After the communication ended for a while, the chill in Krauser Xiao's heart slowly dissipated. In the past, the situation was dangerous when the adults were missing, but now the situation is vicious when the adults are safe. This is the political ecology of mankind. The dark Iron Curtain spreads across the Milky Way, and only the shadows of blood and the light of swords are its only bright colors.
He raised his hand and unexpectedly found that the inferior scarf was still on his leg, so he threw it to the attendant with a smile.
"It's as warm as an angel." He sighed and said to the attendant, "Don't mess up this time. Turning an angel into a mistress will be very boring."
"Yes." The attendant agreed softly and carefully put away the scarf.
Krauser sighed and continued: "Tell your family to please be calm these days no matter what, and let the chief attendant catch you. It is absolutely impossible for me to intercede."
"Yes," the attendant still agreed softly, and then asked, "Are you going back to the Derwent house?"
Krauser-Shaw shook his head.
"Go directly back to the Acropolis." He said, "Tomorrow we will go to the Super Power Association and formally pay a visit to Mr. Chairman."
The music started playing again, and the valet brought another cup of coffee. Raindrops fell outside the car, and the night was like a curtain. The ground car gradually drove away and disappeared into the night.
…
Half a planet away, at Derwent Manor, a drizzle had just stopped. The dark clouds dispersed, revealing the most dazzling beauty in the starry sky.
David accompanied Mochi to the highest rooftop of the manor, without anyone else, just the two of them. The noisy sound of the banquet came from the ground thousands of feet away, and it was blurred, like the prosperity of another world, but the night sky covering Xiye was even closer to them.
"How far can you sense, David?" Mochi suddenly asked.
David released his energy field, expanded and spread, and stretched out a tentacle into the night sky until it dissipated without a trace.
"There." David pointed to a star in the sky, which was another planet in the Exile Galaxy, 8.5 astronomical units away from the Lighthouse Star.
"I can sense it there." Mochi pointed to a spot in the starry sky. There is the Golden Gate Star, the outermost star cluster in the Exile Star Field, 39 astronomical units away from the Lighthouse Star.
Mo Qi pointed his finger into the void: "And the most distant galaxy that humans can see is there. The Terminus Star, four thousand years later, is still out of reach."
David muttered in a low voice: "It's better to be safe than it is to be safe."
"There are two things. The more deeply and persistently I think about them, the wonder and awe they arouse in my soul will change and grow with each passing day. These are the starry sky above my head and the morality in my heart," Moqi lamented. Said, "It is truly the most majestic epitaph for mankind. It is a pity that not many people can understand it now."
"I'm not afraid of death, David," he said, his gaze penetrating the universe with wisdom. "People have to die."
He pointed to the top of his head again: "Under this starry sky, no matter how powerful it is, it will eventually return to dust, not to mention that we are so small."
"The same is true for the universe. Nothing in the universe is eternal. Life will eventually die and matter will be annihilated. Only energy and spirit can survive forever." Mo Qi stopped, looked at David, and sighed, "We have the same origin. Energy, kid, you are the continuation of my spirit.”
"Father..." David whispered, his voice trembling. It is a kind of energy resonance from the depths of the spiritual world, which is closer and closer than any flesh-and-blood connection.
"That girl named Gu Hanhan, do you like her very much?" Mo Qi asked.
"I love her." David replied stubbornly.
"Love?" Mo Qi chuckled, "You are right to say this at your age now, but in a few years, you will know that the word 'love' is actually meaningless."
"I can distinguish what is love and what is not love." David said firmly
"Really? I did have a self-righteous love when I was young. Of course, I was much older than you are now. But you see, if I weren't so self-righteous, I wouldn't be superstitious about love, let alone think about it. If we want to get married, there is no need to kill Monique’s mother, and then Monique probably won’t grow up to be a bastard that will give us both a headache.”
"Please don't worry," David said, "In my mind, Monique misses my blood brother more than Oliver. I am willing to have a headache for him."
"Why do such a bastard kid care about what he does? How about just letting him die..." Mo Qi muttered, and then said, "Just look at him casually. Anyway, that bastard kid is also capable. He can Something big happened."
"...I will take care of Monique, father, in the future." David solemnly promised.
Mo Qi laughed at himself: "You see, humans are such contradictory creatures. They say that nothing is eternal, but selfishly hope that they can last forever, both materially and spiritually."
"Actually, what I want to say is that I can't remember what Monique's mother looks like at all." He knocked on his head, "This is really a headache. I think I will have insomnia again tonight. "
"Now that I think about it, when I killed Monique's mother, I really shouldn't have destroyed all her things along with her body. I should have at least left a photo so that now I can remember what she looked like. Look. You have to learn this lesson, David, and leave something behind. You may not understand it now, and I didn't understand it at the time, but when I get to my age, I will understand that human memory is the most unreliable thing. The things that happened in the past, no matter how vigorous and vigorous they were, were just lost in the memory, leaving no trace. Time and life dug a hole here, with more and more potholes, and finally became old, rotten, and transformed into... The powder died with nothing left.”
"I won't kill Gu Hanhan," David whispered, but it was more like talking to himself, "I won't kill her, never."
Mochi smiled and didn't mention Monique's mother again.
"Will you join the world at the end of this social season, David?" he suddenly asked, "Which country are you going to choose?"
David woke up from the deep and confused atmosphere.
"The specific country has not yet been determined." He said with a very definite tone, "But it will definitely be a country in the Lakomon Star Territory."
It is a star field near the edge of the Milky Way. It has a vast territory and rich products. However, because it happens to be sandwiched between the Earth Temple Sovereign and the Dark Temple Sovereign, it has become a buffer zone for the exchange of fire between the two camps. It is still a barren land. The most ideal thing is that the Rakmon Star Territory is geographically adjacent to Mochi's Trick Empire. Once Mochi falls, if Lakomon is strong enough to block the pressure from the inner domain to the greatest extent, Trik may be able to survive the most difficult internal and external difficulties after Mochi's death and avoid collapse. Even more optimistically, David has the ability to take over Mochi's legacy, inject new power into Trick, and reintegrate it into a more powerful empire.
David further explained: "Teacher Crassus suggested that I choose a distant star field. I agree very much. I also want to go to a place that is different from the Lighthouse Star."
Mochi expressed satisfaction. "Very good," he said.
They didn't talk anymore, just walked slowly under the starry sky, one was slightly in front, the other was slightly behind, one held the back of the other's hand, and one supported the other's arm; one was old, the other was young; one was thick and wise, and the other was Full of life.
They went down the stairs from the other side of the rooftop, and an airship stopped directly at the end of the stairs. Attendant Jiang and his people were waiting in front of the airship to greet them. There was an attendant standing next to Attendant Jiang, holding a tray in his hand. The tray was a transparent sample bag, very small, a square that could fit in the palm of his hand.
David let go of Mo Qi's arm. Attendant Jiang walked over and saluted, then personally took the sample bag and gave it to Mo Qi. Mochi took the sample bag and just passed it on his hand. He didn't even look at it and handed it directly to David.
"I will not mention Helena's matter again." He said, "Jiang Hui will pass on the order. All my vassals and those who harass without authorization are all treason."
"Thank you, father." David bowed his head and saluted, then looked at the sample bag in his palm and frowned slightly.
The sample in the bag is only a semi-carbonized hair, with a neat label on the surface, and two lines of words, a name and a gene sequence printed on it. The name was written "Gu Hanhan", which was expected and nothing surprising, but the gene sequence under the name - as a protector, David recognized it at a glance. It was Helena's gene sequence. Since he and Helena established the blood contract, they have completely destroyed the genetic sequence records that only he and Helena know.
"David, you have to be tolerant towards healers, and you have to be tolerant and tolerant, and you still have to be tolerant to the point of being tolerant, because healers are all stupid, and it's not their own fault that they are stupid." Mochi patted David on the shoulder. , went straight to the airship.
Mochi returned directly to his private estate in the southern hemisphere. As soon as he got off the spacecraft, he asked: "Where is that bastard boy?"
"In the dungeon, my lord." Jiang Shi replied.
"Are you going to put him in solitary confinement, Jiang?" Mo Qi said. "I don't think it will be of much use. This bastard boy is not afraid at all. He has loved being alone since he was a child. To educate this bastard boy, we probably have to corporal punishment."
"I think so too, sir," Jiang Shi said, "Are you planning to go there now?"
"Is it appropriate for me to go there?" Mochi said, but he was actually walking towards the dungeon.
"——Okay, since you insist, let's go over and take a look."
On the way to the dungeon, Mo Qi talked to Chief Jiang about parenting lessons that did not actually exist in him: "I used to be very opposed to corporal punishment of underage children. Of course, the whole universe was against it. But Monique let me This view has changed. Based on my more than ten years of experience with him, corporal punishment is the best education method, most suitable for those underage bastards. Because except for pain and tears, nothing can make these little bastards grow up. memory."
"How are you going to punish him corporally, Jiang? You are planning to punish him corporally, right? Don't tell me you are temporarily soft-hearted." Mo Qi said, "I think a punishment like letting him run a few laps or do hundreds of push-ups is really a punishment. Too light, you should give him a good whip, um, with a whip.”
"I agree, sir," said Attendant Jiang. "I have ordered the executioners from the Administration Bureau to flog Master Monique."
Mo Qi's tone paused for a moment, and then he asked: "How many whips are you going to give this bastard, Jiang?"
"Fifty blows." Jiang replied.
So Mo Qi said: "Only fifty lashes? Too few! I think this cannot achieve the purpose of criticizing and educating him. You have to give him at least 500 lashes, and people from the training camp should do it."
