Interstellar leader

At three o'clock in the morning in the imperial capital, Li Qing was sitting on the bed with an optical computer on his knees, the faint blue light from the screen was reflected on his face, and he could vaguely see the tiredness and haggardness in his eyes.

Too many things have happened in the past few days, not only the bloody memories left by the assassin named Herman, the tension caused by the investigation of "insiders", and even problems with the Computer Research Institute.

The information security department is actually the intelligence department under the duke's influence.The duke recently planned to let Li Qing replace Lahe — born as the most honorable royal family, the education he received since he was a child made him unable to trust the ability and loyalty of a second-class citizen.In his eyes, second- and third-class citizens are all mercenary, and Rah is loyal to him only because he gave him power.

That second-class citizen from a humble background is naturally not qualified to know the identity of Isaac's former royal family. Li Qing's ability and his mysterious origin aroused his suspicion.He hit the ground crookedly, and he guessed the possibility of being a spy.

Now that the entire department is under Li Qing's control, he has discovered more than once that Lahe is trying to investigate his past.The Duke did not investigate anything at first because he firmly believed in his imperial citizenship.Even though the data full of loopholes before he was 20 years old was later filled to perfection by him, but a computer genius like Rah harbors this doubt, and sooner or later he will discover something.

Li Qing absolutely cannot tolerate such a time bomb by his side. For the past few days, he has been thinking about how to get rid of Lahe without any trace.

In this way, his insomnia broke out again.Obviously dizzy and terribly tired, I tossed and turned on the bed until two in the morning and still couldn't fall asleep, as if there was always a string in my head that was always stretched, and it couldn't be broken when it was approaching the limit.

He remembered the night of Harper-2, when Jörg put his warm hands on his eyes, and his clear and cold voice told the history of the Milky Way, like gurgling water to soothe his manic thinking and painful heart.

He also tried to cover his eyes with his hands. After trying for 10 minutes, he failed in extreme irritability and anxiety.It's better to do something useful than lie down until dawn.

Do the math, it's exactly Miranda's day.He wiped his face vigorously, got up from the bed and poured himself a glass of ice water. After thinking more clearly, he began to perfect the information channel constructed by using the loophole of "Wind Voice" last time, sorting out all the known information, compressing and encrypting it. Then send them to Joerg in batches.

After a while, he received a reply from Jörg: "Got it. If you find a chance, escape."

"I will stay here for a while to collect as much information as possible. What is certain is that no matter who is in power, the empire will definitely launch a war. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to narrow the gap in strength, and we cannot let it go."

When Jorge on the other side of the galaxy saw the news, a surge of emotion suddenly rose in his heart, his throat was blocked, it was very unpleasant, and he could not refute it.He was right, Jörg tried to convince himself that he couldn't do favoritism, not even if he was his friend.Besides, they don't spend much time together.

However, sometimes, the depth of friendship cannot be measured by time.

"You must escape as soon as possible." He still sent the sentence in an orderly tone.Unexpectedly, within a minute, Li Qing's reply letter arrived, which shows that when he typed this sentence, he almost did not hesitate.

"The parliament is also interested in Gaia's box?"

Joerg froze for a few seconds before he realized what this seemingly illogical sentence meant—Isaac was a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty, and his genetic peculiarities had been clarified to Joerg in the intelligence.Li Qing thought that he asked him to come back as soon as possible because the council wanted to use his genes to open the "box" after finding Gaia.

Joerg was in a bit of a mixed mood.Happily, this worryingly young spy isn't one of those ignorant little boys who don't usually survive three episodes.But his thinking seems too cold, like a perfectly programmed ai... I don't think he is a friend at all.

Jörg sighed, he didn't know what to say, deleted, edited, and changed, so he just replied to take care.

A few minutes later, a sentence that scared people to death appeared in front of him.

"Ah? It turns out that the council didn't think so. Joel, I didn't speculate maliciously on purpose. We are still friends, right?" followed by a caution.

Be careful...be careful...heart.

In the final analysis, Li Qing came from the earth. His magical Internet era has made facial expressions and emoticons deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even Li Qing, a serious science student who is immersed in mathematics, cannot escape being poisoned by it.

His ex-girlfriend once told him that plain text always makes people feel like he is angry, which is too unlovable.So later, Li Qing became a master of emoji packs, he did not send "qaq", "cry into a ball jpg" and "please forgive me" to Joerg, which is already very worthy of his personality.

But Joerg didn't know, StarCraft is not popular for this.He was so scared that he dropped his bracelet.

After recovering, he suddenly felt... Isaac is kind of cute, no, very cute.

Li Qing didn't realize what cuteness he was selling, he was busy contacting Adelaide.With a secure channel to the Republic established, it was much easier to connect to her device—the terminal from Miranda to Adelaide was a legitimate network, and he just had to hitch a safe ride.

Adelaide and his party didn't make much progress at first.The Gaia state seems to have no connection with the mother planet Gaia. It is named only because "Gaia" is the legendary place where human beings originated. It is an illusory fairyland on earth. fit.

They stayed in the capital Yige for a while, except for the cute little boy selling exquisite shells, the smiling restaurant waiter, the kind grandfather holding his little granddaughter...they met nothing.

Yige is like a real pure land on earth, always full of flowers, waves, pearls and laughter.As long as they have money, everyone can come here to find the best things, and the tourist merchants in Yige can block all the filth from the sight of tourists.

Every day, countless money pours into Yige like a flood from the hands of the happy people, and flows into the slums, custom streets and all other dirty places under the guidance of politicians and the manipulation of businessmen, to wash away all the dirt and build a The same glossy resort hotels and high-rise buildings as elsewhere.

However, Adelaide told Li Qing that the dirt that was washed away seemed to include those poor people who were regarded as dung by the "high class".

When Li Qing was still studying at the First Military Academy, there was an old man who tried to travel thousands of miles from the Orion Federation to Harper Central Star to visit the ruins of Gaia. He became an outdated joke in the news, but it was obviously for the ignorant masses .Li Qing and his group all knew that he might hold some secrets of Gaia—these secrets were not the folklore that "eight pearls surround the neck of the goddess", "mother and her child", etc. that implied the structure of the solar system Son.

Regarding the characteristics of the solar system, Li Qing knows better than anyone in the whole galaxy.His initial thought was that since the known coordinates can confirm that the solar system is within the territory of the Orion Federation, and except for the undeveloped area of ​​the centaur spiral arm, most of the celestial bodies in other state-owned territories have been recorded, then as long as Compare the characteristics of the solar system with the galaxies in the astronomical information database, and you will be able to find it. G-class stars, seven planets, the edge of the asteroid belt, and the third planet has its own natural satellite... The solar system is a special existence.

However, the search results are 0.In the spherical shell range of 9-860 near East Ortesa-870, there is no star system that meets the above characteristics.

Li Qing would rather think that the group of explorers and scientists in the Orion Federation were too scumbags and missed the solar system.But the more terrifying conjecture is that the solar system is no longer what it used to be.

So is the earth still there?

When Adelaide heard that the old man's brother lived in Yige, she did not hesitate to visit the place where he lived-a dirty and chaotic slum.

She happened to run into the ghetto cleansing.

Yige's local armed soldiers held electric shock whips and drove those people out of the windy stone house like driving livestock. If they moved a little slower, blue electric arcs would immediately hit them.The person who was hit screamed a few times, curled up and convulsed on the ground, and the people behind him ran faster like frightened rabbits.

A few soldiers behind the pressure were holding their laser guns staggeringly, grinning happily.They were just following the protocol, and in fact, no one thought that a gun was necessary to deal with these rats.They watched the paupers board the spaceship. Behind the hatch, the paupers were herded into a cage and locked up like animals.

Adelaide nimbly shuttled between the devastated stone houses and the tattered tarpaulin sloping from the roof, grabbing a few sleepwalking poor people and asking the old man called "Fu Ye" whereabouts.Those poor people showed fear and trembling lips. They thought that the well-dressed people were here to arrest them.

She found Fu Ye in time, he was smoking a cigarette while hiding under the triangular soil boards.Cigarettes are rolled from tobacco leaves, primitive and rough. In this era when e-cigarettes are popular, she almost didn't recognize what he was holding.

When the old man saw her, there was not much surprise on his calm face, he stood up, patted the soot on his clothes with his black and thin hands, and asked in a hoarse voice: "You are here for my brother's business, right? "

Adelaide nodded, and Master Fu followed her step by step. The soldiers saw it and didn't take it seriously.Their task is to expel these dirty poor people, not to engage in genocide.Since this seemingly distinguished lady is protecting a dispensable old man, just pretend not to see it.

In the crowd, a little girl hugged her father's neck tightly with one hand, and rubbed her worn-out dress with the other.The man's strong arms wrapped around his daughter, and there were several obvious scars on the exposed part.

"Dad! Where are we going? Will we be shot to death?" The little girl shrank in her father's arms with deep uneasiness in her eyes.

"Don't be afraid, they just took us to a good place..." The voice of the fierce-looking man coaxing his daughter was exceptionally gentle.

Good place?Is it heaven?Adelaide twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard Master Fu lower his voice and say: "This man is the most vicious gangster in this slum. He not only robbed money, raped, but also killed people. This vile place, People have no education since they were young, and their only goal is to survive, and they can do anything for resources. The little girl in his arms stole repeatedly, and the sallow and skinny boy who followed behind killed someone for a bag of compressed food, and just walked away from behind the wall The old lady who came out was a wanted criminal when she was young..."

If Yi Ge didn't kill this group of scum directly, he would risk spending a lot of resources to educate them, and it might not have good results in the end.Any apparent evil has a reason.

However, do these people deserve such a crime?If it weren't for lack of education, wouldn't they have no skills to earn a living?How could one commit crimes for a piece of bread if one were not unable to earn a living?If it wasn't for committing a crime, how could he be slaughtered at will?Adelaide clenched his fists.A society where the jungle preys on the jungle, busy with plundering resources, is really... hopeless.

She also asked Li Qing: "Should these people be born to suffer such a crime?"

"Everyone deserves this. It's just that we're lucky enough to have immunity."

The author has something to say: I suddenly want to talk about my understanding of the last sentence.

Human beings are animals themselves, and despite the establishment of civilization, the first element of survival is still resources.Most human behaviors can be explained by resources and reproduction (a small number of behaviors explain our nobility and civilization).In the case of limited resources, competition and crime are inevitable, and everyone in primitive society is in this state.This is what all people suffer from.

The reason why we lucky ones do not feel the pressure of survival is that we have family members who support us and a stable and prosperous external society that protects us, provides us with abundant resources, and only asks for some simple returns.

I am grateful for being human and growing up in a stable society.