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Coming out of Meng En's house, Fa'an and Andre walked side by side on the way to the cemetery.

Fa'an suddenly proposed to go to the cemetery when he was on the return flight of the spaceship. Andre didn't ask the reason, but just said "yes".

Munn's house is very close to the cemetery. They don't need the airship. The farther they walk in that direction, the fewer houses and pedestrians around them. Even in the hot sun, they seem to be forgotten for no reason. the loneliness.

Fa'an thought of Meng En's visit to the cemetery at dawn, and suddenly couldn't imagine what the cemetery was like at that time.

He thought of the day when his mother and father were buried, the sky was full of black and gray clouds, the low air pressure, and the dim light. Everything was not very bright and clear.

Fa'an's footsteps stopped.

The general looked down at him.

"Andre, have you known Meng En for a long time?" Fa'an asked suddenly.

"Yeah." The general replied, "We knew each other before he had a scar on his hand."

The hideous scar on Meng En's arm appeared in front of his eyes, and Fa'an pursed his lips.

"...why not remove the scar?"

Fa'an said softly, "With the current medical treatment, it should be easy to remove the scar."

Andre didn't answer right away, he took Fa'an's hand, led him to walk forward again, and spoke after a while.

"Probably because I want to remember."

Looking at Shangfa'an's puzzled eyes, he slowly explained, "Under the protection of mecha, most of the wounds that can fall on the body are left at the critical moment of life and death. When the wound is healed, the scar will also heal That kind of vigilance that struggles to survive in critical moments will always fade with the passage of time."

"Every bit of this kind of forgetting, the closer to the death line."

"Is this fear?" Fa'an asked in a very low voice, as if afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Andre answered him calmly.

"Yes, that's being afraid."

Fa'an instantly tightened his grip on Andre's hand.

"Then..." he asked with difficulty, "Meng En didn't carry out this mission because..."

"That reason you think is only part of it."

Andre said, "Mun's closest contemporaries, his former deputy had an accident during a recent mission."

Fa'an opened his mouth and heard Andre's steady voice.

"he died."

"So, being afraid of the battlefield is only a small reason." Andre turned his head and looked at Fa'an, "Every soldier is more or less afraid of the battlefield. When the fear in their hearts reaches a critical value, it is not suitable to continue the mission, but It needs psychological adjustment. As for Meng En, what he needs is to get out of the death of his comrades in arms."

Andre's voice fell, and no one spoke for a long time.The admiral's eyes returned to the front, and after a while, Fa'an spoke.

"And you," he asked, "Andre, are you afraid, too?"

"Anyone is afraid."

The admiral made a joke with his expressionless face, "When I went to the front line for the first time, I nearly cried."

"puff."

Fa'an couldn't help laughing, but his smile appeared on his face, but his heart sank a little, heavy.

"Front." Andre said suddenly.

Hearing the sound, Fa'an raised his head, followed his gaze, and could see the gray outline of the cemetery in the distance.A few particularly tall tombstones stand up, supporting the backbone of the cemetery, and the normal-sized stone monuments are densely covered underneath, like a rolling hill.

The Martyrs' Garden has arrived.

"The soldiers of the empire are not as strong as you think."

After Fa'an finished speaking, he was silent for a long time. It was not until the scene began to make a slight noise that he woke up from the lengthy memories and spoke.

"As long as you are a mortal, you will have fear. You will be afraid of blood, pain, and death." He said slowly, "As long as you are a soldier, you will fear the battlefield."

"what are you saying?!"

Hao Ern seemed to be unable to listen any longer, and shouted loudly.

"You are slandering the soldiers of the empire! Are you trying to use this to make excuses for not going to the battlefield? It is because of your inaction that so many Omegas who regard you as idols are willing to live in the safe main planet, no To reach your true potential!"

"Hauln." Fa'an waited for him to finish, and asked, "Am I your idol?"

"what?"

Hao Ern showed an unreasonable expression, "How is it possible!"

"So, among the companions who have the same ideals as you, is there anyone who regards me as an idol?"

Hao Ern paused, "Of course not."

"That's it."

Fa'an smiled, "Since you regard going to the battlefield as your ideal, you must know the weight of your ideal, and it cannot be affected by the existence of just one or two people."

"People who really have the same idea as you will naturally work hard for it, and people who don't have this 'ideal' also have things they want to do."

Before Hao Ern wanted to say anything, Fa'an took the initiative to ask questions.

"Hauln, I also want to ask you a few questions."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Hao Ern straightened his back and nodded.

"Are you afraid of pain?"

Hao Ern paused, and said loudly, "Don't be afraid!"

"Then are you afraid of death?"

"Not afraid!"

"If your partner who is fighting together now becomes your comrade in arms in time, and you fight side by side, but he falls before you in a mission, and becomes a cold tombstone from then on, will you be afraid?"

Hao Ern opened his mouth, and it took a while for his voice to come out, "...I'm not afraid."

"Wait until one day you die gloriously and become one of the heroes of the empire. If your soul returns home, you see your relatives collapse and cry, and cry on the ground; your friends are full of sorrow, and your relatives mourn for you. Will you be afraid?"

The scene was silent, and Hao Ern's voice had become very soft, without the initial enthusiasm, but still persisted.

"...I'm not afraid." He said without confidence.

"Congratulations." Fa'an applauded, "You are an undiscovered robot."

There was a burst of low laughter in the originally quiet venue.

Hao Ern's face flushed, and he wanted to refute, but at this moment, Fa'an spoke seriously to him.

"We don't discuss whether the soldiers of the empire are afraid of these, now I will tell you my answer."

"—I'm afraid."

"I'm just an ordinary person. I'm afraid of blood, sadness, and death." Fa'an stood in the middle of the venue and said frankly in the focus of everyone's eyes, "As an Omega, I have to pay more than others if I want to go to the battlefield." More effort, maybe not as good as others."

"But there are things I can do."

"In the political arena, in the literary and artistic circles, and in academia." Fa'an's voice was calm, and it was transmitted to everyone's ears through the loudspeaker.

"Being a musician, being a writer, publishing papers...even being a star, being a pastry chef, there are some things that I am good at and I like, so I can do successful things with twice the result with half the effort."

"You guys have to pursue your own ideals, just go! Even if you don't want to stay in the logistics of the army, if you work harder and get qualified to go to the front line, I will applaud you."

"You think that Omega must have a place in the army, so that it is called 'equal rights', then you just go ahead and do it. You need to express yourself and publicize, so go ahead!"

"But!" Fa'an emphasized, "Your propaganda should be objective and rational. If others don't want to join you, then criticize their majors and ideals. It's ignorant to think that Omegas who have different ideas and ideas are ignorant. Bewitched."

"If you, like accusing me today, force any Omega who doesn't want to join the army to 'recognize' his potential, and force him to join you with any means he resists——that would be true ignorance!"

"Equal rights are people's right to choose without interference, not a ruler that Omega can use to whip each other!*"

The whole audience was silent, and the teachers of the Lianda University, who were ready to intervene at any time, forgot what they had to do. Hao Ern stood there stupidly, and the host lost the ability to host the scene.

"Sit down, please," Faan said.

Hao Ern subconsciously sat down.

This unexpected and lengthy questioning seems to have finally come to an end, and the curtain can be drawn down.

However, Fa'an hadn't sat down yet, and no one breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone's hearts seemed to be hung by a thin thread, and the other end of the thin thread was tied to Fa'an.

"Sorry, I need to delay the next process for a while."

Fa'an turned his head to the host and said, the host looked at him and nodded reflexively, Fa'an got out of his seat and left his original position.

As a communication platform for the new batch of the best students to communicate with each other and famous professors to attend, the exchange meeting of the United Nations University will be broadcast live on the whole network every year.

This year, Horn's pointed question was deemed a live accident, and the camera was turned off the moment he finished asking.But I don't know who made the decision, and when, the cameras in every corner of the auditorium that had been shut down have been turned on again.

The camera recorded in all directions that Fa'an left the center of the exchange meeting, and passed through the sitting students of the whole venue. Following their eyes, they came to the other side of the auditorium. At the beginning, the area where the Union students stood and listened to the lecture, and then stood up again. Podium.

"Hi everyone, I'm Faan Anselhewi Nickland."

With a solemn demeanor and a solemn voice, he leaned slightly and approached the loudspeaker on the table, but his eyes were looking straight at the direction of the venue.

"Sorry for wasting everyone's time, please allow me to re-deliver my speech."

He paused for a moment, and there was no objection from the venue.Fa'an took a deep breath, and loudly read out the original speech script that was engraved in his heart long ago, and was cut short after he came to the General Assembly——

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Human beings are endowed with reason and conscience and shall act towards each other in a spirit of brotherhood.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms enshrined in the laws of the Empire, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, social origin, property or other status.

...Everyone, as a member of society, is entitled to social security and to the realization of the economic, social and cultural rights necessary for his personal dignity and the free development of his personality..."

"Everyone is subject, in the exercise of his rights and freedoms, only to such limitations as are determined by law, for the sole purpose of determining such limitations..."

Fa'an said every word, "it is to ensure that the rights and freedoms of others are given due recognition and respect."

"This is the just need to accommodate morality, public order, and general welfare in an egalitarian, democratic society!*"

At the end of Fa'an's speech, the audience burst into applause after a brief silence!