"Who helped her break through the intermediate barrier last night?" asked Anthony.

Rosie took a hard drag on her cigarette and replied, "Not David Duran." ”

"Is that good news?" said Anthony, "so let's not." ”

"It's good news from the perspective that I don't have good luck and I don't make others happy," he said, "at least I'm not the only one who couldn't be completely happy last night." ”

Rossimo was silent, and the only thought in his heart now was "too clever to calculate the mechanism".

"Ah, that seems like good news. Anthony took a puff of cigarette and immediately changed his words, "Our goddess can always surprise us, and I seem to have found an opportunity to break through the hypnosis system for her." ”

"What is it, my lord?" asked Rosie.

"I originally planned to let her break through the hypnosis system and the growth system at the same time, but let's come one by one, a difficult bone like Li Shen should be left to someone with more courage. Anthony replied, and then he was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "Rosie, do you know what love is?"

"It must be some kind of dream-like self-hypnosis," Rosie replied after a moment's thought.

But Anthony interrupted him: "No, I don't mean women's love, I know Gu Hanhan's superficial and naïve view of love very well, I mean men's love - do you know why, Rosie, why do men like David Duran think that they are in love with Gu Hanhan, and they do their best to take great risks for this." ”

"It's not very clear......" When she said this, Rosie felt empty in her heart.

"I really want to know what pure love will end up with. Anthony laughed, "Looks like I'll have to get another reference book." ”

Rossi thought to herself: David Duran would fall in love with the goddess and meet an opponent like Lord Criticus, it would be really unlucky.

They smoked the whole cigarette, and then Rosie said goodbye: "I'll take Rowling home and meet Defelyn first." ”

Anthony nodded slightly: "Xiao should come to the door soon, I have Lin Xiao here in front of you don't have to worry, you perfunctory him for the time being, don't teach him to see the flaws." It's a good idea to marry the Defilin family, well, set the wedding date later, and it shouldn't matter a year later. ”

"Yes" Rosie bowed his head slightly, thanking him, "Little sister is ignorant, it's really scary." ”

"Ah, no need to be polite. Anthony said, "I want to treat you as myself." ”

After Rossi had gone, before the servants had come in, the room was silent for a moment, the lighthouse star setting sun shining through the window, the dim orange light spilled all over the floor, and the dust particles drifted in the sluggish air, and the twilight was heavy, and the coolness enveloped in and entangled with the heat of the room, making people drowsy. Anthony was lonely for a moment, so cold and drowning that he almost felt the urge to abandon the world.

Anthony closed his eyes, and after a while, Sasha crept in and knelt down by the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Do you know what a woman's love is?" An Dongran, who seemed to be asleep, suddenly let out a soft sigh, and then he asked himself and replied: "A woman's love is that you think you are ready, but she can always give you a blow at the last moment, so that you have nothing to say." All your infallibility, all your logic, all your calculations, all the qiē qiē used to conquer the universe, are no match for her whims. ”

Anthony said quietly: "I used to think that a woman's love was simple and simple. It is an illogical, emotional, irrational existence that will only bring disaster to the universe. It's naïve and stupid, both in their love and in love, but now it seems that it is men who are naïve and stupid, and in fact, you can deceive them only if they are willing to be deceived by you. There is nothing in this universe that is more profound and complex than a woman's love and is difficult to defeat, and the ultimate energy rules are nothing more than a schoolboy's equation compared to it. Because they are emotional, there is no logic, there is no reason, so there is no way to defeat with any reason and logic, you will never be able to blind her. ”

The cold wind blew in through the window on Sasha's back, poured into his neck, and blew off the cold sweat all over his body, so cold that he just wanted to shiver.

Sasha tried to tell himself that Anthony didn't say anything, and he didn't hear anything, and then reported in a trembling voice, "My lord, David Duran broke off his engagement to the Heidi family last night. ”

Anthony's voice paused, his deep gaze condensed closer, staring at the delicately crafted vase on the shelf, and a mocking smile ripped from the corner of his mouth. It took a long time for him to speak again, but it was a digression.

"I remember the first time I saw Kagula on the front lines of the battle with Posis, where there was a lot of fighting and death everywhere. I was fifteen, or maybe sixteen, that year, working as a space warrior in the Ogra Space Fleet. Kagura was forty-eight years old and had just been elected Emperor of Ogra by a large margin. ”

"At that time, I had not yet broken through the high-level barriers, and I had just accumulated a small amount of strength, and it was time to prepare for the WTO. But even so, everyone around me began to talk in front of me and make all kinds of calculations. There was an endless stream of messengers of all kinds, and all relatives, from distant relatives who were not related by blood to almost no relatives, to dearest parents, became lobbyists, speaking for others with their mouths. These buzzing sounds are not only confusing, but also annoying and resentful, eager to destroy the whole world. ”

"One day, I finally couldn't help but explode, threw a tantrum, and then left everyone behind. But I still don't know how to choose, my country, my future. So I wandered aimlessly through the universe alone, trying to go back to the planet where I grew up, only to find Ogra and Percis at war. ”

"Posis' fleet broke through the border, penetrated deep into the heart of Ogra, and surrounded the retreating Ogra fleet into the Betica field, and they attacked before they even waited for the civilians to evacuate. The Ogra fleet has no reinforcements outside and no rescuers inside, but it still fights the trapped beasts. They urgently recruited combat resources within the entire Beitika star field, so I was forced to recruit into the space force by the sergeant major of the temporary recruitment site with a set of military uniforms. At that time, I thought, since I met and had already come in, I should fight for Ogra once. After all, I was born as an Ogra, and I lived in the Betica field until I was at least nine years old, so I didn't have the reason to run to join Percis.

"The years of fighting are always good, and looking back now, the two months I spent fighting in Betica should have been the fastest time I lived, without the pressure of a superpower breakthrough, without having to think too much about energy levels, and most importantly, without anyone circling around you like flies and hyenas. It's surrounded by teammates who have to eat together, sleep together, go to war together, and when you go to battle, you have to leave their backs to them. Some of them died, some survived. Oh, I knew Xiao back then, he was a bad luck guy at that time, I couldn't see anything but his face, I had to save him again and again, again and again, and then he had to eat up the supplies until I was hungry. It's silly to think about it now...... All in all, the Qiē was perfect, although we did defeat the Betica War in the end. ”

"I retreated all the way with a fleet that had broken out, and finally turned back with reinforcements sent by the capital. Two months after the outbreak of the war, Kagura finally subdued the great nobles of the country and personally led his army to the battlefield. That's right, he's a pretty good man, and always has been. ”

"After ten minutes of talking with Kagula at the starship transfer hatch, I decided to go back to Ogra and choose it as my country. Although it was far more advantageous for me to choose a historical power like Ogra than to choose those who were weaker, it obviously plunged myself into the vortex of power struggle, and my authority was destined to be more constrained and challenged by those in secular power, I decided, this is it!"

Although later at the celebration of the repulsion of the Persian invaders, Kagula confessed to me privately that he had made no regrets about the fact that the Ogra fleet had retreated all the way to Betika, where it had been besieged, including the chance encounter I had with him, minus the coincidences, had been deliberate. Now that we've fought side by side and won our common victory, why bother with why we're together in the first place? This universe is already full of scheming and calculation, so why should I use scheming and calculation as a scheming to calculate like-minded friends? ”

"I decided to go with Ogra, but it wasn't that simple, I had to get rid of the opponents within the family first. This is a difficult hurdle that almost every potential person cannot escape before entering the WTO. Around the choice of joining the WTO, the turbulence of the dark tide within the family will eventually set off a huge wave of opposition. Weak potentials who haven't finally broken through will become puppets of powerful vassals if they are not careful—I haven't met Shamanda yet, and I have to do everything myself. At the time, I was disgusted by the smell of blood on my hands for a while, and I felt like I would never do it again. But then, I could use whatever I wanted as an excuse to straighten out and clean up my clan and vassals again and again. ”

"I was really sad when Kagula died. We have just annexed Posis, the situation is still very chaotic, everything is waiting to be rebuilt, and a qiē has just begun, how can he die. Because of this sadness, I was never satisfied with the successor Emperor Ogra. At that time, I really killed a lot of emperors. Every time you kill an emperor, you can easily rectify the family, eliminate some people, and accept others. After killing about four emperors, Posis and Eugra have become a much more powerful nation. I don't think I should be sad anymore, and Kagula should be able to rest in peace......

"It looks like David Duran is doing what I used to do. Marriage and love have always been a useful tool, and I also used the marriage contract with Jennifer at the beginning. But David Duran is much more sophisticated than I was when I was younger, or he was more educated than I was because he came from a family of thousands of years......"