318 Epitaph
The communication ended for a while, and the coolness in Krauser-Shaw's heart slowly dissipated.The disappearance of adults was a dangerous situation before, but now the situation is cruel when adults are unharmed, and the political ecology of human beings is like this, the dark iron curtain spreads the galaxy, and only the blood shadow and sword light are its only bright colors.
He raised his hand and was surprised to find that the inferior scarf was still on his lap, so he smiled and threw it to the attendant.
"It's as warm as an angel." He said to the squire, "Don't mess up this time, it's going to be boring to turn the angel into a mistress."
"Yes." The attendant agreed softly and carefully put away the scarf.
Krauser sighed and continued to explain: "Sue the family, please let them settle down in the near future no matter what, let the chief attendant catch me, I will never come forward to intercede."
"Yes," the squire agreed, still softly, and asked, "are you going back to the House of Derwent?"
Krauser-Shaw shook his head.
"Go straight back to the Acropolis." He said, "Tomorrow I'm going to the Superpower Association and paying an official visit to Mr. President."
The music sounded again, the manservant brought another cup of coffee, the rain fell outside the car, the night was like a curtain, and the ground car gradually drove away and disappeared into the night.
......
Half a planet away, at Derwent Manor, a drizzle has just stopped, the dark clouds have dispersed, and the starry sky has revealed its brightest beauty.
David accompanied Mochi to the top of the manor, and no one had brought him, just the two of them.
"How far can you sense, David?" Mochi asked suddenly.
David released his energy field, expanded, spread, and pulled out a tentacle and stretched it into the night sky until it dispersed and disappeared without a trace.
"There." David pointed to a star in the sky, another planet in the Vault Dweller's system, 8.5 AU away from the Lighthouse.
"I can sense it." Mochi pointed to a spot in the starry sky, where Golden Gate, the outermost cluster of the Vault Dweller, was 39 AU away from the Lighthouse.
Mo Qi flicked his finger and pointed to the void: "And the farthest galaxy that mankind can see is there.
David whispered: "zweidingeerfue11endasgemuetmitimmerneuerundzunehmenderbewunderungundehrfurcht,jeoefterundanha1tendersichdasnachdenkendamitbeschaeftigt: derbestirntehimme1uebermirunddasmora1ischegesetzinmir——"
"There are two things, the deeper and more enduring I think about them, the more the wonder and awe they evoke in my soul will change and grow with each passing day, and this is the starry sky above my head and the morality in my heart," Mochi sighed, "and it is the most imposing epitaph of mankind, but unfortunately not many people can read it now."
"I am not afraid of death, David," he said, his gaze penetrating the wisdom of the universe, "and man is always going to die."
He pointed to the top of his head again: "Under this starry sky, no matter how powerful it is, it will eventually return to dust, not to mention that we are so small."
"The universe is the same, nothing in the universe is eternal, life will eventually die, matter will eventually be extinguished, only energy and spirit can last forever." Mochi stopped, looked at David, and sighed, "We have the same energy, child, you are the continuation of my spirit."
"Father......" David called in a low voice, a tremor in his voice.It was an energetic resonance from the depths of the spiritual world, closer than any flesh and blood.
"That girl named Gu Hanhan, do you like her very much?" Mochi asked.
"I love her." David replied stubbornly.
"Love?" Mochi chuckled, "It's not wrong to say this at your age, but in a few years, you'll know that the word 'love' is meaningless."
"I can tell what is love and what is not." David said firmly
"Yes, I had a self-righteous love when I was younger, and of course, I was much older than you are now, but you see, if I hadn't been so self-righteous, I wouldn't have been superstitious about love, I wouldn't have thought about getting married, and I wouldn't have had to kill Monique's mother, and Monique probably wouldn't have grown up to be a bastard kid who gave us both a lot of headaches."
"Rest assured," said David, "in my mind, Monique misses my brother by blood more than Oliver, and I would rather have a headache for him."
"This bastard boy doesn't care what he does, how good is it to let him die......" Mo Qi muttered, and then said, "You can just look at him, anyway, that bastard kid has that ability, and can make a big deal."
"...... I will take care of Monique, father, in the future." David solemnly promised.
Mochi laughed at himself: "You see, man is such a contradictory creature, saying that nothing is eternal, but selfishly hoping that he can last forever, both materially and spiritually."
"Actually, I'd like to say that I can't remember what Mom Monique looked like at all." He knocked himself on the head. [,!],"It's a real headache, I think I'm going to lose sleep again tonight."
"Now that I think about it, when I killed Mom Monique, I really shouldn't have destroyed all her things along with her body.At least I should have left a picture so that now I can remember what she looked like. You have to learn this lesson, David, leave something. You may not understand it now, I didn't understand it at the beginning, but at my age I will understand that human memory is the most unreliable thing, and what has been experienced, no matter how vigorous it is, is just lost in memory. There is no trace of anything, the years and life have dug a hole here, there are more and more potholes, and finally it is decayed, **, turned into powder and dies with nothing left."
"I won't kill Gu Hanhan," David whispered, but more like talking to himself, "I won't kill her, never."
Mochi smiled and didn't mention anything more about Monique's mother.
"We're coming in at the end of this social season, David?" He suddenly asked, "Which country are you going to choose?"
David came to his senses from the deep and misty atmosphere.
"The exact country has not yet been determined." "But it must be some country in the Rakomon Field."
It is a star field close to the edge of the galaxy, with a vast territory and rich products, but because it happens to be sandwiched between the Earth Temple Sect and the Dark Temple Sect Lord, it has become a buffer zone for the two camps to exchange fire, and it is still a barren land. Saved from collapse, and in an even more optimistic scenario, David has the ability to take over Mochi's legacy and inject new forces into Trick, reintegrating it into a much more powerful empire.
David further explained, "I chose a distant star field, and I agree with it, and I myself would like to go to a place that is not quite the same as the lighthouse star."
Mochi expressed satisfaction. Very good." He said.
They didn't speak again, but walked slowly under the stars, one slightly in front and one in the back, one holding the back of one's hand, one holding the other's arm; One is old, the other is young; One is thick and wise, the other is full of life.
They went down the stairs from the other side of the rooftop, and an airship stopped directly at the end of the stairs.
David let go of Moqi's arm, and the Jiang attendant walked over and saluted, and then took the sample bag himself and presented it to Moqi.
"I won't talk about Helena again." He said, "Jiang will pass the order, and all my vassals, and those who harass without permission, will be rebellious."
"Thank you, father." David bowed his head and saluted, then looked at the sample bag in his palm, and frowned slightly.
The sample in the bag only has a half-carbonized hair, and the surface is neatly labeled, with two lines of words printed on it, a name, and a genetic sequence.
"David, you have to be tolerant of the healer, tolerant and forgiving, tolerant to the point that you can't be tolerant, but still forgiving, because the healer is stupid, and it's not their fault that they're stupid." Mochi patted David on the shoulder and went straight to the airship.
Mochi went straight back to his private estate in the Southern Hemisphere, and as soon as he got off the ship, he asked, "Where's that bastard boy?"
"In the dungeon, my lord." Attendant Jiang replied.
"Are you going to lock him up, Jiang?" "I don't think it's very useful, this bastard boy is not afraid at all, he has loved himself since he was a child, and we probably have to use corporal punishment to educate this bastard boy."
"I think so, my lord," said Chief Attendant, "are you going to go now?"
"Is it appropriate for me to go over?" Mochi said this, but his feet were already walking in the direction of the dungeon.
"Well, since you insist, let's go over and have a look."
On the way to the dungeon, Mo Qi talked to Chief Jiang about the parenting scriptures that were actually not stored in him: "I used to be very opposed to corporal punishment of underage children, of course, the whole universe is against it, but Monique made me change this opinion, based on my experience with him for more than ten years, corporal punishment is the best education method, and it is most suitable for those underage bastard boys.
"How are you going to physically punish him, Jiang? You're going to corporal punish him, right? Don't sue me for your temporary soft-heartedness." "I think the punishment of having him run a few laps or do hundreds of push-ups is too light, and you should give him a hard beating, well, a whip."
"I agree, my lord," said Chief Attendant, "I have instructed the executioners of the Administration to flog Master Monique."
Mo Qi's tone froze for a moment, and then asked, "How many whips are you going to whip this bastard boy, Jiang?"
"Fifty." Ginger replied.
So Mochi said, "Fifty lashes, that's too little! [,!] If you don't want to criticize and educate him, you have to whip him at least five hundred lashes, and you should let the people in the training camp do it."