In the gloomy room, the old-fashioned television still shows the old black-and-white movies for its only audience, and today, the middle-aged man who curls up on the sofa day after day and lives passively has the same half-dreamy and half-awake hangover on his face at this moment.

It's been a long time since the Emperor has stepped out of this room.

Throughout history, the founding kings of various dynasties have always been praised by historians, and they have been crowned with various titles such as "heroic", "heroic", "heroic", and "overlord". Similarly, as the head of the emperor who has achieved the great cause of truly dominating the world, and the man who created the United Empire, he has done what no one on the earth has ever done since the beginning of the world for 4.6 billion years, thousands of years since the birth of history - to make every corner of the earth controlled by only one person, to make every life on the earth only one person to live and die, to make every heartbeat of the earth only for one person to beat, the hegemony of the eternal swan song, the exploits that have not been found in the history books, and the person who has done all this, he-

But he is a lazy man.

Laziness may not be appropriate, judging from the records of the war years, the heroic general who scolded Fang Yu and defeated the enemy army in dozens of large-scale battles with his outstanding military strategy was a completely insulated existence from the word "laziness", to be precise, the mental state of the emperor has completely changed since the founding of the country.

Confusion and emptiness filled his body and mind.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was still the majestic and strategic emperor, and the various policies of recuperation and recuperation made the planet that had been tormented by the Hundred Years War begin to gradually recover, and the large amount of funds provided to the Ministry of Science and Technology Research and Development also made a variety of civilian technologies have been significantly improved, and the economy and science and technology began to develop rapidly under the operation of the emperor. At that time, everyone believed in the fact that the peaceful [prosperity] would truly come under the guidance of the emperor.

However, things started to go wrong.

First of all, the balance of racial policy began to tilt, and various high-pressure policies against alien races began to be implemented gradually, and the vicious rhetoric about alien races spread rapidly at someone's behest, and gradually formed an irreversible conclusion. And those aliens living in human cities have slowly begun to be excluded and oppressed, and most of them have been forced to exile to Zeluthor Island, the place where the post-war losers were exiled and later called "Rain City", only a small number of aliens are still holding on to their mentality and still struggling to survive in human cities.

The second is the establishment of the [Ring Executive Board]. Phoenix Newward, a man who is often overlooked from the list of the "Seven Heroes", suddenly ascended to the sky one day and became the emperor's most important right and left hand. It was on that day that all voices against the emperor's policy gradually disappeared, and in their place were a high-pressure society under the supervision of various agents and executives, pervading the invisible terror. Every day, someone is taken out of their homes by the executive in the name of rebellion, and every day, there are people who speak for the alien race and secretly disappear into the alleys of their homes.

Slowly, the arguments began to coincide.

It is because of the existence of alien races that people are so panicked, they are a stumbling block to the progress of society, and this is the only answer.

And it was also at that time that the emperor no longer ascended to the court, and has never stepped out of his palace again. However, this does not mean that he has completely let go of political affairs, every day there is a steady stream of information sent to the Golden Hall through the Ring Bureau, and in that dark room, there is always a pair of eyes silently watching the direction of the world.

It's like a carefree child leaning over to watch a swarm of ant nests.

"Phoenix, did you go in?"

His eyes trembled slightly with the characters in the movie, and the emperor took a sip of ice wine and suddenly spoke.

"Back to Your Majesty, as of Your Majesty's inquiry, Phoenix has not moved, and is still staying at the combat center a hundred meters away from the target location. In a dark corner, a low voice immediately replied.

"Sure enough, sure enough...... It seems that he did [foresee] something happening, so these inhuman beings are really-" The ice wine was drunk, and the emperor threw the wine glass casually, and his tone did not change in the slightest, "It's a headache......"

The wine glass did not make a sound of breaking, but suddenly disappeared the moment it landed, and in the corner, the low voice cautiously spoke: "Your Majesty, do you need [us] to act?"

"It's okay, wait and see. After that, the emperor's gaze moved slightly, and his finger lightly tapped on the armrest of the sofa, "Now, you guys go out, all go out, I want to be quiet for a while." As soon as the words fell, I heard a plural echo sound from the four corners of the room at the same time: "Yes!" Immediately after, the ink-like shadows in the room instantly faded, and there was no other sound in the square inch.

In the old-fashioned television, the battle between the western cowboy and the bandits has reached its climax, but the audience's mind is no longer there, the emperor presses the pause button, lights a cigarette, and then speaks to the empty wall: "Now it's just you and me, come out." ”

He was greeted by a chuckle on the TV.

"You're flustered, Your Majesty. ”

In the black-and-white movie on the TV screen, the vengeful robber pushes away the sheriff's wife and raises his gun at the approaching sheriff, who pulls the trigger at that moment, and the picture pauses for a moment in the lightning, making it impossible to speculate what will happen next.

However, at this moment, an inopportune red shadow appeared in the frame.

"In the East, there is an ancient culture called chess. "The red-robed man who exudes a strong sense of disobedience walks in the black and white world, and stops between the bandit and the sheriff," and in its rules, the [general], which symbolizes the key to victory or defeat, usually has two chess pieces engraved with [shi] on the left and right, and under normal circumstances, [shi] is the last line of defense for the survival of [general]. ”

"However, the so-called [Shi], whether he symbolizes the blood-spattered five-step [Dead Soldier] who uses his body as a spear, or the [Strategist] who represents the dedication and thoughtfulness, once his position is reversed, he will be the closest to the [General], an unstoppable backstabbing blade. The red-robed man stretched out his withered and weak arm, and spread his five fingers, gently pinching the spinner bullet that was frozen in the air.

"The purpose of your visit this time is to talk this nonsense?" The green mist filtered out of the cigarette holder slowly rose on the sofa, and the ash butt accumulated and extended in the faint firelight, and the emperor looked coldly at the unreasonable picture on the TV and spoke.

"I only hope that the agreement between you and me will not be invalidated because of someone's arrogance, especially at this time......" The bullet pinched by the red-robed man instantly appeared its due color in this black and white world, and the eyes hidden under the hood looked left and right at the reborn bullet, and then discarded it casually as if he had lost interest, "I said a long time ago that he would not be killed so easily, the hidden power in his body is unimaginably great for you to exhaust all your wisdom, but...... You're careless after all. ”

"I've made a remedy and things will be over soon. There was already a slight anger between the emperor's eyebrows, and he grabbed the wine bottle and wanted to pour a glass of wine, but suddenly remembered that the glass had been discarded by himself.

"Hehehehe...... If it really were that simple, it couldn't be better. The red-robed man laughed mockingly in a hoarse voice, and then the laughter suddenly stopped, and the red eyes in the shadows turned his gaze, as if they were going to pass through the screen, looking directly into the emperor's eyes, "Take care of your dog, the time is coming, if the plan does not develop according to my expectations, or is forced to change due to some stupid situation, then I, who have always been narrow-minded, will surely settle all the faults." By that time......"

"The agreement between you and me is no longer valid. ”

After that, the moment the red-robed man's voice disappeared, the abnormal red shadow also disappeared, as if it had never appeared. And the suspended movie screen also came back to life, however, after repeated playback day after day, the emperor, who had already completely memorized the plot of the movie, saw a picture that had never appeared before-

The sheriff's bullet did not hit the bandits, and in a moment of his astonishment, the vengeful bullet of the robbers pierced his brow, and then the town that had lost its shelter was encroached upon and overrun by the frenzied bandits, the men were shot, the women were chased, and the sky was dyed red by the raging flames of the screams of the fleeing inhabitants.

A picture of hell.

The light of the TV illuminated the emperor's face in a flickering light, and no one could see how calm his eyes were at this moment...... Still numb.