Federal Space City, Presidential Palace.

"Welcome, Enlightener."

Zheng Dong looked up at the blue building that was more than thirty meters high, and did not immediately reply to the words of the robot guard at the gate.

"It's modified." Zheng Dong glanced at several additional mechanical facilities and muttered to himself.

"A year ago, Chairman Zhang Wenqi personally commanded the transformation." The robot guard replied.

"I didn't ask you."

"Yes. Forgive me, my language communication procedures need to be perfected. ”

"Where does your database come from?" Zheng Dong tapped the white body of the robot guard, and his voice was not crisp.

"I can't tell."

"Can't tell?" Zheng Dong stared at the robot guard's round eyes and smiled, "You know what? ”

"I can't tell."

"Hmm. Can I go in? ”

"Of course." The robot guard replied.

"You're so much worse than 'Ripple'." Walking through the gate, Zheng Dong turned his head sideways and said to the robot guards.

"What is 'Ripple'?"

"Nothing." Zheng Dong walked away quickly.

Walking on the corridor, Zheng Dong saw several dignitaries, all of whom saluted Zheng Dong, but Zheng Dong saw in their eyes their dissatisfaction with yesterday's events.

Walking into the light curtain door of the chairman's office, Zheng Dong saw Zhang Wenqi behind the wooden table and in front of the dense virtual screen.

The virtual screen is showing the image of the Earth and the key regions of the solar system, including the Tianyuan Galaxy, in real time.

Hearing the footsteps entering the door, Zhang Wenqi turned around, nearly fifty years old, with a calm face, sharp edges and corners, and his eyebrows were still jet black, but it was difficult to see the sharpness and childishness of the year.

"Zheng Dong?" Zhang Wenqi smiled, "Maybe you are called an 'inspirer' in the office?" ”

"I have something to ask you." Zheng Dong went straight to the point.

"Yesterday's thing?" Zhang Wenqi picked up the teacup on the table and shook it, the soft fluorescent lamps on the roof scattered in the teacup, "It has happened, although the enlightener is right, but all mankind has made a decision." ”

"Yes," Zheng Dong nodded, "a just decision made in front of more than three billion human beings." ”

"So what's to ask?" Zhang Wenqi took a sip of tea and looked at Zheng Dong.

Zheng Dong met that gaze, and the light in it was somewhat familiar, and some were already unfamiliar.

"What happened the year I left?"

"Nothing happened," Zhang Wenqi shrugged, although he was wearing a suit, he still exuded the bohemianism of the year, "someone ran irresponsibly, the first time for more than 20 years, and the second time for a year." During these two periods, the earth is still spinning and the sun is still burning. But we're still thinking of you, me, Mi Peiyu. ”

"What happened in the last year?" Zheng Dong asked.

"Oh? A lot of things, scientific and technological progress, the creation of a new country? Or post-war reconstruction? Zhang Wenqi said, "Which aspect do you want to know?" ”

"I wonder what makes the president of all mankind, a great and benevolent, rational and boundless man, into a man who risks three billion human lives."

Zhang Wenqi picked up the teacup again, but found that there was no water, he walked to the wooden desk, poured himself a cup of hot tea, and then looked up and looked at Zheng Dong: "There are many reasons." ”

"For example?"

"Death, insignificance." Zhang Wenqi said.

"I'm talking about the year I'm gone."

"That's the year." Zhang Wenqi approached Zheng Dong, and a tremor appeared in his eyes.

"What?"

"Cemetery. That cemetery is the cemetery where countless soldiers who died in the war against the invasion of the Red Flame Empire are buried! At that time, I was standing there, looking at Lao Mi and Mi Peiyu's well-dressed mound, silently muttering two numbers. Do you know which two they are? Zhang Wenqi paused, "Twenty-four million, and four hundred and twenty-seven." ”

"One, is the total number of all human beings who died in the war, without adding the more than a million missing people. One is an exaggerated statistic, the total number of dead Red Flame creatures. ”

"In this, I see the tragic price of smallness and backwardness! We have reached the pinnacle of the seventh technological era very quickly, more than 20 years, but if you don't stand here to deal with government affairs and look at the overall situation, you can't imagine the difficulty of social progress. With the treasure trove of knowledge left by you, our best scientists can't understand the knowledge of the eighth era of science and technology, and without a breakthrough in science and technology, society cannot be truly transformed. Unlike your material laws, management, politics, culture, etc., we have no reference. ”

"Without change, humanity will die."

Zheng Dong said, "We survived the two tribulations of Barnard and the Red Flame Empire. ”

"We have sacrificed countless people, you have paid a lot, of course, luck is also very important, but the future of mankind does not depend on luck, nor can it only depend on you."

"Then you just throw humans into the universe?"

"Zheng Dong, you have lived for more than 10,000 years, and you have also entered the real universe, you tell me that a race can only live on his home planet?"

“…… No. ”

Zhang Wenqi chuckled and opened his arms: "Are there any people who grow up in the cradle, the cradle is very small, and when the baby becomes a teenager, it will be suppressed." ”

Zheng Dong lowered his head, licked his lips, closed his eyes, and did not answer again.

The two were silent, and Zhang Wenqi looked at the virtual screen and looked at the scenery around the world.

After a long time, Zheng Dong said: "Maybe you are right. ”

"Perhaps...... Hehe, I know I'm pushing humanity into the abyss, but if you get out of the abyss alive, you will see the light, right? ”

"One, a grand gamble."

"Humanity is either born from the fire or turned to ashes." Zhang Wenqi said.

Zheng Dong rubbed his head: "It's complicated, a human civilization gives me a headache." ”

"By the way, do you know why I replaced all the guards with robots?" Both of them relaxed, Zhang Wenqi held the teacup, and interested colors appeared in his eyes.

"Safe?"

"Yes, robots will not mutiny, unless someone breaks through the smart terminal or dismantles the robot and modifies the program."

"You can also shield the transmission of electrical signals and even quantum signals, and secretly change the escort robot into an assassination robot." Zheng Dong teased.

"It's better than people's hearts. Even if you think I'm popular," Mr. Zhang said, "I'm popular, but as long as one percent of people want me to die, I'm dangerous." ”

Zheng Dong's face turned gloomy: "Who?" ”

"Don't stand in the shoes of defending your brothers and me, politics is complicated and dark, and the glory of the Space Force does not belong to politics." Zhang Wenqi shook his head.

"You are the greatest leader in history. Who will kill you? ”

"It's not like it's dead, Zheng Dong, haven't you been a military advisor? What did Zheng Taizu do to you, did you forget? ”

Zheng Dong pursed his lips: "My memories are always forgotten, as if it is a problem with the memory cells of my brain. Not long ago, I forgot that I was an inspirer. After knocking the scar on his forehead, he added, "Of course, the cause of that knife cannot be ruled out." I just think it's a bit radical and inappropriate for you to do that. ”

"There's a reason for that."

"What? My filibuster? ”

"There are some of them, and the influence of the inspirers is still very large." Zhang Wenqi put down the teacup, walked to the wall, and knocked three times, "But more importantly, it is the advice of a friend." ”

Three crisp knocks on the wall fell, Zheng Dong looked at the wall, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

A blue light appeared on the wall, but it was a reflected light, and the erect creature that suddenly appeared stood in front of Zheng Dong.

The structure of this creature is simple, with iron-black skin and a skull that is distinctly distinct from its torso limbs. A head, flattened, with four regularly distributed blue eyes, no mouth or nose, four arms, two straight legs, but with three joints and some fin-like membranes.

Zheng Dong had never seen such a creature at the Red Flame Empire's border station.

"Greetings, Dear Inspirer." The creature bowed down and uttered a gentle voice out of nowhere, "I'm from the Meizu Blue Empire. Yes, it was the one who scared away the Red Flame Empire. ”

Zhang Wenqi just stood aside and smiled.

One point and four light-years outside the solar system, Meizu Blue is the flagship of the Empire's advance fleet.

The commander-in-chief of the advance fleet, Intenay, was sipping a drink from his hometown and flipping through a book made of an ancient special material.

Books record a long history with very small pictures.

"Two billion years ago, the Divine Galactic Lord ......" Intenai stretched out one of his seven fingers and lightly placed it on a human drawing, "The origin of humanoid creatures ......"

"Ingels, do you think this human planet could be the place of origin?" He asked the chief guard in the cabin.

Ingels did not turn his head and replied: "In the 300 million years since the establishment of the empire, twenty-seven planets dominated by humanoids have been discovered, and none of them are the land of origin. ”

"Actually, it's useless to find the place of origin now, it's said that the lord is dead." Intenai turned the page, and the painting described the legendary life of the Galactic Lord, "Dead, leaving behind some stories that will not be forgotten, but he is dead." I'd rather live forever than leave a story. ”

"It is said that the longer you live, the more you want to leave a story."

"That's the mind of an old guy who can't walk, I want to live forever, so, this planet has to be demolished to see if it's the place of origin."

"If so, you will be rewarded with a great entry into the fourth dimension." "Can I congratulate you in advance?" ”

Innate smiled weirdly and said, "Yes." ”

"Congratulations ......"

"But there is a problem, the Meizu Blue Empire is under the intelligent surveillance of the great five-dimensional empire Kunsen Empire, if we don't turn this planet into a terra planet and move it, the great five-dimensional empire Kunsen Empire, the corrupt judge will tear us to shreds. Oh, damn it, the great five-dimensional empire Kunsen Empire, the broken intelligence. ”

"Yes, Commander."

"Speaking of the great five-dimensional empire Kunsen Empire, it is said that if you don't call them by their full names when you mention them, their anger will come anywhere, hehe, do you believe it?" Internay closed the book and walked to the porthole to look at the blazing sun.

"It is said that all the unbelievers are dead. Therefore, we have to be in awe, the great five-dimensional empire Kunsen Empire. Ingels bowed his head.

"yes, I hope Innutis does a good job. Let the humans on that planet enter the universe. ”

"Into the universe? Maybe it's a good thing for those humans. ”

"Ninety-nine percent of them will die, a civilization of the Seventh Age of Technology, hehe, but, even if that one percent survives, they will only see the dismantled and ridiculous home planet."

"Alright, follow me to soak up some energy." Intenay said to Ingels, and the two walked out of the command room.