The Dryads are arguably the strangest group of clans in the New Empire - in fact, many times Sandora and I forget that they are also vassal races of the Empire, and like races like the New Federation of Eden and the Civilization Community, they belong to the so-called "high-ranking clans" who directly serve the Imperial Command, directly carry out the orders of the Imperial Royalty, and are qualified to be resident envoys in Shadow City, and more than any of the clans that exist now—they are still the "ancient bloodline" that has survived from the old Imperial era to the present day.

Is this fact dramatic?

Dryads were the most unqualified vassals in the old imperial era, with a short history and mediocre strength, although they were not timid, but most of the dryads were a bit romantic-in fact, they were a gentle species that loved life and fraternity, and only fought large-scale battles when facing the abyss, such a race, in the old imperial era, did not even have the qualifications to be cannon fodder on the front line, let alone obtain a little bit of imperial knowledge, if it wasn't for the sudden disaster, Harlan would have no choice at all, Only in a hurry can the Dryad perform the last task as a clan, I am afraid that they will not be able to enter the eyes of those military dictators of the old empire. However, history has come to this day, and it seems that the most experienced Dryads may or may not be able to do so...... Became an old-timer of all vassal races?

This is something that happened to me when I was chatting with Sandora, the Tree Elves have become a hot topic between me and her these days, we are both very interested in this race that has stumbled over, Sandora sighs when she sees them and remembers the old empire, and I think it is very surprising that there is a strange calyx like a green calyx in this race that can deflate Lilina.

In Sandora's habitual eyes, the Dryads are not good "children", they are not very warlike, they have no military characteristics, and even the catastrophe tens of thousands of years ago killed their civilization in half. Dryads don't have the ability to fight at all, but neither Sandora nor I deny that the Dryads deserve a place in the halls of the Empire - they deserve it based on their tens of thousands of years of hard work and perseverance. And Lilina has also found the value of the mild race of the Dryads: diplomacy and official business.

The sheer Empire's massive war machine really never had a similar component, even if the new empire appeared as a rescuer, its legion base lacked the ability to communicate softly with ordinary races, and there were no qualified diplomats among the Hiling Apostles - their only way to negotiate was to give you a contract, and then tell you with a serious expression that your choice was to sign. Despite their good intentions, the Temporal Authority still receives countless complaints every day - the ravens have to find an average of three scorpions a day to relieve their stress. Their pressure has dropped. But those scorpion sisters who are as violent as powder kegs still have to be appeased by me?

Now, the Dryads have replenished the entire clan to the Temporal Authority, and the two billion civil servants who are friendly and quite fond of traveling - Lilina suggested that I call them Liaison Officers, then call them Liaison Officers, these mild, pro-people races will henceforth run in the Macro Realm network, and those affairs and orders that need to be attended by personnel are finally completed. Correspondingly, perhaps we will liberate the 2.4 billion imperial soldiers......

Well, I may have miscalculated in key places, there shouldn't be so many, and all the races in the Hongshi Realm don't seem to need so many liaison officers combined, even if there are several offices in each of the Realms now.

Before she knew it, the winter weather was getting colder and colder, and the mercury lamp began to moult - or she thought she might have to moult, but in fact every day she found her own feathers in her room was secretly put there by Lilina. I think it's a good daily entertainment for the two little girls to compete, so I didn't remind the little light. Now the Dryads have nothing to worry about, and the elves who are desperate for a stable new home have put down roots in the new Oasis, the nascent star system is still very rudimentary, with only three planets, and only one of them has a moon, but compared to the old planetary fortress where the system is aging and can only enjoy the forest in dreams, it is already a comfortable little paradise. The Misaka Biology Society and several other bizarre societies volunteered to build many ecological domes for the tree elves. At a time when the environment of the new oasis is unstable. These domes are the safest walls, and the Dryads build their new homes in their own way behind the tall walls of the domes: completely autonomous architecture. The construction process, as well as the urban planning, were done by themselves, and we did not send a single soldier to help except for the necessary food and supplies. Sandora said that this is a very important process: the new home she has built is many times more meaningful than a god-given colony globe, especially for a race that has been adrift for tens of thousands of years, it is very meaningful to build a stable home by herself.

And more tree elves began to line up to sign up to join the Space-Time Authority, and after a complex review, they will be given different levels of "civilian authority" (this is a rule, no matter who the junior staff of the Authority is, only civilian authority, after all, many of the things they have to face are the "lower worlds" that have not even flown out of the solar system, for those worlds, a ambassador from another world who can mobilize star-destroying weapons is too terrifying, and in most cases, civilian rights are more than enough, because I heard that in the logic of the apostle of Xiling, as long as the mothership is not used, it is all civilian: their common people are counted from the imperial soldiers...... These new Imperial envoys tentatively set three standard equipment: the Emissary Scepter, which represented Imperial authority and ambassadorial status; Several Imperial guards (who don't seem to have to take with them for most missions) are in charge of security and so-called "violent missions"; At the end of the line is a Bible of the Goddess of Life, which means that the envoy is also a believer in the goddess and has neutrality.

Well...... A Bible of the Goddess of Life.

It's like I have this book in my hand right now.

In the morning, Green Calyx came to pester Lilina on time, and I got this little book from her. In addition, by the way, now that the green calyx has been granted permission to come to the house at any time, or in other words, we have recognized the identity of this tree elf girl as Lilina's personal "assistant", so she can live at home if she wants, so Lilina's desperate days have begun, and the little girl is splashing, rolling, and pretending to cry about it. Hanging myself, drinking pesticides, and going back to my parents' house, I basically used all the tricks, but I still couldn't change the decision I made with my sister. My sister's starting point is that Lilina, a mentally abnormal child, urgently needs a normal person like Green Calyx to balance it, and my starting point is ...... Lily is infinitely good, and Lilina looks deflated quite funny.

Green Calyx was one of the first Dryads to apply to join the Temporal Authority's Liaison Officer team, and when she heard that the team had been formed at Lilina's suggestion, she jumped into action. The girl, who had at least a third of Lilina's mark on her soul, was a very actionable figure, and the three ravens registered by the Temporal Authority officers were almost insane - too busy.

Okay, now let's move on to this Bible - after removing the strange watermarks like "Baidu Library" and xx that occasionally appear on it, the editing is actually quite good, worthy of Lilina from a psychology background. A Bible is very well written, and the code of conduct for believers can unconsciously make a person take faith as a part of their soul, and there are many persuasive and even incendiary stories in it: many of the silly things that Clank did were glorified by Lilina and written in the Bible. The only problem with this book is that after reading it for a while, I suddenly felt that it didn't seem to be promoting the belief in the Star Domain Protoss......

"The goddess is a close friend of King Xiling, so all believers should believe in the goddess with loyalty to the empire."

"In the world of the world, there are goddesses, holy fathers (fortunately she did not write holy fathers here), goddesses shepherd souls, and holy fathers protect the peace of believers. Therefore, all believers should believe in the Goddess and know that loyalty to the Holy Father is the only right way to believe in the Goddess. Holy Father, Emperor ......"

"The existence of the Divine Religion lies in the Empire, because the Father is friendly with the Goddess, so that all the people are also friendly with the Goddess, so that there are many believers, so the Goddess has teachings, and those who believe in God. It must be the Father and the Father. If you are not the Holy Father, you are a barbarian. Without faith and virtue, you cannot join the church. ”

These sentences are rare in the whole Bible, but they are all at the end of each chapter, that is, the only conclusion that every believer reaches after praying according to the prayer is that the empire and the goddess are one, and the actual action that the goddess should take is to be loyal to the emperor, the emperor himself is not a god, but the emperor is responsible for accepting allegiance for the goddess, the goddess religion is the internal welfare of the citizens of the empire, and only the people of the empire can believe in the goddess - she completely turned the belief in jingle and allegiance to the empire into a concept!

I said...... How does this Bible look weird? I raised the little book in my hand and said to Bingtis next to me.

Bingdis was also reading, this imposing female hooligan, in fact, her favorite hobbies in her leisure time were quite quiet: reading, writing, weaving garlands, and opening people's brains, well, the last one is not counted, in short, she was leaning side by side with me on the balcony chaise longue, looking at her huge canon, and laughing silly while reading.

"What are you looking at?" I didn't hear Bingtis's answer, only her smirk, and I couldn't help but be curious.

"The Divine Codex," Bingtis raised the tome in his hand, "The Realms of Tussalona," the Chronicle of Perpetual. ”

, can you ask what that perpetual magazine means?! In addition, for what kind of serious thing like a "divine canon" will appear in an entertainment magazine?!

"Is this Lilina's Bible?" Bingtis took the small book in my hand and looked at it twice, then threw it over indifferently, "It seems that she spread the Goddess Cult as part of the private culture of the Empire, and I have known it for a long time. ”

"As a starfield god, you don't have any ideas? According to this method of transmission, the believers who were eventually cultivated did not even know the relationship between Ding Dong and the gods of the Star Field. ”

"So what, this method of preaching must have been agreed upon from above—these texts are all recorded in the divine realm. The only purpose of recruiting believers is to make it easier for us to work, the star field gods do not need believers to provide themselves with any 'faith power', and the star field gods also can't get anything from the mortal world, so under normal circumstances, the priests under the star field gods will point their faith to the local world world world management god when they preach, and the star field god realm can be mentioned or not: it is better not to mention it, and it can also save the time to explain to the low-level believers what the star field is. All I can say about Lilina is that girl is so good to you—she has long since discovered that your empire is not suitable for winning people's hearts, so she has used something else to help you tie down your people. ”

I was a little stunned, and I didn't know why Lu Dao Bingdis said this.

"A soldier who is heavily armed and will only carry out orders and give orders, a priest with a smile and a smile who uses favors and garlands to attract people's hearts. These two people are placed in the pile of civilians who just want to live in peace, who can have more affinity? ”

“…… I seem to understand. ”

"That's the problem, your emperor ** can indeed gather an amazing amount of strength, you have recruited countless troops from many worlds, and they fight for you as a 'servant army', but these have nothing to do with the common people, only those racial leaders and military leaders are grateful to your emperor **. Combat heroes, at the very least, are also veterans who have escaped death on the battlefield, only they can understand the importance of the empire to their own destiny, and what about the most ordinary people who have risen to fight? Well, when they have just been saved from the end of the world, maybe they will cheer for a few days. But when everything settles down, all they want is firewood, rice, oil and salt, and whoever can make them live comfortably is a good person, and as for the war on the front line, it is too far away from them. So as the leader of the empire, when facing the vassal races, you are actually facing two parts at the same time, one is your motley militia, their minds are politicians and military strategists. Great heroes, they like to deal with your soldiers, and the other part is the ordinary people of the world, they can't touch you, but you and your empire's every move is involved in their daily lives, and their loyalty to you can't be maintained by the army - you can't let them end the world once a year on average, and then lead the troops to save them, right? In the final analysis, the loyalty of ordinary people is still maintained by food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and the imperial soldiers can't do this, it depends on Lilina's priests: there are many things that a life priest can do. They make crops grow better. It can keep children from getting sick and cure colds, coughs and diarrhea. It can even deliver babies with difficult births: this is the source of loyalty of the common people. What Lilina did was to convince them that this grace came not only from the goddess, but also from the emperor. ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then I was convinced.

"That kid thought about it three years ago, the Apostle of Xiling itself has no civilian class from top to bottom, you can never rely on their guns to win the allegiance of the small citizens and small farmers in the vassal world, and these most inconspicuous small people are quite important, because all your servant army is selected from them, once these grassroots people lose interest in the empire, your servant army is destined to only have one generation to use, So Lilina used religion to ensure the devotion of the lowest commoners to the Empire - and even made up such things for this," Icetis pointed to the Bible of the goddess of life next to him, "It's a bit outrageous. ”

After saying this, Bing Tisi stretched his waist and turned his head and walked to the room: "The concubine will go back and make up for half an afternoon's sleep, and come back to call me when the world is over." ”

I laughed, and a pang of bitterness welled up in my heart: how could this female rascal know so much?

Well, by the way, there was also a little touch to Lilina.

"Boss, boss!" At this time, Lilina's voice suddenly came from behind me, I said this is a coincidence, so I turned my head to give this girl a long-lost hug, but before I turned my head, I was trampled on the face by a black shadow, and then Lilina's voice came slowly, "Boss, get out of the way...... Oh, didn't dodge. ”

Me: "......"

"What the hell was that?"

It took me two seconds before I reacted, and I hurriedly touched my face, but fortunately, it didn't seem to leave anything dirty, what was it just now - a black shadow, stepping on my face, so fast that I couldn't see it clearly! You know, my eyes can see the trajectory of the bullet super strengthened plus eleven chasing thirteen titanium alloy what kind of eyes, I didn't even see what that black shadow was!

Just remember the momentary small paws and furry touch on the face, which seems to be a small animal?

"The cat, a black cat, just appeared out of nowhere."

Lilina ran over with a snap, and I was horrified to find that this girl's head was full of weeds, and her hair was messy like Avena's nest, what happened to this girl? Could it be that Green Calyx finally gave up on gentle tactics and tried to force Lilina, and both of them were defeated?

"I had a fight with that cat," Lilina leaned on the balcony railing and looked out, trying to find the dark shadow, "Cut, just a little, almost I caught it!" Xiaoxue, do you see the cat? ”

Lilina climbed out of the railing and shouted to the bottom, I leaned over to take a look, and found that my daughter, who was like Lilina with a straw stick on her head on the head of the chicken coop, was holding a huge net around the yard, and took the time to look up and answer Lilina: "No, it just flashed and passed, and the prophecy picture is all flashing and flashing, so fast, it is not easy to catch it." Eh, Dad? Are you up there? ”

"What the hell are you making a fuss about?" I asked out loud.

Xiaoxue put her hand on the pergola and looked around and replied, "Catch the cat!" Just now, a black cat suddenly came in, Lilina went to pounce on it, and the result was a fight, and now Sister Deng and I are splitting up to block it. ”

Catching a cat? The black shadow that ran past just now was really a cat? We thought Lilina was joking. I looked around in confusion, and I couldn't find any trace of the black shadow just now, and my heart suddenly became terrified: a cat, a cat that can fight against the Pope of the God of Life Sect, can run under my nose, and can make the daughter of the prophet unable to catch it for a while!

Is this Nima still a cat?

At this moment, the mercury lamp suddenly flew down from the upper floor, shouting, "Stupid stupid, cat! Cats at the feet! ”

I was startled, looked down, and sure enough, I saw the so-called "cat", however......

It was a shadow imprinted on the ground. Yes, there is only a shadow in the shape of a cat......