He and It

With a swipe of her index finger, she pulled up a recent photo of Sissel and asked Gu Xingqiao to take a look.

The emperor in the holographic image can no longer see the high-spirited spirit he once had. His face was unsmiling, and there was something almost gloomy in his eyes. The wrists and fingers exposed by his sleeves were all a cold and dazzling white gold.

"Knowing that it could not be concealed, the empire's propaganda department immediately turned this matter into a major case that shook the galaxy, and Dionysus was also besieged by heavy troops..."

"No reason?"

"There's no reason," Ming Sheng's mouth twitched, revealing a twisted smile, "Sissel's siege of Dionysus has no reason. Everyone can see it. He just wants to force you to show up. He doesn't believe it. You will walk away and leave Bacchus behind."

"It turns out," Mingsheng looked up at him, "he did guess right."

Gu Xingqiao stared at her and said, "Not only that, he also transferred you to be the person in charge of this work."

Ming Sheng's hands supported the podium, and she took a long breath, but this breath did not last long before her head suddenly dropped and her shoulders collapsed in frustration.

"I can't do it," Mingsheng said, "or it's very difficult for me to do it. You know better than me how a star siege war is fought, which is basically equivalent to forcing the species on a planet to commit widespread chronic suicide. . I don’t care if it’s your hometown or not. Sissel ordered me to do this to the civilians of a planet. It’s not a move that can simply be described as ‘humiliating’!”

"I understand," Gu Xingqiao whispered, avoiding the position of military rank, and squeezed her left shoulder comfortingly, "I understand."

Mingsheng calmed down for a moment, then waved Gu Xingqiao's arm away. Neither of them were people who spent a lot of time expressing their emotions.

"What on earth do you think?" She turned around, leaned against the podium, lit a slender cigarette, and held it between her fingers. "Tell me, since you cut off his hand, I don't believe it. You didn’t think about this situation.”

Gu Xingqiao smiled: "What do I think?"

Ming Sheng hissed: "Don't pretend to be stupid for me, Gu Xingqiao! How many years ago, before that idiot Sissel exposed the fact that he was an idiot, you two were like Siamese people, inseparable and inseparable. Meng. He..."

A gaze that was so cold that it was impossible to tell whether it was cold or hot, immediately shrouded behind Gu Xingqiao, interrupting her words.

——It was the mechanical intelligence named "Tian Yuan". He never spoke, but silently observed their conversation and interaction. It wasn't until she mentioned the past between Gu Xingqiao and Sissel that the other person's sense of existence suddenly rose to Unbearable.

Gu Xingqiao didn't look back, he slapped his hand back.

"Stop watching here and go shopping around," he suggested. "We are talking about business."

Tianyuan said depressedly: "Humph."

Then he continued to stand and didn't move, but he didn't shoot Ming Sheng with his death gaze anymore.

Ming Sheng raised his eyebrows and coughed without meaning.

"Keep talking." Gu Xingqiao raised his chin.

"... He knows you, and you know him. He said you would show up, and you actually came today. What about you? Didn't you think about the consequences of his response before you took action?"

Facing her, Gu Xingqiao was silent for a long time.

"Look at us, look at you," he looked at one of his few old friends with a wry smile, "how many injuries have you received, how many times have you almost died on the battlefield, Mingsheng?"

Ming Sheng frowned and said simply: "I can't remember clearly. If I could receive money according to the number of injuries, I would have been wealthy and free for eight lifetimes. What?"

"In the past, I fought with lofty ideals. I wanted to change the current situation of Dionysus, make the planet prosperous and rich, and let the Dionysus people be free without having to pay blood taxes or suffer the ravages of war." Gu Xingqiao lowered his head, "Everything I gained from the battle, my talents, my victories, I used my military merits and political assets from management to promote my compatriots, support my mother planet, and try to elevate it so that it will not suffer from its own problems." Special and suffering.”

He said bitterly: "In the end, I became a traitor and betrayed my country because of a ridiculously selfish idea of ​​the person in power, but few people defended me. I understand the fragility of individuals, and understand that they have no relationship with violent institutions or violent institutions. I have the qualifications to compete with the imperial regime, but even silence, they have never given me mercy. The last straw that Sissel used to break me was the verdict of the mainstream public opinion in Dionysus."

"I defended you." Mingsheng said.

"Because you are my friend." Gu Xingqiao looked at her, "Since they believe in Sissel so blindly, then I will let them see the price of belief. After all, my actions are directly aimed at the emperor, and The emperor can only express his anger incompetently and use them as pawns."

Ming Sheng stared at him blankly.

"But... this is tantamount to you indirectly taking revenge on Bacchus and your tribe."

"I'm not a god," Gu Xingqiao said. "I can't be completely desireless and selfless. I will be angry, sad, and resentful... I am a human being."

Ming Sheng was speechless, holding a cigarette and circling around the room irritably.

She didn't know what to say. She couldn't blame Gu Xingqiao. As half of the people involved, she knew better than other bystanders how much pain Gu Xingqiao had suffered. But she also couldn't say that the civilians of Dionysus were He deserves it. She is a soldier. In addition to obeying orders, a soldier's bounden duty is to protect the family and the country. In her heart, she can kill those in power a thousand times, but of course the empire is composed of countless individuals. Where does the country come from for the ordinary people who live hard and pay taxes every penny?

Gu Xingqiao looked at the holographic view of Dionysus, and moved his fingers to place the holographic view of the Tianyuan battleship on top.

"Look, the number of people that the Tianyuan starship can accommodate at one time is probably between 800,000 and 1.2 million. The universe is so big, even if you leave the Bacchus behind, leave the territory of the empire, and go to a brand new one, What does it matter if we live on a planet with suitable climate and temperature? In fact, I have already found an alternative."

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