Chapter 32: The Seven Deadly Sins: The Sense of Smell
As if to enhance his persuasiveness, the elegant gentleman known as Slan said in his charming voice: "Legends and stories have always been a form of entertainment for people to talk and laugh after tea, especially the kind of legends that begin with 'a long, long time ago', which are really just a topic of laughter when people have nothing to do, and there is nothing real to speak of. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Hearing these remarks, several giants around them all had an expression of 'it is indeed like this', and nodded frequently.
But the people of Greater Zealand have a stubborn character.
The prince is such an old-fashioned Sealand man. Naturally, he looks stubborn.
It's not like a lot of people who have heard the story of the treasure and think about it all the time even if they don't believe it. In the story, they always have a thought in their hearts. That thought was actually a kind of fluke, believing that good luck would definitely come to you.
Therefore, this prince may not be the kind of person who needs to satisfy his ambitions through fantasy, the real power prince of the Great Sealand Empire, such a noble figure naturally does not need to desire any good luck to save or change his fate, he is really just because of his usual old-fashioned stubbornness.
"No, Mr. Slan, the subject you just made may be more than just a good time for afternoon tea. I've always believed that there must be some kind of possibility in any legend. With that, he took a sip of the drink sent by the deacons of the Alliance, an ordinary drink.
"Oh, this drink tastes so good, you don't usually get it!" said the prince softly.
"Hmph, just to put on an image of being close to the people. "Monsieur Grande was still so blunt, and his words only made the prince give him a 'spare me' look. As a result, Mr. Grande, who was tall and had a reckless face that revealed a reckless temperament, actually seemed a little shy, which was really strange. Everyone was keenly aware of some of the information contained in the expressions of the two of them, and they were all silent. The atmosphere was slightly awkward.
It turns out that the Prince's Great Zealand Empire and Mr. Grande's Iris Dynasty have always been mortal enemies, and now they are only reluctantly sitting together because they see the danger of red, but just last month the two countries were still having some unhappiness over the issue of space bases.
In the sky above the Sovili planet, the alliance spent a lot of money to build a space base to maintain logistics, naturally there are very deep considerations, and political purposes aside, the role of the base itself is too important. First of all, all logistics need to be supported by the space base, and a large number of wounded people also need the careful care of those nurses in the base to survive. Even in the end, if the intervention force is defeated, it can theoretically retreat through the base.
However, if this happens, for political purposes, the alliance is likely to simply blow up the base, giving up the lives of those intervening troops to cover up a huge defeat. For this possibility of demoralizing the entire alliance, the past tradition of the alliance is to strangle it by all means.
At present, the problem of fortifying the base is related to the fate of the millions of Coalition intervention forces who are fighting on the Sovilian planet, and naturally there is no room for error. Among them, the Great Sealand Empire repeatedly proposed that all countries send representatives together, but the representatives of the Iris Dynasty voted against it.
The person who proposed the Great Sealand Empire was actually the prince sitting here, and the opponent was naturally Mr. Grande's younger brother. Nothing has changed on the surface since this incident, but there are private rumors that the Great Zealanders have built a few more Dreadnought-class Star Destroyers. And these Star Destroyers are clearly aimed at the Iris Dynasty. Many said to Mr. Grande with an approving expression: "Hey, that prince is so stingy. ”
Mr. Grande did not say yes or no, but it is not known whether there was any plan against the prince in his heart. All in all, their feud is great.
In recent days, the two of them have been at odds about the mysterious death of Mr. Grande's brother. Mr. Grande had reason to suspect that the prince had sent an assassin to do it, and the prince had reason to think that Mr. Grande was making trouble, and eventually the relationship between the two became even worse.
A series of grievances...... It's no wonder that these two people are sitting together now, and they are a little unnatural. Even if both sides are the kind of politicians who can put aside their hatred for a while and focus on interests, they will not let their cheeks really thick-skinn to the point where enemies meet and praise each other.
But...... The boy was still a little unsure, and he continued to squint his eyes for fear that others would see the brilliance in his eyes. He looked at the appearance of the prince and the two guys, and his heart became more and more ...... Wait, it can't be some kind of adultery.
A sudden thought sent him deep into it, and no one would know that Mr. Slan, who was very reliable in their eyes, was thinking about such a terrible thing.
Which of them is the attacker and which is the defender. The boy's brain spun very fast, and he quickly thought about it. Mr. Grande must be the defender, because everyone in the league knows that the Irises love to defend, and they built a line of defense hundreds of years ago to defend against another powerful enemy country, only to be easily breached. But until now they still do not learn their lesson, and they are building fortresses everywhere.
Iris people can only defend, is an old saying that has been passed down for a long time.
These giants started a new conversation, all of which were inconsequential, but their inconsequential words were also recorded by someone, such as the loyalty of the Recorder. He stood with these bigwigs, listened closely to their every word, and then recorded them.
He wrote.
In the afternoon of November, a million years after the destruction of the Lord's body, in the seventh million epoch of the Lunar Calendar, the Seven Million-Two Four-Hundredth Epoch, the giants of the Alliance agreed on a great plan to defeat the Red Demon......
The recorder is first and foremost faithful to record everything that happened that day, without stopping. At this time, it was Si Lan, the purple-eyed gentleman, who suddenly said: "I'm very sorry everyone, it's night, I think, I'm going to leave first." ”
The other bigwigs also felt a little bored, and picked up their things and left.
Only then can the recorder rest. When all the bigwigs went to rest, he thought dangerously:
These people are really unreliable, and the fate of those interfering armies is really worrying.
If a journalist had been lucky enough to sit here the day before and see the heads of state fighting for some interests, it would be hard to believe that such a group of people is the so-called leader who everyone is forced to accept their leadership.
In contrast, this Mr. Slan was much kinder, because he would not fight for anything. His empire was like a kingdom where the sun would never rise. It is known as the mysterious country of the beginning and end of the sunset, and the country of the final twilight. There are also cities where the night falls forever.
Anyway, Mr. Slan is like this, always with an inexplicable smile that gives people favor, squinting his eyes, and rarely speaking more than three hundred words at a time. The sense of presence is very strong, he is the kind of existence that cannot be ignored at all. People can't help but be attracted to him, and sometimes they even have an urge to worship him.
The League's recorder, Charles Robeswell, still follows his own convention, he has a habit of recording the daily events and the words of the big guys, and he does not forget to leave a single tablet to describe those who give him deep memories, among which Slan Lee Ecmond is one of them.
He is the kind of being who makes a huge sensation once he appears in front of the public, and is both a leader and an idol for people to worship.
Slan Rickmond's legend is no longer known, not because his origins are too old or because he is too bizarre. On the contrary, it is precisely because it is too close to the ordinary that it produces a violent sense of haze and vertigo.
Anytime, when Slan Ekmond appears in front of the public, there is indeed a lot of commotion. The commotion was more shocking than anything else.
The steps are very high, so ordinary people can't see the people coming down the steps very clearly, maybe only some strong people can use their keen senses to see the people walking down the steps.
But that refers to the usual situation, but now it's different, and the person who walked down was Mr. Slan. The crowd was sensational, and even if they didn't see it real, everyone knew exactly who was coming down the steps, one of the best sheriffs in the League, Slan Lee Ekmond. Another great and gifted commander since Levidall. He has shot down the warships of the Mokongs, and has also fought against the Covenant Warriors. In the Ethereal Night, he fought against the most ferocious and cunning of the Void Demons, the Moxifal Wanderers, and was not defeated...... There are so many legends about him that there are constant doubts. Yes, questioning. There are many people who admire him, and there are also many people who are jealous, because everyone naturally does not believe that some people will be so powerful psychologically, and they must always question it first.
Because he has so many stories, it's hard not to be suspected. But in the end, like most of the great men who stood up to the public eye, all the doubters were impressed by his charisma, and the discordant voices soon died down. Now even the people who hate him the most will not fail to admit a basic fact, and that is: Slan Lee Ekmond is great.
Mr. Slan was born with a peculiar charm, so even ordinary people could feel the unusual temperament in him, the powerful and unbeatable edge and the moist gentleness, that's all.
Opponents may call his temperament hypocritical in their hearts, but opponents like them only dare to think that in their hearts, otherwise how could they stand here, Mr. Silan must not have gone to them for afternoon tea.
By the time he walked down with a very tight pace, but with the unhurried temperament of a mathematician, most people were already completely attracted to him. When he completely walked down the steps, the sensation was like thunder, and I don't know whether he heard the sound or saw the light first, but in short, someone surrounded Mr. Slan.
Well, who is so bold, what other existence but boring reporters would be so bold? If you are surrounded by some ants, what will the teenager feel, that is, there will be a desire to trample them to death.
But the boy was like the false name of Slan Lee Ekmond, and he would deal with the ants with a false smile and gentleness. He doesn't need to use force to deal with ants, that would be too boring, he has never stepped on ants to enrich his habits, but he has a hobby of playing himself as a member of the ants. This is to better observe the species, understand their social organization and ethics. The boy has gone from being at a loss at the beginning to being able to easily sit in front of anyone and talk about it, and there is not much effort in this.
What is the difference between humans and real ants, this question has long been understood by teenagers.
His steps remained the same, and the crowd surrounded him. He kept walking, and the people around him followed him like this, asking him questions. It was he who led them at the pace, not them who led him. But in terms of words, I still have to answer them, no, it can only be regarded as perfunctory at best. The boy smiled indifferently and disdainfully. This smile has been misinterpreted as a mature and sophisticated way to see through all the charms.
"Excuse me, what do you think of the resistance on St. John's? A reporter from the Empire of the Rising Sun asked suddenly, causing a silence around them, because the question was obviously a trivial political issue, too small. All of them had asked about the big question of whether Mr. Slan had a girlfriend or not. In contrast, a mere rebel from St. John's is worth asking the noble Mr. Slan, but Mr. Slan listened, touched his nose with his hand and was silent for a while, and everyone stopped and waited quietly. As for the reporter who questioned him, he was very nervous.
As for St. John's, as one of the marginalized pioneers of the Alliance, it originally prospered on the central power station and the continuous immigration in recent years, but unexpectedly, this tiny planet like a grain of sand was taken over by the Rio, one of the space pirates, and carried out military occupation. Now all the inhabitants of that area have been reduced to slavery by the Rio, who use it as a slave base and a testing ground for some exotic weapons.
Now the black ruins are what they are called.
The issue of the rebels is also a very complicated one, as the rebels include both the inhabitants of the planet and the agents supported by the Rios, and it is difficult to say the exact relationship between the rebels and the Rios.
Originally, this kind of question should be very simple to answer, just respond to the defeat of the Rio people, but the relationship between Rio and Mr. Slan has always been strange, and it is rumored that those Rio people have all followed in his footsteps because of Mr. Slan's great personality.
This is a well-known thing, and people will try their best to know anything about Mr. Slan, so how could this reporter ask such a question!
Everyone waited nervously...... What is it? a smile that doesn't matter, or a regret to the reporter who asked the question. Everyone was excited about what Slan Lee Ekmund would choose, and they picked up the instruments in their hands, and through the instruments, everything here was clearly broadcast back hundreds of millions of light-years away.
Finally, three minutes later, which didn't last long, but made everyone feel like the day of the century, Slan smiled. To the reporter, to everyone he showed his charming smile.
"The spirit of the rebels never dies, they are not destined to wither, and for whatever reason, the colonization of the Rio is wrong. ”
"Then will you ask for help in the Alliance for those pioneers of St. John's Star, please. Then the reporters of the Rising Sun seemed to be excited, but they were ridiculed hundreds of millions of light years away, and some of the Rio people who saw this scene through the screen laughed loudly, Rio pirates will never compromise, and even the alliance cannot let these pirates give up.
In a small dark room in a city west of the Rising Sun Empire, two guys dressed like vagabonds were lying together, one of them was watching TV, and suddenly shoved the other unconscious, "Isn't that Miyazaki?
"It's noisy, has it been discovered by humans? Hey...... What are you doing......" "Look, isn't that human on the screen the guy who calls himself Miyazaki?" the man said, ignoring the other person's noise, pointing to the TV.
"Huh...... It's really him, what is this guy doing, in front of Mr. Silan, what kind of attitude does he have!?" That person also seemed to be a guy who admired Silan very much, and he was very annoyed.
"This guy is so rude that he dares to touch the gentleman, it's ......" The man turned off the TV and said, "This is not the time for idolatry, Jackland Abertale." ”
"Okay, let's see this guy make a fool of himself, I heard that this guy's wife was killed by the Rio people, no wonder I'm so excited, hehe. "The one named Abertla, who was not at all impolite, always had a languid look.
When he saw Silan on TV, his expression became more and more crazy, and he quickly kept spinning something with his hands......
"Bastard, what are you doing!" the other man went crazy when he saw him do this.
"Hehe, there are many things that the human body can do, and now this is called "consciousness turbulence", also known as "obscenity", and I am obsessing myself and Mr. Slan.
"Forget it, whatever you want, in fact, what I want to say is that the person named Mu Miyazaki is really an unfortunate guy. ”
"They deserve it, rich people like them just have too many things, and whoever wants them to use this spare money to travel to St. John's Star and not be retributed to people like him, then people like us who have eaten the last meal and are still struggling about the next meal are not too pitiful. ”
Abotla's face was quite good, but once he was entangled in jealousy, he became hideous and terrifying, his eyes quickly turned dark red, and the fangs in his mouth grew. As a result, the man who woke him up said, half-mocking, half-reminding: "Don't forget, we are not human, don't let the greedy, selfish, and tiny hearts of human beings occupy your hearts, and the noble predators will not care if they have that kind of paper ticket." ”
"Then you're going to starve to death, fool. Abertra rummaged through the large box beside him, and in a moment he pulled out a razor. Hearing this attitude of his companion, he scolded.
After that, while trimming the sloppy stubble on his face with this razor, he did not forget to say: We need money, and now and in the future, we will only need human bodies, and we will definitely need that kind of lovely thing.
"Listen, the situation is even worse now, the price of food has risen several times because of the war, and it is impossible for people like us who have no permanent residence and no identity to become regular employees, and even being a temporary worker will be suspected, so we can only obey the orders of the spy leader of the Imperial Secret Service and live here temporarily. Although we served him, he was very stingy, did not give anything in exchange, and was a shameless dwarf with no spirit of contract.
Now we don't want to starve to death, so we have to go out and forage for food. I always had the idea that we would get out of this unfavorable situation, and that victory would belong to ...... Oh damn it, when I become rich, I'm going to enjoy the pleasure of wasting food like a rich man. I can also go to No. 4 Town, give alms to the beggars there, throw as much food as I want to them, and enjoy their jealous and pitiful eyes, hahahahaha. ”
"Don't dream, the most important thing if you have money is to get out of here right away, if that's the case, we'll end up here?" said the man complainingly, "In this country full of industrial waste and human beings, it's a prison." ”
"Are you complaining? Don't forget, lurking in the realm of humanity and then enjoying all that humanity has to its heart's content, that's what we've discussed. You can't complain about life just because reality isn't going well. With a four-hole pistol with a metal tube in his hand and a black coat draped over his body, he stood in front of the mirror, staring at it even when he was talking to another person.
The man didn't care, but still complained, "If this is a life, I'll take back all my words." ”
"Hehe, why don't you count life, I've already chosen my goal, I'll go out today, and I have something to eat at night." ”
"You're going to forage for food?" seemed to be amazed and mixed with unwillingness, "I miss that feeling so much, or if I don't mention foraging, I'm about to forget my true identity." It's been decades since the ship we were on was shipwrecked here. Now our power has declined so much that we can't even destroy a city. It's a complete disaster, as a dignified predator, you have to work in accordance with the rules of human society to live. ”
"Forget it, although it's miserable now, it's safer than when Elbaros came, at least we're still alive, and if we stay there, we'll basically be killed by those shadow-like guys. ”
He looked at the mirror and said, "Those Shadow Warriors aren't easy to get along with, I could feel a glimpse of them in the neighborhood until recently, and I think some general's will must have tracked us." ”
After a while, he said self-deprecatingly: "Forget it, if we can escape once, we can naturally escape a second time." ”
"Sort of! What are these words...... What is that, if you say that, are the hunted predators still predators? Now I'm happy to face their monsters, and it might have been better if they had stayed in our world.
I hate human beings, and I hate following human rules even more. As noble predators, why do we have to work for money like humans, and what is the difference between us and those lowly creatures in this way? ”
"Come on, survival is above all else, this is our law, have you forgotten? Do you know why I chose this country?" "Didn't the ship run out of energy here and destroy itself?"
"If you really are so stupid, there is no difference between me and you, the reason why our ship was destroyed here is the result of my careful calculation of energy and route. ”
"Why? If you can control this ship, why don't you go to a more suitable environment for us to live in, such as some monster planets full of wild ancient trees, that is our paradise. The big lizards there are delicious. ”
"Because this is one of the several central chains that seal the power of the nine generals of the Shadow Legion.
I've spent time researching a brief history of empires, and I've discovered that every rise of this empire has a power that is free from fate, and that power arises because of the Shadow Knights' collective resistance to fate. It's a lot more important than a big lizard. His face flushed, thoughtful but also crazy: "Don't you think this kind of power is too wasteful for human beings, I think it's better to give the right existence, such as us who can make those powers work better." ”
"Hmph, what am I supposed to be, it's stupid. Your head looks like it's been polluted by humans, and you look like a fool poisoned by greed. What do you think you are, what do you think we are? Our pride depends on what we know, not because of ignorance. In you, where is the sanity of the predators?"
As the country's motto goes, "The world belongs to the brave man."
Anyone who is initially strong because of pride and strong because of greed may eventually perish because of arrogance or because of excess. Thus the initial pride and greed doomed the future to arrogance and excess, and their destruction was self-inflicted.
The reason why they are destroyed is simply that they don't know how to use their power. With the legions of shadows, we can rely on them to enjoy the eternal mansion, which is an opportunity that slips away if we can't catch it. ”
"What a catastrophe your so-called power can cause, if you fail, you will not only destroy this place, but probably destroy more places, if you let the Shadow Knights escape from the seal, you will be a sinner. ”
"It's stupid to give you your greetings back now. In order to survive, we have obviously discarded morality and all the emotions that affect our rational emotions from the beginning, leaving only order and chaos in our brains.
Brother, don't talk about mercy to me, I know you don't either, you just fear failure by saying so much. As for a compassionate heart, that kind of thing is too much luxury for a life like ours in which the soul is tormented.
This world of betrayal and bright swords is too dangerous, this world is terrible, and the ridiculous and false benevolence of human beings has ruined the way out of many strong people. They're just a bunch of naturally despicable bugs, short-lived selfish ghosts, and sometimes it's good to snack on them. That's what the universe has given them, food. Our current fall is temporary, thirty years of Hexi ......"
"The next sentence is thirty years in Hedong, and you have been repeating this sentence for almost thirty years, but we are still in Hexi. I hate it here. ”
"It's okay, next time I'll ask that old dwarf, and we'll go to Sakino City on the east side of the river. Okay, I'm going to report, and today the old dwarf called us all and said he had a mission. ”
The door was opened, and a cold and wet wind struck, but Abertra was still cursing in his heart.
"It's a shame that if it weren't for that guy named Mu Miyazaki, my plan would have succeeded a long time ago. One of his boring academic presentations allowed the Rio people to discover the mystery of the seal, and I had to delay everything and continue to be a human, a lowly, short-lived human. ”
The city west of the river was an important industrial area of the empire. There are also a lot of unemployed people here, most of whom are full of hatred for those who have money, and the red power here is growing rapidly. Some of the plane's merchants who came and went between the Suvili and the Empire were the best disseminators of these ideas. The Imperial government began to drive out and massacre some of the merchants who were supposed to be spies.
Recently, the red book has been a popular seller in the city, and riots have occurred frequently. However, since the authorities dispatched dozens of Gundam samurai to patrol the skies every day, sending a large number of military and police officers to station, everything has calmed down a bit.
However, the train station that shuttles through the vast planet of the empire is still a dangerous place, and train explosions occur from time to time.
The city of Kono has been in a state of restlessness lately, and the clammy air currents have no effect on cooling the people who have fallen into a manic state.
However, the train is still running as usual, and it will not be unprofitable because of the threat, after all, compared to the safety of human life, the government-run station is still focusing on profits, because of the possible risk of explosion, it is impossible. This would result in a significant loss of profit.
Although it is nothing compared to the income of the entire empire, it is enough to support a mid-level team, which is enough for the government of the Rising Sun Empire, which is not wealthy. Moreover, in the eyes of some politicians, the economy is very sluggish now, and if a station stops running, many businesses will be generated, and then people with careers will come out to make trouble, and more people will do business. It's a cycle of evil.
Whether they're right or not, that's what they think anyway.
As for the station, as early as the 11th year of Yoshiman, the station began to pass. In the earliest days, trains could not travel through space, and fast travel was forbidden by name because the technology was very immature at that time.
The erected spatial chain is very unstable and often has warp events.
Now, this is no longer the case, and the authorities are no longer going to ban space travel.
Because the technology has matured so much, it has not been a long time since there has been a spatial distortion that sends an entire train to an unknown place.
When Aberta walked into the train station, he showed his sergeant certificate. Although in the early days, he was an unemployed person who did not even have an ID card. However, since joining the secret operations team of the Special Service Division, this embarrassing situation has disappeared.
A gilded coat of arms of the Einsatzgruppen can do a lot. Like what......
"Sorry, I didn't bring any money. ”
"It doesn't matter, our train can be a soldier like you...... Parking spaces are available for the homeless. Despite the displeasure of the very beautiful woman, she tried to make her tone as calm as possible.
"Superior box, Miss. "Got it, this foreign friend and Mr. Tramp. "It's aliens, not aliens. Figure it out. Abertra walked over triumphantly.
Only the female lieutenant who doubled as a security guard and guard was left with the most important teeth.
The electromagnetic heating system in the first-class box completely isolates the snow and ice of the northern country, and through the window of the train, the snowflakes are flying in the sky, but the warm box is filled with the atmosphere of youth.
Aberta put down the newspaper in his hand and swept away the political analysis of the bloodshed in front of the door and the serial murder case in District 6 of Misui Town on the front page of the Beijing Daily, and focused on the most inconspicuous one.
"Capture the radical bandit Shinroku Tokugawa and clear the empire's biggest unstable bomb. ”
"Well, I know why the dwarf summoned us. Aberta chuckled.