Chapter 684: Farewell to the Old Country
The planetary-level environmental transformation and the interstellar colonization of millions of people did not put pressure on the economy of the rand, but because of the pull of colonial demand, it created another technological explosion in the history of the rand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Among them, the technology of artificially synthesizing carbohydrates using the electricity of the magic network solved the most troublesome supply problem in colonial activities, but the rapid spread of this technology was also regarded as a flood beast by millions of large farmers on the planet Rand. They hired scientists from outside the Femmon Academy and various media outlets to promote the dangers of artificial food, and pushed for the passage of various federal anti-artificial food bills.
At the same time, all kinds of anti-republican rhetoric is surging like an undercurrent, or in the name of "reverence for nature", the establishment of an extraterrestrial state is regarded as a crazy and self-defeating move, or the people who submit the application are regarded as insurgents and betrayers.
The same was true of the Faimon Empire, where military control was only in place for a year, but imperial power was not returned to Parliament and remained firmly in the hands of the Donner.
As a result, the royal wedding ceremony of the Femon royal family, held on the island of Lante on October 1, 667 calendar, was not open to any media. Less than a thousand people witnessed the scene of the adult Lord Vane marrying Empress Lucia and the sun goddess Una.
In addition to the bride and groom, the wedding was accompanied by a half-elf girl who was just eight or nine years old, a small family that had endured six centuries of hardship, blessed by everyone present, and spent their wedding night in the blacksmith shop on the island.
The colonization of the Republic lasted a total of eighty-eight years, culminating in an accident.
In the year 755 of the new calendar, a terrorist attack occurred on the colonized planet renamed Blue Star, New Coennas, the capital of the Republic of Rand, killing more than 1,600 people.
At the end of the same year, Empress Lucia stripped her crown and delivered a short speech to the entire Fermont Empire entitled "Farewell to the Homeland".
On the last giant colony ship to the Blue Star, there were Ricke, Lucia, Una and the six children they gave birth to for Donner, the last elite of the Northern Group led by Wesleyberg, more than 40,000 scholars of the Academy of Sciences, more than 3,000 dwarfs led by Ellie Manda and the Allymia sisters, Gernada and his people, and the military elite led by Richard.
At noon on the last day of the month of Doom in the year 755 of the Femon calendar, Kelly was still sitting at the tavern bar as usual. Beside her was her childhood lover, and her current lover—not Lord Vene, but the one cloned by the Academy of Sciences in 660 with the remnants of the Lord's body.
This man is timid but easily impulsive, and even Richard does not accept him, but Kelly sees in him the shadow of the young Donner. Perhaps, she has always loved such a Donner, not the man she will never understand and can't catch up with.
The winter sun shines through the window, and "Donner" lies lazily in Kelly's arms, like a child who is attached to his mother, although he is in his nineties.
The door to the tavern was pushed open, and a man with chestnut hair walked in.
Kelly suddenly became a little nervous, pushed away the "Donner" in her arms, stood up, and opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to call the guest.
The guest smiled and said, "It's really a strange feeling, it's like seeing your own shadow." ”
Kelly hurriedly whispered a few words in the ear of "Donner", coaxing him outside with a reluctant face, before beckoning the guests to sit down. “...... I thought you were gone, with Lucia and the others...... Oh, do you want something to drink?" she asked.
"Yes, we are leaving, but there are still a few things to do. The guests smiled warmly, and their smiles were as warm as the sun.
Kelly was a little distracted, she could catch a trace of the impression in the other person's expression and tone, but the strangeness still made her a little cramped.
"This is my home after all...... In order to hide this crampedness, she walked to the bar, poured a glass of rum made by the ancient method, and when she brought it back, her expression had regained her calm, "Taste it, it's still not the same taste back then." She sat down.
The guest took a sip of the wine glass and sighed: "It's a bit of a pity to say that my father loved to drink rum from the island back then, but I never tasted it." ”
Kelly smiled, looked at the old street outside the window, and said, "Only when I drink this taste and see the street outside can I calm down...... Maybe I belong here, but you're different. ”
The guest shook his head and smiled, "That's not what you said back then. ”
Kelly was a little embarrassed, as if she had been poked in the spot. Indeed, she had pursued her dream of knighthood with all her heart, believing that glory and courage were everything, and that forbearance and patience were weakness and complacency with the status quo.
She wanted to defend this, but she felt that it was pointless to say anything, so in the end she just said calmly: "You said that there are still things to do, you won't persuade me to go with you, right?"
The guest shook his head and said, "No, I'm here to remove my father's tomb and pass by here." ”
Kelly felt a little lost in her heart, although she had made up her mind to stay, but she still hoped that the other party could persuade her, which was an indescribable complex emotion.
She tried to make herself appear calmer, and smiled, "Then I'll walk with you for a while." ”
The guest drank all the wine in the glass and said, "No, it's already done, I still have something to do, this glass of wine ...... Even if you invite me. With that, he got up and walked out of the tavern into the winter sun.
I don't know how long it took for Kelly to push the door open and walk down the street.
There were hardly any people on the streets of the old Lante, and the staff responsible for maintaining the former residence of the Holy Lord had long since been emptied, and the whole island seemed to have lost its life.
Kelly walked past the blacksmith's shop, past the grain store, out of the town, past the dense mangrove forest, and up the cliffs along the coast.
Next to the hollowed-out cemetery, she stood for a long time, looking at the silhouette of the city on the other side of the sea.
"Kelly ......"
Kelly turned her head and saw "Donner" waving at her, seemingly dragging a stack of papers.
"You wouldn't have guessed! Someone gave me this just now! He said the island is ours!" he cried out, his face flushed with excitement. This man never knew where he really came from, otherwise he would never be ecstatic for an island.
Kelly smiled and said "oh" and turned back again.
A streamlined military airship streaked across the sky and flew south, like a big black bird.