The wide central hall in the palace of the Dazzling Light Empire is condensing hundreds of blue three-dimensional holograms at the moment, and these three-dimensional holograms sitting on the huge circular conference table are all officials of the Dazzling Empire at all levels, and it can be seen from the fatigue on their faces that the meeting has been going on for a long time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ。

Although the chamber is more than 2,000 square meters in size, its furnishings are unusually simple.

Whether it's the oil paintings on the white walls, the tall vases scattered around, or the silver throne carved with the winged flame dragon above the round table. These things, which do not seem to be extremely luxurious, make up the interior furnishings of the administrative center of the Dazzling Empire.

On the Silver Throne sat an old man, his face sparsely wrinkled, and his short silver hair made it seem that he was about to enter his prime. But the eyes covered with crow's feet are not cloudy, but reveal an intriguing clarity.

Wearing a golden crown of twelve diamonds on his head, each the size of a pigeon's egg, he exuded a powerful aura in a gold and silver robe, demonstrating his 'absolute authority' in this vast empire.

The old man who sat on the silver throne and looked down on the ministers was the current emperor of the Radiant Empire: Clementine

"What else do you want to report?" Clementine muttered, and the ministers turned their gazes to the only entity in the hall.

"Your Majesty, the last ancient ruin in the empire has been explored." A bloated minister said that he was only 1.6 meters tall, but his size was extremely asymmetrical to his height, and he looked like a ball of meat. The chubby face made people feel that he was a harmless person, but the light that burst out from time to time in those eyes wordlessly proved that he was a person with a deep city. And his name is Kilivi, the head of the Rebellion Bureau of the Dazzling Empire, the emperor's confidant, and a member of the imperial family.

Clementine glanced faintly at the ministers below, and he said to the chronicler, "Write it down." ”

"Do you still abandon the Age of Path?" The chronicler asked.

"Of course, in 2180 A.D., a nuclear war broke out in the world. Since then it has been the beginning of the Winter Yuan, and the Paz Era was only used by the ignorant ancients. Clementine said.

The historian typed the characters on the computer: In the year 13961, all the ancient ruins in the empire had been explored.

Clementine turned his gaze to Erivo, and for a moment his gaze flashed with a terrifying murderous aura. "Eriwo, what have the Free Army been doing lately?"

"Your Majesty, the Free Army is still stationed in Huangyan Prefecture as before." Although Erivo's words were respectful, his eyes were fixed on Clementine without shying away.

"I think it's a peaceful and prosperous time, and I want to invite Commander Tann to tomorrow's dinner, and you will be responsible for helping me deliver the invitation." Clementine said.

"Your Majesty, the wolf ambitions of the Heping Country have always been eyeing the Empire, and the Free Army can't live without Commander Tann for a day, I don't think he can spare time to attend the dinner."

"Alright then, I'm feeling a little unwell, so let's stop here for today."

"May Your Majesty be in good health."

Clementine announced the dissolution of the meeting, and the ministers disappeared into the hall one by one.

When Erivo left, Killivi said meaningfully, "Erivo, as Imperial officials, you and I can only do our best to advise Your Majesty. ”

"Of course," Erivo replied faintly, then turned off the 3D hologram.

Soon all the ministers turned off the three-dimensional holograms, and Clementine was left alone in the huge palace chamber, sitting alone on the silver throne and thinking. After a while, he picked up the dragon-patterned silver scepter beside him and struck the ground three times.

"~Knock~Knock~Knock~"

The knocking on the floor was followed by footsteps, and the five-meter-high vermilion door of the council chamber was pushed open, and two soldiers pressed a handcuffed man to Clementine.

"Get on your knees!" A soldier kicked the man in the thigh, causing him to his knees.

The knees of the 'dong' slammed on the ground, and the handcuffed man shivered as he looked at Clementine on the Silver Throne.

"Mochard, as the governor of Xiba Prefecture, you are secretly buying and selling state-owned resources, and this crime alone is enough to sentence you to death!" Clementine scolded, his voice so thick that he couldn't believe it was from an old man.

"The minister knows that he can't escape this catastrophe, so he only asks His Majesty to let go of the minister's family." Mochard looked at his emperor with a complicated face.

"I don't have that power to judge your family whether they're guilty or not, only the Imperial Supreme Court has that power." Clementine's voice softened a lot, and he exhaled softly. It's like reminiscing, or it's self-deprecation, because such scenes have appeared many times in his political career.

"Then the minister will be relieved." Tears of gratitude gleeked in Mochard's eyes.

"Maybe you don't have to die. Just be my proponent. Clementine sighed.

"Minister. . . There is no choice but to ask His Majesty to hand over the ministers to the court for sanctions. Mochard replied directly to Clementine without thinking.

"Mochard. Go and meet Caton, under his protection, you don't need to be tainted by this filthy world anymore. ”

"Your Majesty!" Mochard suddenly cried in a low voice, "The minister has not left a place for himself in the kingdom of heaven! ”

Clementine was stunned for a moment, then he waved his hand and said, "Hold it down." ”

The two soldiers escorted Mochard out of the hall, and the moment the vermilion door was shut, Mochard glanced back at Clementine. His eyes gradually became hollow, as if his soul had been drained, or his soul had been liberated.

Clementine pondered Mochard's eyes, and he wondered that maybe one day in the future, such a look would appear in his own eyes.

One of the seats in the round table began to glow blue, and in a moment it coalesced into a three-dimensional hologram, which was Killivy.

"Your Majesty," Kilivi said, bowing slightly.

"My nephew." Clementine looked at Kilivier and stopped.

"Does Your Majesty want to inquire about the casualties of this operation?" Killivy looked at Clementine with a very soft look, when did this uncle, who had watched him grow up, become so old?

Clementine stroked the dragon pattern on the scepter and said, "Say, let me see how many more Heroic Spirits have sacrificed for power." ”

Kilivi said with a serious face: "The death toll of this operation has reached more than 3,700, of which more than 1,400 have died on our side. Most of these more than 1,400 people are Hidden and Suppressed, and at this moment all the Cayce faction members in Xiba Prefecture are being imprisoned by us on charges of violating the laws of the Empire. Next month, there will be a referendum gubernatorial ceremony in Xiba State, and the 12 candidates are all our people. Perhaps the Casey faction knows that we have taken complete control of Xiba State, so they haven't sent any more agents to play with us recently. ”

"Casey Pie. A bunch of greedy people. Clementine's eyes flashed with anger, but soon this anger was replaced by helplessness. Their influence spread to the sixty-nine states of the empire. Its economic strength and combat effectiveness are already on a par with ours. Kilivi. When do you think we will break out in a civil war? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Gongye Valley will not go to war easily. Although his subordinates had always advocated usurping the throne, as the leader of the Casey faction, he did not want to be emperor at all. The Gongzhi family has been in operation in the Yaoguang Empire for seven generations, and has grown from a small prosecutor of its ancestor to a force that can compete with the imperial family today, and the inheritance and development behind it lies in checks and balances. He knew very well that the main reason why the Gongzhi family could have today was the support of the imperial magnates. Once they overthrow us according to the wishes of the imperial magnates, then the next one to be overthrown will be his ruling family. ”

Clementine no longer stroked the dragon stripe on the scepter, and he stared into Kilivier's eyes. "Do you think the people of the Holy City will be in league with them? Or rather, they have been taken over by the Holy City. ”

Killivy finally had a panic in his eyes, if this was the case, then the Dynstair family would face a catastrophe, and the Radiant Imperial Family would be completely destroyed, because for more than 500 years, the Holy City had been guarding the American continent behind it!

Seeing that Kilivier had not spoken, Clementine did not ask any more questions, but took out a rolled-up piece of golden paper from his bosom.

A thin red rope tied the golden roll of paper, and its texture looked very strange, because it was not paper at all, but a piece of metal as thin as a cicada's wing.

He ripped open the red rope and spread the metal sheet 20 centimeters long and 12 centimeters wide on his thigh, the front of the metal sheet had strange lines, and those lines were faintly visible, sometimes blue, sometimes bright red, and it looked unusually demonic.

His ten fingers tapped nimbly between the lines, and each time his fingertips touched the metal piece of the screen, a halo of colorful light was raised.

The halo gradually coalesced into a three-dimensional hologram: four ten-centimeter-tall humans standing around a twenty-centimeter-high fireplace.

The shape of the furnace is like an ancient ding, and the blue fireworks burn in the furnace made of rock. The walls of the hearth are carved with many strange patterns: three canoe-like spaceships, naked girls with white-feathered wings, armored humans and werewolves fighting with knives, humanoid machines with clenched hands kneeling in prayer, and naked girls with fish gills around their necks looking at the small fish surrounding them with a happy face.

Among the four humans, there were three men and one woman. They stood around the fire in the south, south, and north, and the three of them, including the women, wore jeweled crowns on their heads, and wore luxurious silk robes, with a domineering royal demeanor.

Despite the graceful woman's terrifying white pupils, all three of them were normal human beings, and the other had to be horrified.

He has waist-length blonde hair that looks very smooth, and his facial features are no different from those of other humans, but he has gills on both sides of his neck!! The hands that were exposed outside the blue robe looked crystal clear under the light of the fireworks, and there were transparent webs between the slender ten fingers! And he was the only one present who didn't have a crown.

I saw the four of them looking at the blazing blue flame with solemn faces, they raised their clenched right fists high, and the man in the east took the lead in speaking: "I, Kangna, take the oath in the name of the last emperor of the Albertan Empire on behalf of the people of the peaceful country.

The man to the south said, "I, Vinr Hearthstone, take the oath in the name of Speaker on behalf of the people of the Abyssal World. ”

The man to the west said, "I, Wheelman Distair, take the oath in the name of the Emperor on behalf of the people of the Radiant Empire. ”

The woman from the north said, "I, Ona St. Caton, take the oath in the name of the Holy Emperor on behalf of the people of the Holy City. ”

Then they said in unison: "With the witness of the spirits of the earth, we have forged a covenant of peace with our blood." From now on, there will be no more war between the four ancient kingdoms, and if one side provokes a war, the other three parties will definitely join forces to fight. ”

Each of the four took out daggers and cut through the palm of their right hand, and the four daggers were thrown into the furnace by them, and the fireworks became more and more vigorous, as if they were real.

They held each other's hands and said, "The Divine Birth Project will be implemented from now on, may the earth spirit bless, so that future generations can escape the doom of extinction and evolve into beings beyond the three-dimensional life." ”

Kilivi looked at the small three-dimensional hologram with excitement on his face, and even though it was his second time watching, his body trembled slightly with excitement.

Clementine looked at the man standing west of the stove in the three-dimensional hologram with tears in his eyes, and he choked up and said, "O ancestors! Demons have always existed, they hide the cruelty of war, and use greed for power and resources to drag us down the path to destruction! ”

"Your Majesty." Kilivi lamented.

"I'm fine", Clementine wiped the tears from his cheeks, he rolled up the metal sheet, tied it with a red rope, and then said, "Actually, I know that the people of the Holy City have already walked with the Gongzhi family. ”

"What!" Kilivi exclaimed.

"The old emperor of the Holy City died of illness five years ago, and his sons co-opted their henchmen to rule the Holy City, and they were cut off from the outside world a long time ago." Clementine put away the metal sheet as soon as he finished speaking.

"Are you saying that the princes of the Holy City are trying to expand their power and win over the Gongzhi family?" Killivy breathed a sigh of relief, if an entire Holy City was against the Radiant Empire, then they would face a situation where their backyard would be on fire, because no one knew how many military bases the Holy City had built under the ground of the American continent!

"I'm worried that there is a prince who will unify the entire Holy City", Clementine sighed, "Speaking of the dispute between the prince reminds me of those two bastard sons, forget it, why are you talking about this." They were blinded by demons, the path of destruction was their own choice, and I just cut off their tainted heads for the spirits. ”

Kilivi fell silent after he finished speaking, looking at the old man with a complicated expression, he also sighed in his heart: "Power is a terrible thing, it can make siblings kill each other, and it can also make sons kill their fathers!" ”

Clementine seemed to see the sorrow in Killvier's eyes, and he said, "Killivy, my dear nephew. I have no sons left under my knees, and I will grant you the throne in the future. Promise me not to drag the empire into war. ”

"No!" Kilivi resolutely refused: "Our royal family must withdraw from politics and become the guardians of the country like the royal family of Albertan. ”

"I'd love to be like them, but the Casey faction won't let us get away with it. The terrorist attacks five years ago are a good example of this, and all of them did with one thing, and that was to warn us not to carry out any more reform movements. "There are so many interests at stake that even an ordinary citizen can get involved in a power struggle without knowing it." As long as human beings progress every day, they will have an almost perverted demand for resources, and power is ultimately just something that can get more resources. ”

He sighed slowly, then covered his face with his hands, looking like a depressed patient.

No one knows his pain, how many people crave power, money, and beauty, and how many people do unjustified things in order to get them. Standing at the pinnacle of power in this world, he just wants to be an ordinary person and live a plain but fulfilling life with his beloved wife and children. But this is only a luxury, and he has lost count of how many old people's children there are, and how many children's parents have been separated from their families forever because of the instructions he has given. He had lost count of the nights he had woken up from a dream of an assassination of himself and his family, he was so tired, he was tired of the days of being high and scared.

Human nature is so complex, desperate for what you can't get, and disdain for what you get.

The palace chamber fell silent, the first to be broken by Kilivi's coughing and panting.

"Your Majesty, in addition to the Holy City, we must also beware of the Albertan royal family. They are so secretive that even our intelligence agencies have gathered very little information for more than 400 years. As the true rulers of the Peace Nation, they can completely hide under the eyes of the world, and I think the Albertan royal family is the most terrifying organization in the world. Kilivi shuddered at the mention of the hermitted royal family.

"Immanuel Kant. The current Emperor Albertan, this is what they themselves told us, it's ridiculous. Clementine laughed at himself, "In the past four hundred years, how many amazing talents have been produced in the Albertan royal family, and how many degenerates have been seduced by demons?" We don't know anything about it, and maybe, when the Flare Empire comes into civil war, they'll show up, and hopefully they haven't forgotten the Divine Birthday Project. ”

"By the way, Your Majesty, what are you going to do with those imprisoned members of the Casey faction?"

How to dispose of it? Clementine said with a sinister face, "Kill! They would never want to put a knife on my family. ”

A bitter cold whirlwind blew into the palace with red petals, Clementine had never felt so cold in the palace before, maybe it was not caused by the temperature, but he knew that this cold would stay with him until he died.

"Your Majesty, there is a document here that needs to be signed by you."

"What documents?"

"The Archaeological Bureau is preparing to explore the ancient ruins of the vast ice fields of Eurasia, which is the territory of the wolf clan, and they hope to send some agents to ensure the safety of the archaeologists. The minister suggested that additional candidate agents be sent to participate in their archaeological activities, which would greatly enhance their chances of promotion to the rank of agent. ”

"Ancient ruins. The rapid development of our technology is because of these ancient ruins, and it can be said that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. ”。

"But these former giants have fallen."

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