the 'transmitter' of the other dragons, but the disaster happened in reality." Gaius said coldly, "Among them, especially It is worth noting that the most dangerous dragon species, your ability is not only the 'messenger' of the Monarch Dragon, but also the power of the Eternal King. Once the ability is completely rampant, the Eternal King is likely to come to the world together with the Monarch Dragon. Then At that time, all humans will become the dependents of the monarch, humans will have no future, and the world will be destroyed."
He took a sip of meaningless tea and added: "Except for the King of Silence, he has no dependents. He will directly slaughter the living beings and burn the world."
This important news made the young people across the table fall silent, until a frivolous rhetorical question rang out.
"so what?"
Gongsun Ce didn't look nervous. He leaned back in his chair and moved his head, like a bored college student in class.
"All the Nether Glazed Void Lights have been killed, and the remaining three are nothing more than a killing method. Just kill them when the dragons are coming. When the Six-Phase Monarch Dragon kills the other giant dragons, they will not be able to appear. Naturally, the world will be peaceful. Mr. Gaius As the vice-president of the United States, you don't even lack this courage, right?"
"If the problem was really that simple, the situation would probably be much clearer." Gaius said, "The Void Light Dragon brings disaster to Jin Realm, the Glazed Dragon brings Kong Hua Realm, and the arrival of giant dragons is often accompanied by the expansion of their world. Have you ever thought that the world we live in is also the 'creation' of a powerful creature?"
"Oh, the real world, right?" Gongsun Ce crossed his fingers, "It seems we are going to talk about religion again. Next, are you going to talk about the existence of the Supreme God and the Heavenly Wheel?"
The real world is a word that often appears in the myth of the heavenly wheel, and its other well-known name is "the real world". Ancient priests used this word to refer to the world created by the Supreme God for mankind. After the development of science, it was used to refer to the observable universe. Gaius's demeanor when he mentioned this matter made Gongsun Ce suspicious that the other party was going to claim that the real world was also someone's creation, and that humans were all residents of this world.
Or maybe that was really the case, and he wouldn't be surprised if anything happened now.
"I don't know if the Supreme God really exists, but I know that the existence of the real world has its limit, which is what we often call the real realm." Gaius said indifferently, "The existence of the real realm restrains the eternal king and the dragon. , making it difficult for them to directly interfere with reality. But every time a dragon is born, it will cause irreversible damage to the real realm, and the death of the monarch dragon will amplify this damage hundreds or thousands of times.
Therefore, the more the monarch dragon is killed, the stronger the intervention of the remaining kings in the world becomes. Now that you have killed three monarchs, and the shadows are walking on the land of the northern continent, 'Tianji' Yan Qi has to go and suppress another king in person to maintain peace in the world. But what about after that? "
Gaius looked directly into Gongsun Ce's eyes and said word by word: "If the death of the fourth monarch is the day when the eternal king truly comes, how should you deal with those ancient beings from eternity ago? You can kill the monarch. Dragon, can you kill the Eternal King?"
The insider information thrown out one after another was like invisible gunpowder, causing everyone to be unable to defend themselves. Shigure Rei looked at the Dawn Knight with a reproachful look. She thought that everyone should be informed of this news in advance to make preparations, but Alandia did not make a sound and only signaled her companions to be quiet.
There was silence in the top box until a helpless sigh sounded. Gongsun Ce rubbed his temples, shook his head and said: "What a huge inside story. We have reached the episode before the finale, right? Mr. Villain Boss can't wait to explain the setting and background, and is waiting for the last episode to bring out the big kill." Qi and I fought each other passionately, and the mess afterwards will be left to be solved in the next season."
Gaius regained his robot-like calm: "It is precisely in order to avoid this direction that I have sincerely negotiated peace with you."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Optimus, I don't see your sincerity for the time being." Gongsun Ce tapped his fingers on the table, "You can laugh at my ignorance. After all, this is common sense known to high-level officials in various countries. But From my perspective as an executive, it doesn’t matter whether I know these inside stories or not. It will not affect my past actions or my future plans. I only see that you are confusing the public, because if what you said If the situation is true, then the incident you caused at the end of June has greatly shaken the security of the real realm. I wonder how you can justify what you did?"
On June 30, when Master Chi was causing chaos in the Sky City, hundreds of giant dragons descended on the Sky City at the same time, and the Sky City was almost destroyed. The superpowers who witnessed this incident immediately remembered the experience of that day when Gongsun Ce reminded them, and their eyes towards Gaius became unkind again.
The Vice President of United States showed no panic and was obviously well prepared. He said calmly: "This is to collect necessary experimental materials and obtain first-hand data. The arrival of hundreds of giant dragons has indeed caused a certain impact on the real realm, but compared to the arrival of the monarch dragon, the impact is minimal. Worth trying."
"The experimental material must refer to the 77 giant dragons that disappeared from the world. Then I wonder what results your significant experiment led to." Gongsun Ce said aggressively, "Let me guess, it was probably not long after that. Miss Phantom appears on the Northern Continent!"
Gaius said calmly: "No comment."
"It seems that this topic cannot be discussed. Why? Because your real purpose is to defect to the Eternal King like Aurus? Or is it because of the interference of a third party that has nothing to do with the peace talks?"
"Sorry, I still have no comment."
Gongsun Ce asked again and again, wanting to observe Gaius's reaction. At this time, he realized the cleverness of his opponent's strategy. Gaius uses a robot as a negotiating agent. The robot's face has no microexpressions or eyes to speak of. His opponent can only find flaws in the logic of the dialogue. When the robot chooses silence, no one else can ask anything. They are essentially testing a pile of steel and plastic.
Gongsun Ce shook his head repeatedly: "You are not sincere enough, Mr. Gaius. If you don't reveal anything, what else can we talk about?"
"What do you want to know?" Gaius asked.
"Many. For example, I am very curious about how you came into contact with the knowledge about the Eternal King?" Gongsun Ce smiled half-heartedly, "You should not be a creation envoy. The mind below the creation world will inevitably be confused when facing those great beings. They assimilate."
"I am a member of the Dust Cult. This is the knowledge that the Hidden Law Lord and the Formless God once told me." Gaius remained calm.
The top box was instantly filled with serious murderous intent, and the aura was as cold as needles, which made the champion on the side look at him with suspicion. Gongsun Ce sneered and said, "I'm sorry you dare to reveal your identity in front of me, Gaius Optimis."
"I don't think I can lie in front of you and the Knight of Dawn, so I will simply put the facts that everyone knows well on the table." Gaius was not moved by murderous intent at all, "I can also explain to you four years The inside story before..."
The false peaceful atmosphere was instantly torn apart, and Gongsun Ce let out a thunderous roar: "What did you say? Did you say that Situ Yi and Lord Yin Lu originally planned to save the world at the cost of the destruction of 20 million people?!"
Gaius stared at the angry young man quietly, his ferocious face reminded the man of his former military life. On the border front, there are many people who charge with grenades and explosives and die together with the enemy. The expressions of those people before they die are often like this. Furious, chilling, with the consciousness of burning jade and stones, and the hatred of dragging the enemy to hell even at the risk of his own life.
He realized that he had made a mistake and that he should not have brought this matter to light. Queen Gray was right this time, the sword holder was not a rational superior. He is fundamentally a lunatic who only wants to kill all his enemies, just like the Silent King in this world.
"The past has passed, and there is no point in talking about it anymore." Gaius said, "If you lack the calmness to negotiate, I suggest asking the Knight of Dawn to negotiate for you temporarily."
"Oh, that's not a big deal, I'm very calm."
The expression on Gongsun Ce's face changed, and the murderous intent in the room suddenly disappeared. The angry and ferocious look of King Ming was replaced by a calculating expression like a businessman. The gray-haired young man was polite in front of the conference table, like a young and promising successful person on the financial street, wearing his gold-rimmed glasses and talking to business opponents. Negotiate contract transactions.
"In terms of your ability to make people angry, you are still far behind your own children." Gongsun Ce smiled, "Please go on and tell me your bargaining chip."
"Very good, I like to negotiate with sensible people." Gaius nodded, "There are still many ready-made chips. You can investigate the significance of Sky City itself afterwards and investigate how many dragon species will be born in the next 30 years. In the world. I can tell you the truth about the Sky Disaster, which is a truth that only the four Creation Envoys and the Emperor of the Empire know against the Dragon Disaster."
"Four?" Gongsun Ce frowned. Then the champion who had been silent spoke.
"The disaster in the sky in 2000 was huge, and the empire sent out the strongest lineup. 'Tianji' Yan Qi arrived first, followed by 'Ming Ke' Qin Ming who was traveling in the southern continent, and then the left-behind god There are two other young talents from Jingtai Academy, 'Xuan Zhijun' Liu Zhongwu and 'Wuxian Shen' Situ Yi." The champion raised his eyes, "Are you surprised? Your biggest enemy was also a hero who saved the world."
"Ace, it's true." Qin Qianbai whispered, "They used to be classmates."
Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses and asserted: "I don't need it. Yan Qi will tell me when the time is right."
Gaius didn't bother much: "Then I can hand over the Dust Order's past salvation plan as a reference for countries to deal with the crisis."
Gongsun Ce put his hands on his chin and leaned forward slightly: "I said I don't need it, Mr. Gaius. I don't care what those idiots wanted to do, I want to know your plan, your plan. So far. So far, you have been talking about the general trend and the world, why not put your vision into the United States under our feet?"
"I don't mind telling you what I think." Gaius said, "What binds the United States is not only the end of development, but also the magic left by the saints. You are so smart that you must have seen the nature and limitations of the civilized front, It was a technique used by the saint to suppress the mysterious world with everyone's ideas, but that technique also determined that people's way of thinking was difficult to change.
Destruction could come at any time, and Usters did not have much time to make subtle changes. When the time comes to prepare for war and fully automated production is put on the agenda, changes in the philosophy of the Magnetic State will lead to a magnetic storm that destroys civilization. If we plan to mobilize all our people to resist disaster, the trees of the Wooden State will be the first to destroy our cybernetic soldiers. "
Gaius glanced at the expressions of the people across the table and looked into their eyes one by one: "My plan is to improve the old civilized front and build Ustes into a land that can survive disasters. This plan There is no conflict of interest with your pursuits, and there is the possibility of coexistence between us. If you agree to peace talks, we can join forces to share each other's knowledge and respond to the same crisis with different plans."
Gongsun Ce narrowed his eyes: "What good will this plan do to you?"
"Once the plan succeeds, I will gain extremely powerful power. The Northern Continent will also gain peace."
"Why? Because of your sense of responsibility?"
"Because my new civilized front has the hope of repairing the crumbling reality."
This was the biggest bargaining chip thrown away in this peace negotiation, and the weight of this sentence moved the Dawn Knight. After exchanging glances with Gongsun Ce, she asked: "Mr. Gaius, what is your basis?"
"The foundation of the civilized front and the theories we obtained in our research." Gaius said calmly, "I can't guarantee it. After all, everything is calculated on paper. I can only say that there is a possibility, but even then No matter how slim the odds are, they are worth fighting for.”
He looked at the young man across the table and softened his voice: "Think carefully, Gongsun Ce."
"That's very well said, Mr. Gaius." Gongsun Ce tapped the table, "The end of the world, the survival of the United Nations, and a very possible plan. If I don't give in at this time, it will appear that I have no overall perspective at all. But I am a young man after all, and I still want to ask a naive question."
He stood up, looked directly into Gaius Optimis' eyes, and said coldly: "Are you doing all this for the United States, or for yourself?"
Gaius also stood up and looked level with him, his cold tone filled with clear emotions for the first time.
"Of course it is for myself. I will never allow my life to be dominated by the actions of others. I will fight the crisis with my own means!"
"Very good, then we have no room for peace talks from the beginning." Gongsun Ce smiled, "In this peace talk, you talked about interests and benefits every time, but you never mentioned responsibilities and obligations, and you never showed any commitment to what you have done. Repent for what you have done. If you really want to cooperate with us in peace talks, then why don't you negotiate directly after the incident at the end of June, but talk to us as a last resort?
Because you yourself knew from the very beginning that peace talks were not feasible, you hid too much important information from us, such as the cost of this so-called new civilization front. Your plan must have drawbacks that we cannot accept, otherwise how could you prioritize fighting over peace? "
Gongsun Ce looked at the man's cold face and smiled: "I have no doubts about my conjecture. After all, you don't care about the public or the majority of people at all. You, like Genya Shigure, only care about yourself. So we have nothing to do from the beginning. Talk about it, I will never support someone like you to be the president of the United States."
Gaius said calmly: "Then how are you going to deal with the crisis?"
Gongsun Ce walked out of the top box and looked down at the crowded crowd at his feet. The craze in the casino was as intense as ever. The gamblers cheering and shouting beside the ring could not imagine how crazy the conversation above their heads was.
"No king has ever been killed before, right?" Gongsun Ce whistled, "I don't mind setting this precedent myself."
(End of chapter)
