Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

Yun Zesheng pulled Zhou Qin to stand in another corner of the room. She picked up a pack of cigarettes from the table and lit one: "Smoking? Your Highness."

Zhou Qin looked at the backs of Elias and Clark, and said after a long time, "I don't smoke."

"You aristocrats are more delicate. You probably don't like this kind of common brand of tobacco." Yun Zesheng shrugged and lit one for himself.

Zhou Qin said absent-mindedly: "The cigars produced in the Yeshan Galaxy are very unique. If you like them, Lieutenant General, I can arrange for the territory to send you some."

"Forget it, we don't have that extravagance." Yun Zesheng smiled, "Your Highness, I say Your Highness. Don't look at Lan Xia twice, Commander Clark won't do anything to him. Let's talk about business."

He and Adams took Zhou Qin to find a secluded place to sit down.

Then they seemed to have made an appointment a long time ago, and Adams said directly to Zhou Qin: "His Royal Highness, I am authorized to communicate with you about the plan of the third emperor's daughter's attempt to amend the constitution and allow Beta to inherit the throne."

"Brigadier General Adams, who do you represent?" Zhou Qin asked.

Adams glanced at Yun Zesheng and said: "Some opinions from the military. For example, the commander-in-chief of the first military fortress, the 181st army, the 21st army, the first staff headquarters..." He said a long list, "And some key personnel in some other fraternal forces."

This list is more than Zhou Qin expected.

"Didn't Prince Qing always claim that she had incorporated all the followers left by the second brother back then?"

"Prince Qing's intentions are too obvious." Adams said, "She is using the pretense of eliminating gender discrimination between Alpha and Beta, which doesn't work much in the army. You must know that most of the commanders are Alpha. This picture After she couldn't get through the cards, she gathered Jing Wang's old team, and some people did stand by her side out of emotional considerations and interests. But this is by no means all."

"Even the current marshal of the three armies of the empire, the six-star general Yang Haoyu, is on her side."

Yun Zesheng said lazily: "She is the marshal's favorite student, but we are not."

"Admiral Yunzhong is right." Adams said, "Not everyone is a student of the marshal. Not everyone wants to be her fellow traveler."

"Let me put it this way." Yun Zesheng's face darkened, "Prince Qing is exactly the same as her emperor's mother—"

"Commander, be careful what you say." Adams' expression changed.

"There are more than 20 electromagnetic oscillators, what are you afraid of?" Yun Zesheng glanced at him, but lowered his voice a bit, "King Qing and the emperor are almost carved out of the same mold. This makes me very uncomfortable What happened to Ellis back then, the emperor’s tyrant behavior was simply outrageous. Isn’t this the old empire thousands of years ago? Isn’t this already a modern society? If you didn’t stop me at that time, my mother would have brought The 181st Army rushed into Emperor Star and rescued Ellis."

"How many times have I told you this!" Adams couldn't help being angry when she was sprayed, "You have the 181st Army on the left and the 181st Army on the right. The 181st Army can sweep the world? There are seven expeditionary fortresses in the empire. The closest one is near the Oort Cloud at the very edge of the capital galaxy, where one-third of the empire's expeditionary force has gathered. Not to mention the 181st army, the three legions of the entire first fortress combined are not enough for a star destroyer boom!"

"Bah, your First Staff Command is a bunch of cold-blooded monsters." Yun Zesheng said contemptuously, "You son of a bitch."

"Yunze gave birth to you—" Adams took a few deep breaths, pressing his throat to force himself to calm down.

"Your Highness laughed at me." He said helplessly to Zhou Qin, "But the fact is like this, as you can see, no one wants King Qing to inherit the throne."

"Because Prince Qing is in the same line as her mother."

"Can you calm down a bit, Lieutenant General!" Adams said through gritted teeth, "Your Highness, let me make a long story short. Since you inherited the crown prince, I have started to investigate you in Emperor Star. Ellis... no, After Lanxia was with you, your handling of many problems let us see your noble qualities and potential for the throne. What's more, supporting you is of great help to Lanxia."

Zhou Qin removed the hypocrisy and flattery from this passage.

Adams and Yun Zesheng just said two things——

First, King Qing cannot succeed to the throne.

Second, treat Elis well.

This doesn't conflict with what he wants at all.Zhou Qin knew that he got the result he wanted.

"I fully agree with the opinions of the two generals." Zhou Qin stretched out his hand, "I believe that at the monthly meeting of the parliament next month, the 10 special votes for the army will not all be in favor."

Adams and Yun Zesheng looked at each other and shook hands with Zhou Qin.

"I can assure you." Adams said, "Although our strength is weak, if we work hard, at least three votes will vote against the resolution." Will vote no.

Zhou Qin nodded, and then asked Yun Zesheng with a relaxed attitude: "Can you give me one of those cigarettes in your pocket?"

Yun Zesheng was startled for a moment, then laughed, and lit him a cigarette.

Zhou Qin's actions are not proficient. It can be seen that he does not smoke as he said, but he still expresses his willingness to cooperate through this action.

After a while, Elis came over: "Your Highness."

Zhou Qin stifled the cigarette in the ashtray: "Have you finished chatting with the commander?"

Elis nodded: "Yes. Teacher... He reminded me a lot."

"He is old now, so you just listen to his advice." Adams said, "Is it you who popped out of Kajiwara's laboratory at the research institute?"

Elise smiled: "I don't understand what the brigadier general said."

Adams took a breath and smiled: "Follow me, right? I was the one who asked the teacher to hold up the military parade, and I was the one who arranged for Dubin and the others to find you. The emergency blockade of the relevant area of ​​the institute was faked I was the one responsible for the accident. You still haven’t thanked me, old classmate.”

Elis looked at Zhou Qin and saw that he didn't stop him, so he said, "It doesn't matter if it is. I didn't find what I was looking for."

Yun Zesheng finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, frowned and said, "Isn't it the dark matter metal? Come with me."

Yun Zesheng and Adams took the two of them down to the basement, and there was an unremarkable iron box on the workbench in the basement. Yun Zesheng stuffed the box into Elise's hand and said, "Here you are."

The iron box was full of bumps and dents, and the steel stamp of 181 was stamped on the top.

Elis is very familiar with this box. He blinked and opened the box... There are 10 anti-shock grooves distributed inside, 9 of which are inserted with small force field matrices, each of which is filled with familiar dark matter metal— -dumb.

It was half a year after he came out of the laboratory, he hadn't found his position yet, the cruel reality hit him no less than the one in the research institute.

"Major General, I'm ready to go." On that morning more than three years ago, after a night that was still chaotic, Ren Xingwen came to say goodbye to him on a rainy day.

Ren Xingwen gave him a military salute wearing the military uniform that had long since lost his rank.

"Where are you going?" he asked Ren Xingwen.

"Do what I've always wanted to do." Ren Xingwen was even smiling at that moment.

"Still... come back?" He asked again.

"I'm going to find everyone." Ren Xingwen said, "I will definitely not come back."

Ren Xingwen found a fairly clean blanket from the messy living room, wrapped it up for him, and couldn't help telling him: "After I leave, drink less alcohol and come early in the evening. I will wash your clothes for you." Hang it up, and the cleaning robot has also set the program, that is, no one will cook for you in the future, you have to pay attention to the time, and you will eat when the time comes, okay?"

"We need to continue to take the medicine for rejection, at least until the end of this year." Ren Xingwen was still rambling on, and he entrusted many things, and finally said, "I have already transferred this house to your name. Major General. You don't have to move, and don't stay out all night. Be kind to yourself..."

He buried his head in the blanket and said nothing.

"In that case..." Ren Xingwen was quiet for a while, "Then I'm leaving, major general."

"Take me with you, okay?" He asked without expecting.

Ren Xingwen smiled: "Major General, it's not your time yet...Sorry, I promised to accompany you, but I'm going to make a slip of the tongue."

So he watched Ren Xingwen leave peacefully.

Soon he knew the whereabouts of Ren Xingwen, and he drove the spaceship to the star of the capital galaxy - Tianshu star, and never came back.Xingwen's peaceful goodbye that day was not an ordinary departure, what he wanted to leave was this world.It turns out that Xingwen has long had a desire to die, and finally walked into a river that no one can cross.

Elias' eyes darkened. It was he who decided to hand over only a small part to the emperor and hide the rest. No matter what kind of persecution they faced later, everyone insisted that they only found these.

"I thought..." Elis said hoarsely, "These dark matter metals have been swallowed up by the stars in the capital galaxy."

"Actually not." Yun Zesheng said, "We found them in the wreckage of the spaceship. Ren Xingwen chose the cruelest method of death for himself. He opened the protective cover at a distance of 0.3 astronomical units from Tianshu Star , melted himself in the gamma rays of the star of the sky. Everything in the spaceship was melted by the impact, only this box was still intact. I think he probably didn't want to destroy these things."

"Commander Clark has been hiding these dark matter metals in his home. Now they are returned to their original owners." Yun Zesheng said that she was not used to the omegaized Elis.

"Don't cry," she said, "Look at the red circles under your eyes for the first time tonight. I'm going to cry. Damn it."

Star pattern...

Elis lowered her eyes and touched the empty groove.

thank you.