Chapter 5: A Day of the Saints (Part I)
Lihan, an inconspicuous third-level administrative drought ball in the vast territory of the empire, has gradually become different because of two edicts from Tianjing Star a few years ago. The establishment of the Imperial Tourism Zone, the exaggerated investment of the Ministry of Finance, the arrival of countless nobles and wealthy businessmen, and the strict implementation of His Majesty's pilot of interracial education have turned the planet into a center of after-dinner discussion among the people of the Empire.
It can become a special tourist area, and divide the wealth of the nobles for His Majesty the Emperor, and it is natural to have enough beautiful scenery from Hanxing. Whether it is the magnificent red ridge in the western hemisphere, the fog barrier of the pine cone, or the tens of thousands of stone pinnacles piercing the sky in the yellow stone, they are all rare beautiful scenery, which fully proves the carving ability of nature like ghosts and gods.
There is also one of the most beautiful scenery from Hanxing, that is, the mulberry trees that spread over the flat plain dance. Tens of thousands of square kilometers of mulberry vegetation are artificially separated into swallowless operation areas, and the wind through the mulberry citrus tide is moving, and the quiet night is endless.
Mulberry trees and the larvae of some kind of moth-like insects that live on pieces are the most famous specialties of the planet, after its natural beauty and the new universities in the states. Many years ago, the silk spit out by the larvae of these moths became a favorite luxury item for the nobles of the empire. It is very strange that, except for the Away Star, the countless planets of the Empire have not been able to find a suitable environment suitable for the delicate little larvae.
Unusually expensive silk, with a great collision between the universes, entered the Federation. For decades, the only cargo that qualified to venture into Bermuda with the Royal Special Mechs was silk.
With this smuggling, the Empire has seized a great deal of wealth from the upper echelons of the Hundred Acts Empire and the Confederacy, although this wealth is far from enough to cover the Empire's military spending, but perhaps due to some kind of childish considerations - we have, you don't, you have to wait for us to confess, so we are superior to you, and the Imperial Family has always connived at and even strongly supported silk smuggling.
The Federacy had tried to win this childish dispute, but the toughest wildlife protection laws and HTD officials, who were fond of masks in public, prevented Federalists from planting mulberry trees and boiling the white silk balls woven by the larvae with warm water......
The Federal Academy of Sciences had also tried to use biological methods for recombination, but without the technical support of the Charter Office in terms of biological proteins, they found that such an attempt would cost a lot of money, so they had to terminate the project and continue to buy silk underwear, silk brocade quilts, silk bras, and silk bra pads smuggled from Bermuda...... Everything that silk makes is hidden in the private place.
Two thin young tourists from the village, walking on a street in the southern district of Sangzhizhou from Hanxing, the silk clothes they are wearing are not particularly conspicuous, compared with the local residents, but it is easy to expose the identity of the tourists, but there are too many tourists from Hanxing in recent years, these two people with too ordinary faces are difficult to attract anyone's attention.
In addition to the hundreds of well-trained professional soldiers in the four blocks around them, these soldiers in charge of private security work, with calm faces, watched their every move, vigilantly watching the wind and grass around them.
The two young tourists didn't look like close friends on a trip, because when one of them coughed uncomfortably and squinted his eyes to tears, the other showed no concern at all, and still walked forward indifferently, with a chill in his slightly squinted eyes.
Xu Le felt that his lungs were full of hot smoke, his throat was full of red-hot gravel, his cough was extremely hard, very uncomfortable, and he half-squatted on the ground and breathed rapidly for a long time before he finally calmed down the pain in his chest and abdomen and reluctantly stood up.
The bloody hole in his shoulder temporarily stopped the bleeding, and the strange power in his body wedged by the Imperial officer was still tormenting him all the time, preventing him from running his power to repair his body, like a slowly rotating boulder, grinding incessantly, trying to grind all hope to smash.
It is strange that from the Red Rose Royal Spaceship to this strange imperial planet, he still did not die, nor was he thrown into a black prison that did not see the light of day, but ...... Temporarily escaped from the cruel waterboarding that was worse than death, and began to follow the young Imperial officer, constantly enjoying the scenery on this beautiful planet. In a few short days, he stood on the spaceship and overlooked the magnificent Chiling in the Western Hemisphere, those waves that were nearly 100 meters high and as thick as blood, slapping that hard heart up and down; he hoped that the special breathing apparatus of the imperial army, the fog barrier deep in the pine cone ridge, climbed with difficulty all night, and began to break through the clouds and mist, standing on the ridge to see the first morning light, the wet and cool morning dew moistened his scorching lungs a little refreshed; he also once strapped a small jet device on his back, like a natural bird, flying in the unspeakable Yellowstone alum cupola stone peaks... ...
During the former Tai Dynasty, prisoners would always eat and drink well before they died, but now they are in the empire, although they are also imperial Du Hui, but Xu Le does not think that these are his benefits before death, which is ridiculous.
He stroked his chest, which looked like it had been cut by the tip of a gun, shook his head and exhaled, stood up, looked at the young imperial officer who had left more than ten meters away, stretched out his hands and rubbed his somewhat stiff face vigorously, until he rubbed a few smiles that didn't care, and then strode after him.
A brown-haired man with sloppy hair in the street was holding the hand of a little girl, who was probably father and daughter, because they both had a pair of beautiful sky-blue eyes, and the curve of the jaw seemed to be carved by the same sculptor, but for some reason there was an argument, and the tattered clothes were wrinkled and torn by the big hands and the little hands, and the little girl cried.
There was a black dog running quickly on the back wall of the coffin in his right hand, with a simple and speechless bone in his sharp mouth, the black dog's running was very resolute and the purpose was very clear, bypassing the begging bow that was lying in the shadows and lifting the eternal placket to check the next meal, jumping over half of the broken wall, towards the mulberry forest in the suburbs, silent all the way, presumably it also understood that if it screamed happily, the food would fall.
At the turn of the highway ahead, a man in a silk coat was talking to a peasant, and the reason why he was sublime was because the peasant with a box under his arm was talking and his body was getting lower and lower, as if he was about to kneel.
Beside the two of them, the listless middle-aged man should be a soldier, the tourist in front of him is still a soldier, and the driver of the carriage behind him who has been following him for half an hour should also be a soldier.
Xu Le walked behind the young Imperial officer, walking silently, observing the surrounding environment, and wondering what the Imperial was thinking, then don't think about it anymore, his best ability is to simplify complex things.
He simply regarded himself as a tourist, rarely going deep into the empire, looking at this strange world, listening to the unfamiliar language of the people in the streets and alleys, looking at the animal carts that surprised him, and faintly captured why the uncle said that he was willing to wander in the universe, but he couldn't explain this feeling yet.
Before the vast green vicissitudes of life, Huai Caoshi stopped, slowly put her hands behind her back like an old man, tilted her cheeks slightly, squinted her eyes and took a deep breath of fresh air.
Everywhere the eyes fell, the mulberry leaves fluttered lightly in the wind, and it seemed that those rustling sounds could be heard without ears. Rustling, rustling, mulberry leaves being blown by the wind is this sound, and being eaten by silkworms is also this sound...... The noble young man of the Emperor Garden's identity record, on his indifferent cheeks, which has not changed for eternity, suddenly showed a trace of gentleness, as if he thought of some interesting childhood memories.
With a smile on her face, Huai Pingshi only allowed memories to occasionally flood into her mind, and occasionally felt by the four seasons of spring and autumn, and she had to immediately regain her absolute calm.
"I really don't understand, but thank you for showing me so many beautiful views. ”
Xu Le coughed twice, and looked at the mulberry sea in front of him with concentration and surprise, he was standing side by side with Huai Caoshi at this time, without the consciousness of the death row prisoner at all, and he didn't notice the anger in the eyes of the soldiers around him.
Cup of grass poetry glanced at him coldly, and did not answer, but a hint of strange color flashed in her eyes.
If nothing else, the Confederation will be tortured to death after all his value has been squeezed out, unless he agrees to defect. For this, he definitely didn't have any sympathy for him, but he was a little curious about Xu Le's performance at the moment.
The war has lasted for decades, and the empire has captured many federal soldiers, even high-ranking officers, those who know that they will die, some of them impassionedly scolded the emperor, some of them were cowardly and cried and knelt on the ground to avoid death, some were silent, and some laughed and pretended not to care, but few people can really devote themselves to the scenery in front of them before they die.
The Red Rose took a temporary break, and Huai Caoshi hid away from Hanxing like a tourist, and was not in a hurry to return to Tianjingxing, because the political situation in the Imperial Garden had been faintly surging in recent days, and he needed to be on the outside, see the situation more clearly for his father, and as a party himself, returning to Tianjingxing one day later would definitely help his father to deal with the situation.
As for why he took Xu Le with him when looking at the scenery, it was based on two very simple reasons, one of them: a dangerous person like Xu Le, only he was in charge of himself, so he would not find any chance to escape.
"I've looked up your details, and you seem to be a morally perfect, saint-like being. The cup of grass poetry said sarcastically: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse, your government is building you according to the saints." ”
"I wonder if if you were really a saint, would you feel ashamed or ashamed of your inner morality, and would you recognize your sins before you die. She took a few steps slowly, then turned around on the mound and looked at him condescendingly.
"I'm not morally perfect, I also peeked under the skirt of a policewoman when I was a child, but when it comes to crime, except for some innocent people I have no intention of killing, I will have this kind of cognition, but ......" Xu Le replied: "Absolutely not from the Orange Empire." ”
The cup grass poem was expressionless, and suddenly asked: "How are you looking at the scenery of my empire." ”
"It was beautiful and spectacular. Xu Le replied honestly.
"Trying to invade our country and turn these beautiful landscapes into war and hell, as a federal soldier, shouldn't you feel guilty?"