At the beginning of the lanterns, the golden light of the distant horizon pierces the quiet blue of the lake at night.

The tall feathered man eats cake, his creamed wings supplanted to the sides of his waist, held in graceful cup shape by a custom Armani drawstring. Upper-class people are keen to compare, and luxury goods are like business cards, and the increasingly rare cigarette rolls, cufflinks, and flying cars all seem to help people take a step towards the inner circle.

"Heavenly Wheel!" Justice Simeone walked towards him enthusiastically, his hands protruding from his joints holding the hand of the Heavenly Wheel, and a piece of Vacheron Constantin's "dragon among men" shook out of his cuffs. "How are you?"

"Since the murders, strange symbols have appeared in the streets, and the guards have gone crazy to investigate our social relations on Earth. Well, maybe I can say that I'm fine other than that. ”

"Hey, of course." Simeone pulled his cuffs down, picked up two glasses of wine from Night City, and shook his own. "Something about this? Good wine knows no borders, although I know you'd rather have a beer. ”

A handsome young man with noble manners walked towards them. "This is Hantos." The Heavenly Wheel introduced Simone, without hiding that this was the person he was waiting for. Simeone nodded slightly, smiling in return.

"Who is this man?" After Simeone walked away, Hantos asked, with a strange accent.

"A political ally." Yi Tianlun frowned, "He won't be very comfortable tonight." He's a moderate. ”

"Why do you have to draw the line so clearly?"

"It's politics."

"This is the internal friction of civilization." "Wasting a lot of your energy on this kind of needless fighting will slow down the race's march to the altar," Hantos said. ”

"You see a bit like him." Yi Tianlun looked thoughtfully at the silver-haired man in a serious dress on the other side of the banquet hall, "That man over there, his name is Henry Lanmei, a well-known mild-mannerist. People like him who have a tendency to return to Earth have had a hard time lately. ”

Hantos stared at him, as if he was interested in Blue Rose. "You're afraid of him." He whispered.

Yi Tianlun froze for a moment, and then laughed, the laughter alarmed a couple next to him, and Yi Tianlun couldn't help but look at them twice.

"You mentioned that he looked sour."

"He's the vice president of the three time zones of the Moorbay company, he's as beautiful as a woman, and he's very good at golfing, but the power is far below me, so why am I afraid of him?"

"Who knows?"

"But I guess I have to admit that he's a man out of the ordinary." Yi Tianlun raised the wine in his hand: "To you, Your Highness." ”

Hantos took a sip of his wine, and the two strolled out to the turquoise Hanging Gardens as they found that they had attracted too much unwanted attention.

"How's the banquet?" Yi Tianlun asked with a bit of pride, "The social scene of Moorbai is always so lively. ”

"Lively?" "The root of your hilarity is the fear of loneliness, and that room is filled with fear. Perhaps only that blue rose is an exception. ”

The Celestial Wheel stretched out a finger and pointed at the holographic TV in the garden, on which a huge film of air was projected with the real-time news of the movie: "This thing, it's called cyberpunk." They have worked on the picture, and all the details are both sci-fi and bright. Over time, people will think that life really is like that. ”

"It seems to me that the visual element has a big impact on your perception."

"In fact, it's the contrast that influences perception." "Without these lights and shadows, people are left with boring numbers, social pressures, value crises—" he said, glancing at Hantos, "and death." There will be more people who are addicted to drugs and games, Your Highness, people are fragile creatures. ”

"So you're going to take it all alone? You alone know who I am, and I understand that is cruel to you. ”

"Somebody has to do it." Yi Tianlun said nonchalantly.

"Sounds like measuring eternity with tiny lives." Hantos smiled, "You're a great featherman. ”

"Speaking of your identity," said the Heavenly Wheel Masseki, "in the limited few times you have visited me, it seems that you never came to talk to me. ”

The sea breeze blew from the west, and a sleek and strange blonde hair fluttered from Hantos's sideburns. He stepped on the stone steps at the edge of the garden with one foot, looking out at the sea and the stars.

"I'm from over there this time." He unmistakably pointed to a star next to the bright Enceladus, the star that everyone loved and hated.

"Earth? It seems to have been quite busy lately. ”

"I've heard that. The head of the Star Sector of the Interstellar Judicial Police is called 'The Crucible', right? ”

"I can see that he is a terrible character." Etianlun had always suspected that Hantos was an inferior robot, as he never seemed to speak in a way that could be pronounced. This guy is indeed a visitor from a distant planet, and is said to be the inspiration for Saint-Exupéry's famous book "The Little Prince", but according to the information obtained by the Heavenly Wheel, his planet is not full of baobabs, but spells, powers, and those people who are not mindless.

"What are they doing around that little town?" One day, in the second time zone, there was indeed news of this incident on the desk of Yi Tianlun, and he never felt that the real purpose of the police station was the same as what was written on the news: rare natural disasters.

"Hunt down fugitives." Hantos scratched his forehead, as if he knew what he was asking.

"Murderer?"

"Come on, your imagination isn't that bad."

"I can't think of it. I'm a pretty practical person. ”

"They're hunting something, exactly."

Yitianlun took a sip of wine and thought carefully about Hantos's words. He certainly wouldn't tell Hantos that he was also keeping a close eye on things on Earth. The Interstellar Judicial Police Station is a group of high-flying aliens who were also a major event when they descended on the human world many years ago. People of the age of Etianlun have been familiar with this alien force since birth. For many years, they have neither plundered human resources nor shared technology with humans, but have simply regarded themselves as the Orderlies of the Sector.

However, this time, they uncharacteristically laid out a grand formation on the land of the earthlings. Some suspect that this may well be the first step in their aggression against humanity, and if that were the case, the Osin would have saved themselves from fighting over independence.

But the Heavenly Wheel did not dare to make judgments. It's a disturbing fact that the Interstellar Justice Police Service's equipment is heavy steel, but it flies faster than any human spacecraft. It was too easy for them to conquer humans, and it was not necessary to move so slowly. He had to admit that the explanation given by Hantos might be true.

"A powerful creature from the depths of space, a demon, with power from the depths of space."

"Do you think they have a chance of winning?"

"That's the head of the star sector." "If he thinks he can't do it," said Hantos, "why bother doing it?" ”

"Why bother"? Yi Tianlun pondered the word, and suddenly remembered what kind of accent Hantos was wearing, so he smiled heartily.

"It sounds like no matter who wins, humanity has a good show."

"Humans may have, but you can't."

Etianlun wanted to drink again, but the tin can was empty.

"When the president can't sleep and can't watch the show, how is this different from the uncomfortable days I spent on Feather Island when I was a child?"

"If there's a difference, that's responsibility? You can do what others can't. You have to do what others don't want to do. ”

"It's not like an elf can speak. What do you call the one in the ruins? Is it a superhero or something—"

"Don't say." Hantos blinked, "You understand it right, and you don't understand it right. He's not just a superhero, he's got a lot of power. As he spoke, he took out a jar of wine from the refrigerator built into the wall and made a gesture to drink it.

"I remember you said you couldn't drink this." The Heavenly Wheel frowned.

"yes, but it's a nice sound." He pulls the tab back and forth, squinting as if enjoying a soft piece of music.

"You haven't told me what it's all about—"

"Don't say, friend, I can't say. You'd better go back and ask the builders of Rasheng where they led the game. I remember reminding him early on that the game he was developing was going in the wrong direction – or, rather, it happened to be 100% on the right track under the guidance of some mysterious force. So to speak, you are like moles that make holes and go straight to the gates of hell. I can safely say that there is a gateway to your open cyberspace in the small town of Troy, and that it will be parasitic in the world of Rashon once the Interstellar Judicial Police Department destroys the entities on Earth. You may find this exciting, but it's just the beginning. ”

"Stimulation?" "Do I look like such an unscrupulous politician?" ”

Hantos ignored him. "There used to be a lake in my hometown, and when I was a child, they said the water was poisonous, and my brother and I, out of curiosity, took a rattan stick and stuck into it, and watched as the part of the rattan under the surface of the water decayed and withered at a rate visible to the naked eye. It was a long, long time later that we learned that the venom that surged with the undercurrent at the bottom of the lake was time. ”

"Presumably its toxins don't work for your people."

"It's a holiday destination, and kids like to run and let the power of time temper their bodies, which they think will make them stronger. But they have to be careful not to bury their heads in the water, otherwise when they come up, it will be a sea of vicissitudes. ”

"Eternal life, what a jealousy." Yi Tianlun said sourly.

"It wasn't until later that the lake became dark and muddy. The monster crawled out of it. At first disgusting, stomach-wriggling creatures, then all sorts of demons that can only appear in the deepest and ridiculous nightmares. Now, the entrance to the valley where the lake is located is guarded by the most elite forces, and the lake hovers over the evil beings higher than those demons, and at the bottom of the lake, there is an unfathomable eternal abyss, and that 'thing' comes from the depths of the abyss. ”

"Is that why you're here? Out of guilt as a high civilization? Yi Tianlun asked, "Didn't you bring the demons?" ”

"I'm here to ask you for help." Faced with the question of the Heavenly Wheel, Han Tuo replied calmly.

The wheel of heaven was so stunned that he was speechless.

"Rasheng World, I can't get in."

The Heavenly Wheel was still silent.

"You're going to send your strongest soldiers to that virtual world and slay that demon."

"Maybe I can do you a little favor." Yi Tianlun pondered, "But the current situation is unfavorable, and my position is not stable. ”

"You don't have to worry about that, I've always been generous to my friends. Your position will be secure. ”

"It's going to take a lot of resources. I needed to have a less surreal reason to convince others. After hesitating for a while, Yi Tianlun said.

Hantos smiled. "I've got a reason for you."