When Azir found Asitaya, he was sitting on a bench, the horizon in the distance glowing red, it was not sunset, it was just dawn.

Azir looked at him from behind, this man was tall and thin, even if you just looked at his back, you could tell that this was a gloomy person.

The light on the horizon grew brighter and brighter, and the red ball rose, and the clouds around it became more brilliant and colorful, occasionally revealing purple in the changes, one of the few colored landscapes of Shurima.

The sea of sand is always dry and boring.

Asitaya suddenly stretched out his arms, knowing that this guy was stretching, but Azir always felt that he was lifting the sun from that angle.

"Do you come here often? The view is really nice. Azir walked over and spoke up less than two steps away from him.

Asitaya knew who it was just by hearing the voice, and he quickly stood up and turned to salute, but Azir was too close to him, so when Asithaya turned and bent down, Azir had already walked over, and Asitaya saluted the air.

"Your Majesty!"

Asitaya said respectfully.

The difference between the emperor and the prince is not just a word, and of course Assitaya knows it.

"Do you think this sunrise is beautiful?" Azir asked, looking at the colorful morning light.

"Yes, it's beautiful." Asitaya also looked over, "It's like an era has risen." ”

"Maybe a sunrise like this will be long?" Azir said.

"How many generations can be, just like Your Majesty said, there is no difference between a hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years, and it is the most important thing that it can rise to the middle of the heavens."

Azir glanced back at him, the light from the sunrise was not particularly bright, and some places that could not be illuminated, such as the cheeks on both sides of Asitaya, were deeply sunken and left too many shadows, which made him look even more gloomy.

"I heard that when you were young, you didn't think about taking the path of official career, you are a scholar, and there were still many people who liked to study the stars before that natural disaster."

Azir sat down on the bench, patted him aside, and motioned for Asitaya to come and sit down.

Asitaya walked over and saluted Azir again before sitting down.

"Did my father tell you?" He asked.

"Yes, Nasus was proud of you then." Azir said.

"Maybe that's just him pretending, how can a politician like his son to look at the stars all day with nothing to do?" Asitaya shook her head.

Azir had a subtle feeling that perhaps the relationship between the two fathers and sons was not as simple as he thought, but he still adhered to a kind of mentality that it was difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs.

He asked, "What prompted you to give up your own research?" I remember you entered the profession before the natural disaster. ”

Asitaya thought for a moment: "I calculated the data after observing the stars, and found that the sand layer in the south will be affected by geological changes and turn into quicksand, and that place is a large city where tens of thousands of people live. ”

"I was so scared that something would happen to the people there, so I ran all night to help, but the people there thought I was crazy, and the chief executive at the time blasted me out, and then I went to the street and shouted desperately, but no one paid attention to me, they only saw me as a joke."

"And then? Has the geology of the sand finally changed? Azir thought about it, he didn't remember it, maybe it happened before he was born.

"Thirty percent of the city's land area turned into quicksand, and half of the buildings were sunk into the ground and completely buried."

Before Azir could speak, Asitaya continued, "But there were no casualties, no tragedy except for the loss of some people's property. ”

"They still believe you?"

"It was my father who helped me, and I had no choice but to turn to him, and he just made a phone call and finished talking to me." Asitaya scoffed, "Those people were saved, there was no complicated story in this, I just thought that I had done so many things in the end that a simple phone call would not work, and then I entered the career." ”

"So have you given up on your research over the years?" Azir asked.

Asitaya nodded lightly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, I gave up, and finally he got what he wanted, and I became like him in some places." ”

"You are father and son, are you like each other in some ways, shouldn't you?" Azir said.

"Your Majesty, you should have heard that I don't have a good relationship with him." "In the early years, I was desperate to revive the space program and let Shurima enter the space age earlier, but he tried his best to suppress the program, and at that time I thought he was just a cowardly old horseman, trapped by his own cowardice, along with Shurima. ”

"But I still understand him now, if at that time, forcibly let the people who had just been shocked by the superior civilization enter the space age, maybe the result would only be counterproductive."

Azir also understands the truth, many things cannot be done not because the decision-makers are not capable enough, but because the background of the times did not create the conditions for them to succeed.

Asitaya continued, "But in fact, I still have a reluctance, at that time I have not completely lost my love for the study of stars, but in the context of the times, they are called forbidden knowledge. ”

"Times have changed, and this is no longer the era like that." "If you were to pick up your previous research again now, would you continue?" ”

Asitaya thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I'm no longer young, I've eaten officialdom for most of my life, and I can't go back to the past." ”

By this time the sun had risen from the horizon, illuminating half of the sky, and Azir took out the golden disc, which floated slowly in his hand.

"This is ......" Asitaya looked at the slowly rotating gold disc with a pale golden shimmer of carved lines, and of course he remembered the scene when Azir shone like the sun on the earth during his coming-of-age ceremony.

With a flick of his hand, the golden disc rose into the air, growing larger and larger in the process, until finally, there seemed to be two suns in the sky.

"This is a device infused with the power of Ascension, and obtaining the body of the Ascension requires extremely powerful high-purity energy, and of all the known energy sources now, only Stellar Energy is the only one that meets the requirements."

Azir stood up and looked at Asitaya seriously, as if announcing a very solemn matter, "Asitaya, I have read your research materials, although they have been sealed for many years, but your views on the planets and elemental energy in the universe are nearly a generation ahead of the other scientists in the entire Shurima, after the Ascendant project is implemented, I hope you can lead the research work of stellar energy technology." ”

"No matter how many years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, this will definitely be a vast project that will affect tens of millions of generations of future generations, you don't refute it, because this is an order!"

Asitaya was stunned for a moment and then hurriedly got up, and then stood up straight, but he still had doubts: "I don't understand, Your Majesty, you should be the person with the highest technology and the most abundant knowledge in Shurima today, why do you still turn to me for help?" ”

Azir shook his head helplessly, he sighed: "There is a specialization in the art industry, I studied genetic engineering, and I don't know much about stellar energy drive, I have sorted out all the knowledge I can find in this area, and then you can go to the Academy of Sciences to hand it over." ”

After returning to the Academy of Sciences, Asitaya took the materials and read them carefully, frowning from time to time, laughing a few times from time to time, and Azir asked him, "Do you think these materials are enough?" ”

"How can it not be enough? I can't even read it anymore. "I wonder how long it will take for the Shurima to fully understand this information?" ”

"Times are changing, and one day they will, and we can't always stand still," Azir said. ”

What could Asitaya say, he let out the same sigh as the president of the Academy: "Yes, the times change, everything will pass away, and if there is a day, maybe everyone who exists in the world now will be buried in the earth, sleeping with unfinished ideals, and leaving everything to future generations." ”

On that day the bell of the age was struck, and the storm of the pendulum swept through every sea of sand in Shurima, and two vast works were carried out, and no one knew which day they would be completed.

Maybe a hundred years, maybe a thousand years, maybe ten thousand years.

No one can see the way forward, but there is hope, this is the best of times, and the worst of times, when there is everything and there is nothing.

They can only do everything they can.