imperfections

The Eden test base was blown up, and the Angel City Fortress, which was very close to it, was destroyed.

The Alliance Council made an urgent decision to control all members of the Eden Management Committee—except for the missing Lin Jingshu.

Wang Ailun glanced down at the personal terminal, and whispered to Woolf: "The council requests to talk to you."

Woolf is like a dying old tortoise, as if turning his eyes will tire him, his eyes are fixed on one place, and he remains motionless for a long time as if meditating in Zen. After a while, he said: "Tell them my heart is not feeling well, Lie down in the medical cabin and let them wait."

Wang Ailun bowed his head, and skillfully organized an article for the old marshal, "Although he is old, frail and sick, he still cares about the country and the people" and went back to the past.

Woolf turned around and knocked on the wall, a three-dimensional video screen jumped out of the wall, and then jumped out of the screen, playing the video of accusing Lu Xin of having the "forbidden fruit", a man said tremblingly: "Laura Gordon escaped Before, I went to meet Lu Xin. General Lin Wei was not asleep at the time, standing behind the window, watching her go. It happened that I was on duty that day... He... General Lin didn't let me speak. General Lin said, There is one very important thing that Dr. Gurdon doesn't trust him, and now he has to give it to someone else..."

"This man was born in the fourth galaxy. He has a younger brother who suffers from aneurysm. He used to be a guard in General Lin Wei's bodyguard regiment. Jingheng was still young when Lu Xin took him away. He was afraid that he would not adapt, so he came from the Lin family. He picked someone to go with him. The guard himself was very willing to follow, after all, following Lu Xin, there were many opportunities to climb up. Later, Lu Xin arranged him into his own bodyguard group and regarded him as a person who knew everything. "Wang Ailun said, "There is an anencephaly zone in the White Tower of the Management Committee, which raises a group of patients with anencephaly. Their daily work is to cooperate with brain wave scanning and receive researcher treatment. This kind of 'researcher' has no room for empty brain disease. At that time, his younger brother was 20 years old and had just grown up. Given their family background, they had only one way to live in the eighth galaxy. The committee made the deal. But he overheard a few words about "ghost hunting" in the management committee, and learned that the result of the jury for the whole people was a given. He regretted it when it came to an end, and told Lu Xin about it. Both ends of the first mouse did not end well."

"Because of this double-faced whistleblower, and because they couldn't find out where the 'forbidden fruit' was after Lu Xin's death, the management committee gradually believed that the 'forbidden fruit' might really not be in Lu Xin's hands. blew up and disappeared."

Wang Ailun nodded: "Yes, the only thing they can't move is Zhanlu, Zhanlu's backup authority is in Jingheng, and that child has been monitored for many years because of this. But it is said that his various data are normal, so normal—— —Appropriate cynicism, appropriate vitriol, appropriate resistance to Eden and the central alliance, occasionally becoming extreme, even crossing the safety line of the "potential" list, but the whole person is basically "safe", if this kind of data is also forged , that would be terrible, after all, he was only a teenager at that time."

"For so many years, the Forbidden Fruit system has been running silently on Zhanlu, conscientiously falsifying a series of data. It seems that Lu Xin has never told Lin Jingheng the deep operating logic of the 'Forbidden Fruit'. He may have always thought that the Forbidden Fruit is just a blocker. "Wulff sighed, "In order to protect the child, Lu Xin didn't say anything, including everything between him and the management committee of the Garden of Eden...including that he once met me on the 'forbidden fruit' list."

Woolf said, leaning on the table, and walked slowly to his desk. The solid wood tabletop was shiny, and he groped to open the drawer, revealing an old photo frame inside—it was unbelievable, the new ephemeris In this era, there are still people using this kind of antique.

In the photo frame is a group photo of three teenagers. The special photo technology has preserved the picture quality for more than 200 years, as if it was just taken this morning.

"I'm in the middle," Woolf murmured. "Can you see that? I've lost my shape."

Wang Ailun smiled slightly: "Where, the outline and facial features haven't changed much. The other two are Dr. Harden and Marshal Ringer."

"The three of us have been together since we were young, and now they are all gone," Woolf said softly, "They are all gone... The last sentence Geer said to me in this life is to let us Look at the world for him, see that the vision imagined in the Declaration of Freedom has come true, and tell him about it, he said that he can't see the light of the stars sweeping over Watto, and he can't see Xiaowei's birth, he is far away from the dawn Only one second."

Wang Ailun knew that the old marshal wasn't talking to him, so he stood quietly by the side, dedicating himself to his duty as a woodcarving with ears but no mouth.

"The idea of ​​'forbidden fruit' was proposed by the management committee. The management committee used the Garden of Eden to monitor everyone, but they didn't want to be monitored themselves. They wanted to create a privileged shielding system for their own people. Unexpectedly, Harden secretly put the It has been upgraded to a sharp blade that can pierce through the Garden of Eden. At that time, he found me and told me that he planned to use the forbidden fruit to secretly cultivate an "anti-Ukraine society" outside the territory, so as to prevent the Garden of Eden from being out of control. After hearing this, I was dumbfounded Furious, I think the management committee of the Garden of Eden is too greedy, but how could he, Dr. Harden, collude with pirates outside the territory? Isn’t that treason? But that’s my dead brother, I can’t report him, Harm him, so I have no choice but to cut off contact with him from now on."

"Harden didn't quarrel with me at the time, but said that he would record my thoughts and beliefs at the time and record them in the 'forbidden fruit'. If one day I change, I will still be such a model of uprightness in the Garden of Eden. Like—he said he hoped I would never have to use it.” Woolf said softly, “He was sarcastic, but he was right, and I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him.”

His friends, the people he never let go of, the children he brought up with his own hands, and the students who had high hopes left him one by one, pushing the huge steam car of the alliance to the opposite direction from the beginning.

When he regretted it, he was old and frail, and he had to rely on the memory stored by artificial intelligence to recall those ideals and beliefs from long ago.

For a moment, a picture flashed across Woolf's brain as if it had revived. He vaguely remembered a boy who described his downfall, and said to him half-jokingly: "I, I just need to live to be two hundred years old. Come on, otherwise, if you accidentally live to be three hundred years old, deaf and blind, stubborn and narrow-minded, can't remember anything about the past, and change your mind, wouldn't you become another person, or me? I Never."

Woolf and Wang Ailun stood and sat for a long time, relatively speechless. Wang Ailun glanced at the old photos in the drawer and thought of Lu Xin.

Wang Ailun thought, when Lu Xin temporarily decided to flee from Woto in a hurry, how did he feel?

He is loyal to the alliance and has gone through life and death for the alliance, but he finds that his teachers, friends, and seniors are trying to shield and protect themselves when they encourage others to use the Garden of Eden.

He spent his life pursuing liberty and equality for every citizen, and these people decided to convict him at a full jury trial.

Time was running short, and he didn't know how to explain these things to Lin Jingheng who was still a child... Even he himself probably didn't have time to figure it out, so he had no choice but to choose to encrypt Zhanlu and keep silent.

On the night Lu Xin flew out of Woto, did he really believe in the things for which he had fought with his life and blood?

"It's not over yet," Woolf said in a vague voice, "The Glory Corps that sneaked in is still in Votor, and the garbage in the Anti-Uganda Society has not been cleaned up. I promised Geer and Harden that the new world is still there." It's far away. I can't give up on the lingering power of the Alliance just yet..."

Wang Ailun understood something: "You said... Jingheng."

"He still doesn't know what the 'forbidden fruit' is, but with such uproar, no matter how closed the eighth galaxy is, he will always have a chance to know, and he will always have a chance to see that list, and his faith will collapse like Lu Xin," Woolf said, " It's pathetic and I don't want that. I want him to live a hero and die a hero, you know what I mean?"

Wang Ailun understood, and bowed slightly to Wulf, and asked him, "What about Jingshu?"

Woolf was silent for a while, then sighed: "No matter how many tricks you can do, it's better to sneak into the Management Committee of the Garden of Eden since you were young. We old people have underestimated her. The Management Committee is really poisonous soil, and it can't grow. Normal flower. Find her as soon as possible, and don’t let her disappear for no apparent reason—you should send a statement to your contact as soon as possible, announcing that the alliance will completely eliminate “opium” and tell the public that this is a conspiracy by the management committee after the Garden of Eden. Release Lin Jingshu's arrest warrant."

Poisonous flowers—Lin Jingshu stood up in front of Dr. Harden, with her hands behind her back, and the smile on her face disappeared. She stared at the murderers who were dying of pain in the glass laboratory. On the cold one-way glass.

"If the world treats you badly, hurts you, and every fool who thinks innocent has sucked blood from your heart, you still have to forgive, and you still have to repay the wrong with kindness, and you still have to do the so-called...what's that called?" The right thing '. Then you are also guilty." She said, "Because you let the dead good people be wronged, you let the living fools still feel at ease in their 'innocence', you let history fall into shameful and despicable ants, there are always tragic heroes. Salvation clichés. The vendetta you swallowed through gritted teeth and blood makes this story phony and ugly."

Dr. Harden stood in the shadows old-fashionedly, and asked gently: "My child, is there no justice and humanity in your heart?"

"I am human nature," Lin Jingshu said, "What is human nature? Human nature is to eat when you are hungry, to drink when you are thirsty, when others treat you well, remember them, and repay them, when others trample you, you must pay back at all costs— This is natural human nature. The so-called 'righteousness', ha, is a kind of self-absorbed perversion, and it will not end well."

After she finished speaking, she lightly kissed the protective glass, leaving a bright red lip mark.

"Disgusting," she said, and turned away.

The eight major galaxies were bleeding like rivers in her turn.

Thomas Yang and Poisson Yang originally planned to integrate the third silver guard on the edge of the second galaxy. There is a large interstellar interstellar transfer station on the edge of the second galaxy. Private starship sales, civilian and commercial starship supply and maintenance are all here. Over time, various Supply stations and starship service organizations are gathered here.The third silver guards are all technicians, and they happen to be in this place. Originally, they could set off with a summons order, but they bumped into a large number of private starships coming to the transfer station to seek refuge.

"We are from the second galaxy. I am a teacher at the Second Polytechnic University. Our school is in a man-made space station, far away from natural planets. All the students live on campus," said a middle-aged man leading a group of confused teenagers , waved his hand and declined the cigarettes handed over by Thomas Yang, "Thank you brother, don't smoke this, how many underage students are there? A group of people suddenly came that day, drove mechas to occupy the space station where the school is located, forced We inject a biochip, which is said to be a substitute for the Garden of Eden. The principal said that it is a good thing that the Garden of Eden has a substitute, but the injection in the body requires strict procedures. Besides, the school cannot agree without authorization, and the parents of the underage students must be organized to sign...they Unexpectedly, he shot and killed the principal without any reason! My colleagues and I took a look at the situation and hurriedly led the students to flee separately. Most of them were shot down. We are lucky. I want to send these children home , but the channel of the second galaxy has been blocked, and someone is fighting there, there is really no way, we can only hide here for a while."

After he finished speaking, a student suddenly screamed: "Teacher!"

I saw a few students fiddled and connected to the underground network, and a violently shaking video was uploaded. It seemed to be a man-made space station—the natural conditions of the second galaxy were average, mainly due to the developed financial and transportation industries, and nearly half of the population They all lived on a large man-made space station—the next moment, an ominous alarm flashed on the video screen, and a passerby suddenly ran wildly, shouting "missile", the voice fell, and the white light obliterated the entire screen, and everything came to an abrupt end.

"This is the Kenny space station near the capital star of the second galaxy."

"The space station group near Capital Star is now completely lost."

People panicked, and some relatives and friends who were still near the capital star began to anxiously try to establish contact. After a while, the people who could not be contacted began to collapse and cry, and became a mess.

Thomas Yang silently put the cigarette that he hadn't sent out just now into his mouth, and Poisson walked to him with his arms folded on his chest: "It's not safe here, such a big interstellar transfer station will soon become a refugee camp, all Those who have nowhere to go, the pirates who forcefully buy and sell opium, will immediately follow this place, what should I say, captain of the guard, shall we withdraw?"

At the same time, the Silver First Guard had been stranded in the third galaxy for more than a week—just because they rescued a group of refugees who were hunted down by pirates along the way.

With the flames of war, there are more and more interstellar refugee groups. People living near the front line are afraid that a missile will fall from the sky and land in their courtyards every day. Anyone who can afford a starship ticket will run away.It is said that the refugee tickets of the three-star system have risen to sky-high prices, and ordinary middle-class families have to go bankrupt, and have to choose who to leave and who to stay.

This group of refugee starships cannot withstand the emergency transition, and people will die if the acceleration is too high, and all the transition points scanned nearby have been surrounded by various armed forces. With such a big burden, the first silver guard also Trapped in a pirate encirclement.

In the eighth galaxy, Lin Jingheng had just repelled a wave of anti-black attacks under Ankelu's rebellion, and before he had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Zhanlu suddenly say: "Sir, the remote communication request is from Silver Third David Thomas Young."

Lin Jingheng was taken aback.

The Ten Silver Guards are well-trained. It stands to reason that after they confirmed that Lin Jingheng is in the eighth galaxy, they should come to meet up as soon as possible. Yueqian.com released a long-distance communication request - so that it would not expose its coordinates on the road, so as to avoid side effects.

Bai Yinsan sent a communication at this time, if he had not already arrived at the eighth galaxy, or he had something important to ask for instructions.

Lin Jingheng: "Go."

From the second galaxy to the eighth galaxy, even with the powerful transition network constantly folding the space, there is still no real-time dialogue. It takes more than 50 hours to wait from the establishment of the two-way connection of the remote signal to the appearance of Thomas Young on the screen.

"General," finally, the picture of Thomas Young appeared, he straightened his crooked hat, subconsciously put on his slicker clothes, and saluted with a straight face, "the channel is blocked, we are currently at the 'nebula transfer station' of the second galaxy , There are at least more than 600 million refugees gathered here, and the Pirate Freedom Corps has visually estimated that more than 50 heavy armors are approaching here, and they will force everyone to inject biochip drugs and opium.”

Lin Jingheng's fist on one side suddenly tightened.

Due to the delay in such long-distance communication, it is impossible for the two parties to have a free dialogue, so Thomas Yang thought about it and finished all the reports at once: "When Poisson and I were in Angel City, I had contact with Miss Jingshu, but she refused. Come with us, the news I heard now is that Miss Lin is missing—sorry, General, we just took her away by force."

"The third silver guard has been assembled, and we have made continuous emergency jumps. It is not a problem for us to get rid of the pirates. Now we should make emergency jumps to the eighth galaxy immediately, or stay and protect the nebula transit station. Please advise."

Lu Bixing, a few engineers accompanying the army, Zhanlu... Turan, who just climbed out of the medical cabin, all eyes were on Lin Jingheng.

"The pirates who forcibly bought and sold opium called themselves the 'Freedom Legion'. Who is this to mock?" Lin Jingheng paused, and said to Thomas Yang more than 50 hours later, "The ten silver guards chose to swear allegiance to What is it, don't you remember? Please show me what to do!"

"Sir, a remote communication request from the Silver First Guard..."

"Sir, from the Sixth Guard of Silver..."

……

"Sir, Captain Yang sent a message saying 'Long live the Declaration of Freedom'."

The Central Army of the Seventh Galaxy, Ankelu was listening to the battle reports of various galaxies in the conference room, when a reminder suddenly sounded on the personal terminal.

He froze for a moment, interrupted the endless secretary with a wave of his hand, ordered everyone to end the meeting, then turned around, and locked the office door by himself.

"It's me." Wang Ailun's face appeared on the personal terminal, "Good day, General An in 56 hours."