Merit Book·Xinghai

"Okay, I'll come right away." Emerida responded, patted the heads of the two little boys in her arms, and said, "Xiuyuan, Kou Da, let's watch TV, Her Majesty is crowned today !"

"Mom, what is a coronation?" a boy asked.

"Stupid, Aunt Selinda is going to be the emperor!" said another boy who looked exactly the same, and immediately turned to Amyrida for affirmation, asking, "Am I right, Mom?"

"En, yes, Xiuyuan is really smart." Amirida kissed his cheek, then picked up another boy named Kou Da, and said, "Does Kou Da know what an emperor is?"

Kou Da pointed at his fingertips, and said uncertainly: "He is the most powerful person in the empire, isn't he?"

Xiu Yuan snapped back and said: "No, Uncle Rong is the most powerful person! Aunt Serinda is so stupid, she lost to me in the last time we played Aro's Adventure together! She is not very good!"

"Well~ To a certain extent, the emperor is indeed the most powerful person in this country!" Emerida held Xiuyuan's hand and said as she walked into the castle, "Uncle Rong is the most powerful person in another aspect." Great, they are different."

"What's the difference?" Xiu Yuan asked unconvinced: "After Aunt Serinda becomes the emperor, will she be able to win the Adventures of Aro?"

"Well... probably not." Emerida said: "But, she can make countless people who can win listen to her words!"

"Wow——" the two children opened their mouths together with yearning expressions.

When they got to the door, the man picked up Xiu Yuan, and they walked into the living room. On the crystal screen hanging on the wall, the ceremony that attracted worldwide attention in front of the Ice Palace was playing, and the dressed-up Serinda stepped forward. Stepping up to the high stage, she took the crown from the gold plate held by the etiquette officer, put it on her head, then turned around, looked at all the people in the audience, as if they were also looking at them on the other side of the TV, smiled slightly, and started her inaugural address.

Emirida's eyes were slightly slack, and her thoughts could not help drifting back to many years ago.

At that time, she and Parry thought that the rest of the Feiyan team had been wiped out in the Pillar of Creation, no matter how they called, they would not get a single response. Those who she regarded as the pillar of life—Rong Yuan, Pea, Noah, Nightwing, Barabbi...all of them, have never heard from them since.She felt as if a large piece of her soul had been dug out abruptly.

What she said and did in those days, now Emerida can't recall at all, only the boundless darkness and despair still clearly remain deep in her memory.To this day, whenever she thinks about one or two years ago, she still feels chills all over her body.

After rushing into the Eagle Nebula again and again in search of hopelessness, and coming back alive again and again, sometimes Emerida felt that what they were looking for at that time was not the Feiyan team who had suffered misfortune, but death, in order to be able to bury In the resting place of partners.Since then, even though Emerald and Parry were on the same spaceship, the two rarely saw each other.When two people who are equally sad see each other, they don't lick each other's wounds to absorb warmth, but realize the cruelty of reality more and more vividly, tear apart the deepest and most painful scar roughly, look at each other's blood, Also feel pain unbearable.

In the most desperate moment, Serinda and Yisili flew tens of thousands of light years and came to them.Under the tragedy, the three of Emerida almost collapsed, and only Selinda remained rational and calm.But she didn't say that it is impossible for the members of the Feiyan team to survive under such circumstances, so don't look for them any more; she also didn't say that people who die can't be brought back to life, that mourning goes hand in hand, and that it is meaningless to look forward. Her Royal Highness just asked her guards to forcibly detain Emerida and Parry, and healed the injuries they had accumulated in the process of repeatedly entering and leaving the nebula with radiation and explosion aftermath. Then she used her status as the first heir to the empire and Lan Emperor Tia favored her, and with an order, he mobilized millions of troops and launched a carpet search.

At that time, Emerida clearly felt that the girl next to her who ate like a bottomless pit in her stomach and couldn't even put on her eyebrows and lipstick well was really the princess of a country, the leader of one of the biggest forces in the galaxy. heir.

Until now, now that Selinda has become the Empress of the Empire, the fact that she mobilized the Empire's millions of troops for an expedition due to her personal relationship and cost a lot of manpower and material resources is still the biggest stain on her being attacked by her political opponents. The qualifications of the heir, the pressure she was under at the time of the incident can be imagined.But Selinda didn't say a word, never took credit or complained to them, she alone withstood all the pressure, blocked all the objections and right and wrong, mobilized all the power to search efficiently and resolutely.

They have been looking for ten years.

During that time, they supported each other, trusted each other, and went through the most difficult years together.It was Selinda who pulled Emerida, who was so painful that she wanted to commit suicide, back from the brink of collapse.After losing the shelter of the most powerful person, they grew up at an astonishing speed, and everyone underwent earth-shaking changes.Ten years later, they gave up searching, not only because Emerida and the others finally admitted that the deceased was dead, but also because they couldn't bear to see Serinda struggling so hard.

Then, Selinda returned to the royal family, Isli joined the army to carry out missions on the border, and Parry also disappeared one evening without saying hello to anyone. Watching their spaceship, day after day, waiting for someone who never seems to return.

It was a period where even the pain seemed to be diluted, but more hopeless. Every day was so gloomy. When it was over, she couldn't even remember how she spent this period of time.Her life is like a broken pointer, it goes one frame and then jumps back, goes one frame and then jumps back, over and over again, trapped in a narrow grid and unable to get out.

Until 40 years later, Rong Yuan returned.

Emerida closed her eyes, as if seeing that scene again——

He just stood there looking at her, slowly showing a shallow and warm smile.He was so tired, as if he would fall to the ground in the next moment; however, there seemed to be a great strength in his body, which supported him to stand like a mountain, and his straight back would never collapse.The orange-red light of the setting sun shone on his body, covering him with a faint halo, making the whole person look so illusory, as if he would disappear before his eyes in a second.

Emirida covered her mouth, she didn't dare to make a sound, she didn't dare to breathe, for fear that even a little disturbance would shake the dream away.

Rong Yuan said softly, "I'm back, Amy."

Immediately, Emerida burst into tears.

From that moment on, her time began to flow again.

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This is a rare windless day in Imperial City, the sky was full of goose feathers and heavy snow fluttered down, forming a thick layer on the ground in a short while.Suddenly, several deep depressions appeared in the white snow, and the snowflakes no longer fell, but accumulated in mid-air, which was a spectacle.

Anyone with a little knowledge can tell at a glance that this is a spaceship with optical stealth mode turned on and landed on the ground.However, what is more surprising than seeing snowflakes parked in mid-air is that the location where the spaceship is parked is not an airport that allows spaceships to take off and land, but it stops here without triggering any alarms. detected by any radar.Considering that this is the core star of the Landia Empire, the news of a spaceship appearing here is enough for the Imperial Defense and Security Department to raise the alarm!

The spaceship lifted its invisibility, the cabin door opened, and a tightly wrapped figure jumped out and landed on the ground. Snow immediately submerged him to his knees. He jumped twice on the spot with his arms folded, and hissed, "It's so cold!" Ah! Frozen to death!"

Standing by the door, Rong Yuan said speechlessly: "Your suit should have a thermostat system, did you forget to turn it on?"

"Ah, it seems to be true!" Mu Xiaohu lowered his head and studied for a while, pinched a blue cuff button and pressed it. After a while, the warmth flowed all over his body. He moved his hands and feet, bent over, and said happily : "Wow, it's not cold at all. Brother Xiaoyuan, did you really give me such a nice dress?"

"It's just a set of clothes, it's nothing." Rong Yuan said: "But you, wherever you go in the future, you must check the information in advance and be prepared. Some environments that look safe may also be fatal."

"I know. Actually, my dad told me that before, but I accidentally forgot, hehe..." Mu Xiaohu stuck out his tongue and smiled embarrassedly.But this smile was completely covered by the all-round protective mask, Rong Yuan could only see the eyes behind the goggles curved into a pleasant arc.

So he also smiled, and said: "It's only three kilometers away from the admissions office of the First Military Academy, but it's easy to get lost in snowy weather, remember to keep the navigator on."

"I know, I won't forget it!" Mu Xiaohu picked up a backpack that was almost as tall as him - only a small part of it was his original luggage, most of which were prepared by Rong Yuan for Alpha, basic necessities of life Everything is included, and the capacity is naturally considerable.Fortunately, Mu Xiaohu was born with great strength, so it didn't seem difficult to carry such a heavy thing.He waved his hand and said, "Then I'll be leaving now, Brother Xiaoyuan, thank you for sending me here! And Alpha, goodbye, I'll send you a message when I get to school!"

Standing beside Rong Yuan, Alpha stretched out a paw (with a wrench attached to it) from its cylindrical body, and waved it three times with the same frequency and amplitude as farewell.

"Why don't you keep him?" Seeing Mu Xiaohu's back completely disappearing in the snow, Alpha asked, looking forward. It has not yet learned to use its body camera to "see" people talking.

"It's not necessary." The faint smile on Rong Yuan's face disappeared, and his dull expression appeared very indifferent.

"You are happy when he is by your side." Alpha said bluntly.

"I'm happier that he left." Rong Yuan touched Alpha's head (that is, the round camera), and said: "My enemy this time is too dangerous to involve him."

"Okay." Alpha said regretfully: "I knew that was the reason." It closed its mouth after saying this sentence—in fact, it has no mouth, only a sounding system installed inside its body—after all, it Not too keen on chatting.

They stepped off the spaceship, and Alpha had put an extra layer of antifreeze on his joints before that.Rong Yuan, who was wearing a silver-gray cloak and a wide hood on his head, squatted down and pressed his hands on the ground. Afterwards, he saw that the thick snow and the hard ice below seemed to melt into In the water, the huge spaceship sank slowly. In less than a minute, the spacecraft sank completely under the ice layer, the ground closed, and there was only a slight dent in the snow in front of him. The heavy snow flew, but in a short while, this trace was completely buried.

The wind picked up, and the cold wind rolled the snowflakes into the air, making their flying trajectories chaotic and complicated.Rong Yuan stood up, pulled down his hood, pulled up the mask to cover his mouth and nose, and said, "Let's go."

Alpha hurriedly followed behind him with slender legs.One person and one machine walked into the wind and snow together.