Gu Hanhan ran away, almost burning his buttocks as he let the airship rise into the air. But after leaving the sacred mountain and getting rid of the intimidation of registration and naming, she felt proud again. He didn’t clamor for food, and he didn’t clamor for sleep. He was full of energy and enthusiastically discussed the next itinerary with Zheng Wenwen. Under Gu Hanhan's strong suggestion, they finally decided to visit the Moro River first. Because there is a time difference of about three hours between the Tuila district of the Embassy of All Nations on the left bank of the Moro River and Olympia on the Holy Mountain. It is now close to noon at the Olympics and the Acropolis, and the sun is scorching, but Tuila is still cool in the early morning, which is suitable for walking tours. See the palaces of all nations.
When traveling on the Moro River, they boarded the boat from the dock west of Torini as usual. Here, Gu Hanhan insisted on leaving all his entourage behind and took a passenger ship like an ordinary tourist. It's still early summer, and the Rangers have long since left. Most of the superpower nobles have returned to their families' territories after the social season. There are not many wealthy businessmen and politicians who come to Lighthouse Star to try their luck, and there are not many wealthy businessmen and politicians who come to Lighthouse Star to try their luck. The galaxy's tourism industry has entered the off-season. The pier was not crowded. They easily bought tickets for the cruise and found two seats on the deck with a great view.
The cruise ship goes down the river, and the gentle breeze brings picturesque scenery on both sides of the river. The first o'clock sunlight in the morning shines warmly on their heads and faces, making people feel refreshed and filled with infinite vitality. The boat stopped at the ferry in the Tuil district halfway through the journey, and they got off the boat to visit the Palace of Nations. Wandering among various buildings with different styles, I also took photos with the soldiers guarding the gates in front of the embassy with the flags of various countries. They were in high spirits, full of energy, laughing and taking a lot of photos along the way. Gu Hanhan felt that her lost girlhood was suddenly back. The youth of eighteen was so good.
They wandered around the palace complex with the flags of all nations flying for three or four hours, and they did not leave until they were too tired to walk. Gu Hanhan suggested that they take a break at an open-air restaurant by the river, eat something, bask in the sun, or sleep again, and then continue taking a boat to watch the duel at the Tiber River Arena in the Lower East Side.
"I know there is an outdoor cafe that tastes very good," she said. "It's just across the river, not far away. I'll take you there!"
Gu Hanhan waved for a bee plane that carried passengers to and from the river, and took them to an outdoor cafe with a business sign on the other side of the river. The cafe is not big, with only about a dozen tables spread out along the river. The tabletop is covered with a striped tablecloth, and a large parasol is placed in the center. There are tourists sitting leisurely at the table to relax and dine, which is very relaxing. The two found an empty table and sat down. Zheng Wenwen picked up the water sign on the table and found that it was just some ordinary dishes and drinks.
It was mid-afternoon and there was competition for customers, but there was only one waiter in the cafe. In addition to ordering and serving dishes, he also worked as a cashier, so he was so busy that his feet never touched the floor. After a while, it was their turn to sit at the table, but the waiter was very warm and greeted Gu Hanhan with a smile: "Miss Gu is here, what can I do for you today?"
Gu Hanhan nodded like the waiter and said: "Same as before, one meat sauce noodles and a cup of Moro Love."
Zheng Wenwen couldn't see anything on the menu, so she said, "I'm just like her."
The waiter smiled: "Miss, you have good taste. These two are the signatures of our store."
The waiter wrote the menu and left. Not long after, he brought two noodles with meat sauce and two cups of coffee with blue flames dancing on the surface. One of the noodles was obviously overloaded with half the meat sauce. The juice was golden and exuded an alluring aroma. The waiter deliberately placed a portion with more meat in front of Gu Hanhan and said: "The boss said that you like to eat meat, so he cooked it specially for you. There are still a few dishes in the kitchen waiting for customers to order. He said he would come out and follow after he finished cooking. Say hello, Miss.”
After the waiter left, Zheng Wenwen picked up a noodle and tasted it. The taste was very average. She also picked Gu Hanhan's plate with extra meat sauce and tasted it, but it wasn't that good either. But Gu Hanhan ate seriously, and occasionally stopped to drink a few sips of coffee and reflect on it, as if he had enjoyed a delicious meal that was so delicious that he almost cried. Zheng Wenwen also took a sip of coffee. It was sweet and tasted like alcohol. It was weird and not good to drink. ! So Zheng Wenwen was a little strange - she and Gu Hanhan liked to eat the same food on Earth before. How come she had only been on Lighthouse Planet for a year, and her tastes had changed so much?
"Are you acquainted with the boss here?" Zheng Wenwen asked while rolling noodles with a fork.
"He is an acquaintance," Gu Hanhan replied, "He is a patient at our laboratory's cooperative hospital. He had some mental problems before. It is said that it was because his wife and children suffered misfortunes one after another and he was so stimulated that he suffered a mental breakdown. He was cured. It didn't work for a long time. Later we thought of a way and found a hypnotic superpower, and finally cured him."
Zheng Wenwen was very curious when she heard this: "A hypnotic superpower? What is that? Can it cure diseases like you? I thought superpowers were all the same. They can carry cauldrons, break stone monuments with one hand, etc... …”
Gu Hanhan smiled: "Of course it can cure diseases. It can't cure other diseases, at least it can cure mental illness. This type of ability user, how should I put it, can affect people's brain perception, change memory and even manipulate a person's Thinking is very easy for them, and they can do it easily. So as long as they erase his unfortunate memory and re-forge a beautiful experience into his head, wouldn't it be natural for his psychological collapse to be cured? "
Zheng Wenwen was shocked when she heard this: "Is this okay?"
"But this doesn't count as curing him, does it?" She thought for a moment and said, "That's simply a false memory. His recovery is just based on false illusions. In fact, he is still a psychopath!"
"So what," Gu Hanhan smiled, "It doesn't matter whether it's real or fantasy, as long as he can live a positive life and treat every day optimistically, instead of spending all day in the pain of self-blame, anesthetizing and numbing himself in alcohol. Isn’t it enough to rot?”
She said: "I really like his spaghetti bolognese and I come here to eat it every once in a while."
While he was talking, the owner of the outdoor cafe came out after finishing the dishes that the customers were eagerly waiting for. He is a middle-aged man in his forties. His chin is cleanly shaved and his hair is neatly styled. He is very energetic. The sleeves of his pure white chef's uniform were rolled up a few times, and he held his apron in his hands as soon as he took it off his waist. With a warm and cheerful smile on his face, he greeted Gu Hanhan from afar: "Good afternoon, Miss Gu, I'm here to bask in the sun again today."
"Good afternoon, Mr. Taofant," Gu Hanhan replied with a smile, "How are you lately?"
She specially introduced Zheng Wenwen to him and said: "This is my good friend on Earth. We grew up together. When we came to travel to Lighthouse Star, I accompanied her to the Moro River."
"Ah, young lady from Earth, this is a distinguished guest. Are you still used to the food we have here?"
"No, we love to eat," Gu Hanhan said. "Whenever I can't eat for a long time, I miss it."
The enthusiastic Mr. Taufunt chatted with them for a few words and talked about the scenery on the Moro River. Then the new guests ordered food and went back to the kitchen.
Gu Hanhan finished eating the noodles, paid the bill to the waiter, and then walked to the ferry with Zheng Wenwen to take the boat.
Zheng Wenwen had been thinking about the hypnosis-type ability user mentioned by Gu Hanhan just now. While waiting for the boat at the ferry, she sighed: "This hypnosis-type ability is really powerful. He can change people's memories and control them." Human thoughts are simply like those of gods!”
"Hanhan, how many people have this kind of ability?" she asked.
"There are many, there can always be one with a hundred or eighty thousand, but there are not many high-end ones, just a few hundred, it's hard to say whether they can reach a thousand."
Zheng Wenwen took a breath: "One hundred and eighty thousand is not much?"
"The whole universe! I'm not referring to the lighthouse star," Gu Hanhan emphasized. "The registered population of the entire universe is three trillion. The actual total population may exceed five trillion. One hundred thousand people will not even account for 0.2/100 billion of the total population." But it’s not even there!”
"That's a lot!" Zheng Wenwen argued, "The total human population may be three trillion or five trillion, and the proportion may be 0.2 parts per 100 billion or 0.2 parts per trillion. One hundred thousand people are one hundred thousand people, and this absolute number will never change. Think about how terrible it would be if these one hundred thousand people came out to do evil and changed their memories today and controlled their thoughts tomorrow, and how chaotic society would be?"
Gu Hanhan smiled: "You don't have to worry about this. There is a convention between the two worlds, which stipulates that the negative impact and harm caused by superpowers to non-superpowers by superpowers is equivalent to a crime. Generally, superpowers will not escape. It’s hurting ordinary people.”
Zheng Wenwen was so anxious that she just shook her head: "That's not the truth, Han Han, I'm not talking about the law, I'm saying that murder, arson, and robbery are also crimes, but there are always murderers who kill, set fire, and rob. The key is not whether it is a crime or not. Crime, but who can collect evidence, who can judge, and who has the ability to make them accept legal punishment."
"Of course," Gu Hanhan said, "The Superpower Association, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Inquisition, and various religious courts all have the ability to conduct trials and punish superpower criminals in accordance with the law."
The smile on Gu Hanhan's face gradually froze, and she said, "It's the entire temple."
"Does this mean that these ability users are all controlled by the temple?" Zheng Wenwen asked sharply.
"It can be said that theoretically all superpowers belong to the temple. They are members of the association and Holy Crusaders of the temple. They accept the jurisdiction and judgment of the temple." Gu Hanhan's voice was a little stiff: "The temple has its own rules. The sanctity and inviolability of this jurisdiction and adjudication were secured by a solid system, membership in guilds, conversion to temples, sectarianism, enfeoffment of the nobility, and—slavery…”
This is a strict and solid system that can ensure that superpowers are imprisoned in it and will not come out to do evil to ordinary people and bring down the entire society. But - Gu Hanhan thought, the evil it does to ordinary people as a whole is unparalleled. There was no way to escape...
However, the focus of Zheng Wenwen's thinking was obviously different from that of her friend.
She murmured to herself: "The power of that temple is very powerful. No wonder there are so many devout believers..." (..)
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