Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

At this time, Xue Yelai felt a faint heat on the back of his hand.His tattoo had a reaction, and it echoed with the light in the distance.

Xue Ye came to understand what this meant—a large number of sages were simultaneously using their spiritual perception to search for the Xue family's tattoos.

His father once told him that the night when the entire Su family defected, the other three major families joined forces to carry out a blanket search and wiped out all members of the clan.

Could it be that a similar fate has befallen the Xue family now?Could it be that father wants to take the family members away tonight?

Countless wild thoughts flashed like lightning, and were overthrown by Xue Yelai one by one.No, impossible.

Not to mention that it is impossible for his father to abandon him and escape, even if he really wanted to escape, it would be impossible to choose such a critical moment when the whole city is under martial law.Isn't this self-inflicted?

But if it wasn't because of defection, what kind of reason would it be that made the emperor suddenly decide to take action against the Xue family?

Xue Yelai was very upset.The communicator on the wrist suddenly vibrated, and a new command came.

【Password: Balance】

After staring at the password for a while, Xue Yelai slowly stood up.The rain on his face made his mind sober, bit by bit he suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart.

No matter what the Xue family's situation is now, one thing is certain: he can't do anything at this moment.

The light in the distance has gradually dimmed and finally disappeared.From the beginning to the end, Xue Yelai did not receive any information from the family.

In the night, the sound of neat boots stomping approached from far away.A team of mobile sentries stopped in front of him, and someone was asking him: "Password!"

Xue Yelai's voice trembled slightly, and he replied, "Scale."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but for a moment, the sentinel who led the team wanted to say something to him, but he held back before he could speak, and finally said: "Xinghe is above."

Xue Yelai heard some kind of pity from the other party's tone, so he nodded at the other party dully, "Galaxy is above."

The galaxy is above.In Imperial custom, the phrase can mean many things: "Hello", "My God", or "May God bless you".

What happened to the Xue family, Xue Yelai found out the next day.

Overnight, everyone in Xue's mansion seemed to have evaporated.Most of them were detained in the detention center, while Xue Yelai's father and many immediate family members were sent to the Tower of Blood.

That is the place where the royal family specially detains serious criminals and is known for its cruel criminal law.Every time it is mentioned, people are as frightened as the British in the sixteenth century when they mentioned the Tower of London.

The Senate stated that Xue Yelai's father was involved in a defection case more than ten years ago, and many relatives were also involved.Because Xue Yelai was still a child at the time, he didn't know about it for more than ten years, so he was not punished.

After getting the news, Xue Yelai was unusually calm.At least his relatives are still alive and have not yet fallen into the miserable situation of the Su family.

Thinking about the previous and subsequent things together, some problems seem to have different explanations.

For example, the Hundred Flowers Temple incident.Xue Yelai is the prince of the Xue family, the future patriarch of the family, but right now he is just a kid after all.It was a little bit reluctant for him to investigate such a big incident anyway.

Yet my father almost never expressed concern about the matter, and never asked how his investigation was going, as if it wasn't an important question at all.

Thinking about it now, I'm afraid this was just an excuse.In this way, his father isolated him from the family and placed him under the "protection" of the Cao family. ——Although this kind of "asylum" of the Cao family needs to be put in quotation marks, in terms of the result, Xue Yelai did escape because of it.

As for the "defection case more than ten years ago", Xue Yelai didn't know at all.

He took out the gold badge representing the authority of the patriarch, and after looking at it for a long time, he felt that it was heavy.

When his father handed him the badge, did he have a premonition that such a day would come?

Putting away the badge again, Xue Yelai said wearily, "Baiyang, I want to go home and have a look. I'll go by myself, so don't come with me."

Bai Yang frowned, "Your house has been sealed off, you are not allowed to enter."

"It's just outside, just take a look from a distance. Just take a look." Xue Yelai lowered his head and said softly, "From now on, it may not be my home there."

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A isolation belt was erected around Xue's mansion to prohibit people from entering and leaving.The glass of the window was broken, and through the half-torn curtains inside, one could see messy and overturned furniture all over the floor.

Xue Yelai carefully avoided the Royal Gendarmerie and came to the gate of the courtyard.Two or three cleaners squatted on the ground with their backs facing the main entrance, their shoulders shrugged, as if they were busy.

One of them kept complaining: "There's so much blood, it can't be wiped off, when will it be cleaned up?"

Another said: "You are inexperienced. This kind of granite floor, blood stains on it are very difficult to clean. You have to splash it with soda water to create air bubbles to wash it off."

"It's really bad luck to do this kind of work."

"Come on, stop complaining. Think of the men who carried the bodies. I heard they vomited."

"The soldiers of the Xue family protect the lord so much that they don't even want their lives. How could something like the Hundred Flowers Temple happen before?"

"Is that something you should worry about? Wash your floors well."

Xue Yelai couldn't let himself continue listening, and retreated outside the isolation zone.

Those [-] crabapple gardens were not enclosed in the isolation area, but became public areas.Now the timing has entered summer, which is long past the season when crabapple blooms.But those flowers seemed to be connected with spirituality, and they bloomed full of crimson as if they were trying their best, as if they were afraid that no one would see them again.

My father often said that plants and trees have souls.Don't ignore that they are also living beings just because they can't speak or act.If you treat them well, flowers and trees will also express their feelings to you in their own way.

Xue Yelai believed this.When he was a child, he took care of a seriously ill Rieger Begonia, but in the end he failed to save it.The roots of the crabapple plant had obviously turned black and rotted, yet it bloomed large pink flowers when it was dying, as if saying goodbye to Xue Yelai with a smile.

After the crabapple died, Xue Yelai cried for a long time.

Seeing these begonias blooming against the clock now, he felt even more sad, and stared blankly at the tree trunks in a daze.

Suddenly there was a voice behind him: "Master Xue, you are here too."

Xue Yelai shuddered and looked back.Xue Ruheng was wearing casual clothes, standing behind a crabapple tree.

"Don't be nervous. Now I am also a member of the Xue family, and I came here specially to take a look." Xue Ruheng looked at the large pure white mansion with a sigh and an indifferent smile on his face.For the first time, Xue Yelai knew that the two expressions of indifference and smile could be combined so seamlessly.

The two of them faced each other in silence for a moment, separated by flowers.Xue Ruheng suddenly smiled again: "You really don't remember that riddle?"

"I don't remember." Xue Yelai said coldly, slightly offended by the other party's attitude.Xue Ruheng was born in a side branch of the Xue family, and his blood relationship is far away.But even so, they are still relatives after all, so why bother to show such an expression that it has nothing to do with them, and bring up some unknown topics.

Xue Ruheng still looked at him with a smile, and said in a soft and cold voice, "What I like most is the idea you expressed in that riddle. There are many seemingly opposite things in the world, but they are actually two ends of the balance. One side sinks, and the other side sinks." It will rise. But whether it is rising or sinking, both sides are actually a whole. If the whole scale falls, neither side will cease to exist."

"What do you want to say?"

"It's nothing." Xue Ruheng narrowed his eyes, "That's all I want to say."