Chapter 574: Blackmail

The spacecraft set sail on time in the afternoon of standard time, and after a brief period of flight data adjustment, the Four Seasons cruise ship and the small escort fleet started the transition engine, and then turned away from the stars and disappeared into the infinite distance, becoming a point in the billions of stars.

Through the generations, living in the present in a way he didn't understand, the three-year high school career was plain and fulfilling, but there was nothing remarkable and amazing. As a rugby player, he may have gained some attention in some ways, but in this era of seemingly singing and dancing, but faintly revealing chaos and conflict, he is more confused than ever about the meaning of existence and the meaning of rebirth.

The light and shadow converged, gradually becoming wisps of thin lines of strange luster outside the porthole, and Jonny stood straight in front of the large and terrifying floor-to-ceiling porthole in his room, his hands staggered to his chest, staring at the brilliant light without blinking.

It is a spectacle produced by the light of thousands of stars, which cannot be fated out, traceless, and irrepressible. The past and the future, they are the servants of time, the carriers of the years, but now they seem to be within reach, and they become the essence of the orderly law like a static.

With two days of portholes and a brightly lit room, his first-class cabin was located on the upper deck of the ship's central living quarters, with three bedrooms, a study, an observation deck, and two large living rooms facing the doors, making it much larger than Jonny's home in the Gap Valley.

The boat tickets here are extremely difficult to book, and even the most powerful scalpers can rarely buy them, so they are the place where the wealthy guests of the upper class of mankind aspire to be. Money is only one aspect of being able to board a ship and become a guest on the upper deck, you must also have a social status or a prominent family background that money does not necessarily obtain.

"Breathtaking time and space shows, they always make people never get tired of watching." Cornell. Clark had somehow walked into Johnny's room, where his bedroom was at the other end of the living room hall, across the room.

"Very impressive." Jonny admitted. "I never thought that this kind of cross-dimensional way of leaping sailing was so simple, and we didn't feel any discomfort in the cabin of the ship in a high-dimensional space that was moving fast." He now has a real understanding of the "Basic Theory of Astronautics" that he has learned.

"Speeding? Not really. Cornell corrected him. For the concept of distance in the high-dimensional space itself, the speed of those of us who trespass on the forbidden land may be pitiful. He explained with a smile.

"Uncle seems to have some knowledge in this area?" Jonny asked, a little surprised.

"The reference of existence, the source of happiness, rather than the boring lingering on the ground, can be close to these beautiful stars, each telling a billion stories is my destination. Because I had to spend a short time on the ground, I almost got sick with lovesickness for them, and after a long illness, I read a lot of theories about them in my spare time. ”

"It looks like it's all worth it." Jonny nodded in response.

"Is it worth it? Do you mean that after I, like a bad loser, have exhausted the rich possessions of my ancestors? Connell squeezed a self-deprecating smile on his face, pointing his finger at the tip of his nose and slowly shaking his head. He paced lightly on the richly composed velvet carpet before walking to the porthole to stand side by side with Jonny.

"Perhaps it will not be long before this lazy and luxurious feast will come to an end for well-known reasons. And when the day comes, find a job writing travel journals, be a scholar or a poet who is engaged in aria of galactic history, who knows, maybe all of this will happen for a reason. He looked at the porthole and grimaced at his reflection in the midst of it.

The erosion of the past will be a constant source of inspiration for the future, and he seems to be hoping for it to happen, Connell's words make Jonny really feel the innocence beneath his flashy appearance, he smiled at the corner of his mouth, turned around and walked to the bed, and began to continue to organize the large luggage that had just been delivered from the cargo hold.

"I haven't had a chance to thank you yet, uncle, I mean to be invited to travel with you on the Four Seasons." Seeing that Cornell had no intention of leaving, Jonny had to try to change the slightly quieter atmosphere in the room.

"Invited? Look at what you said. Cornell smiled. It's a real dream ship, isn't it? The cost of a single person alone costs 50,000 Star Coins, and the first class cabin has to be doubled several times. Connell paused, and Jonny had a confused look on his face.

"Young man, I never promised to pay for you." He looked at Johnny with a smile on his face, and was satisfied to see that the other man's face had become somewhat stiff.

"Well, don't be nervous just yet, and don't rush to mentally replace that image of 'Clarke's suave prodigal daddy' with something even worse." He hurriedly announced. "In these disgusting times, I mean that almost anything can be traded, and money is probably the most valuable tool of all."

"A first-class ticket, and all the subsequent expenses, this is my bargaining chip." Cornell Dw. "And accordingly, I need to get the equivalent from you." He added in cautery words.

"Equivalence? Worth hundreds of thousands of star coins? Jonny smiled wryly and shook his head at Cornell. Uncle, I don't think I have what you want. ”

A luxury trip that Cornell didn't want to take? Jonny was so embarrassed by the father of his friend who smiled as a salesman, could it be that Roger, the kid, had made the same mistake of forcibly pulling him into the Sabertooth Tigers? At the beginning, when everyone didn't know which onion he was, he didn't dare to pat his chest and announce to him that the team needed him, and also told the lie that coach Walter and Fat Moleno also appreciated him.

Clark family genetic disease!

Jonny shook his head in his mind.

"No, you have." Cornell closed his eyes and shook his head. "And it only takes one sentence to make it happen." He opened his eyes and stared at Jonny.