Take Taobao with you to another world

For a great purpose, in order to reverse the fate of more people, how does it feel to choose to betray one's own origin, deny one's past, and choose a path that only focuses on giving?

What Anzalu got was the belonging of the soul and a bright future.

What Fatales got was eternal calamity.

Prince Rand seems to think that his world-weariness is only due to his physical disability and the burden of his memory. The Rift Age has left him with too many regrets. Even though he has been exiled for such a long time, he has not been able to recover from the pain. —"Maybe it would be better to put him in touch with young people," Rand said to the others.

But Fatales didn't need it.

Rand knew nothing about him, and didn't want to really know him, so what was the use of having an emotional connection with Fatres?It is enough for him to do a good job on the surface. He may think that Fatales' attitude towards him is because he has seen through his perfunctory, but in fact Fatales doesn't care about this.

He doesn't care whether the people in Sky City really respect or use him.He has the ability to obtain other people's memories and thoughts, but he rarely uses them on people here, not only because he can tell what most people are thinking at a glance, no matter what they are thinking, Fatales has a great feeling for them big tolerance.

However ambitious, however arrogantly blind, however stupidly short-sighted, they are still human.Everything they do is an interest choice based on their identity as human beings.

They just want to create a "Kingdom of Eternal Sun" that only the "chosen ones" can board, and they never thought of betraying mankind.

However, Fatales did not give them the opportunity to know the truth and then make a choice, just as the demon said to him, "Everything is settled."He also once hoped that he would never return to the human world, but when these younger generations who believed that he would definitely be able to change the world set foot on the foundation of the floating city, they were already destined to bear this sin with Fatales.

Just like the key sent to the world of Central Continent, it must also open the door it must open.

When Prince Rand included the Alliance Chamber of Commerce in the trading list and asked them to send at least one team to the Mist Country, Solaris and the others finally came to New Marsh City.

They spend a considerable amount of time on the road, not because of poor transportation.The supply ship carrying them did not encounter any setbacks on the way back, and the river tax checkpoints along the coast did not dare to set up any obstacles to the white monster, because they knew that they could not resist at all, and the alliance people also responded politely. They used catapults to throw money bags ashore as they passed, something Solaris found interesting in the way they did it.Because the Alliance people can completely ignore it, but they still chose such a way of doing things, even if they saw the people on the shore fighting like wild dogs scrambling for food, they would not laugh condescendingly.

It is easy to be friends with the Alliance, not because they lack vigilance, they have always maintained reasonable vigilance against Solaris and his party, but they can express enough sincerity while being vigilant, and they say "friends" in many Place is an expression that doesn't fall anywhere, but on this ship, Solaris and the others were not at home, at least visibly treated as friendly people.

They were facing each other day and night, with the same board and lodging, including when they held reading clubs on the ship, as long as Solaris and others asked to sit in, they would prepare seats for them.

It is a curious sight for the crew of a cargo ship to keep their books on the voyage, even if they humbly say that it is not really learning, and the topics discussed in the book club are not difficult-but it is by no means shallow.The more common the topic, the more novel conclusions the alliance members have. What deserves Solaris' attention the most is their disdain and dissatisfaction with the traditional hierarchical order that they often reveal through their words.

Their dissatisfaction is not due to lack of ambition. Although the crew is by no means a noble job in the eyes of others, they seem to be quite proud of it; The remuneration is obviously generous-or does it come from other things, such as the indoctrination of the alliance?

The white ship does not need manpower to sail, and it can go forward day and night. Because of its large size, it is fast and stable. After completing daily exercises on the deck, the knights will also lean on the rails to chat about geography and history. When they watch the coastal scenery , as part of the landscape, the farmers on the shore often straightened up from the fields, staring dumbfounded at the huge ship passing by.

The knights are accustomed to such gazes, but the crew seems to care too much about them. When talking about these farmers, these alliance members expressed great sympathy for them, because of the meager harvest behind these black, thin and shambling figures , and because they were exploited like a gangrene-the tax collectors followed like wandering wild dogs.

They say "one shouldn't live like this".

"Then what kind of life should we live?" a knight asked jokingly. "If everyone wants to be a nobleman, who will cultivate the land and produce food? If no one does these things, people will starve to death. "

"We don't think that there is a division of labor in human society, and there is a conflict between the satisfaction of material and dignity that people should obtain." The crew of the alliance said, "People who farm the land are always hungry, while those who don't farm the land are full of fat. , this phenomenon is unfair at any time."

"But this has been the order since ancient times." The young knight said defiantly to them, "No one disagrees."

The Alliance crew looked at him strangely.

"No one disagrees?" they asked. "Where did this conclusion come from? To reach a conclusion requires investigation, so who did the investigation, when and where? How did they ask questions to the subjects of the investigation and how many people answered?" Did those people know they had other options before answering these questions? Was the 'undisputed' conclusion reached after such an investigation?"

The knight was at a loss for words, and then said angrily: "Who would do such a thing? Farmers don't have such brains, their talents are already doomed. No matter what questions you ask them, they will only say 'Yes, my lord. You say, my lord'. Wet fagots do not ignite."

"Have you tried to order it?" the Alliance man asked.

"Don't waste your time doing such useless things."

Solaris walked behind the kid and slapped him lightly onto the deck.

"He's just a fool," she said to the captain, smiling.

The more conversations and the wider the topics, it is inevitable that there will be some disputes based on different positions and living environments. However, conflicts are often stopped by the leaders of both sides before they become acute. The advantage of being educated on both sides is that they are easy to restrain— ——Although the knights never thought that some sailors and crew members could also get their own respect, everyone may only have the friendship of this journey, why bother with unpleasant memories?

More importantly, is the alliance that molded these alliance crews into such a similar look really as perfect as they said, perfect enough to have solved the fundamental problems of human nature that they debated during the journey, everything is wrong when you see it. Actually, won't they be able to see it soon?

In a much shorter time than ordinary travel methods, the white boat sailed out of the tributary connecting the Buber River and the water network of the Xizhou Plain, and entered the main watershed of the Buber River. The mouth of the river is quite wide, but the land on the bank is somewhat cramped. , even the towns are stretched into a long line. Although the land is narrow, the towns are considered prosperous. Rows of wooden boats are moored at the stone pier, and the crowds on the shore are busy like ants. When the white boat passes by, many people stop their hands. Things looked towards them, and the knights, from their decks overlooking the dull roofs of the town houses, saw that they were made of neither thatch nor wood.

"It's tile," said an Alliance crew member as they walked by.

"Oh." The knight who got the answer said lightly.

The most controversial knight in the alliance saw the other side from one side of the shore, and said: "No wonder they call this the 'Western Region', it is really a barren land. Even the mountains are black, and the wind is much cooler. "

"Don't be sly, be careful and the captain will teach you again." The older knight whispered.

"But I didn't see any novelties at all." The young knight said a little aggrieved, "There are only a group of little beggars like wild dogs chasing us on the shore. Are they waiting for us to throw grain to them?"

They looked at the railing on the other side, where the Alliance crew stood there in twos and threes. They didn't throw anything at the children who were chasing the boat on the shore, although this was what they often did on the road, but put their hands together. In front of him, speak loudly with those children in the language unfamiliar to the knight.

The knight didn't know exactly what they said, but the boys stopped the chase and the Union crew waved to them.

The white boat passed through this section of water quickly and got rid of the oppression of the steep mountains. The scenery on both sides of the bank gradually became wider. With the undulating terrain, farmland and woods alternated with each other, and the winding road appeared and disappeared. Livestock walked to the village barefoot, and smoke rose from distant villages.Of course, the natural conditions here are not as outstanding as Xizhou, but there is also a kind of idyllic beauty of tranquility.

Seeing such a sight, the Cavaliers thought they had entered the league's territory.

If this is the norm in life for Union farmers, they do have pride.

"So you shouldn't have spoken so early." The other knights said to the young knight. Although the latter was still not convinced, there were not many places as rich as Xizhou or the Central Empire. Think about what the predecessors said to " According to the description of "Western Region", the Alliance has indeed done a good job.

The white boat continued to move forward, the big river was coming, the wind was strong, the shadows on the deck were getting shorter and shorter, the backs of the knights were already scorched by the sun, and when they were about to return to the cabin, their curved The river has come to an end, and the world ahead is divided into two halves.

The knights stopped, and the Union crew said: "From here onwards, it is the land of the Union."

The sun fell from the sky and formed a golden ocean on the earth.

When the breeze blows gentle waves, the salsa waves from the horizon even overwhelm the rush of the river.

The knights looked to the left and then to the right, the green and yellow idyll continued to recede, the golden fields covered the field of vision, the endless ears of wheat rubbed against each other, the fluffy wheat awns swayed in the sun, the earth seemed to be glowing.The white boat sailed upstream against the green river, as if to bring them into a colorful fantasy country.

This is a picture that is powerfully shocking both visually and spiritually.

Not only because it has a pure and magnificent aesthetic feeling, the standard to measure national strength is not only the territory, population and the number of troops, people cannot live by eating grass and drinking water, food production is always the cornerstone of the cornerstone, this boundless abundance The land is not a phantom, those drooping ears of wheat are real yields.Even talented people cannot violate the laws of nature. This is not a scene that can be created just for the sake of looking good.

The white boat officially returned to the territory of the alliance. They also saw more and more crops along the way. Perhaps it was because the high knights did not produce. They could only recognize the wheat field at the beginning, and the continuous production belt after that. They don't know anything about the crops, but whether they know it or not, these crops are grown on a large scale.The Union people not only farmed on the flat land, even some low mountain ridges were covered with green.

Even knights can tell with the naked eye that the immature crops are growing very well, far better than what they have seen in Xizhou before.Different from the land separated by irregular ridges on the Xizhou Plain, these plots are not only large, but also neatly divided into a checkerboard by wide and narrow roads and intertwined canals, which are obviously traces of the will of the rulers.Of course, such fertile soil needs a lot of careful maintenance. In addition to basic facilities such as roads and canals, the knights saw farmers wearing bamboo hats, white clothes, and carrying farm tools on the road from the fields, chatting and laughing in groups. , Even the white boat passed by without attracting their attention.

These peasants were certainly not slaves.They are physically strong and move in an orderly manner. The villages they live in are evenly distributed in the production area, and the roads extending in all directions converge at them. With the intersection and low walls, you can see all kinds of tall and neat houses on both sides of the straight and open road. Those farmers walked in like real owners.

The Alliance people said that this was their "new countryside". There were such settlements everywhere in this area, but the knights could not connect them with the villages they knew.

They are not just the form, the essence is not a thing at all.

Only when they pass through those city-states that were incorporated into the alliance at the same time and have not been completely overthrown and rebuilt-although they are already beyond recognition, they can see from the gaps above and between the various white or colored new buildings. A little remnant of the old days, but the contrast between new and old, light and dark is so striking, it is not like a memorial, but more like a punishment for suspending the body.

Almost from the time they returned to the Alliance territory, the crew did not communicate with the knights to prove that the Alliance is unique, because the facts surrounding them have replaced the role of words.When the knights fell into deep thinking because of what they saw and heard along the way, the voyage was coming to an end.

No matter how the knights kept their dignity along the way, when they saw the majestic high wall that cut off the river, they still involuntarily flocked to the bow of the ship. The height difference oppresses breathing, especially when they are told immediately that the height of this dam is almost equal to the depth of the water body behind, this oppression becomes suffocation.

This is a man-made and insurmountable natural danger, but their ship will pass here.

The sound of rumbling water came from one side of the dam, and the white ship sailed to the other side, and under the traction and its own power, it entered the lock cautiously and smoothly.

The gate closed tightly.Then the water level began to rise.

Waiting to cross the dam in the closed lock is not to say unique, at least it is an extremely rare experience. The knights watched the water level rise gradually, and the sky approached them, and the passengers in the lock uttered exclamations again and again. Having never read any of the Alliance's books, it's not difficult to understand the principles of Connectors with proper explanations.But there are such laws in the world, and such laws are applied to such a huge project, which is an amazing leap.

Through the step-by-step upgrade of the lock, ships of different sizes entered the Tagore Reservoir one by one. This is a beautiful lake. The water waves are as soft as silk, and the broad water surface reflects the blue shadows of the peaks, as if it was born in nature. , It is hard to imagine that there used to be a sinister canyon under their feet that roared like a roar during the high water season. Now those strange rocks and dangerous shoals have been deeply buried under the water, and they are sailing on a man-made water body.

The crew, who no longer showed off high-profilely, acted as tour guides at this time, telling these passengers about the construction process of this project. When the knights came to a basic judgment from these narrations—the construction period was extremely short, the achievements were extremely high, and they were extremely important. , Extremely difficult to destroy - the end of this voyage is almost here.

The supply ship dropped them off at Dele Town and continued to sail upstream. The New Marsh City was its destination, but Captain Solaris and his companions had to go through the corresponding entry procedures in Dele Town first.On the contract documents, Captain Solaris wrote his real name, and the girl in charge of the process smiled politely at her, and carried these documents into the room with a large area of ​​glass next to her.

They just went to the town for a lunch, and when they returned to the customs office, the formalities were completed.

In terms of the comprehensiveness, formality, and complexity of the documents, as well as the way the other party handled these matters, these administrators did not show them a little perfunctory, but the knights who left Dele Town still had a subtle feeling—a kind of The feeling of being ignored.The status of the nobility and the military power of the knights did not bring them special treatment. It is impossible for the other party to fail to see that they are different from ordinary travelers, but it seems that they are indeed a group of people who experience the culture, system and customs of the alliance as it is literally said. Visitors who come from favors usually make arrangements.

Although this is indeed more conducive to their actions...

They did not go directly to Xinmaxi City, the central city of the administrative region called the Central and Western District of the Industrial Alliance, but turned back to the dam along the land road, all the way down the river, and started to travel from the areas bordering the Alliance territory.

During this half-month tour, they saw many things.

First of all, the gap between inside and outside the league-all-round gap, no matter the distance in life or production is incomparable.At least before the construction of the Tagore Dam began, the villages that had just been incorporated into the alliance due to the lord's decision were not much different from their neighbors. Now that the Tagore Dam has been completed, it is like a high gorge coming out of a flat lake, and the villages of the alliance have also happened The earth-shaking changes, and compared with the adjacent traditional villages, the difference between the two is like the land dividing line that shocked the knights.

The alliance used various means to gather farmers in the villages together, build them brand new houses, teach them to use brand new farm tools, distribute livestock and seeds, re-divide land, build roads and water conservancy, and send "work teams" When the administrators of these villages were permanently stationed in these villages and led them through the initial difficulties, the lords on the opposite territory "as motionless as if they were dead" (villager language).Although the lord neither forbade his people to secretly go to the dam site to do some odd jobs, nor prevented farmers from secretly sending their children to the alliance's free primary schools in the name of relatives, even though the seeds of the alliance had spread widely in his territory To spread the word, taxes have only been raised once in three years, but his people don't appreciate him much.

Humans are naturally jealous of their neighbors.And the alliance used all kinds of lures to make the peasants in the old-style villages think that the existence of the lord was the biggest obstacle for them not to be members of the alliance.

Compared to those villagers who were easily swayed by interests, Solaris' team saw it more clearly.

I can't blame those ignorant people for demanding the lord. Even if the ruler of any country can only achieve half of the alliance's achievements, it is enough to leave a name in history. This is why so many people can easily abandon their beliefs and give up their hearts to those aliens.With such staggering crop yields, such advanced technology, and such a tight-knit organization, it is no wonder why this country has risen from obscurity so quickly, there is really no reason why they should not be successful.

However, the areas that have joined the alliance can greatly improve their lives in a very short period of time. The large-scale projects that urgently need manpower, the seeds of high-yield crops, and the new-style farm tools promoted in a way that is almost a gift are all reasons, but in Solaris In my eyes, the most fundamental core is the administrative system laid out in almost every corner of the alliance-this system makes people feel that they are protected and taken care of by the behemoth of the alliance at all times, and they hide in its safe place like babies. Once they leave the alliance, they will no longer be able to maintain their current way of life, they will lose their dignity, and become helpless people again.

This tighter control than any religion meant a whole new way of governing.

They saw what they wanted to see, and finally decided to end this tour and set off for New Mahy City again.Even though the knights in this team have rebuilt their cognition many times during this time, the city that is becoming a new legend is still amazingly advanced and civilized, and...

"Somewhat similar?" Solaris said softly.Standing on the roof of the hostel, she looked at the magnificent city of lights and thought of their sky city.

That is a truly great city, and they still haven't been able to discover its inner mysteries, perhaps it will take the brightest minds tens or even hundreds of years to achieve it, what they can do now is Play its basic function on the base.

Even so, these functions are enough for them to realize their wild ideals.

Solaris groaned in the night wind. What made her feel that the two cities were similar?